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Until February 15th The Freeman will be mailed to any address one year for $1.00 THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER VOL. XXVI NUMBER 4 THE NATION'S CAPITAL THE RE-ORGANIZATION OF THEF RE-PUBLICAN PARTY MUST WAIT PLANS FOR INAUGURATION COMPLETE Negroes to Take Prominent Part in Historic Event-Wise-Acres Warn Anxious Office-Seekers to be "All-Set" Before Coming to Washington. (By R. W. Thompson.) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 22—Reorganization of the Republican party must wait. Time alone, the leaders say, will heal the wounds of those who battled in the recent race for the office of Colonel Roosevelt. The ultra-progressives are of the opinion that the oldline Republicans should forsake their present allegiance and join hands with the new, more liberal Republicans. Taft insists that the only genuine remedy for existing troubles is to stick to the old ship, stand by the constitution as "she is wrote" and preserve the traditions of the organization and join hands with the new. Chairman Hilles and Chairman Dixon are resting on their oars and awaitting developments. The new politicians are as far apart as their white brethren, although it might require a microscope to find out what they are or have been quarreling about. The followers of the President and those who cast their lot with the butchers, who recognize their differences. The bull moors is bronze say "come over" and the regulars cry in response, "come back." During the campaign the colored Taftites were badly divided among themselves. Because of feauses, rivalries, selfishness and shortsighted leadership, it is claimed, they put the butchers against Mr. Taft; they should have done. Working at cross purposes throughout both the pre-convention contest and the battle for ballots, the adherents of the President were said to have been common enemy. In fact, the Taftites fought one another with more vigor than they did the anions of Roosevelt or Wilson. The result was foreshadowed long before the Negro organization was concerned. Since crying over split milk avails nothing, the cooler heads are counseling that by-gones be by-gones and a fresh start be taken after the lost wind and gotten their bearings. What Will Wilson Do? Another element that suggests a postponement of the reorganization in the Republican ranks is the uncertainty as to what President-elect Wilson will do in relation to the colored brotherhood in the white community in to vacate their posts, or will they stay put? If there are to be changes, will the new President install men of the Caucasian race in the white community in a way of having the jobs now held by Negroes handsanded over to Negroes who have rendered service to the Democratic party? Is there to be a new president in the white community in to pose it, and who will be most generally consulted in its formation? Press Meeting Goes to Philadelphia. President R. W. Thompson, of the National Negro Press Convention, desires to again announce that the meeting of the Association, set for February 1 in Washington, by popular request, has been changed to Philadelphia on the same date. From the date of the meeting, Secretary Boyd, it is certain that the attendance will be large and representative. Subjects of vital importance to the craft and to the race will be discussed. Miss Nannie H. Burroughs Speaks to Women. The quarterly meeting of the Young Women's Christian Association was held Monday evening in St. Mary's church hall. Mrs. Bettie G. Francis presided, and made a cheering speech, outlining the purposes of the training, introducing the brilliant Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, who is principal of the National Training School for Women and Girls, as the principal speaker of the evening. Miss Burroughs took for her subject "care girls, physically, socially and morally, and told some great truths in a manner so attractive that she was given many outbursts of applause and finally tendered a vote thanks for her able and instructive guardian of the Camp-Fire Girls, and Mrs. Coralie Franklin Cook became a life member of the Y. W. C. A. Superintendent of Construction Cooke Believed Mr. William W. Cooke, superintendent of construction of the federal building at Ironton, Ohio, under the authority of the surveying architect of the treasury, has been relied upon as responsibility as custodian of the building, although he will remain in charge of the actual work until the completion of the structure. The duties of custodian now devolve upon the Hon. Jeremiah Davidson, the postmaster at Ironton. This arrangement is the one usually made when a government building years completion, so as to give the local offer an opportunity to become familiar with the many details of the structure. Mr. Cooke, who is regarded as one of the most competent architects in the construction field, was one of the two men retained in the class of work. Secretary Macleugh a year or so ago when a heavy cut had to be made in the government's building forces. It was the secretary humane idea that, since the expert codered man had such few chances to show his skill, the race should not be denied a fair representation in this very important branch of the federal service. The other branch of the federal service is Mr. L. W. Baker, who is in charge of the federal building at Astabula, Ohio. The generosity of secretary MacVeagh on this occasion and others of like character has forced Mr. L. W. Baker to ordered press and public all over the country. These are the questions that give us all pause. Everything is in the air. No one is in the room. The line of battle for anybody can be predicted. Until Mr. Wilson says or does something of an affirmative nature, or defies it, the defense by his clans, nothing definite can be decided upon by the cohorts that went down to defeat last November. So, there is nothing to do but wait. In this game checkers, it is now the Democrats' move. The Sages Sound a Warning Note. The sages and soothsayers hereabouts are sending out warning cries to the anxious office seekers in the states, advising them not to take a step toward Washington, unless they have positive assurances that they will be in position. Past experiences have been very bitter on this score, and disasters have frequently followed grievous disappointments of men who have done such heroic work that their friends have felt sure they could have anything they want. Cleveland, Harrison and McKinley revolutions" is heard on all sides. The incoming of each of these administrations made a change in party premiership. They were interpreted by the faithful to mean that they would hold holdovers from the opposite camps. Men with a pocketful of money and a heart full of hope have come here from distant states, to get good places. They have waited long and in vain for the elusive clutch hold on Uncle Sam's pay roll. Finally their money gave out. The patience of indulgent friends was exhausted. Hope is lost and somebody gets into trouble, or worse. The irony of despair enters their souls. "They may get over it one of these but they will get the same," in the vernacular of the street. The News in a Nutshell. Bishop Alexander masters may become a resident of the nation. Lieut. R. E. S. Toomey, a graduate of the Howard Law School and for many years an attache of the federal government and 1229 Pennsylvania avenue for general practice and is meeting with a gratifying degree of success. He made an excellent record as a lieutenant in the Spanish-American war stationed in Fort Monroe, and the author of a volume of poems that show a talent for sympathetic versification scarcely second to the famous Paul Laurence Dunbar. The Washington branch of the National Negro Business League held an interesting session last week at the Y. M. C. A. and took up a number of assignments in the establishment of a banking institution in this city in the near future. A business directory, giving a complete list of the Negro enterprises in the city, is the result of the instruction of women in hair dressing, manicuring, etc., is also talked of. Daniel Freeman, a well-known photographer, is president of the organization and Dr. ulza L. K. K. is chairman of the Chemical Company, is secretary. Registrar J. C. Napier, chairman of the executive committee of the national body, is taking an active part in the proceedings of the Hoover Law School. A strong delegation will be sent to the convention next August at Philadelphia. Mr. Cornelius Richardson a graduate of the Howard Law School and lectored in the courts of the Hoover state, has been spending a few days in the city on business. His professional card reads, "Twenty-four hours a day, a day that he is eternally on the job. Mr. Richardson is an apperenced newspaper man and intends to launch a race journal at Richmond soon as the necessary arrangement can be made. He a natural-born hustler, and will succeed. HOOKY, AND WHAT IT PRODUCES. NAW! AN' DONT YO' SNITCH COMING TO SCHOOL BILLY? OFFICE HARRY J. BROY Many a Derelect Owes his Condition to Truancy. Washington. The assistant Superintendent Roscoe Coakling Bruce as an organizer and pacifier has been put to a severe test, but he has won out and the schools have never been in a better condition since the foundation of the educational system in this community. Rev. Milton Waldron and Lawyer R. R. Horner are members of the general inaugural committee, on public comfort. Lawyer John W. Patterson, under sentence of four years in prison for embezzlement and who jumped his ball, pending appeal, was located in New York City and has been brought here to answer to the courts and to suffer the penalty for his misdings. Resisting eradition, Paterson applied for a court order to crucify in New York City, but this was denied. His bondsman was A. J. Gaskins, the popular restaurateur. tion in the pension office, with which has been connected for many years is accompanied by Mrs. Connor, who taught school in Indianapolis. The nors are stopping temporarily with Mrs. Emanuel Murray, 1216 U. northwest. Prof. J. Gerald Tylier, director of in-mentoring, St. Louis, will accept a similar place in the of Washington, rumor to the co- notwithstanding. The salaries paid high schools of St. Louis are said very liberal and no advantages work cruc to Prot. Tyler through a cha base. President-elect Wilson says he have nine hours of sleep out of twenty-four to make his mental work properly. He will be he gets six hours regularly, after t ... Mr. Cary B. Lewis, the well-known Chicago journalist, is coming to the inauguration. He is mentioned for something good at the hands of the Wilson administration, and besides the Illini and the Democratic National Committee, because of gift-edged work in the publicity bureau during the recent campaign, Mr. Lewis has the hearty support of that pastor of American journalists, Henry Wattson, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal. The Mu-So-Lift Club, in connection with the Alpha Phi, will furnish an elaborate program February 14 at Howard University, in commemoration of Frederick Douglass. President G. Luther Sadgwar has designated Prof. G. Smith Wormley as chairman of the executive committee. Professor Wormley is a teacher in the public schools and has been the public loyal and helpful members of the Mu-So-Lift Club. He will fill the bill to a nicety. --- The Mu-So-Lit Club's official staff and executive committee were handsome entrained Thursday evening by the newly-elected president, Prof. G. Luther Sadgar at his home, 625 Fairmount street, northwest. Rev. J. Milton Waldron, head of the National Institute of Dance, is launch a race paper here. This is a magnificent field for a Negro journal, conducted on a high plane, responsive to the sentiments and ideals of the progressive forces of the District. The Inaugural Welcome Club, which is to collaborate with the general committee in giving the Singleton, Singapore, chairman; George Henry Murray, secretary; J. C. Burlis, financial secretary, and Daniel Murray, treasurer. Dr. W. H. Conner has returned from Indianapolis, Ind., and resumed his post- tion in the pension office, with which he has been connected for many years. He is accompanied by Mrs. Connor, who once taught school in Indianapolis. The Connor is stopping temporarily with Mr. Mrs. Ennur Amuel, 1216 U street, northwest. Prof. J. Goncali-Tyler, director of music in the public school of St. Louis, is not to accept a similar place in the schools of Washington, rumor to the contrary notwithstanding. The salaries paid in the high schools of St. Louis are said to be very liberal and no advantages would accuse to Prof. Tyler through a change of base. --- President-elect Wilson says he must have nine hours of sleep out of every twenty-four to make his mental machin- ing work. He has to get six hours regularly, after the 30-, 000 office seekers get busy around the White House doors. The colored brother must use up a goodly share of the President's waking hours, along with the "push." --- If the verdict of the jury is to stand, Nathaniel Green is to pay the death penalty for criminally assaulting Mrs. Adelaide E. Grant, a white woman, employed in the District service. The crime was one of the most serious crimes committed in this jurisdiction, and no sympathy is expressed for the guilty man. --- A "Gentlemen's Club" is being promoted by Robert T. Murray. A commodious house in a fashionable quarter of the city is to be leased and fitted up in regal style. A meeting of the charter members was held Tuesday evening at True Reformers' Hall. The Randle Highlands Citizen's Association has gone on record as opposed to jim crow cars for the District. They say there is no real sentiment for the separation of the races on the street cars. . . . Mrs. Mary F. Carroll, proprietor of the Philadelphia House, died Monday at the Freedmen's hospital, following an operation that had been in poor health for many months, and not long ago underwent a serious operation for cancer of the heart. She was a first-class business woman and had a host of friends, to whom the news of her death came as a distinct shock. The funeral held on Wednesday of which she was a devout member. SHEFFIELD, ALA. Special to THE FREEMAN Mr. and Mrs. William ones, of East Sheffield, announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Helen, to Mr. Lonnie Webb at their residence, to Sunday, January 10. PRESENTED WITH GOLD PEN BY BETHEL LITERARY SOCIETY Large and Select Audience was Present to Hear the Eloquent Address of the Peerless Correspoadent and See Him Honored by the Literary Folks. (By J. Hockley Smiley.) CHICAGO, ILL., Jan. 22 (Special). Sunday, January 19, at Bethel Literary Society, a large and highly cultured gathering of older citizens of the Bethel church to hear an address by the young and talented western newspaper correspondent in the person of Mr. Cary L. Lewis. His subject was "The Literary Right," a memoir of the author, which greeted the young orator was not only large and appreciative but was filled with intellectual and literary people of Chicago and the most select and esoteric class, among them a man named Charles B. Betley, Dr. M. A. Mac Hon. George W. Ellis, George H. Jackson, Editor Julius F. Taylor, Attorney W. W. Johnson, Mr. T. Wallace Swann, Lawyer R. E. Westbrooks, N. A. Fields, and others of the literary profession. A member of lady students from the Chicago University were also present. Introductory to the address a very entertaining program was rendered. Given Gold Fountain Pen. After Mr. Lewis had presented his scholarly address, the president of the society selected Mrs. R. L. Jackson, who in a very apprehensive manner, the orator of the day with a handsome gold pen as a token of the appreciation of eBthel Literary Society for the literary research and the services which the speaker had made in the realms of literature. The token in a brief but fitting acknowledgment of its significance and worth. The Address. After a beautiful and inspiring exordium the speaker began with the first expression of American Negro literature which was rung from the race during the cruel and trying ordeal of American bond- CARY B. LEWIS. Chicago Representative of Indianapolis Freeman. age as exhibited in such songs as "Swing Low Sweet Charlot," and other early songs made famous by the Fisk Jubilee singers Wesley Wiggins and Wendy Wiggins the young slave girl of Massachusetts brought to Boston in 1761 and who, on account of her poetic genius, attracted favorable comments from Irish critics, he next described the work of Benjamin Bannaker, whose scientific achievements rundows of praise from such men as Thomas Jefferson and other Irishmen. He then took up the beginnings of later American literature and which had its incipancy in Afro-American journalism. In this department he told us that he has been the most Black He called especial attention to "My Freedom and My Bondage," which exercised such a tremendous influence in behalf of Negro freedom. Otter noted Negro which he sees in the work of William Wells Brown; "History of the American Negro," George W. Williams; "The Black Brigade," Prof. P. H. Clark; "The Encyclopedia of the American Negro," W. Wayman; "Recollections of Seventy Years," Daniel A. Payne; "Apologies for African Methodism," Bishop Tanner; "History of the M. E. Church," The Encyclopedia of the American Negro; A. M. E. Zion Church; by J. W. Hood; "The Black Phalanx," Joseph T. Wilson; "The Underground Railroad," William P. Still; "The Work of M. E. Church," The Encyclopedia of the American Negro; "Women of Distinction and Noted Women," Dr. L. A. Scruggs and Dr. M. A. Majors; "Men of Mark," Rev. W. J. Simmons; "Friends of Douglas as an Orator," Prof. J. L. Gregory; "The Rape of Florida," Dr. A. L. Whitman; "The Works of Paul Lawrence," Dunbar; "The Works of T. Thomas Fortune," Dunbar; Mrs. Ida Wells-Barnett, Mrs. S. Lang, Williams, Miss Matthews and Mrs. Cooper. He named the numerous Negro editors who did their share in molding the current literature of the time which meant so much for the race. Later Writers. The speaker laid special stress upon and described with great detail the works and accomplishments of Dr. Booker T. Washington, Mr. Charles W. Chestnut, Dr. Kelly Miller, Dr. W. Dr. Chestnut, Dr. Dan Williams, Prof. Scaraboori, Dr. Dan Williams, Prof. Scaraboori, Dr. Dan Williams, Prof. E. W. Blyden, Daniel Murray, I. Garland Penn, Bishop Alexander Walters, James Brothers, William Stanley H. Holland, Lawyer George W. Ellis, Consul James W. Johnson, Edward Smyth Jones, Matthew Henson, Elliot Blain, Dr. James Henson, Edward Smyth, Dr. E. Bowen Dumas and Alexander Ruskin. Alexander Puskin Peroration. "And so my friends," concluded the speaker, "runs the story which The Moving Finger hath writ about the black man who you see in the room. You it is a story of glorious achievement—a story of Herculean labor for the attainment of the ideal—it is a story from which one can gain the courage and the strength of the strong. The world gave them no great material reward in return for the work of their heads and hearts, and as Kipling says: "and the Master shall praise them, and none but the Maker shall blame, None of them worked for money, And none of the m worked for fame; But each for the joy of the working, And each in his separate star, Who wrote it." For the God of the things as they are" "These grand men and women have harvested all the fields of literary thought—the they have dwelt with princes in their hearts—the they have 'sailed the intellectual ocean over which brooded all the calms and swept all the storms and tempests in which the soul is capable"—in the light of the angel of progress leaning from the far horizon; beckoning men forward and upward forever—their has it been to lead the cause of millions of human beings, 'the lesser breed without the law, to canonize the soul, to replace it with the olive wreath of a glorious conquest—we honor them because they have helped to destroy ignorance, prey on the innocent and grave and who shed light not bloom, who contributed to the knowledge, the wealth and the happiness of all mankind. Their lives were pure, their aims lofty, their learning varied and profound. We honor them because they contributed to the real prosperity of the world. We honor them because the must of history has added their names to the starry scroll of the immortals—immortals who got their inspiration from every star in the universe, from every beam, from the flowers in the meadows and from the everlasting rocks. A Wider Dissemination. By invitation of the president, a number of prominent gentlemen commented on the address. They were: W. H. A. Wheeler, once a member of the Bentley, Attorney George W. Ellis, A. N. Nields, Attorney W. W. Johnson, Dr. M. A. Majors, Editor Julius F. Taylor and others. It was the consensus of opinion that he has been heard in this section. Mr. Majors, the most generous and highly sensitive and scholarly presentation of the Negroes' efforts in the field of literature that has been heard in this section. Mr. Majors, the most generous and highly sensitive great credit for the interest he is taking in the literary and the good it is doing for Bethel church and the young people of this city. Mrs. R. I. Jackson, the most generous and worthy of the highest commendation for the part they play every Sunday. It was urged that Mr. Lewis have the address printed in pamphlet form. Dr. Roberts, pastor of the church, was greatly pleased by the occasion and so expressed himself. NEWS OF JACKSON, TENN Special to the Freeman Rev. W. B. Rpkins, of Hickman, Ky., pastor of Thomas' chapel, one of the leading churches of that city, was in the city visiting, and during his stay here he paid a visit to the mission he helped with which he was formerly a student. Mr. James Jefferson, of Chicago, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. D. Ellison, of 418 South Church street....Mr. Arthur McCullough, of 403 South Church street is still on the sick side of the road. Lord, Miss, spent quite a pleasant visit with Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Boon, of 438 South Church street....Rev. J. T. Goodall, pastor of Berean Baptist church, one of the leading churches of this city, and we took with Mr. and Mrs. M. 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Finley Wilson, the hustling national organizer of the Elks, is being groomed ivorously by his friends for grand master of the order. Dr. Booker T. Washington's latest bit of sage advice is for the Negro to let politics rest a while and get down to business. Right! Newspaper quarrels are in bad taste, to say the least. They leave a bad taste in the mouth of both the participants and the public. Fran Chance's salary of $25,000 per annum in baseball is simply the outcome of making one's self better than anybody else in the business he elects to follow. The Tuskegee Negro Conference January 22 and 23 will be bigger and better than ever. Farmers and workers for the industrial uplift will be there in force. A wild-eyed rumor is afloat that President Wilson will not appoint any man to an office who is so hungry that he feels called upon to ask for Tough, aln'thit! The esteemed Philadelphia Tribune, edited by the veteran Cherry Perry, recently celebrated its twenty-eight anniversary by bringing into its own building. Congratulations. *** A soulless wag is hinting that there are some very desirable jobs on the "white wings" force in New York City and elsewhere for the patrons who fail to land higher up. Alfred B. Gosey, of Newark, N. J., who helped Chairman McCombs do a lot of the thinking during the campaign, is said to be booked for a federal job that will be in keeping with his name. It may be that the "race problem" will eventually develop into an "individual problem," with each individual responsible for the solution of that portion of the problem represented by himself. Missouri is presenting the naam of Prof. J. Silas Harris as a candidate for the Liberian mission. If J. Silas should be translated to far-away Africa, what would he do for its annual education convention? --- Dr. J. A. Kenney, the new president of the National Medical Association, has issued a very creditable booklet entitled "The Negro in Medicine." It is quite a faithful reflex of what the Negro has achieved as a physician. * According to the Atlanta Independent, the emacipation celebration at the eGorgia capital on the first, was a failure. The managers ignored the press—failed to advertise. The moral is plain. "It pays to be nice," no amatter what you have to present. * --- The white press have no words of denunciation for Nat Goodwin, Kid McCoy, and the other players in the guard and others of the proud Caucasian race, who have been charged with offenses that do not square with the moral Why pick Jack Johnson for the "goat." * * * Miss Nannie H. Burrough, in The Worker, gives a set of New Year's resolutions especially adapted to mothers who want to be the right way. Miss Burroughs advises mothers to keep their girls out of questionable company, teach them to dress modestly and within their means, and to a job as soon as they get an education. ```markdown ``` "Learn the lesson of obedience and discipline," says Dr. Booker T. Washington. "To obey proper commands—to listen, to respect for rightful authority—is not a sign of weakness, as some educated persons have mistakenly imagined. It is a sign of strength, as a step toward success." He advises on these steps, men of the world, as well as students. --- The executive committee of the National Negro Press Association is to hold its mid-winter session February 1 at Washington. The committee will be discussed and plans will be laid for a big convention of the "fourth estate" at Philadelphia next August, two days prior to the meeting of the aNational Negro Press Association of the body the Press Association is affiliated. * * * * The matrimonial wave has captured that genial "mine host," Mr. Lemuel W. Bright, the owner of the Hotel at Norfolk, Va., one of the very swelliest hostelries operated by the race anywhere between the oceans and the owner of Little Rock, Va., the Lons Bunch of Tidewater, section. The Partner of Mr. Brights joys is Mrs. Delphina Taylor, a charming member of Norfolks delightful social circle. That Mr. Brights peris is the sincere wish of the friends of the happy pair all over the country. IN OLD PADUKE. Great Was the Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation—Public School Teachers Return to Their Rooms—Notes of the Theaters—River Report Railroads and Churches. (By J. J. I. Malmess, 1063 N. Seventh St.) PADUGAH, KV. (Special). Father Time, having wound and regulated the clock of life, possibly some time during one thousand nine hundred and twelve, set the same (the life clock) to motion, and before early dawn, the church made the new year—one thousand nine hundred and thirteen. And before 11 o'clock, New Year's morning, many citizens went to church, and that they could come together and talk of the "four years of great struggle," were seen marching forward to the Washington Street Baptist church to the hundred and thirteen—the "fifteenth anniversary celebration and emancipation proclamation." All speakers were at the church, and addressed with eloquence. Following was the morning program: Opening chorus. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER "America," Choral Club; "Emancipation Prayer," Rev. R. E. Pearson; Chorus, "They That Wait," Choral Club; Reading, "Emancipation Proclamation," Mr. Stewart Nelson; Solo, (Selected), Miss Nelson; Solo, (Selected), Rev. T. Timberlake, of Mayfield, K. Chorus, "Wake the Song of Jubilee," Choral Club; "The Progress of the Ministry," Rev. C. G. Rowlett; Paper, "The Negro," Mrs. Maggie Pearson; "Emancipation," Rev. R. E. Pearson; Home, Choral Club; "The Negro as a Citizen," Mrs. M. C. Thornhill; Chorus, "Crown Him," Choral Club; Music, Choral Club; Contribution Afternoon Art Museum—Dental Department, Dr. C. St. Dawson; Musical Department, Dr. S. H. George; Art Department, Dr. A. Nichols; Mechanical Department, Selected; Industrial Department, Rev. P. A. Nichols; Educational Department, Mrs. Maggie Pearson; Pearson Science Department, Mrs. Laura Hibbs; Manual Training Department, Prof. D. H. Anderson; Trained Nurse Department, Jeannette Davis; Business Men's Department Evening. Chorus, "Star Spangled Banner," Choral Club; Invocation, Rev. W. J. Brown; Scripture Lesson, Selected; Chorus "Fear Thou Not, Chorus Lights," D. Hibbs; Chorus "Up For Jesus," Choral Club; New Year's Sermon, Rev. Wm. Foster; Chorus "Victory," Choral Club; Paper; Dermatology," Mrs. Fannie; Fannie "Nearer My God," Choral Club; Remarks, "The Negroes of Paducah," J. Brown; Solo, "Old Folks at Home," Miss Fannie Williams; Chorus "My Old Kentucky Home," Chorus Solo, "Jerusalem," B. Davis; Music, "Jerusalem," Contribution, $10.90; Foster was absent on account of illness, and Rev. V. S. Smith acted as president in his place. For more sessions, Mrs. Anna McCulloch, Mrs. Lurena Hamilton and Mrs. P. A. Nichols did not perform as program as requested. --- The Choral Club was made up of fifty voices from the various church choirs. It was said that the music renders this local talent club choir, and any of the choruses he heard been heard in the time to get his club together for the above occasion, and great honor is due him for his time, as efficient workers. Hawthorn! Keep his usual, Prof. F. D. Hibbs delivered his address on "Side Lights" in a place and effective way. Those who listened earnestly could even see the "Side Light. Miss Lurena Hamilton was absent, Miss Fannie Avant read a paper on "Dermatology." This was indeed periece. Mrs. Avant is an artist in this science and enjoys a great patronage. She is one of the foremost women of our race. Rev. P. A. Nichols being absent, Rev. W. A. Brown made interesting remarks on "The Negroes of Paducah, who was the subject to be discussed, Rev. Brown said in it, that he did not know anything about the "Negroes Virginia, but spoke of his own state, Virginia, as the birthplace of slavery and the home of the wealth farmer, "mid the green fields of Virginia." These few fields reminded one of the sons of the good old Virginians Virginia Far Away," Virginia is right, about the audience wanted to hear about the Negroes Brown, with A few cheers for Brother Brown, Miss Fannie Williams for Brother Brown, Miss Fannie Old Folks at Home." But to further tucky ways, by adoption, necessary, the fifty voice Choral song that ever welcome number, "My Old Ken- turtles Following is the address of Rew. Timberlake, of Mayfield, principal speak er of the Negro achievements, showing the Negro throw out all unpleasant and negative thoughts. Anything that we show us as a race competing with evil and confronting issues and meeting conflicts is set aside by the mind and we seek to along the line of least resistance. Another thing that we are like but we have not learned to do. In other words we are stone dead. It is said that modern ern music is composed with much hard work little melody. Thus, as a race, our are less keen in our perception of our rights and our condition of dice and sentiments and largely emotional and affected by voice and effrontery. disable us to really win in this contest in life. We must be able to reailly and observe our faults and failures as well as the odious heads of our neighbors. We must think about some things though we are painful, we must not see, but we must look, we must not only hear but we must sensitiveness in order to rightfully judge. THE NEGRO WOMEN IN ATLANTA AND UNFUNDED ESTANDINGS. EDUCATION. Recently I have been reading after a few of our Negro educators and trying to reduce to its lowest terms all that I have read in order to know the sum of all for which the Negro is now striving, Mr. Du Bois, Bols, Washington and many of our college and university presidents are declaring that you must make a thinker and then specialize along all lines and eventually we will see a most useful race. THE CHILDREN. There are 218,355 colored children in the United States between the ages of ten and fourteen years who can neither read nor write; therefore, we should teach them to do so publicly school system, even though compulsory measures, I not otherwise. POLITICAL. Dougless along no other line has the Negro been handicapped like he has in politics. Every time he comes forth, the cry of, "Nigger Domination," "Social Equality" and "Political Equality of the Races" spring up and up, and we are all crying begins to fight the Negro back. However, all we are asking is an equal right and fair LEARN TO DO IT WELL. Every time we do anything carelessly, failing to put our highest thought and our greatest skill into it, we are lessening our ability to do good work. This is the penalty that unfathomable people have put our best into our work, exercising care in the slightest detail, we are adding to our power. This is the reward of fidelity to each opportunity. This is the year of jubilee with the children of Israel, well well to his day and generation. With the children of Israel every fifth year they celebrate the occasion with the blasting of trumpets. It was to them the occasion, joy, return of their lives; return of their possessions; and they stopped work to celebrate. Every Negro should have made this a sacred day, remembering his freedom, fifty years ago, looking back to the war that glory of power and possessions such as will cause men to honor us and our existence in the world. And in this God will rejoice in his hand, the development of the Rev. Timberlake received many cheers while speaking. Each week you can get The Freeman at 1063 North Seventh street. ORLANDO (FLA.) NEWS NOTES. Orlando is full of winter visitors from the North, who are here for health and to escape the rigid northern winters. It is hoped that the near more warm with many dunes will race in the North, with means sufficient to allow them to spend the winter in this land and thus prolong their lives. Mr. E. Manker, a young married man who is employed as waiter at the San Juan arrival of a baby girl last Tuesday at his home. Miss S. J. Savage, one of the teachers in Johnson Academy, spent several days in Jacksonville during the holiday season. The Smart Set Company makes a self appearance here at opera house. With favorable weather, there is no doubt but that they will be greeted with a large and appreciative audience. 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JACKSON R. H. OVERHALL The Imperial Cafe For Ladies and Gentlemen A GOOD PLACE TO EAT. OPEN ALL NIGHT. 331 Indiana Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. JAMES M. HOLT, D. D., LL. B. Mortgages, Loans, Insurance, Claims, Real Estate, and Notary Public, Cylil and Practice a Specialty. Residence 938 Camp St. New phone 2976-7. Office 818 Indiana Ave. Room 1, Second Floor, New phone 2976-7. Indianapolis, Ind. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER Have Soft, Long and Beautiful Hair! MRS. PHILLIPS PASSES AWAY. Sad Death of the Wife of Bishop Phillips, of the C. M. E. Church—Impressive Funeral Services — Bishop Lane's Touching Sermon—Many Pay Tribute to Distinguished Woman—Nashville in Mourning—Sketch of Eminent Services of Lucy Tappan Phillips. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 15.—The funeral services of Mrs. Lucy Tappan Phillips, wife of Bishop Charles Henry Phillips, of the Colored Methodist Episcopalian Chapel, C. M. E. church, Monday afternoon, January 6. Mrs. Phillips died at Sunshine, her residence in this city, and her death in nearly four years. Rev. R. T. Brown, D. D., of Birmingham, Ala., a lifelong friend of the bishop, was master of ceremonies declared in his opening remarks that need a great woman in Israel had fallen. Rev. T. H. Copeland, of Clarksville, Tenn., read the Scripture lesson, which he presented to a quartette from Mehary Medical College. Prayer was offered by Rev. Dr. Johnson, ex-president elder of the Nashville district, C. M. E. church, Prof. J. W. Foster, of Mehary Medical College, Mr. A. G. Price, constituting a quartette of Fisk University, touchingly sang the familiar old jubilee song, "In Bright Mansions Above," a favorite of Mrs. Record of Useful Life. The obituary, prepared by Mrs. Lula Crosthwaite, a classmate of Mrs. Phillips, was read by Dr. S. W. Crosthwaite, a professor of slave parents in Arkansas in 1859. His parents were the property of General Tappan, and later her mother was in the house of Governor McMillan, of Tennessee, and other prominent Nashville families. Hence, much of the culture of Nashville was cultivated by humble progenitors, who very freely imparted it to their only daughter. Coming to Nashville while little Lucy was still in her tender years, the latter was born in Nashville and was famous Fisk University had its early beginnings. She afterwards graduated with honors from this institution, and with the exception of Mrs. Booker T. Washington and Proof D. Dubois, both of whom are or more formerly known. She was married to Bishop Charles H. Phillips in 1880 and five children blessed the union, all of whom survive her. With the exception of Dr. Charles Henry Phillips, Jr., of St. Louis, the children are here in the Nashville schools. Early in life Mrs. Phillips was converted and was thereafter a prominent church worker. She was no less an alien promoter to the woman who attended her husband was president of the National Association of Woman's Clubs. This was during the incumbency of Mrs. Mary Church Terrell as president and advocate of the cause of temperance and was the first president of the Tennessee branch of the W. C. T. U. While living in Washington, D. C., during the pastorate he husband was helpful in a large revival conducted at Israel church, in January and February, 1889, when more than one hundred persons were added to the church. Mrs. Phillips was elected assistant district secretary and one of the last never before held by a colored woman. When the world's convention met in Edinburgh, Scotland, she was one of the two delegates and one of the eleven speakers, lecturing extensively, she had often spoken from the same platform with the late Frances E. Willard, Mary Church Terrell, and B. K. Bruce, Frederick Douglass, John Mercer Langston, J. C. Price and others. She was a most convincing and pleasing speaker. She was the author of several books of poems and addresses everywhere noted for her hospitality. Bishop Lane's Touching Sermon. Dr. Brown then presented to the large congregation the Rt. Rev. Isaac Lane, Bishop of the Second Episcopal District and president of the sides at Jackson, Tenn., and came especially to deliver the funeral oration. With deep emotion he announced as his text the fortieth verse of the fifteenth verse of the First Corinthians, which reads: "There are celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial; but the glory of the celestial Mother Used it on My Hair. C. is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another." The sermon throughout was a fine exposition of the difference in the mortal and heavenly bodies. Finally, applying the text to the life of the deceased, the bishop declared that in reality there are two bodies in one in the peculiar and matching bodies, and that he convinced his hearers and proved conclusively the predominance of the celestial over that of the terrestrial—the latter being associated with the life everlasting; the latter mortal, and subject to death. "The very life of Mrs. Phillips," said he, "touching the people of the walks, killing them when sunshine spoke eloquently at all times the teachings of Him who long ago robbed the grave of its victory and thwarted the life of its slave as she lived and emulate her virtues," the bishop in his pathetic close. Noted White Citizens Pay Tributes Dr. G. White Citizens Pay Tributes. Dr. G. White, dean of Mehara Medical College advised all to by "the splendid life of this noble colored woman," Dean Wright, on behalf of Fisk University, brought the sympathy of the faculty, the staff of Mrs. Phillips was indeed the exponent of the real principles taught at Fisk. Dr. J. A. Kubler, president of Walden University, declared she had done what she could for her home, her church and people; now she was enjoying her reward. Dr. W. S. Ellington, of the First Colored Baptist church, said: "Like the old fight, had kept the faith and had finished her course. Rev. P. J. Coleman, D. D., of the Nashville district, made a few remarks and read resolutions from the Conference of the C. M. E. church, Dr. E. W. Benton, on behalf of Caper's Chapel; Mrs. Sallie Burrus, for the Fisk Job and the Puzey, for the G. W. Hulbert hospital, read resolutions and appropriate resolutions. Mrs. Booker T. Washington, in her telegram, declared that "Women all over the country had lost a friend and lead the country to the past." Among the more prominent to send women condolence were: Hon. J. C. Napier, register of the treasury; Bishops Holsey, Williams, Jamison and Cottrell; Professors Kox, Potts and Gilbert, Mr. M. B. Bush, Mrs. Lou Drake Harsh and others. Even floral designs came from other cities. A huge one, "The Gates Ajar," Clarksville attracted special attention. Caper's Chapel, Fisk Club and the beautiful offerings of H. A. Boyd, Prof. Talley and others made up an unprecedented array of flowers, numerous and costly. The pall-bearers were Drs. H. T. Nocel, The pall-bearer was Rev. P. J. Coleman and Prof. J. E. Watson, Mr. A. N. Johnson had the interment at Mt. Arrau cemetery. MERIDIAN. MISS. t, Long an Think of it, you can have soft, long and beautiful; hair that will make you Just think how much this means in companying this article. 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Washington, of Tuskegue Institute, Alabama, by the London Missionary Society, one of the principal addresses, Dr. Barton (see his states, that the hall "will be packed to the ceiling." Dr. Nelson Bitton, Organizing Secretary of the Livingstone Centenary Celebration, will preside that the Bishop of Canterbury will preside at the meeting which he has been asked to address. Only the fact that engagements of more than a year's standout Washington state, Idaho and Utah prevent the acceptance of this splendid invitation. TULSA, OKLA. Special to THE FREEMAN: Rev. F. K. White visited Tulsa Sunday and preached to a crowded house at the Second Baptist church....Rev. P. C. Dandridge was here to fill an appointment with the First Baptist church on Sunday. He was married Sunday, January 12, to Mr. George Miller at the home of Mrs. Geo. Johnson on North Orchard street. Mr. and Mrs. Miller left for Perry, Okla., to watch the movie Mr. Murray was shot through the body with a $30 Colts by Tom Robinson on Friday....Mr. Mingo was badly cut by Roy Robinson. Dr. A. F. Bryant was called to the scene and took 32 stitches to close the wound. He was ill....See E. G. Griffin for The Freeman and Dallas Express. STRAIGHTEN YOUR HAIR Not with hot trans. But do it with Kink-no-more, the greatest hair straightening preparation on earth. Kink-no-more will help with the strongest knit hair. Think about it as a precondition that all you have to do is apply it on the hair, and with a little combing, the hair becomes straight, not to stay or for longer. Marvellous does that work one of only six to eight months. Water nor nothing else will make it knink again after it has been straightened. Kink-no-more is a woman work. That work does believe their own eyes. It works like magic, and is unique because there is not an other purpose in the world like that. We offer a reward of $100 for any head of hair that Kink-no-more will not straighten. Kink-no-more is a vegetable compound; it is perfectly harmless and will not injure the scalp nor hair, but will stop it from falling out; positively removes dandruff, promotes a luxuriant and healthy scalp and seals it and glosses. Remember that Kink-no-more is sold under a guarantee to do all that is claimed for it or money refunded. Readily available in receipt of $1 a regular size box of Kink-no-more, enough to straighten from one to two heads of hair. When ordering dandruff or express money order. Liberal inducements offered to agents. Write today for special terms. Inclose 2-cent stamps for reply agents canister every address. Adress Shannon & Eyre Springwood Avenue Ashbury Park N. J. Mother Used it on My Hair. I Used it on My Hair. GOSSIP OF THE STAGE William Gill and Harry Taylor want credit for songs they have written. Can you blame them? Floyd Tucker who has been in California with M. Busby's Minstrel show will soon be in the East. booked on the regular bill at the Crossover last week, but after the Harmoniziz Four couldn't come at the last moment this act was picked up and allowed work; but we fail to see Perry Bradford Now if he would buy from someone a few newer jokes, he might make a little be Riley and Riley opened at the Alamo theater, Valdosta, Ga., last Monday evening with geat success. Burton and Burton, Wayne and Bessie, are making good in Atlanta. Booked solid throughout the South. Walter Jackson, the clever New York song artist, is now meeting with much success in Hot Springs, Ark. Geo. Ross joined the Rabbit Foot company at Palatka, Ga., January 21. Jap Reed is still with the company. Marvelous La. Vola, slack wire king, will soon be in Jacksonville, Fla., to open up with a minstrel. Regards to all. McDaniel and McDaniel will play return engagement in Rome, Ga., at Lyric theater, W. M. Rane, manager and owner. Miss Babe Brown, the Creole beauty, made a flying trip to New Orleans to visit her mother. She will return to Hot Springs in a few days. Regards to all. Tim Owsley, the little wizard, manager of the Crown Garden theater, Indianapolis, says that the winter season with the business is like rowing up stream. Clever Billy Young at the Star theater, Dallas, Texas, in stock, musical comedy, doing straight and single. Theater was opened December 20. Doing nicely. Allen and Morton were a big success at the Auditorium theater, Philadelphia, Pa., for three weeks. Treated fine by the management. Will play return engagement in the near future. The Freeman is under obligations to Wm. Gill and an unpaid copy of books of "That Pussy Rag" and "You Certainly Look Good to Me." Wm. Gill is of Louisville, KY, and Harry Taylor is of Indianapolis. Julian Costella is closing his second week at the Globe theater, Jacksonville, Fla. He joins the Southern Smart Ski January. He joins the Southern Smart Ski that the Jacksonville audience is among the best he has entertained. Cherokee Thornton's Big City Trio are in the second week of the Majestic theater, Columbia, Mo. Their act is going extraordinarily good. Their songs, "On the Mississippi," "What You Are About," "About You," "Dung" and "Siblings and Brooks' latest song," "Easy Are" are decided hits. "Home, Sweet Home." Nearly every colored performer should get a copy of it and one of the "Blues" Open, you not with the dress closes, close your eyes, then take several bowls, but let it be to tain conductors or brake men, until you reach "Baam." Then if you are forced to take Yakima Land Is (Not) Good Enough for Me." Those that have not written home for years, better do so at once. If you intend staying in the proscenium, you should not. If the old folks are not at home to welcome you, L. D. Joel will adopt you. THE NEW CROWN GARDEN Offer a No. 1 good show. I see we are to have tablid stock again, which I think will be welcome for a change. Notwithstanding the bad weather, the Crown keeps moving along nicely. Tim Owlsley is still at home. Gertrude and Browner Two comedians, keep the audience in an unproure of laughter. Both men are clever, Langford and Langford Are good singers, talkers and dancers. Miss Elvira Johnson As usual wears new gowns, songs new songs and offers new dances. Miss Elvira is always a real hit. Stovall and Stovall Are home again, and they brought the goods with them. And what more, they delivered the music. Miss Stovall is very clever as a comedian. Miss Stovall (Nina Mitchel) sings well and between the two they put their work over. By K. C. E. AT THE BUCKINGHAM THEATER LOUISVILLE, KY. "The Pacemakers" will be the coming week's attraction at the Buckingham theater, commencing with the matinee on Sunday. This is one of the biggest tours of the Empire circuit, and it comes to Louisville with a reputation that puts to shame shows of a like character. Every report received by the management of the Buckingham indie that this show will create a furere. A cleverly composed burlesque, entitled "The Pacemakers," and presented elsewhere by the company, will be offered. There will also be a feast of supernatural vaudeville specialities presented in the last act, which represents a care and compassion feature act in the Four Dancing Harmonists in a comedy and dancing stunt. The various comedy roles are in competent hands. In the cast are each celebrated actress Leslie Hunter, Margie Catlin, Lew Hilton, Bill Mossley and Harry Kelly. There is also a large chorus conspicuous for the beauty of the numbers are rendered during the action of the offering. Some of the most catchy of these are "Sumurun," "Rag Sol," "Cloopah," "Circus Day," and "How Do You Know." NEW YORK NOTES. The Lincoln Theater. At this house last week a good bill was presented. H. Cradwick opened with a good act. Then came Tatten and Lee, who were such a hit that after the first act they were so popular that for the entire week Thelma went good, and Joe Ouse, singing and talking act. Luke and Ethilyn closed the first half of the bill, who always bring a real act to this popular act, but the big, leaving the audience in good cheer. The last half of the bill opened with Percell, who should have been further delayed of Miss Ethel Wakefield, a white act, he was compelled to the show—and he did. Billy is very funny and also how to deliver a monologue. He looks like a man who has a delay of Miss Ethel Wakefield, a white act, he was compelled to the show—and he did the first. Miss Ethel Wakefield in her act did fairly well. The Tolliver Trio in an act did fairly well. The closed bill, sending the audience away in good spirits, pausing the show to the highest. Humie, stage manager and assistant property man, seems to be a steady young man, always aime for business. Prof. Archie is the center of attraction, every time he plays "Oh, You Crescent Theater. I understand the Braidrods were not booked on the regular bil lat the Crescent last week, but after the Harmonizing Four couldn't come at the last moment, this act was picked up and allowed to be performed. Now, if he would buy from someone a few newer jokes, he might make a little better impression on the audience. He used such jokes as "Three gals crazy about me. One is the baker's daughter, a shoe lady, the teacher's daughter." The joke is good and will go if told by the right parties, but this gentleman can't tell it, so he should let it alone. The act was very poor. Harry Lester, the ventriloquist, was clever and had a lot of fun. A quiver of the lips could be detected while he smoked, talked, drank and sang. Next came Marlow, Belmont and Klein in a western drama, which was very good. Gulfport and Wallace closed the bill. Miss Gibert and without a doubt the bill, but we have not done a great deal better. Gulfport work great deal better. It always pays to give the audience the best you have, no matter where you are, for you never know what will happen. This week's bill will be a great one, as each and every act is known and has some reputation. Veterans of Sixty-three, Minstrel Morris, Stone and Stone and Nugent of the Crescent are trying to give the people what they want, and feel that they will have the show for them. Family Theater. The Tolliver Trio went big here Monday and Tuesday. The Stewart Brothers with their prize fighting finish with Race Horse Charley as referee, who counts out both of the fighters at the close of the game, brought in a number of injuries from the theater. The last half introduced Joe Outen, another good act, Christina Ross and others. Pioneer Theater. Sims and Sims were here and also Lulu. Sims said she was very little of the Pioneer, as I failed to see the show, but was told by the management that the entire week's bill was . . . Franklin Theater Acts billed at this house for the week were Ray and Taylor, Tolliver and Chappelle in novelty illustrations, Miss Laura and Percell and Thornton, a comedy act. Notes. Sims and Sims this week, first half, at Port Jarvis theater; last half of next week at Bonton theater. At Port Jarvis theater, other cabaret boys, last half at Odeon theater, Odeon, N. Y. The eese Brothers Africander Company, after resting the first half of last week, opened at Glencoe. The last half of last week, at Keeney's Third Avenue theater. Johnson and Lewis, last three days at Procter's theater, Twenty-third street. WHAT'S WHAT ON THE DUDLEY CIRCUIT. For the Week of January 20, 1913. Washington, D. C. — S. H. Dudley theatr and McIntosh, Elmore Mayweather, Ray White. Fairyland theater. Frank Kearney, manager. Fairyland Comedy Trio, Owens and (Kearney) Petersburg, Va.-Iidle Hour theater, Pat Northlington, manager. Criswell and Bailey, Lester McDaniels. Richmond, Mich.-Iidle theater, Walter J. Richmond, manager: King Williams and wife and dog show, U. S. Thompson, Gertrude Williams. Norfolk, Va.-Gibbo theater, J. Van Buskirk, manager: Glenn and Glenn, Buster Bucke, Joe DeHouls. Newport News, Va.-S. H Dudley theater, Gurtle Ryan, manager, foster and manager. Philadelphia, Pa.-Circle theater, Geo. Bundy, manager: Stone and Stone and four other big acts. Baltimore, Md.-Goldfield Cabaret, Ford Daly, manager: John Smith and Carrie Stitte. Criswell and Bailey were the biggest hit that ever played the Fairland for two weeks. The S. R. O. sign was out each Rex Comedy Trio was a big hit at the Dudley, where many of the funniest comedians on the boards. John Smith was very good in his imitation of the bald head. Look out, good comedians. Murphy and Francis were the biggest hit that ever played the Howard theater. They were a scream every night. Lew W. Henry has recovered from an attack of rheumatism and is on the job again, after a week in bed. U. Thompson was a big hit at the Idle Hour, Petersburg, Va. King Williams dogs carried the house by surprise, and do this everywhere they show. SAVOY THEATER, CHATTANOOGA, TENN. This week's bill at the Savoy theater was silent. Monday night the S. R. O. sign was out, with Braxton and Hicks and the Big Four, singing all the latest hits direct from Chicago, which is the talk of Emma Frederick, singing soubret, is holding her own singing "Chattanooga Rag," and singing "Boynton and Harris," singing and dancing team, make a great hit. Lucell, singing soubret, is here with us today. Nied, Nied, Nied, ebeedra Redmond, the nightingale girl, the big lady with the little voice, is some queen. She gets her share of the ap- The best of all, the great Cox Trio, the ones who lead the bunch; better known as the Haul-Off Three, the Chattanooga kings and queen. Mr. Cox is a funny little man. He makes him feel go through hauling off, its peaches. The little baby of the Cox Trio is quite a feature, and some day we hope she will be a leading day of a big company. She is a wonder. Last, but not least, Calhoun, pianist Will Jefferson, violinist; Harry, the drummer. Don't forget son and McKinley. AT THE WALNUT STREET THEA TFR. LOUISVILLE, KY The Daily News, of Dallas, Texas, has the following to say of the "The Thief," which will be presented at the Walnut theater, next week, starting Sunday matinee, with Miss Marion Wilson, the "The Thief" was presented at the Dallas opera house last night by a highly capable company. Miss Marion Sherwood as Marie Louise Voysin, proved herself a remarkably complex length, nerve force, control—everything within the range of human sensibility, and Miss Sherwood was thoroughly equal to the occasion. The Richard Voysin of Jack Emerson is all that can be stred. He is the most mentally and is an actor of understanding. The supporting company is excellent in every way and those who failed to see this great play should embrace any future opportunity to do so. The Dobbin Sisters who possess voices of great range and sweetness are scoring a big success with the song, "Down by the Old Mill tream," which they pelled into performance. They are Brooklyn girls and can make good on any bill. THE FREEMAN AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER THE GRAND THEATER. (By Carey B. Lewis.) CHICAGO, ILL., Jan. 22 (Special). Weather did not stop the Grand's patrons at the Macy's on Monday night. Both shows had a good attendance despite the wintry weather. The bill was somewhat different from those of previous weeks in that, it only had one musical act, the Zig Zag Trio, three very popular songs, and Charles Kemna, in "The Street Fakr." was one of the most enjoyable numbers on the bill. A most amusing skit was Stantfield, Hall and Loranine in "Maday Diffy." Fawley and Hunt, comedy acrobats, were the Levering and company at the county fair, and the last half of last week was a good musical bill. The five big acts that received merited applause were Emmett's Dogs, Warren and Francis, dancing acrobats; the Four Musical L'Aeolians, Fox and Fox, entertaining the crowd; the Four Musical "The Isle of oy." A splendid bill is promised for the last half of the week. The Monogram. The Annual Minstrel. Mr. Charles Washington, 530 Bowen street, his informed us that the minstrel boys are soon to begin rehearsals for the show he begins in the Holder's Folks! No act of charity is more worthy than the one undertaken by these young men. Every year their entertainment has been a howling success and the show has been so entertaining While it is a matter of charity and those playing are amateurs, their shows have been very good and the outlook for a bet is brighter this year than ever. Following the minstrel there is a dance. See them. Gossip of the Stage Mr. Willie Taylor is at the iano at the Elita. Madam E. Azalia Hackley writes from Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va., that she is in the best of health and still giving recitals. It will be remembered that she gave such a splendid recital in this city at Orchestra Hall, he has just issued a pamphlet on "A Catechism in Voice Culture." The Fisk Club is making arrangements to give a musical program at an early date and has selected Mrs. Martha Anderson as the principal soloist. A speaker from Fisk University will also appear. The Byron Boys are in the West and Leon Diggs is with them. They are in Frisco, annuary 27; Selma, 28; Fowler, 30; Vasallia, 31; Porterville, February 3; Tulane, 4; Modestia, 5; Hanford, 5. They MgDiggs sent a life size photograph to a few of his friends. Miss Abbie Michelle is at the Apodoo theater, sixty-third street and Cottage Grove avenue, this week. May and May, known as "String Beans," left this week for the South. They have been very successful in this section. Mr. Duke Brannon is always willing to play good, first class colored acts and no discrimination is shown when it comes to talent and ability. One of the reasons for seeking good colored acts at the Grand is because the first class acts are in other sections this season of the year. Mere singers and shouters won't do at a theater where people pay attention and the direction of play for playing good bills and it would be against his policy to do otherwise. * **The "Poet and Peasant" is the number that is scoring big at the Grand this week and is the direction of play for playing good bills and it has been used as an encore. Mr. and Mrs. Rex Moore will leave the city next week for their home in Philadelphia, Pa. Wilber Swatman, formerly of the sixty, is at the Hammerstein theater, New York. The report has reached here that Mr. Sherman H. D. Davenport retired from the Swat next season to take the entire control of his chain of theaters. It is not known who will succeed him. See Mr. Dorsey's ad in The Freeman His place is the headquarters for actors. Stage notes will be accepted by Mr. Dorsey. PARK THEATER, DALLAS, TEXAS. The O. H. McDaniel Comedy, Company, O. H. McDaniels, manager, presents the play of "Chinatown Charlie," supported by a strong cast. Sanford and Sanford are a very clever team. Their singing and line work are excellent. Edwards and Edwards are bringing down great applause. Maude Cook, a crarming singing and dancing soubret, is on the bill. Miss Harris is a very clever singer and dancer. Lovey Whitman is a clever comedian. Mr. Robert M. Ford is the Park's favorite soloist. He is the host of friends here. O. H. McDaniels, the heavy man, is in a class by himself. He is one of America's greatest scenic artists and a great line man. He is also a great producer. Mr. Harry Fields is doing nice work shining. McDaniels Stock Comedy Company presents "Down in Eagle's Enest" anuary 27. Plenty of good singing. It is a great play, taken from life, having its ery. The painter is O. H. McDaniels and something everybody ought to see—the work of a great artist and producer. Don't call to hear the Park Quartet. Please call to hear H. McDaniels and tenor. A. Fields, baritone; Al Edwards hasso. Mr. Edwards has a beati- ful range of voice. They get at great applause and are going big at each show. From anuary 30 to February 1 the company will present "The Convict's Mummy" Play in instruction. It is supported by plenty of good instruction. It is a play with a moral. EASTERN THEATRICAL NOTES. Gilmore, Kinky and Gilmore at Lyric theater, Newark, N. J., this week. The Alpha Comedy Four this week at Poli's theater, Meridian, Conn. King and Gee at City theater, Brockton, Mass., first half of this week; second half at Salem theater, Salem, Mass. Manny and Roberts at Academy theater, Fall River, Mass. The Alpha Comedy Four is now on Poli time meeting with success. NOTES FROM THE DANDY DIXIE MINSTRELS. We are playing the state of Arkansas to good business. We have a good show a strong band like Sting and F. Perry. We are now with us. Miss Pearl Churchill, of Churchill and Jackson, has ROUTE. S. H. DUDLEY, in "Dr. Beans From Boston"—Franklin, Pa, Jan 27; Dunkirk, N. Y, 28; Batavia, 29; Rochester, 30, Feb. 1. BLACK PATTI MUSICAL COMEDY CO. —Roanoke, Va., Jan. 27; Lynchburg, 28; Petersburg, 29; Charlottesville, 30; FORT WASHINGTON COLORED —RISTOCRACY MISTRENS John B. Cullen, manager, 412 Green street, Augusta, Ga., indefinite. Boone, Bob Butler, G. E. Blue, Archie Brooks, Marion Butler, E. Boone, B. E. Bryant, W. M. Bryant, W. Buckner-Buckner Bright, Turner Bryon, Joseph O. Bryon, Joseph O. ClarinetisReinet, Frank Davis, Jolly Dennis, John Damels, Carl Damon, Prof. Davis, Fred Gilpin, Jackie Graham, Frank Gazan, Billy Happy Frazier Hooten, Eugene Jackson, Herman (due, 2 cents) Jordon & Brown Long, John L. Lockhart, T. W. Lowery, Vance Mahan, H. H. Moland, Frank Manley, Prince Mascwell, The Great Moore, Alonzo Pitt, J. B. Baker, Dave ClarinetisReinet, Frank Richardson, Irvle Saucy, Ollie Smith, John Spikes Bros. E. E. Swiftman, W. C. Sutton, H. J. Smith, James Tarry, James Thompson, T. H. Wilds, Isaac Wilson, A. A. Wilson, J. R. White, Bob Ladies' List. Brown, Maybelle Beechmum, Blanche Brown, Rosie Curtis, Mrs. Louise Clover, Mrs. W. R. Fox, Rosie Garrett, Miss Early Groves, Miss R. Ennis, Jesse Edington, Bessie Howard, Mrs. Nettle Hall, Carrie Mae Jones, Nimmon Kenton, Miss Hester Lucas, Marie Dotson Lilly, Cornelius Mitchell, Lella Murphy, Estella McGinty, Lucille Nielson, Miss May Petibon, Miss Mildew Payne, Miss Mamie Segmon, Mrs. Lucille Sotan, Miss Pessie Smith, Miss Bessie Townsend, Mary Van Clay, Mary Elizabeth wilson Hannah Williams, May White, Stella Horace George! "I'm For Music Man." DOING WELL, THANKS Crescent Theatre Capacity 500 chairs; good size stage. Wants show or stock company to play on percentage for colored people. TONEY DRAGO, Manager, New Iberia, Louisiana. POPULAR HITS SHEET MUSIC 15c per Copy by Mail You Certainly Look Good to Me Pussy-Oat Cat Rag Ruddy Belle On the Mississippi Choo, from Alabama Don't Shake It While I'm Gone Just a Little Smile Desert Memories Row. Row. Row I'm the Lonesomeest Gal in Town That's How I Need You Bow Down to Grylls Hall Ragtime Melodies That Bunny Hug Be My Little Bumble Bee That's My Honey Gibby Grab, Glide Good-Bye Rose Sit Right on the Moon Green Grass Growing All Around Sanda of the Desert Grow Cold Somebody Else is Getting It Now We do not handle professional copies. THE WM. FOSTER MUSIC CO. 3025 State Street. Chicago, Illinois Reid House 94 1/2 Decatur St., Atlanta, Ga. M. B. L. H. REID, Proprietor. First Class Lodging for Colored People HEADQUARTERS For the Theatrical Profession. In the heart of the Theatrical District. Rooms $2.50 to $3.00 per week Your Patronage Solicited. WANTED! ARCADE THEATRE Atlanta, Ga. Vaudeville acts of all kinds, Singles, Doubles, Trios, Quartettes, Etc., and all kinds of Novelty Acts. Can give long booking to good acts. I charge no commission. Use two sets of performers. Vaudeville only, no stock. Will advance tickets to any part of the United States for good people. No act too big, no salary too high. So get busy and write The New Crown Garden, Indianapolis, Ind. Can give all acts booked from 3 to 5 consecutive weeks. Get busy and write for open time. No commission. Tim E. Owsley, Mgr. MATINEE EVERY DAY B. F. KEITH'S Grand Opera House Next Week. Vaudeville in its High est Expression. MAUDE LAMBERT & ERNEST BALL! With their Latest Song Successes. 8 Other Big Acts. 500 EXCELLENT SECOND BALCONY SEATS. MATINEES 10c: EVENINGS 15c. Orchestrations written, songs taken from voice, acts written and rehearsed. Mail orders given prompt attention. "You Certainly Look Good to Me," and the "Pussy Cat Rag," on sale here. Send eighteen cents in stamps. 3109 STATE STREET, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS WANTED! Good Partner, Straight Man or Woman Must have costumes and experience. Address Willie Owens, "The Tennessee Kid." 2825 Market Street, St. Louis, Mo. WANTED! Good, steady, reliable, versatile performers, ladies and gentlemen. Gentlemen must double band and stage or B & O. State just what you can do and how you double, and very lowest. I pay all after joining. Money always waiting here. Address Care Kelley's Colored Carnival, Midland, Mich., Jan. 27; Merrill, 28; St. Louis, 29; Ithaca, 30; Mt Pleasant, 31; Shepard, Feb 1; Coleman, 8. HEY THERE LEIGH WHIPPER Monologist Extraordinary With his Nosegay of Nonsence Culled From the Garden of Fun. Opens on the L. D. Joel Circuit at the Central Theatre, Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 27. Pempey Gilles, alias Jeff DeMont where are you joined us and joined hands with Charles English. The team will be known as English and Churchill. Both send regards to all friends. WEST END WILL BACK NEW CLUB Spring Bank Park to Be Home of New Semi-Pro Team. LOUISVILLE. KY. Although Louisville is to have a number of semi-professional base-ball teams next season, one organization has already about completed plans for 1913. Announcement is made that Spring Bank park, located at the street and Greenwood avenue, which has been open for a number of years of the crack colored team of Louisville, will be under new management the coming season. A company has been organized of Wesley business men, who believe with a liberal ethos of money and the porper management that the management can be made one of the 5 best paying investments in Louisville. It is the intention of this organization, which will be known and incorporated into a new company, to make some extensive improvements at the park. The stands will be enlarged, and back of home plate, a new stand will be erected. Special preparations will be made to accommodate the new fences and the park. New fences will be built around the park, and practically a new diamond will be laid out. The players are to have the same and the same equipment up-to-date will be installed. Nothing but the best of attractions will be booked at this park. One of the representatives of the Spring Bank Amusement Company will make a trip to Chicago to see the new ideas and pattern the local club after one of the leading semi-pro teams of that city. The organization will hold a meeting in about ten days, when a new selection is selected, for tensions for the coming season will be completed. GOSSIP OF THE STAGE Prof. A. Brooks has retired from the His general acquaintanceship among railroad men in every section of the current stage. 6 Marie M. Gloss this week at Dudley theater, Washington, D. C. The Kemps are at the Fifth Avenue theater, New York City. The Pewes are at the Howard theater, Washington, D. C., week of January 16. Parker Raffley big musical comedy company is busy rehearsing in Brooklyn for its opening some time in February. Thornton's Big City Trio opened up to an appreciative audience at the Majestic theater, Columbus, Mo., last week. Going big. The Woodens closed a successful engagement at the Star theater, Dallas, Texas. Now in Ft. Worth, Texas; Galveston to follow. U. S. Thompson (Slow Kid) is booked over the Dudley Circuit the week of the 19th, the Dixie Theater, and week of the 25th, Globe Theater, Norfolk, Va. Karle Cooke is getting over his song hits, "Row! Row! Row!" and "New Orleans," mingle also "Let's Go to Sawanah." He receives three and four encounters nightly in New York City. The act of Thornton's Big City Triwo would do well to come East and get some of Leon's consecutive time to City, as this firm is booking all good colored acts and pays good salaries. Leon, magician and ventriloquist, and Roseborough are doing a table magic act at Douglass Hall Macon, Ga. this week. Big Leon would like to heard from Ed Peat. Regards to Rosetta Brannum. In the East—Ten Dark Knights, U. B. O; The Clippers, U. B. O; Fairfax Trio Frey, U. B. O; Jerome and Lewis, U. B. O; Kelley and Davis, U. B. O; Martin, U. B. O; Simms and Thompson, U. B. O. Simms and Thompson send regards to all and wish to announce that they are United time. Week of January 13, at Beacon theater, Boston, Mass; week of January 20, Hamilton theater, Mass; week of 27th, Vienna theater, Needford, Mass, with New York to follow. DIXIE THEATER, OKLA- HOMA CITY, OKLA. The Dixie is still packing them nightly, after one or two nights of bad weather. Ethel Walker is one of the nicest and best clean girls in the stare today. In every song she gets from three to four encores. Edward and Edward just closed a successful engagement. The Eixe is the best singer again. E. Whittman, the singing demon and producer, is giving the audience just what they like to see and he has good shows with every change of program. The Eixe is going fine, singing that wonderful "Washington Waddle." Overton Sanders went big in the big act, the "Georgia Student." He is some H. Drake. He is wild, he is still the wild, as he has something new in his sleeve all the time. THE AUDITORIUM THEATER, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Miss Maud Baptiste, with new songs and costumes, was the headlineer the past week, dancing and singing in the house and caught the houses. She indeed is a cyclonic comedienne. The Whitman Sisters, who were secured at great expense, and the Times, who were secured at great expense, singing the differences as usual. Allen and Morton also remained over another week, putting in some sprightly new bits of charm in their quaint house, the house every time. They were very gracious in the matter of encores. Brook and Lees commanded attention with their songs and dances. The attendance is still record-breaking. THE CIRCLE THEATER AT PHILA DELPHIA, PA. John Woods and Tom Delaney Make All Happy. The opening act, the Misses Edith Waddell, Marie Banks and the invincible Mayme Butler, went nicely; not a remembrance of the old days, but the act is more missed, and the act is more balanced than before. Stone and Stone, in a get-back talking act, had to be removed from closing to second time but the act was later performed. The Mississippi Trio, with Tom Delaney, was also a particular success, his own compositions were prominent, which added the sense of the act and John Banks still reigned as king and ended off with honors. MANAGERS OF LOWERY'S FASH ION PLATE MINSTRELS EXPLAIN We, the managers of the Lowery Fashion Plate Minstrels, wish to express our regret through the columns of the Fashion man for the misunderstanding and by not receiving a call to us by the expected with the above company. They joined the show at Sidell. III, unexpected to any one, to demolish the show, to buy the company the ultimately bought tickets and sent the team to Chicago, so they could secure the work. The Greens were feature attractions with the Wm. McCabe's Troupe and the three company wished their success. LOWERY, MORGAN & GRIFFITH. CARL W. LEE WITH AL G. FIELDS GREATER MINSTRELS. Every performer and manager of any consequence now on the road is acquainted with Carl W. Lee, the head officer of the famous minstrel, the headmaster of the Negroes in Like, other Negroes in the employ of the famous minstrel, Mr. Lee has been under the Field banner, or number of years, the headmaster of the season as head porter of the train, and his duties have become so multifarious that next season it has been planned to supply him with stantas for every consequence whatsoever in every State in the Union, and one season that the show made the Canadian territory, he traveled from Nova Scotia to British Because of his acute business sense, Lee has been entrusted with a number of duties without the scope of the usual head porter. He presides over the closet, gives over the kitchen, and his sublund-intends all the laundry and superstate rooms and sleeper on which the minstrel men travel from city to city. Part of the dining car is the direction and arrangement of the car comes under direction in the matter of cleaning, etc. Besides this he has the keys to Mr. Field's private lockers and closets and attends to the slight requirements that this department requires. Then, too, is in charge of the performance is going on at the theater and in the afternoon at matinees. His general acquaintanceship among railroad men in every section of the country stands him in good stead, and he has been a great supporter of the railroad station heads than the famous "Doc" Blair, of Field fame. Watering the cars, supplying the sleepers, diners and baggage coaches and supplies all comes under the direction of Mr. Lee, and in this manner he has won an enviable reputation for himself among the railroad officials on every line. He is a man of great character. In every city Lee has a number of friends among the most prominent Negroes and white people, and every year he is constantly adding to this list. His knowledge of the railroad education, together with the most circumst-spect appearance, give him an address that at once makes a most favorable impression, and this has spelled success since he entered the theatrical business. Mr. Lee has had a wide experience in railroading, and for some time was in the vansia railroad. He is accounted an excellent waiter and porter, and has had several tempting offers since his advent in Columbus, and has been in Columbus, and his wife has a number of friends in Indianapolis. As a reward for the faithful service he has performed, Mr. Lee has given his wife a week or so in the middle of the season, and for the past three years Mrs. Lee has been a guest on the Christmas holidays. THE DOUGLAS THEATER. MACON, GA One of the most beautiful small theaters in the South, and is certainly a credit to Macon. It caters to the most conservative class of the colored people and nothing is allowed to be said or criticized, and it tends. The house seats about three hundred people and it is a rare occasion when the spacious lobby is not crowded with patrons eager to get in. Mr. Douglass attributes his success in business to the fact that he is a business and knowing how. His offering this week is Leon and Roseborough, magicians and ventriloquists; Billy, %cke and Dove, Shaffer Comedians, Miss soubrette; Miss Jamie Pussey, character woman; also three first-class pictures. ABOARD A. G. ALLEN'S PRIVATE CAR 999. P. L. Jenkins Writes From Mansfield, Louisiana. S. TUTT WHITNEY'S OBSERVATIONS. Richmond C. Puggsley, son of R. C. Puggsley, died at 7:30 Sunday morning, January 12, aboard the Smart Set car, en route to thens. a. He is mourned and gutted by Gerald Puggsley and Richmond Jr., residing in Camden, N. J.; a loving mother and two sisters, residing in Nashville, Tenn.; two uncles, Charley and Lewis Puggsley, living in Nashville and the beginning of life eternity. "While I am surrounded by death," but when the death angel calls for those endowed to us by ties of relationship or friendship, by ties of life eternity, does not relieve death of its poignancy. "Mr. Salem, come quick—Dick is dead!" Wide awake in an instant, I moved into the tearful eyes of Miss Elizabeth, whose insuffiance of her words. "He's dead, Mr. Salem, he's dead; he died in my arms," she tearfully insisted. I was still unable to believe her. Dead! Impossible! He has mistaken unconsciousness for death I reasoned. I hurried to his birth; one glance at the set, pallid features, and I was convinced that the soul of Dick has returned to its Maker. "Dick is dead!" from berth to berth the sad news was borne. Quickly they faint by the suddenness of the shock; we gazed uncomprehendingly, impotently at the silent clay. "He told me he was ill," "You'll be all right in the morning." I said, encouragingly. With ready sympathy, several of the girls ministered to the sick, and they did for came, "Touch of pneumonia," he said. "He needs care and attention; he can't try working today," we advised him. "Stay in bed and sweat out the cold." Saturday night, after the show, the goals hurried to the car. "How do you feel when you wake and short," winded," answered. Not for one instant did any of us think his case so serious. However, some one of the company was constantly in attendance. His every wish was to be able to be possible, but a m. Miss Dunlop realized that his condition was very serious. He was having great difficulty in breathing. She called Mr. Gray to assist her in moving him to a position that would enable him to breathe. He and myself were awakened by the hum of subdued voices. We did everything possible to relieve his suffering. Most of the company were worn out by three hours of sleep. After he dropped into a troubled sleep, I retired. The girls remained in constant attendance until the end. The end! Who knows where and when we will reach it? Who thought Dick would reach it so soon? "Air—I must have air," he murmured. Miss Akerls held him in her arms, while Miss Dumpl wiphed his sweaty hand. Reaching to his sweet her hand, "Who's hand is this?" he whispered "Mine," Ora answered. "Don't move it; keep it there, keep it there," he said. "I am Akers." "Is that you Hattie?" he queried, tremulously. "It is I, Dick." "Don't THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. leave me, girls," he gasped. "We won't leave you; never worry," they assured him. "Quiled by their assurances, he sank in darkness of darkness." Water, water and air! Mr. Kyer, coming in at this time, heard the pitiful call. He hurried out and soon returned with a cup of cracked ice, which he poured into the broken pieces. "How good, how good; God will rward you," he gasped. "How do you feel now?" asked Hattie, a while later. "I'm better now, thank you." Then they heard him whisper: "Lord, have mercy!" A gasp, a shudder, and the spirit of Dick was gone. He was not seen, andpected, so sudden, that we were unable to realize that one who had been among us, who had endearedly himself to all, we came from us forever. We came from his mother and father, wife and son, relatives and friends in their sad bereavement. NOTES FROM P. G. LOWERYS DIXIE FASHION PLATE The show is doing a fine business in Illinois and Missouri. Jack Maher has visited the show for a few days. He is ahead of the Two Owlers. Much credit is due A. A. Wright, the stage manager, as he is constantly looking after the interest of the show and the people as well. His personals queries and instructions of Mr. A. Wright are very interesting and have the tendency of bringing piece and harmony to the company. Miss Vivian de Grooverour, the prima donna, is more than pleasing our audience. Arthur Prince, marvel of the hoops, is puzzling the people nightly with his wonderful control of his educated hoops. Beechum and Kenney, Charles and Pixel, are presenting a clever and neat act in a digit moment from their entry to their exit. Horse Eubanks, our popular clarinetist, has been sick for a few days, but is recovering. Horse, chorus director, is constantly improving the chorus. In his line of business he is in a class by himself. Carrie Gilbert, our dalty little souls and comediene, is closing our ollo with dancing and an up-to-date monologue. Jay Bryant, the silver-toned baritone, possesses a phenomenal voice and has a very bright future before him. Ruth Sprague is meeting with great surprise in singing "Wont You Be My Bumble Bee?" Tony Barefield, basso, is scoring hits nightly, singing "Any Old Port in a Storm." Mrs. Griffith has been visiting her husband, p. G. Griffith, one of the managers, for past two weeks, and the company will regret will regret it when she has to leave. A. Victoris is very well pleased with his orchestra this season. Thomas May has purchased a new Holly Cornet, and is very well pleased with it. Mr. Gordon C. Collinson will join us this week. Mr. Callie Vassar, the well-known coon shouter, is featuring, with great success, "The Robert E. Lee." Mr. H. A. Morgan, one of the managers, has been sick for a few days, but soon be marching ahead of the band. Our Billy May, the tuba player, has not married yet. Our general agent, F. A. Morgan, is a well-known burgers Mick for a few days, as we are booked solid until the 31st day of March. P. G. Band is the best we have ever had, so say the public and press. P. G. Hillman is the most awesome everyone on the car. He is the most important actor with the show. RECEIVED LETTER FROM MR. AND MRS. BULY Y. KERSANDS. Mrs. George S. Kysear, of 3609 Forest avenue, Chicago, IL, received a letter a few days ago from our dear old theatrical friends, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Kerber, of New York, and countries, en route from Ale-Ale, South Australia, through South Africa, Ireland, Japan, China, Paris, France, and from there they will sail for America, returning to the city of Chicago. They send many regards to all friends. PENSACOLA, FLA., THEATRICAL. By Walker Wilner Thomas. The Smart Set Company paid the city a visit during the holidays and showed at the local opera house, where scarcely being standing room at each performance. This season's play is a new one, which was written by Salem Tutt Whitney, who is the social leader of his company. Mr. Whitney was assisted by Miss Blanche Thomas and Mr. J. Homer Tutt and forty others, and their work was of such a high class that the company has the best wishes of our people for a continuous success while on the road. BROOKLYN THEATER CHARLOTTE, N. C. We are showing to very nice audiences this week and expect better next week. We have with us Lehm Smith and Wife, also with Susanurgress and the Smith family, have paved to go to public. We also have with us Miss Ray Bailey, "nuff sed." Mrs. Della Arrant is also here, singing with much success, staging some good shows and they have met with the approval of the public. Mr. Arrant is also playing Miss Trombone, the foot, T. E. Gathers is a musical director and T. S. Sanders is owner and manager. PROF. R. POPE RESIGNS. After eighteen years in the show business, Prof. R. Roy Pope has retired and wishes all his many friends success. He gave the contract of the Ringling Bros. circus band, of which he was manager of the band, of his one and trombone player, P. A. Venable, Prof. Pope thinks, is the most reliable man who ever worked for him and an AM musician, and without a doubt he will keep up the standard that Prof. Pope always was given credit for, and who has been his band leader, numbering twelve to fourteen pieces. Prof. Pope can be reached through The Freeman. AT THE PARK THEATER, DALLAS M. O. H. H. McDaniel, the manager and producer of the McDaniel Stock Company, opened his bill here with a sensational drama entitled "The Child of the River," a song about characters; and a great play of society to follow, "Twenty Minutes in Hades." Mrs. Susie Harris, Miss Maud Cook, Mr. A. Bruce, Sanford and Overstreet were invited to the Edwards, Al and Hazel, who are some basso and soubrette; also that favorite soloist, who please everywhere, Mr. H. Field, late of the Lyric theater, Kansas City, Mo. The favorite who is pleasing is an old home boy, Mr. L. B. McCoy, Mr. O. H. McDaniel is some Mephisto. Regards to all friends in and out of the profession. Freeman is always a welcome visitor. A FRIEND IN NEED, IS A FRIEND INDEED. On Sunday night, December 8, 1912, we closed our engagement at the Pekin theater, Cincinnati, Ohio. We had the occasion of being a life saver for an audience, and we were Pekin natl, who had a week or two booked at Lexington, Ky., with Senator Beel, so the act not having necessary funds to defray their expenses, came to me at the Pekin theater, in order to pay $8.00 in order for them to make the jump and fill the engagement. Tellin me that they would give me an I. O. u. on their salary and that they would have Senator Bell (on receipt of the I. O. u.) send me the money to St. Louis the o. u. but no reply came from the senator, nor have I received my $8.00, and this is now January 18. The name of the gentleman in question is Mr. Louis A. Evans, at that time manager of Goodloe and think that this brother should pay an honest debt, such as this, as he can never tell when he may need a favor again. I understand from Mr. John Goodloe, who is at present here in Atlanta, that Mr. Evans had an interest in the set with money, and left them in Winchester, Ky., in a destitute condition. But as I have written several letters to Mr. Evans without a reply, thought I would use this medium to hear from him. BILLYL HENDERSON, Of the olly Hendersons. Central Theater, Atlanta, Ga. MAJESTIC THEATER. COLUMBIA, Mo.—The Columbia people have been calling for high-class acts, and the University is booking the Brown Sisters, one of the best sister teams in the business, but on account of the inclement weather that the attendance was very low for the week. Following the Brown Sisters we will have with us the Thornton Trio, and, taking into consideration the condition of all our theater and its capacity, we act to fill our theater to its capacity. Horne and Johnson are doing all in their power to give Columbia some of the talent of theville, if the attendance will permit it. We were very sorry to learn on last evening that some of our Columbia Negroes and our theater account of the class of people who attended the same. This is something new in the show business, but we learn some of the talent we tried to keep the best of order in our theater, and, barring the noise of the children, which we are getting more under control each week, we are getting more and more welcome to our the full time. We are catering to the whole Negro population of Columbia, and as long as they conduct themselves as ladies and gentlemen, we are welcome to our the full time. Andrew Cargile, operator, is on the slick list, and Roy Turner is operating the picture machine during his absence. The majestic dresses, with gold embellishments, is still able to please our audiences, and gets many applauses. Although this is her first attempt at vaudeville, she is able to handle any class if music that is before you learn it. For example, you wear it in. Regards to all in and out of the profession. Prof. W. L. Horne said to tell all of the White Top boys that he had bid farewell to the white tops for the season of 1933. P. G. Lowery's Fashion Plate Minstrels showed to a packed house in this city during the holidays. Professor Lowery's band assisted the Majestic theater in the matiness, and when the show was over, Morgan were entertained at a 6 o'clock dinner by Prof. W. L. Horne. The Majestic closed at night and all attended the minstrels, and we have to give P. G. Lowery credit for having one of the best minstrels and bands on the road. NOTES OF CHAMPION, ILL. (By Z. L. Breedlove, Phone 1659) ...Miss Frances Ellis, a student in household science department, returned Wednesday, Wells, of West Church street, Urbana, is confined to her home with a severe case of tonsillitis. ...Miss Irene Doss has returned from spending the holidays with relatives. Relief Hickerson has returned from Memphis. ...Mr. Charlie Phillips, of Monticello, was in town on business last week. ...The "Monarchs" will formally observe on Friday February 27. Freemans on sale at 32 N. Hickory street. Your patronage is solicited. Members of the First Presbyterian church contributed to a colored college Oklahoma. ...Mr. Horace Summers, Mrs. Fanny Brown, the caterer, will serve the annual military ball at the Armory. ...Mr. Horace Taylor has returned from his vacation and resumed his studies in university. ...Mr. Geo. Taylor has returned from a visit to his home in St. Louis, Mo. A CORRECTION. M. L. Stevenson, of Cairo, Ill., Not Married. We cheerfully make a correction of a statement made in this publication, the Freeman, a few weeks ago, that Mr. M. L. Stevenson, of Carlo, Ill., had married a certain young lady of Urbana, Ill. Mr. Stevenson is not married, and wishes it understood that way. He says that harm has resulted from the report already, and he is sure that harm will follow if the false report is not corrected. Our reporter at Champaign, who sent us the article, however, is not responsible for the report. It first appeared in a daily publication of Champaign, Ill. He simply reproduced it for the Freeman. EDITOR OF THE FREEMAN. Until February 15th, The Freeman will be $1.00 a year. WANTED Performers at all times. Would like to hear from A No. 1 producer, soubrette, singles, novelty acts and sister teams. Can keep you as long as you make good. Baby Seals Blues Sing em-they sound good to me. Words & Music by BABY F SEALS Arr. by Arlene Matthews VAMP I got the blues Hon.ey babe can't be sat down fled to day people ant mad with you to day got them bad want to my down and din love you brown skin don't care what you do Oh Copyrighted by Stella T. Parker THE SEASON'S SONG HIT--Agents wanted. Music dealers write for special terms. Single conies 15 cents. Address E. C. Knox, caret The Freeman. Indianapolis, Ind. THE SEASON'S SONG HIT--Agents wanted. Music dealers write for special terms. Single conies 15 cents. Address E. C. Knox, caret The Freeman. Indianapolis, Ind. Music arranged for piano, band and orchestra; vaudeville work a specialty. Words set to music and music set to words. Acts who contemplate playing Chicago write us. 3159 State Street Chicago, Illinois Crescent Theatre, New York City WANTED—Feature acts at all times. Write or wire. SAM D. HYAMS, Booking Representative. The most popular Vandeville and Moving Picture House on the South Side playing all First Class Acts. Orchestra the very best. Hourly performance from 8 to 11. Matinees Sundays and Holidays. ADMISSION, 10 CENTS. 3028 State Street Near 31st Street Chicago, Illinois Hide Away in Philadelphia Big time acts having lay-off, can book quick here. Other GOOD acts can open soon, doing several weeks in white and colored theaters. Headliners may also break in that new act. Please chorus girls write at once. GEO. E. BUNDY, New Circle Theatre, 1821-33-25 South Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 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! First class performers of all kinds. Soubrettes, Singles, teams, trios or novelty acts keep in touch with us. Managers when wanting acts, write or wire. Can arrange to book your house solid. Address G. R. Swords, Prop. L. T. Swords, Booking Agt. Globe Theatre Performers Come South Get Warm, Get Fat, (not ham), Get Paid. Will forward tickets anywhere in the United States for good people. Address 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 Street, Chicago, Illinois Performers Send in Your Open Time. PETER Some are Wise, Some are Otherwise The Managers who are Wise are Booking thru S. H. Dudley Better wake up and get in on the Dudley Circuit Mr. Actor you can work if you have the goods to deliver Write in your open time. I will tell you where you deliver your first package. Can use good singles and tries. No act too big for us to handle. Get in touch with the For Savoy Theatre IN THE FIELD OF SPORT. BY HAROLD C. MCGATH. Battling Zambarra—Young Lowery- Johnson Will Fight in Paris If— That Alleged Get-a-way. (By Billy Lewis.) Wo ist der Battling Zambarre? The last time I heard from the little black Dutchman he was, according to superscription of his letter, at "Dobbs Ferry, New York, care Misses Master, School, Bered as the little colored fellow who was born in Berlin, Germany. He was in Indianapolis some months ago in the interest of his development as a fighter. The little fellow was extremely interested in different from American Negro boys. His sincere German training showed plainly, coloring his whole life, which was a studious, ceaseless struggle to exist. He took to the fighting game as a student, ceaseless struggle to exist. He hoped to make a fortune so that he could enjoy life like the great wrestlers he had seen at his home. When going from place to place, among the first things he did was to seek a gymnasium, so that he could train in training. He fight was not in sight he trained right along just the same. Then again Zambarra was a student of the times, of things—this without consciousness, of things he could not observe he could tell what his judgment was generally correct. I have already told somewhat of him through these columns but not of a length. He was a man of attention, minding one more of the Ten boys read of in the public schools than any boy I have ever met. He would prove an acceptance, and pleasing volume—"The Eleven Boys." Zambarra soon learned to know that he was different. As startlingly different as he was there were those among his own kind who refused to be called a "nigger." He worked at the German House in Indianapolis for a short time. He said that one of the guests asked a waiter to send him that little Dutch colored boy. "The man was a Dutch nigger here." How was it possible for him to be there without all knowing it? It was the waiter's way of trying to make little of the little fellow. He would not ask him to be a Dutch nigger. He asked him if he intended to be married in America. He said that he didn't know, "I got a friend from Hamburg; he get married in dis country. He go home to supper some times and his wife not dere. No, I dinks I give a bit of his last letter to show his style of talk. Remember that he is little and black, so one can imagine how unique he is. He didn't hear about me for a long time. I was fought in Cleveland last. I fought Kid Hogan six rounds to draw before I left. I draw a big crowd there." He then speaks of McClain, of his German script writer in this city, Indianapolis. He says: "I will meet any boys at 118, 120 or 122 at Christmas time. Please let me know if I get on there. I am getting on with my work. I hope to hear from Billy McClain." His speaking English is not so good as his writing English. If he did not write the letter some German fellow collaborated with him and got it up. The words are spelled correctly. His German script letter creeps in now and then. If he wrote the above he has very much improved since he was in Cleveland some months ago. And he is capable of improvement all right. He understands the language he will be in for a short time he has been in this country. Can you imagine one of our fellows of the fighting business writing so simply, so unsophisticated as that? He was as simple as a child, yet he was willing $3.50 RECIPE FREE, FOR WEAK MEN. SEND NAME AND ADDRESS TODAY—YOU CAN HAVE IT FREE AND BE STRONG AND VIGOROUS. I have in my possession a prescription for nervous deliberty, lack of vigor, weakened manhood, falling memory and lame back, brought on by excesses, unnatural drains, or the follies of youth, that has caused so many worn and nervous men right in their homes, without any additional help or medicine—that I think every man who wishes to regain his many power and virility, quickly and quietly, should have a copy. So I have determined to send a copy of the prescription of charge, in a plain, ordinary free envelope to any man who will write me for it. This prescription comes from a physician who has made a special study of men, and I am convinced it is the surest-sounding combination for the cure of delenium manhood and vigor failure ever put together. I think I owe it to my fellow man to send them a copy in confidence, so that any anywhere who is weak and discouraged can receive care and drugging himself with harmful patent medicines, secure what I believe is the quickest-acting restorative, upbuilding, and so cure himself at home quietly and quickly. Just drop me a line like this: A. E. Robinson, 3831 Luck Building, Detroit Mich., and I will send you a copy of my book, an ordinary envelope free of charge. A great many doctors would charge $3.00 for merely writing out a prescription like this—but I send it entirely free. to be beat to pulp in the prize fighter's ring. Young Lowery. I must give credit to Young Lowery, who most nearly approaches Zambarra a different order and modesty. Lowery is of a different order than the one of the fight that's in him until he is in the ring. He is also business from the word go. He trains all the time, studies the game, and is trying to fight all of the time and almost every time not that reep insight to things generally that Zambarra takes interest in. He is a best example of an American Negro business, the kind of business he has but little to say, he is littleingly. He would rather not speak of himself as a fighter until he is forced to do so in self defence. When having been in the fight, he would weight he would say "I should not have taken him on, but I needed the money." Lowery has been fighting in the East since leaving Indianapolis. The boys in section are giving him all that he can can falo, he says: "I am with Bob Armstrong." Bob is one of the big heavyweights. He has a big reputation as a musician, and some lessons from him just to finish up his musicians do Leschetzik, the great European music master. Will Lowery be swallowed up in the East or will he be the bony hero of his magnitude? He hopes to lead in his class of fighting. And I think he will be a good one. But perhaps he is not fashioned to head his class. The clipsier Lowery has been making headway against Lowery's toughness, training and courage. Lowery is heavy and by nature tends towards the slugger, whether he will it that way or not. He is less likely to age, but the difference is between himself and those of keener build. Jack Johnson Will Fight Palzer. If reports are to be relied on Jack Johnson will meet Al Palzer in Paris on his weight-champion's the world's heavyweight championship will be $30,000. This is as it should be. Suppose the eliminators have had their way. If they had succeeded a fight for the world's championship would have been impossible. They know but very little of our racial troubles in Paris; and other come before those of Paris and other that acknowledge the title and its owner. Of course Johnson has two court trials staring him in the face. If he is lucky enough to beat them more than likely he will go to Paris and fight Al Palzer. He will be in the courtroom and he will stay in view of the hubbub he has kicked up in this country. However, our French neighbors do not want to get the opinion that Johnson is generally a bad fellow, unless going after white women is the case. But with him it is a matter of choice and there's no law against it. More than Jack Johnson is at stake. We are not after marrying white women, but if men is man he rebels at that too and if flies is supernatural of man over him, if he is escaped in the meanwhile. Thought Jack Was Making a Get-a-way The papers the first part of last week were alive with reports of Johnson's al- tered health. He was a resident in Canada. He succeeded in making a sat- satisfactory explanation to the court that he meant no harm. And it is reasonable to think that he did not since it would have meant such a sacrilege otherwise, and that he was out of the country incognito, had Johnson cared to have done so. I hope he had no such intentions in mind, for if so, under the circumstances, the history of his life would be parallel of infamy—his mother is on his bond; he is obligated to friends. The jail, the prison would be honorable places compared with an escape that meant the prison would be explained it all. And glad enough the Negro race ought to be that he did so. THE COLORED MEN IN ATHLETICS (By Frank Albert Young.) In the past few years our colored men have made a name for themselves in branches of athletic sports that stands as a credit to any living race of people. As the sport of the kings, namely, basketball, in this country, therefore we can readily see the decrease in the colored trainers and jockeys. As esse cycle races are a thing of the past, nearly therefore the more riders like the great Major Taylor. Notwithstanding these facts, our young men have turned to the foot-ball field, the base-ball diamond, the clay courts, and to all manner of sports. We read every now and then of W. H. Lewis, Harvard '95, the great center of the Crimson team, and the writers today. We read today. I answer, they are here. Mr. Lewis was a great player in his day, but since his day there have been others just as great. They are becoming more and more white press does not mention their feats or their color only when almost forced to do so. In order to know these things, we must know our own papers much more closely than we do. Since the days of Lewis we have at Harvard Mathews, a great little end at foot-ball, and a stopshot on the great school of learning Mathews has been appointed assistant United States district attorney of Boston, and is also a director of athletics in the public Going over to Dartmouth, we find Bullock, who played end. Bullock afterward coached Medford High School football team. Medford is a small town in Northwest Arkansas, and his brother, the great full-back. Of this Bullock Murphy said: He is the greatest full-back I ever saw—the full-back of all times. He was a great player. Wesley Pollard and Bob Johnson, two of the greatest players who were ever awarded the green sweater with the varsity "D" on it. Pollard played the half-back. Wesley Pollard and Leslie Pollard who starred with the North Division High School team of Chicago, who after winning the Cook county championship took a trip through the Nortwest and swept everything before him. Wesley Pollard and the North Side school has had none to amount to anything since. Brown University, at Providence, R. I., has had a good many colored athletes, but S. Ransom, of Hyde Park, that carried the blue and white team to victory, and prejudice alone kept him from entering the University of Chicago, as he did in 1912. He, for several years later, Sam went to Beloit, and there, as usual, he was in the limelight in base-ball, basket-ball and foot-ball. Parker went to Illinois and played. He played the same position on the Northwestern eleven. Lane year he coached the Lane High, and this year was assistant coach at his former school. Northwestern's eleven with Parker was Dr. Roy M. Young, then a student in the dental school. Young was a star at tackle, having played in Illinois, after graduating from the Springfield, Ili. High, THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTARTED COLORED NEWSPAPER. In the Chicago high schools was Jess Wright. Jess was in every branch of sport, and contracted a cold which resulted in his death. He was the idol of the school. He was the same school was Crutchfield, a heavy guard, and Clarence Burke, of track fame. Twice Clarence went to Philadelphia with the red and black team in the winging game. Windy City. Both years Wendell Phillips brought back the National Interscholastic mile relay championship of the United States. The last time at the Quaker City the second man fell touching the rest. But Burke's ability to more than hold his own put his team on an even chance, and the result was a victory. Wendell Phillips hasn't been able to send a quartet of quarter-milers East since, but other schools have, but they bought nothing back—they had no Burkes. The year just past has been a banner year. In the spring, at the Cook county meet, Pollard and Bluitt and another New Hampshire track meet for high and "prep" schools, the Ethiopian athletes carried away 29 points. It was the first time in the history of the cinder paths that a number of points in white games. Pollard and Bluitt, of Lane High; Williams, of Monmouth, Ill., and another colored youth from Bloomington. I met all meet in June, the two Lane boys did little, but another dark-skinned lad from California jumped into prominence. "Stonewall" Jackson was he, not an amateur, and he could cover 2,360 feet he and his red-headed white partner entered in nearly every event. I saw him breast the tape winner in the 100, take the 220, and would have taken the 240. He and he red-headed white partner entered in nearly every event. I saw him breast the tape winner in the 100, take the 220, and would have taken the 240. He and he red-headed white partner entered in nearly every event. When I looked at the score board I could hardly believe it. Two lads, one white, one black, coming from the back of the Middle West. Well, in the early spring Drew and C. A. Rice (wite), of Powder Point, ran a dead heat at 100 yards. The time was 10:55, but it was some doubt as to the accuracy of the timers, so the record did not stand. But the critics of the East were on the lookout. The team entered the Yale interscholastic games at New Haven. Drew returned winner. The track was wet and his time was 10 1-5 seconds. A week later, in 10 at Worcester. The following week was the Harvard interscholastic games, but age (the age limit is 19 for this meet) was 18. The rival won, only to go down in defeat the following weekin a match race, when Drew romped home the victor. But could he keep this up. Would he hold his own against such a veteran as Ralph In the Olympic tryouts in the Harvard stadium he won his trial heat in 11 seconds in the final and the tape ahead of the famous Craig, and Rice trailed third. Then the final—the patriotic thousands who had come, wondered would the youngest player be cool as an icicle and broke the tape just ahead of Craig, equalling the world's record for that distance. On the Olympic team he was chosen. The final was his trial again at the world's best. The semi-final went to him. But he hurt himself before the day of the finals, and the victory went to Craig. Tate playing with the team. Since Drew's return he has won the century dash at Pittsburgh, also several match races with Meyers, of New York. In all his work he has stamped himself as one of the greatest players of his era and the games he has ever known. Howard was another colored lad to go to the games, but he went from Canada. He won his trial in the 100, only to be defeated in the semi-finals. He also lost in the finals of the quarterfinals and also won the Canadian relay team, which ran third. In Chicago was a jumper and spinner named Holmes, who did so well in the tryouts that he was picked by several of the press critics to go, but why the judges couldn't see him. I didn't under- At Harvard this spring was Mr. Jackson of Englewood, N. J., and Mr. Cable, of Indianapolis. He played a hammer thrower and a broad jumper. He captured the hammer event from A. H. Tilley and Marden of Dartmouth, and set a record for games. He wowed the crowd with an interpersonal one by taking the hammer throw and the broad jump. Trainer Quinn took him to the Yale meet to impress every one by taking the hammer out and the broad jump. Trainer Quinn took him to the Yale meet on May 31 and June 1. In the trials Cable won again from the two Dartmouth boys, along with the pick of the coach this season. In the men's event he hammer over 162 feet, falling only two feet short of De Witt's record. In the Olympic tryouts he made such a good bowing the Boston posters as an ally. But the judges didn't, I leave it with you. It wasn't because he didn't deserve it. I met him in Cambridge in April—a niner fellow than ever wore a spiked shoe—a perfect type of a gentle- So, readers, this is what our young men are doing, and only in one branch of sport. In base-ball the American Giants have won nine out of the winter league which has just closed last summer. Last summer they took everything that came their way. The Cubans had won nine out of twelve games from the world's champion Philadelphia Americans, but the American Giants took the season's series from the islanders. Now York the Lincoln Giants are the show; in Buffalo, the Cuban Giants; in Paterson, N. J., the Smart Set. All the teams meet the best that come and fear none. The Smart Set played the New York Giants to the New York Giants, the San Francisco Giant pitcher, in the box. The major league team broke up the game when they saw themselves slippin, and were hooted out of town by the white fans. Some of the best players have played against the Chicago team. Mike Donlin, Jake Stahl, foxy Jimmy Callahan and others formed an all-star team that went to defeat before the Lincoln Giants. Then the Leland Giants-Cooper series was won ever after that those dogs. Donlin at Gunther park the Cubs met the colored lads. There were to be three games, but there was only one and two fences. Cubs were the greatest of those minds. Cubs were the greatest of those minds, hissed the umpring, and time and again cried, "Beat them squately, or quit playing." Before, it was disgusting. Many felt positive that the Leland's men couldn't win the series, but if given a show would have won one game, but under the conditions it was impossible. The one real game was the game lost to the Giants, its prime, and to lose a game by the said score was no disgrace to any team. Many of us around this city of sighs and sorrows, who laid off to see the series, saw the greatest piece of steam-rollinger ever done. Chance and his team had been in McGraw's phys, sat close to the fence, and when the runner slid into third and broke his leg the unsportsmanlike actions that took place caused both to look at each other with disbelief. The games could never have been so played in major leagues, for they would have been protested. Who have we to protest to. I leave it to you. The Cuban is gradually working his way into the big leagues, but those who are very light. Mendez would be fine, as was McGraw's best but for his ebony hue. While traveling through Michigan and Wisconsin this year, the Giants under Rube Foster beat the state league teams. Here in this city the Grace Sunday School in this city took the School Side Division by a game and a half. They played Mt. Olivet, winners in the north division. The pale faces lost the first game, but on a wet and soggy field won the second. After some time the Giants won the final, Mt. Olivet's followers thinking between time the Grace boys would grow stale. It looked so to me at the beginning of the first and last game, but after a bad game Manzansen Brown and Bakers switched to a new team brought Renflee to short, and Baker, who had worked the night before nearly all night at the postoffice, to the mound. The lead was overcome, and for the second year in succession Grace is champion of the Cook County Presbyterian leagues. This year Reves, Motely and Moseley have been the mainstay of the Englewood high-foot-ball team. Out at Lakewood, Jordyn Hassan, the quarterback, at Evanston Academy Tournament, at Evanston Academy Tournament has played a great game at end. On the Northwestern freshman team is a colored boy. At Colorado College Holmes, the heavy guard, has attracted the attention of the critics, as Alexander did at Iowa last fall. I can't begin to name them all, but in all branches of the athletic game we have advanced more so than ever, and as a close follower of the games, I will stop to say never before have we ever seen a girl who has captured her varsity and class letters in athletics as Miss Caution-Davis did at Wellesley, when the "W" and 1-9-1-2 were given her by the second two years in succession to work. Lewis was a pioneer in the field, but since his time we have done wonders. I look for Cable and Jackson to take everything their way this coming season. The Negro should rejoice. with the outrageous acts of Johnson creating untold prejudice, the athletes have battled face of the tremendous odds. We should be proud of them, yet we complain. SPORTING NEWS. Kid Gardener is a new scraper to Indianapolis. He comes with the reputation of having beaten the Congo Kid, who is considered the greatest of the 133 to 134 pounds. Jim Watts, the veteran fighter, has Gardener in charge. 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Change THE NEW SAVOY BAR THE PLACE OF QUALITY Bar and Billiards 812 INDIANA AVE., 218 W. NEW YORK ST. NEW PHONE 1819 Chas. E. Lewis, Proprietor A Visit will Convince you that we have the Quality National Bank of Commerce Samuel Casseday, Pres. : Jas B. Brown, Vice-Pres. : Jas J. Hayes, Cashier. Northeast Corner Fifth and Main St., Louisville, Ky CAPITAL AND SURPLUS OVER $1,250,000 The accounts of Banks, Bankers, Individuals. Firms and Corporations are Solicited. Three per cent. Interest on Six Months' Certificates of Deposit M. C. Shea & Company Headquarters for all Mexican goods, such as chile peppers Mexene, garlic, sage, comino seeds, tamale shucks and Bayno beans; also cuts of meat used in making Chile. Telephones, New, 20, 300; Old, Main, 20, 826. Fine Wines, Liquors, Cigars, Tobacco Calvin Brown, Mgr. Wm. Clymer, Asst. Mgr. Home Phone—City 5008. 628 S. Ninth St. Louisville, Ky. --- --- WOLFP DISTILLERY CO. 634 W. Market St. Louisville The Home Brewing Co. Brewers and Bottlers of Strictly Pure Lager Beer. Indianapolis, Ind. Wines, Liquors, Cigars, Tobacco We'll treat you right. Headquarters of the L. B.P.O.E.W. Cafe in rear. "Muddy" Hizer and J H Hightower, Mixologist. WM. ROBERTS, Prop. New Phone 5386. 440 Indiana Ave. 8 If it were not for glove marks which have marred their freshness, and because some sizes are missing, these Nemo Corsets would cost you $3.00 or $4.00. The clearaway price today is $1.98. Good style $1 00 Corsets and a few regular $1.50 ones—just odds and ends discovered during inventory. To close them out, 49 cents. —Third floor annex. L. S. Ayres & Co., Indiana's Greatest Distributors of Dry Goods. CITY AND VICINITY. The Freeman for one year, $1.00. Mr. Earle D. Bonds, of Chicago, passed the torch to Archie Martin. Mrs. Archie Martin was hostess to the Keneida Whist Club, Friday. The Capitol Dancing Class will dance on the second Friday of each month. Mrs. Maude Shelton, formerly of this city, but now residing in New York City, is very ill. F. B. Ransome, attorney, has gone to Tuskegee, to be present at the Farmers' Conference. Until February 15. The Freeman will be on vacation year. Sen in your subscription at once. Mrs. Wade Hampton entertained Mr. Ed. Toles and Mrs. Glover, of Duluth, mnt. at luncheon Sunday. Covers were laid for six. Mr. Shirley Wintrefy, the embalmer for C. M. Willis & Son, has been ill for several days at the Charity hospital, but is now improving. Officer Geo. W. Holm, of the local police department, has returned from a visit with relatives and friends in Louisville, Ky., and incinnati, O. Secure the Freeman for one year at our special rate of $1.00. Sent to any address in the United States for twelve months on the receipt of $1.00. Send in persons or write-ups of social affairs of yourself and friends. It is free. Send in a penny on your friends? Rev. S. L. Howard, D. D., of Nashville, Tenn., the secretary of the evangelistic meeting of A. M. E. Bethel church, gave a most interesting speech at the Y. M. C. A. last Sunday. All fellows, he has been here and gone and you ought to have seen him. Oh! he is looking fine. Who? Ernest H. Jarratt, the traveling valet with F. Theodoro Randolph, the millionaire from Pittsburgh." Mrs. Frank Purnell, of East Sixteenth street, entertained her sister, Miss Lottie Trautman of Kentucky, at a two-o'clock meeting in the courtyard. 4 to 6. Mrs. Purnell was assisted by Mrs. Oscar Hightower and Mrs. J. T. Taylor. Rev. Wm. Beckham, D. D., field secretary of the National Convention, and Rev. R. H. Boyd, the secretary and treasurer of the National Baptist Publishing Board, president of the One-Cent availing Bank, spoke at several churches of this city. Mme. C. J. Walker will leave Saturday, January 25, for Columbia, S. C., from where she will go to Florida, where she will spend the remainder of the winter. Mrs. C. J. Walker will miss Angela Breidlove, who will act in the capacity of secretary. Mrs. Mary E. Dodd, who was an inmate at the Alpha Home for more than one year, departed this life last Monday morning, after a lingering illness, covering a large portion of her body. Her death brings relief to her mortal frame, for her suffering was great. She leaves a host of relatives and friends to mourn her loss. She was a member of Allen chapel, and she was a member of R. B. Shultz and Willis has charge of the remains. Peace be to her ashes. Mrs. Irene Downs held a reception on Sunday evening from 4 to 6, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Earl C. Embry, at which the best of society presented her as a beautiful decorated. Among those present were Mme. R. H. Embry and Mme. C. J. Walker. Mr. Embry is one of our popular young soloists, who possesses a high bacharachal skill. Ms. Embry, whose former home was Lexington, Ky., was one of that city's prominent church workers. COLORED WAITERS' ORGANIZE. Colored waiters in Indianapolis met Monday at 401 Indiana avenue and organized a union to be known as Colored Walters' Union Local No. 261. Forty-five signed as charter members and the following officers were elected: J. F. Williams; treasurer, Richard Moorman, and delegate to the state convention, Henry Clay. THE SANITARIUM CHARITY CLUB. The amaranth Charity Club met at the residence of Mme. C. J. Walker, 640 North West street, on January 21. Report on work done during the visit of the president, Miss P. Kelly. She reported that donations to the club were received as follows: Mme. FEVER DESTROYED HER HAIR Two years ago I had fever which took out all my hair, I used your Pomade and now have a nice head of hair, long and thick. I owe it to your Pomade, writes Mrs. L. Garrett, 3619 Dearborn St. Chicago, Ill. Ford's Hair Pomade is the old time tried remedy for harsh and unruly hair, that has been giving satisfaction for over fifty years. Ford's Royal White Skin Lotion is a highly antiseptic, non-ritrant skin remedy. It makes the skin whiter immediately upon application. Ask your druggist about these remedies. Be sure and get Ford's, manufactured by the Ozonized Ox Marrow Company, Chicago, Ill. For sale by Ferger's drug store, Vaughn Bros. drug store, Pink's Phar-macy, are treated by Broy Bros. drugstore, Robt. P. Blodau, James H Noe, Graves Pharmacy, Geraldine Pharmacy. --- C. J. Walker, $50.00; Miss Croker, $1.00; Mrs. Lillie Henderson, from friends, corn M. K. Keeley, amounting to $2.00; Miss P. Keeley, C. O. Denson, sons, half dozen each of corn and tomatoes, baskets containing one chicken, corn, tomatoes, sugar, apples, potatoes, cranberry, corn, potatoes, corn, potatoes, $5.00 was sent to the Star charity fund; $1.50 and one-half ton of coal to a sick lady; $1.00 to a blind man. The club proceeds will be given to the帕福斯 home. A meeting for the arrangement of such a benefit is called for Tuesday evening, January 28 at the residence of its members. C. J. Walker. All members are urged to be present. CIVIC CLUB NOTES. "Protest! Reveal the truth and refuse to be silenced."—Dubois. "Liberty does not consist in being able to stay out of life; it consists in the death of this country." It rights of a citizen of this country. So said E. M. White to the Equal Suffrage Association. If this be true, we Negroes are almost slaves in this great liberty. "We come to our public meeting at Allen chapel February 12 with Mrs. Cora Willis, 921 Camp street. The Branch will hold a called meeting January 31. We last meeting Mrs. Malinda Thomas, Mrs. Irene Bagby, Mrs. Peter Dent and Mrs. Annette White were received into membership, making a total of seven." The Teachers' Federation has invited the Negro teachers, who are all members of the federation, to take part in a banquet to be given in honor of their speak- THE CHURCHES. Simpson M. E. Church, Corner Eleventh and Missouri Street. Sunday school, 9:30 a. m.; preaching, 11 a. m.; subject, "God's Inquiry and Man's Answer"; Epworth League, 6:30 p. m.; subject, "The Prospect in Africa"; preaching, 7:30 p. m., subject, "The Gospel of Jesus." The public has a cordial invitation to attend these services and to worship with us. Rev. H. A. Foreman, pastor. . M. E. Zion Church. Jones Tabernacle, North and Blackford streets. Sunday, august 26, is the last Sunday in this month, and while all the others have been well received, the standard financial and spiritual life is hoped that each member will see to it that he comes out and settles up for the month and starts in with a clean sheet for February. Then again, the revival will begin on the evening of the 27th, and will be in charge of the writing, and the will begin preaching on Sunday night at 7:45. Don't fail to hear this noted gospel preacher and singer. At 11 a. m., Rev. W. B. Cass will preach. We are glad to say that Mrs. M. E. Rowan is much improved at this writing, and we are pleased to begin preaching for their prayers and best wishes. The educational tally which was to have come off at ones' Tabernacle Sunday, January 26, has been postponed until February, at 7:45 p. m. Those who have subscribed $1 or more are asked to write a jerusalem scripture. Miss Eunice Johnson will sing Sunday night, as she was indisposed last Sunday night. Rev. W. B. Carry will preach Sunday, august 26. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. But a few days are left until the first of February, and if subscribers who have not yet paid will just rily as some are doing, success will crown the effort being put in to maintain a record made thus far. Many have responded nobly to the call and have paid their pledges in full at the Y. M. C. A. building, at West North and California streets, and others have made pledges they will meet in the office. How-ever, some whom the committee has not heard from and it is in hopes that they will respond, come to the building and make payments on their already overdue subscriptions. The contractors commence the dishing out the third door of the committee is very desirous that the work be continued and is hopeful that their friends will stand by them and push the battle to the gate. This can only be done, however, by united effort on the part of the subscribers, thereby quitting the work be harkened to at the time. Various solicitors will be at the churches again on Sunday and any desire to make their payments at any time may do. Temporary payments will be given and other payments will be sent the captains and workers, together with the committee of management and all others who desire to help in this rainy meet at the association on Monday night at 5 p.m. which time a splen- last Sunday, the second largest meeting of the season was held at the Covenant Garden theater, the home of the Monster Meeting to Howard, a colored evangelist of S. L. Tenn. On Sunday, W. W. Batchchester, W. W. Batchchester, Columbus, Ga., but now pastoring at Shiloh Baptist church, a splendid pupit orator, will be the day of the occasion. "How to Dr. H. R. Thompson," the musical program will be given by the Y. M. C. A. Chestra Program at the occasion at 3 p.m. only; o clocks in the boys' Basketball League is still kept at a high degree of enthusiasm. With the season one-third over, the teams are showing great form. The standing to The Tuesday night Bible school along in fine style. Dr. Weaver, the teacher, has the class and the fresh drugs with his great knowledge of Bible history. Again we invite all men to attend. NEW BRANCH LIBRARY—BISHOPS LEE AND WALTERS IN THE CITY THE NEGRO OUTLOOK COMMITTEE—SOCIAL HAPPENINGS. (By Lee L. Brown, 1006 W. Chestnut.) LOUISVILLE, KY. (Special). We are to have them colored bristle that will end. There is a great scramble for the position of librarian. It seems trat very few applicants realize that they must pass an examination before appointment can be given. Bishop Lee, of Wilberforce, and Bishop Walters are our special guests this week. Bishop Walters delivered an address night at Jacob Street tabernacle. The church is pastored by Rev. W. A. Blackwell. A new colored drug store with an entire new equipment, fresh drugs has streets. The outlook for a successful ca. reer is very encouraging. Dr J. A. C. Lattimore injured his hand last week by falling into the cellar. Dr. Murphy, of South Seventh street, has just completed a very handsome residence. Prof. H. Clarence Russell, of Frankfort, teacher at Normal school, passed through the city Sunday, en route to the Negro conference which convened Wednesday. Dr. Russell is well-known. U. B. B. having been mentioned for the position of state secretary. A building fund campaign in the interest of the Y. M. C. A. is about to be launched. The Negro Outlook Committee, an organization launched last spring, having for its objects: First—To discourage its existence; Second—To pay special attention on our people, chill partors, loan sharks, cheap theaters and dance halls connected with saloons, etc. Second—To secure as far as possible a proportion of civic benefits, such as cleaner and better streets, schools and better hospitals, better hospital facilities and playgrounds for our children. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. Next week we will publish a very interesting letter just received from a Kenuckian, who is head cook for the royal family of Canada. Central Colored high school held special exercises last Thursday evening, also the Both meetings were highly enjoyed by all present. At the parent-teachers' meeting lunch was served by the students. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson Dale gave a birthday party in honor of their son, Frank Dale, at the residence of Mrs. Winnie Force, in Hancock street. The dining room was beautifully decorated in pink and green. The students served. Prof. John Wickliffe furnished the music. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Newman, Mr. and Mrs. William Paris, Mesdames, merica Wagner, Laude Wagner, and George Brown, Misses Louise Nellie, Nettle Hickman, Nellie Black, Hamilton and Eva Gaddie, Messrs. Shirley Polly, George Mason, Koy Pitman Bally, Joley Foil, Willy Woll, and Joseph Joo and Joe Rome, Bruce Porter. The refreshments were served by Mr. David Lewis. Mr. J. H. French and Mrs. Lula L. Berry, of this city, were united in marriage December 1912, in receiving many presents and gratification from their many friends. They are now residing at 1007 West Walnut street. Taylor and Taylor, the well-known song and dance comedians, mother and son, are at home for the winter, and having a pleasant time. They send regards to their friends in and out of the profession. --- Miss Bert Whitman and her three sunbeams, Jones and Jones, are the guests of Taylor and Taylor, on Eleventh street, this week. --- Mrs. Mary Belle Gray, who has been ill for several weeks, is still confined to her bed and improving very slowly. * Mrs. Lula Boone, daughter of Mrs. Fryor and niece of George Slaughter, Freeman reporter, who had been ill for some time, past away last Wednesday. * Mrs. Willis Kearn, formerly of this city, now of t. Louis, Mo., was entertained last week by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Frye, of West Chestnut street. A large number of friends gathered. Lunch was served. The residence was documented. Ken is well known and has a host of friends and relatives residing in this city. * Grand Master Munday, of the Masonic state grand lodge, is expected in this city very soon on his official tour of lodges. * DALLAS. TEXAS. Negroes in Every Walk Should Pull Together for Mutual Good of All Concerned—Agents Pushing to the Goal Special to the Freeman. Special to the Freeman. Put forth some effort to help build up the business of our concerns and Negro enterprises, as other races do? If such efforts are case by case, our people were working for the welfare of the colored business men, instead of patronizing white stores entirely and letting the colored business man get into business. Simmons spent last Sunday in Panther City, completing arrangements for a big uniform company, banquet and reception of Dallas and Fort Worth companies. The company was on January 27. Invitations will be sent to all lodges, and they are asked to cooperate in this event. A committee is looking to watch the crowds that are congregated on our thoroughfares on Sundays and you will ask yourself what is the meaning of it. The answer is plausible most of the times, but those not inclined to church-going want. See Griffin, if you want to use these columns. Ask the Star manager and Chester John or any other up-to-date performer here or elsewhere. Ask the staff of using the Freeman. These gentlemen are readers of the Freeman, as well as other people at Southland Park, Mecca, Pocahontas City, and other cities. Call the Freeman and read it every week, because it gives you all the news—the kind you cannot obtain elsewhere, that of the race....Dr. C. L. Moore, that of the service to those who may need his services. MAYFIELD, KY. Mrs. Fannie Tucker entertained at super, Sunday evening, Mrs. Luna Curd, Mrs. Vhia Beadles, Misses Dewey Wilson, Mrs. Delightful evening was spent in music, which was the feature of the evening.... Mr. Lew Wilson, who died in Paducah Sunday, was brought to this city for burial at the city cemetery....The musical troupe, Sadie Beadles and Leonard Beauregard, who spent Thursday night in town made a visit to the museum as enjoyed by outsiders as well as by the guests....Mrs. Ccevel Thomas and Mrs. Prichard attended the teachers' institute Saturday at Wingo, Ky. The revival remains successfully conducted by Rev. A. J. Dodd, of Louisville, Ky. NOTICE. When you are in Montgomery, Ala., stop at Deans' drug store, the best place in the city. You can get The Freeman there at all times. LOST RELATIVE. I would like to know the whereabouts of my brother, M. F. Murdock. The last I heard of him, he was discharged from company M, Twenty-fifth infant, on August 16, 1945. He was born in Neb. Address Ella Olison, Point, Texas, Rural Route No. 2. BUSINESS LOCALS Woodbine Perfume. Oh, how fragrant, exquisite, enchanting, bewitching. Only at Blodau's Drug Store. 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