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From Jan.1 to 31, The Freeman one year for $1.00. Send your subscription at on THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOL. XXIV. NUMBER 52 AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL DR. SHEPARD'S SCHOOL IS MAKING PROGRESS TO BE ROYALLY RECEIVED BY THE ELITE "The Messiah" Scores a Success —Christmas at the Howard— "Douglass Home" to be Made a Mecca for the Negro. Dr. J. E. Shepard in Town. Handel's "The Messiah" Is Sung. The superb rendition of Handel's majestic oratorio, "The Messiah," on Wednesday and Thursday evenings at the Anthropology and Howard University Choral Society, was a distinct triumph for Miss Lulu Vere Childs, the directress, and all of the soloists who so magnificently sustained the print of the work, formerly of this city, but now of Chicago, a graduate of the Chicago Conservatory of Music, has a high, sweet sojourn, which she knows now to handle with ease. "The star" of the occasion. Miss Childs, in addition to directing the great chorus, sang the contralto numbers, eclipsing all of the other soloists. Hayes, of isk University, now of Boston, was a pleasing revelation as a tenor, and Mr. W. W. Cooke, of New York, gave a delightful rendition of barton score. Their voice could flexibly be highly-trained, and blended beautifully in the concerted pieces. All were applauded to the echo after each number. The choral was as one voice of each variety and its work could scarcely have been improved upon. Maude M. E. Young, as pianist, carried the bassoon without a break, and established herself as a skilful musician. Although coming during the fateful "week before Christmas," the attendance was gratifyingly large, the house band was well-rehearsed each evening, and the appreciation manifested was all that could have been desired. Christmas Week at the New Howard. Christmas week at the New Howard is rilling the record-breaking Thanksgiving engagement of Aida Overton Walker. The entire night is filled with outrage, and Monday night many were turned away. Cole & Johnson's famous "Girls, with Edgar Connor, a companion, and second in drawing power and capacity of a new pianologist, with Blanche Deas, a prototype of Mrs. Walker, as the stars, are heading one of the best bills ever offered in a vaudville the next week, second in drawing power and capacity of a new pianologist, with a number of original songs. His best composition, "The Siberian Dip," firmly applauded, and his rendition of Dumbo is unstoppable in storm. Mr. Johnson is a prime favorite here, and is always sure of a "hand" when this is this way. Others on the splendid bill are also involved in the Mount, "Just Two Picks," Maharajah, The Man of Mystery," a clever magician; Sandner and Gant, new to the east, to a pronounced hit in a neat and clean skeleton; and a comedy duo, who held over from last the orchestra, under Prof. Alfred Ross and the photo plays rounded out a highly joyful and exciting jungle. Thomas is all smiles and is doing the treasured honors with the grace of a Chesterbil. For the New Year, week another monster bill is promised. Everybody is talking about Abbit Mitch, new songs of last week, and the ladies will widen over her new gowns. Her repertoire will be all the same. You'll Want m'Back," and "That Hypnotic Rag." Her interpretation of the latter two carried just a semblance of "rag" which was classic merit, gave them a popular savior that was delightful. On Wednesday Miss Mitch at the Armstrong Manual Training school for the benefit of the faculty and students, and al voted her visit a treat of the rarest variety. Y. M. C. A. Gets Mr. Rosenwald's $25, 000 Check. Mortgage on Douglass Homestead to Be "Lifted." Grand Master Wetherless and the Ma sonic Temple. With "The Building of the Temple," as an issue, N. E. Wetherless, instructor in science at the M Street high school, has been re-elected for a third term as Most Active Member of the Order of the District of Columbia. He is a man of exceptional ability, and to him, more than to any other influence, is due the purchase of the property of the Lincoln Tenth and U streets as the site of the new Masonic Temple, which is to be erected within the next three years. Through the activity of Mr. Wetherless a Masonic Hall Building Association has organized the organum of the sum of $50,000 in subscriptions has already been raised. The building is to cost about $100,000. The lot has a frontage of 14 feet on tenement of the organum of $10,000. The association now owns two halls and three houses, representing a real estate value of $45,000. At the forty-sixth annual communication of the grand lodge, along with Grand Master W. J. Smith, the association elected: W. G. Smith, deputy grand master; W. J. Abrams, senior grand warden; R. W. Stewart, junior grand warden; Henry Coleman, grand treasurer, and the office were installed Wednesday evening at the Masonic hall. Fifth street and Virginia avenue, southeast. Banquet to Collector McKinlay The next notable banquet of the season will be tendered in honor of Mr. Whitefield McKinlay, the collector of customers for the Washington district, and the Washington customs are paid. Mr. McKinlay is a native of South Carolina, but has been a resident of the District for many years, and is a potent factor in the business life of the city. It is a place of races, and every element of the body politic will join in the movement to honor the worthy man to whom President Taft has entrusted one of the most important federal commissioners to take place about the middle of January, at a cafe yet to be selected. An Era of Harmony Prevails. The visit of Dr. Booker T. Washington to this neck of the woods last week brought about a better feeling among useful race factors that had become some of the most important in the "Wizard's" voice is always for peace, and when he made it plain that men whose interests lie in a common direction can only be effective when working in the same way. He told me pel the frost that had been gathering for lo! these many days. Dr. Washington's latest visit was, in many respects, the most satisfactory he has made to this city at no time in his song and eventful career has his reception here been more cordial. Dancy May Lead "the Boys." Mr. John C. Dancy has returned from a lecture tour, covering points in New England and Pennsylvania. He goes into the field early in the new year in the interest of Dr. J. E. Shepard's National Religious Training School. Mr. Dancy's work in the nation's church will the command of the forces in the trenches during the coming campaign. Mr. Manning Was Warned Not to "Repeat." It has leaked out that on the occasion of the recent visit of Mr. Joseph C. Manning to this city, to speak before the Bethel Literary Society, a warning was INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1911. As the Year Goes Out. JUST A MINUTE YOUNG MAN—I AM ABOUT TO CLOSE UP THE RECORDS FOR THIS YEAR-NOM YHAT HAVE YOU DONE? THE GOOD TIME FELLOW given that gentleman through the officers of the Metropolitan A. M. E. church, the managers of the literary society and certain members of the society, that any mention of the "Wizard's" name in any improper connection would lead to a prompt rebuke from them. It is also known that the Wizard was of last year, several friends of the Wizard were on hand "cocked and primed" to reply in a manner that would leave nothing but a mocking note, a nungling stuck religiously to his text and nothing happened to disturb the serenity of the meeting. Few of the audience present knew that an embryo volcano had been created, very elbows. "AU's well that ends well." Primary for District Delegates. The committee designated to arrange for the election of delegates to the next Republican national convention will hold meeting seeding the primary is thought the primaries will be held some time in January. The committee is composed of Messrs. Leonard P. Bradshaw, John O'Connor. The latest colored entrant to the run for delegate is Mr. James W. Poe, who has been endorsed by the Young eMn's Republican Club, at a meeting held at 321 Virginia avenue, southeast. The District whoever may be elected, will be for Taft. Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis Sails. Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis, the well-known enlisted officer, sailed for St. George's Bermuda, last Saturday from New York to the British Isle, and month's tour of the British Isle, returning for a series of recitals in New York and the South. Besides her work along draughtsmen, she is identified with fraternal orders and business enterprises, being officially connected with the Order of Luck. Like the Mahal-Builders and Investment Company. Chit-Chat of the Nation's Capital. The colored newspapermen of Washington seem inclined to smoke the pipe of peace these days. A vigorous war against tuberculosis is being inaugurated, and the fight against alley houses is not being allowed to lag. Dr. John Hurst, financial secretary of the A. M. E. connection, is a member of the committee that is raising $50,000 for Morgan College, Baltimore, to secure a key research position. Dr. Hurst is the favorite of his church for the bishopric, and will be elected. C. D. Sadder is the Washington representative of the Baltimore Times, and is a "hustler." L. C. Moore, of Mississippi, once a member of the legislature and of the constitutional committee of very creditable poems some of which have found their way into the local dailies. He is being urged to publish a volume of his more striking productions, and may be so. Mr. Moore is a member and is in frequent demand on the stump in campaign times. In politics, Mr. Moore is a Democrat of the Jeffersonian type. Mr. Charles Clinton, of Indianapolis, Ind, is spending the holidays here. A new Baptist Association for the District and church twenty-eight churches, has been organized, with Rev. M. W. D. Norman as moderator. An informal conference of members of the executive committee of the Negro Negro League was held in New York City last week. No decision was reached as to the time of holding the mid-winter session of the committee, which is scheduled for the next week. Dr. Washington is still the reigning favorite as the logical point for the meeting. Pres- ident M. M. Lewey, of the Press Association, will appoint his meeting for the same city as the league selects. J. E. Thomas, accused of killing his partner, Robert Chesley, and tried on an indictment charging murder in the second degree, has been acquitted. His attorneys were Thomas L. Jones and B. L. Gaskins. It is the universal belief that Charles D. Willis will be the chairman of the Republican national committee, and will have active charge of the direction of the campaign. Hon. J. C. Napier, Register of the Treasury, has been chosen as a member of the executive committee of the Jeanes Fund Board, with which he has been connected since its formation. Secretary MacVeagh, in his annual report, suggests that all of the Treasury Auditors be housed in a commodious new building. One of the six auditors, Mr. R. W. Kearns, of the Navy Department, is a colored man. The colored men who were employed as laborers during the war have war have organized and will present a bill asking that they be paid the money withheld from their salaries while the war was in progress. To insure a campman, they have effected an organization and will push their bill systematically. --- Mr. George W. Jackson, formerly of Peru, Ind. for many years connected in the field of education to the auditor of the Post Office Department, was recently married to Miss Elizabeth Epiphany of Arlington, a., Rector O. L. Epiphany of Arlington, a., Protestant Episcopal church, officiating. . . . Mr. George J. Dawson, formerly of Indianapolis, Ind., is now making his home in New York, where he runs a business. Mr. Dawson is a poet of great promise, as well as a talented violinist. He expects to place a volume of his reflections on the market at an early date. --- Hon. Harry S. New, of Indianapolis, was the most-sought-after man among the throng which came here on account of the meeting of the Republican national committee with President Taft in sub-committee in charge of the arrangements for the Chicago convention was a distinct personal triumph for Mr. New, who is immensely popular, as well as an assurance that the sympathies of the nation will be strengthened for renomination. Mr. New will see to it that Indiana sends a Taft delegation to the convention next June. Another big Indianian who cut a big figure here during the meeting of the committee, was Hon. Charles Cullum, of Illinois, in efforts of Mr. New for a solid Taft delegation from Hoosierstown. It was a positive pleasure to meet these genial gentlemen from "my own home town." A dispatch to the Chicago Defender states that Mr. Charles J. Pickett, for many years connected with the fortunes of Senator Cullum, of Illinois, is being urged to stand for appointment as Assistant Secretary of the Senate in event of a vacancy in that office, Mr. Pickett puts aside the temptation, and is quoted as saying that he feels that his is duty to remain with his venerable patron, Senator Cullum. Your correspondent begs to thank his many friends for the numerous kindly Christmas remembrances that have been coming his way during this joyous season. Wish you one and all the richest blessings and good health, long life, and abundant prosperity. R. W. THOMPSON. The Freeman can be secured from Louis Jones on Friday at the Mace theo, Charleston, S. PAST WEEK AT LOUISVILLE A "SIDE SWIPE" AT OUR FRIEND TOLBERT THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL ENTERTAINS John Hillman, a Well Known Mason, Dies—Christmas Tree for the Children at the Kentucky Home Society. By Lee L. Brown. (1006 West Chestnut Street.) LOUISVILLE, Ky., Special. Our friend Tolbert, Correspondent of the Freeman amuses us at times. He seems to have it in for Louisville. last week he told us our readers to the fact that our dear beloved little Frankfort on the banks of the Kentucky is making fast progress in news and would have been alright if he had closed his article, but he closes by asking the question, "What has Louisville done?" Our correspondent keeps so busy that he seldom has a chance to down the talks. Often what we are really doing along an industrial, educational and religious way. Take a week off, friend, and come down and visit the Metropolis of the state. We have made perfect ideas that will assist you in building the New Frankfort." The Louisville Industrial School save their annual entertainment last Sunday in the chapel of the institution. After a very appropriate program was rendered, prizes were delivered to those who had made perfect marks in those events. Our colored boy was fortunate in receiving a prize. There were eight prizes in all. Mrs. S. R. Reed, the wife of Rev. Reed, pastor of the Ashbury Methodist church was called suddenly to Covington, Ky., at the bedside of her brother. Mr. John Hillman who died last Friday, Mr. Hillman was a well known man. As the Grand Treasurer for a long ten years, also served as janitor of the Covington Court House for 32 years. --- It was an amusing sight, never to be forbidden, to see how the children at the Kentucky Society for Colored Children built their 800 North Sixth street, enjoyed their Christmas tree. They were up at the break of day. Their little hearts were filled with joy when the doors were thrown open and they had a chance to peep at the tree filled with presents of all kinds. This was the first Christmas tree that many of these children had ever seen; in fact, it was the happiest day of all their little lives. The children at the Colored Orphanage at the Colored Institutions were well remembered by friends. The usual newsbows' Christmas tree, under the direction of Mrs. Bessie Allen, Juvenile Court officer, was held at the U. B. F. Hall. Mr. Tim Clymer will spend the week in Chicago. Rev. C. H. Parrish has returned to the city from New York City. The usual watch meeting services will be held at all of the churches. Miss Eleanor B. Lee is visiting her parents, at 1518 West Gray street. No, the wedding bells have not sounded yet. Hurry up; 1912 is leap year. Brown's School of Stenoghry will open January 4, at 1006 West Chestnut street. Mr. Amerus Davis entertained a number of friends last week at his residence. Mrs. Mildred Lewis, of this city, left Tuesday for Taylorsville, to be the guest of Mrs. Young. French Lick Springs, Chicago and St. Louis, have been well represented this Christmas in the way of visitors. Miss Mary Adair, of 110 South Brook street, spent Christmas in Lazrange, Ky. the guest of Mrs. Arena Beard. Mrs. Rachel Shipley, the mother of Mr. Ben Shipley and aunt of Mr. David Stewart, died at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday. The Louisville Defender after an illness of two weeks is out again greeting her friends under a new management. Rumor has it that a certain popular teacher received as a Christmas gift a very handsome plain gold ring. What next? A number of Louisville teachers and persons interested in education attended the State Teachers' Association meeting in Paris, Ky. Mr. Tull Brown gave a recital in Henderson, last Tuesday evening. Quite a large crowd of citizens and music lovers were present. Many strangers are within our gates sojourning with friends and relatives who are using every effort to make their hours pleasant ones. The high school dance to be given this week at the new U. B. F. Hall is looked forward to with much pleasure by those who like to trip the light fantastic toe. Mr. Cal Brown was filled with the Christmas spirit on Christmas morning and distributed a large number of valuable presents among his friends and customers. Miss Emma Lee Claybrooks, one of Louisville's most popular young teachers enjoyed a very pleasant visit to Montgomery, Ala., during the Christmas holidays. Your Correspondent has been ill all during the Christmas week yet he has been able to gather a few facts of interest who look for Louisville news every week. Prof. H. F. Jones, grand chancellor of Kentucky, Philans, accompanied by several teachers at the University, passed through the city early Wednesday morning, en route to Paris. Every one second they have enjoyed the Christmas issue of the Newman the news stands sold out the early. The folks say that it was the best ever gotten out at this season of the year. We hope next week to get a full list of the visitors who are in the city this week. Friends will please mail this information promptly to Lee L. Brown, 1006 West Chestnut street. Mrs. Katherine Blackshear, a teacher in the Henderson, Ky., public schools, was in the city Tuesday, the guest of Mr. Lee L. Brown and his mother. Mrs. Lucy Brown. Mrs. Blackshear was en route to Paris, Ky. Special services were held in all the churches Sunday and Monday mornings at the church where there were special song services, the people who glad with many ex-Kentuckians who were glad to be back home once more. Mr. F. O. Fane, special representative of the California Security Co. and the California Consolidated Oil Co. of New York City was in the city during the week when he accompanied by Messrs. J. H. Beetles and Sol. Herb of New Haven, Conn. One of the swellest affairs of the Christmas week was the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Smith of West Chestnut street, last Thursday afternoon, in honor of several visiting friends. We will give a full report of this affair next week. Misses Mary and Laura Adair, of 110 South Brook street, gave a surprise party on December 18, in honor of their forty-sixth birthday anniversary. Those guests included Laura, Mary and Bessie Adair, Tillie Thurston, Juanita Wilson, Henry Harris, Jr. Fred Payne and Charles Adair. Rev. Manuel, pastor of the Baptist Church in Jeffersonville, Ind., preached his farewell sermon last Sunday evening. He has accepted a very important invitation. Rev. Manuel is the father of the police clerk in the People's Drug Store, at Twelfth and Chestnut streets. The thirteenth anniversary and New Year's greeting of the veteran Church, celebrating the thirteenth versary of the ministry of the Rev. C. B. Allen, pastor, will be observed with appropriate exercises. Sunday, December 18, the Holy Angle, ex-moderator of the Synagogue of Krukowik, will speak on the subject, "The Ruling Elder in the Presbyterian Church." Madam McNardee Brice, the well-known palist, of Indianapolis, was in the city last week, en route to Memphis, where she met the late Jacqueline Brown. Madam Brice employed the entire service of the stenographer connected with the Brown Public Tewritestudio. A large number of letters were sent out from her office to all parts of the United States. SOME SIDES OF CHICAGO PEOPLE. Colonel Marshall has just returned from New York City, where he talked with everybody and Governor Dix on the moment. The colonel recommended $50,000,000 for the regiment, and when he got through talking with Governor Dix the executive decided to recommend $50,000,000. Will Adams, the tailor, the fashion plate of State street, is busy. The Bogus Prince of Hayti heard about his tailoring and is recommended by Cary B., and on writing to Adams, Adams suits on State street that he decided that must have $10,000 worth of winter clothes, and he left his measure for that many spring clothes. Adams says he is on State street, and will no doubt buy the Pekin Theater after further investing at Gary. Joe Snowden, the young millionaire real estate dealer, bosman and good fellow, has been elected president of the Great Lexington Fair by the unanimous vote of the women. The men would not stand for his election, because he was a proponent, was put out, and he is now considering a graduate course in women's temple on one of his ten-acre lots. He is working night and day for votes for women. Dr. H. Clay Bryant, who has been a successful physician and surgeon at the Provident Hospital for one year, will leave the institution on December 15. He is now considering being appointed surgeon the new Chinese republic, and is taking a graduate course in chop suey at the Asia, preparatory to taking up his official duties. His credentials Pleenpotentiary from Dr. John B. Burpure and Surgean Generals Sternberg at a tibberforce Williams are on file at Adjustant Louis B. 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Hun- dreds of people had already entered the fair grounds when the big parade arrived, and all day long people con- tinued to flack into the immense in- closure. Soon after entering the fair grounds President Drakeford of the association addressed the crowd. He spoke briefly, but in his few words manifested an earnest appreciation to the people of Macon county in respond- ing so liberally to the cause he had so zealously worked for during the past twelve months. He also bade every- one welcome to the city and extended to them the open arms of the city. Short addresses followed by others, in- cluding several specially directed to the farmers. “The opening of the fair was made one of the greatest events in the his- tory of Tuskegee. From early sunrise until the opening hour people contin- ued to pour in from the surrounding country, anxiously awaiting the time when the parade should move on to- ward the grounds. Promptly at 10 c'elock the parade, composed of auto- mobiles, buggies, wagons and_pedes- trians, began its outward march. In front were the city and county off- cials, followed by those of the fair as- sociation, Smith Leads Parade. “The parade was led by Captain N. Clark Smith and his famous band. The national airs were played, and when ‘Dixie’ was touched by the sixty pieces a thundering roar from thou- sands of throats greeted the’ musicians in response. Everybody possessed the real county fair spirit and worked to make it a great event. Practically every business house in the city closed and their occupants moved along with the great throng to witness the open- ing. “The exhibits in the agricultural de- partment were larger and more varied than they have been at any fair here- tofore held here. They showed im- provement in several respects, the most noticeable being that the farmers: are raising a higher class of products than formerly. A cammon sight was to see giant stalks of cotton setting about in the different booths, some of them containing as many as 125 and 150 bolls. Immense stalks of corn, with eight and ten fully matured ears, were also common. In every instance the producers said that the improved variety is much easier and cheaper to raise than the inferior or common kind. All the way through the exhib- its were excellent and were even bet- ter than were expected. Fine Stock Raised. “In the past few years the farmers of Macon county have directed much of their time towards the raising of fine cattle, horses and hogs. In this department were exhibited some of the most beautiful specimens to be found anywhere, all of them being Alabama bred and raised in this coun- ty. Among the most noted exhibits was that of Mr. W. A. Reynolds, of Warrior Stand, in the lawer portion of this county. He had at the fair sev- eral colts, mares and many fine chick- ens, many of them having taken first prize at other fairs in the State this season. All the offerings showed that the farmers are waking up to the fact that this is not only a great farming country, but one of the greatest stock- raising sections of the South. “The exhibit of the Tuskegee Nor- mal and Industrial Institute attracted considerable attention. For several days the boys and girls of the school were hard at work arranging the sev- eral exhibits and they presented a most pleasing appearance. That which attracted the most attention was the corn exhibit. The manner in whieh the corn for this purpose was gath- ered was unique. Every Negro farm- er in the county contributed ten ears each and with this and immense pyra- mid had been formed in the immedi- ate front part of the administration building. All columns surrounding the pyramid had been covered with ears split in half and nailed on, pre senting a pleasing and original de sign. The public schools of Tuskegee were also tepresented at the fair with different exhibits from the kindergar ten up to the higher grades. ‘One-Armed Negro Had Exhibit. “A booth that attracted more than ordinary interest was that of a one armed Negro, Jim Mahone. In his ex hibit he had practically everything that could possibly be raised in this climate at this season of the year. ‘Watermelons, cucumbers, _ peppers, pumpkins, sweet corn, tomatoes and other garden products that up until a few years ago were attempted to be raised only in the spring. He is a very thrifty Negro and is admired by many white friends here for his strict honesty and perseverance in making his own living and staying out of debt.” URGES FRIENDLY RELATIONS BETWEEN WHITE AND BLACK Judge W. R. Hammond Delivers a ‘Strong Address to Negroes at Atlanta, Ga. Pleading for friendly relations be- tween the races, Judge W. A. Ham- mond delivered a strong and interest- ing address at the educational mass- meeting held at the Central Avenue Theater in the interest of Negro edu- cation in the South. His speech in full follows: “To any thoughtful mind it goes without saying, and is evident with- out argument or insistence, that the welfare of both races in thie country, THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. ee Ce ere eee them. The growth and development of the organism which we call human society develops and expends a certain amount of force; and whether the best results are obtained depends on whether this force is all utilized for constructive purposes, or whether a part of it, or all of it, for that mat- ter, is destructive in its operation. If a part of it only is constructive and another part tends in the direction of disintegration and anarchy, then the resultant effect may be upward or downward, forward or backward, ac- cording to the predominance of: the constructive or destructive elements. If there are warring elements, energy is absorbed in the conduct of the war- fare, and the organle body of society suffers because of the lack of the har- monious co-operation that is neces: sary to its growth and development. “ “It follows, then, that the true philanthropist must’ seek to reconcile warring and discordant elements, and bring all into harmonious co-opera- tion for the general good. Labor must cease to war against capital, and capi- tal must learn to have due regard for the rights of the laboring man. Every class and element must learn to re- spect every other, and all must obey the golden rule.. In this way can civ- lization accomplish its best and most substantial advance, and in no other way is such an advance possible of attainment. “The Negro is a part of the South’s civilization. His organic life is bound up with that of the white man in ties that are indissoluble. Fanatical utterances to the contrary notwith- standing, his elimination from the so- cial organism of the South is not pos- sible, All wise men will dismiss the thought and seck some other solution of the race problem. The white man cannot Kilt him because he will not submit quietly to the operation. Neither can he transport him because it is too expensive, And these are the only two ways by which he can be eliminated. So it is perfectly evident to any sane mind that he must stay here and continue for all time to be a vital part of our civilization. “The question of how he came here is not at all important; but the ques- tion of what to do with him, seeing that he is here, is vital. But it may not be amiss to say that we recognize the hand of an overruling Providence ‘in the great fact of his presence in the midst of the white man’s civiliza- tion. An overruling Providence is one which overrules the evil designs of evil men and turns them to good account, Who can name a great bat- tle in the world’s history that hasn't been overruled and turned to good ac- count? And yet these battles were the direct outcome of the evil and ma- lignant passions of men. So the evil passions and sordid cupidity of the slave dealers, who captured these black men and brought them to our shores and sold them to our ancestors, have been overruled by a higher pow- er, and the great-greatgrandchildren of these innocent people have become the wards of the American nation, and ‘we are responsible to them for the faithful and consclentious execution of this high and important trust. Blatant demagogy may seek to ob- scure this truth, and try to make the people of the South to feel that they are under no obligation to the Negro; but true men will recognize it, and will not refuse to set themselves steadily and efficiently to the task of helping him to work out his salvation and elevate himself to a higher plane of civilization. “The inherent forces in the bosom of the white race, which are capable of being utilized for the advance of civilization will be perceptibly divert- ed and diminished if the white man harbors a feeling of antipathy toward the Negro, and indulges in acrimoni- ous controversy with him. What he ought to do is to indulge himself’ in the good feeling that he must look for ‘good in the countenance of his black ‘brother. If he looks for it he will find it, for it is there. A kindly glance will reveal it, when a contemptuous attitude or a haughty indifference will effectually obscure it. Let the white men seek, by a recognition of the many good qualities and characteris- tics of the Negro, to encourage him to develop those qualities and character- istics. Nothing develops character ‘more effectually than a recognition and appreciation of the good that is in the other man; while a constant, cyni- eal search for the bad and an utter refusal to see the good not only hides the good from our vision, but has a Dlighting effect upon the man who car ries within his own breast the con. sciousness that he has not been appre- ciated. We do a great wrong to the man whose good and true qualities we contemptuously or indifferently refuse to recognize. ‘No man liveth to him: self.” “There are many white friends of the Negro who have a sincere desire and purpose to do him full justice, and who make an honest effort in that direction, but who seem to be unable to Accomplish much, or to meet with gratifying results in their efforts. They are easily discouraged anc turned aside from their purpose, and and the criminal classes. There are plenty of Negroes who are industrious and frugal in their habits. Let our white friend think about these, make their acquaintance and look into their honest faces, and not confine his ob- servation and attention to the idle, vagrant, worthless classes. “The-way to judge humanity is by its best specimens, and not by its worst. We see in the best the capabil- ities of the worst under proper train- ing and environment and the optimis- tic spirit, which is our most becoming attitude. should prompt us to bring into play our highest moral and intel- lectual faculties in erder that we may be able to discern the good with a clear and strong vision, and thus get a broad and correct estimate, and not a narrow and perverted one, of our brother in black. “There are others among the white people who are indifferent to all ques- tions which relate to the problem caused by the presence of the colored people in our midst, and still others who are actively opposed to them, and who never lose an opportunity to strike them with a mafled hand. They can see no good in them, and taunt those who do with the opprobrious ep!- thet of negrophile. “Nothing in the way of helpfulness is to be expected of these except to open their eyes and decrease their numbers. They are a menace to the best civilization of the times in which we live, and if left to themselves would soon bring about a state of warfare between the blacks and whites. Their number has been on the increase since the breaking of the old relations of master and servant between the white man and the Negro, and there are en- tirely too many of them today; but there are many of us who believe that a broader and more appreciative senti- ment is gradually gaining ground among the white people of the South. ‘There are many, very many, who do not join in that sentiment of indiffer- ence and hostility, and who are ever ready to insist on justice and fair play toward the Negro, and to lend him a helping hand; and there are strong and reasonable grounds for the hope that their number will increase. “This is not the time and place to disenss and elaborate in extenso the question of the relations between the two races, and, perhaps, the less said about that the better. But there can be no harm in saying and insisting that these relations should be cordial and friendly. The colored, man is jour brother in black,’ and’ belongs to the great brotherhood of the races that inhabit the earth, He is a part of our common humanity, and is entitled to his place in the world, and in the civ- lization of this American country. Whether he will maintain that place depends absolutely upon him. If he proves himself worthy, he will stand. If he fails, he must go down. Let all good men help him, and see that he has a fair chance.” ten ie Cure weal Any Case of GUNN Unley aoe We Cura Yoy . (HEMORREOIDS.) Weatatent Dalnieam withont loan of time’ Ccnmuliation snd teaninctthoe {'eielpermatancy of our Caren Hf asonasary aaunterium Sond a ote Seto Rim Matin BOE {ae em, Set Drs. 1. F. SMITH & J. 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Mr, Whitley ran 6,000 yotes behind the lowest councilmanic candidate of his ticket, but when you consider he received over 41,000 votes, you are bound to give him credit for having received the largest vote ever given a colored man on the coast.—Exchange. Dr. W. A. Burney, formerly of New Albany, Ind., where he had an exten. sive practice, died recently in Santt. ago, Cal. He moved to California more than ten years ago seeking health. Dr, Burney was one of the founders of the Louisville National Medical College and was holding the chair of dean at the time he moved to California. ‘Te NE IS TWO TIMES LARGER Poe rma oY ES Gem LC e MAaiGs Tee We ane ae one aan THEW AGICINE) Yea DRIER. eee AnoTHAIR:STRAIGHTENER, AA i Hines lt ANYWHERE INUS $] 98 al / l MAILED #osrace pais: $125 n [SEND MONEY By S08T ONCE MONEY ORDERS Every lady can have a beautiful and luxuriant head eh hair if she uses a MAGIC. 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One day last July he rose to make a speech and, seeing that there were only three men besides himself in their places, he moved to adjourn, This was prevented by the assembling of a quorum of Senators who had been sitting in the cloak- rooms. In beginning his delayed speech he said: __ “I do not understand the conduct of Senators. I have seen them under all phases. I have seen a Senator leave this chamber when he should stay here to receive good advice. I have seen him leave this chamber when, by remaining, he could have given good advice. The only thing I never saw a Senator do was to back out of the door in the middle of his own speech.”— popular Magazine. KarstadtBros. DYE WORKS, (Inc.) FANCY CLEANING AND DYEING OF LADIES’ & GENT'S GARMENTS. Phones Now: 288} 499ps cartep ror {1435 North Illinois Street TAYLOR'S NEW SHAMPOO DRYER H A ai Hair Straightening Comb The Best in the Worid! 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She is a representa- tive of the Foreign Mission Board... Rev. Joseph C. Reid. of Ottuma, Lowa, will, spend the remainder of the’ winter in this city. He 1s domiciled at_ the rest- dence of his sister, Mrs, Parker, 702, Davis avenue. ...Dr. A.'C. Nicholson and Miss Mattle Singleton were married on the evening of December 14....‘The Freeman local agent extends to the many support- ere a merry Christmas and best wishes for a happy New Year....The Freeman ean be found at the same old reliable Guit City drug store, 512 Congress street and Davis avenue. For sale by C. M. Wilkerson. Send us Your Subscription ‘The Freeman is for sale in Champaign, iL, by ZL. Breedlove, 109 Champaten tenet Hotel Brunswick tone Hotel Keyston J. L. FRY, Prop. Phone 1360 Douglas St. Un Brothers St. Glass Photos and Enlarged Postals 3 for 25 cents BOOTING GALLERY 3 Shots 5 Cents St. Iowa Club H HUGH HOSKINS & SON, Props Liquors and C CURED ROOMS CTION HIGH-CLASS PHONE eet peat, Hot & Cold Water in every room. 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The Right Place for Fine Diamonds and Diamond Jewelry. Prices Right. Quality considered. C. L. LANDE Reliable Jeweler and Optician 3518 State St. Chicago, Ill., Tel Douglas 4474. Artistic Engraving free. Eyes tested free. Old Jewelry Made like new Watch. Repairing My Specialty THE ELEMENTS OF CULTURE. Address of Dr. E. G. Hirsch to the Faculty and Students of Tuskegee Institute. Tuskegee, Ala.—Dr. Hirsch was born in Luxembourg, and was educated in Germany and in this country. He holds honorary degrees from several colleges, and has been a rabbi at the head of Jewish congregations in Baltimore and Louisville. He is at present of the Sinai congregation, Chicago. He has been professor of rabbinical literature and philosophy at the U university of Chicago since 1892, and is an editor an the author of several books and monographs on biblical and religious subjects. Dr. Hirsch's address follows: "Doctor Washington, Ladies and Gentlemen: "Like Mr. Rosenwald, I am under obligations to you. Our visit here has been a veritable inspiration. The great German poet, Goethe, remarked somewhere that what you desire in your younger days, you generally attain only when old age is upon you. I have desired to see your institution from the very day I heard of its existence. In the meantime I have grown old and what I desired in the younger days has come to me in its rich fulness here when I am standing at the threshold of my life's evening tie. Therefore I am personally under more obligations to you. You are solving a problem, you are solving a problem, that of Most of those in your race believe that your race alone and for your race alone. A narrow view of this to take. You are solving a problem of Ameri can life for all of us, and who knows but that you are solving it for the world at the same time? "We have often in our churches read the opening chapter of Genesis. --- and I dare say, if I may judge by the general attitude mentally and morally of the world, we have failed to understand its essential message. That opening chapter tells us that God made man in his image and we have not understood what that old Hebrew story may have intended when it placed upon men the crown of likeness with the great creator of the world. The Greeks had stories about the gods but none of the Greek gods were ever pictured as working. They drank ambrosia, quaffed nectar; engaged in all sorts of intrigues and committed acts that the better civilization of later years refuses to mention in a society like this. That was the occupation of the Greek gods and many of our Americans today are much like the Greeks. Their ideal of life is to drink and not always ambrosia at that, to quaff, not always nectar, to engage all sorts of intrigues, and because they cannot carry on that life without having money, they have ceased to be monotheists, believers in one God, and have become moneytheists. That is, they deify money and they do not know what the use of money is; once in a while, however, a man arises who is able to teach the world what you can do with money; that it is not given to men for the purpose of drinking nectar and quaffing ambrosia, but that it is given as a trust to an individual that through it he might bring hope and light to his fellow men groping upward and onward along the path of life. "The Hebrew civilization begins with the story of God as a worker. He creates a conception that no other civilization ever advanced. God worked, and when he created man in his image he meant that man should work as God has worked. The Bible's proclamation is the sanctity of human labor, and it is not true that the human labor is a curse. It is the expression of a man's likeness to God. God worked and he placed man on earth to work as God had worked before him, and the sanctity of work is the gift, the sacred benediction with which this noble institution anoints your head. You came here to be consecrated priests in the temple of work and go out from here into the world as messengers of this the gospel of all religion; the gospel that flamed forth from Sinai and found sweeter and newer consecration on the lips of another son of Palestine, the gospel of labor. Have you ever thought of it—that great Son of Palestine was a carpenter's son. He did not have a classical education, but he learned the lesson of life in his father's carpenter shop; he did not go to academies, but he heard his divine father's call. Whatever message he had he clothed it in the phraseology, not of the counting-room, and not of the drawing-room, but into the impressive vocabulary of the farmer and the artisan. In practicing and learning to practice the religion of labor you become Christianized, in the spirit of the Great Teacher, and Judaized, in the spirit of the great Jewish prophets. As perhaps no other group of young women and young men in this our country, you have the opportunity to become consecrated, to be uplifted and to be empowered. "Culture, yes, culture, can come from the anvil and the hoe, from the shoemaker's bench, more potently than it ever came from the twaddle of Cicero and the singing even of the blind bard of Greece. To despise the practical things is to despise God's work. God made the world so. We have to work in the world, and to call that which is related to work beneath the notice or unworthy of the sympathy of cultured men and women is to utter blasphemy. "Culture, yes, what does culture mean? First, it means the larger vision, and can you not have that larger vision when you create something? Every working man and working woman creates. Culture means joy in life. What greater joy can there be than the joy of creating? The world has lost that joy. The slavery of the factory, the din and tumult and strife of the city have crushed out all true joy in this, our age. "A French writer recently said that the only one who was still true to the great mission and who understood the great variety of the gospel of joy in life was the artist. He created and found joy in his creation. This French writer should have said the artisan. The man who creates has knowledge, deep knowledge of God's joy in life. "The third element of culture is worthiness. He who creates something that is worth while gains culture. Every stroke of the hammer intended to bring forth something new is a declaration of man's worthiness. He who is conscious of creation can never become an unworthy, an immoral or degraded being on earth. "Men have tried in recent years to install the moral spirit in the public schools. They are even now debating and puzzling how they can teach the children the laws of righteousness. Take them into the workshop; there they will learn them. Unless you are true to your work, your work rises to curse you, for the anvil's song is a song of righteousness and the sigh of the saw as it goes through the wood is a protest against man's untruthfulness. "The final element of culture is sympathy. That ancient Greek culture which they made so much of in the old-fashioned colleges did not lead men to sympathize with one another, and from the Greeks we learn this awful conceit, that one or the other is better than his brother or sister on account of some accident in his personal appearance. The old culture did not unite but divided humanity. The new culture of the workshop has in it the magic to bring men together. In the consecration of common work you are learning that you help yourselves by helping others. Every article produced by you is not merely of usefulness to you, but is of usefulness to me. "You are being led here into the sanctuary of this new religion of work. This new religion of consecrated, creative work ought to fill your hearts with thankfulness. I congratulate you on the opportunities that are yours. Your opportunities are larger than those that have come to the white children of many of the northern cities and to the black children of many a northern university town. Cease, then, complaining. You have nothing to complain of. Go your way proudly in the consciousness of your worth. Strive for worthiness and let those who will, out of the emptiness of their conceit, believe that they stand higher than you; learn from your life how poor is their judgment, how foolish their prejudice. "I thank you for what you have taught me, for what we have learned from that one man who in these days of short-sightedness has had the vision. Without vision the people perish. Be glad that he came among you, this great man of vision—your Moses indeed, with this difference, that while the old Moses died in the wilderness, he goes with you across the Jordan to the promised land." COLORED GREATEST WORKERS Have Larger Percentage of Workers Than White Americans. BOSTON, Mass.—At the final section meeting of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections "The Negro in Industry" was the topic discussed at the Standards of Living and Labor section in Kingsley Hall. The speakers were Prof. Kelly Miller, of Howard University, Washington, and R. R. Wright, of Philadelphia, Pa. "The Negroes have been workers in the North ever since the days of the first colonies, and though they never have been a great factor, except in the large cities, where 75 per cent. of the northern Negroes now live, they form a great mass of domestic and personal workers. In Pennsylvania, for instance, where the greatest number of northern Negroes live, 59.2 per cent. of the males and 92.7 per cent. of the females were in domestic and personal service in 1900. It is sometimes said that Negroes do not work, but statistics show them to comprise a much larger percentage of workers than their percentage of population would warrant. Negroes were, for example, only 2.5 per cent. of the population of Pennsylvania, but were 3.3 per cent. of the workers. "Negroes have made slow progress in the North, but this is due to two reasons—the low standard of efficiency among Southern Negroes, who have immigrated North and the attitude of organized labor. "Low efficiency might be overcome more quickly if the unions were more friendly. The result is, if the efficient Negro would go up it must be in opposition to the labor union. This, of course, tends to make the Negro a strike-breaker, but I am sure an unwilling strike-breaker. Outside of the Miners' Union and those of hod-carriers, the Negro has but little chance. In Chicago, for example, the Negroes in the building trades have made their way in spite of the unions. The same is true of the stock yards, where practically all the Negro has gotten has been in opposition to the union. In Pittsburgh each step that the Negro has made upward in the steel works has been done as a strike-breaker. This is unfortunate. But to be fair, the trouble is not in unionism per se, but in the growing race prejudice which tends to make a farce of American democracy. Only unionism organizes its men and therefore their race prejudice has the force which organization always gives. But white nonunion workmen strive as vigorously as union men to shut the Negro out. The result of this that, to get a foothold, the Negro must work for a lower wage. This lowers the standard of living and tends to drag that of the white workman down. "Still, under the conditions, the Negro worker is graculally growing in importance in the North, especially as waiter, porter, domestic, worker on the streets, in municipal construction work, and in the large industries needing a large unskilled force. In the steel works they are a distinct force, also in the mines. In skilled mechanical pursuits the number is growing gradually, each census showing an increase in northern cities. "The immigration of large numbers of Negroes to the North and their segregation in large groups in certain sections of our cities has given rise to Negro business men and professional men. So that today many of the largest churches, hospitals and stores are in the North, and a much larger percentage of Negro business men and professional men are in the North than in the South, in spite of the difficulty the Negro faces in the North of a higher standard of efficiency to reach than he has in the South. "While the industrial progress of the race has been great during the past 40 years—great enough to command the praise of the severest critic—yet the handicap of race prejudice cannot be overestimated. It is the greatest drawback of the Negro, for it put before him a double standard—not merely efficiency, which he cannot reach—but also a standard of race which it is impossible for him to reach, and which must discourage and demoralize him." HENRY PAYNE Mr. Jackson—So Miss Perkins has gone to Paris. Mr. Johnson—Kentucky or Texas? 3 COOKS Waiters and Cooks Prefer our Make of Jackets and Aprons because they have found them satisfactory. 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Reasonable discount for long time and space. Reading notices 10c per line. Special rates on "write ups." Entered at the postoffice at Indianapolis, Ind., as second class matter. GEORGE L. KNOX, PUBLISHER AND MANAGING EDITOR. ELWOOD C. KNOX, BUSINESS MANAGER. All matter should be addressed to THE FREEMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, New Phone 2880. SATURDAY, DEC. 30, 1911. If Taft is nominated, it may be that Chairman Lee's sayings will be verified. It now seems that Chairman Lee is at the bat. He is making considerable trouble in the political field. The Maine has been exhumed from its watery grave. The question is still, who gave the battleship its death wound? Bishop Walters seems to yet be consistent in his views. He is standing up for the independence of the race in politics. Mr. Earle Walker, manager of the New Walker Theater, says that everything is all right for opening night, January 1, 1912. The primary is rather a measley affair at the very best. If it is injected into national politics, the result will be very kaleidoscopic indeed. If the Republican party had stood upon its platforms, the Negro voter would not be disfranchised in the South to-day, but would now have his political rights. Senator Clapp says that the public is losing faith in Republican platforms. That is true. It seems that the Republican party has been using "platforms" to get in on, and after it gets in it is afraid to stand on them. The political pot is boiling in a big way in Indiana. Both Republicans and Democrats seem to be at cross purposes. Roosevelt looms up on the Republican horizon, and Senator Kern is the bugaboo to Governor Marshall's presidential prospects. They evidently don't care very much about our governmental methods in the old world. Roosevelt put the Egyptians on their heads when he told them how to do it. Now Shuster is personna non grata to Russia et al. because of his American financiering in Persia. Sam McVey put it over Sam Langford at Sydney, Australia, December 26. The victory of McVey makes him Jack Johnson's strongest rival. In fact, McVey is already claiming the world's championship, owing to the default of Johnson, who failed to meet him at Sydney. What will Johnson do about it? Edwin M. Lee, chairman of the State Republican Committee, would make a good witness. He sticks to his assertion, first, last and all the time, that Taft cannot carry the State of Indiana in 1912. He goes it one better by saying that his name will not be presented to the convention. Why, Mr. Lee! New Year's resolution, with many, are as ropes of sand. With many more they are of good, even if they continue in force but for a little while. A good example for a little while may mean an influence in the right place and at the right time which may pass on until the very end of man. So resolve a little; it may be of very much good. Having some big dinners at Washington, D. C., that cause some sitting up and taking notice. A few days ago Dr. Booker T. Washington was the object of considerable attention at a dinner pulled off in his honor at the Arlington Hotel. Hon. William H. Lewis was chairman of the committee that had the affair in hand. Night was fairly turned into day. Those present were of the choice spirits of the Negro nation. It was a fine testimonial to the distinguished educator. The Bee, of Washington, D. C., has decided to allow space in its columns for the expressions of Negro Democrats. To use its own language: "The Bee has decided to allow space to the colored Democrats, independents or what nots, to express themselves on any matter that they believe to be to the interest of the colored American. No man, party or creed will be permitted to control the editorial columns, but everybody will be fairly treated." Growing eminently fair after the years. Our race will not be helped much farther by the one-party route. The blindest are getting their eyes open. It is customary for business concerns to take inventory of their stock once, or even more times, a year, in order to ascertain the standing of the house. The general nation, the government at Washington, does the same thing, that the citizens may know how the government stands. The individuals, many of them, once a year, or more times than once a year, turn the searchlight on themselves, for the same reason that the President addresses Congress and the business man takes stock—to see where they are at. The first day of January is the best day of the year for turning on the searchlight, weighing one's self in the balances, and so forth. Decay and death are suggested by the passing of time. The thought comes home to all at the end of the year, thus making the first day of the new year a spiritual altar for swearing out the old and bad, for swearing in the new and good. Reyes, the Mexican revolutionist, is proving the hero of the Western continent. Failing in his attempt to bring about a revolution, he asks that he alone pay the penalty. The government of Mexico may see something extraordinary in such a character and may choose to spare his life. Really it may mean wisdom to do so, for, helpless as he is, he is not without troops of friends, who doubtless wish him the best, regardless of what is held to be an unpardonable sin. He that gives up his life will save his life, is not always literally true, but we hope that in this instance it is true. The old man has suffered sufficiently, one will think, through gross misrepresentation and otherwise. Six hundred men were to meet him at a certain point; only one showed up. Such disappointments are as salutary as death warrants for the peace of the republic. January 1, 1911, finds the race making satisfactory progress in a material way. Many are saving money and purchasing homes. Many more could do so if they would, although their wages are not the same as received by the white people. That is to say, the Negroes are not similarly employed. The opportunity to similarly employ themselves is not wanting, however, since there is nothing in the laws against Negroes capitalizing concerns and doing business; nor is sentiment against it. Take it all in all, there is much to be thankful for owing to the present-day conditions, in spite of some little civil and social meannesses. The great bulk of the race is learning to work around these, and, through it, learning race appreciation. It has not always been so. We should not forget the good, even while deploring the bad that confronts us. ENTERTAINS COLORED CHILDREN. Mrs. W. H. Coleman, of this city, a well-to-do white woman, revived a custom of her native State, Kentucky, last Monday, when she gave a Christmas party for about thirty colored children in her ball room. There was a large Christmas tree, with gifts, in one end of the room, and on the platform at the other end there was an entertainment, in which the children volunteered to participate, and they made a program of songs and recitations. The children marched in fancy figures and played games. A grab bag was a feature of the party, and there was a long table spread in an adjoining room, where ice cream, cake and candy were served. Miss Eleanor Kirby interested the children with stories and Miss Gertrude Hinson led them in a number of kindergarten games and songs. A few friends and relatives of the hostess were present, and Mrs. Clara Downing, sister-in-law of Mrs. Coleman, played marches and songs. "America" was sung by the children. The incident is touching, and also pleasing to know about. Christmas has become to stand for so much that there follows great disappointment for those who fall in sharing in the joys the season suggests. The colored parents make a brave effort to bring about Christmas cheer that compares in some way with the season's reputation. They, however, are limited in means and ways, and consequently very often fall short of the child's expectation, who has been brought up in common with other children, the best cared-for children, and who refuse to see things much differently. This good white woman, and many more yet whose names are known, are doing much more than they think in bringing up the delinquency of the parents. Only those that have been "little poor colored children" will understand what the Christmas touch means. It is as the touch of Midas—things turn to gold. The slightest not by these angelic women is remembered, not to speak of the actual gifts. There are also poor, starved souls waiting the look of sympathy. This counts greatly. To these tender sentiments are added beautiful, comfortable things that have been seen in the store rooms from time to time, becoming one's own. Oh, the exquisite feeling, and which becomes incorporated into the individual being as a sort of touchstone for joy. Like kind words which never die, but more; for here are the real evidences of love and regard. Mrs. Coleman's party will be remembered by those colored children when they have forgotten about all other parties. At least it will be the dominant social event in their lives. It was after the manner of the love of Christ for the world. He went to such expense to prove it. It is true in this case. Only poor little colored children can wonder properly about "why this was done for me." We need much of the spirit in the world shown little colored children, and as was shown little unfortunate white children in this city on Christmas day. It means love and obligation, paying tribute voluntarily to the forces that be, thus making for a better social organization, and, of course, in the end, making for a better and happier country. THE NEW WALKER THEATRE. The New Walker Theatre, of this city, is a theatrical enterprise for colored people. The patronage will not be restricted to colored people, but they will have every privilege. This is not true in most of the other thee- THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER tres of the city. The management of these theatres has seen fit to discriminate in favor of white patrons. The inclination here is not to quarrel with these management. They are influenced by the patrons. The situation is simply one of the many growing out of the race question, and which finds its way into almost everything of general civil or social nature. Under the circumstances the new venture is to be commended in that it seeks, as far as we can learn, to supply in a way what is lost to the race through discrimination. The new venture will not be expected to bring the greater attractions, such as go to high-priced theatres generally, and because the house is not prepared for them, nor could the prospective patrons pay for them. The new house will see that colored people are comfortably situated; that they sit any place they choose, provided they pay the price. For some time the theatre will be on trial as it concerns the support. However, if it proves as it is advertised, the theatre-going and amusement-loving people should make it a point to sustain it. More is meant than mere amusement. There is an industrial side. The performers are to be paid; it means much to them. And then there is a list of helpers who will draw good salaries, thus making the venture worthy of support. In short, it will prove a great help to the race, and in the right direction. Perhaps we need not say anything about the conduct of the patrons. The colored people in the most part are well behaved in public places. The most part, however, is not the whole part. And sometimes the very many are judged by the few who will not be bound by rules of polite society. If the new house comes up to expectations in all ways, the patronage should be in accord as to conduct, and thus prove that the reputed riotous conduct is a libel on the race. From this distance everything looks favorable to the management and patrons. It will be an auspicious event of the new year, and should mean an advance from which there will be no retreating. The new theatre is fairly a necessity, owing to conditions mentioned. REFUSE TO BE HUMILIATED. Such an occurrence as is reported in dispatches from Georgia should not pass without notice. In a town whose name we are glad to forget, the public execution of a Negro for inciting to riot was carried out in the opera house in order that the crowd might be protected from the rain, a private box being reserved for the relatives of the victim of the riot. Besides brutalizing those who take part, such action produces a very different effect than that intended. It does not overwae the masses, but renders them indifferent, as long experience proves. On the world at large it produces the effect not of solemn justice done, no matter what the world may think, as perhaps those who were present imagine, but rather the impression of hysteria and terror. It is only in times of panic that such symptoms of barbarism show forth in an otherwise civilized people. It is also worth while to remark that the enforcement of this law with colors reversed—e. g., the execution of a white man for starting a lynching is unimaginable. So long as this is so, the country as a whole must bear the humiliation of it.—The Christian Register. "The country as a whole must bear the humiliation of it." Humiliation—that's the thing. But who's humiliated? Negro journals, and some of those run by white men, have long since tried to shame the mob; they have tried to shame the country into an anti-mob sentiment so strong that lawlessness would speed away as autumn leaves before an approaching storm, but all to no purpose. There are many excellent people who have nothing to do with the ugly happenings; they are humiliated, but apparently they are the very few as compared with the indifferent millions. Most of these millions would not think of becoming party to any of the ugly happenings; but they are not disturbed by them. Consequently we have nearly a reign of anarchy on the one condition. In other words, the country is sane enough on other questions, differing more or less as to the best methods for bringing about the best conditions. But on the Negro lynching business the country is an unconscious, also a conscious, violator of the spirit in which the laws are conceived, and also the letter. Humiliation seems out of the question. Gloating over deeds is the tendency—how we did it—as Senator Tillman put it, as though there were glory in doing it. And not until there is the other tendency—humiliation—is there much hope for better conditions. The Negroes may take consolation of the thought that where there's a will there's a way. What it may be is obscured for the present. But there is a balm for every pain. There is a cure for every ill. It does not mean the Negroes have no duties to perform. The patient has duties as well as the physician. LOUISE ALSTON BURLEIGH AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE. dets, is at home again from Washington, D. C., where he attended the annual meeting of the Jeanes und Board, of which he was a member, at a guest at the banquet given in honor of Dr. Booker T. Washington and at another in honor of Bishop Alexander Walters. He held a firmstrong Manual Training school, presided over by Bruce Evans, whose house guest he was. AT KENTUCKY'S CAPITAL By Hardin Tolbert. 425 Washington Street, Old Phone 654. Frankfort (Ky.) Special. , The Assembly Club is preparing for a swell reception under the direction of Misses Marie Henry, Sadle Parent and Florence Johnson. Mrs. Arthur Murry, of Bagdad, Ky., was the guest of Mrs. Fannie Mitchel for a few days. Mrs. Mitchel is a sister of Mrs. Murry. Miss Elnora B. Lee, the daughter of Mr. W. H. Lee, 1518 West Gray street, and a teacher at the Bardstown public school will pass through the city enrol to Parry Ky., to the State Teachers' Association. Mr. Joe Wakefield, of this city, spent a day in Lawrenceburg, Ky., on business. Mrs. Sadle Harvey Davis, of Murry, Ky., arrived home to be the hostess of her parents. Mrs. Davis is the daughter of Mr. B. Harvey and the wife of Prof. Z. L. Davis. Miss Sarah Green has been confined to her bedroom for several days with a sprained foot, but is improving very fast. Mr. E. D. Washington is very ill in Lewis street. Mr. J. B. McCann entertained for lunch Misses Annie M. Batty, Verealetta Batty, Messrs, Fred Allen and Press Veaney. Rev. W. H. Polk, of the Lexington Conference, evangelist, of Jeffersonville, Ind., passed through the city, en route to Louisville, Ky. Rev. William Bush, of Chaplin, Ky., passed through the city, en route to Richmond, Ky. Mr. George Coxe and Miss Cornell Moore spent a pleasant afternoon at Spring Station, the guest of their friends. While in the city during your Christmas holiday, don't forget to stop by the Frankfort pressing shop and get a copy of The Freeman, on Washington street, between Clay's barber shop and Brooks & Norman's grocery. Mr. Robert Spencer, of Indianapolis, shipping clerk of the Remington Typewriter Company, will be the guest of Miss Gains Gains, the Christmas holidays, and many of Miss Gains' friends are preparing to give Mr. Spencer many grand receptions. Miss Sarah Hall, a highly respected young lady of the Capital Social Club of Boston, taught us "obsolete" leadership role in a play, *Obsolete Land*, but declined on account of her school record. She said that always has that expression on her face giving a desire to happiness. Mr. Alcorn is improving after a hard spell of sickness. Mr. and Mrs. Ezekiel Dow, a prominent young couple of Anchorage, Ky. have just completed their new home and will open their first New Year's dinner with a reunion of the family. Mrs. Harriett Brown, of Louisville, and Sister Jennie, of Chicago, and brother at Frankfort will welcome the Cannonian to a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Miss Julla Spencer, one of the popular young society ladies of the city, was chosen as a teacher in the school of which she is specialized in the Chicago University and is a graduate of the Clinton street High School, in this city. The society of which Miss Spencer is a member does not make her great, but she makes it great by setting such high places in her life or by having such a pure charac. her. She should be a great inspiration to other girls. OUR COLORED RAILROAD MEN. If you are a real railroad man, and your heart is right, you will not hesitate one moment to subscribe for The Freeman from John R. Winston, who is better known all over the United States. This is no stockyards chat, but a pure and simple business proposition with you and I, for I am out in the interest of the Freeman, and we have got to live, please do not take credit, for there is nothing doing in what you are thinking about. Get together, and join the Colored Railroad Men's Union, if you wish to prosper, Better wages. The Freeman has got 'em Subscribe for it. Arthur Martin is now in the Pullman service to Oakland, Cal. If your friend is a railroad man (colored) read The Freeman. Stop crying and subscribe for The Freeman from Mr. Winston. 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Each and every person who received a sample copy of The Freeman did so at Mr. Winston's request, so kindly give him your subscription for The Freeman. Address 401 Cottage Grove avenue, Chicago, 111. Daniel F. Carter, 4657 Armour avenue, formerly of Indianapolis, an ex-railroad man, late of the Chicago Northwestern Railway Company, has the honor of being chief mixologist at the high school, 4764 State street. I guess Ratthefoot will come across a year's subscription after he finds out old Fifty is on his old home bauer. Nearly all of the Eastern railway men know Dannie. The object of the Colored Railroad Men's Union of Illinois is moral, social and intellectual improvement. The management of the aforesaid corporation is the responsibility of the men who are to be elected for the first term of one year. The following persons are selected as the directors to control and manage the corporation for the first year of its existence. John R. Winkham, Joshua Bates, J. A. McDonald, Boston Van Winkle, L. H. Abel, R. E. Anderson, and James C. McDonald. The location is in the city of Chicago, and the address of the business office is at 4015 Cottage Grove avenue. To join this union it will cost each person $5.50 and the members per month. V. makes no difference in the lives; join this union if you are an experienced colored railroad man. Send in your name and address to Mr. John R. Winkham, J. A. McDonald, Cottage Grove avenue, Chicago, Ill. Please mention the Freeman when writing. NEWS AND NOTES FROM GEORGE TOWN. KY. Special to THE FREEMAN: NEGRO CHILDREN KILLED. Oklahoma Men on Trial, Accused of Conspiring to Murder. MUSKOGEE, Okla.-Court inquiry into the conspiracy that resulted in the death of two Negro children who owned oil lands valued at $250,000. went forward rapidly to-day. D. C. Allen, the Negro accused of having killed the children—Herbert and Castell Sella—pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. F. L. Martin and John Coombs, the latter a wealthy oil operator, of Bartlesville, are accused of having had a part in the conspiracy against the children. Martin will be placed on trial Thursday, then Coombs will be arraigned. One white man has been convicted in the case. He is William Irwin. He was charged he promised the Negro Allen, $2,000 to kill the Sell children. The conspiracy aimed at possession of the children's valuable oil lands. MUNCIE, IND. Special to THE FREEMAN Mrs. Mandy Jones left Muncie Sunday morning to spend Christmas with her sister, Mrs. Myrtie Frierson, at Wabash, Ind., and later in the week at Peru, Ind., where she will visit friends... Mrs. Parker will spend Christmas at her home in Indianapolis until after New Year... Mrs. Henrieta Bouyer, of Urbana. O. is in the city visiting relatives and friends... Miss eMchant is the guest of Miss Burden. Harry... Burden, of Marion, Ind. was in the city visiting friends... The Eastern Star met Sunday, December 24, 1911, at the Calvary Baptist Church. Three sermons were reached by Rev. Mitchell, pastor... The Calvary Baptist Church will start their annual revival the first of the year. They expect to have a grand meeting. The Baptist Christian exercises were displayed with great ingenuity. Mr. Shermward, of New Castle, is visiting his people in Muncie... Messrs. Hushur and Macon Numan were in the city attending the dance... Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Cummings entertained at a family dinner Christmas day. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. John Burman, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ferguson, Mr. and Mrs. June Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Ray, May Ray, Lilia Burnam, Earl and Burnam, Emory Ferguson and Walter Ellis... After several months absence Miss Ida Vena is back home in Whitely smiling and happy... Miss Lilia Burnam is confined to her home with a severe cold. THEATERS OF CINCINNATI—THE PEKIN—THE GAITHER. The Pekin opened up the Christmas week to standing room only. The house was beautifully decorated with green and holly, and the place was a pleasant sight. The manager had issued some useful present to each employee of the house as an appreciation of their excellent services during the past year, and the smiles from the several assistants, together with the decorations, made the old house look like new. Miss Jamie Troy, of Springfield, O., made her initial appearance at the Pekin Theater as the regular vocalist. Miss Troy has a sweet voice and was given a rousing reception on the opening night. The Wireless Telephone Trio, Harper, Perkins and Stewart, returned after a few weeks absence, and screamed them as usual. This is one of the Pekin favorite turns, and the manager will hold them over several weeks. The Gather Theater has undergone extensive preparations for the holidays. The manager has spared no pains in making this one of the prettiest little playhouses in the city. Four of the best picture reels are used every day with one vaudeville act. Stovall and Stovall are a new team on the avenue and they gave general satisfaction. The male member of the team is a very funny comedian, while the lady gives a good account of herself. The bill is a good one. Manager Albert Smith has returned from his vacation to his old home town, Knoxville, Tenn., and he is handling large crowds nightly. National Bank DEPOSITORY - $ 500,000.00 - $220,000.00 - $6,400,000.00 ERS: ANDREW SMITH, Vice-President, PATTerson, ier. Business. Your Account Solicited. Treatment. BOXES FOR RENT. n Bank Louisville, Ky. - $250,000 - $535,000 in Time Deposits combination Soldiers in Spanish with History of in America. library complete without it. Lib- bents. Price $1.25. the Colored Republican Club, in New ary taste and write history of your great . Put it in the hands of your children has done." Address Johnson, New York City, N. Y. 'My Friend From Dixie' this week at Columbia Theater, eNwark, N. J. Harry Enaway, of the Toney Trio, died in Zanesville, O., December 15. Demount & Tribble at the Howard Theater, Washington, D. C., this week. The Dudleys are in Chicago, where they will remain for about three weeks. Peter Kennedy is in Portland, Ore., playing the E. J. Fisher time. Doing fine. Miss Burroughs is one of the few actress that has made many friends on and on the stage during the run of the Brook Smith players at the end of their engagement. The Crown Garden patrons in the future will look forward to an engagement of Miss Burroughs as real pleasure. The comedy is taken care of by M. Speedy Smith, who has won favor as comedian throughout the city. Mr. Brook the manager of the Brooks-Smith player has received great credit as to the production of each his shows. While he his self has done well as an actor, T. vaudeville part of the show is, as usual. The Denny Theater and Skating Rink at Oklahoma City, Okla., are having success. Avery & Hart, colored comedians, at Colonial Theater, New York City, this week. Cole & Johnson's Sambo Girls at the Howard Theater, Washington, D. C., week of December 25. Bert Williams, in the Follies of 1911 at the Chestnut Street Opera House. Philadelphia, Pa., for two weeks. The Smart Set Company with S. H. Dudley week of December 25. St. Louis. Mo.: week of December 31. Kansas City. J. Rasamond Johnson, late of Cole & Johnson, opened Monday in a singing act at the Howard Theater, Washington D. C. The Happy Four, Virginia Theater. Chicago, week of December 25th: New Walker Theater, Indianapolis, now of January 1. T. D. Triplett, young cornetist, just closed successful season with the Campbell Bros. Circus; now with Harold Minstrels. The Miller Family, musical artists and singers, are very busy at Washington, D. C. They are introducing "Beautiful Doll" and other hits. Bradford's Chicken Trust with High School Girls, Western Wheel Show Burlesque, at Buckingham Theater. Louisville Ky., week of December 25. Upton Williams, acrobatic tumbler, closed with J. C. O'Brien's Georgia Minstrels at winter quarters at Houtson, Tex. He is visiting his home at Ennis, Tex. The Green's Trio have just closed four successful weeks under the management of Wm. L. Moseley. Opened the new Green Theater in Wilmington Monday, the 18th. The celebrated magician and ventriloquist, Leon, just closed at the Lyric Theater, Willmington, N. C., December 23. Left for Jacksonville, Fla., to spend the holidays with his people. Smith the magician and sleight-of-hand performer, will open next season in Atlanta City in a new playful act. He is now at Atlantic City for the winter getting his new act in shape. Billy E. Jones, versatile singer of popular melodies, is singing "My Hero" and "I Want a Girl" and "Fishine" with great success this week at the Lincoln Theater, D. C. The Black Wattii" Company this week, December 26, Houston, Tex.; December 29, Houston, Tex.; December 29, Marshall; December 30, Texarkana, Ark.; December 31, Shreveport. The Pewee-Tolliver Co. worked around Chicago. Thursday, December 21 was up to Ft. Sheridan on an eight-act bill, 23-25 at the White House Theater. Will appear at New Walker Theater at Indianapolis. Nelson Parker, colored character Jew comedian open at the Lincoln Theater, Washington, D. C. in a new act called "A Peck of Trouble, but a Barrell of Fun," written expressly for him by Billy E. Jones. Billy E. Jones, the well-known vocalist of New York, since arriving at Washington, D. C., has made many friends. As he indefinite engagements he will not be back in New York City for quite a while. Daly's Theater, Baltimore, has one of the best bills of the season for Christmas week, headed by the Griffin Sisters, who are in the second week of their engagement. Seals & Fisher and Flovd & Floyd are also making good. Prof. S. C. Elliott's Concert Band with the Andes Medicine Company, closed a very successful season at Union Sorinus. Ala, December 23, returning to Troy, during the Xmas holidays, eBst wishes to friends in and out of the profession. --- Miss Cora Goins, of Washington, D. C. who possesses a rich contralto voice of remarkable range and who was later discovered by Elliway B. one más form and consisting of singing that takes comedy. At any time, Mr. Jones will take an interest in getting this talented singer before the public. At the Dixie Theater, Charlotte, N. C. week of December 18. Blanche Russell, who takes three and four encores singing "Porto Rico Isle" and "O You Great Bub" with Sasha and them with her song "With the Blues." The team of Manigault & McGinty is going big; also Frank Duke. The only and original Idaho Kid, after closing a three week's engagement at the Central Theater, Atlanta, Ga., opened Christmas engagement at the New Lincoln Center, bringing the house down singing "Buckwheat Cakes" and by his eccentric dance and novelty. Simms & Thompson, those western boys, opened at Auditorium in Philadelphia for two weeks December 18, and they broke several collars bowing at the mattice responding to encores—the hit Washington, D. C. by Howard Theater. Washington, D. C. 5th, New York (Crescent); United time to follow. Mrs. Kathryn Berry, of the well known vaudeville team of Huguzins & Berry, was called home from New York to attend a concert at the Ethel McGee, of Wilberforce. O, is filling her place with the company until she can return. They are said to be booked for a long season through New York, Malne and New Hampshire. The following members of the Jolly Jolly Larkins Company were pleasantly surprised by the rector of the Paragon Social Club 213% Milour street, Houston, Tex.: Mr. Boots, Nen, Chicago; Miss Carrie Richardson, Nen, Jno. Lemo, New Orleans, W. Crawford, W. Hutchinson, Washington, Martha Nelson, New Orleans, and Arthur Simmons, New York. CROWN GARDEN, INDIANAPOLIS. The Crown Garden continues to draw big houses, notwithstanding the dullness of the times. On last Monday night, the management found it impossible to accommodate the crowd awaiting to gain admittance at the crowd shows. The bill offered for Christmas week proved, like the rest we have seen for the last seven weeks, a winner. To be being the last week of the Brooks-Smith they offer a beautiful little western drama scenes, "Chip, the Tomboy Girl." Miss Oresma roughs appears as Chip, the Tomboy Girl. Miss Burroughs is one of the few actresses that has made many friends on and off the stage during the run of the Brooks-Smith play, *The Crown Garden patrons in the future will look forward to an engagement of Miss Burroughs as real pleasure. The comedy is taken care of by Mr. Speedy Smith, who has won kavali as a co-captain of the Brooks-Smith players, the manager of the Brooks-Smith players, has received great credit as to the production of each of his shows. While he himself has done well as an actor, the vaudeville part of the show is as unstoppable as Woods, the ventriloquist, with that little wooden figure. Little Henry, is and has been, each week during his six weeks' engagement, a terrific hit. I have been told by Mr. Tim Den, that Mr. Woods was truly a box office attraction. Miss Ludelle Price, that singing girl, who is a member of the Brooks-Smith players, scored heavily with the song, "That Minor Strain." Mr. Fess, the playwright of the last week, was very good. The show as a whole is well worth the admission charged. Note. S. H. Dudley and the Smart Set were highly entertained at a professional matinee during their engagement in the city, given by Tim E. Owley, manager of the matinee. The matinee ever witnessed at the Crown Garden, having five hundred in attendance. THE WOMAN A Happy and Prosperous New Year to the Profession. Yours in Fidelity. THEFESA BURROUGES NOTES FROM LYRE THEATER, LOUISVILLE, KY. The Eight Tar Babies opened to a packed house at each of the three acts. The show opens with Nickles & Boone the show's host, Nickles & Boone favorably received. The leading comedians are Tom Gales and Clav Price, and they furnish plenty of comedy. Miss Cook sings the show's host, Jacky Home very good. Bud Sanders is in a female impersonation, and he has his audience fooled clean un until he removes his wig in the final of the last act. Miss Cook sings "Todelo Tune" very satisfactorily. She received several encores on this number. The show is under the management of Mr. Clav Price, Harry Ross, sole owner. Joseph Clark, Jr., former stage manager of the Lyre Theater, Louisville, KY. He took the stage at the New Albany, Ind., has organized an all-star stock company, known as Joseph Clark's Ten Dixie Troubadours. They cooks and open at the Auditorium Theater, Philadelphia, for four weeks with Washington, D.C. to follow. Wm. H. Taylor, formerly leader of the Lyre orchestra, Louisville, KY, has been engaged as musical director, with Robert Clark as stage manager. DIXIE THEATER, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Handed Package by "Old Performer." Having booked the team of Ward and Smith (Billy Ward and Gussie Smith) three times manager of the Lyric Theater, Wilmington, NC, to the office of December 18 at a named salary and advertised them as strong as a feature act known as the "Black Dockstader." A telegraph that they (Ward and Smith) would come for was than named when booked. Late on Saturday, then having agreed by return wire, being placed so I could not help but set it up for the Sunday sure. But as yet have not seen them or had any letter of explanation. Had it not been for Mr. Leon Lora had it not been for Mr. Leon Lora they (Ward and Smith) would not come and saying he could send me someone he would have been very much crippled. I think it was a bad deal. "THE TRAVELING SALESMAN." The attraction at the Park theater, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday is Henry B. Harris's production of James orbs' comedy success, "The Traveling Salesman," which opens at the metropolitan cast at popular prices. Mr. Harris the play has produced "life on the road" as successfully as he depicted "life behind the scenes" in "The Chorus Lady," "The Traveling Salesman," the scenes of which are featured in Crossing, a village of the middle west, opens on Christmas day. The first act shows the interior of the railway station, the principal characters, Bob Blake, the principal character and Beth Elliott, the pretty telegraph operator. Beth owns a piece of apparently worthless land, which suddenly acquires the property, and the scheme of improvement planned by the town pany. Blake's employer tries to defraud the girl of her property through a perversion of the law governing the sale of land. Of course Bob Blake comes to the rescue. The second act transpires in the drummer's room in the Elite Hotel, and here is shown what is regarded by everyone who plays the play, the most laughable situation ever employed by a playwright—a poker game. ATHLETICS IN CHICAGO. The Douglass Center Club is anain booming. The arrival of Jack Johnson in town is no doubt responsible. Prof. Mondy Robinson, or Kid Mondy, as he describes himself, trains at the Douglass and hopes to not only turn out good athletes, fighters and wrestlers among his pupils, but expects to give to the colored vaudeville stare one good acrobatic novelty acts. Kid Mondy, a former member of Monroe Club, a white athletic association. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC CHICAGO WEEKLY REVIEW By Sylvester Russell Tallaboo Returns to the Pekin. Chicago, Ill. There was the usual large audience present at the Pekin when "Tallaboob" made its return trip on Christmas night for a holiday season. The audience, but a few changes in the cast, as follows: Albert Graham replaced J. Lincoln Harris and Mrs. Hallie Payton played the college student in the role of making an impression at such short notice, with lines hardly committed and nervous; Arthur H. Dunham as Sam was made a natural comedy. His singing of "When Tomorrow Comes" was fine. Fanny Hall Clint was again the simple, refined servant of dramatic instuition and convincing as Tallaboob. Mrs. Clara Hutchinson sang "Your Heart," by DeKoven Thompson, which was well received. The rest of the cast received it, including J. I. Harper, M. Geo, W. Lacev, J. H. Wall, Mary Richardson, McCarty and others, gave ample satisfaction. It was be stringently uninterrupted and humorous, and these respects the presence of Robert T. Motts has been missed. A Good Show at the New Grand. Every act at the Grand in a new bill which opened on Christmas night was a novelty in its way, and this is the day when novelties take the place of fun and games. The Grand, Bartos, acrobatics athletes, were marvelously clever and broke all records in their line Ive ever seen. The Florence Craig Trio was just as entertaining as a clever flurry of music and dance, and was rated as good because Mrs. Denver is, or has the qualities that could make her, a great actress. Jim Ten Brooke's Trio furnished what comedy there was, and had a great performance in prison a bill. Nance Murry and Girls was a return of a former musical act, with girls, with new clothes and scenery. There was a similar act during the last week of Christmas, the song, "Play That Violin," the singer is helped out by the violinist, who has to rise in the orchestra and play with the spotlight thrown upon him. Frank Tate, little nervous, gave a fine performance and a fine looking young man, was the individual who caused the act to make a hit. The Phoenix Turns Crowds Away. The moving picture plays congested this house on Christmas day. Rogers and Wiley at the Monogram. There was a quick, breezy and flashy entertainment at the Monogram Theater when the week's bill opened with the Christmas matinee. Fred Rosers and his band offered, gave quite a treat in singing and dancing specialties. Miss Wiley is the former partner of Bob Cole, of years ago, and up until recently it was toured by Rosers and his superintendent in his very entertaining dancer and his singing was good. The Russells were with us again, but shared honors with all the newcomers on the bill, their comedy flavor, Fanny Wise, still popular, opened her second week's engagement, and got a big reception, as usual. Allyn was entertained, the entertainers. The straight man cut quite a dash and sang well. The comedian, who was good enough to indulge in more comedy, gave satisfaction as a good violin play that rendered his ragtime specialties highly in favor. Chicken Reel Beaman opened at the Circle Theater, formerly the Orpheum, December 25. Will S. Le Vard has out a Dandy Dixie Minstrel this season, producing Holiday in Dixie'. He reports that Bob Holiday in an old-timer, died in Buffalo recently. Tom Lemonier has left for Milwaukee. Wis., with the Overnight Company. He was very popular during his stay in Chicago, and everybody was singing his latest song, "Lovie, Dear." Harry Goodman is thinking of augmenting his act for an European tour of the Samoan girls. There is a good opportunity for chorus girls, who may call or address him at the Pekin Theater. William Holland, of 257 Fulton street, Brooklyn, N. Y., is shortly to produce the Passion Play in moving pictures. William H. Russell, an elder and only brother to Sylvester Russell, is to manage the tour, and he will be found to be a hustling but cultivated chin of the Russell family. The New Walker Theater will have one best bet in the Happy Four Quartette. John Molloy, the comedian, is the best man and Charles M. Kenzie, as the Chinese, is a most realistic specimen of the quiet type of that race, as gamblers. The Pumpkin Colored Trio" has gone over the Gus Sun Circuit. They open December 25 at Lima, O., with Zanesville, Mionion, O., Chincinnati, O., Portsmouth, O., and Milton, O. and Indian dates in February to follow. The Carolina Jubilee Singers have returned East, where the驻issident Pennsylvania N.Y. Attend the holidays they leave for the West. Walter Carter, Silar Frazier and Messrs. Wilson and Douglass were familiar strollers on State street. Word has been received by Mrs. Fred Carey that Eugene King, of King and Bailey, was buried at Copenhagen. Men obtained probably be obtained for the next issue. Allie Gill, Charles Williams and their wives left last Saturday for San Francisco. Wise and Milton have already left and Rosa Lee Tyler, who has arrived in San Francisco, will sail first for Honolulu. With the Gillam and Williams party, before taking to the long 1,000 mile journey. Miller and Lyles recently arrived to spend the holidays. They left on Christ- mas night to fill a quick call engage- ment. Flournoy Miller informs me that their big novelty act, "Barnyard Fro- loles," with Camphrey with Warfield as the stars, will take to the road immediately. booked over the big time. ** Fatal Passion. Who do you love? Is the question asked Of the one who loves The best friend last. Passion's my fate! Is the blushen, penly; My weakness is fatal! My health falls—I die! —Sylvester Russell. THE PASSING SHOW AT WASHINGTON, D. C. (By W. P. Bayliss.) The bill at the Howard last week violated none of the traditions of the week before Christmas. It was quite rileable and entertaining, and the performers as to make it very pleasant to attend a performance. On the bill were Abbie Mitchell, the queen of song; Pinkey and Walker, who appeared in a couple of the performances; bias, a high-class character singer; and the Mahongany Quartette. Miss Mitchell sang "Love is King," "You'll Want Me Back," and "That Hymptotizing Man" to the audience. A telecast appearance at the Howard. She opened this house in September, 1910. Pinkey and Walker made good and will be held over for Xmas week. Miss Galnes Tobias is not new to a Washington audience. Her work was highly appreciated. The Ginger Girls played at the Fairyland last week. They have been held over for Xmas week. People go to the theater to be instructed as well as entertained, and it would be well if a few of the performers would build up their act on something real that would lend flavor for food for thought as well as entertainment. Most of the showville are founded on an actual fact—some personal experience or observation. The other evening, while talking with Miss Emma Griffin, of the Griffin Sisters, about the stage and general conditions throughout the country, she was asked how many performers of your class are playing vaudeville in colored houses. "I do not know exactly why many others are playing colored houses," said she, but for ourselves, we are playing them because we want to secure continuous work over big white time at the salary we demand, secondly, the time is rapidly coming when the average colored performer will be unable to get much booking over big time, and we want to secure continuous work in houses at a meagre salary because we get steady work, and believe that in so doing we are helping to building up the theater business throughout the country and the colored performers can be booked continuously in the future over colored time. "No! Not any ways soon. The theatrical proposition will assume the same assignment as colored schools and school backwards. The white teachers started colored schools and churches, but the colored performer started on the white and sharply fixed, and it is up to the colored performers to unite with the colored managers all over the country and help them build up a business, which will all over the country time so that all over the country they play just the same as there are colored schools and churches." There will be a matheme every day during Xmas week at Maha Manai theater. Manager Tayler has selected a large number of feature pictures for the week. Merryweather and Brown closed their sixth week in a Capital last week at the Theatre Manai Pavne and Green say they find them clever team and a big drawing card. The bill at the Howard for Xmas week consists for the Sambo Girls, Andrew Tribble and Jeff De Mount, Sandifer and Gant, Pinkey and Walker and Maha Raiah. THE FREEMAN IN MUNCIE. All who would like to subscribe for the Indianapolis Freeman should call and see Mrs. Wm. Burgin, who is now acting as agent for the freeman. Call at the Peerless office at 212-755-2222, Peerless, Ind. Single copies, 5 cents; six months, 85 cents; one year, $1.50. THE BROOKLYN BROTHERS Write in for time. Opens January 1,'12 Investment $30,000 Address Care of The Freeman Miss Evans, hair dresser, 919 North Street. Venue. Phones, New, 4198; Old, Main 7923 SPENCER SUPPLY COMPANY. Earn a beautiful toilet set of French grey silver by selling three dozen jars of massage cream. Write for particularii funeror Supply Co. Box 133-200-1142, Indiana, Ind. THE HOME OF PERFORMERS When in Philadelphia, Pa., stop at MADAM DEMPSEY'S 1402 Naudain Street Commencing Monday, Jan. 1st Mris' production of Jas. Forbes' Success. Traveling Salesman" Saturday, January 4, 5.6. ers. A play that complies with the dramatic taste of the season. EVERYBODY GOES TO THE PARK. EITH'S house Next Week. Vaudeville in its High est Expression. of the decade WIFE modern mor- play. John Maculey. Selbini & Grovidi. EATS. MATINEES 5c; EVENINGS 15c. US SCREAM! IN SISTERS be the strongest act in Vaudeville. SOLIDLY At Once 1st Ave., Oklahoma City, Ok. two good Lady Singers and Dancers. Address Bean & Sons, 215-17 First street, or Lease Meridian, Miss one city. Good corner location, with scenery, stage, operating mine. Other business occupies some one quick. Address A AMENT, PARK Three Days, Commencing Monday. H. B. Harris' production of Jas. F. "The Traveling Sailor" Thursday, Friday, Saturday, January 4, 5, 6. "The Girl From Rectors" A play that combines matic tac MATINEE DAILY. POPULAR PRICES. EVERYBODY GOES MATINEE EVERY DAY B. F. KEITH'S Grand Opera House Next Week. Percy Waram & Co. Harvey & Devora Trio Four Dondons Dramatic Hit of the decade EVERYWIFE A sensational, modern morality play. 500 EXCELLENT SECOND BALCONY SEATS. MATINEES 5c; A CONTINUOUS SCRIB THE GRIFFIN SISTERS They are conceded by the public to be the strongest act BOOKED SOLID Wanted at Or At the Denny Theatre, 215-17 1st Ave., Oklahoma One good Producer, one Comedian and two good Lady Sisters Must have good wardrobe on stage. Address Bean & Sons, Phone 7981, Oklahoma City, Okla. For Sale or Lease Acme Theatre, Meridian, Colored Theatre, only one in the city. Good of 325 seats. Fully equipped with scenery, st room and one Pin Edison Machine. Other bus my attention. A good snap for some one quick. MRS. NANA AMEN P. O. Box 788 WANTED FOR They are conceded by the public to be the strongest act in Vaudeville. BOOKED SOLIDLY Wanted at Once At the Denny Theatre, 215-17 1st Ave., Oklahoma City, Ok. One good Producer, one Comedian and two good Lady Singers and Dancers. Must have good wardrobe on stage. Address Bean & Sons, 215-17 First street, Phone 7981, Oklahoma City, Okla. For Sale or Lease Acme Theatre, Meridian, Miss Colored Theatre, only one in the city. Good corner location, 325 seats. Fully equipped with scenery, stage, operating room and one Pin Edison Machine. Other business occupies my attention. A good snap for some one quick. Address TED! WANTED! J. M. Busby's World's Greatest Colored M Performers that double stage and good novelty act. Finest two-car accommodations. Answer J. M. Busby Colored Minstrels, the stage and band, also nest two-car Pullman answer Busby, World's Greatest Colored Minstrels, Performers that double stage and band, also good novelty act. Finest two-car Pullman accommodations. Answer J. M. Busby, Grand Openi The New pening! Grand Opening! The New BELLMONT THEATRE Pensacola, Florida Strictly Fire Proof WILL OPEN ON With Bill Cross, Stage Mgr. and 14 Star Performers M. Jacoby, Sole Owner Gentlemen's List. Bryant, Wm. Brown, Dave Beys, Jays Cross, Tom Childs, W. H. Cross, Billie Cogan, James Paul, Paul Dudley, E. B. Des Verny, E. English, Ed. Holmes, Jas, Hleks, E. J. Jackson, Dave Joe, M. McQuilty, M. May, Thos McCamon, J. H. Long, Walter S. Peat, E. F. Greaves, E. F. Reed, Prof. Ed. Stevens, Gus. Sherwood, E. Sadler, Wm. Elmer, E. Elmer. Stovall, Wallace Swetman, George. Thomas, W. A. Taylor, Geo. Thomas, Dick Brown, W. Wallburg, W. H. Wolfscale, Geo. Ladies' List. Bright, Miss Gussie. Fairfax, Miss Mabe Glispin, Miss Belle. Grundy, Maude. Hicks, Miss E. Macaulay, Miss Hayes, Miss Ella. Hubbard, Miss Ivy. James Sisters. Nicholas, Miss Ray Oliver, Bessie. Ramsey, Miss A. St. Stoval, Mrs. E. Wright, Mrs. E. Wright, Mrs. E. Wright, Mrs. E. ROUTE. S. H. DUDLEY IN "DR. BEANS FROM BOWEN"—Kansas City, Mo. week of "JOLLY" JOHN LARKINS—Cameron, Tex. Jan, 1; Calvert, 2; Bryan, 3; Palestine, 4; Marshall, 5; Texarkania, 6; Shreveport, La, 7-8 LOZANE MAINS STREETL—Lebanon, Tenn. Jan, 1; Clarksville, 2; Springfield, 3; Elkton, Ky. 4; Honkinsonville, 6; Sebree, 6. GEORGON CAMP MEETING CO.—Milwaukee, Mich. Jan, 1. BLACK PATTI MUSICAL COMEDY CO.—Port Arthur, Tex. Jan, 1; eBaumont, 2; Lake Charles, La, 3; New Iberia, 4; Franklin, 5; Patterson, 6; Morgan City, 7. Care Hotel Arthur, 5 HAIR DRESSING. CONFIDENTIAL Meridian, Miss San Antonio, Texas GOSSIP OF THE STAGE R.C. BUCKNER 6 What do I wnt for Christmas? A present for myself; Well, what I'm going to ask for boys, just on the merchant's shelf; Yet it's been given, but beyond the reach of gold; And can be given by every man, be he young or old. I want the friendship of every man, whether my kin or kind; If he be he lame, if he be dumb or blind; If he be rich, if he be poor, be he a king or czar; Be he in health, be he in wealth, be he near or far; Be he black, be he of any race; Just so he's a friend behind my back as when we meet face to face. I want the friendship of every man—the kind that will never wane; The kind that will last through health, death, through all my mortal pain; The kind that will make us meet and greet each other on the square; And take the part of the absent one if abused when he's not there; The kind that will help me do the right when I would do the wrong; And do by him as I would be all my whole life long; If one can give a Christmas gift like one of these to him; The Christmas claus to hang it on my Christmas tree. STAGE NOTES. James Thomas Price resting at 38 East Front street, Florence, S. C. Chicken Reel Beamon opened up at Circle Theater, Philadelphia December 25. Winn and Nugent are at the Grand Theater, Chattanooga, going big. Little Carrie Nugent is a dance wonder. Joe Winn keeps up a good line of fun. Will H. Vodery, who has charge of the musical end of the Smart Set Company, dropped into The Freeman office during the company's stay in Indianapolis last week. GEORGIA CAMP MEETING MINSTREL COMPANY. The company is playing to packed houses. Jimmy Wilson and Lola Anderson, singing, dancing and roller skating artists, joined last week and are making a big hit. Louise LeVine, known as the Dancing Doll, still leaves them talking about her dancing. Happy Bill Briggs, comedian with the show, is taking four and five encores nightly. Minstrel Mitchell in his old-fashioned darky stump speech is making them cry with joy. FANNIE WISE. By Geo. Slaughter. The subject of this little sketch is one of the best known and best beloved prima donnas on the negro stage. Miss Wise is a natie of New York City and started her career as a singer in the churches of the Metropolis. She has a voice of great power and sweetness, being able to render with ease either the classics of the world's great composers or with surpassing fascination and charm, the popular songs of the day. She is at her best in operatic selections where her broad intelligence and naturally amoralty nature enable her to interpret the composer's mood and thought with singular accuracy. Her rendition of the song "Bleeding Moon" is masterly, and probably she has become more widely known through this Indian Melody than for anything else she has done. Miss Wise has the happy and enviable faculty of gauging the musical comprehension of the audience to a nicetyJshe is equally the favorite of the untrained who simply wants a bunch of melody for his share, or the critic, whose superior training and knowledge of technique, causes him to demand and be satisfied with only the efforts of the artist. In addition to her ability as a musical artist Miss Wise has a remarkable stage presence. Her interest is always the signal for unstinted applause. Unlike so many of our singers who attain popularity, Miss Wise seems never to be bothered with what for a better word we may call "grouches." It is commonly thought that people of genius have a rare right to inflict their moods and tenses on the audience with impunity, and this tendency has been the cause of more than one manager going to the poor house. Miss Wise is not the least bit self-conscious, not the least bit egotistic—she is just a sweet talented girl, happy in her art and in the fact that through it she can bring a little sunshine into the shadowy lives of most of us plain ordinary folk who tread the paths of mediocrity and never get a glimpse of the region above the clouds save when she or some one like her takes us there upon the wings of divine melody. Miss Wise has studied in England among the masters and added her position among musical stars only after long and arduous effort. At the Lyre recently the writer of this humble lute had the pleasure of hearing her sing the song which has made her famous and he could scarcely tell whether the spell she seemed to cast over the audience was more the effect of the nightingale rhapsody which came from her throat, than the effect of her evident pleasure in her own efforts. She seems to sing for the joy of the singing—for the true artist's natural love for the work of his soul, and as we sat there the immortal words of Kipling's "Earth's Last Picture" came to mind. Scan them reader and see if we are right in saying that a woman like Fannie Wise gave the poet his inspiration. And only the Master shall praise us, And only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, And no one shall work for fame; But each for the joy of the working, And each to his separate star Shall sing the thing as he feels it, For the God of things as they are. FROM THE DANA THOMPSON SUNNY DIXIE MINSTRELS. We are still on the reel, putting on a picture that makes good all the time. The show has proved, so far, to be the favorite, although this is southern territory that has made good. "The Man Behind." We have lost the leading lady, Miss Ida Gardner, who has left the show and has returned her return soon. We replaced a very clever lady to take her place, as Lady Surlazza. The lady, Miss Willie Wallburg, has hal great success paying the man she song success is "The Violin Rag," also Miss Lula Bryant is pleasing the people singing "Mandy Lu." Frank Perry-yong has great success playing Remick's hits daily, and also dwarfed overtures. The band is small but certainly gives satisfaction. The company wishes all a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year on route Florida, Georgia and Mississippi to English would like to hear from W. L. Eldridge, the band of all. B. F. DeLeo sends regards to C. J. Scotte. Route-Columbia, Ala., 26; Arlington, Ga., 25; Columbia, Ala., 26; Bikleye, Ga., 27; Albany, Ga., 28. SEEN AND HEARD WHILE PASSING By S. Tutt Whitney, Smart Set Co. The New Year and Resolutions. Ring out ye bells, ring mournfully, Let your intonations muffl be, The Old Year's passing noiselessly Into God's unknown eternity. Ring out the blunders, the mistakes; Disappointments, sorrows and heart- aches. Ring out dead hopes, ring out the fears; Resolves forgotten and the tears. Ring out, ye bells, ring mournfully, Let your intonations muffled be, The Old Year's passing noiselessly Into God's unknown eternity. Ring out, ye bells, ring, wildly ring, Let your intonations loudly sing, Make every echo join the hymn, And greet the New Year coming in. Ring in the good, ring in the true, Ring in the strength to dare and do, Ring Christ into each heart, and then On earth have peace, good will toward men. Ring out, ye bells, ring, wildly ring, Let your intonations loudly sing, Make every echo join the hymn, And greet the New Year coming in. Resolutions. A simile is an express comparison, referring only to quality. So here goes for a simile. A resolution like ple-crust, the shape of a house. This simile might not pass in a school of rhetoric, but it is home-made and serves as an introduction. We are now at the threshold of a new year. A time for new resolves. The turn of the year brings some of us need a book. A time when hopes run high, and the joy of anticipation leaves no room for doubt as to future realization. The majority of us unbreak the greater part of them. But this does not signify we should not make them. Nothing but good can result from a honest effort to keep our lives in order. But what I hope will be seconded and approved by the great unincorporated fraternities of performers. He it resolved: That we shall so depen-der on the good that we will no longer be an ostracized, isolated people, outside the pale of social recognition; but prove that we are capable of assimilating and disseminating the virtues that make possible the highest civ Be it resolved: That no matter how low or exalted our position or part, we will give to our work the best that is in us. That will keep us free from suspicion or taint of vulgarity, never forgetting that we are playing a conspicuous and significant part in the ultimate redemption of our race. Be it resolved: That we will lay away our children. That we dey" *Felicitas multos habet amicos*." Adversity has but few. Be it resolved: That we shall live nearer the golden rule. That our interests be mutual; that we will lay, little banners away, and without delay, join the V. B. A. IN AND ABOUT PENSACOLA, FLA From the Thomas News Bureau. 18 South Targonne Street. Phone 821. Special to THE FREEMAN. The C. M. E. annual conference of the C. M. E. church last week at the C. M. E. church, and was presided over by Bishop Stewart. It was a very successful one from the church to the T. S. Maritan Lodge, No. 107, K. of P., elected their officers last week, at their hall. Mr. Perry Wilson was re-elected to the office of C. C. E. E. priest, predeceased K. R. S. and H. H. Crawford, P. C.; A. C. Sawyer, V. C. C.; W. H. Madison, M. of A; W. M. McDuffy, M. of W. They will have their installation on January 11th. Miss Maggie Gillard and the guest of Miss Delia Calhoun. She has made quite a large number of friends during her short stay here. Mrs. Bettie Hurd Roberson, sister of her home. Her death was quite a sudden one and shocking to her many friends. She was a teacher in the public schools here. Mr. Jessie Dixon, sister of her home. Her death was moved to Chicago, III, died in the latter city last week. His body was brought here for interment, and was accompanied of this city. The Douglass Literary Club of the Pensacola high school delightfully entertained last Friday at the school building, where the younger set was present and an enjoyable evening was spent by all who attended. Miss Nellis Fernandez returned home last week from Snow Lake, where the younger set was present and many friends hope she will soon recover. Mr. Perry Wilson will represent the local Knights of Pythias lodge at the grand Plaza next year. Bishop Stewart of Bingham, Ala., who was in the city attending the annual C. M. E. conference, which convened in this city last week, will be attending the annual C. M. E. Plummer, of North Raues street. He reported a very delightful stay while in THE FREEMAN. AN LLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. THE MASTER OF THE MUSIC CLARENCE POWELL. WHY CLARENCE POWELL BE CAME A STAR COMEDIAN. Noted Performer Won His Spurs Through Genuine Merit. Perhaps there is no performer today who enjoys a greater name when linked with minstrelsy than Clarence Powell, a boy who grew up in the Glaia Minstrels, and when one looks into the career of this king of comedy one can but remark that he has earned his fame by playing the role that Powell has been behind the footlights he has accomplished rightfully what he pulled off his coat and rolled on his sleeve by taking his coat off. The spirit of it as a student would until he became a master. In so doing he held on to originality and has never yet left her side. the Deep Water City. ... Miss Della Calhoun has been on the sick list. Her many friends hope she will be able to man the theater-goers the Smart Set will be in the city on December 30th. ... The Douglass Literary Club rendered a very excellent program in Pensacola with Ms. Muffy Brookins was the guest of honor at this meeting. ..Sir A. S. Jordan, I. C. G. M., was in the city a few weeks ago for the purchase of a local Knights of Tabor.....Miss Bessie Gordon is out again, after a few weeks' illness. Her many friends are glad to meet her. She opened last week with one of the largest crowds ever witnessed at the opening of a colored playhouse in this city. She is a patron of an amusement, this place of amusement, and his many friends wish him a success in his new business enterprise.....The foundation of church has begun, and the work will be rushed right along.....Mr. S. D. Jackson, one of the city's finest flowers, would like for all of his friends to know that he is a rapid business with his many fine plants It has been reported that the local insurance companies are not paying their many sick claims. I would like to call this to the attention of the colored superiors under the emergency services to pay claims. It would be better for you and for all of us to belong to a colored company, but when you come with your wrongdoings we sure will let you and the company, and your company for you. I will be the guest of S. Jordan of Indianapolis, Ind., who was in the city a few weeks ago, was the guest of Sir A. S. Brown. He reported a very delightful stay while in the Deep Water City City, where he will open on January 1, 1911. It will be one of the finest theaters in this city, for colored people. One Reason Why We Suffer Physically. We, as a race, know too little of ourselves, and by our knowing such a little of ourselves, we certainly must undergo the ordeals of ill. There is not a race that is better than ours. I want to say in this space, as the dawn of a new year is appearing, let's note our condition and realize our growing weak, and change, or else we have only been in the science of medicine five years and one of them as a practitioner. I see the need of more colored M. D.'s that is if they take the proper steps to learn more of themselves and it is better on the race. More money in their pockets and less trouble to the doctors. As a general thing I note that we are hard to treat because we know of our own problems. A. S. Magee, M. D. Pensacola. Don't forget to report all of your news to the Thomas News Bureau, 18 South Targrona street, phone #21. W. Thomas, proprietor. LANGSTON, OKLA., UNIVERSITY. Many of the students are going home to spend the holidays.....President T. E. Page has been to Washington, D. C., for several days on business.....Postmaster By Allen G. Bowles. Whenever he had thought out an act that won the plaudits of the country over he did not hold on to it until everybody got used to it, and he gave it up, like as he surely is, he gave them something new and at the proper time. Today he works as hard as he did when he was a more unknown, and you find him a more successful person, a fact. Best of all, he is no knocker, but rather looks on the bright side of everything in life, and it is the progressive people who know him and the kind of people among our performers are a rarity. What is the best evidence we have of that fact? It is this: Powell and his citizens know him and the managers won't let him be idle. A performer made of that sort of stuff cannot stay down, so the mannerism off of the stage and his talent on the stage, could not help but lead. J. D. Hazelwood has recovered from a very dangerous horse hick.....Prof. J. R. Hogan has returned from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. R. J. Johnson, Prof. L. L. Henderson and Mr. Braux were visitors at Guthrie, last Saturday....The program for the joint session of the university was fine, and was as follows: Song; reading XIX Psalm; solo, "Beyond the Vale," Miss Daisy Brown reading, "The Psalms of Life," Association Work, "The University Association Work," Mr. R. A. McNeil; address, "He Shall Direct Thy Paths," Rev. Wilson; reading, "Jesus, Lover of the Moss," Miss Carrie Bowens; quartet, Ashley of Jesus; Misses M. E. Lloyd and L. Edwards; Messrs. M. D. Lawson and L. Lewis. "UTHERS CLUB" ENTERTAINED Miss Carolyn Stewart entertained the "Uthers Club" on Thanksgiving night, at the residence of Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Pewnock home of Miss Mabel C. Leake, of Covington, Ky. The house was beautifully decorated with autumn leaves, fruit bouquets and yellow chrysanthemums. The costumes of the ladies made a brilliant setting for the affair. The first part of the evening was spent in solving a tree puzzle and playing prize win games. The dance, which proved to be a great surprise and a very novel way of entertaining, About forty persons were present, and they departed at midnight with three睁着眼 bows for Miss Stewart as an ideal hostess. PLAYS And VAUDEVILLE SKETCHES Large Catal. gue FREE. 60 big pages of Vaudeville Material 50c; MakeUp Book, 15c; Dutch or Irish Wigs, 50c. A. E. 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Address JOHN T. GIBSON, Prop Auditorium Theatre, South Street above Broad, Philadelphia, Pa. NEW CIRCLE THEATRE Largest Colored Theatre in Philadelphia, Pa., wants first class acts. Three or more weeks if hits. Write now. NEW CIRCLE THEATRE, 1321-29-25 South St. Philadelphia, Pa. Chorus Girls who can sing and dance always wanted. Write or wire Frank Montgomery, Amusement Director. Please give this your immediate attention. Globe Theatre, Jacksonville, Florida. Frank Crowd, Owner and Manager, The New Grand Continuous Vaudeville, Moving Pictures Change of Program Monday and Thursday Finest Theatre in America 3110-12 State St., Chicago, Ill. Performers Send in Your Open Time. IN THE FIELD OF SPORT. BY HAROLD C. MCCATH. BETTER THAN JOHNSON OR LANGFORD. Lang's Opinion of McVea. SYDNEY, Australia. "I've met the three of them now—Johnson, Langford and McVea—and I say McVea's the stiftest of the lot. I was in fine condition, yet look what happened! I'm too dazed to talk any more now!" JACK JOHNSON SENDS AUTOS HOME. NEW YORK—Charles Brown, the chauffeur for Jack Johnson, arrived on the Prinz Wilhelm last Tuesday in charge of Johnson's three cars. One racer, one a limousine and one touring car, en route to Chicago. When seen by a News reporter at the Hotel Marshall, he said: "We, with Jack Johnson, enjoyed the hospitalities of the English people; in fact, the English are very proud of Jack, and were sorry the fight between himself and Wells did not take place." JACK JOHNSON HAS REALLY RETIRED. CHICAGO.—Jack Johnson, champion heavyweight pugilist of the world, weighs nearly 300 pounds and will never again enter the ring in a contest to retain his title, according to information received at his home here. Johnson is on the ocean on his way back to Chicago, with his wife, who is seriously ill. He sailed with his wife from Liverpool recently, and before starting let it be known to his friends in Chicago that he had finished with the roped arena. Johnson's friends in the "Negro belt" in Chicago had discussed rumors of the champion's retirement for several days past. JOHNSON HAS NOT RETIRED According to Latest Interview Obtained as He Steps on Native Soil. NEW YORK—Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson, who arrived here from Europe, has gone to Chicago to spend Christmas. He vigorously denied that he had any intention of retiring from the prize ring. "I feel fit enough to fight now," said Johnson. "I weighed 245 pounds when I met Jeffries at Reno and today I weigh 233 pounds. With me it is purely a question of money whether I will fight again, but I have not retired and do not intend to do so for some time yet. I was sorry I did not get to fight Bombadier Wells in England. I was in prime condition for him and have kept myself so ever since the bout was called off. I lived a quiet life while in England and France and all those stories about me running around and drinking a lot of champagne are lies." The Negro heavyweight brought back thirteen trunks full of clothes that he had ordered for the coronation. He also brought back a valet from England. BOXING. Billy McClain, manager for Sam McVea, not only possesses a "knockout embrocation," but also a recipe for the making of a champion boxer, and he told an Evening News representative this morning of its ingredients. Conversation had turned on the few decent Australian heavyweights. "You want to know," said Billy, "why there are not any better big men? Well, I'll tell you. It is simply because your big men fight before they learn to know the game. You see, the great trouble is your big fellows never learn to be clever. If they $3.50 RECIPE FREE, FOR WEAK MEN. SEND NAME AND ADDRESS TODAY—YOU CAN HAVE IT FREE AND BE STRONG AND VIGOROUS. 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I think I owe it to my fellow man to send them a copy in confidence, so that they can be used in the future, courageed with repeated failures may stop drugging himself with harmful patent medicines, secure what I believe is the quickest-acting, restorative, upbuilding, and so cure himself at home quietly and quickly. Just drop me a line like this: Q. E. Robinson, 3331 Luck Building, Detroit, Detroit, copy of this splendid receipt in a plain ordinary envelope free of charge. A great many doctors would charge $3.00 for merely writing out a prescription like this—but I send it entirely free. studied the game they would be better." "Australia," continued McClain, "is a country that naturally produces tablets, but your big men do not, in their training, prepare themselves for a grueling contest. They go in, and want to fight before they learn how, and they adopt the old style of Joe Goddard. If your men learned the game properly, and went in for the Peter Jackson style, they would be the champions of the world." "The fighting game now," went on William, "is scientific. It is not brutality. A fighter has got to know when he has a man in trouble, and when to knock him out." "But a second who knows his business should be able to give his man that useful tip," suggested the reporter. "Yes, he might," replied McClain, "and while on the subject of seconds, let me say that one of the most important things in boxing is that a second should know how to take care of his man when he comes back to his corner in trouble. A little advice of the right sort and at the right time is most valuable to a boxer. A trainer must know the temperament of his man—must know him like a mother knows her child." "You think Australia has the material for champions?" "I could pick out a half dozen big men here who would make champions if they followed my advice." "Then you have a recipe for producing champions, Billy?" "I have." "And what is the secret?" "It is a certain course of training that a man should undergo before entering upon a serious boxing contest. A trainer should find out whether his man is weak in the stomach, in the legs, or the jaw, and whatever be the weak part, that is the part upon which he should devote his attention to strengthen. It is the duty of the trainer to build his man up, especially where he is weakest. Fighters are born, but they must be taught science, and they must be taught the same as a child at school. No two men fight alike, and no two men train alike. To be a champion, a man must be a born fighter. He has got to have a good temper, and he must know how to keep his head. The boxer must listen to the advice of his chief adviser, who, as I have already said, must know his man." "Take a man like Sam McVea," went on Billy. "Sam is a natural fighter. In teaching a boxer a man must instruct him like a dancing master does his pupil. He must teach him how to use his feet and hands just the same as a dancer is taught. If a man be not a defensive fighter, he has got that to learn. It is only one in a hundred boxers who has the makings of a champion. The little fellows are much better than the big chaps, because they are so much faster. You could count a thousand big fighters during the last three years, and out of that number you could take about six, and those six could beat the rest of the thousand in the game. Those who do not learn the game thoroughly must always remain in the same old groove, and be second raters." "Whom do you consider is the best man in Australia?" "Dave Smith. He is the best man in Australia." "Better than Bill Lang?" "Yes; he could for a certainty beat Lang over a limited journey. Australian boxers before always led the world. Your big men have gone back and the little fellows have come on." "What do you think of Hughie Mehegan?" "A first-class man." "With a chance against Wolgast?" "Yes, a chance against Wolgast and against any man in the world his weight. Dave Smith is also a champion of his own class, and has a chance with any one on the globe his own weight. In fact, he fought the best man when he fought Papke. He would always beat Papke under ordinary circumstances." "You do not appear to have a great opinion of Bill Lang. William?" "Bill Lang is the best heavy man in Australia. It is not right for the public to boo Bill when he fights. He has done a great deal towards boosting the game. Every man who has been prominent during the last five years Bill has fought, and has helped to make their reputations. Lang is entitled to more credit than the public gives him. If Australia has a better man among the heavies, it has the making of a world's champion. Till she produces a better man than Bill she has not got a look in."—Evening News, Sydney, Australia. "TAR BABY" LANGFORD LOSES TO SAM MCVEY. Both Men Fight Until Tired Out, and Verdict on Points Is Hooted. SYDNEY, Australia.—In the fight here between Sam McVey and Sam Langford, both American pugilists, McVey won on points. The bout went the scheduled twenty rounds. In the first and second honors were fairly even, both men showing caution, but landing hard. In the third round Langford scared a heavy right to the jaw. McVey came back with a hook which sent Langford to the floor, but he got to his feet immediately. The fifth round was McVey's. He continued to send the left to the jaw, and Langford's mouth and tongue were bleeding, and he seemed dazed THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. M. B. By the ninth round McVey had piled up many points, and Langford had been cautioned for using his forearm. Both showed signs of punishment and Langford had a marked discoloration and swelling over his right eye. McVey's mouth and nose were bleeding. It was give and take in the tenth, but the eleventh and twelfth rounds were Langford's. McVey's Clever Boxing. McVey's left, which had done considerable execution up to this time, began to lack steam. For the next five rounds the men sparred, few heavy blows were exchanged. Langford was aggressive, but McVey outboxed him. Langford's eye was closed tight, his opponent frequently landing on this shining mark. Both were tired and more than cautious in the nineteenth, and when the bell rang for the twentieth they came wearily into the ring almost too exhausted to fight. They clinched throughout this round. All through the fight both men showed gameness and fought with extreme fairness, the crowd showing its appreciation by frekuent applause, but the verdict giving the fight to McVey on points was vigorously hooted. SAM LA Who loses decision to McVay in Si Eighteen thousand spectators witnessed the contest, which took place in the open air under a broiling sun. The betting was 4 to 5. Langford being the favorite. In-fighting was not allowed. THE PAST SEASON IN FOOTBALL AMONG LOCAL COLORED ELEVENS. Football was first introduced into Louisville among colored people through the efforts of Prof. E. D. Patterson, who was an enthusiastic player. The first game was played in 1886, between Central High and State University. From that time on, with possibly the exception of two seasons, he played with a team that had no contest, which has aroused unbounded enthusiasm. After Mr. Patterson severed his connection with the local schools the work was taken up by Mr. R. Harris, who worked for many years before there was anything like the generous response on the part of the public, without which their efforts could not have met with success. Eventually, there was located at St. Louis two gentlemen who were acquaintances of Johnson and Harris, and who were equally interested in athletics, with whom they were intermixed with Summer High School. The four got together one year and resolved to form some sort of permanent athletic agreement which would result in stimulating interest in football and other Their efforts met with success from the beginning, not, however, without much opposition from those who did not understand the motive for the thing or who had been led to regard football as a dangerous game, appealing only to the more brutal instincts. By and by the boys who had been taught the game under Johnson and Harris began to graduate from the school, and they carried with them all the love for the game which their school life had developed, and as a consequence there has been formed in the city several independent teams, made up largely of boys who had learned the game elsewhere and of boys who for- merely played on the Central elevens. Today we have the Cane Club, champions of the Central elevens, pha Omegas, an eleven which succeeded in defeating Central in their first game. SHERMAN (TEXAS) NEWS. Special to THE FREEMAN. You will find at the handsome Gem Cafe, H. H. D. Taylor, proprietor, during the Christmas holidays, superb courses equal to any in the State, with a handsome electric piano to royally entertain you, also polite lady waiters to accompany you, and a private-bdate drinks at the handsome fountain. The Freeman for sale there...Polar Star Lodge, No. 33, Masons, of which Rev. Dr. Jno. W. McKinney, this city, is number one. Masons, of which are juridictions thereunder, will have their annual sermon delivered this year on the 27th inst., by Dr. D. S. Moten, B. D. Ph. D., dean of the theology, Paul Quinn College, at Waco, Tex. Dr. Moten logins, a ripe scholar, deep thinker, thorough-going Christian gentleman. Dr. Moten holds exalted positions in the A. M. E. connection, and was recently elected at North East, Tex. Annual Conference, in session at Yaxahache, the conference in Kansas City, Mo, this coming May, 1912. Dr. Moten is a member of Polar Star. No. 33, Masons. Aside from his great sermon to be delivered, Dr. A. P. Grosso, great and W. M. Prince, Star No. 196, Masons, this city, will speak, also Dr. D. W. Porter, member of Polar Star NGFORD. Sydney, Australia, on Christmas day. No. 33, Masons, this city, and a high Mason, once right eminent grand commander of Texas, will deliver an address. The centerer, Pola Star Sax No. 33, will deliver an oration. The exercises will be carried on at the beautiful Progressive Baptist Church, the night of the 27th inst. The choir will render several sweet sessions. Everybody intersest. You will have the Freemain at Mrs. G. W. Hurge's landscapes and cafe. Cape May, N. J. Special rates for Fall and Winter. Service unsurpassed in America. Write for Literature. E. W. DAEZ. Proprietor. SANTAL-MIDY Standard remedy for Gleet, Gonorrhoea and Runnings IN 48 HOURS Cures Kid- ness and Bladder Troubles. MIDY A full line of Wines, Liquors and Cigars always on hand. Business Lunch. 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Old Phone, Main. 6030 W. E. Ralph Ice & Coal Company, 922 FOWLER STREET. I AM SHOWING Line of La 250 patterns, all in Soli the most popular Xmas it us lay one aside for you L L. R. North Illinois St exclusive Jewelry St ning Qu Indianapolis C r patronage. Place your I Coal Cor Yards—10 125—Te D. Main Office A Fine Line of Lavaliers Consisting of 250 patterns, all in Solid Gold. Price $5 to $5(1), the most popular Xmas gift this year. Come in and let us lay one aside for you now. 25 North Illinois Street The Largest Exclusive Jewelry Store in the City. A Burning Question The Indianapolis Coal Co. Asks your patronage. Place your order with A Real Coal Company. 10—Big Yards—10 125—Teams—125 Both Phones 1700. Main Office 113 N. Penn. St. A First-class PRINCE HC PRINCE of Prince Trio Phone: Aldine 874 First-class Accommodations for Actors THE PRINCE HOUSE H. M. PRINCE, of Prince Trio, Prop. Nestly Furnished Rooms ---Steam Heat, Hot and Cold Water 3306 Wabash Avenue CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Groceries and Fresh Meats Fruits and Vegetables a Specialty 503 North Illinois St. Phones Old, Main, 2008 New, 2008 one of Lavalier atterns, all in Solid Gold. Price most popular Xmas gift this year. we one aside for you now. L. ROST, With Illinois Street Jewelry Store in the City ng Question Anapolis Coal Co. Image. Place your order with Coal Company. —10 125—Teams—125 Main Office 113 N. Penn. St. A LEVINSON HAT costs $2.00, lasts through the season, marks the style of the moment—will a $3.00 or a $5.00 hat do more? LEVINSON Style Starter THREE STORES Market and Ill. Sts. 37 N. Penn. St. 41 S. Ill. St. First-class Accommodations for Acto INCE HOUSE CE. of Prince Trio. Pron 8 25 Per Cent. Less. Slightly soiled and mussed centerpieces and scorfs, also hemstitched and scalloped towels, are now remarked one-fourth off the marked price. Madeira Hand - Embroidered Waist Patterns, slightly soiled, but regular $7.50 and $10.00 values, for $5.00. Japanese Hand - Embroidered Centerpieces, 22 inches in diameter, regular price $1.25, this sale 75c. Japanese Hand - Embroidered Centerpieces, 30 inches in diameter, $3 00 value, specially priced at $1.50. —Second floor, east aisle. L. S. Ayres & Co., Indiana's Greatest Distributors of Dry Goods. CITY AND VICINITY. Mrs. Beatrice Jordan is suffering from a relapse. Mr. John L. Jones spent Christmas in Decatur, Ill. Mrs. Frank Hodge is improving after a recent illness. Miss Eleanor Bradshaw is visiting in New Albany. Miss Bernice Williams is on the sick list this week. Mr. Percy Jones visited in St. Louis, Christmas day. Mrs. Rella Hicks is rapidly improving at the City Hospital. Mrs. Ollie Freeman departed for New Orleans Friday for an indefinite stay. Messrs. William Bell and Harry Logan visited in Covington, Ky., this week. Mr. Charles Elliott, formerly of this city, now of Pezy, spent Christmas bera Present Christmas here. Mrs. Ethel White entertained a large number of friends at dinner Friday evening. Mr. R. Byron Shelton and wife are visiting friends and relatives during the holidays. Dr. J. H. Ridley, of Lexington, Ky., sent a few days here last week on business. Mr. Richard Wright left this week for Jacksonville, Fla., for the rest of the winter. Mrs. Susie Vaugh has been confined to her home for three weeks, but is slightly improved. Mrs. James arris entertained at an old-fashioned Christmas dinner in honor of a few friends. Mrs. M. J. Gibson, who underwent a serious operation at the city hospital, is much improved. Mrs. Anna Brown, of Chicago, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Kate Minnis, in Midland avenue. Mrs. James Berry, of Louisville, Ky., is the guest of Miss Alice Dudley, 318 West Twelfth street. Mrs. Walter Boyer was called to Louisville, Ky., on account of the illness of her aunt, Mrs. Charles McGill. Mrs. Nora Tucker will leave for her home in Omaha, Neb. Sunday. She has been in the city several weeks. Miss Jennie Tyer and Cora Lee, of Cincinnati, are the guests of Miss Lena Hubbard, in North Senate avenue. Mrs. Reed Brown entertained with an elaborate luncheon Tuesday evening in honor of Mrs. Anna Brown, of Chicago. Mrs. and Mrs. James Lewis, of Louisville, are in town. Mrs. James Lewis in West Michigan street. Mrs. and Mrs. S. W. Grundy entertained in honor of Mrs. Grundy's birthday on Christmas day. Covers were laid for six. Mrs. Moses Franklin, of Fayette and Twelfth streets, met with a serious accident last week. She is confined to her room. Mrs. Mary Berry entertained for her guest, Mrs. John Brooks and daughter, Miss Ella, of Princeton, Ind. Thursday evening. Messrs. Wallace Jerry Martin, Misses A. Williams and Mattle Lyle, of Kokomo, attended the Smart Set here last week. Mrs. Ellen Blaine returned to her home in Atlanta, Ga. Wednesday morning. She was accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Lula Stafford. Mt. Bethel Lodge American Doves of Protection, will hold their regular meeting with Yahlian hall Monday evening at 8 oclock. Mdes陵 James lawkins and Luella Walton, of LouisvilleHill, Ky., are the house guests of Mrs. Robert Hendow, in superior street. Miss Etta Williams returned to her home in Chicago after a pleasant visit with her sister, Miss John Henderson, in Wheaton. The Young Ladies' Club was entertained by Miss Esther Black Tuesday afternoon and an enjoyable time was spent by those present. Miss Edna A. Scott will be hostess for the Regina Embroidery Club Thursday 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, non-irritant 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. Blodan, James H. Graves Pharmacy, Geraldine Pharmacy. ```markdown ``` evening, January 4. at her home, 1124 North Senate avenue. Mr. George Miller and Miss Nora Carrere were quietly married at the home of the late Mrs. Elizabeth West North street, last Thursday evening. Mrs. Daisy Turnley was the guest of her mother, Mrs. Louise Craig, and her sister, Mrs. Elwood Knox, Christmas. She was accompanied here by her little daughter, Mrs. Maid Eaves, of Providence, Ky., who intended to spend Christmas with friends in this city, was prevented from so doing by sickness, but expects to come some time later. Besides the regular services at Simpson church, the will be an old-bearned watch meeting, from 10:30 p. m. to 12 p. m. Revival services will begin at the watch meeting. Mrs. Hattie Taylor left this week for Hot Springs, Ark., for her health. She will be with rheumatism for two years. Her many friends hope the change will do her good. Misses Lena and Beatrice Jackson entertained with a theater party in honor of their guest, Miss Beade Clay, of Frankfort, for evening. About ten young people participated. Mr. and Mrs. Horace Price, 522 East Twenty-third street, entertained several of their friends Wednesday, the 27th. Mr. and Mrs. Horace were here, H. W. Tate, Mr. and Albert Starks, Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Leftwich and Mr. Perry Mass. Mr. Nelson Onell and wife, of Lexington, Ky., passed through the city last Sat., and was here by horse Crawfordswildley. Mr. Onell is a railroad man, running into Lexington for the present. He thinks he will have a run out from Cincinnati in the very near future. Miss Julia Morton, of North Senate ave., delightfully entertained the Regina Embroidery Club on last Thursday evening. A dainty luncheon was served, and all departed voting Miss Morton to be most hospitable hostess. The club will entertain by Mrs. Madge Level, of West Thirteenth street. The death of Henry Smith, of this city, occurred at the Soldiers' Home at Marion, Ind., Wednesday, December 20th, after an illness of several months. The funeral was held on Thursday noon. Mr. Smith leaves a wife, daughter, son, a grandson and step-son. Prof. R. Roy Pope, director of the Ringling Bros. Circus Annex band. The deceased was a grave marker at Crown Hill cemetery for twenty years. CARD OF THANKS Mrs. Lucy Van Dyke was called to Dayton on account of the illness of her sister, Miss Pinkie Williams, formerly one of Indianapolis' well-known society girls. She was born in Dayton, O., and was brought to Indianapolis for burial Tuesday, December 19, by her sister, Mrs. Lucy Van Dyke, and her uncle, Mr. Preston West. The funeral service was held in the residence of sister Mrs. Van Dyke 448 Vermont Street, Rev. B. J. Prince, of the Second Baptist church, officiating. Interment at Crown Hill cemetery. We wish to thank the many friends and acquaintances of our sister. Under her guidance, Roller & Sons of Dayton, and Undertakers Shelton & Willis of this city. We also wish to thank our friends for the many beautiful floral tributes. May God bless Roller & Sons of Dayton, and Undertakers Hattie Williams, mother; Mr. Taylor Williams, father; and Mr. John Williams, brother. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. Great crowds are expected next Sunday at the Emancipation Day exercises to be conducted at the "Monster Meeting" which is held in the West Walnut street, Avenue and West Walnut street. Rev. Joshua Stansfield, pastor of the Meridian Street M. E. church, will be the speaker of the occasion, taking as his subject, emancipation. Dr. Stansfield will always say that the biggest meeting of the colored man and has ever been ready to advocate a fair play for him. This will be perhaps one of the biggest meetings of the colorful man. In addition to Dr. Stansfield, Mr. M. Hinton will give a clarinet solo, and Mrs. J. L. Thompson will sing "My ood Old Mother's Religion," a song that was written by Robert Ingersoll, making the assertion that his good old mother's religion was good enough for him. The program will begin promptly at 3 o'clock, and as on former Sundays will be for men Great preparations are being made by the management of the Y. M. C. A, in anticipation of the large numbers who will be attending the Open House" period, which will be from 2 to 10 p. m. New Year's day is the day of sollicitation in the Y. M. C. A. Beginning in the morning, the juniors will have the building will be thrown open to the women as well as to the men, and the various social activities will be participated in by all. In the afternoon, a basketball game will be played, the joint gym exhibition will be given by the seniors and junior classes, at the close of which a basketball game will be played. All friends of the association are invited to attend. A committee of ladies will serve refreshments during the entertainment. COLORED PEOPLE'S FESTIVAL. Many Dancers at Charity Ball in Tomlinson Hall. A large audience, composed mostly of colored people, attended the folk festival and charity ball at Tomilson hall last night. The affair was given under the supervision of the teacher in the public schools, and it was for the benefit of the Alpha home and Lincoln hospital. The hall and the stage were elaborately decorated with evergreen, bunting and flowers. On the stage in front of a floral hutte work with evergreen. The dances presented were the Spanish, Japanese, Greek, butterfly and flower, Dutch clog, Virginia reel, Hindoo dance, and gracefully performed. The dancers were the national colors. The Greek, butterfly, minuet and Virginia reel were heartily applauded, especially the Greek dance, in which the young women wearing white dresses danced their heads, danced in front of an altar. The minuet was the only dance with men as partners. The Virginia reel was danced in old-time manner, in farm costume and was greatly enjoyed by the audience. The dances were performed in the dances by Miss Esther McNaill. The music was by the Kioto Barbour Orchestra, with Miss Lillian Morris at the piano. We were close of the program in a Japanese tea garden. Dancing followed until 2 o'clock. Mrs. Ida Bryant, an officer of the Alba in the museum, married Mrs. Brown with a bouquet of roses. CENTRALIA, IL Special to THE FREEMAN The marriage of Miss Lucy Belle The marriage of Miss Lucy Belle organized on Christmas day, sk about 10:30 a.m. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER o'clock, at the Second Baptist Church. Rev. Allison ociated. The bride wore a beautiful pale blue dress and carried a bouquet of white roses, and the groom wore a blue suit. The groom went to the altar with Miss Moore, of Champaign, Ill., while the bride entered on the arm of her brother. Nathan Johnson, while the wedding march was played by Mrs. M. Porter. The family the invited repaired to the home of the bride's parents, where a delicious dinner was served. Many costly presents were presented to the bride and groom. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were the guests. Fifth street after January 1. . . The Odd Fellows had their installation at the hall Christmas night. A large crowd witnessed the ceremony. . . Miss Bella attended the reception. Her class is spending the holidays at her home Elksville, Ill. . . Mr. Fred Bibbs has come home from Springfield, Ill., where he has been for the last three or four months. . . Mrs. Dye was visiting in Ill. . . Mrs. Dye was visiting in Edwards, of Decatur, Ill. . . is here visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edwards. . . Geo. Smith, Mrs. L. Brown and Miss P. Brown, all of Decatur, Ill. are here visiting relatives and friends. . . Mrs. M. Brown is here visiting relatives and friends. KANSAS CITY, MO. (By A. C. Oglesby.) Special to THE FREEMAN OUR STATE'S ATTORNEY. Hon, John E. Wayman, Who Has Won Favor and Praise for His Good and Efficient Work as Prosecutor for Cook County, Is Out for Governor Chicago, Ill. Special Everybody has something good to say for our worthy and capable State's Attorney, Hon. John E. Wayman, who has been a longtime advocate and will continue his good service to the tax-payers and people. His has been an administration of marching the big offence of prosecuting the poor and unfortunate. There has been no railroading the week and sheltering the strong. Only justice, as far as possible, has been met out for the poor. There can be no question as to what the people will do when he comes up for nomination for Governor next year. The State's Attorney will be no partisan issue if our cancled and deserving State's Attorney concludes to go after the honor of the governorship, and there would be no class action against him to heib him to the chair as Governor. John E. Wayman was born at Glen Easton, W. Va., on the 16th dawn of September, 1872. He attended the pub-school in Waverly, and then years of age, at which time he entered Bethany College, from which institution he was graduated five years later, at the head of a class of thirty-two, and graduated from a classic and scientific courses offered by institution. Space will not permit me to give you the full biographical sketch. In 1905 Mr. Wayman married Elizabeth Calef, of Monticello III. They have three children, James Jr., and Calef, and reside at 9533 Longwood Boulevard, in the city of Chicago. In 1908 Mr. Wayman became a candidate for State's Attorney of Cook county at the Republican primary. During his campaign Mr. Wayman, relied on his friends and acquaintances efforts of his friends and acquaintances who knew him and believed in him, and relied upon his personal worth. He was not the candidate of any faction of the Republican party, but Mr. Wayman was nominated and elected by him more than 55,000. He has fougtr for the things the people stand for, and his nomination for the governorship will strengthen the Republican State and National tickets. His election would enable administration of public affairs and an efficient public service in Illinois. YOUNGSTOWN. O Mrs. Thomas Lonesome is on the sick list...Mr. and Mrs. Paul Corem. Henry Finney and in Torrence Cross, of Cleveland, Mrs. Frank Curtis and company snelt Christmas in Salem...Mr. Richard Boggess celebrated his seventy-fourth birthday in Tamarack. A number of Newcastle, Sharon, Warrant and Steubenville and other surrounding city people attended the Elks' Christmas dance, which was a treat and a success. Mrs. Frank Corem Docket returned home Sunday after a four weeks visit in Toledo. Mr. and Docket spent Christmas in Salem with Mrs. Frank Corem thirty-two, died Thursday evening with pneumonia, after a short illness. He was well known in the city and was a guest of Mrs. Frank Corem P. and Gold Leaf Company D. U. R. The body was shipped by the lodge to some in Alexander, Ala. ...Mr. and Mrs. Frank Corem guests of Mrs. Sarah Clark, this week ...Mr. and Mrs. David Brannock and family are the guests of Mr. Brannock's relatives in Natchez, Miss. ...Mr. and Mrs. John Doctor, of Philadelphia, Pa. ...Mrs. Bessie Bosthan, of Boston, Edna Thomas, of Cleveland, attended the party in honor of Charles Clark last week. ...David Boggess, of Ravenna was the guest of his father. Richard Boggess, Monday. The Freeman is on sale in East St. Louis, Ill., at the Tennessee barber shop E. E. Barnes, proprietor. BUSINESS LOCALS. Dr. Oscar W. Langston, dentist, is now ready for business, located over H. L. Sanders' store, 218 Indiana avenue, room 5. Call and see him. Woodbine Perfume. Oh, how fragrant, exquisite, enchanting, bewitching. Only at Blodau's Drug Store. The genuine Carter's Rheumatic Remedy sent by mail on receipt of price, 50 cents (stamps). Has cured others; will cure you. Address R. P. Blodau, drugst. 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She was a very tough and it cost me almost every dime I had, and my mother asked me one day to tell some of this trouble to this woman that we read so much about in our books, and that she can help you," I had to laugh with tears in my eyes, for I was in jail; then finally I said, "Suit yourself; anything now, so come here." I come here, and this woman hear from her and about me. We never can forget what this woman said in reply. She said in substance, "If you will pray and trust God, and then get away from Mother, do you say she is a power unknown, to help those who seek her aid? I am now doing business for myself and making good. Every month, send her twenty dollars to her, and she will always divide my last dime with her. I am her friend at all times. Then a ham weighing ten pounds was cooked in a Paper Bag. The loss in weight was only one pound seven ounces—less than 15 per cent. Think of the saving in this one case alone! 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