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The Freeman is read by more than 100,000 Negroes weekly. A hint for advertisers THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER APR 13 1912 INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1912 PRICE FIVE CENTS. AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL DR. ROMAN TO BE EDITOR OF THE A. M. E. CHURCH REVIEW ABLE DEFENDER OF METHODIST FAITH Consensus of Opinion of the Wise-Acres of the Church of Allen - Literateur, Christian Statesman and Orator Happenings of General Interest. (Thompson's National News Bureau.) WASHINGTON, D. C., April 10.—At the capital of the nation, where statesmen are made and unmade over night, the importance of education is reference to the editorship of the A. M. E Church Review, one of the most important places to be filled by the A. M. E General Conference, which is to open on Monday, May at Kansas City, Mo. The man selected to succeed the learned Prof. H. T. Kealing, the present incumbent, is Dr. C. Roman, recognized the country over as a leader of convincing quality, a constructive Christian statesman, a ligician and a debater, a writer of force and polish, and a minister of the Methodist church. At this time when the race is growing in intellectual power and when savants are busily balancing science and religion in the scales of government, the general church organ, that has to do with the fundamental principles of the denomination, becomes scarcely of less importance than the office of sowing over a Methodist church be occupied by a skilled warrior, capable of testing the metal of the best thinkers of the age, and able to sustain his faith against all oppos- Such a man is Dr. C. V. Roman, of Nashville, Tenn., a specialist of fame in the arena of medicine, attaining high ranks in the medical field and a leading art. He belongs to the class of so-called "self-made men," who by their own might have some to be hailed as a part of the earth. He was born in Pennsylvania and graduated from college, stocked was reared in Canada, where he had the advantage of liberal education, both by schools and travel. He worked in the medical field and graduated in medicine in 1890, Dr. Roman, always of easy address and pleasing personality, possesses the happy faculty of winning friends and holding State and local offices. He was an ex-president of the National Medical Association, and is editor and founder of journal of that association, which has been published in newspapers and literature gotten open by colored people. Like St. Luke, the physician, he has been the friend and companion of miners, a consistent church member of more than a million members and has long been an ardent worker in the Sunday school. At the recent Ecumenical Conference at Toronto, Canada, one of the most conspicuous of the American churches, attended at one of the big meetings attracted international attention, being highly praised of the Canadian dailies and by correspondents and leading papers of the United States and Canada. Prof. Kealing having been elected president of the Western University, he will be a candidate for re-election as editor of a journal he is understood that Prof. Kealing's host, the General Conference will rally to Dr. Kealing's standard, and that he has already guaranteed his election on the first ballot because he is not chosen in the motion, doing his part in the judgment of the delegates, who have been selected to pass upon the qualifications of those offering their services. Dr. Kealing concludes his well-tempered address as "Realizing, as I do, the responsibilities of the position, and believing, as I do, the office should seek the man, it is not up sense of racial and religious duty that he should be a representative and announce myself as willing to endorse Prof. Kealing's successor as editor of the Review, should the coming conference of the A.M. E Church call for the re-election, in the prime of a vigorous manhood, sample experience at the editorial desk, the statement of policies and a master correspondent, possessed of extraordinary business, knowledge of men and things the world over, Dr. Roman measures up to all the requirements of an editor of the mouth of a university ecclesiastical body, and is confidently the host of the E Church will be quick to see and to exalted office at Kansas City next month. The News in Brief Student Taft addressed a monster auction at the A. M. E. Church, in the interest of the university fund of Howard University. He recounted the appreciative citizens of the Diss . . . Isaiah T. Montgomery and Mr. E. Moore, leaders of the Negro town of Monroeville, Miss., are in the city, the guest of Register J. C. Napler. Mr. LeLand S. Conness, editor of the Hawaiian Hail magazine, published at Hilo, Hawaii, a young island, and has been a season here on business of importance his locality. He speaks in the highest classes of Mr. C. Aotrill, Corral Ohio, who is the principal revenue at Honolulu on the island. of Oahu. He says Mr. Cottrill is "making good in every respect, and has won not only friends for himself by his gentlemanly demeanor and cultured speech, but has established relations of perfect confidence between the people of Hawaii and the States proper." As representative of the Hawaiian can Negro, Mr. Conness says Mr. Cottrill cannot be improved upon. He is proud to call him "friend." --- Responding to a number of inquiries, your correspondent will state that the compensation of Mr. Whitefield McKinley, collector of customs at the port of Gwynedd Dyne, $3,000 per annum. He receives a salary of $300 per annum, and fees at 3 per cent. up to a maximum of $3,000, including storage fees, etc. All money received in excess of $3,000 are covered into the United States treasury. The so-called "charges" against Col. Henry Lincoln Johnson, alleging improper solicitation of campaign funds in Georgia, have been investigated by the Attorney General and groundless. Recorder Johnson stands triumphantly vindicated and is stronger with his people than ever. . . . Attorney General Wickersham is "standing pat" in his defense of W. H. Lewis' claim to membership in the American Bar Association, notwithstanding the Bench and Bar, the official speech by the association. According to a view expressed by a prominent white lawyer of the District, "it is not W. H. Lewis, but Bench and Bar, the official speech that is on trial in this matter. We shall not gust whether the organization is sufficiently in favor of justice and equity to reach a verdict unbiased by prejudice on account of race or color." One thousand members of the United Order of True Reformers gathered at their hall last Friday evening to hold memorial services for the late Walter R Griffin, grand worthy master of the national order, who was killed in a railroad crash. The organization is acting chief of the Washington division, presided. Eulogies were delivered by Rev. J. Anderson Taylor, Rev. W. J. Howard, Lewis E. Johnson, secretary of the organization, Ross and others. The late Mr. Griffin was one of the race's most energetic and resourceful fraternal leaders. * * * The mass meeting to denounce Assistant Superintendent Roscoe Conkling Bruce, called at Plymouth Congregational Church, last Wednesday evening, was at least ten thousand people, out of the 100,000 colored population of the District. Mr. Bruce has been exonerated by Superintendent Davidson and by a majority of the Board of Education, and the incident may be regarded as closed. Frank Montgomery's talented "Dixie Players" are putting in a two weeks' engagement at the Blue Mouse Theater, and making the West End hosts happy. "The Ten Dark Knights" come to the Howard the week of May 14. Prof. J. Henry Lewis is preparing for a new operatic production by the celebrated Amphion Glee Club. Prof. G. W. Cook, secretary of Howard University, and member of the District Board of Charities, is to be banqueted on the 19th. Mr. John A. Pierre, for many years connected with the office of the Register of the Treasury, is dead. Major Charles Young, military attache of the United States to Liberia, has gone to New York City, to sail for his post at Monrovia. The Smart Set, with S. H. Dudley, Henry Troy, Will H. Vodrey, Arthur Talbott and Daisy Martin, are drawing crowded houses this week at the Howard Theater. The principals were entertained the regular meeting of the Mu-So-Lit Club. The company remains for another week. --- Miss Henrietta Vintis Davis, the tragedy queen, is in Kingston, Jamaica, giving a series of dramatic recitals under the management of her son, She took with her five hundred copies of her "Book of Recitations," to fill an order. It is understood that the school of Jamaica, the schools of Jamaica, as an aid to the study of expression and for use in the rhetoricals frequently held by the schools. Miss Davis will visit Haiti before returning to Jamaica. --- Dr. C. Summer Wormley, for eleven years the dean of the dental department of Howard Medical School, is to resign. His private practice has grown to such proportions that he will retire someday. His burdens he has brought the dental department of Howard up to a high state of efficiency and given it an equipment second to none in the country, besides turning out as numerous dental students as he can. Dental geons be found anywhere. A strong effort is being made to have him reconsider his determination to resign. Miss Nannle H. Burroughs principal of the National Training School for Women and Girls, at Lincoln Heights, D. C., presided last Sunday at the dedication of the new $8,000 Pioneer Hall, erected as an assembly hall and dormitory on the school campus. A large crowd was present, and the building was given the indebtedness. Miss Burroughs is doing an effective work for the practical education of young women, and is being supported by the best thinkers of both races. Another building will be started soon and many jobs is needed to satisfy the heavy demands from the growing enrollment of students. Mr. R. W. Thompson entertained the officers and members of the executive board of the Medical School, last Wednesday evening, at his residence, 1004 S street, Northwest. The evening was very enjoyably spent. Notwithstanding the effort in some quarters to rob Assistant Attorney General W. H. Lewis of his richly earned burlets, the fact remains that the lion's INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1912 LOCAL PENOGRAPHS. FINALLY DROSS UP BUT I WILL MISS ME MORE TO COST. GAME ON MAD MEN SMALL MEN. GET WHAT TIME. THE PENOGRAPH GAME ON BURNS THE WAY KNOW TO CAN RIDE WHERE I SAVE MY BRUN WEEDING TIME IS NOW SEEN ON THE AVRIVES UNION AUTO MANYING THINGS FLOW AND BURP SAN MIM TIME HUMMING WITH YOU GIVE SOMETHING BROWN CHILDREN ARE BUSY THE DUMAS CUB MUSICAL THURSDAY NIGHT HARRY M. JACKSON share of the credit for the rejection of Judge W. C. Hook for the Supreme Bench belongs to the brilliant young lawyer. It was Mr. Lewis who discovered the rank decision upholding the Jim Crow practices of the Santa Fe railroad, in which Judge Hook joined. It was Mr. Lewis who drew up the brief reciting the full story of Judge Hook's connection with the case. It was Mr. Lewis who called the incident to the attention of the President and who argued the points of his contention before the Cabinet members, from whom the President sought advice in the matter. Had it not been for the watchfulness and indefatigable warfare waged by Mr. Lewis, it is believed that Judge Hook would now be adorning (?) the seat on the Supreme Bench now honored by Justice Pitney. Let due credit go where credit belongs. PINE BLUFF. ARK. Visitors Coming and Going—News Notes of General Interest. Special to THE FREEMAN **FREEMAN** Hon. M. R. Peppard and master of the U. B. F. have a few days in Little Rock last week...There was a clerk-carrier examination here in the civil service room at the Federal building last Saturday. The majority of the applicants were white, albeit colored...Miller's theater is running nightly, with splendid vaudille bills...Miss Ida Jackson, a teacher from Althelm, spent Saturday, Sunday and Monday in the guest room of Susie Fields, Mr. F. R. A. McMurray, the city letter carriers, is on his annual vacation...Wilson Bros. are to move their stock of drugs to St. Louis, M. O., where you get your Freeman last week...You get P. Lytes, the popular dentist in the Masonic temple, or I. L. Malcom, 320 State street, phone 1725...The Peppards' drug store management is planning some exotic drugs...Did you get your Freeman last week? Gerald, for he has something to talk about...Yer N. S. Shelton is an enthusiastic reader of The Freeman; also Dr. Malcom Frye, at the Peppards' drug store, and Dr. Prot. S. M. Twine is the Masonic temple...Prot. J. B. Baldwin's funeral, at Dr. J. B. Baldwin's funeral. LITTLE ROCK, ARK Madame Anita Patti Brown Sings at Baptist College—News Items. Special to THE FREEMAN Madam Anita Patti Brown (the Bronze Tetrazini) sang before quite an appreciative audience at the Arkansas Baptist College Wednesday night. Madam Brown won many friends during her brief stay in our city. . . Rev. J. Moore, a blind evanstonian, is assisting Dr. D. B. Gaines in a revival of Mount Pleasant Baptist church. . . Miss Carrie Belle Booker is much better after an illness extending over several weeks. . . The Triangle fraternity Sunday school class of Wesley M. E. church broke all hours on Friday and finance Sunday. . . Appropriate Easter ercises were held at practically all of the city churches Sunday. . . .Ladies of the Allison Presbyterian church held an Easter bazaar at the church Monday night. . . .Aaron ill, is visiting relatives in the city. Mr. and Mrs. U. U. G. Craig have returned to their home in Newark, Ohio, after a sojourn of several weeks in the city as the Mayor of Mt. Moriah Pulaski street. . . .A new lodge of the Colored Woodmen has recently been organized in Little Rock. . . .The Easter program at the church Sunday afternoon was very enjoyable, to say the least. The Rose City orchestra furnished several appropriate selections. . . .A memorial spent Sunday in the city with his Special to THE FREEMAN Special to THE FREEMAN. In the morning, the services were largely attended In the morning, the pastor, Rev G. W. W Jones, preached on "I am He." Sunday school was exceptionally well attended and in the evening there was an Easter program of music and recitations by the Church. In the morning, the pastor, Rev G. 109 North Champaign street, Champaign, Ill. by Z. L. Breedlove. Your patronage is solicited. ...Salem Baptist church services were held by the pupils of the school from Lafayette, Ind., Mr. Robert East and Mr. Horace Taylor spent Easter in Danville. ...Mr. Oliver Moore, Z. Bibbs and Mr. Nell person attended the Easter in Danville. ...Mr. Bibbs, Miss Jackson, of Chicago, here visiting her cousins, Roscoe and Chester Brewer, 1202 West Main street, Urbana. ...Mr. Herbert Cameron, of Indianapolis, Ind., has come to Champaign to work. ...Mr. Herbert Cameron, of Indianapolis, Miss Nora Nells and Mr. William Hunt were married last week. ...Mr. John Smith, of Broadlands was here last week. ...Mr. Clarence Bass, of Danville, was over from Roger Johnson were down from Parton Sunday. ...Mr. Lewis Johnson spent Easter Sunday in Chicago. ...Mrs. Nettle King is in the hospital. ...Dr. Dickerson, week. He gave address to the Masons' Easter services at Decatur, Ill., on Easter Sunday. TULSA, OKLA. Special to THE FREEMAN Miss Annie Flint, of Coweta, Okla., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Henry Flint... Miss Mary A. Hubbard left Friday for Hennessy to visit her mother and friends... Mr. and Mrs. William Brown left Thursday for Oklahoma City for a trip to Sam's Place. A stick list this week. The Easter programs were quite entertaining at all the churches...Rev. J. S. A. Johnson carried out quite a program at A. H. M. E. Church Sunday night...Rev. H. C. Caldwell preached Sunday night from the Church. The Peterson can be had at the Star Barber Shop every Saturday. See Griffin. THE NEGRO IS AWAKENING TO THE MANY ECONOMIC QUESTIONS THAT ARE UP FOR SOLUTION The Initiative, Referendum and Recall of Judges and Decisions a Dangerous Move—President Taft Addresses Howard University Alumni Association. WASHINGTON—The often repeated statement, by prominent colored men as well as by prominent white men, that the Negro should evince more interest in and respect of the country, that are up for discussion and solutions instead of sticking so close to the race problem appears to be harkened to, if the hundreds of letters pouring into prominent colored men in every section of the country are accepted as an interest and concern. These letters bear on the so-called Initiative, Referendum and Recall of Decisions in the South and close northern states, have suddenly awakened to the fact that in the proposed Initiative and Referendum the Constitution is enunciated by Colonel Roosevelt, contains a "sleeper" that may possibly as completely nulify the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the Constitution. Taft is unalterably opposed to either the recall of judges or the recall of decisions while Colonel Roosevelt adopts the Constitution by Consent. Your correspondent has had an opportunity to read many of these letters from Negroes, many of which come from the ablest of our colored lawyers throughout the country, and bolted down, combed, and relied on letters of letters received carry the following: Or suppose a southern state should pass a law disfranchising the Negro, or any northern state either for or in matter of interest, would immediately get into the courts, and, on appeal, to the Supreme court would be held unconstitutional. Then if the right to recall would be taken before the people and by them reversed and the constitutionality of the law confirmed, and the Negro would be out of politics, and out of every household, there is hardly a state in the South where the entire white vote would not be cast for the disfranchisement of the Negro." To say that the Negroes are much shrimp over the Coyotes (Co) and recall of Decisions is putting it mildly. President Taft delivered a splendid address to the Alumni Association meeting on Tuesday evening, the 9th inst. Metropolitan A. M. E. church, where the meeting was held, was packed to the doors, and thousands were unable to attend the church nearly three thousand people. The President received a magnificent ovation both when he arose to speak and when he concluded his enquiry. Kelly Miller introduced the President in a style and manner that only can be done by Howard's scholarly dean. On the platform were seated many prominent men in the dress gave fresh evidence that he is deeply interested in the success and advancement of the race, and gave assurance that he will do all within his power to encourage the race's advancement. Wednesday evening, April 10, 1912, will ever remain a red-letter day in Washington's social history. It was the evening of this date that the much talked of, and greatly anticipated Monican Club assembly was given. Spacious Andorium hall, where there was a large room, presented a scene that beggars description. Beautiful women, exquisitely gowned, glided over the waxed floor, and under the brilliant rays of electric lights. with all the grace and stateliness of a court. All of Washington's Four Hundreds out, and Washington possesses the most beautiful misses and handsomest colored shines upon. Not until the first rays of early dawn began to intrude upon night for the gay assembly break up. The evening dress, formed a fitting and background for the many beautiful, stunningly gowned women. The Monican after-Easter assembly usually marks the close of Washington's social season. CENTRALIA. ILL. Special to THE FREEMAN. The children's Easter efferces at the Second Baptist church were a grand success, both afternoon and evening. Recitation, of M. E. Zion church, was present and lectured to the children, which was very much appreciated by all; also Rev. R. pastor of the Second Baptist church, which was the evening. Miss A. Leak presided at the organ. Three solos were rendered, one by Mr. Ed. Taylor, one by Mr. Wm. one by Mr. J. Carmeal, with Mrs. Porter, the organ. Mr. Williams, an old resident member of the Second Baptist church, spoke in the evening, telling why Easter is celebrated. ...Mrs. Wm. have taken to Jacksonville, last week to attend the funeral of old time friends. Mrs. and Mrs. A. Wright, have returned home from Jackson, Tenn. where they have been attending the funeral of Mrs. Porter, the organ. Mrs. Willson, of Cairo, is here visiting friends and relatives. ...Rev. and Mrs. Henry Allison and Mrs. Laura Leak took dinner Thursday of last week at the home of Mrs. Porter, the organ. The family, of Cairo, Ill., are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bibbs, on account of the high water at Cairo. Also Mr. P. Vanackstan of Cairo. ...Miss McAllissan took day in Cairo, Ill. ...Mr. J. Calloway is on the sck list. ...Mrs. Shelby, of Cairo, Ill. is here visiting her sister, Mrs. S. Tay, I. is here on the sck list. There are many strangers from the southern part of the state on account of the high waters. ...Mr. and Mrs. E. Hite gave a grand Easter ball on Monday, of Mr. and Mrs. Hite, on the Champaign, Ill. to work in the Illinois Central railroad shops. KANSAS CITY, KAN. Special to THE FREEMAN. Every colored family should have the Freeman in their home. Subscribe today see John R. Rout 691, Hill state street for J. Hill, J. Hill, J. Hill, avenue, is up again after several weeks' illness. ...The many friends of Mr. William Baker and family, 127 Greeley ave. in up again after several weeks' illness caused by the death of his wife, Mrs. Lillie Baker, who died March 31, and his mother, Mrs. Mary Baker, who died April 30, in up again after several weeks' is slowly recovering. ...Mr. Thomas Childs, who attends school in Chicago, is visiting his parents here. ...Jus-V.S., the teacher of Summer High School for the benefit of the Athletic Association of the school, was so well received, that they are thinking of having a for-profit, the largest buildings at Western University, was destroyed by fire Thursday evening, April 4th. The building was the first to be destroyed for insurance. ...Don't miss next weeks' Freeman. See John W. Rout, 600 State street KANSAS CITY MO Special to THE FREEMAN. Rev. Mrs. Lena Masen is in town and has been holding services at Allen Chapel. The student at High School gave interesting and exciting Easter program last Thursday afternoon....Mr. George Adair was found dead in bed at 1:30 a.m. Thursday, April 4th, at the Chapel. Buried under the auspices of the Knights of Pythias...Mrs. Eliza Russel, 1109 Campbell street, is ill at her home...The Women's Industrial Club was entertained fondly evening, at Mrs. Susie Winkle, her home, 915 Church street....See John W. Rout for the FREEMAN, 813 E. 10th street....Rev. Goins, who has been assisting Rev. Goins with her work at St. James Baptist Church in Westport, has returned to his work as a State missionary....Mrs. Anna B. Vance, of 1608 Cottage avenue, will soon visit Salt Lake City and California. William Dowley, teacher of history at Lincoln High School, has completely recovered from spinal-meningitis and will soon visit Salt Lake City. Don't miss next weeks. FREEMAN, buy it from John W. Rout, 813 E. 10th street. YOUNGSTOWN. OHIO. Special to The Freeman Mrs. Skates, of 1857 West Federal street, who has been sick for the past four months, was taken to the hospital this week for an operation. ...Mrs. Norfolk Garus, who has been ill at Dr. C. A. Worrell Garus, who was in the hospital Mrs. Geo. Rideout entertained at dinner, Wednesday evening, her niece, Miss Gertrude Rudolph, and Mr. and Mrs. William Honesty, and the latter entertained on the same evening. A lodge Lodge of Elks, No. 73, met in regular session. Thursday evening. The meeting was well attended and the different committees reported. A number of new applications now has eighty members. The following officers were installed: Archie Thomas, treasurer; Clifford Ridley, secretary, to fill the vacancies caused by the resignations, March 15, of Dr. A. Pettiford Thomas, treasurer; A. Pettiford Thomas, standing. ...J. H. Bobson, esteemed lecturer Knight, spent Easter in Dayton. C. P. 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Lowest Prices. 418 Indiana Ave. Open all Night Looking forward to the annual spring number and baseball edition of The Freeman. --- AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL Washington the "Mecca" of National Leaders. Thompson's National News Bureau. Washington is the "Mecca" toward which all national leaders—and some others—bend their footsteps nowadays," of Charleston, W. Va., facetiously styled "the boy orator of the Kanawa," came into town last week to attend the M. E. Conference and are members. He is himself a distrust guished layman, and has been a delegate to a number of the conferences of his church. His insignia address on the church's Promotional bulletin Uplift" was one of the notable features of the recent session. Mr. Waters has been a representative under the State government of West Virginia, and that any other colored man, and is at present clerk of the Supreme Court of Appeals of the State, drawing a handsome salary for his bachelor's degrees. For years he was corporal aborbs. In the retary of State. He is an expert penman, and his "big, round hand" adorns corporation charters all over the country, legalizing the manipulation of millions of Other representative men who have been in town this week are A. E. Manion, J. H. Murphy, editor of the Baltimore Afro-American Ledger, and Franklin F. Johnson, of the paper; Hugh E. Chandler, of the paper; John S. Durham, of Philadelphia, engaged in sugar operations in Havana, Cuba. Accompanying Dr. James E. Shepard to the city to attend the dinner given in his party of well-known North Carolinians, including C. C. H. Shepard; C. C. Carolina; Mutual and Provident Association; C./ C. Amy; superintendent of the Durham Textile Mills; Arcadeacon W. Church, and Dr. J. E. Dellinger, of Greensboro, N. C. A Federal Anti-Lynching Law Wanted At the session of the M. E. Conference, last week, Rev. Ernest Lyon, of Baltimore, gave a resounding condemnation Lynching asking President Taft to incorporate in his next message to Congress recommendations for a Federal anti-Lynching law. The president and chairman of a committee to notify the President of the action taken. The members and friends of the conference called at the White House Pride afternoon, and were received by the president, and the executive mansion. The meeting was a pleasant one all around. Assistant Superintendent Bruce Vina indicated By a vote of 5 to 2 the Board of Education has voted to dismiss the charges against Bruce. Bruce assists the superintendent of the Washington public schools. It was decided that the allegations were indefinite and that Bruce would be by the evidence. Prof. Bruce's retention was recommended by Superintendent W. J. Powers in the management of the colored schools. This signal vindication gives pleasure to Mr. Bruce's friends and puts a quieten on the school muddle with the community has been vexed for many months. S. H. Dudley Coming in "Dr. Beans." Easter week, opening Monday, April 8, will find with us the intimable S. H. Dudley and his merry comrades in the musical which is called to fit Dudley's peculiar genius better than anything in which he has yet been seen. Manager Thomas expects another record-breaking show in the fall, with Arthur Talbot, and many of Washington's favorites. Already a number of box parties have been projected by the fashionable, with who the shadows on his face fall full view, the engagement promises to be a society event of the first water. Mr. Dudley will be entertained on he evening by the famous Mu-So-Lit club at Martin's. The News in Brief This is the "big week" in politics. Taft opens strong, gaining steadily. "You subscribe to my banquet, and I subscribe to yours." is the way the festive Washingtonian greets a friend while passing through U Street these fine mornings. Bishop G. W. Clinton denies that he has signed any statement announcing his preference for any candidate for President of the United States. Judge Robert H. Terrell is conceded to be the best informed jurist on the bench of the Municipal Court. Of the six judges, he is the only colored member. W. P. Bayless, until recently connected with the Census Bureau, has started a weekly magazine at Columbus, O., called "The Record." Associated with him is Mr. Finch, of Wilberforce University. Mr. Bayless is one of the race's best writers, and is a young man of indefinite intelligence. His friends here are confident that he will prove a success in his new field. Washington newspaper men, noting the formation of a City Press Bureau among the colored journalists of Chicago, are talking of "get-together uncheon, to off with," and the Capital has but one newspaper, The Bee, but it has a host of ex-pressman owners and a legion of correspondents, who are doing excellent work in the publicity line. * * * "Don't fret," says a prominent white bear in the park, "never be a jim crow street car in Washington, no matter how anxious certain Southern Congressmen and nondescript police officers may be to provide separate service for the races. Common carriers have a law, and there will be no change. If there is trouble on the cars, we shall insist that the police settle it by enforcing law impartially against any and all distractions. That is the milk in the coconut." Attorney General Wickersham is being commended by all fair-minded people in the country for his determined stand in favor of the retention of Assistant Attorney General John McCarthy in the American Bar Association. If Mr. Lewis is not sustained at Milwaukee in August, it is evident that the time-honored organization will be split in twain and go into history discredited because of the lack of a firm defense. A modicum of common sense, however, can spare the association this shameful record. It is to be hoped that the leaders of the nation's bar will be broad enough to meet the situation like true Americans and the problem in accordance with justice and equity. Champ Clark has been indorsed at meetings held by the Irish, Halians and Americans, and he is as yet carried no story of any ratification meeting for Clark held by Negroes. HOW WE STAND. "In an editorial headed, 'Colored Men Will Oppose Taft,' Mr. Geo. L. Knox, the able and versatile editor of The Indianapolis Freeman, assumes the role of a Talleyrand, and writes in a way to conceal rather than to express his thoughts. What The Demonstrator wants to know is, how does friend Knox stand upon the question? Does he or does he not favor the renomination and the election of President Taft? We want a positive, unequivocal, Anglo-Saxon answer of yes or no."—The Demonstrator, Mound Bayou, Miss. If The Demonstrator has taken note of the editorial columns of The Freeman within the past few years, it has THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. observed that the policy of the paper has been to get back from a too partisan stand in politics. This attitude is studied and not whimsical, as it sometimes is with those who choose at times to stand aloof from "the party." We have said more than once that the race question has outrun party lines, meaning, of course, that the white people are solidifying in their sentiments. They are learning to agree as to their conduct towards the Negroes, a thing so plain that little children are not deceived. Under the conditions, really, there is no choice for thinking Negroes who would preserve themselves. The very situation dictates the attitude. We must do those things which have preservation in mind, regardless of what party is hurt. The individual advances through parties, and not parties at the expense of the individual. When this latter tendency is on, it is time to do some scouting. As yet, nationally speaking, the Negroes have the best chance with the Republican party, and simply because we are threatened by the other greater party, the Democratic party, in a national way. We have said that a party that elects members to the national representation for the specific purpose of defeating Negroes of their political and civil rights, is a good one to let alone, at least until it forgets that part of its program. It may be said that the statement is not quite fair. We will make it so: A party; then, that sends men to the national assembly who openly advocate the political emasculation of Negroes or the reduction of their civil liberties is a good party to let alone until it, at least, forgets it. The Negroes' prospects are some what better, nationally, and perhaps municipally, with the Republicans at this time, and for the reason set forth, and to the effect that the Republicans as a party do not openly threaten the Negroes' civil and political existence. But the Republican party and the Democratic party are no better than the members that make them up. As individuals there is but very little difference, if any at all, between the white members of either party. They are in accord as to what conduct is meted out to Negroes, thus making the silence of one party scarcely more hopeful than the open expression of another. We hope The Demonstrator will excuse the extended "preamble;" it was very necessary, since the unequivocal "yes" or "no" is not forthcoming, as it sees, and for the reasons set forth. We have endeavored to set forth truths concerning the situation. We have spoken of the merits of the various candidates as it appears to us, leaving it to the voters to use their own judgment in the decision. We said that Governor Woodrow Wilson appeared a splendid type of an American, who, seemingly, is too broad to entertain narrow notions on any question that pertains to the public welfare. We also said that Mr. Wilson is not the Democratic party, and thereby hangs a tale. President Taft is another excellent American. His very mistakes have proven his quality of heart, in that he is whole-souled for the good of his country. In this good for the country Mr. Taft has found it very necessary to be very tactful concerning the Negroes. This, however, he has played in the open. He told the Negroes what to expect. He told them before his first nomination, and most clearly at Lexington, Ky. He was nominated and elected, adhering to his Negro plank even until this very day. The question of the distribution of offices in the South, and also elsewhere, was the major theme of the Negro question with him. In effect he said that Negroes would be appointed to offices where there would result the least friction—a most excellent principle for the country's good, viewing the Negroes in the attitude of a mass as against a white mass, and in view of the relative and absolute values of those masses, but not at all inspiring to the hopes of Negro politicians and to those others who thought race salvation rested in politics. Surely, the Taft attitude did not mean especially warm Negro adherents, but sensible Negroes know that the President was honest, and at the same time not different from others who would be President at the same time. That is to say, Mr. Taft's attitude is also dictated by present-day racial conditions. He had the nerve to declare accordingly. We believe that at the present day the Democratic party is no longer as politically hostile as it has been. This because it has not so much to fear of the Negroes. It has virtually won its fight against the race, succeeding in arraying mass against mass, civilly, politically, holding it as the key to its salvation. This has more in mind the Southern wing of the Democratic party, where the race question has been the paramount issue since the Civil War. The principles are merely dormant, not dead, and may be galvanized into activity at any moment. What the quiescence means, or whether it is permanent, or whether it is for the best, are different questions from the one under discussion. Plainly enough, it is up to The Demonstrator as to whom it will serve. The "masters" are fully presented, and, as we think, without bias. The summary, briefly stated, is; that the white people of America are nearly agreed as to the disposition of the Negroes as far as they are able to dispose, regardless of party. Nationally, there is some danger to Negroes in voting the Democrats into power. This danger is not the result of undue suspicion, but the result of political creeds, platforms and individual expressions. The Republican party, as such, has at no time, in any locality that we know of, threatened the Negroes' political and civil extinction. We do not see that the Negroes have reasonable grounds for opposing the nomination and election of Mr. Taft. THE TIPPING SYSTEM. It is said that the colored waiters of the Crawford House, Boston, were discharged because they asked for tips. The waiters deny the charge. Their statement, in part, is as follows: "The assertion made public in an article published in yesterday's newspapers, to the effect that the colored waiters were discharged from the Crawford House because of their demands for tips, does the colored waiters a great injustice. No waiter among them, and all of them have been employed there for more than ten years, ever solicited a tip, and tips were only accepted under the usual custom from kindly disposed persons who appreciated the service. The tipping system at the Crawford House in no way varied from that of any other first-class hotel of Boston." The reply is a revelation in that it shows that all of the waiters have been employed at the Crawford House for at least ten years. This is a very unusual condition. A waiter, the young one, is generally a bird of passage. Ten years of "domestication" for him, one would think, would be an awful task. Doubtless something is wrong where everybody stays for ten years. But to the tipping business. It is strange that so much fuss is made about it, as though guest were compelled to "come across." The tips are welcome additions, we venture to say, to the waiter's salary, but there is no compulsion in the matter. It may be that the sometimes thing of "railroading," which most waiters know about, enters the problem. In such an event the thing is bad and the proprietors of hotels and restaurants are justified in any means of crushing it out. A steaming hot steak and one as if from a cold storage plant is plain indication of some "underground" work not in the guest's interest. Unless this tendency is noted, we cannot see the harm in giving away one's money, and especially where it will do so much good. In the old country it is amusing to read of the "line-up" of domestics, man-servant and maid-servant, with the "itching palm," awaiting the final exit of the guest. But the foreign waiter depends on the tips for his salary—many of them—some going so far as to pay for the privilege of being servants, hoping, of course, to make good on the tips. The European system breeds a disposition that the Americans don't care much about. However, the disposition to give is in the most of us. Even the "tight wads," so called on account of their closeness in money matters, feel to loosen up every now and then. The harm comes in training up servants to expect tips. Poor salaries is an incentive to the system. Some proprietors rate wages on prospective tipping, which means, in the end, the neglect of some. These find it necessary to register a kick, owing to the cold deal. When waiters can be artists enough to attempt to please without expecting reward, then the situation is ideal. Under such circumstances we cannot see why it should concern the proprietors if the guest gave away a fortune at a clip. RACIAL FERMENT IN CUBA Cuba with its 310 days of June weather, as a native enthusiast puts it, is in a racial ferment, because one R. M. R. Nelson, a New York Negro, promises to bring over from the states 5,000 Negroes in a short space of time, to be followd by 5,000 more in the near future. Here is the way it is put: "Nelson's scheme is to bring 10,000 well-to-do Negro farmers from lynchland to this Eden land." But the scheme is not so assuring. The authorities have become alarmed. They either misunderstood the motive of the move or think to see danger in it. The Havana Post of recent date had the following: The senate bill providing for the introduction of immigration will probably be amended to prevent the introduction into Cuba of American Negroes. The precaution will be taken on account of a report that a plan is under way to bring 5,000 Negroes here for colonization purposes. It is the desire of several Cuban senators to prevent such a possibility. An American Negro named Nelson, who is well known here, having formerly be a hotel guide, is also said to be interested in the project. The subject is being discussed throughout the island with more or less feeling. Through it all one gets a focus on the true Cuban situation, racially, politically and otherwise. THE LIQUOR QUESTION AGAIN. The Republican editors insisted on injecting the liquor question in their recent meeting, resolving in favor of the county as a unit rather than the township, the prevailing law. There was serious opposition, the resolution, however, winning by a few votes. The action of the editors will be regarded as an effort to influence the platform of the Republican party. With all of the turmoil along the liquor route that we have had, the agitation is of doubtful good. The township expression is a better example of home rule than the county expression. The Democrats, clearly, have the better view in the matter. The most ultra temperance advocate cannot insist on more than moral influence in the thing of governing the other man's home. The township is nearer the individual's home than the county. Men think of force when governed from afar, notwithstanding ours is a government of majorities, whether municipal, state or nation. But at that the tendency is to work toward the individual will—the primary law, for instance. Liquor is on the order of food, clothing—purely personal—and if injected into politics it stands to reason that the individual will insist on the rule that approaches nearest his own voice—the square, if possible; the ward, the township. THE FREEMAN IN LOUISVILLE. The Indianapolis Freeman is on sale at the following places: P. C. Martin's, Tenth and Chestnut; Baker's Barber Shop, Ninth, near Walnut; Jno. 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"Lily-whitism" soundly trounced by the Republicans at the Chicago convention. Principles and policies, rather than persons, exploited in the coming campaign. A record-breaking session of the National Negro Business League at Chicago. Dr. J. E. Shepard's Ministerial Conference at Durham, N. C., a glittering success. A colored bishop elected by the M. E. General Conference at Minneapolis in May. "Human rights" given a stellar place among the planks of the Chicago platform in June. The unwieldy title, "The Walker-Hogan-Cole Theater," simplified by its New York promoters. Tuskegee Institute raise $300,000 by June 1, toward its proposed $3,000,000 endowment fund. The Boston Guardian pluck up its nerve and tackle the toughness W. Calvin Chase for a finish fight. Local Negro Business Leagues in every town where there are two or more Negro business enterprises. Dr. Booker T. Washington make "educational pilgrimages" through Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. A "silence" card handed to "Indignation" John G. Jones by the enterprising business men of Chicago. Sylvester Russell take over the Pekin Theater, in Chicago, and run it according to his own original ideas. Bishop G. W. Clinton allowed to make his own statement as to where he stands on the presidential proposition. Gentil "Pilth" Waters, West Virginia's "Boy Orator of the Kanawha," placed on a federal pay roll at Washington. W. Milton Lewis, Indiana's foremost litterateur, given national recognition—with a handsome salary attached. Negro lawyers show up the fallacy of the initiative, referendum and the recall as solvents of American problems. Negro managers quit naming their theaters by such misleading titles as "The Pekin," a Chinese name, if anything. The disturbing elements of the National Negro Press Association put out of business at the Chicago meeting in August. Religious training given its rightful place in the scheme of Negro education, along with the mental and industrial policies. Bert Williams and Aida Overton Walker featured in the same company, under the celebrated "Williams and Walker" trade mark. The American Bar Association rise above the mire of race prejudice and re-election of the election of W. H. Lewis as a member. Cabinet officers take their "cue" from Secretary MacVeigh and Attorney General Wickersham in dealing with the race problem. W. L. Houston elected grand secretary of the G. U. O. of G. F., which he did so much to bring to the half-million mark in membership. Charles D. Hilles, W. Murray Crane or William B. McKinley as chairman of the Republican national committee in the coming campaign. Anita Patti Brown starring in grand opera and Henrietta Vinton Davis at the head of a standard company in Shakespearean roles. National Organizer Charles H. Moore given the "glad hand" by every community in which he attempts to form a local business league. Counselor Thomas L. Jones, Washington's most eloquent barrister, given an important assignment under the Department of Justice. A quiet put on the dirty quarrel between Tom Fortune, editor of the New York Age, and Ben Davis, editor of the Atlanta Independent. Dr. Arthur M. Brown, Birmingham's leading surgeon, elected president of the National Medical Association at Tuskegee Institute next August. Representative colored men employed regularly in the literary bureau of the Republican national committee, when the word "Go!" is uttered. Dr. George C. Hall "land" the miscreant that he is after, and see to it that the scoundrel is given the limit of the law for defamation of character. Colored voters give President Taft credit for the many good things he has done for the race and for the deep interest he has manifested in Negro education. Dr. J. S. Jackson named for the bishop; Dr. J. Mun General Conference in Mpati; Dr. J. M. Clement through at the Kansas City convention of the A. M. E.丝。 Missionary Bishops J. Albert Johnson and W. H. Heard retained in the African field for the full period of twelve years, as ordained by the Norfolk Conference of 1908. A racial vote of thanks to the energetic Charles J. Pickett, who has secured a congressional election bureau in Washington, through his office to the generosity of Chairman W. B. McKinley. A NOTABLE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION. No educational institution in the country, white or colored, is doing a more efficient or more useful work in education than Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, under the direction of Dr. Booker T. Washington. At the present moment the trustees of Tuskegee Institute are making great efforts to increase the endowment fund of that institution to a point that will relieve its distinguished head and his associates from the necessity of exhausting themselves in the work of raising money. so that their chief energies may be expended in the actual work of education. On its educational side Tuskegee was a more successful than it is to-day. It has grown to be the most modest, beginnings until it has been a great group of buildings which for architectural beauty and for efficiency of design would be credit to any college in the land. Nearly the years of young men and young women, are being the most only intellectually, but practically, to be working citizens and to carry on the uplift of their face, which the South, more than any other country of the country, now recognizes is the only possible solution of the Negro problem. Dr. Washington, who is one of the great American educators, has the time, is the inspiring personalism that has been the legal kegee, but after Dr. Washington has passed with the rest of us out of the philo, the human activities the Negro people of the country are to be made to remain, and Tuskegee must be enabled, as if it is well only will be enabled, to carry on the work which he inaugurated and is to-day did not with a genius. Not only are the trade schools of work and the other their kind, where wagon-making, carpentry, blacksmithing, dairy farming, dressmaking, millinery, brickmaking, cooking and cooking, bookkeeping, and practical agricultural activities are the most most of the graduates have become prosperous and property owning citizens, but theoretical education is made vital, and the development of the education is very striking fashion. It has been the students of the stodents who are the students of arithmetic working out on the blackboard arithmetic problems in linear algebra, a new level of the much plaster it would be quite an important, the cost would be to plaster one of the recitation rooms of the institution; how the class in geometry was demonstrating the principles of the method of attaching the shafts to the part of the work so that the cart would pull straight; how the class in grammar had gone out into the truck garden and had brought back the mostناويات of the years of corn and cabbages and was written grandfully sentences about them on the blackboard; how the student of chemistry in the laboratory was analyzing the clay from which the work is made. The work is made that are used in the Tuskegee buildings now pupils in geography had in their room some of the products of Japan and some of the products of Alabama and were be- the work of the school of law and law are changed and what roots they would travel in the exchange between Alabama and Japan; and he wished that grammar, geography, arithmetic and geometry might be so good to be a high-quality in human and absorbing? Interesting fashion. Tuskegee is not only a very important factor in the solution of the so-called Negro problem, but it is a practical experimental question. It is a question which the whole educational movement in the country is getting suggestions and help. Leading and influential Southerners recognize Dr. Washington as one of the foremost citizens and educators in the South, the city's high-country's support. What Northern business men think of the work of Tuskegee is indicated by the fact that Mr. Julius Rosenwahl, the head of the great group of Messrs. Sean Bode and John W. W. Reilly recently became member of the board of trustees of which the president is Mr. Seth Low, former president of Columbia University in the city of New York. We hope that the group of Tuskegee will be more from the benefits of the great group of the new city. CANNONSBURG, PA Mrs. Anna Betts died at her home on East College street, at 12:10 Friday night, March 29. Mrs. Betts had heart trouble. She was complaining for two months. She is survived by three sons, two nieces and ten grandchildren. Mrs. Betts was born in 1863. She belonged to Queen Anne Court No. 10 and the Good Samaritans, also other lodges. She was a past officer in all of these orders. She was buried on Monday, April 11. She is now being conducted the services, assisted by Rev. Mee-Ge and Rev. Paley. INDIAN EXHIBITION GAMES. Washington Park. - Chicago Cubs, at Washington Park. - Cleveland Naps, at Washington Park. 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One feels that it is worth while living in these days. Nor can all be farmers, but some of us can, and should be. Taft is getting all the delegates. The other candidates belong to the "also ran" class. Old Kentucky put 'em over Taft this week. They know a good thing beyond—well, we won't get personal. The white folks down in Louisiana paused long enough to do a bit of lynching during the delegate getting days. Only a few white men get away when monkeying "wid de" banks and no Negroes at all. Better cut it out. Vide—"Rev". Frederick A. Mullen. Some little comfort due Mr. Roosevelt from last Tuesday's balloting in Illinois. Just how much will be known when that state begins to select delegates. A well-known colored man of this city threatens to come out for justice of the peace. He will know if it is worth while to throw his hat in the ring within the next few days. The annual Easter Monday egg rolling at the white house. White children and black children were in the mixup. President Taft greeted the all-nations fete. Mrs. Taft looked on and smiled most approvingly. Leaders of races do not become so because of their educational views. Education is a civic phase, not the whole thing. Education according to the needs, prospects and possibilities, these are their own interpreter. Miss Bessie Garner, a Negro girl of the Hilburn (N, Y). High School, made a four years' course in three, and in graduating was chosen valedictorian and won $100 scholarship at Simmons college. Bessie was going some. Edison says: "I do not know how I could teach grammar with moving pictures, but I can teach, reading, writing, spelling, geography, arithmetic and physiology." That's a plenty, Mr. Edison. We ain't "partikler" about no grammar anyhow.—The Voices of the Kids. Chas. A. Ritchey, of Chicago, who was shot by his wife because he refused to vote for woman suffrage, evidently didn't know how serious his wife was. If she asks him again he will not have his former scruples concerning the matter. She said she was going to teach him, and she did. A young Negro charged with writing a letter to a young white woman was lynched at Shreveport, La., last Monday. He had been dismissed by the court for lack of proof. A mob formed and instantly proceeded to recall the decision. Well, the young man was hung. It beats raping anyhow, the old charge. It is being proved that Negroes are being lynched out of a pure spirit of cussedness, and not because of the "beastly" nature so freely advertised in the past. This is admitting the worse construction—guilt. But the court did not say so. White folks, you want to get right. A colored brother, styling himself an evangelist, got into the toils last Tuesday, owing to his smooth work with bank checks. Freerick A. Mullen from all accounts has been trying to live off of his wits for quite a time, with more or less success. He has done "duty" amid his career, perforce of circumstances. His several incarcerations, however, in nowise daunted his desire to be a "fly one" of the genus, light fingered. He pursued his bent just as soon as it was possible to do so. Perhaps he picked up some helpful information while basking with the "boys." At any rate, after doing a neat touch at Louisville, Ky., he made his getaway to—is it necessary to say where? They all come here. It's the direct route of promotion to Chicago. He was picked up in little or no time" for being an ostrich. It is thought that a permanent cure will be effected at this time. The race should not be developing or taking on race traits that are greatly different to those of other races. We complain very often about the ill treatment received by us as a race when we are doing very much to draw attention to ourselves in a way that is not very complimentary. We are generally unconscious of these little "sins." When we are conscious we plead personal liberty, and which is not denied. But we are judged by the liberty, just the same, and held responsible. Really, we need much teaching along this line, since conduct, visible conduct, is held the best evidence of what a people is. Here is a risk of hypocrisy, one will say. Call it that if you will, but the world of gentility and civility proceeds along the line. If we will be saved in the matter similar tactics will have to be employed. Be like the other folks as much as possible and thus avoid a label for peculiar habits and customs. From recent quotations from Mr. Lincoln's speeches it will appear that he was particularly sound on the larger principles of government. In fact he anticipated what we are having today—restlessness and inclination toward lawlessness—which, if not checked, will spell disaster in a very little while. Lincoln's political precocity would have it appear that he was a seer or prophet, or one of visions, and in the interest of the preservation of the Union. When, in 1857, he said "We believe * * * in obedience to and respect for the judicial department of the government. We think its decisions on constitutional questions, when fully settled, should control not only the particular cases decided, but the general policy of the country, subject to be disturbed only by amendment to the constitution as provided in that instrument itself. More than this would be revolution," it could have been as fittingly said yesterday, so applicable it is for these times. And yet Mr. Roosevelt tries to declare Mr. Lincoln his political patron. There is a decided tendency on the part of the colored members of the M. E. Church to have bishops to preside over their churches. The question has been agitated in the recent general conferences, being more and more favorably considered. The approaching general conference at Columbus, O., will see the question opened with renewed vigor if the present program carries. Excellent reasons are urged for the change, chief of which is the changing racial relations. Rev. Joshua Stansfield, of Indianapolis, is standing for bishop in the M. E. Church. The doctor is of excellent reputation in this community. We think of him as broad minded and a representative Christian, standing for all of the things which tend to promote peace on earth and for the recruiting of the heavenly hosts. He has come at the beck and call of the needy—spiritually, financially, doing whatever he found it possible to do in answer to the demands made on him. The colored people, the colored Y. M. C. A., appreciated his cheerfully tendered help in the past and wish him success. Society and Church Happenings News in General. (By Anna E. Lennox.) Special to THE DAILYMAN Special to THE FREEMAN SNORTON, asters, and a mostly ill with tuberculosis at the home of their mother, Mrs. Snorton, on Oak street. There was a little stranger made its appearance at the home of Mr. Mrs. Lester. In 1171, the street was last Wednesday morning about 5 o'clock, and it was a little girl. The mother and daughter are getting along nicely. Mr. Jesse Pendleton died of a child. The day of her birth was buried in the afternoon, being in such bad condition that it was impossible to keep him any longer. There was an exhibition in the domestic, a book of the first of the first school books and a mill-niner done by the girls, Friday afternoon from 1:30 to 4. The citizens were requested to call and inspect the work. Mr. L. H. Winfrey was very good to see Mr. C. A. Tomorrow, April 14, the colored Y. M. C. A. tomorrow. April 14. The public is cordially invited. The Easter services were simply excellent at all of the church's last days and the first of the first school books and a young girls and the sweet singing of the birds and the precise of flowers certainly seemed cheerful and springlike. There was quite a delightful instrumental show. The children were very much in their own way. Mr. S. A. McFarland, on Mulberry street, Saturdays afternoon, which was highly appreciated by many. Mrs. Belle Donahue is greatly improved and able to be out again. The children were very much in their own popular physician, Dr. S. S. Dupee, was able to sit out on her front porch this week, and received many a glad hand shake from her detested friends who soوjoed the olds of the second-handmen in a country of her severe stroke she is unable to walk without help. Don't forget the grand old folks' concert, given by Mrs. Mary Nicholas at the St. Thomas St. Mary's Church. There were quite a number present at the sacramental services last Sunday afternoon at Liberty Baptist Church. Miss Tillie Austin is on the church. The children are in the number of friends attended the wedding of Miss Pearl Mundy and Mr. Westerfield last Sunday and lots of nice presents were received. ... Call on Mrs. Anna E. Lenox, the "Sold Governor," and Mr. M. M. M. Mr. The bride and groom Mr. and Mrs. John C. Taylor, of Lebanon, Ill., were entertained Saturday afternoon by the Dodson orchestra at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. M. M. Mr. and Mrs. Chard and the street, as they were traveling on their honeymoon, en route to Kentucky. Mr. Ollie Grey, of Henderson, Ky., brother of the first of the first school books, of his sister, S. M. Winfrey. He was accompanied by his neice, Miss Ella McFarland. Mr. Harvey Smith and Detroit, Mich., spent Saturday and Sunday the newst event of the Misses Mary and Ella McFarland, and was served with a swell lunch before leaving. Mrs. Anna Jackson died at her home, 128 S. Mulberry Street, Monday, and was buried at Wednesday day. Some of them were seriously ill. SAM McVEY DEFEATED Goes Down Before the Boston Tank Baby—An Up and Up Fight Until the Last Few Rounds SYDNEY, N. S. W., April 8.—Sam Langford, the American heavyweight, today defeated Sam McVey, of California, in a fight that Langford and McVey fought in the Stadium before 15,000 spectators, and after a hard contest, in which honors were fairly successful, Langford succeeded in reversing his heart attack McVey's hands on December 26 last. McVey Is Favorite. The betting was 10 to 9 on McVey. The fight opened at a fast pace. In the second round Langford landed three heavy rights on the body in a clinch, at which he was knocked out and the police feared, barring kidney punches in the clinches. Langford had somewhat the better of the first few rounds, and the betting veered to 5 to 4 in his favor, and the referee was constantly engaged in separating them. By clever sparring McVey managed to keep his stronger adversary off until after the seventeenth round, when the furious McVey landed Langford in the better condition at the end, but was unable to land a knockout. The spectators cheered the referee's decision, and were obviously delighted at the considered a hard and fairly battle. THE FREEMAN AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. PAST WEEK AT LOUISVILLE Important Questions Discussed by Outlook Committee—"Something Doing" at the Churches Easter Sunday—Loyalty Charity Club Doing Good Work. By Lee L. Brown, 1006 West Chestnut Street. LOUISVILE, Ky., Special. Vital questions of great importance to the Negro race were discussed by a few members of the outlook committee, on last Friday evening, in the parlor of the boys' girls, many topics taken up we might mention following: Playgrounds for our boys and girls, the elimination of the houses of ill fame that cater to our boys and girls, the enforcement of parlor that sell intoxicants; better cleaner streets, the enforcement of the sanitary laws and many others that are equally as important. This committee is a strenuous effort to carry on a campaign to improve the lives of have a tendency to pull down and degrade our race. Every man and woman in the city of Louisville should co-operate in doing the good work that it has been tasked to do. Every organization should send representative at the next meeting. Easter Sunday though a little cool was an ideal day,, a large number of our Country Cousins, Hooster neighbors and friends from the Buckeye State paid us a visit and we were seen in great numbers with their new dress and suits. The Sunday Schools were crowded, as there were special exercises. In all of the Baptist Churches it was an invitation to the Rev. G. Jordon, in response to an appeal sent out for far away Africa. At Cavalry Baptist Church nearly 50 candidates were invited in many of the other churches special services on the day the Resurrection and its internal significance were preached. Special musical programmes were held by a number of the choirs. The chief exercises of the day held by the Church of which the Rev. J. C. Anderson is Pastor. The church has been recently decorated. The pulpit was filled with beautiful fonters. Bishop Shaffer, of Chichester, was the chief sermon of a very strong sermon at the morning services. In the afternoon he was met at the door by the Pastor and Officers of the church. Prof. J. E. Simpson, in a very approving speech turned over to the Church of the church, led by the Bishop and Pastor, all marched towards the pulpit. After fitting dedicatory exercises conducted by the Bishop, the complete service once over the estine Commander, R. T. No., and the Calvary Commandery K. T. No. 4 of the Masonic lodges. The services conducted by the Prelate were very impressive and complete service once over the church. The exercise was started and private sacred songs, after which the Rev. J. C. Anderson delivered the annual sermon which was filled with deep thought that went one to the hearts of the Masonic lodges. A raised Sunday was $2,004.00. We understand that there is more to be added to this amount. We wish to commend the good work being done by the members of the Loyalty Charity Club, which was organized over seven years ago. Recently they essayed a new program, a Parish House, Eleventh and Walnut streets, a Neighborhood House and Day Nursery. Children are fed good and wholesome food and sared for by a matron from 7 a. m. till 6 p. m., for 5 cents per day. They are given breakfast, lunch and dinner, and eat and how to rest. This building is a very excellent one indeed for the kind of work being cared on, has every modern convenience. Dear Friends this work needs your endorsement and co-operation, when in the neighborhood go in and visit one of our men, Mrs. E. V. K. Bell, president and Mrs. Sara E. Gray, secretary. --- The Masons in their parade to Quinn Chapel Church last Sunday were headed by the Fanning brass band. The streets were crowded all along the line of march to the Chapel of St. Walwurt as they marched shoulder to shoulder through the principal streets. The Louisville Musical Club, recently organized, will give their Initial Dance and Vaudeville at Odd Fellows Hall, Thursday, April 18th. The Chimson Star Club gave their Annual Easter Dance Monday night at the same hall. Mr. Mason who resides at 4th and Hill, continues to be very ill. His many friends are in hopes that he will soon regain his health. The Carlisle Grocery Company, recently organized, held a very important meeting last week and a large amount of customers at the Company will help another meeting April 22d, at which time it is desired that the balance of the stock will be disposed of. The outlook for this Company is very bright indeed. It has already been announced that men who are using every effort to make it one of the largest concerns in the city. Every thing will be up to date, new fixtures, fresh groceries and indeed a new building that every citizen may point to with pride. One of the nearest little stores in the city is the Lily Millinery Shop, recently opened by the Louisville st. Just before Easter there was a run for the very beautiful hats that Mrs. Simmons had on sale. She was forced to turn many orders away on account of the lack of time to get them out. Mrs. Simmons is assisted by Mrs. William Warley. The Dunbar Club will hold their regular meeting next Sunday afternoon. We are having ideal weather in Louisville. The baseball season has opened. Next Sunday the Louisville Cubs, under the management of Geo. Baker, will open the season with the White Sox, of Indian- --- Miss Lillian Crutchfield, a former teacher in the Central Colored High School, now a teacher in the Covington, Ky. High School, was in the city Easter Sunday, sojourning among friends. Master Alex. Flourney, of West St. Catherine street, a student of the Central College, will be attending evening with the dreaded meningitis. He was buried Sunday morning by the Watson undertaking establishment. The teachers and students of the public schools are enjoying a much-needed vacation. Schools will not open until April 15. Many of the teachers have gone to Indianapolis to visit the various schools. During the interval the school students using the migraine fumigated on account of the number of cases of meningitis in the city. New that the Bill appropriating money towards the holding of a Semi-Centennial Exposition in some Southern State has passed, he assured that it will be passed in due time bear the responsibility nature, we wish to be among the first to offer Louisville as a place for the holding of this great Exposition. Louisville has this great experience, you enjoyed the reputation of being a hospital entertainer. So much so that no gathering has ever met or sojourned here, without a true desire to return here again. Whether physicians, fraternal men, ministers or those who win their bread by the sweat of their brows. Mr. Frank W. Harper, who plays the part of Chapman Smithford in his father's drama, "Tallaboo," is home from Washington, D. C., where he took part in staging the play of the Howard Theater at Marvel Theater. He highly elated at the reception gives play by the best cultured minds of the capital city. He says the management of the play has always had two acceptable casts of characters, who are divided among the actors, set with general headquarters here in Louisville. Several of the best colored dramatic readers and players in the country are connected with the play, "Tallabozo" has just begun. The play will be produced in Frankfurt at an early date at the Capital Theater. The Ruby Theater, that was recently damaged by fire, is undergoing many improvements. An incline floor has been installed, new electric light fixtures, up-date lighting, and modern convenience. The lobby and main auditorium are be decorated by Chas, Bridges. When complete, the three most prestigious houses in the South, Mr. Robert B. Joplin, well known to the theatrical profession, is the manager. Already it has been arranged to book some of the theater will throw open its doors to the public about April 22. Mr. Joplin assured us last week that only first-class acts will be booked and that the management will be possible for the comfort of its patrons. To-day (Wednesday) the morning trains are bringing to Louisville a large number of delegates from all over the State. The convention, which will elect delegates to the national Republican convention which will convene in Chicago. A "hot time in the old town" is promised. There seems to be a lot of interest and Roosevelt representatives on account of the primary held in this city and in other parts of the State last Saturday. We will watch with interest the final results, hoping that the best man will complement colored men are candidates for delegate at large. Among those that we know are the Rev. W. H. McKidley, Cadiz, KY; the Rev. W. H. Louisville, KY; and D. W. Johnson, Georgetown, J. E. Wood, Danville. We shall be on hand to-day at the sessions to witness what promises to be one of the most exciting conventions ever held in the State. EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL. BY WM. GODFREY MILLER. SPECIAL TO THE FREEMAN Mr. J. C. Caston, a government meat inspector, has been transferred from New Orleans to this city. In last Tuesday's election Mr. H. F. D. Murphy and Attorney Lillie were good assistant supervisors for the Department of Defense for aderman. Ex-President Roosevelt spoke to a large and enthusiastic audience last week. Mrs. Blanche Adams, Louis was city mayor, helping her parents, Hattie Anderson and Bowman avenue, is sick. Smith Adams, aged seventy years, died suddenly last Sunday morning. Mrs. Mabel Dodson, Milton Penn, has returned home after pleasing the city with birth and W. L. McKenzie. The St. Eust. Louis Social Club met at the club room last Thursday evening. The Elite Club gave dance at June 10. The Exeter Monday meeting it and it was well attended. What is the matter with the baseball club this season? The Casino is attracting large crowds this week. Mrs. Lillian Reed, Miss. McKenzie, Paris. It will visit and Mrs. Monroe Eckles next week. Mrs. Daisy Hood and Orestes have returned from Lebanon, Ill. Little Miss Christine Parks had deadends, with Mr. W. Stopper Sunday. The St. Luke A. M. E. Church gives a series of entertainments. The St. Paul and Macedonia are making great preparations for their bazaar. Mr. Jno. headaches, with Mr. W. Stopper or route to Tampa, Fla. The Rev. J. M. Thomas, of Greenville, Ill., reports a joyous Easter celebration at the Second Baptist Rev. Parker baptized about sixty persons in the Mississippi river last Sunday. We will be greatly pleased to have all the old subscribers renew their subscriptions or send items of personal interest. Drop in the office and he will do the rest. Miss Pearl White and Elizabeth Shipley, teachers of Central High School, and Miss Lillian Parks and Georgia Nugent, of the Eastern Parks and St. Louis, Mo., inspecting the schools. ...Miss Bessie Williams, of Edwardsville, and Miss Ava Singleton, of Collinsville, will miss the church, Thursday, McKenzie has taken charge of the W. W. lunch counter... Mrs. Earle Williams and Mr. Julian Arthur, of Brooklyn, Ill., Mrs. Clair, of Clair, and Alex Smith, of Belfield, were in Friday evening, attending the K. of P. Lodge...The funeral of Mrs. Harriet Gates, an aged and respected citizen, place Wednesday from the St. Luke Church. AT KENTUCKY'S CAPITAL Senator W. O. Bradley Delivered an Address at the Capital Theater—T. K. Robb for Delegate-at-Large—Taft and Roosevelt Clubs on the Outs—Easter Greetings. (By Hardin Tolbert, at People's Pharmacy. Both Phones 666. Box233.) Senator William O. Bradley delivered an address at the Capital theater April 5, to a large and tremendous audience of both white and colored people. Senator supporting Colonel Roosevelt in the not supporting Colonel Roosevelt in the national race for chief executive of the nation. Senator Bradley denounced Roosevelt and his leading supporters in this state, and gave many reasons for his defeat. He said in saying whatever he desired, suitable to the occasion, and throughout his speech he was applauded many times for his victory in his home state. He is known throughout the state as we have best seen him. He served state as the first Republican governor and has been fortunate enough to get whatever he asked the people of this dark and bloody ground. We are able to appreciate his efforts and times. He has just had passed through the senate a bill appropriating $250,000 for a colored exposition in the United States. At what place this exposition will be held upon Louisville is seeking the greatest assembly and we hope she will be lucky THEODORE PORTTEUS For Sheriff At the Democratic Primaries enough to get it. It will be our hearts' delight to land this exposition. To mention Senator Bradley among the older people causes them to smile for they all know exactly his record. Senator Bradley is a great a time of race between both factions, and they are touch with all the modern ideas of the progressive Negroes, and know just what is going on in this progressive line and will take advantage of the opportunity. Senator Bradley left some everlasting minds of hundreds of homes. This serves as a media mof exchange to all the people. Thomas K. Robb for Delegate-at-Large. When the announcement came out that Mr. Robb, a prominent business man of this city, would make the race for the highest position in the state, and one for the governor of Florida, fishing, the announcement of Mr. Robb, the best known undertaker in the central part of the state, and the winning speech of our beloved Senator William O. Bradley, his wife in the attendance of votes in this county for the Taft faction of the party. Mr. Robb has been a lifelong Republican and has stood by the party in its glory, as well as in its decay. Mr. Robb is well in the attendance of that knows the history of the party from the start to the present day, and when any question arises concerning the party, even as far back as its origin, when Mr. Robb is brought into question concerning it, he is asked to answer on the spur of the moment. He is considered one of the best and most adept politicians in the state and makes it his business to attend nearly every convention of the party, and such loyalty to party is being appreciated by his home people. During the administration of Governor W. O. Bradley, Mr. Robb will be asked to answer not as good as they now see. Mr. Robb has always played a very important part in the great and noble Republican party. He has worked hard among his party and thi shoror as a delaware native, and deserves. The Republican party would do him an injustice not to give him this honor. Taft and Roosevelt Clubs on the Outs. The election for the purpose of sending delegates to the convention at LaGrange, and from there to Louisville, was held in the second floor, the meeting house on the second floor. The meeting hall, called order at 1:10 o'clock p.m., and afterward the session lasted fifty minutes. The Taft badges were one side and wore burgundy with Bradley on the other, and some wore Taft badges. The Roosevelt men nearly all went down stairs in a the others called the meeting adjourned, and the Taft badges in the Taft club and 236 for the Roosevelt Club. They both go to the conventions, both claiming the election, and the great fight among them is on. The Taft men have the creature of the day, and which might, perhaps, bar them from the privileges of other members. The Roosevelt men wore a photo of Col. Roosevelt, and they are attractive. The Roosevelt member have determined to not give the fight until they are satisfied that is is fairly fought, put the two are in a square deal. The Roosevelt members help win, and will stand by him until the last shot is out of the Roosevelt cannon. Prof. Wm. H. Mayo Receives Bonds. Prof. W, H. M. Hayo, principal of the Clinton Street high school, trustee of the State University at Louisville, and clerk of the Corinthian Baptist church, spent a year at the University, visiting his and his many friends. Prof. Mayo has executed a good substantial first class bond by a surety company, and is qualified for grand secretary of the Masons of Kentucky. Mrs. Mary L. Webster is very ill at her residence at the corner of Clinton and Longlane avenues, with la gripe. Mr. and Mrs. Simon Smith, well thought of citizens, lost their little son. The little boy was more than two years old, and had but a few weeks' sickness before his death. He had a kind and sweet dislike of children. He slept without having to bear the conflicts of this world. The funeral was held at the residence of his parents, in Governor avenue, Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Mr. T. L. Smith, retired captain of the Capital Social baseball club, left for Louisville to make that city his future home, and then, in 1911, sent him to Messrs. Steward Henry and Linssey Wooldridge, of this city, and Percy Harvey, of Cincinnati, spent Easter Sunday in Lexington, Ky., the guests of the Misses Walker. Messrs. Robert Hall and Mack Brown spent Easter Sunday in Louisville, Ky. Mr. and Mrs. French Butter spent Easter the guests of their many friends. Prof. William Amiger, president of the State University at Louisville, spent Easter Sunday in the city and delivered a lecture that afternoon at the First Baptist church before the Foreign Missionary Society, where Amiger had a high honor bestowed on him in Louisville, during the time that former President Roosevelt was in that city. Prof. Amiger introduced the Col. at colored hall at Thirteenth and Walnut streets. --- A tackey social was given at the Corinthian Baptist church Thursday night, April 9, and a large crowd gathered to see the humorous affair. The Jubilee Singers rendered a choice selection which suited the occasion and a big hit was made by them. This was the most remarkable and laughable affair that the people have witnessed for quite a while. They have asked to have the same presented again. Miss Susie Robinson, of Indianapolis, Ind., is visiting friends and relatives in Lexington at the residence of Mr. Brutus Cott and Mrs. Lowery. Several receptions were given in her honor while in the city. Rev. Crutcher was the rector for the Easter services at Clifton, Ky. Mr. John Small is visiting Mr. John Lewis at Nicklesville, Ky. Misses Maggie Walker and Marrie Howard, of Lexington, spent a day in the city the guest of Miss Annie M. Batty. Miss Ida Lee, of Louisville, was the guest of Miss Willie Silvey, Easter Sunday, when day was spent in the city, out cab driving, visiting friends and viewing the city. Miss Elnora Boyd left for Louisville, to spend a few days in the city with friends. Mr. James Smith left a day in Lexington, Ky., the guest of Miss Maggie Walker. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Young, of Wilkerson street, have had born to them, a little girl weighing eight pounds. Congratulations have been sent them. Prof. A. L. Todd, grand master of the Odd Fellows, visited the city for a few days, and presided over the lodges. Miss Jennie Viniger's beautiful residence on Church street was the scene of a reception party. The rooms were bedecked with many American beauty roses, white and pink carnations, an dermes, and easels to mute the best selected pieces by an orchestra. The menu was served: Salmon salad, deviled ham, olives, Uneeda biscuits, pineapple sherbet, aake and coffee Mrs. Lulu Robinson, of Harrisburg Ky., is the guest of Mrs. Florence Young The First Baptist church club had a meeting at the residence of Miss Karen Nelson on Logan street. Miss Marta Williams, president. The following party spent a day in Verona. The party willed L. Anderson, Miss Louise Ward, Mattie Stewart Johnson and Jas. Anderson. A pleasant day was enjoyed among their friends. MULLINS AND WITHERS Classy Team at the Union Theater Indianapolis, Ind. The Union Theater is fortunate in presenting to theatergoers unusual attractions—many of them have never been seen. The patrons have been highly pleased with the indications of sticking to the house as long as it keeps up its present grade of acts. Mullins and Witers were among the most pleasant of surprises of the house so far. There has been left a more refreshing impression, their musical number called "Sensational," which was Maze Mullins, the head of the firm, is her. It was all right, she is a virtuoso, playing equally ease the saxophone, piano, trumpet. Miss Mullins has had a great career, Miss Mullins has had a great career from California, she has originally from California, she has a musical education in that western music Denver. She braved the terrors of the Klondyke, where she played the piano, and the girls played up and down the coast, yet she covered it bright, young, pretty woman, vigorous. A. E. H. and charming. She has the correct temperament for her job; her attack is forte with a total gamut of passion as a pianist, and shows accomplishment on her other instruments. Her piano re-dition was brilliant. It was well received. Frank Withers also has from California and the West generally. He also received his musical education in Denver. He saw his future partner in city when she was a wee bit of a girl. He blew her first trombone. Mr. Withers is a musician in the best sense. His ambition is to top the business, and he is making his way most admirably. He has picked up that obsolete instrument the ophichide, and is making it do mod-duity. He is a codeless affair, because it is one of a commission of Mr. Withers made his own code, became his own Meyerbeer, and it now gives him four octaves of joy on down to the cellar base which was so greatly enjoyed. Only two other instruments in the country like it. None in vaudeville at all. It is a sort of forbear to the saxophone, of mingled reed and brass on and a very pleasing. The trombone is Mr. Withers other favorite instruments; he plays it with a seeming reckless abandon, but he is all skill and technique. He prides himself owing to [Name] his ability to revive an extinct instrument and to make it a present-day success. The team plays the total output of music—rag, sentimental, classical—with facility. Among the classical things they are doing this week is the sextette from Lucia De Lammermoor. In the music of Inflammata from "Riggletoe" and "Inflammata" from "Stabat Mater," the things being done on the leading stages. The Blues" also appealed to the audience, who knew the thing as soon as it struck him. The team feels complimented in that Joe Jordan, the leading colored musician, has invited them, the duo, to play himself, and a playtime abroad. The invitation is being seriously considered. The team shows its prosperity. It enjoys a good salary and shows other diamonds and so forth. Mullins and Witmers are a credit to the Negro race, and a sample of its possibility when pursuing opportunity. W. L. INDIANAPOLIS PARKS LAWN Grass Seed and BASHUMUS Odorless Lawn FERTILIZER The Kind That Brings Results. INDIANAPOLIS IND. Bash's SEED STORE IN N. DELAWARE INDIANAPOLIS AND DOTH PHONE GOSSIP OF THE STAGE R.K. BUCKNER Wanted to know—Is Dudley still hammering on his chain? a piano player and he sure knows musk. Little Willie Jackson and Wallace Mill have joined hands in a singing, talkin and dancing act. They are doing fine. Our orchestra consists of the following Mr. James Patee. a piano player and he sure knows musk. Little Willie Jackson and Wallace Mill have joined hands in a singing, talkin and dancing act. They are doing fine. Our orchestra consists of the following Mr. James Patee. Archie Jones would like to hear from his son, Archie Jones, Jr. Write to 2856 Vernon avenue. Horace George is doing "Tm for Music" for the first time on any stage and having success, on the Orpheum Circuit. Martin and Motley just closed at the Blue Mouse, Washington, D. C. They are at the Star this week, having success. The Tuskegee Band will appear in Indianapolis in the near future. It will be under the auspices of the Colored Y. M. C. A. Dean and Johnson are cleaning up in Australia. Papers there say they are the notest proposition that ever toured the Antipodes. Baby Seals and wife were in Indianapolis last Sunday, en route to Cincinnati. Will open in Philadelphia, in the near future. Geo. E. Bundy, manager of the Circle theater, Philipsia, says that business looks look bright. Enjoying good business at this time. Thornton and Long opened at the Pelkin Theater, Norfolk, Va., Monday, April 1, and are making good. Others on the bill are the Moores, Tim and Hester. The big yearly Summer League Minstrel was pulled off with the usual big success at Tomlinson Hall, Indianapolis, last Monday evening. Ben Young and others were in charge. The Ragtime Trio have three more weeks to play in Iowa—Buxton, Nevada and Eckert, commencing open over the Circuit, commencing May 2 at the Alamanda Theater, St. Paul, Minn. Noble L. Stiele, first tenor with the Minstrel Quartet, is resting in Chicago, preparatory to the coming season's work in chaundiqua. He will appear at Simpson Chapel, Indianapolis, in the very near future. The celebrated Leon, magician and ventriloquist, is in his second week at the Olo Theater, Louisville, Ky., and still going good. Any one wanting him can go to 1308 West Walnut street, Louisville, Ky. The Two Sweets are in Hot Springs, filling a four weeks' engagement after spending four months in Memphis with the Two Sweets. You play the southern states only three more weeks, then return to the North. Johnson, Smith and Johnson, in what they style piano, song and dancelogue, were at the Gayetty Theater, Indianapolis, this week. The team work is good. They work well, but the work is especially good. Her splendid singing and talking are not excelled on the stage. Earl Walker, ex-manager of the Crown Garden Theater and the Walker Theater, was in Indianapolis last week, circulating among his friends. He put out that Mr. Walker came here to take charge of the Union Theater. Manager Jones was asked concerning it. He said there were nothing doing. The University continues. It has been named the opening under the changed name. E. H. Williams, of the team of Williams and Stevens, who successfully held the game, was compelled to leave Philadelphia, for the last six weeks, was compelled to cancel half of his work, was compelled to leave mother. She died just before he reached his home in Wyandotte, Kans. Mr. Stevens was compelled to remain in Philadelphia to help straighten out their business. JAMES W. LOWERY DEAD. James H. Lowery, brother of P. G. Lowery, died in the Sisters' hospital, St. Joseph, Mo., April 3, after a very short spell of sickness. In November 1911, he held a funeral service for his brother P. G., and shortly after joining hands in a business way, he bought P. G. a fine Pullman palace car. During the winter he contracted a severe cold which turned into pneumonia, and after an illness he was hospitalized. P. G. conveved the body to Reece, Kans, where it was laid to rest. He leaves a sister, mother, two brothers and other relatives and a host of friends to mourn his loss. Uncle Jim, as he was professed, was called, was liked by all who knew him, both in and out of the profession. NOTES OF GEO. T. OSTELING'S "GEORGIA SOUTHERN." (By Mme. Ida B. Hooten.) Our bunch is all well and doing fine. It has been strengthened by Bob Boons, and he sure leaves the the house in an uproar with his comic and acrobatic bracing. Then the best of all is when he fills in Kentucky Home, or the filled with Kentucky Harry Jones, our monologist kid. We also have Happy Hamilton and Janie Gadson. This team is doing fine. Hooten and hooten leave them in a scream with their binging and funny sketches. Eugene B. Hooten, our worthy stage manager, made sure Ga. to purchase new uniforms for the stage. He was successful enough to get ```markdown ``` DE MAYEN CHE 400 BILLY B. JOHNSON AND COMPANY. a piano player and he sure knows music. Little Willie Jackson and Wallace Miller have joined hands in a singing, talking and dancing act. They are doing fine. Our orchestra consists of the following: Mr. James Price, pianist; Mr. John Marshall, melophone, and Mr. John Wattins, traps. Tom Edwards would learn some new news for himself by writing Eugene B. Hooten and John Marshall, care The Freeman. Write them at once. Our route is as follows: Lincolnton, N. C. April 8; Lenoir, N. C., week of April 15. John Henry Stokes is our property man. He knows his business. BROWN AND SHELTON Messrs. Brown and Shelton, of J. Leubrie Hill's "My Friend from Dixie" company, will appear the week of April 14 at the Alhambra Theater, with the above company. This is Mr. Brown's second season in musical comedy, and it is an amazing show, the company's straight man of the present, having created a furore in every city, where this THE FEDERAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY production has played. Mr. Brown is a recruit from high-class vaudeville, having worked with the Broadway Eastern time, with divers partners. Mr. Richard Shetton has also received no little praise for his worthy work as a comedian in this musical comedy. He also came back to the skies during their recent engagement in Cincinnati, by Mr. Jack Johnson, the chameleon who came back on the stage to shake hands, and compliment these two clever artists. THE NEW CIRCLE THEATER PHILADELPHIA, PA The same old story. Another week of tremendous business. On Wednesday night they waited in the rain for a chance of getting the rain to be the Jerome and Lewis, two excellent vocalists, and the character work of Dick Lewis, far excelled anything previously attempted were. Michael and Michael's, Elcance, Wilson did not have a act, making several changes of the most extravagant wardrobe and were received with universal approval. Madam Corde-McCain, who was also a decedent who was to respond to many encores. The Madam retains the same magnetism as the same ago. The ventes made the same access. They did the optimal way. Michael's rendered "The Chicken Reel" and did a cane dance with Billy that set them wild. The house has the reputation of present-day schoolmates and the own "new" local wears the smile that won't come off. It is nothing strange to see the neighboring managers standing around viewing the waiting crowds nightly. Coming next to World-Time-Eager Billy Cully and Lewis and Lewis, Rocco's animal actors, Hamilton Trio and Gardner and Gardner, the house staff consists of Epstine Segal, Amusement Company, prophet Joe, B.S.B., and the other. B.S.B., the house director, Wilson H. Keyer, musical director, Arthur Russell, drums and effects; Samuel J. Kelly, house officer; Rose Lewis, treasurer; Harry A. Kellner, house manager; Samuel Small, attendant, Jason Reynolds, representative. SOUTHERN THEATORIUM, WIL MINGTON, N. C. White and White closed a two weeks engagement at the Southern Theaterium and opened at the Rex in Winston-Salem. At the play at the Southern Theaterium and played to a packhouse house. Standing room was at a premium long before the first show was out. Johnson and Johnson were the first to screen the house screening all the time. Glenn and Glenn will open at the Southern Theaterium on April 8. The only kick coming with the play is the 2014 seating capacity, which is only about 10, but he hopes for something better soon. MEMPHIS, TENN. Ella Gaines is making a hit at the new Savoy Theater with "What Makes Me Love You the lady and yet you" and her clever theming. She and her team are taking them wild. Lew Hall, the well-known droll comedian, has joined hands with the clever little soubrette, La Remelle Jackson, and will be seen soon in her skit entitled "Skunton's Engagement." DE MAYEN PENICOT --- THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC CHICAGO WEEKLY REVIEW By Sylvester Russell TIDINGS FROM "ROYAL SAM" WHICH STRANDED. Jolly John Larkins Tells His Side of the Story, with the Performers Deperate That "Royal Sam," the new musical comedy in which Jolly John, Larkin starred this season, did not fare very luxuriously is a well known fact from messages received from the southern section and the country of the city, the company, stranded. The reports of actors who were with the show, who condemned Larkins as a trickster, whose method in financing and whose emblem of secret activity, was a very important one of what always may be, but in business dealings he had practiced would be a safe installment, is what led me to seek an interview with Mr. Larkins at his boarding residence on Wabash avenue. Marrow and Menlendo of the New York City was as a group of men, what Larkins said, put out the show. Early on the tour, when things went bad, they gave Larkins a "bill of sale" for back salary. This excited the members of the company, who were to be the top of the gomery. As a stage hand attached the costumes for security and Dr. Caffey and Mr. and Mrs. Stairs, prominent colored people of the city, came to Mr. Larkins's home. The group of men and men deserted the company. At Columbia, Tenn. R. Voelekel, manager of Black Patti, took the management of the company but did not supply enough printing materials to build Mr. Pborish as a manager representative. When he was not so good at the Temple theater, which resulted in financial troubles with H. Lawrence in Freeman, Mr. Mores and Anita W. Orr. and the day he was absended and H. D. Collins then took up the management at Kansas City. Important dates were cancelled from New York in western cities on account of the loss of the company and the loss of the company not arriving in Peoria, the production had been attached by a frame-up in the company, which caused Mr. Larkins's loss of brought before the mayor. Anклік was explained to demand the construction produced proof papers which exonerated him from difficulties unforeseen. Mr. Larkins declared that if he had the same experience go through at another time, he would never have to be a man. The are as a very many things that happen in an organization caused by ignorance of some actors and overbearance of others who are otherwise and inconsiderate, that they are not the same. For the effect of the project except to say that in the case of a star everything is heaped upon him and where the fault is only collectively with others, it is proper that the individual is a person who would have chance synopsizize his story. If Larkins had been a rich star his faults would have been less rebellious. While the members of the company cannot be overlooked and are not in any way in the power of weaker people, the substance is up for the other party was desperate and there was no money. In order to keep the company afloat Larkins had twice pawned his wife's demand and earnings and his own gold watch and earnings. When Larkins, this and the other Jinnie Pearl arrived in the city, the Western Association booked them at once in vaudeville. The team left Sunday, April 10, with no at-Kansas City on the 8th, with Omaha, Denver, Eacernato, Frisco and other dates to follow on Pacific coast. Southland, With Manzie Campbell Captures at the New Grand Rose Fox's Comedy Boys Shoe Hut Sidney L. Perrin's musical comedietta, "Southland," opened at the Grand to a packed house, Monday evening. Manzie’s couple of new best young comedians and the American stage of the future, and his partner, Mr. Warfield, was an excellent straight. Charles Gilpin, in an old-man comedy creation, came in for the home of the New Wise, who had a leading female role, enacted her nicely, but should have rendered a classical solo. Beulah Ray White, quite as clever as any comedian of her race, had a long-slightly to the performance, and the chorus was not only the fact that Joe and went well, owing to the fact that Joe Jordan, the composer, and one of the best colored musical directors, had a long-slightly to the performance, and the only play. Rose Fox and her three comedy boys shared equal honors with any act on the bill. The white acts included Ryan and Volcan, two attractive girls, and the song raging very well. The song of the song "Take Me Back to the Garden of Love," very artistically, but with much voice. Dorothy Lyon, in a Modern Ananlas, was fair, and Thas. Coby, who thought he had only a long-slightly to the core. The bill, but prejudiced to the core. The bill for the second half of last week was all white and not strong. "The Village Choir," which took the place of an action, was so�elegantly and excellent, and also called "The Sketches on rollers," Flam, James and Lewis, and Phil La Toska, a good comic juggler, completed the bill. "Unwilling Bigamist" was an interesting picture study. M. E. Bisi is the operator. The Cubanula Trio at the Monogram —BILLINI the River and Leona the Mountain Song (Ludwig) The return of the Cubanola Trio at this house drew crowds on Monday night at every performance. The trio consists of Laura Bailey, Gertrude Delaney and Anita Humphrey. Each individual solo was rendered in great satisfaction, especially in Laura Bailey's "Take Me Back to the Garden of Love," if not artistic, showed her voice to unexpected advantage. The trio numbers, especially the finish, attracted. McCarrer and Diggs were conical return entertainingedy work. Leon Diggs, who had a slight cold, rendered the "Harbor of Love" with an excellent method of vocalization from the gifted tenor. Leona Marshall easily won favor in a single specialty. Miss Diggs will has a delightful musical comedy, and who now has fully regained her voice, might be sure that she can go it alone a long time, if she will change her songs and act often. Minor and Minor fared well in a comedy called "Bucktown Romance," a genuine Negro picture, took immensely, and as far as comedy is concerned nothing like it has been seen. This class of pictures at the house would have a welter of large Press, a cooperator, utilizes the picture machine and lights very nicely. Will Able and New Entertainers at the LaVerdo. Quite the swaiest cafe in town is in the LaVerdo, where the bill of fare is furious. The chef, who is chief entertainer from 7 p. m. to 1 a. m. He is assisted by Edith Gordon and Bessie Hunter, entertainers; Dave Lewis, a clammer; Clarence Jones, the composer, as pumist. A New Variety of Photo Plays at the Phoenix There was a new variety of photo pic- ture, called "Lolita's Anarchist," was an inter- night. "Lolita's Anarchist," was an inter- night. est winner. "Poor Jimmy" was well and "and the Deputy's Love Affair" fired him to the May Patton, with her sweet voice, won the encores in the song, "To The End of the world with You," with splendid scenic view, song made a hit on its general merits. Chicago Stage Notes. Mrs. Will H. Dorsey (Lizzie Hart), who recently suffered a nervous breakdown, is out and rapidly improving. The Y. M. C. A. had an Easter musical program, rendered at Odd Fellows' Hall, 3335 State street, where their meetings are held at 4 p.m. every Sunday. Mr. Buchanan sang especially at Bethel. Peat and Hayes are at the Premier Theater this week. Ed F. Peat, in his last basilisk kid flirtation, made a real hit at the Monogram last week. Clarence Bowens, of the Ten Georgia Camper, states that Isola Ringold is under threat operation at a New York Hospital. Miss Lizzie Wallace is filling her place. Mrs. Susie Newton, the well-known hair dresser, of 2621 State street, will give up her store business, to take a private flat, where she will continue her hair work. Her store fixtures, etc., are for sale. Houseley and Nicolas, the premier musical comedians, will head the bill at the Theater in Indianapolis, Ind., April 15, and people of that city can expect a rare treat. Billy Cumby and Lillian Brown left last Saturday for Toledo, O. They will play Detroit next week, with two weeks to arrive. Circle Theater, Philadelphia, Pa. to follow. Rance Smith is at the Gaiety this week. Next week he will visit Virginia, with Janesville, Wis., and the Indian Theater, Indianapolis, Ind., to follow. Casabi G. Griffin, the expert grower, is now located at the Brook's tailoring establishment, 2803 State street. Mr. Griffin is not only highly spoken of, but his work and continues patronage in trade speaks for itself. . . . Salem Tutt Whitney and a few members of the Southern Smart Set Company were in the city last Thursday for a lay-over en route to Joliet. Fred Larrabee, the company's introduction, the guests of Mr. Whitney and his brother, Homer Tutt, at Harrison's Model Cate, 12 West Thirty-first street, at noon. We attended the early performance at the Manager Klein and Wilcox lorems. We found Miss Bayelle Brown, Ethel Marshall and Miss Babe Brown, leading ladies, who got lost, at the Grand Theater. Mr. Whitney up into the private office, at the Grand way, produced him to Manager Duke Brennan and Manager Hammond, of the Phoenix. Mr. Whitney was desirous of meeting Manzie Campbell and George Reeves, whom he hailed Reeves on his way from the elevated station in a nervous hurry to make the first performance at the Monogram. There we went into Russell & Dagos, where Manzie Campbell was sporting a white jacket and afterwards told me they had both developed into fine young men. The party left on the 11:30 train for Joliet, where the company appeared the next evening. F. L. Bradford, the aviator, is now busy setting up his machine, getting it in readiness for the coming events in May. He dives into the details of flying in an airplane, he is to make balloon ascensions, but will scale the South Side in a monoplane. When I approached him in the doorway, the officers, the white aviator, in Bradford said, and I were good friends, and he had even taught me some of my most valuable lessons in machine operation. The accident that killed the pilot was a lower one that may or may not ever happen again. So far as I am concerned, I am not afraid. I love the work and will keep right on, the same as ever." The poem contributed last week, having suffered error, is herein reproduced this week, with an extra verse: **The Question and Answer.** What makes your mood my heart beginle When love has claimed you, nature's child? And am calmly waiting To hear you talk and see you smile; I'll drift away in after-while, For love is irritating. So if you're bashful, claim your own! And I will roam the alone While happy, happy What makes the birds their chirp sing Of "love me before my love takes wing" And "time as a robber is thrifting?" To voice the sentiment they bring. Concludes the phase to which I cling. Ere I am slowly drifting- The birds that will tell The I shall always wish you well, Our charmed hearts, will be sitting. CINCINNATI, OHIO. Theatrical and Other Happenings. Fisher and Seals are the big headliners at the Pekin Theater this week. The act is a new one, and they are billed as Baby F. Seals and Baby Fisher. While the team regularly through the theatrical columns of the Freeman, there was still some doubts as to the ability of the pair to please this very critical bunch; but there are facts, and if the box office that this play is "and it is plenty" it would be impossible to give even a fair description of the success of this team. A laugh every second for fifteen minutes is a near guess. Mr. Seals has a great visual and not overdone. And the little Miss Baby Fisher is a real live wire. She possesses a good voice, lends color to the sketch, and gives the people a run with her. She rendered a couple of beautiful numbers, and was compelled to respond to several encores. She is in a class by her lonely. Notes. The Pekin has a matinee every afternoon, from 2 to 5. Three reels of moving pictures and several pretty ballads by the Pekin troupe up until gram. The matinees are well attended. The evening show consists of two reels of moving pictures and two vaudeville turns, which give the patrons all about the show through the evening. Burt Grant, of Grant and Jones, left this city during the early part of the week to join his partner, Irving Jones, in the East. Hum, H. Hogan, of the Olo Theater, Louisville, Ky., was in the city during the week. Kid Ashe, our local colored favorite favorite of us a popular favorite. Jack Morgan, of the Pekin troupe, last Monday evening, in this city. While the Kid made a grand showing, the results show that he was poorly matched. An old adage "You are not a winner," which precluded to be a fact in Morgan's case. There is many a good fight in this boy Ashe yet, and it is a shame to match him with men again as large as he is. The management of the Pekin has spent several hundred dollars having the front and interior remodeled. Also Monroe is our popular ticket seller. the Hamilton Hall and Hamilton will be the attraction at the Pekin next week. THE UNION THEATER, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Managers Jones and Turner are still doing their best to make the patrons like the new show house. They are succeeding in a fine way. The bill this week requires that the first act did not keep pace with the others. They didn't get in the proper 500 EXCELLENT SECOND BALCONY SEATS. MATINEES 10c; EVENINGS 15c Sunny Dixie Minstrels Wants Two clarinet players, piccolo that doubles flute in orchestra. Other musicians who double stage write. Can place good comedian. Lew Wiley, Willie Moore and Frank Hopkins write. Address DANA THOMPSON, Winston-Salem, N. C. WANTED! Musicians for band for a big road show; also good performers, male and female. Write at once. Booze fighters not wanted. Tickets sent to right people. Address BOB JOHNSON, Guild, Tenn. New Lyric Theatre Wants first class acts of all kinds; good novelty acts, sister teams, comedians, ladies who sing and dance, people for stock and vaudeville. Good piano player, (must read music), wire at once. Matt Lewis, Prop. J. A. English, Mgr. Address all mail to WANTED! To Hear from Colored Musicians Especially a band leader who can funish a nine piece band. Must be all A No. 1. Would like to hear from Tom Edwards and Prentis Oliver. Address all mail to WANTED! practice. Got smoother farther along in the week. This was Johnson and Mullins and Withers is a classy team which gives a refreshing musical act on several instruments. Nothing better has been seen here. They are spoken of at all times and are wise. They are worthy of all said of them. Kelly and Davis furnish plenty of fun. The comedian end is among the very few who are the stage. He is there. The straight act is a whirlwind. He's got em, too. The man to beat him has got to come along. Kriyo Trio gave also a refreshing bit of humor. The best compliment to them is to say they did not give enough. The act was so new and novel that the audience could have stood very much of it. The work was bright and cheerful and very very pleasing. GET THE FREEMAN IN OWENS BORO, KY.. At Robert Murry's Barber Shop, or Henry Hill's residence, 516 Vine street Beaman, Chicken Benson, Otis Boston, Sheepard Dennis, John W. DeLeo, B. F. Ellott, E. J. Wesley, J. W. Gay, Boisy Gray, Prof. J. A. Gilliam, Allie Gipson, Roy Graham, R. G. Hulman, D. R. Hoy, H. (telegram) Hawk, Clarence E. Hughes, Atrus Hernard, O. O. Hernard, C. L. Hamilton, J. W. Hull, Dan Johnson, W. M. Williams, O. W. Kraton, Harry The Jolly Hender sons Motts, George Morton, Jeffrey McQuity, Moses Moppin, Pearl. Miller and Lyle Phillips, William Pitt & Wescott Parker, Alex N. Peremound, Frank Pease Stewart, Dink Sutton, H. J. Smith, James Thompson, U. S. Tschirn, K. Thomas, Kid. Thomas, W. Wise, Wen. Wobb, Joe. Wobb, Too Willie Too Sweet Waldon, O. W. Walker, J. W. Williams, O. W. Wood, H. S. White, W. H. Watkins, Walter Wilson, Richard Ladies' List. Adams, Mabile L. Bostwick, Mrs. M. Cooper, Mrs. Grant Edwards, Laura Harrison, Miss E... Johnson, Mrs. Lulu. Marion, Miss Glenn Michaels, Leoara Michaels, Mirea McCoy, Miss Vioia Moore, Mrs. Eva Peat, Miss Bessie Singleton, Baby Doll Smith, Ruby. Simms, Bessie Shaw, Miss Bell Santaner, Miss Streights, Miss Leola Woods, Mrs. Susie Webb, Miss Ella ASSIST LEROY BLAND, CHICAGO. To Friends in and'out of the profession: weeks ago, and have been a homeless cripple ever since, as the bullet was never the leg. I must have it extracted. Worth 5 everyone that can send me what you can to help defray the expenses, as I certain-ly need to. Send direct to LeRoy Bland, 344 Darby Street, Chicago, Ill., and oblige, your friend. ROUTE. SUNNY DIXIE MINSTRELS —Durham, XDIXIE MINSTRELS 19; Fayette- xille, XDIXIE; Winginspike S. H. DUDLEY, IN "DR. BEANS FROM BOSTON"—HOWARD Theater, Washington, week of April 15. "MY FRIENDS FROM APRIL"—Alhambra 剧院, Chicago, week of April 15. BLACK PATTI MUSICAL COMEDY CO. —Baltimore, Md., week of April 15. RICHARDS & PRINGLE'S MINSTRELS Claremore, Okla., April 15, Vinita, 16. G. W. ALLEN'S TROUBADOURS—Mob- ble, Ala., indefinite. Solo Bb Cornet Player at Leisure. Address R. J. Mitchell, 2705 Parnell Av. Bessomer, Ala. Wanted piano and cornet player who can read music, for the Pekin Picture Show. Address all mail to CHARLIE GENTRY, 207 Grady St., Montgomery, Ala. WANTED Colored Musicians for Cole Bros.' Side Show One snare drummer, one bass drummer who can sing, one clarinet, one trombone, one tuba, one alto. Please state lowest salary. Address WILLIAM R. BELL 121 Independence Ave. Kansas City, Mo. Visit the Manila Theatre Cor. Twelfth and N. West Sts. Entire change of program daily. Latest and best pictures - vanduvelie. One hour and 80 minutes show. Admission 5c. If you come once, you'll come again. We Please the People Every Day at Popular Prices Union Theatre FINE VAUDEVILLE SHOWS 326 Indiana Ave. Turner & Jones, Managers, Indianapolis, Ind. OPENING—April 22 in, Indianapolis, Ind. ons Send in Open Time LEY, Manager EITH'S House Next Week. Vaudeville in its High est Expression. EXTRAORDINARY BINGHAM Star of numerous Broadway successes and am will be supported by a strong cast. BEATS. MATINEES 10c; EVENINGS 15c. Hinstrels Wants files flute in orchestra. Other musicians and comedian. Lew Wiley, Willie Moore Winston-Salem, N. C. TED! ow; also good performers, male and fenot wanted. Tickets sent to right peo-Tenn. & Wilson GOSSIP OF THE STAGE . R. Byron Shelton, of Fiddler and Shelton, is home in Indianapolis, visiting his relatives and friends. Fred Neusome is having success with his stock company in Sandford, Fla., at the colored Pastime theater. Riley and Riley are making good, and playing to a full house every night at the Pekin theater, Dublin, Ga. Johnson and Dean are playing in Adelaide, Australia, making a tremendous hit. Will be home about April 30. Doshi Styles has closed, after five successful weeks in Wilmington, N. C. Now in Charlotte, N. C., at the Dixie Theater. Frank Kirk, the "musical tramp," will open Monday, April 8, at Kalamazoo, Mich. Booked solid over Butterfield's time. The Hamilton Trio is still in the land of the living, having success in spite of some little setbacks. They read The Freeman and advise others to get the habit. It will do good. At Lexington last week, the schedule next week. Will go to Philadelphia later on. Brutus McWilliams and his wife, Harriette Craig, both of Indianapolis, who have later entered vaudeville, have made big hits in their two acts, "Hed Fed the Cowboy" and "American Cowboy" and have been engaged for the second week at Memphis, Tenn. La Vola, slack wire king, is having great success in vaudeville, and will be attending the Chamberlin's Minstrels and at the closing of the season will return to vaudeville. Managers, look for my cut in the Freeman in a short time. The Two Weavers, Eulga Mae and J. J. have closed their two weeks engagement at the Dixie theater, Key West, Fl. They are spending holy week at Tampioia, Fl. the guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Griffin. Mr. Griffin is a classmate of Mr. Weaver and a very prominent business man in Tampa. They open at the Globe theater, Jacksville, Fl., on the 8th of April. Mr. Roy Pope, bandmaster with Ringling Bros. Shows, was quietly married to Miss Emma R. Stith, Thursday evening of last week. The marriage took place at the home of Rev. G. Ward, pastor of the Zion Baptist Church in Plainfield, ct. Only families of contracting parties were present. Mrs. Pope is organist of the B. Y. P. U. and secretary of Mount Zion Baptist Church Sunday school. Clever Billy Young writes: "Soored heavily at Astoria, Ore., also Salem, and have just finished in The Dules, at the Casino Theater, to a howling success. I open Sunday, April 1, at the Electric Theater, Hood River, Ore., with the People's Museum. I am coming East by way of Bert Pittman time out of Denver, and will also play the Webster time out of Fargo, N. D." AT THE REX THEATER, WINSTON SALEM, N. C., WEEK OF APRIL 1, 1912. Happy-Go-Lucky Simpson is playing a return engagement of two weeks, after playing three successful weeks. The little fellow with the big feet is clever the first week, but the Queen theater, Wilmington, N. C. Houze and Houze, week of April 1. The team that is making good everywhere, a riot. Week of April 8th, Queen theater, Wilmington, N. C. Little Elmira and Goodwood, goodwood successful weeks. The Freeman can be bought of the operator at the Rex theater, Winston-Salem, N. C. ABOARD A. G. ALLEN'S PRIVATE CARR. 999. P. L. Jenkins Writes From Hatties burg. Miss. We are playing along the fertile Mississippi valley this week and as of yore it is always a gala day when Allen's Minstrels come to town. Mr. John Minstrels, Mr. Jos. Cole, and some to his home in New Orleans, La. spend a ten days' vacation. Mr. Wm. Tuba Thomas is on a fortnight's vacation in Birmingham, Ala., and Memphis, La. Mr. Jos. Cole, Wm. Pleasens, La. Mr. J. Cole, Wm. of the acrobatic Watts Brothers team, was a pleasant visitor to the show for five days this week. The members of this company were handsomely entertained by the big band Bela Lugo, our trap drummer, and his family, while we were showing his home town, Mobile, Ala., the entertainment, which was indeed a swell affair, lasting from 3 to 4 hours. The members were Mrs. Celia and Mrs. Estelle Borrois, Mrs. Phoebe Mrs. Mrs. Julia Quonnette and Miss Josephine Laurendine, the mother of Mr. Laurendine being hostess. The members were Clas. Mrs. Robert Miller, Edward Alexander, Wm. Phillips, Chas. Laurendine and Mr. Nathaniel Hollman, of Mobile, Ala., Mr. J. Cangleton man, of Mobile, Ala., Mr. Davis, man, and is doing solo work on the stage, scoring nightly; regards to Ed. Sherwood, Mr. Wm. Shaw, flute and piccolo, sends regards to Bismarck Ferris and says write. The菱, Davis, singing nightly with his original songs; regards to all. NOTES FROM PROF. EPH WILL LIAMS' FAMILY TROUBA- LIAMS (By Edward Baskin.) Direct from a run of the states of Florida and Georgia for the solid winter, Prof. Eph Williams' band of famous troubadours and Silas Green Company, combined with his Big City Minneapolis and largest and most enthusiastic crowds that has ever been seated under his large and spacious water-proof tent, at Alken, S. C., Saturday night, March 31. The crowd is the largest and most crying for admission. Having been blocked from our destination by a wreck we were compelled to defer the opening of the doors until the late hour of 10 o'clock. White as well as colored people, people, people, boys erect the large and spacious canvas, eager and determined to see that great cast of performers, that has made this company the household word of everyone throughout the South, render themselves the best of the show. Silas Green from New Orleans."...After being absent from the show for several weeks on account of the death of her mother, Miss Jannie Hale, leading lady turned on the show of her Hale Hale singing "Pleakanny Band" and "Till Change the Thorns to Roses," making good at every performance....Mr. R. C. Puggy, business manager, is ahead of the company in the business needed in business in regard to the advance....Miss Bessie Edgington, our buck and wing dancer, is cleaning up with everyone in her class. The encores she gets every night are jobs good, Mr. Wm. Mayfield, better known as Silas Green, is knocking them high with his funny言言. He is a scream from start to finish....Every member of the company is leading forward to the next stage, Mr. Wm. Mayfield, N. C. The band, under the leadership of Prof. R. Collins, is planning to play an Easter concert at one of the leading churches. We will tell you more about it next week....The bunch adds to all in and out of the profession. SEEN AND HEARD WHILE PASSING A Mob at Close Range. By S. Tutt Whitney. Room at the Top. "There's always room at the top" is an old and true adage. When one starts in any profession, then stops to count the things that is, are following the same vocation. A thousand will discouraged. A thousand will start; one-half that number will never leave the post; a third of the remainder will remain from that number will average good, while perhaps a tenth of the number still remaining will make excellent. The top can be reached only by one effort. There are always obstacles to surmount and difficulties to circumvent. One must have tenacity of purpose to count for one's best effort seems to count for naught and further progress appears impossible. The key to success. What is generally termed luck, is opportunity. But what good of the opportunity if one is not prepared to grasp it? Opportunity has hair in front, but is bald behind. It has been rightly the past opportunity. It has been rightly the past opportunity knocks once at every man's door. Some are asleep when the knock comes; others fail to recognize the door. Others make more opportunities than they find. Oftimes an artist who has been patiently toiling and hoping through years of obscurity, meets his opportunity, grasps it and steps into the limelight. It exclaims: "Luck! But the artist could not that it was not luck, but hard work. It is surprising to note how few men and women in the theatrical profession are willing to devote one hour a day to the acquirement of knowledge that will enrich their lives. It is their profession. Not one-fifth of our colored performers can read music; a less number have a knowledge of voice culture, while the most of them are sadly deficient in the knowledge of the English language. It is the distaste for work and a lack of ambition that keeps the room at the top from being overcrowded. West Baden, Ind. In south central Indiana, nestling cozily in a little pocket among the hills, surrounded by giant elms and watered by perennial springs, is the little town in size, but large in popularity. Perched every nationality, from all parts of the globe, journey thither to test the wonderful curative qualities of its mineral springs. It may be seen the beautiful West Baden Hotel, with its mighty dome 200 feet in diameter and containing an air space of 2,730,000 cubic feet, making the hotel the eighth wonder of the world. But the West Baden Hotel is the only hotel in the country where people who wish to take the water cure can be accommodated at the Jersey European Hotel, of which Charles P. Rice is the proprietor. Mr. Rice's hotel is not so ostentatious as the West Baden hotel, so picturesquely surrounded; but it is also a hotel with appointments. It has the necessities without the superfluities. The kitchen is in charge of a competent cook, the meals are deliciously prepared and the service is excellent. A bath-house with a common room has been installed at great expense. Charley Rice is a model landlord, always looking after the interests of his guests, who are his friends. His genial smile and pleasant smile leave no doubt of a cordial welcome at the Jersey European Hotel. By unanimous request of the citizens of West Baden, Manager Prow secured the Southern Smart Set Company for the management of the construction West Baden Theater. The beautiful theater was filled with a record-breaking crowd. The performance was highly complimented and gave general satisfaction. Manager Prow is negotiating for an early return date. Sylvester Russell, the manager of the theater. The lower floor of the theater was reserved for the guests of the hotel. Mr. Russell was the only colored person occupying a seat on the lower floor. LINDALE, GA. It is said that Clifton Kelly has one of the best piano players, getting more music out of a twenty-five string baby grand than any other man... Mr. Geo Green, prominent buck and wing dancer and tuck roller skater, is now en route to New York to show for the coming season... White and White are still making good with big ones. JOHNSON THEATORIUM, COLUM BIA, S. C The J. J. Perry Trio opened on the 25th of March with great success. Chas. S. S. Perry and his dancers in vaudeville. He is making good singing "I Will Come Back" and "Yamma Man," taking three and four encores. He sees his best regards to all in the process of the recording. He is the owner of the house, taking three and four encores nightly, singing "Fishing" and "Oh to the Sunny Dixie bunch." Old J. J. Perry, with his funny looks and sayings, is leaving the house screaming every night, singing parodies. Regards to the BELMONT STREET THEATER PENSACOLA, FLA At the Belmont Street Theater Miss Magnolia Brown opened the olo with one of her best songs, entitled "Believe Me, Jack." Then followed Mr. Brovidesale with another song, entitled "Payne." Then followed the Wiggins Bros. with their own act, "From a Bellboy to a Zulu." It is a singing and dancing act from start to finish. They play four songs, including making four changes in his Yula act. He is first a bellboy, next boss man, next a honey boy, then a Yula, and follows Mose Grimes. He is still singing "Porto Rico" and "The Wiggins Bros." of the Wiggins Bros. to-day in a close conversation about theatrical life, and he says it is just a case of hard work. I asked him how long he had been in the business. He said it and on my cut and down, I asked him if he had ever cut and down, and he said he was out and down now, "Out from home and down South," and I told him that was pretty good. I asked him the length of the song would live long in the church of that he does. He told me his father was still living. Then I asked him how old he was. He said he was twenty-two. I must say these are the two smartest men in the world, and will close here on the 6th will. Open in Jacksonville, Fla., on the 8th. They are welcome back at any time. FRANK HENDON INFORMS STAGE STRUCK. I am so glad the colored people are going to have a chain of theaters. Then THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. some of the unknown producers will be able to frontward themselves. Hendon, I have a play that is aorker, and right here, want an aid to am some hurrier, if you will provide it so, I am going to tell you that you are one of the poorest writers that ever trampled the Dixie soil. I know other people who think your writings are "peaches" below zero, although you be the one great master of slangage. I have a play that is a hummer. Hendon, listen while I tell you this play will make Jesse A. Shipp and take and make it follow me. This is what I am talking about make J. Leubrie Hill turn green with envy, and you know you will have to go some to make a broad-minded chap remarks a chap to digest, for those few remarks a chap to digest, for those to tell you that I am a progressive, but have in my possession a play that you would probably call unprogressive, a crap game is the mult feature. I have the play over to Mr. John Goodloe, and he has grabbed the financial assistance of Jack Johnson. Seeing that a game was not feature, I told Johnson that he thought game would appropriate name for it; Goodloe seconded the motion. I bet them $2.50 that they would never be able to stage it; of course, they put up I will mean that they would NOW, what I will mean this: if they stage the play and it is a financial success, can I demand any royalty, or am I out of it? Answer: Dear Lize—In reply to your puzzle I must say that you are come with a free bit of advice. If you have such a fever-heat play, the best thing to do is to put it on in Chicago, where you can invite so many professionals to come out and take a look at it. Give me a seat any place in the house, but Miller and Lves should have a box. As to your question, I understand that you bet $2.50 that they would be a large deal. If you are in the state that they would, if a stakeholder has got $2.50 from each side, it is useless to go any farther, for you can readily see it is a plain case of five up. Making it a little plainer, or in other words, is the way to go. If you are in special courses, I will call your attention to the fact that you gave the play to Mr. Goodloe, and Mr. Goodloe nabbed Jack Johnson's financial assistance, and Jack, seeing a play game was the main feature of the name of the play game. Now, you want to know if you are out of it. All I have to say is, you have played Goodloe gift, Jack and the game, and, what is more, you are out. I don't know who proposed this little transaction. Kindly permit yours faithfully to ask whose deal is it? A certain stage-struck girl asked me to get her a job on the stage. I said, "Why, my dear girl, you can get a job yourself." Then she wanted to know what she would have to learn to pick up a little loose vaudee shirt. Then her girl, all you have to do is dance and sing." Then she uttered the following: "If all you have to know is how to dance and sing, I am qualified, and so My hat is in the ring. I know I will be a scream. Among the latest frigid discoveries are the South Pole and the dawg song. Baby "Seals has a parody on the dawg song. It goes like this: "The Northern grounds Folk keep knocking the Southern towns. Makes no difference if they is way down, Dey gotta quit knocking the 'Southern towns.' And they say Seals is to tour the country singing that dawg dope. Seals should be careful about his songs, but as to touringorry, he auto, because he is from Mobile. --- Yours very carefully walked into a barber shop, and, as usual, barber shop prattle was at its height. Suddenly the conversation in the barber shop and conversation in a barber shop about performers can raise more excitement than an inoffensive mouse could at a suffragette convention. To make it more interesting, then something about performers, because Sylvester Russell was my brother. Then another fellow said that he was going to Chicago to work with Russell and get his biff on in him so as to make Russell give him a good write-up. Just then a guitar picker struck the chord of "B" broad. I got broad and parodied a used-to-be popular song thus: Ise known North, East, South and West He is a critic who has done stood the test of time. Sometimes he speaks kinder rough. Someone 'Cause he's made out of pig iron and stuff.' It would take a whole regiment to bluff My brother, Sylves." J. M. BUSBY—MAE ARMSTRONG. We are on the coast, and business is good out among the oranges and lemons, and the company is enjoying the luxuries of life. Our interlocutor Thomas Thompson has been on the sick list, but is able to sing "Sweetheart of My Dreams." Our band and orchestra are under the able leadership of J. C. Scott and Willie Timmons. We had the pleasure of meeting the 101 Ranch Show. Many glad handshakes were exchanged. Charley Smith, our stage manager, is still wearing the smile that won't come off. Extreme ends, Jacob Ward, Eddie Singleton; second, Steven Jones, A. T. McGuder. Miss Effie Moore, our leading lady, is the cynosure of all eyes. Soubrettes, Mae Armstrong, Ruth Crosby, Lena Hulett. Master Tidus Triplett, our young cornet player, is great. Our saxophone quartette is doing nicely. Hamp Harper and Willie Hulett are still pleasing the noonday audiences with their slide trombone playing. REX THEATER. WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. For the special benefit of Southern performers I wish to say just a few words to them through your good paper. To the average performer knew the trouble and the success of placing tickets is, he would not ask that tickets be placed. If a performer has an act that he knows will go, he is perfectly safe in paying his own transportation. Not that the manager minds advancing tickets, but that the performer will skip with it, as the ticket is only good to the place it is placed for, but the average ticket agent is so careless with the placing of the tickets we will receive. The railroad company be placed, and we don't know whether we will have a show next week or not. I have had quite a little trouble along that line recently. I had a team of four to come in two days late on account of the railroad company. You could imagine what the essence of four will do for even a large bill. Another point: If, when writing for a date with a manager, you mention I or another person in an email getting books stand three chances to an email getting books short time ago I got a message from a team like this: "Can you use our act?" "Can you use our transportation?" "I wired them back," "Send cuts and photos; open Monday advertising you." I knew they would make good because they knew they would, or not be willing to risk transportation. Another thing about a good many of the colored performers on a day of draw 50 cents and a dollar would be willing to transport it in such a way that they have nothing to show for it on pay day but a loan check. Hope all the performers will agree with me along this line, and whether you do or not, I want every one that sees this truth to hear it and agree with me what you think of it. I also want I will answer every one who wishes to write me. W. E. PIKE, Manager. JOHNSON AND DEAN IN AUSTRALIA. A Leading Vaudeville Team. The following excellent report of Johnson and Dean was noted in a publication of Adelaide, Australia: "Johnson and Dean being billed as Ambassador of singers and dancers." We quite believe that the description quoted is warrants. since Charlie Walker (now stone blind, poor fellow, yet still working in the halls in England) and his partner, Ida Browne in Australia, has any 'coon double' of such talent in singing and dancing and of such gorgeous wardrobe, been seen out here. The lady of the double is in a dress that is very similar to singing voice that you could hunt the ranks of the colonial and English musical comedy and opera companies in vain to find a more melodious one. Then, she is wearing a beautiful beauty—all genuine. She is truly a beautiful woman, and so delicate is her (racially) brunette type, that it is hard to imagine how she would be a brocade bow being on the face of the skirt, the eccentric-angular cut of which from each hip is heavily trimmed in black. The green being plied with steel grey ostrich plumes. Her second costume was one of rich brown and gold filagree and sequin effect, a gorgeous make, black and white. She is pending from the corsage edge, an inverted V opening over the full length of the skirt, allowing a beautiful coral pink tint to be shown, the train to the back of the dress, the neck banded by the lady in dancing. Her jewelry with this costume included a 200-guinea set of diamond errings, a 500-guinea diamond sunburst necklace, a 500-guinea diamond sunburst necklace worn over the breasts. Her third and last costume was a royally rich principal boy's one which showed her superfigure off most effectively. Johnson and will appear every night next week." EASTERN NEWS (By Billy E. Jones.) Cook and Stevens at Shea's theater, Buffalo, N. Y. The Mobile Serenaders at the Washington theater, Boston, Mass. Miller and Lyles at Poll's theater, at Bridgeport, Conn., this week. The Ten Dark Knights at Polis theater, Worcester, Mass., this week. Anderson and Golns at the Delancey Street theater, New York City. The Boldens at the Fulton theater, Brooklyn. The act is going big. King and Gee this week at the Grand Opera House, New Haven, Conn. The Sambo Girls are at the Orpheum theater, Harrisburg, Pa., this week. John Phillips, the Boston baritone, now en route with Black Patti Company. The "Follies of 1911," with Bert Williams, closed the season at Scranton, Pa. Saturday night. Andrew Gribble and "The Possum Hollow University" at the Comedy theater, Brooklyn, N. Y. The Blue Mouse theater is doing a good business this week. High-class vaudeville and photo plays. Eugene Hellman, the Black Wizard of vaudeville, is making preparations for his new act next season. Performers playing Washington, D. C., should call and see M. F. Denney, the professional tailor, 1225 9th street. Miss Emma Butler, the pleasing singer of popular melodies, is meeting with success with the Black Patti company. The Black Patti Company on route: April 8, Port Jervis, N. J.; April 12 to 13, Pisfield, N. J.; April 15 to 20, Baltimore, Md. Billy E. Jones, the singing comedian, on route with Black Patti Company, April 16, Schuyctady, N. Y.; April 8, Port Jervis, N. Y. The Ramsey Sisters, now with the Black Patti will go into vaudeville as soon as the season closes, which will be some time in May. The Noller Family, musical artists, at Washington, D. C., now rehearsing the new popular melodies for their summer engagement. Hart, late of Avery and Hart, has joined hands with J. Rosamond Johnson. They opened at Yonkers, N. Y., and scored quite a success. Ross Bros. music publishers, 717 S street, are getting some good numbers out this season. Performers, send in compositions to be published. Mattie Phillips is scoring a success through the West. This week the act is playing the Orpheum theater, Zanewille, Ohio, April 4, 5 and 6. Zel Bledseaux is one of the big hits of the Black Patti show when he enters the stage in the last act as the cat doing the Teddy, which is very clever. Miss Ada Dumigan, the pleasing son of Black Patti with Black Patti show, is scoring a success. She sends her regards to all friends. Schenectady this week. Brown, Clark and Brown, novelty sketch artists, are still making a success with Frank Montgomery's Dixie Players at the Howard theater, Washington, D. C. Syphax & Downey, professional hair dressers, are always willing to cater to the professional ladies playing Washington, D.C. and would do well to call at 1832 7th street, N.W. Alice Miss Ramsey, the charming soubrette, is still throwing the "Monkey over the footballs with a forty-round weight. On route with the Black Patti show. James Woodson, the well-known bass singer, en route with the Black Patti show, is meeting with success. Will play Baltimore the week of April 20 with the above named show. Regards to friends. At the Howard theater this week Frank Montgomery's Dixie Players are presenting "In Kokomo," a musical cocktail, which was a big success. The cast is excellent. At the Fairyland theater this week Frank Kearney, manager, high-class vaudeville and moving pictures. Performers send your open time. Can give six weeks if you want. Business continues good at this house. Chas. Bougis, en route with the Black Patti show, is busy rehearsing a new act for vaudelleville. We hope to see him succeed. So much is being bought, is you don't go back to your first love—with the road companies. Performers complain that they cannot get work. The colored performers, some of them, do not even know how to ap- pear their own songs in New York by jumping their contracts, which makes it hard for the well-meaning performer. They should follow King and Gee, Jones and Grant, Cook and Stevens, pupils and others who are working steadily. --- The Black Patti Company opened Monday at the Franklin theater, Worcester, Mass., to a crowded house. A very pretty chorus of young girls accompanied Mine, a 12-year-old singing captured the audience. Other well-known performers with this aggregation are: Al F. Watt, Lillie Seguin. Billy E. Jones, Mamie Butler, Jeanetteook. Billy, Blanche Howell, Joan, Amy, Bill, W. A. Cook, Chas, Bougia, Ada Dunigan, John Phillips, John Grant, Mr. Lorant, Ed Borden, James Woodson, Zel Bledseux, Fannie Edmonds. Julius Glenn, the star comedian, is a laugh from start to finish, a company he co-owns, colored companies on the road today, as they are mostly vaudeville performers, who can play any first-class house at a moment's notice. . . . The color question bobbed on sharply WANTED! First class acts of recognized ability to open the RUBY THEATRE, Louisville, Ky., under new management. Theatre will open on or about April 15 1912. Performers send in your open time. Address all mail to ROBERT B. JOPLIN, Manager, 914 W. Walnut Street, Louisville, Ky. Johnson & Koper, Simms & Thompson, write. WANTED! First class acts of all kinds. Good novelty acts of recognized ability. Address JOHN T. GIBSON, Prop Auditorium Theatre, South Street above Broad, Philadelphia, Pa. MONOGRAM THEATRE The most popular Vaudeville and Moving Picture House on the South Side PLAYING ALL FIRST CLASS ACTS Hourly Performances from 8 to 11 - Matinees Sundays and Holidays ADMISSION 10c 3028 State street, near 31st street, Chicago, Ill NEW CIRCLE THEATRE Largest Colored Theatre in Philadelphia, Pa., wants first class acts. Three or more weeks hits. Write now. NEW CIRCLE THEATRE, 1321-23-25 South St., Philadelphia, Pa. Special Notice We are booking solid for the Spring and Summer season. Send in open time and photos of act at once. Address Chorus Girls who can sing and dance always wanted. Write or wire A. LILLARD, 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 Montreal during the week and assumed prominence in the interests both of the theaters and the police. The headline performer at the Orpheum in Montreal, who was the first performer after each performance by plainclothes men. The actor had received threatening letters, addressed to Mr. Kelly on account of this use of the word "nigger." Mr. Kelly puts on an act called "The Virginia Jail," an impersonated stage game and all the prisoner. The latter class includes Irishmen and Italians, but the majority of them are Negroes, and in composing his southern atmosphere Mr. Kelly makes frequent use of the word "nigger." The actors have taken extreme offense at this. Mr. Kelly's engagement closed Saturday night. VALDOSTA, GA. By W. F. Williams "Ruth, the Moabitis," a cantata of great fame, will be played at the City Opera House by the young people in the near future. . . Mrs. L. Frank Whitehead and Mrs. L. Frank Fla. . . Mr. Wille Page, of Augusta, spent Monday in Valdosta. . . Mrs. Lena Rice is still confined to her bed. . . Mesdames had and Season 11 be remembered by the Indianapolis ladies of St. Paul A. M. E. Church have organized a mock conference. It is well supplied with bishops and elders. . . Mr. and Mrs. John Young, of Jacksonville, are visiting the game on South Patterson. . . Get in the game and buy The Freeman. . . A colored theater would do well in Valdosta. Some showman ought to invest for a fortune. . . Mr. and Mrs. John Young will visit to Fort Valley, Ga. . . Dr. Strickland has purchased a good Buick car. . Dr. A. B. Dockett left Tuesday night for Troy, Ala. . . The Knights of Pythias of Valdosta will make a stiff fight for the 1913 Grand Lodge. . The Freeman will be delivered to you on request. On sale, the Rockett's drug store, W. F. Williams, agent. ARGENTA (ARK.) HAS A BUNCH OF STAR TOSERS. Special to THE FREEMAN. Lum Croxton, star pitcher of the Cuban Giants, of New York City, has together a bunch of stars of the South. He will start them on the road the 1st of May. He would like to hear from all first-class clubs. He sends his best wishes to William Gatewood, also all of the players in the national game. Address Lum Croxton, 208 South Cypress street, Argentia, Ark. WAN First class acts of recognized ability to open new management. Theatre will open on or abut time. Address all mail to ROBERT B. JOPLIN Ky. Johnson & Roper, Simms & Thompson, w. WAN First class acts of all kinds. Good address JOHN T. GIBSON, Prop above Broad, Philadelphia, Pa. MONOGRAM The most popular Vaudeville and MOPLAYING ALL FIRST CLASS ACTS Hourly Performances from 8 to 11 ADMISSION 10c 3028 S NEW CIRCLE Largest Colored Theatre in Philadelphia, Pa. hits. Write now. NEW CIRCLE THEATRE Special To Perf We are booking solid for the Send in open time and photos of Andrew J Howard Theatre Chorus who can sing and dance always A. LILLARD, Please give this your Globe Theatre, Jack Frank Crowd, Own The New Continuous Vaudeville Change of Program M Finest Theatre 3110-12 State St., Performers Send in 15 That Last Shot Get Him You Can't Expect Kisses From Me Baby Baboon Dance Stop Kicking My Dog Around Ragtime Gobblin Man Chicken Reel Song You'll Never Know What a Good Fellow I've Been Oh! You Circus Day What Did I Say That For PER COPY by MAIL THE WM.FOSTER MUSIC CO. 3025 SOUTH STATE ST WANTED Man or woman, in each locality, as organizer for the United Loyal Neighbors of the World. Easy, pleasant work. $50 to $100 a month. This society is the many complete protection for the home ever devised by mortal man. New plan. No dying to win: pays white alive. Write quick. B. F. JOHNSON, Sup C., 814 South Seventh St., Louisville, Kv. NOTICE! To Performers Have You Played The Playhouse beautiful. Leased by Andrew and the only place of its kind in the world. Refined and selected photoplays. Instructive, en- taining and inductive of race pride. Address Manager Howard Theatre T, Bet. 6th & 7th Sts. N. W., Washington. D. C. J. C. Patton the official PHOTOGRAPHER —FOR— ——FOR—— Special prices to all Theatrical people PHOTOS FOR NEWSPAPER CUTS can be secured in 15 minutes. Ten Minute Post Cards Three for 25 cents. Enlarging and Framing Open from 9 a. m. to 11 p. m. Old phone, Main 1333; New phone, 1894 K. 422 Indiana Avenue. TED! the RUBY THEATRE, Louisville, Ky., under April 15 1912. Performers send in your open N. Manager, 914 W. Walnut Street, Louisville, Wite. TED! novelty acts of recognized ability. Auditorium Theatre, South Street THEATRE iving Picture House on the South Side ORCHESTRA THE VERY BEST -Matinees Sundays and Holidays state street, near 31st street, Chicago, Ill. THEATRE wants first class acts. Three or more weeks! 1321-23-25 South St., Philadelphia, Pa. Notice formers Spring and Summer season. of act at once. Address Thomas, Washington, D. C. Girls days wanted. Write or wire Amusement Director. immediate attention. Jacksonville, Florida. Manager and Manager, New Grand ville, Moving Pictures Monday and Thursday in America Chicago, Ill. Your Open Time. of the Day West Virginia Dance Dearest Memories My Little Honey Man O! Mr. Dream Man Lovie Dear Ragtime Violin Everybody Is Doing it Now I Want a Girl Like My Dad Married Mammie's Shuffle Dance Little Thing Love HITS of the SEASON CHICAGO. IN THE FIELD OF SPORT. BY HAROLD C. MCGATH. SPORTING NEWS. Joe Janette, the colored heavyweight, easily put Griff Jones out of the contest in four rounds at the New York Olympic Club last week. He scored Jones for a count of seven, and when Jones arose the referee called the light off, declaring the contest was too one-sided. Those who have not seen Kid Fields in action will have a chance soon. Fields has been matched to box Ben Harper before the Colored Athletic Club. Indianapolis, some time in April, dates have not been fixed, but box any weighty feature in the country. He can be addressed in care of The Freeman. Manager J. W. White, of the Standard basketball team, Nashville, Tenn., has gotten together one of the strongest colors teams the South has ever known in A. Sweeney, captain and first base; C. Hill, second base; J. Allen and Kennedy, shortstop; and T. Blair, third field. J. Webster, left field, Turner, right field; Martin, Calhoun, Brinnon and Sneed, pitchers; Crow, Bidits and Allen, catchers. Manager White expects to leave Nashville the middle of April for a tour to St. Louis and Kansas. OAKLAND, CAL., TO HAVE FAST BASEBALL TEAM. That Oakland will have one of the fastest colored teams in the West is almost assured, as Manager Clarke has signed up players who on the past week have been valuable members in their positions. The team is to be known as the "Twin City" Ball Club, and expect to open their playing season about the time Clarke leaves of the club, he put forth every effort to make this team a winner from the beginning of the season. He has signed up C. Bost, the crack shortstop who played with the Chicago Leaf Giants in Los Angeles, last winter, and who later joined the fast Occidentals, of Salt Lake, and proved to be one of the best players in the Utah State League shortouts in fielding. Bost also holds what is supposed to be the world's record for home runs in one inning of a regular big game, he played with the Oxies of Salt Lake last summer. Manager Clarke expects great things of Martin and Young Meadows, pitched great ball for different clubs last season. Houston, Richardson and Warwin Martin also are showing up remarkably well in spring practice. Middleton, who will be the older heads on the club, and they are busy getting the club ready for their season's work. But keep your eye on Oakland, Cal, and you will hear from the season is very many months old. A LITTLE TALK WITH FLYNN. His Personality—His Fighting Tactics —Johnson Says Sam McVey Is the Best. Hope—Champion Disappointed Cincinnati School Children. BY BILLY LEWIS. Since I had the pleasure of meeting the distinguished Johnson, and also the privilege of taking down a few things, I concluded it would be well to look. Mr. Dante told me to fight him next summer, "some time 'nother', to use a Negro expression. Mr. Burton, manager of the Empire Theater, was kind enough to pilot me through winding ways to the stare, where I met Flynn to make his appearance. Along the route to make his appearance of chorus girls doing their turn, and I came very nearly forgetting my mission, and as Dante might have said of Virgil: My hesitating steps were unnoted as we meandered through labyrinth of accessories and delights, and for a moment from the import of the duty before us. On receiving an introduction I jumped in at once with my talk. Flynn had just about two minutes before he went on. He asked me what he was doing to him. He surprised me in most every way. He appeared genteel to the utmost; really modest, bashful. A gentle smile played his face. Flynn was so pleased that I had heard so often, filled me with dismay. I thought he would appear me a roaring smile. Would he frighten away what I had to see? He would not, that he will be readily eaten up. With some men the smile is a close associate with terror. Knowing his reputation as a fighter to some extent, he did not take his gentle nature into account, but that he had stood ten rounds of Jack Johnson, which at least showed caravibility of taking a lot of punishment, if nothing more. And it may be set down that he is that kind of man—quietly determine. Flynn is what physicalists, if there are any such thing, would pronounce, but he is a proportioned, but is a trifle too stocky for that. 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I come from a physician who has made a special study of men, and I am convinced it is the surestaking combination for the cure of deficient manhood and vigor failure ever put together. I think I owe it to my fellow man to send them a copy in confidence, so that you can have there who is weak and discouraged with him, and drugging himself with harmful patent medicines, secure what I believe is the highest-acting restorative, upbuilding, SMPK-enriched NMEN enriched, devised and so cure himself some quite and quickly. Just drop me a line like this: Dr. A. E. Robinson, $831 Luck Building, Mich., and I will send you a copy of the book, 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. son, head, neck and shoulders suggest having been molded in one piece, however, was more regularity, uniformity, of the spindle form at the extremities of his limbs. If he were a candidate for a Greek god or the ideal Roman warrior he would stand very high in the balloon, but he would not stand anything else according. But it appears that regulation men are not the best service men. Abnormal means the unusual. The knotter and gnarled are the woodman's scheme and carried her scheme horizontally throughout. "Of course, you'll win, Mr. Flynn," says I. "I am going to try, says I. Candidate, to fight the fighters, it appears, are expected to always wear the affirmative. They go on the theory that it bolsters up the game. Flynn, however, had a notion of reticence which prevented him from being a general modest bearing. He spoke of his fighters on a at former time, making it clear that he quit fighting only when forced to do so. I asked him about his height, and he said he was 5 feet 10 inches. Johnson is 6 feet 1 inch. He has only one advantage over Johnson. if it may thus be that he was younger. I said that he was thirty years old. He does not appear old, but does not appear so bravant and full of life as Johnson. Had the pleasure, also, of seeing Flynn on the stage from the front. He took on a local colored fighter, the "Indiana Kid," called attention to his style of fighting, calling it in-fighting. It was a puzzer to me, having seen nothing like it before. He appeared mainly defense, he protected his face, which he kept down between his short reach guard. At no time did he square himself to give a blow, but kept his eyes closed beside his head. His object seemed to be short uppercalls all of the time, relying on his massive arms to receive what blows befall him. His object, seemingly, was a punch that he would punches that they would count for a less number of good ones. With a tall man like Johnson, the top of his head is an actual battle. Then Johnson has a beat hug. While it will not be so effectual with Flynn, owing to his terrible chest and shoulders, yet he will be able to use it. Then he then look out for that neck and back. The audience did not very much admire Flynn's style, after having seen Johnson and Langford, whom it was almost imple-mented to fight but when and where they chose. It may be that Flynn understands what he is doing much better than his spectators do. His standing-to attitude may protect him from the long-distance blows. When Johnson was in St. Louis, he said regarding his possible opponent: But the man whom I regard as the most important of Sam McVey, McVey could wallop any of the men in the heavyweight class to-day, outside of myself, I believe. Morris and Palzer, Kennedy and Wells work. Morris and Palzer may develop into dangerous men in the heavyweight division. But to-day they are in a crude state. It will require lots of experience to make them finished fighters, when I believe Morris will be too slow. "Palzer, they tell me, isn't a quick man, he's a standup for a first-class fighter. The result is big fighters, though, as that when they get tired they wabble. They are top-heavy and can't hold up. After you get them in that condition a stiff wall will move." Speaking again of McVey, he is the only one who looks as if he had any show with the champion. As has been said time and again, he has made of the men physically, their work, victories, youth, vigor, all help make up the judgment. But Champ Johnson wants to be careful about how he keeps his engagements. When he was in Cincinnati not long since he went early the day. It was his first visit to him, and he was proud of his being there. Even the school children thought it would be something to see him. An engagement was made for him, and he had best schools. I should have said that Detective Frank Hall, who was up from that city last week, is responsible for the fact he had made the arrangement when the morning came for the visit the champion sent word that he had been the evening gone and he had to discuss the advisability the champion meeting school children, perhaps the cautious, conservative, would not push the matter. However, distinguished years of learning to see the best in all ways may be of more good than harm—in the establishing of ideals. He said he was going; he should have gone—let caution come over time, if there were doubt of propriety. Nine thousand six hundred dollars is some money, but that's/the loss Johnson is threatened with, and by the government, which has long since turned the population to be a telentless processor, or no other of the story is untrue. Johnson is no other colored man can drop $10,000 at a clip. Error travels on horseback, while truth is too often a snail. One of our Southern publications had it recently that Johnson is all down and out already. Here is what it says: "Pugillist Jack Johnson lives riotously almost over the world." Think of it, and it is of a rapid transit, telephones, automobiles and flying machines. Johnson is not broke, and, according to his determination, he never will be. But at that, the time he made the assertion, he did not have a government "touch" for something like $10,000. The unsophisticated writer puts it this way: "Jack Johnson is going some. He has almost exhausted his fortune for fun and pleasure. It is reported he was compelled to pawn his jeans and a small�icage through his pay his attendants and defray other expenses. There's nothing in sight for Johnson to fight just now, so he had better cut down expenses. The money he threw out to the English vagabonds on the streets of London could have gone to assist many a poor, uncared That was the rumor months ago; it is ancient history, and once long since been forgotten, long ago, but now A DIAMOND NECKLACE Mrs. Jack Johnson Has—Duty Unpaid. Must Gamble With, at $8.00 CHICAGO—A little oversight on the part of Jack Johnson, pusillist, when he encountered the customs officers in New York, on his return from the coronation of King George, is about to cost him the seat. If the black man's fighting blood prompts him to contest the charges of smuggling that have been preferred against him, he will be prosecuted by the government in the immediate future, with the prospect that the cost will be much higher. As soon as Johnson returned to Chicago his blonde wife exhibited a remarkable diamond necklace that became the centerpiece of the street. Sagacious members of the heavyweight's own race couldn't recall that they THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER had heard of his declaring this magnificent gift to the customs officials, and possibly they whispered, that he had formed to pay duty on it? They became so curious that they finally wrote a letter to the New York customs offices and found that there had been no such letter. Raid Is Ordered. From the New York office the information was forwarded to Chicago, with the assistance of the military ordered. The secret service men made a late visit to the Johnson residence several days ago and departed with the treasure, the numerous protests of the pugilist and his wife. Lawrence Jacobs, assistant district attorney, who is handling the case, conspired to have the judge said that the necklace was worth $6,000. Mr. Jacobs said he could not settle with the government for less than $8,600, which amounted to 60 per cent for his forgetfulness. SHEFFIELD, ALA. Special to the FREEMAN hospital by William Jackson on 19th street was destroyed by fire Sunday evening at about 6 o'clock. Mrs. S. D. Elliott of Decatur spent several days in her home. She returned home Sunday accompanied by her son. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson Abernathy desire to thank their many members and friends for their ness and death of their child who died recently. Mrs. Pallace Patton, who has been quite ill for several days, died last night. Mrs. Pallace Patton was at the residence. She was laid to rest at the City Cemetery by the Rising Sons gatherer. She was protection for the Missouri girl. She leaves tighter and verral children to mourn her loss. CORSICANA, TEXAS. Special to THE FREEMAN. The remains of Mrs. Belle Taylor, who died in Sacramento, Cal. March 24th, arrived in the city March 29th and was buried March 31st from the First Index of the University of California, a member of the Daughters and Knights of Tabor, also The Ancient Order of Pilgrims No 117. Mrs. Taylor leaves many friends and relatives to mourn her loss. We are glad to hear of Mr. A. Harold Bentley, the past again. The dancing contest at the East Side Park was a grand success Friday night, March 29th. The judges decided in favor of Mr. Sam Branch and Miss Pauline Alford...Parties wishing the Freeman apply at People's drug store. Advertisers, write us at once concerning space in our annual spring number and baseball edition of The Free- LANGSTON (OKLA.) UNIVERSITY Special to THE FREEMAN "The annual concert of Langston University was given under the direction of the Athletic Association. The program follows: Quartette, "Sweet and Low," Mrs. L. Evans, Mrs. Z. N. Breaux, Prof. Marshall, selected, Miss M. Ritchie; reading, Scene III, Act IV, "Julius Caesar" (Shakespeare), Prof. S. L. Sadler, Prof. Chas, F. Sneed; solo, "A Dream," Miss Marshall; solo, "Sing On," Mrs. L. Evans; solo, "The Road to Saville," Prof. Chas, F. Sneed; reading, "The Progress of Madness," Miss D. Toombs; intermission; duet, "Across the Lagoon," Prof. Henderson, Mrs. Z. N. Breaux; solo, "Oh Robert," Mrs. L. Evans; reading, Miss M. Ritchie; reading, Charlot Race," Miss D. Toombs; solo, "For All Eternity," Mrs. L. Evans; duet, "Farewell, Dear Heart," Mrs. L. Evans, Mrs. Z. N. Breaux, announcements Press, freshments were served, freshments were served, President Page said he had never witnessed a program that pleased him more. The students would like to have one often. President Page made a trip to Oklahoma City. Mr. Marshall selected freshments. It is being built by the students of the university under Prof. Richardson. LEXINGTON, KY., NOTES. MIDWAY (KY.) NOTES: (By Jessie Scott.) Special to THE FREEMAN. Rev. Polk, pastor of the First Baptist church, will be here the second Sunday in this month.....Mr. Thompson, of Versailles spent Sunday in the city, Miss. Josephine Tolbert, class at the State Normal school, spent few days in the city.....The political league met at the U. B. F. hall Monday night. Mr. Hardin Tolbert, state organization of the city, whose headquarters are at Frankfort, Ky. was in the city and appointed Mr. Jesse Scott as your correspondent. Mr. Tolbert was highly entertained at the residence of the Rev. D. C. Carter, livered a lecture at the St. Joan E. M. church of which Rev. D. C. Carter is pastor. Mr. Tolbert gave some very interesting points as to why the colored people own people, and gave away the needs of copies of the Freeman—The fight for grand chancellor of the nights of Pythias of the state seems to be almost as hot as the Diggs of Georgetown seems to be the man for the position. He is well known throughout the state, and has the confidence of a host of friends. The sentiment of Diggs, Rev. D. C. Carter is preparing to go to conference. His many friends express regret at his leaving. He was called to Shelbyville to preach the I. S. H. sermon. He will be on account.....For copies of The Freeman see Mr. Jesse Scott, your correspondent. MARSHALL, TEXAS. Mr. E. W. Thompson returned from Ft. Worth, where he has been attending the bedside of his sister... The baseball season has opened and games are being played. Boys, it will pay you to watch Wiley University. They are noted for good pitchers, catchers and batters. They let the ball go through the fields. East Marshall, died at her home. The gold medal contest given at Wiley University March 29 was witnessed by a crowded chapel. Five winners. First place in baseball and fielding is cordially invited to be present at the Easter exercises of the following named churches: Miles Chapel, C. M. E. Chapel, P. A. Chapel, M. E. m.; Ebenezer M. E. church, 7:39 p. m. The president of Wiley University is planning for a new science hall... Prof. Wiley, with mumps, is able to be his work The dreaded disease, meningitis, is still having its effect in the city. Two reports reported last week. Mr. John Pearce, a businessaller in the city last week, told Crownards has joined Bethesda choir. The Missionary Society rendered an excellent program last Sunday at 3 p.m. Adherents, including paper, the Duty of a Wife to Husband and Wiley; address, "The Duty of a Christian to the Church"; Mrs. Alice Blain, Sermon by Rev. W. F. Sims. , Mr. Will and Miss Fannie Bailey were married to the Carmen of church. Rev. A. G. Glass officiated. All subscribers of the Freeman will please pay up on or before the 17th of June. Prof. S. S. Haywood and M. C. C. Haywood please give us your news and also yours ad. Advertising rates, 5e per ad. NASHVILLE, TENN Special to THE FREEMAN At the Twelfth Avenue theater, L. W. Wastell, manager, Bradford and Bradford are cleaning up with "You'll Never Know Good Fellow You've Been Until I Gone Away Away Millions of Miles" wing dancer, is a screamer, Little Mattie Ford, soubrette, is taking encounters nightly singing "Everybody's Doing It." Walter Shipman our phenomenal bartone singer, is playing the role of a girl. Don't Mention My Name. J. C. Moore is making good in his black face character using his own compositions. Ed Davis is playing to packed houses nightly. IN BOWLING GREEN, KY. Church, Society and Political Events. (By J. F. Moxley, 626 Fourth Street.) Special to the FREEMAN. The ladies of Taylor's Chapel A. M. E. e church have been working hard in making preparation for the Easter program. A church will be held on Kris Trumbamph. will be rendered at 7:30 p.m. there. New Rupture Cure Don't Wear a Truss Brooks' Appliance. New discovery. Wonderful. No obnoxious springs or pads. Automatic Air Cushions. Binds and draws the broken parts together as you would a broken limb. No salves. No appliance. No Durable. cheap. Sent on trial. Pat. Sept. 10. 71 PETER H. BURKE CATALOGUE FREE, C. E. BROOKS, 135 State St. Building, Marshall, Mich. Mme. C. J. 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Magic Shampoo Drier $1.00. Magic Alcohol Heater $0.50. Liberal terms to agents. Write for literature today. Magic Shampoo Drier Co. Minneapolis, Minnesota. been no pains spared to make this one of the greatest Easter programs witnessed for many years. Rev. Green Price, pastor for many years, will deliver the Easter sermon Sunday, will deliver the 11 o'clock. He will take for his theme and in fifth chapter of the Corinthians, and in sixth verse. And that he was buried, and that he rose, on day according to the Scriptures." The district convention committees are working hard for the delegation at large in the House of Goosevelt Club of which Dr. S. H. James, John Brown, James G. Potter, Jr. Sand Ferrell, are the exclusive committee, is conducting its district meetings at the club is conducting meetings at Odd Fellows prominent speakers from all over the district are making strong appeals to the colored citizens at large. Their headquarters are understaking establishment. The Presbyterian Sunday school has charged of the Easter 7 program. "A Cantata With the Easter Symbols." Rev. J. W. Botts, pastor, will deliver the Easter sermon at 11 a. m., taking for his theme Matt. 28:6. "He is not here; for he is risen as he said. Come and see the place where the Lord lay.... The Christian Endeavor at 7:15. The public is cordially invited.....Mr. and Mrs. William T. Parker have returned home from Detroit, Mich. Many friends greeted them on their return. Mr. Parker has been employed on the government steamer for the season.....Mr. George Clay has purchased a three-room cottage on Park street.....Mrs. Ellen Callaway, who has been ill with rheumatism for several weeks, is still improving at her home in Jonesville.....Mrs. Patterson, of Smith Grove, Ky., fell dead Sunday evening at her home. Mr. Mack Parker, her nephew, was called to her home from Bowling Green, Ky., as soon as possible, and other relatives at a distance were notified. Mrs. Patterson was a highly respected citizen of this community. 88 The late arrivals of lace curtains disclose some new and extremely novel ideas—not frail novelties, but designs of unusual merit—curtains that have style combined with substantial utility, that will withstand the wear and tear of laundering. By a fortunate purchase we are able to offer about a hundred pairs of novelty net curtains in white and Arabian colors, which were made to sell for $4.50 a pair. Today's price of these will be $2.75. New Sunfast as well as washable drapery material, our own importation in the season's best shades of blue, green, rose and brown, double width goods in several patterns, at the unusual price of $1.00 a yard —Third floor, north CITY AND VICINITY Miss Hattie Butler has returned from Chicago. Mrs. Daisy Croker, of South Bend, is the guest of Mrs. J. T. V. Hill. Mrs. Liana Niemann, of the Charity House, spent Sunday in Louisville, Ky. Miss Luli Flint, of Louisville, spent a few days in the city, the guest of Miss Lucy Flint. Mrs. J. T. V. Hill entertained teachers of the Louisville schools last Saturday at dinner. Misses Florence Gibson and Rubena Rogers, teachers in the public schools, spent few days in the city. Misses Marietta Pickens, Jessie Carter and Carrie Pate, of Louisville, were the guests of Mrs. A. H. Henderson. Miss Dora Maxwell, a teacher of Louisville, spent a few days in the city, the guest of Dr. and Mrs. S. A. Furniss. Miss D. Lillian Tillman, a teacher of Louisville, spent a few days in the city, the guest of Dr. and Mrs. S. A. Furniss. The Woman's Club entertained at whist Thursday evening, at the residence of Mrs. James N. Shelton, in California street. Attorney J. H. Humes, of Louisville, Ky., was called to this city on account of the death of his brother, Edward Humes. Mrs. Brenta W. Bausley returned to Indianapolis Wednesday of last week, after an extended visit in Chicago, for an indefinite stay. Rev. S. G. Turner, of Dayton, O., was in the city last Wednesday. He had been in attendance at the Columbus, O., M. E. Church Conference. Rev. J. L. Thompson, of Phillips Chapel, was called to his former home. Mr. Sterling, Ky., last Tuesday, on account of the death of his mother. Interesting Easter exercises were witnessed at Phillips Chapel last Sunday, throughout the day. Mr. Geo. L. Knox gave an entertaining address in the evening. Mrs. Anna E. Webber and Mrs. Sarah Cousins, formerly of Indianapolis, left Chicago, Ill. Tuesday night, April 2, for Los Angeles, Cal., for permanent residence. The charity ball, May 6, at the Pythian Hall, under the auspices of the Ladies' Auxiliary of Lincoln Hospital, is expected to be one of the social events of the season. Mr. A. E. Meyzeek, principal of the Normal School, Louisville, spent a few days in the city, the guest of Dr. and Mrs. S. A. Furniss. He returned via Terre Haute, where he visited his sister, Mrs. Ida Harris. PHILLIPS CHAPEL M. E. CHURCH Drake and West Streets—Rev. J. L. Thompson, Pastor. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Special at 8 p. m. Special at 8 p. m. Special music by the choir. The church will give a house picnic at 7:13 713 California street. Thursday, April 18. WOMAN'S CIVIC CLUB EXTENDS THANKS. The Woman's Civic Club extends thanks to the various clubs, ministers and the public in general for their presence at Bethel A. M. E. Church, March 29. The club plans to secure, from time to time, a new location interested in the uplift of the race, to lecture to the citizens of Indianapolis. We beg leave to submit the following report: Money collected, $133; money expended, $69.20; the profits, amounting $63.80; deposited in the treasury of Plan C club for the establishment of a day nursery. CORINTHIAN BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES. The Easter Sunday was very much enjoyed by this church and congregation. The Sunday school was largely attended by the children, who held the pastor preached an excellent sermon on the "Resurrection," and at the morning services baptized two happy converts, and the pastor was assisted by Rev. Seymour Lewis. The song service by the choir was charming selections, and was asked to repeat several pieces next Sunday morning. 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, Vaughn Bros. drug store, Phk's Pharmacy, Eureka drug store, Hadley Bros. druggists; Robt. P. Blodau, James H. No, Graves Pharmacy, Geraldine Phar- A very interesting meeting was held at this church last Monday evening by the Marion County Baptist Sunday School Union, and quite a number representing the different schools of our city were present. Bible lessons were indeed interesting. The question another interesting feature of this meeting. Many important questions were asked and answered by Rev. Edward Lewis, who conducted the question box. The Young People's Aid Society of this city held a Sunday evening. A good program will be arranged meeting. Every one is invited to visit all Sunday services. You are welcome. ISAAC B. ATKINSON. Issac B. Atkinson, of Louisville, Ky., is in the city in the interest of a movement for the bettering of the race. He hopes, among other things, to have enough people interested in going to Africa to make the effort worth while. Mr. Atkinson is a graduate of the University of Louis, August 4, 1912, and for which a call has already been made. The following persons of Jeffersonville, Ind. have signified willingness to take part in the [Picture of a man in a suit and bow tie]. deliberations; James Smith, Dock Harris, R. H. Hayes, Dr. Sam Wright, Mrs. Mary Welch, Mrs. Susan Hayes, Indiana, the promoter thinks, will be represented. The following persons from Louisville, Ky, are expected: P. A. Curtis, Allen O. Cay, B. Claxton, Sandy Brown, John Page, M. B. Crawford, John Wilkes, Wayman Sherrill, Henry Clay, Joseph Bridgewater. Kentucky will have twenty delegates to the national congress. Y. M. C. A. NOTES Much enthusiasm is being manifested in the second big meeting, to be held by the colored men's branch of the Y. M. C. next Sunday at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 100 West 12th Street, Fayette streets, at which time the Hon. W. L. Taylor, ex-attorney general of the State of Indiana, will be the speaker. He will deliver an address on the subject "Effusion: Women and Children." Men, women and children are invited to this meeting, and the church should be crowded to overflowing for this occasion. The membership of the association will turn out in a body and the members will attend the West North and California streets, and will be headed by its own band, marching to the place of meeting. The members of the band will appear in their new uniforms for the first time. A concert will be prepared which will consist of numbers by the Y. M. C. A. Orchestra, under the leadership of Mr. A. A. Taylor, and the Y. M. C. A. Band, under the direction of the Jerick Clay. Congregational singing will be held. Of the program of the program, A splendid corps of ushers is being provided to look after the careful handling of the vast crowd which is expected. The program will be 1:30 p.m. Everybody will be made welcome. The committee of management of the colored men's branch of the Yung Men's Christian Association is looking forward to the coming of the Tuskegee Band, Glee Club and Orchestra on May 3, at which time they will appear at Tomilion Hall under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. The group will be presenting their playing and singing are wonderful. The management is looking forward and depending upon the loyal support of the citizens to aid it in this great undertaking, they are sary to bring this organization to Indianapolis; and they deserve the encouragement of all in this great undertaking of giving Indianapolis the opportunity of colored organizations in the country. LOST RELATION Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Winn would like to know the whereabouts of their son, John G. Taylor, intending he was once G. Taylor, junior, Katie G. Roe, G. R. College, College, Mo. 1901. When last heard of was in Newport, Ark. 1905. Any one giving a correct statement of whereabouts will be rewarded. Address 3531 Twenty-third avenue, Oakland, May 4. DALLAS, TEXAS. Cordiality in Negro Business Places and Cash Bargain Days Will Help Restore Confidence and Is a Valuable Asset for the Business Ones. Special to THE FERMAN Special to THE FREELAN observed were by a large number of the race churches. All held services and the children held full sway, it being their day. Choice programs were presents to the large generations of the several choir-choirs. The smart set were on dress parade as usual. Ben Thomas, general repairer, wants to do that work for you, phone for help. In 1944, he was in D.P.A. for so, now. It is raining every day or so, now. Just think how you had to get water the last three years and some could hardly get it at all. So, rejoice and go to the world. So, you are in the year around just the same, and when it is dry we have the dust, and when it is wet we have the mud. So here we are in it all, and we do not know the time. No sideways are to go to the mud. Tell your men folks to get busy on these questions of importance in your districts now... We have a few Negatives about the people are coming full, who are debt dodgers. They are everybody they can get to owe, and then they call the persons or the firm anything but the right name because they try to do it. But if you are a few of that class of Negroes on our list from the pulpit down to the polisher who have about lied out when it comes to lying. They are here so we are going to be their feet lifting to us so we are people everywhere will know who they are and they will lose no time with a debt jumper and a liar. On Friday, Master J. G. Griffin, Jr., and thirty-six of the men are in the public service from the public of the long and other amusements from 3:30 to 6 p.m. It was Master Griffin's birthday. He was all smiles and just had to tell it to them all; the candles further told each other the old and the delicious fruits were served. Many of the little ones brought tokens of re-memoration. Masters Joseph and Robert Carpenter entertained a large number of the little little patients at the home, their parents, 2121 Clark street, last Sunday afternoon from 3 to 6 o'clock, with an Easter egg hunt and rabbit nest finders. The little people were�ed small fancy basket and they had to do their own hunting. It taught the little ones that to get things one must seek and find them before it is owned. What they are made of the goods, the goods should be built to learn the same lesson. All in all they had the time of their little lives... When your clothes, linens and other things of the home and place of business need laundering to be the same way so we are going to be the will do the rest. We are not to be THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER of the race that wewo etaoian etawn ta rightly applies itself to so many conditions of the race that one is lost in studying their way out. Apply it at will and it fits. We must be up and doing to beat the race. We will be in the way we do not. We'll use the new your motto and The Freeman your guide and you will be safe on progressive ideas of importance to you and all. Mr. John L. Jones and Miss� Walton at the St. Regis and Python play of Damon and Pythias. St. James A. M. E. church, on Monday night, April 22, and will be assisted by a strong cast of the best local talent, selected on account of ability. The project will be completed out of scenery. Walter Harwin, R. D. King, Prince Whitlow, Adolphus Haraway, Miss Julia Hefflin, Master Gus Burleson, Miss Caldwell, Isaac Mason, Richard Curry, N. C. W. W. and Golders are in the place of the race. The work will be from the uniform rank of pany 4, Pride of the West. The public is cordially invited to witness this play, which appeals to every Court and Sir night in the city.... Rev. Wilson Smith holds the rese- Sunday from the St. James A. M. E. church, Rev. Dr. J. E.s. andmanagements were under the auspices of St. Luke K. of P. Lodge, No. 1, assisted by the lodges in the clash and several other cigarettes. Rev. Smith was by thugs in a hold-up Monday night of last week. No arrests have as yet been made. There is a spirit among the Pythians in offering a rese- day of the author's most uplifting life. A rese- day of the author's most uplifting life is the most outrageous deed. Al lcfitzens, both black and white, sympathize with the bereaved family in these sad hours. The floral offerings were most beautiful. The K. of P. band played the funeral dances in the play. The play was the first time in Greenwood cemetary in the family plot. Mr. Jesse Tolmer was called to Waco last week to attend the funeral of his father, Mr. John Taylor. Mr. Adolphus Haraway is back from Franklin, where he visited relatives and friends for several days the past week. Mr. W. Sloan, of Pine Bluff, Ark., is here at the bedside of his daughter. Mr. Watt Shaw, at 2614 Lawrence street, is cutting prices on groceries to fit your pocketbook. Prof. N. W. Harrellee, principal of the Dallas colored high school, was been applied and delegated to the colored Educational Congress by Governor Colquitt. The congress will be held at Atlantic City, N. J., July 15 to 19....There are too many members of the race who are too eager to eat and drink at the white man's place, when then can get what they desire at some first class colored place, and this is one of the chief reasons that the white man treats so many of the race as they do at times. The race must be consoled that the members of the race must wholly rely on members of the race to stay in any kind of business. Therefore take your money and buy at Negro places...If you fail to get your paper on Monday, ask your postman, then see Griffin at 2922 Cochran street, and he will try and locate the cause of any delays. For the past few weeks sensations have broken all previous records here. These cases have been very important to the matter. The airship squad is more. Charges have been preferred against several patrolmen for disobeying orders; citizens calling for more and better protection by officials. Chief of Police-Ryan and Commissioner of Police Bartlett says the action adherence orders must be in the future in their departments. Judge Miller is being praised for his loyal stand against vice and crime. Judge Seay is gathering up the loose ends and reading strict charges to all who appear in his case. The quick comment follows on lights and muddy streets in their district, and vice that should be stopped among the race and the strict dealings by the law to all alike, wherever and whenever found, and let none escape who are guilty. Mr. H. D. Spears is on the track test. Mr. Gerry and the team are up and out in crutches. Father Minor is and is seen by his many comrades. Mr. James Thomas is home from the hospital, where he had a very difficult operation performed. He is reported much improved. Mr. Green is recovering. Mr. George Nutall is up after a severe attack of rheumatism. Mrs. M. C. Hampton is recovering from pneumonia, and several others are up and doing very nicely. Special to THE FREEMAN. Special to THE FREEMAN. Special to THE FREEMAN. Overcoming... Willis Burden, the leader of plenty of spring goods, also the latest spring styles for 1912. Give him your patronage. He guarantees satisfaction... Mr. Marsh Burden, the leader of plenty of entertainment given at the A. M. E. Church Monday night. April 8. Refreshments were served in the basement... The Mountain Climbers will play the bass in the church. The Mountain Climbers would like to make arrangements for a game with a baseball team of Indianapolis... Wayne Warner and Horace Brown have opened up a new street, and want all the young men's patronage... Willie Boyer and Master James Johnson spent Sunday in Marion and report a splendid time... Miss Jalalah Grace, the owner of Miss Grace Smith at Marion Ind. There will be a social given in the basement of the A. M. E. Bethel Church on Tuesday evening, April 9, for the benefactor of the leap year banquet will be given at the Bethel Church Friday night... Rev. E. Asher of Vermont, Ind., is the successor Rev. Carpenter of Trinity E. Church. The benefactor of Trinity E. Church. There was an entertainment given at Trinity M. E. Church Wednesday. An excellent program was rendered. Rescheduled for evening, enjoyed by plenty of people. Rev. Asher preached quite an effective sermon Sunday at the Trinity M. E. Church... The Baptist people raised the sum of $18.47 for repairing the Calvary Church. There is no indebtedness on the church. GUILD. TENN Special to THE FREEMAN. Our little theatre has been dark for near two weeks on account of high water. We was riding in selfs in the theatre and all of us had to go out of rooms and find the steps up to the hill. We got Mr. Peter. The water has gone down now and we opened up again Monday night, April 28, with a big bill. The gang all stuck together and, with a lot of water, he had to sell and send, and our worth of proprietor's and Bob Johnson, saw that all his people had just what they wanted during the two weeks of high water. All the bunch is as good as the jars of jars in the cool beer and this good spring water. After a good rest, every one promises to put their best foot front tomorrow night and give a real hot one of the new we will have to be naked home and the people haven't had no amusement for so long, they are crying for the show. The company consists of the following people: William Miss Victoria Malone, Mr. Mattie Whitman, Miss Sir Glyn, Davenport & Shackelford, Slim Butler & Happy, Orchestra, Mr. Sclelie Benjamin, pianist; the stout men, Mrs. Mr. C. M. Ross, trombone; Mr. Ludy Tots, Mr. Mr. Mr. Will Boyd, violin; Mr. Bob Johnson, sole owner; Mr. J. H. Williams, stage manager; Mr. Miles, assistant. We have had a long time in the industry and ready to be put in our car soon as she goes, and the work is the same. Would like to hear from all good acts, singles, doubles, soubrettes song and dance artist. None to good. Boozeight-the-man, James Tickets sent to right people. Address all mail care Bob Johnson, Guild, Tenn. MARRY! Hundreds of colored men and women willing. Information free. Write today. American Directory Company, N1. Dallas. Texas. BUSINESS LOCALS Dr. Oscar W. Langston, dentist, is now ready for business, located over H. J. GreatRemodeling Sale of Pianos One Dollar Down One Dollar Per Week We must move several pianos and players at once, before the decorators and carpenters commence work. Move every piano at cost, rather than have them damaged while remodeling. We have divided our entire stock in 5 lots and marked them at prices that will move them. Sanders' store, 218 Indiana avenue, room 5. Call and see him. The Crisis on sale at the Eureka Drug Store. Woodbine Perfume. Oh, how fragrant, exquisite, enchanting, bewitching. Only at Bloodau's Drug Store. The Crisis on sale at the Eureka Drug Store. WANTED - Active man in each locality. Tojoin this Society. Sick, accident, death benefits. And introduce our Memberships. All or spare time. $0 to $300 a month. No experience needed. Write for plans. Box NC 298, Covington, Ky. 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. Bloodau, drugstreet, Indianapolis, Ind. THE WILKERSON HOTEL. Phone New 4687. European plan cater in connection, American rates guests on American rates. Good service, moderate prices. James H. F. Wilkerson, prop, 315 N. Senate BOWMAN'S HAIR POMADE. Bowman's Hair Pomade, the wonderful Hair Grower, is now being praised by ladies all over the country (who have used it) to be the best ever placed on the market. 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The Race Needs This Place For Further Particulars Write 48 Welts St., Mt, Clemens, Mich.