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An Ad. in The Freeman is not an experiment, but an investment. Get the hait THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOL. XXV. NUMBER 35 REGENT LEAGUE MEET! THE GREATEST OF ANY YET HELD BY THIS AUGUST BODY JULIUS ROSENWALD A SPECIAL GUEST Sessions Held at Institutional Church—Dr. Washington Re-elected President by Acclamation—Next Meeting at Philadelphia—Other Meetings Held. By. R. W. Thompson. Chicago, Ill., Aug. 24, 1912. This has been a gala week in the historic "Windy City." The thirteenth annual session of the National Negro Business Association that has drawn to the West's greatest municipality the largest crowd of thrifty and progressive Negroes that it has ever before had the good fortune to have had. The state in the Union they came, and the stories told by merchant, farmer, professional man and industrial worker have not only possessed a strong degree of "human interest," but they have been hardened and hardened, and out of them will grow larger and far-reaching results in the varied activities in which the Negro race is engaged. The central figure of the sessions, of course has been Dr. Booker T. Washingto, the most prominent appearance, his magnetic personality and intensely practical utterances set the pace for the great gathering. All sure that the Chicago meeting of 1912 would be a positive and really productive of the series of commercial "experience meetings" of the race that had their beginning so auspiciously at Boston twelve months ago, now showing the rapid advancement of the Negro in the business world since the R. W. THOMPSON. formation of the League, proves its best utilization for continued existence and in an increasingly enthusiastic support. Such in point of quality and quantity, the registration of 1912 was not far from the hundred paid-up memberships, seventeen of which were life memberships at 1 in each record. higher-water mark so Sessions of Institutional Church. the sessions were held day and even daytime, famous Institutional church, downtown street, near Thirty-ninth, and the spacious auditorium was packed by an eager audience that were opened to the public. The office was extended at all times by the senior pastor, Rev. A. J. Carey and the pastor, Rev. A. J. Carey and the committee of ladies served on day, and the ushers in charge of Mr. Evans did their duty in this fashion. The opening address was delivered by the local Hall, chairman of the committee on arrangements, and a corridor home was extended by Councillor S. L. Williams, assistant States district judge, felicitation response was made by Prof. Harry T. Pratt, of the Baltimore Times. The program, prepared with unusual humor, by Corresponding Secretary Em. Ennoussiness, embraced every form which the Names of the country are arranged, and represented the highest men and women engaged in the commercial of the nation. The printing program, has had wide circumference in the race room, is familiar and a study of its pervasiveness. of discussion will bear out the statement just made. The annual address of Dr. Booker T. Washington, drawn from the immortal Bard of Avon, "There's a tide in the affairs of men which taken at its flood leads on to fortune," emphasized the need for men to take advantage of his manifold opportunities in the world of labor, and to do his share of the world's work, with a guarantee of reaping his proportionate share of the rewards that follow faithful service. As has been said in all previous years, this is a vital part of Washington's life and gambles in a nutshell the purposes and policies of the National Negro Business League. It was "the speech of Dr. Washington's career," and established him anew as the veritable "Moses of his people," and has been printed in pamphlet form and will be given a nation-wide circulation. Mr. Rosenthal's Hearty Reception. He lauded the work of Dr. Washington is doing at Tuskegee Institute and hailed him as a true leader of a great people. Hundreds of miniature American flags were waved by the audience as Mr. Rosseau introduced to speak and the demonstration was repeated at the close of his helpful address. Many Notable Addresses. Among the many notable addresses delivered before the convention were those delivered by Bishop I. B. Scott, of the M. E. church, who told of the splendid opportunities for investment in the church and for Africa; Isaiah T. Montgomery, describing the founding of the Negro town of Bayon, Miss.; Major John R. Lynch, of the United States army; Rev. M. C. B.ason, of Freedman's Bureau of the Mason's Episcopal church, and Prof. R. T. Greener, former consul to Vladivostock, Russia. Reports of program speakers will appear later. Inspiring Musical Features. An inspiring feature of the "Rosenwald evening" was the musical selections rendered by the Williams Jubilee Singers, who have entertained royalty throughout the country and Charles P. Williams, these six singers rendered "Suwanee River," and kindred folk-songs in a manner that delighted the immense audience and evoked the most apprehension his party, who assisted advantageously in the musical diversions of the Business League week were Mrs. Martha Broadus Anderson, soprano soiolist par excellence; Miss St. Clair, soprano; and Mimi C. Taylor, by Mr. Alexander C. Taylor; "Tuskegee Club," of Chicago, made up of graduates of Tuskegee Institute; the Ladies Band of Chicago, and Mme Anita Patti Brown, styled the "Bronze Tetrazzini," who has just returned from a triumphalnaica and the Central American states. Next Meeting at Philadelphia. Endorsing the action of the executive committee of the League, the next meeting of the organization will be held in Philadelphia in August of 1913, where the League will present its version of the emancipation of the American Negro. Already Pennsylvania has appropriated $20,000 to assist the race in making this observance a success, and the neighborhood state of New York is issuing the fund with a similar amount. The report of the committee on resolutions, through R. L. Smith, of Texas, declaring for higher race ideals and a stronger state to make an honorable contribution to the people of the industries, was unanimously adopted, as was also the report of the committees on auditing and credentials. The League was shown to be in a healthy financially, and many State Leagues are assisting in the work of the organization. Dr. Washington Re-Elected President by Acclamation For the thirteenth time Dr. Booker T. Washington has been chosen president of the National Negro Business Association, Madison Vance, of Louisiana, seconded by Dr. E. C. Morris, of Arkansas, president of the National Baptist convention for eleven years, with praise from the congregation of states, the rules were suspended and Dr. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1912 DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Washington was re-elected amid the heartiest demonstration of the week, the besting taking and a solid recognition of his leadership and a leader and testimonial that the entire race is at his back in the efforts he is making to get people. The other officers elected are: First vice president, Charles Banks, Mississippi; second vice president, J. E. Bush, Arkansas; third vice president, J. E. Bush, Arkansas; fourth vice president, Harry T. Ellis; fifth vice president, John M. Wright, Kansas; corresponding secretary, Emmett J. Scott, Tuskegee Institute, Alamogordo; Charles H. Hinder, Florida; registrar, H. Anderson, York; assistant registrar, R. C. Houston, Texas; transportation agent, Dr. A. B. Jackson, Pennsylvania; official stenographer, W. H. Davis, Washington, D. C.; registrar, H. Anderson, nois. Members of the executive committee; J. C. Napier, Nashville, Teen chairman; Dr. S. E. Courtney, Massachusetts; W. T. Andrews, South Carolina; J. B. Bell, Texas; S. M. Lewy, Indiana; J. C. Jackson, Kentucky; Rev, J. E. Jones, Louisiana; Walter P. Hall, Pennsylvania; Sciopio A. Jones, Arkansas; T. Haynes, Mississippi; Dr. G. C. Hall, Hilliard T. J. Ellis, Oklahoma, and W. C. Gordon, Missouri. Affiliated Bodies Hold Interesting Meetings. The National Association of Funeral Directors, an affiliated body of the National Negro Business League, held the first session in the six years of its history. The following follows: President, G. W. Franklin, Tennessee; vice president, J. B. Cooper, Kentucky, and Mrs. Sarah Johnson, Illiniress, Tennessee; vice president, Mrs. Daisy M. Saffell, Kentucky. Modern methods of handling funerals and improvement of equipment were discussed, and it was found that the most important workers are doing the bulk of the work among the Negroes of the nation. The National Negro Press Association held the most harmonious and really successful sessions in its four years of life, and took high ground in the press of the race is to perform its constitency. R. W. Thompson, of Washington, D. C., was elected to succeed to the chair, L. Levy, of Florida, a return to the chair, J. O. O'Neill, the vice president is Joseph L. Jones, O'Neill responding secretary, Henry Allen Boyd, Tennessee; recording secretary, Charles Summer Smith, Minneapolis; treasurer, James Smith, Minneapolis; chairman of the executive committee, N. B. New York City. Armenian of the executive committee from each state was proclaimed. The attendance was large and enthusiastic, over fifty papers being represented by the n of influence and standing. Mr. J. T. Settle, of Memphis, Tenn., was re-elected president of the national association and delivered an able address, real interest to the business interests of the race. The National Association of Negro Bankers, to which was given the morning office officers, Preston, elected the following officers: Preston, Alabama; vice presidents, W. W. Cox, Mississippi; and Rev. E. M. Griggs, Texas; recording secretary, S. S. Brown, correspondence secretary, C. N. Langston, correspondence secretary, H. Haynes, Tennessee. An important social function of the week was the magnificent banquet at the Palmer hotel, attended by W. D. Carter, cashier of the American Bank of Chicago, in honor of the members of the National Negro Bankers' Association, N. W. Carter, and speeches were made by Dr. Walter Washington, Registrar J. C. Napier, Dr. W. R. Pettiford, E. D. Tidrington, S. S. Brown, L. J. Haynes and Mr. John W. Worthington, president of the W. Worthington Banking Association. An argument was reached whereby the Negro bankers of the American Bankers' Association died of the American Bankers' Association. Other Social Functions of Note. The Chicago meeting excelled in social functions, and each evening was marked by a score of entertainments, on a board of judges, on tables. On Monday evening Mrs. George C. Hall gave a royal reception in honor of Mrs. Booker T. Washington at her home on Friday evening with a monster reception and promenade at the Seventh Regiment Armory, which was attended by a brilliant crowd, embracing the flower of the city. The march was led by Dr. Booker T. Washington, accompanied by Mrs. George C. Hall; Mrs. Washington was escorted by the president and prominent in the receiving line. We were invited to Napier, Mr. and Mrs. S. Laing Williams and others. All things considered, Chicago outdid house in 1812 a glittering success, and its influence will be of lasting benefit to the commercial well-being of the race. It will be memorable of the long and difficult work that was accomplished and for the ideals it has so CHAMPAIGN. ILL. (By Z. L. Breedlove.) Special to THE FREEMAN. Mrs. Eliza Wood left Thursday evening for Birmingham, Ala., to attend the supreme lodge of the Knights and Ladies of the Order of the Holy Cross, a supreme officer and past officer of the subordinate lodge of this city....Mrs. C. Moss and her daughter, Inez, attended the Business League sessions in Chicago from the beginning of August, 2014, to the man, of Clinton, Iowa, who was recently operated on at Burnham hospital, was removed to home of her mother, Mrs. C. Moss....Mrs. Lionel Mitchell, Sarah Cavaliers, Bates McCormick, and visitors in Chicago again Sunday. Misses Ruth and Caroline Woodruff and Miss Hattie Harris spent Monday and Tuesday visiting Miss Minnie Folks at her home in Sioux City....Miss Sarah Wilson and his wife, Caroline Woodruff, visited Saturday, August 17, after spending ten days with friends in Springfield....Mr. Woodie Matthews and a party motorized to Chicago Wednesday and attended the Business League Friday, August 23, after spending ten days with friends in Springfield's mother, who recently suffered a stroke of paralysis, is improving nicely....Mr. and Mrs. Martin of Chicago, spent a week in this city visiting friends....Miss Marilyn Woodruff, a former Nash, at 501 East Park street....Mr. F. J. Jordan, the barber, has made extensive improvements this summer on his home. He has added a new porch and painted the neighborhood, white or black....The Freeman can be secured every Saturday at 109 North Champaign street. Your patron is solicited....Mrs. Luster H. returned to her home and spending four weeks in Chicago visiting her sister. TULSA, OKLA. Cox and Cox made their first appearance at the Lyric theater this week and showed up pack houses. The Lyric patrons showed their appreciation at each performance. Gray Curtis joined hands with us, and he is the talk of the town. This boy can stand with the crowd, with "Honey Man," while Cox is going big with "Humming Tune." Curtis says for Louise Curtis to write. Brianna Curtis to write. Oklahoma City, Hello, Luster McMahon and wife. Rector Patterson, please write. Hello, Coleman. Willie Levi is holding the gate down. He is standing. We don't have any trouble with the bullies. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SINGLE COPY—SIX MONTHS, 85c; ONE YEAR, $1.50. RARE SOCIAL FUNCTION MUSICALE AND SOIREE IN HONOR OF DISTINGUISHED GUESTS Musical Entertainment by Miss Vera Wesley—Many Receptions on Sunday in Honor of Visitors—Miss St. Clair White in Vaudeville. BY CARY B. LEWIS. (Freeman Bureau, 3000 State Street Telephone Aldine 2058, Automatic 72-384.) CHICAGO, Ill., Aug. 27.—Quite the most delightful social function of the past two weeks in the Windy City was that of Madam Anita Pitta Brown, on Monday, the 26th, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Thomson of Washington, D. C. R. Miss Mattie Alberta Booker, Little Rock, Ark, and friends. It was a musical and soiree, and the program rendered was a brilliant one. Several musical artists were present and received a number of installations from the large audience for so beautifully rendering such high class selections. In bar hall, 3522 State street, was beautifully decorated with flowers and brilliantly lighted for the occasion. Before the program was rendered, the visitors stood in the receiving line and were introduced to the guests of the evening. Mrs. Thompson wore a handkerchief, plus a messaline gown and carried a bunch of flowers. Miss Alberta Booker was gowned in white cliffon over blue satin. Miss Lowery, of California, wore marquette with Persian and yellow satin. Madam Lowery, of gorgeously gowned in a beautiful pink chiffon, she carried a huge bunch of flowers. Umbrian Sings. Miss Vera Wesley's Musicate. Miss Vera Wesley, one of the prettiest and most charming of the younger set of Chicago, gave a musicale on Monday evening in honor r of the visiting people to the Chicago house was filled with music of Chicago's lovers, who enjoyed the program intensely. The following program was rendered: Instrumental solo, Miss Mabel Scott, Nashville. Instrumental solo, Miss Evans, Chattanooga. Instrumental solo, Mr. Mundy. Vocal solo, Mr. Adkinson. Vocal solo, Mr. Opal Cooper. Instrumental solo, Miss Lovelyn Miller. Vocal solo, Hugh Buchanan. Address, "Musical Culture", Mr. Cary B. Receptions Galore. Sunday there were a number of receptions in all parts of the city. Miss Beatrice Hunt gave a visiting friend, and Mrs. Mayne Clarkscale拿到了in honor of visitors from St. Louis, Mo. Miss Leno Daughtry and Miss Bertha Moseley received a reception at the Miss Murty Collins拿到了a beautiful reception and dance at the Appatoxoo Club in honor of the visitors. It was one of the most delightful affairs of the Misses. Miss Gertrude Barbour and Beatrice Lee entertained for the young visitors. The Elmwood Outing. The Elmwood is the name of the new club that is attracting attention among the pleasure seekers in Chicago. It has a large membership of its members have become so widely known that the organization has decided to give a mammoth boat excursion on the City of Benton Harbor Sunday so that you can see the Mets. What there have been a good many indoor so- The Elmwood Club has invited all the clubs of the city to go on the excursion and it being July 1200 the 1500 people are expected to be outing. A report has reached here that people from the surrounding towns will come to Chicago early, in time to take a tour of the city. We have the two wonderful cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph. Persons wishing, may have time to drive to the West Great Desert resort for busses and see the cities of Benton Harbor and Joseph. If you wish to have a good time and to be among those who will have the pleasure of a big day's outing, please visit the City of Benton Harbor, September 8. Freeman's Editor and Publisher a Visitor. Mr. George L. Knox, widely known in all parts of the country as the editor and publisher of the Indianapolis Freeman, was a visitor last week, attending the annual session of the Negro Business Association, a university delegate to the league and talked freely of business and politics as it concerns the Negro. While here he received a telegram to go to Jeffersonville, Ind. He is also one of the right hand men of Booker T. Washington, and never misses a national meeting of the league. He is always in great evidence upon the floor. He is also a key tasks permanent questions of those who demand papers and dresses, with the view of bringing out hints of success that may help others. He is strictly for Indianapolis and the people living in that city and uses event dates to help him hear a hearing. The writer was pleased with a visit from the distinguished editor. Motors from Louisville to Chicago. Dr. J. A. C. Lattimore, Miss Georgia A. Lattimore, Mr. Howard Jordan and I. Lattimore, Mr. Howard Jordan, Good, of Boston, a guest of Dr. Lattimore, motored to Chicago last week in their touring cars. They arrived in the city on Friday. "I was at of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jordan, 2295 Rhodes avenue. Since their arrival they have been the guests of the Fellowship of the Church of Jesus Christ of Jesus private social affairs. They will take in Lake Michigan Resort and will motor on the many fashionable boulevards of the city until the latter part of next week. Fiskites Entertain The Fiskites of Chicago gave a "party" on Monday evening at the Masonic hall. It was given primarily for the purpose of raising funds for Fisk, and friend Fisk were present. Most of the visitors remaining over from the Negro Business Men's League attended the affair. Dancing was the principal feature of the evening, and the graduate of Fisk, was one of the ardent workers in making it a success. Who Will It Be? The question of who will be chairman of the national Republican Negro headquarters in this city is agitating the minds of local politicians. Those in the race are James Hunt and Major J. Buckner. From personal information, Major Buckner seems to have the lead. He is an officeholder and has worked in politics here for a number of years and is well known to those who will be in the session. Paul Brown, Kentucky, will have charge of the press bureau department. Paid and Happy. The Eighth Regiment, Illinois National Guard, has been paid for its week's service at Springfield and the boys are happy. It was one of the most instructive regiments. Components of the regiment, Col. Marshall, Majors R. R. Jackson, Otis B. Duncan and Franklin A. Denison came off the field with glories. Lleut. Col. J. H. Johnson is responsible for many of the compliments, including regiment during Col. Marshall's illness. Everybody is now looking forward to the erection of the new armory. Visitors from Every Nook and Corner. Visitors from Every Nook and Corner. Chicago was visited last week from all parts of the United States. They relied on the fact that they were different from that seen here most every summer. No excursions came from the South bringing up many undesirables, but we had this year real business and professional men and women. It is alarming that the Chicagoans were not pleased with the manner of entertainment and receptions for the delegates and that there was too much pay for everything and too few of the Chicagoans had to do with the management (Continued on Page Four) 10 WILLIAM B. ARNOLD. There are at present two colored mail carriers in Richmond, the senior of which js Mr. William Arnold, who has held the position for twenty-one years. His service has been marked by faithfulness and efficiency. No carrier has made a better record in that time in this city. He was born in Ohio, but reared chiefly in this town. Until 1890 he was a farmer. He had the advantage of the public schools and was fortunate enough to go through them, graduating from the oe high school. He also attended the Richmond Business College for some time, thereby fitting himself for the important field of business. Mrs. Ar- nold, who was Miss Isabella Hollings- worth before marriage, is an excellent woman, They are the parents of two fine boys. Mr. Arnold has been hon- ored several times by those in the ser- vice. He was once president of the local civil service board, and was president of the Letter Carriers’ As- sociation. He owns a home and other property. WALTER H. DENNIS. Mr. Dennis comes from the “Tar Heel” state, where he was born thirty-five years ago, at Greensboro. He was reared on a farm and came to Richmond some years ago. Mr. Dennis is the kind of man who can turn his hand to many trades. For three years he was cook at the Ar- lington hotel here. He traveled over the country for some years with a private car. For eight years he was manager. of the Richmond County Club. Having spent two years in the Richmond Business College, . from which he graduated, Mr. Hill was em- inently fitted for the work of a busi- ness man. He established a weekly newspaper, the “Interview,” which he edited and managed for more than three years, He has also been one of the active political factors of Rich- mond. He ran for township trustee in this county (Wayne) about three years ago. He is the only colored man that ever made a race for that office in Richmond. Mrs. Dennis, his wife, is a violin instructor of local Teputation, WILLIAM A. COGGINS. Among the older citizens of Rich- mond we are proud to point to Mr. Coggins as one of those who places great value upon upright living. His Teputation as one of the best of our citizens is borne out by the record eel (a > \ [eo \ ss P " p.. * en . A which he has made. He is a native of Indiana, having been born only a few miles from this city, in 1848. Al- though he came when the institution of slavery still existed, yet he was never a slave. ‘Mr. Coggins is a shoemaker by trade, having followed it for about thirty years. But he does not work ‘at the trade now, as he has a more congenial work, that of caring for the property of Mrs. I. R. Howard, the wealthy widow of a wholesale grocer. Mr. Coggins has for years been active in the Masonic order. He has served in many of the leading offices, and has long since been the proud possessor of the 33d degree. He is a faithful member of the Baptist church. REV. WILLIAM F. JONES. Rey. Jones is one of our clean min- isters. His genuine Christian life has won for him the unshakén confi- dence of all who know him. The peo- ple, wherever he has been stationed as pastor, have been made to feel his force and influence for good. He has been in the ministerial field for over twelve years, and during that time 2 ONT eran Sie So ls a bese | re ei - ) ttt ee oF a e em, ai Bet ae ‘ A il fi | has served at several important points in Ohio, such as Bellefontaine, War- field, Darke county, and Parkersburg, W. Va. He has been here as pastor of the Wesleyan Methodist church for three years, and during that time has done much in advancing the church materially, financially and spiritually: He has cleared off the debt of $650, and increased the membership thirty- three and one-third per cent. The iz em la; ee a ee ef = . o ye eT ¥ oR Bi bt iaart | ae pe eT) : 7 pea a? RICHARD E. EDWARDS, | Mr. Edwards is a native of this (Wayne) county, but has been in Richmond almost all of his life. He had advantages of a good common School education, and has been ablg to put it to very good use. He ha: been connected with several impor- tant undertakings. At one time he owned a shoe store, but sold it out. He was employed by the Pennsylva- nia Railroad as inspector of cars. He at one time operated a rug manufac- turing business. Mr. Edwards has always had the church, which is in South 10th street, is over forty years old, and has a membership of nearly 100, and a par- sonage. The board of trustees are good, energetic men, who have the welfare of the church at heart. Mr. Hayes is further evidence of what a poor boy can do. He fought his way up through the many beset: ments so common among our people, He has lived here over thirty-three years, and has been in the varpet cleaning business for twenty-eight years. His birthplace is Columbia, 8. C. He has three sons, two of whom are now employed at Detroit, Mich., as engineers. His daughter is a grad- uate of the schools here and the busi- : one S a S\N NISNOASN Wy ii Ie SEEN | lot Ba ed es =) \\| \ om ae) 5 NE HSS Zee * ie EE" _ 1B Se ee Sc ee) es ness coliege, and is now bookkeeper and typewriter at one of the large business houses here. The family is one of the most respectable in Rich- mond. Mr. Hayes does a very heavy business during the cleaning season, and has the apparatus and machinery to do the work rapidly and satistacto- rily. A cut of some of his equipment is seen above. He owns a nice home in North 12th street. Write us while our rates are low on advertisment. The Freeman is the best medium in the country to reach the col- Ored people everywhere. ‘The Freeman in Greenwood, Miss — For sale by 8. R. Hodges, 605 Main HARRY W. HAYES. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. Nee ee , [eee ee wee eee Caenane lof the times,” telling what is going on, veer.) : OF re: wo. sbail go on tn the evdn stive | Surgeon-in-Chief Warfleld a Self-Made] senor of our way, acknowledging ‘grate- rved| Man—Our Correspondents Little “Be- | fully the plaudits’ of friends, undeterred 'has| fore ghe Curtain” Speech, by. the gibes of enemies and unmoved by | 401—™ Dr. William A. Warfield, the progressive and ever-aiert. Surseonin-Chlel of Trees: fan's Hospital, has held. the office since ToL, He's & “self-made mart" int th truust gotee of the terin: rising. steadily Sse peree ye geet Wiest, omacerity to amiene, a ae Bre onigaieemay south muatoats he Sitiod ect aaa farmers bey’ monking Front Gates unlil dare’ for’ tha imal foost Sy cpa ween ncaa ee We tc ates oad hacreeiens st teees iol csucen'ts me ito Marca Colin sist Inia the founation, of his succeastel Sour Wy Uecnioe simalin tes Mie Giolice’ etamying aa ne tenshe. “By oe ee LY f | AY aA | i iI DR. W. A. WARFIELD. department of Howard University, grad- uating In 1894, and earning an appoint- ment as an interne in Freedmen’s Hos- pital. His subsequent history is insep- arabiy interwoven with the evolution of that superb institution, as his rise to the responsible positions of assistant and then surgeonlin-chief will show. Modest in demeanor, but thorough in’ his grasp of details and in the fine points of his pro- fession: gracious to all men, but force- spirit and courage to venture in the business and commercial world. He has for some time: been connected with a publishing company, and is now the principal officer in the “In: ternational Music Co.,” which pub- lishes popular music. “There was but One George Washington and only One Booker T.,” “Town Talk,” etc. are.among some of his company’s pub- lications. A short while ago he pur- chased the Empire theater at Lynn, Ind., which is under white manage- ment, being almost wholly patronized by whites. ful in the execution of a goven work ; firm as an administrator, but granting a “square deal” in office and out of it” Dr. Warfield has built around him a loyal and competent staff of assistants, and he en- Joys the confidence, respect and affection of hosts of friends. Both races are nu- merously represented on his staff, but there is no semblance of friction along the color line. ‘Dr. Warfield's immediate corps of as- sistants is as follows: Assistant surgeon, Dr. 8. L. Carson: resident. physician, Dr. .'A. Brooks; pathologist, Dr. Walter’ Van Swearingen: “anesthetist,” Dr. George W. Davis. F. D. Henry ts chief clerk in the office, with Miss Arsine Elizabeth Jones as stenographer and W. E. Cobb as gen- gral clerk.” ‘The nurses’ staff includes Laura “McHale, superintendent ; "Emma Mae. Irwin, assistant superintendent; Martha EK. Cabaniss, night’ supervisor; Marion V. Lucas and Bertha J, Turner, head nurses. Ten bright young men are servinis as internes, Some distinguished men have preceded Dr. Warfield as Surgeon-in-Chief of the Freedmen’s Hospital, among them being Drs, C. B. Purvis, John R. Francis, Dan- fel H, Williams ana A. M. Curtis. Our Correspondent’s Little “Before- the Curtain” Speech. “stepping out of the part for a mo- ment'—as they say in the vernacular of the stage—your correspondent begs the privilege of making a personal statement for the benefit of those whom it may con- ‘cern. “CX net total of three persons seems con- siderably worked up. over our activities, one way and another, and evince a deep and constant solicitude for our future we!- fare. They express the fear that we are not getting along as well as we should, and are apprehensive that ‘something dreadful is going to happen to us, if we do not watch a “leetle bit oud.” They do not tell us this to our face. A quiet warning. whispered in. private, does not answer the purpose. ‘They must tell It in the public prints, that all may Know the full ‘measure of’ the tender regard. they feel. Going even further, they throw out dark hints that authorities “higher up’ Will be asked to persuade us to seek the “isle of safety,” and, if necessary, to w00 us into the paths of oblivion. the “stuffed club” of official disapproval will be in- voked. ‘Without inquiring the reason for this tremendous display of zeal for our. well- being "we are not Iaeking In appreciation for these repeated evidences of distinter- ested friendship. We may not deserve the many good things that these folks are saying of us, but shall not lak a news: paper controversy by contradicting any 0 them. The masses do not care a. Tap about what a trio of individuals think of us, nor what we think of them. ‘The Pe0- 16 want the news, “hot off the handle” — as we are giving it to them. They think we know our business, and un- founded forebodings and pessimistic pre- By. R. W. Thompson. John M. Eggemeyer & Sons FANCY GROCERIES meee tae| Two Stores | Tet | Bo as Richmond, Indiana. ao dictions have no place in their wholesome philosophy. We are simply a “chronicler Sf the times,” ‘telling what is going. on, Say by day, ‘keeping ever within the law, as voiced ini the statutes and In the cods Of ethics, ‘Therefore, we shall go on in the even tenor of our way, acknowledging grate. fully the plaudits’ of friends, “undeterred by the gibes of enemies and ‘unmoved by the threats of grafters, crooks, blackmail ers or marplots.. ‘The helpful doings of tite face In the field of edueation, geligion, Buruness and otitis yes) politi, too ‘will continue to be recorded, and a “square deal” will be guaranteed’ to all, as of yore. see ‘The local branch of the aNtional Ne- sro Business League elected delegates Shtnday evening’ to the Chicago convention Ph ik eee eaeeee says Charles D. Milles, the asute and far- Seeing chairman of the Republican Na- ‘ional Committee, ar |The news of the capture of Reuben T. Hill, the defaulting cashier of the ‘True Reformers’ ‘Bank, Richmond, Va., set_the capital all in a flutter. It Is the current opinion ‘that Mr. Hill will disclose some Shik secrets that will implicate a number of prominent men'of the order who have heretofore escaped serious connection with te notorious steal that broke up the races greatest financial institution and robbed the widow and orphan of thelr iittle all. There are those who are not disposed to regard Heuben Hill as the biggest. sinner in the deal. It is town talk that, Hill was deceived into loaning the bank's money to back up outside transactions that fina- ally’ proved fraudulent, and when the time came for settiement there was nothing to Go but. make Hill the seapegoat and. let him make his “get-away” as best he could. The outcome is being watched with in- terest, ‘There is a feeling that Hill should be dealt with as leniently as the law will Allow, if he will uncover the thieves sup- posed to be in hiding, Among those who will attend the Chi- cago meeting of the National Negro Busi- hess League are Register and Mrs. J.C. Napier, Mr. and Mrs. KW. ‘Thompson, Mra. James #. Buckner, Cyrus Field Ad- ams, Dr. W. H. Davis, J. Finley Wilson, Daniel Preeman and others. James W. Poe, a leading man of affairs and newspaper correspondent of this city, proposes Col. Henty Lincoln Johnson, of Rivonia, recorder of deeds for the District, as “field marshal” of the colored, troops for the campaign now nopening, No bet- ter man coud be selected. He is able- broad-mindedf, “courageous and experl- enced. Mr, oPe make a timely’ sugsestion to the eeffct that colored men In every Section who wish Col. Johnson appointed Should write Chairman ‘Charles D. Hills ‘Times building, New York City, and urge Ene puter PE i Sole SRN a Edward A. Feltman Cigars, Cigarettes, Tobacco and Pipes. Wholesale and Retail. If it's made of tobacco, we have it. 609 Main Street, Richmond, Indiana eee eeeeeeeeeeeSSeee=:___e 69 252 IWISSLERS ee) (aE BOOTS a Tia Na SS GaN __ QUAKER BREAD PN a cnn ee LA. a Lee ings, kinds aoe LES ef Cakes male to onder, Watey y a Dn, - for the New Loaf. ia AMT VA\IE 908 Main st.—sTORES—28 5, Fit 9, fl Ree Phone 1688. Phone 154 . John Zwissler, Prop. Richmond, Indiana NEWEST GREATIONS'! In Tans and Browns For Fall and Winter Wes YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO. Special to THe SReeMAN. ‘Mrs. Hattie Harper diclocated her kmee cap Sunday and will be incapacii tated for some time. Her home is at 240 East Front street... .Danfel_ Soloman is attending the grand lodge of Masons in Columbus this week....Mrs. Samuel Holmes and niece spent three weeks at the lakes and had a. fine time. ...Mrs, Wim. Skates, of 1857 West Federal street, who has been ill for the past nine months or more, remains about the same. ... Mr. Charles’ Stewart, Mr. George Jefferson and Mr. Will Logan spent two days fish- ing at Levitsburg and caught three bass that weighed one pound each. ‘They re- port a fine time....David Boggess, of Revanna, spent Sunday with his father, Richard "Bogges, and other relatives... ‘Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Proctor, of Akron, Spent Sunday with relatives Here... . Mrs. William Gardner is very ill at the home of her mother, Mrs. Joseph Finney, 5 ‘Wallace street....Rev, W. H. V. B. Tay- lor, D. Dy, spent Sunday ‘in New Castle, Pa., and ‘preached an able sermon_ for Rev. Fry, D. D....Mrs. William F. Page, of Pittsburgh, is the guest of Mrs. W. F. Palmer, 765 West Federal street... . Miss Carrie ‘Jones, of Danville, Pa., ‘is the guest of Mrs. W. H. V. B. Taylor this week. ...Mr. Clarence Marshall and Miss Eney’ “Washington, were quietly married at the residence of Rev. W. H. V. B. Tay- lor Monday at 4 p.m. Miss Carrie E. Jones was bridesmaid, and Mr. J. H. Harris was best man, ‘The couple has the best. wishes lof imany friends... Mrs, Rosa Johnson, of Cleveland, state president of the Women's Missionary So- Clety of the A. M. B. Chureh, lectured to ihe members of the Oak Hill Avenue Missionary. Society in the church Sun- day at 3:80 p.m, after which election of officers was held and a juvenile auxil- fary organized. ‘The following officers were elected: Mrs. H. Summons, presi- Gent; Mrs. A. Rayford, vice-président ; Mrs.'Anna Hudson, secretary ; Mrs. Sam- uel Boggess, assistant secretary; | Mrs, G, M. Fagan, corresponding secretary ; Mrs. Angie West, treasurer; Mrs, Emma Kennedy, assistant treasurer; Mrs. A. Ragland, Mrs. Queen Robinson, Mrs. C. Lincoln, Paris Hall and Wm. Tabler, ex- ecutive board. Juvenile officers: ‘Miss Frances Moore, president ; Miss Leo Rob- inson, secretary; Miss Bessie Moore, cor- responding secretary; Miss Hattle ‘Har- ris, treasurer; Mrs. George Woods, gen- eral chairman....Mr. and Mrs, Ray’ E. Green, of Warren, called on friends here itr igge ac Roy W. Dennis =— TAILOR — 8 North Tenth St., Richmond, Indiana J. B. HANER 2 e Fine Pipes of all Makes We Make all Tobacco Goods we Sell, 2 . 621 Main St, Richmond, Ind. a Jordan, McManus & Hunt ~ FUNERAL DIRECTORS Telephone 2175 1014 Main St, Richmond, Ind. —_—_—_—_—_.. The Hoosier Store ~The Store for the Working Man = department of this big store is a link of economy in tne vast chain of every day needs of men, women and children. All departments combine their value giving powers and mak? this big institution One Vast Money Saving Store for the people who know the value of their money—that know how slow it comes and how quick it slips away. Our Word is Hae eet without Bargains we have lost half our powerx4%? at the Hoosier you will always find bargains. “Bargains are as bargains do, To catch your eye, they must be true. To the Hoesier ever points, No bargains here that disappoints. ; Come down here today where the'values grow, And give your dollars a deserving show. a The Hoosier | The Real Department Store. Richmond, Indiané CAPE MAY, N. J. List of Guests at Hotel Dale During ‘Week of August 17. Bhilagelphis. | Pac Mr, Hobert , Emits Mie J. Gordan” Baugh, Miss" Mabel C Baugh, Mrv'Norman Jones, Mr. and Mrs Walter Cummings, Mr. Waltham, Mis TG Gaskins, Sirs. Butler, Mra.” Mars Detarge Mies ‘Sadie’ Jones, Mine M. Ho! fand, Mire M: Place, Mr. and Mrs. Fateh lett, Dr. J. Thomas Stanford, Mr. | T Moore, Mr and Mrs, Robert Johns, Mr PN. Baugh, ‘Mrs. Nannie Crevin, Mrs Kanes Chase: Mrs. W. A. Johnson, Mr PERE Thompson, Miss Re Brooks,” Mis rene’ Hill, Mr. J.B. dohnson. Chester,” Pa—Are, ‘Catherine E, Nu gent Mrs. Thomas N. Thomas and son fictara. ‘thomas. Washington, D. C—Mrs. George W Cook and’ son, Miss Susan Cook, Mrs (Pantel ‘Murray ‘and son, Mrs, Ta 1. ‘Truat [Mian Me Hardwick, Mee W."B. Evans | "Morristown, Pa—Mn. I. V. Jones, Mr and ‘Mrs, D. "A. Wilson. New York—Mrs, Anna B. Farrell, Mrs 'T. W. Hawthorne, Mrs. Moore, Miss Td Tint Mes 3. Be Lowe and niece, Mis Howard. \MSMibany, N. Y.—Mr. and Mrs. nM | aratieon ‘and aaughter, Overlin, Ohio-—The Mises M. Mf Ten aerson, B. F. Henderson and Hf. M. Hen derson Tskimore, Ma—Mr. Robert Hilton, M ant Mra, Venable, Mire. dW. Nichola find daughter, Mra, Ida ‘Hilton, Mr. Ghaney, Miss’ Nellie. Eamead. Toland Park, Md.-—Mr. W._D. Rich. Richmond, Va—Mrs.S. B. “Randolph Mrs. Wm, Miller Frederick, Ma—Mr. F. Diggs. Chester, Pa—Mrs. Dora Lytle. We ars pleased to announce that w have with ‘us the ‘Hon. Dre James Rhepand, president of the Religious ‘Train ing School, of Durham, N. (.. His broth er, Mr. C."H. Shepard; Mr. C. C. Spauld fnz, and Prof. W. G. Pearson, ail of Dur han, 'N. Gy are also here.’ ‘Mr. C.¢ | Spauiding if at the head of the. targes |insurance soclety in the state for col foe gremathy ADDYSTON, OHIO. By N. C. Hawkins, Special to The Freeman. y. W. Gains was elected delegate to the’ tenth binennial session of the su- preme lodge of Knights and Ladies of Honor of the World, which convenes at Birmingham, Ala. August 26-20... Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Gaines left Monday morning for an extended visit among rel- atives and friends at Indianapolis, ‘Shel- byville and Anderson, Ind... .Mrs. Phoebe ‘Allen, of the juvenile court, Cincinnati, was @ business visitor in the village on Tuesday evening....N. C. Hawkins, news- paper correspondent at Addyston, will Eommence a line of work covering several months securing subscriptions for several ‘well-known race papers. For sale by Clarborne White, 118 Cora street. M. B. HARRY C. KLAUSSMAN. The Indianapolis Military band, with Harry C. Klaussman as director, is the largest concert band in Indiana. It has played at the Indiana State Fair for over twenty years, and in its concerts at the coming fair will have more musicians than ever played with it there. Miss Anna Woodward, of Chicago, will be the soprano soloist with the band. NO STATE FAIR PASSES OFFICIALS AND PATRONS PLEAS EED WITH NEW RULE. Men Who Will Manage the Departments and Judges Who Will Tie Ribbons on Prize Winners. The "no pass" rule adopted and rigidly followed by the state board of agriculture at the Indiana state fair last year gained the full approval of the board members and the ever-paying visitors to the exposition and the same rule enforced with strictness will govern the coming fair. Visitors will again drop their coins of admission in the slot machines at the gates, each admission being registered by an electric device not only in the slot machine, but in a central register in the treasurer's office. Instead of the abolishment of the pass evil last year resulting in reduced attendance, the fair broke the record for paying crowds. Farm people who visit the fair and invariably pay their admission now have the satisfaction of knowing that every one who patronizes the exposition is on the same basis at the gates. The same liberal rates prevail this year. General admission adults, 50 cents; children, 25 cents; vehicles free. Members of the state board who serve as department superintendents will have charge of divisions of the fair, as follows: Admissions, L. C. Boyd, Indianapolis; grand stand, J. Lynn VanNatta, Lafayette; speed, C. H. Anthony, Muncie; horses, Dan C. Reed, Attica; cattle, Clem Graves, Bunker Hill; swine, H. L. Nowlin, Moores Hill; poultry, Warren T. McCray, Kentland; art, J. E. McDonald, Ligonier; horticulture, John C. Halnes, Rockport; agriculture, Mason J. Niblack, Vincennes; mechanical, Ed. S. Tuell, Corydon; concessions, Oscar Hadley, Plainfield; coliseum, Knode Porter, Hagerstown; amusements, Stephen B. Fleming, Fort Wayne. I. Newt Brown, of Franklin, is president of the board, Dan C. Reed is vice-president, and Charles Downing is secretary and treasurer. The judges in departments will be: Draft horses, Mat Biers, Mendota, Ill.; coach horses, Richard P. Sternicker, Economowoc, Wils.; harness horses, John A. Campbell, St. Louis; saddle horses, E. A. Trowbridge, Columbia, Mo. ponies, R. T. Sternicker, Cattle—shorthorses and polled Durhams: Frank W. VanNatta, Fowler, Ind.; Herfords and Galloways, Thomas Clark, Beecher, Ill.; Aberdeen Angus red polls and brown Swiss, L. McWerther, Aldo, Ill.; dairy cattle, H. S. Bropsy, Lexington, Ky. Sheep—Shropshire Oxford, Southhame, Hampshire, H. L. Compton, Kyle, O.; Cotswold, Lincoln, Leicester, Hal Woodford, Paris, Ky.; Merino, U. C. Brouse, Kendalville, Ind.; Cheviof, Dorset and Tuns, Uriah Privett, Greensburg, Ind. Swain—Berkshire, G. W. Jessup, Rockville, Ind.; Poland China, John Harcourt, New Augusta; Duroc Jersey, Carl Scott, Shldeler; Hampshire, L. M. Huff, Newcastle; Chester White, Joe Miner, Noblesville; mule foot, Tom Vinnedge, Columbus, Poultry—O. L. McCord Danville, Ill., and W. C. Pierce, Carmel, Ind. Agricultural products, William J. Ritterskamp, Princedon, Ind. Horticulture, H. E. VanDeman. Table luxuries, Mrs. W. L. Beryman, Tipton, Ind. As a new feature of the fruit show at the State Fair, about half of the apples on exhibition will be displayed in trays, and the others in plates. This change to trays has been made because the knowledge apple growers have gained in the last year in sorting and packing fruit for the market. AT KENTUCKY'S CAPITAL Frankfort, Ky., Special. Mrs. Frances Cecel, of Louisville, was the guest of Mrs. R. Howard on Normal Heights. Mrs. A. English, of Indianapolis, is the guest of Mrs. Thomas. Mrs. Susie Beurr, of Franklin, the wife of Mr. Beurr, one of the wealthiest farmers in Simpson county, was the guest of Mrs. C. L. Timberlake, a teacher at the Normal Institute. Mr. M. H. Harrison, grand master of the Mosiac Order in Kentucky, has purchased sixty-two acres of land on the car line. Mrs. M. H. Thomas left for Chicago to attend the hospital meeting. Mrs. Amanda Bennett, of Cincinnati, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Dockery, of this city. Miss Margaret Locust, a sweet little girl, died this week. She had been sick for several weeks. Mrs. M. Borbour and Miss R. Higgins, of Danville, are the guests of Mrs. R. Brown. Miss Adelina Jackson has returned to her home from Indianapolis to be the guest of her parents. Miss Susie Lee, of Versailles, is the guest of Miss Settles. Rev. G. W. Adams, of Louisville, attended the convention. Mrs. Berreman, of Paris, and Mrs. King, of Old Crow, were the guests of Mrs. Charles Marshall. Mrs. Mattie Hall left for Louisville to spend a few weeks with Mrs. Roberts and Miss Katie Beckley. Mr. and Mrs. Lucian and Eugenia E. Johnson and family, of Lexington, were the guests of Mrs. Combs and sisters. Mr. and Mrs. Moore, of Louisville, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Owens. Miss Ethel Spencer has returned from Indianapolis. Mr. Leonard Hawkins, of Louisville, is the guest of his wife. Mrs. Nettie Callery, of Louisville, is the guest of Mrs. Graves. Misses E. and Cordelia Dockery left for Louisville to be the guests of their uncle, Mr. James Smith. Mr. Preston Taylor, of Nashville, and Prof. J. N. Ervine, principal of the city high school at Johnson City, Tenn., were in the city a few hours this week. Mme. Lizzie Allen, of New York, is making quite a success in her hair dressing establishment. We wish her much success. Misses W. and L. Allen, S. Brown and Mr. Wayade, of Lawrenceburg, were in the city this week. Mr. and Mrs. George Hinckle and Mr. E. Shipman, of Shelbyville, were in the city this week. Miss A. Payton, of Louisville, is the guest of Mrs. August Morton. Mrs. William Stone will leave to attend the fair in Shelbyville. The sixth annual exhibit of the Shelbyville fair will be open September 4-7. A large attendance is expected. The Western Union band will furnish music for the occasion. Miss Charity Boyd has returned from a trip East, after taking a special course in music at the College University. She is a teacher of music at the Clinton Street high school. IN BOWLING GREEN, KY Educational Meeting at Taylor's Chapel A. M. E. Church, August, 1912, and Other Notes of Internet Special to THE FREEMAN SCHOOL OF EARTH SCIENCE The educational program was held last Sunday evening at 3 o'clock. An excellent program was rendered for the occasion. Rev. E. W. Williams, president of Berguson and Williams College, of Abbeville, addressed the students in the afternoon....Mr. T. Taylor, the inspector for the Atlanta Mutual Insurance Association, is in the city, and will prospect for the work are excellent. Prospects for the work are excellent. The funeral of Mrs. Nettle Wooten was held from the residence Sunday morning. She leaves a mother, three brothers, and a sister. Carpenter and Miss Lizzie Page left for Louisville last Sunday. Miss Page will go to Pittsburgh to meet her flance, Mr. Wooten. Their many friends wish them a happy matrimonial journey....Rev. J. W. Osley and Mrs. Mattie Barnett are conducting a series of meetings with Mrs. T. Wooten is visiting relatives and friends in Henderson, Ky. ...Mrs. Thomas Taylor and Mr. Charles Taylor were called to the bedside of their mother at Glasgow, Ky., but the end came before the journey was completed. Mrs Taylor was very much the servant to mother, who very much the servant to path of their many friends....The colored citizens are very quite on politics. They are not holding meetings for the Presidency for Taft. It seems that the spirit has not been growing along political lines. IN THE SOCIAL WORLD. By T. R. Chambers. Special to THE FREEMAN: MONTGOMERY, Ala.—The Exchange hotel waiters' banquet at Low's cafe was quite a success. Covers were laid for thirty. Many good words of encouragement were spoken by the following members: Richard Laitfort, welcome address; Mr. Rufus Gunnel, Mr. V.R. Price, Mr. Rufus Gunnel, Mr. Ellie McReynolds and T. R. Chambers. The affair was the grandest of the season in this city. Mr. W. E. Craig, promoter of the occasion, was the center of amusement and contributed his part out thoroughly. All went to their homes overjoyed with the treat of the evening. THE BEST DANCES. The social bunch is enjoying the openair dances at Washington park. The society leaders, Messrs. Jones, Scott and Stringer, promote three dances a week, the ballroom ation dance, and are well attended by the best dancing citizens of the city. THE FREEMAN IN LOUISVILLE. The Indianapolis Freeman is on sale at the following places: C. Martin's, Bakers' Bakery, Ninth, near Walnut; Jno. Cousins', Green, near First Street; Young's Barber Shop, near Eighth Street; D. Barber Shop, Douglas Building, Eighth and Walnut streets; People's Drug Store, Twelfth and Chestnut Street; and Gan's, $611 Orsine Avenue, Parkland THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER SIMPSON R. OXENDINE. The subject of this sketch was born in North Carolina in 1845, where he was reared on a farm. He was denied the advantages of school, but through his own personal efforts learned to read and write. After leaving North Carolina he went to Chillicothe, Ohio, and farmed several years. He tried his fortune in other places in Ohio, but thirty-one years ago came to Richmond. For eighteen years he was [Picture of a man with a white beard and a gray suit. He is facing the camera, looking directly at the viewer. The background is a plain, light color. The man's face is centered in the frame, and his expression is neutral. The image is black and white. There are no visible texts or markings on the image.]] contracting stone mason. At one time he served on the city police force about three years. Mr. Oxendine has been one of the very useful men in this community, and has served in several responsible positions. For six years he was employed at the Insane hospital. Another six years he served as deputy county assessor. Has been deputy sheriff for the last four years, and also the custodian of the county court house more than eight years. Mr. Oxendine has raised a family of five children. He owns a good home only a short distance from the court house, and some other good property in the city. WILLIAM P. MILLER. In 1888, at Richmond, Ky., was born William P. Miller. He was an industrious youth, and never was afraid of work. He left his old home when twelve years old, coming here. Since a boy he has been in some way employed in hotel work, until he has about mastered all the phases of the service. Three years ago he married A. B. Miss Arboda Hopkins, of Harrisburg Ky. Miss Arboda Hopkins, of Harrisburg, Ky. For the last two years Mr. Miller has been the steward of the Richmond Country Club, where he has under his charge the work of buying the supplies, hiring and paying all the help. Under him are from six to twenty-five hands. The club has a large membership of some of the best business men in Richmond. Mr. Miller is a member of the Baptist church and of the K. of P. He is quite popular among the social class of the city. FRAZEE OWENS Mr. Owens is another of our self made men, his father having died when he was but five years old. Though his educational advantages were very meager, yet by self-help he acquired a very good working education. He learned the carpenters' trade, which he followed continually until coming to Richmond, ten years ago. For some years he has been in the employ of the Adam Bartel wholesale company in various capacities. He owns a good home worth something over $2,000 in the city, where PETER J. BURKE live a devoted wife and three children. His oldest daughter is now in high school. Three years ago Mr. Owens began to raise fine White Leghorn chickens, and now he has over 300. He has eggs for sale at from $1.00 to $1.50 per setting. He intends to specialize in the poultry business, and by next season will be ready to meet all orders for fine chickens and eggs. He is a member of the Baptist church, and for some time has been superintendent of the Sunday school. He is also a K. of P. L. B. YOUNG. One of the neatest and cleanest restaurants in eastern Indiana among our people is owned by Mr. Young. He is an experienced man in the business and he knows how to treat his customers. His service is of the first class order, and his trade is among a class of people who can appreciate it. In connection with his restaurant, he runs a nice ice cream business and a confectionery. He and all who help him are very polite, and the customers at his place are given the very best of treatment. No one goes away complaining justly. Mrs. Young, his wife, who is a sister to Mrs. James Shelton, of Indianapolis, is helping her husband and we bespeak success to them in Richmond. Mr. Young is a native of Ohio, but has traveled over the country considerably, having been in business in several of the larger western and northern cities. He is now attending the annual conference, which opened its session on Wednesday morning, August 28th, at Pomeroy, Ohio. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH on the North Side, is one of the large and well established church, with more than two hundred members. The building is a nice large brick of about 400 capacity, and worth not less than $4,000. Rev. Gaines, their pastor, is a man of very wide experience in the ministry, having been in active service for many years. His members are very loyal to him and are willing to follow his leadership. He has been pastor of this church off and on for about ten years, and he has done much in the way of building it up spiritually and numerically. He has a wife and several grown children. Rev. Gaines has pastored in many parts of the country, as well as traveled very extensively. DR. W. GRANT HUFFMAN. For sixteen years Dr. Huffman has resided and practiced in Richmond, and during that time he proved himself as one of the leading physicians of the city. He is a member of the Wayne County Medical Association, the local Commercial Club, and one of the regular attendants at the leading hospital of the city. His practice is not confined to his color. He is the first and only colored person in the county to own an auto. Dr. Huffman is without any question the foremost professional colored man in this part of Indiana. He is a man of very fine social and business qualities, and is always ready to make it pleasant for any respectable person with whom he comes in contact. No man or child is too great or too small to receive Dr. Huffman's respectful attention and courteous treatment. His wife is also an exceptional lady, and has the power to make and hold friends among white and colored. He owns some valuable property in the city. HENRY C. BASS Is Richmond's popular shoemaker. He has the reputation of being second to no shoemaker in this city. Mr. Bass is a product of Richmond, being fifty-four. He has reared two boys to manhood. Mr. Bass has always followed the shoemaker's trade since he could handle a tool. He worked with and for his father while he lived, who was a good shoemaker himself. He is a very active Odd Fellow, being D. G. D. of Indiana during 1911-12. His customers are white and colored, and his trade during the year amounts to considerable. He has owned his shop more than twenty years here in Richmond. He owns some valuable property in other parts of the state. Mr. Bass has always conducted himself and his business in such a way as to secure and retain the confidence of both white and colored people of Richmond. SPECIAL NOTICE. To Colored Newspapers and Magazine Pubilshers Throughout the United States. All colored publishers are requested to mail at once, their advertising rate card, special discounts, commission and circulation by copy of same for the purpose of listing with The Haynes Advertising Agency, 115-117 Nassau street, New York City. Mr. Haynes has been assured one of the agencies of their assistance in placing a large amount of business in colored publications through his agency. The publications listed will also appear in their catalog, which advertises all the agencies of their advertisers and all the agencies in the country. This is an opportunity that no live publisher should miss, as it is the only system where place is the main directive directly behind the big advertisers and the large advertising agencies, an opportunity that has never before been offered to the Negro publisher. Other papers please copy. COMPLAINT FOR DIVORCE. State of Indiana, Marion county, ss: In the Circuit Court of Marion county, in the State of Indiana. No. 21468 Frankie Jaynes vs. James T. Jaynes. Complaint, divorce Brought up on the 5th day of August, 1912, the above named plaintiff, by her attorney, filed in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court of Marion county, in the State of Indiana, her complaint, in the State of Indiana, James T. Jaynes, and the said plaintiff having also filed in said clerk's office the affidavit of a competent person, showing that said defendant, James T. Jaynes, was a citizen of Indiana, that said cause of action is for divorce; and whereas said plaintiff having by endorsement on said complaint required said defendant to appear in said Court, and answer or demur thereto on the 16th Now therefore, by order of said Court, said defendant last above named is hereby notified of the filing and petition of the Court, that unless he appears and answers or demurs thereto at the calling of sal dause on the 16th day of October, 1912, the same being the 9th judicial day of the Court House and held at the Court House in the city of Indianapolis, on the 1st Monday in October, 1912, said complaint and the matters and things therein on completion will be heard and determined in his absence. JOHN RAUCH, Clerk. A. N. Crane, Attorney for Plaintiff. It pays to advertise in The Freeman. 11 Dry Goods, Clothing and Shoes The New Better Value Store. 918 Main Street, Richmond, Indiana And Open a Charge Account with the GLOBE CLOTHING COMPANY 533 MAIN STREET, RICHMOND, IND. That flaky, Cream Cracker that is better. Ask your grocer for a premium list. The Coupons given with Elk Butter Crackers will secure for you many handsome and valuable Premiums. Your Credit is Good For anything you want. Time or easy payments to any honest person. Our prices are square. We have "Most Everything." Give us a trial. Some of our best sellers are: Palmer's Skin Success in Salve, Soap and Blood Remedy, Dr. Hobson's Ox Marrow Pomade, Allen's Ox Marrow Pomade, Nelson's Hair Dressing, Dr. Hobson's Pain Dispeller and Dr. Hobson's Nerve and Bone Liniment, Rev. Goins' Pleurs Prescription, Rev. Gaines' Liniment, Attwood Btters, Capillaris, and many others. Full line Poultry and Stock remedies. Ice Cream in bulk the year around. We sell by the pint, quart or gallon. We also sell Ice Cream Cones. Our prices are always right. We are the original Cut Rate Druggists of Richmond. Ask your physician or pastor about our reliability—they know. "The Place You Get the Most Change Back." E. M. W. Ice Creamy Ice Cream Wholesale and Retail. Mail Orders given prompt attention. Special Prices for Church Socials Give us a Trial Order 436 West Main St., Richmond, Indiana Thirteen Years Of continuous growth and service have given a thorough test to the strength and stability of this Strong Company Growing larger and stronger with each succeeding year. We solicit your business in all of our various lines. We Want Your Business. Dickinson Trust Company Leading Trust Company in Eastern Indiana. Richmond, Indiana. Cash Meat Market Home Dressed Meats. Phone 2290. Opposite Court House, Richmond, Indiana 1002 Main Street, Phone 1766. 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Richmond Steam Laundry 919 Main Street, Richmond, Indiana Telephone 1251 At our Store and receive 10 "S & H" Stamps Free with each 25c purchase. The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., Telephone 1215. 72 Main Street, Richmond, Ind. John J. Reber SHOES REPAIRED And Made to Order 14 South 5th St., Richmond, Indiana The Fifth Street [Fish and Oyster Market W. R. Hopkins, Prop. Telephone 1533. 16 South 5th St., Richmond, Indiana READ The Freeman The Leading Race Journal LONG BR Cash Me Home Dressed M Opposite Court House, French Dry Edward MRS. VIRGINIA TATE, The widow of William Tate, one of Richmond's most successful barbers for years, lives in one of the best homes in South 11th street. It is easily worth $6,000. It is a beautiful two-story brick. Mrs. Tate has been in Richmond over thirty years, and today is regarded as one of our most substantial women. She owns several other very valuable pieces of property in the city. Her husband died about eight years ago. JEANETTE SURE OF WINNING. Hoboken Fighter Confident He Can Beat Johnson. NEW YORK.—After many months of challenging and weary waiting with but scant encouragement, Joe Jeanette, the Hoboken nemesis of Jack Johnson, at last sees his hopes about to be realized. Jeanette declares that he will need but twelve days of work to prepare for the bout with Johnson. "I never work more than twelve days for a fight," he explained in discussing the match. "I trained twelve days for Langford when we met in that last go at the Garden, and, if you remember, I was in fine shape. In fact, I think I was a little too fine. I weigh 189 pounds now, but by the night of the fight I'll weigh about 192. "You know most fellows drop a lot of weight while training, but it affects me differently, for I always gain, and fall off when I am doing nothing." Jeanette is a quiet spoken, unassuming fellow, who is well liked by every one with whom he comes in contact. His' features are more of the Hindu or North American Indian type than the full blooded Negro. His skin is a rich nut brown and when he is in perfect condition it glows with health, which, together with his wonderful muscular structure, makes him a sight worth more than a second glance. In or out of condition he never carries any fat to speak of. Although he averages about 190 pounds, he is only 5 feet 10 inches in height, facts which indicate that his bones are extra large. He has the peculiarity of being very deceptive in regard to his height. When seen in the ring he creates an impression that he is close to six feet, and it is only when standing by his side that one is undeceived. He called attention to this fact himself and said that it was a mistake that was constantly being made. Jeanette is always diffident about criticising his opponents. He is very sensitive and fearful of being thought boastful. However, repeated questions induced him to discuss his chances of defeating Johnson at some length. "Jack and I haven't got much use for each other," he said. "We have had some tough fights and they have created a lot of hard feeling. I am always willing to forget what happens in the ring and be friends, but Johnson is not built that way. Whenever we have happened to me he has always tried to avoid me without speaking. I know I can give him a hard fight and I hope to outpoint him at least. He never had much on me in our other fights. I could always hit him without much trouble and once I cut him up pretty badly. I only weighed about 165 when I fought him last, now I am twenty-five pounds heavier. And Jack is getting old and fat. I think he showed in his bout with Flynn that he is losing his punch. If Flynn was butting him, as they say, from what I know of Jack he certainly would have cut loose unless he was afraid of getting tired. "I'll go up after his body because I think that is his weakest spot now and besides body punching is my long suit. It was a body blow I got in that made him foul me that time in Philadelphia. I caught hi mwith a right uppercut in the pit of the stomach and it made him gasp. Right after that he began hitting low. He hit me with a right that landed below the belt and the crowd began to hiss. I was hurt pretty badly, but I kept my feet and he deliberately struck again with the same punch. When I woke up I was in the hospital. Johnson was arrested and they wanted me to press the charge against him, but I didn't want to do that." "How do you think Johnson intends to fight you this time?" Jeanette was asked. "Well, I shouldn't be surprised if he intends to stall as much as possible. He probably figures he can go along without doing much and not take any chances. Of course it takes two to make a good fight, but it won't be my fault if there is not plenty of action. He never could hold my arms like he did with Flynn and Tommy Burns. I only hope he reaches out to grab me, because if he does something is going to happen." Jeanette brought out a scrap book full of newspaper clippings to substantiate his remarks regarding his different bouts with Johnson. He also exhibited a series of photographs taken during his battle with Sam McVea in Paris, showing himself taking the count in all sorts of curious positions at different times during the contest in which he was floored twenty-one times and yet won out in the end. Jeanette looked them over with a curious smile, remarking, "Johnson admitted when he was in Paris that I could beat him in a finish fight. I hope I can do it in ten." THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. PREMIER BAND SOPRANO A MISS ANNA WOODWORD. Miss Woodword, of Chicago, rated as the premier band soprano of the Middle West, will sing in daily concerts with the Indianapolis Military band at the grandstand of the race track at the Indiana State Fair. STATE FAIR'S BANDS GREAT NEW YORK ORGANIZATION IN DAILY CONCERTS. Two Eminent Soprano Singers and Other Soloists Will Be Heard— Four Bands Will Play All Week. Music will be one of the choicest popular attractions at the Indiana State Fair, which opens at Indianapolis on Labor Day, Sept. 2. Visitors to the exposition from Hoosier farms have always taken especial interest an the band concerts, and a new concert organization has not only been engaged for the coming fair, but an old favorite will be increased materially in numerical strength. Soprano and instrumental soloists will be features in all of the concerts, which will be heard morning, afternoon and night. The stellar attraction in the way of concerts will be given by Patrick Conway and his band, of New York, an organization that has never played in Indiana. Conway is regarded as the successor of P. S. Glimore, the pioneer band master of America, who won his reputation as a bandsman by gathering up the best talent of the country and developing them into a concert organization of highest merit. Conway's band is pre-eminent an organization of master musicians. It first came into national prominence at the Pan-American exposition in Buffalo. Since then the band has been heard for six years at Young's Pier, Atlantic City; five seasons at Willow Grove Park, Philadelphia; three seasons at Oakland, Cal.; six seasons at Riverview Park, Chicago. It will this year be heard at a number of state fairs, including Indiana, Iowa, New York, Texas and Louisiana. Mr. Conway has promised to bring to the Indiana fair the greatest concert organization ever heard there. The soprano soloist will be Miss Josephine Dunfee, who has been soloist with the New York Symphony Orchestra, who has been popular as a soprano in music festivals in many cities, has won fame in many grand operas, and has been on the stage with DeWolf Hopper in his light opera productions. The band and Miss Dunfee will be heard in the Coliseum each afternoon and evening of the fair, giving popular programs at each concert. The Indianapolis Military Band, which has played at the Indiana fair for twenty years, began its career there with fifteen men and at the coming fair will have forty musicians. With this band for the first time will appear a soprano soloist—Miss Anna Woodward of Chicago, rated as the premier of all band soloists of the middle west. She has been a prominent factor in important musical events in a number of cities and has been heard in Indianapolis theaters, where she won much favor. The Indianapolis Newboys' Band will give morning and afternoon concerts and with the Mazeppa and United Shows, which will make up the State Fair "midway," a large band will be heard. The fair will be in full swing on Labor Day, with numerous special attractions. Tuesday will, as usual, be free for children and veterans of the wars. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, always great days for crowds and special features at the exposition, will again be prolific in attractions. The mile track at the fair grounds has been in constant use since early spring by horses in training there, and the course will be in fine condition for the fair races. Every man is the architect of his own fate. So believed Mr. William Epps, the efficient engineer at the Wayne works, one of the largest manufacturing establishments in Richmond. Mr. Epps has been there for some time, and has proved entirely equal to the occasion. He runs three separate and distinct engines and has never had any serious accident in his work. Mr. Epps is not an old man, but he M. B. has, by his own personal effort, made himself one of the most proficient engineers in this town. He was reared here, but did not have the educational advantages that many of his contemporaries had. But he was always an apt individual, and by close observation and steady application learned the trade himself. For many years he was the fireman at the factory, and thus was enabled to make close study of the science. Mr. Epps is a very quiet, unassuming man, and has the reputation of being a square and trustworthy man in all his dealings. ULYSSES G. COOK. The genius is seldom appreciated by his friends. Richmond has scarcely awakened to the realization of the fact that she has a real genius within her gates in the person of Mr. U. G. Cook. To do the work that he can do requires only a genius. He can do almost anything with wood, paint and brush. He has painted some real pictures of merit, and he has made some furniture which is superior in PETER H. quality to most of the kind we see sold in the ordinary stores. He is a fine interior decorator, also a printer. At the present time he is a cement contractor, and is considered one of the best in Eastern Indiana. Mr. Cook is a native of this city, having lived forty-one years since he first saw light. He was reared on a farm near by until he was fifteen years old. Mr. Cook married Miss Della Slaughter, of Indianapolis, about seven years ago. He has the refusal of some of the best cement jobs in the city. He is also a first-class paper hanger. REV. G. H. BUTLER. Rev. Butler is from the Blue Grass State, where he was born thirty-six years ago. He finished the school course at his home town, Flemingsburg, where he was principally reared. He came here in 1897, and joined the A. M. E. church that year. A. B. 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We show the best efforts of the best makers in the country, and are inviting you here to see our "Shoes of Merit" and participate in the benefit of our Reasonable Prices and our Experienced Shoe Service 2 Educational Etchings (Compiled by Mrs. Grace Lucas Thompson, Washington, D. C.) Bishop W. P. Thirkield is located at New Orleans. Washington is to have a $250,000 Normal School for colored pupils. Prof. T. M. Gregory is again a member of the faculty of Howard University. Tuskegee Institute now has 186 teachers, all told, and more than 100 buildings. A woman, Miss Flora Dumlop, has been chosen school director in Des Moines, Iowa. --- Marriage is no bar to the employment of female teachers in the public schools of Indianapolis, Ind. Miss Jessie Fortune, for several years a teacher in the New York City schools, was married recently. Wilberforce University conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws upon J. C. Napier, Register of the Treasury. The next session of the National Association of Colored Women will be held in 1914, at Wilberforce University. ** W. S. Buchanan, president of the Normal A. and M. College, Normal, Ala., is said to be the youngest colored college president in the country. --- The Educational Congress, to be held in Washington, September 24, in connection with the Emancipation Celebration, bids fair to be a large affair. Governors of the states are appointing delegates. *** The staff of the Tuskegee Student embraces: Emmett J. Scott, editor-in-chief, and Charles H. Fearing and Edwin J. Cheshutt, associate editors. The Student has a weekly circulation of over 15,000. *** Among the graduates from the Normal Department of Clark University this year was Miss Georgia S. Penn, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. I. Garland Penn, of Atlanta, Ga. Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, president of the National Training School for Girls at Lincoln Heights, D. C., is publishing a neat little paper called The Worker, gotten out as the official organ of her school. The Ministerial Conference at the National Religious Training School at Durham, N. C., was one of the truly great meetings of the year. Dr. J. E. Shepard will probably make it an annual affair. ```markdown ``` Tuskegee Institute ranks fifth in the number of students studying the Bible. It is guided by a chaplain and a secretary of the Y. M. C. A., and has a thorough Bible Training School. Special opportunities are offered to divinity students this year. *** The National Medical Association meets this year, August 27, at Tuskegee Institute, and the attendance promises to be the largest in the history of the organization. Dr. H. F. Gamble, of Charleston, W. Va., is president of the N. M. A. It may not be generally known that Dr. Booker T. Washington is a full-fledged editor. He is at the helm of The Southern Letter, a Tuskegee publication devoted to the progress of the student-body of the school, and which has a big circulation among the donors and patrons of the institution. --- Dr. James E. Shepard, president of the National Religious Training School at Durham, N. C., has been given the title of "Doctor of Divinity" by Muskingum College, Ohio, an institution which has turned out a large number of ministers and missionary workers. Dr. Shepard is the first colored man to be so honored by this famous institution. * * * Miss Clarice Jones, a recent graduate of the Ithaca Conservatory of Music, is planning to start a conservatory on similar lines in Washington, for the higher training of the Negro in musical expression. Miss Jones has made an enviable reputation as a skilled interpreter of the productions of the old masters. *** Miss Mamie Bolden, the colored girl who won the spelling contest during the National Educational Contest in 1908 in Cleveland, Ohio, is on the honor roll of the Eastern High School of Cleveland this year. Miss Bolden, according to the Cleveland Plain-dealer, is not only an accomplished speller, but a capable all-around student. *** Prof. Roscoe Conkling Bruce is succeeding admirably as assistant superintendent of the Washington schools, having full charge of the colored department, with nearly 20,000 pupils and about 600 teachers. In 1911, the appropriations for the colored schools amounted to $245,000, or 33 per cent. of the total for the schools. In 1912, the appropriations amounted to $284,000, or 34 per cent. of the total. The estimates for 1913—not yet passed—call for $318,000, or 41 per cent. of the total amount appropriated for all the schools. The Negro represents about one-third of the population of the District. --- Former Register of the Treasury W. T. Vernon is the new president of Campbell College, at Jackson, Miss. The school is devoted to the higher education of the Negro, and is under the authority of the A. M. E. Church. Campbell College owns 1,000 acres of valuable farming lands a few miles east of Mound Bayou, and it is thought by some that steps will be taken to utilize this land for the agricultural and industrial training of a portion of Campbell's student body, embracing those that elect to take these courses. Dr. Vernon has a fine op- portunity to develop this school into one of the best educational institutions in the South. He has found a great work. --- The State of Georgia spends annually for the education of white men and women in industrial and technical studies $324,000, and only a beggary $8,000 for the education of colored persons in the same line. The attention of Col. Clark Howell, the usually fair-minded editor of the Atlanta Constitution, should be called to this discrimination, which works a hardship, not only upon the Negroes immediately affected, but robs the state of a large measure of valuable production which trained colored hands would yield. MERIDIAN, MISS. Special to THE FREEMAN. Special to THE FREEMAN. Rev. T. H. Dickson, who has been out in the western part of Mississippi arrived in the city on August 17, looking well. He left on the 19th for Scooba, Miss., his old home....Messrs. Wille Steinback and Johnnie Hyman, of Demopolis, Ala., visited relatives in Meridian, on August 18. They left for Mobile, Ala., on August 20....Mrs. Martha Grace, wife of G. W. Grace, died very suddenly Saturday, August 17, about 4 p. m. He funeral was largely attended at M. Zion Baptist Church, Sunday, August 18, at 3:30 p. m. Rev. E. H. Guston preached the funeral. He pictured the life of the deceased. He did not fall to warn the congregation to prepare to meet their God. Rev. Gaston was assisted by Rev. G. W. Washington. The interment was made in the Masonic Cemetery. Peace to her ashes. Mrs. Lucinda Pollard, of Chicago, Ill., is visiting relatives and friends in the city. We wish her a pleasant stay in the city....The widow's contest is being held at St. Paul M. E. Church, to see which is the most popular widow in Meridian....Peter Johnson, a well-known colored man, was found dead in Handley Lake, on August 12. He was buried at the city cemetery on the 13th, by Strayhorn, Berry & Co, co-understands. His body was decomposed. It is not known just how long he had been dead....Mrs. Aseele Rushing, wife of William Rushing, died at her home at Marion, Miss., on August 20. She was buried at the family burial ground on August 21, at 11 a. m....Mrs. Jennie Gosley, who has been visiting her old home at Demopolis, Ala., has returned to the city....Rev. J. W. Islebew went down the A. & V. road. Rev. Jim Brooks went down the same road on the 20th, to be absent for a few weeks on business.... Miss Pearlie Jenkins, who has been visiting relatives at Ellisville and other places down the N. O. & N. E. road, the past several weeks, has returned to the city, much pleased with her trip...Mr Jim Hodge and Miss Carrie Balton were married on Sunday, August 4, 1912. Rev. Henderson, of the St. Peter A. M. E. Zion Church, officiated. Both are well known. We wish them godspread....Rev. L. S. Lee, moderator; Rev. J. T. Flinn, vice moderator; J. T. Davis, corresponding secretary; J. S. Brookins, N. W. Wallace, Rev. Spunn, L. Lockett, Miss Jeanette Jenkins and others who have been attending the Sunday school convention and Second Hope and Meridian Association, at Louderdale, Miss, have returned to the city, much pleased with their trip. Rev. Jim Brooks took care of the delegates while at Louderdale....Rev. L. A. Brooks, of Bessemer, Ala, preached two able sermons at El Bethel Baptist Church Sunday, August 18, at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Quite a good crowd was out at each service. Come again, brother....At Mrs. M. Ward's, on August 2, a Dutch unch was served for Mrs. Susie S. Mayes, of Hattiesburg, Miss. Quite a good crowd of invited guests were present. Miss Mary Ward served the guests at their home on Valley street and Thirty-sixth avenue...Mrs. Susie S. Mayes, who has been visiting the family of Mrs. Martha Ward, on Valley street and Thirtysixth avenue, has returned to her home at Hattiesburg, Miss. We welcome you at any time. ...Miss Mary Brown, who has been visiting relatives at Kemper Springs for two weeks, returned home on August 12...Mr. Will Young, who has been in Memphis, Tenn., arrived in the city on August 5 to visit his relatives and friends...Mrs. Maggie Moss left on August 13 for New York and other Northern cities, to be gone about three months or more. We wish for her a pleasant trip...Miss Bessie Crowder, who has been visiting Columbus and other places this summer, has returned to the city...Mrs. C. B. Gainer, who has been suffering with rheumatism for about four weeks, is a little better. We wish for her a speedy recovery. LOUISIANA, MO. Special to The Freeman Mr. Louis Ross died at his home on South Carolina street, at 6 o'clock Tuesday morning, August 20, after a lingering illness. The funeral services were conducted at the Second Baptist Church, Wednesday afternoon, under the auspices of Hughes Lodge, A. F. and A. M. of which he was a member. Mr. Ross leaves a wife and two children and a host of friends to mourn his loss.... Aunt Louisa Sales died last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thurman, in South Fifth street. Funeral services were held at the A. M. E. Church, under the auspices of the Household of Ruth. Afterward the remains were laid to rest in Riverview Cemetery....Miss Jennie Cole died last night, August 23, after a lingering illness. We extend our sympathy to the bereaved ones. CHICAGO, ILL. Special to THE FREEMAN The marriage of Miss Maude Jeanette Hatcher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Hatcher, of Tuskegee, Ala., to Mr. C. H. Bird, of Chicago, national grand deputy of the U. B. F. of U. S. A., Canada, Africa and the West Indies, took place at 3:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the residence of Rev. and Mrs. Chavis, 3560 Vernon avenue. The wedding was a private affair, the witnesses being Mrs. Chavis, Miss Mary H. Mosley, Miss Bradley and Dr. P. H. Knight. The bride was gowned in a light blue silk, with white lace trimmings. She carried a bouquet of roses and chrysanthemums. The bride was formerly a teacher of Dothan, Ala. and THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. has been in the teaching profession three years. She has also been active in promoting Negro enterprises in the South. The groom, Mr. C. H. Bird, is one of the oldest business men of this city. He has many friends, who will be surprised to hear of his happy marriage to his little Southern Rose. The happy pair are at home to friends at 3752 Rhodes avenue...Misses Evelyn Mae Elliott, Euretta K. Fairchild and Minnie Milligan, of Houston, Tex. are visiting in Chicago, and are domiciled at 3752 Rhodes avenue...Miss Elliott has been summering in Detroit and Toronto, Can.; Miss Milligan in Washington, D. C., and Miss Fairchild in Kansas City, Mo...Miss Willie Blount, of Houston, Tex., left for her home Thursday night. TUSCALOOSA. ALA Special to THE FREEMAN. One of the prettiest weddings of the season was that of Miss Sarah Barnes and Mr. Walter Quinzy, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Madison Barnes, Thursday evening August 15, Rev. W. M. McGee officiating. 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School teaching, plain, old, every-day school teaching, has put on new robes and is calling long and loud for one who can keep these robes fresh. Its latest dress is correlation. This garment is not Parisian; it is in all its texture American—American in design, in execution, in production of the fabric out of which it is made. Because the well dressed man wants the style of the minute, quality and the highest degree of sati-faction, but he does not want to pay more than is necessary. The man who wears Levinson's $2.00 Siraw gets The Right Style, The Right Quality, The Right Satisfaction, For The Right Price. He feels satisfied that his head is "topped off" just right. Ladies White Panamas, $5 to $7; Men's Genuine Bangkoks, $4; Men's White Panamas, $5. Now the school teacher of former days had only to know the dress; how it was made or the fabric thereof was not a part of his task. The book! the book! That was all the erstwhile pedagogue needed to know. It is far otherwise now. While grasping the principles of his text the school teacher of today must be able to bring the theory of that text down to common things. The other day Tuskegee supplied a teacher for a vacancy in a city in Illinois. What was she to teach? Arithmetic and grammar? Yes, that. Then she was to teach sewing, a class in cooking, a class in gymnastics. She was to organize a community meeting, introduce school gardening, establish prizes for those pupils who raised the best products, and gain the co-operation of the parents of the children sufficiently to secure from them the money for the prizes. Could she do all this? She did. She had had the training. Dress-making and cooking she had taken as trades while studying arithmetic and grammar. Cooking, she and every other girl who enters Tuskegee Institute must take. During her last two years she had specialized in education. This means that she had gone out into the surrounding community and taught classes, that she had seen mothers' meetings organized, prize contests in vegetable raising set a going. In a word, she was nowhere caught napping. The environment alone at Tuskegee, where conferences and farmers' meetings are constantly held, would have equipped her sufficiently to master the situation. The Magic will not burn or injure the hair, because the comb is never heated. The steel heating bar which irons the hair, is ask, a, put into the flame of the alcohol or gas heater. The Aluminum Comb is easily detached from the heating bar, then, after the bar is heated, the comb goes back into place and is held by a turn of the handle. The Magic Heater is also suitable for curling hair has a cover and can be carried in a handbag. Fill with alcohol and light here. Magic Shampoo Drier $1.00. Magic Alcohol Heater $0.50. Liberal terms to agents. Write for literature today. Magic Shampoo Drier Co. Minneapolis, Minnesota. BEFORE USING This young woman's story is but one of many illustrating the modern demand upon him who would go forth as a professional teacher. Anticipating this, Tuskegee Institute a few years ago established a regular course for the all-round school teacher. The principle upon which this course rests is that the student teacher is a worker, a worker in his class room and a worker in his community. In his last two years in school at Tuskegee, if a student elects the profession of teaching, he must begin to take special studies in that direction. He studies the theory of education as handed down from Socrates and Quintillian, from McMurray and Booker T. Washington. In addition to this, he is required to teach, actually teach in the class room under the direction of experienced teachers, both in the night school and the day school. He receives instruction in special preparation of a lesson and in the presentation of that lesson. 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Finally, through special arrangement, he is required to go out and teach in one of these for two weeks. Before writing Madam Walker, inquire at your druggist, as she is now placing her goods in all drug stores. TAYLOR'S NEW SHAMPOO DRYER and Hair Straightening Comb In the meantime, on the trade side, he is taking one trade and observing many. His specialty may be blacksmithing or mattress making, yet in the course of two or three years he picks up knowledge of the various kinds of farming, points on electricity, on shoemaking, and on many other of the thirty-seven branches of industry taught at Tuskegee Institute. But how does he gain any respectable knowledge of so many trades? Through correlation in mathematics he measures floors and walls of the class room. Over there a new brick building is being erected. Forth he goes with his whole class and mathematics teacher and makes computations on brick, the mortar, the rafters, shingles and the like. In his geography class he studies the actual soils and plants. He goes down to the commissary, and with the articles in his hands studies whence and how they came, whence the raw material and how such material was converted into the texture under consideration. Cotton, fruit, meats, vegetables, iron, various kinds of wood are studied in this way. In the grammar classes students write compositions and give talks on their various trades. Thus they exchange knowledge until each pupil is familiar with many trades other than his own. SALES Thus correlation gets into the blood of the young teacher even long before he chooses his profession. It becomes therefore second nature to him to teach in this manner when he secures a position. So much is said about industrial work at Tuskegee that frequently the impression gets abroad that the school is nothing more than training quarters for laborers. It is thought in many instances that the academic branches are very elementary, and that they are but indifferently taught. This is by no means the case. True, no Latin, Greek or modern languages are taught, but in mathematics, English, geography and history Tuskegee Institute runs as high as the average high school of the South. In some branches it goes higher. In English there are two years of rhetoric, supplemented by the reading of several English classics. In mathematics they cover plane geometry, in addition to having concrete geometry. Economics, United States History, Ancient and Mediaeval History, as well as Physics and Chemistry, all run as high as do these subjects in the average high school. cation and present Hotel, replete with every modern improvement, claims a distinction for its location and present exposure. Superintensive in constructi n, at appointments, service and realization of the present active citizens. Concerts daily by the Abyssal and children. Garage, bathrooms, tents, etc. Consider special attention given to ladies literature and information mailed upon request. All these subjects are taught with an eye strictly to the scheme of correlation, so that wherever the young teacher lands he can meet the demands upon the up-to-date teacher. The Freeman in Omaha, Neb.-For sale by Albin Simmons, 1313 Doree street Additional Stage CENTRAL THEATER, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. Billy King has been installed as assistant manager of the Central theater, and on account of poor condition of Manager Larry, he health Mr. King was secured January 1, 2014. After spending a few months in the theater he finds it more pleasant in the Southern, and most of our colored acts fld it in the theater. He now bookings agents' offices. Good acts spend from two to five weeks in one house, and sometimes longer. Every house has a theater and stock. That has kept a good many movies in one house ten to twelve weeks. Compare all of this and no railroad fare with the movies and lay-offs that are operated across the country. And the Southern time—that is when you are on the right time—far more profitable. Mr. King has just returned from a four weeks vacation. Marion-Brooks the college teacher was during his absence. Monday night the big musical comedy, A Gay Life at the Seashore, that long ago the doors opened the thoroughfare was closed and in spite of having the largest seating area any colored house in the United States, the chapel thorities stopped the sale of tickets to those who were willing to stand within the company proved a winner. The cast was carefully selected, and the song numbers were staged in a beautiful manner. The electrical effects got their full share of applause. Mr. King is easily a writer in the best. The vaudeville portion of the was a welcome one, judging from the amount of applause that each act received. Dixon and Long (first appearance) can come again soon. Mauriel Raugel needs no introduction. She "batted" in the skimmer woon favor with her singing and the kicks dancing. Billy Higgins came back with a keg of humor and opened it. The audience drank it as long as it lasted; when it gave out, they cried. "Tap another topper," thearker arrived late and immediately took care of the Jeff DuMont is a genuine entertainer of the old school of comedy. His banjo-logue stopped the show. Wiggins and Wiggins, well known to the public here, were not rested as any act ever returned. Their time was not of the gingerbread type. Mr. Wiggins has made a study of the feet and knows best what to do with them. It looks like "circus day" around the manager Joel is operating small vaudeville in his Dixie theater on Decatur街. NOTES FROM PROF. JOHN EAS ON'S BAND AND MINSTRELS, WITH YANKEE ROBIN-SON'S SHOW. DORA DEAN. Among the vaudeville artists who make Minneapolis their summer home are: Charles E. Johnson and his wife, Dora Dean, clever colored performers, who have taken their return from a trip around the world. The tour ended in Australia, where the public went wild over Miss Dean, who is an extraordinary beautiful woman. She is known for her beauty, Germany by Ernest Heilmann, an eminent German artist, and the picture was hung in the spring exhibition of the German academy. They were the first to give the cake to the young ladies, many titled persons the dance, among them being Lady Constance Stewart Richardson. Twenty years ago Mr. Johnson was a popular clination toward the stage and a talent for dancing led him toward vaudeville. M. CADET OFFICER. and with the assistance of Miss Dean he has scored a great hit. The team has years in America, six years in Great Britain, two in the continent, and then four more in Europe and a world tour. Our home in Minneapolis is at 3603 Chicago avenue; they have invested heavily in local property, a block of residences. That's how vaudeville enriches the successful artists. Miss Dean is present in Indianapolis, where her husband will join her, and they expect to be back here in vaudeville some time during the winter. A PATHETIC APPEAL FOR LOST RELATIVES. I take this opportunity to appeal to the sympathetic public, asking aid, if possible, toward locating my father and two children, to get around to get in touch with my relatives. My mother, fully finding my people are somewhat limited, owing to my unfortunate position, hence my appeal. I am colored. The last time I met my mother, that time my oldest sister was living at St. Louis, Mo, with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Heenriella and Tony Gant. I. Mr. and Mrs. Heenriella and Tony Gant. I is Fannie Bell Press. I is my her name was her name at that time. My other sister, Rockie Gray, was living then at Memphis, Tenn., also with an uncle and aunt, Fannie Bell Press. I is Fannie Griffin. My father, at that time living at Pontocot, Miss, with his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Jeff and Emma Bell Press. My father's name is Sam Trott. I have always been a maiden name, Gray. This is slight information concerning my people—it is very meager, yet I am unable to add to my family. My father means the finding of all my long-lost family. Any information concerning any of the above named parties will be most gratefully received. GRAY. No. 8237, Box B, Danaheim N. Y. MAKING A FUSS OVER CLAYBORN JONES, WHO IS POPULAR IN ATLANTA, GA. The Atlanta Constitution had the following August 12: four missiles between the two Negro moving shows on Decatur street broke out afresh yesterday afternoon, when the owner of the Arcade sought to take from the owner of the Dixie the movie Negro motion picture vaudeville actor in Atlanta. Clayborn Jones, according to the injunction suit filed by C. P. Balley against Joel, is an actor and singer of the Dixie movie motion picture vaudeville usually popular among the "darkies" who attend the moving picture shows of Decatur street. No other actor or singer came to see Joel. "Jones was in Florida, and Balley wanted him to sing at the Arcade. Jones agreed, according to the injunction, and then Joel butted in and broke up the movie. The actor by Bailey, Jones wired that he could not come, as his salary had been raised. Now he's appearing at the Arcade's rival, the Dixie, and Balley is sore. Jones appears anywhere except at his Arcade, and Deputy Sheriff E. T. Stanley went to the Dixie to serve Jones notice of the suit. When he arrived at the picture room, everyone there said Jones was not present. "Deputy Stanley took his stand at the door, the "possum smoked a hot water, the "possum smoked a hot water," Deputy Stanley's expression, and Jones consented to be served. He resisted battle of the war will take place before Judge Ellis at some future day." BAILEY AIRDOME, PARIS, TEX. The Lockhart-Blackburn Stock Company made a great hit with the people of Paris last week with the show they produced, "Burnt Homeestead," which went big. Mr. Clarence Williams went big singing the parody on "Some of These Days." The stock company, the people of Paris with their masterpiece entitled "Queen Bess," the little comedied written by Mr. Lockhart. Vote Lockhart, the twelve-year-old wonder, has the people of Paris to thank. Basha and Miss Ebbie Forceman, our sister team, are cleaning up. Rantime Jimmy is still on the boards. Miss Tommy Burton, our prima donna, is a favorite here and the class songs. Mr. Lockhart would like the Dave Shaffer and Buster Austin. BARNUM & BAILEY NOTES. All members with Prof. Wolfscale's company are still enjoying the best of health and meeting with much success while traveling through the Western States. Prof. Wolfscale has increased his company, Mr. Hardy Montgomery, the well-known bass singer and comedian, is one of the new members. Our colored basketball team known as the B. Giants will play four games at San Francisco next week, while showing in that city. We must say for the Freeman that it has become a welcome visitor around the big show among both colored and white players, who have never misse da week this season that the Freeman has not been on hand. "I regard the Tuskegee Institute as the most considerable educational invention of modern times," writes Professor W. I. Thomas, Professor of Sociology in the University of Chicago. Industry is the spirit of Tuskegee—industry and discipline are made a habit. The choice of some 40 trades is offered young men and young women. Tuskegee graduates are earning from $50 to $80 and $100 per month as Academic Teachers, Farm Hands, Steam and Electrical Engineers, Tailors, Teachers of Domestic Science, Nurses—in fact the demand for men and women trained in all the trades at Tuskegee is far beyond the supply. The Academic work is vital and real; it is close to realities. The school seeks soundness and efficiency, the Academic and Industrial work are closely correlated. The spiritual work of the school is strong. It ranks fifth in the United States in the number of students studying the Bible. It is guided by a Chaplain and a Secretary of the Y. M. C. A., and through a Bible Training school. Morning drills for boys, special gymnastic training for girls; swimming pools for boys and girls; attractive grounds; more than 100 buildings, large, comfortable, airy, electric lighted; 185 teachers. Catalogue will be forwarded on receipt of 6 cents for postage. Address BOOKER T. 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It is said that the Chicagoans were so very busy during the week of the meeting of the National Negro Business League in that city that they sheared the occasion of some of its customary social functions. Perhaps they will do better in Philadelphia. If our colored men will only be consistent. Some are chattering just as noisily against Roosevelt as they were a few days when they were for him, in spite of the fact that they swore against him when he turned out the Negro soldiers. Keep the brakes on. Little by little it is being made clear that Mr. Roosevelt was hand-in-hand with those great interests which he made such a great show of attacking. He still yells "it's a lie" lustily enough, but the people are becoming to believe that the Colonel's own veracity is questionable. The election of R. W. Thompson as president of the National Negro Press Association was a fitting compliment to his activity in behalf of the organization and his ability as a journalist. The convention was held during the week of the National Negro Business League meeting, being an affiliated body of the League. The individual that put it that there was a religious fervor in the comprehensive sweep of the Roosevelt party movement evidently was not onto the fact that a supposed despised and rejected class was not expected. According to the establishment of a real comprehensive movement of years ago the humbler ones were at the feast. With the half-century celebration of freedom on in Philadelphia and the National Negro Business League meeting also there in 1913, the descendants of old man Penn will be very much in evidence. Then the Knights of Pythias will be in Baltimore, too, you know. High old times are promised, No one will be at home except the women and the children. Maybe the children only. The Progressives, wherever they have organized in the South, have made it very plain that they wanted white men only. Many of the calls have specified that only white men were wanted. The calls that did not specify "white men only" were called to meet in places where Negroes could not go. One does not have to search long to find that it is the same old gang of "illy whites" masquerading under a new name. It is the hand of Esau, but the voice of Jacob. Any Negro who can find congenial surroundings in that crowd is certainly welcome to go.—The Mosaic Guide, Little Rock, Ark. Did you get that, Steve? THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE. The National Negro Business League, which recently closed its twelfth annual meeting at Chicago, was continued proof that the organization is one of the great helps to the Negro race. The organization came into existence as a necessity in furthering the Negroes' interests from a race viewpoint. Those who came on the scene first, immediately following the Civil War, did not see very far into the future. They thought that the race would walk upright in the affairs of men as they found them existing. They did not know that the Negroes were to serve a sort of term of apprenticeship along all lines, as was demonstrated later. The necessity of some fostering agency was soon painfully apparent, yet the leaders hoped on, thinking that by some means, but which was not clear to them, the race would be caught up into the various channels of civil life. Patience is a virtue, when there's a possible happy conclusion, otherwise it is well-nigh criminal. It was evident that if the race were to be helped to any great extent in the ways that counted most, it would have to do that helping itself. The newer set of men saw farther into the future. Among these was Booker T. Washington. He had already done much toward the systemic organization of Negro effort in behalf of his own salvation. His views, supported by the impressing front of affairs, gained currency, and out of which came that splendid conception, a business league composed of Negro men. The league in its twelve years of existence has filled a long-felt want in reality. It proved a powerful stimulus, and direct at the very outset. It has been rather "omnibus" in its scope, dealing with business in its entirety, and yet successfully, because Negroes in all business are yet feeling their way and consequently need the accumulated experiences that are the features of the meetings. Here are incentive, teaching, impression and exhibition, the influences of which are felt beyond the race, especially the exhibition phase, thus helping in the great propaganda of boosting the race to a higher place in the estimation of the onlookers who are more or less interested. The conduct of the national meeting is in itself a fine example of orderly procedure, and doubtless is felt throughout the country by means of the local leagues and similar organizations. In various ways the league has done good, and is yet doing good. Strong, honest Negro men are brought face to face annually where they are strengthened in their integrity and become object lessons for the young and the aspiring. Bright, intellectual men are thrown together, who conclude that the total world has not gone joy mad, and that the same old striving and delving in support of the intellect are not without their compensation. These carry to their respective communities the glad intelligence that there is great reason for race optimism, regardless of the sometimes low and threatening clouds. The outcome of the meetings is various and good, but none is more hopeful and helpful than the demonstrated fact that the fate of the race is in the hands of the race. MR. LEWIS AND THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION. The question of W. H. Lewis and the American Bar Association is simply the outcome of the general racial situation. If we contend that he has a right to membership in that body, we do so in the same sense that we contend that self-respecting and qualified Negroes have a moral right to membership in any of the organizations of the country. We do not see it that we should make a plea for Mr. Lewis, except in a casual way, and as a protest against a system in vogue generally, and which excludes all Negroes generally. We trust that the bars of opposition will uplift so that colored men, representative men, may be found in good circles, that they may sit in good seats at good theaters, that they may sit in good dining rooms in first-class hotels, that they may occupy comfortable railway coaches, and the rest of it. And if the kindly feeling seemingly evinced by a portion of the members for Mr. Lewis is a token of race consideration, or a token of appreciation for Mr. Lewis for his ability regardless of his race, it will be as much as could be expected, since it would say that the day was near at hand when it was the individual that counted and not his color. ALAS! POOR HAYTI. The presidents of Hayti have a hard time to get the office and a harder time to keep it. Most of them die with their boots on, by the act of an assassin; some flee from mob soldier wrath and die in exile, often in poverty, and some are blown up. It does not appear by the record to be a very desirable job to have, and yet there is always a long line of men waiting and plotting their turn at it. A roll call of the presidents of Hayt during the past century reads as solemnly and mournfully as "The Dead March in Saul." Already there are plots and rumors of revolution all the way from Port-au-Prince to Paris, by way of St. Thomas and Jamaica, by men ambitious to succeed President Le Conte—New York Age. These outbreaks are extremely unfortunate for the Negro wherever he may be. They are pointed as examples of government by Negroes with the object of reducing respect for the race. The Haytians have a fine chance to prove the very best for their nation. The island is favored by nature; its nestles near a powerful but friendly country, and which can and is willing to buy all that it can produce, thereby enabling it to stand with Cuba, or to rival those similar isles of the old world in its commerce. Hayti, with its favorable beginning and never-failing chances, should stand a synonym for civilization. It should teem with populous cities, thriving villages, and thrill with a happy, contented rural folk. It should be an entrepot, a refuge for tired and oppressed Negroes the world around, standing as America of the eighteenth century stood when it, as the home of light and liberty, electrified the "hopeless" peasantry of Europe. SALVATION ARMY OPPORTUNITY. Owing to the death of General William Booth, head of the Salvation Army, many excellent expressions were called for of the great work he inaugurated, and of the individual. The lesson of his work could be carried to our own race to great advantage. We are honeycombed with churches, yet there is great opportunity for a practical Christianity such as was set in motion by Gen. Booth. He carried his message to the highways and hedges, thus answering the Christly injunction. Not only the message, but cheer, helping the weak and fallen—morally, physically, Slum life is increasing among our race, and which seems inconsistent with theory that we offer but few recruits to the army of beggars. Nevertheless, we have the ugly, degrading side strongly featured, and which threatens to become unlimited and permanent. It is not always downright poverty that rules; it is down THE FREEMAN AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. right vice, based on poverty making for a condition, which, if once well grounded, will be very difficult to change. A lowly race will always be subjected to more or less temptation when such a race is surrounded by the elegance of the well-to-do. It would be folly to hold it down to an artificial condition of simplicity amid the riot of what the world calls good things. And yet there must be weights to hold down as nearly as possible to the plane of respectability. The condition is not without its spectators even among our own people, who do make spasmodic efforts at reform. Here is the necessity of a Ballington Booth, and the opportunity. The Salvation Army has proven a democratic religious organization to some extent. It has not fervently courted the Negro, as we understand it, but it has not turned him from its doors. But we know, the Salvation Army knows, this country knows that the organization is one of white people. We do not condemn it any more than any other religious organization similarly composed. Being as it is, it cannot do the kind of work needed among the Negroes. Again we say, here is an opportunity for some wise, sane leader of religious fervor, Christian zeal, earnest and honest, to head a movement among the Negroes to do the work that the Salvation Army does. Now and then roaming bands of colored people are seen doing what they can. They are to be commended for their thoughtfulness and zeal. But they are without system; they are not persistnet. They fall in making the proper impression. Infidel, skeptic, as well as the religious individual, are touched by some phase of the Salvation Army work. It helps the poor and needy. This is plain, consequently the rallying cries for funds go not unheeded. All of this is possible among Negroes, and must be if we will save against the too deadly encroachments of the streets. It will not be done by hypocrites or charlatans, but by genuinely earnest men and women, consecrated without reservation to the work. AT KENTUCKY'S CAPITAL. M. E. Conference in Session at Lexington—Mrs. Allen's Reception to the Delegates—Allen's Dramatic Reading—Batty and Hamilton's Military Band“Hit”Woman's New Discovery — Personal and .Social News“The Smart Set.” (By Hardin Tolbert, at people's Phar- macy, Both Phones 666, Box 233.) The forty-fifth annual session of the M. E. church of the Lexington district met at Gunn Tabernacle church. The conference was largely attended by the church's district and other visitors. The generosity of the Lexingtonians to the delegates was indeed fine. Rev. G. P. Godram, district superintendent, presided over the conference, the broadminded and good hearted people of Lexington, ever be remembered by the visitors to whom they showed so much hospitality while in their famous Blue Grass city, the next meeting of the conference will be held at the Lexington library is the rector. As large a delegation is anticipated as was present at Lexington. We should all be glad to see the people, regardless of denomination, of the Amish. This shows a united spirit which is much needed among our people. The writer was elected as official reporter of the conference. Since the Lexington teacher and herder, which was highly complimented by all except Rev. Riley, who is an egotist and very anxious for all honor, which the writer of the conference, the Riley pastor of the church where the conference He worked very hard to block the writer's chances, but considering the source everything went off smoothly. Mrs. J. M. Allen, of Lexington, the wife of Dr. Allen, was the hostess, at their cozy residence, for a reception of the faculty members of the M. E. conference. The dining room was very attractively decorated and in the center of the table was a cut glass vasew with many beautiful flowers. A vase of fume from the flowers expressed welcome and glad tiding to all of those present. A three-course luncheon was served and a lovely evening was enveloped by Mrs. Allen. Mrs. Allen disposition and is one of the willing workers in Asbury church. She is one of the few who are willing to extend a hand to the downfallen of humanity, regardless of denomination, race or creed. ```markdown ``` Mrs. E. Scribner, of Lexington, an uneducated woman, 339 Carrol street, has entered the great progressive field of discovery, Mrs. Scribner has discovered a cure for asthma. The poor woman nearly killed her, but the doctor her daughter with little result. She afterward found that the doctors could not cure her, so she made a remedy of her own, which proved satisfactory. Mrs. Scribner has many calls for the doctor has been offered hundreds of dollars for it, but she will not tell what it is. Mr. B. P. Allen of Lexington, one of the youngest drama readers on the American stage, whose work he has been commended by the president of Oberlin College, of which institution he is a student. Mr. Allen is among the few impersonators that makes his audience feel as he does, he can make you laugh. Mr. Allen is very artistic and knows just how far to go with his humor and wit. He has toured some parts of Tennessee, Alabama and Kentucky, and will fill an engagement in this city soon. The people extend their hearty support to the rising young men and girls who are making a sacrifice to attain something in life. Mr. Wyatt Batty, one of the influential and most prominent citizens of the city with a desire for the love of his people, was the leader of a grand party, the National Socialist Party, and was mollested by Hamilton's Military Band and all of the lodges. Mr. Batty is one of the energetic men who are worthy of emulation. He has a great real estate and is a brilliant manager of business affairs. He has a host of friends both white and colored. He has served for years as an officer of the First Baptist church and is a member of the local church. Mr. Batty not one of the "sold-to-be" but one is a true and honorable race leader who does things for the betterment of his people and does not dream of them only. Business men here is as good as a dollar bill. He is not conceived about the matter either. He is a wise counsellor for his people. The Gem theater at Lexington was favored by Buckner and Buckner, who are very clever in their performance. The Invisible Four will be their successors this week. Mr. Frank Johnson has returned from his summer vacation in Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville. Bargain Pianos 1.00 Down $90 1.00 Per Week We must sell 25 pianos at once, regardless of cost, to make room for large shipment arriving from our factory for our fall trade. No reasonable offer will be refused on any piano in our store. Every instrument is fully warranted. One dollar down secures any of these bargains. a pleasant visit with her sister in Lexington and then returning home. Miss Rosa B, Black, of Lexington, is the guest of Miss Lyons. SHELBYVILLE, KY., NEWS. (By Miss Florence Hall.) Special to THE FREEMAN Special to THE FREEMAN. Oliver Ober is dead. . . Mr. Richard Ford of Indianapolis is in the city, visiting his parents. . . Mrs. Walker Tolbert is spending her vacation in Louisville. . . Miss Jessie Woodson and sisters have returned from Indianapolis. . . Miss Katherine Woodson and Indianapolis. . . A large revival is being carried on at Bethel A. M. E. church on Clay Street. . . Mr. Charlie Finch, a well-known citizen of this city, was called to the Great Beyond. . . Mrs. Marion Woodson has now able to be up. . . Mr. William Hobbs is in Louisville, visiting his aunt. . . Miss Jennie Carr, was elected delegate to the M. B. church conference at Lexington and from Texas, where she has been visiting her mother. . . Miss M. W. Todd is spending a few days in this city. . . Miss Castle Gill spent a day in New Castle. . . Mr. J. Middelton spent Sunday at Anchorage, when he spent Sunday at Anchorage, attending the camp meeting. . . The entertainment given at the U. B. F. hall for the benefit of the public school, was largely attended. . . Mrs. Lucy Perkins attended Sunday at Anchorage, when Miss Jennie Carr has accepted the position at Rockbridge and Clayvillage to teach school. Mr. Wilbur Brown spent Sunday in Louisville, the guest of his sister. Mr. Danual, who is very ill, attended Sunday at Anchorage from Chicago. . . Miss Minnie B. Whittiker is able to be out after a few weeks' illness. . . Mr. and Mrs. J. Vandyke have a fine young girl. . . Rev. and Mrs. Walto are the proud parents of a fine baby boy. . . Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Green have a fine young girl. . . Rev. and Mrs. Stevenson are in Lexington, holding mission meeting. COL. GEORGE L. KNOX AT THE CHAUTAUQUA. Col. Knox was at his best, and delivered an excellent address. It was not one of those spread-eagle, lightning-flashing, gaseous, meaningless and senseless volumes that he hears on such occasions; but rather a good, hard, practical, common-sense address that could not be well improved upon. Col. Knox's address will live long in the memory of those who will do great good toward race solidity and uplift in this community. MEMORIAL SERMON Special to The Freeman. Memorial sermon of Maria Rivers, the beloved grandmother of Ada Harris, Allicia Pierre and Amtole Pierre, was preached Sunday, August 25, at the Fourth Baptist church. New Orleans, La. EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL. Special to the Freeman Speak. Mrs. Mattle Brown has returned from Nashville, where she has been visiting relatives... Mrs. Lottie Isaacs, of Alton, spent Sunday with Mrs. Mary Reese... Mrs. Emma Byrd has returned from Centralia. The public schools open next week. The public schools are Eubanks, of the detective force, are taking their vacation... Attorney J. Allen Ross, formerly of Louisville, Ky., is very ill. The Royal Entertainers gave a delightful trolley ride to Horseshoe lake last Monday evening. The W. W. bar, Barr, of Louisville, William been improved extensively. It is the leading cafe in the city... The Dalton Barga 1.00 Down BUYS We must sell 25 p make room for larg for our fall trade. I any piano in our st ranted. One dollar Saturday & Monday Discount Coupon This Coupon and One Dollar entitles the purchaser of any piano on our floor to a credit of $10.00. Saturday and Monday only. A. J. KING, PRESIDENT Cor. Mass. Ave. and Penn. St. boys are booked at the Airdome.....Mrs. Lizzie Vandeburg, of Lovejoy, Ill., spent last Thursday in this city....The Methodist conference held last week in this city, and the fun and discussion, Mrs. N. W. Pardon, and others in their power to make the visiting delegate have a pleasant time....The Freeman can be secured at Kyles' barber shop. RARE SOCIAL FUNCTION RARE SOCIAL FUNCTION (Concluded from Page One) of local affairs. It is said that many who are high in the inner circle of the league have been outspoken in this direction. Two very pleasant affairs, however, the banquet at the Seventh regiment armory and the boat ride up the lake. Miss St. Clair White in Vaudeville Miss St. Clair White, th e young violinist who is accredited with being the best in this city, is now in vaudeville, being presented to Mr. Rossiter by Mr. Mills. Miss White is being accompanied by Mr. Milwaukee on the Orpheum circuit. Her performance at the business league was the biggest hit of the session. Bookerites Call Upon Their Chief The Tuskegee Club showed its admiration for their former chief by calling upon the noted educator during his stay in Chicago. Dr. and Mrs. Washingtoe, a graduate of the guests of the Carter hotel, 8286 Rhodes avenue, where the graduates of the famous institution paid their respects to the "Wizard of Tuskegee." The members were greatly pleased to hear their former principal and Mr. Washingtoe, who had highly honored. The educator did not fail to give them a few words of advice. Arkansas Represented. The state of Arkansas was represented at the National Negro Business Association, the Rock, Ark, and he did not fail to let the league know of his presence. Mr. J. E. Bush, known as the "war horse" of the Mosaic Templars of America, the tree came as a representative of the Mosaic Templars of America, of which Mr. Bush is the head. Mr. Roundtree spoke of the wonderful progress made by the order and the good it was working wherever the order was established. The carrier and is widely known in Arkansas. Resort Does Big Business The West Michigan Resort, owned and operated by colored people, a few miles from Benton Harbor, Mich., did a land office business Saturday and Sunday. The office is supposed to sort every Saturday and Sunday, informs us that 125 people were at the resort Sunday. This is the largest number that has ever visited the place and the office has sent agents fed and took care of its guests. Mr. Cowan, the well-known real estate dealer, has been elected president and many improvements are scheduled to be made this week. Another large crowd is expected to go over the lake the last of the week. Miss Ruth Bradley a Visitor. Miss Ruth Bradley, of Kansas City, has been in Chicago for the past week, the guest of Mrs. Jones, 1518 Indiana, and has been to many social functions during her stay in the Windy City. Probably but few visitors this summer have had as many social affairs tendered them as Miss Ruth Bradley, of Kansas City, at Milwaukee and West Michigan resort. H. A. Boyd Elected Secretary Mr. Henry Allen Boyd, of Nashville, Tenn., one of the most influential men in the South and assistant secretary of the Natioinal Baptist Publishing Board, Nashville, Tenn., was in the city last summer, and he leased press association. Mr. Boyd was elected corresponding secretary of the press association. It was the consensus of opinion that no better selection could have been made. Mr. J. C. Thomas, of New York City, was in Chicago last week and was the guest of Dr. Wilberforce Williams. Mr. Thomas was much pleased with the courtesies of Dr. Williams, although the doctor was not a member of the league. The Misses Stone, Scott, Clark and Smith, of Nashville, all prominent society girls, have been having a delightful time in the Windy City. Hon. J. C. Napier, of Washington, D. C., was the guest of Daniel H. Williams. Mr. Napier was accompanied by his wife and daughter. Dr. Williams saw Mrs. and family were given seven most delightful trips that a visitor could wish. Dr. Williams car was at the Napier family's wish at any moment. Mr. J. C. Price, a well-known theatrical writer of Louise Kendall and a contributor to The Freeman's collierville News, was in the city during the league and will be here for several weeks. Mrs. Helen McFatrick and Mrs. Etta Conway, of Peoria, Ill., are in the city. Mrs. McFatrick was the guest of Mr. Lomas and Mrs. Conway was the guest of Mrs. P. Moseley. They report having a most delightful time in the Windy City. ... are Mrs. Joshenburger and daughter, in the family of Mr. and Mrs. McElwine. The daughter, Mrs. McElwine gave a delightful daya last week in honor of the young visitors. Dr. Spencer Dickerson was elected to represent the Chicago Medical Association at the National Medical association, which meets this week at Tuskegee Institute, Ala. The only daughter of Mr. Cattill, the cigar maker, died this week at the age of seventeen, of appendicitis. Miss Ruth Johnson, of Cincinnati, O. has been in the city for several weeks. She will return the last of the week to her home, where she is engaged in school work on Walnut Hills. Miss Reubena Rogers is in the city the guest of Mrs. A. Wilkerson Williams, in Vermont avenue. Miss Rogers is a teacher in the public schools at Louisville, Ky. Mrs. George Hall 4338 Wabash avenue, left Tuesday for Kuala Lumpur Mich. to visit her sister, Mrs. Woodruff, of Berkhart street. Matinee Dance MAKE EXTRA MONEY EACH WEEK In a light, pleasant and profitable work. We want a good colored person(male or female) in every colored community to take orders for our high-grade calling cards. We are furnishing these cards at 50c per 100 or 25c for 50 cards with name and address. We allow our agents a liberal commission on all orders they send in. You are sure to make a success of this work for calling cards in a great demand everywhere Outfit furnished free. Exclusive territory given. Write now for terms THE HOUSE OF CHOWING Desk 24 INDIANAPOLIS, IND. GOSSIP OF THE STAGE Hi. Henry Barnes is in Wilmington, N. C., this week. The Brooks-Smith Players are at Ocmulce Park, Macon, Ga. Julian Costello at the Ollo theater, Louisville, Ky., week of September 9. the audience. He is just as popula with the audience this time as he ever was. Mr. May is not only a favori with the audience, but the manager a well, because he can do what most can't, because he can do what most out to see him; and that means box office business. Miss May is as charming a Mike. De Von Loca has joined the Geyer Dundy Dixie company with her four acrobatic picks. John R. Smith is putting out a one-ear minelist show that he proposes to make as good as any on the road. Goodloe and Goodloe, Fisher and Simmon are playing to packed houses every night in and around Pittsburg, Pa. Love and Love, Rachel Gillard and Rastus Jones are in Columbus, Ga. All are making good in their respective turns. Geo. McClain, formerly manager of the Globe theater, Spartanburg, N. C., is taking a vacation in the Saluta mountains. A. L. Huddleson has charge of the colored people with the White Slave Co. He is also manager of the Kentucky Harmony Four. "Strince Oskazuma," the Black Scout with Young Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Col Fred Cummins' Far East shows, now in Chicago. The team of Wilson and Jones is stopping this week in Indianapolis. The team is known to the profession as "The Pair From Dixie." White and White at the Palace theater, Chattianago, Tenn., week of August 26th. Will play return date at Columbus, Ga., in a few days. Will D. Norton representative of "Tillie's Diamond," one of Lew Fields' attractions, was in Indianapolis this week. He dropped in The Freeman office for a chat. Ethel Fields, the brown-skin Schumann Helmholtz, is taking the honors of "Waltz Song" from "Romeo and Juliet," with Geyer's Dandy Dixie amnesties. W. M. Benbow is still in Texas, packing them in nightly at the Peoples, Houston and booking acts for the big state Room 10, Kiam building, Houston, Texas. The Frogs will give a grand minstrel performance in New York, September Labor day at Young's Casino, for the benefit of the home fund. Everybody under burnt cork. Billy Kersand's Greater American minstrels now in New Zealand. Mrs. Kersand's health is not so good and she thinks of coming home. The climate is also against Billy. Mr. Lawrence Baker, baritone singer, plays Georgia minstrels and is meeting with great success with Young Buffalo's Wild West and Col. Cummins' Far East. The Globe theater, Spartanburg, is meeting with wonderful success under the management of Mr. Geo. Lyons. Performers who have worked under him have given him a good name in all respects. SENATE AVENUE THEATER Under the management of the Hill Bros, this well known play house is increasing in popularity each night. "The Redemption" was produced there last Tuesday evening in three reels to a large and appreciative audience. Theorrow Bros. will be the spotlight singer. On next Tuesday "Zigomar, Tracked by Nick Carter" will be produced in four reels. Do not miss it. HOW TO GET A GOOD WRITE-UP. To the Indianapolis Freeman: Performers playing in Chicago are generally knocked by Sylvester Russel if they fail to come across with the goods. This is what Russel calls criticism. In my judgment, critics should be careful not to be too harsh. May and May have been getting nice mention from Russel right along until they refused to hand out any more "dough". Performers, the knock of Russel does not do us harm in our business. He is not a critic; he is simply a receiver. A big threat set for him at Dago & Russell's will work wonders. It is funny that you can teach young horses different things, but we can't tell Sylvester a single thing. Performers are not always playing, the original "String Beans". Will they be in Kansas City week of September 9. THE NEW CROWN GARDEN. Known to the Indianapolis theater coers as the House of Good Shows, is still braking the records in an amusement way by offering good shows week- to-week. Kutch offers no better for the money. The coers have an intelligent audience to greet the merry makers. Manager Tim E. Owsley known to us as the "Wizard," is indeed a little wonder when it comes to offering the public something new and novel each Daniels and Daniels In their first appearance in Indianapolis made good from start to finish. Mr. Daniels is a very clever singing and dancing comedian, and he goes some when it comes to handling out funny sayings. Miss Daniels is also a clever soul, a good singer as well as a good taker. Miss Daniels are pleasing in every respect. Mr. Charles Anderson A character comedian, is one of the best ever seen in Indianapolis. He is a good singer and a number one character who is Anderson is truly one of the many real hits he has sung. Crown. His act is clever, classy and entertaining. Mr. Anderson will always be welcome to the Indianapolis amusement public, as one seldom has a chance. Wilson and Washington The band man and his band, was just as big a hit this time as it has always been in the many times this act has played Indianapolis in both the local town and colored playhouses. Mr. Wilson is so clever as a character comedian that one always anxious to see him. His new partner, a really funny comedian, and I think better than any of the rest that have played the same part with Mr. Wilson. Wilson and Washington are comedians of ability, and Mr. Wilson deserves much credit in keeping his act up to the standard, as his one of the best in vaudeville for white men. May and May now to the amusement world as "Striker" to return to us in a new act, with a new team in the funky fun. Mr. Mayes as well as the wardrobe. Mr. Mayes, "String Beans," as he is called, never fails. the audience. He is just as popular with the audience this time as he ever was. Mr. May is not only a favorite with the audience, but the manager as well. He is not only a can't, and that is bring the people out to see him; and that means box office business. Miss May is as charming as ever, both in action and dress. From the manager, the manager will be the last chance he will get a witness May and May in their funny songs and sayings for many moons, as Mr. May is soon to take up his Eastern touch when he keep him busy until next season. Keep him busy until he welcome him when he does come again. The orchestra has improved wonderfully. I notice they have a new trap drummer, and a good one, in Mr. John's section. We keep in touch sections each and every week. It was rumored that Tim, the wizard, would not be on the job long, as Mr. Billy McClain was going to lease the Crown Garden. So far we find the rumor to be a fact, and we give the Crowd patrons the best obtainable, and is personally liked by all. DUNBAR THEATER, COLUMBUS, O. (Sam Clark, Proprietor and Manager.) The bill for the week of the 19th at Clark's new theater was a hummer, Madame Annette. White opened the bill with a novelty singing act. Too much cannot be said of her as a classical singer. He vowed she was and at home before the footlights. Her needy won for her much applause, and she scored a big hit in her last number, a coon song, "Keep on Moving." Next came Emmett way more humorous, his performance favorable with the audience. His work was a hit all the way through. He sings "What's What and Who's Who" and "Dinner Is Ready in the Dining Room," as only Emmett can. His jokes are all new and original, and his house in an uproar from start to finish. The Browns, James and Mayme, formerly of the trio, Brown, Clark and Brown, were the headliners. They are the possession attraction. The possessor, more baritone-tone voice and sings credibly, "As in Days of Old," a beautiful ballad. Mrs. Brown scored a big hit in Mr. Tim E. Owlsley's late song, "Want to Do It Again." Again, the song is good and costumes beautiful, of talk is good and costumes beautiful, The closing number, a medley, is a real scream and brings several encores. The manager had to put the S. R. O. sign several evenings. Success to Mr. Clark proprietor of the "Theater Beautiful." AT THE OLIO, LOUISVILLE, KY. By Geo. Slaughter. The bill at the Olio this week is a scream. Old "Chintz" Moore and Maud Moore open the bill with the "Grandest Man," and it proves to be a winner with the immense crowds attending every day they put it on makes it new. When Moore passes through as "The Lightning Express" he looks like a real locomotive and puts the people in an uproar. Miners who still has 'em, comes next in the bill, Morris is really funny, but he thinks that he is really funnier than he is. He is a handsome man off the stage and looks better than theork than with it he ought to be getting a larger salary than he is pulling down. He can juggle any old thing from a pea to a cannon ball, and some day you will see Morris gilt with a rose and a nose. In they is very clever and real funny. This is second time at the Olio in a month, "Shine" sings that song, "I Am a Traveling Man," and takes the house with him. He receives encore after encore. "Bright" makes sure he is real day night, when "Shine" joints in, it reminds you of the old days when Sandifer and Wallace first sang it in Louisville. Manager Hogan gave all his lady patrons of his house a souvenir in the way of a birthday card from the Olio. Every day night, and every souvenir was a prize worth having, and nothing cheap about it. The bill next week is straight from the big circuit, Marcus Brown, well and her ten-year-old daughter, on their first time this way, are among the features. The pictures at the Olio continue to be a feature. The bill at the Park this week is one of great variety. Joan Moody, the old Louisville boy who recently left the army after being honorably discharged, does a number of stunts calling for the use of great physical strength and is applauded liberally by the fair sex who admire the virile man. Moody's physical strength is amazing. He is a little green yet as is shown by his leaving the stage without acknowledging in any way the presence of his audience. Moody will be admired for his line of work up. Elmo Taylor and Rob Clark come next and do the stereotyped team stunt. Trey is as good as any of the teams following this line of the act who stand a bit of polishing, but we get to see him even now. Rastus Jones follows the Louisville boys with a monologue and dancing and singing act, which pleases the patrons immensely. His long suit is brought up several steps which have not been seen here. Jones and Perkins close the bill. They open with "In Dixie Land With Lou," and sing best. Their talk fouls it is brimming with laughter and hands in a big way. Miss Perkins sings "That Bunny Hug" fairly well. Chicken Jones sings "Beans, Beans, Beans." The closes it up as a result of their efforts. Abe Adams is now at the cornet in the orchestra. A. B. C.'S BEAT OVERLANDS The Willys-Overlands proved no match for the A. B. C.'s last Sunday at bat, but the team was easy for the colored boys and he was batted at will, while Bartlett held the visitors to five scatter hits. The feature of the home was a home run by Allen. Score: A. B. C.'s ..... 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 * 6 Overlands ..... 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 - 2 Runs ..... Martin, Tornell Mitchison, Sibley, Base hits Allen, Herron, Mitchison, Base hits Off-Bartlett, 5; off Goebler, 11. Struck out—By Bartlett, 4; by Goebler, 1. Hit by pitch—Hutchinson, Sibley, 2. base hit—Allen. Home run, 2. base hit—Allen. Home run, McDonald to Churchill to Chance; Burke to Churchill. Stolen bases—Martin, 2; Turner, Sibley, Armes, 2. Umpires— Blankenship and Williams. Time—2:15. Attendance—750. For sale by Clarborne White, 118 Cora street. THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC CHICAGO WEEKLY REVIEW By Sylvester Russell THE PEKIN THEATER OPENS TO A FULL HOUSE. Perrin and Crosby and Lilly Gary's Picks Arouse Enthusiasm. Never has the Pekin theater looked more brilliant that it did on Monday evening, when Manager Frank Haight, a white ma nwith show experience, three open the doors of the old familiar place of amusement originally built by the forescow, presented a cheerful contrast to the white wall above and the glimmer of the electrical effects in general. The program, which cannot be dwelt upon, owing to lack of space, inbound by one of their best sketches, which proved a novelty. Lilly Gary was the biggest surprise imaginable with four extra small pickinknies, who created a riot. Jennie Eldridge, who sang the spotlight, and George Massegale, who voice was sympathetically sweet. The moving pictures were a big surprise in point of merit and completeness. The two white acts were the Southern Duo, musical artists, and the Hooper, musical artist. Both were well received. George Smith has the orchestra in charge. Frank Tate is his first violinist leader. Leo V. English is cornetist. Harry Massengale, trombonist, and George Massegale, the cellist, devices added much support to the orchestra, which is very good, but at present lacks unison. Mr. Tate, whose first appearance as a leader, makes a good show, reads his music a little too fast and will give the orchestra a more exacting start the effect will be better, but their work was so good that the audience applauded, and a few weeks' work together will make them more effective, who leaves it to Mr. Motts' sister, who leaves it to Mr. Haight, is still a colored theater and the outpouring on the opening night speaks well for loyalty to the pride of the Negro race. The Pekin is the theater in which Ms. Susie Madison, Clarence Mitchell is pianist and William Porter drums. Walker Jackson officiates. The buffet will be newly opened in a few days. The front of the theater is painted with bright radiant glow. There are two performances, 7:30 and 9:30, and two different changes of sho weach week. The prices are all seats 10 cents and box and stall seats 20 cents. All the attaches of the box and stall seats are directed to this house will be a big success under the new management. Murry K. Hill and Joe Simms Min The Complete Edition of the Grand The Grand had a good bill which filled the house on Monday night. Joe Simmons' minstrels, which closed the show, held the majority of the audience until the last, something unusual. Joe Simmons' Walker Thompson was middle man and Rose Brown, Eloise Johnson, Sadie Collins, Cassie Burch and others were on the bill. Clarence Bowen, who says "Dear Mr. Thompson," was a good leading an ovation. Murry K. Hill, one of the most versatile original jokers, who actually delivers the goods, the Horace Bruce company, a good leading Kemp were the white acts on the bill. The second half of last week had the following white artists: "Fun in Hi school, with a good harp player in the car," Max Caw, a Carland and Fielding and Carlos. Bill at the Phoenix. The picture plays at this house include "The Famous Scot," "The Widow Casey's Return," etc. Goodbar sang an illustrated song. Bill at the Merit Fra Dlovolo was the feature picture at the Merit. Many people went to see out of curiosity who were not educated up in the story of Satan as seen in grand opera. Bill at the Monogram: The acts at the Monogram include the Two Sweets, Griffin Sisters, Murphy and Walker and Katharine Berry, an amateur singer. Anita Patti Brown Honors Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Thompson Mr. R. W. Thompson, of Washington, D. C., national correspondent of The Preman, and wife and Miss Alberta Booker, of Little Rock, Ark., were the grantees of the grant, which was given for them by Madam Patti Brown, last Monday evening, at Dunbar hall. I did not arrive in time to hear the program, which included Frank Fowler Brown an the Umbrian Glee Club. I over one hundred invitations were extended. Chicago Stage and Local News Charles Seals decorated the Odd Fellows hall during the carnival and it was one of the finest. R. F. Sprague, the newspaper man, has gone to Detroit, Mich., for a short visit. Allen and Morton were at the Bijou dream last week. Their address is 3341 Wabash avenue. William McCabe and L. A. Donaldson, musical director of McGeorgia Bluffaours, left Saturday for Cedar Bluff Ia., where the show opened its season last Monday night. Dr. M. J. Brown has left the city for several months. He will divide busliness with pleasure on his journey and visit. "I Like the Turkish Ways" and "Clicquot" are two of Eddie Gray's new songs issued by the Chicago Musical Bureau, conducted by Will Dorsey and H. Alf Kelley, at 3159 State street, rear of Frank J. Gales Piano Company. The J. C. B. buffet and cafe, formerly the Burlington, has been opened by J. B. Bennett and E. Wimberly, at 2918 State Street. Phil Poynter is now at this house. Mrs. Hattie S. Claybrook, Miss Ruth Johnson and W. M. Claybrook, of Cincinnati, Ohio, were popular visitors at the National Negro Business Men's League. The "Dixie Four," A. F. Ford, William (Hoss) Crawford and the two Emmett twins, were at the American theater last week, with the Thalia theater to follow. N. Peppers, the plumber, had the finest float, covered with children, in the Saturday night parade at the carnival. The Mineral Spring Club, which opened its doors last Saturday at 3517 State street, without a doubt, has the handsomest cafe in the city. A horseshoe of flowers stood in a corner. The electric lights are held in copper bowls. The floor is covered with leather-backed and the floor is covered with leather-backed. 5 The Invincible Quartette! 4—Gifted Musicians and Fun Makers-4 carpet. The concert platform has a hasa taped baby grand piano. Sidney Kirkpatrick was the manager. The club is owned by William Lewis, and Henry Sneed is manager. Vocal and Instrumental Repertoire. This Quartette is one of the most popular and successful on the road. Hard to secure, but they put out the S. R. O. sign wherever they go. Write Manager Johnson for information and testimonials, care The Freeman. WANTED! Shelton A. Brooks, the comedian and song writer, has returned to the city for Mr. Clemens, much improved in health, and little Mr. Brooks is not yet fully recovered, is encouraging to report that he will long be able to return to the stage. At the DIXIE THEATRE, Oklahoma City, Okla., all first class colored sketch teams, single or double, anything that is good in vaudeville. Send in your open time now. State your lowes' salary in first letter. Address all mail to SUPLER BROS., 117 W. Fourth St., care of H. Drake, Oklahoma City, Okla. The man who advertises in The Freeman gets good results, while the man who does not is always kicking about hard times. WANTED! WHEREABOUTS OF LOST RELA TIVE. I had a sister in Brownsville, Tenn., named Mary Davis. I would like to hear from her. My present residence is 223 West National avenue, Brazil, Ind. At METROPOLITAN THEATRE, all first class colored sketch teams, single or double. Anything that can make good can have long, pleasant engagement here. Send in your open time and state lowest salary in first letter. Address all mail to METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 336 Beal Ave, Memphis, Tenn. ROUTE. WANTED! PROF, P. G. LOWERY'S COMPANY, with Hagenbek-Wallace Shows—Paras- tans, September 2; Chanute, 3; Garnett, 4; Encidence, 5; Atchison, 6; Falls City, Nc. PROF, ROY POFE'S COMPANY, with Slinging Bros. Shows—Louisville, Kansas; Lexington, 3; Rich- mond, 4; Lebanon, 5; Nashville, Tenn, 6; Hopkinsville, Ky, 7. For Brown's Tennessee Minstrels, one trombone player to double piano or stage. Must be sober and strictly to business. Permanent Address. Holden, Mo. PROF. WOLFSCALE'S COMPANY, with Harmun and Bailey Shows-Remo, September 2; Auburn, Cal.,; Sacramento, 4; Oakland, 5; San Francisco, 6-9. PROF. H. L. RAWLES & CO., with 101 Ranch- Davenport, Iowa, September 2; Nooketah, 8; Anamosa, 4; Mason City, 5; Centerville, 7. PROF. BISMARK EARM Lyons-DANIELS-Mary Comedy Sketch Team HORNES GEORGIA MINSTRELS, with young Buffalo Wild West - Chicago Houston September 2; Danville, 3; Paris, 4; Tern Haute, Ind., 5; Clinton, 6; Linton, 7. High Class Entertainers, Singers and Dancers This week at New Crown Garden Theatre, Indianapolis; week of Sept. 2, Gem Theatre, Lexington, Ky.; week of Sept. 9, Monogram Theatre, Chicago. Permanent address, The Freeman. PROF. JAMES A. HARRI'S COMPANY, with Gollmar Bros. 'Shows' - Keokuk, June, September 2; Memphis, Mo., 3; Canton, September 5; Edina, 6; Bloomfield, Iowa, 7. PROF. JOHN EASON BAND AND MINTREELS, with Yankee Robinson Circus-Higginsville, Mo., September 2; Higginsville,愁eseses, 4; Warrensburg, 5; Butler, Neckad, 6; SOUTHERN SMART SET, S. Tutt, Whitney - Owensburg, Ky., September 2; Henderson, 3; Paducah, 4; Charleston, Milton, Bluff, 6; Jonesboro, 7; WHITE SLAVE, Alpine, 3; Cheboygan, 6; September 2; Alpine, 3; Cheboygan, 6; Sault Ste. Marie, 5; Duluth, Minn., 6-7; MARTINS! UNCLE TOM'S CABIN COMPANY - Erie, Pa., September 2; Jamestown, N. Y., 2; Bradford, Pa., 4; Salamanca, 5; Hammell, 6; Elmira, 7. BLACK PATTI MUSICAL COMEDY COMPANY - Johnston, September 2; Washington, 4; Circle, O., 5; Xenia, 6; Richmond, Ind., 7. H. L. RAWLES, As Per Route LETTER LIST. Gentlemen's List. Allen & Morton Burton, Earl Beaman, J. Bradford, Fred Jeanett, A. J. Bebek, Richard Carter, Leslie Cook, W. Marion Cheatham, Paul Cook, C. E. Cooper, J. E. Crump, George Crosby, Jas. Caldwell Elwood Daniels, Willie Dow, Olile Dotson, Clarence Day, George Davis, J. L. Edwards, Chas. T. Erickson, C. L. Elliott, Silas Farrell, Ed Freeman, K. Y. Green, W. M. Green, R. L. D. Goines, Gus Graham, P. G. Hughes, Atrus Hunt, H. Kenry Hill, Walter Herrdon, Coy Ladies' List. Adams, Mabel Joens, M. Miss Tria Fairfax, Mable Mason, Lillian Brown Brown, Rosle Garrett, Miss Early Hackley, Madam E. Jones, Miss Julia V. Heonay, H. Jackson, Wilbur T. Jackson, Willie Kenner & Williams Kewley, Fred Lee and Lee Lee, Walter Malone, Wm. Merryweather, El. Moore, J. H. Maye, Livingston Parker, Tom Puggsley, R. E. Peoples, A. A. Payton, S. E. Riley, Gee, A. Saucy, Ollie Seldom, Tom Strrauder, Ed Stine, E. Stewart, Edward Simpson, Fred Simms, Sank Sutton, H. J. Smith, James Thompson, Thomas Wise, Hen. Waldon, O. W. Wallburg, Jack Wallburg, Rae Wallace, R. T. Criterion Theatre, Homer B. Roberts, Mgr. 1701 E. 18th street, Kansas City, Mo. WANTED! MUSICIANS Lead cornet, trombone, "slide," baritone and trap drummer stage manager and minstrel people in general. Jess He and R. L. D. Green write. State all, naming lowest salary first letter. Blockton, Ala., week of Aug. 26. JOHN R. SMITH, Gen. Mgr. New Crown Garden 521 Indiana Ave. TIM E. OWSLEY, Manager. Next Week Griffin Sisters Globe Theatre Spartanburg, S. C. Music Arranged Song Orchestrations, Orchestra and Band Special Attention Given to Mail Order W. A. KELLY, Musical Director Crown Garden Theatre Residence 637 W. 11th St. Indianapolis, India LETTER LIST. Gentlemen's List WANTED! Allen & Morton Burton, Earl Beaman, J. Bradford, Fred Beebs, Richard Carter, Leslie Cook, W. Marion Cheatham, Paul Cooper, J. E. Crump, George Crosby, Jas. Caldwell Elwood Dow, Dolly Dotson, Clarence Day, George Davis, J. L. Davis, Chas. T. Erickson, C. L. Illias, Sillas Farrrell, Ed Freeman, K. Y. Green, R. L. D. Goines, Gus Graham, P. G. Gughes, Atrus Gurry, Harry Hill, Walter Hermod, Coy Heonay, H. Jackson, W.ilbur T. Jackson, Willie Kenner & Williams Trevor Lee and Lee Lee, Walter Malone, Wm. Merryweather, El. Horses, H. Mays, Lingston Parker, Tom Puggsley, R. E. Peoples, A. A. Payton, S. E. Mays, H. Saucy, Ollie Seldom, Tom Strauder, Ed Stone, E. Wedge, Edward Simpson, Fred Simms, Sank Sutton, H. J. Smith, James Thompson, Thomas Walldon, O. W. Wallburg, Jack Wallburg, Rae Wallace, R. T. To communicate with the best Stock people in the business, for the opening of the finest absolutely Negro theatre in America Nov. 1. If you can deliver, answer at once. We want nothing but the best, if you are not in that class, don't answer. Twenty-five weeks work. WANTED! MUSICIANS Lead cornet, trombone, "slide," baritone and trap drummer, stage manager and minstrel people in general. Jess Helton and R. L. D. Green write. State all, naming lowest salary in first letter. Blockton, Ala., week of Aug. 26. McClure, Mamie Miller, Mill Mamie Smith, Miss Bessie Taylor, Jennie Wallburg, Miss Ray Mhitman, Mattie Adams, Mabel Jolencity, Miss Tria Mason, Miss Brown Mason, Lillian Brown Brown, Rosie Garrett, Miss Early Dumont, Miss Eden Jones, Miss Miss JOHN R. SMITH, Gen. Mgr. Music Arranged Song Orchestrations, Orchestra and Band Special Attention Given to Mail Orders. Musical Director Crown Garden Theatre Residence 637 W. 11th St. Indianapolis, Indiana Has moved to its newly modeled house, 190 S. Liberty St., and would like to hear from all performers. State salary in first letter. GEO. A. LYONS, Manager. The Alpha Theatre Booking First Class Acts WANTED Producer and Musical Director Producer and Musical Director Most complete theatre in America. Ask any performer who has been there. Owned and operated by If there is a good Producer in the United States who can produce a two hour Musical Show every week, and do "straight" or "character" for 80 weeks, I want him. Also want a Musical Director with a recognized reputation, for the Temple Theatre, New Orleans, La. 503 American Trust Bldg. GORDON BUNCH. Mgr. Cleveland, Ohio Now don't let the name frighten you. A real live and popular showman has the house, with lots of money behind him and a company headed by John Rucker, the Alabama Blossom. Will pay a first class price to first class class. Money sure and guaranteed by the Interstate Trust and Banking Co. New Orleans Ask Rucker about it. If you are not first class don't write, as I know 'em. Write or wire WANTED Colored talent for the Cole Brothers' Shows, 2 cornet players, 2 clarinets, 1 tuba, 1 baritone, 1 trombone, 1 alto, 1 bass drummer, 1 snare drummer. would like the drummers to sing. Two ladies to sing and dance. Will wire tickets. Write or wire me at once. WILLIAM R. BELL. Send us Your Subscription Care Cole Brothers' Side Show. Route: Kirwin, Kan. Sept. 1-2; Lenora, 3. Or care The Freeman. GOSSIP OF THE STAGE 61 The Ragtime Trio opened at Fargo, N. D., August 19, on Orpheum time. Ten weeks in the West. Miss Mattie Glover, soprano soloist, is signed with the Lowery's Mighty Minstrels for the season of 1912-13. Ray and Taylor just finished at the Dease Theater, Asbury Park. Now at the Olympic Theater, Brooklyn, N. Y. All mail addressed care of Freeman will reach the Bayer's Fashion Plates and the Lowery's Mighty Minstrels. P. G. Lowery entertained Mr. Broomfield and Mr. Crutchfield in Council Bluffs, Ia., around the City of White. Walter Jackson and Paul Churchill were at the Majestic Theater, Nash- ville, Tenn., last week. Had great suc- cess. John W. Dennis and Mrs. Ethel Fields are one of the features of the Geyer Dixie Minstrels in a clever talking and singing act. Allie Young, the clever little wire artist, made a flying trip to his home in Chicago, where he spent a few days with his wife and brother. Chinese Scott, with Murcy's Daffodil Company, ran up from Richmond, Ind., last week to call upon the Brinkley's, who were at the Crown Garden, Indianapolis. A. A. Wright and Jno. Haywood, formerly with the Richards & Pringle's Minstrels, has proven a great addition to P. G. Lowery's Band and Orchestra, with the Wallace shows. Bud White, late of the Acme theater, had to close on account of illness, but he is up again. It will be some time before he appears before the footlights again, as he wishes to take a much needed rest. Chas. H. Aldridge closed his season with J. Augusta Jones' Eastern Alabama Minstrels, at Erwin, Tenn., August 17, and is now at his home, Uniontown, Pa. Regards to all friends in and out of the profession. Pet T. J. Hicks, the singing comedian, is still with J. C. O'Brien's Georgia Minstrels, playing Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and Florida. He sends regards to the Central theater, Dallas, Texas. The Lowery's Mighty Minstrels will open November 10 in theaters. The company will be enlarged to thirty people, traveling in their own Pullman palace car. Musicians' novelty acts and solo singers. See route in The Freeman, care of Wallace & Hagenbeck. J. H. Bayer is well pleased with the minstrel show furnished by P. G. Lowery. The Bayer's Fashion Plate and the Lowery's Mighty Minstrels will be the leading minstrel shows on the road this winter. Their permanent address will be 918a St. Clair avenue, East St. Louis, Ill. La Vola, slack wire king and magician, is at the Y. M. C. A., Bluefield, W. Va., this week, doing comedy magic, and was a great hit; also, his new and original slack wire act. It is said by press and public to be the greatest, grandest and most modern display of electricity ever attempted on a slack wire. John W. Cooper, the "Polite Ventril-queist," and his "Fun in the Barber Shop" Company, opens at the Dutchess Theater, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., September 2, Keith's Theater, Jersey City, week of September 9. Will open on the S. H. Dudley Circuit, at the S. H. Dudley Theater, Washington, D. C., on September 16. FROM FRANCIS SHOWS By Nelson Green. The entire company enjoyed one of the most pleasant evenings on the 19th inst. ever witnessed by a ten aggregation. We met Dana Thompson's Sunny Dixie Minstrels, and the girls and boys of both companies pulled off a hand shaking stunt, after which members of both companies were pleasant received on each other's car by the managers Nelson Green and Arthur Cox pulled off a big one that put Mr. Cox some what out of commission, but the bunch hopes he'll soon recover. NOTES FROM DANA THOMPSON'S SUNNY DIXIE MINSTRELS. Our show is now in the good old State of Georgia, where the boys are having a good time. Mr. Dick Brow, our stage manager, is putting on a redhot show that pleases the people. He has a very strong chorus of ladies—Miss Viola McCoy, Miss Dasie Styles, Miss Willie Venible and Miss Rose Ives. Our brass band is still playing some music under the leadership of Mr. Frank Perryman, our trombone and saxophone player. Mr. Perryman would like to hear from Enoch Blake and Albert Hutt. Write at once, care of The Freeman. ABOARD A. G. ALLEN'S PRIVATE CAR 999. P. L. Jenkins Writes from Helena, Ark. J. B. Norton and Page Tillman, of the team of Norton and Tillman, joined August 18. They are scoring slightly in their dancing and talking turn. The Watts brothers, Joseph S. and Lew V., comedy acrobats, closed August 17, and are now at their home, 1835 Palmyra street, New Orleans, La. Chas. E. Rue, he of the deep bass voice, is on a fortnight's visit with his family in Birmingham, Ala. Page Tillman sends regards to "Noisy" Speedy Smith and Wm. Gulfport. Clifton Boyd (Kid Wood) sends regards to Bennie Sparrow, Eddie Haines and Miss Bessie Edington. Prof. J. H. McCamon sends regards to Ed Sherwood and Geo. Day, and says he will write you soon; also, would like to hear from Dillon Polson. Mr. Mose McQuityt desires to be remembered to the profession. Mr. G. B. Brooks says hello, King Phillips. NOTES FROM GREAT LA VITA SHOW CO. After eight weeks of success, the Great La Vita Show Company will leave the city of Quincy, Ill. While in Quincy the entire company has made many friends and the city at large will hate to see the company leave, as they enjoy the high-class entertainment given nightly by the company. It has been a hard matter to get a lot large enough to accommodate the large and appreciative audiences. The roster of No. 1 company: Prof. Walter Lee, band leader and solo cornet; J. C. Spikes, cornet; B. F. Spikes, alto; Harry Swift, trombone; Mr. Gaus, tuba; Mr. Docket, clarinet; Mr. Jack Johnson, bass drum: Mr. Eddie Woods, snare drum. Fun-makers: Billy Nichols, Jim Jackson, Wm. Webb. The great demand for the medicines of the La Vita Medical Company has been such that it has been necessary to organize company No. 2, and the third company is contemplated. Regards to all friends in and out of the business. SOUTHERN VAUDEVILLE PREDICTED. By Billy King. Many inquiries have been made of me by friends of "footlight" fame, wanting to know who L. D. Joel, "the theatrical king," is. Is he really of the good type manager, that so many claim he is? To whom it may concern: He is a small man with a magnified heart and is well posted on the vaudeville conditions. The South will eventually become a permanent home for the colored performers, and would be a vaudeville center if other managers would follow his steps to the plan. The Southern circuits will be in better form by weeding out a number of houses that have outlived their usefulness and been run down by non-experienced, non-paying managers. Mr. Joel is fastly fortifying the conditions for the vaudevilleans. He is now operating three houses in Atlanta—the Central, the Dixie, both running motion pictures and vaudeville, and the Joel, which are taken care of by the film service. Much speculation has been indulged in of late by Mr. Joel, to give to his various acts, as well as patrons, all the accommodations that many can afford. He has done more to enlarge standardH h shrdleutaoishrdleuatroa and put Southern vaudeville on a standard basis than any other manager, and he has never "flinched" on paying an act what it was worth. I have been closely associated with Mr. Joel since 1911, and numbers of times he has expressed his desire for new faces and new material, and is willing to pay an act for their services per one week as can be had in any of the Eastern or Western cities, providing they can obtain the same amount from managers of adjacent towns. He has also been instrumental in bringing more first-class acts South than all the other Southern managers combined. Of course, the policy of the Southern time is quite different from the system operated elsewhere. I have known acts to stay in one house from three to ten and twelve weeks. That is, in stock and vaudeville. Therefore, a performer cannot expect as much for their services as he or she would expect from managers who operate "split" time and one week the limit. I find Mr. Joel very tranquil and tenacious with all. It is evident that he has never learned the phrase "No, I can't do it," when it comes to rescuing an act that sometimes needs the financial aid of a manager. I candidly believe if any act has any grievance against Mr. Joel it is solely the fault of the accuser. If Southern vaudeville should capitulate, I ascribe a reason for its doing so to too many managers with different ideas; too many "grafters" who cannot stand more than two nights rain against their business. Mr. Joel realized as soon as he entered the game that it required money to construct a theatrical bridge, and meanwhile the bridge is getting its 10, 15, 25 cent "toll" the pillars must be braced by a national bank to keep the rainy nights from washing them away. The Southern vaudeville egg is slowly but surely incubating, and unless there is a miscarriage of Mr. Joel's present managerial plans the project is pretty certain to fully develop during the coming season. The Southern wheel is revolving with certain "spokes." It is not improbable that other managers will help to fill the wheel with necessary spokes, put on the tire and all go up the hill together. NOTES FROM A. H. BROWN DIXIE MINSTREL SHOW. Everything is running along nicely. The ghost never fails to walk. Our new car is one of the best on the road, bar none. Mrs. Brown is giving us the very best service that money can afford. Our band is under Prof. W. J. Jackson. Musicians, write Prof. W. J. Jackson; can use a few more. The stage is under A. D. Patterson and are in first-class trim. Mr. J. S. Overstreet is handling the straight and leaves no open space; is singing "Down by the Old Mill Stream," and doesn't fail to get his share. Miss T. E. Ford is the hit of the town with "Everybody's Doing It Now." Mr. Phillip 'Good evening, High Ball," Miss Dandy Thompson, Sugar Moon, and "Land of Harmony." "Well, ess, is Black Crow," and it never falls to bring the audience to their feet cracy. A. D. Patterson, New faces, Robert Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Walter. The orchestra is under Prof. Henry Hardin. A. D. Patterson sends regards to Thomas, ePt Hick, Silas Green and Horace Harrison, the O'Brien Minstrel. Sam Kenndy, write. packed house. Regards to all. Address all mail to Thos. Thompson, 624 Sixty-first street, Oakland. Cal. Had one instrument smashed in the wreck — Thompson's clarinet. All others were thrown to safety and were afterwards picked up. Assistance came to us at 9 o'clock in the night. The accident happened at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. It was a lonesome time in the mountains. ROYAL THEATER NOTES. FRANK HENDON Informs Stage-Struck Girls. Dear Hendon: I think I'll soon be able to go on the stage, that is if I can get some insurance money that rightfully belongs to me. You see, Tom, our old black cat, died. Tom was the most intelligent cat the world has ever produced. He never depended on any one for existence—timber, but was always able to keep the world away fro this door. He was so foxy that they called him Fox, which caused people to wonder how, if a fox, he could keep a wolf from his door. This caused quite a little discussion around town and they changed his name to Bear. That's where people got that slang "beacarat." Now Tom belonged to my brother. When brother would call him, he would always say: "Come to your papa, Tom." Now, Hendon, if my brother was Tom's papa, that makes me his aunt. Brother has gone abroad and I am the only relative. The cat has died. The insurance is all in a tangle. The insurance man that pays off live ones for dead ones, says that I'll never be able to collect the cush until I find Tom's uncle, for the money is to be paid to his aunt and uncle together. Is there any way in which I could be both his aunt and uncle?—Anticipating Ann. Answer: Sure Ann; that is if you are of age, but who in the world is wise to your age? One way is: You are Tom's aunt, but you should be somewhat quiet if not utterly silent about it if you expect to have any success. The way to remember that you should be silent is: make the "u" in the word "aunt" silent, and of course you'll have a-n-t. Now you are his ant; take the last syllable of uncle, which is c-l-e; mucilage it onto the word ant and there you are, the combination is "A black cat's ant-cle." --- Dear Hendon: I am a stage-struck girl. I weigh almost one hundred and ninety-seven pounds. If I don't get a job on somebody's stage, I'll have a fit—Bulky Bulah. Answer: Don't see how you can have a fit Bu. * * * Dear Hendon: I am a California girl and I have a sister who I think is in Chicago. Poor stage-struck thing heard that Jack Johnson had opened a theater, and she, silly thing, went to Chicago to meet him, thinking he would give her an engagement. That was two months ago, and we haven't heard from her since. Do you think she'll come back?—Goldengate Goldie. Answer: Side track the comedy, Gold, cut the funny stuff. Folks from California who go to meet Jack Johnson can't come back. * * * Dear Hendon: When song writers are at work, do they lock themselves up in a room?—Emma. Answer: Not all of them, Em, Cole and Johnson wrote "Under the Bamboo Tree." * * * Dear Hendon: I saw in the Freeman where Mr. Billy McClain was looking for a wife. Somebody told me that he was crazy about cream puffs. Now, Hendon, I am a good cook, and I am sure I can tickle Mr. McClain's palate with a great many dishes, but I don't know how to make cream puffs. Please hurry and send me a cream puff diagram, for I would like to propose immediately. Forlorn Florence. Answer: What's your hurry, girlie? You've got the world of time. Go on and propose. You can learn to make cream puffs on your wedding night. When you are dressed for the occasion put so much cold cream on your face that it will shine like Billy did in Paris, and if he says anything about it, puff up. That's the cream puff. * * * Dear Hendon: I'm not a stage-struck girl, but there is one living up stairs over me. Every night about 8 o'clock she starts practicing a dance, and keeps it up for two hours. I don't know anything about dancing, but her dance is the noisiest thing I ever heard. Is she two-stepping, waltzing or doing the buck and wing?—Modest Molly. Answer: My dear Molly, I'm not a dancing dude, but I'm thankful to be able to say that if you hear a lot of noise up stairs it surely must be a jig. DIX FRANK HENDON. T. J. CULLEGEN'S NASHVILLE STUDENTS NARROWLY ESCAPE DEATH. After touring successfully through the State of Oregon in an auto, showing to packed houses down in the mountain towns, we entered into the State of fruits and flowers. We played in a little town called Briceland, Saturday, August 17. Left there Sunday morning all merry and happy, bidding good-bye to the little villagers, and speeded on towards Westport, where we were booked for the 18th (Sunday). When about twenty miles from Briceland we turned a curve on the mountains, the earth gave way, and the machine went down the canyon about twenty feet, and was only stopped by an old log, upsetting the machine completely. Some were thrown in trees, some down the hill, and Mrs. Cullegen was plined underneath for twenty-five minutes. The chauffeur had three ribs broken; Mr. Cullegen, shoulder knocked out of place; their little eight-year-old girl, right arm lacerated; Thomas Thompson, left leg hurt. Thanks to our Maker, no serious cases. We are lucky we were not all killed, as the bottom of the hill is about a hundred feet below. Had the machine not been stopped by the fallen tree, no telling what would have been the results. We showed in Fort Bragg last night to a packed house. Regards to all. Address all mail to Thos. Thompson, 624 Sixty-first street, Oakland, Cal. Had one instrument smashed in the wreck —Thompson's clarinet. All others were thrown to safety and were afterwards picked up. Assistance came to us at 9 o'clock in the night. The accident happened at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. It was a lonesome time in the mountains. Musicians must double B. & O. This company has a reputation equal, if not superior to any similar show in America. Good musicians and performers wishing employment for the season of 1912-13 can find a reputable show to travel with. I pay what I promise on pay day. Parties answering this add, will please state what they can do and lowest salary in first letter. The show opened July 15. Address PETE WORTHEY. Owner and Manager Florida Bloomsco. 619 Fourth St. Macon, Ga. NEW CIRCLE THEATRE ROYAL THEATER NOTES. Asbury Park, N. J. ABOUTY PARK, N. J. The McIntyre and Heath's of vaudeville in the colored profession opened at the cosiest playhouse on the New Jersey coast, on Thursday last, and were accorded a reception hardly equaled by any team new to the East, as these boys are, and by the unlimited applause tendered them by the many seashore visitors from all over the country at this seaside resort, bids fair to make them winners all along the line en tour. Rockpile and Buster are the names of the new prodigies, who were ably supported by "Chase," the phenomenal baritone of minstrel fame, and Miss Alberta Whitman and her pickaninies in a novelty change and character act. The coming Monday on the boards at this little playhouse will be found Butler and Rockpile, Stewart Bros. The Tourees, the Great Adams, comedy cyclist. Largest Colored Theatre in Philadelphia, Pa. wants first class acts. Three or more weeks it hits. Write now. NEW CIRCLE THEATRE, 1821-35-25 South St., Philadelphia. Vaudeville acts, good singles preferred. Every week you can change and make good, another week follows. State all you can do and lowest salary in first letter. TOM TURPIN, Booker Washington Air Dome, St. Louis, Mo Wants you if you are good. Write now, don't be afraid to state your salary, large or small manager. Wm. Benbow, Producer and Stage Manager, 514 Forney the street, Beaumont, TX. LORETTA! M. 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. WANTED! Walnut Street Park Theatre, Louisville, Ky. First class acts of all kinds. Novelty acts of recognized ability will have first call. Wire or write to EUGENE CLARK, care Avenue Theatre. The Mystic Vaudeville performers, male and female, who can make good. Write or wire at once. Booze fighters not wanted. Tickets sent to right people. Address BOB JOHNSON, Guild Tenn. In Mental Telepathy and Second Sight. Vaudeville's greatest attraction, unique, novel and new. Packing houses everywhere. Costumes changed daily. Now booking season 1912-13. First class houses write or wire. D. A. Joseph, Manager, care The Freeman WANTED! A. B. For Lee's big Airdome and other houses. I'll give you 8 week in New Orleans, 12 weeks in Forlee, all in Louisiana. Your biggest railroad jump would be $2.75. Won soubrets, come salaries, long engagements; money sure. State in first letter best salary. We answer mail promptly. Address E. D. LEE, 2 Valance St., New Orleans, La. Globe Theatre If You Have the Goods we Want And can pay you, any act of merit will find an appreciative audience. Can give you from 6 to 12 weeks work. No commission. Wire, write or telephone. 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. Assistant Manager Central Theatre. Atlanta, Ga. Can always place Vaudeville Acts, Stock Co. and Producer on biggest city time in the South. Write me or L. D. Joel, sole owner. WHEN IN INDIANAPOLIS Stop at the "Professional Headquarters" "THE FINUS" 5311 Indiana Ave. New Phone 2947-K. Board unequaled, and accommodation unsurpassed. MRS. F. WAGONER. Prop. WANTED Performers at all times. Would like to hear from A No.1 producer, soubrette singles, novelty acs and sister teams. Can keep you as long as you make good. Would like to hear from Wiggins & Wiggins, Marion Brooks, String Beans and Kelly & Kelly. Write or wire Musicians and performers for the show that has been showing continuously for 14 years without closing, and owes no one. Only sober and reliable people need to write. Those who have written before, write again. Tickets advanced to reliable people. Wire or write to WANTED Vaudeville Pianist Sight reader, steady job. If available, "wire collect," stating all Address GEORGE E BUNDY, Circle Theatre, 1325 South St., Phil adelphia, Pa. REHEARSALS OF The Smart Set WITH S. H. DUDLEY WANTED Colored Barbers, in Winnipeg, Man., Canada. The Gate City Barber Shop, the finest and most up to-date 10-chair shop in the city, has an opening for first class men. Barbers can earn from $18 to $35 per week—white trade. Address Gate City Barber Shop, 240 Main St., Winnipeg, Man. Commence Wednesday, September 4, 10 a. m., at Maennerchor Hall, 205 East Fifty-sixth street, New York City. Can use a few more chorus people. High class vaudeville performers at all times W. J. SHIELDS, Proprietor and Manager of Dreamland and Princess Theaters, Augusta, Georgia. Joe Jeannette May Yet Meet Johnson Baltimore Promoter Wants To Stage It A SPORTING NEWS. The great Ty Cobb, the baseball player, wants $15,000 a year for his services. Said to be about $1 per minute. Going some. Here follows a little arithmetic on the New York Johnson-Jeanette fight, which didn't come off: NEW YORK—Unless something happens to upset the plans of the St. Nicholas A. C. managers, who have signed Jack Johnson to box ten rounds with Joe Jeanette on September 25, will charge $10, $20 and $30 for seats. The Sixty-sixth street rink has a seating capacity accommodating about 4,000, no more. The McMahons figure that the receipts will mount up in this manner: 2,400 seats at $10 each.....$24,000 800 seats at $20 each.....16,000 800 seats at $30 each.....24,000 Total 4,000 seats, netting.....$64,000 BIG SMOKE QUITS AGAIN. Champion Bruiser Says Even Wife Can't Coax Him. CHICAGO, Aug. 24.—For the second time within a month, Jack Johnson has "retired." The announcement of Johnson's second desertion from the squared circle came when a Philadelphia fight club asked the champion what his lowest terms were for a match with Joe Jeanette in Philadelphia. "Nothing doing," said the big cinder. "I am through. I would not fight $3.50 RECIPE FREE, FOR WEAK MEN. BEND NAME AND ADDRESS TODAY—YOU CAN HAVE IT FREE AND BE STRONG AND VIGOROUS. I have in my possession a prescription for nervous debility, lack of vigor, weak manhood, falling memory and hame back, brought on by excesses, unnatural drains, or lack of youth, that has wrested so many worn and nervous men right in their own homes—without any personal help, or medicine—that I think every man should wish to regain his many power and wristy qualities, should have a copy. So I have determined to send a copy of the prescription free of charge, in a plain, ornamental envelope to any man who will write me. This prescription comes from a physician who has made a special study of men who has convinced it is the surreal-acting comedian, and am convinced it is the surreal-acting comedian of deficient manhood and/or failure ever put forth. I owe it to my fellow man to send them a copy in confidence to any man anywhere who is weak and discharged with repeated failures may stop drugging myself with harmful patent medicines, secure with harmful quickest-acting restorative, upbuilding, and so cure himself at home quietly and quickly. I will send you Dr. A. E. Robinson, 3881 Lick Building, Mich., and I will send you a envelope filled receipt in a plain ordinary envelope for merely writing out a prescription like this—but I send it an The Johnson-Jeannette match is not yet embalmed. The New York commish put the kibosh on it for a while, but since then efforts have been made to stage it in Philadelphia. Philadelphia objected because outside promoters wanted in on the deal. Baltimore is not particular and is willing to allow Jess McMahon a cut in on the receipts. Should Johnson meet Jeannette he will face some of the hardest punches he has ever been up against. The light heavyweight Jeannette can hit with his right. He is especially good with a straight to the heart and is confident he can slow up the champion in ten rounds. The picture on the left shows Jeannette connecting with his "heart smasher." Jeanette for $100,000. I won't fight anybody. McIntosh's offer for $50,000 for two bouts in Australia don't look good to me. I'm going to devote all my time to my business and my wife or any one else can't coax me into the ring again." Johnson reached the calm stage in development, awaiting that receid, which is to bear him to the o of forgetfulness or will he cont the physical phenomenon of the But will Johnson meet Jeannette signed the articles of agreement CHAMP SIGNS TO MEET JEANETTE Fight to Have Been in New York—Athletic Commission Declares it Off—May Be Pulled Off in Quaker City—Jeanette is a Good One—Jack Can't Break Into the Racing Game. By Billy Lewis. I said a few weeks ago that Champ Jack was "enjoying" that "to be or not to be" phase of his life, and which comes to every individual at some time in his career. I had in mind his soul struggle when he would resign his honors, conquests, forego the plaudits and approbation of his fellowmen. "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" is the asseveration of the years, but all seem to like the uneasiness. It's very much like the assertion that money is the root of all evil. It's not the nature of man to give up a good thing, especially titles, honors, and so forth. The history of the world is strewn thick with great, strong men who fairly thundered when they moved; they were the stars of their firmament; but when eclipse, sickened and died as sunless vegetation. It seems now that Johnson has put resignation from him, at least for the present, having no regard for his speeches that he would retire the day after the Fourth of July or on Labor day. And he is not to be blamed; he is simply human; subject to the same laws as all that have gone before him, and all that are to follow. He knows pugilism, he now is learning life. And where is a better subject for demonstration than one's self? --- Jack's "to be or not to be" phases are not limited. Long since the Hoboken Negro, Joe Jeanette, has camped on his trail, hoping to inveigle him into a battle. Jack has fought shy of this doughty warrior who has champion stuff in him. Since McVea, who was considered his best rival, has gone down repeatedly before Langford, who has been beaten so effectually by Jack, Jeanette loops up as the one great hope, if I may so put it, to reduce his highness. The fights between these two men have been fairly "nip and tuck." I give their fight programs, as gleaned from a recent publication: In 1905, no decision; same year, Jeanette won on a foul, and which Jeanette says deliberately delivered because the fight was going against Jack. Again in 1905, no decision. In 1906, they fought three battles. Johnson won one, the other two were no decision and a draw. Thus, in the six battles, each took one. Viewing Johnson as the very acme of the business, this showing of Jeanette is splendid. The analysis of the six rounds in the way of the two men's chances of success, the most that could be expected is a no decision or draw as it concerns Johnson. From the face of the showing Johnson had a shade the better of Jeanette, since he scored a clean victory and not the doubtful one by foul that is credited to Jeanette. Speculation, of course, follows as to the present condition of the men, and as contrasted with their condition when they last met. Is Johnson going up or down, or is he standing still? Can an individual stand still? Not much. No living thing stands. Impelled by the inexorable law of fate, it is this way or that way, up or down, and never the treadmill condition, a foolish appearing simulation of the impossible. Johnson is older; he was born in 1878. Jeanette was born in 1881. Those three years may mean much or they may mean nothing. They may mean three years of experience above that of Jeanette; they mean three years of general debility, invervation, tending toward the seer and yellow leaf of life. All men do not develop alike. Age sometimes gives courage through the thing of responsibility—the necessity of winning and so forth Ordinarily those three years should be in Jeanette's favor, since there is a dividing line between man at his best and man in his decline. Three years of physical decline will make themselves felt in some way. Has THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER Johnson reached the calm stage in his development, awaiting that receding tide, which is to bear him to the ocean of forgetfulness or will he continue the physical phenomenon of the age? But will Johnson meet Jeanette? He signed the articles of agreement willingly enough, it seems, and to the tune of $25,000, and then some by way of possible pick-ups. He got back a bit fro mhis, proverbial $30,000. With the prospects of white hopes fleeting, 'twas wise enough to rake in what was in sight. To use an ugly expression, white men and "Niggers" have always been rated differently. Ugly enough, but just as true as twice two are four. So Jeanette was discounted 16 2-3 cent, which, perhaps, is the best possible for a Negro opponent. But now for the "to be or not to be." The Athletic Commission of eNw York opposed the go, and owing to which the promoters called the fight off. Here follows what happened in detail: NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—The Jack Johnson-Joe Jenette boxing match, set for September 25, at the St. Nicholas A. C. was declared off this afternoon, "for the betterment of the sport," by James and Edward McMahon, the promoters of the bout. The McMahon brothers called off the match after a long conference behind closed doors with the state athletic commission. "There has been some adverse criticism about this match," Edward McMahon declared upon leaving the conference, "and the commissioners apparently do not want it to be held. That is why we are calling it off—for the betterment of the sport. The commissioners don't want Jack Johnson to appear in a match in New York City." Commissioners O'Neill and Dixon denied that that there was any coercion brought to bear by them to induce the McMahon brothers to declare off the proposed bout. "The commission decided long ago," said Commissioner O'Neil, "that Johnson would not be permitted to fight here. We believe now, as we did then, that the presence of Johnson in a ring contest in this state would be inimical to the best interests of boxing, the status of which has greatly improved under the Frawley law." And without trying to make it any worse for Johnson, it will be remembered that he flung back some ugly expressions some time ago, when he was solicited to fight in that city. He was just a trifle too dictatorial, that's all. Whether the little business has queered his game or not, I do not know. It was evident enough, however, that he was monkeying with a buzz saw. The fight fell through so far as New York is concerned. Strong efforts are being made to have it pulled off in Philadelphia, and at this time the outcome seemingly depends on Johnson. If Champ Jack don't watch out, Bert Williams' song of hard luck always following him constantly will fit most appropriately. A few glaring failures close together will be quite sufficient to put an individual on the toboggan. The contest board of the American Automobile Association of New York, turned the champion down the other day, by refusing to enter his car in the races which were to be held in Chicago this week, under the auspices of the Chicago Auto Club. Jack said that he would engage a professional driver, and perhaps promised to be as good as he could be. The request got one of Mr. Taft's heavy-handed vetoes. I think Jack has presumed a bit in making this demand. He was gentlemanly enough, and doubtless would have lived up to every agreement. He is a jolly, fine fellow after a kind, but in the quieter moments he should have reelected, knowing his last foolish experience with Barney Oldfield. I am of the opinion that in such affairs they rather expect the participants. They are not without their social phases, and all know pretty well what that means. Mr. Johnson would break the color line. Who of us would not wish to see it disappear? But he begins at the wrong end—he begins at the top. As the situation is today, he will have to work at making his whole race respectable. His money will be so much counterfeit in the game of playing beyond it. Lamentable enough, but a thing he is finding out. Then again, Chicago is a city of well-to-do colored men. They have automobiles and money. They have intellect, energy and respectability. Under the circumstances it is reasonable to see them organizing auto clubs and conducting their own races if prohibited from attending the gathering of white men. To do so, it may be said, would be to shut your own door of hope. Theoretically, "yes," but "no" in the practice, since it is the same old thing, the same condition that exists along other lines. If they wait until the color line breaks up before doing things that other men are doing they will wait a very long spell. While the race is barred because it is of Negroes, it will yet be remembered that many white men are not members of the Chicago Auto Club, nor are the expected in their meets. So it is a question of association, class, a thing of personal selection and not subjected to any laws beyond the desires of the individual I think it was a shame for the Bull Mooses not to expect Southern Negro voters to represent their section at the inception of their party, but think nothing of the refusal to enter Jack Johnson's car for the Chicago Auto Club races. DON'T WANT ANY OF HIS GAME Louisville, Ky. Sporting Editor It seems that the Indianapolis Pugs don't want any of my boy's game. I have been trying to get a match in your town, but nothing doin. I can get no word from the Cleveland colored bantam. Just say that Brock is ready for any bantam; no one barred. Phillips, Viney, Smith Gans and Harris are ready at any time. Mr. Billy McClain can get a match any time, as I have some at his men's weights. Also, say I would like to hear from the South Bend manager, as I lost his address and could not answer him. Thanking you for the write-up in your paper, as I think it is the best of its kind, and wishing a continued success, I remain, yours, ARTHUR FOREE, Manager. 223 South First St., care of Sam L. Childs' Shaving Parlor. SHREVEPORT, LA. Miss Cash Hostess at Whist for Miss Collins. The most delightful midsummer event was the whist party on Wednesday, at which Miss L. M. Cash entertained in honor of her house guest, Miss Ethel E. Collins, of Vicksburg, Miss. The gorgeous bloom of August flowers formed the brilliant floral decorations, mingled with rich palms and ferns, and the pretty girls added to the decorative effect in their flower-laden hats and dainty tinted gowns. In the dining room were delicious frozen dainties placed on a table banked with ferns and white and yellow daisies. Mrs. Rosa Tarver presided, looking very handsome in a pretty white gown. Miss Cash, who is one of the most attractive and popular young hostesses of the younger set, wore a dainty white embroidered gown of mull. Miss Collins wore a very pretty white muslin over pink silk, with effect of rich lace. The game was quite animated. A delicious lunch was served in the dining room. Besides Miss Collins, the honor guest, were the Misses Ida Small, Beatrice Kennerl, Tribble Murphy, Lillie Green, Georgia Glapson, Laura Glapson, Clotie Glapson, Dottie Alexander, Maggie Murdock and Mrs. Geneva Warshaw, Messrs. Thos. H. Peete, G. Clarence Duty, Howard Franklin, M. S. Samuels, L. C. Nunley, H. H. Webster, L. Longware, M. Lee Wilson, Chas, Mitchell, B. A. Saunders, of New Orleans. The guests were served by Messrs. O. L. Resebol and E. Sigue. DULUTH, MINN. The midsummer dance given by the Three B's, August 22, at Lester Park pavilion, was one of the prettiest parties of the season. The ball room was decorated with palms and colors of the club...The Citizens' Political Club was organized last week. Their intention is to take an active part in the general election which will be held this coming fall. Officers have been elected as follows: President, J. Louis Erwin; vice president, William Dawson; secretary and treasurer, George B. Kelly. An executive committee, which will have full charge of the campaign which this newly organized band of voters will conduct, is now busy mapping out plans which, among other things, will include invitations to the various county candidates to appear before the club and explain where they stand. 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GREATHOUSE new place. Ten Neatly Furnished Rooms age on merit of goods. Pool and Billiards. Indianapolis, Indiana house, Proprietor. OF QUALITY and Billiards NEW YORK ST. NEW PHONE 1819 lewis, Proprietor you that we have the Quality 7 No Less. Lime Lights Turned on the Progress of Richmond. Ind. Gag: LO» i SSS a (| 2 oo AS Ne oy VG ai : = ES Ie | i : ¢ 3 ars dj fs i Es : i Aas eew Cle a he “an TO eee (eels = ypPmea iy. SS RORE a \ ae Ae = 8 Fiestas a ER ae bse NUHiBER 35 os ores ARY| INDIANAPOLIS, IND, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1912 oa PRICE FIVE CENTS. iB ul .E COPY—SIX MONTHS, 85c; ONE YEAR, $1.50, QUIET RICHMOND, IND, ONE OF THE OLDEST QUAKER SET- TLEMENTS EN INDIANA ASTATION ON UNDERGROUND RAILROAD 1s the Seat of Earlham College—Has (olored Population of 2,800, the Ma- Jorily of Whom are Property Owners — Churches, Schools, Societies, Ete. BY W. E. GRUBBS. Special to THE FREEMAN. This quiet Quaker city is one of the old towns of Indiana. It has an interesting place in the history of antebellum days. This was one of the stations for the “Underground Railroad.” Many of the old settlers like to recall the days when the poor refugee slaves from the South were hidden from those who chased them and given help on their way to Can, ada, Every one knows how the Quak- ers regarded slavery and the slaves. They. were. always--triends--to- poor, helpless Negroes. Some of that same stock of white people still live here, and still believe that every man, re- sardless of race or color, should be siven the rights of American citizens. Richmond is a well-kept city. Her streets are beautifully arranged and are kept very clean, There are an abundance of beautiful shade trees, and one gets the impression that there is @ good ded) of public and private interest taken in the keeping of the city This is the seat of one of Indiana's best colleges—Earlham—and I learn that no diserimination against my People because of race is allowed. The Negro youth who may aspire to Positions in the business world may have the privilege of preparing them- selves in a first-class business college here. ‘There are many colored men and women here who hold diplomas from the Richmond Business College. Of the 30,000 inhabitants, about 2,- 300 are colored. These people are as 4 general thing a very quiet, indus- trious, intelligent class of citizens, making the best of their chances, The majority are property owners; some of them have some very pretty’ homes in the best parts of the city. In fact, I do not find here a distinctly Negro section, as is true in many of the cities North and South. But the colored people are fairly scattered about over the city. Their homes are Well kept and show evidence of intel- lisence and self-respect on the part of the inmates. Our people have four churches, un- ‘er the leadership of intelligent, ssmest Christian ministers who in- ‘etest themselves in whatever con- certs the development of the Negro. They have two physicians of a high order; one dentist, who works in con- Yection with a white dentist. There: Ste several contractors, a hair dresser, | one grocery, one restaurant, a hotel, te furniture store, one tailor shop, ‘oe barber shops, and a Masonic Nall worth $10,000. ‘There are sev- “al secret orders here, among br Sw Odd Fellows, Masons and Knights of Pythiag ote best hotels here employ colored aiters One lowyer, Mr. Geo. W. Conrad, a ‘altered gentleman and a graduate of the law school of Ann Arbor, is in the “wploy of the Pennsylvania Railroad *$ claim agent. He is constantly in Sontact with the best business white Sen and is therefore in a position to Le 88 a criterion by which we may Judged by the white man. A young lady, Miss Rubie Hayes, a Seduate of the high school, is the. bookkeeper at the Setta Water Soft- ener Company, and has given entire satisfaction since she has been there. The schools here are mixed, there being no distinctly Negro schools in the county. But several of the jani- tors of the buildings are colored. - Withal we have a class of people here who deserve to be mentioned in ‘our large periodicals, and I am proud of those whose likeness and sketch appear below. Of course: there are many other fine people whose lives have greatly contributed to the weal ‘of Richmond. WILLIAM F. HILL. Mr. Hill is another one of our selt- made men. His father died when he was but five, leaving his-mother with four children, which young Hill helped to support. He is a native Hoosier, Muncie being his birthplace in 1882. He married Miss Hattie Me- ‘Combe, of Greensborough, N. C., two years ago. Mr. Hill is at present cus- todian of the Garr Flats, where he has full charge. About two years ago hé originated sree ry ye aime ee aimee s ss "0 esata ok ‘ cs 3 Nak ah a ee a ee eee vee : a ae ; aoe a fine tonic known as the “Twentieth Century Discovery,” which has proved to be one of the finest blood tonics on the market. He has customers in many parts of Indiana and Ohio who will testify to the great value of this remedy. It is strictly a vegetable compound, which is absolutely harm- less. ‘The demand for his preparation has been quite heavy. IANNO A. THOMAS. Mr. Thomas is one of the valuable attaches of the Pennsylvania Rail- road, where he has been employed for thirty years. He is now the check- man at the freight office. He is a Richmond product, and made himself through his usefulness one of the leading colored citizens of this city. He is active in lodge circles, being a member of the Odd Fellows and K. of P. He owns several pieces of val uable property, in one of which, on the corner of 14th and North F, streets, he runs a grocery and res. taurant. His wife, who was Miss we AS RC 4 el oe vs iy 4 by So .. aa ae Pee 4 — ; Sa Mary E. Reed before marriage, is quite a business woman. She looks jafter the grocery and restaurant while Mr. Thomas holds down the job at the Pennsylvania office. In connection with the business she has some other features, such as soda fountain, notions, etc. OS ee oe ) oe oS OE ga Mie at ee ay ee % os, RRS a Bono ae f=) re . ES eS a oe | eae : pe 3.3 3 es ; = Boe fi ~ ae oe Coen PLE ae Pee = as Pa 4 Pat Po . ie | ; pe i fi i Be nF to a i eS) im (ion Be te cicae 7 Va oe —— wee ee Born at Hamilton, Ohio, February 16, 1846. Attended Adrian College three years, the ntaught school at Fal- mouth and Paris, Ky., two years. Then, through the earnest request of Rey. Geo. H. Shaffer, D. D., who was his pastor in 1873, attended the A. M. E. Conference at Zanesville, Ohio, and joined the Conference, and was im- mediately transferred to the Pitts- burg Conference and stationed at Bridgewater Circuit, Beaver county, Pa., where he served three years. He served nearly all of the leading churches in the Pittsburgh Confer- ence. He served ten years in all in Pittsburgh, Washington, Pa.; Bliza- beth, Pa.; Williamsport, Pa.; Can- nonsburg, Pa.; Oil City and Titusville, Pa.; Uniontown, Pa., where he found and almost cleaned up a debt of $6,- 000.00. At this place he found the people discouraged on account of the REV. CHARLES C. GOINS. Every preacher is not a successful pastor. Rev. Goins is one of the re- ally strong ministers and pastors of the Baptist connection in the State of Indiana. He is a man of ripe ex- perience and practical wisdom. He is tender of heart, and sympathetic with those about him whose chances in life have not been all they might have been. He is a successful pastor, and is entirely master of the situation. His members know and appreciate his worth as a great force for good in the church and community. He is a Vir- ginian, but was reared principally in Ohio. He was fortunate enough to secure a good education in the Albany (Ohio) Enterprise Academy, and Nor- mal College, Ft. Scott, Kan. For thirty-six years he has been in the ministerial service, and has pastored in Kentucky, Kansas and Indiana. This is his fifth year here. Mrs. Goins, his wife, is an exceptional woman. For thirty-nine years they have lived together without a quarrel. Her help in her husband's work has largely been the cause of his great success as an effective Christian minister. His present church, corner 9th and South B, with a ten-room par- sonage, is worth over $7,000. Since debt, but after the second year all cheered up. ‘Then he spent two years at Clarksburg, W. Va.. Thirty-two and one-half years in the banner con- ference at that time. From Clarksburg, W. Va., he was transferred to Allen’s chapel, Indian- apolis, Ind., where he found a debt of $2,800.00, which he paid and enter- tained the conference. Five pleasant years he spent there. He is now at Richmond, Ind., where he is serving his second year. Found a debt of $2,854.00. It is now only $1,950.00. Rev. Sampson's lot has been to go to the churches in debt. At the last commencement of Wil- berforce University, in his absence, he was placed on the executive board, While at Pittsburgh he entered the Western Theolegical Seminary — in 1874, where he completed a theolog. ical course, April, 1877. he has been here over fifty members have been added. If a young man is capable, faithful and honest, and will stay at some par. ticular line of industry a sufficient length of time, there is every evidence that he will be given not only the right treatment at the hands of those who employ him, but will be given a chance to expand. ‘Mr. Webb is an example of the effi cient worker. He has been tested and proved to be made of the right kind of stuff. He was born and chiefly reared in Kentucky, but while he was yet a boy he went to Indianapolis as second cook at the Union station. His work was conspicuous, and his em- ployers decided to give him a better place. So now he is chief, or head er ee Ron AS : ee * ES aE ej & af aX a EB = oe; chef at the Pennsylvania station lunch room here, with more than half a dozen white persons under his author- ity. He hires, pays and discharges them. He has been in Richmond six years. He is but twenty-eight years old. He owns some good property in the city. Subscribe for The Freeman. GEORGE WEBB. THE BULL MOOSE MOUSE. By Dr. M. A. Majors, Chicago, Ill. I'm the wonder of the present day, Ana ‘Its my rule to have my. way, 1'do always as T doggone please, And when T grin the’ word ‘must ‘sneeze Of course, I know they sat on me: That's why I kicked the G. 0. P The Negroes wouldnt tako my, gold; ‘Toveven things, T treat them Cold, By blood 1 am both North and South, “By' Georges tell it with “iny mouth, Tchanged my policies and rule That I might fool the Southern fool. ‘The Negroes who T used to foot Have learned” a’ thing’ they've been te school. They know ag much as any men“ That Tim a hypoerlt, and my grin Ts just @ decoy tor effect: And.Til admit they are correct. My “door of hope” was just a blind 0 palliate the weakest mind. ‘That “all men up, no some men down’ Has. gota night" welcome sound; Tt helped "mie “upand ep me. there As ong asl prtended fain But my “square deal” was all a sham, It was not meant for sons of Ham? That white jen knew ie very well And’ cheered me when ‘I gave them hel Ts Just what they all saw and knew. ‘The South always givesme my cue Tim born to hate the Negro race, My Georgia blood is their disgrace, Of course, T ate with Washington "vag of peanuts, and i won The whole black "race to fight my cause Ofcourse, T'violated nature's laws, I am no more the Teddy bear, I have no more the Negroes’ care; im now a “bully good Bull Moose, MR. ROOSEVELT'S POSSIBLE VALUE. Just suppose the impossible would happen, that Mr. Roosevelt would be elected President, with his known views of the Negro voters, would it not be an indorsement of those views’ Would it not be the beginning of the end of the Negro as a voter? If not why not? Could he hope to keep dis: |franchisement to a certain section? It may be said that it is practically_con- fined to a section. True enough. But if the government should stand for the thing, it would become flagrant, whereas, it is now kept down by the awe of higher authority. A Presi: dent’s attitude stands for the govern ment. It has been problem enough to main tain the elective franchise without open opposition as we are now threat. ened with. The one map party is a dangerous proposition, since there are issues now and then, such as the Ne gro question, where right is likely te be sacrificed to popularity. This ques. tion is not one of mere difference of opinion as to whether the Negroes are accorded the same treatment as oth ers. All know that under the law an¢ by the terms of cordiality that should jexist between the human kind, the Negroes have not entered fully inte their own. The one man leader is generally moved by what is popular He climbs by advocating those things for which the greater number stand, right or wrong, in the pursuance of the realization of his ambition. ‘Mr. Roosevelt's set of principles while highly colored, are pleasing in the main and not essentially different from those of the other parties, ex. cepting in the one instance. This fact declares against the necessity of a third party, since it has nothing new to present. The vivid style of pre senting the principles of the so-called Progressives is the only virtue, if it may be called so. But, in the lan- guage of Carlyle, “fine words butter no parsnips.” Rhetoric does not promise better government. The dan. ger of Mr. Roosevelt's movement is in ‘Mr. Roosevelt. His utter disregard for tradition, his impetuosity, his unrestrained egoism, his political precocity in turning every: thing to personal account, makes for national restlessness, a very undesir. able thing in government. In his ambition to succeed he has trampled on the Southern Negro vot ers, not even conceding them the theoretical right to the elective fran chise. his position exceeds that ot the Southern wing of the Democratic party, which, through all of its opp® sition, has never denied the theoreti- cal right of the Negroes to vote, nc matter how industrious it was in prac tical opposition. If the grandfather clause was inserted it proved unfor- tunate to those whose grandsires were not in the Revolutionary War. ‘The ‘theory, however, was not destroyed Mr. Roosevelt destroys at once theory and practice. And we may well con ‘clude that, if there’s never a theory, there will never be a practice. | The one man leadership is a bad proposition in our kind of government. It his word is gospel, and.as it has proved to so many as it concerns Mr. Roosevelt, whatever he may say is nc less gospel. He has felt the necessity to say that Negroes of a section of the country should be abridged in their privileges, or that they should take peculiar routes, and more or less hu- miliating, thus’ answering to a sense of discrimination, If his party is standing to him like a stone wall he has done vast harm in helping to fix steadfast the anti-race sentiment. HIGH COST OF LIVING. |, The high cost of living is due most- ly to the fact that the farm is losing its hold on the agections of the young eee and women. The towns are be- coming more alluring with their at- tractions. This is especially true about our greater cities, and where there is the greatest consumption of foodstugs. The cities are increasing rapidly, while the country population is scarcely holding its own. The Bureau of the Census for the decade ending 1910 gives out the fol- lowing: “The number of cattle decreased from 67,719,410 in 1900 to 61,803,866 in 1910. The numerical decrease was $5,915,544. ‘The decrease in terms of percentage was 8.7. The number of swine decreased from 62,868,041, in 1900 to 58,185,676 in 1910, the numerical decrease being 4,682,365 and the percentage 7.4. Sheep decreased 9,055,852, or 14.7 ber cent. fyom 61,503,718 to 62,447,861, In the decade the ition. of ee United i or al ‘per cen! ‘The Wall Street Journal, a financial publication, not partisan, after refer- ring to the continued decrease of the per capita production of wheat, which is a world-wide condition, says: “Here is a basic clause for the high cost of living, and one which our loose- lipped talkers about the iniquities of the tariff and the trusts altogether fail to comprehend. Producers are growing fewer with an ever increasing number of mouths to feed, and the problem would be exactly the same if the whole world turned free trade. Of course, this is not the only cause of the high cost of living, but it is per- haps the most important, and is a mat- ter which deserves the gravest consid- eration by public men of all classes. The condition is a vital one, and any remedy less than an actual return to the land must necessarily be merely a palliative.” And yet there are those who feel to charge up the high cost of living to the Republican party. With a cam- paign of education of the right kind, the G. O. P. will again bear off the pen- nant. The earlier French _revolutionists were none too strenuously opposed to the claims of the islanders (the Hay- tians), since they were similar to their own, as they viewed it. This disposi- tion, together with all Europe, against Napoleon, won and shut up the Ne- groes secure in their freedom. The Cuban generals, Ivonet and Estenoz, doubtless thought they saw an oppor- tunity to do what the Haytian Negroes had done, L’Overture and his black army, under such favorable cireum- stances. On the island of Cuba is a great menacing and controlling cen- ter of authority, and with ample means to enforce its decrees. Hayti’s greater scene of authority was in ‘France, which was now disturbed by revolution and the later world war, ‘making it not a too difficult matter for the Haytians to gain their liberty. "Then it would be wrong to think of the Cubans not enjoying some lib- ‘erty; theoretically, they enjoy an equality of privileges, and while this is somewhat reduced in the practice, ‘the Negro Cubans have more advan- tages than those of the United States. ‘This was different in Hayti, where the populace were whites, freedmen and slaves, The freedmen had no voice inthe political affairs of the island, ‘The two latter classes made common cause against the third, which was in ‘minority and no better prepared to fight than the emasculated freedmen, ‘who educated their children in France, ‘and practically conducted the affairs of the island, excepting politics. One will readily see the difference in the two ‘ektmations.: WHEN YOU GO WRONG. When you go wrong and brood, Pretending that you're right, ‘The grudge you hold, without a cause, Will lose for you the fight. To play a game of cards, "And hold 2 winning hand, : Is dangerous if the man goes wrong— Like sinking in the sand. For life is one hot bed, For you when you go wrong— With troubles heaped upon your brow And sorrow for your song. —Sylvester Rusell.