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Jan. 6 follow this issue The COLORED American NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER Library of Congress LIBRARY OF CONGRESS RECEIVED JAN 18 1800 CONGRESS DEPT. Prof. Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institutute—The Negro's Foremost Advocate of Industrial Education—Philosopher, Statesman and Economist—His Character and Work Appreciated by the Civilized World. 2 MR. WHITE AS A HOST Gentlemen of the Pulpit, Press and Bar Par ticipate in a Feast, Intellectual and Gas tronomic—Bruce Grit's Notes. Jersey City, N. J. Special. I think the verdict of all those who have ever had the honor and the privilege of being the guest of Hon. George H. White our lone, but not lonely representative in Congress will be that he is most congenial host, and a generous feeder. I am sure that the dozen gentlemen who were his guests Dec. 30th, last at dinner at Gray's famous hostelry, will not soon forget the occasion or the man. The dinner was given in the large dining hall on the second floor front and a few minutes after two o'clock, the following gentlemen sat down to a dinner that would have made the famous Sam Ward, who twenty five years ago was a prince among the epicures of Washington, green with envy: The host, Hon. Geo. H. White, M. C., North Carolina; Ex-Gov. P. B. S. Pinchback, La.; Bishop Alexander Walter, D. D., N. J.; Hon. Fred'k. L. McGhee, attorney-at-law St. Paul, Minn., Edward E. Brown, attorney-at law, Boston, Mass.; Mr. Jesse Lawson, N. J., Dist. of Columbia council, No. 1.; Bishop C. R. Harris, N. C.; Mr. Daniel Murray, D. C., assistant librarian of Congrees; and the following men behind the pen: T. Thomas Fortune, New York Age; E. E. Cooper, The Colored American; J. E Bruce, Howard's American Magazine; A. L. Manly, Daily Record, Washington, D. C. Good Bishop Walters of New Jersey asked the blessing and the following menu was served by Gray's nimble waiters; Consomme jardiniere, chicken gumbo; Broiled Lake trout a la Maitre d'hotel, Sliced cucumbers, potatoes Duchesse Olives. Boiled turkey celery sauce, Lamb chops, saute with new peas Cronstade of sweet breads, (a la Parisienne.) Banana fritters, sauce Maraschino, Roast rib of beef, roast ham Champagne sauce, Mashed potatoes, Cauliflower cream sauce, Boiled new potatoes, wax beans, Stewed tomatoes, Sherbet, Polonaise Scuppernong wine, a la N. Carolina Cold roast beef, Tongue, Broiled chicken, Pickled beets, Lettuce with Shires egg dressing, Ice cream, Assorted cakes, Fruit, Roquefort cheese, Water crackers, Nuts, Raisins, Bananas. Cafe Noir, Cigars, Eloquence. Upon the removal of the debris, the guests addressed themselves to the consideration of the Crumpacker bill which is soon to be submitted to Congress and discussed its merits ineloquent phrases. Gov. Pinchback, who has made a complete study of the bill spoke encouragingly of the benefits it would give, if passed, and urged all Negro organizations and individuals to give Congressman Crumpacker the author of the bill their moral support. Congressman White, who will present the anti-lynching bill in Congress, which has been approved by the President, spoke earnestly of the need of this measure and explained its provisions fully. The discussion was par- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. ticipated in by Attorneys E. E. Brown of Boston, Mass., and the courtly and dignified McGhee of Minnesota. A very important point (viz:) That there has never been a test by the Supreme Court of the United States of the constitutionality of the amendments to the Constitution, was raised and discussed with great erudition and learning by the lawyers present, all of whom maintained with singular unanimity that a proper test of these amendments would discover that they are as sound in principle as any other portion of the Constitution. The fourteenth article to the Constitution was shown to contain the germ of the law upon which it is believed a successful test could be made, viz; "All persons born or naturalized in the United and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States, and of the State wherein they reside, etc., etc. It was maintained that the Negro had heretofore sought to have this clause interpreted so that it would apply to him as a Negro and not to him as a "citizen" of the United States, and that the courts very promptly decided against him, when he attempted to secure his rights, by invoking the law to protect him as a Negro citizen rather than as an American citizen. It was a very fine point and may come in handy some day. Governor Pinchback told some inside history of the reconstruction period and some of his experiences as Governor or of the Pelican State, which set the table on a roar, and Attorney McGhee cracked a few Western jokes that produced much laughter and applause. Mr. McGhee is an inimitable wit, and bears a striking resemblance to Hamlet. His eloquence is fervid and his manner engaging as a speaker. His humor is as dry as a bottle of Mumm's Extra, after it has been seen a few times. The good and bad points of John M. Langston were next discussed. Mr. Jesse Lawson, who is a dogmatic and loyal friend came to the rescue of his friend and patron, and like a certain Grecian wrestler, who was able by his eloquence, to convince the spectators after he had been thrown, that he had not been thrown, went after Mr Langston's critics so vigorously and eloquently, that they were all convinced that he was one of the noblest Romans of African descent, that ever drew a lance; and so he was. John M. Langston was human, and therefore fallible. He was courageous, loyal to his friends and the idol of the young men of his day and time, who do well to cherish his memory and to defend his good name with all the energy of their natures. The criticisms made of his public life were friendly and his transcendent ability, genius and scholarship were admitted by all. A running conversation on the work of the Council and the best means of enlarging its scope and work was participated in by all present. Bishop Walters was enthusiastic and optimistic, and gracefully acknowledged the compliments paid him on the successful sessions of the executive committees which had just recently adjourned. Messrs. Fortune, Cooper, Manly, Bishop Harris, Daniel Murray and others contributed to the fund of conversation and at 4 pm. after the cigars had been passed around everybody was feeling good and all voted Congressman White to be a most agreeable and delightful host. The Press Gang has a very warm spot in their hearts for Congressman White and it is due to the fact that he is one of the few Negroes in public life who is not afraid to take the quill drivers into his confidence, when he has anything to say of public interest and that he always treats them decently, which is saying a great deal. Gov. Pinchback is another one of our public men, who can always command a hearing in the Negro press, because his heart is as a dinner plate and is in thorough touch with the members of the press. This little dinner of Congressman White's was decidedly one of the most enjoyable events of the week in Wash ington and will be remembered for a long time by all who were privileged to enjoy his hospitality, his rare old scuppernong and his fragrant Perfectos. BRUCE GRIT. Alexandria Va. Notes Alexandria is honored with six Bristish churches and one Methodist church. If the moral, social and spiritual condition of a community governed or judged by the number of churches in it, Alexandria has the right to claim a fair percentage all that line. Whether it is time or not it ought to be true of any city or community, and it doubtless is true some places where there a.e. numerous churches. The First Baptist Sunday school held election of officers last Sunday for 1906 as follows: Superintendent Mr. Fred. Rich, assistant secretary Jas M. Buckner, Secretary Will Thornton, Assistant Secretary Miss Lillie Holmes, Chorister Jesse Miden, Assistant chorister Henry Bucker, Organist Mrs. Lottie Buckner Assistant Organist Eddie John Librarian Lludsey Jackson, Assistant Librarian Cliffton Parsley, Treasurer Mrs. Adeie Ware. The B. Y. P. U. of the First Baptist church also elect officers as follows: President Rev. A. Lott, Vice President Mrs. C. Parsley, Secretary Samuel Jack Assistant Secretary Miss Martha per, Chorister Henry Buckner, sistant Chorister James M. Buck Organist Miss Amanda Buckner, sistant Organist Miss Lulu Edm. Treasurer Mr. Henry Tyler, Librarians Masters Cliffton Parsley and Jesse Holmes. The funeral of Mrs. Beale, wife of Mr. W. H Beale, who died at her residence on Madison street, Friday December 29th last, took place Sunday December 31st at the 3rd Baptist church. She was about 50 years old and has a host of friends. She left a glowing testimony. Watch meeting was observed at all the churches as usual. Rev. Henderson of Leesburg, Va. who has been formerly called to take charge of the 3rd Baptist church of the city, entered upon his duties as pastor last Sunday. Rev. Henderson has our best wishes for his success as pastor of said church. The Epworth League, a literary organization of some note, is now under the management of the energetic and progressive R. J. Preston, who purposes this year to make it a success. Topics of general interest to the race will be discussed. Mr. Preston is arranging quite an interesting program several dates ahead and there is no reason why a lively interest may not be aroused among the literary element of Alexandria. Mr. Preston possesses both ability and push. We wish him success in its management. The League meets every Thursday evening. Mr. J. C. Russell has returned to the Recorder's Office. The National Colored Teachers Bureau Washington, D. C., is prepared to furnish CAPABLE TEACHERS of every branch of instruction and DESIRABLE SCHOOLS in all parts of the country. REGISTRATION FREE but applicants must be fully competent to teach or possess the ability to learn how to teach. NO SCHOOL—NO PAY 6 per cent of the first year's salary will be charged those for whom positions are secureded, payable Dec. 1, 1900. The Demand exceed the Supply for suitable teachers during the past year, hence our liberal inducements. end for registration blank brief stating your full qualifications and enclose ten two cent stamps for postage. 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The attendance was quite large. Among those present were Messrs. Henry Sayles, Charles Edelin, John Brice, Laurence Ellis, Robert Taylor, Ithaca, N. Y., Robert Johnson, Germantown, Pa., Wm. Ford Howard University, Chas. Jackson, Wm. E. Stewart, A. Clark, Germantown, Pa. J. W. Williams, J. W. Williams, jr., John Moss, Thos. Fortune; Mesdames W. K. Scott, R. F. Plummer, R. H. Lewis, J. H. Taylor, Ithaca, N. Y., A. Clark, Germantown, Pa., J. W. Williams, Thos. Fortune, Drs. W. K. Scott, Wm. E. Gales, R F. Plummer; Misses Mabel Williams, Emma Edelin, Nannie Johnson, Annapolis, Lizzie Wills, Eleanora Robinson, F. Lawnes, Emma Bentley, Elizabeth Wells. Supper was served at ten o'clock pm., dancing until 12 pm. EDUCATIONAL NOTE There are today, 40,000 negro students in the higher educational institutions of this country. The colored teachers of Fayette county (Lexington), Kentucky, have organized themselves into an association. Profs. W. W Yates and J. W. Baldwin are voted as two of the best educators in the state of Missouri, and also as true and enthusiastic race men. Dam rumor has it that Prof. G. N. Grisham, the smart and good looking principal of Lincoln High School, Kansas City, Mo., is to be married at an early date. The meeting of the Presidents of the schools under the direction of the Freedman's Aid and Southern Educational Society to have been held at Chatanooga in September, has been postponed until spring. "The Olio," published by the students in the printing department of Straight University, New Orleans, La, is a neat and meaty college journal The editorial staff is as follows: John F. Guillaume, editor in chief; Charles H. McGruder and Henderson H Dunn, associate editors. Paul Quinn College is doing better this year than common and the attendance on that institution is growing rapidly. In fact the attendance has increased over any preceding years. So much so that President Burgan states that the matter of new buildings is already pressing for attention and will be considered in due time. Contributions amounting to $100,000 resulted from the December public meeting held in Madison Squire Garden, New York, in the interest of Tuskegee Institute. In the absence of ex-President Cleveland, the Hon. Carl Schurz presided over the meeting. The securing of the $500,000 endowment is practically assured. A Leader Indeed. Editor of The Colored American, Dear Sir:-The new addition on The Colored American has made a marked improvement in its looks and journal- ism. It is a leader among leaders. Thomas Kinard, Fort Ringgold, Tex. MEN CURED FREE A most successful remedy has been found for sexual weakness such as impotency varicocele, shrunken organs, nervous debility, lost manhood, night emissions, premature discharge and all other results of self-abuse or excesses. 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Ourecribe wasn’t sure “Well,” said Cid Sol, ‘‘he’sa vety warm member, a genuine heat producer The jJast copy of The American we bad up here was £0 hot wehad to open the back door to avoid se:ting the universe on fire. You know I ama manufacturer of caloric and oxygen myself. In fast all our family are hot stuff but The Colored American is the hottert stuff we've ever bucked against. Its a good thing you fellows are 95000,000 miles away from us, otherwise the rivelry be tween us might engender bad feeling. Our scribe assured old Sol that dis tance lent enchantment to the hot wave and that the two hot waves would ‘endeavor to try to barmonize always. ‘‘Oh well, eezze come to think of it, you fellows don’t interfere with my business, except when you get dangerously hot discussing the lynch ing question and other questions. We hear you up here and we slways place aman at the safety valve, when you get going—and thus prevent a crash. You certainly do haye some warm con- versations down there young fellow,” gaid old Sol winking his cff eye and and pointing to terra firma. We up here know that you are on earth and I guess your neighbor are aware ‘of the fact, ‘Oh, yes,” said our scribe, ‘“‘they krow all about us.’’ ‘Here Appolyon”’ called out old Solioa begrimed at tendant who was fixing the fire ‘tidy up yourself and bring this gentlemen a flagon of hot air.” Turnirg to the scribe old Solremarked that this was all he had offer him, and that it would keep him warm on bis way back to earth. The ecribe tested the stuff and the sensation it produced was inde scribable, two mouthfuls were all he wanted. Old Sol smiled and said, “awful sorry my dear sir, you see we don’t make ice on the planet. Lunar and Company control that business up here, Had we known you were coming we would bave had some ice put in the cellar, but it is really so hot theres I doubt whether it woutd have kept. Must you go so svon—real glad you called. Come again. O yes, we all read The American up here. We have our copy fire proofed by a special process, and that prevents spontaneous com bustion. AsI said in the beginning, The American is a good deal warmer than myself. if I never form an al- | liance with any of the forces of earth, | you maybesure that I will corsult your femous Cooper, and we’ll barrel up the universe and set it on fire. Here Michael, show the gentleman down, Good day Mr. Scribe, awful glad to have met you. Bruce Grit, ee ee A grand reception was given at the residence of Mrs. Howard 1108 19th strect n. w., in honor (of Miss Hattie Mays of South Carolina, Wednesday, December, 27th 1899 The musical features of the evening were rendered by Messrs. George Watkins and Walter Mahammitt whose vocay selections re- ceived great applause. Mr. Madison Reid also received greatapplause for his comic recitations and songs which were THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. SS his own compositions. The supper was served at 11 o’clock ana the table 9 3 was beautifully decorated by an exper- Posh High Art ienced cateer. Miss Mays will spend B Vy the winter in the city with Mr. and| N Mrs. J. W. Mays. ey ee See ol ey AT Of Sy —— | A WEEK OF PRAYER, es Fashion The True Reformers at Work. \ My suits New Haven, Conn., Special—We are glad to announce that arrange- ments have been made so that the City of Elms will be represented in the current issues of this journal. We shall take special note hereafter of churches and all important transactions throughout the state. The several churches throughout the city held their week of prayer, and some found it necessary to continue another week. The Baptist, Congregational and Bethel churches have arranged to hold union evangelistic services, Sun- day January 14, 24 and 28 as follows; At 3p, m. Sunday January 14th in the Dixwell Avenue Cor gregational church, sermon by Rev. A. Clayton Powell, subject, “The Significance of the hour;” at 3 p,m. Sunday January 21st in the Bethel A.M. E. church, sermon by Rev, T. Nelson; at 3 p. m. Senay January 28th in the Im- manuel Baptist church, sermon by Rev. Dr. Isreal Derricks, subject, “Reconciliation.” Every effort will be made to make these me2tings a success. The New Haven Patriarchie No. 17, G. U. O. of O. F. held a special convocation on Saturday evening Jan. 6th, and installed the following of- ficers; M. V. P, Frederick Young, R. V. P. A. Lee Epps, V.P, J, H. Bow- man, W, P.R, W. B. Hendrickson, W.P.T., Henry Smith, W, P. P., Walker Simms, P. Sam, W. J, Mosley, P. Shep, Wm. Amos, P. Keep and S$, Beane. The ceremonies were performed by P.M. V. P.S., 5. J. Brown and Robert Johnson the latter of Bridge- port. Christian Lodge No. 1484 G. U. O. ot O. F. will hold their installation on Wednesday evening the 17th inst, at which,time the annual reports will be rendered. Everybody should be present. Rey. Burbridge of Ansonia spent Sun: day in this city the guest of Rey. A. C. Powell 28 Gill street. Mr. Hubert Ross of 383 Orchard street has re* turned to Howard College where he will resume his studies after spending his holidays with his parents. Mrs, J. W. Ross of 383 Orchard street who has been very iil for some time is now improving. Mr, Geo. Burke of 21 Winter street has been very sick for the past two weeks, but is now improv: ing. Arrangements are being made to secure important race news from dif- ferent parts of the state for The Col- ored American. Everybody should read The Colored American, A LEE Epps, Roselle, N. J., News, Roselle, N, J., (special)—The people of this little town are delighted with The Coloreg American. While it has only been introduced here forea few weeks, there is a great demand for it. We have a live Baptist church here and a great many young people, notably ladies, attend church regularly, Our Sunday school Superintendent, Mr. B. W. Monroe, is anactive man andis doing good work. At the Christian Endeavorer’s Meeting held last Sunday Miss E. Smith of Baltimore presided, There sre twenty families of us here and twelve of this number own good homes. Mrs, dmunds has a well-stocked grocery and Dercon R. B. Smith has renoyated his new home, Hurrah for The Colored American ! —-----__ The friends of Mrs. M. W. Gibbs and daughters and Miss Annie E, Grinage will find them hereafter at their residence, No, 14 N st.j northyest, C fli A ( Z 2 Ee ) igh ArtCustom Tailoring ie AT POPULAR PRICES Fashion forecast for Fall and Winter 1899-1900. My suits run from $15 up \ Best silk Lined $18.00 up \ \ Over coats all the way from $14 to $45.00. vA A. H. COOPER, Mo. Ave. and 6th St. Upposi'e Pa. Station Beene ee eRe SS) | te eR TEA OS SESS SD ee See Second Baptist Charc’ to Com- memorate Great Event ot One Hundred Years —Frominent Men to Speak. 4s announced in cur last week’s is sue, Rev. W. Bishop Johnson has ar: canged to extend a “Grand 20th Cent ury Greeting to the people at Second Baptist church, commenemg Sunday, January 2l and ending Friday, January 26. Anattractive program has byen arranged, embracing addresses at every service by leading divines and promi- nent public men and music by swee! singers. The dezign is to commemor- ate the significant achievements of the civilized world during the 19th century. The order of exercises will be as fol: lows: Sunday, January 21st, 1900. ll a m.—Preaching by Rev. J. Anderson Taylor, pastor of Sniloh Baptist church’ Music by 2nd Baptist church choir. Deacon’s rally. 3 p.m.—Preaching by Rev. P.L. Cuyler, pastor of Galbraith A. M. E. Zion church. Music by Gal- braith choir. Trustees’ rally. 7:30 p. m,.—Preaciing by Rev. Harvey Jobn- son, D. D., of Baltimore, Md. Pastor’s rally. Monday, 8 p. m.—Political Retro- spect of the 19th Century. Opening addresses by Hon. Judson W. Lyons, Register of the U. 8. Treasury; Hon. H. P. Cheatham, Recorder of Daeds for the District of Columbia. Sunday schoolrally. Music ky choir of 2d Bap tist church. Tuesday, 8 p. m.—Religious Retro- spect of the 19ch Century. Opening addresses by Rev. W. H. Brooks, D. D., pastor of the 19th Street Baptist church; Rev. 1. L. Tnemas, D. D., pas tor Asbury M. E. church. Sunday school Lyceum rally. Music by choir of Asbary church. Wednesday, 8 p. m,.— Educationa) Retrospect of the 19th Century. Open- ing addresses by Prof. Robert H. Ter- rell, principal of High School; Prof. J. W. Uromwell, principal of Banneker Public School; Miss Lucy Moten, M. D., Principal of Normal School. Bap- tist Young Peopie’s Unionrally. Music by choir of 2d Baptist church, Thursday, 8 p. m.—Racial Retro spect of the 19.h Century. Opening address by Rev. G. W. Lee, D. D., pas tor Vermont Avenue Baptist church. Emergency Clu raliy. Musi: by choir of Vermont Avenue Baptist church, Friday, 8 p. m.—Denominational Retrospect of the 19th Century. Paper on “Sunday School Wosk” by Mr. W. T.McKinney, Supt. Paperon ‘‘Edu: cational Institutions,” by Miss Laura Robinson. Paper on ‘Young People’s Societies,” Mr. Clarence Davis. Paper on ‘Missionary Work,’’ by Miss Hattie Drew. Paperon “Literature,” by Miss Belle Kinner. Monday Night Club rally. Music by choir of 2d Baptist a AMUSEMENTS. ene Academy Week of January 15. Matinees Wed: nesday and Saturday 25 and 50 cents. JAMES H. WALLICK’S Massive Scenic Production, THE KING of ROGUES A drama of intense heart interest, in* cerspersed with bright comedy. Next Week—Yates’ Big Spectacle, THE EVIL EYE. Week of January 15, The Distinguished. English Actress OLGA NETHERSOLE Direction of Marcus R. Mayer Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Friday and Matinee Wednesday, in her Remarkab e and Unparelied T:iumph SAPHO. Saturday Matinee, First and On y Time Here CAMILLE In Costumes of the€econd Empire Saturday Night, THE PROFLIGATE. Jan.£2—Wm. 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Gil seers, PADS, 2 CRLZA Barcees PS) ie INSPIRATION. | significant that the tvo and three rool In peace trere’s nothing so becomes a man As modest stiliness and humility; But when the blasts of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger, Stiffen the sinews, summen up the blood. SHAKESPEARE. human nature, edit a Negro newspaper awhile. You know nothing of the ups and downs of life until you have eerved in this capacity. You may have swapped horses, conducted a bank, sold goods, practiced medicine or law, sawed wood, put up stove pipes, and hunted potato bugs, but you need a few months’ experience as a Negro editor to complete your Knowledge of the eccentrivities of life —St, Joseph Radi cal. We get the cake walk from the French. It is said that Gen. Antonio Maceo, the great Cubian warrior, was worth avout $40,000. Rev. D. Webster Davis, of Richmond, Va., a dialict poet of no mean ability, ha) been giving aceries of readings in Cleyeland, Ohio. The Daily Recorder, a bright and well gotten up sheet published at New- port News by hustling Matt N. Lewis, has entered its third year, Grand Worthy Master W. L. Taylor, ofthe Trae Reformers, was tendered a magnificent reception, Tuesday even- ing, the 9th, by the citizens of Rich- mond, Va. Hundreds of white me with trades, have for years been ay. But now that the mills and foundanes are open- ing they are going back to their former yocations. This will leave vacancies for colored men to fill. IVs an ill wind that blows nobedy good. The latest business venture of Mobile, Ala., Negroes is a drug store owned and operated exclusively by colored people. Dr, Harris, of Montgomery, Ala., and Dr. Aldridge will conduct the enter prise, which 18 to be called the Peo ple’s Drug Store. The most awkward man in the world without doubt lives in Tennessee, He recen:ly shot adog, and in explaining the accident to the dog’s owner, sho’ him, Later, in showingthow the trageds oceurred, he shot the coroner, He ha: been Jiberated now for fear he will try to explain it to somebody elee- “Aunt” Polly Jordan is a Negre woman living about two miles from Fort Valley, Ga. She is, according tc reliable authority, 107 years of age Some years ago she Jost both sight an¢ hearing, and her mind became de- ranged. Recently hearing and sigh! have both returned, and her menta balance is completely restored. Clark Hampton, the wonderful youns colored artist, has placed a hfe siz picture, “The Pointers,’’? on exhibitior in the Circuit court at Cincinnati, Th judges were so impressed with the pic ture that they offered to have it hung m their private room. The late Mie: Christine Sullivan said, two years ago when Hampton but nineteen, that hb did not have an equa! in the West. ibe Negro with his $600,000,000 o Wealth owns some as fine homes as ar > be found in this country = It is ver; THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. 0. sigu)ficant that the tvo and three room cabin are tast giving p ace to handsome two story eight and twelve room resi dences. This change is noticeable ip almost any community where there is a ‘considerable number of Afro Ameri cans, A society that levels all barriers of of race and proclaims that srt knows no nationality has juet been formed in London under the name of the L[nter- national Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers. Its first exhibition, now open, 18 one of be most interesting in the art world, for the works of the artists of the day are there sen, and the finest specimens of the painter’s and sculptor’s talent that dazz'e the eyes of the visitors. Fergusonto ‘Stickit Cut.” Mr. W. T. Ferguson who recently instituted proceedings against Managers Burke and Chase, of the New Grand, on account of being ejected from the theater because of color, denies the rumor that he has withdrawn his case The Colored American reported that sucb a rumor wasin circulation, but ventured no statement, as we had not seen Mr Fergucon in person. Mr. Fer guson was outrageously treated by the “jim crow” managers, and it will please his friends and the race generally to learn that he purposes to contest the matter to the bitter end, and find out if the District civil rights law means anything ornot. Mr, Ferguson is right in refusing to be intimidated. SS At Congressional Lyceum. Jan. 14th, Paper; Misa Lulu Chase, a teacher in Garnett Schoo). Jan. 2lst Paper; Snbject, “The New Factor in Education.” Prof, J. D. Baltimore, Asst. Principal of the Man: ual Training School. Jan. 28th Paper; Subject, ‘‘Ihe Judi: cal System of Our Country;” W. T. Menard, Esq , Correspondent N. Y. Agé and manager Afro-American News Bu: reat, Time allowed for discuss‘on. OBLTUARY. On Sunday afternoon, January 7th, there passed from earth an old and re- spected resident of this city, Mrs. Eliza Chase of 407 O street, northwest. She was the mother of a number of chil dren, the most prominent of whom was Mr. Henry W.Chase, tke oldest son, who not only looked after his mother and took the part of a father, but who educated the younger children {> the perfect catisfaction of his mother, He cared for his mother throughout the last years of her life, and brought her home twenty-three years ago where she has since resided. Mr. W. E. H. Chase, & younger son, foreman of The New York Age, and who has held ¢ fo3‘tion on that paper since it was The York Globe, attended his mother’s funeral, There is a younger son who has been in ‘the U. 8. Army for thirty years, Mrs. Chase leaves a daughterand three other sons and a number of grand- children. St. Augustine’s College, Raleigh, N. (., Jan. 2, 1900. Mr. E. E. Cooper, Dear Sir:—With the best wishe and gyaces for the New Year, I salute you, acd extend congratu lations for the beautiful and captivating way in which The Colored American makes its debut as our foremost journal. D, Lery Furgeson. Press Comments On The Colored American. The Colored American, Washington, D C., comes to us this week changed to a16 page journal.—Baptiet American. The Colored American has been boil’ ed down from a blanket sheet to acon’ venient pamphlet form; it shows that Bro. KE. E Cooper, its brilliant editor, is up with the times.—The Free State, ( Migs.) The Conservator congratulates the Colored American on its new dress. Like the Conservator, it has risen to the times, and is now well on into the frcnt rank of Negro journals. Success to you Brer’ Editor.—T'he Conservator. The Colored American, of Washing: ton, D. C., has come out in 16 page form. While we do not admire the style we are candid to confess it is more handy than the old style. The Colored American is progressive—Bal - timore Afro-American. The Colored American has been changed to a handsome 16 page sheet, [tis one of the best edited cclored jour: nals in America. It is always full of choice literature and the best reading matter. We recommend this valuable paper to the race as an able and fear’ less defender of its right?—The Pro’ gressive Age (La. ) Hon, E. E, Cooper, the manager ot The Colored American, Washington, D. C., is indeed a progressive journalist. The new form of The Colored Americar will certainly delight its thousands o readers and will be more highly appre ciated than ever —The Student, Tuske gee, Ala, The Colored American printed a Washington, D. G., reached us thi week changed in costume. As itis al | ways alive to modern ideas in make up, and alert to adopt that which 1 best and convenient in literary qualit and form, it nas changed to a style tbe is compact and artistic.—The Plaindea er, Utah. ‘| he Colored American and Ohicag -|Conservator have broken away fro1 | the old style of sixcolumn folio sheet: In their new form of four column, six ‘|teen pages, shows that our esteeme _|journalist Edward E, Cooper of th >| American and Messrs. DeClelland an | Ramsey, publishers of the Conservatc are progressive newspaper men. Th two papers are not only representativ in form, neatness and typographics appearance, but their news depart .| ments, pointed and interesting edito! ‘lials on questions of a national and 1 ‘| cal character make these journals clea »}ent publications of which Negroes i all sections of thecountry should fee ‘1a degree: of pride commensurate wit ‘| the journalistic ability of these editor: ‘| __The Florida Sentinel. pe ete MISS V, BRADLEY REMEMBERED The Teachers of Prince George County Maryland Adopt Appropriate Resolutions. Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God in His wise providence to remove from our m dst our beloved associate and co-worker Mies Virginia Fradley : Be it resolved, That we, the teachers of Prince George County, Maryland, do extend ouz heartfelt s} x: pathy to the bereaved fami. ly, Our deceased associate having been con, nected with the schools of said county for the past five years, and also having been an ac tive and ardent worker in the Association: her remoyal is deeply deplored by her associ- ates and famils to whom she had endeared herself by her amiable disposition ard intel: lectual ability. Be it turther resolved: That a eopv of these resolutions be spreac upon the face of the mixutes of this Association and a copy be sent the parents of deceased. Mrs, A. L. Proctor, Pres. A.L, Phillizs. B. E, Gray. L. J. Shepherd. FINANCIAL. We Will Lend You $20 will cost you $1 J On Furnitu -e,Pianos per month, and all kinds of per $25 will cost $1 25. 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CAMPBELL E MAXWELL. years after graduating, and was four years principal of the colored schools of Springfield Ohio. In 1878 he returned to Xenia, Ohio, and took up the active practice of his chosen profession, and was shortly afterward appointed Assistant Commonwealth Attorney. He was elected City Clerk of the City of Xenia, and served six years in that capacity. Mr. Maxwell is a permanent member of the Board of Trustees of Wilberforce University, and a member of the executive board of that institution, and also of the combined Normal and Industrial departments, and for a number of years has been and is now the Dean of its law department. He was appointed Consul at Santo Domingo in 1892, and retired in 1893. April 1, 1898, he was appointed the first Consul General to the Dominican Republic. In 1873, Mr. Maxwell was married to Miss Mary E. Cousins, of Xenia, Ohio. A son and daughter have been born to them, the latter being the clerk of the Consulate General. Mrs. Maxwell is also in the Dominican Republic. It goes without saying that in politics Mr. Maxwell believes in the cardinal doctrines of the "Grand Old Party of the union, freedom, protection, sound money and expansion." For the past 20 years he has taken an active part in every political campaign, save the ones of 1892 and 1899, during which he was at his post. Mr Maxwell is acknowled to be one of the most skilled and industrious officials in all the American diplomatic corps, and the race appreciates the splendid work he is doing. DOINGS OF STAGE PEOPLE. "A Social Glass," a four act drama was recently given very creditably under the management of the Choral Association of St. Peter Glavers' by a St. Paul local club. Williams and Walker, the highest salaried team on the Afro-American stage, made their theatrical debut at San Francisco in 1893. The company with which they signed, travelled from place to place in wagons. Will Marion Cook, musical director with Williams and Walker Company, has gone to New York City to assist DeKoven in writing music for a comic opera that is to be produced at the New York Casino Theater soon. Some of the members of the band of the 24th Infantry at Manila who are experienced in stage craft have organized a minstrel company, and are giving performances at the theaters. It is reported that they are making $500 per day. Miss S. Matilda Warren, a young colored women born at Elkron, Md., and educated in Philadelphia, has just written a drama, "Depth of a Woman's Heart, or Loyal Unto Death. Mies Warren is also a talented musician and painter. Miss Florence Hines, the premier male impersonator is adding laurels to her heavy stock, by putting on her "nobly swell" act with added "business." She is the bronze Vesta Tilley, and is being featured with the Rig Minstrel Festival. Mrs. Sarah Saunders Monroe and Mrs. Susie Johnson Higgins, Cincinnati's premier elocutionists, returned to the professional stage for brief engagements during the recent Douglass series of concerts in that vicinity. Both are accomplished dramatic interpreters and are always splendid drawing cards Fred. Douglass a Washington boy and whose quaint and original humor has carried him high up the professional ladder, upon two hours notice assumedBert Williams' part in "The Policy Players" during the Cleveland engagement Douglass followed a mighty hard man to imitate, but he acquitted himself with great credit. Mr. Joseph H. Douglass the talented violinist is preparing for an extensive concert tour to include portions of the East and South, and by popular demand, will play a return engagement in the middle west which he visited a short time ago. Mr. Douglass captivated Cincinnati, Wilberforce and vicinity, and feels greatly encouraged by reason of the generous support given him. 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They notice the terrible prevalence of legal separations, and stand aghast at the number of cases in which the "statutory ground" is alleged upon both sides, and denounce both divorce and its cause as evils of glaring proportions. This is a distressing fact. The breaking up of a family is a calamity, and a wound to our social system. Divorce is a surgical operation, to be resorted to only after every means of bringing about a reconciliation have been exhausted. It matters not which party may be at fault. Husband and wife are both injured by open domestic infelicity, and the capacity of each for usefulness is incalculably impaired. While these eminent divines have discoursed learnedly upon the divorce evil, neither denomination has made it clear to the bystander what can be done about it. National legislation, making uniform divorce regulations, may make divorces more difficult to obtain, but that will not reach the root of the disease, for, defeated in securing legal freedom, the interested persons can still take "Scotch leave," and will more than likely consort with the partner of their choice, in defiance of law or morality; nor does stringent matrimonial regulations offer a solution. Whittier said long ago: "O, gold is good and rank is fair, And high and low mate ill; But love has never known a law, Beyond its own sweet will." The fiery spirit of the youthful Loch invar is the same as it was in the olden time, impatient of curb or restraint. People will msry in haste, and repent and separate at leisure, no matter what laws are passed to prevent either. The plaints of the two denominations may check the disaster by repeated resolution and persistent agitation, but the papers, carrying day by day, fresh and more harrowing tales of marital woe, do not yield us much encouragement. The seat of the trouble is in the heart. The church must begin anew to reestablish the old notions of domestic responsibility between husband and wife, and the interdependence of one upon the other. The chaotic situation arising from a social condition where the two instead of the one are making the bread in public employment, and by the wider participation of women in the affairs of government must be settled by a sympathetic adjustment of individual rights and prerogatives, or the domestic unity named in the marriage bond will become an idle dream. This coalition of interests and settlements of degree of latitude to be allowed the respective parties, calls for the broadest charity, the deepest common sense, and the highest mutual respect. The husband must remember his obligations, and the wife must be true to her vows. While maintaining a proper independence, she must so tincture that self-assertion with a sweetness that robs her of none of her rights yet preserves that charm of femininity that makes the wooing so tender, and causes the "old story" to savor of the THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. days of chivalry. If the young people of a marriageble age are instructed and impressed that superficial affections will not stand the wear and tear of domestic struggles,'and that the only true union is grounded in kindred of soul, sympathy in spirit and in aspiration, there would not be so much for the divorce court to do. Not legislation, but moral training that reaches the heart is the remedy. The wife is the home maker, and it is her fault if the home over which she presides is not the happiest place for her husband to spend his time; the husband must likewise protect, support and encourage the wife. Each must trust and respect the other, or dissension is certain to ensue. The scandal-monger and mischief maker, the bane of the young wife's existence, should be firmly shown the door when her poisonous shadow intrudes itself into the domestic circle. Let mothe.s and fathers fill the minds of the young folks with these principles before it is too late. Let them be preached from every pulpit, until the very name of divorce court becomes odious, and marriage is undertaken only after the soberest reflection, and then with a determination to live up to the standard set forth in the sweetest days of the love-dream. Like the liquor evil, the divorce evil is a moral question, and prohibitory laws aggravate as often as they alleviate. There are no less than one dozen newspapers now being edited by colored women. The young Afro-American lady who smilingly acknowledges that she cannot bake a loaf of bread nor cook a piece of beef, is no longer considered the educated lady"- truthfully asserts the Baltimore Republican Guide. Miss Anna Hutchinson, a talented and handsome young lady of Atlanta, Ga. holds a very responsible position as clerk in the office of the Mutual Relief Association Insurance Company, a leading corporation in the state of Georgia. She is giving eminent satisfaction. Mrs. Booker T. Washington has recently made a valuable gift to the reading room of Fisk University, her Alma Mater. The gift consists of sixty volumes of histories of various countries. Mrs. Washington was formerly Miss Maggie Murray and graduated from the college department at Fisk in '89. Mrs. C. H. Phillips, of Jackson, Tenn., vice president N. A. C. W., and president Tennessee W. C. T. U., and talented wife of the editor of the Christian Index, is an ardent advocate of the kindergarten, and has published a scholarly article pointing out the advantages to the child. She is seuring much influential support for the cause in Mississippi and neighboring states. In the New York Telegram's teachers' contest for a trip to Europe-five to be selected—Miss Imogen Howard is in the "Queen Row." If she maintains her present place (and it is with the people of other cities beside New York) she will be one of the fortunate visitors to the Paris exposition this year. Miss Howard at the present writing has over 75,000 votes. Hear these words of wisdom from Sister Maggie Whiteman Steward, ediress of The Ship, down in Tennessee, Capital Savings -Bank- 609 F St. N. W., Washington, D. C Capital $50,000. Hon. Jno. R. Lynch, President. L. C. Bailey, Treasurer. J. A. Johnson, Secretary. D. B. McCary, Cashier. Directors: Jno. R. Lynch, Dr. W. S. Lofton, Whitefield McKinlay, L. C. 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Special.—I think the verdict of all those who have ever had the honor and the privilege of being the guest of Hon. George H. White our lone, but not lonely representative in Congress will be that he is most congenial host, and a generous feeder. I am sure that the dozen gentlemen who were his guests Dec. 30th, last at dinner at Gray's famous hostelry, will not soon forget the occasion or the man. The dinner was given in the large dining hall on the second floor front and a few minutes after two o'clock, the following gentlemen down to a dinner that would have made the famous Sam Ward, who twenty five years ago was a prince among the epicures of Washington, green with envy: The host, Hon. Geo. H. White, M. C., North Carolina; Ex-Gov. P. B. S. Pinchback, La.; Bishop Alexander Walter, D. D., N. J.; Hon. Fred'k. L. McGhee, attorney-at-law St. Paul, Minn., Edward E. Brown, attorney-at law, Boston, Mass.; Mr. Jesse Lawson, N. J., Dist. of Columbia council, No. 1.; Bishop C. R. Harris, N. C.; Mr. Daniel Murray, D C., assistant librarian of Congrees; and the following men behind the pen: T. Thomas Fortune, New York Age; E E Cooper, The Colored American; J E Bruce, Howard's American Magazine; A. L. Manly, Daily Record, Washington, D. C. Good Bishop Walters of New Jersey asked the blessing and the following menu was served by Gray's nimble waiters; Consomme jardiniere, chicken gumbo; Broiled Lake trout a la Maitre d'hotel, Sliced cucumbers, potatoes Duchesse Olives. Boiled turkey celery sauce, Lamb chops, saute with new peas Cronstade of sweet breads, (a la Parisienne.) Banana fritters, sauce Maraschino, Roast rib of beef, roast ham Champagne sauce, Mashed potatoes, Cauliflower cream sauce, Boiled new potatoes, wax beans, Stewed tomatoes, Sherbet Polonaise. Scuppernong wine, a la N. Carolina Cold roast beef, Tongue, Broiled chicken, Pickled beets, Lettuce with Shires egg dressing, Ice cream, Assorted cakes, Fruit, Roquefort cheese, Water crackers, Nuts, Raisins, Bananas. Cafe Noir, Cigars, Eloquence. Upon the removal of the debris, the guests addressed themselves to the consideration of the Crumpacker bill which is soon to be submitted to Congress and discussed its merits in eloquent phrases. Gov. Pinchback, who has made a complete study of the bill spoke encouragingly of the benefits it would give, if passed, and urged all Negro organizations and individuals to give Congressman Crumpacker the author of the bill their moral support. Congressman White, who will present the anti-lynching bill in Congress, which has been approved by the President, spoke earnestly of the need of this measure and explained its provisions fully. The discussion was par- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. ticipated in by Attorneys E. E. Brown of Boston, Mass., and the courtly and dignified McGhee of Minnesota. A very important point (viz:) That there has never been a test by the Supreme Court of the United States of the constitutionality of the amendments to the Constitution, was raised and discussed with great erudition and learning by the lawyers present, all of whom maintained with singular unanimity that a proper test of these amendments would discover that they are as sound in principle as any other portion of the Constitution. The fourteenth article to the Constitution was shown to contain the germ of the law upon which it is believed a successful test could be made, viz; "All persons born or naturalized in the United and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States, and of the State wherein they reside, etc., etc. It was maintained that the Negro had heretofore sought to have this clause interpreted so that it would apply to him as a Negro and not to him as a "citizen" of the United States, and that the courts very promptly decided against him, when he attempted to secure his rights, by invoking the law to protect him as a Negro citizen rather than as an American citizen. It was a very fine point and may come in handy some day. Governor Pinchback told some inside history of the reconstruction period and some of his experiences as Governor or of the Pelican State, which set the table on a roar, and Attorney McGhee cracked a few Western jokes that produced much laughter and applause. Mr. McGhee is an inimitable wit, and bears a striking resemblance to Hamlet. His eloquence is fervid and his manner engaging as a speaker. His humor is as dry as a bottle of Mumm's Extra, after it has been seen a few times. The good and bad points of John M. Langston were next discussed. Mr. Jesse Lawson, who is a dogmatic and loyal friend came to the rescue of his friend and patron, and like a certain Grecian wrestler, who was able by his eloquence, to convince the spectators after he had been thrown, that he had not been thrown, went after Mr Langston's critics so vigorously and eloquently, that they were all convinced that he was one of the noblest Romans of African descent, that ever drew a lance; and so he was. John M. Langston was human, and therefore fallible. He was courageous, loyal to his friends and the idol of the young men of his day and time, who do well to cherish his memory and to defend his good name with all the energy of their natures. The criticisms made of his public life were friendly and his transcendent ability, genius and scholarship were admitted by all. A running conversation on the work of the Council and the best means of enlarging its scope and work was participated in by all present. Bishop Walters was enthusiastic and optimistic, and gracefully acknowledged the compliments paid him on the successful sessions of the executive commit which had just recently adjourned. Messrs. Fortune, Cooper, Manly, Bishop Harris, Daniel Murray and others contributed to the fund of conversation and at 4 pm. after the cigars had been passed around everybody was feeling good and all voted Congressman White to be a most agreeable and delightful host. The Press Gang has a very warm spot in their hearts for Congressman White and it is due to the fact that he is one of the few Negroes in public life who is not afraid to take the quill drivers into his confidence, when he has anything to say of public interest and that he always treats them decently, which is saying a great deal. Gov. Pinchback is another one of our public men, who can always command a hearing in the Negro press, because his heart is as a dinner plate and is in thorough touch with the members of the press. This little dinner of Congressman White's was decidedly one of the most enjoyable events of the week in Washington and will be remembered for a long time by all who were privileged to enjoy his hospitality, his rare old scuppernong and his fragrant Perfectos. BRUCE GRIT. Alexandria Va. Notes Alexandria is honored with six Baptist churches and one Methodist church. If the moral, social and spiritual condition of a community governed or judged by the number of churches in it, Alexandria has the right to claim a fair percentage along that line. Whether it is time or not it ought to be true of any city or community, and it doubtless is true of some places where there are numerous churches. The First Baptist Sunday school held election of officers last Sunday for 1900 as follows: Superintendent Mr. Fred. Rich, assistant stary Jas M. Buckner, Secretary Thornton, Assistant Secretary Lillie Holmes, Chorister Jesse Jaden, Assistant chorister Henry Buckner, Organist Mrs. Lottie Buckner, Assistant Organist Eddie John, Librarian Lindsey Jackson, Assistant Librarian Cliffton Parsley, Treas Mrs. Adeie Ware. The B. Y. P. U. of the First Baptist church also election officers as follows: President Rev. A. Lott, Vice President Mrs. C. C. Parsley, Secretary Samuel Jack, Assistant Secretary Miss Martha per, Chorister Henry Buckner, sistant Chorister James M. Buck Organist Miss Amanda Buckner, sistant Organist Miss Lulu Edm. Treasurer Mr. Henry Tyler, Librarians Masters Clifton Parsley and Jesse Holmes. The funeral of Mrs. Beale, wife of Mr. W. H Beale, who died at her residence on Madison street, Friday December 29th last, took place Sunday December 31st at the 3rd Baptist church. She was about 50 years old and has a host of friends. She left a glowing testimony. Watch meeting was observed at all the churches as usual. Rev. Henderson of Leesburg, Va. who has been formerly called to take charge of the 3rd Baptist church of the city, entered upon his duties as pastor last Sunday. Rev. Henderson has our best wishes for his success as pastor of said church. The Epworth League, a literary organization of some note, is now under the management of the energetic and progressive R. J. Preston, who purposes this year to make it a success. Topics of general interest to the race will be discussed. Mr. Preston is arranging quite an interesting program several dates ahead and there is no reason why a lively interest may not be aroused among the literary element of Alexandria. Mr. Preston possesses both ability and push. We wish him success in its management. The League meets every Thursday evening. Mr. J. C. Russell has returned to the Recorder's Office. 6 per cent of the first year's salary will be charged those for whom positions are secureded, payable Dec. 1, 1900. The Demand exceed the Supply for suitable teachers during the past year, hence our liberal inducements. End for registration blank brief stating your full qualifications and enclose ten two cent stamps for postage. Address James G. Clayton, M. D. 459 C St. N. W. Secretary. 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Henry Sayles, Charles Edelin, John Brice, Laurence Ellis, Robert Taylor, Ithaca, N. Y., Robert Johnson, Germantown, Pa., Wm. Ford Howard University, Chas. Jackson, Wm. E. Stewart, A. Clark, Germantown, Pa. J. W. Williams, J. W. Williams, jr., John Moss, Thos. Fortune; Mesdames W. K. Scott, R. F. Plummer, R. H. Lewis, J. H. Taylor, Ithaca, N. Y., A. Clark, Germantown, Pa., J. W. Williams, Thos. Fortune, Drs. W. K. Scott, Wm. E. Gales, R F. Plummer; Misses Mabel Williams, Emma Edelin, Nannie Johnson, Annapolis, Lizzie Wills, Eleanora Robinson, F. Lawnes, Emma Bentley, Elizabeth Wells. Supper was served at ten o'clock pm., dancing until 12 pm. EDUCATIONAL NOTE There are today, 40,000 negro students in the higher educational institutions of this country. The colored teachers of Fayette county (Lexington), Kentucky, have or anized themselves into an association. Profs. W. W Yates and J. W. 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JACKSON, Physician and Surgeon, Kearney, N 979 is the most powerful specific known. Free from opiates less. Relief is usually felt the first night. It is a positiv eralgia, Dyspepsia, Backache, Asthma, Hay Fever, Nervous and Neuralgic Headaches, Earache, Swelling, La Grippe, Malaria, Creeping Numbness, enable sufferers to give "5 DROPS" at least a trial, we will send epaid by mail, for 10 cts. A sample bottle will convince you. $5. Sold by us and agents. AGENTS WANTED in New Territory. RHEUMATIC CURE CO., 160 to 164 Lake St. READ WHAT A PROMINENT PHYSICIAN I have never before in my 35 years of practice of medicine given my testimonial of recommendation to any patent medicine, but there is a remedy, the result of which has come under my own observation; for there is no Disease which has so baffled the medical skill of all ages as Rheumatism and to find a Reliable remedy for the same. At last we have found it in "5 Drops," manufactured by the Swanson Rheumatic Cure Company, Chicago, Ill. The "5 DROPS," has proven itself wonderful for its curative power in Rheumatism, not as a Temporary Reliever only, but to give a Permanent Cure even in chronic cases. Sometime ago, among others several Rheumatic cases under my treatment and scribed for these patients the very best Remedies which I skillful lected, but without desirable results. I then heard of "5 DROPS" of its Wonderful Cures, and prescribed it to a few patients who felt relief from its use within a few days. After that I prescribed it to a number and to my surprise, I will say that in the course of Two or Three Weeks after they had used "5 DROPS" and "5 Drop" Plasters they were Cured. Among these were a few who had, for a number of years, been suffering with Chronic Rheumatism, who had piloted themselves around on Crutches. They came to my office without Crutches and told me they were perfectly Well. They give all the credit to "5 DROPS" and to "5 Drop" Plasters and this is their testimony to the Swanson Rheumatic Cure Company for their kindness and for the conscientious way in which they are placing these Wonderful told me to write to the Company as an acknowlwe "5 DROPS" and "5 Drop" Plasters, in a gre and also that the firm is perfectly honest and re SWANSON'S C. A. JACKSON, Physic "5 DROPS" is the most powerful spe tism, Sciatica, Neuralgia, Dyspepsia, Back lessness, Nervousness, Nervous and Neural Weakness, Croup, Swelling, La Grippe, M 30 DAYS to enable sufferers to give "5 DD doses) $1.00, 6 bottles for $5. Sold by us and agents. SWANSON RHEUMATIC CURE way in which they are placing these Wonderful Remedies among suffering humanity, which they told me to write to the Company as an acknowledgement. As I have seen the Curative Power of "5 DROPS" and "5 Drop" Plasters, in a great many instances, I can Truly recommend them and also that the firm is perfectly honest and reliable to deal with. SWANSON'S C. A. JACKSON, Physician and Surgeon, Kearney, Neb., Aug. 29, 1899. "5 DROPS" is the most powerful specific known. Free from opiates and perfectly harmless. Relief is usually felt the first night. It is a positive cure for Rheumatism, Sciatica, Neuralgia, Dyspepsia, Backache, Asthma, Hay Fever, Catarrh, Sleeplessness, Nervousness, Nervous and Neuralgic Headaches, Earache, Toothache, Heart Weakness, Croup, Swelling, La Grippe, Malaria, Creeping Numbness, etc., etc. 30 DAYS to enable sufferers to give "5 DROPS" at least a trial, we will send a 25c sample bottles prepaid by mail, for 10 cts. A sample bottle will convince you. Also, large bottles (390 doses) $1.00, 6 bottles for $5. Sold by us and agents. AGENTS WANTED in New Territory. WRITE US TO-DAY. SWANSON RHEUMATIC CURE CO., 160 to 164 Lake St., CHICAGO, ILL. MADDEN BROS. Latrobes, Ranges, Furnaces, Tinning and Heating, Roof Repairing and Painting a specialty. Mantels and Hearth, Satisfaction guaranteed. 1841 SEVENTH STREET N. W. Washington, D. C. --- produced by the use of Cheveline Cheveline I will give sufficient Cheveline for the straightening two heads of hair for $5.00, instead of one as formerly until further notice is given. We use no hot irons or pasting down with grease in this treatment, and the hair is not changed from dampness, but on the contrary is made more beautiful by washing, and the straightening appears as natural as if born with it. Send a piece of your hair and 10c and 1 will return it as a sample of my work. THE MYSTIC POMADE which will make the hair soft straight and glossy and as beautiful as Chevrelire, but not so lasting at 50c per bottle. Use Mime. Turner's Scalp Soap 25c MEDICATED HAIR GROWER FOR FAMILY USE. MEDICATED HAIR GROWER FOR FAMILY USE. Our Improved Medicated Hair Grower or Scalp Cleaner is an unexcelled article for promoti g the growth of the hair, even on the temple where the hair is oftime very scant. It also removes the dandruff and impurities from the scalp. Price $1.00 per bottle. Use Mme. Turner's Mystic Scalp Soap 25 cents. No Goods C. O. D. 5 DROPS [TRADE-MARK.] that will positively remove Liver Spots, Black or 10 days. Wrinkles and Small Pox Pits are ACE BLEACH and the skin is made at least complexion a clear, soft and youthful tender to appear youthful. Price 1.00. Alway TOILET CREAM is the skin, cures pimples and all skin erupt is it has no equal. It is a most elegant prep having, instantly curing all burning and heal cuts and sores. Price 75 Cents. Al- lon Soap. MME. M. C. TURNER, 1312 Carondelet St. New Orleans, La. CAN TRY IT FOR 10 CENTS. ENT PHYSICIAN YEARS of active Practice of Medicine: practice of medicine given my testimonial of recommendation a remedy, the result of which has come under my own has so baffled the medical skill of all ages as Rheumatism. At last we have found it in "5 Drops," man Company, Chicago, Ill. The "5 DROPS," has proven Rheumatism, not as a Temporary Reliever only, but to Cure even in chronic cases. Sometime ago, several Rheumatic cases under my treatment and patients the very best Remedies which I skillful desirable results. I then heard of "5 DROPS" Cures, and prescribed it to a few patients who fainted within a few days. After that I prescribed it to a great surprise, I will say that in the course of Two or Three had used "5 DROPS" and "5 Drop" Plasters they ing these were a few who had, for a number of years, with Chronic Rheumatism, who had piloted themselves. They came to my office without Crutches and told effectively Well. They give all the credit to "5 DROPS" Plasters and this is their testimony to the Swanson Company for their kindness and for the conscientious useful Remedies among suffering humanity, which they knowledgement. As I have seen the Curative Power of a great many instances, I can Truly recommend them and reliable to deal with. Physician and Surgeon, Kearney, Neb., Aug. 29, 1899. Upl specific known. Free from opiates and perfectly harmally felt the first night. It is a positive cure for Rheumat-Backache, Asthma, Hay Fever, Catarrh, Sleep-eargia Headaches, Earache, Toothache, Heart, Malaria, Creeping Numbness, etc., etc. "5 DROPS" at least a trial, we will send a 25c sample bottle. A sample bottle will convince you. Also, large bottles (300 units) AGENTS WANTED in New Territory. WRITE US TO-DAY. RE CO., 160 to 164 Lake St., CHICAGO, ILL. Pullman House 206 412 Street, Near Maryland avenue. Rooms 50 Cents and $1.00. Meals 15 and 25 Cents. At All Hours. 3 THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. 4 Bruce Grit Writes From Old Sols Doman of the Good Points of the "Onliest." Midair, January 2, 1900, Special. You ask me what I think of The Colored American in its new form? I think it is newsier, better looking, more attractive, more entertaining than ever. 'Who is this man Cooper, didn't he used to have something to do with a heat and power company on earth some time ago? Our scribe wasn't sure. "Well," said Old Sol, "he's a very warm member, a genuine heat producer. The last copy of The American we had up here was so hot we had to open the back door to avoid setting the universe on fire. You know I am a manufacturer of caloric and oxygen myself. In fact all our family are hot stuff but The Colored American is the hottest stuff we've ever bucked against. Its a good thing you fellows are 95000,000 miles away from us, otherwise the rivalry between us might engender bad feeling. Our scribe assured old Sol that distance lent enchantment to the hot wave and that the two hot waves would "endeavor to try to harmonize always. "Oh well, sezze come to think of it, you fellows don't interfere with my business, except when you get dangerously hot discussing the lynching question and other questions. We hear you up here and we always place a man at the safety valve, when you get going—and thus prevent a crash. You certainly do have some warm conversations down there young fellow," said old Sol winking his off eye and and pointing to terra firma. We up here know that you are on earth and I guess your neighbor are aware of the fact, "Oh, yes," said our scribe, "they know all about us." "Here Appolyon" called out old Sol to a begrimed attendant who was fixing the fire "tidy up yourself and bring this gentlemen a flagon of hot air." Turning to the scribe old Sol remarked that this was all he had offer him, and that it would keep him warm on his way back to earth. The scribe tested the stuff and the sensation it produced was indescribable, two mouthfuls were all he wanted. Old Sol smiled and said, "awful sorry my dear sir, you see we don't make ice on the planet. Lunar and Company control that business up here. Had we known you were coming we would have had some ice put in the cellar, but it is really so hot there, I doubt whether it would have kept. Must you go so soon—real glad you called. Come again. O yes, we all read The American up here. We have our copy fire proofed by a special process, and that prevents spontaneous combustion. As I said in the beginning, The American is a good deal warmer than myself. If I never form an alliance with any of the forces of earth, you may be sure that I will consult your famous Cooper, and we'll barrel up the universe and set it on fire. Here Michael, show the gentleman down. Good day Mr. Scribe, awful glad to have met you. BRUCE GRIT, A grand reception was given at the residence of Mrs. Howard 1108 19th street n. w., in honor of Miss Hattie Mays of South Carolina, Wednesday, December, 27th 1899 The musical features of the evening were rendered by Messrs. George Watkins and Walter Mahammitt whose vocal selections received great applause. Mr. Madison Reid also received great applause for his comic recitations and songs which were THE COLORED AMERICA his own compositions. The supper was served at 11 o'clock and the table was beautifully decorated by an experienced cateer. Miss Mays will spend the winter in the city with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Mays. A WEEK OF PRAYER. The True Reformers at Work. New Haven, Conn., Special—We are glad to announce that arrangements have been made so that the City of Elms will be represented in the current issues of this journal. We shall take special note hereafter of churches and all important transactions throughout the state. The several churches throughout the city held their week of prayer, and some found it necessary to continue another week. The Baptist, Congregational and Bethel churches have arranged to hold union evangelistic services, Sunday January 14, 21 and 28 as follows; At 3 p. m. Sunday January 14th in the Dixwell Avenue Congregational church, sermon by Rev. A. Clayton Powell, subject, "The Significance of the hour;" at 3 p. m. Sunday January 21st in the Bethel A. M. E. church, sermon by Rev. T. Nelson; at 3 p. m. Sunday January 28th in the Immanuel Baptist church, sermon by Rev. Dr. Isreal Derricks, subject, "Reconciliation." Every effort will be made to make these meetings a success. The New Haven Patriarchie No. 17, G. U. O. of O. F. held a special convocation on Saturday evening Jan. 6th, and installed the following officers: M. V. P. Frederick Young, R. V. P. A. Lee Epps, V. P, J, H. Bowman, W, P. R, W. B. Hendrickson, W. P. T., Henry Smith, W. P. P., Walker Simms, P. Sam, W. J, Mosley, P. Shep, Wm. Amos, P. Keep and S, Beane. The ceremonies were performed by P. M. V. P. S., S. J. Brown and Robert Johnson the latter of Bridgeport. Christian Lodge No. 1484 G. U. O. of O. F. will hold their installation on Wednesday evening the 17th inst. at which time the annual reports will be rendered.Everybody should be present. Rev. Burbridge of Ansonia spent Sunday in this city the guest of Rev. A. C. Powell 28 Gill street. Mr. Hubert Ross of 383 Orchard street has returned to Howard College where he will resume his studies after spending his holidays with his parents. Mrs. J. W. Ross of 383 Orchard street who has been very ill for some time is now improving. Mr, Geo. Burke of 21 Winter street has been very sick for the past two weeks, but is now improving. Arrangements are being made to secure important race news from different parts of the state for The Colored American. Everybody should read The Colored American. A LEE EPPS. Roselle, N. J., News Roselle, N. J., (special)—The people of this little town are delighted with The Colored American. While it has only been introduced here for a few weeks, there is a great demand for it. We have a live Baptist church here and a great many young people, notably ladies, attend church regularly. Our Sunday school Superintendent, Mr. B. W. Monroe, is an active man and is doing good work. At the Christian Endeavorer's Meeting held last Sunday Miss E. Smith of Baltimore presided. There are twenty families of us here and twelve of this number own good homes. Mrs. Edmunds has a well-stocked grocery and Dercon R. B. Smith has renovated his new home. Hurrah for The Colored American! The friends of Mrs. M. W. Gibbs and daughters and Miss Annie E. Grinage will find them hereafter at their residence, No.14 N st.northwest, High Art Custom Tailoring AT POPULAR PRICES Fashion forecast for Fall and Winter 1899-1900. My suits run from $15 up Best silk Lined $18.00 up Over coats all the way from $14 to $45.00. Second Baptist Church to Commemorate Great Event of One Hundred Years -Frominent Men to Speak. As announced in our last week's issue, Rev. W. Bishop Johnson has arranged to extend a "Grand 20th Century Greeting to the people at Second Baptist church, commencing Sunday, January 21 and ending Friday, January 26. An attractive program has been arranged, embracing addresses at every service by leading divines and prominent public men and music by sweet singers. The design is to commemorate the significant achievements of the civilized world during the 19th century. The order of exercises will be as follows: Sunday, January 21st, 1900. 11 a.m.—Preaching by Rev. J. Anderson Taylor, pastor of Sniloh Baptist church Music by 2nd Baptist church choir. Deacon's rally. 3 p.m.—Preaching by Rev. P. L. Cuyler, pastor of Galbraith A. M. E. Zion church. Music by Galbraith choir. Trustees' rally. 7:30 p.m.—Preaching by Rev. Harvey Johnson, D. D., of Baltimore, Md. Pastor's rally. Monday, 8 p. m.—Political Retrospect of the 19th Century. Opening addresses by Hon. Judson W. Lyons, Register of the U. S. Treasury; Hon. H. P. Cheatham, Recorder of Daeds for the District of Columbia. Sunday school rally. Music by choir of 2d Baptist church. Tuesday, 8 p. m.—Religious Retrospect of the 19th Century. Opening addresses by Rev. W. H. Brooks, D. D., pastor of the 19th Street Baptist church; Rev. I. L. Thomas, D. D., pastor Asbury M. E. church. Sunday school Lyceum rally. Music by choir of Asbury church. Wednesday, 8 p. m.-Educational Retrospect of the 19th Century. Opening addresses by Prof. Robert H. Terrell, principal of High School; Prof. J. W. Cromwell, principal of Banneker Public School; Miss Lucy Moten, M. D., Principal of Normal School. Baptist Young People's Union rally. Music by choir of 2d Baptist church. Thursday, 8 p. m.-Racial Retrospect of the 19.h Century. Opening address by Rev. G. W. Lee, D. D., pastor Vermont Avenue Baptist church. Emergency Club rally. Music by choir of Vermont Avenue Baptist church. Friday, 8 p. m.—Denominational Retrospect of the 19th Century. Paper on "Sunday School Wosk" by Mr. W. T. McKinney, Supt. Paper on "Educational Institutions," by Miss Laura Robinson. Paper on "Young People's Societies," Mr. Clarence Davis. Paper on "Missionary Work," by Miss Hattie Drew. Paper on "Literature," by Miss Belle Kinner. Monday Night Club rally. Music by choir of 2d Baptist church. ```markdown ``` A. H. COOPER Mo. Ave. and 6th St. Opposite Pa. Station Academy Week of January 15. Matinees Wednesday and Saturday 25 and 50 cents. JAMES H. WALLICK'S Massive Scenic Production. THE KING of ROGUES A drama of intense heart interest, in* erspersed with bright comedy. Next Week-Yates' Big Spectacle, THE EVIL EYE. National Week of January 15. The Distinguished English Actress OLGA NETHERSOLE Direction of Marcus R. Mayer Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Friday and Matinee Wednesday, in her Remarkable and Unparelled Triumph SAPHO. Saturday Matinee, First and On y Time Here CAMILLE In Costumes of the second Empire Saturday Night, THE PROFLIGATE. Jan. 12—Wm. H. Crane. MEN and WOMEN to take orders for Waterproof Garments, Men's Mackintoshes $3.00 up, Ladies' Mackintoshes $3.50 up, Skirts and Caps from $2.25 up. WE FURNISH a big book of samples and complete outfit. Out previous experience you can make $5.00 to $10 every day in the year. Write for full particulars. Add DUNDEE RUBBER CORPORATION, Chic This firm is thoroughly reliable.--Editor. 35 cently given by the Plymouth Concert Com pany, a chorus of sixty volces, will be repeated by request, at Grand Army Hall, Jan uary 26. Those who did not hear it should avail themselves of the opportunity for it was one of the best presentations ever given here. The chorus has been permanently or ganized under the title of the Damrosch As sociatson, and contains some of our best talent. On the occasion referred to the curtain rises at eight o'clock: Orchestra at ten. ee (A SHREDS . AXZA “PATCHES &) J? SSE ita 5 Ded In peace tlere’s nothing so becomes a man As modest stiliness and humility; But when the blasts of war blows in cur cars, Then imitate the action of the tiger, Stiffen the sinews, summen up the blood. SHAKESPEARE, numad Dature, Cul @ weery heowspayper awhile. You know nothing of the ups and downs of life until you have served in this capacity. You may have swapped horses, conducted a bank, bold goods, practiced medicine or law, sawed wood, put up stove pipes, and hunted | potato bugs, but sou need a few months’ experience as a Negro editor to complete your knowledge of the eccentrivities of life. —St, Joseph Radi cal. We get the cake walk from the French. It is said that Gen. Antonio Maceo, the great Cubian warrior, was worth about $40,000. Rev. D. Webster Davis, of Richmond, Va., adialict poet of no mean ability, ha» been giving ateries of readings in Cieyeland, Ohio. The Daily Recorder, a bright and well gotten up sheet published at New- port News by hustling Matt N. Lewis, has entered its third year, Grand Worthy Master W. L. Taylor, ofthe Trae Reformers, was tendered a magnificent reception, Tuesday even- ing, the 9th, by the citizens of Rich- mond, Va. Hundreds of white m: with trades, have for years been ik, But now that the mills and foundaries are open- ing they are going back to their former vocations. This will leave vacancies for colored men to fill. IVs an ill wind that blows nobedy good. The latest business venture of Mobile, Ala., Negroes is a drug store owned and operated exclusively by colored people. Dr. Harris, of Montgomery, Ala., and Dr. Aldridge will conduct the enter prise, which 1s to be called the Peo ple’s Drug Store. The most awkward man inthe world without doubt lives in Tennessee, He recently shot adog, and in explaining the accident to the dog’s owner, shot him. Later, in showing: how the tragedy occurred, he shot the coroner, He has been liverated now for fear he will try to explain it to somebody elze. “aunt” Polly Jordan is a Negro woman living about two miles from Fort Valley, Ga. She is, according to reliable authority, 107 years of age. Some years ago she Jost both sight and hearing, and her mind became de- ranged. Recently heering and sight have both returned, and her mental balance is completely restored. Clark Hampton, the wonderfui young colored artist, has placed a life size picture, The Pointers,’’ on exhibition in the Cireuit court at Cincinnati. The judges were so impressed with the pic ture that they offered to have it hung in their private room. The late Mies Christine Sullivan said, two years ago, when Hampton but nineteen, that he did not have an equa! in the West. ibe Negro with his $600,000,000 of Wealth owns some as fine homes as are 2 be found in this country = It is very THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON DD. ©: significant that the tvo aud three room cabin are fast giving p ace to handsome two story eight and twelve room resi dences. This change is noticeable ip almost any community where there is a considerable number of Afro Ameri cans. A society that levels all barriers of of race and proclaims that art knows no nationality has juet been formed in Londen under the name of the Inter- national Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers. Its first exbibition, now open, is one of he most interesting in the art world, for the works of the artists of the day are there sen, and the finest specimens of the painter’s and scuiptor’s talent that dazz‘e the eyes of the visitors. Fercusonto ‘Stickit Cut.” Mr. W. T. Ferguson who recently instituted proceedings against Managers Burke and Chase, of the New Grand, on account of being ejected from the theater because of color, denies the rumor that he has withdrawn his case The Colored American reported that sucb a rumor wasin circulation, but ventured no statemeut, as we had not seen Mr Fergucon in person. Mr. Fer guson was outrageously treated by the “jim crow” managers, and it will please his friends and the race geterally to learn that he purposes to contest the matter to the bitter end, and fina out if the District civil rights law means anything ornot. Mr. Ferguson is right in refusing to be intimidated. a At Congressional Lyceum. Jan. 14th, Paper; Misa Lulu Chase, a teacher in Garnett School. Jan. 2lst Paper; Snbject, “The New Factor in Education.” Prof. J. D. Baltimore, Asst. Principal of the Man: ual Training School. Jan. 28th Paper; Subject, ‘‘I'he Judi: cal System of Our Country;” W. T, Menard, Esq , Correspondent N. Y. Agé and manager Afro-American News Bu rear, Tune allowed for discuss‘on. —_-+--__ OBITUARY. On Sunday afternoon, January 7th, there passed from earth an old and re- spected resident of this city, Mrs. Eliza Chase of 407 O street, northwest. She was the mother of a number of chil dren, the most prominent of whom was Mr. Henry W. Chase, tke oldest son, who not only looked after his mother and took the part of a father, but who educated the younger children t> the perfect satisfaction of his mother, He cared for his mother throughout the last years of her life, and brought her home twenty-three years ago where she has since resided. Mr. W. KE. H. Chase, & younger son, foreman of The New York Age, and who has held ¢ fo3'tion on that paper since it was The York Globe, attended his mother’s faneral, There is a younger son who has been inthe U. 8. Army for thirty years, Mrs. Chase leaves a daughterand three other sons and a numaber of grand- children. St. Augustine’s College, Raleigh, N. (., Jan. 2, 1900. Mr. E. E. Cooper, Dear Sir:—With the best wishe and guaces for the New Year, I salute you, acd extend congratu lations for the beautiful and captivating way in which The Colored American rakes its debut as our foremost journal. D, Lery Furgeson. Press Comments On The Colored American, D C., comes to us this week changed to a 16 page journal.—Baptikt American. The Colored American bas been bo:l* ed down from a blanket sheet to acon* venient pamphlet form; it shows that Bro. EK. E Cooper, its brilliant editor, is up with the times.—The Free State, ( Migs.) The Conservator congratulates the Colored American on its new dress. Like the Conservator, it has risen to the times, and is now well on into the frcnt rank of Negro journals. Success to you Brer’ Editor.—T'be Conservator. The Colored American, of Washing: ton, D. C., has come out in 16 page form. While we do not admire the style we are candid to confess it is more handy than the old style. The Colored American is progressive—Bal - timore Afro-American. The Colored American has been changed to a handsome 16 page sheet. [t is one of the best edited cc lored jour: nals in America. It is always fall of choice literature and the best reading matter. We recommend this valuable paper to the race as an able and fear’ less defender of its right?.—The Pro: gressive Age (La. ) Hon, EK. E. Cooper, the manager of The Colored American, Washington, D. C., is indeed a progressive journalist. The new form of The Colored American will certainly delight its thousands of readers and will be more highly appre. ciated than ever —The Student, Tuske gee, Ala. The Colored American printed at Washington, D. GC., reached us thi week changed in costume. As itis al ways alive to modern ideas in make up, and alert to adopt that which 1 best and convenient in literary quality and form, it nas changed to a style tba is compact and artistic.—The Piaindea! er, Utah. The Colored American and Chicag Conservator have broken away fron the old style of six column folio sheets In their new form of four column, six teen pages, shows that our esteemec journalist Edward E, Cooper of th | American and Messrs. DeClelland an Rameey, publishers of the Conservato: ale progressive newspaper men, Thé two papers are not only representativ in form, neatness and typographics appearance, but their news depatt. ments, pointed and interesting editor ials on questions of a national and lo cal character make these journals clean ent publications of which Negroes ir all sections of the country should fee! a degree: of pride commensurate witl the journalistic ability of these editors. —The Florida Sentinel. MISS V, BRADLEY REMEMBERED The Teachers of Prince George County Maryland Adopt Appropriate Resolutions. Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God in His wise providence to remove from our m™m dst our beloved associate and co-worker Mies Virginia Pradley: Be it resolved, That we, the teachers o, Prince George County, Maryland, do extend oug heartfelt s; pathy to the bereaved fami- ly. Our deceased associate having been con_ nected with the schools of said county for the past five years, and also having been an ac tive and ardent worker in the Association: her remoyal is deeply deplored by her associ- ates and tamilé to whom she had endeared herself by her amiable disposition ard intei- lectual ability. Be it further resolved: That a eopv of these resolutions be spreac upon the face of the mixutes of this Association and a copy be sent the parents of deceased . Mrs, A. L. Proctor, Pres. A. L, Phillis. B. E, Gray. L. J. Shepherd. . FINANCIAL, We Will Lend You $20 will cost you $1 J On Furnitu-e,Pianos per month, and all kinds of per $25 will cost $1 25. | sonal Property, with $40 will cost you 82.1 out REMOVAL, pub $50 will cost $2.50, licity, or delay. We And larger amounts} make loans on the at still lower rates. building loan associa- a. tion plan allowing you to make smaii weekly or monthly pay- ments to suit your convenience Private of- flees and business strictly confidential, Get rates at other offices and then call, see us, and convince yourse f of what we save you, COLUMBIA GUARANTEE CO, 613 F Street N. W, Money $50,000 Money To loan on furniture, pianos, 4¢., without removal or publicity and the day you ask for it. We will loan acy amount making time and payments to suit, giving one month or one year as you desire, and at rates that you can afford to pay, If you now have aloan with any other company and desire more mauney. give us a call. Will as cheerfully make a $10 loan as $100, and no charge or expense if 1oan is not made. Always ready to give information regarding rates and meth- ods to secure a loan. We are the oldest loan company in the city, and will give you honest treatment. Ali business strictly confidential. Private offices. Washington Mortgage Loan Co., 610 F Street, N. W. DO YOU NEED We will lend any amount trom $10 up. On Household Furniture, pianos, horses, wagons, carriages, or person — al property of any kind, without removal from your SS. Loans can be carried as long as desired, and payments can be made at any time to suit the convenience of the of the borrower. We are the only properly organized loan company in the city. Ifyou appreciate low rates, courteous treatment, aad attention to your interests, you will eall on us. Offices private and easily reached. 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W MONEY. loans from $6. to $60. - YOUR OREDIT IS GOOD. DON’T HESITATS, NO COLLATERAL REQUIRED, GEO. D, HORNING, Room 11, Central Building, 9th and Penna. Ave, THE WASHINGTON LOAN OFFICE, 1224 Pa. Ave. Northwest. F, Warren Jobnsot, == washington, D. 0, Manager. Money Loaned on Diamonds, Watehes and Jewelry. Unredeemed Pledges For Sale By working for the James D. Pettiford Hair Vigorating Co., 1222 Linden St. N. E. Washington, D. C. An excellent remedy forthe Hair, if applied accordingly, willim- mediately master and cure all diseases pecu- liar to the Hair. Agents wanted everywhere — Size, 25. Full Size, $1.00, irchaser pays Express Charges- THE WOMEN'S WORLD Not long ago the Episcopalians in convention at New York, and the Presbyterians assembled here, indulged in their annual bout on the divorce evil, and passed resolutions on the subject, along the same lines they have been passing them for lo these many days. They notice the terrible prevalence of legal separations, and stand aghast at the number of cases in which the "statutory ground" is alleged upon both sides, and denounce both divorce and its cause as evils of glaring proportions. This is a distressing fact. The breaking up of a family is a calamity, and a wound to our social system. Divorce is a surgical operation, to be resorted to only after every means of bringing about a reconciliation have been exhausted. It matters not which party may be at fault. Husband and wife are both injured by open domestic infelicity, and the capacity of each for usefulness is incalculably impaired. While these eminent divines have discoursed learnedly upon the divorce evil, neither denomination has made it clear to the bystander what can be done about it. National legislation, making uniform divorce regulations, may make divorces more difficult to obtain, but that will not reach the root of the disease, for, defeated in securing legal freedom, the interested persons can still take "Scotch leave," and will more than likely consort with the partner of their choice, in defiance of law or morality; nor does stringent matrimonial regulations offer a solution. Whittier said long ago: "O, gold is good and rank is fair, And high and low mate ill; But love has never known a law, Beyond its own sweet will." The fiery spirit of the youthful Loch invar is the same as it was in the olden time, impatient of curb or restraint. People will msry in haste, and repent and separate at leisure, no matter what laws are passed to prevent either. The plains of the two denominations may check the disaster by repeated resolution and persistent agitation, but the papers, carrying day by day, fresh and more harrowing tales of marital woe, do not yield us much encouragement. The seat of the trouble is in the heart. The church must begin anew to re-establish the old notions of domestic responsibility between husband and wife, and the interdependence of one upon the other. The chaotic situation arising from a social condition where the two instead of the one are making the bread in public employment, and by the wider participation of women in the affairs of government must be settled by a sympathetic adjustment of individual rights and prerogatives, or the domestic unity named in the marriage bond will become an idle dream. This coalition of interests and settlements of degree of latitude to be allowed the respective parties, calls for the broadest charity, the deepest common sense, and the highest mutual respect. The husband must remember his obligations, and the wife must be true to her vows. While maintaining a proper independence, she must so tincture that self-assertion with a sweetness that robs her of none of her rights yet preserves that charm of femininity that makes the wooing so tender, and causes the "old story" to savor of the THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. days of chivalry. If the young people of a marriageble age are instructed and impressed that superficial affections will not stand the wear and tear of domestic struggles,'and that the only true union is grounded in kindred of soul, sympathy in spirit and in aspiration, there would not be so much for the divorce court to do. Not legislation, but moral training that reaches the heart is the remedy. The wife is the home maker, and it is her fault if the home over which she presides is not the happiest place for her husband to spend his time; the husband must likewise protect, support and encourage the wife. Each must trust and respect the other, or dissension is certain to ensue. The scandal-monger and mischief maker, the bane of the young wife's existence, should be firmly shown the door when her poisonous shadow intrudes itself into the domestic circle. Let mothers and fathers fill the minds of the young folks with these principles before it is too late. Let them be preached from every pulpit, until the very name of divorce court becomes odious, and marriage is undertaken only after the soberest reflection, and then with a determination to live up to the standard set forth in the sweetest days of the love-dream. Like the liquor evil, the divorce evil is a moral question, and prohibitory laws aggravate as often as they alleviate. There are no less than one dozen newspapers now being edited by colored women. The young Afro-American lady who smilingly acknowledges that she cannot bake a loaf of bread nor cook a piece of beef, is no longer considered the educated lady"- truthfully asserts the Baltimore Republican Guide. Miss Anna Hutchinson, a talented and handsome young lady of Atlanta, Ga., holds a very responsible position as clerk in the office of the Mutual Relief Association Insurance Company, a leading corporation in the state of Georgia. She is giving eminent satisfaction. Mrs. Booker T. Washington has recently made a valuable gift to the reading room of Fisk University, her Alma Mater. The gift consists of sixty volumes of histories of various countries. Mrs. Washington was formerly Miss Maggie Murray and graduated from the college department at Fisk in 189. Mrs. C. H. Phillips, of Jackson, Tenn., vice president N. A. C. W., and president Tennessee W. C. T. U., and talented wife of the editor of the Christian Index, is an ardent advocate of the kindergarten, and has published a scholarly article pointing out the advantages to the child. She is seuring much influential support for the cause in Mississippi and neighboring states. In the New York Telegram's teachers' contest for a trip to Europe-five to be selected—Miss Imogen Howard is in the "Queen Row." If she maintains her present place (and it is with the people of other cities beside New York) she will be one of the fortunate visitors to the Paris exposition this year. Miss Howard at the present writing has over 75,000 votes. Hear these words of wisdom from Sister Maggie Whiteman Steward, ediress of The Ship, down in Tennessee. 1 African Pomade To Clever O. Dear Mrs. Enclosed first Photograph after 4 months treatment of your pomade. Before I used at my hair was of a very woolly nature, now it is a lovely warm hair. The entire of all of those who have not used your pomade. 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W one of the best women on earth and an ideal wife; Never mind as to who is in fault; but you husbauds and wives, between whom there has been some misunderstanding, some hot words, some chilly feelings, throw that foolishness to the winds! You need each other; and in spice of earth and hell, man and beast, get together, make it up; take all the blame on yourself, whether or not it belongs there, and journey along through life together, happily, thereby disappointing the Devil, and making some mean, low down fiendish man or woman, a——well, you know what would fit in there; but life is too short to spend it unhappily. Let not your foolishness put you asunder, you two whom (we hope) God has joined together.—The Ship. 7 Wedding Bells. GLOVE EMPORIUM C. H. HIBBERT & CO. 606 Eleventh St. N. W. Washington, D. C. GLOVES FROM $100 up 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. 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The Colored American has no sympathy with the notion that the race problem can be solved by wholesale colonization anywhere, but we unhesitatingly advise the individual Negro to make at once for such places as offer a betterment of his present condition. As a matter of fact, the bulk of our people are finding, and will continue to find their best opportunities in the South and they will remain there growing gradually by character and thrift into the favor of the ruling classes. We are inclined to think however that more of us should watch for profitable investments in the newer countries and go out and try to march in step with our white brethren. We are not to go because we cannot live here or for the mere sake of getting out of the country; but we should encourage the pioneer spirit, the disposition to blaze newer and broader pathwaysjuts as other peoples do, for the purpose of making money and securing a powerful passport to universal recognition. The United States has Hawaia and Porto Rico beyond doubt There is every reason to believe that we shall retain the Philippines and some day acquire Cuba, Santo Domingo and other West Indian Islands. We should not lie asleep when the AngloSaxon is packing his "grip" and preparing to sail for the gold coasts, the diamond fields, the coffee and drug groves, the cotton soils and tobacco growing areas. There should be no exodus, no panic, nor "pulling up stakes," but a healthy shifting of our population—some going into the rich country of the North and West and others to our new possessions—would --- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. THE COLORED AMERICAN do us good. It would kindle afresh the fires of our ambition and strengthen us to shake off the lethargy that prevents the degree of progress that is justly ours. We argue that colonization for the mere sake of going somewhere offers little hope; but shrewd, far seeing individual investment of of Negro capital and brains wherever a door stands open or can be pushed open is the height of wisdom. Our pioneer instinct should not be stifled by superstition nor mawkish sentiment. "SIS HOPKINS" HOMELY PHILOSOPHY. "Sis Hopkin" is only a mythical character,serving to lighten up a roaring stage farce, but she gives forth a bit of homely philosophy that may be widely applied and which epitomizes modern human nature when she says: "They ain't no sense in doin' nuthin' for nobody whut won't do nuthin' for you." Doctrinares may talk all they want to about the beauties of civil service reform; but the average American will continue to insist upon having some bread and meat along with his principles, and contend that they who win the victories shall enjoy the bulk of its benefits. In short, "To the victors belong the spoils," and the people have come back to a realization that this healthy doctrine is the only plan by which a government like ours can be successfully operated. Nothing has so confirmed this idea as the ridiculous humbuggery and shameful partiality practiced in all the departments in the name of civil service reform. "Sis Hopkins" is right, and the black man in business and politics is making up his mind not to do "nuthin' for nobody whut won't do nuthin' for him." Obey the law. Those members of the great A.M. E. Church who cry "retrenchment and economy" when the election of Bishops is broached, are not acting for the church's best interests. To retrench means to stop growing. Surely Methodism does not intend to stand still when virgin fields invite her missionary activity? Plenty of Bishops means more energetic workers, more money raised, more souls brought to Christ, and more life in every department of the organization. Give the older men more chance to rest, and give the younger ones increased opportunities to study. Pay more money into charity funds than fines to police courts. Indiana is again getting worried over her "Black Law.s" It is high time that that intelligent and progressive state ceased to be the tail of the defunct Confederacy. Brothers Knox, Stewart, Manning, Hill, Sweeney and others should get themselves together for a long pull at the meeting of the next legislature—and better still, exert themselves to see that only the right kind of men are nominated and elected. Indiana has no need for a "Black Law" of any nature. The editor of our oldest local contemporary shows a commedable disposition to mount the "band wagon." Tis well, me lud, 'tis well. With Washington in the lead as educator and social economist, Walters as organizer and spiritual advisor, White as legislator and field general, Lyons and Cheatham as administration leaders and political managers, a dozen far sighted journalistic champions and a clean pulpit and schoolhouse, the interests of the Negro are in pretty good hands, thank you! The busy fiend, who has been in the habit of using the abbreviation '99,will now probably write it'00. The Negro editor with the inquiring mind, has begun to scratch his head, and to figure out just how the gold standard will benefit the Black man. There is no reason why the year 1900 should not be a prosperous one for all the people of this land-white, black and red, or otherwise. Read The Colored American's many and varied "features." It sets the pace for Negro journalism in this as well in other respects. Despite the fact that most people select Christmastide as the time when conventional restraints are thrown off, and that at such times a dethroned reason is judged leniently by the primmest of censors, Editor Harry C. Smith chose last week in which to "get gay." The February conference at Tuskegee gives promise of being the most notable of the series as the interests in Tuskegee has grown with the years, and these more prosperous times are enabling a larger number of persons to attend. Somebody has found out that the Afro-American Council is "loaded." "The Washington Colored American continues to be the greatest Negro paper in all of the north, with the Indianapolis Freeman a red hot second." This is the generous observation of the hustling W. E. King of the Dallas Express. There isn't a thing the matter with the pace that is being set by the newsy and complete Express. The blanker sheet is a journal out of date. Peter H. Clark—a grand old man, by the way—seems to have joined the J. Milton Turner, J. C. Matthews, George T. Downing, J. E. O. Hara and J. T. V. Hill class of retired states men who seldom get their names in the papers. The lynch.ng mania is sapping the life-blood of our boasted republican institutions. The defeat of the Payne resolution shows that the Negro must still be reckoned with as a factor in national politics. It is time enough to talk about reducing Southern representation in convention after the Congressional districts are reapportioned upon the basis of vote actually cast. Reduce Southern Congressional representation - that's the proper order. The Census Bureau is getting itself together, and the colored brother is being reached gradually. The $15,000 appropriation asked for by Mr. Calloway, for the purpose of insuring a successful Negro educational exhibit at Paris, will no doubt be speedily allowed. It is just and it is moderate. It is necessary to the proper representation of 10,000,000 American citizens, segregated from the bulk by conditions well known to all. The appiration should be granted without question and be made available at once. Our new style has caught the popular fancy. The Colored American always leads. Is the American government satisfied to admit that it can protect our citizens abroad and foreigners residing temporarily upon our soil, but is powerless to lift a finger when one of its own family is outraged beside the family hearthstone? The administration of President Mc Kinley is marching to the right kind of music. The man who really wants to work will find something to do. He may not always secure the kind of work he prefers or feels best fitted to perform, but he can make a living if he tries. More men have starved to death evading work than have perished in search of it. Good men are exceedingly difficult to down, and it is a still more difficult job to keep them down. George Dixon has simply enlisted in that vast army of fighters who went into the ring once too often. A JOURNAL OF VARIED AND USEFUL INFORMATION. Editor, Colored American, My dear sir-I want to compliment The Colored American on its new dress. Typographically it is a pretty thing. The style of the paper is also an improvement. It looks more like a journal now, which I look upon The Colored American as being. To Afro Americans The Colored American is what the Literary Digest is to all Americans-a journal of varied and useful information, a full stored grainery. Columbus Dispatch, Dec. 26, '99. AN OPINION FROM NEW MEXICO. The Colored American, Dearsir—You will inclosed please find post office for $200 for which you will credit to my account as subscriber to your newsy race advocate and champion. You came this week in a bran new dress (a'la magazine) giving conclusive evidence that you are an expansionist along race journalism, as a glance at your leasing editorial will confirm my statement. Your paper is truly an American through and through in the broadest sense of the term, it stands for all that goes to make the Negro an honest, independent, industrious and patriotic citizen. Your editorials which I have pursued with diligent care for years, teaches conservatism, patience, and deliberation along the questions that confront us as a race, at the same time they are mingled with logic, force and fearlessness when once convinced that the particular issue is just. Continue to send me The American and may the dawn of twentieth century continue to crown you with you success. Yours for success. CHAS J. PARSONS, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick A. White (nee Miss Madge Dyer), of 2009 14th street northwest, are the proud parents of a bouncing baby girl. THE "WIZARD" OF TUSKEGEE THE "WIZARD" OF TUSKEGEE The Noble Work of Booker T. Washington Industrialism's Foremost Advocate— "A True Prophet of His Race." The most remarkable Afro-American of this generation is Booker T Washington. As was said of Frederick Douglass, he is not only a great Negro - he is a great man. Few characters in history, ancient or modern, civil or military, offer a career so replete in thrilling incident, so complex in condition and environment and yet so thoroughly successful as that of Mr. Washington the founder and principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Industrial Institute. The story of his life, though often told, furnishes a study at once interesting, instructive and in spiring. The flexibility of American standards and institutions is picturesquely illustrated in the wide extremes of sentiment and custom with which Mr. Washington has had to deal. Identified with a race, regarded as inferior and incapable of progress, he has risen by his own might from the depths of human bondage, from the darkness of slavery, and the thraldom of ignorance and poverty to the highest development offered by freedom, intelligence and industry. By the sheer force of his personality and labors he has won fame upon two continents. He has arrested the attention and commanded the respect of the foremost scholars, statesmen, scientists, sociologists and economists of America and Europe, without regard to race, creed or political bent. He holds the largest place in the popular eye, and is the most widely talked about figure in public life today, and his theories and methods have produced the most significant and diverse discussion in the educational and social centers known to this decade. And why? Mr. Washington stands for a definite idea. He is the pioneer apostle of industrial training for the Negro, as the fundamental principle in the solution of the vexatious race problem. This doctrine, perhaps, had expounders and advocates before Mr. Washington, but no one had ever been able to so clearly diagnose the economic disease from which we suffered or so candidly presented the facts in the case as this brilliant young man "fresh from his books" at Hampton. A keen observer of human nature, and quick to trace effects back to causes, he early in life detected flaws in our racial system, and probed the situation to its core. He knew history; he knew logic; he had common sense; he had convictions and the courage to express them. Mr. Washington saw about him millions of despised and helpless black people, just emerging from the status of chattels—for the most part, unlearned and poor. He noted a peculiar political condition which sought by legislation alone to confer upon them a species of responsibility that could not naturally be borne by any class without a preliminary period of proper instruction and training in the arts of government, mental culture and capacity for systematic breadwinning. He saw that to secure to the Negro the full and permanent enjoyment of American citizenship, the superficial conditions, fostered by false conceptions of education, excessive political aspiration without the backing of experience and wealth, and an assumption of equality without power to protect it, must give away, and a solid foundation put under the emancipated race. He declined to accept shadowy forms as true citizenship, and insisted upon the doctrine that since only the fittest can survive, a people to gain the right exist must strengthen themselves from within, and be prepared to compete on equal terms with the best brain and blood on earth. While believing in a beautiful superstructure, with all the ornamentation that aestheticism can devise, he contends that the foundation must first be laid, strong and deep. In an economic sense, the foundation of a government, people or race is comprehended in its wealth-producing agencies, represented by the capability and industry of its skill-earning classes. These THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. support the professions, build the schools and churches, make capital profitable and underpin the entire social fabric. Booker washington saw that our weakness lay in our lack of industrial training, and that the menace to our liberties resided in the increasing hostility between the white man and his black neighbor on account of an ill-balanced political system. To find a remedy became the mission of his life. In this spirit the Tuskegee Industria Institute was founded in 1881. It started out in a shanty, with one teacher and thirty students. Less than twenty years of sturdy agitation, unflagging zeal, and a rigid adherence to original principles, finds Booker T. Washington's propaganda more than vindicated—it is enthusiastically indorsed. The Tuskegee Institute of today is a miniature city. It has nearly 1200 students, gathered from 23 states and territories, and England, Porto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica and Africa. It owns 2267 acres of land, 600 head of live stock, 50 vehicles, 46 buildings, the plant being valued at fully $350,000. Together with this, and the proceeds resulting from the great endowment fund of $500,000 now being rapidly subscribed, Tuskegee's property valuation and equipment will shortly be quoted at more than 4 of a million dollars. It is the joint work of Negroes and humanitarians of the Caucasian race. Thus has Booker T. Washington realized the ambition of his youth. Thus has he faithfully served his struggling people. Thus has he cemented the needed bond of sympathy between the blacks and whites on the strong plea that that the interest of each was bound up in the other. The boy who thirty years ago walked out of the little West Virginia town to make his way in the great world, has not lived in vain. Nothing was more fitting, nor yet more pathetic in sentiment, nor dramatic in effect, than the royal reception tendered Mr. Washington last fall upon his return from Europe, participated in by the dignitaries of the State, from the Governor down. A happy home coming! A glorious climax of thirty years of trial and triumph. Booker T. Washington's work is not finished, but the principles of industrialism so firmly imbedded in the intelligence and affection of the nation that the storms of prejudice and shafts of criticism are without power to injure. Ruskegee long ago passed the experimental stage. It is an enduring monument to the industry, sagacity and high moral purpose of its eminent founder. Mr. Washington has grown upon the American people by mingling with them. In turn he has excited amazement, detraction, envy, half-belief, and finally, as his ideals have gradually been reached, unstinted commendation is his portion. One of Mr. Washington's most noticeable characteristics is his patience. He never ceases to work and never gives up in the face of difficulty, however great or exasperating. Gentle as a woman in demeanor, he is leonine in his contention for right principles. Cautious and deliberate in forming opinions, he is fearless when his heart and judgment are enlisted in a cause. He is never an apologist for wrong doing, and while upholding the good that is in the South, he is relentless in condemnation of the bad. He is the champion of the worthy members of his race, but refuses to array himself in support of the bad. He has sympathy and help to offer the vicious but not the semblance of indorsement. He is loyal to his friends and generous to his enemies. While hurling thunderbolts of eloquence against the faults of the Caucasian, he is not blind to the foibles of the Negro, and seeks to eradicate the cancerous growth in each by mutual understanding and mutual aid. He is genuine, honest, sincere. He says in private just what he says in public. His word is as reliable as the Riggs National Bank. He says in the South identically what he says in the North. Though exercising the limit of his powerful influence against the electoral and economic discrimination against Negroes in the South, he is no politician or partisan. He is well poised and sensible, and conducts himself with the dignity care and conservatism born of a true conception of his responsibility. He is polished, affable and approachable to all. He is equally at home among the humble farmers of the Black Belt of Alabama and among the lords and dukes of Europe. Praise cannot spoil him; opposition cannot discourage him. He is no longer compelled to seek honors—they are thrust upon him, and effectively proves the truth of his doctrine: Get something that somebody wants and they will come to you, regardless of color or previous condition. He believes in Christianity and a bank account as means of making men—that the substantial should be chosen, rather than the showy. He favors all kinds of education—high and industrial. Get all you can of each, he says, and if called upon to choose, select that to which you are best adapted and which will yield the best returns. Preferring an educated ballot, he insists that all men shall be placed upon the same plane at the polls—the law, whatever it may be to apply alike to white and black. He wisely warns the race that "recognition" does not come through perpetual whining and impotent complaint—but through demonstrated merit and the capacity to make itself felt in the activities of life. We must weave ourselves into the life of our neighbor and make common cause with him in sustaining the law and promoting in every way the general welfare. This is the real Booker T. Washington. It is the testimony of those who know him. Concerts are being made to industrialism; none are being made against it. Mr. Washington's philosophy and work are accepted as the truest and most effective solution of the race problem in America where his speeches are heard or his writings intelligently read. The people have been brought to his way of thinking by earnest and convincing logic, and Mr. Washington's popularity is a natural growth. He has the confidence of the shrewdest financiers of the land. Men slow to part with a dollar, cheerfully contribute thousands to Tuskegee, because they appreciate the great work it is doing in elevating the Negro and thus leavening the whole lump of civilization. In the language of the Washington Post: "Booker T. Washington is preaching a sound philosophy. There is the model for white and black alike. He has learned the secret of power and promotion. He is the true prophet of his race." As such we commend him to the people of America and to the world. R. W. THOMPSON. Washington, D. C., Jan., 11, 1900 A VICTORY FOR THE RACE. Mr. W. D. Montague, of the District Building Named as Assistant Assessor - Recognition won by Twenty-Five Years of Meritorious Service -The Generosity of of Mr. Hopewell H. Darneille. The scant recognition which the Negro has received in the matter of District patronage has been the cause of much complaint in recent months, but the edge of criticism was given a decided blow Monday when the good people of Washington awoke and foud that the race could rejoice in the acquisition of a colored assistant assesser. The fortunate appointee is Mr. W. D. Montague, a gentleman, every inch of him and his elevation has been the result of merit, pure and simple. Not favoritism, not political pull, not persistent solicitation—but faithful and conscientious performance of duty day by day for twenty-five years brought its logical and legitimate reward. The appointment was made upon the recommendation of Mr. Hopewell H. Darneille, as sessor for the District of Columbia. The promotion of Mr. Montague who has been the license clerk of the assess or's office since June 1, 1880 at $1,200 per annum was most favorably received and he was kept busily engaged for some time in receiving the congratulations of his fellow employes at the District building and of many private citizens. The position carries a salary of $1,600 per annum. Mr. Montague is a native of Springfield, Mass., and enteled the District service in 1875 as a messenger, being promoted step by step to his new position. By his gentlemanly conduct and tact he has made himself not only extremely popular with the District officials and employes, but also with all who have had business with the office. Mr. Montague is one of the best O known colored men in the District. He is a member of the Masonic and other orders, and for fifteen years has been secretary of the board of trustees of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church. He is in all respects a worthy and exemplary citizen, and no recent appointment here has given such universal satisfaction. The Commissioners, in approving the recommendation of the assessor that Mr. Montague be promoted to the responsible position of assessor, spoke most highly of his abilities and character. Assessor Hopewell H. Darneille, to whom the race is indebted for this handsome recognition, has long been known and loved for his broad humanity and generous instincts, and in him the Negro has found an unfailing friend. He is absolutely devoid of prejudice, personal, racial, religious or political, measuring all men by the single standard of actual worth. He is a young man, only 32 years of age, but has quite a long and useful career, having filled with credit and distinction several positions of responsibility under the local government. Mr. Darneille has the hearty thanks of the 90,000 Negroes of the District for his generous treatment of Mr Montague They wish for him a prosperous and happy administration. We feel assured that the relations between him and Mr. Montague will continue to be of the most pleasant character, and that the latter will in the future as in the past vindicate the wisdom of those from whose hands he has received distinguished consideration. Dress-Making. DRESSMAKING ACADEMY. The de Lam Orton Famous French Perfection Tailor System Academy MME J. A. SMALLWOOD, Sole Agent 1513Madison St. Northwest. Morning class from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. Afternoon class 2 to 5 p. m. daily. 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Howard University stands as the practical representative of the nation's interest in the higher education of the Negro. It is supported mainly by Government aid, through Congressional appropriation, and is the opportunity which the nation offers exclusively to colored youth to fit themselves for higher intellectual pursuits. Its privilege and emoluments were intended mainly for the colored race. This is not only the spirit and purpose of its origin but it is equally the reason for its maintenance, and the president of such an institution should be in thorough sympathy with its aims and purposes. In accepting its presidency, he should be willing to subordinate his personal prejudices, and even his personal preferences, to the one purpose of maintaining the spirit of the institution in its attitude of helpfulness to the colored race. If its doors are open for the training of Negro educators, they should be equally open to the employment of Nogro educators. This, in the nature of present conditions, cannot be expected of the hundreds of white institutions of learning where colored students are admitted, but Howard University is essentially a Negro university and was primarily intended to furnish a sphere of action wherein the Negro could be free to work out his highest intellectual capabilities, alike as student and instructor. The present president of that institution has certainly not brought this spirit to the discharge of his duties there. On the contrary, he has in numerous ways exhibited a personal prejudice which render his service in that position a positive hindrance to the real progress of the institution. To carry out the full purpose of the founders of the THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS FINE WINES OLD WHISKIES AND BRANDIES. Liquors of all kinds. Choice Cigars. Philadelphia House, M. F. CARROLL, Prop. Restaurant and Saloon. 348 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W. Washington, D. C. Meals to Order. 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First class room and board at reasonable prices 475 Missouri Avenue Northwest. institution, it should be the aim of the president to give positions as instructors in the university to capable colored men and women preferably when they are found to possess the required qualifications, and this should be done there all the more willingly since it is well known that capable colored applicants are so uniformly discriminated against on account of their color in nearly all the intellectual industries controlled by the other race. But on this point the present president is certainly open to the charge of a most flagrant abuse of his power. Within the last three years out of nine important appointments at the university, only two of the appointees are colored persons, and one of these was given aminor position. The seven other appointees, namely, Miss Barker, Miss Rugg, Miss Moore, Miss Johnson, Miss Rankin, Mr. Stafford and Mr. Hay, are all white, and none of them holds a position that could not have been filled over and over again by colored applicants with equal intellectual equipment and a higher claim for consideration. The placing of Miss Flora Johnson, a young white girl, in a position of librarian, after she had entered a competitive examination with two young colored women for the position and had utterly failed to make even a respectable rating in the contest, was a species of unmitigated tyranny without reason or excuse. Miss Baker, the young colored woman who made the highest mark in the examination was officially informed that, while her rating was the highest in the competition, she, with the others, lacked library experience, whereupon Miss Baker immediately went to Amherst, Mass., entered the department of Library Economy in the summer school of Amherst College, completed the course, and returned to Washington only to find that Miss Johnson, who had failed in the examination, had been given the position, at first temporarily, as a pretext, and then permanently. When the former secretary and treasurer, J. B. Johnson, died, there were several capable colored men candidates for the position—such men as Dr. F. J. Shadd, A. F. Hilyer, and J. H. Meriwether, all college graduates, all alumni of Howard University, all men of business experience and fine character. But these were all ignored, being col. Continued on 11th page. Liquors of all kinds. Choice Cigars. WASHINGTON, D. C. 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Miss Lizzie Wells of Annapolis spent the holidays with her aunt, Mrs. Terreasa Dorsey of Anacostia, D. C. Special Agent T. J. Calloway is back from Chicago, where he spent a week working up interest in the Negro exhibit at Paris. Miss Carrie Lewis is acting as stenographer for Special Agent Calloway, of the Paris Exposition staff. The office is at 609 F street northwest. Miss Nannie Johnson, who was the guest of Miss Emma Edelin, during the holidays returned to her home in Annapolis on New Year's Day. The District Afro-American Council held a good meeting Wednesday evening at the Conservatory of Music, and several new members were added to the rolls. The mention of Booker T. Washington's name evoked repeated rounds of cheers last Sunday at the Second Baptist Lyceum. The people have come to understand the Tuskegee Wizard and consequently are with him. Mise Daisy Wylie is displaying her rare qualities as a teacher in a way that is perfectly satisfactory and for the same her many friends are happy. It is hoped she may continue to do well. Mr. Max Bennett Thrasher, of New Hampshire, a member of the staff of the Boston transcript and a magazine writer of note, will stop over in Washington early next month, on his way to attend the Tuskegee annual industrial conference. Dr J. Hall, of 1514 L street, contemplates opening up club rooms, where young men may go for healthy recreation, free from the demoralizing influence of bar rooms and bad company. Washington needs such a place, and the Doctor should be encouraged. Mr. W. S. Hagans has returned from a holiday visit to his home at Goldsboro, N. C. The great prominence of of Congressman White and the voluminous mail occasioned by it, is keeping Mr. Secretary Hagans quite busy these days. There will be no meeting of the Second Baptist Lyceum tomorrow. Sunday following, the 20th Century Greeting will place under direction of Dr. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. Johnson. The Lyceum's next regular session will be January 28, at which time Prof. R. H. Terrell will be the speaker. Mr. W. T. Menard, of the Government Printing Office, and manager of the Afro-American News Bureau, will address the Congressional Lyceum, Sunday, January 28, on "The Judicial System of the United States." It will be a creditable production, as Mr. Minard is one of the best writers and clearest thinkers we have. The Sunday-school of the Metropolitan Baptist Church is doing remarkably well under the careful and methodical management of its devout Superintendent, Miss Emma V. Russell. She is a lady of ability, and the Sunday-school is proud of possessing one who is so well equipped for this special duty. At 3:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon Miss Lulu S. Chase, of the Garnett School, will read a paper on the subject of "Home and Its Influences," before the Congressional Lyceum at Odd Fellows' Hall. The Amphion Glee Club Prof. J.' Henry Lewis, director, has accepted an invitation to to be present and render a selection. Instrumental and vocal solo by Miss Blance Coleman and Mr. Winston Payne respectively. Mr. Lewis Laubbiemer, one of the proprietors of the Dew drop Inn at Indian Head, Md., and for a long time connected with that popular house, Fritz Reuter's, was married this week to Miss Sadie Rothchilds. Mr. Laubbiemer is one of the most popular men in the city and since he has the management of Dew drop Inn it has made a host of friends. Next Monday evening, the Second Baptist Church will tender a reception and supper to the "Fair Committee of 1899," the members of which labored so faithfully to make the recent fair a grand success. The church takes this method of showing its appreciation. A supper table will be set with accommodations for 150 persons at one time. Exercises at 8:30, and everybody invited. Protest of an Alumnus. (Continued from 10th page.) ored, and the president of the university went down to one of the Government departments, fished out a white man holding a subordinate clerkship at about $1,000 a year and put him in the position at $2,500 a year, merely because he was the son in law of General Ballock, the same one who complained in the Times article about the colored people "wanting positions." Again, the clerk to the former secretary was a young colored man named Mitchell. He studied law, graduated, resigned, and began the practice of the profession in Philadelphia. His successor is a young white woman named Miss Rugg, while a dozen colored girls are denied or portunites for employment in as many offices throughout the city merely on account of their color. The crowning injustice of the whole business was reached when the president of the university, whose salary is $400 a month, with a handsome residence free, and nearly $1,000 a year additional for allowances, appoints his own daughter at a salary of $1,000 a year, to succeed a colored woman, when a dozen young colored women in Washington could be selected for less money to fill the position with better ability. CANDY CATHARTIC Cancarets REGULATE THE LIVER Tenth Cavalry Souvenir H. V. CASHIN, WM. T. ANDERSON, ARTHUR M. BROWN Rec'r U.S. Land Office. Chaplain 10 Calvary. Asst. Surgeon 10 Calvary, H. V. CASHIN & CO., HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA Publishers of Martial and Pictorial Literature of the Negro Race Send 25 cents for copy of third and improved edition of the Tenth Cavalry Souvenir a gem of latter day advanced art, containing 40 pages of distinctively life-like portraits and graphic illustrations of men and incidents connected with the Famous Tenth Cavalry in the battles around Santiago. 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THE POLITICAL HOROSCOPE 12 Mr. Daniel Murray is growing in favor as a candidate for delegate to the Philadelphia convention. He is an earnest active and conscientious race man and the District could not be more faithfully represented than by him. Mr. A. L. Manly, editor of the Daily Record, has been appointed to a $1,000 position in the Washington City Post Office. The selection is a most excellent one and the honor and profit could not have been more worthily bestowed. Director of Census Merriam is getting his Bureau organized as rapidly as possible, and, on the first, named several worthy colored men to such positions as are immediately available. Promotions and other appointments will follow. December 12, Senator Pritchard, of North Carolina, introduced a resolution in the Senate at Washington, declaring unconstitution, section 5 of the amendment, proposed by the last Raleigh legislature to the North Carolina constitution. A petition is in circulation to oust Former Representative W. H. Clifford from his position in the county clerk's office at Cleveland, Ohio. The head and front of Clifford's offending seems to be that he opposed Harry Smith's candidacy for the legislature. It's dollars to doughnuts, that Clifford will not be ousted. The Negroes of North Carolina have published an address to the white people of the state, urging upon them not to adopt a constitution which will work the disfranchisement of the colored man. The address goes on to say, that if the whites persist, the Negroes will leave the state. Straight talk, this North Carolina will hesitate a long time before she will agree to part with her faithful black yeomanry. Mr. James Lynch, a son of the late Hon. James Lynch, ex secretary of the state of Mississippi, is said to be an applicant for United States timber inspector, and wants his father's old republican friends in the to petition the president asking him to appoint him. He is at present in St. Louis. Mr. Lynch is no doubt a worthy applicant for the place and strong petitions will be sent at once asking his appointment. District Attorney Gardiner of New York City, surprised his assistants the day after New Years by introducing to them a new fellow assistant in the person of James Dickson Carr. Mr. Carr's appointment was dated September 28. Mr. Gardiner stated that Mr. Carr was a graduate of Rutgers college, '92, and of the Columbia law school, '95, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. "He is an American citizen and a good criminal lawyer," said the district attorney, "and also a man of excellent character. That was all I wanted to know about him." What is the matter with Gardiner? He's all right! The coming political struggle in Texas, so far as concerns republicans, will end with John Grant in his political grave; and some worthy republican elected as national committeeman This is as it should be. This fellow Grant, plucked as he was from oblivion, essentially and naturally a mediocre, can but return from whence he came. His record in the discharge of (Continued on 13th page.) THE COLORED AMERICAN THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. M THE GRAND FOUNTAIN. United Order of True Reformers. his duty has been one of bad faith and broken promises, and the mention of his name only serves to increase for him the contempt of honest men, who believe in square party dealing—Dallas Express. ORGANIZED January 1, 1881. Offices 604, 606 and 608 N. 2nd St., - - Richmond, Va. The Strongest Financial Organization the Negro Has Produced in This Country. Read and learn for yourself what it has done and how to become a member. Congressman George H. White is preparing to make the fight of his life in behalf of the people he represents—the 10,000,000 Negroes of the United States. From every quarter he is receiving assurances of support for his measure, to make lynching a national SUBORDINATE FOUNTAINS. Subordinate Fountains are composed of males and of good moral character. Conventions.—When joining the Order through 14 to 50 years of age; when joining the Fountain 14 to 60 years of age complete. Joining or Benefit Fees.—From 14 to 45 years at 60, $6.60. Death Benefits.—$75 and $125. Should death occur first year, $125 will be paid to the heirs, assigns or Sick Benefits.—From $6 to $9 per month, paid Monthly Dues are 35 or 50 cents per month annually, January and July. The highest monthly benefits. Life Membership.—Ten shares of Bank Stock, said member a life member. After paying dues fruits of the stock will pay the member's dues, an year. Just calculate—monthly dues, 50 cents per amount to $6.80, and a dividend on ten shares of 1 per share, amounts to $10 annually, which will pay a balance of $3.20. Should the dues be 35 cents per the monthly dues and taxes will amount to $5 per the monthly dues and taxes, and leave a balance of Additional Benefits of Life Membership.—Shoulder, said member may take his ten shares of stock from $1 to $88, which will enable said member to loan, redeem his policy and stock, and go on his w mountains are composed of males and females, sound in health and mind, and character. When joining the Order through Conventions, persons are taken from age; when joining the Fountain by application persons are taken from age complete. Benefit Fees.—From 14 to 45 years of age, $4.60; at 50, $5.10; at 55, $5.60; —$75 and $125. Should death occur within the first year, $75; after the will be paid to the heirs, assigns or legal representatives. From $6 to $9 per month, paid weekly. There are 35 or 50 cents per month. Taxes are 80 cents annually, paid semi- and July. The highest monthly dues secure the highest weekly sick dip.—Ten shares of Bank Stock, costing each member $5 a share, make life member. After paying dues and owning the stock one year, the will pay the member's dues, and leave a handsome little balance each rate—monthly dues, 50 cents per month, and taxes 80 cents per year, and a dividend on ten shares of stock at 20 per cent on the dollar, or $1 to $10 annually, which will pay the member's dues, $6.80, and leave. Should the dues be 35 cents per month, and 80 cents taxes per year, and taxes will amount to $5 per year. The dividend of $10 would pay and taxes, and leave a balance of $5. Affits of Life Membership.—Should adverse circumstances befall a memmay take his ten shares of stock and Fountain policy, and secure a loan which will enable said member to tide over the misfortune, pay up the policy and stock, and go on his way rejoicing. mountains are composed of males and females, sound in health and mind, and of good moral character. Conventions.—When during the Order of the Holy When joining the Order through Conventions, persons are taken in from 14 to 50 years of age; when joining the Fountain by application persons are taken from 14 to 60 years of age complete. Joining or Benefit Fees.—From 14 to 45 years of age, $4.60; at 50, $5.10; at 55, $5.60; at 60, $6.60. Death Benefits.—$75 and $125. Should death occur within the first year, $75; after the first year, $125 will be paid to the heirs, assigns or legal representatives. Sick Benefits.—From $6 to $9 per month, paid weekly. J. Monthly Dues are 35 or 50 cents per month. Taxes are 80 cents annually, paid semiannually, January and July. The highest monthly dues secure the highest weekly sick benefits. Life Membership.—Ten shares of Bank Stock, costing each member $5 a share, make said member a life member. After paying dues and owning the stock one year, the fruits of the stock will pay the member's dues, and leave a handsome little balance each year. Just calculate—monthly dues, 50 cents per month, and taxes 80 cents per year, amount to $6.80, and a dividend on ten shares of stock at 20 per cent on the dollar, or $1 per share, amounts to $10 annually, which will pay the member's dues, $6.80, and leave a balance of $3.20. Should the dues be 35 cents per month, and 80 cents taxes per year, the monthly dues and taxes will amount to $5 per year. The dividend of $10 would pay the monthly dues and taxes, and leave a balance of $5. Additional Benefits of Life Membership.—Should adverse circumstances befall a member, sald member may take his ten shares of stock and Fountain policy, and secure a loan from $1 to $88, which will enable said member to tide over the misfortune, pay up the loan, redeem his policy and stock, and go on his way rejoicing. 2. ROSEBUD FOUNTAIN (For the Children.) A Rosebud Fountains are composed for children, male and female, from 3 to 14 years of age. Joining or Benefit Fees, $1.50; paid spot cash or by instalments. Death Benefits.—$24.50 and $37.00. Should death occur within the first year, $24.50; after the first year $37 will be paid to the parents or guardians. Sick Benefits.—From $1.50 to $4.00 per month paid weekly; 50 cents, 75 cents and $1 per week, respectively. The highest monthly dues purchase the highest weekly sick benefits. Monthly Monthly Dues and Taxes. The monthly dues are 10 cents, 15 cents, or 25 cents, respectively, just as the Fountain may decide. Taxes, 10 cents annually, paid semiannually, January and July. The child is allowed to purchase five shares of Bank Stock, which makes his policy self-supporting, with a balance each year. HON. JUDSON . LYON. crime, and to give the federal government the right to assist in the prevention of mob violence or in the prosecution or offenders against law and order. Mr. White, however must be careful of his health, for much depends upon his vigor and ability to bring to bear his best thought and action. He is burdened with a multitude of obligations, and the strain is enough to break down three ordinary men. The friends of the race should come to his rescue and relieve him as far as possible. Share this responsibility with him for he is fighting the people's battle, and all will share in the result. The Colored American assures Mr White of its heartiest support, and suggests that interested friends write to the Congressman and tender their services for any work in which he may need assistance. His famous antilynching bill will be introduced at once and the work will commence in earnest 3. THE REGALLA. that furnishes all Regalia that is worn by the members of the Order. For write for price list. 4 CLASSES. uses admit a membership, male and female, and secure, life and death. are as follows: CLASS B TABLE. Ages. Joining Fee. Value of Certificate. Annual Dues. Paid Quarterly. $2 50 $200 00 $4 75 $1 20 2 75 200 00 4 75 1 20 3 00 200 00 5 70 1 43 3 25 140 00 6 65 1 66 3 25 115 00 6 65 1 66 3 50 90 00 7 60 1 90 3 50 65 00 7 60 1 90 is as follows: CLASS E TABLE. Ages. Joining Fee. Value of Certificate. Annual Dues. Paid Quarterly. $5 00 $500 00 $9 50 $2 40 5 25 500 00 9 50 ..... 5 50 500 00 10 40 ..... 5 75 450 00 11 40 2 35 5 75 400 00 11 40 2 35 6 00 350 00 11 00 2 35 3. THE REGALLA This Department furnishes all Regalia that is w style and prices write for price list. 4 CLASSES B and E Classes admit a membership, male benefits. B Class Policies are as follows: CLASS B TAB Ages. Joinin Fee. 14 to 25 years. $2 50 25 to 35 years. 2 75 35 to 45 years. 3 00 45 to 50 years. 3 25 50 to 55 years. 3 25 55 to 60 years. 3 50 60 to 65 years. 3 50 E Class Policies are as follows: CLASS E TAB Ages. Joinin Fee. 14 to 25 years. $5 00 25 to 35 years. 5 25 35 to 45 years. 5 50 45 to 50 years. 5 75 50 to 55 years. 5 75 55 years (Complete). 6 00 This Department furnishes all Regalia that is worn by the members of the Order. For style and prices write for price list. 4 CLASSES. B and E Classes admit a membership, male and female, and secure life and death benefits. B Class Policies are as follows: CLASS B TABLE. Ages. Joining Fee. Value of Certificate. Annual Dues. Paid Quarterly. 14 to 25 years. $2 50 $200 00 $4 75 $1 20 25 to 35 years. 2 75 200 00 4 75 1 20 35 to 45 years. 3 00 200 00 5 70 1 43 45 to 50 years. 3 25 140 00 6 65 1 66 50 to 55 years. 3 25 115 00 6 65 1 66 55 to 60 years. 3 50 90 00 7 60 1 90 60 to 65 years. 3 50 65 00 7 60 1 90 Ages. Joining Fee. Value of Certificate. Annual Dues. Paid Quarterly. 14 to 25 years..... $5 00 $500 00 $9 50 $2 40 25 to 35 years..... 5 25 500 00 9 50 ..... 35 to 45 years..... 5 50 500 00 10 40 ..... 45 to 50 years..... 5 75 450 00 11 40 2 35 50 to 55 years..... 5 75 400 00 11 40 2 35 55 years (Complete)..... 6 00 350 00 11 00 2 35 The ages are reckoned from the last birthday. Remember that the applicant is benefited as s s. The annual dues of either of the above named payments of three months each, payable the 1st of June. The balance of annual dues remaining to the 1st of June will go to the purchase of Bank Stock for the dues. If dues are paid annually in advance, the men and his full proportion of annual dues. By the L l he made his own collector, thereby making the men self-supporting, and the member receiving the per cent to collect. You will readily see that the members of either to meet once or four times a year, while the Founcers Life Benefits.—The members of B Class are a Stock, and two shares for each year of their men of 20 per cent, or one dollar per share. Should m of life, they may take their stock certificates and a period of time. Members of Class E can purchase 25 shares on year of their membership; likewise, they may take Stock, and secure a loan after a given period of time, bership, in either one of these Classes, like the F member in health, as well as his family in death. at the applicant is benefited as soon as his policy is issued. Besides of either of the above named Classes may be divided into quarterly six months each, payable the 1st of January, April, July, and October. A annual dues remaining to the credit of each member after paying ex- the purchase of Bank Stock for said member. And annually in advance, the member gets 5 per cent drawback in cash. Partion of annual dues. By the latter mode of payment each member isector, thereby making the membership independent of the agent, and the member receiving the percentage that would be paid to the agent. By see that the members of either one of these classes are only required four times a year, while the Fountains and Rosebuds meet twice a month. The members of B Class are allowed to purchase 15 shares of Bank shares for each year of their membership. The stock yields a dividend one dollar per share. Should misfortune befall them on their pathway take their stock certificates and policies, and secure a loan after a given class E can purchase 25 shares of Bank Stock, and two shares for each membership; likewise, they may take their policies and certificates of Bank a loan after a given period of time. You will readily see that the mem- one of these Classes, like the Fountains and the Rosebuds, benefits th- as well as his family in death. Remember that the applicant is benefited as soon as his policy is issued. The annual dues of either of the above named Classes may be divided into quarterly payments of three months each, payable the 1st of January, April, July, and October. The balance of annual dues remaining to the credit of each member after paying expenses will go to the purchase of Bank Stock for said member. If dues are paid on time, The selection of Hon. Perry S. Heath our energetic and capable first assistant Postmaster General, to be chairman of the literary and organization bureau of the republican national committee, is indeed fortunate for the party and for the Negro race. Mr. Heath has genius for organizing large forces, an exceptionally good eye for details and is a clever judge of human nature. He knows men, and can tell at a glance whether or not they have in them the making of trusted lieutenants. His genius is not that of the accidental character—it is the genius that is developed from continued industry, common sense and loyalty to lofty principle. One of the most commendable features of Mr. Heath's make up is his unswerving devotion to friends. Honors are worn easily upon his broad shoulders, and praise has never been able to generate that dangerous and insidious disease known as "swell head." A skilled political general, an accomplish ed journalist, and a well-informed man If dues are paid annually in advance, the member gets 5 per cent drawback in cash and his full proportion of annual dues. By the latter mode of payment each member is made his own collector, thereby making the membership independent of the agent, and self-supporting, and the member receiving the percentage that would be paid to the agent to collect. You will readily see that the members of either one of these classes are only required to meet once or four times a year, while the Fresher The name of these classes are only required to meet once or four times a year, while the Fountains and Rosebuds meet twice a month. Life Benefits.—The members of B Class are allowed to purchase 15 shares of Bank Stock, and two shares for each year of their membership. The stock yields a dividend of 20 per cent, or one dollar per share. Should misfortune befall them on their pathway of life, they may take their stock certificates and policies, and secure a loan after a given period of time. Members of Class E can purchase 25 shares of Bank Stock, and two shares for each year of their membership; likewise, they may take their policies and certificates of Bank Stock, and secure a loan after a given period of time. You will readily see that the membership, in either one of these Classes, like the Fountains and the Rosebuds, benefits the member in health, as well as his family in death. 5. THE TRUE REFORMERS' BANK. The Savings Bank of the G. F. U. O. T. R. was chartered March 1888. Its capital stock is $100,000. It commenced business April 3, 1889. The amount of business to March 1, 1898, is $3,458,100. The stock of this bank is sold to the membership of the Fountains, Rose buds, B and E classes, and pays a dividend of 20 per cent on the dollar. Persons can deposit their moneys on time or demand. The bank pays 4 per cent interest on all time deposits. Moneys on demand are held subject to the orders of the depositors. Deposits are received upwards. Special attention is given to the collection of notes and drafts as the only bank in Richmond which continued to pay currency to it the financial stringency, while the other banks were using scrip BEE HIVE The Savings Bank of the G. F. U. O. T. R. was chartered March 1888. Its capital stock is $100,000. It commenced business April 1889. The amount of business to March 1, 1898, is $3,458,100. The stock of this bank is sold to the membership of the Fountains, Rosbuds, B and E classes, and pays a dividend of 20 per cent on the dollar. Persons can deposit their moneys on time or demand. The bank pays 4 per cent interest on all time deposits. Moneys on demand are held subject to the orders of the depositors. Deposits are receive from 10 cents and upwards. Special attention is given to the collection of notes and drafts. In 1893 this was the only bank in Richmond which continued to pay currency to its depositors during the financial stringency, while the other banks were using scrip- 6. REAL ESTATE OF THE U. O. T. R. This Department manages and controls the property of the organization. It grew out of the necessity of having offices and buildings in which to carry on the business of the organization, and to furnish halls for the Subordinate Lodges. Buildings now owned 15 farms, 3; dwellings, 2; hotels, 1; with a fee simple value of $104,000. Buildings are owned 7. THE REFORMER, the Organ of the Order The Reformer is the Beacon-Light, the Head General Agent of the Brotherhood. It is a live re It is the medium of the Order, and its columns teach Send for sample copies. It is published weekly in mond, Va., having a first-class job department, and is the Beacon-Light, the Head-Light, the General Messenger and the Brotherhood. It is a live race journal, with a circulation of 6,000 of the Order, and its columns teem with all its doings and achievements copies. It is published weekly in The Reformer Printing Office, Richmond a first-class job department, and makes a specialty of high-class work The Reformer is the Beacon-Light, the Head-Light, the General Messenger and the General Agent of the Brotherhood. It is a live race journal, with a circulation of 6,000 It is the medium of the Order, and its columns teem with all its doings and achievements Send for sample copies. It is published weekly in The Reformer Printing Office, Richmond, Va., having a first-class job department, and makes a specialty of high-class work Mr. A H. T. Walker's B and O. Depot Establishment. Race Enterprises. The Colored American takes pleasure in presenting to its readers a portrait of one of the business stands conducted by Mr. A. H. T, Walker of this city. Mr. Walker has a number of stands and does a paying business. He is a product of the South and belongs to that class which makes its way to the top regardless of what the public thinks of it. He has a college education and graduated at the head of his class in one of the Pharmaceutical Schools of New York city; but finding little to do in his professional work, and having the responsibility of a family, he came to Washington and opened up what is known as a "boot-black stand." So well has he done his work and so satisfactorily has he pleased the public that today his name is a household word and he can count his patrons by the hundreds. The portrait above is a picture of his main stand opposite the B. & O. depot, but he has other stands which do quite as much business and which serve the public just as well as the original stand. He employs a large number of men, and, being a chemist himself manufactures his own blackings, polishes and the various tints that he uses for public trade So accomplished is he in this work that many people, not only in this city, but from other cities make it a point to pay him a visit and purchase his special preparations. Among his customers may be numbered Congressmen, Senators, Judges and men representing all of the trades and professions in the city. His success is an example for young men who are idle and waiting for opportunities. Mr. Walker does a business of nearly $7,000 a year and has a healthy bank account. He is a splendid example of what a man can do who will and who dares to do. He stands well in the community and his word is his bond. It is with especial pride that The Colored American was so fortunate as to secure this photograph for its thousands of readers. Mr. Walker is on top and The Colored American is proud of his success which has been so deservedly achieved. Great Men of African Descent. Next Tuesday evening will be a gala occasion in the history of Bethel Literary and Historical Association. A symposium on "Great Men of African Descent" will be the attraction and the subjects and speakers are well selected and fit one another like tongue and groove. Each essayist is a master of the theme assigned to him, and can be heard with vau t by all, and THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. race pride will be stirred to its depths. The program is as follows: 1. Frederick Douglass-Mr. John W. Cromwell. 2. Alexander Dumas Mrs. Coralie Franklin Cook. 2 Alexander S. Poushkin-Mr. L. M. Hershaw. Prof. Richards invites the public to attend. Exercises at Metropolitan A. M. E. church, 8 p.m. THE POLITICAL HOROSCOPE (Continued from 12 h page.) of affairs, he is as modest and unassuming as he was in other days when he sat in the press gallery of the Capitol as the humble representative of the Indianapolis Journal. Mr. Heath will be a giant in the work of educating the people into the superior quality of republican principles and policies, and the faithful Negro voter is sure to have in him "a friend at court." A CHAPTER FROM "ARABIAN NIGHTS." In these times when history is being made at such a rapid gait, we are confronted with frequent exemplifications of the old adage that "politics make strange bedfellows." M. M. Parker and W. Calvin Chase, for instance! They are now hand and glove—but it was not always so. There are those who will remember that once upon a time the said Parker was a District Commissioner. Chuse, the said Chase, was a food inspector. Parker gave Chase the "double cross"—"scratched" him, so to speak, and the office of food in, spector knew him no more. And why? A certain white man who could not make a living at anything else, needed the place and Parker, who never had any use for a Negro after the required axe had been ground, put Chase out in the cold world and invited the white man to the radiator. That this act was a piece of cruel injustice goes without saying. Chase had done valuable party service and needed the job. His wife and family were just as deserving of consideration as that of the white man. But Parker "didn't give a kitty" about such a small matter as a colored man's welfare when one of his own blood asked for help. And now Parker and Chase have made up! By what species of legerdemain this marvelous feat of reconciliation was accomplished, we will not undertake to say. Chase is supporting Parker for delegate to the Philadelphia convention, and Parker—well, you'll have to watch him. Truly a picture that halts the eye, and fascinates the student of the occult! A peculiar and anomalous situation! And yet it exists—in full view of the audience. ```markdown ``` Be not Deceived To the Colored PEOPLE OF AMERICA. RECOGNIZING THE FACT that there are many so called hair growers and straighteners now being offered on the market, and knowing to a certainty that most of these are frauds pure and simple. We wish tomake a straight-for-ward statement to the colored people of America, through its best paper, The Colored American. In the year of 1871 our present Secretary through OZOQO. a fortunate circumstance acquired the receipt for It was not offered for sale or pushed to any extent until 1875 when it was put upon the market, and met with marked success. After a thorough test by the leading colored people of that time, it was pronounced an honest, legitimate remedy. True to all we claimed for it and worthy in every respect of the confidence and attention of every member of the colored race. Because they found it to cause the hair to GROW LONG AND STRAIGHT soft and fine and as beautiful as an April morning. It also cures all forms of itching, humiliating scalp diseases stops the hair from falling out, and causes a new growth to grow on the baldest head. Now, when ever a genuine article appears on the market. There are always a lot of people who imitate and make capital out of the merit of other peoples goods. Seeing our marked success numerous so-called hair growers and hair straighteners were put on the market. Of course the colored people had no way to tell that they were being fooled and bought most of them to their sorrow. Now we ask you a plain question. Would we absolutely agree to refund your money, provided you are not satisfied with the preparations we manufacture, if our goods were not true to all we claim for them. We assert right here, that we have advertised for nearly 24 years, offering to return the money for every case in which Ozono did not give satisfaction, and we have never yet had to refund the money. Ozono will positively take the Kinks out of Knotty, Kinky, Curly, Refractory Hair. It will make short, harsh hair, long and straight. It will cure your head of all itching, worrying, running scalp diseases, Eczema, Pimples, Dandruff, Itch, &c. It will stop your hair from falling out and keep it from falling out. It will restore gray hair to its natural color, making the Hair long and soft ine and silky and as beautiful as an April morn. 10,000 people are today using Ozono and not one complaint. We have thousands of testimonials. We have not space to publish them all. Rev. B. Hertz an eminent Colored Divine of the Church. writes "I have found your Ozono to prove satisfactory in every particular. Kate W. Page, Blacksburg, Va., writes:—Your preparation has proven true to all you claim for it. The price of Ozono is 50c a box. It takes from 3 to 4 boxes to accomplish the treatment. We make this liberal offer good only up to January 15, 1900. Cut out this coupon and send to us with $1 and we will forward to you 4 boxes of Ozono and one bottle of Electrical Skin Refiner, which makes black skin bright, rough skin soft and pliant and cures all skin diseases. We will also include one fancy jar of our Electrical Skin Food—nature's great beautifier, removes Wrinkles Moth patches, freckles and all facial blemishes, and to prove our liberality we will add to this, one Package of Anti-Odor. A positive cure for Sore Throat, all forms of Womb Diseases, Chilblains, Sore and Frosted Feet, also Removes all Smells and Oders arising from the human body, such as Feet, Arm Pits, &c. Remember we will refund the money if you are not pleased with the goods and positively this order is not good if you do not send in your order on or before January 15. Cut out and mail this Coupon to us with One Dollar and get this grand Combination Offer, as this opportunity will not occur again. We often hear the foolish remarks made viz: "God made my hair kinky and I wont touch it or put anything on it." How foolish! God made your teeth and you clean them, your skin, and you wash it, your hair, and you should adorn it. A thing of beauty is a joy forever. BOSTON CHEMICAL CO. ...RICHMOND, VIRGINA.. I enclose you $1.00 (One Dollar) for which please send me the following goods at once. 4 [Four] LARGE Boxes "OZONO" Hair Grower and Hair Straightener. 1 [One] LARGE Bottle Electrical Skin Refiner. 1 [One] LARGE Jar Electrical Skin Food. 1 [One] LARGE Package Anti-Ordor. My Name is; NAME,..... House No...... Street..... ..... County.....State.... BEFORE. AFTER. 13 What could be more suitable for a Xmas present than this great offer. 14 AFRO-AMERICAN IN CUBA A Prominent New York Odd Fellow and Republican in Charge of Street Paving in Province of Santiago. Santiago de Cuba, Special.—Among the few representatives of Afro-Americans here, Mr. David H. Massey, of New York City, is at present, the most prominent. He is in charge of the street paving department of the Barber Asphalt Paving Company and his career demonstrates that patience and energy begets reward. From a "water boy" in 1834, at seventy-five cents a day, step by step, he has marched over the opposing walls of jealousy and race J. H. prejudice, to his present position of foreman; and is, at this writing, acting superintendent of his company's works in Santiago. It is commendable that he never neglects to give work to all of his race first, which was amply tested last spring and is being duplicated now. He has worked at his business in all parts of the United States and Canada, and in 1896, was sent by the company to London, England, in full charge of work there, which he satisfactorily completed. Mr. Massey has no frills, wears no peacock clothes, has no strident voice, no bull dog mien, is retiring but firm, gentle but commanding. He is well liked by all, the Cubans and Americans; having gained their respect during the spring and summer of this year before "yellow jack" began his annual decimation. He is popular at his home, is a past officer and active member of Theobold Lodge, G. U. O. of O. F.; Knights of Pythias and The Southern Benefit League. Many Washingtonians are friends of "Dave" Massey. He is an ardent Republican, worked hard in his, the Twenty-seventh assembly district, New York City, during the last gubernatorial campaign, and the was recipient of a very complimentary letter from Governor Rosevelt, thanking him for his "valuable services," in carrying his district to victory "through a hot fight." R. M. R. NELSON. 26 "C" Barraconne street. Prof. Williston Entertained. Last Sunday evening at his home, 1642 Tenth street,' Mr. J. Winston Edwards tendered a complimentary dinner to a party of his friends in honor of Prof. D. A. Williston, of the A. and M. College, Greensboro, N.C. The menu consisted of game and other seasonable and toothsome delicacies. Music, wit and repartee added to the enjoyableness of the occasion. The host was in a most congenial mood, and the company shared his spirit. Besides the host and honored guest, the others present were: Messrs. C. C. Barnett, W. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. THE COLORED AMERICA THE COLORED AMERICA UBA and Re- g in T. Blackshear, W. E. Hamilton, E. M. Madison, W. P. Finley, A. D. Jones, A. B. Graves, B. H. Critchlow, S. C Harrison, J. N Soanes, B F. Rivers, J. C. Campbell, N. W. Cuney, H. P. Slaughter, C T. Howe, and Consul L. W. Livingstone. WANTED TO KNOW. Will Quay be seated, If it is to be Mr. Delegate Chase. Have you been to the pawnshop this year. Why not build up a Negro employing class. How many of our churches are out of debt. Why seeking an office so generally unfits man for work. Do you deposit your money with the Capital Savings Bank. When will the second trial of Postmaster Baker's murderers. What has become of that movement for a battery of Negro artillery. Why the "open door" for the Negro so frequently leads to the outside. What has become of Henry Clay Smith, Cleveland's consul to Santos. Why the people gather so late at lyceums and all public entertainments. If the Negro democrats can produce a successor to the late C. H J. Taylor. If that rumor of a national league of colored republican clubs is to crystallize into facts. If due notice has been taken of the reconciliation between W. C. Chase and Bishop Walters. How does Rey. W. Bishop Johnson stand on the controversy as to when the twentieth century begins. If Roscoe Conkling Bruce isn't a splendid sample of a boy who doesn't need a great name to be really great. Will the Negro of means develop sufficient pioneer spirit to invest his money in a Philippine island enterprise. Will the Negro take enough interest in his standing before the world to see that a creditable exhibit is made at Paris. Why Senator Mason's sympathy propoganda will expand far enough to inspire a speech against the lynching of unconvinced black men in the South. If Dr. Frissell is right about the three classes of Negroes—one retrograding, one standing still and another moving forward—to which class do you belong, dear reader. Why we cannot get out of the foolish habit of multiplying "national" organizations when one strong and reliable one could accomplish far more than six feeble ones, led as a rule by seekers after personal notoriety. Notice to Boston Subscribers. Mr. J. D. Powell, J., heretofore representing The Colored American in Boston and vicinity, is no longer connected with The Colored American in any capacity. Persons who desire to advertise or to subscribe will send their business communications direct to this Office, or orders may be left with Mr. W. L. Reed, No. 155 Cambridge street, Boston, Mass. The publishers of The Colored American will not be responsible for any moneys paid or contracts made with Mr. J. D. Powell, Jr., after this date. NOTICE Mr. P. A. Hairston, formerly collector on this paper, is not now in any way connected with it. The public is hereby warned against paying him any money on the accounts of The Colored American. HAIR-HEALTH. The sale of three million bottles of this elegant hair dressing in the United States and Great Britain in 1898 proves surpassing merit. For Hay's Hair-Health A new growth stores color and gray hair. Re-ANDRUFF and ALLING and of the hair. Cov-pets. WAY'S HAIR- is practically a l, which acts on giving them the nourishment it from absolutely可得 ingredients not run off the hair grease. KEEP LOOKING YOUNG. LARGE 50c. BOTTLES. Every Bair- Warrant to restore gray, bleached hair to color and life. It does not stain linen. "NOT A GRA- LEFT," the test hundreds using A CLEAN... DRESSL. G CARELY PE AND AN LIP ADJUNT TO TOILET. IF HAIR IS FA- CUT, BREAK FADING, TRY. FREE SOAP Offer and take to any druggist on following list, and he will give you a large box of HAIR-HEALTH and a 25c cake of DR. HAY'S HARFINA SOAP, the best soap you can use for Hair, Scalp, Complexion, Bath and cents, regular retail price, 75 cents. This offer is good once only to save by druggists below at their shops only, or by LONDON 853 Broadway, New York, by express prepaid, on receipt of 60 cents and 3 bottles, $1.50. TRY AT ONCE DR. HAY'S HAIR-HEALTH AND HARFINA SOAP Refuse Substitutes. Dealers Make More Profit on Inferior Following druggists supply HAY'S HAIR-HEALTH and HARFINA SOAP WILLIAMS and CO, 600 9th st. n. w.; STEVENS, Pa. n. w.; EVANS, 938 F st. n. w.; DANIELS, 1900 14th st. cor. T n. w.; 1400 14th st. n. w., MAJOR, 7th and G sts. n. w., SIMMS, M HODGES, Pa. ave. and 2nd st. s. e.; DUCKETT, 21500 7th and L sts. n. w.; KOSS, 7th and Fla. ave.; McCARL 7th and I sts. n. w.; CHRISTIANI, 484 Pa. ave. n. w.; STO GILMAN, 627 Pa. ave. n. w.; MONTGOMERY, 13th st. co. & AFFLECK, 1429 Penna. ave. n. w.; DAY & CO., 14th MERTZ., 11 & F st. n. w.; BUTTS, 4th and Mass. ave.; L. F sts. s. e.; TSOHIFFLEY, 475 Penna. ave. n. w.; THOR CRISWELL, 1901 7th st. cor. T n. w.; DIEUDONNE & n. w.; GESSFORD, 9th and W sts. n. w.; OGRAM, P BRACE, 30th and M sts. n. w.; BRONAUGH, 7th and P and R. I. ave.; GROSS, 14th and Park sts.; KRAUSS, 14th and G sts.; EASTERDAY, N. J. ave. and G n. w.; Mc G sts. n. w.; MACKALL BROS., 828 H st. n. e. Neely, 14 Remsburg & Elliott, 1608 14th st., Hurlebush, 14th & V sts. & L sts., Cassin, 7th and M sts., n. w.; Purdy, 7th and Q sts. AP Offer Giving list, and he will give you a large bottle of DR. HAY'S hair-cake of DR. HAY'S HAIRFINA MEDICATED house for Hair, Scalp, Complexion, Bath and Toilet, both for 50 cents. This offer is good once only to same family. Redeemed for shops only, or by LONDON SUPPLY CO. press prepaid, on receipt of 60 cents and this advertisement. HAY'S HAIR-HEALTH AND HARFINA SOAP. Makers Make More Profit on Inferior Preparations. HAY'S HAIR-HEALTH and HARFINA SOAP at their stores only: n. st. n. w.; STEVENS, Pa. ave. and 9th st. n. w. NIELS, 1900 14th st. cor. T. n. w.; HUDDLESON and G. sts. n. w., SIMMS, N. Y. ave 14th st. n. w. st. s. e.; DUCKETT, 2150 Pa. n. w.; WHITE-ve. n. w.; WEISS 25 Monorst. Anacostia, ROE, 7th and Fla. ave.; McCARTHY & FAWCETT MANI, 484 Pa. ave. n. w.; STOIT, 505 Pa. ave. n. w.; MONTGOMERY, 13th st. cor. I. n. w.; ACKER ave. n. w.; DAY & CO., 14th and P. sts. n. w. TTS, 4th and Mass ave.; L. F. BRADLEY, 8th and 775 Penna. ave. n. w.; THOMPSON, 708-15th st.; T. n. w.; DIEUDONNE & SON, 11th and F. sts., W. sts. n. w.; OGRAM, Penn. ave. and 13th st.; ERONAUGH, 7th and P. sts.; BROWN, 7th st. and Park sts.; KRAUSS, 1st and H. sts. and 5th N. J. ave. and G. w.; McPHERSON, 5th and OS., 828 H. st. n. e. Neely, 11th cor. C. st., s. e. st., Hurlebarsh, 14th & V. sts., n. w., McGlue, 4th s. n. w.; Purdy, 7th and Q. sts.; Field, 237 H. st. n. e. and take to any druggist on following list, and he will give you a large bottle of DR. HAY'S HAIR-HEALTH and a 25c. cake of DR. HAY'S HARFINA MEDICATED SOAP, the best soap you can use for Hair, Scalp, Complexion, Bath and Toilet, both for 50 cents, regular retail price, 75 cents. This offer is good once only to same family. Redeemed by druggists below at their shops only, or by LONDON SUPPLY CO. 853 Broadway, New York, by express prepaid, on receipt of 60 cents and this advertisement 2 bottles, $1.50. Following druggists supply HAY'S HAIR-HEALTH and HARFINA SOAP at then stores only: WILLIAMS and CO, 600 9th st. n. w.; STEVENS, Pa. ave. and 9th st. n. w. EVANS, 938 F st. n. w.; DANIELS, 1900 14th st. cor. T n. w.; HUDDLESON 1400 14th st. n. w.; MAJOR, 7th and G sts. n. w.; SIMMS, N. Y. ave 14th st. n. w. HODGES, Pa. ave. and 2nd st. s. e.; DUCKETT, 2150 Pa. n. w.; WHITE-SIDE & WALTON, 1921 Pa ave. n. w.; WEISS 25 Monroe st., Anacostia, ROE, 7th and L sts. n. w.; KOSS, 7th and Fla. ave.; McCARTHY & FAWCETI 7th and I sts. n. w.; CHRISTIANI, 484 Pa. ave. n. w.; STOIT, 505 Pa. ave. n. w.; GILMAN, 627 Pa. ave. n. w.; MONTGOMERY, 13th st. cor. I. n. w.; ACKER & AFFLEOK, 1429 Penna. ave. n. w.; DAY & CO., 14th and P sts. n. w. MERTZ., 11 & F st. n. w.; BUTTS, 4th and Mass ave.; L. F. BRADLEY, 8th and E sts. s. e.; TSUCHIFFLEY, 475 Penna. ave. n. w.; THOMPSON, 708-15th st.; CRISWELL, 1901 7th st cor. T n. w.; DIEUDONNE & SON, 11th and F sts. n. w.; GESSFORD, 9th and W sts. n. w.; OGRAM, Penn. ave. and 18th st.; BRACE, 30th and M sts. n. w.; BRONAUGH, 7th and P sts.; BROWN, 7th st. and R. I. ave.; GROSS, 14th and Park sts.; KRAUSS, 1st and H sts. and 5th and G sts.; EASTERDAY, N. J. ave. and G n. w.; McPHERSON, 5th and G sts. n. w.; MACKALL BROS., 828 H st. n. e. Neely, 11th cor. C st. s. e. Remsburg & Elliott, 1608 14th h. Hurlebaush, 14th & V sts. n. w. McGlue, 4th & L sts., Cassin, 7th and M sts., n. w.; Purdy, 7th and Q sts.; Field, 237 H st. n. e. $1.00 — ONLY — $1.00 HISTORY of the COLORED SOLDIERS IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR CONTAINS—Pen pictures of the Daring Charges made by H. Juan, El Caney, and around Santiago.—Corporal Brown killed at a cannon which knocked over the block house and saved the Row Berry, the colored soldier who was first to raise the American flag. The glowing tribute to McKinley, Miles, Roosevelt, and many of Negro Soldiers—General Morgan advocates Negro officers.—An Gomez, Miss Ciseros, and the Cuban Women Cavalry.—The Negro Army—The Negro Poet, Paul Lawrence Dunbar—"Eddie" Savoy outwitted the diplomacy of the Spanish Minister at Washington—Uncle Sam's money—The colored Register of the Treasury who has money to make it good. Every Page Brimful of New and Interesting Readings to e and line engravings of soldier, officers, and scenes of the la war, with A FINE PICTURE OF AGUINALDO, his headquarters, a nilia, and a brief sketch of the Philippinos and their civilization. Handsome Picture of General Nelson A. Miles, the M mand of all the American Army, who said the fighting of the co Santiago was "without a parallel in the history of the world." Little." Mailed Free. at the Daring Charges made by Negro Soldiers at San Milago.—Corporal Brown ki led at his post while firing a the block house and saved the Rough Riders.—Sergeant was first to raise the American flag on San J an Hill— Miles, Miles, Roosevelt, and many others on the bravery man advocates Negro officers.—Antonio and Jose Macio, Buban Women Cavalry.—The Negro Paymasters in the Lawrence "unbar"—"Eddle" Savoy, the colored man who Spanish Minister at Washington—The Negro who seals and Register of the Treasury who has to sign Uncle San's New and Interesting Reading, with about fifty half- tier, officers, and scenes of the late Spanish-American AGUINALDO, his headquarters a Filipino lady of Ma- philipinos and their civilization. General Nelson A. Miles, the Major General in com- my, who said the fighting of the colored soldiers around in the history of the world." All for $1, "Much in Author of the Famous "School History of the Negro Race." CONTAINS—Pen pictures of the Daring Charges made by Negro Soldiers at San Juan, El Caney, and around Santiago.—Corporal Brown killed at his post while firing a cannon which knocked over the block house and saved the Rough Riders.—Sergeant Berry, the colored soldier who was first to raise the American flag on San J an Hill.—The glowing tribute to McKinley, Miles, Roos-evelt, and many others on the bravery of Negro Soldiers—General Morgan advocates Negro officers.—Antonio and Jose Macio, Gomez, Miss Ciseros, and the Cuban Women Cavalry.—The Negro Paymasters in the Army.—The Negro Poet, Paul Lawrence Sunbar.—"Eddie" Savoy, the colored man who outwited the diplomacy of the Spanish Minister at Washington.—The Negro who seals Uncle sam's money.—The colored Register of the Treasury who has to sign Uncle Sam's money to make it good. Every Page Brimtul of New and Interesting Reading, with about fifty half-to-one and line engravings of soldier, officers, and scenes of the late Spanish-American War, with A FINE PICTURE OF AGUINALDO, his headquarters, a Filipino lady of Manila, and a brief sketch of the Philippinos and their civilization. Handsome Picture of General Nelson A. Miles, the Major General in command of all the American Army, who said the fighting of the colored soldiers around Santiago was "without a parallel in the history of the world." All for $!, "Much in Little." Mailed Free. AGENTS WANTED. Big percentage. Send for copy of book and Agent E. A. JOHNSON Corner West and Lenoir Streets, Raleigh for copy of book and Agents' terms. Address A. JOHNSON seets, Raleigh, North Carolina. Big percentage. Send for copy of book and Agents' terms. Address E. A. JOHNSON Corner West and Lenoir Streets, Raleigh, North Carolina. THE Adams House 582 and 584 BROADWAY, ALBANY, N. Y. Opposite Delavan House First-class accommodation for Ladies and Gentlemen. T. H. DIGGS JOHN IRVING Ice Cream All The Year Keenan Keenan & Fegan WHOLESALE LIQUOR DEALERS 462 Pennsylvania Ave., N. W. 402 Pennsylvania --- Doctor Hay's Hair-Health produces' new growth and restores color and beauty to gray hair. Removes DANDRUFF and stops FALLING and breaking of the hair. Covers bald spots. Dr HAY'S HAIR HEALTH is practically a Hair Food, which acts on the roots, giving them the required nourishment. It is made from absolutely pure vegetable ingredients and does not run off or make the hair greasy. D. T. GIBBONS. WHOLESALE MANUFACTURING RETAIL CONFECTIONER 523 41/2 Street, Southwest, WASHINGTON, D. C. Wedding Cakes Made and Parties Furnished at Short Notice. Miss Florence Carter, of 2239 12th street northwest, is out again, after a severe illness. to restore gray, white or bleached hair to youthful color and life. Not a dye; does not stain scalp or linen. "NOT A GRAY HAIR LEFT," the testimony of hundreds using it. A CLEAN, DAKTY DRESSING, G, DELI- CATELY PERFUMED AND AN IMPORTANT ADJUSTMENT TO EVERY TOILET. IF YOUR HAIR IS FALLING OUT, BREAK G CR FADING, TRY IT NOW. RISE OF JUDSON W. LYONS. A Remarkable Capacity for Managing Large Affairs and Fidelity to Obligations Make Him a Real Leader of the People. The last few years have been years of change in the condition and leadership of the Negro race. When by natural operations, Douglass, Langston and Bruce, one after another passed away, the political firmament was deprived of stars of the first magnitude. As the bard of Avon has aptly put it, "Great men lived before Agamemnon, and great men have lived since." That is simply another way of saying that nature abhors a vacuum. The rise of Judson W. Lyons to the proportions of a factor in our national affairs has been natural, progressive and logical. Having been ushered into life near the geographical center of the colored population of this country, he was admirably placed for seeing his people in all their relations and activities. His educati on was another element that tended put him into complete sympathy with the struggles and strivings of his race. He was educated in company with the young men of his own race and hence early became acquainted with their ambitions, hopes and aspirations. It is an immense advantage to a leader to know his people from the very beginning. This advantage Mr. Lyons has, and it accounts in no small measure for the wonderful success he has achieved in dealing with questions affecting their welfare, and for the confidence and esteem in which he is held by them. When President McKinley appointed Mr. Lyons to be Register of the Treasury as the successor of former Senator Bruce, those who were Mr. Lyons' intimate acquaintances had every confidence in his ability and tact to meet the responsibilities that were to confront him in his exalted position; others who knew him not so well or not at all, expressed doubts, and began to conjecture. Now all unite in saying that he makes an ideal public official. There are three points about Mr Lyons that stamp him as a leader worthy of support and confidence. Above all, and first of all, there is his unswerving adherence to truth and square dealing He is exceedingly cautious and chary about making promises, but when he promises, his word is as good as his signature on the currency of the government. He deals squarely and fairly by all who commit their interests to his hands, and never seeks to mislead or confuse by equivocation, indirection or circumlocution. When a man has once had an understanding with Mr. Lyons, he knows exactly what to depend upon. In the second place, there is his capacity for dealing with complex and delicate questions. Take two illustrations from recent events. First, there is the enlistment of the 48th and 49th colored regiments of Infantry for service in the Philippines. Mr. Lyons conceived and conducted to a successful issue the plan which resulted in the enlistment of colored men and the appointment of colored officers to command them. It was shrewd maneuvering and careful calculating that brought to the race a result which has given such universal pleasure and satisfaction, and Mr. Lyons did that maneuvering and calculating. Then there was the Payne resolution which had for its purpose the reduction of representation from the southern states in repre sentation national conven- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. tions. Fairness compels the admission that on its face Mr. Payne's proposition was not without plausibility, and possibly merit. The Republican press of the country was almost unanimously in favor of it. Yet in the face such formidable conditions, Mr. Lyons set to work to encompass the defeat of the resolutions. As everybody knows, the resolution was withdrawn. Thirdly, while Mr. Lyons is neither narrow nor provincial, he is thoroughly loyal to, and proud of his native state. He has carefully looked after the interests of his people, and has given his time and talent, unremittingly and cheerfully to their service. For such a man as Register Lyons the times make a loud call, and his people will insist upon his giving his service in the future as in the past, to the public welfare. A High Indorsement. To The Colored American. This is to certify that I have the honor in behalf of the officers of Queen Rebecca Household of Ruth, No. 798 G. U. O. of O. F. to tender thanks to you for your appreciation in so kindly publishing the names of the officers elected for 1900 in your issue of December 30th. May God's blessing continue with you in the good work. Your journal is acknowledged to be the leading race paper that is published by Negroes. The Odd Fellows' Journal at Philadelphia, Pa., is the next best in its line. Very truly yours for the race. WILLIAM E. WASHINGTON. Th Capital Savings Bank. This bank has recently been made an agent of one of the wealthiest corporations in this country, or in any other, that of the United States Express Company. It issues United States Express Money Orders in sums to suit, payable everywhere. Gas bills may also be paid at this bank. We are glad to see the Capital Savings Bank people, "stretching out" in the business world, and enlarging its field of usefulness. THE GREATEST RACE JOURNAL. Editor Colored. American, Dear sir— When I received The Colored American a week ago, transformed and adorned and bristling with editorial and newsmatter, I spontaneously indited you a letter of hearty congratulations. As it failed to be mailed until too old, I decided to write again substantially as I wrote you first. I think The American is now in the lead of all other papers published by and on behalf of the race. You and your associates therefore deserve unstinted praise for establishing and building up in this community a paper whose influence for good is felt throughout the country. Wishing you and yours a most happy new year, I have the honor to be dear sir, Very truly yours. R. S. SMITH. Washington, D. C. A Truly National Paper. Dear Editor:There is no bill I de light in saying mor than the one which assures me of The Colored American for another year. The new form adds much to its appearance. You deserve great praise in giving us the only truly national colored newspaper. William A. Creditt, D. D., Pastor Cherry st., Baptist church, Philadelphia. Just Listen to this Man! Editor E. E. Cooper, of The Washington Colored American, is one of the shrewdest journalistic administration hustlers to be found in the country and is deserving of a reward. AfroAmerican Speaker. $1,00 ARD. Brooklyn, August 15, 1891—This letter is to certify that my husband had gone away and had been absent two years I mourned for him night and day. I gave him up as dead. Hearing of the wonderful things Dr. Shea was doing I resolved to consult him. He told me that my husband was alive and well and where he was; told me he would come home and when. To my joy all of it came true. He is home now, came back like one from the dead. I also wish to say that this month I lost $250. I am a poor woman and I was almost insane. I went to Dr. Shea and he told me I would find my money and to my intense joy I find it as he told me. I thank God there is a man so gifted in our midst, that can help people and tell them what to do. Mrs. Mary Miller, South Plainfield, N. J. A SENSATION IN BROOKLYN-MINISTER'S STATEMENT I wish to state that one of my parishioners was sick and in trouble for a long time, Mrs. Brown, 37 Gay street. No one seemed to understand her case. She had several doctors, but none of them seemed to know what was the matter. None could do her any good. It was my duty as her pastor to call and see her. Hearing of the wonderful work being done by Dr. Shea the last few years, I thought I would call and see him myself. I found him a sympathetic gentleman. He gave me a wonderful test of his powers, told me to send him a lock o. patient's hair, which I did by her daughter. He told at once what was the matter, and in a short time cured his sound and well. Her family had seemingly been under a cloud. Now all is changed. All are well and prosperous. I can truly and heartily recommend Dr. Shea, to all those in sickness or distress of any kind. Rev. William Johnson, pastor Lebanon church, Brooklyn. Dr. Shea can show thousands such as the above. has been carefully educated in the Homeopathic and Electric Schools of Medicine. His success is wonderful in curing paralysis Rheumatism. Asthma, Sore Eyes, Tumors, Cancers, Constipation, Ague, Dyspepsia, Tape Worms, Liver Complaints, Deafness, Catarrh, Dropsy, Piles, Nervous Debility, Heart Diseases, Consumption, Diseases of Women and Children, Fits, Kidney Disease, and strange mysterious diseases which others don't understand. All diseases, no matter what they be. Nothing but honorable treatment, He can and will honestly tell you if you can be cured. Has all new remedies and new success. Has an ample experience in public hospital and private clinics. No trifling with human life. Call at once. Do not delay. Diplomas hang in parlors. Is a registered physician. A new remedy for rheumatism just discovered, not a lin ment. Hopeless cases and those that others can not cure solicited to call. Fat folks thin, the childless made parents. All letters must contain $1.00, two stamps, age, lock of hair. Charges for medical treatment only. Closed Sundays. Mention this paper. 651 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N, Y. The Vero Dentists Main Office 905 Pa. Ave Absolutely Painless Extracting. $3.50 MEN'S SHOES $3.50 B.A. WAGGAMAN & Co. 1311 F Street, N. W ...Best Shoe Made for the Money.... Every Pair Guaranteed ONE PRICE, $3.50 Enclose 2c stamp for reply, and we will send particulars telling how you can make from $75 to $150 per month, and a so be presented with a fine Gold Watch. Address. --- SHEA'S Gives the names of dead and living friend tells who and when you will marry also of business journeys lawsuits, absent friends health or anything you wish to know, no matter what it is. He can call up your spirit friends and show them to you. Can make them rap all around the room. He asks no questions don't ask you to write names for him. Don't try to pump you in any way, but tells you right off. He is thoroughly indorsed by leading spiritualists everywhere, received from them a gold medal and special license to practice his wonderful powers; credentials no one else can show can give thousands of references to both white and colored patrons Twenty-five years' practice—seven in brooklyn—will show you that he can do all he of. Can tell what business is best for you and where, how to win speedy marriage with the one you love. How to be successful in all your doings in short what is best to do. He will succeed when all others fall. Positive satisfaction or no pay. Call and see. You will find it luck to consult this Christian gentleman. He has a medicine that will cure drunkenness; can be given patients not knowing it. Thousands through him are now. RICH HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL with all their undertakings, while those who neglect his advice are still laboring against poverty. Through his perfect knowledge of chemistry he can impart to you a secret that will overcome your enemies and win you friends. His aid and advice has often been solicited; the result has always been the securing of speedy and happy marriages and all your wishes. In love affairs he never fails. He has the secret of winning the affections of the opposite sex. It is the curse of Spiritualism that in all large cities there are a class of men and women who claim powers they do not possess. They have neither gifts, credentials, nor references. Surely the colored people are not so wanting in sense as to throw their time and money away on such. Dr. Shea refers to the Hon. Charles Miller, capitalist, 2481 Atlantic avenue; the Hon. William Denmore, architect and builder, 47 Cleveland avenue, and Mr. Arthur Sewell, ship builder South Brooklyn. All have known him for the past ten years. He gives a free test of his power to all. The doctor has practiced five years in New Orleans, St. Louis, Memphis and Louisville, understands thoroughly the diseases, spells or influences the race is subject to. He has now and always had large patronage from them PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING: Brooklyn, August, 15, 1891-This letter is to certify that I came to New York from Albany. I was a stranger in a strange city, out of work and out of money. I had no luck in anything I undertook. What to do I did not know. A friend advised me to go and see Dr. Shea. I did. He told me the cause of my troubles; he took me in and treated me as a brother. Through him I got a good position that very week. I had been to others, they took my money and did me no good. I bless the day I first met Dr. Shea I would advise all in bad luck, sick or in trouble to go to him at once. Sincerely, Albert Ayers, 2987 Atlantic Avenue. Holiday Goods Before going elsewhere call at NEW YORK HOUSE. JACOB MASS, Propr. 1235 7th St. N. W, Washington. D. C. All kinds of Fine Wines and Liguors Retailed at Wholesale Prices. DR. HENRY'S BLOOD TEA. For Constipation, Billiousness, Indigestion Sick Headache and all disorders of the stomach and Liver. 15 DR SHEA Agents Wanted. SCOTT REMEDY CO. Box 570, Louisville, Ky. 16 ```markdown ``` wool black, blue, and brown kersey overcoats, hard to find at $10. Our price, D. J. Kaufman, 1007 Pa. ave. City Paragraphs. Mrs. George H. White continues ill. Our New Year's gifts made a "hit." Miss Lucinda Shaw, of 69 Defrees street, is severely ill. Cashier D. B. McCary is recovering the use of his injured optic, Lawyer N. T. Goldenberry of Lynchburg, Va., spent the holidays in this city. Special Agent T. J. Calloway spent Wednesday at Hampton and Richmond, Va. Miss Marie Wade, Lawyer Perri W. Frisby's expert stenographer, holidayed in Philadelphia. At last accounts Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis, the elocutionist, was at Davenport, Iowa-en tour. Mr. C. E. W. Brown, of the Treasury Department, has moved from Alexandria over to this city. Miss Margie Wilson, of Cleveland, Ohio, spent holiday week with Washington and Alexandria friends. Mr. H. C. Tyson has been visiting friends in Fayetteville, Greensboro and other points in North Carolina. Prof. Terrell's High School lecture course grows in popularity. Many parents are turning out and enjoying the exercises. One of the livest and best managed churches in this city is shiloh Baptist church, presided over by Rev. J. Anderson Taylor. Mrs. Cherry, of Tarboro,N.C., is here attending the bedside of her daughter, Mrs. George H. White, who continues dangerously ill. The Congressional Lyceum's joint debate on the question "Shall the Negro Note Divide", is booked for the latter part of this month. Health for 10 cents. Cascarets make the bowels and kidneys act naturally, destroy microbes, cure headaches, billiousness and constipation. Henry O. Bowles of Cleveland, Ohio, has resumed his studies at Howard University, after a fortnight's holiday season at his home in Cleveland, Ohio. There is no sense, beauty or utility in the proposition to change the name of 41/2 street to John Marshall street. Call it "4th street"—that's convenient, and regular. Mr. Charles F. Green, of Macon, Ga., is in the city, called by the serious illness of Mrs. George H. White. He is the son of Dr. E. E, Green, one of the leading practitioners of Macon. Miss Norma Ridley has been transferred from the Census Building proper to the Division of Manufactures, attached to the United States Geological Survey, located in former Post Office THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. building, now Interior Department. As everybody expected, the grand jury decided to ignore the charge of bribery preferred against Sergeant McNeely by W. H. Lee. A Negro's testimony against a white policeman is not worth the time it takes to tell it in a Washington court. Hon. J. W. Lyons, Register of the Treasury, has returned from Atlanta where he has been attending the meetings of the State Central Committee of Georgia. He reports that the "era of good feeling" is growing, and that the Negro's condition is on the upward trend. The Third Anniversary of the pastorate of Rev. Sterling N. Brown at University Park Temple church was held with appropriate exercises January 4th to 7th. The special feature of all the services at this church is the very excellent music rendered by the choir. The Sunday services are especially interesting. Before the Men's Guild of St. Luke's P. E. Church, Thursday evening, Mr I. J. Calloway gave a highly entertaining stateme t of his plan for collecting the material for the Negro exhibit at Paris. Mr Calloway shows that he understands his business, and President Cardozo is helping the good work along by giving an evening to such educational movements. A most useful office shortly to be created by the Second Baptist Lyceum is that of statistician, whose duty it shall be to take note of the achievements of the Negro and by statistics carefully watched, keep in touch with the status of our race along all line. Mr. Mnard will probably be selected to fill the position, as he is regarded by the Lyceum as having especial fitness for such work. Mrs. Mary F. Carroll, of Philadelphia House, while a thorough business woman in affairs of trade, deeply revere the memory of her late husband, Mr. L. O. Carroll. On the 25th day of each month, she has mass observed in his behalf at St. Augustine's Catholic Church, and she expects to continue this custom until the anniversary of Mr. Carroll's death, in May, after which mass will be held annually Have it Straight, "What?" Your Hair- by using the universal Hair STRAIGHTENER "TIONA." What it willl do: promote new growth, give new life, bring that natural gloss, which is so much desired by all and best of all by its use your hair will become straight. Manufactured and for sale by M. Tregor & Co. 1229 E St. N. W. PRICE 15 and 25 Cents. GEO. SPANDAUER & BRO. We lead off with an Extraordinary coat bargain $8.98 Lace Curtains and Portieres $ 6 Porteres $ 2 98. 25 pairs of slightly imperfect chenille portieres, embracing every desirable color—not more than one pair of one pattern. If perfect, would sell up to 6 a pair. To go for $2.98 per pai. $3.00 Portieres, $1.98 Pretty tapestry portieres in new designs and colorings, fringed top and bottom, $1.98 a pair, instead of $3.00 In Skirt - Selling Because all our skirts are made on the premises so you can readily see that we have big advantage over other houses, who buy from makers. One profit only on our prices and the smallest at that. But aside from that—we make up better skirts than are usually offered. $1.25 for our new plaid skirts made $2.69 for our new plaid skirts made in the newest style. Sold elsewhere from all the newest camels hair pla effects. Sold for $5.00 elsewhere. at $2.50. Starfling Selling of New Dress Good Black Serge—all wool and a yard wide, heavy twilled Excellent for fall and winter wear; elsewhere, 50 cents. Double width plaids, in 20 different plaids, worth 12 $ \frac{1}{2} $ cents. For plain or plaid dress goods, worth double, in all the New effects. Cheviot serge, all wool and fifty inches wide, black only; Sell at 75 cents elsewhere. GEO. SPANDAUER & BRO. The Satisfactory Store 824 Seventh Street N.W. One door below I Stre Ladies' kersey jackets—like illustration in black, tan, and castor made with deep French facings and seams piped with silk—the new scalloped effect with four rows of stitching and large pearl buttons which cannot be duplicated elsewhere for less than $15-for..... $1.39 Lace Curtains, 75c 200 pretty Nottingham lace curtains —good lengths and widths—floral a Brussels effects—worth up to $1.39 for 75 cents a pair. $250 Lace Curtains $1.3 300 pairs of Nottingham lace. cun tains-embracing Irish point fish-n Brussels and floral effects-full wide and 31/2 yards long, worth up to $2, a pair, for $1,39. The startling part of this bargain is that these jackets are lined with Skinner's satin, and when we say Skinner's satin you know it is. Every garment bears Skinner's guarantee cards, which guarantee that the lining will wear two years, and if it does not, a new one will be put in free of cost to you.