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16 Pages--Merry-Christmas to Our Patrons--16 Pages THE FREEMAN AND ETHIOPIA SHALL STRETCH FORTH HER HAND A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER MISS ELNORA CURTIS WINS VICTORY! Is Accorded First Prize at the Four Annual Literary Contest at Bethel A. M. E. Church Last Sunday. DR. JOSEPH A. MARSHALL A CLOSE SECOND! Mr. W. A. Wallace, State Street Banker, Leaves for Tuskegee Institute to Deliver Address—Cary B. Lewis to Speak at Englewood—Tango Experts to be at Eighth Regiment Ball New Years Night—Dr. Harry Boger Banquets his Friends in Honor of his Forty-first Birthday—Pompel Cafe Entertainments, The Freeman Is the peer of Negro Journals, circulating in every State and Territory in the United States, an accomplishment which cannot be claimed by any other Negro publication. Send us your subscription at once. VOL. XXVI NUMBER 51 MISS ELNORA CURT Is Accorded First Prize at Contest at Bethel A. M. DR. JOSEPH A. MARSH Mr. W. A. Wallace, State Street Bank liver Address—Cary B. Lewis to Sp at Eighth Regiment Ball New Year Friends in Honor of his Forty-first (By Cary B. Lewis.) (Freeman Bureau, 3000 South State St., Phone, Douglass 8058, Automatic 75-233. Special to THE FREEMAN. Following are extracts from Miss El- lene Coutts' essay: As a tribute to one of our own citizens, "Chicago should be proud of the fact that one of our own citizens has made a most important advancement. Dr. Daniel H. Williams, founder of Provident hospital, was the first surgeon to operate upon a patient in Chicago and was then established and left for dead. The man is living today. The operation performed in 1833 is considered one of the most wonderful Provident hospital, Dr. Williams' services to mankind here are unique, in that he now has the power to seek in this country and save the lives of countless human beings. Provident hospital has made fourteen others throughout the country. If a benefactor is one who makes two blades of grass where one only grew between them, indeed the man who inspired fifteen human beings has made wonderful contributions to civilization. Known of art and literature, Miss Curtis said: "Paul Lawrence Dunbar's verse in the Negro dialect was his dist contribution. He gave our civilization rhythm and beauty of humble Negro character at his best. He has done for Negro what Robert Burns did for the Indian's ideas on industrial education have revolutionized the theories of the country on practical education." He was given credit for the anti-mob placed upon the statute books of the city. Although lynching had prevailed throughout the country for the past thirty years, not until the passage of this bill was affirmed, this law became effective no Negro in Illinois has been lynched. That which rests mobly and makes for the peace of the commonwealth most certainly advances civilization. The essay closed with the Negro in the field of invention, naming several recent inventions by Negroes and showing in what way they had contributed to civilization. In closing: "Centuries of slavery, op- DEC. 20 1913 PUBLIQUE TIS WINS VICTORY! at the Four Annual Literary E. Church Last Sunday. WALL A CLOSE SECOND! er, Leaves for Tuskegee Institute to Dece ak at Englewood—Tango Experts to be Night—Dr. Harry Boger Banquets his Birthday—Pompei Cafe Entertainments. pression and misrepresentation have not only not crushed out hope which springs in the human breast, but the Ne gro still remains most hopeful and cheerful race under the sun today. This is his most glorious contribution to the villification of the world. Without hope neither individuals nor nations achieve, and the wonder of the world today is that notwithstanding adverse conditions, the Negro has taught the world to hope on, In another issue we will give extracts from Mr. Marshall's essay. To Address Englewood Lyceum. Mr. Cory E. Bailly was invited to deliver an address to the Englewood Lyceum on December 23 at the Englewood Methodist church. A splendid program is being arranged for the occasion. W. A. Wallace at Tuskegee. Mr. W. A. Wallace, the State street baker, left Tuesday of this week for a trip to Tuskegee Institute, Ala. He left upon invitation of the school to deliver an address to the upper classes and students, the College, and Lincoln Institute, of Lincoln, Ky. Tango Experts at Eighth Regiment Ball. Dr. Harry oBger's Birthday Banquet Birthday banquets are becoming very popular in Chicago and this is being made by Beauty Parlor, Thirteenth-fifth and Gorge boulevard. The genial doctor delights to have his personal friends wif him upon his arrival. He was forty-one years old and he sought the new Chauchat cafe, managed by Mr. Joe Shoocraft, to dine his friends. Every day from 10 until 11 o'clock they had a jolly time. A long table was arranged on one side and beautiful dining room, and on the other a beautiful room, and they smoked. Mr. Julius Avendorph was toastmaster. Many fine speeches were delivered and one was the eloquent one. Dr. Beverly was the intimate friends. During the services there was music and high class entertainment. Each guest was given a pipe. The dinner room was given a carnation by the host. Among those present were Dr. B. Beverly, Dr. Frank Hamilton, President Frank Hamilton, Charles S. Washington, Joe Brent, Dave Manson, J. Shoocraft, George Walker, Wesley Turpin, Luther Pollard, Benjamin Stowall, Mr. Mallery and others. When the dinner was over and time to go had come, the host "Here" and "He's a Jolly Good Fellow." Upon leaving every man of them shook Dr. Beverly's hand and wished him many good luck. Boger has been quite a success as a chiropodist and has one of the fastest cars in the city. This summer he moved to Indianapolis and made the trip in 2322. Pompei Cafe Toney Langston, chief of publicity of the Pompei, announces that Tom McCain, Shoecraft have provided an extraordinary library to entertain them to take place during the holiday week, beginning Christmas even to January 2, inclusive with special cabbages on Christmas eve. Now managing the entertaining room and the fact that the Tuesday cabaret and the night's attendance are growing to extraordinary proportions as the entertainment is always of the highest quality. "Meet me at the Pompei" is the slogan. Miss Essie Hubert of Devenport, Ia., is in the city the guest of Miss N. Jones, 3208 Wabash avenue. She has been to New York City to see her mother Mirele Helen Morris, 114 West 134th street. Her friend, Miss Helen Kelly, of New York City, is at the Jones residence, after being exposed for three weeks. Miss Kelly is expected to remain in the city for several weeks. Mr. Alfred Carr of Springfield, Ohio, was in the city last week on a visit. Mr. Wesley Turner will join his brother, Mr. R. W. Turner, for Christmas at Lexington, Ky., to see his mother. It has been six years since the two brothers started playing during the holidays they will, east, stoping at New York and New Jersey, the home of his brother, R. W. Turner. The night of this week Mr. Turner INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1913 LEST WE FORGET NOW TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT SANTA CLAUS TO BRING YOU. LITTLE ONE? EF YOU PLEASE MA'AM, A DOLL AN' SOM' CANDE. EF YOU WOULDN' MIND YOU KIN TELL SANTY 'AT I'D LIKE TEA HAVE A NEW DRESS AN' A PAIR OF SHOOS, AN' LADY, OUR COAL BIN'S RATHER LOW. enttained Miss Hazel Thompson of the "Happy Girls" with a theater party. Friday night of this week Mr. John C. Trott, of the Appomattox Club, gave a stag dinner at the Chauute. Mr. Julius Avendorph, Mr. Wesley Turner and Mr. C. B. Lewis both this guest. Mrs. Benjamin Bibb, 505 West Madison street, has returned to work after several years in Minneapolis and St. Paul. She was highly entertained by the leading people of both cities. Many of her friends have written her to visit WHAT ARE THE POWERS OF THE LOADSTONE? Some Remarkable Claims Made for Simple Mineral Product—Opinions of Prominent Historical Personages. (Taken from the Mercantile and Finar cial Times, 1813, October 27, 1813.) (By Special Correspondent.) It is asserted by many people that to be a man, a woman will bring good luck a man, a woman will bring good luck Since persons of such prominence had faith in this mineral, is there any wonder today believe in the power of lodestones. The manager of the Magnetic Mineral Company, the largest dealers of lodestones at Lodestone, been appointed at 2067 Lexington avenue, this city, informed the writer that there is a great demand for lodestones at the present time. It is a well-known fact that every person has more or less iron in the body, and that the lodgestone, according to the most prominent scientists, is found in the fact that the lodgestone is influenced by a magnetic body. Since some lodestones are strong and others weak, it is claimed that some will do well, but others have been found that the stones handled by the Magnetic Mineral Company have a power which is more in harmony with any other lodgestone so far discovered. On account of the great value of its minerals, the company keeps their source of supply of the company. At the offices of the company, the man says that the lodestone had brought them unusually good luck from the time they began to wear it, and claims are that the lodestone had brought them all deaths, have come to certain parties, after they had been separated from these stones. Powerful interactions between this magnet and a human being possibly this mineral, taken from Nature's laboratory, have been discovered, it. Personally we do not know, but we do not wish to discredit the claims of those who hold to this theory. The man who are interested in the lodestone will receive, FREE OF CHARGE he $1,000 book, writing the Magnetic Mineral Co. 2063 Lexington avenue, New York, N. Y. On today, the book is yours for the asking. LOUISVILLE, KY. Loyal Neighbors Hold Semi-Annual Meeting—New Officers Elected. Special to the Freeman. Louisville Camp No. 2, of the United Loyal Neighbors of the World, held a meeting at Thirteenth and Walnut streets. After the routine of business was dispensed with the election of the following officers: counselor, Mrs. Amanda Beasley, vice counselor; J. R. Marks, past counselor; counselor, Mrs. Amanda Beasley, vice counselor; J. R. Marks, past counselor; Johnson, camp clerk; L. H. Rhen, assistant clerk; Wm. Thompson, treasurer; J. Thompson, Mrs. Dolly Johnson, Dr. G. B. Saunders. Local medical examiners; Dr. T. Duncan, Undertaker, Mrs. R. R. Smith. The reception committee spread the tables with all the delicacies of the season, and all reported a most enjoyable NEWS OF YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO. NEWS OF CENTRALIA. ILL. Special to the Freeman. Mr. A. Thomas and Mr. James Goodman, of Hall, Tenn., are visiting relatives and friends in this city. . . . The revival of the church closed last Sunday. There were about twenty converts. . . There was an oratory contest at Bethel M. E. church last Sunday. Bethel M. E. church, is a visitor in this city. . . The Erb Club had a fine meeting last week, and many guests were present. . . Mrs. L. Sievelle is on the tour. Mrs. L. Sievelle is at the A. M. E. church from December 22 to 27. Rev. D. E. Nailing is pastor. There will also be a Christmas postoffice on December 24. Miss Ethel Bunch, postmaster; Miss Ola Bishop, as FREEMAN ON SALE. Miss Ariela Williams, 817 9th avenue Columbus, Ga., always has the Indian- apolis Freeman for sale every Saturday evening. The Freeman can be had at L. Gab- walen, 166 16th Avenue, Lincoln, Ohio. Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio. KENTUCKY'S CAPITAL President Wm. J. Hale, Tennessee Normal School on Tour of the State—Rev. W. H. Sheppard Lectured—Dean E. E. Reed, of the State Normal, Lectured on the Emancipation at Corinthian Church—Tuberculosis Association's Appeal to the People—The Slogan Cry, "Emancipation! Emancipation!! January 1." (By Hardin Tolbert State Bureau, at People's Pharmacy, Borth Phones 666, Box 238.) FRANKPORT, Kr.—Special—President Wm. J. Hale, of the Agricultural and Industrial Normal School, of Nashville, Tennessee, who is colored youth of Tennessee, is making an extensive tour of the Southern states, visiting the various schools. He is paying visits to the schools of the schools. President Hale visited the schools at Bowling Green, Louisville, Lincoln Institute at Simpsonville and the Kentucky, Normal and Industrial Institute, and the schools of the State Normal school, emphasizing the necessity of specializing in the various walks of life for efficiency more and more, the modern idea of specializing was becoming more and more in evidence. He will be asking for efficiency more and more, the modern idea of specializing was becoming more and more in evidence. He will be variable if they but heed the words of this learned man. President Hale is an energetic young educator and is espousing his all success possible in his endeavors, and hopes that he will find the Virginia schools in as good condition as he did in the Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute on "Pioneering in Africa." The faculty and all the students were present. He gave all the students a city. He gave many demonstrations of the characteristics of the natives, and showed how Christianity was making for a more confident life. He had for nearly a quarter of a century been in the missionary field in the mostly at the white Presbyterian churches of the country, to which demonstration he is lending his efforts for the betterment of the race. He has maintained a confidence in his won a national reputation in his chosen walk of life. Rev. Shepherd told of the great work young people could do, and were glad for the opportunity to listen to this excellent speaker. Prof. E. E. Reed, dean of the Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute, and professor in mathematics, lectured at the University and he would spend the greatest interest in this celebration. In showing the progress which we have accomplished along all lines of work, both the art and the craft, he would take the worth and many tributes of respect to ex-slaves will be features of the this celebration. The remarks of Professor Reed were timely and appropriate. The State Tuberculosis Commission is sending out Red Cross stamps to be used in the art and craft and to send friends at Christmas time. These stamps cost 1 cent, and the money derived from their sale goes to one of the most worthy causes. We may, no doubt, be doing one of the best acts of our lives. Mr. Ed Norman, of Chicago, is the guest of his mother, Mrs. Dodson. Mr. Frank Martin of Shelbyville, is in the city. Mr. Ed Russell is very ill. Mrs. Sallie Alcon spent a few days in Louisville. Prof. P. W. L. Jones, of the State Normal, and wife spent a few days in Louisville. Capt. D. O. Robinson grand keeper of record and seal, spent a few days in Lexington this week. Mrs. Elizabeth Conda, of Indianapolis, Ind., was the guest of Mrs. Alcon. Mrs. Conda is a former resident of our city and has been established in the corse business at the Indiana capital and is doing well. Mrs. Jennie Brooks is very sick in Louisville. Mrs. Katie Wheeler left for Lancaster this week. Mrs. Jerry Halleck, of Chicago, is a guest of his parents. Miss Augusta Turner and Mr. Elmo Jones were married by Rev. Charles Marshall at his residence. We wish them all success. Dr. John T. Williams, of Sandersville, Ga. one of the highest educated Negroes on the country, will be the guest of his holiday Mrs. Martha E. Williams, for the holidays. There is a rumor affair that Dr. H. B. Rosby, the young popular dentist, is to be married Christmas. Miss Lizzie Johnson, of the New York Beauty Parlor, is the talk of the town. Her work of business is very neat and attractive. Author C. L. Timberlake spent a day in Lexington in conference with Prof. H. W. Houre and other educators. Mr. Wyatt Beaty, a prominent citizen and real estate dealer, died at a very ripe age. He was a graduate of Baptist Church and was for years a deacon. He was a member of the Masons and Odd Fellows. He was janitor of the church for forty years. Public Library plan 13 The Freeman As an advertising medium is unequaled by any Negro Newspaper, going into the homes of a class of thrifty, money-spending Afro-Americans not reached by any other Journal. Mr. Advertiser, take the hint and try us. was thrifty and industrious, and stood high in the community. He leaves a host of friends, both white and colored. We extend thanks to his widow and other relatives. Smith's Saxapone Tri plays at New Castle, December 28; Danville, January 1; Shelbyville, December 30; Georgetown, December 31; Milwaukee, December 31; Milwaukee, December 25; Nicholasville, December 24. This trio is making a complete success. A first class barber is wanted by Mr. Richard Harris, proprietor, at $10 to week guaranteed. Patronage, all white, applies to men with marrials or single. This is a good opportunity for a good young man. Dr. J. D. Dill, of Lexington, was a guest of the city this week. January 1 will see the opening of the Emancipation Celebration, which is receiving the best efforts of our people as considerable attention from our white population. We will be colored speakers. The people will assemble at the old State House, the Hamilton Military Band will furnish the music. Charles Stewart, the veteran newspaper correspondent, will be a guest of the city and will lecture at the First Baptist church Tuesday night and be the guest of A. M. Odenkirk. Many people will be surprised when they see Lexington Weekly News for December 27. Prof. Tull E. Brown, planist; Miss H. P. Renix, solist, are among the Afro-Americans who have just completed a master's degree in American History and America. They have received very favorable comments from the public and press. These talented young people will appear in this city at the 2014 Black History Month event at Shelbville, 18; Danville, 22; Harrodburg, 23; Lawrenceburg, 24; Midway, 26; Georgentown, 28. Mr. R. C. Brown, the energetic manager of the alert, and is a man of large experience. The Church Aid Society of the Vernon School, 29. Mr. T. Smith is president, celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of our freedom with an excellent program December 15 and 16. Various praise and admiration there. There was a eulogy on Fred Douglas by Mr. C. B. Carter, a eulogy on the old soldiers by Mr. T. J. Gale, a eulogy on the Old South by Smith apologe what had been accomplished by the Negro since obtaining freedom; Dr. H. P. Taylor dwelt on the Negro and his pro- sperse, and Dr. J. K. McCrutcher also spoke. PENSACOLA. FLA. Making Ready for the Holidays—A House Party in Honor of the Lampkins—General News (By Walker W. Thomas of the Thomas General Newspaper and Magazine Co., 427 W. LaRua Street. Phone 823.) A grand musical was held at Big Zion church last Monday by Club No. 23 for the occasion. The event was in attendance. All present were highly pleased with the aaffir. The officers of the club are Mrs. C. Peters, Miss Benjamin and F. H. Cummings, pastor of the church. Mrs. James Sanford entertained a large audience on Monday night with dancing and games. A delicious repast was spread before the guests, and all highly enjoyed themselves. The hostess was highly praised. Mr. and Mrs. Ruben Lampkins are now kissing each other on Monday when they will be glad to see their many friends. Mrs. Lampkins is remembered as Miss Gladys Johnson before her marriage, when they will be glad to see their many prominent social figures. She was one of the maids in the Royal Court of Bartholomew and was given by the members of the Young Men's Pleasure Club, at which Miss Alice Wynn and Mr. Bernard Lewis were unmasked as the royal rulers of 1913. Mr. Walker W. Thomas will spend the day at the J. Ceasar Lewis at the home of the latter's parents on West Cervantes street. The members of the Young Men's Pleasure Club have decided to hold their carnation and masquerade ball on February 16th. The event. 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THE AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE Open all of the Year Round Fall Term Begins September 1, 1913 Best opportunity for Negro youth Board, Lodging and Tuition $7. per month. Write today for Catalog or Free Tuition. Address, James B. Dudley, President A. & M. COLLEGE Greensboro N. C. WHAT THE GREATEST PITCHER OF HIS TIME THINKS OF THE BASEBALL SITUATION. Review of Past Season—Incidents and Future of Colored Baseball (By Andrew Rube Foster, Owner and Manager of the American Giants Baseball Club. The past season among the big colored clubs has created more interest and fans than any previous season, in attendance and enthusiasm. Incidentally, the past season's success has caused more who own and co-own clubs, and uncertainty among future clubs, than in growing more popular the day, and the fans learning the day, and the fans learning the game each day, and the fans learning the first clubs and their attractions. This has doubled anxiety to please fans, regardless of the cost of games, fans, regardless of the cost of games, fans, regardless of the cost of games, fans who would have paid demands of the fans, after a series of games, the owner would find a that these fans were costing him more than his share of the money he have been compelled to pay, expensive prices and salaries in many instances, they costed to pay. Notably, these were the St. Louis, Chicago Gators, Montreal and the Smart Set of Paterson, N.J. The consequence is either had to disband their clubs or play them on the operative players. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. success that the American Giants had accomplished for the fans here. Few fans were able to watch the game, and they handled by the writer have traveled further and introduced the game in more places where colored players have never been seen. They have combined. One of the reporters during the series, of the Daily News, asked them if they would be against you? They should give you all the encouragement, for even I do not relish the thought of the championship game. We have won so much that they think we cannot be beaten and their sympathy is only with us. They do not believe they can win. "But they do not believe they can win." But deep down in my heart I knew and felt different, so the next day, he sent me the following, entitled "Fleeting Wings." "You who find fault when a fumble is made, you who are noted because you complain, always deploring the way you play. You are not good. You be optimistic and don't count the costs, cheer them no matter how poorly they play; if they have won a game, they will win. You are not good a day. Why mourn and groan when the pitcher is bad, when he can't put them right over the pan, costs you but little to win. You are not good whenever you can. Boost for each one of them, cheer them along. Be with the team, though one-sided the fray. Be a goodoser and warbler. Be with the team, though one-sided the day. You who are always on edge to explode, willing at C ANDREW (RUBE FOSTER) all times to boil and leer adding your games, flashed our do the country. It no when the milling is brutally poor, doesn't help the Americans against them, but just burn and endure. Theirs is a glory that lasts but a day. Ponder the goof, the but, the dare, the heroes today and tomorrow they are gone. Therefore, get in with your mite of applause. Ponder on, never embellished on history's page. Name, fame and splendor will soon pass away, so let this thought your attention draw, theirs to say really, how long. eo01-ywhe-ywrd-yytee-ddexor [Image of two women in a room with a large table and several women seated around it, working on paper. In the foreground, a woman is seated at the table, while another woman is standing behind her, facing the camera. 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T the associated Press, handling all of our games, flashed our defeat to all parts of the country. It not only brought the American Giants to the national maze that the American white man has not a patient on baseball, or if he has it, it is in Prisco, the sporting editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, the best paper in California, who is one of the expert writers on the American Giants: "The colored players here, representing the American Giants, would be stars in the big league and say how good this ball club really is." These few words mean more than an ad, and you can imagine his thoups and the thousands of readers of his paper when it was flashed, through the Associated Press, the Lincoln Giants, another colored club, had wrested the championship from the American Giants, and then what and how great a ball club they think the Lincoln Giants must be. There is only one hope for the future of a coeducational institution for the welfare of all and not for an individual, and can only be successful on the same basis as the beating the American Giants received at the hands of the Lincoln Giants is a blessing in the world. Let us hope that the making an effort to reach the coveted goal of complete success, or will they stand by and see us fail? Which shall it be? NEWS NOTES OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL By R. W. Thompson. (Bureau of The Freeman, 1337 Wallach Place, N. W.) The public schools are in a fine condition so much to bring order out of the chaos that existed when he came, goes to Pittsburgh in a few days to assume charge of the school, will be chosen for the Washington schools, and it is believed that the troubles of the past will not be the District. The misleff-makers have been silenced and the workers are going on their way rejoicing. Assistant Superintendent Moore Combing is perfect satisfaction and is an administrator of quality. Dr. W. H. Davis, official stenographer of the National Negro Business League, is making a Taukee Institute this week the most comprehensive compilation of the proceedings of the Philadelphia meeting of the league ever gotten together. Secretary E. J. Scott will push the printing of the book and it is hoped it will be in the hands of the people by the first of January. The premier comedian, S. H. Dudley, and his famous mule, S. H. Dudley, are drawing the audience this week at the Theater. Mr. Dudley is bein gsupported by Mr. William Ramsay, one of the cleverest of the stage actors on the big Howard bill. The Two Sweets, who captured the crowd last week, Edward Trolliver and Madame Cassell, the artist and an attractive line of feature pictures. A mass meeting will be held Monday evening at True Reformers' Hall in the interest of the fund for the girls' dormitory of Divington School in Bristol. C. Bishley, Waters will be the principal speaker and he will tell of the needs and advantages of Zion's greatest of Galbraith church, is in charge of the arrangements. A big turnout is expected. Miss Lilyn Browne and Prof. William DeMont, sketch artists, went to Wilson, N. C., Sunday to open an engagement at the theater. They will cover about four weeks after which they will appear at the Howard Theater here. This is a team that studies and is working for something new. T. Spencer Finley is "cleaning up" this week at the Dudley Theater. He may manage the new house of the Lincoln Amusement Company at Cincinnati. The local admirers of S. H. Dudley are arranging a complimentary show on evenning this week at a popular cafe. Dr. Mansfield Childs is directing the affair. Frank Brown showed marked cleverness as a character actor last Saturday night in a try-out of Robert Harlan's thrilling playlet entitled The Speculator. The speculator has a number of situations that call for dramatic ability of the highest order. Mr. Brown in the triptych of the Speculator displayed a versatility that merits unstinted praise. Dr. C. A. Miller, Robert Harlan and J. E. Davis banded the other characters presented for an entire week by arrangement with Manager Thoma sof the Howard. Rev. William Forde, an evangelist from Port Limon, Costa Rica, is in the city for a limited period and is also a counselor by counselor L. Melendez King, who spent several weeks in Costa Rica last year on official business for the Order of Malacalpa in the city of Maracalpa, Malacalpa and, besides assisting Supreme Governor King in this country, will take charge of the interests of the Malacalpa in Costa Rica upon his return to that country. He is a divine of unusual grace. Senator Moses Pereira of Minnesota and Senator Fair and Bazar at the Cosmopolitan Baptist church Monday evening with a forceful and pleasing address. The rally is for him and the nation has presented to the ladies a beautifully embroidered handkerchief which will be disposed of to assist in raising this fund. The rally is on May 5, and December 9 will be True Reformers' Night. Rev. Simon P. W. Drew, the pastor of church, is doing a scoutlean work in his heavy vweightedness. BROWNSVILLE, TENN. Dr. J. L. Curtis and Miss Maud M Donnell Married—A Noble Thanksgiving. Managers and Proprietors to Take Notice That The Freeman will begin publishing a list of the hotels and lodgings of the highest order who cater to the performer. It is our intention to make it a company hostelry, lodgement and first-class restaurant, with the manager's or proprietor's name, in every city in the world. We want the manager and manager to send in the location of their business, etc. By doing so they will greatly benefit as each person will attend. The Freeman will at once know where to unenjoy your city. LOOK! NOTICE! 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"Let Us Serve You." King Koal Kompany Victor His Masters Voice IN MUSIC PAT O'FIELD THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER THE FIRST WORLD WAR JACK JOHNSON ABROAD JACK JOHNSON ABROAD (Billy Lewis.) The Fresman is under obligation to the Defender for the excellent likeness of Mr. and Mrs. J. Arthur Johnson, his friends and the scene he has seen has been said about the invincible Jack Johnson, champion heavyweight fighter of the world, the Freeman. Charles Cox, not to be complete along the sports line without something on his ebony highness. He is the major star in the fisticuff firmament in spite of his age. The picture illustrating his arrival in Europe speaks louder than words. One of the most striking images in the faces of the world-famous pair. I mean a joy that goes out to you, to the one who sees the picture, if he has an answer to the question, suggests that provise. "If he has any sympathy." One can well imagine that freedom from restraint is pictured in the faces of the world-famous times soul-crushing and at the same time, and happily enough, that soul-compelling "institution." American prejudice, that badness that blows nobody good." It were in similitude of that beautiful terrifying song sung by ariel of Saul that had slain his thousand, but of David that he had slain his tens of thousands. Prejudice has fought its thousands, the enemy that they put the high game of ambition. But out of it, prejudice, arose a counter force, and owing to it, and a woman's strength, they put the high game. This is more than rhetoric. At times it is a glory to be a Negro, bearing the world's ruder shock, when one may rise. Atlas, with the world on his shoulders. I rededicate to Jack Johnson the lines of Henly. Henly? What Henley. He may have suffered the most "exquisite" grief, or he was as Shelley's sensitive plant, subject to every passing influence But to the poem, which only could have been written by Henley, and with such feeling as only Jack Johnson could have felt. Out of the nibble that covers me, back as the pit from pole to pole. I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not wined, nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeons of chance, My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears, I have been in the shade. And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishment the scroll. I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul. It was General Wolf, who, in 1759, was moving up the St. Lawrence to meet Montcalm at Quebec. He was reading from the Bible, and he was taking the County church yard. Turning to his officers, he said that he would rather have written the verses than to take Quebec into his hands. He was of the glory lead but to the grave, "and in which was served up his fate. He fell in battle the next day, and he was taken to the church has charmed him well, very well. For, after all, I imagine he has his moments of bitter reflection when he sees himself and his accusations face to face, when he will be raided for his no matter how charged with plumishment the scroll. I have trespassed the domain of sport, I know well enough, in ringing in these literary illustrations. I take it for granted that they will be excused, charged up and punished, the Christmas spirit and New Year's cheer. To the picture again. It is worthy of a close study. It is a song without words. You apply the words, circumstances you own the words, optimistic, radiant with love; despair has been banished to the nether realms from which it sprang. Hope is in the A cruel fate Which shut them up So separate. THE FREEMAN FOR SALE. All who wish to read the Freeman in Mineola, Texas, can call at James Hunter's place and see the agent. Johnnie Jones. He will be pleased to deliver them WHEN WOMEN GET TO VOTING, HATS ALL OFF. Composed and Written by Bert Stamps (All Rights Reserved—Beware.) Miss Emmeline Spankher, our greatest suffragette. Keeps advocating women's rights to vote; she's upset all society, pit clubs all in a fret. Done. Goes good than Mrs. Hogan's good. She told me she could run our great political machine, And get a "hope" Jack Johnson to de-Manage rules, commerce, armies and ma- When women get to voting, hats all on we need a "she" for presidential "boss" There'll be legislation, no graft in investigation. Of hats and harens only they would talk When women get to voting, hats all on in elections they'll play baseball and ball. They'll run bidders of this nation to a destination. When women get to voting, hats all on. They're running locomotives, automobiles too. Driving monoplanes up in the air; Prize-fighting, wrestling, also selling booze, O, voicing why not let them have their share? They say they'll give the "Cardinals" and "Brown's" winning gangs. Conduct our ships through Panama Canal. Perpetuate a treaty between U. S. and Japan. All rights we'll trust these duties to the gals. DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON'S REPORT TO TRUSTEES. According to his custom Dr. Booker T. Washington has made public his report to the trustees of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute the same occurring in pamphlet form. He speaks of the satisfactory budget system recently adopted by the institution, saying that for the first time since the system was adopted it was underspent by $884.14. Living within one's means is the lesson taught. He says, "Having learned the lesson of living within the budget, I believe that we shall continue to do so." The financial status of the institution is what most engages Dr. Washington's attention. It doubtless is interesting to the public to know something of the income and the expenses of Tuskegee, not so much, we would think, as a matter of curiosity as it is to know something of the real workings of the school that has become famed around the globe. From gifts for permanent endowment, $12,901.50 this year, against $30,560.50 last year, a decrease of $17,659.00. The endowment fund now amounts to $1,901,468.32. Total receipts this year, $358,493.94, against $297,600.34 for last year, a total increase of $61,433.60. The expenditures of the school for this year and last year compare as follows: For current expenses, $275,767.97 this year, against $324,105.92 last year, a decrease of $48,337.95. For new buildings and equipment, $112,264.88 this year against $48,820.85 last year, an increase of $63,444.03. $276,656.11. The budget allowance for the year, for current expenses, amounts to for current expenses, amounts to Considering the year as a whole, we have spent for current expenses, new buildings, and equipment, $388, 048.85, and the income amounts poses amounts to $691,256.1 leaving current expenses and permanent improvement. We had the authority of the trustees to incur this deficit. This is reflected in the obligations of the school, which now amount to $151,000.30, compared with $95,518.64 at this time last year. This indebtedness has accumulated during the past five years, and is due to deficiency of income for current expenses amounting to $40,371.74, and deficiency of 'income for new build ings and equipment, $74,628.56. Against this indebtedness the school has $53,114.50 stock in trade, making the total net indebtedness, after deducting stock, in trade, $61,855.50. The gifts to Tuskegee by colored people is very interesting reading. It is scarcely believable that so great a sum as $10,000 came from the race. Such a gift is announced in the principal's report. He says, "As indicating the growing disposition of colored people to help themselves, I refer to the legacy of $10,000 recently received from the estate of Mrs. Ann Maria Flsher of Brooklyn, N. Y. I would also mention that $2,544.00 has been contributed by colored persons during the past year toward the work of the school. Several of these contributions were for $100 each, and many of them for $60.00, $25.00, $10.00, $5.00, the majority of them being for $1.00 each. Included in the list of those contributing are, $1,200 from persons from 37 states, the District of Columbia, and the Philippine Islands. The class of 1893 celebrated its 20th anniversary at the close of the school term, and placed in the hands of the Principal $745.00 in cash, and pledges for $255.00, making the total contribution toward their Alma aMter, $1,000.00. The present needs of the institution are also set forth. They are: 1. $50 a year for annual scholarship for the tuition of one student, the student himself providing for his own board and other personal expenses in labor and cash. 2. $1,200 for permanent scholarships. 3. Money for operating expenses in any amounts, however small. 4. $1,500 each for teachers' cottages. 5. $40,000 for a building for religious purposes. 6. $16,000 to complete the Boys' Trades building. 7. $50,000 for a Boys' dormitory. 8. $50,000 for a Girls' dormitory. 9. An addition to our endowment fund of at least $3,000,000. DESERVED PRAISE. The Oklahoma American recently had the following to say of R. W. Thompson, the well-known newspaper correspondent: "The criticism of the well-known Freeman correspondent, Mr. R. W. Thompson, because of his occupancy of the presidency of the National Negro Press Association, seems to us entirely gratuitous. Of course, it might have happened that instead of Thompson, some one of the editors and proprietors of the seventy or more papers on our exchange list might have been elevated to this post. But the majority o the editors and proprietors, if we may judge by the copies that reach us, are entitled to wear gilt epaulets on their shoulders and bars on their sleeves in the great army of Negro "soldiers" styled by Dr. Washington as "Getting By." For many years Thompson has done a considerable amount of fine work as a writer, and writing for a newspaper is just as much work as chopping cotton is, the many Negroes supposedly intellectual have not sense enough to know it. Thompson has been a voluminous contributor, if not a contributor, at least to the gavety of the Negro community. We believe a Negro writer, such as he, is more worthy of encomium from and promotion among his fellow journalists than those who beguile the members of the race with sheets bought at so much per quire and filled with patent matter, written by white men." The "Colored Man," a publication of Boston, had this to say of the observation of the Oklahoma American; "Only one who puts the tremendous amount of intelligent effort in his work as does the editor of the Oklahoma American can appreciate the splendid service of Mr. Thompson." Long ago we had something similar to say of Mr. Thompson. We have no more conscientious worker in the race. Not only is he conscientious, he is able, and so able that he has no trouble in impressing his worth on those who come in contact with him. We are not long on journalistic competency, just as we are not long on the other "competencies," if we may thus express it. Mr. Thompson deserves a medal for his faithfulness. 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We make switches, puffs, transformation curls, coronet braids, and combings made to order, matching all shades a specialty. Send samples of hair with all orders. 2416 Blondo St., Omaha, Neb. Phone, Webster 880 ANNUAL STAGE REVIEW The Parliament of Intellect as a Lost Cause in a Valley of Imbecility—Immoral Sarcasm—Managers and Aliances—Colored Shows—The Southern Situation—Picture Houses—Artists Illustrated. By Sylvester Russell. However much the cause of attainment may be championed by business in Chicago is naturally retarded because of one impediment which affects the city of superior advantages. The actors and musicians are wrong when they combat against public art to become good enough artists to get good pay for their hire. There is just as much of a chance of imbecility, as there is for a bright intellect to 1 SYLVESTER RUSSELL, Musical and Dramatic Critic, Common Philosopher (Retired Singer and Domestic Poet. Cost of Slang and Immoral Dances. There is no cost so dear as the price of siang and immorality seen enacted in the movies, and the performers, who vaguely think the playme of a few noisy rowds is an indorment that will meet the approval of the audience. But disregard the welfare of children for the sake of revenue only. The actor who swears too much is a moussie. Some children are not. But it comes to smutty siang managers who watch the children should be watched and children should be watched. Major's Mechanical, Technical, Correspondence Chaufeur School L. MORRIS LEE President of the Chaufeur School University View of the School THE STATE LINKS MUSEUM TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION SHEET THE OLDEST, LARGEST AND BEST AUTOMOBILE SCHOOL IN THE COUNTRY—THIRTEEN YEARS EXPERIENCE. Our course can be completed for $30 in seven weeks. The best investment ever made and a knowledge that is in great demand. Think of the government and cities that are opening avenues for qualified men, especially those who hold a Diploma. Write today for illustrated picture of school and terms. We furnish working models. MAJORS' M. T. C. C. SCHOOL, 3332 Lawton Ave., St. Louis, Mo. W. L. Majors, President and Manager. 12 law regarded. Stories that suggest ill repute are especially offensive. It is unfortunate that the law is not the shoulder's, centralized emotion and bailing the jack are all sufficient reason for another. Another reason that actors should not do is to resort to sarcasm by a reflection upon the Deity and the sacredness of the sanctuary. This admonition is directed at actors who run shows in South, who run shows in conjunction with stimulants. There is nothing to be derived in cultivating the uncanny things of the actors, but actors who are respectable patrons, even if their intelligent cordiality of such patrons pretends to approve of actors who produce anything but vulgar talk, imoral dances and religious sarcasm, it is best for everybody to force them to re-engage in the healthier condition will be to engage real actors, who can produce original humor of a kind that will meet with the apprehension without corrupting the morals of the innocent young, the protection of whose lives is the most important of all. The Qualification of a Manager. The Problem of Booking Alliances. The competent competition in booking alliances is sometimes good for performers in cities where there are two or more paying theaters and their success is tamed to performer in station and salaried in seating or of shouting actors out of a circuit because of dislike or to offend an actor's friends by performing in a place of salary, should not be done as an act of malice by any manager who has respect for his own family and regard for the performers, should not be under the performers and especially the women as the weaker but most important essentials to a show's success. Connectivity is essential even if with white theaters, wherein a complete alliance could be formed in the North from Chicago to New York, circling land and Dayton and a Western chain to circle. The Southern circuits should also circle, but remain on the lower side of the city, and Dayton and a Western chain. There should be no opposition or ill-feeling exist between white and colored managers upon the circuit question so long as both parties粘身 themselves to serve the city. The Future of Colored Shows It has now been a long time since big colored road attractions have held sway, but the total reason can not be all cashed up to prejudice. Since the advent of moving pictures the show business has SISSIERETTA JONES: (Black Patti.) declined to such an extent that even big white comedy stars are forced to struggle and wane in popularity. The problem is that the comedy industry's memoirs can now, reward the pass THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. achievements of Williams & Walker, Cole & Johnson and Ernest Hogan. Black Pattie held the greatest female record as a singer of her race, has been eliminated by illness, and if she will have to retire she will have robed a stage woman of her race and, it is only hoped that she has done what I had long since admired. She has been the greatest stage woman of her rainy seasons of future enforced rest. Of Bert A. Williams two mistakes, as I predicted, have made his vocation a success. When he was starring alone Jesse A. Shipp, the brainiest and greatest producer of his throrthy and guide. His next strongest point would have been what I had advocated, that he and Alaa Overton Walker have been the greatest means of maintaining a strong combination o f musical comedy with stars. S. H. Dudley weakened in drawing power and the Southern Smart set company, trying to keep a small circuit in paying order. There are now but two stars in the Southern Smart set Company, the South. The future, then, of colored shows lies in the balance only because the new craze for moving pictures and ducking robes robbed a cash register. There is a future lem of colored theaters and a proper means of forming a booking alliance can be made. Big houses already controlled by the picture and vaudeville circuits. The Crudeness of Art and Lack of Knowledge in Expression. An Apagogue on the Southern Situation. The Vineyard of the Photo Plays. The Colored Vaudeville Benevolent Association. B. A. members, judgment passed and letters of information sent to Lew Henry and myself. An Assembly of Real Artists. Harry Long, formerly of Thornton and Wellesley, of Canada with Stetson's "Uncle Tom's Cabin." HARRY LONG, Straight Comedian. pany. He is a good straight and character man. At this writing he was a character wandeville with George Taylor. The new team will be known as Taylor and Long. Will Dorsey, now leader of the New Monogram, theater, is a musician, com- WILL DORSEY, Leader, Pianist, Violinist and Arranger New Monogram Theater. poser and arranger of rare ability. He is the head of the Chicago Musical Bureau, where he has his studio and headquarters. Erskein Tate, the young violinist in Dorsey's Orchestra, is the stepson of JOHN B. HARRIS ERSKINE TATE, Violinist New Monogram Theater. Prof. Jackson, the violin teacher, who educated the boy and made a fine musician out of him. Billy Williams, who was famously known as the Prog Man, is a contortionist extraordinary, but has been retired [Name] from the stage for ten years. He is now an automobile chauffeur for the Western director of an insurance corporation. Frank Tate, who has been known as the best orchestra violinist on State street, Chicago, is a real artist and one of fine PETER H. temperament He was formerly employed at the Grand theater, but is now study- ing an advanced course in a private conservatory down in the Loop. Leon Robert Long is the most popular magician on the colored time. He is [Image of a young man in a suit and bow tie, looking downward with a contemplative expression. The background is blurred with indistinct figures and patterns.] LEON ROBERT LONG. Magician. now busy elaborating a new single ac for the remainder of the season. The Christmas of the Past. Before the Christ our Savior arose, Bright angels rolled the stone away! But now the vale of time doth close My thoughts go back to long ago, or it was in my summer day. That Savior was an amused so, and cares of life were naught but play New custom, like the wild ivy crew, For lighted candles could not last. To brighten and to keep in view The dear old Christmas mast, Sulverizer Steel A PARTIAL LIST OF THE COLORED THEATER OF THE UNITED STATER (Note.—The following is only a partial list of the colored vaudieule and moving picture houses that are running their location, owners and managers. Week by week the list will be added to until a country for colored people is given. If your theater does not appear in this list, please forward it and where located and the names of the owner and manager.) THE NEW CROWN GARDEN THEATER, 521 Indiana avenue, Indianapolis, T. E. Woolley, manager and proprietor. THE NEW GRAND THEATER. 3110 State street, Chicago, Ill.; Duke Brenen, manager; Smith, proprietor. THE BOOKER AM THEATER. 3110 State street, Chicago, Ill.; Martin Klein, manager; Miller, proprietor. THE BOOKER WASHINGTON THEATER. 23rd and Market streets, St. Louis, Mo.; Chas. Turpin, manager and THE LYRIC THEATER, Kansas City, Mo.; Billy Kling, manager and proprietor THE CAIRO THEATER, 323 29th street, Cairo, Ill.; W. M. Hughes, manager and manager THE SENATE THEATER, 1309 Senate avenue, Indianapolis, Ind.; James and Louis Hill, managers and proprietors. THE COLUMBIA THEATER, 519 Avenue Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind.; Harrison Davenport, manager; Nicholson & Dunlap, proprietors. THE DUNICK THEATER. 16th and Columbia avenue, Indianapolis, Ind.; Jas Nicholson, manager; Dunlap & Nicholson, proprietors. THE MAJESTIC THEATER, Cedar and Johnson, proprietor, Tenn., A. S. Johnson, proprietor. THE TWELFTH AVENUE THEATER. W. Waggell, manager and proprietor. THB MAJESTIC THEATER, 163 Abuhran NIGHT: Grymes and Herdon Amusemett GERM: Grymes and Herdon Amusemett THE NEW CENTRAL THEATER, Atlanta, GA., manager, manager, manager, proprietor, THE GRAND THEATER, 7th and K College, manager, C. M. Coleman, manager and proprietor. THE HOWARD THEATER: T. street, be- tween Andrew J. Thomas, manager and pro- fessor THE CHELSEA THEATER, M street, between 19th and 29th street, washing- ing room, 100 West 29th Street. THE PARK THEATER, 1816 Main street, Dallas, Texas; William Bemow, man- ager THE CIRCLE THEATER, 1321 South street, Philadelphia, Pa.; George Bundy, manager; Mrs. Seel, proprietress THE AUDITORIUM THEATER, South street, above Broad, Philadelphia, Pa. A. Johnson, staff, manager; J. Goodman, prentender THE STATES THEATER, 35th and State streets, Chicago, Ill.; J. Tas, T. tank, manager THE PEKIN THEATER, 27th and State streets, Chicago, Ill. THE NEW AVENUE THEATER, 31st street and Indiana avenue, Chicago, IL. THE GLOBE THEATER, Jacksonville, FL. The Frank Crowd, manager and propletor. THE GAYETY THEATER, Mobile, Ala. The METROPOLITAN THEATER, 123 South Fourth street, Memphis, Tenn. The METROPOLITAN THEATER, Memphis, Tenn.; A. Barrasso, manager and propletor. THE LYRIC THEATER, Mobile, Ala.; R. W. Nicols, manager and propletor. THE LYRIC THEATER, Miami, Fla.; C. C. Maulsby, manager; Glides Walker. THE GRAND THEATER, 1920-1922 Avenue B, Birmingham, Ala.; George E. Greene, manager; A. Spieber, manager. THE IDLE HOUR THEATER, Marshall manager, Johnson & Hayward, proprietors THE BANNER THEATER, 515 Desire manager and proprietor, J. S. Fieming, man- ager and proprietor. THE ELITE TREATER, Selma, Ala. The Elite TREATER is a leader in Berta Canada; R. Leach, manager and operator. THE PALACE THEATER, Jackson, Tenn. THE YALE THEATER, 215 17th street, manager and proprietor; H. H. Bean, manager and proprietor. THE ROSE BUD THEATER, 222 22ry Phillips streets, New Orleans, La.; E. A. Billet, manager and proprietor. W. A. Billet, manager and proprietor. West Helena, Ark.; W. J. Davis, Box D, Hernandez street, manager. THE DAKEN THEATER, 211 North Tulsa, Tulsa, Okla.; James A. Smith. THE ARCADE THEATER, 11 Decatur street, Atlanta, Ga.; Chas, P. Bailley. THE DIXIE THEATER, Atlanta, Ga.; Chas P. Bailley, manager and proprietor. THE ROWENA AIRDOME, corner Hastings. THE HOOSIER THEATER, 430 Indiana avenue, Indianapolis, Ind.; Riley Roberts, manager and proprietor. THE PEKIN THEATER, Kutonkary, Alabama. Dulius Fergus, manager and proprietor. THE RUBY THEATER. Walnut street, Louisville. manager. Dudley, prologist. THE OLIO THATABER, 13th and Walnut streets, Loussau. Attributed M. H. Owens. THE HIPPODROME FAMILY THE THE HIPPODROME FAMILY THE La Petrie, manager and proprietor. THE QUEEN THEATER, Wilmington, N. THE QUEEN THEATER, manage and proprietor. BOHN'S THEATER, Mobile, Bolsy Llegue, manager. THE PROGRESSIVE THEATER, Au- frican, Gr. DOUGLASS THEATER, Macon, Ga.; C H. Douglass, manager and proprietor. THE SOUTH SIDE THEATER, Macon, Ga. THE OKAMULGEE PARK THEATER, Macon, Ga.; Charles Collier, manager THE DIXIE THEATER, corner 9th and A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year To All in and out of the Profession [Picture of a man in a suit, holding a book]. WILSON H. KYER, "PEACHES" Composer of "Darling Mine" and "College March." Auditorium Theatre, Philadelphia, Pa. A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year To All in and out of the Profession THE LADY OF THE ROAD LOTTIE O. GEE-KYER Of King & Gee, Now on Loew's Time "Down East" Performers and Musicians Those Doubling Brass Preferred For Prof. James A. Harris' Band and Minstrel With Gollmar Bros.' Circus. Address The Grand Theatre The Grand Theatre 1920-1922 Avenue B, Birmingham, Ala. Under New Management. Playing Only the Best Acts! In Vaudeville and Stock Also Booking Road Shows Desirous of hearing from first class acts AT ALL TIMES Broadway, Little Rock, R. J. R. Anderson, manager; D. E. Fortin, pro- prize THE ALPHA THEATER, 3206 Central avenue, Cleveland, dickens, mickens, dickens, the landlord, proprietor, THE STAR THEATER, 1417 Wylie avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Abe Minskey, man- ger THE PEKIN THEATER, Fifth street, Cincinnati, O.; O. Illie Demes, manager THE LINCOLN THEATER, Fifth and John H. Mannath, O.; Marion A. Marrion, manager. THE DUNBAN THEATER, Dayton, O. Robert, manager, office, 702 building the PIONEER THEATER, 513 Indiana avenue, Indianapolis, ind. 18, Ben Young THE STAR THEATER, Dallas, Texas 2407 Elm street; James Crosby, man THE NEW MONOGRAM THEATER, 345 State Street, near Chicago, Michigan M. Klein, narcissist DUDLEY SDUNBAR THEATER, Columbus, O.; E. B. Dudley, manager and proprietor THE BOULEYARD THEATER, 460 Rearward street, Lake Charles, La. Nrdlinger and Mancuez, managers and proprietors proprietors. THE LYRIC THEATER, 606 College ave- THE ROYAL THEATER. 1299 Spring wood avenue, Asbury Park, New Jersey; Billy Ward, manager; A. O. Fletcher, sole proprietor. THE LAFAYETTE THEATER. It is muralized with its title. New York, N. Y. Benjamin Nibur, manager. THE LINCOLN THEATER. New York, N. Y. THE FAMILY THEATER. New York, N. Y. THE PIONEER THEATER. New York, N. Y. THE NAVY THEATER, Washington, D. C. THE FAIRYLAND THEATER. Washington, D.C. THE FORAKER THEATER. Washington. D. C. ROYAL PALM THEATER, Greenville Miss.; A. L. McKAY, manager THEATER, Greenville THEATER Church and Tudor streets, Paris, Tex. W. E. Bailley, manager NEWS OF THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD What the “Biggest Man in the Business” has to Say of the Early History and the Future Outlook. ie = an Jones, Jr. ne moving picture proposition is one ine most interesting «questions before The people of today, My regret at this he Beanie OF taay, et the te et nink this ie true of nearly Ghersivoay , onnected with ‘the business hay Seng ite "new “revelations: Buy tek brings its new Interpretations. vette Wein "truth, no end {0 the varying Vipers’ of. the. faotion.“pletutre disposl= ‘iomee ne enact every emotion of le: say" present’ every. plase "of social ex: et sbee"ana ‘they ater the inortcon- Afstelporeeuyal of the mniversallty of bus sate ieee is for these reasons chai seat Sino ‘ate ie closest related (0 Sie ate ee ecauatine’ how plage iia Maia Denke ming be ald tos eahy"Mackine in clealy denned: knowl: sige of hut ties ‘nay’ moan. The growih of the motion pleture busl- est ixone of the ariazing features Of ‘aejod repieee. with the accomplishment of seg achlovenents: “A stupendous Atitont’ ot Seains and “capital” has: been sveted in ite hurwall, Juke now “Ametice ISNeaai tie world in’ te, production of thotion ietures Money to the ainount of “verat "hundreds of millions of dollars represents the ‘commercial value. of the faniy“Aimerican “output. in this’ neve ine dusty. “When one. takes Into considers: ‘ion the amount of ‘business ‘energy the Maracter of Intelligence: and: the su. 6. ‘alot labor nequlted to get saitstuctors Puls tnd resalnable fre tm the ex Fenditure-of 80 vase A wm of capital, ‘hore fal appreciation of how farcreaching tust Be the; influence: of the motion pleture and how deepreatea to is Wold"en'the affections of “every” rade ‘Germany is declared by many 10, be the bjrtiplace of the motion’ pleture. this Is Aigpited by others, | Germans, howerer fre disposed o nist ‘onthe cla and timo Tai'an about te tise “wien ‘he fearon why mation pletite: moved: wis ‘iscovered®” Be that as It tage there i ‘th‘interesing story. told of node ‘eset et was maile"known to. Amerisis, “I oe the story ‘froma. clipping: that was fone me by Witham #1, Sinth, the well Known theatrieal man five story i ques- tion relates that Laland Stanfont and! onc rink Van Nest were one day’ engaged tn ardlaousson aa 0° how many, Teds 2 itorte would be abliged to" make to cover w0"cerain” disane A° platform was rected Hong enough to hotd B00 cameras ‘tch‘one foot apart fom the other The Homie Marted ag @ given fetal and ‘shapped’ In ten as he’ passed the. caste erat There plotures when taken and re flected “on a canvass are. suid” 19 have Shown, 0 the amazement: and delight of those ‘present atthe ‘exhibition the. hast fuotlon” pletures presented. in” America Thin beieny’ sete orth the United Sates 45 the plage. where the’ motion, pletase ‘Sriginated, “AS a matter of fact te matees Sta maiter whore tey”‘Arst’ besa to ‘leilghe people with helt ive’ reflections site, Hey’ are here, and 1 believe they fre here (0 stay as a vital force {or goed in‘a vital time for onan ‘This brings us to the question, What ts he colored nan doing tovestablln a pags for himself In the Motion picture wore? 1am glad to note that he beanie to tnove.” And when Tsay’ move, T'mean that tei commencing ‘to. weleli ‘the tmport ‘ina to calculate the ‘valve'ot the, motion Dlcture aa. medium for" portraying the Finer and stronger featares Of his particns tar jife.” Nothing has done. so" muclt to ftwaken the Pace consciousness of the’ cae ‘red! man in the United States as the m0: tion pleture, “"iy\ has made. him ‘hungry to sto" hineelf ashe has come tobe Regier unconsclously it has brovbt him tong spirit of “rekentzient ‘agaist ‘the traditional portrait” presented ‘evers ere tthe "Negro. "Hence there ‘have been “vera instanes in Chicago alone. where manager of pheture housed in the colored eetions have been: obliged 10 “take ot Dlctures beonuse "thet colored pacrons Protemtea the traditional “earicnthre of their kind projected on the screen was not true to ice, Phat is ts a eal aha OF hemes 1 ti al will ee.” that WE also ‘opens! a. new eld of proapect Chime‘ ‘egually apparent, yervahimg Ja ripe. for the venture Our brothers in BRIEF SKETCH OF A NOTED PIANIST Is a Triumphant Figure in the Musical ‘World—Composer of World-Wide Hits. J Berni Barbour, the successful pian- ist, Composer, comedian, having in the ladt ‘few’ years made the works of the old. masters specialty ‘numbers for use Im vaudeviiie, is now meeting with flat. Hering success as director, planiest_ and spechaity artist with the Southland Jubl- ive“Quartet, having In his possession. & Ininket contract for 50 weeks work. His Hew arrangement of Anton. Rubenstein's Nielody in ts said to rank high with the standard grade transeriptions of the present day composers, Ble antecpreta- [oe ee | Bee tC 8 ee oe OG es og De ce Mo So : wy ok 8 : : a : a : i te ee mR. § ‘. ao J. BERNI BARBOUR. (The Black Gibriliovitch.) on of Beethoven, Chopin and Rach- nuninoft has secured for him the non le plime ‘of the “Black Gibvilioviteh” Which name was given him by no less han the g¥eat San Francisco Symphony rchestra leader, Henry Hadley, “after aving heard Mr. Barbour on the Pan- axes vaudeville eireult. Many: are the pleasant recollections we ecail when allowing ourselves to retro- pect when in 1904 he wrote that famous ver night hit “Rabe Tm Learning Now » Love You,” and what a riot It proved at the sedorid ‘regiment armory, played ® the celebrated th Fegiment band wn= Jer the direction of N. clark Smith. As a composer Mr. Barbour's present ataloxue "consists of opwards of one ‘undred and figty numbers which will be ROBINSON AND ROBINSON AT DALLAS, TEXAS. Special to THR FREEMAN. ‘The Star ‘Theater opened December $ and is doing ood business, with Rob- inson and Robinson filling the Dill..... “Ss SiR eas ee white is both blind and unwilling to see the finer aspects and qualities of Ameri- ean Negro life. His blindness and ‘unveil- Tingnese to see, Tam lad to relate, 1s none of our making and should ‘be small cause of our Worry. We must be up and doing for ourselves in our own best way Jand for our own best Z00d, T dare notsay too much about the part I have played in the manufacture and pro- Jduetion’ of motion. pletures. portraying certain interesting phases of Neuro. life. Tt would’ sound too'gmuen ike tootin a horn to do 0. “Bus T can say that my feeble efforts have been met with a more than fair share of encouragement and Support. “This leads me to assert that the business among” Nestoes is" bound to be- come. the basis of @ great and. profitable industry. At the present time It is but a feeble Infant, seatcely able to nurse its bottle. And vet every sign of the hour points to unquestioned “ultimate success for some one. Iightly appreélated, J have ho doubt that the profits will accrue to the Negro himself. “the whole matter of Suecess tes wholly within his reach. Tt Is a. well-known, fact that our brother in White handies everything Negro he touch- es with the roughest Kind of a glove. He affects to believe that he must coommunt- tate with it by a long-distance process. ‘After awhile, however, when profit begins fo loom into sight in little more than rea- lsonable figures, then he suddenly realizes a Ge me Bees si a, eng yy rome KG, 59 BONE” jt JONES JR that the black will not rub off and he nes- tes close tothe skin of the source of the profit. For promoter, manufacturer, producer and actor the "field that will bring the biggest returns to Negroes for the several investments 4s the motion ple- ture industry I an’ looking for a rapid growth of interest in this: industry” among Negroes. I am also predicting phenome- hal success for those among us who have the bravery and foresight to wrestle with Its problems of production and presenta- Hons" Ror ie wiht require, bravery, wher Jone’ takes into’ consideration the limited experience, the lack of technical know!- fedge, the deficiencies in Dusiness training that'are at present attached to the gen- eral lite of the Negro in this country, for a man of & group of men to stake thelr’ several talents and whatever. they may have of means in motion pleture business ventures. And. yet it_ must, be Hone it sve would not Ahally, see white men step_in and grab off another rich commercial plum from What should be fone of our own particular trees of desir- fable profit. 1 am hopeful of the future. T belleve in the splendid natural capacity of the Face. ‘the motion. pleture Is here to stay, ‘The Negro 1s sure to do bis part lof the work and certain to reap his por- tion of reward, Let the xood work make ite showing and the workman get his due. published ‘by a New York firm with Baeuete’ seat" present newotialing ‘and Face ie het coatacline to de oe ene eaatine Hee atte Willlams and Walker, Tobie’ Claude “(ihe nglish vestpocke domeaisane’®, Cooper “and. ‘obinson, oe esnen stevens, Sidney Kinkpatnie Sean a etaN ne aca a Daatee, Bite Cetnne) Clifford “and Bie hark eo curmieuacte antiol FRM other® f° duecogs and Gaumph Sonee from the pen ot this succemt wate Sespecial Merry Christmas greeting ak SeGeaoaoas’ acd gucseeatal Nem fear elhetety neta Elusier and Shel Me eee inte Suoetsan i, Bud (om Ti Owaleys duck sohneon, Sidney Hiicnattion he’ ‘Guitie “Siotorn’-Gooper see eattltsatt na clippers, Cooke, and and Robinson, the Clippers, Cooke, and the Byou Troubadours, Dixon Bros., Will and Harry, Joe Shoecraft, Frank George, Noah 1. Thompson, and to. my many other brother and sister performers’ as well as my host of good friends out of the profension, to each and every one in- Gividualiy and collectively, 1 send. this greeting A Merry Xmag, a Happy New Year, Sly Wish, success ne you far or near; Ten wien you dine at Xmas tide, Think of a Brother, though miles divide Who nenas thie greeting the whole world To you health, wealth and prosperity. ‘Yours for the success of the profes- ton. J. BERN BARBOUR, (ie Black’ Gibvilioviteh.) Regards to all in and out of the protes- Sons .-;A few more managers ike Mr. James’ Crosby, for vaudeville, would be atpleasure, After the show We ad, the Dicasure of metting Mr. Harris, er a eee a itheatert also Princesa Hah San and other friends. A grand dinner ‘was spread, ' sa Di sci THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. Se a INO. musical, pure, She is a singer of|the show. Mr, Goodman RG reer HOLD SOR ANN class, and who pate ae own on the| something good every We Now Singing With, Suecess In Vaude- APSF a Rte dais acm | [00 aeMao tt a” igi MMOL gE ERPS ARSE aod RR Bet We uel SURE | SEEN AND HEARD Singers of the greate clare. The s0- cent engagement at the New Crown Gar- WHIt [Sy ae Re RE Oa ae eR Se ae i a os L seer MADAME LIZZIE HOLDEN, A Leading Soprano Singer. cultivated, belong in the class of thingspeared in three | celestial. is of, command ‘Madam Holden is one of the few who she dresses. hi han clung €o her role in life, a soprano stunning stage Singer, until she has reached to where — ‘The madame She can justly claim what she I adver- high class sock ised to be. ‘The madame isa cultivated entertains by he Singer with a good vole. Her tones are fs further tribu| UNKNOWN COLORED SHOWMAN || Frank: “Jap” R PROVES HIMELF A HERO| pif cori § They Nicknamed “Mule,” but He Was] fcllowing. pieces ‘a Gentieman. Smith and Johr In a recent issue of the Billboard, the following pathetic story appeared: ‘When Barnum and Bailey's circus was exhibiting at Sloux Falls this ‘week, a white man ‘was discovered peeking thru B hole in the canvas of the ledies" aress- ing room. ‘An employe of the cireus who made the discovery took the intruder by. the collar ‘and hastened him to a region beyond the Circus lot, tnd “administered seasonable advice between Kicks. ‘The employe went by the name of “Mule,” the only name he had so far as his associates and employers were con- cerned. "He had ‘been picked up, few weeks before, and his. skin ‘was as black as night. But-’Mule” had a high sense Of right and wrong, of purity, virtue and ood citizenship. ‘He had proven to be @ valuable man in guarding the tent, which is the only home Known to the women who travel with the Show. He took it upon himself to. protect them from the rougheneck bunch who try fo lnvade the sacred precincts of the clt= cus women’s home. “Mule drove the Sioux Falls intruder from the lot. Late that night when the last loads were belng hurried to the railroad, the dead body" of “Mule” was found in the brush, where he had been at work pulling the pins which had held the big top. While there were no eye witnesses to the tragedy, suspicion points to the big white fuflian who had peeked through the can= yas on the elreus lot, When “Mule’s” body was laid to rest, the grave was lined with roses furnished by. the women of the circus, who had been protected from the insults ‘of white scoundrels by this big black Negro. ‘What a pity that his real name cannot be learned’ and a testimonial sent to his family, and friends, telling, them that "Mule" protected virtue, and that he was every inch @ man—a. superior being to the white trash that had caused his death.— ‘The Mason City Times. ST. AUGUSTINE, TEXAS. International Show From November 11 to 20.—Notes of the Dixie Minstrels. The company is in Texas and doing fine busines. The ghost walks every Week.” Mr. Henry Harden is doing. jus- tice to his part at the plano; he is algo a ood trombone player. Master Blzie Simmons, one of the youngest trombine players, and singing and dancing come- dians oh the road today, is making & lit inthe band and on the staze. Mr. and Mrs. ‘Wm. Gadvow are back in the show again, as they were with the Paterson Sho wthe best part of the season os one of the end ment and monologuists, "Mrs. Gadbow is making a splendid singer at her age, in the show business. - Mr. and Mrs, W. W. Whitmore, -who closed, the Season with the great’ Patterson show, are here with us. They do high class team work In their singing and talking act. Jasper Cable is taking the house At each performance when he puts on that Dinah stunt. Mrs. Maggie Harri- Son, our singing and dancing soubrette, who always makes an Impression at each performance, sends regards to friends of the J... O'Brien Minstrels, and_es- Beclally’ to afr. Hatris Harrison. | Sam fussell and Miss A.A. Williams’ are one of the best singing and talking teams o ftoday. Miss Williams Js a fine singer and’ pleases the audience at all times with “Phe ‘Trail of the Lonesome Pines" and a few other good ones. ‘The band is under the direction of W. J. Jackson, cornetist. He would like to hear from musicians at all times. Our comedian and stage managers are the best in the show business today. ‘They have proved themselves to be gentlemen A ail tgies, on and of the tage.” Te- Bards tovall who know him... W. W. Avhitmore is agent fo rthe Freeman... Mrs. Whitmore ix making a great hit Singing “IWant My Man “When Mrs. Whitmore comes out on the stage with his big pants on it is a scream... Whitmore and Whitmore would like’ io hear from Emmett Bugger. WORTHINGTON, MINN. NOTES OF WARSHALLS MARIMOH MINSTRELS feck Acca ne Stars ta SRR Gator tt We atiaie Pe ae teats Raat Aa tage serge Mega ee Wateh ate HERA UNG ay, ane Sua, sack Hite Mgr Stat Gare “te Sai Petit tate bel Sato eee tie EGY EIS SP" eaten tg OB geal acer Ream hee class, and who holds her own on the vaudeville bill in spite of the fact. that AMlof, her numbers are singing numbers. ‘This is something in this day of vaude- ville stress. ‘The madame knows how to choose her songs. This fact Was noted at her re- cent engagement at the New Crown Gar- Sen theater, Indianapolis, when she ap- eared in three splendid numbers. She is of, commanding “appearance, ‘and ‘as she dresses handsomely she makes a stunning stage appearance. ‘The madame 18 often in demand for high class soslety functions where, she entertains by her beautiful singing. This is further tribute of her snusical worth. Frank “Jap” Reed is interlocutor with the company and is closing the princi- pal act. ‘The band ig under the leader- Bhi" of Geo.’ smith and ‘consists of the following pieces: ‘Thomas Ramsey, Geo. ‘Smith and John Grimsly, cornets: Leon- ard Nelson, clarinet; Harvey McCloudy, frving Brown and Wm, Curry, trom: bones! Jap Heed and John Bailey, melo- phones; Joe James, baritone; Oscar Dor- fey, tuba; John Simmons’ and. Jack ‘Thompson, “drummers... ‘Tho orchestra consists of John Bailey, piano; Geo. Smith, cornet; Irving Brown and ‘Thom- as Ramsey, violins; Wm. Curry, trom- Bone; Oscar “Dorsey, bass; Joe’ James cello, and. John Sitnmons,. traps. Mr. Marshall is'well pleased with the com- pany and wears ‘the smile that. won't Come off. ‘The entire company sends re- gards to all friends inand out of the profession. A Merry ‘Christmas and a Happy New Year to all. ROSE BUD THEATER, NEW ORLEANS, LA. (A. A. Monsrief, Mgr.) ‘The Taylors opened here Sunday in fan act that pleased, everyone, onstatine ‘Of new songs, new jokes and’ good danc- ing, and costumes to match. ‘The house is doing @ fine busingss. BILLY BOSTWICK LEAVES STAGE. Engaged in the Suloon Business at ‘Murphysboro, Iil—Will Manage ‘a New Theateriin the Sorina. Billy Bostwick, formerly of the team of Bostwick and Bostwick, has retired trom the stage as a performer, He is well known over the country for his clever work.” Besides belng a performer, “Mr. Bostwick has been @ successful band: master and an orchestra leader. ‘Billy, a8 he is called, has entered the R ae > iy 2) au gee Pf Se a eee Se o a) la : ¥ ae rt? “ L ; een BILLY BOSTWICK, Retired Performer. Now Located in Murphysboro, Ill aca Uiahineee an aca purities, where he will be ‘pleased ” to__meet his TOY aevosintes aad woquaintances,_ He APY ottantenuy heausiel fe altogether Fe er ane, ett eetan pean 2 ine Rete which ei bo rected _ ta Pepe pe tn eters Bet casl* a” erry Chinas and Sigpps New ear BP edNemon ES found at his saloon, at ne Sonne NRTA, ind rhein strc AUDITORIUM THEATER, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Bill For the Week of December 8. ‘The, show this. week, Je headlined by eA aneM eater tnree adios | Of Ear eee tae rae rary Beater th, ‘te went Me Shey anew Sesto ay, Hebrew and Itallan c0- melee ant ood Sa rent eerington, trom Boston nga cieah cut act ga Food Garzaniton de TURIRi er alse has 'n ood Bears at crea ey eet mith was the euest of Mg Gs Daley and ME Lew: Henry eRe wannieton BeiGe and Mr Sante, Wwerhad the’ time. of his fe smite J. Goodman, the popular pro- price of’ eke*Auditorlum Theater, has Bilctor ofthe, AOPinew seencry for the Rice aed? nom, looks kg heat Piguite Rott evervones face that heats esau. is, Coupes. 5 inh re something good every Wednesday to al that come to. the matinee. The new Jaw doen not amfect them ax they do not have any drawing for prizes... Smith Sends regards to Joe Bright. SEEN AND HEARD WHILE PASSING. What the Northern Papers Say of the Wrong Mr. President—Notices. (By Salem Tutt Whitney.) Merion. Brooks, and wife, late of the Brooks, ‘Smith Players, are sine to Cineintiati, Ohio, to manage a new col- ored ‘theater, Mir. Brooks is a. play- Wright and producer of exceptional ‘abil- iy, Tnirtyethres weeks in Kansas City at the Criterion ‘Theater is the best evi Gence in the, world of his efficiency in is tine, “the people of Kansas City have nothing but the highest praise for the players. A number ef the company Were entertained ata delightful. supper Immediately. after Sunday night's per- formance. Heard at the gallery entrancé of the Lyric ‘Theater, Kansas City, Mo. a dia- logue between’ two gallery gods Ni thought Dudley’ “was with the "No, he owns so many theaters he hagn't time to fool with aay show.” “ST wonder where the mule Is?" “Why they took the mule south with the show, and one day they ted him in a cotton field and the fool mule, thousiit it was snow and froze to death.” MARIE BOSTWICK IS WORKING SINGLE. Scoring Success. Marie Bostwick, formerly of the team of Bostwick and Bostwick, is now work- {ng single and making. good. Mins Bost- Wek is one of the holdevers from that Class of performers of Several sears ako. This means very much for her, since ea Pe a Ws Sy sae ae i a RP ed hl MARIE BOSTWICK, Singing and Dancing Artist. only the rare good ones manage (0 stick Td Soltater Clans MiSs Seaeeiek has bad good training contsompaniee She tas with We A. Star Fecdcompenes, gon in Disie:” also) with Binest Hotans “Pip to Aftiea!”” Miss Brett oe “one oF the ‘Bekin’ thet sock Valuable” service. ‘Hisewhere "In Garden’ theater, ‘Tndianapotisy she. proved Heer nee anbers ere splendidly done EME datttes nicely.” Her wardrobe 1s ood She dances nicely. Her wardrobe ts WHAT SOME OF OUR READERS THINK OF THE FREEMAN. West End Station, Pine Bluff, Ark., Nov. 29. To The Freeman Publishing Company, Indianapolis, tnd.: Dear Editor—Enclosed please find my renewal for the “dear old” Free man for one year, amount $1.00, and oblige your mast humble and obedient servant, AB ever, J. W. TOWNSEND. THE FREEMAN IN DETROIT. When in Detroit, Mich., go to the Wol- conn ‘parper Shp and” get ‘«_ireeman SP Hurus 2 Peake. 261 Se Antoin street. THE DAY OF THANKS. frie ts day of thank, day’ that we should share, 1n the blessings: of our Father above ‘And olfer to him ‘our humble Draven We thank Him for the bright sunshine, ‘ine'rain, ana ‘Rowers, too, And all'the blessed thing tn life "Phat He tor us Will do We thank Him for the clothes we wear, fron Health “and” strength also And forthe dally bread. wo eat "that He sends to our 000F. Above all the many ood. thanks "Pha We can offer 10: Him on high. Is a swell spent life tn this. sinful: world, And'a heavenly. home when we de joer watts —————— 1aARN TO RAD MoO AT SRT Ros R BL ig ape ge +e sprre Avy one in the “Brass Band” or “Stringed Ofehestra” iiay leara in few hours to master {he instrament he loves. with our. Sight Read er and “Sight Reader Positions,” $1.00 (cash) ‘Kaagess Wan. D. Stith, 109 Clarion St. Phile delobia, Pa ={2____ Situation Wanted By a colored man., who ix thoroughly exper. fenced as operator in the Moving Picture business, having bad five years" tral fog 10 ® Hieatre and knows it from AtoZ. Address BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Care Vaudette 2M Gratiot Ave. Detroit. Michigan Society’s Favorite, the Children’s Joy Gordon Bunch An Act of Mirth Wit, Humor, Science Backed by a Good Reputation. —————————— “Slim” Mason Principal Comedian with Marshall’s Minstrels “{ SHOULD WORRY” DALLAS, TEXAS WANTS First class vaudeville acts of all kinds, sister teams and choras girls. Can make long engagement. We play stock. Write or wire us your open time. This theatre is the largest and best playhouse in the Southwest. Everything new andclassy. Seating capacity 1,000 and $5,000 Dallas capital behind it. Tickets will be sent to the right parties, Address all mail to the STAR THEATRE James Crosby, Mer. 2407 Elm Street, Dallas, Texas A MERRY CHRISTMAS! ee eee = ig 3 i (it i Peay Bt ees te - > re Sg > Sa Se Ss. H. DUDLEY! America’s Foremost Colored Vaudeville Promoter First and Only Recognized Colored Circuit in the World, was Organized by sheen H. Dudley ee shetGalre’ Comsidted Teadetlis easbanes Lec that adiaker tas Wasmoer: wet wees The Famous Griffin Sisters “NUFF SED” Delyons & Jefirey The Man with the Lyon Voice, and the Little Guy to Laugh at, NO EQUAL Criswell & Bailey If You Don’t Know Them, You Will. DUDLEY’S OWN MAKE HARRIS & TURNER ‘The One Act That is Different. OO John W. Cooper! A Real Novelty. “‘Fun in a Barber Shop.” ———— - Seat e ae bo ean a at aes | i esd Se & (ea Pei Ss hn ene ieee | “Well Den” Buster & Rockpile “!weyvs Working Dudley's Special Attraction Johnny Woods & Little Henry cases teil teat tle aia teela eee Yes, Theyre Allon Qld Duds Time Seals & Fisher. The Class Duo, MARTIN & CHENAULT ‘Tho Seal Kvn Tanguay and the Pleasing Fellow Withoat Cork The Neatest Pair in Vaudeville, TAYLOR & TAYLOR Mother and Son. A Heal Reliet to Any Bill and a Hit Here They Are BROWN & HARRIS ‘The Peer in Their Hive, “Say. Bosse and Stella's Got “Em.” SAY, LOOK OUT FOR Murphy & Walker his Young Team of Old Men ‘Areal bit. Endorsed by Old Dud and all other managrrs who have played them. Toa hnpdveds of otters whose names space will not permit to, mae kucwn When you tai trorubere dope line wo Old Dak "Hels with yoo Ary and get with him. Addream S. H. DUDLEY THEATRICAL ENTERPRISES 1653 7th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. LEW W. HENRY, Gen. Mer. TN Acts wanting time write to above address, or Tim E. Owsley, or M. KLEIN Crown Garden, Indianapolis, Ind, 3123 S, State St., Chicago, Ill, . ire F | e : Le ae. ss ‘ i BR ian! 7 e e, i org . a > Vs d = its / dey y ee GOSSIP OF THE STAGE 14 CLAIBORNE WHITE IN DURHAM, N. C "A Visit to China" is a new musical comedy and was written and staged by Mr. Calborne White, one of the youngest colored comedians on the American stage. He makes a mule laugh. He would like to hear from 12 good chorus girls who can sing and dance and other performers. Write stating salary. Girls will send photos in first letter. Address all mail to Mr. White. 115 Cora street, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Performers, you can get the Freeman in Durham, N. C., at 118 Cora street. NOTES FROM A. M. DAMON SHOW We are in Minnesota now, playing to S. R. O. Prof. Damon is there with his violin. Miss G. Wattis is singing "You Made Me Love You," and the encore encodes every night. Miss Florence Wattis is going big with her partner, Emery Dearle. Miss Florence Wattis is our daily soubrette. Miss Dora Brown, is using "That's Why They Call Me Shine." Ernest Clermont, artistic demeanor (feminine types, is wearing a white shirt to be Beauty and keeps them all guessing until the last. His costumes and hats are good for the show. We are using "Georgia Rose" with a chorus. The bunch sends regards to all, including the Pewees, Beechmums and Edwards. We are using "Blooming Prairie, Mimi, December 8; Austin, December 9; Albert Lea, December 10; Harvey, December 11; Ramsey, December 12; Ottrano, December 16; Madison. We are now in Oregon playing the Fisher time and packing them in at every changing program three times a week. The bunch was invited to Mr. C. W. Baker's residence last Thanksgiving and was given an ex-performer, having played some of the best time, certainly enjoyed our certainting table and of eight pieces, while we was making Brothers, Harry and Hurl, are going home for Xmas, also Earl Washing, our interlocutor, and our interlocutor and straight, will spend Xmas in Seattle; also Messrs. Perkins, and a jawson Fimas, apple and drink were in bushel at Baker's residence, and the happy time will be long remembered by all, as Mr. C. W. Baker on those times makes all holidays perform well. welcome. Regards to all friends. Address all wants. Care to be at North Seattle, Wahee, care J. J. Collegan. PROF. EPH WILLIAMS' FAMOUS TROUBADOURS AND SILAS (By LaVola. We are now touring Mississippi with the girls of our other colored shows when playing Jackson, Wednesday, November 26. It was the unanimous opinion of all that show was far superior to the season, that the band was so far ahead that there was no comparison. The parade was grand, and the ladies were all dressed in their finest outfit. The show was a scream. W. A. Bayard sent them home wondering how many more times he would change his costumes to help them spellbound when he made a complete drop from his wire and caught himself again before reaching terrace. He left them spellbound and the largest aggregation of its kind on the road. Jozep Zephania White, formerly of the KKK, made a complete drop from an unbroken, successful season, is back again with us. He was the hit of the show. He is a singer, dancer and comedian, and is made a star. He was the most entertaining Sias Green Company. Mr. W. H. Austin, better known as Slim Jim from Savannah, is again with the Slas Green Company, being a scream whenever he appears, including one dancer waving dancers in the profession. He has adopted a new dance, "The Chicken Reel," and is alone in this dance. Professional People Entertained at Thanksgiving Dinner. A very pleasant little dinner was given on Thanksgiving Day at the home of Nettie Taylor of 543 South Eleventh street, Laurel City, the Taylor is of the well-known team of Nettie and Lovie Taylor, who have been making such a hit as Colored Consultant, known team of Creswell and Bailey, who were the hit of the show at the Ruby Theater in Louisville to give week, an Anna Mae comedie, were among the guests who were present. A most delicious dinner of several courses was served with a huge turkey from lack of attention that he did not suffer from lack of attention. Miss Ora Criswell and Miss Lovie Taylor played two lovely lovable selections and Miss Laura Bailey made a clever and witty speech of thanks to Mrs Taylor for her hospitality. Miss St. Lucie of Turkey a favor brought home for nearly half of him on her plate. Everyone expressed themselves as being highly delighted with the occasion and for Mrs. Taylor on her plate. For it really seems that this sprightly little soubrette has Ponce de Leon and Leon looks younger than her two grown sons. (Yes, this goes for you, too. Lovie.) Long life to her and may she always stay as good-looking as she she the guests present were: Misses Ora Clermont, Laura Baille, Anne Messers, McKeen, Love Taylor, Henry Taylor, Reuben Farrell, James McBwen and ST. C. ALCAZAR THEATER, GALVESTON, TEXAS We are so far ahead we get lonesome. This house has been blessed with the best stock company the South has known some time. For the South we've had a lot of swiping. the Princess Rajah can boast of her beauty, and she is also the lady for her uniting efforts to pass the law. When you read who constitute the pany, you will readily be able to you' re read. Prince's team, the highly culturing woman, speaking and singing nine different languages for Laura Smith, the town show wild singing. You' made the town show wild singing. 'Didn't Want to Leave' How I Need You' and not least, 'Baby Seals Blues She is some performer.' She is some performer. 'Baby Seals Blues' not least, 'How I Need You' and not least, 'Baby Seals Blues' Nightingale, takes three to four encores nightly with her 'Ave Marie' 'Ave Marie' can never be by this Texas audience--dered the selections. 'Swing and dance' median, has improved and is now known as 'Pride of Maris.' is he a man. Well, I guess you' m the coach. Thornton, the comedienne, favorite coon shouter and comedienne, gets her share of bass singer Mr. Harry Fields, is holding his own. Curtis and Curtis, dancing and team, have a real skate kick due the team' s getting their share too. Last, but best, is our funny man, Mr. Sam Russel. The Texas fan, favoring the Alcear bunch, original? Why, we should worry. He used self-made comedian, all that now him voice to orchestra directed by Miss Alma ina orchestra is as good a voice as any she has with us, as she is Jas Crosby The Tall Talker. our helper in time of musical need. Mr. John Walton, trap drummer, is sensation-ful and assists a bassist in our drummonitor. Lee Baxter, holds his position as a good musician. Our corsetist, Mr. Edward Alexander took the lead in the band's mind. As soon as the awful epidemic has found a cure, he will return to us. Our florent fiend, and we cannot do without it. We are living in Galveston. Performers, we are not-camping; so join us, if you are good, for we are looking for good performers. We write A. Young, Allezar theater, if you want to try the Sunny South for winter; we send to all in and out of the profession. INTERESTING CAREER OF OLDEST BAND AND MINSTREL MANAGER. Prof. James Wolfscale a Success in the Business with a Quarter of a Century Accompanying this sketch is a splendid likeness of Prof. Wolfscale, of the Barnum & Bailey circus. His experience in the circus has been with circuses, but with minstrel shows as well, having trooped with such old-timers as P. T. Wright and McCaulis Minstrels, and with the circus troupe since that time he has been with the following shows: Sels & Gray, Sels Downs, Cole Bros, Jones Bros, Wild Minstrels, and Prof. Wolfscale. Prof. Wolfscale has been re-engaged for the season of 1914 with the Barnum & Bailey show, which will make his third consecutive season of the circus. Prof. Wolfscale's success in the show business is due to his legitimate way of doing business, and his making it a rule to carry the circus. For the past two seasons Wolfscale's band, dressed as Egyptians and mounted on camels, was one of the features of the Barnum & Bailey circus during their engagement at Madison Square Garden, New York City. For season of 1914, Prof. Wolfscale was the star of the place and it will be the arrest colored circus band on the road. Mr. Wolfscale M. B. would like to hear from first-class musicians at all times. All mail will reach him at his permanent address, 3212 Wafsash avenue, Chicago, IL. Prof. Wolfscale wishes to Merge his timetables and a letter to him many friends in and out of the profession. MISS ELLA GOODLOE NOW ON SUCCESSFUL VAUDEVILLE TOUR. We herewith present a likeness of Miss Ella Goodloe, late of the team of Goodloe and Goodloe, and at the present time teamed with Miss Viola McCoy, in a stat ter turn. Miss Goodloe has faced the footlights for about ten years, and has made an enviable record while so engaged. A mother, to whom she is exceeding, tentive, is a student, with efforts to profess in her chosen profession and she fondly hopes to endure Jas C The Tall T JAMES A short and correct history of one of America's greatest comedians, Mr. James Cross, a former lawyer in the year 1868, November 25th, at Vicksburg, Miss, and spent his early days at the above named place. In 1888, he signed out with the Richard & Pringle's Pan American Minutela. In 1888, he got in the front row and ranked with such noted comedians as Mr. Billy Kersands, Tom Brown, George Jackson, Frank Prom, Tom Brown, Frank Broom, Dock Salis, Billy Young, Dan McCabe, Wesley Norris, Sam Lucas and many newcomers, and he never was a second; always shared the honors. In later years he was with the AL G. Field's Great Colored Minstrels, Oliver THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. herself even more to the theater-going public. One thing that has contributed much to the success of Miss Goodie is her fondness for an attractive wardrobe, her sense of humor, and her present partner lends charm and attractiveness to the act, and during the several weeks that they have worked together, every evidence is given of conformity. She is a kind, friendly, and acquaintances "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year." THE MARVELOUS CAREER OF A NOTED TENOR SINGER. How Albert S. D. Taylor Sang His Way Into the Hearts of the People. The accompanying cut is a splendid likeness of Albert S. D. Taylor, the skyscraping tenor of the Southland Serenaders. He is also a comedian of no mean height, poised to play the guitar, Mr. Taylor uses neither strong drink nor tobacco in any form. He is a southerner by birth—for which he is quite proud. He rocks with the City of Roses, September 22, 1888. He is pleasant and joyful at all times and that quality has made him many friends in and out of the profession. He has been a member of the Louis Quartette, Sawyers' Georgia Minstrels, Pop Green's Christmas in Dixie Company, Carolina Jubilee Singers, Ala. Minstrels, and of Washington, D. C. the Choral THE MASTER Society of Philadelphia, Pa., and is now connected with Tom J. Morian's Old Southland Sexette of Detroit, Mich. was named after the late Jesse Warrbel, season 1910-11, Mr. Taylor's high "C" has always been a feature with all of the above named aggregations. Regards to all of my friends in the business, I especially remembered to Satem Tutt Whitney, George Freeman, Leemard Harper, Clarence Muse and wife, Pip Pop Green, and the other members of the Parquette and all of the former members of the Freeman-Harper-Muse Stock Company. A "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year" to all in the profession is my message. ACTORS AND MANAGERS OF TODAY. (By W. H. Smith.) Nature is a wonder-worker and in all things it will separate good and bad. I will ruin performance a success, while others will ruin a performance, that from an audience a majority of managers of today allow the actors too much liberty; for instance, I have seen the so-called comedian underake what he considers a funny story. He does not attempt to tell another, but immediately commences to "Ball the Jack," which considers a funny moment. I have never been attempted in public, but seemingly the managers of some of the houses stand for it and the managers I have never been attempted in managers don't think they have a good show unless the audience makes a lot of noise and "Ball the Jack" is a noisy product. But should Ball the Jack be accepted the same in the better houses as Salfame, Texas Tommy and Tango, then I will be able to have an apology to all the Ball the Jackers. I do not care to break into the press as a competent judge of conditions theatrically speaking, but I also have been asked to be in contact with the big vaudeville associations in Chicago, especially, and I must say that the booking agents are in charge of the book Colored acts. I have been quite active lately in trying to book some acts, but the agents show me that the managers have notified them that they are openly say that all colored acts make good, but their department is bad here in this Crosby Talker." CROSBY. city. I have entered into vaudeville offices and in conversation with the executives. There are some acts they take here, and I have seen them, and that they deport themselves on and off the stage as such, Davis & Sharon, Tarsiah and Shelton, the Carvers, and the great Frank Rogers, ventriloquist par excellence. I had the pleasure about five and a half years working at Western Vaudeville Association, and he has worked steady for them ever since. W. H. M. W. H. SMITH. Downs & Gomez have an excellent reputation in the association. Any acts that have played the role of a teammate must not take offense as I am merely mentioning the names that have been mentioned to me. I could say many uncomplimented things about the team, but I told them by managers, but as this is to appear in the Christmas number of our great paper, Christmas means let all the kids know that Christmas will and will try to show you the way. You actor chaps, who are always kicking about having to play small time, I will give you a play call. You will have to take this. Save your money, every cent you can, then get yourself a good act, then go to the theatrical center and enter. You won't have to accept any old job that comes along, you can be a little bit independent and get an engagement again. You won't have to use of having a good time all season drinking, sporting, being a good fellow and all that, if when season opens again you will have to have a ticket sent you and yourself taken out of hook for your four or five weeks board? you open to be out of debt than tipping yourself off to the manager that you are broke. You may think it strange that not being being a bank account says I know that money in hand is worth more like prestige, sometimes. If you have a small bank account or a bank of express says this house only pays so much. You don't have to take it, and if it happens to be one of those swelled head managers who has seven shows on Sundays, tell him no. Then keep at the big ones until you land a good engagement; it will prove to you better than owing the managers. I've managed several shows in my time and know that the actor we need to be in debt to the manager can't be trusted very far. For if he can't trust the manager, why work for him; and usually they who don't trust the managers can't be trusted. You actor folks EBONY VAUDEVILLE AGENCY 1830 RODMAN STREET. Wants acts immediately for Fall and Winter Sea photos. Wire, phone or write. WAN First class acts of all kinds. Good novel J. GOODMAN, Proprietor, JOHN H tre, Wire above Broad, Philadelphia EBONY VAUDEVILLE AGENCY—LICENSED and BONDED 1230 BODMAN STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Wants acts immediately for Fall and Winter Season. Booking everywhere. Wants girls. Send photos. Wre, phone or write. First class acts of all kinds. Good novelty acts of recognition ability. Address theatre, South Street above Broad, Philadelphia, Pa. Tom Turpin, Manager. C. H. Turpin, Proprietor Acts booked for this house, send pictures ten days ahead. Also cuts if any. Wants to hear from good acts, singles, doubles and trios. Cater to nothing but refined. All acts write or wire Boisy Legge, Mgr. Bohn Theatre, and you'll be in right. WANTED! Good acts. Can work vandeville and stock. Also good chorus girls. You can play here as long as you make good. Corsicana is fifty miles from Dallas. Write Edward D. Lee. Fifth Avenue Theatre, Corsicana, Tex. Booking for every First Class Colored Vaudeville Theatre using the Best Colored Acts, East, West and South. Big Time. must spend your money faster than you make it, just to keep up a bluff and make the gang think you are a topnotcher and the boss. You are only getting twenty dollars per week less 5 per cent. Cut that out, save at least $5 per week, buy two, get a hundred or two in the bank you'll feel so good that you will want to build a real Negro theater. State the facts: the theater is the Enlarger, Proverse & Hammerstein. Boys, I know you can't knock SMITH. The Freeman is on sale in New York at The Robin Press, 256 West Thirty-seventh street. KEY—LICENSED and BONDED PHILADELPHIA, PA. Jason. Booking everywhere. Want girls. Send TED! alty acts of recognized abnity. Address I. SMITH, Manager Auditorium Thea- bia, Pa. Florida Blossoms Co. Wants for Season 1918-14 Both male and female performers, also musicians doubling B. & O. and stage. Only professionals need apply. I have my own cars. In writing state what you can do, also lowes salary in first letter. Address all mail to Pete Worthey, Owner & Mgr. Florida Blossoms Co. Beadquarters 618 Broadway, Macon, Georgia. Metropolitan and Savoy Theaters Wants first class acts of all kinds. Good novelty acts of recognized ability. Address A. Barrasso, Main Office 121 South Fourth Street. If You Play the Circle Theatre 1321-1323-1325 South Street Philadelphia, Pa. N. B. Not the only house of its kind, but the one (they imitate) playing to more people than all other show shops combined. Write, wire or phone. The few good acts that have not played the Circle, get busy. Open Now and Will be Later If you are funny, write Globe Theatre, Jacksonville, Florida Frank Crowd, Owner and Manager. 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. 3505-7-9 State Street, Chicago, Ill. Most Popular Vaudeville and Photo.Play House on the Stroll 4—High Class Vaudeville Acts—4 Feature Pictures Changed Daily Acts Changed Monday, Thursday and Saturday Admission, 10c Children, 5c Lincoln Theatre! 2014 State Street, Chicago, IL The House with a Reputation. Showing High Class Motion Pictures. Daily Matinee 3:00 p.m. First published Colored acts write for open time. Address MAURICE & SAYA STATES THEATRE 3508 State Street, CHICAGO ILINOIS Griffin Sisters Furnish first class acts, musicians, singers and entertainers. Affiliated with lyric writers, composers, arrangers, producers, stagers, costumers and scenic artists. We secure best acts and help to build up any house that has a tenency to run down in receipts. Address DIXIE THEATRE! Can Give Good Acts From 3 to 5 Weeks In Atlanta. Send in open time. Two pay days a week, Wednesday and Saturday Former Harvard Man with Remarkable Collegiate Athletic Career eh ees a Mae es o Ca x a i — s | : ia OF g _ > io \ | a . | . \y ee Fe 4 \ ey .. = = \\ Se eS Ny L .*, : |. oes of e _\ See a Ad —— CABL r oe a pe cae 3 . - ee ee Late Ga im . (() | alge ‘ & coace : i el | ‘ ae gd PAT QUINN oe Ge) Oss 4 ie a SS) ae ees ae | ! ) . i es, | a D ee pe A | a ee Sg ye Nae a ee | % ‘ eA ee eg | Be: a Gy Me Ply eee — A | ote ee ee < ee % Ae eeee OR ee Ce OA NOG ; J MeN FAIZ | on a ee a EO 100 YARD DAS! oe ge ee - A * ; i : sae ae [stu NSE" BES, Sbittttnd test De Oe ge ee | Bevin gt ceeuth amon, ae were | / Be 4 Pe ge ie a s led’ to Mrs. C. M. Sharp, Mrs, C. 1 7 Be ae ee a ae o |inan and Mrs. W. M. Cooper. <.. | 2 Recto ; se pe a ee — — () mer teewis and family of 904 Soi & OC, See Ye eS es [ieee aie eae Ga | ee ie Se es 2 — OVS ARR hee wait hee 3 <a. ee gs s [See ios he, Holds Many Records and Possesses a Galaxy of Tro- phies—Has Further Athletic Ambitions— A Brilliant Student. dente age [epee cman naka nana When I first knew ‘Theodore Cable, he was a spindle legged little fellow going to Shortridge high school, not even close to fan athlete, hut with the serious intent ff becoming one, He never made @ team at Shortridge; I doubt if he ever tried for one, but he used to stretch a string across Michigan street, near West, and practice running the hurdles on the brick pavement. He graduated from high school lint T forgot him for the time, The next [hard of him he had broken some sort ofa record at Harvard and from then on 1 heard from him pertodically "as the track season came around. 1 wondered how it was that the little fellow that 1 had known some four years before had eveloped Into the greatest hammer ‘hwower and broad jumper that Harvard aver knew, so T went out to schoo! No. 16, where he is teachings and found out about tt “Well, its a tong story,” he sald. “I really never expected to be able to do mich with track work at Harvard. but ‘when the call for freshmen candidates came In the fall of my frst year, 1 went foot and tried for the hurdles. I sided farvund for two or three days at the hur- ‘les befor the famous Pat Quinn, whom think was one of the greatest track couches that ever lived, saw me, and as- signed me to the weights. The freshman ‘eam that year was short on welght men an T think that fact, together with the wonderful coaching that Quinn gave me, vas responsible for every success that I au, 1 worked hard at he weights all win- ‘er and entered some of the handicap mmects in the spring. ‘They put me on the freshman team and T had fair success. All the thme Quinn had been working with ‘ve and when the spring came around I hat Iitte difieulty in making the var- sity team, T lost the first meet that year ‘0 Darmouth aa T was sadly overtrained snd anxious, it belng my firat big meet, but after that T never Tost a dual meet in which T represented Harvard.” That Is the way in which Theodore Ca- ‘ie, undoubtedly one of the greatest ath- letes that ever went out of the state of Indiana, tells the story of his four years of triumph at one of the greatest and most ablccoratio GonaieE: Recordé Held By Theodore Cable. Hammer Throwing. Harvard record. Harvard-Yale duel record. Hervard-Dartmouth dual record. Broad Jumping. Harvard record, Harvard-Cormell dual record. Warvard-Dartmouth dual record. Junior Amateur Athletio Union for throwing the fifty-six pound welght for height, made at Madison Square Garden in aon, ve Starting out with no high school or prep school reputation behind him, with Jan ordinary physlque, but with tre: mendous will power, Cable carved a. name for himself at Harvard that will last for many a day. It is unusual for a hammer Uhrower to be a sprinter and a broad jumper at the same time, but this 1s ex- plained by the way he fs developed. Most hammer throwers are giants, Cable is ‘comparatively small even now, being only five feet nine in height, but he has @ pair ‘of shoulders and a chest that will com- pare favorably with any man’s, But the story of Cable's suecess on the track does not tell the whole story of his success since he has been away from In- Gianapolis. Last year he went out for the Harvard foctball team, Just to get in- to condition for his track work, Dut his speed, nerve and willingness {0 learn, soon attracted the attention of the coaches and Cable was put on the sec- fond team where he stayed the rest of the year. "A. press story from New York said last year that Cable was slated fo start at end for Harvard in one of the big kames and that he had been protested by the players Jon the opposite team who sald that they would not play against a Negro, 1t seems that this was not the case. The mien that played on the Harvard team last year were all experienced men, having played football for most of their high schoo! and college years, and Cable knew nothing at fall about the game until last year. He id not have the experience or he would probably have played a regular end. This year, the members of the Harvard team are the men who played with Cable on the second team last year and Cable would have played on the Harvard varsity this year If he had been eligible, without 2 doubt. Among the numerous trophies which Cable has at his home on North West street and the one which he prizes as highly as any of them is a football which jwas given him by Head Coach Percy D. Hanghton, of the Harvard team. Cable says he priges that ball because it is in Ja way a recognition of what he might have done had he started in to play foot- ball two or three years earlier. He has fifteen silver cups, fitteen medals and three gold watches which he has won in various competitions in and around Boston. On one of the cups which has ig engraved the words ‘‘For showing the greatest development, Harvard, 1911.” In addition to his athletic ability, Ca- bie is well known in Indianapolis for his violin playing and for his scholarship. He specialiged in the romance languages ‘at Harvard and knows French, Spanish and Ttalisn almost as well as he knows ‘nelish, It is Cable's intention to teach for a year or two in Indianapolis and then to go abroad where he has a business op- portunity in Paris which he says will be [just what he wants, T told him that I supposed that his ath- letic days were over now and to my sur THE FREEMAN, AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. prise he answered quickly, “Not by any means. A hammer thrower, I have found, never really gets to his best until after about seven or elght years of work, Take Pat Rvan and Mat McGrath and some have been training for as long as ten years and are just now getting where they can break records.” ‘And from this st would not be surpris ing Af Cable should turn in and win every meet in which he can enter in the Middle West, developing all the the to the point where, In a few years, he may te able to break: world's tecords with as much ease as Pat Ryan is doing now. Cable's best effort in the hammer throw is 162 feet 10 inches, and the world’s record is around 178 feet, but Cable has his best years coming. He attributes much of his success to the wonderful coaching that he received from the late Pat Quinn, whom Cable thinks is one of the greatest track coach- jes that ever lived. “Of course, every col- lege man thinks his coach is the best, but I really think there are few ‘men could Jcompare to Quinn while he lived." Quinn ied in Boston last spring, and his death was mourned by the whole student body Jand the faculty of Harvard. Cable was made coach of the hammer throwers and broad jumpers after Quinn's death. Personally Theodore Cable is one of the finest men that I ever knew. He is mod- Jest and unassuming and the record of the wonderful things that he bas done I got from him after the hardest work, for he Jdoes not lke to speak of the things he fag done. He is cultivated and refined, not because of his education at Harvard, but because of his home training, and 1 do not hesitate to say that if Cable should lever become better known than he Is now, which he no doubt will, he will be the same thorough gentleman and the same unassuming person that he is now. Some of the track meets that Cable has entered and the place that he has taken: 1910—Freshman year. Harvard freshmen-Exeter Academy, third. Harvard freshmen-Andover Academy, Harvard freshmen-Yale freshmen, won. 1911—Sophomore year. Harvard-Dartmouth, third. Harvard-Yale, won, Intercollegiate meet at Cambridge, third, Yale-Harvanl and Oxford-Cambridge meet in England, third. 1912—Junior year. Pennsylvania relay games at Philadel- phia, third. Harvard-Dartmouth, won both events. Harvard-Yale, won both events. Intereolleziate meet at Cambridge, won hammer throw. 1913—Senior year. Second in senior -event, throwing 59- pound weight for height at Amateur Ath- letle Union games in Madison Square [Garden. Pennsylvania relay games at Philadel- phia, second. 5 Harvard-Cormell, won both events. Yale-Harvard, won hammer throw; /second in broad jump. Intercollegiate meet at Cambridze, won hammer throw. (in the try-outs for the Olympic team Cable got two thirds and a fourth in the hammer throw, broad jump and hop, sikip land jump, competing against every ama- teur of note in the United States, but was De ea er ai a ea THE GATEWAY CITY. Memorial Services in Honor of Mrs. Charlotte Purce—Taking a Stand Against Segregation. (By Melville Perdue, 1219 W. Chest- nut St; Phone’ City 5038.) Special Fameax, ‘Stomotials services in", honor of Dre. Charlotte, Puree, “wife of the late | Dr Puree, late president of the State Uni- Vorsity, were eid in the asvermbly room of the’ university on last Wednesday evening. The time and. place of these services were Very appropriate indeed, since,on last Wednesday one year ago t0 the day het remains were deposited. in mother earth and the place was the one in which she hdd devoted tho latter part of er life aad one that she loved: 3 being’ ‘previously an- nounced "at aS pam, students and friends ef the dear’ Mrs. Purce filed See Sa ee Bigg Oil Real en aie in Bere ee cee Pie a eg ye Fist te, Seer ee ae Saree Seeh oeeeetrr a ey SF loin uae a See ceca ameter Sy baie eee wee eee nD een see Ee ies aia te an diy i een a ee ae ee at Sete eos ea tee ee aed ey ee ee se cee, ey eee os ar ease nt ol scholar, says in his “Political Economy” ee feet c cae he eae eal ee a Ses Ge ace ees a STE eect gave pnt ave po icien eee 22 Sg bet acre te Seba aceasta a Sentinel ee Fellows, Alpha Omega, Una Voce. It ts th iit lat Ro a at sr the ante Se el SEPaes Sa hed at vam Sees ee ee a War nt ning 2 poral sat ere Grant Paes a eee ee ee eee Seta ie telat Beta uf adh le as tl tte oat a Se ec Femiercetye tac hte ta Soars a ate rir dugn harpoon hl re, wating 2, ie, Aken, Sere oer sae ee, lee te as, aoa Geet Rectan tee e: Eteay tins a ee Sos jie ones ke tied natn i ee aa i eae at ae Baa tee an a, Ry Wy aoe et sam of $5, according 10 the police court ae, FH ie pereranee ial Sige aba rear eerie? dd ae eR hea ee eat eee oe a Re anieat Metta amis oes ornare et a RraGaiat ees ose Oae wis gina, aor to er, Rear pe Ot Aad Ayla Fen cea Bh pai ot eo dae . Besta Se tsua atid Sant Poeats ae ose here cere ae os me ake es a Sh ee al eee i bee et ae se Sie Sioa Se a ary a, ana JACKSONVILLE (ILL.) NEWS. (By Nellie Early.) Special to Tm FAEEMAN. inl ‘Cae racalved. here. recently of ine death of solona Poutes Binet Guin- [the death of Solpieasant ‘Hour Club met 15 Neer Phones, Douglas, 4482. : Automatic, 74-478, 78-974 The La Verdo Buffet HARRY J. KELLY, Prop. |3100 S. State St. Chicago, Illinois The Mecca, Bar and Billiards, a Place of Quality. ‘vat wil convince you that wo have the quailty. 812 Todlana Ave, 218W. New York Stroh CHARLES E. LEWIS, Prop. New Phone 1319 a? a ee Pink’s Pharmacy! PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS NEW, (ss TELEPHONES ——-aary, a Free Delivery Service 550 Indiana Avenue nal ee le. Bees kl ee Actna Trust and Savings Company 4 Aeina Building, 28-25 W. Penn. St., Indianapolis, Ind. |" per cent. on Savings. Start Now. New and Used Bicycles! Y $5.00 UP. TIRES $1.50 UP ( f Atl repairs guaranteed, We Valeanise, Kam ( ( See egeet tore \ \ Roberson Cycle Company " 438 Indiana Avenue Charles C. 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Dabiew, of West At PX aiveets® “Maiony” Brotiers. pent, No Meher aT wie relatives iy Columbia Hane ios Jessie "atten pent, Sunday” tn ‘Carroliton, the guest of Mrs. Richard Captor gh Dann, who, has, been Cane: Me" somae. boltek Howe." Word ite, catived here by atm W. 34. Guthrle, Beige deat of his Stater, Sopltia Carter fe Be dean So.” “Ter daugnten, Mire avid short and Me, W, He Guthrie, bee Bother attended. the funerals, Mre Protera Mtecersea the. funeral of het Teammates Foate Auten at Chica, gAUENGT. Monies Prigner has moved Peoria hn nem Stes ‘Clarence Tons and family’ are living on West Anna street... MY areaet aiehercon, at alton Ti wwe ing Best of his tamnily here, recent was ine Ailony ‘Brothers have booked Ue ‘Wiliam Poster Photo: Play” Compan” her Docuniber 22 with aN colored talent. ‘he Siaiiorg” proinersenevertra wil Aeish Mie? or the: occasion Little James Sepsentehe wis was seriously hurts t@ some Meteamiel an? Sorome, Duncan ated. at his etka jn Canvoliton, November Sh-at't 30, pene told fevers He had been Comploun: tne fr wom tie, but did not tale’ ts Bea eit the previous 40 bis death, “Als Hesale" Aun: of this city, was called Tie Beaute’ on. Monday” marmins. rhe funeral was ‘held at the" Fest Bapts Siuteh in Carrolton, of whiel he waa. Slembersin eharge of the pastor. He took Poeihis" cote the twemtysthied. Pealm, from hice delivers an impressive nérmen Sie butca wai born tn Greene i Roptembor 21. tea” ine choke waa com jpobed of four of Mr. Duncan's classmates ‘eho sang. “ienderiye “face to: Face, Ugmewhero” aid otter appropriate selec tone he. towers rere nr chanee 6 Sirs" wallace, of alton, Sims. ober Barwon ‘and tse, John Bans, o€ Jersey Fite Miss. Beatrice. MeGae, Mrs. Curd Ind ‘two children, ‘Miss’ Margaret “Dun fan, and Minne Duncan, of Springtietd Str nt Mee “Smith of Buntaios Str Marg! 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Musical Instruments For Christmas at all times a complete line of Drummers' supplies and Strings, Cases and Trimmings for all instruments. Special even to mail orders. Send for catalogs. Please mention an. The Carlin Music Company 5 and 9 E. Market Street INDIANAPOLIS Christmas in the Hardware Store We carry at all times a complete line of Drummers' supplies and imitations, Strings, Cases and Trimmings for all instruments. Special attention given to mail orders. Send for catalogs. Please mention The. Freeman. Christmas in the Hardware Store GIFTS FOR BOYS ICE SKATES ROLLER SKATES KNIVES SAVINGS BANKS DRAWING INSTRUMENTS GIFTS FOR MEN GIFTS FOR GIRLS Electric Curling Irons VONNEGUT' 120-124 E. Wash. St. Indian VONNEGUT'S E. Wash. St. Indianapolis PARTED CREOLE WIG. This Wig is made of long Creole Eau. Keeled made with forest Van- tallated Netting. This is an elegan- tical Wig that will give good service and can be combed. Black or dark brown. 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Tumblers, voiced sing through "40c to 75c" Drum Instruments, including Bass and Snare Drum, Beater, cymbal, Stick, and stock "265 up TOOL CHESTS INGENSOLL WATCHES WORK BENCHES TURNING LATES CHESTS OF SILVERWARE SUGAR AND CREAM SETS CHAFING DISHES CASSEROLES PERCOLATORS BREADE TRAYS ELECTRIC TOASTERS ELECTRIC IRONS MANICURE SETS SCISSOR SETS FETT KNIVES O-CEDAR MOPS CARPET SWEEPERS ALUMINUM WARE GUERNSEY WARE TRAYS (ALL KINDS) FIRELESS COOKERS SCISCR SETS TEA CADDYS TEA CADDYS SANDWICH TRAYS SAMOVARS ILLINOIS NATIONAL HALF CENTURY ANNIVERSARY Negro Freedom, 1865-1915. solete as triumph after triumph manifests the easy victories when once the fortunate man is faced with the acclimatization sympathy of a soul-inspiring song. By song we mean the harmony of soul acclamation of the Negro giving thanks to God for a century of or a centuryary. Fifty years of freedom—free to act and to will, free to do and have; free to go and to speak to others; free to learn and to teach with his sober and plausible, determined effort in every conceivable form of progress, have indeed marked a milestone in our Ojibwe's huge achievements, although unused to the art, science and religion. As we gaze through the dark gloom into the past which beclouded his vision and offer comfort to his soul, he has been to a life of serfdom, all history suffers for a single sentence to prove that any other race so enchanted by the beauty of justice, mercy, truth, purity and beauty and then in fifty years challenge in unimaginable counting house, in business church or state the makers of civilization themselves It is to be regarded in the light of this emphasized progress of a race long before the political, industrial and economic prowess, by the constant cruel usages of horrific tyranny to be seized the tangible life of life before anything could be done through the process of a mental awakening, substance upon which body and soul depend. The process of a life higher up had to come out of the earth to feed the stomach and cloth the skin, and it could mature it could see itself in theookingglass, be pleased and go away to college. GOY. EDWARD F. DUNNE. and take the intellectual test, and here and thereinher a class honor from the best universities of the world. We had to be fought and won in the fiercest competition of labor first before the day of the spun-gilt verbiage of rhetoric should mold the for-mer Americans into shape for gracious utterance. Every life has its apogee; there is a chance to bring about exactly proportionate results. This high noon of life when the vital forces are evenly balanced and put forth in all the glory of their strength, will be the most important results we will find it even in the history of cities, nations and institutions, and ideas, in commerce, and in every day of human life. And these, too, have their rise and fall. And yet as we strive to beautify the scene the hand of fate sweeps away our illusions, our soul stickens and our human beings burdened with a monstrous plague of perplexities struggles along the upward path of destiny without incentive, crushed and burdened with a monstrous offlefth. But it seems the human heart in its most diabolical treachery and meanness has failed to contrive a noxious formula to perplex us, the cause of flight. Like the organ peal in some great masterpiece of music, marshaled by the deft touch of Him who knows harmony, the egro has given utterance to .somewhat eloquent speech. He has been tried by a thousand courts where stern* and august knowledge is essential to cultural culture, and where wisdom plays no favorites, where mercy knows The First Draft of the Emancipation Proclamation The First Draft of the Emancipation Proclamation no color and gives no quarter. He has no stood the test of literary analysis and amassed the treasure of hardship and hindrance, in spite of touch and treachery, stealth and peridy and all the horror of brutal usage. And yes all has not been distillating rays of God's sunshine, and amid the sorrows there have been joys to bless and hurry him on. In the fell clutch of circumstance He has not winked nor cried aloud. Beneath the blundenings of chance His head, tho' bloody, is not bowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears booms but the howe of the shade: And behind the years Finds and shall find him unafraid. Through storm and cloud he has weathered every gale that beat fiercely upon him, and he has grown to the proud marks of his distinction in a hundred avenues of his painstaking and human frailties to which all masked their grouser natures, yet some indelible notches of greatness have been laid on his will direct the seeker aftertruth to the goal of a thousand ambitions hearts presmant with celestial hearts with aerial aterizations of races are not less farfetched in holy and righteous grandeur where color essays a minimum or differ- It were a thousand times more blessed Nepal. Never before has he been the Nepali he is ecclesiastically authori- ty. A. B. conceding his religious plety and university training to fit him for the higher and noble duties to his race, than to have a man in every prize ring of the world. It is the proprieties and the things fit that stamp a people with the insignias of a nation. It no doubt may be considered creditable but not vulgar glory that our fighters win their honors in the ring of many art where science and brute force are involved. Taking such victories in all seriousness, they are infinitestinal when reckoned in the scale of racial uplift, with evidences of our comprehensive plans of human deeds on such Pleckens, Roscoe Bruce, Clement Garrett Morgan, Anna J. Cooper, J. Sloane Yates, Mollie Church B. Dubels, and Fannie Jackson Coppin. It will be seen in the marshaling of our unquestionable exponents of permanent race growth in the form of applied self-education, in the form of literature, products from the shop, the dairy, the mill, the banks, the real estate, insurance, publishing, the factory, the school, the church and the home, that the prerequisite sober forces have called the race into the arena of general uplift and the success of others of other races. It will become a truth indeed to convince the man with the book that the man with the hoe has the power to defend himself and to stand guard over a thousand acres of an abundant harvest with as much appreciation of a commercial value as he has of heralds to the world over a thousand wires the great money kings that the fuc- ture of the rise in values sounds sweeter to them, too, than the harpes of Solomon. In taking invoice of the goods in stock to over-estimate values, and as the writer looks upon the scene of a race long wronged by the most horrible tyranny, busy in the noblest viesetudes of life, it becomes clear that the huge accomplishments of fifty years. Fifty years of progress! Noble thought Marc Aurel Dauphin François A. Dauphin Jacques A. Dauphin Marc Aurel Dauphin François A. Dauphin Jacques A. Dauphin Marc Aurel Dauphin François A. Dauphin Jacques A. Dauphin this. It does not seem so very long ago when only the voice of Frederick Douglass was heard crying in the wilderness in 1852, when he was 14 years that Booker T. Washington has been reaching to the Negro self-help, industrial frugality and counselling society in the economy. When the race was powerless, hopelessly bound by the savage laws of custom and an infamous sentiment of excuse the slaves to be born to the dogmas of the slave-holder, it was Frederick Douglass, standing in the forefront of every cause that fostered the possibility of hope for the slaves. He was the man he there were a few stout hearts, the bravest of the brave, so wrought in kind joy that slavery fastened on our souls called forth all the dormant energies of these noble heroes, who often jeopardized the exercise of fear for their birth. William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Charles Sunier, Elijah and Owen McCormick, the commander of the North who struck terror to South by the constancy and devotion of the patriots, telling prophecies of the great struggle inevitably to follow. The patriots' fires burned, and the North abolished the slave speedily became a cherished religion that might not only bring deliverance by the lifting of fright from the oppression of bodies of the Negroes, but also mitigate the horror and redeem white men lost in the spirit of human traffic. The Dred Scott Decision, as well as the John Brown raid upon Harpers Ferry in many re spects sharpened up the human instinct, kindled a fire of human brotherhood that country became dressed in the antagonistic bloods of two great sections. And then as history must be made, the state must be viewed standing firmly upon the principle of right sanctioned by the Golden Rule. The cause had now reached a crescendo, and the plies against the cruel system of the South brought peals of hoofful thunder to answer in awful maledictions, to smear the state against forces, sentiment was marshaled against sentiment, the North gathered against forces, sentiment was arrayed against the South, and the tail, sad statesman from Springfield, in answer at Freeport to Judge Douglas, the governor of the South, half free and half slave. This was the thunderbolt that caused the great statement of the South that an honest man was about to assume the responsibility of a great job. South Carolina, so long a blighted liberty, liberated from the Union, then followed the fire of Confederate guns on Ft. Sumter, the first battle, until finally the great, mad craving for war by the secessionists culminated in the great strife. After four long and oblivious constant warfare he leaped to the Constitutional Court Court, Lincoln, after placing a crown upon the greatest event of history, ancient or modern, making for himself a name immortal and embellishing it by the remembrance of the greatest of human sacrifice, the enchantment of the four millions of Negroes, died a martyr. Then went up a great shout throughout the land— "Sound the loud timbrel o'er land and It has therefore become the general opinion that the year 1915 (which is the year of the establishment of freedom) should be celebrated by a most astounding demonstration of our advancement. It is also fitting that as Negroes we should let it be seen how sincerely we appreciate the ablest giants of the Abolition cause who bravely tore from the bondage of slavery behind which it had so long paraded its ugly vices and perpetuated its horrifying orgies. These and many others held up the torch of liberty and carried the ban on slavery. John Greenleaf Whittier, Chas, Sumner, Henry W. Beecher, Elijah and Owen lovejoy, Harrie Beecher, Howe, Cary, Harriet, Harris, Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Douglass, Ringgold Ward, Wm. Lloyd Garrison, John Brown, Chief Justice Class, Joseph J. Carron, John A. Payne, dell Phillips and finally John M. Palmer, John A. Logan, U. S. Grant and John Harlan, supreme as it is not also for many years the home of Robt. G. Ingersoll? Does not Illinois give to Negroes a liberal education? Does not the free State of the North? Does not the great spirits of Lincoln, Logan, Grant, Lovejoy and Ingersoll pervade the very culture of the state, the deepimport of these questions may take retrospective view at the conditions, social and industrial that engaged the these great contending patriots into the arena, where all distinguished themselves, hakem and great contending patriots them frail tributes. Agitation is often the forerunner of some great revolution in the public mind and heart. Principals, though sometimes they do not become enacted into law, yet when brought clearly to the minds aid their suffering, the revelation of great truths. So Illinois was the great battleground of the embodying civilization and failure, and there the cardinal doctrines of Lincoln and his contemporaries became the embodied soul and spirit of her citizens. Hence the reader may easily discover some cause for holding within the confines of the North the Negro freedom, whose people are to embrace the accumulated increment and accredited accomplishments of the entire race throughout the American re It is indeed creditable to the sober conduct and serious intention of the States of the South as well as the North that give the proposition its magnitude and compels the outcome or such a great obsession to loom large before the entire world. Expositions by Negroes are not by any means uncommon in hauling fairs, industrial palaces, cotton states expositions, fruit growers' expositions, etc. frequently in space to the race of the white man, a small school of heir handicraft, art, mechanics, implements, tools, wagons, buggies, stock, art, and crafts, a small school of fruits, flowers, besides a most interesting school exhibit of educational opportunity and facility. These ocular demi-vince the great public mind and heart of the rapid strides our people are making in the course of progress fither to the great expositions. Recently New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey appropriated funds to enable the public to enjoy the ing of the Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln. These expositions were each a marvelous success. They owed great and wonderful story of our adversary. Why Illinois is the proper place for the race to have its world's exposition: There are many other reasons besides that Illinois may not name. Illinois is connected by rail and almost equally distant from any other state. The leading universities, whether hundreds of our cultured educators come during the summer months for vacational teaching and training, our laws are just and discrimination and class legislation are forbidden. It is situated on the river where zephyr soothe the wind blows and the gentle zephyr soothe the mind into baby slumbers. In fact, it is a summer resort university. It is citizen are hospitable, wealthy, broad-gauger, untrammed by sectional or racial hate, and ever magnanimous in their treatment of strangers. It embodies the sacred bones of our greatly lamented emancipator, our monument reaches forward and where we perished much of what he wrote and loved. It is the chief of States to contribute thousands of brave soldiers who fought for what Lincoln believed to be right. He believed that the brave must freeto enjoy the liberty of freedmen. Upholding principles upon which should rest the doctrine of a nobler civilization and ensure that the people of a greater unbroken Union. A State which has ever offered opportunity to the business, the professional, the laboring, the manufacturing, the cities in a multiplicity of forms that assure the struggling man a chance in the game of life. Her city county, State and country. Her city county, State and country of happy and contented lives to thousands of our young men and women who win position, prestige, honor and financial success by competitive examina- It is the home of the Eighth Regiment of Negro State Guards, cered from the Army in 1863, in the city government of Chicago we have the only lieutenant and sergeants of a great police force of the second city in New York. These are a few plausible reasons for choosing Illinois where is to be held our great celebration of freedom. 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Our ehief aim is to please the people, although we cannot please them allvat’ alt times, but delight tn. ‘putting forth our Best efforts to please as many as possible all the time, As the new year approaches, let all en= aeavor to do more for the race than ever before, and help to make 1911 the banner year for the colored people of this coun try. Ttcan be done with co-operation. ‘The Welch Furniture Company wishes you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. ‘They also wish you to call and look through their new and up to date line of everything needed in the home— stoves, pipe dampers, beds, buggies and springs, rugs chairs, rockers, porch sets, tables, art squares,” We are the leaders in furnishings for homes, large or stnall, at ‘small cost, everyday. Call and do your Christmas shopping, or phone M. 1406, oe ts 7. W. Scott, the man who has made the Chatauqua cafe the household word to the comers and goers in Texas and Ok- iahomna, wishes one and. alla. merry Christmas and a happy, New Year, and that the Chatauqua cafe this year will be Oid Santa's eating place every day and ———— « FRATERNAL SOCIETY with the Grand Supreme Lodge. In- Sorporuted under the laws of Ken- fucks. Is purely’ a Negro Organization with’ the works complied from Negro Brains." Designed by William Foman. The G, &.G. G. solely to be of Mutual and Fraterhal Benet to. the Colored flace. We can point with much pride, and truthfully ‘say. that. this is One Of the few. fraternal orders not copied ‘or stolen from the ‘white man: cna when it reaches ita maximum growth, it willbe a tribute of the Neuro Brains and accomplishment, | Tt bide fair at this date to be one of the Mrongest and largest fraternal so cleties in ‘Americas Just think of It Male and. female associated together im every lodge circle as brothers and sisters. And we do appeal to you for sour “membership and. cooporation. Will you become’ one of ‘our deputy organizers ‘today. and. set up a. lodge in the town in which you tive, or Would you accept the appointment as Sate, Grand “Organizer ‘and start out to organize your whole state at. will peal up. We are wafting your an~ Swen, ‘This society pays its members large benefit in eave of sickness oF death: and protect them in many other ays, ‘Sick benefits, $2.00. ¢0 86.00 per week. At death, $40.00 to $100.00. For further information, ‘write to. head= quarters, "Ii? Bll St, ‘Covington, RY. Organizers wanted in Every State —<—<—$—< <<< — Dr. J. H. Ward OMtice 643 N. West atroot Residence 22 Northwestern Ave. New Phono 2374 Office Hours, 1 to 3, 6 to 8 p. m. 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Burton, tin. anehnet mmmgtiban ee tina ict scare, ee Bee ae eM eueapiaas eacieces amas oe Mr. J, H, Bitupa to th the golden West ae nel ney Gopineieea party of We sata ea aa eee ae Rat ta eg ee gg aa ee aeraa ae EEA sete thee pean th ius "Rhea and ahaa" ee Dire Matte. Soha, who’ he Deon poe alti dalton the tes ae Beet oe ats cence oe fortes nantes saying Bev aa ae ee eli Mr. and Mra: Jumbo Dros, of Laden ape: Several days here Valting. Miran Se eet see at cere Mp ond ara Jansen = Aderacn. are rtf nt ee deat anne OF aa ee recat conse tien nea ore dee et Rep oe at their home, ‘s01L ‘State street, recently. As, the ollaes approach e_seen eri Sts SMALE AARRD TSE cts Te oueht to be proud that he bas should resolve to double bis efforts inthe Sear to come: ‘member of the Pace strive for better things inthe’ coms ingyen" en aMis drone Andrews, iho has been in alnpied' Toe Ntrat weeks 44 mcr in: ‘proved. t9 te delight of het host of ad Rive ttlends. nn © Everybody ts counting the pennies, as tntns Grow into dollars, and. money adds much Seesuige® too one's ‘position. in the Won; but money: tn. onka soconaary Litdtiemtton when placed. alphe side ot Selislocs*acd moval Ranging in ine cons: Trudie: “Ait theke dhinga Work together Tg Sher we eo aa end Sat te 1 Sort enetedreni? Father in°ail tke TikeStwe amacrine | ‘Tuesday night found a large number ot friends. atthe beautiful home of Shd'ates Jamex Whiteley, 3810 Haat Col: By'streei, to witneas the marriage of Mr. Skis Goleman"and Miss Mabel Davis, the Saunt et bee Sean Davia, The young daughter ot rorabiy knows in this city Beer ie ule bese wiance ot thelr matty iMends’ Many "beautifal and Vaiuabie resents were received, Phone Welch Furniture Company for things you need. Ring M 4406, Read the Twentleth Century, Review ata, puiighed monthly at 2418 Bim Bsc Wales, Texas ORDERS RECEIVED DAILy. Orders received daily and delivered to you" The" Always ace Cream and Har onic that makes you beautiful and your hele‘gtom: "Gall of Gr eddvess airs, Wi Cobos Bis Hugo’ street, Dallas, ‘exas, scent. EAST END BAR. ‘The East End bar is where you get cold “beer, \araugnt “or botle, and. ai Grands’ of, bonded liquors, cigars and fo Batovs, “bus boys to deliver your orders Resse might ’Enones Main’ 1045, 2856 Si “treet ‘Dallas, “Peras. Jim’ Pitts, Elm | stre Welch Furniture Company is selling stoves, pipes, elbows, zincs and furnl- ture that pleases. Call M 4406. FOR GOOD WORK. For good work, call Main 3923. G. A. Brown, the presser, clothes cleaner and Tepairer, 4s there to answer. , Work suar- Enteed.” 51014 Commerce street, ‘Dallas, Texas, WANTED. Walter Jackson, aha, left ort Worth, ‘Texas in i903. it tm sald that-he worked Gh Section i. Bear ‘Topeka, Kansas Since that time T' have not heard of ‘him. Business of importance awaits him. Wire or write, anybody who can give me any Information of him, to Robert. ¥. Hall, ee ‘2922 Cochran street. * CLOTHES CLEANED. Your clothes cleaned, pressed and re- paired. ‘Called for and ellvered. \ La~ Eles’ “work a. specialty | Phone, Main S020, “S04 Live Oak atrect, Greegs & Sones, proprietors, Dallas, ‘Texas. GENERAL UPHOLSTERING Repairing and refinishing of, your, ol furniture: office and’ household goods ade to look like new. Work guaranteed. Nine years" experience. Prices. reason- able, “ATHtearn Zig Main street. ele- phone, Haskell 6951, Dallas, ‘Texas DULUTH, MINN. The ‘Social Side of Life. Special to THE FREEMAN. ‘One of the pretty social events of the week was the third annual banquet given Tuesday evening by the members of the Appomattox Club at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Speers, 617 Fifth avenue, east. ‘The rooms Were’ effectively | decorated with “flowers, small yellow’ chrysanthe- mums belng used in the living room, gold- en narelssus in the dining room and fine ‘American Beauty roses in the hall and Ballroom. A ‘program ‘was given during the banquet and included a piano solo by Mrs. D.C, Brown, a talk on “Success in Our Club" by George Adams, president; a paper by Mrs, W. J. Posey on “Wom- enle Rights"s ‘monoionua sketch, “The Irish Philosopher.” by B. Stokes. ‘After the bangust-the, ta part’ of the evening in fand. aanc- ing. ‘The musi was furnished by the Ap- pomattox orchestra. Among those pres- ent were Mr. and Mrs, 1%. B. Speers, Mr. ‘and Mrs. Maupins, Mr. and Mrs. Adams, ‘Mr, and Mrs. Posey, Mr. and Mrs. Brown, Mr, “Eugene, Waters, r. Karl Smith, Mr. ‘Bugene MeCoy and Mr. Herald Stokes... ‘Mrs. Adams Perry and daughter, of Tiv- anston, Mik, who have been. visiting her father, J, N. Richey, of 115 Bast Fifth street, left last week for thhir home... Mr. Walter Hazell, of 619 Fifth avenue, east, who fell-and broke his ankle two weeks ago, is much better....The Sunday School of St. Mark's A.M "iz. church is planning to present a Christmas cantata in'the parlors of the church, Fifth ave- nue, east, and Sixth street,” during the hollaays....Rev, Timothy Tyler, who has been pastor of St. Mark's A. M, , church for a year anda half, has sent in his resignation to the presiding elder of the St. Paul district. ‘The pastor is charged with drunkenness, Members of the con- Eregation demanded his resignation, and the board has coneluded that such action Is proper. A resolution, was presented to the advisory board of the church, asking for the Immediate removal of the pastor. ‘copy of the resolution has. been. for- Warded to Bishop B. F. Lee, of the Afri- Can Methodist dlocese, who is at Wilber- force, Ohio, and to the presiding elder of the St. Paul district WEST BADEN SPRING ATHLETIC CLUB STILL DOING BUSINESS. Kid Fields of Indianapolis Knocked Cold. Special to The Freeman, ‘Just a few lines for your paper to let the ‘sporting public know ‘that the West Baden Springs Athlete Club is still do- ing ‘business. Our last show, (December 10) Was a great success. The boxing fans were treated {0 three lively bouts. The first preliminary saw. Young Upton of Rhode Island xo down in defeat acter One minute of fast, fizhting with Mutt White of this elty.. ‘The semi-windup Te- Sulted ‘In a hard-fought draw between Battling Ben Offutt of Mt Vernon, Ind.. and K. 0. Stillman of Evansville, Ind. The main go of eight rounds brought to- kether Kid. Fields of Indianapolis and Billy McClure, claimant of ‘the feather- welght championship of the State. ‘The latter, after handing Fields a terrific lacing “in every ‘round, succeeded in Knocking ‘him cold “in the last of the eighth. ‘Our next show in all probability will feature One Round Bess of, your city and Billy MeClure. MeClure fs willing to make a side bet of any amount that One Round’ Bess will getaway with nothing more than the looser’* end” anda few Knots ‘to show that he has been in the ring with a teal boxer. ‘MeClure left the ring after the Fields go without a mark. "Thanking you in advance for your Kindness In publishing, this, 1 am fours truly’, HAL BLACHAM. LOADSTONE. One-half ounce, 4 cents: one ounce, $1.00: three ounces, $2.86; one pound, $10: Bixth and Seventh Books of “Moses, $1, ete. Wester Book Co., 208 Lee street, Montgomery, Ala. CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS. Doctor Rowan in the City—News in General. (By Z. L. 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Postpaid Made and Guaranteed by | Atlanta | In order that our employes may have the benefit of shorter hours } } and no night work this store will not be open on Saturday nights after } | Jan. 1, 1914. We ask our friends to co-operate and shop early. i De ee! | NOTICE! e ‘ What the Women of Indianapolis | | and Surrounding Towns Should Know THESE ARE LOUD-TALKING VALUES WITH THE PRICE ALMOST A WHISPER That the sale has been continued of nifty up-to-date SHOES which actu- ally were made to sell at $5.00, $4.50, $4.00 and $3.50 : At MAROTTS ——= LET IT BE SAD THAT Commencing tomorrow, Friday morning and Saturday, we will place on sale a delayed shipment of equally wonderful bargains in ladies’ shoes on our fourth floor reduced price department FRIDAY and SATURDAY Black Velvet Gray Gunmetal cme e Leathers (eee For Your : Choice Add Parcel Postage for Out-of-Town Orders On Our 4th floor Bargain Department SPECIAL XMAS OFFER HOLIDAY SLIPPERS $3.50 satin sia pas pink, blue, white and black_---—- $2.29 Marott’s Shoe Sh 18and 20 Washington Street---East to $1,000....Are you doing anything for the race?.:, Mrs. Benson Maze died at her home, 709 North 14th street, wednes- ier omnes gat 20 oclock. Her death Was due {0 a stroke of. paralysis. The Yeceased was born on December 25 over $s°years ago, near Smithville, Mo. She had been a resident of that locality until the moved to this clty three years ago. She was, a member of the A. M. EL Stureh. Besides her husband she is sur- Gived by the following children: | Ben- Son, Eugene, Mrs. Arsene Walker and son. yosephine Davis, all of this city. Funeral services were held at the A. M. E. chureh. Mr. Simon officiated. ...Mr. G, C. Lee 1s sick at his residence, 403 Bast White street....Z. L. Breedlove will visit the following places during the holidays: Monticello, Decatur and. Spring. Mr. C. Phillips of Monticello was "In the Clty last week....The Colored Calen- dar, 1914, ‘put out by the Crisis, is, for ealé at 32 North Hickory” street... Miss Marie Dyer is convalescent.._ Mira, C: J Jordan is recovering after a spell of sickness... Mr. C,H. Ashby of Nash- Tenn. is in Champaign, being 3 mma Parker, Si Vine avenue. Bund er, $11 Vine avenue.” Blind Boone Concert Company Ss in tis distye third ‘season’ before the: public. ‘The bisa Platt, Sohn ‘Lange, is manager’ ‘Mine jcc. ‘Bronius, meas soprano, and, Mise Honma Smith soprano, wil appear at the Univers Place ural church, January 1s, 1514. Bveryone , should. “heat Wonderful pianist." The Jobnson four ‘rohedtra. will piay’ for the Ivanhoe Decatuf iil, “December 25-7-" Buy The F, ebay ipecetan, Ih, Decsatier 2--: THE FREEMAN NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT 220 W. VERMONT STREET. INDIANAPOLIS . INDIANA. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Any part of the United States one $4.99 per month paid. $1.50 $8.50 Three Months. Foreign Countries, include: Canada $10. Send money to Canada money order, post- address order or registered letter. Agents wanted in every town and city not now occupied, and liberal inducements will be given to the same. Send for our extraordinary ADVERTISING RATES Ten cents per line. Base of measure - solid agate, 14 lines to an inch, 276 inches. No column. No column. Additional. No advertisement inserted on first page. Special rates on standing professionals for long time and space. Reading notices 100 per line. Special rates on "write ups." Entered at the postoffice at Indianapolis, Ind., as second class matter. GEORGE L. KNOX, PUBLISHER AND MANAGING EDITOR. ELWOOD C. KNOX. BUSINESS MANAGER. New Phone 2880. SATURDAY, DEC. 20, 1913. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION We take pleasure in presenting our readers our Christmas issue. Kindly look it over and let us hear from you. Not the gift so much but the giving Then with Richard Realf: Great are the symbols of being, but that which is symboled is greater. Vast the create and beheld, but vaster the inward creator. Back of the sound broods the silence back of the gift stands the giving. Back of the hand that receives thrills the sensitive nerves of receiving. THE "FINN'S" PROFESSIONAL HEADQUARTERS. And the Woman Who Runs It With a System. The pathway is level that leads to the "Finus Professional Hotel," at 531% Indiana avenue. The hotel is a Warrior has conducted this place for actors and actresses in such a systematic way ever since she first opened the place in the interest of the actors. She has all over the country about the way she gives board. Miss Criswell of the team of Criswell and Bailey stated while here that the Warrior gave the best service so far as boarding and lodging is concerned of any person that she knew of throughout the country. He was to say that I am generally treated just the same as I would be at Mary E. We are now in the State of Iowa. All are enjoying the best of health. The bunch sends regards to all friends in and out of the state. Prof. L. K. Baker's band is getting them on each parade. Mr. Cook, of the team of Cook and Stevens, was playing at the Madison, in Waterloo, and paid at the Madison, in Waterloo, are cleaning up everywhere we play. Mr. Alex Parker, our orchestra leader, teaches his students. Our stage manager, Ed Hum, has spared no pain in producing a grand and gorgeous orchestra, and has been working to both old and young. He sends best regards to Prof. James Wolf-scales and family, as Mary Jane, is a scream. Also Terry and Henderson, in their bunch of nonsense, are scoring a Burlesque can boast of many clever, entertaining acts, as Jean Bedini's production of the "Mischief Makers," which is of this season's crop and which will appear at the annual festival beginning with the usual Monday matinee. Mr. Bedini has a long string of successes, and he is far the most elaborate he has yet presented. It is divided into two parts, with an all-star olio of acts such as the "Mischief Makers," which takes up the first half of the entertainment, was written by Ned Nye, who every evening down the second half, was furnished by Jean Bedini himself. Of course, the accents are unputrefied with sonnets that are MAY WHITMAN'S GROUP. Players of Class—Now On a Successful Vaudeville Tour. The Whitman brand of players (see pictures elsewhere) has been referred to as one of excellence. It is right. Of that intelligent bunch of Whitman sisters it is thought that that May May was the most clever of them, however, that may be, she is a very clever representative of the stage. She has done very much for the profession to which MAY W Box Office THE MARRIAGE MAY WHITMAN, Box Office Winner. she belongs, preparing young people for a useful career in that line. She says that those who have listened and obeyed her advice are the most prominent in the profession others are coming along nicely. One can judge of her stage craft when she is in the company of Aaron, that new George Walker; also of Sammie, who is in the comedian class. Where a nact has played before when audiences see her, Ms. Mishwit has played in houses Compliments of the BESSIE EL Vaudeville's Daintiest Dancing Soubre Featuring in all big Vaudeville Houses the D. O. K. Time. Address "The Fre Yours truly Bessie Edington Vaudeville's Daintiest Dancing Soubrette Featuring in all big Vaudeville Houses in the United States. Now Playing the D. O. K. Time. Address "The Freeman." not only capital and catch, but presented with all the snap, go and ginger possible. The company selected is one of unusual presenation, including six players. Nat Frankel, Jean Delnin, Norma Brown, Lew Harris, Tommy Carter, Jimmy Cooper, Earl Gates, Ray Shirley, comedienne, Helen Lorraine, Marian Gates, Helen Stanley and others of equal note. None of burlesque's stars possesses a more engaging personality than that owned by (Senator) Francis Murphy. He certainly captures attention with his Ger- fairland. "The Spender," with Florence Laurence "From Dark Till Dawn," Sellman and Jackson, Washington favor. Las week, Murphy and Walker, Nuff said. The Grand. Usual run of good pictures, refine vaudeville. The Navy. Madame Pauline Crompton and Bill Bailey in songs and dances scored here. Lots of good pictures, also featured the bill here. Wishes a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, in addition to Out of the Profession. "Fatty" Holden, as he is better known, who retired on account of ill health may be back in the profession in the near future. He is a well known comedian who A. E. VERNOR P. (FAT) HOLDEN, Comedian. has made thousands laugh. He hopes to make them laugh some more. Holden is now connected with J. C. Pearson, the director of this Studio is becoming rapidly known for its good work. Acts contemplating playing this city needing lobby display will do to wait and see him. He holds or good pictures at figures to suit. While playing Cincinnati Susie Sutton was entertained by Princess Ostanki and her mother, the evening being spent enjoyably in songs and dances, so he must admit that no one cared to dance with him but the Princess. Miss Sutton is this week at the Star Theater, Pittsburg, Philadelphia and Washington to follow. WASHINGTON (D. C.) THEATERS. Holiday week, beginning in rotation; on Tuesday the 16th at 10h, Honor at Stake from the smallest to the greatest, and where she can repeat. She is insistent that what is said of her is truthfully said, and that she can be satisfied with the truth said of her. She is a performer, a producer, knowing every phase of the stage business, like the other Whitmans, she stands for the last word in the business. Everything must be proper about her. Her own costumes are not excelled by her, and she is not a part of race. One may feel proud of Miss Whitman, very proud in that she stands HITMAN, e Winner. for the stage at the very best. The boys are kept in splendid repair, due to her watchful presence, nothing escapes her, nor her consequence. In dressy, neat, classy, she herself is of splendid build, which with her rich costume, offenses. Off the stage Mist Whitman is of good appearance, of gracious and charming manners. Making friends seems to be a part of her. She wishes her friends a happy Christmas and a Happy New eyar. Season to Everybody Yours Truly Bessie Colington DGINGTON. atte in the United States. Now Playing erman." "The Spender," with Florence Laurence; "From Dark Till Dawn," Sellman and Jackson, Washington, favorites. Last week, Murphy and Walker. Nuff said. **The Grand** Usual run of good pictures, refined vaudeville. **The Navy.** Madame Pauline Crompton and Bill Balley in songs and dances scored here, Lots of good pictures, also featured the Sellman and Jones, a classy team; also another good team in a piano act which was a scream. A great collection of pictures, featuring the drama. The Chelsea. Glenn and Brogsdale in their second week were O. K. and just a little bit better. The feature picture, "The Test," was great. England and Africa provided the music, and the daughter of the Under World" deserves mention. We wish all a Merry Xmas. 10 TOMMY CARTER, Of Taylor-Farrell Trio—Coming to the Majestic Theater Next Week. CINCINNATI (O.) THEATRICAL NOTES. Notwithstanding the fact that Bert Williams, the greatest entertainer before the American public is, at the Keen Theater this week, and Tommy Carter, another Cincinnati favorite, is heading a big company at the Olympic Theater, and the Primrose & Dockstainer Minstrels are at the Ground Open House, the little Pekin, on Fifth street, them away with two high-class acts. Walker and Green are the curtain raisers, with a red- bot, sizzling turn, that was just made to order for the Pekin patrons. Earl Walk- THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. 521 Indiana Avenue Indianapolis, Indiana THE HOUSE OF GOOD SHOWS! CROWN GARDEN OFFICERS: TIM E. OWSLEY, Manager and Proprietor. [Name] H. C. OWSLEY, Advertising Manager. ED S. GAILLARD, Assistant Manager. MISS MILDRED KELLEY, Usher. A. THE P VERSAT FAST FURIOUS ASTIDIOUS IN REPERTOIRE OF ACTS Introducing singing, dancing, talking William Lewis Proprietor of THE MINERAL Introducing singing, dancing, talking, juggling, acrobatics, roller skating 3517 State Street, Chicago, Ill. Sends greeting of a Merry Christmas and a Year to all its patrons, and will give each la greeting on New Year's Eve. High-class or nightly. First-class service. Sends greeting of a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all its patrons, and will give each lady a souvenir greeting on New Year's Eve. High-class entertainment nightly. First-class service. er made his first appearance here in a number of years, but he has not gone to handle it. This Fifth street busch, and when he brought Miss Green along, then he drew the capital prize. The closing number is billed as May Whitman and Pigeon, but it looks like the May Whitman Company, because it is a real big act, with everybody doing something out of the ordinary. We can recommend this bill all along the line. Notes Mr. Robert Mallory, of the Dunhair Theater, of Dayton, O., took a run down the early part of the week to look up some good acts. Mr. Bert Williams will return to New York Sunday for an indefinite run at the Palace Theater. Mr. Marion Brooks, manager of the Lincoln Theater, announces Christmas Eve as the opening date of the new house. It is said to be one of the prettiest little play houses in the West. Those Gales, the well-known performer, has been engaged as stage manager. They will have lady ushers in uniforms. The opening bill has not been decided on. LOOK! NOTICE! You can find The Indianapolis Freeman in Durham, N. C., at 118 Cora street. For sale by Calllain White. MRS. HELEN OWSLEY, Cashier and Treasurer. A. E. J. B. OWSLEY, Stage Manager. PETER H. BURGESS GEORGE SANDERS, House Policeman. MISS RUTH JOHNSON, Usher. D. EWEES FILE DUO KUTE LEVER RUNNING SPRINGS CAFE et, Chicago, Ill., Christmas and a Happy New will give each lady a souvenir. High-class entertainment Mr. Marion Brooks, manager of the Lincoln Theater, announces Christmas Eve as the opening date of the new house. It is said to be one of the prettiest little play houses in the West. Thos. S. S. Brooks, the manager, has been engraved as stage manager. They will have lady ushers in uniforms. The opening bill has not been decided on. You can find The Indianapolis Freeman in Durham, N. C., at 118 Cora street. For sale by Claillne White. W. A. KELLEY, Violinist and Director. FRANK CLAY, Cornetist. A. E. JOHN TYLER, Drummer. REAL BURLESQUE MAJOR Week of Dec. 22: Jean PRICES 10c Performers—Sing THE "1914 SO Good Bye, I'm Going to Take This M and music by Harrison John Don't—Don't—Don't Watch for my next "add"—Nuff said. Banjo Taught By Eureka Method without notes. Or may the banjo immediately, also on address on receipt of 25c. Address E Milwaukee, Wis. "Good Bye, I'm Going to Take This Midnight Choo-Choo Cannonball." Words and music by Harrison Johnson—Stage name—Mack Stacy. Don't—Don't—Don't side-step this "hit." Watch for my next "add"—Nuff said. Be ready to send for professional copies. Banjo Taught in One Lesson by Eureka Method without notes. Complete instructions how to tune and play the banjo immediately, also one tune fully explained. Mailed to any address on receipt of 25c. Address EUREKA BANJO STUDIO, 826 Booth St. Milwaukee, Wis. Pastime Theatre W. D. PRATT, Owner and Man Will book first-class vaudeville acts and good wardrobes. We play Joyous Xmas and Happy, Pros Huggs W. D. PRATT, Owner and Manager, Box 247, Greenville, Tex. Will book first-class vaudeville acts, teams or singles. Must have clean acts and good wardrobes. We play stock. Write at once. Joyous Xmas and Happy, Prosperous New Year to Everybody. Writers of Headline Hits Songs—Plays—Sketches. 103 W. 132d Street. NEW YORK Wanted SHEESLEY an Greater Performers wh Real Ten SHEESLEY and HOFFMAN'S Greater Minstrels Performers who double brass Real Tenor Singer Novelty act to feature anything that can make good with the best minstrel show on earth A. E. [Name] HARLAND ELBERT, Electrician. MATINEEE DAILY Fendi's Mischief Makers. 5c AND 50c ers—Entertainers SENSATION" Light Choo-Choo Cannonball." Words —Stage name—Mack Stacy. Step-step this "hit." ready to send for professional copies. In One Lesson complete instructions how to tune and tune fully explained. Mailed to any EKA BANJO STUDIO, $26 Booth St. rger, Box 247, Greenville, Tex. teams or singles. Must have clean back. Write at once. arous New Year to Everybody. Heard 3159 State Street. CHICAGO HOFFMAN'S Minstrels double brass or Singer GOSSIP OF THE STAGE Joe and Mae Simms at the Family Theater, Moline, Ill. Tim and Hester Moore are making good at the Crown Garden, Indianapolis, this week. Sam Evans, ventriloquist, is at the Baby Theater, Louisville, Ky., this week. became so ill at Dayton that he had to go to a hospital. He is at the St. Elijah abeth. The new Bijou Theater, Durham, S. C. opens Saturday, December 20, and a performers that wish to play this hour should send their open time to Claborn White, stage manager, who would lift to hear from them. Address all mail All acts wanting comedy, ragtime or sentimental songs, write Chas. Nickerson, care of Freeman. The Colemans, George and Nana, still working this week. December 15 Star Theater, Pittsburgh, Pa. Leon the Magician is playing the Dunbar Theater this week with much success. Lincoln Theater, Cincinnati, next week. Bessie Edgington and her dog Pickles are at the Crown Garden, Indianapolis, this week. Bessie is dancing; so is Pickles. Anita Wilkins, soprano, after two success engagements at Dayton and Columbus, O., has returned to her home in Peru, Ind. Williams & Stevens and their flock of eighteen people will open for the Palm Garden Amusement Co., Boston, Mass., December 29. Lottie Grady, the well-known performer, is at the Crown Garden Theater this week. She was received according to her splendid talents. The Colored Trio, Paul Ruth and Nette are at the Crown Theater, Dallas, Texas, on the second week in January, over the D. O. K. time. The Pewes are in their second week at the Dixieland Theater, Charleston, S. C., and open at the Aldrone, Columbia, S. C., December 29, for several weeks. Easton and Easton have closed their two weeks engagement in the Iroquois Theater, open at for two weeks at the Rosebud Theater, New Orleans, La. Glas. Anderson has closed eleven successive weeks in Canada and northern Michigan, and is now on the Dudley time, with seven weeks to follow. Regards to Stveter Russell. Miner & Bryant played the last half of last week at the Crescent Theater, at Dover, N. 15, 16, and 17. Brooklyn, N. Y., Whitney Theater, 18, 19 and 20. A. Lincoln Harris and Sidra P. Butler are the headliners at the Dumbar Theater, Dayton, O., this week, and are going to play at the Miami play, players something new in colored vaudeville, R. H. Mallory is manager. Freeman, Harper and Freeman are at the Crown Garden, Indianapolis, this week. The act is winning. The burglar stunt is especially good. The female member of the team leads additional interest. Dink and Alien Stewart found it necessary to leave their sick brother at Dayton, O. Those two boys had been carrying him right along with them, but he GET THIS MAGICAL BARGAIN Trunk containing Magician's outfit, outfitted with a large billiard ball, card and slate tricks. Also three magicians tables, thirty other stage tricks and lot of magical apparatus. A Great Bargain for Someone. Wanted. **EAGLE TRADES COMPANY** 8th and Chandler. Evansville, Ind. GREAT BARGAINS AND 2ND-BAND SCENERY ALL MODERATE CONVENIENCES Burbecued Meats of All Kinds, Night and Day. VIOLET DUDLEY 5 South 23rd Street. St. Louis, Mo. (Opposite Booker Washington Theater) BOULEVARD THEATRE Lake Charles, La. Seating capacity over 700; large stage, and good stage setting; no better colored theater in state. We wish to hear from all good stock companies. Write us. Color position 8,000. We do not position 8,000. phone calls or telegrams. D. O. D. receive Looking for a situation Do You Need One Or is YOUR PICTURE THEATER Paying Your IF NOT WHY NOT Then drop a card or a letter and let me know, for I am just the man you want, as I have had years of Experience in the Theater Business and I know just what to do. What if I do your worrying and build up your trade, by putting your Theater on a good paying basis again. Address— BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 244 Gratio Ave. Detroit, Mich. Care Vaudette or 83 Cathern St. FOR SALE On account of the Manager's health 14 New Born N. G. first class house; only colored house in of six thousand colored people; seating capacity, four hundred. Every thing good not bad. We will not be spent before putting on the show. Terms reasonable to the right parties. Address W. A. McGowan Wilmington N. C. No experience necessary. Positions pay $65 to $100.00 per month. Steady work on stand- railroads. Passes and Uniforms furnished when necessary. Write now. Inter-Ry. C. I., Dent. 171, Indianapolis, Ind became so ill at Dayton that he had to go to a hospital. He is at the St. Elizabeth. The new Bliou Theater, Durham, S. C. opens Saturday. He will wish to play this house should send their open time to Claiborne White, stage manager, who would like to hear from them. Address all mail to 118 Cora street, Durham, N. At the Crown Garden, Indianapolis, the full collection of the Foster photo plays has been shown in one house. Each picture is a decided hit. They are, "The Girl," "The Butter," "The Grafters and the Girl," and "six others." Immediately after the first show, Managers Goodman & Smith, of the Auditorium Theater, requested that the Abyssinian Christmas week, The Abyssinian Trio wishes for the D. O. K. management, The Freeman and friends "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year." William Foster, the photo play man of Chicago, requested that this week after his picture interests, Mr. Foster has several pictures now being done in colored theaters. At the Cora street theater, there is a rim an interesting little playlet of his, having all colored characters. Harry Long, who recently underwent a serious operation at the Northwestern Hospital, Chicago, he was recovering from surgery, and he was Miss Frances, his friend, Mrs. Alexander, his kind landlady, and Sylvester Russell, who kept his brother Leon informed during his engagement with the Crown Garden Theater Indianapolis. A good likeness of Martin and Motely, in "The Porter and the Maid," will be seen elsewhere in this issue. They are the originals of this act, a fact they wish to remember. And of course, this has a tendency to cheapen their work. Martin and Motely are the team that plays "The Porter and the Maid" as it should be—the first ones to play it. William Dorsey, musical director of the new honors recital for cards of sympathy during his late bereavement. Mr. Dorsey's wife, Elizabeth Hart Dorsey, receives cards for cards of sympathy stolen from her trunk on its way to McVicker's Theater, where she was filling an engagement, directly after her return from her mother-in-law's funeral. A woman in a white dress and a wide-brimmed hat, holding a book, is seated in a chair. MISS LAURA SMITH Stage Manager and Producer at Alcasar Stage KING VENERABLE AND OWNES. Greatest in Vaudeville. ON THE COLORED CONSOLIDATED TIME. Monogram, Chicago—Virgil Richards Johnson & Johnson Cleveland—Cleveland-Blondie Robinson The Covettes; Dewey & Crosby. Criek, Kansas City—Citry Whitman Whitman, Picks. Crown Garden, IndianapolisMAtylorite Duo; U. S. Thompson; Kinky Doo Trio. Duo; U. S. Thompson; Dayton; Edwards & Hardee; Venable & Columbus; Edwards & Dunbar; Columbus—Johnson & Robinson; Push & Pugh. Ruby, Louisville—Joffrey & Delyons, Lachlan, The Hottent Girl's Pekin, Cheltnat—Freeman Harper Freeman Trai; Ricks & Talbert. Unique, Detroit—Bessie Edgington Walker & Green. Booker Washington, St. Louis-May Whitman & Picks; Stone & Stone; J Stone Metropolitan, Memphis—Jeffrey Delyon; Jonas Clarkkinson; Hester Kenton; Chuck Dickerson New & Purchase New Monogram, Chicago—Mastin & Green. AS I PERSONALLY KNOW S. H. DUDLEY Mr. S. H. Dudley is a wonderful man—too wonderful for me to even try to write a book. He will look at him as I have, they will see him laying aside self and making it possible for many to be working whereas they would have little efforts organization a colored tie can work thirty-eight weeks between the eastern and western Colored Consolidated Exchange, the Eastern Consolidated Exchange, and has not only helped the actors, but the managers as well. A few more "Dudley" and the combination of success worked. OWN A CARD OF THANKS. Providence, R. I., December 14. My Dear Mr. Knox, I will will will you please announce through the columns of your valuable paper my name and the name of my imbue, friends for, their THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER. Criswell and Bailey—None Better. Ora Criswell and Loura Bailey. Just the names are enough identification for this team, the greatest of all colored female sister teams in vanadie today. Mice Criswell can be remembered as the leading lady with the Georgia Campers CRISWELL A Popular Players Having S CRISWELL AND BAILEY, Regular Players Having Success Everywhere The B. K. K. K. CRISWELL AND BAILEY, Popular Players Having Success Everywhere They Go. for a while and as one of the features in that there would be no getting Ernest Hogan's Oysterman Company thank each and every knoote. She is also known as the best female have been in the business without a one cross word. Miss Laura Bailey, an old performer, well known to the profession as the little musical. For seven seasons she was a member of the Black Sabbath member of the "Moonshiner's Daughter" Company, a white company that plays playing a prominent part also. [Portrait of a man in a suit with a bow tie]. MR. R. Owner and manager of the Gem Theatre portant factor in the livelihood of ma H. D. Starring in the Great Eastern MR. R. F. BELL, manager of the Gem Theater, Lexington, Ky., h in the livelihood of many acts. H. DRAKE ing in the Great Eastern Vaudeville and S Owner and manager of the Gem Theater, Lexington, Ky., has been an important factor in the livelihood of many acts. H. DRAKE Starring in the Great Eastern Vaudeville and Stock Co. If any other comedian has made more people laugh than H. Drake, it is because he has been longer on the stage. Drake's mission in life is frankly to give the people enough genial nonsense of one kind or another to make them lose their tribes, temporarily at least in this he has kind letters of sympathy during my recent illness. I am happy to state that I am a comedian in a mid-indisposition and shortly after the holidays I shall appear in a limited number of vaudeville engagements for the balance of the current season. In the season of 1914-15 my managers are arranging for a new three-act musical comedy with an educational production to given at the better class of the theaters in the United States and Canada. I would thank you to run the above runs with one of my cuts which you have on hand. Enclosed please find copy for an advertisement for which you can send the bill. For which you may send me the bill. "A WORD FOR M. KLEIN." Too much can not be said for Manager M. Klein of the Monogram Theater, Chicago, ill. He and Mr. Miller have met many times over the last week to their bookings, in the time when they needed it the most. Mr. Klein is also the manager and director of Vaudeville Exchange. In this position he is placed as a target for many hard words, both from managers of different houses or if they are managers as well as the actors, would give and for seven years owner of the one and only Cubanola Trio, which has played almost all the big time circuits. She is known also as a producer and originator. She has worked with Oro Criswell, clients, Oro Criswell and Laura Bailey, wholesale and retail dealers in comedy and music, also authors of eight distinct copyrighted acts, none of which conflict with another either in its costumes, music or setting. It was when Criswell and Bailey handed hands AND BAILEY, success Everywhere They Go. that there would be no getting along. We thank each and every knocker that we have been working together for over one year, and that we have not laid off but two weeks since we we've been together, and that was owing to a spell of sickness which caused Miss Cristina to end just the same, and by the looks of the contracts coming in we may never lay off. We wish all in and out of the happy Christmas and a happy New Year. F. BELL, ater, Lexington, Ky., has been an im- my acts. RAKE ern Vaudeville and Stock Co. few superiors. He has appeared in numerous theaters as a vaudeville and variety star, and now teaming with Massie Walker, who has the sweet voice of a nightingale. Drake and Walker are wishing all their friends, in and out of the profession, a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. him consideration, which is right due one undergoing their pleasures and displeasures, they would find him responsible for more good deeds than bad ones. more than or not to satisfy the whims of a notion to contact with at all times. Try it once yourself. THE UNIQUE THEATER, DETROIT, MICH. Week of December 15. The Clovets Henrietta Hayden Brown and the Sherman Flots. will bill at the Unique this week. Miss Hayden Brown has a very classy line of songs and a big guitar will pop up the bill at the Unique next week. The Clovets are a bit high class compared to what we have been getting. But the songs are still very good. The brings some big laughs and Miss Shepherd always has up-to-date songs and pictures. The performers coming to Detroit should stop at the Sherman Flots. No. 10. third floor. Rufus Z. Peake will always meet you at the theater. Special rates to Young ladies wish position as chorus girls with company. Write Wharton Stats and Indianapolis Presbyterian. William A. Stevens, Presbyterian Theater, Philadelphia, Pa. WANTED Main Office 3123 South State Street, Chicago, Illinois. The Colored Consolidated Vaudeville Bookings Implies the Best in Colored Vaudeville. Always Striving to be Distinctive and Artistic, and Deserving of Patronage of the Most Discerning. Managers who are Not Connected with the Colored Consolidated Exchange. Now is the Time Headline Acts for the Colored Consolidated Vaudeville Exchange: Acts—The week you want is not always open, but there are 52 weeks, also 365 days in a year, so write another day for another week. Small houses can not pay fancy salaries, but they do and can pay big salaries according to the size of each house. Write or wire your open time for 1914. Address TIM E. OWSLEY, President. MR. CHAS. H. TURPIN, The prince of managers and owner of the largest colored theater in the Middle West. Known as the Booker Washington Theater, 23rd and Market Streets, St. Louis, Mo. MR. A. BARRASSO. The Wealthy southern manager and owner of the Metropolitan Theater, Memphis, Tenn., who has made it possible for colored acts to receive the same salary South as in the East or West. MR. E. B. DUDLEY, Manager and owner of the Dudley's Dunbar Theater, Columbus, O., who has in his own way made his theater a paving proposition. THE FAMILY OF THE WESTERN WOMEN EDWARDS AND HARDEE Refreshing and Clever. M. KLEIN, Manager and Treasurer. MR. WM. B. LOWHORN, Manager and owner in partnership with Attorney B. B. Buckley, of the Pekin Theater, Dayton, O., has made it possible for colored acts to add one more week to their bookings. A. B. The congenial actor-manager of the S. H. Dudley Ruby Theater, Louisville, Ky., knows the game from A to Z, and has proved the fact in many ways. MR. A. A. MONCREIF, Manager of the Rose Bud Theater, New Orleans, La., who in the distance South has the most modern equipped colored theater in the U. S. A. TIM AND HESTER MOORE, The One Big Hit. 5 S. H. DUDLEY, Secretary. MR. OLLIE DEMPSEY, Manager and owner of the Pekin Theater, Cincinnati, O., who in the last five years has been the means of livelihood for many colored acts. ONIS WILLIAMS, Manager of Unique Theater, Detroit, Mich. Through his efforts he has made it possible for another week for colored acts. MR. EDELMAN. The manager and owner of the Alpha Theater, Cleveland, O., which is the gateway to the East and West. A. MISS LILLIAN SMITH, Stenographer for the Colored Consolidated Vaudeville Exchange. GOSSIP OF THE STAGE Charles Nickerson is at Dayton, Ohio, this week. Lee Langster has been taking off a musical act down at the Gayety. The Burns, Sandy and Gretchen, are still in Mobile, Ala., at the Pike theater. Prof. T. L. P. H. Davis singing this week at the Apollo theater, Indianapolis. Having usual success. Easton and Easton, in comedy sketch act, have made a hit at the Iroquois theater, New Orleans, La. Little Johnny Jones and Eva Moore at the Star theater, turrensburg, Pa. December 15, with Philadelphia to follow. U. B. O. tme. LaJoy and Philadelphia are the big noise at the Star in Shreveport, La., and have been going good during their stay of three weeks. They are at the ville nice down. Might nice down. Gerrys to all in and out. C. L. Erickson, manager of the Famous Alabama Minstrels, asks those who answered his last ad to write him at 22 Glenwood street, Warren, Warren, as all men in Texas has been waterbound for over a week, thus delaying a mail in mail. All answered. UNITED IN WEDLOCK Mrs. Maud Singleton and Mr. Edward Jay Brown Married at Toledo, O. Mrs. Maud Singleton and Mr. Edward Jay Brown, known to the theatrical world as the "Broadway Babe," or, were united in marriage to Toledo, O. December 9. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have just concluded a season of the season and are now busy with their new act, which they soon expect to produce in various theaters. Re-commends good luck and prosperity to the dear old Freeman. WHAT'S WHAT ON THE S. H. DUDLEY CIRCUIT Week of December 15. Washington, D. C.—S. H. Dudley the actor. Lew W. Henry, manager; Daisy Martin, Brown and Brown, Chas. Anderson. Washington, D. C.—Foraker theater. Davis Bros. managers: Sellman and Jackson. Richmond, Va.—Hip-poppin' heater, W. J. Coulter, manager; S. H. Dudley and company, Cecil Watts, The Butlers, Forfolk, Va.—Globe theater, J. Var Burkhead; Sunny Dixie Minstrels. Philadelphia, Pa.—Auditorium theater John, Pa.—Auditorium theater and Tur- nine Cooke and Gilliam and others. Danville, Va.—Columbia theater, W. A. Cooke, Perrin and Blank Finley. Pittsburgh, Pa.-Star theater, Abe Minsky, manager: Susie Sutton, Two Sweets, Bert Kennet and company. Morris Whimper, theater, Morris Whimper, manager: The Woodens Madam Fairfax, Goodie and Delk. Wilson, N. C.-Globe theater, J. F. Johnson, theater, W. T. Lynchburg, Va.-Ford's theater, W. T. Johnson, manager: Watts and Willis. The colored theater in Bluefield will open December 10 on the Dudley time of Fridaysville. UNION SPRINGS, ALA. Sunday, December 4, in Montgomery, Ala. The Great Adams, Florida Blossoms show since June 30, was joined by his wife, Katherine, and his daughter, Olivia (Libby) Sims, from Macon, Ga. The Great Adams and Eve gave the entire company a taste of five gallons of eggnog and chocolate cake. Mr. Adams also delivered a toast that they appropriate and celebrate with five gallons of eggnog and chocolate cake. Toast. Here's to the Florida Blossoms Show. The owner has not and will you you your doubly. And its owner, Mr. Peter Worthey, a quiet hearted man, who keeps her heart. Will gladly do you a favor, whenever he Will gladly do you a favor whenever he can. The entire company, both men and women. May sometimes quarrel and fight? Yet when one or more gets sick When they come forth and help them financially. And in every other way possible treat them right. So, let's drink up and trust to lock. That future conditions may even be better. That the success of the show will never occur. Mr. Peter Worther, owner Florida Blossoms Company, is expected to return to the show in C. Williams, advance agent, who acts as manager during Mr. Worther's absence, deserves great credit. Mr. Worther, the successful showman, Will Melton, our secretary, also deserves plenty of credit. Mr. Sam Cohen is our popular animateur. Mr. Pony Fisher, our unexcelled stage manager and eleven of our best friends, goes up to a high standard for everywhere we play the Florida Blossoms show gets the credit for being best. Lony Fisher and Tom Scott, principal comedians, have no superiors. Miss Nellie Mathews, contertionist, and the Great Adams, cyclist, are the novelty acts Ethel Cox, our leading lady, shows special class when it comes to talking and is also some singer. December 1 will also be Brown and wife Pam Mitchell, who are no longer playing the Pike theater. Mobile, Ala. The band is composed of Prof. Shilds, cornet and bandmaster George Crump, cornet; cornet; Geo. Ross, keyboard; James Williams, trom- bone; Joe Miller, tuba; Joe Patton, baritone; Bose Reese, clarinet; Sam alto; Warren Thornton, drum; Harry Fisher and Warren Trum, drum; Harry Jef- who is expected to leave December 15 to Miss. Miss Molly Cole, bass; Fisher and the Folk Bombs Band, un- completed everywhere. complimented everyone C. E. McPherson and Will Davis are doing nice work. ahead of the show doing nice work. The Florida Blossoms Show is one of the most reliable two-car shows on the road and is meeting with the best of suc- cess. Buddy Hill, chef, is making everybody fat by feeding us so much good grub. Sam Catlett, our clever scene artist and electrician, is worthy of being with any All send best regards to friends in and out of the profession. We also deeply appreciate the hard work of the theatrical profession, and we gladly welcome it at all times. Yours theatrical with best wishes, FLORIDA BLOBSOMS COMPANY. BY GREAT ADAMS NOTES OF FAMOUS ALABAMA MINSTRELS. Waterbound at La Grange, Texas. for three days, caused us to lose seven towns. Our band is composed of Elwood Johnson, band leader and cornet; Will Randall, Albert Hutt, Carl Daniels, Will Davis, cornetists; Harry Walk, Hank Cox, clarinetists; Happy Wallburg, Eversley Everly, Dick Stewart, trombones; Wallace Peterson, A. J. McFarland and E. Cheatham William Daniels, Daniels, baritone; Garrett, bass drum, and Emmet Loftis, trap drum. This is some eleighteen-piece band. Manager Erickson says he will put out this band on stage on the road this coming season and will feature at least a twenty-piece band. No women go in the parades with the Alabama Minstrels or the Ewwood Johnson.2 will band leader of Show No. 2. Dick Stewart will pilot the band of the famous Alabama Minstrels. He will play the band soon leave for their home, Warren, Pa., where they will spend the holidays, and after Christmas Mr. Erickson goes to Chicago on business for show No. 2. The band will make the new canvas used for the No. 2 show, which is the finest tent built for a small show. They are doubling with band, write C. L. Erickson, manager Alabama Minstrels, 22 Glenwood street, Warren, Pa. Dick Brown, late of the Sunny Dixis Alabama Minstrels, a member of the famous Alabama Minstrels. TIM OWSLEY'S VIEWS On What Should Be Done Theatrically —"A Chat With You." There are many reasons why I say this, because, that the colored man would offer either colored or white talent for the public's approval or aid of some individual who knows little or nothing about show business, from either the acting or financial standpoint; and therefore the owner has to be careful not to fall into the course of time another theater has to close its doors. In one case, men, who, after being successful in one line of business, will open a playhouse and undertake the task of managing it, will buy a bit of bitical training. The result is that man buys a big amount of unnecessary experience and most times spends his last dollar for his last bit of experience. Then there are white managers who open playhouses for colored patrons, who are interested in working through the box office, their reason being that they are not interested in the welfare of the colored race only from a financier. Then again we find most playhouses are built by either white or colored men, are constructed to seat as many as possible, and want to see a show as well as to have a seat. Then in that locality where such a show is not a real act, as the seating capacity takes up the room where the stage should be. Then, on the other hand, they want to see a show as well as to have a seat. The seating capacity will not allow the manager to secure the services of some acts, as they cannot take in enough money to pay for them. There are many things that keep the colored theater world back. The disgruntled fellow who knows everything is always ready to find fault; in general is a kicker, the fellow who knows everything and yet there are many things he has never heard of. The fellow who tries to frown on the works of others because he is not at the head of it all. The fellow who has great influence with some theatrical firm, and one word from him would put fifty or more to work for a season or so, fails to speak because he has all he wants and is to selfish to help Then there is the actor, who is a great factor in the movement of colored actors up or down eccentric, egistical ways, filled with the fancied love of publicity, connected with the real world, and one of the main causes of conditions that now exist. Let us look at the colored actor squarely; with all of his faults, he is doing well for the amount of training Practically all the colored acts on either colored or white time, he has been training in their acts. The actor buys no material, he is blessed with the wisdom of Solomon, he has seen and heard nothing like them before, he has spent much of what he knows. That's why his inventions are so few; yet if you will take it up one more playhouse in the different cities are really at fault, as they have not been more than they are at present doing. This does not A THE MUSICIAN W. A. THOMAS Prop. and Mgr. Dow Wishing Everybody a Merry apply to all acts or actors, but it does apply to the largest per cent. of both actors and patrons in a vaudeville house for colored acts and patrons is an open door, but through which may have passed and more are coming. You must be a white agent and manager have taken, so as to make the colored show business a success, which we must depend upon success. We must not forget that the foundation for the future is now being laid, and you cay lay a corner stone in this great building. You must be a judge. The manager must play his part, too, in the laying of this grand foundation. To do it successful, we must be someone by doing our duty, by doing our duty, then other things will not trouble us. We will be things without life or reason. Ignorance is bliss, but the knowledge of wisdom sometimes makes a fool of wise men. We are informed that yuo do not act or think right, change. Because the truth is what you seek. But if you abide in your error and ignorance, you will be in trouble, and cannot accomplish something for yourself, to do not think it impossible for other men. Care not if you be ill-spoken of or praised for few men praise those who How many have you known in this world that have already gone out of it. How many have you known to do something WITH A MEANING NOW! The deceitful, envious, unsocial, ungrateful and the arrogant go to make up the right thing in the right way. And do not forget that man must fear God, as there is nothing successfully done with his aid, be it health, wealth or prosperity. So begin the year 1914 by doing things right in the right way and it will help us know that now seem impossible, a possibility. (By Billy E. Jones.) The Meredith Sisters are at Proctor's theater, Albany, N. Y., this week. Miller and Lyles are at the Savoy theater, Atlantic City, N. J. Cooper and Robison this week at the Bushwick theater, Brooklyn. The Kemps are working on Leon's time and are at the Shubert theater, New York, this week. The Boldens are at the Lyric theater, Newark, N. J. The Musical Spillers are scoring a success on Pantages time. This week they are on the Pantages theater, Tacoma, Wash. Houseley and Nichols this week at the American theater, New York. Anderson and Goins at the New Academy theater, Buffalo, N. Y. Frank Montgomery and Florence McClain still scoring their usual success and topping all the numbers, 15, 16 and 17, Broadway theater, Putnam, Conn.; 18, 19 and 20, Scenic Temple, Waltham, Mass. Miss Mabel Jones, the singing comedian, is back in Brooklyn after an absence of fifteen years. She sends regards to the address her, 36 Lawrence Street, Brooklyn. The vaudeville salary of $2,00 weekly which Bert Williams will receive is net, payable without commission deduction. It is equal in this way to about $2,500 week Williams is to start the return vaudeville tour at the Palace theater, New York. THE FREEMAN FOR SALE. The Freeman for sale in Louisville Ky. at: W. H. Cousins, barber shop, 211 South First street; Wilkerson and Jones, barber shop, 211 South First street; Twelfth and Chestnut streets. HAIR WORK. See Mrs. Mary Wesern for all hair work, combings made in the office and mail orders. Address, $84 Eleventh street, between Kenton and Hitch, Bowlin Green, Kane County, Janesville, IL. Act quickly; sing and play the new song entitled "My Mind Is All On You," for only 25 cents (coin); the 1913 success by Alice Mann, All, never receive very prompt attention. Address, Miss Anna Lee, Box 5, Palmersville, Tenn. The Freeman is on sale in New York at The Robin Press, 256 West Thirty-seventh street. 1 n in Dixie Minstrels Christmas and Happy New Year THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER TIM E. OWSLEY. NOTICE Wagon Show under canvas, Season 1914, colored people that can sing and dance, canvass men, etc. State full particulars and lowest salary. No Drinking in this Show. Mort Steece SPAULDING AND GRAND AVE., CHICAGO. C.L. Erickson was Preformers in all for season of 1914. Famous Alak No. 2 Show. Two of the best two business. Want good novelty a those doubling brass. Want good singers, others with good singing tuba, baritone and piano players. play standard music. Treatment, dations you get it working for Bros. Kincade, Fisher, Pewee Will Geo. Christian, Maxie Upson, also let me hear from you. C. L. ER 22 Glenwood St. P. S. Want immediately good novelty strels, which are now playing open advance ticket. Opera House Sho Dec. 22. Want good novelty acts. Merry C And Happy N Allen & Making the M Colonial Theatre Jones, Linick & CHAS. H Young America's One of my Special D THE COFFIN Want to hear from reliable mi ville managers write Add. 1 A Merry Christmas and a MERRY TO ALL PROFESSION AND O Sissieret The O BLACK Greatest Coloree Coming to your city soon, dir ful engagements in New York The Incomparable Neg Presenting Rogers & Cream “The Old Man's Boy,” an enti a prologue with all new songs and dances ALEXANDR The greatest Negro Character Act derful Williams & Walker successes, a HENRY S. One of America's greatest producers and BILLY Undoubtedly one of the funniest comed CHARLES That wonderfully clever actor, and Equal of the World 40—Singers, Comedie Including Grayce Cooke, Ruth Ch wood, Crickett Smith and a Erickson wants Musicians to perform in all lines of Show Bands of 1914. Famous Alabama Minstrels and Two of the best two-car shows in show. Want good novelty acts and especially singing brass. Want good bass and tenor musicians with good singing voices. Want good dance and piccolo players. All musicians must record music. Treatment, salary and accommodation get it working for my shows. Watts made, Fisher, Pewee Williams, Coy Herndon, Man, Maxie Upson, also Bryant and Wright from you. C. L. ERICKSON 22 Glenwood St. Warren, Penn It immediately good novelty act for Famous Alsham is now playing opera houses and coming to the Opera House Show will open at Dallas. T want good novelty acts, and especially those doubles. Merry Christmas And Happy New Year to All Allen & Morton making the Minor Chord in the Central Theatre Chicago, Jones, Linick & Schaffer Circuit AS. H. CLAY Young America’s Colored Magician One of my Special Features this season is COFFIN MYSTERY clear from reliable minstrels and tent shows. Rogers write Add. 1720 E. Clay St., Richmond Christmas and a Happy New Year ERRYXM TO ALL MY PROFESSIONAL FRILLS AND OTHERS Susieetta Joel The Original BLACK PATTERN Best Colored Show on the city soon, direct from triumphantly elements in New York, Brooklyn and Philadelphia. Comparable Negro Players of presenting Rogers & Creamer’s New Idea in Negro Shows. Man’s Boy,” an entirely original Negro play in all new songs and dances, headed by LEXANDER ROGER. Negro Character Actor, who wrote and acted in & Walker successes, and HENRY S. CREAMER It’s greatest producers and teachrs of stage dance BILLY HARPER One of the funniest comedians on the stage today CHARLES S. GILPIN fully clever actor, and ALICE GORGAS, special of the World Famous Black Patrons, Comedians and Dancers. Joyce Cooke, Ruth Cherry, Andrew Bishop, Rickett Smith and a host of fresh, brand new for season of 1914. Famous Alabama Minstrels and No. 2 Show. Two of the best two-car shows in show business. Want good novelty acts and especially those doubling brass. Want good bass and tenor singers, others with good singing voices. Want good tuba, baritone and picao players. All musicians must play standard music. Treatment, salary and accommodation. Bros., Kincade, Fisher, Pewee Williams, Coy Herndon, Geo. Christian, Maxie Upson, also Bryant and Wright let me hear from you. P. S. Want immediately good novelty act for Famous Alabama Minstrels, which are now playing opera houses and coming north. Will advance ticket. Opera House Show will open at Dallas, Texas, about Dec. 22. Want good novelty acts, and especially those doubling brass. Making the Minor Chord at Colonial Theatre Chicago, Illinois Jones, Linick & Schaffer Circuit. CHAS. H. CLARK! Young America's Colored Magician One of my Special Features this season is THE COFFIN MYSTERY Want to hear from reliable minstrels and tent shows. Vaudeville managers write Add. 1720 E. Clay St., Richmond, Va. A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to All. MERRYXMAS TO ALL MY PROFESSIONAL FRIENDS AND OTHERS Sissieretta Jones The Original BLACK PATTI Coming to your city soon, direct from triumphantly successful engagements in New York, Brooklyn and Philadelphia. That wonderfully clever actor, and ALICE GORGAS, *poken of as the Equal of the World Famous Black Patti* 40—Singers, Comedians and Dancers--40 Including Grayce Cooke, Ruth Cherry, Andrew Bishop, Cassio Norwood. Crickett Smith and a host of fresh, brand new talent. FREEMAN IN WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS. When in Wichita Falls, Tex. see L. B. Armstrong for The Freeman. Now is the time to get it cheap. See L. B., the agent, at the First and Last Chance cafe. THE FREEMAN FOR SALE. All who wish to read the Freeman in Minnesota, Texas, can call at James Hunter's place and see the agent, Johnnie Jones. He will be pleased to deliver them to your door. --- ts Musicians andines of Show Business RICKSON Warren, Penna. delty act for Famous Alabama Min- ra houses and coming north. Will will open at Dallas, Texas, about and especially those doubling brass. Christmas New Year to All Morton Minor Chord at Chicago, Illinois Schaffer Circuit. CLARK! Colored Magician features this season is MYSTERY strels and tent shows. Vaude- 20 E. Clay St., Richmond, Va. Happy New Year to All. XMAS ALL MY REAL FRIENDS OTHERS ta Jones original PATTI Show on Earth act from triumphantly success- Brooklyn and Philadelphia. Players of America 's New Idea in Negro Shows original Negro play in three acts and headed by ROGERS who wrote and acted in all the won CREAMER and teachrs of stage dancing. Also HARPER on the stage today S. S. GILPIN ALICE GORGAS, spoken of as the Famous Black Patti ans and Dancers--40 erry, Andrew Bishop, Cassio Nor- set of fresh, brand new talent. THE FREEMAN FOR SALE. All who wish to read the Freeman in Mineola, Texas, can call at James Hancock's place, and see the agent, Johnnie Jones. He will be pleased to deliver them to your door. PETER H. BURKE IMPORTANT Al.G. Field Greater Minstrels 65-Monarchs of the Minstrel World-65 [Portrait of a man in a white uniform standing in front of a large group of men in similar uniforms, arranged in a semi-circle, with a decorative backdrop featuring palm trees and a large emblem. The man is holding a sword and appears to be addressing the group.] THE MINISTRELS OF THE NATIONS—A SUMPTUOUS SCENIC SPECTACLE—THE SONGS OF ALL NATIONS—THE FLAGS OF ALL LANDS—OLD GLORY OVERTOPPING ALL. ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE, FRI. AND SAT., DEC. 26, 27 MATINEE SATURDAY THE DAYS OF '61—A SOUTHERN IDYL—Life on the Plantation in Slavery Days. 3—LYRES—3—Direct From Their Triumphal European Tour. Tink- ling Tunes to Tickle the Taste of Theatre Goers. IN PANAMA—A Scenic Surprise—A Glimpse of the Canal From the Atlantic to the Pacific. BERT SWOR, the Comedy Reflex of American Minstrelsy; BILLY CLARK, the Droll; JOHNNY DOVE, the International Minstrel; WEST AVEY, the Uncle Remus of the Minstrel Stage; FRED C. VARVEY, JOE McCARTY, EDDIE SIMMS, FRANK BROWN HICKEY, NOLD, HENRY WHITE, FRANK MILLER, BILLY SMITH, JIMMY CLARK AND AL. G. FIELD. Ask anybody about "GLOOMY" GUS SMITH—Clean, Classy Monologus! EVERYTHING I DO IS NOT The above combined with and inestimable personality. My whereabouts can always be ascertained by consulting the Freeman, or ask anybody. But I have my own I sing I tell some I do many THE COMEDY CONTINGENT. way of doing it. prodices. jokes. things. IN THE FIELD OF SPORT. BY HAROLD C. McGATH. SPORTING BRIEFLETS PICKED UP FROM THE "WIRELESS." to watch McGovern in all his fights and as long as she did so he kept on winning them. He went through the ban Strung Together for the "Edification" Of the Lovers of Sport. (By Billy Lewis.) Lightweight champion Willie Ritchie was too sick to fight Murphy last week. Murphy insists on taking the title from him—that is, he would like to... Rube Foster, "greatest twister of them all," according to Murphy, to a splendid one. This issue on baseball, You will have to be kind a steady if you stick to the end, but it will prove worth while. Poor Jack Johnson, is he fated? While returning t o his home in Arlington, he and his wife were injured in an auto crash. Jack will have to watch out. The note is as follows: RHAN, France, December 12—Jack Johnson, the Negro pugilist, and his white wife were injured in a mobile in which he were en route to Paris coilled with the safety sates at a railway crossing. Both were out about the head. He's the finest of all. Rube Foster de toser de de bail. None so good as Rube, you know. How you know? Ernest Barry, at present holder of the world's professional sculling title, has offered to row James Bond, a 25.25-metre side, at Thames river, London, next September, but will not allow him expenses. Barry refuses to row against William Albany the titleholder of the university basketball team permit scullers of the country yoor scull for $1,000. Barry names $2,500 as the stake. Albany's supporters do not accept the challenge within the stipulated period of three months. Hot Jack Johnson dope direct from Paris. Here it is: Jack Johnson, according to French newspapers, is now willing to pay one for a personal scull for $2,000, particularly Langford, Jeanneette or Moran. NEW YORK, December 12—January birds will fly in month in this city. Billy Gibson is trying to match Joe Rivers with Willit Ritchie or Tom Murphy, at Madison Square garden, January 14. Tom O'Rourke has offered to carpenter, Carpenter, $10,000 to meet Porky Flynn at the National Sporting Club, January 25. One thousand dollars is a big price to pay for one point in a batting average, according to Bear Harry Hooper, of the Red Sox, last season. Hooper was to get a $1,000 bonus provided he hit,230, and when the owl figures came out he was found with a .289 mark. Participation in athletic activities at Yale is not continued to the comparison team, and the varsity teams, according to figures made public today. During the fall months, 1,700 students, or a little more than half of the total revenue, $300 took part in some athletic diversion. The American style of fighting and batting, the methods are today being urged on English boxers, as one result of Bombardier Well's knockout at the hands of Georges Carpenter. The amount of amments the Telegraph, commenting on the fight, "The Waterloo of British boxing," says the Mall editorially, "is the lesson which is the moral of his defeat, we can not hope to begin to regain our old pre-eminence in the field of sport," says the Times Students of the University of Wisconsin have taken to the boxing game and the boxing classes under the direction of John Rudderham, formerly of the University of Illinois. The man who taught the students every Monday afternoon, three classes bein' on that day. The Badger George L昂斯, a la wuesten, who pays his way through school with his earnings in the prize ring. He has a boxing ring in his back. Wisconsin ring on several occasions and looks to have the "goods." Much enthusiasm is shown by the students and the slames promise to grow rapidly. Walter H. L昂斯, chairman of the state boxing commission of Wisconsin, said he did not weigh for the commission before his bout with Jack Britton is not true. Walter and refused to weigh for the public of the newspaper men," said Mr. L昂斯, "but later he went to the Milwaukee boxing club, with me only his trousers, shoes and a light shirt on. I promised not to make his weight public, but I will say this, because I am not a boxing club, between Packey and Britton. I will also say that Packey is not a lightweight." Bob Fitzsimmons had a kangaroo's foot which men more than him than his own knows how important these were to the great champion. Bob would refuse to wear a kangaroo's foot to the man. He would tuck it into the silk scarf with which he girded himself before going into battle. Fitz also had a big bear with which he used to take long walks. Many unusual mascots are employed by fighters, but perhaps none has a more unusual one than Packey McFarland, the best fighter of his weight and inches of strength. His mascot is Chicago priest, is McFarland's talisman and every time Packey goes into battle he wishes to be a mourner and best wishes of his mascots no matter whether he be with him or not. Terry McGovern had a strange mascot. She was a stage dancer. She used $3.50 RECIPE FREE, FOR WEAK MEN. SEND NAME AND ADDRESS TODAY—YOU CAN HAVE IT FREE AND BE STRONG AND VIGOROUS. We have in our possession a prescription for nervous debility, lack of vigor, weakness, and a lack of stamina, brought on by excesses, unnatural drains, or the follies of youth, that has cured so many worn and nervous men that additional help or medicine—that we think every man who wishes to regain his vitality, has made us a social study, should have a copy. So we have determined to send a copy of the prescription free of charge, in a plain ordinal card to any man who will write us for it. This prescription comes from a physician, and we are convinced it is the surrestacting combination for the cure of deficient manhood and vigor failure ever put We think we owe it to our fellow man to send them a copy in confidence, so that any man anywhere who is weak and disillusioned can drugging himself with harmful patent medicines, secure what we believe is the quickest-acting restorative, upbuilding, and so cure himself at home quietly and quickly. Just drop us a line like this: Interstate Remedy Co. $331 Luck Building, Detroit, Mich., and we will send you a copy of our ordinary envelope, free of charge. A great many doctors would charge $2.00 for merely writing out a prescription like this—but we send it entirely free. to watch McGovern in all his fights and as long as she did she he kept on winning them, he kept on winning them, the feathers and finally landed in the lightweight class, always lucky and always with his mascot favoring him, yup padded. The next fight Terry lost to Young Corbett. Willie Ritchie will be ready to defend his lightweight champion title against Harlem Tommy Murphy on Washington's birthday. This moment was the champion of Harry Fowler, who was again treated by Dr. McCarthy. The doctor announced that Ritchie, co-captain of the 132nd-pound champion will not permit him to start training work or indulge in any outdoor exercise for at least two weeks. Ad Wolgast, former lightweight champion, pulled a new one a few days ago by announcing himself a 132nd-pound champion. Wolgast issued a two-hundred-word typewritten statement offering to maul Willie Ritchie or anyone else able to make 132 pounds. John K. Tener, Governor of Pennsylvania and newly installed president of the National Baseball Clubs, ridiculed the idea that the game was controlled by a trust in a brief statement issued not long since incident to a business meeting of the r"There is no such thing as a baseball trust," he said. "Organized baseball is a natural outgrowth of an endeavor to build a team on the highest plane. There has been no desire to crush competition." The Governor repeated that he was going to be president in fact as well as in the past, but he before assumed 0.5% ce. "During the next year," he said. "I shall give my attention only to the most important matters affecting the league as a whole. Secretary Heydler will attend to the de Routine affairs only faced the club owners at today's session. The department, which was announced, would not be considered being referred to President Tener, who in turn, will place them before the management, held in Cincinnati on January 5. The Governor, said, however, that he was in favor of retaining the reserve clause in contracts to which the players object. Here is a rather interesting "wireless." Credit is due the Indianapolis News. *Everyly* every professional baseball park in the country, both in cities and towns, a certain tobacco company adverts, a company representing a member of the bovine family. A part of the advertising is rewards to the players—$50 for hitting the ball, $100 for winning seventy-two sacks of tobacco for knocking a home run. The report of the company for 1912, just issued, is interrupted by a third-two players hit the sign, and their rewards in $50 checks aggregated $11,600. The home runs netted 244,000 packages of tobacco of a cash value of $12. Minneapolis—The bull was hit on May 2. Minneapolis—The bull was hit on September 1 by Jimmy Williams, of Minneapolis. There were fifty home runs. St. Paul—The bull was not hit and there were twenty-one home runs. Toledo—The bull was hit and there were twenty-one home runs. JACK SKELLY TALKS OF PRESENT CHAMPIONS Never in the history of Fistina have the championship classes been in such a muddled and undecided condition as they have been contested under Queensberry rules, writes Jack Skelly. About 22 years ago we could all name the players who had the right to reel, without a question of argument. They were as follows: John L. Sullivan, heavyweight; Jack Dempsey, lightweight; Jack McAuliffe, lightweight; George Dixon, featheweight, and Billy Plimmer, the bantamweight. The heavyweight, lightweight or "commission weight," as the 175-cm class is called today. This clas sis not generally recognized even at present, and there is no class at present. There are, of course, several fighters throughout the world claiming the light heavyweight title, but none have been recognized at present. There is no class so much muddled up as the heavyweight division. Jack Johnson, who won the rightful title from him in 1980, has by his own silly and queer conduct wiped himself off the pugilistic map. He has been disqualified from all the big championship nations of the big American. The four principal fighting nations of the world. Johnson uncrowned and disgraced himself has now left the big title in a wrangle and a long-windy battle. The woods are full of contenders for the highest prizes, but the only person with himself worthy of the honor, Arthur Pelky is masquerading in the far West as the champion of the white colors. He must be traveling under false colors. He more often man can show a clear title as well. Ever since the untimely death of Shirley Gibson has been in a complete muddled condition. We hear of George Chip and many others who have been in a complete muddled condition of this class, but they have not as yet shown us the real goods. I would like to see Billy Gibson or some other player in this division, a belt for this division and hold elimination contests so as to prove the rightful holder of the much-contended middle title. There no division that has been in such a muddle as the waterweight class. We have summed the title of champion, but they, like the others in the heavyweight battalions, are only battling kings on pa I would indeed like to see the wether title cleared up. I think McFarlane is right, he has a good weight, and cannot scale at 135 or even 140 and be in proper form. That's the reason I would like to see him and him, and be in proper form. I would be some scientific contest all right. If they should meet I rather fancy Fackey, as I consider him the clever and gamely smart. Wille Ritchie has proved himself the hightful holder of the lightweight title. But I think he needs more experience and skill, because as great as he is, he needlessness. Jack Britton he will find a ring general worthy of his steel. In fact, I consider Britton a great money-getter for some big club. I consider that Johnny Kilbane was a great featherweight, title from Abe, Attell. THE FREEMAN. AN ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER who has been milling away for some 13 years. Abe has had a wonderful record of overcarefully. He has fought the star lightweights as well as feathers with Now, Attell is matched to meet Kibane, and he claims he will be himself again when he makes this last desperate effort. He has been tainted a more scientific fighter than Johnny, but has he lost his steam and health. The last time I saw him go 10 rounds with Kid Williams at Madison Square Garden he didn't look right to weight and seemed drawn and weak. The Kid put up a hot, aggressive battle, but Since then Williams has billed himself as the king of bantamweights all over. I would travel many miles to see Coullon, in good form, go 20 rounds with Williams. Since he's superior generalship would be too much for the Kid. The champion may be forced to retire if he does not win him in a fettle before many moons. In conclusion, let me say that the International Federation of Boxing should not titles. This move I've advocated many time in these columns, but there seems to be a lack of powers that be to settle the championship. However, I suppose well get there soon day, the sooner the better. In championships, as they now stand to my potion, are: Heavy—With Jack Johnson wiped out, there's none. lightweight—Very much muddled. Middle—In much dispute. Litter. Also undecided and mixed up. Litter. Willit Ritchie, the undisputed champion. Featherweight—Johnny Kilbane, if he can beat him. Bantamweight—Johnny Coulon, sick and unable to defend his title. He undeided and not generally recognized. FOOTBALL VALUABLE ASSET TO THE YOUNG MEN (By J. Blaine Boyd.) Returning to the subject of "Evolution" in the book, Mr. Browne would like to say that the season of 1913 has been one of the most successful in the history of the institutions in the South. The teams developed at these Negro schools have been way above the standard, and compare fairly well with the institutions. It was the privilege of the students to see the contest of Thanksgiving day, between the [Name] J. BLAINE BOYD kegel Institute team and the Fisk University team. This was the hardest team in the league, consistent, spectacular play that has ever been produced on a gridiron anywhere. Tuskegee, having a slight advantage on defense, active, powerful and versatile in offense, presented one of the best balanced teams that this Southland has ever seen with a team comparatively light in weight, yet as fast as a proverbial streak, shifty and capable in offense, capable terminated in its defense, has one of the smoothest working machines that has ever been turned out from that institution. In its football, it showed that it risen from the place where it required only brawn and beef, and had supplanted in the game. The game has advanced from the old hammer and tong football that was played in the 1960s, to stands out as one of the most scientific games that the world has ever known, and that is why it is so scientifically as the steady development of the game would warrant; and the young men in attendance at these games, the athletes, who some day, are compelled to take their place among the best that the country has produced. It is still the concern of the athletic training equips the young men for the battles and struggles in the business world, and college days are over, and that it is a valuable asset to him when in the battle of life he encounters the hard problem of success in his chosen profession. WILLIE RITCHIE TOO ILL TO FIGHT, MURPHY CLAIM STITLE SAN FRANCISCO—Willie Ritchie is still under a doctor's care, says a dis位 of deceased Mr. Murphy, a doctor in abcess in his nose. He was in bed with an ice pack over his face to reduce the inflammation. The doctor said that his manager did right in not letting him fight Tommy Murphy. Murphy is still here waiting or going to the match. It is believed they will get together in January. "I will claim the lightweight chameleon has refused to fight me. I will defend it against all comers at 133 pounds, inside, in the ring." This was the statement made by Murphy. He was sore through and through, and so was his manager, Jim Buckley, who backed up his fight. BOMBARDIER OUT AGAIN. Pride of Great Britain Put to Sleep by Carpenter. LONDON—George Carpenter, the French boxer, knocked Kingston in the first round o f their fight the night of December and came just as the initial round was ending. Wells was entirely unprepared for the fight, but Carpenter forced the fighting from the top of the gong. He rushed Wells and appelled him to fight at close quarters. The Britisher was never in the fighting. Carpenter battered his body with blow after blow and finally put one over on Well's nose which sent him to the floor. Well fled the French fighter was given the decision. As soon as the fight was declared in favor of Carpenter the ring was invaded. Well was able to help him to their shoulders and carried him to the dressing room. Well's defeat was a painful shock to Eckhart. He was pressed into pressure that his Ghent defeat was due to a fluke, made him a strong favorite. He was backed freely, the prevailing one, and he was the only Sporting Club was packed, and extravagant prices were paid even for standing room. A crowd booed Wells at the end of the fight, and their fallen idol had some trouble in getting a hearing to explain that he was unable to withstand Carpenter's terrific assaults on his midsection. UP TO THE MINUTE GOSSIP AS JT CONCERNS US (Bv David Wyatt.) The noise of the tinker and carpenter has been heard; the bustle and stir of men in the workshop, the clank of the riveting work has been going on for weeks; therefore, the poor old weather beaten issue sometimes called Negro problem should put up a sultant's effort to solve the most strenuous days of judgment. We are just out or still in a series of exposures to the tinker, who has been lauded to the highest. Now after all has been said, we might ask ourselves, is there a problem; if so, what is it? The tinker, fitness for joining hands in concerted action, with the throng of workers, who the few weeks have bonded in their anecdotes, is the subject, of which the whole universe is concerned. The follies, the good, bad and indifferent of us as a race, as well as the many who have been observed in the rays of the DAVID WYATT giant searchlight which will be exposed through the medium of the Negro press or this and other media, he columns of this and other publications have been open to the disposition of moulders of opinions, and as we understand it, subjects depicting the horrors of slum life, the suffering of the poor, the religious, commercial or political. They are all of vital importance; we can not intelligently deal with all, without being able to understand what we are greeted with gifting headlines, of nauseating subjects, worded and dictated so as to carry injustice to us as a slave, and so that the deeds are carefully pushed into the background; therefore the necessity of an annual edition of our own, in which we may fight back, uphold or defend whatever we believe in, the knowledge of the different topics, that concern our daily walks of life. Yards of opinions have been unfurled upon the Negro in religious endeavor, commercial pursuits politics, segregation, and commerce, with pride to any sparkling solution of those intrinsic problems; nor have we much to offer upon the seemingly less important aspects of sports pursuits. We do know that the American public, as well as our neighbors across the waters, are deeply interested in financial returns and expenditures running high into the millions. The Negro in financial returns and expenditures is the superior brand of wares than has been shown in the past; it is true that he is greatly oppressed in some quarters; it is also true that his significance of the promoters. Our best actors are in demand, here and abroad. Some of our leading stage stars who have contributed to our promoters, have inaugurated a chain of theaters, through which acts can secure boxing; they have plotted the project far beyond the experimental stage; their efforts have been hearedal far and wide as an incentive for continued effort, new vigor for the ones before the footlights. The Negro who has been much in evidence as fighter for a quarter of a century, has been considered in other words, he is considered as being most too husky for his white brethren. The disgruntled ones have been successors to him, and he has been against him. The champion, or near, he must allow reports to go broadcast that he is all in, hog fat and ready for the discard; in order to secure action the exodus of the Negro has been made to meet with punishable surprises. If our champion there, pulls the same ruse to the successful end that Langford did on the first day of the game, he is a champion runner, Dred; and our football stock appears to be running low; the Negro has joined the armies, as we never heard from them. All bolted down, one bubble is still apparent upon the sport surface; the Negro has free access to shoot—baseball. We have had so many columns filled with deeds of the world's series contestants that we would readily digest just to see how well our national baseball series. A search through numerous files produced the boy score only. That the dark man is a wonderful player, that the dark man is the greatest and most popular pastime, is acknowledged; still we know of no line of endeavor in which the Negro has been successful and in many ways encouraged for progress; only to find himself at this late date, able to say present. This too, is a great achievement, but turning annual dividends not exceeded by any business in this country today. Figures show us to be in a measure prosperous, still our feeble and unorganized team is still the best in the sterling progress of the organized form of which Comiskey, Mack, Teebau and others (poor boys some years ago), now play in the national league, examples a criterion upon which to judge. their records retained; every movement of the black man in the game should be recorded; every player should spend one hundred thousand dollars for a tour spreading the baseball garm to all quarters of the globe, that should serve as a reminder of the action, less we fall far behind our neighbors of the orient. Each year we hear rumors of other races launching a new league; true evidence that the supply is not equal to the demand, that there are better things for the dark man; but his schemes usually die in the borrowing. When the increased demand among our people is met, sponsors down in the rut, discouraged. Where we had wealthy and influential people years previous, we can scarcely master one now; white men with the business of profession baseball clubs, now control the situation. This is a law upon the statute books of the national association of profession baseball clubs that bar the black man from playing in the small regard for organization, eliminates him to a degree. It is one business in which our political affiliations have no impact on the game, the act is still high in sport. The national ciliation to gambling, great sacrifices notoriously all contribute important work to the sport. What of the Indian? His case produces a different phase of the subject; the race is to a certain degree extinct; the race is to a certain degree still possible; could be collectively considered; individually he is looked upon from a box of office眼点 only. With due consideration he is given the opportunity to the red skin, he is still in spite of his ability, a novelty in the game. The Negro is no novice; he starts with the same environments; with the same environments, of the whites, has a tendency to eliminate him as an attractation for drawing purposes, his ability to work with the weight against him it has not been put to a genuine test. The most important question the dark man is called to consider is a worthy of commercial consideration? JACK JOHNSON AND MORAN MATCHED. CLEVELAND.—Jack Johnson, world's heavyweight champion, and Frank Moran, the American heavyweight, who gained prestige by knocking out Palmer in 1972, was in weight in a bout to be staged in Paris some time in January, according to information received here. The news was confirmed by Tommy Gavigan, the friend by Tommy Gavigan, the Cleveland middleweight, who is now in Paris, Gavianese save that Johnson had not inducted him. Moran finally caused his consent to the match. eH is now in training. A Negro killed a white man at Mound Bayou, Miss., last Wednesday night and killed a man in his murder in this quiet, industrious community usual. The fact that the whites in nearby Bayou were the only ones to revenge the killing of one of their race was unusual for Mississippi. The troops was giving a performance at Mound Bayou—the Silas Green Minstrels. A dispute arose because the troops were on the one part and the Negro ticket seller, which resulted in the whites knocking the Negro down, he being unarmed. The police firing, while the Negro was down. With the agility of a cat the Negro arose and wounded the gun from his grip, then turned the weapon upon the whites, killing the elder and seriously wounding the anger. Mayor Creswell and Charles Banks immediately phoned the sheriff of the county to report him to the murder. In forty minutes the sheriff and his deputies were on the scene. Wednesday night was one of feverish anxiety among many of the Negroes of this town, who were afraid to attempt from nearby towns would attempt to retaliate. They requested protection from the sheriff. When that offence came, the excitement quickly subsided. Fortunately for both of the races, the excitement quickly subdued. The white victim of the tragedy was buried last Friday. Mayor Creswell, of Mound Bayou, was requested by the police and superintend the making of the grave. Attending the funeral was a delegation of Negro citizens and now comes the unusual happening in Mississippi. At the grave of the victim, just before the "Ashes to ashes and dust to dust" was solemnly said, the sheriff, the police, the attorney, the man who founded the town in which this white mas was killed, to make apprehensions, which he did, speaking apprehensions. Miss Minnie Jones and Miss Pinkie Miss Minnie Jones, are visiting their Friends in Augusta. Enthusiastic Meeting Held at Coving- ton, Ky. COVINGTON, Ky. Dec. 12. The Nati- onal Lodge Circle No. 2, of the Loyal Benevolent Pilgrim Knights of Noah met with the leaders of the church for the ensuing year: Wm. Foman, past noble governor; Hattie Hill, noble governor; Ahmie W. Smith, vice noble governor; E. W. Foman, noble secretary; Nelson Orr, noble treasurer; Fannie Jackson, recording secretary; Wm. L. Scroggs, worthy chaplain; Emma Jones, dark work; Jennie M. Buckerinner central; Millie Leachford, outer central; G. W. Buckner, conductor, and Minerva C. Fisher, messenger Boys Exchange Buffet A full line of Wines, Liquors and Cigars always on hand. Business Lunch, good service, all, all. When out for a good time, stop in. BRUTUS OWENS, Prop. 433 Indiana Ave. Indianapolis, Ind SANTA-MDY Standard remedy for Gleet, Gonorrhea and Runnings IN 48 HOURS. Cures Kidney and Bladder Troubles ONCE TRIED, ALWAYS USED. THE BAR-KEEPER'S "FRIEND" TRADE MARK FOR. SCOURING, CLEANSING AND POLISHING BAR FIXTURES, DRAIN BOARDS AND ALL Tin, Zinc, Brass, Copper, Nickel and all Kitchen and Plated Utensils. Glass, Wood, Marble, Porcelain, Etc. GEORGE WM. HOFFMAN CO. Sole Manufacturer 557 EAST WASHINGTON St., INDIANAPOLIS. THE BAR-KEEPER'S FRIEND. TRADE MARK REGISTERED IN U.S. PATENT OFFICE Standards for Thirty Years. Largest Sellers in the World. Highest Awards World's Fair. TRADE, MARK Kidneys Price $1.00 per ordering six bottles. Pro- Mayes Lightning Liquor Sales, price 60 only by the Marvel M talized at $5,000.00. No trade mark. Contains Pure Food and Drug A No. 51,372. All corresp- dential. Address all con- tacts. The Mayes M 2601 Juliett St 77 Phones Douglas KEYSTONE HOTEL David McGowan, Prop. Neatly Furnished Rooms with Bath. First-Class Billiard Parlors. STATE ST. CHICAGO Come and Get Your Christmas Present. douglas 8524 ED. ROSENE automatic 75-829 ABE WEINSTE STATES LIQUOR HOTEL Reported and Domestic WINES, LIQUORS. STE ST. (Branch No. 2) CHIC John A. Klawan's Buffet Corner 35th and State Streets, Chicago Nerly located at 27th and Dearborn St. Belmont Buffet 3536 State Street, Chicago, Ill. Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars Family Trade Solicited. PERSON L. A. Paul, Minn. (Of Hot- ten have spared no pains in making the coziest little Buffets in the city. Douglas 4166 Auto Phys's Liquor H Automatic 72-377 Phone KEYSTONE David Mc Neatly Furnished First-Class R 3022 STATE ST. Come and Get You Telephones: Douglas 8524 Automatic 75-829 THE STATES Retailers of Imported and Domes 3010 STATE ST. (Bran Klawan N. W. Corner 35th and Formerly located at 27 KEYSTONE HOTEL David McGowan, Prop. Neatly Furnished Rooms with Bath. First-Class Billiard Parlors. 3022 STATE ST. CHICAGO, ILL. Come and Get Your Christmas Present. Telephones: Douglas 8524 ED. ROSENBERG Automatic 75-829 ABE WEINSTEIN, Manager THE STATES LIQUOR HOUSE Retailers of Imported and Domestic WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS 3010 STATE ST. (Branch No. 2) CHICAGO, ILL. N. W. Corner 35th and State Streets, Chicago, III. Formerly located at 27th and Dearborn Streets. Belmont 3536 State St Choice Wines, L Family Tr THOS. JEFFERSON (Late of St. Paul, Minn.) These gentlemen have spared no the coziest little Phone Douglas 4166 Joseph's L Importer and Dealer in Wines, Liquors and Cigars 3359 State Street, N. E. Corner 34th St. CHICAGO, ILL. JENSEM Photo ALL GRADES OF PHOTOS. 2940 S. State Street. 249 E. Thirty-First St. CHICA JENSEN BROS. Photo Studios ALL GRADES OF PHOTOS. PHOTOS MADE DAY OR NIGHT. 2940 S. State Street. Phone Auto 77829 249 E. Thirty-First St. Phone Auto 73245 Harrison's Lunch 11 East Thirty-fifth (Near State) CHICAGO, ILL. SPECIAL BILL OF F GOOD COFFEE PUR AND BUTTER OPEN DAY AND NIGHT --- LEAVES NO BEDNENT HOFFMAN'S COLOMBIA HOLISH FOR NIPPLES, BALSAM AND BASEMENTS GESWA HOFFMAN'S Auto 72-651 A. B. Phone Douglas 1846, Automatic 75-359 El Centro Buffet Sherman Blackwell, Prop. Sherman Alley in Connection First Class Entertainers Every Evening. Odd Fellows' Hall 3335 State Street CHICAGO, ILL. SALK'S LUNCH THE CLEANEST AND MOST SANITARY IN CHICAGO We Excell in GOOD COFFEE, PURE BUTTER AND CREAM. 3102 South State Street CHICAGO, ILL. (Lubbens Emblemarks) Funeral Directors and Embalmers New, 3038 - PHONES - Main, 4094 Best service. Lady attendant. Lowest rates 418 Indiana Ave. Open All Night. Hayes Brothers, Inc. Plumbing and Heating 236-38 W. Vermont St. Indianapolis CHEW LP.L PEPTOMINT GUM AIDS DIGESTION L. P. LARSON Jr. Co., Chicago, U. S. A. Mayes Medicine Co. Manufacturers of Mayes' Blood Cure and Mayes' Liver Kidney and Bladder Cure. Preserving suffering. All cations. Sorry. Rheumatism. Scrofula, and all disorders of the blood: Indigestion. Female Troubles. Loss of Manhood. Lonorrhoe (whites). Constipation and Kidneys. Price $1.00 per bottle. For persons ordering six bottles, price $5 express prepaid. Mayes' Lightning Linament and Mayes' Original alley price for each Manufactured only by the Mayes' Medicine Company. Capitalized at $2,000.00. None genuine without our trade mark. Contains glycol. Guranteed by the Mayes' Medicine Co. under the Pure Food and Drug Act June 20, 1906; serial No. 51.32. All correspondence strictly confidential. Address all communications to The Mayes Medicine Co. 2601 Juliett St., Dallas, Tex. Douglas 1360 and 2349 NE HOTEL Rowan, Prop. Rooms with Bath. Willard Parlors. CHICAGO, ILL. For Christmas Present. ED. ROENBERG ABE WEINSTEIN, Manager LIQUOR HOUSE McWINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS Chn. No. 2) CHICAGO, ILL. In A. 's Buffet Street, Chicago, Ill. Liquors and Cigars Trade Solicited. L. A, BRANCH (Of Hot Springs, Ark.) Bains in making the Belmont one of Buffets in the city. Auto 72276 Liquor House N BROS. Studios PHOTOS MADE DAY OR NIGHT. Phone Auto 77829 Phone Auto 73245 GO, ILL. CHICAGO, ILL. The Ayrres Bulletin For a Man Adjustable silver plated shaving stands, large bevel edge mirrors, porcelain mugs, badger tail shaving brush, extreme height 21 inches, highly poish d, with silver plaited base, $4.50, $5.95 to $15. Silver plated shaving set, cup silver plated, pierced, scroll and floral e ched, burnished heavy handle with brush rest, detachable sanitary soap holder, badger brush, each in white puff lined hinge ceder case, $2.95. Silver plated four-piece smokers' set, including trays, $8.50, $4.95 to $5.00. —Main floor, opp. elevators. L. S. Ayres & Co., Indiana's Greatest Distri- tors of Dry Goods. CITY AND VICINITY. Send in personales or writeups of social affairs of yourself and friends. It is free. Drop it on a postcard. Can't spend it to spend a penny on your friends? CITY AND VIGINITY. Mr. Geo, Slaughter will spend the holldays in Louisville, Ky. Mrs. Henry Roberts is able to be up again, after being confined to her home over a week. Mrs. Finley, formerly of Chicago, is now connected with Mr. Archie Greathouse, at 229 Indiana avenue. Miss Vetolia Hayes, of Chicago, will be the guest of Miss Mabelle Smith, stenographer for The Indianapolis Freeman. Little Miss Ruth Jackson, of Evansville, Ind., will spend the holidays with her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Jackson, of North West street. This city has returned after a few years' absence, and has been living in Cleveland, O., and will remain in this city indeterminate. There will be a Christmas market and concert given at Bethel A. M. E. Church, Tuesday evening, under the auspices of the Senior and Junior Stewards of the church. Mrs. Chas, Parham, of Rural street, received a very painful scalp wound last Monday morning, when the car in which she and her husband were riding collided another. She is still confined to her home. The Gould Shaw School held a mothers meeting last Thursday afternoon. Sealah Porton, the principal; Mrs. Oscar C. W. I. L. Hummons, president of the club; Mrs. H. L. Hummons, chairman of program committee. The following program was well rendered. Vocal solo, Mrs. Anna Danielle, piano solo, Mrs. Helen Roberts, address, "Our Responsibility to Our Children," by Mrs. Martha A. Sissle, matron of the Colored Men's Branch. Y. Mrs. Sissle emphasized need of mothers and fathers becoming chums of their sons and daughters and breaking down the barriers that existed in the past, that prevented the children from being properly informed as to sex Clerk Camp No. 2. Real Estate and American Woodmen News Agent P. A. WILLIAMS Notary Public Open Daily Except Sundays 514½ East 6th St. Old Phone— 3587 Residence 1979 Austin, Texas FEMALE HELP WANTED. Old Mesh Bags Resolved Just Like New 50c to $1.00 BEST PLATING COMPANY 349 Massachusetts Ave.. Opposite Marott's WALDEN H. COHN Manufacturer of FIVE C TRADE MARK COUGH MEDICINE Guaranteed to cure Colds, Coughs, Catarrh, Asthma, Bronchitis, La-Grippie and Consumption. Makes a specialty of all diseases of the lungs. This cough medicine will cure any one of the above diseases. One 50c bottle will cure any ordinary cold or cough. Cases of Catarrh, Asthma, Bronchitis, La-Grippie and Consumption, I have two special orders. Seven bottles of Five C Cough Medicine for $3, or twelve bottles for $5. You will be convinced if you try Five C Cough Medicine once. Full amount of cash must be sent with order. This medicine has never failed. I will actually pay $0 if it fails. I am anxious to know if it can fail. Please tell me if it fails; but if it cures 1439 South 13 1/2 St. Terre Haute, Ind. hystere. Kipling's "Vampire" was read as further emphasis upon the point made in the poem. BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH. Bethel Forum was addressed last Sunday by attorney James Bryant; subject, "Produce Your Own Great Men" program for this Sunday is as follows: Piano selection ... Miss Ellen Ellen Reading ... Influencer ... Miss Blanch Chenault ... Miss Blanch Chenault Vocal selection ... Miss Roda Williams Address ... Survival of the Fittest ... Welcome to the Vocal selection Attorneys Wm. Henderson The Forum will celebrate the fifth anniversary of the emancipation of the Negro January 4, 1914, at 8 p. m. in Bethel church societies from several literary societies will deliver addresses on. How the Emancipation Has Affected the Negro Educationally, Politically, Socially, Emancipation Moore will also address them. Come and hear Wallace Wolfk, the Aeolian Octette, Bethel choir and the Negro January. A musical and literary treat. MUSICAL RECITAL The following is the program of the musical recital to be given at Simpson Hall on December 23, 1913, at 8:39 o'clock; admission, 15 cents. Qqura tes yeuh Bleus. . . J. massenat Serenade du Parmar. . . J. Massenat C. Echois Payne. . . Kirmesse Joyous Farmer. . . Gurllit Eva Pulliam. . . Schumann Valse . . . Schiller Eva Wynn. La Pompadour. . . Boggetti Irene Franklin. . . Schubert Faith in Spring . . . Schubert Total Eclipse . . . Handel Because . . . D'Hardelot C. Echois Payne. —Intermission— Tesor Solo. . . Mr. W. Wolfok Priere Du Matin. . . L. Streabag Little Hunting Song. . . Schumann Jones. . . Schumann Bird of Love Divine. . Hayden Wood Irene Hesting. Gavotte . . . Petrie Clara May Bell. The Hills O'Skye . . . Harris The Secret . . . Scott Mias Clara Kirk will preside at the piano. ADVERTISED MERIT Roberson Cycle Co., 438 Indiana Ave. Christmas suggestions by Robertson: For the bicycle—Spring seat, handle-bars, grips, lamps, pedals, tires, dusters, wheels, handlebars, foot bag, mud guards, stand, stand, lock and chain. Shotguns, rifles, revolvers, air rifles, gun case, ammunition, knives, leggings, gloves, states. In Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. ST. PHILIP'S P. E. CHURCH. Corner of West and Walnut Streets. Services for next Sunday will be 7:30 a. m., celebration of holy communion; 11 a. m., morning prayer, celebration and sermon; 8:00 p. m., evensong and sermon; 9:00 p. m., at 11 a. m., "The Spirit of Advent"; at 8 p. m., "The meditation of Elijah." A. M. E. Zion Church. Corner North and Blackford Streets. The sermon delivered by Bishop G. L. Bishofi, M.D., of this district, Wednesday, December 10 and to December 13, was truly a masterpiece of literature, eloquence and the like, and was enjoyed by all who heard it. The Merry Widows' Club entertained in his honor at the parsonage on Friday afternoon (the large number of guests) was the time delightfully spent by all. Thanks to the members of the club, the Kerr Hall, the Thornton, of Kentucky, will fill the pulpit at 11 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. Sunday. Don't fail to hear him. We will have a tree and exercises will be December 24. Mrs. Rowan left Tuesday for an extended visit in North Carolina. ANNIVERSARY ANNOUNCEMENT. Dr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Roberts have issued cards announcing their twentieth anniversary. Don't fail to attend. 622 North California street. Congratulations are in order. Dr. and Mrs. Roberts were formerly of Minneapolis, but now in New York. Over seven years. They are the proprietors of the two Eureka Drug Stores, and have been very successful in their business endeavors. They host guests and sincere well wishers in this city. SEND FOR CATALOG, FREE We call your attention to the advertisement in this issue of the Central Reservation well-known Negro regalia house. Ask them for a catalogue for your city. Let them know where to find what we desire for it. No house furnishes regalia cheaper than they do, nor better. By dealing with them, you, as you help them, the race and yourself. FULTON, KY. Special Evelyn Rose was hostess at a delightful meeting of the Star Club of the Free Baptist church, Aid Club of the same church, Monday evening at her lovely suburban home. The president of the large number of members and visitors were present. An interesting program was from the meeting adjourned to meet at the church Monday afternoon at the usual hour. The committee was a decided success...Nattle, the lovely daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Jackson, had ideal of success in dis REWARD! The person sending me the name and address of Mrs. Madam Walker, formerly of the Coopersville, will receive a liberal reward of $2. Please forward, your reply at once to O. A. WALKER $29 S. Ludlow St. Dayton, Ohio The Freeman for sale by Clalborne White, 113 Cora street, Durham, N. C. H. C. Thomas, agent for the Indianapolis freeman, 460 Michigan street, Buffalo Edith Dwyer, young girl left home August 31st. She is a brunette with high and weighs 148% pounds. She has a scar about 4% inch long on her left arm. She is brown with a bright brown hair. The mother of the girl is worried sick and would make any sacrifice to hear from her child. Any one seeing or hearing of the wheebubs of the girl described girl will please notify the st. C. W. Dwyer, 1015 So. 6th St., Minneapolis, She wore a blue whipped cord sere with wylet inside. TAKE NOTICE The Indianapolis Freeman, on sale at the Indianapolis Mall, at 1483 First Avenue, Columbus, Ga. "DON'T WORRY!" The Indianaapolis Freeman can be found at 100 W. 10th St. in Paris. Paris, Tex. Mr. Hilbert Bonds, a banker. BUSINESS LOCALS. Woodbine Perfume. Oh, how fragrant, exquisite, enchanting, bewitching. Only at Blodau's Drug Store. The genuine Carter's Rheumatic Remedy sent by mail on receipt of price, 50 cents (stamps). Has cured others; will cure you. Address R. P. Blodau, drug-gist, Indianapolis, Ind. JEWELRY AND WATCHES GIVEN AWAY One dollar grab bag lots for only twenty-seven cents (17c), postpaid. Racks contain valuable, attractive articles, will mention a few: Rings, ear-drops, knives, bracelets, necklaces and many other things not mentioned here, but what you get will cost a dollar ($1) anywhere else. A good time-keeper, our-dollar ($4) watch for only HITS. For a dollar only. Address, C. G. Gonond, Kate, Ark. particulars. P. H. Sykes, 19th and Ellsworth streets, Philadelphia, Pa. A CHANCE TO MAKE MONEY. Do you live in a town having two hun BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY. FREE—We will give absolutely free a handsome Webster's Dictionary of over 400 pages, and send it postpaid for just a little information which you can for-nish us without any trouble. Write for Dale BROWN SKIN COMP A perfect Face Powder for Colored mailed anywhere by Parcel Post for $5 AGENTS WANTED in every town sent free. Drop us a postal at once. JONES MANUFACTUR Dept. F. 13 Gre TOWN SKIN COMPLEXION PO fect Face Powder for Colored People. A handson anywhere by Parcel Post for 35 cents. ITS WANTED in every town. Trial Package and Drop us a postal at once. JONES MANUFACTURING COMPANY Dept. F. 13 Green Street BROWN SKIN COMPLEXION POWDER A perfect Face Powder for Colored People. A handsome 2 oz. box mailed anywhere by Parcel Post for 35 cents. **AGENTS WANTED** in every town. Trial Package and Particulars sent free. Drop us a postal at once. PITTSBURG, PA. Frank Hall of THE CHATEAU CA 346 East 35th Street, Chicago, Ill.. Extends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New The Leading Cafe in the "Windy City." High tainment. Seats Reserved for New Year's. excelled. JOE SHOECRAFT, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Cafe in the "Windy City." High-Seats Reserved for New Year's. S JOE SHOECRAFT, Extends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to All. The Leading Cafe in the "Windy City." High-class Entertainment. Seats Reserved for New Year's. Service Unexcelled. JOE SHOECRAFT. Manager. Russell and Dago of The Elwood Café 3142-44 State St., O Wish their many friends a Merry New Year. They cordially invite be present during the holidays in Year's night. High-class enter- Elmwood Orchestra. Taxis at the RUU Webb's Famous Picture Is Finished in Colors—Was Jesus a Webb's books and pictures provin- ture of Jesus with woolly hair and a book with Biblical references exte- this fact. The following comments: "I'd to say, after hearing Eldo the Negro cougued through the vain that I have seldom, if ever, enjoyed he assumed as the subject of his lec- ture is difficult and real practice. But I am pleased to say, that he be a master of the situation, and I com- mute our race of every denomination. "The evidence submitted by Elder Webb tending a black man, seems to be sufficient to put those who Now that the chain of evidence presented by Mr. W- rence of the Viney in the Biblical record, it seems fore. Not only was Christ a Negro, but it seems the all of the ages as the personification of wisdom, had tale Daily Times. Price for picture and book at Webb's Studio. 3519 $1.00; by mail $1.50. Send money order, express James M. Webb, 3519 State in care of Webb's Studio. Agents wanted at once to above address. The Famous F J. A. MUNCHHOUSE 448-454 W. Wash Elwood Cafe and I 3142-44 State St., Chicago, Ill. for many friends a Merry Christmas and. They cordially invite their many at during the holidays and especially right. High-class entertainment by the Orchestra. Taxis at the door. The Elwood Cafe and Buffet 3142-44 State St., Chicago, Ill. Wish their many friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. They cordially invite their many patrons to be present during the holidays and especially on New Year's night. High-class entertainment by the Famous Elmwood Orchestra. Taxis at the door. 'S Famous Picture of Jesus' finished in Colors—Was Jesus a Negro with Woolly Hair? Webb's books and pictures prove it and show it by the Buret of Jesus with woolly hair and His holy angels at His book with Biblical references extending from Genesis to this fact. The following comments are upon the same: 'I beg to say, after hearing Elder Webb on the subject the Negro courseled through the veins of Jesus and Solomon that I have seldom, if ever, enjoyed such an intellectual training as the subject of this book, and is difficult and requires a practical knowledge of Biblical but I am pleased to say, that he not only shows himself master of the situation, and I commend him to the ministry. Webb's Famous Picture of Jesus! Is Finished in Colors—Was Jesus a Negro with Woolly Hair? Webb's books and pictures prove it and show it by the Bible. A 12x18 picture of Jesus with woolly hair and his holy angels at his second coming, and a book with Biblical references extending from Genesis to Revelations, prove this fact. The following comments are upon the same: "I beg to say, after hearing Elder Webb on the subject, that the blood of the Negro cursed through the veins of Jesus and Solomon. I am frank to say that Jesus was the blood of the Negro, and he assumed as the subject of his lecture touching the Hametic blood and race is difficult and requires a practical knowledge of Biblical and historical lore. But I am pleased to say, that he not only shows himself an expert, but the master of the situations, comment him on to the ministry and churches of Christianity." se submitted by Elder Webb tending to prove that the Savior claims to be sufficient to put those who oppose the proposition of evidence presented by Mr. Webb oppose complete claims in the Biblical records have not advanced the proposition of Christ a Negro, but it seems that Solomon, who has been the personification of wisdom, had Ethiopian blood in his w euro and book at Webb's Studio, 3519 State St., and news state 50. Send money order, express order or registered letter to Webb, 3519 State St., Chicago 'S Studio. Agents wanted at once to sell the pictures and book Famous Furniture J. A. MUNCHROF, Pro- 448-454 W. Washington Street "The evidence submitted by Elder Webb tending to prove that the Savior of mankind was a black man, seems to be sufficient to prove that no one else present by Mr. Webb appears so complete, it is strange that none of the deliverers in the Biblical records have not advanced the sensational proposition before. Not only was Christ a Negro, but it seems that Solomon, who has been held up through the personification of wisdom, and Ethiopian blood in his veins also."—Seat the Daily Times. Price for picture and book at Webb's Studio, 3519 State St., and news stands, and by agents $1.00; by mail $1.50. Send money order, express order or registered letter to James M. Webb, 3519 State St., Chicago, Illinois In care of Webb's Studio. Agents want at once to sell the pictures and books. 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CARTS FROM 39C UP ROCKERS, FROM 10C UP HIGH CHAIRS, FROM 9 The Famous Furniture Company NEW RENT DISTRICT — MAKES LOW CASH OR EASY PAYMENT NEW PHONE 1068 We are showing one of the largest and most complete lines in just such articles as you will want to make Father, Mother, Sister, Brother or The Baby a Present from and ask to meet and see what we can show you in picture of a stair and nature of Furniture at the Lowest Prices consistent with Quality of goods. We have the largest and most Complete Line of Children's High chairs, Chairs, Rockers, and Doll Carts ever shown at the Lowest Prices. So come in early and make your selections to get choice picking. DOLL CARTS FROM 39C UP ROCKERS, FROM 10C UP HIGH CHAIRS, FROM 98C UP The Famous Furniture Company IN LOW RENT DISTRICT — MAKES LOW PRICES CASH OR EASY PAYMENTS NEW PHONE 1068 TUESDAY'S SPECIAL OFFERING COATS, SUIT SKIRTS AND Coat Sale $10.00 sport coats $18.50 sport coats, all the high colors or colors $12.50 sport coats, fancy plaids, choice $18.50 striped zibeline, winter length, plaid coats, full length, for $40.00 plush coats, Skinner lined, for $50.00 all-silk velour coats for $55.00 all-silk velour coats for $55.00 brocaded velour coats for Dress Sale $10.00 serge dresses for $5.88 whipcord dresses for $15.50 serge dresses $18.50 messaline dresses $40.00 charmeuse dresses $40.00 Canton crepe dresses $40.00 charmeuse dresses Suit Sale $25.00 cheviot and wide wale all-wool $25.00 poplin and wide wale all-wool $50.00 chiffon broadcloth and fine popl $60.00 imported broadcloth and fancy $60.00 imported chiffon broadcloth suit extra special for BROSNAN'S-in-the COATS, SUITS, FUR SHIRTS AND WAIS Coat Sale Import coats Import coats, all the high colors of imported chinchilla Import coats, fancy plaids, choice Striped zibeline, winter length, choice Flush coats, full lengths, for Dusch coats, Skinner lined, for All-silk velour coats for All-silk velour coats for Proceded velour coats for Dress Sale Merge dresses for Hipcord dresses for Gorge dresses Dressline dresses Charmme dresses Anton crepe dresses Charmme dresses Suit Sale Sheviot and wide wale all-wool suits for Pollin and wide wale all-wool suits for Puffs, broochloth and fine poplin suits for Imported broadcloth and fancy weave suits for Imported chiffon broadcloth suits, fur collars and cuffs Special for DSNAN'S-in-the-CLAYPO COATS, SUITS, FURS SKIRTS AND WAISTS Coat Sale Dress Sale Suit Sale $25.00 cheviot and wide wale all-wool suits for.....$12.50 $50.00 opium coat and broadcloth all-wool suits for.....$25.00 $50.00 broadcloth and fine poplin suits for.....$25.00 $50.00 imported broadcloth and fancy weave suits for.....$35.00 $60.00 imported chiffon broadcloth suits, fur collars and cuffs.....$39.50 Growing Better Every Day --- M. B. S. particulars, P. H. Sykes, 19th and Ells worth streets, Philadelphia, Pa. A CHANCE TO MAKE MONEY. Do you live in a town having two hundred more colored population? $200, month easy, send for formula that will grower, especially around the temples Send $10 to Madame Graviller's Hair Dallas, Texas COMPLEXION POWDER Colored People. A handsome 2 oz. box for 35 cents. Town. Trial Package and Particulars ace. TURING COMPANY 6 Green Street BURG, PA. and a Happy New Year to All.INDY City." High-class Enter- for New Year's. Service Un- E SHOECRAFT, Manager. go Cafe and Buffet St., Chicago, Ill., Merry Christmas and a Happy invite their many patrons toays and especially on New entertainment by the Famous at the door. RUSSELL AND DAGO. Picture of Jesus! Jesus a Negro with Woolly Hair? is prove it and show it by the Bible. A 12x18 picter and his holy angels at his second coming, and as extending from Genesis to Revelations, prove moments are upon the same: that the subject, that the blood of Jesus of Jesus and Solomon. I am frank to say enjoyed such an intellectual treat. The position this lecture is teaching is amethyst. And the knowledge of Biblical history love, it not only shows himself an expert, but the command him to the ministry and churches of him. ("Signed") BISHOP H. M. TURNER. sending to prove that the Savior of mankind was one who oppose the proposition upon their proof. Wobevoue no comunque, it is strange that we not advanced the equational proposition be- same that Solomon, who has been heed up through had Ethiopian blood in his veins also." -Seat No. 5519 State St. and news stands, and by agents is order or registered letter to State St., Chicago, Illinois once to sell the pictures and books. Apply at the Furniture Co. CHHOP.PNr. Washington Street Santa Claus' Headquarters Largest and most complete lines in just one Father, Matter, Sister, Brother or you to come in and see what we can and nature of Furniture at the Lowest books. We have the largest and most chairs, Chairs, Rockers, and Doll Carts so come in early and make your selec- 19C UP FROM 10C UP CHAIRS, FROM 98C UP Furniture Company MAKES LOW PRICES PSY PAYMENTS ONE 1068 SUITS, FURS, AND WAISTS It Sale $5.90 colors of imported chinchillas. $10.60 choice $7.50 length, choice $12.50 for $12.50 for $25.00 for $35.00 $35.00 Less Sale $5.98 $9.88 $8.50 $10.00 $18.50 $25.00 $25.00 It Sale wool suits for $12.50 wool suits for $25.00 polo suits for $25.00 nancy weave suits for $35.00 suits, fur collars and cuffs. $39.50 -the-CLAYPOOL --- The Will of R. R. Church Not Broken! From the alarming pages of the very few of our esteemed contemporaries edited by colored men, particularly the Chicago Defender, and the Birmingham WideAwake, we are astonished to learn that the will drawn, made and left by the late R. R. Church, of Memphis, has been broken, set aside, changed by some order or decision of a Memphis court. The Sun is a Memphis newspaper, and its editor is a citizen here. We are alive to the happenings of these environs, come by chance, by gossip's free and anxious tongue, or through channels of responsibility. We are somewhat informed upon the business and the findings of the several courts hereabouts, and certainly we have followed with double interest the legal skirmish with respect to the affairs of the late R. R. Church. We weigh our word: the will left by Mr. Church has not been broken by any act of the courts of Tennessee, nor has that will been in question before any court in Tennessee or in any commonwealth. News to the contrary is false and misleading, and at ugly variance with the facts. If we are permitted to advance an opinion we will say that in all likelihood that document, now the tattler's toy and the gossip's morsel, will not suffer change by order, finding or decisions of the courts of law of Tennessee, now nor ever. The reputable journals edited by colored men, that are evidently acquainted with both the law of Tennessee with respect to will-breaking and the sturdy powers of R. R. Church until the moment of his taking off, and that failed to discern an ocean of trouble in a stream of annoyance, have our respects and also congratulations upon their refusal to print as news what is exactly not the truth, and what is in open conflict with the truth! China & Silverware for Receptions, Etc. F. P. Smith & Co., 203 N. Delaware St. Smith's Lamp Store J. E. EARLE & CO. BOOT AND SHOE Harness Repairing. Mending and Repairing. Work called for and delivered. New Phone 4270-K. 201 Indiana Avenue, 202 N. Illinois St E. F. MONN WHOLESALE AND BETAIL DEALER IN Floors and Land, Owensville, Cincinnati, Meal, Graham Flour, Corn Meal, Cracked Corn and all kinds of Ground Feed. New Phone 2565-K: Old Phone, Main. 5783. 648 N. West St. Indianapolis New Phone, 4067-K Residence, 5271-K NOTARY W. W. HYDE Attorney and Councellor 119 W. Maryland St. Rooms 10 and 11 INDIANAPOLIS IND. A A thoroughly good Hat can be made to sell for $2. When you run into higher prices you can't usually tell the difference except by the price mark. Don't pay over $2 for an ordi nary soft or stiff hat. If you want something that is really fine get a Valour at $3.50 or $5.00. LEVINSON Style Starter THREE STORES 37 N. Penn. St., 41 S. Ill. St., Market & Ill. St. Just Weigh the Family WASHING Each pound you have will cost you only 6c, wash, dry, iron and starch where necessary, and deliver. Then Weigh This Mentally: Laundress.....$1.50 Heat.....20 Blueing, starch, soap.....10 $1.80 —it's low at that, isn't it? And how about all the wear and tear of "wash day" on the nerves? An average week's laundry for a family of three done by GEM SERVICE costs only about 50 cents. Phone us to have the wagon call. Gem Laundry Either Phone 1671 235 Indiana Ave. Indianapolis --- If It Is For Your Lodge WE HAVE IT! We manufacture Lodge Regalia for every Fraternal Society. Cash or Installment Plan. Cheapest Badge House in the Country. Catalogue for your Society FREE. CENTRAL REGALIA CO. The Negro Regalia House. JOS. L. JONES, Pres. N. E. Cor. 8th & Plum Cincinnati, Ohio Everything for the Christmas Dinner A hint to the wise is sufficient. Go to Shea's the market grocery Why? Because we dress our own poultry. Country hams. 17e a pound; Bacon 20c a pound; Kettle Rendered Lard, 121-2c. M. C. 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Church Not Editorial, The Memphis Sun, Dec. 13, 1913. The alarming pages of the very few contemporaries edited by colored men Chicago Defender, and the Birmingham are astonished to learn that the w left by the late R. R. Church, of Me m, set aside, changed by some order this court. Sun is a Memphis newspaper, and its ce. We are alive to the happening some by chance, by gossip's free air through channels of responsibility M. IT GREW THIS HAIR Pages 9 to 16--A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year--Pages 9 to 16 THE FREEMAN AND ETHIOPIA SHARP STRECH FORTH HER HAND A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER The Freeman is the peer of Negro Journals, circulating in every State and Territory in the United States, an accomplishment which can not be claimed by any other Negro publication. Send us your subscription at once. NEGRO PROGRESS An Inspiring Article Showing what Black —Farmers' Co-operative Demonstrat South—Fine Progress of Negro NEGRO PROGRESS IN AGRICULTURE An Inspiring Article Showing what Black Men are Doing in Cultivating the Soil—Farmers' Co-operative Demonstration Work and How it is Helping the South—Fine Progress of Negroes During the Past Ten Years. By Prof. Booker T. Washington. A few days ago I noted in the associated matches that John Crawford a Negro farmer near Americas, had refused $40,000.00 for his fine farm of eleven hundred acres. The press report stated that Crawford had land over a dozen acres of land in Wilcox county Alabama. a well of financially—has money in the bank and did not see the necessity for selling the farm. This farmer said that this black farmer in Georgia is doing is indicative of the agril- culture recently issued a bulletin entitled "An Example of Intensive Farming in the Cotton Belt." The unusual thing about this bulletin is that it is the record of what a Negro farmer has accomplished on his land or to any one, that he is well of financially—has money in the bank and did not see the necessity for selling the farm. This farmer said that this black farmer in Georgia is doing is indicative of the agril- Truck and Poultry ruck and Poultry Raising at Tuskeg THE FARM cultural progress that the Negro is making in farming throughout the South. Some years the state of Alabama has been the largest yield of corn on one acre of land. Last year Isaac D. Martin, a Negro farmer of Pratt City, Alabama, raised two hundred bushels of corn on one acre of ground thereby won the second prize of $150.00. The United States Department of Agri- --- THE WOMEN'S SCHOOL Getting Practical Instructions in Dairying at Tuskegee Institute. VOL. XXVI NUMBER 51 culture recently issued a bulletin entitled "An example of Intensive Farming in the Cotton Belt." The unusual thing about this farm is that it is no longer what a Negro farmer has accomplished on two acres of land in Wilcox county, Alabama. This farmer is Samuel McCorn, an ex-servant over 75 years of age. He raised in one year on two acres of ground seven bales of cotton and other produce. He is striving to bring the yield up to 9 Raising at Tuskegee Normal am bales. McCord has demonstrated what can be done by rotating crops. Officers of the United States Department of Agriculture declare that this agent Negro has set a great example in intensive farming for the small farmers of the South. Another example of the progress that the Negro is making in agriculture is the Farmers' Co-operative Demonstration Work. This work is carried on under the direction of the United States Des INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1913 partment of Agriculture and is doing much for both black and white farmers d Industrial Institute per acre in production of crops grown, we have also reports of 104 homes re- moved or newly built 89 whitewashed or newly painted, and 85 new barns and outbuildings built, in addition to thou- sands of dollars worth of farm machinery being purchased by these colored demon- strators and co-operators, and reports show that more than $10,000 worth of canned fruits and vegetables were put up by them for home use during the past Students Topping Corn Tuskegee Institute Farm. year. "The demand for work among the color industries has been much faster than the department is able to supply demands," the past ten years the Negro's progress in agriculture has been especially marked. During that time the value of domestic animals which they use in the South increased from 14,564,000 to 197 per cent; poultry from $37,789,792 to $51,135,763, or 35 per cent; implements from $38,789,792, to $61,848,168, of 98 per cent; land and buildings from $63,836,420 to $73,501,665, or 233 per cent. During the 1910 the total value of farm property owned by the colored farmers of the South increased from 17,000,000 to 21,000,000 cent. I find that in 1863 there were in the whole United States, only a few farms which Negroes or whites are operating in the South 900,000 farms which are 217,000 more than there were in this section in the South now 100,000,000 acres of land, of which 42,500,000 acres are under the department. When at the close of the Civil War the Negroes started on their career as farmers, they were often called to experience as farm owners or tenants; none of them became farm owners by inheritance, with which to purchase land. Of the million and a half white farmers added since 1860, the greatest number of land owners and inherited farms or the wherewithal to purchase them. When the greatest number of black farmers fifty years ago is taken into account, the fact, Students Topping Corn MOBILE, ALA., DOTS (By C. M. Wilkerson.) During this period of the year when the holiday season will soon be at hand, let me remind you that something that will give the race a better standing in the place where we reside. Let us labor together in the world of sports, in the environment of particular sphere, striving to make your usefulness and efficiency. I take this method of thanking the people for their liberal patronage during this year now drawing to a close, and wish all a merry Christmas and a happy New Year and Davis you nurses, stop by the Gulf City drug store and glance over the line of holiday goods that a druggist has stocked in Philadelphia, Pa. spent several days in this city. He stopped in Mobile on his way from the West Alabama conference, where he convened in --- CHAMPAIGN, ILL Johnson's Orchestra Gives First Annual Dance. (By Z. L. Breedlove, Phone, Bell 1659.) Special to THE FREEMAN ...Mr. L. R. Breedlove and Mr. Thomas Jackson visited in Decatur Sunday... Don't forget that the Christmas issue of the journal will be in 10 cents... A. M. E. Church Sunday morning service was held as usual. The theme was a plea for service. Sixty people attended the Sunday service, but the book is intermittent. "Deny Thyself" was the topic of the minister's sermon at Salem Baptist church Sunday. At the evening service the sub Tuskegee Institute Farm. ject was "The Good Shepherd Mr. Hart, a student of the junior department, is to attend the church at 6:30 Sunday evening, ... I write insurance for the Fidelity Beneficial and Protective League, with home insurance. Mr. Hart, Mr. Ernest and sister, Miss Florence, visited their home at Homer Thanksgiving, and attended a dance. They tended a dance. A song, "Just Give a Red Apple Instead," composed by a Negro, F. Taylor, at Monticello, Ill., can be composer, at Monticello, Ill.,...Mrs. Lila Johnson visited in Chicago recently. "WHY THE NEGRO HAS FALLEN UPON TROUBLESOME TIMES." Nannie H. Burroughs, Washington, D. C. Regardless of the fact that the race has made the most marvelous progress in history, during the past fifty years, we are in a position to call for a condition that calls for the most serious consideration by those who are to direct the work of uplift and betterment, and leaders are entirely responsible for the present uncomfortable and embarrassing situation. The leaders have not deflated their position and have held in Congress kings and kings and in leaders of the race caught the vision and had the courage and statesmanship of a leader of the frugality of an Irish Crusader. The frugality of an Irish Montgomery and continued, in spirit and in deed, the great work they began. The men of the race have prepared for fundamentals in race building; they lacked the virile qualities that make leadership an irresistible, magnetic contagious something that inspires greater prominence and to deeds of greater daring. They did not know that a leader must have vision, knowledge and a read and pull the people after him; that a leader must have vision, knowledge and a passion for a righteous cause, that he can "go some," that a leader must be willing to give his life, a ransom for his people, and self into service. Any other type of a leader will simply sell the people to the highest bidder, live off the fat of the crab and leave his poor people to starve. Frederick Douglass approaches nearer the ideal leader than any man the race has ever known. He was a man of time, understood his mission and accomplished it. Douglass takes high rank because he mastered all the wonders of the race and his stature and race has produced a more marvelous race has produced a more standpoint to his calling. Galileo (to whom he prepares Douglass for his great work. He was born to lead through the darkest of times and the most difficult dom. He was born to inspire faith in the mental acumen of a race, that those who were born to the race powers, would not hesitate after freedom to invest in the education of a race, that could produce under such circumstances. Douglass was a prophet born to foretell the future greatness of his people. His first duty was to help break the chadder and to make a race that had been bowed down, look up. He came to inspire and to strengthen the faith of a race that did not believe; he came to give sight to a race that could not see; he came to dom; he came to prove that black men can match white men in mental combat. Such a leader was needed for such a thing. Booker T. Washington is the leader of the second race in the race that had been worked, how to work; he came to free men from industrial bondage; he came to poverty with the result that more money is being given for preparing men to do the work that has been given. He came to change the minds of men on the question of service and to place them in places among the advanced arts of our modern civilization. He came to put into practice the gospel that Douglass had to have to live in houses and he must learn to build them. The Negro must wear shoes, and he must learn to say that Booker T. Washington is not the leader, that his gospel has cost us the ballot—well, he must learn to say that for which he started; he has kept ahead of the crowd, and he has pulled the people along an adventure; therefore an application of a leader The leader of the third generation has not yet come forth. He is however, overdue. His mission will be to change the minds of men on the ground and present industrial boycott. The burden of the plea of the new leader will be to give Christianity a fair show at solving the race problems, and to make our civilization humanistic. For the coming crisis it is important that the present crisis it is quite likely that he will rise. In the second place the Negro has fallen upon troubled times because we have leaders. Men without vision, selfish men, men without love for others, maniacs and themselves, their family and a few friends. They have trafficked with the ballot, until we have been once held in our hands, America's greatest weapon defense against injustice. We have fallen upon troubled times because we have gotten into places where they could have helped their people, and we have gotten into places where they could have forgotten their kinsmen in the land of famine. MISS NANNIE H. BURROUGHS. A PROMINENT FIGURE IN THE RELIGIOUS WORLD Well-Known Divine Whose Career Has Been an 'Eventful One.' Rev. John Simpson Jackson, the fourth son of John and Lizzie Jackson, was born near Forkland, Green county, Alabama. He attended St. Mary's college, and mary schools at his home and later went to Marion, Ala., entering the Lincoln Normal University, where he graduated from. After returning home he taught school for ten consecutive years. Very early in life the quality of leadership was his career in the educational and political life of his State stands out conspicuously. He was at one time a member of the Republican executive twice by the Green county convention for representative to the State Legislature, elected delegate to the Republican man of state where Benjamin Harrison was nominated for President of the United States. But his career in the world of politics flourished in his race. Converted in early youth, he joined Birdine A. M. E. Zion church and became an active and influential member holding from time to time a position as layman, which使 him a layman is eligible. The Freeman As an advertising medium is unequaled by any Negro Newspaper, going into the homes of a class or thrifty, money-spending Afro-Americans not reached by any other Journal. Mr. Advertiser, take the hint and try us. REV. JOHN SIMPSON JACKSON. making him perilous one of the most heavily bonded colored men in the country. He was a member of the Mason, a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the United Brothers of Friendship, and the Johnson has been married twice; first to Miss Louise Pearson, a member of one of the wealthiest families in the country, who were born to them, three of whom—Gertrude, Geneva and Robert—are now living in Alabama. February 5, 1908, was Miss Pauline A. Huggar, a prominent school teacher, club and church worker of Mobile, Ala. February 5, 1908, was Miss Pauline A. Huggar, a prominent school teacher, club and church worker of Mobile, Ala. Alabama, where she resided from May until October, 1912. Since that time, through his efforts, the financial assistance of the firm has built him, Ala., where Dr. Jackson has built one of the finest homes owned by any New Yorker. Dr. Jackson is director and one of the largest stockholders of the Alabama Peninsula, largest colony in the United States. TRUE GOLD IN HUMBLE HUT. Capt. N. Clark Smith, of Tuskegee, Publishes Plantation Song Cycle. CAPT. N. CLARK SMITH. recalls the time when his favorite child was the belle of the neighborhood, and he suggested the old mamma's devotion and care of the children after working hard at Captain Smith is bandmaster at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, but frequently is in Wichita furthering the mission of the school, cloaked boys. That he has "rung the bell" with his latest publication is proven by an annotated book of music in America, asking for the privilege of paying him royalty on this new "Plantation Song Cycle."—The Eagle,