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Accept the agency for The Freeman in your city. Write today for our libera' erms. MANAPOLIS SEP 16 1911 PUBLIC LIBRARY THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOL. XXIV. NUMBER 36 ENTERTAIN IN HONOR OF THEIR DAUGHTER The Mysterious Two to Entertain at Pythian Hall at an Early Date -Some Advice for Certain "Popular" Young Men. DeViller street....The Mysterious Two will entertain at the K of P, Hall on September 21....Mrs. T. S. Horton re- lated to her aunt, where she has been visiting her relat- ions with some few weeks....Don't forget to buy T. Freeman from all colored drug stores. AT KENTUCKY'S CAPITAL. A Night School Opened—The Versailles Fair Was a Great Success—A Misunderstanding about the Cadets—Personal and Social News. FRANKFORT. Ky. (Special.)—On Monday night, September 11th, Mrs. Minnie Jackson, the wife of Rev. E. J. Jackson, of the Corinthian Baptist church, opened new classrooms. Attendments have already been made to accommodate a large number of students. Mrs. Jackson is a graduate of the Louisa High school, State University, and specialized City University. This school will soon move from the residence of Rev. Jackson to some place where there can be more students accustomed to attending. Through a misunderstanding of one year, the banner year of the Versailles fair, there were more people in attendance than there ever has been in the record of the city. Through a misunderstanding of one year, the banner year of the Versailles fair, there that won second prize, and not Lexington. Miss Maggie Knight spent a few days at the Versailles fair. Miss Silvey has gone to Midway to assist Prof. Beam in the public school. Miss Silvey is a graduate of the Kentucky Institute. Miss Silvey is a day in the city. Miss Willie Silvey has gone to Midway to assist Prof. Beam in the public school. Miss Silvey is a graduate of the Kentucky Institute. Miss Silvey is a day in the city. Prof. Jones, representing Geo. Clows' drumming business, of Pittsburgh, Pa. Prof. Jones is the ORLANDO, FLA. FEMININE FOLLY. BIRD-HAT. HOBBLE SKIRT. THE "COCOON" SKIRT. 60 YARDS. NO SEWING, NO CUTTING. JUST GET 60 YDS. OF CLOTH AND WRAP IT AROUND YOU. September 17, at 11 o'clock. All are invited... Prof. Attaway's address Mon., September 17, at 11 o'clock. Large crowd... The reception given by the young people of the Mt. Zion Bap. school, children, many Mrs. Cousy and children, returned home after spending several weeks with friends in Norfolk, Va... The sick friend hope for his recovery BATTLE CREEK, MICH. Special to THE FREEMAN. A former senior and Mrs. Wrn Tucker attends a conference Sunday in Jackson....Mrs. E. Long, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Donken, and friends returned to her home in Jackson....Mrs. E. Long, who has been living in Toronto, Can, has left for Syracuse, N. Y., where he will make a visit to the cohosts of 94 Clay street, and Mrs. Frank Waters, of Chicago, just returned from a week's visit to Detroit and Boole Low Island the cohosts of Canada, of W. S. Bryd, newly hired in Toronto, of M. E. church, rendered an enjoyable sermon. We were all so glad to know we had Byrd. The congregation cheered the 33rd last Sunday, Leonard Patterson is spending week in mysa with Geo. Wilson....Mrs. Kate Lewis and daughter, of Chicago, spent Labor day with Mr. and Mrs. S. Henderson, musical club....Mr. J. H. Evans left Monday for Cleveland, O. to visit his friends....Mrs. Nelson Curtis and her daughter Eva left for Chicago last week Mrs. Fannie Marshall and daughter Oceana, who have been visiting in Columbus, O. have returned to their home saying that Evans and Mr. Wrn. Cook spent Labor Day in Kalamazoo....Don't forget your guest, Gussie Berry, Bell 1065-J. FRENCH LICK, IND. Special to THE EFFEMAN Mrs. Jordan and daughter, who were the guests of Mrs. H. McLawrence returned to their horse in Clarkesville, Tenn. Saturday, M. E. Rev. Simms, pastor of the M. E. Rev. Simms conference. Mrs. Mattie Alexander spent a pleasant two weeks in Chicago, Ill. Mrs. Ida Clark, of 3600 State Street, spent a pleasant two weeks guest of Mrs. Mattie Williams during the past week. Mrs. Wm. Scott left Monday afternoon for Pittsburgh, Pa., to attend the Baptist national convention in Chicago. Mrs. Mattie Williams an extended trip to St. Louis, Mo., and other points. Mrs.] Rebecca Rhodes, of Indianapolis, Ind., is the guest of Mrs. Edmund Pace, Morgan, who has been ill in Indianapolis, returned last week, and is reported to be convalescing. Mrs.] Mildred Jones, of Crawfordsville, Ind., is in the home with his spouses to the home with his spouses, Mr. and Mrs. William Jackson. ...Rev. Simms, exporter of the A. M. E. church, was invited to the future. Ind. Rev. Alonzo Gilliam will pastor here in the future. ...Miss Virginia Bass, who has been the guest of her sister, Mrs. Edmund Pace, returned to her home in Marion, Ind. Monday even YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO. Special to THE FREEMAN Mrs. Charles Jackson returned Saturday after two weeks' visit in Barnesville and Mt. Vernon with relatives and friends. Mrs. Jackson tended Canfield fair last week. Mrs. Anderson Victor is able to set up this week....The picnic at Idona Park on Saturday under the management of the Park authorities, and attended....Mr. and Mrs. Sandy Duff are the proud parents of a fine girl baby....Mrs. Donald, of Hilker street; Mrs. Donald, of Hilker street; Mrs. Nelson, of West avenue, are on the sick list....Mr. and Mrs. Mack Tywman, of Warren were in the city Sunday. Mrs. and Mrs. Davyannock, of Mitchell, John Holmes, of Davyannock C. U. Murray, George Burke and others attended home week in Steubenville last week....Mr. and Mrs. James Hunter, of Burlington, Ohio, are the guests of Mr. Burke, of the University of Ellen Green, of Pittsburgh, was the guest of her son, Gus Green, a few days last week....Miss E. Anderson, of Akron, Ohio, is the guest of Miss Nan Heath, of the University Rayen avenue. The guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. E. annual district conference at the Oa kHill Avenue A. M. E. Church next week....Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Vickfield, and Mrs. Carter and daughter, Elizabeth Burke, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Thad Whelan a few days last week....A number of ladies and gentlemen gave a birthday surprise on George Woods at his home, and enjoyed a enjoyable affair....Buckeye Lodge No 73, gave a whist and dancing party on Monday evening, which was a success. IN BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY. A Great Mass Meeting To Be Held On the Land of Rev. W. A. Smith By J. F. Moxley. BLOOMINGTON. ILL. Special to THE FREEMAN Mrs. Pauline Walker entertained H. Ewing and Miss N. Newman Sunday at her residence 911 West Front street.....Mrs. Louise Newman has returned to her residence with daughter, Mrs. Pauline Walker.....Miss Westbrook, of St. Louis; Miss H. Mossby, of Springfield, Ill and Miss Jackson Riordan, of Riordan Hoakland, Burnice Calunie, O. Irwing, N. Calunie, Harry Graves and O. Hoakland entertained in honor of their houn's residence, 1308 North Center street. All enjoyed a delightful evening.....Miss Mabel Hawkins entertained the members of the Elite Thimble Club on Miss Blossom Bartan and Mr. C. R. Thompson, of Springfield, visited Miss Blanche Hoagland Sunday.....Mr. Walkenberry, of Walter Babb were in the city Sunday. PAST WEEK AT LOUISVILLE DR. W. E. DU BOISE TO VISIT THE CITY SOON At which an Elaborate Menu was Served—The National Medical College to Open its 24th Session Early in October. By Lee L. Brown. (1006 West Chestnut Street. Home Phone 8007-LM) Special to THE FREEMAN. Louisville, KY. Dr. W. E. Du Boise, editor of The Crisis, is expected in the city very soon. The Colored United States Storekeepers and Gaugers' Association of the Fifth District were tendered a reception at the raspberry bar of Mr. F. Gray, of 18th street. The occasion was a most enjoyable one indeed. An elaborate menu was served. Mr. James Grey acted as toastmaster and an assistant to the Storekeepers-Gaugers' Association and was followed by a number of the guests present, who gave short addresses fitting to the occasion. Among the friends present were the brothers of Mr. J. Johnson, Frank Gray, Wm. Mosee, J. F. Gray, Thos L. Johnson, Lee L. Brown, Albert Wittlow, Wm. H. Stewart, Dr. Pete Goodloe, E. V. Mosee, Tom Johnson, Jas Gray, Stephen Belle; Misses Stirrite and Elsie Mosee. The association is composed of 17 colored men, who have given excellent service. The following officers have been elected for the present year: Mr. Jas. F. Harris, vice-president. Henry Harris; secretary, Lyman Goodloe; treasurer, W. H. Lawson. ```markdown ``` The Louisville National Medical College of this city announces the opening of its twenty-fourth annual session for October 10, under new management, with an able corps of teachers, a high and diverse faculty, and facilities for practical work and a modern hospital attached. Some time ago we gave a brief history of the good work that this institution has done. Its graduates are scattered all over the United States and are enjoying a more rewarding, toworthy and competent young men and women a thorough medical education. Dr. John H. Frank has been elected as president and a number of new teachers have been added to the faculty, and the students anxious to make this the greatest schoool term in the history of the institution. --- Mrs. Jessie M. Kiser and children are visiting relatives at Nashville, Tenn., and Springfield, Tenn. Mrs. Beatrice Davis of 625 15th street left last week for Boston, Ky., where she will take charge of the county school. Mrs. Dr. Boyd, nee Mason, and her sister, Winona, of Cincinnati, Ohio. visited Miss Lucie Davis, of West Windsor street, a graduate of Oberlin College and is teaching in a southern university. Mr. Thomas Bailey, class '10, Normal, Alabama, and now a student of the University of Chicago, a graduate of this week. He called upon Prof. W. S. Peyton, ex-teacher of the A. and M. College, Normal, Ala. . . . Miss. Ora Harris, Kennedy, graduate school at UConn, been appointed as a teacher in the Alvis Street school at Henderson, Ky. Miss Kennedy is the sister of Mrs. Edwena . . . A large delegation of Negro Baptists from different parts of the State passed through the city Tuesday en route to the National Baptist Convention, which convenes this week at Pittsburgh, Pa. Several of the national officers reside in --- Miss Katie Clark, one of the most popular young ladies of the city, was the guest at a swimmer party given by Miss India Harris. The table were fern flowers and loaded with the good things of life. The gentlemen present were: Messrs, John Stewart, Parker Peter and McKenna, who were pleased with the lavish hospitality of the genial hostess and vow that whenever she desires to make them beneficiaries of her entertainment they will most assuredly not forget to be among those present. The party extended 1 into the "wee small courts." This week we had the pleasure of visiting the colored feed store, located at the southeastern corner of 12th and Madison streets, for the preparty Mr. McHampton, is a very enterprising young man and that he is enjoying a most excellent trade. He handles the very best of feed, as well as coal and kindling. With the help of the staff, their teams, this store should in a short time be as large as any like establishment in the city. A large number of representative colored citizens of Louisville met last week at Calvary Baptist church for the purpose of discussing vital questions touching racial and educational problems affording them a place to stand and at large. The Rev. Sutton E. Grigers. of Nashville, Tenn., was the chief speaker. A general organization to look after the external and internal affairs that our own race was formed to be known as Hammond from Philadelphia. Officers were elected: Rev. C. H. Pairish, president; Prof. James Harris, vice-president; Mrs. Bessie L. Allen, secretary; Dr. R. Alexander Hammons, treasurer; Dr. R. Alexander Hammons, Stewart and J. R. Harris, book reviewers. The great State Fair is being held in Louisville this week because it is filled with strangers, who are surrounded grounds to see the beautiful exhibits, Monday was Public School Day and the children were out in full force. Saturday at the grounds, two locomotives will be permitted to run into each other. This will give the spectators an idea of the horrible wrecks that we often offer to officers. Fair is also going on. We will give a full account in next week's issue. The Lexington Colored Fair is the greatest of its kind in the United States. Attorney W. L. Ricks has been tendered a very excellent position as principal of the Wyoming (Ohio) school, a suburb of Chicago. Mr. Ricks has been very pleased with Louisville, was for a number of years conductor of the Jefferson County Institute, also principal of Night High School. The St. Augustine Colored Catholic church was dedicated with high mass last Sunday. The edifice is a beautiful structure, having the most costly and elaborate building, be construed in St. Augustine Catholic church in the country. The services held during the day were very solemn indeed. The music rendered was sweeter, impossibly the organ, organized four ways, ones hindered by most excellent voices of the choir, the priests, dressed in beautiful robes, followed by the choir boys, marched down the aisle, where they were beaten in silent reverence. The priest in a tone urged his hearers to be faithful to the teachings of the Catholic church and that there was not any difference in this church on account of wealth or color. A few of the students of the college were present and assisted in the administration of the holy sacrament. The Normal Annual Association of the Central Colored Hospice will attend Saturday, September 16, at the library lecture room. The alumni is to organize the Musical Club commenced last season. It is desired that at least fifty voices be used, hence all members are expected to perform for work and much could be done would the members only come out and help. The Normal School opened Monday, September 11, with a registration of 26 members. It will have prospective members enter at once, in order that they may receive the benefits of the first day's instruction. The young men of Louisville had a great opportunity during the week to listen to one of the best lectures ever given in this city to young men by Dr. Grundy, of Michigan, who is in the city giving a series of lectures and storefront presentations of every young man in this city was not present at one of these lectures. Dr. Grundy spoke upon a vital question, that should not only interest our young men, but the parents as well, who are very often responsible for the physical condition of our young men, who are often not interested in knowing how to know concerning their own bodies. A special lecture to the high school boys was given Tuesday evening. Dr. Richard Oliver, who recently sold his drug store to Mr. Columbus Johnson, is one of the most successful physicians in the city of Louisville. He came here after a long career, having number of years ago and by being a close student he graduated from the Louisville National Medical School, also from the Illinois School of Ophthalmology. He is a graduate of the State so far as we are able to learn. His practice along this line has increased so that he has been forced to dispose of his drug store, which has stood at the corner of 12th and Chestnut streets for many years. He has been an attention to the practice of the diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat; he has an up-to-date office, filled with the most modern equipment, in a diluted student room. He has a new outfive facts. He has a large practice. His records show that he has performed some difficult operations. Mr. Columbus Johnson, who succeeds Dr. Manion as pro-staff, has been the Drug Store boy. Having completed the course in the public schools of Louisville, he entered the Ohio University, from which school he graduated in pharmacy, now in Cleveland, Ohio. in the near future he will make extensive improvements and will hope to have the finest drug store in the South. Dr. Manion will continue to work in this courteous way, has won many friends and built up a large trade in the drug store. He never gets impatient and is always ready to show a customer in the most polite way what he has to sell. There are several vacancies in the public schools yet to be filled, the most important being the principalship of the Night High School, left vacant by the resignation Attorney Ricks. At the same time, applications have been sent in to the superintendent, but he is taking his time in announcing the successful applicant. The school board met a few nights ago and quite a spirited discussion was heard by those present regarding the changing of the 13th and Green street schools. Mr. G. J. Brown has gone to Chicago to spend his vacation. While there he will be entertained by the clubs and other social organizations. He will meet the most of his relatives while there. Mr. Brown is the assistant superintendent of the public bath house. MOBILE. ALA. McNeill and McNeil, refined comedy and sketch artists, are now at the Lacman theater. Mobile, Ala., where they are scoring quite a hit. MADAM McNAIRDEE The Talented Clairvoyant MADAM McNAIRDEE The Talented Clairvoyant The gifted clairvoyant, the great female wonder, born with the double (caul) veil, she is one of the old ancient Southern Clairvoyants of New Orleans. She is a scholar, a phrenologist and a physiognomist. She tells you what you need for in life by reading your brain and mind. With a grasp of her hand she gives you a course of influence to enable you to overcome all the hard luck. She has a gift for teaching, and she will teach the fifth chapter, ninth verse, of St. Matthew: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God." She reunites the separated, makes peace with her family, and will wipe away the wife or wife and sweetheart will never forsake you, but will love you and marry you sooner if you will only heed this lady's consultation. Read what several ladies of her family have said to her. My husband and I separated over a year ago, and just think, since I called on this lady, he returned to me. We are together and happy." This lady used to call me to write me. I called on this lady and we are now engaged." You can't afford to miss consulting this gifted lady. She is gifted to read characters. She challenges the world to excel her advice on business, art, music, and life. 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Artistic Engraving free. Eyes tested free. Old Jewelry Made like new Watch. Repairing My Specialty THE EVANSTON (ILL.) THEATER MUDDLE. Prominent citizens of Evanston, Ill., say that they did not ask for a "Jim Crow" theater. One of the proprietors, in defending his action, gets in a ringer on the colored people when he says that a colored restaurant-keeper was doing the same as he was—drawing the color line on his race. Of course this does not excuse the management of the Evanston theater, but when such facts are known they tend to weaken our position. The fact that the colored man runs a restaurant for white patrons is not very important as a factor of influence in the situation. If he were not there the condition would still be the same. That he is there offers an excuse for the action at the theater. Yet it would be a shame to drive the colored man out of business just because it makes an awkward situation. Not only in Evanston, but the country over, the same thing is repeated. It is rather unfortunate that white men have opportunity to point out places of the kind conducted by colored men, virtually insisting that they have examples in them. They do have examples in them, but they are by no means influenced by them. Race discrimination is in spite of them. To express it plainly, they are taking advantage of the situation. The colored people of Evanston have been pretty well worked up over the affair since they, like the white citizens of the Chicago suburb, are well-to-do and high-toned. They had never been refused the main floor of a theater and consequently were amazed when they learned of the new order. It may suit the management better to do what it is doing, but it was not necessary to make an insulting reference to the matter. In the Chicago Defender of September one of the management is quoted as saying: "I am going to not only turn you d—— niggers out of here, but will kick you out." Perhaps he did not express himself in that way. But more than likely he did. Here is an example of the mob spirit—that same mob spirit that resulted in the terrible happening at Coatesville, when white men heaped their pent-up insults on a helpless Negro. We are quite sure that these things recited do not make for a good impression in far-away places, among those who have nothing to rely on for information except the printed page. These happenings do not stand for actual misery and degradation as it might appear. This very theater at Evanston does not mean that colored people shall not be permitted to enter at all. It seeks to reserve an exclusive portion for the wealthy class—for society. It seeks to emphasize the social side of theater life, making it fit that of the home as nearly as possible. This tendency is coming up and proving disastrous to the hopes of the colored people in this respect. Nor should the world of onlookers feel that the discrimination is peculiar. The poorer classes are, nearly as effectually cut off as the colored people. The poor whites never feel to have the means for purchasing high-priced seats. The few that do feel to have the money do not serve to influence rafts of others. It is not so easy with the colored people. The few that would be tolerated without question, just as the poorer whites are tolerated, will not remain simply a few. The privilege of one is too often considered the license of others, and before very long the thing is overdone. Then, again, the first Negro that passes along is too often thought the type Negro by the white man, all others being accordingly measured. This thought is sometimes based on reason, since the unprepared Negro is as a hundred to one, having in mind all of those qualities of the exclusive sets. Nor is the feeling confined. The struggle between "me and thee," begun with man, and will not cease until his end. The hope, as we see it, is to take advantage of things in about the same way the white people take advantage of them, according to position and circumstances in life. These are the actual ruling forces in such things, and there is no repeal from the decision. The few among us who are in all ways worthy to mingle with the classes will not be shut out of the better happenings as the rule. But, unfortunately, we have allowed mere dress to class us, feeling too often that "I look just as good as he does," when at the same time this same "I" may be the butler. Those who know the difference will suffer the humiliation of being barred from certain sections of places of amusement, yet these same individuals are reasonable enough to admit the cause in part; at any rate they swallow their lump of humiliation and say nothing. WHAT RACE WAS IT FOUNDED LEARNING? Moroe, the capital of ancient Ethiopia in Africa, diligently explored and excavated for the last two years, has revealed a culture and civilization now conceded to be not only prior but superior to that of Egypt in her palmiest days. The Athenaeum, the great organ of archaeology, as quoted by the daily papers, tells of the finding among the ruins of the once magnificent metropolis of th remains of colossal buildings, commodious market places, elegant palaces and evidences on all sides of proud temples of learning and exquisite works of art. The carved head of a Negro, the Athenaeum continues, indicates that the Ethiopians had attained toa degree of art never equaled by the Egyptians. For generations it has been denied that the Egyptians were of Negroid extraction and lying historians have readily credited to the ancient government on the Nile the seat of learning, the arts and sciences. The great public has long been misled, but the fast as to what was the race of the Egyptian has been studiously muddled and muddled. But the best authorities, like Professor Anthon of Columbia university, have been recently forced to confess that the basic sub-stratum of the Egyptian race was THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. Negro, and that various other races from the north invaded the country and fused with it. They have further been forced to confess that the Egyptian civilization even with its great learning and its marvelous pyramids was preceded by a black civilization even more marvous and brilliant, of which in fact Egypt was only a copy. If the paintings and drawings on vaces and the like may be counted as evidence, the Egyptians did not always deny or discount that fact. The black Ethiopian preists are plainly pictured as pouring their learning into the pots of their lighter hued Egyptian cousins. But with the westward course of empire Meroe was in time put under the heels of Egypt and Egypt forgot the base degrees by which it did ascend. But with the uncovering of the facts the truth seems plain. Meroe, the capital of Ethloia, admittedly a Negroid race, was the seat of learning, the arts and the sciences. When it can no longer be denied by any shadow of right or reason, this great fact of history will be universally accepted. It has long been asserted by pure blind, prejudiced writers and demagogues that the colored man has no antecedents, has never produced anything. He has always been accused of being either the sluggard or the parasite of history. But if the undisputable evidence of Meroe and her civilization may speak, the black man was the author of the world's learning and of her progress since. The black man has not only a great future, but has had a mighty past.—Amsterdam News. HE SERVED IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY William Peat (colored), of Chattanooga, Tenn., who was in this city for a few days recently, has the rare distinction of having served in the Confederate Army. According to Mr. Peat, he saw but little service on the Confederate side, yet he seems to appreciate the fact quite as much as he does that he also served on the Union side. William Peat is sometimes known as William Wheeler, after his old master, Gen. Joe Wheeler, whom he was forced to serve as a butler in the first days of the war. At Missionary Ridge Peat was captured, he says, by the Yankees, after he had ran away from the Confederate ranks. He was sent out of camp for a bucket of water, and he has never delivered it up until this time. He marched with General Sherman to the sea, but only as a handy fellow about the camp. He says he was too young and ignorant to know the value of enlisting. Had he done so, he would now be enjoying a pension. The old man, however, is not so bad off. When at home he acts as one of the guides about the Lookout Mountains. He says that he is official, knowing all dates, the names of all generals that fought in battles in that vicinity, and also the important places of the battles. William Peat, or Wheeler, is aged but keenly alert. He is well preserved spiritually rather than physically. He has a shock of gray hair and other evidences of age. He earns his living by telling over and over again how it was done. He delights in the fact that he is able to instruct and to please. He will return South after visiting Cincinnati, Dayton and other Northern cities. While in Indianapolis he gave it out that his headquarters were about the Monument and the State House. Race Distinction. Gilbert Thomas Stephenson, A. M., LL, B, has compiled in book form a series of articles originally published in the American Law Review, and a part of which was also included in a contribution to the American Political Science Review on "Race distinction in American Law." The main object of the work, apparently, is to show how much the negro lacks of being full-fledged American citizen. Yet while it bears more particularly on the negro still the findings are applicable wherever distinctions between persons have been made on the basis of race. In reaching his conclusions the author has drawn upon the constitutions, statutes and judicial decisions, both federal and sate, as wellas the territorial enactments. It is generally conceded that America has no problem more perplexing and disquieting than that of the permanent relations between the white and the negro races, and while this concerns more vitally the twenty millions of Caucasians and the eight millions of negros in the eleven states of the south, still as the author says, it is a national problem, because whatever effects one part of the national organism, concerns the whole. In considering the question the writer has turned in a new direction, for while the problem has been discussed from almost every concievable angle few have looked to the laws of the state and of the nation to see how they bear upon it. A race distinction in the law is a requirement imposed by statute, constitutional amendment, of judicial decision, prescribing for a person of one race a rule of conduct different from that prescribed fora person of another race, as, for example when a negro is required to do one thing and a Caucasian or Mongolian another, and when intermarriage between negros and Caucasians is prohibited. He holds that there is a difference behited. otherczn SE SE SE Tween race distinction and race discrimination, although the terms are often used synonymously, especially when the negro is under discussion. Negroes, as a rule, recognize that they are the weaker of the two races, both numerically and intellectually, and knowing that the race distinctions have emanated almost entirely from regard these distinctions as marks of aversion on the part of the Caucasian to association with the negro, and they have resented it upon the belief that the distinction was equivalent to race discrimination. There is an essential difference, however, beween the two terms. For instance, where the stateholds that white and colored children shall not attend the same school, and separate schools shall be maintained, if the school terms are of equal length, and the teaching force equal in numbers and ability, while race distinction exists it is not discrimination. In point of fact, there is no discrimination so long as there is equality of opportunity. Professor Stephenson treats at length of race distinctions and discriminations, the so-called "black laws, 1865-68; civil rights of negro and other questions bearing upon his status as a citizen, citing the legislation in the several states, more particularly in the south, still finding, however, that race distinctions are not confined to any one section of the country, because there is scarcly a state or territory where legislative or judicial records do not reveal the actual existence of at least some race distinction. Of the twenty-six states and territories prohibiting intermarriage, more than half, extending from Delaware to Oregon, are outside of the south. Indeed, the term, "Jim Crow," applied to a car set apart for negro was first used in Massachusetts, and it was in Pennsylvania that the first leading case arose wherein the involved right of the street companies to separtae their passengers on the basis of race. While most of the statutes and judicial decisions bearing upon race distinction relate to the negro, yet in states where representatives of other races exist in considerable numbers, similar race distinctions are found. It is also found that racedistinctions are not decreasing, yet most of the distinctions arising under the so-called "black laws" are no longer in force. 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Washington, on his Ob- | Aerie, so | "eulglous ies sttucke me | 08 urlous that I should Hear aimee ee d ff} servation wnite in turope, [ceo shat Titoud oar almost exe | Sia gi senser othe region hat | spe have’ frequently Heard of the Nedroes tn | SMeci The Church, the Mafia and the People.| America, “a's, heard of the Negroes in | Ping One of the interesting sights of Ca- tania, Sicily, as of nearly every other city I visited in Europe, is the market place. I confess that 1 have a fondness for visiting markets. “T like to wander through the stalls, with their quantities of fruit, vegetables, meat and bread; all the common, wholesome and necessary ‘things of life, piled and ranged in boun- tiful profusion. T like to watch the crowds of people, coinmz and going, buying and selling, dickering and chaffering. A market, par- ticularly an old-fashioned market,” such as one may see aimost anywhere in Bu- rope, in which the people from the town and the people from. the country, the producer ‘and the consumer meet and bargain with each other seems a much more wholesome and human place than, for example, a factory. Besides that, anyone Who ‘goes abroad to see the peo- pls rather than to see the things, will, T helieve, find the markets of Burope more interesting and more instructive than the museums, Dufing my journey across Europe I visited the markets in nearly every large city in which I stopped. T saw some- thing of the curious Sunday. markets of Bethnal Green and Whitechapel Lon- don, with thelr long lines of shouting hucksters and their crowds of hungry shoppers, and the Jewish market in the Ghetto of Cracow, Poland, where pale- faced Rabbis were slaughtering, accord- ing to the strict ritual of the Jewish 1aw, droves of squawking geese, Amonz others I visited the Monday market in Catania, which differs trom the markets T had Seen elsewhere in the multitudes of articles of household manufactures offered for sale, and in the general holi- day character of the proceedings. Tt was like a country fair in one of our southern cities, only cruder and quainter. For example, instead of the familiar shooting galery, with painted targets, one enterprising’ man had set,up dozen painted sticks on a rough box, and of- fered to the public, for something less than a cent. the opportunity to shoot at them with an ancient cross-bow, such a3 I did not imagine existed outside of mu- seums. ‘Then there were all sorts of cu- rious and primitive eames of chance, Among other enterprises for entertaining and mystifying the people T noticed a young woman seated’ in a chair, blind- fold. A crowd surrounded her while she named various objects, belonging to. the crowd, which her companion, a man, held in his bands, “At the same time she told the color of the hair and eyes, and reeled off the future of the different persons to whom the articles belonged, More interesting stil were the public story-tellers, who seemed to take the place, to a certain extent, of the daily hewspaper amone the masses of the peo- ple, 80 many of whom ean neither read hor write, ‘The story-tellers stood upon a little platform, whieh they carried about with them, liek portable pulpits, In order that they might ‘be plainly visible. to the crowd. Fach carried @ large banner on which were painted a series of pleturs, representing ‘the scenes in the ‘stories which they told, ‘These stories, together with the ple- tures which illustrated them, had appar- ently heen composed by the men who told them, for. they all touched upon contemporary events, “In fact, most of them referred in some way to’ America. Like those song birds that have only one constantly repeated note, each story-tell- er had but one story, which he told over and over again, in the same tones, with the same attitudes, and the same little dramatic surprises, Although I was not able to understand what was said, it was not difficult to follow the narrative from the pictures. One story told of the fortunes of a young girl who had been lured away to Amer- ica, Perhaps, she was one of those “white slaves” to which I noticed a 00d many references in Italy, and in other of the emigrant. countries, “At any rate, she was imprisoned In a very dark and dismal place in some part of New York which T was not able to locate from the picture, ‘Then her brother, or perhaps it was her lover, whom she had left be- hind in Sicily, saw a vision. ‘It was a vision of Saint George and the dragon, and after seeing this vision he rose up and went to America and rescued her. ‘The touching thing about it all, the thing that showed how realistic this whole tale Was to the crowd that stood and listened to it in rapt attention, was that. when the story reached the point where the picture of St. George and the dragon is referred to,” the men simultaneously raised their ‘hats, At the same time the speaker assumed a more solemn. tone, and the crowd listened with reverential awe while he went on to relate the mir- acle by which the young woman was saved, ‘The sicht of this crowd of people, standing bare-headed in an open square, listening, reverently to the story of a | street-fakir struck me, like so much else | that I saw of the life of the common peo- plo in Catania and elsewhere in Sicily, ag strangely touching and pathetle. It re- minded me of all that I had read and heard of the superstitions of the com- mon people of the country and gave me an Insight, suh as 1 had not had before, Into the way In Which the masses of the people feel toward the Catholic church, with all its religious ceremonies and symbols. Tt led me to suspect, also, that much in the deligious life of the Slcll- tan people, which, looks, ‘perhaps. to those who have had a different training, like superstition, Is in fact meredw the natural expression of the reverence and and piety of a simple-minded, perhaps, and ignorant people, I was told while T was in that city, that Catania has two hundred and fifty churches, and though I do not. know that this Statement is correct I could sasily believe it from the interminaoie clanging chureh bells that smote my. ears the first Sunday morning 1 was ih the city. At any rate, no one can £0 througi’ the city and ‘not look ‘at the ublic buildings, or study the people in their homes without meeting abundant evidence of the all-pervading intluence of the Church. Everywhere, built into the buildings, on the street corners, and in every possible public place, one sees little images of the Virgin, ‘with per- haps a burning lamp before'them. One I ran across one such image, with @ lamp before it, planted in a’ field. 1 was told it was there to. protect the crops from the influence: of evil spirits. It did not seem to have occurred to. anyone that the image of the Virgin and the blessing of the Chureh, which were intended to protect the fields from. evil spirits, might protect them, also from thieves, or banish from the com= munity the ‘evil spirits. that inspired men to rob and steal, If this opinion had been very widely held among. the masses of the people it would hardly have been necessary to guard the fields night and day, during the harvest sea- <on, by men armed with shot guns. ‘This brings me t another point in which I should. like ‘to compare. the masses of the Sicilian people with the masses of the Negroes in the southern inisionary societies and all the other aids and accessories of organized. religion. In View of the wide difference between the ‘people ‘or ‘Sicily and the Negroos ia America, so far as catcerns: the external side Of ‘uhele religious life, it stracie eae 8 eurlous that T'should heat almect oe getly "the same: éritelsm of the, people 1) Siotly in’ respect” to thelr’ rellgiok. feat have frequently: heard of the Negross ia America. “A Very large number of the [Popular superstitions of sicily. what ‘we |sometimes call the foll-lore ofa counter, ae ‘very’ much. like the similar notoas that the Negroes are supposed to have tie Ported to Ameriea from Attica” ‘Any One who has listened to any of the older gen: Jeration of colored. peopie tell of the Wark. ug Ways of “woring the roots” as they call ‘it will learn. & great tnahy” things that ean'be almost ‘exactly duplicated i te Popular “notions about “drugs and whilters'among’the people ‘of Sicily It is sald of ‘the Sicilian, among other things, that “thelr Christianity: is. satus rated ‘with Pegan_ superstitions and ‘that for the average Sicilian’ religion Nas. Bo conneetion ‘with anoral Tite. In many enses t seems as if the image of the virgin had ‘beeome, ‘among. the lower class: of people, little more than a fetish, a thing to conjure with, Por ext ample, ‘the’ peasant, who, In order to Fe. venge’imself upon’ Nis landlord. and. per haps to ‘compensate himself for What he [pelieves ‘aw’ sen” caken™ trom ly by fraud or extortion, starts out to TOD Wis landlord's ‘field. or ‘flock, will pray’ before ono of these images before. starting. out for suecess. If" he Is eally. “pious” “he thay offer, in casa he ts successful a. por tion of what, he has stolen tothe salts. If, however, he falls and 1s merely Super: stitious, We’ wilt sometimes. Curse ‘and re tile, oF even spit upon the image to which he previously prayed T have heard that the savages in Africa will sometimes betiave in the samme was Toward "the object “of which. they” have Made a fetish, but 1 have never heard OF Anything iike’ that amiong’ my on pet plein the South: “The ‘Negro. is. frequently superstitious, as most other ignorant. people, are, but hie as not cynical, and never seofts at any= thing which has ‘a religious significance, ‘One thing that indicates the lavee, part that “religion. plays’ in. the. lives “ot "the Sicilian people is the fact that out of the 265 days inthe year 104 are sqered t0 the church.” ‘The “large amounts” of money expended annually: by’ tho different cities of Sietly ‘upon. processions and. celebras tions in’ honor of the local saints 1s ono of the Sources of complaint made by: those who are ‘urging. reforms In the local ad= Ininistrations. ‘They. say ‘that ‘the money expended in this way might better be used inPitnproving’ the “sanitary condition of tho elties. As indicating how ttle all this retig- fous activity connects Itself with practical find ‘moral tite, itis stated. that while Stehy supports ten times as tany churches and clergy in proportion to its population, ay is true of Germany. For instance, tis Statisties show that it suffers from eleven ilmes aw many murders and erimes of vice Tonce, “in quoting’ these. statements T do not intend “to suiggest a “comparison” bee tween the form of religion tat ‘prevails In Germany with that in Sicily." Heligion, like “evervihing “else tn’ Stcily: is deeply rooted 'n the past. Te has shitred all the changing history of that tstand, and natu: rally” reiteots. the -conaitions, "sentiments nd prejudices of the people. If the Catholic Church 1s in any way to blame for. the ‘existing’ conditions. in Slealy it seems to me it ls in the tact that during ‘the Tong period. of years in whieh the education of the people. had been a= Inost wholly In Its hands. the church has Rela. tast to the old ‘medieval notion that education Was only’ for the few, and. for that reason ‘haa dona litte ot nothing to Faise the standard of intelligence. among tie inasses. TUhas been a, great mistake on the part of the eureh, it scems to me, to permit to be sald that the Socialists, many of Whom are not’ merely. inditiérent “but ‘openly opposed tothe chureh, represent the only party that haw sincerely desired and striven for the enlightment and gen= eral ‘Welfare of the people at the bot: fom. “Such” a statement could not, “of course, be wo easily made of the church in its’ relations to the ‘masses. of the people as in Sicily. The fact about the Sicilian seems to be, however, not that he Is, as is: some- tines "sald “of the ‘Nexo, immoral but that the moral code by whiteh he governs Himself makes him @ menace to public ‘One of the frst things that impressed me While Twas in Sieliy was the enor Tous and. expensive precautions “that Were necessary to guard the flelds from thieves. “Hundreds of miles “of heh Stone walls have been erected In. differ- ent parts of the island to protect prop- erty from’ vandalism vand "thieves. in the harvest time it is necessary to prac: Ucally garrison” the island. with armed guards to preserve ‘the crops. ‘the cost Of putting ‘a private policeman In every fied "and garden is very heavy and. this expense, which Ia imposed upon ite land, falls inthe long run upon the laborer. The reason for this condition rests in the conviction, wich every farm laborer shares, that for ls long and. crushing labor on the land he does not receives Suifcient pay. "In taany cases st is like: iy enoust! thiat he ts driven by hunger ( Steal Under such ‘elreumstances. It Ie not disgeult to understand that steal ing oon ceases to ‘be looked upon as al crime, and seems to De Tevarded. a3 Kind of enterprise which Is only. wrong When It ig unsuccessful, “But there. 13 something further, 1 learned, In the hack onthe head of aimost, every Sicilian Wich expialns many things In the Stel Tian etaracter’ and customs that strike strangers as peculiar, “I refer to what Eoes tn Selly Under the name of Omerta, and is, Ike’some of ‘the customs. that exist th the Southern States, part of the Unwritten “laws of” the country... The finetple! of thls “unwritten law te 8 fence. Ie ‘anyane ts robbed, wounded oF injured In any way he. remains silent, If'the police week to find out who is Mis enemy he will answer, “Ido not know." Tn some ‘provinces. in Sielty it ts said toe alombst Impossible to arrest ‘and Convict criminals ‘berause noone will Resitate “to"'wo- into court, and. perjure himself for & friend. Ie is considered A point of honor to do so. On the other hand.'to assist’ the police in any way inthe prosecution. of crime. is. Yooked Upon “asa disrace, "The ordinary” man nay’ Hera" thief, a robber or a murderer And be forgiven, but there ts no comfort in‘heaven or on earth for the ‘man WHO Detrays a neighbor or a friend. Complaint 1s soetiems made that col- ored people: in the Southern States. will protect and conceal those amone thelr humber ‘who are aecused. of crime. In moat cases where that happens t believe ic°winl be found that the real reason is hot the desire to save any of thelr num= ber from a just and deserved puniath= ment. hut ‘rather the feeling of uncer= ininty, becatse of what they have heard and scen of lynching in. different parts of the country as to whether the ae cused ‘will have the benefit of a full and fair Investigation inva court of law. (Continued Next Week.) TUSCALOOSA, ALA. Srectal to THe FREEMAN ‘The V. 8. 1, Club, which was organ- ized ‘recently, ‘met at the home. of Mr. Frank M, Parnes last Tuesday night. The following officers were elected: Frank M. Barnes, president; —Mozell Wynn, vice president; Andrew’ Hobson, secretary; Ttoland Amison,. assistant secretary’ and» Benjamin F.- Barnes, treasurer. CURRY INSTITUTE. Outlook Excellent for New Year. URBANA. 0.—The Curry Normal and Industrial Institute will open its twen- ty-third session September 26th. ‘This school, by its strong faculty and lim- ited enrollment, offers many excellent advantages to lis students. Miss Anna M. Powell, Towanda, Pa., a graduate of Howard University, Wash- ington, D. C., who has gained a’ reputa- tion as a successful teacher, has been appointed to the chair of English and Modern Lanuases, ‘Teachers for the dressmaking and commercial departments have not been named as yet, but the announcement will come jn a few days. President Curry has organized a foun- dation commission to finance the move- ment to get current expenses and build the foundation for the new administra- tion hall. “Several thousand dollars have been given for this new building. Ac- cording to, the present’ pian, the corner- stone for the hall will be laid this fall, The building will be erected on Institute Heights, the second farm purchased by the ‘school. TUSCALOOSA, ALA. | Special to THm Fremran. : The Sodiacs’ Club met with Miss Minnie Douglass, on University avenue, last Tuesday night....Miss Harris, ot Bessemer, Ala., is visiting Mrs. Ander= son Lee... .Miss ‘Carrie A. Baugh left last Tuesday evening for “Asheville, ‘N- C., Miss Baugh is a teacher in the ‘city schools of that place....A miscellaneous shower was tendered ‘Rev. J. H. Smith, ex-pastor of the Pirst Baptist Church, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. Lee, on the thirty-first of ‘last month....The Carpenters’ Union gave a barbecue at the Fishman farm-on Labor Day...+ The Eureka Club gave a dance Monday night at the Masonie Hail, Punch was served... .Prof. and Mrs. Wm, Yancy, are visiting relatives in the city. CENTRALIA, ILL. | Special to THE PReeman, Mrs. F. Southers, of Indianapolis, Ind. is here visiting her son, Mr. Ned Tayior....Miss Ida Helstan, of Indian- apolis, ‘is ‘here: visiting her brother, Mr. Ned ‘Taylor....Mrs. Ft. Webb, of Alton, is here visiting relatives....‘There was @ lawn social at the residence of ‘Mr. Sug one evening last week... .Miss Ei L. Bliss has gone to Clinton to. visit fiends... Mrs, J. MeFall, of Mounds, Ul, is “here visiting ‘friends....Mr. Ke: Wilson has recovered from rheumatism, jq--Mts. W. Brock and son ‘Willie went to “Jefferson City, Mo,, where her son Will enter Lincoln Industrial School of Missouri... Prof. A. Harding has just arrived from nis ‘vacation at Owensboro, Ky., and will again take charge of the Lincoln School ‘as principal... Mrs. MM. Porter is back in her position as teacher in the Lincoln School... Mrs. Claybrook is a teacher of the junior class at Lin- coin School....Mr. Ned Taylor was in Chicago last’ Week visiting friends...» Mrs, R. Arnal, of Aatchison, Kans,” is here visiting Telatives and friends’. Mrs. Allison, of St. Louis, Mo., lectured Sunady evening in the Second Baptist Chureh. “Her ‘subject. was. “Daniel in the Lions’ Den”....Rev. Allison and Mr. James Caman’ Were delegates to the Baptist Association, which met in Cairo, UL, ‘Phursday....Mr. Wm. Mason, of Duquoin, Ti, is here visiting old friends. a,-;ihe entertainments given by the K- Of Pes was a success, BILOXI, MISS. Elen ‘Special to THe FREEMan. ?ites George. Geran ind wife, who have’ Ween “visiting “nie talneinsaee Air, ‘Wwiiliam Seymon, left om Weaneaday Bight for: Mobier ‘wliere ‘they eile weak thelr cuture home. "/ Quite & 1arze Mae ber of people toake’ auvantase oe are excursion tor New Onan etn eae Amon’ thone oing were: Messrs we: Powell, Henry dohneon, Charles: Ate: Kinnon. 1! Lee. Mrs. sale House: Mts W. Miekens and many others Ste ie Gerard, of Mabite, and’ Mise Lean, Gl: Tam were quiets’ iantritd one iitoadsy hisne ond, ett for "Mobite, Shere eaey Will nome. thellntature Home aanits Rnd Guigport’ played ‘a "serles “or otys zamow at? Guitbort Monday nd meee {iay, “Monite takeing both eames Whats the’ matter with the Bost Giantess Ming’ Mamie" Oliver: was’ in ‘lloet 1aai Week on business... Mise" Tilen Hae Feturned: Wednesday’ frett'n weaiee Sine With relatives in New. Orleans: Atos Lenetta Wernilton “returned ia” Mute Taland” Saturdays", Atte Tames “Pollard Feturmed. Monday from: Mobile te ree potigua, very" nige timo, uM, Charles icky" was in Gultport jist week la In adrionie. kes Seine Thothad ae Uurmed from Chicago. “He repose a vary Pleasant trip. cMe. Charles” Metin} fas remodeled ‘his cate, which Is one of the best in the city....Mr. Major Gil- bert was In Bloat Monday to attend the trotiey ride to. Pass Chtistian.< Ming Eola "Breaux ‘returned tase seek’ frers New Orienns..ccHtrs” Lene, Owens ot Rimed afters several” wecks Gist with Felntiven Inv Tuskegee, Alas are Queen Hurd, or ‘Yazoo City’ tein Bhlosi Veh Ing relatives’: he trolley Hae and batt zlven by the Oda elon, of DNS oe Stonday” night ta, Base Caristing wee One OF the Hest ever pulled oe There were: four’ cave: pecked th casesity and everything ‘was ‘carried on ‘leels.’ “Xi in‘nitendunce enjoyed themsel ens: Sit Jerre "Bradford. Tett ‘Monday for Sg: ites. Mrs Lily “oibert, of afehilen ta nthe’ elty onva visite, atresia unis “entertained on last “Sgnday eek suppers eter Dickerson, oe Mae ore feanay “diles Uny Pe Moore’ oF "ene: mont, Texas, uh Mise Wille. Waehine: ton tire the eucste Of Mya, Hattie ona: ton are the zues | MERIDIAN, MISS. Special to ‘Tee Farexan. Bishop J.-B. Scott, of the Mt. Church, wie has charice ot the: work: in ‘Attica, lectured nt St. Paul M. E, church ‘On Monday night, August 28, to 4 lane Ghatence.” He i “anvable -spenkerss Lawrence Connell, who has been sick a Dumber of dave,’ died ‘at. Tinttisburg, Miss. on August 260 He was brought to Meridian. His funeral ‘was angely Attended, ‘and Was held from Mt. Zion Baptist, Church on August. 8, Rev. TlPratt of St. Paui Me Re Church. Of: ciated, nd. was assisted by others: “tte was buried at the Masonic cemetery by the Mason and. Odd "Fellow lodges... Mrs. Dave ‘Hishop was buried ‘atthe Masonic cemetery’ on Monday, August 2h Mrs. Sophia Goodwin is in. the chy visiting friends and.relatives.."* Mrs. Julla Sutherry. who. has-been, ihe Ruest’of friends and relatives ‘at Shu- Ualak, returned home August. 26... 0M Ave. Clark, the Fifth street shoemiaker, Who has béen sick for some time, died September 3.” His funeral was. larsely Attended and was held. from St. James AL ME. Church on the the. He was @ Riember of this church. "Rev. C. S Tillins, the pastor, preached the funeral sermon’ and "was ‘assisted by. Rey. 8. Williams, of ‘Hattlesbure, and Fe 1 Ruckingham, of this. He'way buried tn the Masonic cemetery by the: Masons. wieeMrs, LS. Nelson, of Laurel, is in ite’ city visiting friends and relatives weeMrs. 1. V. Booth (nee Buckley), of Down, on the northeastern road, is’ the xuest’ of friends in our city. We wish her a pleaant stay. M’COMB, MISS. Special te Tee eeea a. ‘We are having the greatest revival in the history of Summit. Rew. CS. Jones is'sald to be one of the best evangelists of the country. Fe and Dr. Braxton, of the A. M.-F. Chureh, ‘are toxether in the cause:.cMisses: Bonedor and Jessie. i Theriis ‘have returned home. from thelr Heit te Brookhaven. Mise, Mier Sara Eddwede is the euest-of Mr and Mre Gus" Queen...-Mrs, Henry. James has retumed from Jackson... The death of Mr. Howard -Dinmon was’a shock to his Priendst.t Bishop. Parner. was in” the diy last weeks).-The Magnolia Collees wil open ‘on September 2h ‘There. will ho special courses in’ male and. elocu= tion at this school, See Prof. A.W. Jones....Mrs. Willie MeCray_ is tome fagain...1A ‘surprise party was given in Nonor.af Dr. Braxton last Monday evens inn" there were about forty ladies and entiemen prewen ts rhe. your Indes Gnd eentiemen of Summit are aiding br Tirasion in his good” work:. "Mise FE Walker. and sister have retuned from their trip to Jackson. “The young ladies are planning for school....Prof” A.W. Jones. wax pleased to have. his’ friend, Mr. iimer Caton, of Atlanta, Gay. visit Nim..-Evershody ‘reads ‘Phe Freeman. Is the ‘paner for the little town of Fern: wond. "The Freeman is the oldest. col- ored paper. You ean find all-you want to know in it....Mr. and Mrs, Richard Smith have returned home. ..-Mr John Henry Haynes has retuned froma’ trip to New. 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KNOX, BUSINESS MANAGER. Now, if Mayor Shank's new deal in the market affairs will bear down the prices the people will rise up and pronounce him blessed. The liquor people had a near victory in Maine. A complete victory would have been as much against hypocrisy as against prohibition. Well, Miss Hazel Harrison, the colored girl pianist, comes from Indiana, the State that produces such a variety of good things. When in doubt, come to Indiana. So Mr. Astor is married! We were so afraid it wouldn't happen, having in mind the terrible disappointment it would have been to him. Some people just don't care how others suffer. The Indiana Annual Conference of the A. M. E. church, which had its sessions in Richmond, Ind., indorsed the Rev. D. P. Roberts, of Chicago, for the bishopric. Dr. Roberts is of distinguished bearing, godly, scholarly. He has had uninterrupted success, hence is logically in order for the seat of bishop. Prof. W. S. Scarborough, president of Wilberforce University, has just arrived home after his trip to London, England, where he attended the Universal Peace Congress. After the adjournment of the congress Prof. Scarborough visited generally, taking in the greater sights of Europe. He comes back to the school room refreshed and also full of his experience abroad, which will fit in with the duties of a university teacher. The West Baden Spruedels defeated the Pittsburgh National League team by a score of 2 to 1 at West Baden, Ind., September 11. The manager of the Spruedels says that it is the first time a colored team has ever defeated one of the greater league teams. We are not so sure about that, but it was a big thing for the Spruedels. Some of the best sport writers in the country insist that there are many Negro ball players who play as well as the best men in the leading teams. The Indianapolis Star had the following in a recent issue: "Jack Johnson says that Mona Lisa wasn't stolen, but that she dropped out of existence simply to get some vande-ville advertising. Now, who the duce does Mister Johnson think Mona is or was anyway?" Maybe Jack is being imposed on. He is rated too shrewd to have to do with things classic. However, if he did say so, it's all right; only that it's a case of mistake nidentity with him. "Falling leaf and fading flower" are not without their import. How subservient to man is all nature! Here we are impressed with the fact that all living things must give way in obedience to the great law, the great common law, which, most thankfully, is no respecter of persons. Man is the great ultimate. For him the phases of nature unroll and close, foreshadowing what his portion must also be in due time. How gentle, how comprehensive, is this great teacher—gentle as a mother's love, inexorable as fate. Speaking of the recent National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools at St. Louis, the Southern Workman says: "There is hope in the willingness of such men and women to pay, out of meagre salaries, their traveling expenses half way across the continent to consult together regarding the schools of their people." The fact is very significant. It also applies to other meetings of the recent past. The business men at Little Rock, the educators at Denver, the K. of P.'s at Indianapolis, particularly illustrate the point. No tendency of recent years is more indicative of the right kind of race progress. The tendency stands for sincerity, race loyalty and dignity. This spirit of sacrifice has proven not in vain, judging by excellent results by way of cheer, mutuality of feeling, general helpfulness growing out of a communion of individuals having in view a common end. Something is due the Prohibitionists in that they have done good in holding back the possible evil results of liquor drinking. But prohibition, speaking generally, has never won a victory—the victory of shutting up absolutely a single locality from the circulation of drink. This is what they seek to do, beyond their admitted useful sphere in keeping the ugly phase at a minimum. To preach prohibition is all right. To talk it on the corners, as the Salvation Army does, is all right, but to legislate it is a very doubtful occupation. This means that prohibition won't legislate. The attempt makes liars and hypocrites of the citizens, which are scarcely more commendable qualities than excessive drinking. Most men oppose the excessive use of liquors, and should the opposition center about its excessive use, with the object of restraint, these men would readily assent to a line of activity having that end in view. MISS HAZEL HARRISON, PIANIST HONORED. A special invitation has been extended Miss Hazel Harrison, a colored girl of Laporte, Ind., to come to Berlin, where an engagement awaits her to play the piano before some of the crowned heads of Europe. Miss Harrison, who had made considerable headway in music in this country, went abroad to finish several years ago. She studied in Germany. She cultivated the acquaintance of artists, who now seek to show their appreciation for her great ability. We take great pride in mentioning Miss Harrison, who is so signally honored where her profession is so greatly valued. It is a pleasure to know that the young lady stuck to her "lines" in spite of the poor compensation by way of praise that she has received at home, also in spite of the meagre existence doled out to her. We have in mind the artist class in whatever sphere, rather than Miss Harrison alone. It appears that the thing acts in inverse ratio; the greater the talent, the less the opportunity. Our great ones should not feel it necessary to go to foreign lands for recognition. Yet the thought is uppermost in their minds, and because the race on which they must depend will not know the difference between good and bad. Of course the few years of possible chance has not permitted much by way of critical judgment; nor have the few years established generally a sufficient sense of appreciation of the things that above all things registers intelligence and progressive civilization. In spite of this there could be a spirited few in every considerable Negro community who could boost along the higher art phases which are so much affected, but really neglected. The Freeman said at another time that there could be great musical festivals held throughout the country, in every considerable Negro community, where the greater artists could be heard; where they could be encouraged by proper compensation. Three or four half a dozen of these yearly would very well care for the situation. The hot haste for money has permitted no time for thought of such laudable schemes. Atlanta recently made some pretension in the right direction; a western city also made quite a success, but there does not seem to follow the proper enthusiasm. These great artists could also appear before great conventions, such as the K. of P. demonstrations, the Negro Business Men's League conventions and similar bodies. Endorsed by them, supported by them, would greatly help. As it is Miss Harrison must go to Europe before she is properly recognized. Madame Hackley had to go to France and England, Rachael Walker must stay in England, Clarence White had to go to France; others are there; others yet are struggling to get there. We can care for these people if we will. Poor Madame Selika, a woman of superior merit, "reigned" in Europe, dropped out at home. It's a long, long story that does not need longer be. Discussion is noted as to the date for celebrating the Emancipation Proclamation. Perhaps it would be better that the proper date be ascertained and the celebration accordingly. However, the date is not nearly so essential as the disposition to remember the fact. We grow recreant at times, wifely neglecting the great event. We have always insisted that the event be celebrated in some mode, but fitting way. The great hurrals are artificial, made in political times, after which comes their deserved collapse. It would be far better that the day be celebrated quietly at some church, hall in town, by singing or other ways that stand for the best expression of the races progress. CAPE MAY, N. J. NEWS OF INTEREST FROM THE ALAMO CITY—SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. Special to THE FREEMAN THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. We Invite Every Housewife wife have returned from a ten days' visit to Corpus Christi...M. and Mrs. A. K. Leonard have returned home after a visit to Houston and Galveston, Mr. Leonard has returned home after a visit to insurance men here...Mrs. Clark Greene attended the Sunday school convention at Rockport last week...If you want to know the doings of the colored people in Houston and Galveston, it is for sale at San Antonio's two-leaf drug stores: at Bowdens's, 502% Commerce street; and at the Palace, 617 East Commerce street; and Mrs. E. B. D. Thompson succeeded Mrs. E. B. D. Thompson in D. Tabor, of which is queen mother, a grand benefit entertainment at B. B. Hall Thursday night...Mr. and Mrs. Harry Davis spent several hours at Rockport's Christmas Church. Mrs. Nunn, of 328 Street Park, has returned home after having spent a pleasant time at Marion, Texas, as the guest of Mr. Nunn's relatives. Quite an enjoyment at Pedro Park recently by the following jolly young people. Messrs. Charles Hill, W. Easterley, Adolph Harris, P. and Thos. Hillard, Homer Hillard and Miss Pearl Carner, Pedro Park, Louise Carner, Zor King, Lula Simms, Louise Hillard and Mrs. E. Dortcha. MT. VERNON, OHIO Special to THE FREEMAN. BILOXI. MISS. By J. Lee. WEST BADEN, IND. There have been many social gatherings given here recently... The West Baden Sprudels, one of the fastest etaed sprudels, prudels of colorful orange colored bandage teams, defeated the Pittsburgh white league team 2 to 1. The West Baden people are certainly proud of their success, as a son, Mrs. William Scott and Mrs. C. Taylor left yesterday for Pittsburgh. Mrs. Odis Bernett has been very sick with the flu, and Mrs. Marie Sebre Rice was called to Chattanooga. Teen, on a very sad occasion, to attend his mother's funeral. Miss Marie Sebre Rice was called to Chattanooga four weeks' illness. Miss Mattie Dillon is the guest of Miss Ella Blane. DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON TO VISIT TEXARKANA. TFX. By Daniel Wilson. Special to THE FREEMAN I wish to say through your columns, the Smart Set company turned the key that threw open the doors of the Grand Opera season. The house was packed to its most capacity. We witnessed a show that we have long wished for. The new play, exceedingly fine. The superb volumes exceedingly fine. The superb show the advancement of the colored theatrical people. Many good wishes to the southern enchantment company, hoping the close of the season. . . All hands are up and doing and nothing is being left undone for the entertainment of Dr. Rufus W. Wheeler. His first appearance in our city at the Grand opera house October 2. With the well known gentlemen. Rev. Rufus S. Johnson and others as leaders success and achievement can't close this writing without having To Inspect Our Complete Line of Jewel Stoves and Ranges By selling Jewel Stoves we offer our customers their choice of the largest and most complete line of stoves manufactured. We sell them at the lowest possible prices for which good stoves can be obtained. Call and see those we carry in stock and be convinced that we offer you the greatest value obtainable. All Jewel Stoves guaranteed. a word to say referring to the gentleman of Birmingham, Ala., who goes so far as to say that the ignorance of the southern cities outweighs his ability. Sir, when you come across one you choose to put it, try to advise him of your brothers in this walk of life as and caution him to be careful and keep it out of the press. .....Speaking of theatrical people, lawyers, doctors and merchant, there is no doctor, lawyer, or merchant who would discriminate against any one person or people of a profession is he has any self-respect, for there he is looking for his self-support. You speak of the merchant, of the What do you think of Pennsylvania?" "Whose country is that?" WANTS TO KNOW WHEREABOUTS OF RICHARD EDWARDS. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Richard Edwards, who left Jacksonville, FL, in 1910, last heard from at Dallas, Texas; if located, please inform him to correspond with his uncle. M. M. MORI TAYLOR. 1119 Jula street. Jacksonville, Fla. HEILMAN STARS VS. B. B.'S AT EVANSVILLE. IND. The Heilman Stars Baseball Club, named after the Republican mayor now in office, Charles Heilman, clashed with the B. B. Baseball Club of the same city, which is the home of the baseball champion, Benjamin Bosse. The game was played Sunday at Pottery Park. Both teams having won a number of games, they have started a series of five games after that. We will be the champion team of this city. They now have one game each to their credit. The features of the game consisted in the pitching of Rube Waddell, the southpaw and Charles Walker, allowing one, two, and three hits. We will be the great Wagner," and Brooks the fast-running "Ty Cobh." The score was as follows: B. H. E. Stars.....0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 2 0----5 11 2 B. B......0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0----1 2 Batteries--Stars, Walker and Jackson; B. B.'s, Brown, Runyon and Campbell. Two-base hits: Hall, McGill, Blue John. Jackson hits: Back, Hall, McGill, Blue John. Hall hits: By Walker, Back, Hall. 3; by Runyon, 2; Base on balls--Off Walker 2; off Brown, 1; on Runyon, 1. Hit by Brown--Jackson. Double play--T. Campbell to Booker to Newton; Hall Morris to Brandon. Time of game--Crisp. Attendance--$60. Umpire-Crisp. LOUISVILLE TIGERS AND CROTH; ERSVILLE PLAY THE GAME. CROTHERSVILLE, Ind.—The Louis- ville Tigers put up a great game against the Tigers in the sixth inning, when the game was called on account of the rain. Both teams seemed to be evenly matched. The new catcher for the Tigers, has a great throwing arm. Tigers 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 Crothersville Crothersville - Tigers, Sanford and Payne Crothersville, Talada and Stretch. CHICAGO GIANTS IN FRONT. Chicago. The Chicago Giants won from the Kansas City Giants. 13 to 1. The home players started to clinch the game in the second inning, when they scored two runs on four clean hits, and from then on scored at will. The score: Chicago ..... 1 2 4 0 3 3 0 0 *—13 Kansas City ..... 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 —1 Two-base hits—Johnson, Moore, Moss. Three-base hits—Green, Barton. Double penalty to be assessed by William, to beHarper. 1; by McNear. 1; by Norman. 1. Bases on balls—Off Harper. 2; of McNear. 1. Umpire—Goeckel. Time: 1-50. Giants Beat River Forest The Chicago Giants won from River Forest at River Forest, 8 to 5. Home runs by Gatewood and Ball were responsible for the Giants victory. The score: Chicago Giants: 0 0 1 0 0 2 3 0 2 8 River Forest: 1 1 0 0 0 2 5 Home runs hits: Wallace (2), Doll, Ull Man. Home runs—Gatewood, Ball. Struck —By Ball, 5: by Sauteben, 11. Bases on balls—Off Ball, 5. Umpire—Meyer. NATIONAL LEAGUE TEAM DEFEATED West Baden Sprudels Take Game from Pittsburgh Pirates. WEST BADEN, Ind.—Before the largest crowd that ever witnessed a ball game in West Baden the West Baden team rates in a fast and exciting game, Monday. Dismuks held the Pirates to four hits, and but for two errors would have scored a home run. Poor base running kept the Spruels' score down. The feature of the game was the batting of Bingham and Brown first baseman Lyons, the Spruels' first baseman. The team Totals ..... 34 1 4 0 0 24 9 2 Sprudels ..... A.B. R. H.SH SB.PO.AE. Lewis, 2b. ..... 5 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 G. Brown, cf. ..... 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 Lyons, 1b. ..... 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 Lyons, 1b. ..... 0 0 0 0 12 1 0 Bingham, rf. ..... 4 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 Ellis, ss. ..... 4 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 Watts, c. ..... 3 0 0 1 0 1 8 2 0 E. Brown, 3b. ..... 4 0 1 0 1 4 4 0 Dismukes, p. ..... 3 0 0 1 0 1 8 1 0 Totals ..... 32 2 9 3 0 27 15 3 Pittsburgh ..... 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1-2 Sprudels ..... 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2-2 Lewis, c. Brown, Campbell, Ellis (2) E. Brown, Left on bases-Pittsburgh. Sprudels, 11. Double play-Dismukes to Lyons. Struc out-Byk Dismukes, 6 by Gardner. Base on balls-Off Dismukes, 6 by Gardner. Base hits-Off Dismukes, 4 off Gardner. Time-1:47, Umbre, Powell. JEWEL STOVES RANGES THE WOMEN'S SOCIETY Stwart & Stithe 15 Mins. in "One" Singing and Dancing. By way of redeeming a very mediocre bill at the Crown Garden last week in Indianapolis. Stewart & Stithe were indeed a Godsend. This team has "got one of the strongest female comedy offerings seen at this play house this season." Dolly Stewart, that Eleanor Mitchell of the team of Mitchell & Brady was the first to play in the show. Oh! You Dolly Stewart. Getting down to brass tacks, Stewart & Stithe pre- The Rollands 15 Mins. in "One" Singing and Talking The Rollands, a new act to the theater-goers of Indianapolis, made their initial bow last Monday night at the Crown Garden Theater, at Indianapolis. This team is, without doubt, the strongest singing duo playing small time. Do they sing? Well, yes; and they know how to get out of a song all there is in it. Just why we have no more acts of this kind, who depend solely upon their ability as singers, doing nothing else and resting less, with it to be a plause, is a mystery. Mr. Rolland has a distinctness of expression in the rendition of his songs that places him in a class by himself. His articulation is so perfect that one can hear every word from the most remote part of the house—an accomplishment that many of the brothers would do well to emulate, indeed. Miss Rolland is a willowy little miss, whose petiteness and grace of manner won her many friends from the very start. Has dreamy move host in the rendition of her songs which contributes materially to the success of her work and appeals very strongly to the male contingency of her audiences host in the War Rolling My Song. The act in its entirety is an impression maker and is sure to be heard from all over the circuit. The song: "I Love Miss Rolland, was well put over with the same precision in articulation as that which characterizes the work of Miss Rolland. My song that she has been an apt pupil under the tutelage of a master of the art. "Brown Skin," a familiar song, but never sang big song number of the act and stands out so prominently that the singers had to respond to several encores before the act was framed in succession. The act is twelve minutes in "one." A brilliant future is predicted for the Rollands on anybody's time. sent an act clean, witty and up to the minute in every particular. The sad side of it is unproar from the time she come on until she makes their hair. The team is well made, balanced, each woman her full share in the decisions making up the whole. Miss Jill is a sinless little woman with a good graceful appearance. She is a working woman and has an enormously good taste which she knows her hands deftly. Her costumes showed good taste and her fecitications and her songs won her applause. act a laid out in "one" and is of fifteen minutes' duration. The song: "You're Going Back Aran" by the team, was well received also, the songs: "That Loving Heaven" and "The Man and the Almanagar" the latter man in team perhaps showed to their best aid vantage. No manager, white or black, possibly go wrong in booking this act. Tim Owley By Him Self Monologue 10 mins, in "One" Marsh Craig 12 mins. Full Stage Contortionist One of the most agreeable surprises from a standpoint of renewing old acquaintances was the appearance on the cover of a friend, Mary. A contourist friend. Mary has a peer in all the profession. His work throughout has lost none of its breathtaking interest. The audience received his difficult feats with thunderous applause and all laws of human endurance with his marvelous revolving pedestal upon, supporting his entire body in a perpendicular attitude by his feet with his entire weight, with his other weight the slowly revolved in the air. Truly is Marsh Craig justly styled "The Human Sentent." His act has puzzled doctors and scientists everywhere, and his sympathetic on the medical profession. His act runs 12 minutes in full stage, and is handsomely mounted, both in costume and properties. Mr. Craig has been with most of the large museums for the last 15 years, and universally considered "the best bet" in his line. MAJESTIC THEATER, NASHVILLE TENN. We are playing to capacity night, J. Chicken Reel Beaman, supported by a well balanced company, including Horace Vaughn, Miss Rhoda Jones, Jane Jones, Isebell, and Wim Burker. Our shows are and will be the patronage each night. Standing room only. Labor day night we played to 1,100 people. Chicken reel Beaman has certainly not gotville with his witty line of fiddles and songs, but original songs ever seen here in southern vaudeville. The white people gave him a hilarious ovation on his work as he has gone away from the old routine, dancing and is doing something that is original and has been engraved in definite period. PASTIME THEATER, ATHENS, GA The Pastime theater opened Monday, August 28th, with a lively bunch ofists of Tom Young, Arthur Wyatt, Steve Oliver, Bernice Turrell, Lynn Townsford and Pat Smith. The opening was opened by Clara Smith, taking encores a plenty. Next was Wynn his song and dance. Then his recitations singing "Stop That Rax" and a dance taking three encores. Tom his connection once released up with his band one song. He sang "Next Week." "Prosperity" and "You'll Get Something You Don't Expect." Oscar Carter, song writer, is in the city, circulating among friends and acquaintances. The Kemps open on the Percy Williams time next week. Opeland and Payton at Perth Amboy, N. J. this week. The Six Gum Drops open their season September 18, on Loen's time. Carlisle and Wellman, this week at the Theater, Poar, England. are now on the Doyle "time" and are play the following dates: Louisville, K. September 11; Ruby theater, Chicago, II September 19; Moogram theater, Sout Bend, Ind., September 25; Magnetic theater, Chicago, Ill., October 2; Nation theater, Belvidere, Ill., October 9; St theater, Janesville, Wis., October 10; Royal Theater, Chicago, Ill., October 10 Parkway theater, Hammond, Ind., October 19; Bijou theater. Peat and Haves at Coliseum Theater, Philadelphia, Pa., week of September 11. Johnson and Wells arrived at Sydney, Australia, September 4, for a run of 20 weeks. S H Dodley and Henry Troy have com- plied their new piece, "Dr. Beans From Boston. Walter Maniganuit that his 115 steps are sufficient to show who he is as aainer. Pete Porter Stock Company is now playing at the Globe Theater, Jackson- ville, Fla., this week. The Follies of 1911, with Bort A. Williams, is now playing an indefinite en- gagement in Chicago. Arthur L. Prince, the versatile minstrel man, is teaching a brass band of Ofay girls at Bangor, Maine. Alba Overton Walker, with Creighton Thompson, scored a hit at Poh's Theater, Bridgeport, Conn., last week. The Whitman Sisters scored one of the girls hits ever seen at the Pekin Thea- sbury Park, last week. The Sambo Girls, with Edgar Connor and Bianne Dee, scored a hit last week at the Frospect Theater, Cleveland, Ohio. Nine. Flower, who is possessed of a vice exceptionally sweet, made a big impression at the Crescent Theater last week. The Arutes just closed four weeks' engagement at Jackson, Tennessee. Now at the Grand, Chattanooga, playing to big business. Eugene Clark has returned to Louisville from the Downie and Wheeler shows. He is somewhat indisposed. Will rest up a while. The McAdoo Stock Company, of Helena, Ark, is in good shape. Ed. Johnson is stage director and Garfield Gee, general manager. The Florida Blossom Company. Mr. Foster is playing solitron in band and vion in orchestra. At the Crown Garden Theater, Indianapolis, the week. Marsh Craig, contorted the Kemps, Stewart and Stitne, Sim Mason and U. S. Thompson are scoring daily with their funny singing and dancing act. With Gentry Bros.' Anexe Minstrel. The team of Daniels and Daniels (Lyons and little Julia) is at the Grand Theater in Pompanooga, Tenn., meeting with great success. S. E. Belliott, cornet soloist and keyboard of Elliott's Cornet Band, with Andes, the Advertiser, playing at Selma, Ala., indefinitely. The boys are all getting along nicely and everybody is buying up new English suits and hats. Very much English, don't you know. In Brandon, Manitoba. Miss Bessie Gibson, the well-known soprano and pianist, of Washington, D.C. arrived home after a successful summer season and is now open for engagements. Walter Manguita, better known as Walter Jenkins, eccentric dancer, monologist and the ragtime singing comedian, the Philadelphia Theater, Philadelphia, this week. After making a successful engagement at the central theater, Atlanta, Ga., Henry Boy Arthur Wym" opened up his late-time theater, Athens, Ga., and is going big as usual. Brown and Gaines, Ray Barley, Gilliam and William Baird, Billie Mulligan, Musical Seminoles, Cossetto, Williams Sisters are the acts booked at the Minneapolis Theatr, Washington, D. C. The Acme Theater at Moridian, Miss, this week presents Buckner and Buckner, Flord and Floyd, Fred Jackson, Kid Austin; Emma Thornton, musical director. The show is up-to-date and is well patronized. William E. Jones, the barbite, of New York City, formerly of the Dandy Dixie Fourteenth, will be in Washington at 2:220 Fourteenth, N. W. lim. and further notice, and will fill engagements and around Washington. The McDows are with J. C. O'Erlen's Georgia Minstrels. Mr. McDow has just about finished his new song hit entitled "Want Chicken Some Time," which he will feature in his new act. Mrs. McDow still maintains her sweet soprano voice. At the Globe Theater, aJeksonville, Fla., this week are: Sank Sims, producer, presenting a one-act musical comedy. The company is composed of Pete Porter, BJ McCluskey, Blancare Sims, Trixie Smith, Joe Mussel, C. H. Wallace, Samuel Peter, James Nelson, Jessie Love and Mattie Lewis. The Grand at Chattanooga Tenn., has changed hands; new under the management of Lon Sparks. The bill is Daniels and Daniels, comedy; Hubert Merry, singing and Indian character; Melson, pleasing soubrette; the Armes, Love and Grace; Mills and Tansel and Mine. Labelle Glenn. Week of September 4th the Maccoo Stock Company, Charleston, S. C., presuming all star vaudeville show with Pugh, Billy Munnerlyn, Joe Robinson, musician, Rosetta Brannan, soubrette; the Outlaw's dream staged "Bidy Stokes, The Outlaw," staged by Happy-Lucky Simpson. Madam Pauline Dempsey, after having lived five successful weeks in Washington, now on her way to New York. She gave up her job to teach at the Howard University, entertaining Mrs. Daisy Hinson, Missy Walker, Bailey, Kelly and Davis; also the Carr, Pio, at the residence of Madam Robinson. The Wallburgh's are still the drawing room of the Campbell Bros.' side show. Prof. Wallburgh, the lady with the costumes, is making a song, singing "Alexander Date-Time Band." Wallburg's had the pleasure of visiting some of their old friends in Kansas City, of their old friends in Kansas Shaw and Willie Moore, both members of the Two Bills Shows. Harry Rowe Shelly's organ overture is soon to be given as an offertery in one of the Sunday evening concerts at Chapel, Chicago, Ill. Prof. Morris solos will be taken by Mr. Sylvester Russell. The date of the concert has also been asked by Noah D. Thomas, Esq. to give a recital at Tuscee Institute on the same order that Madam Hackley and Rosamond John's were given. Campbell & Warfield write that they are now on the Dovey "tme" and "gates dates": Louisville, Ky., September 11; Raleigh, Ky., September 18; Monogram theater, South, Ind., and September 25; Majestic theater, Chicago, National theater, Belvidere, Ill., October 9; theater, Wesley, Wis., October 12; theater, Wiesau, Illinois, October 16; Parkway theater, Chicago, Ill., October 18; October 19; Bijou theater CHICAGO WEEKLY REVIEW "Tallaboo," a genuine Negro Melo Drama, Successfully produced at Mott's Pekin Theater. By Sylvester Russell. Closing Performance a Gala Night. Closing Performance a Gala Night. The closing performance, which I attended by request of Mr. Harris and the head of the school, was a social event but every seat in the house was filled. The pla yhad been reduced to four acts; the scenes had been improved upon and the features which I had criticised above in this article had all been changed and the animated in such a way that the play fit for a successful hearing anywhere. Mrs. Lacey's Stunning Gown. There was quite a stir when Mrs. Jennie Lacey, a well molded elderly lady, portly in size, entered as the banker's wife in a drawing room scene. She wore a white dress with a pink and green pansies as a bordering to a skirt of pointed wings and wing pointed shoes. But the most interesting act in her career was Mrs. Funnie Hall Cilt, who carried all the responsible burden of the female element but was more at home as a lady than as a man. She was a sumed, J. I. Harper, Mr. Harris and Mrs. Lane were all seen to a better advantage and Mr. Durham was familiar than ever. He was plurally bred and best and most natural Negro drama that has ever been produced and could even be perfected for the combination theaters would have to see. As they should now be willing to do, so great is racial texture and simplicity, that people would be more delighted to see them in the interest than any of the Tom Dixon plays. Nathaniel R. Harper, the Author, Makes a Speech. Nathaniel R. Harper, author of the play, who was introduced by B. F. Mosee, who was introduced by the third act, was given wondrous access to the stage, how he bow his recognizances and take his place with the late Bob Cole and with Jesse A. Shipp in the rank of a foremost playwright in Negro stage history. Mr. Harper in part, briefly as follows: "The first performance of this play was given at the auditorium at Louisville, the auspices of the National Women's Educationalub. He national cured the house from the white people after a great struggle. He spoke highly of his success in picking his characters from the talent he found in Chicago. He spoke highly of the education of the audiences which had assembled in increasing numbers on each successive night. He says he expects to keep the drama before the public until teachers have been designated—the upbuilding of the Negro race. Flo Adler, White Vaudeville Star, at the New Grand. Circumstances alter cases when colored artists have to be supplied by white artists in order to fill out the bill. This week, we will be assisting the assistance of her madre, babe, made her THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAFER first appearance on the South Side. Her voice, which retains considerable freshness, met with approval. There was no demonstration on her entrance. There was no kneeling, and knew who she was. Unknown to the colored folks, she made a b-liner for the gallery folks, who responded after her boys had sung alternately from the upper boxes and from the lower boxes, sweet choir boys from the West Side. The Hebrew element of the South Side did not return out as they should, but many of the Irish were there to help prove that Miss Adler was discovered Leah was discovered Leah was good acrobats, but physical perfections of beauty, especially the big fellow, who won special favor. Goodie and Goodie, colored entertainers, made their appearance at a racial individual, and scored on the merits of its humor. Lew Walsh and company, in "Leivinsky's Old Shoe," assisted by two well placed actors, a man and a woman, who star in ancient Hebrew character. The Dalto-Freese company played a return engagement with good results. Milton and Fanny Wise at the Monogram. Claude Winfrey appeared in his well-known hair (Gertie Brown) appeared in Kid Brown's well known comedy and musical specialty, which included banjos, and playful New Pictures at the Phoenix. New Pictures at the Phoenix. Everything new is the daily trend of the Phoenix program. The latest illustration in "Life" Oversees "Ovee" Only in Life. There has been considerable comment on the superior quality of the pictures and many requests come in for a repitition of popular presentations and "The Colonel's Son" were royally received by the large audiences, which still keep up to the standard in quality. Every time I get a small newspaper built up, the editor gets the big head and I have to withdraw, much to the dissatisfaction of the public, whose love and confidence I have enjoyed. I have retired from the "Defender" and my "Freeman" stage "The Fighter" after he syndicated in the "Illinois Idea." The public, not the critic, is asking what has become of the Mott Memorial funds, and are we to live the bruise of Robert T. Motts? This question will be continually asked as long as people keep forcing it into the newspapers. Lillian Gary and Mudge Clinton have joined hands and will open at Indianapolis on the 18th. The Pekin theater orchestra, which took charge on the second evening of the drama, consisted of Oliver Perry, George Bailey, Henry Johnson, LeRoy Bradshaw and Mrs. Gertle Harrison. The Guffin Sisters opened at the Lincoln theater, Lexington, Ky., September 11th, with the New Ruby at Louisville, and Indianapolis and Cincinnati to follow. The special matinee which was to have been given by the Goats in honor of Bert A. Williams at the Pekin theater last Tuesday afternoon was recalled after the bills were out. It is said that Mr. Williams had analytically declined the honor and of his name as a basis of the project. --- Huggs and Heards music company report favorably of the K. of P. song, which is at the Chicago office of Mr. Huggs, who is at the New York end, is at present in mourning over the recent death of his father. Mr. Heard can be at the Chicago office, 3159 State street. --- "The Dixie Whirl" and "Wireless Telegraphy" drew good houses at the Pekin last Saturday and Sunday, but space will not permit of lengthy rehearsal. The girls gave the show. Willem and Green were the main features of the cast and their act in its new form went big. Miss Marlowe, Bulah Ray White Singer, Malcolm McKinney and songs. The "Wireless" introduced Mr. Lewis, who was laughable in a comedy part, as was Cassie Burch and Chas. Gilpin, who rendered a plaintive song with whiffle fingers as a connecting link between the two fares were supplied by Sadie Peirce, a clever little singing and dancing and sound, made a good impression. Ed Williams, in jubilation and Edd Hill, the pianist, in task, assisted by a young woman, gave domestic joy, and Claude Wintrefy created a comedy concert full of concerted comedy and capers, which in all made a delightful evening. THE CINCINNATI THEATERS The Pekin—The Gaither. Notes. CINCINNATI, O., Sept. 12.—The Pekin this week has one of the first acts that was used in the house when it first opened, the McCarrens. This is one of the best that has played in the house. The McCarrens never showed to better form the theny do you would at the hardened home now play an act of thisulier would be playing an this time. Billy McCarren is working without cork and he is a scream, something that no other comedian has been able to do. Avenue houses. The team works hard and Mrs. McCarren is an able assistant to the act. There should be plenty of work for this team as long as they play hard and have returned after an absence of several months with about the same act, but whatever they do it is highly appalled hard to tell whether it is art or effort that draws the people to this trio, but whatever it is, it makes the manager smile. Miss Lucy Shepherd is making love to the bad headed men in the front with the aid of the moving pictures. The Gather sprung an unusually strong bill on us this week. Miss Laura Smith (single) under cork, singing the song "A little monologue," is a bill by itself. Miss Smith is a favorite and under cork she is a top notcher. Miss Rosa Smith is a top notcher. Miss Bill, and this week have a real act, H.T. were held over from last week, but they seved themselves for this week's work. They are good. Brown and Merriweather, both of them, turn, entitled "What Happened to Jupiter%" Miss Bessie Brown doing the straight in male attire, has a nice line, while her partner, Mr. Merriweather, as a black face comedian, is very funny. Detective R. A. Reed has gone to Peoria, Ill., on business. Miss Jennie Moore has succeeded Miss Sadie Ogle as secretary and ticket seller at the Pekin. Miss Ogle will take a much needed rest. Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Knox, of Indianapolis, Ind., spent Sunday with friends in this city. Mr. Ike Paul, the well-known comedian and theatrical promoter, finds plenty of work for his company in and around Cincinnati. ROUTE RICHARD AND PRINGLE'S FAMOUS GEORGIA MINSTRELS-Salt Lake City, Utah, September 18; Judition Utah, 19; Asgen, 20; Glenwood Springs, 21; Leadville, 22; Salida, 23. RENIX BROS.' MINSTRELS-Grundy Center, Iowa, September 19 to 21. THE SOUTHERN SMART SET (S. Tutt Whittey)—Fort Worth, Texas, September 18-19. FIDDLER AND SHELTON—Grand Theater, Syracuse, N. Y., week of September 18. P.G. LOWERY'S COMPANY, with the Wallace-Harenbeck Circus—Fayetteville, Ark., September 18; Fort Smith, 19; Clarksville, 20; Russellville, 21; Conway, 22; Newport, 23. ROY POPE'S BAND, with the Ringling Broz Circus—Los Angeles, al., September 18; Clarksville, 20; Russellville, 21; Santa Ana, 22; San Bardine, 23. BLACK PATTI MUSICAL COMPANY—Vincennes, Ind., September 18; Terre Haute, 19; Danville, Ill., 20; Peoria, 21; Springfield, 22; Joliet, 23. "JOLLY" JOHN LARKINS COMPANY—Annapolis, Md., September 18; Reading, 19; Williamsport, 20; Altoona, 21; Greensburg, 22; McKeesport, 23. WILLIAM M'CABE'S GEORGIA TROU- BADOURS—Shenandoah, Iowa, Sept- port, 21; Mount City, 22; Bigleaf, 23 PROF. C, M. DAVIS' MAZPEBA J —Detroit, Mich, September 18 to 27 PUMPKIN COLORED TRIO (Perrin, Crosby and Sapara—Miles Theater, Minneapolis, Minn, week of Septem- ber 18) Gentlemen's List. Beman, J. Kersands, Billy Boutte, George. Perdie, David. Henace, J. Peter, Willie. Handy, Gee. Singleton, Baby Doll. Hull, W. H. Street, Fred. Hull, D. R. Thomas and Ward Rastus Webb, Jeff. Jennings & Jennings White, Bob. Kewley, Fred Ladies' List. Brown, Jessie. Reeves, Jesse. Gant, Mabel. Thompson, Lizzie. Mason, Lillian B. Whitman, Mae. Reeves, Jesse. Thompson, Lizzie. Whitman, Mae. A. B. EARL WALKER Manager Crown Garden THEATRE Indianapolis, Ind. Booking all the leading COLORED VAUDEVILLE TALENT of America. Would like to hear from All First Class Acts. 25-27-29 N. FOUNTAIN AVE. SPRINGFIELD, OHIO FURNITURE, RUGS CARPETS, STOVES UR CREDIT IS GOOD RK Three Days, Commencing Monday, Sept. 1 Thomas E. Shea YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD WANTED! Famous Sunflowers—all the winter South then up the line, the giants to strengthen band: cornet, clarinet, trombone and tuba. B. & O. or stage preferred. Tickets if I know you. Answer calls, Newberry, Fla. WANTED! of five or six people. Good Sister Team, Three months' work. Pastime Theatre, Muskogee Okla, Louis T. Brown, Bus. Mgr. May and May Original String Beans doing 18 minutes in one. Good wardrobe on and on all Managers write in care of The Freeman. The Lyre Theatre Thirteenth and Walnut Streets, Louisville, Ky. G Vaudeville Attractions and Moving Pictures. Would like to hear from all first class acts. TICE TO PERFORMERS of the Minnehaha Theatre, Washington, D.C. talk of the country. Have you played there? IF NOT WRITE AT ONCE TO HOMAS, Mgr., 946 Tea St., n. w., Washington, D. C. Song Writers WANTED! For J. C. Miles' Famous Sunflowers—all the winter South then up the line, a few more musicians to strengt en band; cornet, clarinet, trombone and tuba, those doubling B. & O. or stage preferred. Tickets if I know you. Answer quick. J. C. Miles, Newberry, Fla. WANTED! Stock Company of five or six people. Good Sister Team, Three months' work to right parties. Pastime Theatre, Muskogee Okla, Louis T. Brown, Bus. Mgr. In Vaudeville, doing 18 minutes in one. Good wardrobe on and off the stage. All Managers write in care of The Freeman. Thirteenth and Walnut Streets, Louisville, Ky. Featuring Vaudeville Attractions and Moving Pictures. Would like to hear from all first class acts. NOTICE TO PERFORMERS Progress of the Minnehaha Theatre, Washington, D.C. The talk of the country. Have you played there? IF NOT WRITE AT ONCE TO ANDREW J. THOMAS, Mgr., 946 Tea St., n. w., Washington, D. C. ONG HITS OF THE DAY Monkey Rag Fishing If I Forget Billy Down in My Heart Alamo Rag Ther'll Come a Time Alexanders Band Oceana Roll Carolina Rag Cozy Rag Just For You Babe Barn Yard Rag All Right in My Younger Days When I Woke Up in the Morning she was Gone SONG HITS OF THE DAY Gee! but it's Great to Meet a Friend From Your Home Town! It’s Awful Hard to Say Good-Bye. When I Say Good Bye I Mean Good Bye. Wm. FOSTER Music Co., 3638 St to St. Chicago NOTICE TO PERFORMERS NOTICE TO PERFORMERS G. A. BARRASSO is now representing the TriState Circuit of his son, the late Fred. A. Barrasso. Can give you from 8 to 10 weeks work and book you elsewhere. Good performers can make 20 weeks. Singers and dancers, good looking girls for stock and chorus, vaudeville acts and A No.1 comedians write or wire at once. G. A. BARRASSO, Prop., Majestic Theatre, Hot Springs, Ark. Address for time to J. A. ENGLISH, Mgr. Majestic Theatre, Hot Springs, Ark. The Evanston Theatre Louisville, Ky. WE CAN USE FIRST-CLASS RECOGNIZED ACTS AT ALL TIMES FUNNY CA YOUR C PARK The Funny Farce "A Run on the Bank" Sept. 21, 22, 23. POPULAR PRICE WAI For J. C. Miles' Famous S few more musicians to str those doubling B. & O. or quick. J. C. Miles, Newbe WAI Stock Company of five or six to right parties. Pastime T May Origin In Vaudeville, doing 18 the stage. All Manager The Ly Thirteen Featuring Vaudeville Would like NOTICE Progress of the Mile The talk of the ANDREW J. THOMAS, M MICHELLE 15C PER COPY POST PAID Gee! but It's Great to Meet a Fr Bye. When I Say Good Bye I M NOTICE M. B. H. The Eve 13th A WE CAN USE FIRE Chas. O. Hardin 5 Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hide, The Bells, and A Man and His Wife ES. EVERYBODY GOES TO THE PARK. We publish and market your own songs and compositions. Set words to music and music to words. Your song guaranteed to reach the public through our hands. Join Our Staff Club and get the latest music published. We distribute 50,000 copies each month. HUGGS & HEARD house of Hits Music Publishers 38 EAST 21st St New York City SUITE 1—3159 State St. Chicago, Ill Monkoy Rag Fishing If I Forget Billy Down in My Heart Alamo Rag Ther'll Come a Time Alexanders Band Oceana Roll Carolina Rag Cozy Rag Just For You Babe Barn Yard Rag All Right in My Younger Days When I Woke Up in the Morning she was Gone When the Trees Shed their Leaves in the Fall GOSSIP OF THE STAGE 6 Madame E. Azala Hackley will appear in a retiring song recital and vocal demonstration, Chicago, October 19. Carey B. Lewis, manager. Misses Lizzie White and Stella Williams are going big with Hal Hunt's George masters. Would like to hear for Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Brown, care of The Freeman. The Happy Four, with John Molley, Chas. McKenzie, Chas. Horne and Tiny Ray, are at Snithport, Pa., this week, and at Utica and Cortland, N. Y., the week of September 18. Harry Brooks scored a big hit at the Dixie Theater, Richmond, Va., closing on the 9th. He opened at Petersburg, Va. on the 11th, at the Idle Hour Theater. Best regards to all performers. Mr. Chappille and wife are spending a few days in Atlanta, Ga. They are located at East Ellis Street, at Mrs. Wallis, East Ellis Street, at Chappille's health improves very slowly. The Campbell Trio is now at the Dixie Theatre, Tampa, Fla. Other people at the theater are: Pauline Crampman, Iva Hubbard, Buddie Glenn, Isaac Grant, Mr. Campbell has charge of the stage, and has Tampa wild over his shows. Billie Mack, of Mack and Mack, is awake with the Fawn. Hal Hunske, Georgia Minsrels, after a two months' rest on the Gulf Coast, Mrs. Mary Mack is ill at her home in New Orleans, La, but will join her husband as soon as she recovers. They send regards to all. Wolf Scales' Band baseball team, the members of which are with the Forepaugh and Sells Bros.' Shows, played a doubleheader with the first game a wounding the first by a score of 1 to 1, and losing the second game to the Freeport club by a score of 1 to 6. All members of the company are enjoying a very successful season, and are earning the first prize. The company sends best regards to friends in and out of the profession. PASTIME THEATER-ATHENS, GA. The show is a good one this week. "Honey Boy" Arthur Wynn is considered a classy monologue, who entertains in a different style from any one else. The cast is seated in a circle, both Sing, talk and dance. Lucy Townsend is doing all the character parts with the show. To Bessie Oliver is due much credit for her neat work. Tom Young, the comedian, takes well everywhere he goes. The stage is under the control of the director, who is well pleased with the bunch, and will have the house going in grand style. M'DANIEL COMEDY COMPANY, MUSKOGEE, OKLA. The weather here is bad at present, but business has been very good. The show has been a success ever since we came back from Oklahoma City. All members of the company are well and send regards to The Freeman staff. Mr. Bud Brown, the manager of the business, is also the suits of his advertisement in your paper, as he has been put in touch with performers all over the country. THE RUBY THEATER, GALVESTON, TEXAS At the Ruby Theater the bill is headed by the famous comedian, George Centers, assisted by the company. The Pattersons (Catherine and Rector) with their late and up-to-date sketches and songs singing, and Junita Ellis, who is known throughout the city as a coon shouter, are one the bill. Stack Moore, in his soft-she dance, and little Catherine Patterson, who is worth the price of admission, are hits. Our orchestra can't be beat. Charley Helms works at the piano and John Walton at the drums. He has the greatest set of traps throughout the country, and is the manager. J. Ritzler is sole owner. PALO ALTO. CAL. J. M. Busby's Minstrels are now en route on the Pacific Coast. We had a week of fun at the different clubs and enjoyed the sights and amusements along the stroll. Our show is being changed completely, as we will tour the South in a short time. Prof Timmons is arranging some new jokes, jokes and specialties are being rapidly introduced in place of the old ones. Eddie Singleton, one of our young stars, will be there. Mr. Thomas Thompson, our inter- lutor, sends his best regards to all. He will close on the first of October and the second of November, at Seventh street, at the Pastime Club, as pianist. The club is under manage- ment of Martin, formerly of Donaldsonville, La. RICHARDS & PRINGLE'S MINSTRELS We are running along nicely, and every one is well except Tom White, whom we sent to a hospital in Ogden, Utah, the other day, but a letter from him to-day states that he is in the hospital, and we agree, or three weeks, and we agree, hopefully he will. Major Daniel's singing of the bass solo, "The Belryf Tower," is causing much favorable comment everywhere, and in Seattle, Wash., and Port-au-Prince, where he has his voice, which is heard better in the lower range, and I doubt very much if there is a better bass on the minstrel stage than Major Daniels. Abe Wright sends regards to R. H. O. Henderson, Chas. Brown, and C. W. Brown, and Clarence Powell says, Hello Bill Brown; you owe him a letter, Alonzo Williams and Sylvester Williams send regards to Jack Powell and R. Roy Pope. Prof. Frederick Ward Simpson, who said, "What that?" Sydney Kirkpatrick sends regards to "Ras" Jones and Lawrence Chenault, and says, Where on earth are you? AT THE KEMPNER "Mayor of New Town." Little Rock, Ark. Rattling funny from start to finish is the musical comedy styled "Newtown." put on at Kempner's Theater as the opening attraction of the season last week. The product of the theater, produced by a Negro company known as "The Smart Set," but this doesn't detract the least from the merit of the omedey. You laugh until your sides ache, just the same as the rest of the presentation of the play was largely confined to the galleries and balcony, but the production is well worth enjoying by anyone who likes original comedy. The play is also a wonderful ensemble effects. The scenic effects are exceptionally good, particularly the Indian village and mountain scenes. The pretentious country village of Newtown is also throughout—much more so than many of the musical comedies put on by white playwrights and produced by white companies. In short, it is a good show without a chestnut in its joke repertoire. But Whitney plays the principal comedy role and he delivers the goods every time. He is the mayor of Newtown and he manages to "run" the town despite suffragettes bandit and dress stained empathically that he would either run the town or run everybody or town out the routine is a born comedian and suits fun but not all situations. One of his most original stunts is that of drilling a squad of the Newtown militia, the commands being grimaces, etc. Each command is well executed, the squad putting on an interesting bit of maneuvering. He has a good sense of humor with Nettle Taylor as the school teacher was one of the hits of the evening. Ethel Marshall has a really attractive face. There isn't a loud voice in the entire aggregation, for that matter, and the little girl who takes the part of the maiden has a delightful lyrical soprano. J. Homer Tutt, who takes the part of the classy kid, Sam Jayson, does an excellent part while the characters of the song all well taken care of. The Mexican character is also satisfactorily portrayed, while the new "Mexico" song is rendered by Ed. Tolliver. The company carries its own orchestra, which furnishes good music during rehearsals. The company also indicates splendid preparatory work before the company begins the season. The show was repeated the second evening and was of seats was good. —Arkansas Democrat PRINCE MUNGO, DESCENDENT OF THE BHOGIRATTES One of the ethnological features of the Sells-Flox Annex and curio department is the exhibition of Prince Mungo, a direct descendant of a tribe of Bhojigirres Prince Mungo is known by the managers of side shows and museums all around the district. In fact box office attraction. His weird native dances are both amusing and instructive. A tive, and he is capable of giving ten minutes of strange and fascinating amusement. Prince Mungo has traveled with the large excuses he has one of best experiences ever. Exported from the Philippine Islands. As a bally-hoo proposition he stands without a peer, as this is one of his strong points, and he can top or in the lobby of any theater. Prince Mungo will be at liberty after October 15, and invites correspondence from all reliable managers. Address as patee of Sells-Floic Circus in The Philippines. SEEN AND HEARD WHILE PASSING. S. Tutt Whitney with Southern Smart Set Company. The song below was written by S. Tutt Whitneyy and Henry Watterson; sung by Alfred Strauder in the "Mayor" song, one of the songs hits of the production. Keep A-Movin' Rite Along There's a mighty change a-comin' an' it ain't so far away; Keep a-move, move, movin' rite along. When de sun you know am shinn' dat's de time to make de hay. Ebery cloud has silbery lining, dat's what de wise folks tak. So you got no time ferrin' jis be hus- An' keep a-move, move, movin' rite along. Chorus Move, move; you got to keep a-movin'. Move, move; you better be improvin'. Stop yo' talking 'bout the wedder; better git yo'sef toeder. Fer if you stop to play, hard times'll ketch you on de way. Move, move; keep a-rabbin' an' a-grab-bin. Move, move; you got no time for flab-bin. You better move—now you're talkin'. You gotter move—keep a-walkin'. Move, move, movin' rite along. In about a million years or more de sun will fade away. Keep a-move, move, movin' rite along. The moon will surely hit de east, is Keep a-move, move, movin' rite along. Tho' dart danger may be lurkin', we will all be dead and gone; So don't you stop a-workin', for I tell you sure ez you're born. Tis ez you' start shirkin' der'll be suckers in your mom. So eep ak-move, move, movin' rite along. Two girls of the Southern Smart Set Company ran foul of the Arkansas "Jim Crow" law in Pine Bluff. The colored toilet rooms were undergoing some new renovations, and a thoughtless moment went into the toilet rooms assigned for white women. An over-zalous station o'12cer, seeing them enter the sacred precincts of the white rooms, rudely seized and unceremoniously led them to the station house, where they were promptly fined $10.00. The fines were promptly paid and the girls were immediately seized at liberty for the rest of the day. The kind is $15.00; minimum $3.00. It was an exceptional case. Not one o'12cer in a hundred anywhere in the South would be fined for the girls' ignorance of the transgressors that they are in the wrong place. Mr. Corwell, manager of the company, was away from the office at the time the incident happened. When information was received, breathless to the station house; there, in language too strong for print, he expressed his opinion of the officer, steward and Arkansas laws in general. When the judge was constrained to reduce the fines from $10.00 to the minimum fine of $3.00. Not every manager of a colorer show has the courage to stand up for his rights. Inherited prejudices of the Southerner. Not satisfied with the matter of fines THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER Mr. Corwell took up the incident with the railroad officials, and they immediately recommended the discharge of the officer. The entire company is very grateful to Mr. Corwell. This is only one of the many instances where he has jeopardized his personal safety and life for the welfare of his company. WILL ORGANIZE MINSTREL Co. AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE SELLS-FLOTO SEASON Information has reached us that Prof. W. H. Reed's band and orchestra, now touring with the Sells-Flozo Circus, will celebrate October 10th of October somewhere in Texas, will be organized and conformed into a first-class minstrel organization and will tour back North, playing the principal cities of the South. The minstrels will be managed by the Reed's general show brains in the business, thereby insuring a prosperous business to the aggregation. First-class people are desired and are requested to address all the members of the Reed as per route in The Freeman. Booers and disorganizers save stamps. THEATRICAL CHIT-CHAT. Frank Fowler Brown and Bessie Oliver Brown are not to have a legal separation. They are now playing an engagement, at the church, at the station of which they are members in New York City. Both are young people of exceptional talent, and as joint vaudeville artists could put on an act that would sweep the country. Madame E. Azalia Hackley, the noted prima donna, is to formally petrify from the concert stage at a farewell recital, to be given at Orchestra Hall, Chicago. Both are so sad that she is positively be the first appearance of Madame Hackley upon the concert stage in Chicago, but she is being urged to give similar retirement recitals in Washington, Philadelphia and New York, and to give similar retirement recitals in the retirement she will devote her time to teaching and conducting vocal institutes to train vocal teachers for the race. It is noted that this is the first instance of a female vocalist, Mr. Cary B. Lewis, the brilliant young newspaper man, is to manage the Chicago recital for Mrs. Hackley. In the new $100,000 Evanston Theater in the Chicago suburb, a separate secondary vate stairway, has been provided for colored patrons. On the opening night it is said the scheme worked satisfactorily, but the majority of the Negroes who flocked to the place, the Illinois Chronicle, however, makes a kick and says every citizen. If the entrance is colored citizens Evanston to see to it that this entrance is closed by cobwebs, and the seats eaten up by dust and rust. There is no place in Chicago for a "jim crow" theater. --- One of the brightest of the "sister acts" now before the public is that performed by Miss Lottie Gee and Miss Eiffle Kee, who are completing a series of works that will be performed annually the entire summer. By expert headwork, coupled with nimble footwork and voices that combine rare musical quality with pliancy and vivacity, they will bring something new; hence, they have not "gone stale," and at the close of their season here they are even more strongly in demand than at the opening. In the next quarter across any selection from grand opera to "rastime," and Miss King is a contralto of like range and versatility, bodying the "poetry of motion," staring their productions with palmstaking care, striking originality and the utmost fidelity to the best terpsichorean traintype. That makes Me Love You the most beautiful bodying she have attained lasting popularity, with Miss Gee leading, are: "Toddling the Todelo," "Albama Bound," "Loving," "That makes Me Love You the most beautiful bodying she have attained lasting popularity," "Alexander's Rare-Time Band." Miss Gee has added to her varied repertoire Miss Baden's new ballad, "Just for a Kiss," and takes Me Love You the most beautiful bodying speciality, "The Devil Rag," by Ford Dabney, is a delightful feature of their present engagement at Dabney's Theater. Misses Gee and King pay particularly to wardrobe being admitted to be the most elaborate and expensive outfit used by any similar team now in vaudville. They are styled on the boards as "Ford Dabney," and they apply. Though preferring to travel at present as an individual team, there is a barrel of money awaiting any manager sagacious enough to place in a comedy company for the "road." Misses Gee and King have made a host of warm friends among the best people in the world, and they fore them in the Thespian world. Their speedy return to the nation's capital will be heartily welcomed. . . . T. Spencer Finley, the effervescent comedian, who holds the record for longevity hereabouts, is at Daly's, in Baltimore, that he was he who made it happen. He is the first Washington, opening the house and remaining a favorite. Mr. Finley pioneered the local vaudieville field, and made it possible for scores of high-salaried performers to get a "look in" on the local Washington a developed role that makes Washington a close rival to New York and Chicago as a Negro theatrical center. . . . The Dandy Dixie Minstrels are at the New Howard dixie week, opening their season after two weeks of rehearsal. John Larkins follows in "Royal Sam." --- The Minnehaha is to be enlarged. A new stage, comfortable dressing room and all of the accessories of a first-class theater are to be installed. Ford Dabney is organizing a vaudeville circuit, and will soon be able to book performers for forty solid weeks of work in reliable houses. Clarence Bowens, with the "Ten Georgia Camper," were here last week at the Lyceum, as an added attraction to the "Miss New York, Jr." Burlesque Company. They "went big," as usual. Edward Tolliver, the "Pedro" of S. Tutt Whitney's "Mayor of Newtown," is making a pronounced hit, both as an actor and a singer. He has the oppo- tor of his career and has made His solo, "Dear Old Mexico," is taking repeated encores nightly, and his sensualial fall from a cliff at the close of the last act brings his part very close to the finish. He has commented, Mr. Tolliver is a diligent student and shows that he possess the stuff of which "top-liners" are made. Lewis A. Mitchell, the well-known comedian and musician, has assumed the management of the Chelsea, and is booking some first-class attractions for this excellent house. Some much-anticipated targets have been the stage and lighting arrangements. It is stated that the name of the house will also be changed, and that the memory of some noted colored actor will be perpetuated in this way. Great Hogan, Walker, Aldridge and Bob Cole's names are mentioned in this connection. --- Here's good health, long life and the best of luck to she who was "Carita Day!" She is Mrs. Sigismond T. Mussondon now and will live in Chicago. The stage loses one of its brightest linaries in the retirement of Miss Day. Miss Susie Sutton remains as the most substantial pillar in the popularity of the Foraker Theater. The airdome has been crowded this week, fully 2,000 people being in attendance at some of the performances. Andrew Tribble and Jeff DeMount, in their new sketch, are in the Chelsea this week for an indefinite stay. Gaines and Brown are also on the bill. Miss Lottie Gee, the vital spark, is a native of Newport, Ky. She has an THE $10,000 BALLAD SENSATION..... "IF I FORGET" Don't miss the B-K & Co. Numbers, they stand in a class of their own "AS LONG AS THE SEA BOLLS ON" "SQUAW MAN" "LONGING FOR THE LOVE THAT USED TO BE" "THE SOUL OF LOVE IS THE RED RED ROSE" "SOME ONE, SOME WHERE, SOME DAY" If your dealer cannot supply, send order direct to: Blood, Koehler, & Co., Music Publishers 145 N. Clark St., Chicago, Ill. peared with marked success with Williams and Walker, Cole and Johnson and S. H. Dudley's "Smart Set." In the last named she successfully "understudied" Mrs. Aida Overton Walker, Andrew Tribbie and Bella Anderson in widely differing roles. The dearth of strong colored road shows this year is one of the tragedies that will not make up a top-line vaudeville combinations for the road on the order of the Great Behman Show, the old Tony Pastor type, or anything attractive to fill the gaping dates in houses like the Howard at Washingtoon, but that the all-white companies will be able to draw at the all-black theaters of the country. There is a disposition to make this color-line business cut both ways in many of the cities. Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis is preparing for an extended sojourn in Bermuda. Mme. Anita Patti Brown, who recently achieved the triumph of her life at the great musical festival in Atlanta, is to make 'the Pacific Coast this season, in both Seattle and San Francisco. Los Angeles, and all of the metropolitan cities of the Far West. She will be in Washington for a star concert in the near future, under the auspices of the S. Coleridge-Taylor Choral Society. Will Vodery goes with the Smart Set as musical director. S. H. Dudley's new comedy vehicle for the coming season is styled "Mr. Beans of Boston." It is said to be entirely different from any colored show in the city. The city has been the crying demand among the colored shows for these many days. ATLANTA (GA.) SHOW NOTES: (By Lonnie Reed.) The Central Theater never "caught on" until theatrical brain was brought into play. At this theater you find a crowd in the audience, people in every walk of life. The answer is simply this: Messrs. Joel and Bailey, the "King" and "Prince", respectfully, the company and the audience, welcoming them back to the theater this is their engagement after an absence of over four months, Clayborne Jones, "TheAMEama Jones" is an addition to the company and the Ludder Jones and Laura Moss, the prima donna. The big noise, Speedy Smith, is on the job, also Theresa Burroughs, Alice Russell and the team. The person who writes three real clever people who write the writer can get the names as the progra mwas not out for the Monday matinee. The show opened with a one-act musical farce, the leading comedy roles, and met the expectation of their audience by keeping them laughing for forty minutes. They were here supported by the company. No one knew the Laura Moss of classic songs. While Adam Norwood, a singer of the same order (and no better) was the feature of a big show, the company carried her own musical director, acc. and she makes good, so does Miss Moss under less encouragement. Then came the R. O. B. Duo, Speedy Smith and the company at the Central Theater, well deserved bows, they sang. The Moonlight Glide," and their singing and the dancing of the third chorus forced the popular Clayborne Jones who came here direct from Chicago, where he made a name for himself. Yasu-ma Mana at the Central Theater, repeatedly at the Central Theater, this young man is easily termed a singing comedian with much stress on both singing and comedian. He is one big star, they don't want to let him go when he sings "Way Down in Georgia." He is working this week with Miss Ludelle Moore, never singing in Boston. She is a winger and an singer a song. The Central patrons like her, as proved by the applause. The closing sketch is a fun vehicle for sure, with Russelle and owens producing the fun with Blanche Smith and Max Brooks, Speedy Smith and Sam Catlett. BEAN'S AUDITORIUM OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA The McDaniel Comedy Company opened here Sunday night, August 13th, to a crowded house. The show was very highly appreciated. Mr. Browne, the manager of the Browne were as well pleased with the show as the audience. Mr. Dock Straine, the stage manager of the comedy at the praise that was endured out of him. The bill as played by the McDaniel company was something out of the ordinary. It was a bill of varied composition, including the lyrical and the crowning feature was the last act, featuring Tom Overton in a new invention, comedian and Doe in Artemis with a screen of Brown and McDaniel, the two dancing marvels, have never failed to set them wild with their comedy, trick and clog dancing, the musical and a screen of Oklahoma City with her sweet singing; she has become a big favorite in this section of the country, and also in several other areas. The internal manager of the McDaniel Comedy No. 2, now playing at Oklahoma City. No. 1 is now playing a return date at Oklahoma City. Pastime theater, Muskogee, Okla, where they will play for an indefinite time. 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. Notice to Performers FAIRYLAND THEATRE HIGH CLASS VAUDEVILLE Frank P. Kearney, Mgr 19th & L Sta., n. w. Washington, D. C WANTED! A Neat Sister Team, A Small Stock Company, Good Singer and Dancer. A Good Commedian Yale Air Dome C. A. CHAMBERS Manager Guthrie, OKA WANTED! Acts, all kinds have written, write again; good acts indefinite run: want big feature New Orpheum Theater, 1320-29 South St. Philadelphia, PA 19105 B. Bandy, Amusement Director Acts, all kinds have written, write again; good acts indefinite run: want big feature New Orpheum Theater, 1320-29 South St. Philadelphia, PA 19105 B. Bandy, Amusement Director With 40 All Star Performers, in their 2 Palace Cars. Engagements open at all times for first class musicians and performers, male and female. Contrast jumpers and boozeers save stamps. Douglass & Worthey, sole owners. Fourth street, Macon, Ga For Rent or Lease season beginning October 1, 1911. Located in the$200,000 Pythian Temple. Absolutely Fire Proof. Apply Manager 305-6 K. of P. Temple S. W. GREEN, Chairman, New Orleans, La. WANTED! First class acts of all kinds. Good novelty acts of recognized ability Address JOHN T. GIBSON, Prop Auditorium Theatre, South Street above Broad, Philadelphia, Pa. Phone Douglass 4482 Automatic phone 71001 O CAFE AND BUFFET (NEWLY OPENED) street, Chicago, Ill OVERD FROM 5 TO 8 P.M. S ENTERTAINERS..... THE LA VERDO CAFE AND BUFFET (CAFE NEWLY OPENED) 3100-2 State Street, Chicago, III TABLE DE HOTE SERVED FROM 5 TO 8 P.M. .....HIGH CLASS ENTERTAINERS..... Harry J. Kelly Proprietor WANTED! First Class performers, mail and female singers and dancers, character people, and sister teams doing specialties; plenty of stage room for all acts. Seating capacity 120; good climate, healthful water, long and pleasant engagement to the right people; Salary $30 and upgrades to start with, according to what you do. No transportation or fares advanced to anyone outside of Cuba Boozers, mashers, dope fiends and grafters save stamps. State all in first letter. Address: Williams & Williams OLEMPIA THEATRE Nueva Gerona Isle of Pines, Cuba, W.I. Coming to Your City Soon THE GREAT A. G. ALLEN'S FAMOUS MINSTRELS Coming to Your City Soon THE GREAT A. G. ALLEN'S FAMOUS MINSTRELS The Show that has Made all the South Laugh Opening for first class musicians and performers at all times. Those doubling in brass preferred. Salary sure. We never close. State all you can do in first letter. Address GEORGE W. QUINE, Mgr., Mail forwarded each day to show. Hazen, Arkansas. The New Grand Continuous Vaudeville, Moving Pictures FINEST THEATRE IN AMERICA BUILT FOR COLORED PEOPLE Want to hear from all colored acts Grand Amusement Company 3110-12 S. State St., Chicago, Illinois You Can Play Your Act. From 4 to 5 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, Florida. IN THE FIELD OF SPORT. BY HAROLD C. MCGATH. SPORTING NEWS. Take Johnson and Bombadier Wells will face at Earl's Court, London, England, October 2. Johnson will receive $20,000 and Wells $10,000, no matter how the right goes. The picture rights of the Johnson-Wells fight have been sold to the Bombadier-Moore Picture Company for $100,000. The company must give a royalty after $100,000 of business is done. The Columbia Black Tigers football team, of Columbia, Mo., has organized an October. They are ready to meet coaches. For games and particulars address George R. James, manager, 11 south Eighth street, Columbia, Mo. The other day, in London, Jack Johnson took in a moving picture show and October Bombadier Wells will receive a champion heavyweight victory interested, and at the conclusion of the show said to a group of friends that "Wells might not be so easy after all. He seems pretty husky and execlessly fast." said Johnson, "and it looks as though I will have to fight hard." INDIANAPOLIS—The T/ T.'s, a local sum of white ball players, put it over the A. B. C's in a hotly contested game, last Sunday, at the Northwestern Ball Park. The colored boys fought bravely, but to little use. The girls a little too snappy for them. The two clubs will fight it out again next Sunday. Source: A. B. C's.....2 1 0 2 0 0 2 6 1—14 A. B. C's.....2 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 2—5 SAM LANGFORD WINS FROM JOE JEANNETTE Did Not Knock His Man Out Hoboken Negro Gives Stiff Battle. NEW YORK—Sam Langford won his round bout with Joe Jeanette in the Madison Garden last week, but every minute he was challenged the Boston man who had a stiff problem to solve. Jeanette fought gamely and cleverly. The Holokomen Negro was at no time afraid of the stockier than he got, and sent back better than he got. Langford was looked to for a knock-out in seven rounds, but the fact that Jeanette pulled through for the limit sent Langford's stockier likely opportunity down a crowd that filled the garden witted the bout, but the overcrowding of a week ago was avoided. The confusion outside the garden charmed her, and she filled the contest was missing on this occasion. The Fight by Rounds. Round 1—They went to close quarters with short arm swings with honors even. Jeannette slipped to the floor, but was up in a moment. A light left hook sent Jeannette to the mat for a second. Langford sounded, which was the Boston man's. Round 2—Jeannette was quick after the gong rang and, after a few rapid exchanges, he sent her left and right to face. Jeannette moved matters over, with Langford using body blows at close range. This was Jeannette's round. Langford left and right to face. Jeannette's rapid footwork bothered the Boston man. Sam sent left and right to the face, with Jeannette breaking round. Aat long range there were seven exchanges, but Langford easily left hands to neck and body gave him the round. Round 4—Langford forced Joe around the ring, but missed half a dozen swings and body blows Langford hooked his left to the jaw and Jeannette went down for the count of eight. He stalled off the older man until the bell rang. Langford 4—Langford was the aggressor, playing 5—Langford was the aggressor, vainly trying back-hand swings. Langford and the better of the infighting and Round 6—Jeannette jabbed Langford a stiff left, but suffered for it by laying a left-hand smash over the right eye. Both were cautioned for holding Langford's round. Langford jabbed with a left and right, forced Jeannette into a neutral corner. Jeannette broke ground and made Langford miss several swings, landed several heavy sets and left on the left foot up amply and outfought Jeannette. Jeannette's round. Langford led, landing two sets on the left. 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JOHNSON-WELLS FIGHT PICTURE RIGHTS IMPORTANT Sam Langford Did Not Strengthen His Claim for a Go with Johnson. By Billy. October 2 is now the date fixed for the great fight between Champion Jack John-Williams, the American Negro, and Bombardier Wells, the American heavyweight. The fight as scheduled will take place on E.Court. Johnson is to receive $30,000 and Wells $10,000, win, lose or draw. The fight, however, have not been signed up until this week, however, have thought that this will be done within the next week. The moving picture end of the business is looming up. The sole rights have been sold to the Barker Motion Picture Company, and it seems a tremendous sum, in face of the pictures of the Johnson-Jeffries sight. In England, however, there is not the amount of race prejudice that is known to be in America. If Johnson wins, I am sure the prejudice will come up a bit in England. England does country not care to have a black-a-moor putting it over Englishmen, the very lords of the fighting business in all realms, mistaken in this, but we shall see what we shall see. Kindly watch the prediction . . . Speaking about the $100,000 paid by the Barker Motion Picture Company, it is not yet all. It is understood that 50 per cent of the company's receipts after the first $80,000 will be paid. "The contract also provides that if Johnson wins he shall receive no royalty from the moving picture company. If Johnson loses he is to get 35-5 per cent. of all money received from the sale or exhibition of the moving pictures." Some think that by this provision Johnson could make more money by losing the fight than by winning. This is based on the supposed fabulous success of the picture company. They positively cannot their cue from the great demand for the Jeffries-Johnson pictures. There were elements in that struggle which caused the unusual demand. They positively cannot be the other similar contest. I mean to say the picture men may be a trifle too sure. Then, again, it is said that the per cent. of picture money offered Johnson in case of defeat is a tempting offer, having it appear that Johnson might see the point in defeat, but never, by saying that "the defeat of the Negro champion would cost him valuable contracts with music halls and probably his engagement to go to Australia." There is not much danger of Johnson doing anything that would cost him, or requiring himself he will never be guilty of selling out. Johnson is very proud, and for his life would do nothing wrong along the line suggested. He has money. He only lost money. He has not cool million would not move Johnson or barter away his opportunity and his standing as a square sport. Johnson wants to live in Paris; it just suits him to a "tee." He "certainly do love his white society," although he says he didn't get any hands when he licked his wife. He didn't. He got the dough. Beats hands all hollow. He says that after he has beaten Sam McVey and Sam Langford, and, of course, Wells, he will retire to Paris, where he will conduct a gymnasium for the development of those of the many art students. He will do so in example. Billy seemingly got along very well as manager of a boxing school at Brussels, Belgium, and from which point he operated both in London and Paris. Then Sam McVey lives in Paris, where he met the two they say, by the gay and festive French. The hero of Reno has given us the cold shoulder. Even the colored race, that practically stood up as one man for the Ethiopic son of Mars, has felt his icy, iron touch, and is now pondering whether it loves him or loves him not. Whatever Jack Johnson is, was made on this soil, and we are made on this soil. We do like overcoming this cold disdain; we feel to be included. But, again, he is like Eva Tangui, "I don't care, I don't care." He's got the money and does not need tears nor prayers. --- and they say Jack is a diplomat. When he went to England he praised everything English and made them like it. And he made them like him in the meanwhile. Now he is in Paris, France, receiving the ovations of the reputed most polite people in England. He has almost balanced. His poor soul has felt nothing much more than the white man's scorn. Now he is practically white—lauded, toasted, feasted to boot. He is lauded in his praise of that most coveted spot, where he can be seen with confidence. He will stick a while. He speaks very glowingly of what he means to in this wise: "After defeating those three men my theatrical engagements will keep me busy for some time. Finishing the stage, I am coming back here to see what I can do, and that we raise abandon us, Lord Byron would say. Farewell to all of my greatness. Expert sport opinion is that the Boston Tar Baby did not help himself in his claim for a go with Jack Johnson in his fight last week in New York with Joe Frazier, but not nearly strong enough, according to some. He did his man up in the tenth, not in the seventh, as was expected; no knockout, as was also expected. Jeannette put up a stiff fight, giving him a right, before he could as he could do to care for his end of it. But from all accounts Langford is signed up, or it is well understood that he will meet Jack Johnson. Johnson says he will before the ten-round bout in New York. Before the ten-round bout in Langford's manager, said: "This will be Langford's last appearance in America before sailing for Australia to meet Jack Johnson. Langford has hooked up with Jeannette McVey, who knocked a knockout, but this time he says he will stop the Hoboken heavyweight inside of the limit. Jeannette is well known for its ability to take punishment. He also dam McVey in France, after being floored a dozen times, but since last fall he has not displayed his usual speed, and has shown up poorly on several occasions. Langford is also known for his whip Jeannette decisively, so that he can go to Australia with increased prestige." JOHNSON TO LIVE IN PARIS. PLANS GREAT GYMNASIUM PARIS-Jack Johnson, heavyweight other, day that after, he disposed of his THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. Bombardier Wells, Sam McVey and Sam Langford he would retire from the ring and open a gymnasium here. He would remark of any one licking me, remarked Johnson. "Next month I am going over to England and polish off Mr. Wells. Bombardier will be doing a chance with me. Then I am going with Hugh McIntosh to Australia, where I will lick McVey and Langford. I expect little trouble from either of them, McVey and Langford will clean up all the men whom the public thinks have a chance against me. I will forget the last of these three men my theatrical engagements will keep me busy for some time. Finishing with the stage, I am coming back from the ring and open a big gymnasium. I intend doing a little tight business, but only as a promoter and not as a principal. I will pick half a dozen of them fight for the title in bouts in France, England, Australia and America. To make things more interesting, I will put up a valuable championship belt and then fight for the title in bouts in France, England, Australia and America. Johnson is getting himself endearled to the Parisian populace. Just as he did the Erik the Ragnarok the skies when in London he is doing now praising France to the Parisians. Majors' Melange. This article is respectfully dedicated to a few Negro preachers, whose so-called acting somebody a bishop or general officer instead of holding up Christ as the only embodiment of purity to a lost and sin-streken world. To h. with this sickening tommy-ro-ye. Let us have the blood not the favorites. Besides do not need any more half-white bishops. Dr. Major's Religion. The general accepted conception of religion is commonly disappointing. It is frequently misunderstood by men and women of some learning, and generally among all races, the illiterate mind To have become religious is to take on all the forms of respectability and decency, and to have shaped one's life suitable to every favorable interchange of religion with reason, is conforming to all the preachments of the Golden Rule. Further than that, it presages a binding obligation and a moral responsibility upon every devotee. It presumes that the religious citizenship, as an integral factor of government; only he finds greater scope in the dispensation of his many qualities to uplift in carrying out the true prince of faith, in carrying out the words, the religious life, possesses more force than any other doctrine or principle, because it reaches deeper, broader and farther into the complexities of the human mind and touches ternity to its farthest limits. The prevailing spirit of religion crowns the very spirit of all our present-day achievement. The oath of office can be achieved by the government without calling upon God as a great witness. The machinery of government cannot be set in motion without imploring the mercies of a just God, and the government cannot be set in motion without the universe legislate, God is imploder to sit in judgment upon the acts of all mankind. Jesus said, "I will send the angel to the earth, to charitable institutions, asylums and His beneficent spirit in the hearts of all mankind, struggling in gracious endeavor, as a fulfillment of what Christ said to his disciples, "Peace be unto you." The church is but the agency in the great community of interests that panoply mankind. It is the committee mankind and staff, in executive session when the representatives of government meet to legislate. All that represent the principles of the Golden Rule among men belong to the church, and the executive session when the representatives of government meet to legislate. All that represent the principles of the Golden Rule among men belong to the church, and the executive session when the representatives of government meet to legislate. All that represent the principles of the Golden Rule among men belong to the church, and the executive session when the representatives of government meet to legislate. Had Robert G. Ingersoll subscribed to this doctrine, Blaine, Coniling and Grant, would have made him the presalee of the citizenship only in as far as he could promote physical well being, nurtured asidiously by his very humane heart. He could not be Godly righteous, his limited place where God could have commenced. Religion was not Christ's weapon of condemnation of sin. He hose parables, the thunderbolts forged in the furnace of the world-warning heart to confound the wisdom of the mighty. In the great wisdom he displayed while on earth he would have been the ways the best; often it is the worst. His life was doomed to an ignomious death, and Savanvrola, Martin Luther, John, Paul and others pregnant with Jesus would cause of truth, Lincoln, Sumner, Lovejoy, Garfield and McKinley all died contending, protesting and fighting for the great principles that are fostered by our God. The world is getting better. Man, through the workings of that religious aroma that permates everything to make it a place of worship, but one of the infinitesimal integers of human brotherhood, whose mission is to love his fellows. Jails and prisons, with their departmental forms are the results of disobedience; they form no part of the weapons with which sin, misery and corruption are fought. There are lessons to be learned, man must be the ethical animal, disobedience applied in the moral nature contends also that her laws shall not be trodden under thoughtless feet. The stomach ache is just punishment, eating green apples, and light Johnny Appleseeds and green apples. So it is in the moral and religious life, the windows of our understanding open wide and we can see the many dangers we have encountered, and exclaim, "Twas grace that brought us." Faith, faith, faith, we find in all our troubles is sufficient. The enlightenment of the world is gathering strength, and religion is becoming more firmly rooted in the human heart. The world peace advocates come on to ask, "What can we come to happy solution when once the spirit of brotherhood is fostered by religion. When war shall have come to an end and arbitration shall determine disputes and compilations between nations, and then religion will have triumphed, indeed. Then will have dawned, a new bright day, a day of "peace." Civilization is subscribing to the doctrine of universalism, and nations for nations to keep them. The qualities of individual life cannot be trusted with such weighty responsibility. These laws Moses gave to the Jews. He knew their love for money, so he wrote the first law, "All men have other gods before me." Christ added to the young man who had kept the law: "Take that which thou hast and give it poor. The young man could not subscribe to the cardinal doctrine of the church, the community doctrine of the church, what you will, wherever the Christian religion has brought earth in, take the poor the poor have been helped; the sick in need of hungry and thirsty have had food and drink; rags have given place to clean appearance; dirt and filth have changed the communities; despair is turned to hope. evil is turned to good report; the dead are buried, and the noblest spirit, known and beloved christendom has become manifest. M. A. MAJORS, M. D. YAZOO CITY, MISS SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS Mr. Levison Childs, one of the cooks at the Menger hotel, was off last week on his vacation. . . Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Levison, the chef, and Mrs. J. G. bouncing boy. The little fellow arrived last week, weighing ten pounds. . . Mr. and Mrs. Harry Davis made a flying trip to Rockport, and Corpus Christi last week. He visited the city, after a visit of a month with her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. 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Albert Booth leaves for Hampton Norman and Industrial Institute in Va. He is next week. He is a son of Richard L. Booth, a well-known citizen. Mrs. Esther Delaney in Fayette street entertained the White Rose and Blue Ribbon Club last Thursday evening and elaborate luncheon was served in four rooms. Mrs. M. D. Marshall, of Kansas City, Kansas, who has been in the city for several weeks visiting her sisters, Mrs. Hulald Woods and Miss Higgs returned home in Kansas. Mrs. John Washington in West Fifteenth street, entertained at whist Tuesday afternoon; delicious refreshments were served and eight invited guests spent a pleasant time. Miss Jessie Combs, a graduate nurse of Provident Hospital in Chicago, was the pleasant guest at the first of theenk, on route to her home in Louisville, Ky., where she will take up practice. During her stay she was entertained by the Misses Reece in Martindale avenue. A Junior Aid Society was organized by the Junior Sunday School of the Second of theenk, church under the direction of Mrs. Clarence B. Settle. The officers are as follows: President, Henriette Herod; vice president, Muriel Stoke; secretary Irene McGlamingham; assistant secretary Karla Galway-treasurer, Ethel Kirk; truestees, Lacile Lunderman, Helen Cockran, Marie Shores. Mrs. Harry Davis in West Michigan FEVER DESTROYED HER HAIR Two years ago I had fever which took out all my hair, I used your Pomade and now have a nice head of hair, long and thick. I owe it to your Pomade, writes Mrs. L. Garrett, 3619 Dearborn St. Chicago, Ill. Ford's Hair Pomade is the old time tried remedy for harsh and unruly hair, that has been giving satisfaction for over fifty years. Ford's Royal White Skin Lotion is a highly antiseptic, nonirritant skin remedy. It makes the skin whiter immediately upon application. Ask your druggist about these remedies. Be sure and get Ford's, manufactured by the Ozonized Ox Marrow Company, Chicago, Ill. For sale by Ferger's drug store, Vaughna Bros. drug store, Pink's Pharmacy, Eureka drug store, Hadley Bros. druggists, Robt. P. Bloau, James H. Graves Pharmacy, Geraldine Pharmacy. street entertained a number of friends on Wednesday evening in horen of her guest, Mrs. Samuel Jenkins of Cleveland O. The color scheme was white, white and blue. The table was covered with a handsome cover, with a center of Battenburg and a cut glass vace of cut flowers. The attractive feature was whistle accents and the excellent course enjoyed an excellent six course repast. Mrs. John Black entertained at six o'clock dinner Thursday evening of last week at which covers were laid for fourteen guests and a four course repast was enjoyed. The course was in Ky., the special guest, and other out of town guests were: Mrs. Bishop Tyrese, Mrs. Moore, of Waco, Texas, and Mrs. Moore, of Ky., the guest also were: Rev. T. A. Symthe and wife, Dr. and Mrs. S. A. Furniss, Miss Jessie Willis, Miss Jessie Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Jackson, Miss Jessie Mitchell and Mr. Clarence Dunlap. A WORD OF THANKS. Mrs. Hullda A. Woods and George Morris Woods wish to thank their many friends and neighbors for the kindness shown their son and brother, Elmer A. Woods, during his long illness and death and also for the best wishes to thank the Competee Lodge, K. of P. for their prompt and dutiful attention rendered son and family. PHILLIP'S CHAPEL COLORED M E. CHURCH. Drake and West Streets, J. L. Thompson. Pastor. Sunday school, 9.30 a. m. Preaching, 11 a. m., 8 p. m. Last quarterly meeting before Confer ence, first Sunday in October. SIMPSON M. E. CHURCH. Rev. H. W. Tate, D. D., Pastor. Preaching at 11 a. m. by the pastor. Subject: "The Three Greatest Needs of the Race." At 8 p. m. sermon by Rev. J. J. Kennedy, of Mattoon, Ill. There will be class rally Tuesday night the 26th. the 20th. Epworth League at 7 to 8 p.m. Topic: Knoxville, Tenn. "The peril of Spiritual Ignorance." The Mission Study Class will meet Tuesday evening at 7 p. m. in the church. The W. H. M. Society will hold a Mass Meeting at 7 p. m. in the church and good speakers have been secured. The election of lay delegates Monday night at the church, the 18th. J. T. V. Hill, judge. WANTS TO MARRY A GOOD WOMAN Scott Johnson, a servant of God, one eye of the dark nation, age 31, wants a wife; not a woman divorced the wicked or making an outward appearance, looking well by putting on gay clothes, lifted up in a dress, and any woman under age of 60 with faith in God, His righteousness. If you or cripple or lame or have only one vile dress and not one cent and love Jesus more than self or be obedient to the commandments of God, a wise woman having eternal life in the fear of God is much and to be with the living God in the world to some I hope. A just woman will be merciful as I am commanded of the Lord to marry and I know not one unmarried righteous woman. Address Scott 634 W. North street, Indianapolis, Ind. A. M. E. Z. CONFERENCE ENDS; MINISTERS ARE ASSIGNED Bishop Blackwell Commends Church Workers in Closing Address of Session Here. The second Indiana A. M. E. Z. conference, meeting at St. Mark's Temple, adjourned Monday evening after a week's session. The work of the year, as shown by the reports, was marked by sacrifice and perseverance in growth. Eleven hundred dollars was raised for general purposes. The report of the committee on "The Report of the Committee on The Brokenbent of this city, aroused unusual interest. The report, while admitting the prosperity of the American people and pledging the conference to increasing faith and loyalty to the American government, also highlighted the divorce evil and love of money as subversive of the nations best interest. The ministers and the delegates were asked to co-operate in every practicable way to preserve the nation's cultural heritage. Following a literary and musical program last night, Bishop George L. Blackwell, after expressing appreciation for the years work and wishing the workers another prosperous year, read the following Indianapolis District—The Rev. H. M. Mickens, presiding elder; Jones Tabernacle, W. I. Rowan; St. Mark's Temple, J. M. Davis; Caldwell Chapel, A. J. Hobbs; Wright Campbell Chapel, L. P. Powell; DuQuinn, I. C. D. Davis; Centralia, F. F. D. Dougles; Urbana, Ill.; George Brewer; Mattoon and Newton, Ill. J. J. Kennedy; Terre R. D. Davis and D. S. viviell, J. A. Murplock; Peoria, Ill. R. L. Ewing; Charleston, Ind. Muncie, Ind. Springfield, Ill., to be supplied. Cario District—The Rev. O. H. Banks, presiding elder; Temple, C. Campbell; Caldwell Chapel William Pratt; Cairo, Ill. C. C. Purdy; Future City, Ill. J. A. Terry; Brush Crossing, Ill. F. H. Thompson; Murphys Creek, Ill. F. H. Thompson; C. H. Jackson; Walnut Hills, The. P. Long; St. Mary, Mo., J. P. Simmons; Sparta, Ill. Patoka, Ind. Vincennes, Ind. Harrisburg, Ill. Mound City, Ill. Joppa, Inc. Carbondale, Ill., Mt. Vernon, Ind.,ville, Ill., and Princeton, Ind., to be supplied. Many of the delegates to the conference departed for their homes last night. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. which is used for gymnasium purposes can only be turned over to the gymnasium classes for part of two evenings each week. They are looking forward to the time when it will be possible to do the work as it ought to be done. DR. BOBBITT. For five years Dr. Bobbitt has been practicing in Indianapolis. He has elaborate equipment in the building, the K. G. Building, the college Pennsylvania and Massachusetts avenue, rooms 320-321—third floor. He inculpates the staff of the college of Indianapolis for the treatment of the diseases he advertises to cure. We advise, therefore, that all persons suffers from the complaints mentioned in his announcement call and consult with him. Special to THE FREEMAN Mrs. Alfreeda Lewis has returned home having spent the past month with her sons and daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Simms and Mr. and Mrs. LaKeene and Mrs. Hayes spent their vacation in South Bend and Chicago.....Mrs. La Mont Jones and son have returned from Lagara Falls, Albion and Keene and Mrs. Hayes spent their vacation in South Bend and Chicago.....Mrs. La Mont Jones and son have returned from Lagara Falls, Albion and Keene and Mrs. Hayes spent their vacation in South Bend and Chicago.....Miss Evelyn Smith, of Battle Creek, is visiting Mrs. Basil Ray.....Mrs. Kate McPherson reports great success in her job at Ottawa street.....Miss Eva Coleman was elected secretary of Arnett Chapel Sunday school to fill the vacancy of Miss Lulu Simpson, who leaves this job at Ottawa street. Mrs. Eva Coleman entered the Central Grammar school this term.....Mr. and Mrs. James Minissee cash grocer store at 185 Henry street for them pour patronage. A very pretty wedding took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Goggins on Weakland Avenue. Marguerite Goines was married to Morris Murray, of Washington, D. C. Rev. Joseph M. Evans, of South Bend, officiated. The happy couple left after reception. For their future home, Washington, D. C. RONDO. ARK. Special to THE FREEMAN very recently opened here Sunday, September 10th, at the Walnut Grove park and had one of the largest audiences ever in the park. This is one of the best shows we have had this season. Dave Yates, well-known in the drummer of Jackson is with the show....The uniform rank of the K. of P. returned from Augusta, Ark. They report a successful trip and a visit to the papers, including for the papers, the condition of our race in Helena.,Our women need some more straight talk like they received from the pulpit Sunday night by Dr. Meredith Manage. We visited from from the visit in Memphis and Brownville, where he found every one making great preparations for the great Negro fair at the Bluff City October. Also the West Tennessee at Brownsville, where he ple have some very fine stock for this occasion. Arkansas day will be well attended at Memphis, also at Brownsville, Haywood, too. Helena base club will play in Brownville during the fair with the Hays and Bruner club of Brownville. NEGRO ARMY OFFICER RETIRED. WASHINGTON—Major John Lynch, the ranking Negro officer of the army and the only man of his race holding a position of day on account of age. He was appointed to the pay corps at the outbreak of the Spanish-American war by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and served on the Philippines in his credit. Major Lynch was born in Mississippi and served ve terms in the House of Representation of the treasury, from 1889 to 1893. BUSINESS LOCALS Woodbine Perfume. Oh, how fragrant, exquisite, enchanting, bewitching. Only at Blaudon's Drug Store. WANTED—A position as general assistant in hair store. Can weave very nicely. Address M. L. Mills, No. 305 North Walnut street, Brazil, Ind. When in Champaign, if you want something to eat and plenty of it., rhtwo, et al., and plenty of it., rhtwo, et al., and clean, and more of it, stop at 77 East Main street. O. E. Keen, proprietor and manager. Consult Madam Walker, natural-born spiritualist-medium. Tells you everything. Give her a call and be convinced to wondert spiritual power, which others can read. Readings at all hours. Located at 415 West Fifteenth street, Indianapolis, Ind. Special reading for 25 cents, and 50 cents for one month. The genuine Carter's Rheumatic Remedy sent by mail on receipt of price. 50 cents for cured others; will cure you. Address R. P. Blodon, drug-gist, Indianapolis, Ind. FOR RENT - Elegantly furnished rooms, steam heat, electric lights, baths and telephones. Mrs. Lucy Van Dyke, 444 West Vermont street. FOR RENT - Rooms, modern, 231 West Eleventh street. COLORED TAILOR WANTED - Write Wiley, 1008 Center, Des Moines, Ia. COMPLAINT FOR DIVORCE State of Indiana, Marion county, ss: In the Circuit Court of Marion county, in the State of Indiana. No. 20473. Job B. Reynolds vs. Anna E. Reynolds. Complaint, divorce. Be it known, that on the 29th day of August, 1911, the above named plaintiff, filled in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court of Marion county, in the State of Indiana, his complaint against the above named defendant, Anna E. Reynolds, and the said plaintiff having also filed in said clerk's office the affidavit of a competent per- son of the plaintiff in Anna E. Reynolds, is not a resident of the State of Indiana, that said cause is for divorce; and whereas said plaintiff having by endorsement on said complaint said defendant to appear in said court, or deny cheeto on the 25th day of October, 1911. Now therefore, by order of said court, said defendant last above named is hereby notified of the filing and penalty said, said against her, and that unless the appear at demur thereto, at the calling of said cause on the 25th day of October, 1911, the same being the 21st judicial day of term being the to be begun and held at the Court House, Indianapolis, on the 1st Monday in October, 1911, said complaint and the matters and things therein contained and alleged will be heard and determined in her absence. JOHN RAUCH, Clerk, Isaac L. Wiseman, Attorney for Plaintiff. Consumption Its Diagnosis, Treatment and Cure Free TUBERCULIOSIS FREEMAN HALL M.D. NEW TREATISE ON TUBERCULOSIS Bv. FREEMAN HALL, M. D. 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