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The COLORED American Library of Congress NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER VOL. 7. NO. 43. HONORING THE "OLD ROMAN" Admiring Fellow-Citizens Adopt Strong Resolutions Praying for Early Recovery of Bishop Turner. Atlanta, Ga., Special—The Emancipation Proclamation was celebrated at Shiloh A. M. E. church by the citizens and seven lodges of the I. O. of G. M. and W., in America. Rev. J. S. Flipper, D. D., pastor of St. Paul A. M. E. church delivered the oration, much to the satisfaction of all. Rev. L. A. Townsley, pastor of Shiloh, introduced the speaker in a very intelligent and befitting speech which was enjoyed by all. The Atlanta Dixie Band furnished the music, and the "Star Spangled Banner" was played just before the orator began his masterly speech, Capt. M. H. Bentley delivered a pointed speech in behalf of the old ex-slave citizens. Rev. J. H. Hilson, P. E., of the Monticello District gave some touching points in a very brief speech. The band played a brief air. Upon the suggestion of Capt. M. H. Bently the following resolutions were adopted: In consideration of the great usefulness of Rt. Rev. H. M. Turner, D. D., LL. D, presiding Bishop of the 6th Episcopal District comprising the States of Georgia and Alabama, and whereas, we, the great empire state of the South, in due recognition of this day set apart forever by us as a day of joy and gladness. And whereas, in the wise providence of God one of the great pioneers of Georgia and leaders of the Negro race has been taken from us and confined to his room, and, whereas he, the Rt. Rev. H. M. Turner was stricken with a partial stroke of paralysis whilst engaged in holding the Georgia Conference at Savannah, and, whereas the stroke is continued and we are deprived of his presence and his counseling words on such an important occasion; we do coudle with him in these hours of his confinement; therefore, be it resolved, that we extend to him our sympathies in order to cherish him and let him know that he is still in the minds and hearts of his fellow laborers and countrymen. Be it further resolved that we pledge ourselves that we pray for him continually, and if in the providence of God he is restored to health again, that he will continue his daring fight for the race, God and nations more vigorously than ever. Signed.—Capt. M. H Bentley, Revs. J. S. Flipper, D. D., J. H. Hilson, P. E., J. T. Wilkerson, W. G. F. S. Daniel Farley, L. A. Townsley, secretary. The New Year was ushered in delightfully WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1900. H.C. BISHOP HENRY M. TURNER. Stricken with Paralysis, this Constant and Sturdy Champion of Negro Manhood and the Liberties of the People, lies at his Home in Atlanta, Ga. A Grateful Race Prays for his Speedy Recovery. at Atlanta, Ga, by the Young Men's West Side Social Club which gave a "Fancy Dress Ball" at their hospitable club rooms. This includes the debut tantes of the season. The apartments were tastefully decorated with holly and mistletoe, and the tables were handsomely adorned with rosebuds and other choice flowers from Atlanta greenhouses. And when the lovely girls in their ball toilets joined in the dance the scene was one aery suggestive of fairyland dancing began promptlyat 9 o'clock and continued until a late hour. There was intermission for an elaborate supper served by well known caterers. Among the many frienhs who gathered to enjoy the hospitality of the happy occasion were Misses Gertrude Hatfield, Katie Calhoun, Annie Wimbish, Rosy Nichols, Virginia Thomas, Henrietta Humphrey, Jannie Clinton, Susie Bell, Nora Bell, Maude Lee, Eldora Jones, Rosy Dickson, Mary Jackson, Pauline Harris, Wannie Smith, Messrs. Jettie Keith, Archie Smith, Samuel Nichols, Simon Humphrey, Charlie Thomas, George Strong, Will Lane, Edward Mathews, Melvin Hatfield, Jack Simmons, John Holiday, Willie Johnson. Rogers Belle, Emmet Davis, Frank Jackson, Tom Ruff, Louis Varnes, West Spivey, Charlie Allen; Edward Mathews. The members of whom this club is composed, are some of the most refined, cultured young ladies and gentlemen in the state, all of whom are admirers and readers of The Colored American or anything for the uplifting of the race. Politics in the State of Georgia among republicans is livening up to fever heat just now among the aspirants for delegates to the Republican National Convention which convenes in Philadelphia in June. Some of the most prominent men in the South are mentioned and are actually in the race. The list is one of unusual strength solidity, as will be readily seen at a glance from the names that appear below, some of whom are mentioned for the state at large; Hons. J. W. Lyons, H. A. Rucker, W. H. Johnson, H. L. Johnson, R. D. Locke, Prof. R R Wright, Hon. J. H. Devesux, Mr. J. Q Gassett. From the 5th Congressional District: Capt. C. C. Wimbish, Prof. A. Graves, Col. A. M. Hill, Hon. E. D. Blodgett, Mr. I. Wheeler, Mr. H. D. Bush. Any selection from the above list by the republicans of this state can hardly be a mistake as they are men of ability, integrity and large experience. PRICE FIVE CENTS. OUT IN WEST VIRGINIA. A News-Gathering Native Tells of the Activities and Achievements of Afro-Americans in the Hilly State. Clarksburg, W. Va., Special. We are proud of the privilege of introducing The Colored American to Clarksburg residents, and we can safely say that they will always find interesting and instructive news in its columns pertaining to the race and including all the live topics of the hour. Rev. Owens, presiding elder of this district, preached to large congregations in the Water Street church Sunday. Rev. Howard of the Baptist church is working hard for a new edifice. Rev. Morris of the A. M. E. church is spending the week in Weston. Rev. Watson of the Water Street church announces the expected return next month of Mrs. Brown, the Washington evangelist. Prof. G. H. Guss, is one of the ablest, most efficient and conscientious principal who has ever had charge of the Clarksburg school, and while he is undoubtedly appreciated for his true worth by citizens generally, he should receive more united support in his efforts to secure a new and modern building in place of the present dilapidated structure, which is wholly inadequate to meet the demands of the present because of lack of room, poor light and ventilation. The grocery business conducted by Mr. M. W, Grayson, is an unanswerable refutation of the assertion often heard that "the Afro-American business man cannot succeed unless patronized by the members of his own race-" Mr. Grayson's well-stocked store is patronized almost exclusively by white customers. There are a number of successful colored business men here. Among the more prominent being Mr. C. D. Ogiden, who owns and operates a large planing mill; Mr. Walter Sedwick, who owns probably the largest and best livery stable in town; Mr. C. W. Thomas, who is another successful grocer, and Mr. William Wilkinson, who does an immense business as a contracter and builder. Mr. Wilkinson is also a member of the city council. Mr. Frank Smith owns a well patronized restaurant and Mr Thomas Wellman operates a very popular barber shop for white customers. Dr. Frank Henderson, who has been practicing here for the past five months, is meet (Continued on Fifth Page.) 2 SENATUR MORGAN ON NEGR Att rney Settle Riddles the Inconsistent and Iliogical Argument of Alabama’s Senior Senst r for Disfranchisement of Colored People To The Colored 4 merican: Af er resdii g the press report of Sen- attr Vorgan’s spech in the Senate agsinst the ‘‘ Prichard resolution,” I feel it my duty to ask spacein your val- usbie paper to protest againt some of his unfair and ur ju-t assauit~ upou the Neero sace. Itreems asad commenta ry upon the Angl» S.xen’s Jove of fairvess, fot a disiipgui-hed S-nator to pour out his wrath upon an entire race of people. ina place where no member of hat rece cen re sly to him, especially 2 \ Gg see N AS | f thes \ {I V\ re a A \ WW 2. k BA se \S \\ (Z \N Z| /\\B\ HON J. T SETTLE. . when th»t S nator himeelf owes his seat n hat august body to apr-ctical null ficvionof the recent nullfication of the recent amendments to the f-d- era] corstitution, and the suppression of the votes of tens of thousai ds of American citizens, both white and black. I nave not yet seen the S-nator’s re- marks in ful ard d> not therefore Kuow what “legal aspect”? he took of the 14 haud _5 h amendwents to th- c n-titution. No wmstter what hi- views may be however, these amend men's are a pattand parcel of the or- gavic law of cur country; purchased at too greatac st of blood and trea-ure to b- rep-aled, nulifi-d or dier garded to suit the sentiment of :hosewh have nevir ace pted them in good faith. Negro valor aid patiiotism helped largely to ssve a d perpetuaie the in’ tegrity of tbe Union, together with all the blessings of Ametican ci izenship, agaist the eff ris of the 3evuator and his schoul of thinkers wh») sought to des 1oy both, y-t he woud admi. to full ;a ticipstien ip ‘he »sff.irs of gov emmen! those v ho sought to de+stroy it, and exclude th se who helped to de- fend aud Keep it uodivid d as a rich heri sge to #] succe: ding generations. Negro suffrage is: 0 more responsible for the Hayes Vilden controversity vhan is white :uffrage for Goebelism in Kentucky; nor has he Negro ever shown greater politics! degeneracy than has been rece tly Shown by the Goebe: element of the democratc party in Kentucky. The Senator c mtends tha there is a natura! supremacy in the whites, and a naturai deficiency in the blacks morally, sectally aud intellec u ally. If this be true, why does he invoke hostie legislation agamet the Negroto matotain that supremacy? Were I in his placa, I would be ashamed toadmic thac it was necessary to dis- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. Handicapped as the Negro is, it seems strange that a superior race should find it necessary to still further handicap bim by emasculating his citizenship hat his white competitor may continue lu the supremacy. Thousands repre- sent the blending of the races througb many generations, the product of for- mer conditions, in whom are found a large degree ail the best traits of their chivaliic Southern fathers, many rep~ resent the very highest moral, intellec- tual and social excellence, many of fine business attaiuments are vastly su- perior to the Senator financially even bere in the South. Many are his su periora 1 the higher walks of intellec~ ‘ual lite where merit and not accident of birth is the criterion by which met are judged, and still others are as pro foundly lear: ed in the law asthe Sena- tor himself, and yet he would disfran- chise all of these, to maintain the eu‘ premeacy of the ignorant, lawless and improvident whites in the mountains of hisown stare, whose highest ambi t1 nis to make illicit whiskey, evade the reveuue officers and clug the wheels of progress generally. Does the Senator seriously contend that purer and better government can veobtalned through the illiterate, de graded and debauched white vote, su: h as always existe in large ci.les and some 'inges In rural districts, than through the refived aud cultivated bigck man, with large interests at stake, who pays his texes aid belps to bear «ll the bur- dens of goverument, Would the Sena’ tor disfranchise rve distinguished edu- cators Booker T. Washington and W. H. Council who are doing so much for 1 is own state and mankind at large, to maintain the supremacy of an element of h 8 own rave who contribute largely to the penitentiary and jails of his state? The Negroasks no special legis. lation 1p his favor, he seeks no social ‘lutercourse with tho-e who donot want him; ali that heasks is that he be given the same opportunity to work out his temporal salvation. which 18 given everyo her American citiz n It seems strange that his party should see so much in the semi-savage Filipinos and the miard-blocded Cubans to admire, while they can See so Ji:tle in the Ne- groes at home wh» have absorbed their religion aud their laws; arethe products: of their civilization, aud tens of thous auds of th+m are akin to them througb tveira:ce-tor-! The S-nator says he has seen Negro votes bought for a dol- jar; cbat may be true, but should the eutire race be disfranchnised for that? If the Senator’s superior race had not been in the disreputable habit of buy- tug these ignorant vores, they would not have been sold. The turpitude ot the buyer is certam'y as great as that of :he seller. [be aw makes it great- er. During the last 25 yearsI have seen hundreds of white votes bought, suld and delivered yet that 1s po reason why tbat entire race should be disfran- chised Asa race the Negro has made more sacrifices to vote forthe men and party Of his choice than any other; In fact 1t used to be the main obj ction to coe Negro 8 @ vocer inthe Sonik thar is already found; this is his country by nationality, by his Jabor he has en- tiched it, and by hisblood he has de- fendedit. It would be unsafe for any man, white or black to go into the cot ton belts aid encourage the Negro to leave; It isa rare thing to hear any of the old master-class in the South preaching the disfranchisement of the Negro. It comes mainly from those who were too peor to own Negroes be. fore the war, and have sprung intr prominence by happy accident since | The Negro today numbers nearly ten’ millione; pays taxes on nearly a billion dollars worth of property; he has hun dreds of colleges and thousands of schools, he is successfully competing with his white brother in all the learn ed professions, also in all the trades. callings and avocations; he is keeping step with the AngloSaxon in the march of progress, and yet the Senator woald disfranchise the entire race, and in their stead we'come and enfranchise into our body politic all the sewerage of the old world, representing socialism, nihilism, commonism and all the othe fanaticisms which clog the wheels oj progress, paralyze the arteries of com merce and threaten the very founda tions of American institutions. The Senator says Negro suffrage has done more to retard the progress of Miszissip piand Louisiana than anything else; I think he is sadly mistaken. Hostili ty to the protection of home industrier and a sound financial system have kept hore states behind more than any thing else. Surely the white man in this country represents a higher, purer, nobler, broader and more enlighteneo manhood and civilization than to claim that the disfranchi-ement of the Negro ix necessary to secure the permancy of bis moral, so7ial and intellectual su- premacy. Let the Senator and his par- ty place the qualifications to exercise he elective franchise as high as they please; let it be education, wealth or moral excellence and we will come up to it, but to disfranchise us, or even seek to doit in the face of onr history inthis country is unmanly ungodiy and unworthy a generous and liberty- loving people, Respecifally, Josiad T. SETTLE. Memphis, Tenn. THE GREATEST RACE JOURNAL. Editor Colored American, Dear sir— Wnen I receiyed The Colored Ameri= ca a week ago, transformed and adoroed and oris'litg with editorial and newsmatter, I spontaneously in- dited youa letter of hearty congratula- tions As it failed to be mailed until too old, I decided to write again sub- siantially as I wrote you first. 1 think The American is now in the lead of all other papers published by and on be- half ofthe race. You and your as- sociates therefore deserve unstinted praise for establishing and building up in this community a paper whose in- fluence for good is felt throughout the country. Wi-hing you and yours 2a most happy new year, I hayethe hono! to be dear sir, Very truly yours, R.8. SMITH. Washington, D C. Th Capital Savings Bank, This bank has recently been made an agent of one of the wealthiest corpora tions in this country, or in aoy other, that of the United States Express Com- pany. It issues United States Express Money Orders in sums to suit, payable everywhere (as bills may also be paid at this bank. Weare glad to see the Capital Savings Bank people, “stretching out” In the business world and enlarging its field of usefulness ea eee Sloan Sse ve . p The National ‘ Colored Seach- ; ers Bureau.» . oF > > Washington, D. C., isprepared : 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 tolearn how to teach. ‘ NO SCHOOL—NO Pay ; 6 per cent of the firstyear’s > salary willbe charged those — < ; for whom positions are « > secureded, payable Dec. 1, , 1900. The Demand ex- ‘ ceed the Supply tor suita- « ble teachers during the past year, hence our iber- al indueements. , Send for registration blank brief- ‘ ly stating your full qualifications ‘ and enclose ten two cent stamps > for postage. ‘ > Address > James. Clayton, M.D. 459 C 8t. NW. Secretary, { Pe lh enh Nh cay oe ae SCOTT’S MAGIC HAIR STRAIGHTENER sts GROWEB ae e Sy So BEFORE vsixa,” APTER USING. Is guaranteed to be perfectly safe and harmless. Isthe most wonderful hair preparation in the world, to make kinky, harsh and stubborn ha? grow ong, straight, soft, pliable and glossy. 1x restores color,and grows hair on baldheadsa } thin places, A great hair tonic for all scal dra cases, Price, 25 and 50 cents. SCO1 FACE BLEACH AND BEAUTIFIER, 25 ct SCOTT"S WONDERFUL FILE CURE (for ever kind and degree) 25 cts. SCOTT’ asa{ CREAM FOR ALL FORMS OF CATARRH, 2: cts. For sale at all drug stores or sent by mail on receipt of price. accepted. ni wanted. 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He hasan array of ever so many sta dards otf Wines and Whiskies stored in his cellars and warehouse, Remember the Number 909. /t@.No branch houses. W.H, FISHER i , Dyer and Cleaner... 709 9th Stn. w. 1407 14thSt. n. w. Telephone 1152 eee eee PEOPLE FOR WHOM THERE'LL BE NO PLACE IN HEAYEN:- - UVC se eevee Some poets we know. Hide bouned purtisans. Politicians who forget their frieuds. Growlers with a perpetual grievance Opponents to McKinleys renomina tion, Late comers at Lyceums and con’ certs. The frequent defendants in the police courts. Lawyers who mistake abuse for ar- gument. Idiots who laugh inordinately at their own jokes. Preachers who indulge iu Jong-wind- ed sermons, Fellows who quit work to hunt a miner office. Negroes who tremble when the white man thunders. Women wno confide their secrets to a female ‘‘friend.” Office holders who stand in fear of their own shadow. People who deal in ‘‘tomorrows”” in- stead of “todays.’’ People who make engagements for 8 p.m, and come at 9, Money- making subscribers who fail to pay for their papers. The man who save 10 cents out of every dollars he earns. Cbronic borrowers who forget to pay sundry dimes and quartess. Washingtonians who are satisfied to be without the right of sufiage. Mulatto Negroes who look down up- on their brethren of darker hue. Loafers who won’t work, and who sit around you until you can’t work. Folks who insist upon entering a car by the front door on a blustery day. The composer of flowery reslutions, which may mean anything or nothing. Women who kiss another woman, and then cast slurs upon her reputa- tion. The liar who says everytime he meets you “I’ve just been thinking about you.” Gobblers who tell you all the un pleasaut things they have heard said of you. Occupants of glass houses, who in- dulge promiscuously in thestone-throw’ ing habit. Jurors who sit on civil rights cases when the Negro appears as prosecut: ing witness. Showy fellows who ‘‘blow’’ their cash for a “good uime’’ and neglect to pay honest debts. The next door neighbor who watches to see who calls at your house and how long they stay. Pop-gun orators who talk a heap and say nothing in the runaing discussions at our literaries. Hyrocrits who besmatter you with praise to your face, and “cuss” you be- hind your back. Alleged Christians who wear the liv: THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. Politicians who try to make each yoter feel that he (the voter) is the on ly thing that ever happened. Women who paint their faces in such ‘gorgeous hues that their claim to re apectability is cpen to doubt. The puffed-up minister who claims to be above the need of newspapers tu futher the interests of his work. Critics who fail to inform themselves upon the subjects they essay to discuse and thereby grieve judicious men. The foul minded gossiper who places an evil construction upon every matter that comes under his or her notice. Office‘holders who fear to attend a public meeting or stand up for their rights, fos fear of losing their jobs. Imbecile who waste your time don’t with alleged funny stories when you want to talk a thing but business. Office-holders who put on airs be" cause they hail from Canton, or some other portion of the sacred soil of Ohio. People who habitually claim to have been the inspiring force of things they Bnew nothing about until all was our. Husbands who decry their wives, and wives who tattle abouttheir hus- bands, or listen to the tattle of other women, Female bicyclists who wear outlaud: ish costumes and make themselves rid iculous by scorching on popular thor: oughfares, The government employed whosticks to a $60 per month job after winning @ post-graduate deploma in a paying profession. Government clerks who live beyound their means,—that is, at the expense of those foolish enough toa credit business with them. ‘The fellow who knows heisien’t half as smart as he pretends to be, and lives in constant dread that his humbuggery will be exposed. The sweet- faced lady who wants the most trivial incidents of her house- hold and baby’s exploits written up im full for the benefit of the anxious public. People who pass by a colored man’s place of business and buy of an Irish- man two blocks father at an advanced price. The fellow who brings around a ‘short article” about thrée columns long and aske for the free publications because he is a subscriber to the paper, slightly in arrears, The over-modest person who telis you a lot of stuff about his glowing achievementz, and gently hints that is “not for publication” as he detests “notoriety.” Society ladies who act graciously toa poor editor, and then look for a write up of their ‘‘rare accomplishments and indescribable charm of manner.” The member of the arrangements committee who takes you one side and tells you confidentially that had it not been for his sagacity the whole aftair would have been a flat failure. Married men who preter the society Our agents willnot beallowed any commission for subsciiption they may take at the one dollar rate. Lt only ap* plies to persons who send their money direct to the office. 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We are cognizant of the fact that a number of justices of the peace have been elect* ed and appointed m d.fferent parts of the country, but they are not judges, nor for that matter assistant districtat torneys, Attorney Barnett, of Chicago, termed assistant state’s attorney is really what is regarded in this part of the country as an assistant prosecuting attorney of the county. If this be true, there is this that democracy is entitled to, and that is, credit for taking the initiative and the lead in maintaining the same in the appoimtment aud elec- tion of Afro-Americans to high grade positions alongs legal line.—Cleveland : Gazette. ; The District National Guard, The latest report of the relative rank of the officers of the District Nationa! Guard shows the colored members re- presenting the ist Separate Battalion tostand as follows: Ofthe Msjors, Arthur Brooks ranks eighth, out of fifteen named. Captains—Jonn I, Campbell, second Frederick T, Webster, fourth; E. L. Webster, seventeenth, in claas of twen- ty eight. First lieutenants -- Francis J. Cardozo fifth; James E. Walker, eleventh; Rubt. B. Covington, thirteenth; Dr. Phil Brcome Brooks, surgeon, seventeenth; Samuel Piper, nineteenth; Dr. W. Bruce Evans, twenty‘nintb; Samu-1A Ward, thirty secomd; Joseph H. John: son, thirty fifth in a class of forty. Second leutenants— Frank N. Rob- inzon, second; Louis H. Pztterson, eleventh; Raymond A. Jackson, tbir- teen; Henry Chase, fifteenth in a class of sixteen. The register farther shows Capt. Peter B. Meredith, Company ©, to have died; Corporal Leigh R, Whip per, Privates William P. Allen, Robert k. Johnson and Walter Washington, all of Company C dishonorsbly dis charged: Privates William Buchanan and Lewis M. Carroll, Company A, dropped as deserters, A High Indorsement. To The Colored American.- This is to certify that I have the honor in be- half of the officers of Queen Rebecca Household of Ruth, No. 798 G. U. O. of O. F.to teaderthanks to you for your appreciation in sokindly publish ing the names of the officers elected for 1900 in yoar is:ue of December 30:h. May God’s blessing continue with you in the good work. Your journal is ac- knowledged to be the leading race pa per that is published by Negroes. The Odd Fellows’ Journal! at Philadelphia, Pa., isthe next best in its line, Very troly yours for the race, WILLIAM E. WASHINGTON, —++- ++. Feelihg Like “Thirty Cents.” John Quarterdollar and Nancy Nichol were married at Providence, R. i., the other day. How like thirty cents they must feel, THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. CO. FREEDOM. cs BY JAMES RUSSEL LOWELL. Men! whose boast is that ye Come of fati ers brave and tree, it there breathe on earth a slave Are you truly free and brave? If you do not feel the chain, When it works a brother's pain, | Are ye not base slaves indeed, ‘Slaves unworthy to be freed? “Women who shall one day bear Sons to breathe New England air, Ifye hear without a blush, Deeds to make the roused blood rush Like red lava through your veins, For your sister r ow in chains— Answer! are ye fit to be Moti ers of the brave and tree. Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And, with leathern heart, forget That we owe mankind a Gebt? No! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear And w th heart and hand to be, Earnest to make others free! They are slaves who fear to speak For the failen and the weak; They are slayes who will not choose Hatred, scoffing and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs mast think: They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three The Academy Restaurant. | Messrs. Gaskins and Ga nes, two popular and enterprising young men of this city, have leased and fitted up ‘most elegantly what is now known as “The Academy Restaurant” at 820 8th street, northwest. This is one of the best locations in thecity, the rear en- trance in front of the Academy of Music and the front entrance opposite Kann’s, They opened the doors to the public last Monday and since then the restau- rant has been crowded with their pa tions and with friehds offering con: gratulations. ‘‘The Academy Restau: rant” will be conducted on a high plane and will be first class in every particular. Tbe very best of everything may be had and those who patronize the place may expect gilt edged service for the smallest money. Mr.A J. Gas: kins the senior memberof the firm was for seven years manager of the Chevy Chase Club, oneof the richest clubs of its Kind in this section, put left that club to enter into business for himself. Mr. Frank Gaines has been connected as head man at Osborne and Hoban’s corner G and 7th streets, for « number ofyears and has managed that place to the satisfaction of the firm and the public generally. They start under bright auspices and will no doubt get their share of the business, FREE BLOOD ( URE. An Offer Proving Faith to Suf- ferers. Ulcers, Cancers, Eating Sores, Pain- fal Swellings, Effects of Blood Poison, Persistent Eruptions, that refuse to heal under ordinery treatment are quickly cured by B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm), the most. wonde:ful Blood Purifier of the age. made eapec- islly to cure all terrible obsiinate deep seated Blood and Skin troubles? Is your blood thin? Are you pale? All run down? Have you Evzems? Pimples? Biotches and Bumps? Skin ur Scalp Humors? Boil-? Eruptions? Skin Itches and Swollen? Aching Bones? Rheum- atiem? Scrofula? Catarrb? Then you need B. B. B. 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Momeysaved by dealing at this Store. 4TH AND OSI.N.W, Found At Last ‘The great Afro Electro Comb. Posi: tively and permanently straightens kinky, knotty, Nappy, Curly, Trouble: some hair. Surely but man’s triumph over matter is prc greesing. The steam: boat, the engire, the telegraph, the telephone, the horselees car ana the automobile are facts demonstrating mans ability to accomplieh all things Just in this way have we perfected the Great Afro-Electro Comb. Used as an ordipary comb it will positively by aid of its great magnetic power cause the hair to grow long and straight. [tis indestructable. It is everlasting. It is guaranteed to do ali that itsclaimed fer it. 1t is an honest article. Not only harmless, but gives life strength and beauty to the hair and scalp. Worth $5.00 each. For a limited time we will sel] these combs prepaid to any address for $1.00. THE Arro-ELECTRO CoB MF'e. Co. Box No. 6 Station B. Richmond, Va. Make all Postal and express orders pay- ab‘e to M. H. 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Coorer, Colored American, Washington, D, C. #e-Sugar offers an opportunity to make $5000 per annum, for eight years after two years hard labor Agents Wanted, Enclose 2c stamp for replr, and we will send | paar telling how you can make from | 75 to $150 per month, and & s0 be presented with a fine Gold Watch. Address. "SCOTT REMEDY CO. | Box 570, Louisville, Ky, The special rate of one dullar per year will not and does not apply to people who pay our agents or representatives. To obtain the benefit of this rate, sub” acribers must send or bring their money direct to the office, | AMUSEMENTS. | e—KeLoOV0OTO OOOO Week of January 22, W.H. And His Excellent Company. Mon., Tues., Wed., and Thurs, and Mat. Wed., His Happiest Success. A RICH MAN’s SON. Friday and Saturday and Mat. Sat. A VIRGINIA COURTSHIP. Jan. 29. Alice Neilson Opera Com: pany, in The Singing Girl. : Week of January 22. Matinees Wed. nesday and Saturday 25 and 50 cents. First Time in Washington, Orthe many merry mishaps of Nid and the Weird wonder.ul wandering of Nod Management of the author Sidney R. Ellis. With a Company of 40 People. Al H. Wilson, Fannie Bloodgood, Rosaire & Elliott and the famous Phasey Troup of English Specialis.s, Jan 29. HAYES and LYTTON. A Free Forum, devoted to the Instruction of the Masses on the Soci#], Economic, Re: ligious, Educational and Busi- ness Issues of the Day, and their relation to the Progress of the Negro Race. Meets every Sunday afternoon [except sec‘ ond Sunday in each month] at Second Bap* tiat Church, 3rdStreet, between Hand 1 Ste., northwest. Everybody invited. Richard W. Thomrson, Presidenr, R.S, Smith and C. L,'Marshall, V. Pres, Miss Emma F. Toliver, Secretary. Wiilis T. Menard, Statistician. GASKINS & GAINS. *. of ng + Academy ~ Restaurant + (just around: the corner} 320 8th Street, N. W. Opposiite Kanns. All leading brands of wine, liquors and clg* ars, imported and domesiic. Ladies and Gentlemen’s Cafe Upstairs, ATHRIVING COLOREDCITY News Notes and Personal Mention from Concord. Concord, N. C., Special.—A few months ago the Rising Mount Zion church was organized in Charity Hall by Rev. Thomas D Atkins. The church rallies every Sunday and has already raised a snug sum of money to pay in part for the Episcopalian church, into which it removed last week. This is a fine church, beautifully situated in the southern part of the town. The Baptist Young People's Union will meet in this church every Thursday night. Mrs. Sallie Rhines, (nee) Wallace, who is president is earnestly involved in the reformation the young people of Concord. In this respect she has a plenty to do. The Rev. Dr. P. F. Maloy, district missionary of western North Carolina was with us in our last week's meeting and told us many good things. On Friday night of the same week the doctor preached to a crowded house, subject "And he is the prince of many other devils." Miss Ida Shanks of Charlotte is preparing a concert for next week. There are many admirable features in the character of this young lady. Her progressive ideas are generally accepted without question. The small pox farce is on. Prof. J. A. Lankford, master mechanic who has charge of the engineer works of the Coleman cotton mills is a man of splendid parts and very pleasant to meet. The Cotton Boll, edited by J. P. Blackwell, has suspended publication. David M. Turner, son of Bishop Turner is here in the employ of Mr. W. C. Coleman. Rev. Dr. G. L. Black well, manager of the A. M. E Zion Publishing House at Charlotte has resigned his charge of Price's Memorial Temple in this town. The Councils Finance Committee. The finance committee of the National Afro-American Council met Thursday evening at the residence of Prof. Jesse Lawson Lawson and mapped out a splendid system for collecting funds to put into operation the plans of the body. The Louisiana election law and the Georgia convict lease system are booked for early attention. The committee has representatives in every state in the Union and includes bishops, educators, ministers politicians and professional and business men. Hon. John H. Hannon, former member of North Carolina legislature former register of Deeds of Halifax county and former postmaster oj Halifax, N. C., is chairman. He is now prominently connected with the Recorder's Office. Prof. Jesse Lawson, one of the race's best workers, is secretary of the committee. Likes the Way We Talk It is more to the point to encourage and help a man while he lives, than to build monuments to his memory after he has been hounded to his death by lack of support and appreciation. Colored American. You are right Brother Cooper; a column of that doctrine, in sermons of the above length, will result in great good, but, judging from the appearance of your very excellent journal, the dawn of the twentieth century will have come and long gone before your friends can chant these words in lamentations in your memory. The Negro newspaper is the black man's only forum where an impartial hearing is guaranteed. It is not a luxury, but one of the most pressing necessities of this age. The Negro who refuses to sustain an honest race journal is blind to his best interests.—The Colored American. More than that Brother Cooper. A Negro who refuses to sustain an honest race journal, is more often otherwise, not only blind to his best interests, but THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. so prejudiced and chock full of cussness that, even if he sees the good in a Negro journal, he pretends that he doesn't see it, and is never so happy as when engaged in the nefarious work of crippling the influence of the paper and speaking ill of the men who make sacrifices that the race may have this most effective champion of the rights and liberties of a long oppressed and proscripted people.—Omaha Progress. (Continued from 1st page.) ing with unqualified and well deserved success and among his numerous patients includes many whites. The Hasty Pudding Lyceum which was organized last week, began its meetings on Monday night. Miss Florence Sehon, who teaches in Bridgeport, spent Sunday in town. Mrs. Sherman H. Guss has returned from her home in Ohio, where she was summoned on account of her grand mothers illness. Mrs. M. W. Grayson who has been quite ill, has recovered Mrs. John Nelson, who has just returned from Chicago, is quite ill. The many friends of Mr. John Robinson were glad to welcome him home after his long absence. Miss Ella Colston is suffering from an attack of a grippe. Mr. and Mrs. Richard West anticipate an early return to Washington, D.C. Mrs. Anna Freeman has been called to Steubensville. Ohio, on account of the serious illness of her daughter, Mrs. Tuck. She has the sympathy of the entire community as her mother is also critically ill. The Knights of Pythias have a very pros. perous lodge here, the second largest in the state, and the Vice Grand Chancellor of the state is a member of the local in the person of Prof. S. H. Guss S. W. Starks, Supreme Chancellor of the order is a West Virginian. The high school class of 1900 will give a musical and literary entertainment our Friday evening. E. H: --- Should Stand for England. Editor Colored American.—While a few noisy Irishmen and Germans, both probably naturalized citizens, are engaged in trying to create a sentiment in this country antagonistic to Great Britain, the former because of fancied wrongs to Ireland of a century or more ago and the latter on account of the mother tongue solely or nationality—one for one cause, the other for another—yet both against England. Why not the colored press unanimously speak or take the side of England, which has in all cases stood for the freedom of the black man, while on the other hand the Boers held slaves until England paid them for their slaves and forced them to drop the system of slavery entirely. It is stated that a black man is not allowed to walk, except in the middle of the street in many of the Boer villages even now, and not allowed to attend any school in the Transvaal, while schools are established for native black children in all the English possessions in Africa. Now then as between the English and the Boers, I am sure that the colored Americans are for England, and if it was possible for troops to be raised in this country for the "Queen's army," one hundred thousand colored Americans could be raised inside of a hundred days and as good fighters as can be found anywhere the world over, but with their own officers always. Very truly, H. C. BRUCE. Press Comments On The Colored American The Colored American, Washington, D. C., comes to us this week changed to a 16 page journal.—Baptist American. The Colored American has been boiled down from a blanket sheet to a convenient pamphlet form; it shows that Bro. E. E Cooper, its brilliant editor, is up with the times.—The Free State, (Miss.) 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 front rank of Negro journals. Success to you Brer' Editor.—The Conservator. The Colored American, of Washington, 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—Baltimore Afro-American. The Colored American has been changed to a handsome 16 page sheet It is one of the best edited colored journals 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 fearless defender of its rights.—The Progressive Age (La.) Hon, E. 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 appreciated than ever -The Student, Tuskegee, Ala. The Colored American printed at Washington, D. G., reached us this week changed in costume. As it is always alive to modern ideas in makeup, and alert to adopt that which is best and convenient in literary quality and form, it has changed to a style that is compact and artistic.—The Paindealer, Utah. The Colored American and Chicago Conservator have broken away from the old style of six column folio sheets. In their new form of four column, sixteen pages, shows that our esteemed journalist Edward E. Cooper of the American and Messrs. DeClelland and Ramsey, publishers of the Conservator are progressive newspaper men. The two papers are not only representative in form, neatness and typographical appearance, but their news departments, pointed and interesting editorials on questions of a national and local character make these journals clean cut publications of which Negroes in all sections of the country should feel a degree of pride commensurate with the journalistic ability of these editors.—The Florida Sentinel. 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. Very truly yours RALPH W. TYLER, Columbus Dispatch, Dec. 26, '99. If you are wise you will take advantage of our special rate of one dollar per year and send us the dollar at once. Money sent by express or post office money order, or even postage stamps is preferable to currency sent in a letter unless the letter is registered. FINANCIAL. We Will Lend You any Amount of Money $20 will cost you $1 per month. $25 will cost $1 25. $40 will cost you $2. $50 will cost $2.50. 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Money to Loan ON FURNITURE, PIANOS, ETC. If you are in need of money, we desire to inform you of our new method. We can secure you a loan on an easy monthly payment plan, at less cost than before, and below the rate of any other company in the city. You can pay in full at any time after loan is secured, and it will only cost you for such time as you have had the money. Our business is strictly private, and all applications are treated confidentially. If you have a loan with any other concern, you can secure a loan through us to pay it and get more money if desired. It will pay you to call and see us before going elsewhere. We are ready at any and all times during office hours to give information concerning our business methods, and you will receive courteous treatment. CAPITAL LOAN GUARANTEE CO 602 F ST. N. W THE WASHINGTON LOAN OFFICE F. Warren Johnson, Washington, D. C. Manager. Money Loaned on Diamonds, Watches and Jewelry. Unredeemed Pledges For Sale HOW TO MAKE A FORTUNE! By working for the James D. Pettiford Hair Vigorating Co.,1222 Linden St. N. E. Washington, D. C. An excellent remedy for the Hair, if applied accordingly, will immediately master and cure all diseases peculiar to the Hair. Agents wanted everywhere D. T. GIBBONS. WHOLESALE MANUFACTURING RETAIL CONFECTIONER 523 4½ Street, Southwest, WASHINGTON, D. C. Wedding Cakes Made and Parties Furnished at Short Notice. Ice Cream All The Year 6 A NEW ADMINISTRATION. Mr. R. W. Thompson Becomes President of Second Baptist Lyceum - Prof. Lawson's Valuable Services Highly Indorsed — "Field Day." On the first Sunday in the new year an audience gathered at the Second Baptist Lyceum that crowded the spacious lecture room from the rostru to the doors. It was "field day," so to speak, the program taking wide range. President Jesse Lawson delivered a stirring address reviewing the progress J. MR. R. W. THOMPSON. of the race since emancipation, stating that the Negro like any sensible business man should, at the end of each year take an inventory of stock on hand, balance his books, and find out whether the year has resulted in profit or loss. He referred to the report made by Dr. H. B. Frissell, of Hampton Institute before the Industrial Commission in which the latter declared that the Negro people might properly be divided into three classes—one third who had retrograded since the dawn of freedom; one third who had remained at a standstill, and the other third who had made some progress. He asked if Dr Frissell's testimony could be regarded as reliable. It is, he said, the legitimate function of our lyceums to inquire into these matters and before accepting any evidence as true, call for papers and statistics. He felt confident that our thirty-seven years of journeying through the wilderness had brought substantial returns and that perhaps at the end of forty years we might, like the Children of Israel, come within sight of the Promised Land. Prof. Lawson then introduced Mr. A. Wendell Scott, of the District bar, who in eloquent style gave a comprehensive summary of the paper on "The Negro as a Citizen and soldier," read by him on the preceding Sunday. An interesting discussion followed, after which, by request, Lieut. R. E. Toomey recited an original poem entitled "The end of the Year." Prof. Lawson, in a speech full of feeling announced that his labors as president were at an end, and that a new administration would be installed. He heartily thanked the old officers and members for the strong and uniform support given him during his term of seven years, and urged that the organization use its best endeavors to maintain the standard toward which he had aimed. The officers for the new year were reported from the executive committee and their election ratified by the lyceum as follows: President—Mr. R. W. Thompson, 1st Vice President—Mr. R. S. Smith, 2nd Vice President—Mr. C. L. Marshall, Recording Secretary—Miss Emma E. Tolliver. Financial Secretary—Miss Almira Crutchfield, Corresponding Secretary—Miss Bessie Miller, Treasurer—Miss Evelyn Carey, Chaplain—Mr. T. H. Norman, Director of Music—Mr. Benjamen Washington, Pianist—Miss Lillian V. Green. Ushers—Mr. Thos. Ware, chief; Messrs. Tazewell Towles, Clarence Davis, J. E. Slaughter, Robert Lee, Jerome Jenkins and Robert Dodson. The retiring president introduced Mr. Thompson as his successor, paying a high tribute to his worth and ability. The new president expressed his thanks for the honor codferred and accepted it as a sacred trust recognizing fully the many responsibilities which the post carries with it. He asked the support and co-operation of the strong forces that had stood by Prof. Lawson and had combined to make the Second Baptist Lyceum an organization of national repute and a powerful agent in the work of civilization. After installing the other officers the committee on resolutions reported a memorial enlarging the character of Prof. Lawson, unreservedly indorsing his splendid administration and expressing regret at pressure of other interests rendering it impossible for him to further serve them as president. The resolutions were unanimously adopted by a rising vote. The next meeting of the lyceum will be held January 28, at which time Prof. Robert H. Terrell, principal of the Washington High School will be the speaker of the day. Prof. McGee at Bethel Prof. W. J. McGee, president of the Anthropological Society, in charge of the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, delivered a scholarly lecture Tuesday evening of last week before Bethel Literary and Historical Association on "Our Aboriginal Landholders." He gave a vivid and accurate account of the origin, distribution and characteristic of the red men who roamed over this land long before the advent of the Caucasian Prof. McGee's address was a scientific treat and the full text with an analysis of the phases of anthropology, was enjoyed by a distinguished audience. Questions were propounded by Attorney R. S. Smith, J. W. Cromwell, George W. Cook, Register Lyons and others. Prof. Kelly Miller and Recorder Cheatham highly approved the address as a masterly presentation of a most interesting historical subject. Prof. W. H. Richards presided, and Messrs. Lyon and Cheatham occupied seats with the speaker of the evening on the platform. A Truly National Paper. 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CONFERENCE. Our Correspondent Writes Interestingly of His Swing Around a Circle of Thriving and Hospitable Cities. Charlottesville; Va., special—We were out of town during the Christmas holiday, is the reason we failed to have a letter in the last week's issue. We had the pleasure of visiting, Richmond, Newport News, Hampton, Norfolk and Portsmouth. At Norfolk we were in attendance at the Annual Conference, of colored Y. M. C. A.'s, representing Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland and the District of Columbia, which convened on the 28th, 29th, 30th and 31st of December. The Conference was one the most successful ever held and the hospitality of the people of Norfolk will be long remembered by all who attended. The people of Norfolk are wide awake to the Y. M. C. A. work, having erected a building at the cost of $8,000 Messrs. J. E. Moore and W. A. Hunton, International Committee Secretaries, and Mr. C. C. Dogan, Gen'l Secretary Norfolk Association did everything possible to make it pleasant for the several delegates. We stopped in company with Mr. Haigh of Biddle University, of Charleston, at the home of Mrs. Ida Railey, whose treatment of us shall never be forgotten. We had the pleasure of meeting Revs. R. A. Bowling, H. Mitchell, D. P. Seaford of Norfolk, Prof. J. M. Gandy of Y., Petersburg, Prof. B. Livingstone College, S., M. J. Gilliam, Cor- et whom space will not alention. At Hampton Noron, we had a pleasant chat principal H. B. Frissell and y of the students. Stopping in and, while waiting for the train at the time pleasantly with Hon. Mitchell, jr., Editor Planet, and yer J. E. Byrd, President of Unit and Insurance Co., who reports prosperity is on the increase in at section. Mr. Chas. Preston visit Richmond during the Xmas holi days. Mr. A. Scott Webb, who has been spending some time in Philadelphia is in the city, en route to Butte, Montana, with W. A. jr., son of Senator Clark the Copper King of the West. Miss Jennie Brown is home after several days visit to Washington, D. C. Miss Rosa Whipps, after a few days visit returned to Washington this week. Mr. N. F. Berry of Lychburg, Va., and Mr. E. L. Baptist of Buffalo Springs, Va., were in the city last week the guests of Mr. J. Henry Dickerson on 5th street. Mr. J H. Dickerson gave dinner Sunday in honor of Messrs. N. F. Berry and E. L. Baptist at his home on N. 5th street. We must say it was the most up-to date dinner we have had the pleasure of attending, Mr. Dickerson is our leading caterer of the city. Those present were: Mr. H. Dickerson, the host, Messrs. N. F. Berry, Lynchburg, E. L. Baptist, Buffalo Springs, R. W. Graves, Danville, Root, Kelser, Jno. L. Harris, C. H. Brown and C. H. Bullock. The American can be gotten at Pollard and Noble's barber shop or from Mr. A. F. Angel at the University. C. H. BULLOCK If you are wise you will take advantage of our special rate of one dollar per year and send us the dollar at once. Money sent by express or post office money order, or even postage stamps is preferable to currency sent in a letter unless the letter is registered. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. Capital Savings 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 McKin'ay, L. C. Bailey, Robt. H. Terrell, W. S. Montgomery, Wyatt Archer, John A. Pierre,Henry E. Baker, James Storum, J. A. Johnson, Dr. A. W. Tancil, Howard H Williams. Deposits received from 10 cents upward. Interest allowed on $5.00 and above. Collections meet with prompt attention. A general exchange and banking business done. Bank open from 9 a. m. to 4:30 p.m. Consumers Brewing Company Brews the purest Beer on the Washington Market. The highest chemical authority in the district of Columbia. after an analysis just finished of all the different beers on the market, give this as his verdict. Don't be fooled by jealousy, envy, or prejudice, or either or all of which is based our opposition. we have the most modern plant. We brew from sterilized water and choice hops and malt. We have one of the most skillful brew masters in the county. Visit our plant and insist on us proving our assertions. We will be glad to show all. ABE KING. Sec'y and Treas, E. L. JORDAN, Pres and Gen'l Mgr. Karl Xander DEALER IN Fine Wines and Liquours Importers, Rectifier and Wholesail and Retail. Agent for Southern Bouquet Whiskey. 530-32 Seventhh Street Northwest, W. shington, D. C. W. H BUTLER, PAINTS OILS GLASS, &c., 609 C STREET, N.W. Springtime is on, and your house will need touching up. We have just what you want. W. H. BUTLER. 609 C St., N. V DR. HENRY'S BLOOD TEA. For Constipation, Biliousness, Indigestion; Sick Headache and all disorders of the stomach and Liver. A CAKE OF COMPLEXION SOAP WITH EVERY BOTTLE OF MYSIIC FACE BLEACH. LOBNERS Mme. Turner's Mystic Face Bleach. is the only bleach on the Market that we heads. Freckles and blemishes in 8 or 1 greatly diminished by MYSPIC FACE two shades fairer. It gives the compne-s which causes even the aged to ap Mme, Turner's Complexion Soap. on the Market that will positively remove Lice and blemishes in 8 or 10 days. wrinkles and scars by MYSTIC FACE BLACK and the skin. It gives the complexion a clear, soft and is even the aged to appear youthful. Price 1 complexion Soap. is the only bleach on the Market that will positively remove Liver Spots. Black heads. Freckles and blemishes in 8 or 10 days. Wrinkles and Small Pox Pits are greatly diminished by MYSTIC FACE BLACK and the skin is made at least two shades fairer. It gives the complexion a clear, soft and youthful tender, ne-s which causes even the aged to appear youthful. Price 1.00. Always Use Mme, Turner's Complexion Soap. MYSTIC TOILET CREAM is a household blessing. It refines the skin, cures pimples and all skin eruptions. For chapped Face an Hands it has no equal. It is a most elegant preparation for gentleman's use after shaving, instantly curing all burning and itching. Mystic Toilet Cream will heal cuts and sores. Price 75 Cents. Always Use Mme. Turner's Complexion Soap. MME. M. C. TURNER. ressing. It refines the skin, cures pimples and used Face an. Hands it has no equal. It is a man's use after shaving, instantly curing. Toilet Cream will heal cuts and sores. Price Turner's Complexion Soap. is a household blessing. It refines the skin, cures pimples and all skin eruptions. For chapped Face an Hands it has no equal. It is a most elegant preparation for gentleman's use after shaving, instantly curing all burning and itching. Mystic Toilet Cream will heal cuts and sores. Price 75 Cents. Always Use Mme. Turner's Complexion soap. A 25c SAMPLE DOCTORS INSIST that the RHEUMATISM, KIDI SWANSON RHEUMATIC CURE Co.: When I wife was suffering terribly from Rheumatism a thing the doctors prescribed, even sending her A 25c SAMPLE BOTTLE FOR 10c. SAMPLE INSIST that their patients use "5 DROPS" for ATISM, KIDNEY DISEASE. MATIC CURE Co.: When I wrote you for a sample bottle, I surprised at the progress my wife is making, and she refused to keep her seamstress and is now doing her doctors insist on her taking "5 Drops" and assured only a matter of a few days and she will be entirely well known here, the "5 DROPS" is receiving tion and praise. F. E. PRICE, Jersey City, N. J. SWANSON RHEUMATIC CURE Co.: I suffered to Trouble for years, and after using less than two bottles I am now entirely well and I give "5 DROPS" the patient could not find anything that would give me the slim tried this remedy, and I recommend it to everybody for Kidney Disease. MARY A. CARBAUGH, Black Cottle is the most powerful specific known. Free from opiates. It gives almost instantaneous relief, and is a positive cure. Dyspepsia, Backache, Asthma, Hay Fever, Carpal, Nervousness, Nervous and Neuralgic Headache, Dropsy, Malaria, Creeping Numbness, etc., etc. to enable sufferers to give "5 DROPS" at least a trial, we will send a repaid mail, for 10 cts. A sample bottle will convince you. RHEUMATIC CURE CO., 160 to 164 Lake St., W. A 25c SAMPLE BOTTLE FOR 10c DOCTORS INSIST that their patients use "5 DROPS" for RHEUMATISM, KIDNEY DISEASE SWANSON RHEUMATIC CURE Co.: When I wrote you for a sample bottle of "5 DROPS" my wife was suffering terribly from Rheumatism and was very discouraged, as I had tried everything the doctors prescribed, even sending her to Richfield Springs, etc. My doctor is very much surprised at the progress my wife is making, and she is so well that she refused to keep her seamstress and is now doing her own sewing. The doctors insist on her taking "5 Drops" and assure her that it is now only a matter of a few days and she will be entirely cured, and as we are very well known here, the "5 DROPS" is receiving considerable attention and praise. F. E. PRICE, Jersey City, N. J. Oct. 13, 1899. SWANSON RHEUMATIC CURE Co.: I suffered terribly with Kidney Trouble for years, and after using less than two bottles of "5 DROPS" I am now entirely well and I give "5 DROPS" the praise for my cure. I could not find anything that would give me the slightest relief until I tried this remedy, and I recommend it to everybody as a permanent cure for Kidney Disease. MARY A. CARBAUGH, Black Gap, Pa. Aug. 22, 1999 is the most powerful specific known. Free from opiates and perfectly harmless. It gives almost instantaneous relief, and is a positive cure for Rheumatism, Selatica, Neuralgia, Dyspepsia, Backache, Asthma, Hay Fever, Catarrch, La Grippe, Croup, Sleeplessness, Nervousness, Nervous and Neuralgic Headaches, Earache, Toothache, Heart Weakness, Drops, Malaria, Creeping Numbness, etc., etc. (TRADE MARK) for Kidney Disease. M "5 DROPS" is the most powerful spec. It gives almost instantan Sciatica, Neuralgia, Dyspepsia, Backache, Croup, Sleeplessness, Nervousness, Nervous ache, Heart Weakness, Dropsy, Malaria, C 30 DAYS to enable sufferers to give "5 DR prepaid by mail, for 10 cts. A sas doses) $1.00, 6 bottles for $5. Sold by us and agents. AG SWANSON RHEUMATIC CURE C 30 DAYS to enable sufferers to give "5 DROPS" at least a trial, we will send a 25c sample bottle, prepaid by mail, for 10 ects. A sample bottle will convince you. Also, large bottles (300 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, IL MADDEN BROS. Latrobes, Ranges, Furnaces, Tinning and Heating, Roof Repairing and Painting a specialty. Mantels and Hearth, Satisfaction guaranteed. 1841 SEVENTH STREET N. W. --- SOFT STRAIGHT AND GLOSSY HAIR produced by the use of Cheveline Cheveline I will give sufficient Cheveline f r the strightening two heads of hair for $5.00. instead of o r as formerly until further notice is given. We use no hot irons or pasting down with grasse in this treatment, and the h ir is not changed from dampness, but on the con trry is made more beautiful by washing and the straightening appears as natural as if born with it. Send a piece of your hair and 100 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 Chevell e but not so lasting at 50c per bottle. Use Mme Turner's Scalp Soap 25c 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 of time very scant. I also remove the dandruff and in purite from the scalp. Price $1.00 per bottle. Use Mme. Turner's Mystic Scalp Soap 25 cents. No Goods C. O. D. 5 DROPS that will positively remove Liver Spots. Blacks or 10 days. wrinkles and Small Pox Pits are BACE BLACK and the skin is made at least complexion a clear, soft and youthful tender to appear youthful. Price 1.00. Always Use TOILET CREAM Is the skin, cures pimples and all skin eruptions it has no equal. It is a most elegant prep, shaving, instantly curing all burning and heal cuts and sores. Price 75 Cents. Alfion Soap. MME. M. C. TURNER, 1312 Carondelet St. New Orleans, La. when I wrote you for a sample bottle of "5 DROPS" myism and was very discouraged, as I had tried every her to Richfield Springs, etc. My doctor is very much progress my wife is making, and she is so well that she her seamstress and is now doing her own sewing. The her taking "5 Drops" and assure her that it is now few days and she will be entirely cured, and as we are here, the "5 DROPS" is receiving considerable atten- F. E. PRICE, Jersey City, N. J. Oct. 13, 1899. HEUMATIC CURE Co.: I suffered terribly with Kidney and after using less than two bottles of "5 DROPS" well and I give "5 DROPS" the praise for my cure. I thing that would give me the slightest relief until I and I recommend it to everybody as a permanent cure. MARY A. CARBAUGH, Black Gap, Pa. Aug. 22, 1999. unal specific known. Free from opiates and perfectly harmless, instantaneous relief, and is a positive cure for Rheumatism, anache, Asthma, Hay Fever, Catarrch, La Gripe, nervous and Neuralgic Headaches, Earache, Tootharia, 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., 106 to 164 Lake St., CHICAGO, ILL Pullman House 206 4½ Street, Near Maryland avenue. Rooms 50 Cents and $1.00. Meals 15 and 25 Cents. At All Hours. Newly Furnished Rooms Convenient to car lines. JOHNE DADE, Manager. --- ```markdown ``` The COLORED American Library of Congress A NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER VOL. 7. NO. 43. HONORING THE "OLD ROMAN" Admiring Fellow-Citizens Adopt Strong Resolutions Praying for Early Recovery of Bishop Turner. Atlanta, Ga., Special—The Emancipation Proclamation was celebrated at Shiloh A. M. E. church by the citizens and seven lodges of the I. O. of G. M. and W., in America. Rev. J. S. Flipper, D. D., pastor of St. Paul A. M. E church delivered the oration, much to the satisfaction of all. Rev. L. A. Townsley, pastor of Shiloh, introduced the speaker in a very intelligent and befitting speech which was enjoyed by all. The Atlanta Dixie Band furnished the music, and the "Star Spangled Banner" was played just before the orator began his masterly speech, Capt. M. H. Bentley delivered a pointed speech in behalf of the old ex-slave citizens. Rev. J. H. Hilson, P. E., of the Monticello District gave some touching points in a very brief speech. The band played a brief air. Upon the suggestion of Capt. M. H. Bently the following resolutions were adopted: In consideration of the great usefulness of Rt. Rev. H. M. Turner, D. D., LL. D, presiding Bishop of the 6th Episcopal District comprising the States of Georgia and Alabama, and whereas, we, the great empire state of the South, in due recognition of this day set apart forever by us as a day of joy and gladness. And whereas, in the wise providence of God one of the great pioneers of Georgia and leaders of the Negro race has been taken from us and confined to his room, and, whereas he, the Rt. Rev. H. M. Turner was stricken with a partial stroke of paralysis whilst engaged in holding the Georgia Conference at Savannah, and, whereas the stroke is continued and we are deprived of his presence and his counseling words on such an important occasion; we do condole with him in these hours of his confinement; therefore, be it resolved, that we extend to him our sympathies in order to cherish him and let him know that he is still in the minds and hearts of his fellow laborers and countrymen. Be it further resolved that we pledge ourselves that we pray for him continually, and if in the providence of God he is restored to health again, that he will continue his daring fight for the race, God and nations more vigorously than ever-signed.—Capt. M. H Bentley, Revs. J. S. Flipper, D. D., J. H. Hilson, P. E., J. T. Wilkerson, W. G. F. S. Daniel Farley, L. A. Townsley, secretary. The New Year was ushered in delightfully WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1900. H.C. BISHOP HENRY M. TURNER. Stricken with Paralysis, this Constant and Sturdy Champion of Negro Manhood and the Liberties of the People, lies at his Home in Atlanta, Ga. A Grateful Race Prays for his Speedy Recovery. Rogers Belle, Emmet Davis, Frank Jackson, Tom Ruff, Louis Varnes, West Spivey, Charlie Allen; Edward Mathews. The members of whom this club is composed, are some of the most refined, cultured young ladies and gentlemen in the state, all of whom are admirers and readers of The Colored American or anything for the uplifting of the race. Politics in the State of Georgia among republicans is livening up to fever heat just now among the aspirants for delegates to the Republican National Convention which convenes in Philadelphia in June. Some of the most prominent men in the South are mentioned and are actually in the race. The list is one of unusual strength solidity, as will be readily seen at a glance from the names that appear below, some of whom are mentioned for the state at large; Hons. J. W. Lyons, H. A. Rucker, W. H. Johnson, H. L. Johnson, R. D. Locke, Prof. R R Wright, Hon. J. H. Deveaux, Mr. J. Q Gassett. From the 5th Congressional District: Capt. C. U. Wimbish, Prof. A. Graves, Col. A. M. Hill, Hon. E. D. Blodgett, Mr. I. Wheeler, Mr. H. D. Bush. Any selection from the above list by the republicans of this state can hardly be a mistake as they are men of ability, integrity and large experience. at Atlanta, Ga, by the Young Men's West Side Social Club which gave a "Fancy Dress Ball" at their hospitable club rooms. This includes the debut tantes of the season. The apartments were tastefully decorated with holly and mistletoe, and the tables were handsomely adorned with rosebuds and other choice flowers from Atlanta greenhouses. And when the lovely girls in their ball toilets joined in the dance the scene was one aery suggestive of fairyland dancing began promptlyat 9 o'clock and continued until a late hour. There was intermission for an elaborate supper served by well known cateers. Among the many friends who gathered to enjoy the hospitality of the happy occasion were Misses Gertrude Hatfield, Katie Callhoun, Annie Wimbish, Rosy Nichols, Virginia Thomas, Henrietta Humphrey, Jannie Clinton, Susie Bell, Nora Bell, Maude Lee, Eldora Jones, Rosy Dickson, Mary Jackson, Pauline Harris, Wannie Smith, Messers. Jettie Keith, Archie Smith, Samuel Nichols, Simon Humphrey, Charlie Thomas, George Strong, Will Lane, Edward Mathews, Melvin Hatfield, Jack Simmons, John Holiday, Willie Johnson. 1 PRICE FIVE CENTS. OUT IN WEST VIRGINIA. A News-Gathering Native Tells of the Activities and Achievements of Afro-Americans in the Hilly State. Clarksburg, W. Va., Special. We are proud of the privilege of introducing The Colored American to Clarksburg residents, and we can safely say that they will always find interesting and instructive news in its columns pertaining to the race and including all the live topics of the hour. Rev. Owens, presiding elder of this district, preached to large congregations in the Water Street church Sunday. Rev. Howard of the Baptist church is working hard for a new edifice. Rev. Morris of the A. M. E. church is spending the week in Weston. Rev. Watson of the Water Street church announces the expected return next month of Mrs. Brown, the Washington evangelist. Prof. G. H. Guss, is one of the ablest, most efficient and conscientious principal who has ever had charge of the Clarksburg school, and while he is undoubtedly appreciated for his true worth by citizens generally, he should receive more united support in his efforts to secure a new and modern building in place of the present dilapidated structure, which is wholly inadequate to meet the demands of the present because of lack of room, poor light and ventilation. The grocery business conducted by Mr. M. W, Grayson, is an unanswerable refutation of the assertion often heard that "the Afro-American business man cannot succeed unless patronized by the members of his own race-" Mr. Grayson's well-stocked store is patronized almost exclusively by white customers. There are a number of successful colored business men here. Among the more prominent being Mr. C. D. Ogiden, who owns and operates a large planing mill; Mr. Walter Sedwick, who owns probably the largest and best livery; stable in town; Mr. C. W. Thomas, who is another successful grocer, and Mr. William Wilkinson, who does an immense business as a contracter and builder. Mr. Wilkinson is also a member of the city council. Mr. Frank Smith owns a well patronized restaurant and Mr Thomas Wellman operates a very popular barber shop for white customers. Dr. Frank Henderson, who has been practicing here for the past five months, is meet (Continued on Fifth Page.) 2 SENATOR MORGAN ON NEGR Attorney Settle Riddles the Inconsistent and Illogical Argument of Alabama's Senior Senator for Disfranchisement of Colored People To The Colored American: After reading the press report of Senator Morgan's speech in the Senate against the "Prichard resolution," I feel it my duty to ask space in your valuable paper to protest against some of his unfair and unjust assaults upon the Negro race. It seems a sad commentary upon the Anglo-Saxon's love of fairness, for a distinguished Senator to pour out his wrath upon an entire race of people, in a place where no member of that race can ready to him, especially J.C. when that Snaor himself owes his seat in hat august body to a practical nullification of the recent nullification of the recent amendments to the federal constitution, and the suppression of the votes of tens of thousands of American citizens, both white and black. I have not yet seen the Senator's remarks in full and do not therefore know what "legal aspect" he took of the 14 h and 15 h amendments to the constitution. No matter what his views may be however, these amendments are a part and parcel of the organic law of our country; purchased at too great a cost of blood and treasure to be repealed, nullified or disgraced to suit the sentiment of those who have never accepted them in good faith. Negro valor and patriotism helped largely to save and perpetuate the integrity of the Union, together with all the blessings of American citizenship, against the efforts of the Senator and his school of thinkers who sought to destroy both, yet he would admit to full participation in the affairs of government those who sought to destroy it, and exclude those who helped to defend and keep it undivided as a rich heritage to all succeeding generations. Negro suffrage is more responsible for the Hayes Filden controversy than is white suffrage for Goebelism in Kentucky; nor has the Negro ever shown greater political degeneracy than has been recently shown by the Goebel element of the democratic party in Kentucky. The Senator contends that there is a natural supremacy in the whites, and a natural deficiency in the blacks morally, socially and intellectually. If this be true, why does he invoke hostile legislation against the Negro to maintain that supremacy? Were I in his place, I would be ashamed to admit that it was necessary to dis- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. franchise the entire Negro race to maintain the supremacy of the whites. Handicapped as the Negro is, it seems strange that a superior race should find it necessary to still further handicap him by emasculating his citizenship that his white competitor may continue in the supremacy. Thousands represent the blending of the races through many generations, the product of former conditions, in whom are found a large degree all the best traits of their chivalric Southern fathers, many represent the very highest moral, intellectual and social excellence, many of fine business attainments are vastly superior to the Senator financially even here in the South. Many are his superiors in the higher walks of intellectual life where merit and not accident of birth is the criterion by which men are judged, and still others are as profoundly learned in the law as the Senator himself, and yet he would disfranchise all of these, to maintain the supremacy of the ignorant, lawless and improvident whites in the mountains of his own state, whose highest ambition is to make illicit whiskey, evade the revenue officers and clog the wheels of progress generally. Does the Senator seriously contend that purer and better government can be obtained through the illiterate, degraded and debauched white vote, such as always exists in large cities and sometimes in rural districts, than through the refined and cultivated black man, with large interests at stake, who pays his taxes and helps to bear all the burdens of government. Would the Senator disfranchise the distinguished educators Booker T. Washington and W. H. Council who are doing so much for his own state and mankind at large, to maintain the supremacy of an element of his own race who contribute largely to the penitentiary and jails of his state? The Negro asks no special legislation in his favor, he seeks no social intercourse with those who do not want him; all that he asks is that he be given the same opportunity to work out his temporal salvation, which is given every other American citizen. It seems strange that his party should see so much in the semi-savage Filipinos and the mixed-blooded Cubans to admire, while they can see so little in the Negroes at home who have absorbed their religion and their laws; are the products of their civilization, and tens of thousands of them are akin to them through their ancestors! The Senator says he has seen Negro votes bought for a dollar; that may be true, but should the entire race be disfranchised for that? If the Senator's superior race had not been in the disreputable habit of buying these ignorant votes, they would not have been sold. The turpitude of the buyer is certainly as great as that of the seller. The aw makes it greater. During the last 25 years I have seen hundreds of white votes bought, sold and delivered yet that is no reason why that entire race should be disfranchised. As a race the Negro has made more sacrifices to vote for the men and party of his choice than any other; In fact it used to be the main objection to the Negro as a voter in the South, that it was impossible to alienate him from the republican party. During the years of 1875 and 1876 I have seen him in Mississippi sacrifice their crops, their homes, and sometimes their lives rather than vote against their party. The Negro's loyalty to party is almost as great as the Negro soldiers loyalty to flag-it is a rare thing to hear of him deserting. The Senator speaks of finding a home for the Negro. His hom is already found; this is his country by nationality, by his labor he has enriched it, and by his blood he has defended it. It would be unsafe for any man, white or black to go into the cotton belts and encourage the Negro to leave; It is a rare thing to hear any of the old master-class in the South preaching the disfranchisement of the Negro. It comes mainly from those who were too pcor to own Negroes before the war, and have sprung into prominence by happy accident since The Negro today numbers nearly ten millions; pays taxes on nearly a billion dollars worth of property; he has hundreds of colleges and thousands of schools, he is successfully competing with his white brother in all the learned professions, also in all the trades, callings and avocations; he is keeping step with the Anglo-Saxon in the march of progress, and yet the Senator would disfranchise the entire race, and in their stead we come and enfranchise into our body politic all the sewerage of the old world, representing socialism, nihilism, commonism and all the other fanaticisms which clog the wheels of progress. paralyze the arteries of commerce and threaten the very foundations of American institutions. The Senator says Negro suffrage has done more to retard the progress of Mississippi and Louisiana than anything else; I think he is sadly mistaken. Hostility to the protection of home industry and a sound financial system have kept those states behind more than anything else. Surely the white man in this country represents a higher, purer, nobler, broader and more enlightened manhood and civilization than to claim that the disfranchisement of the Negro is necessary to secure the permanency of his moral, social and intellectual supremacy. Let the Senator and his party place the qualifications to exercise he elective franchise as high as they please; let it be education, wealth or moral excellence and we will come up to it, but to disfranchise us, or even seek to do it in the face of our history in this country is unmanly ungodly and unworthy a generous and liberty-loving people. Respectfully, Memphis, Tenn. THE GREATEST RACE JOURNAL Editor Colored American, Dear sir When I received The Colored America a week ago, transformed and adorned and brisling 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. 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 Washington, D. C., is prepared to furnish CAPABLE TEACHERS of every branch of instruction and 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. Send for registration blank briefly stating your full qualifications and enclose ten two cent stamps for postage. James G. Clayton, M. D. 459 C St. N. W. Secretary. SCOTT'S MAGIC HAIR STRAIGHTENER AND GROWER ```markdown ``` A AFTER USING. is guaranteed to be perfectly safe and harmless. 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His Sweet Norton, a deep tinted red wine, his own pressing, allows double dilution in the drinking glass and remains as vinous and sweet, as the best sweet Catawba unwatered. Both he sells at $1 a gallon. 0fc the half gallon. Chr Xander's Rye Whiskies at 75c, 65c, 60c and 50c the full quart, are free from fusel poison of some age, kept in heated storage, and compare advantageously with any whiskies at their price. Equally so his Brandies, Gins and Rum are pure and well developed, and the moderat use of them never cause a headache. He has an array of ever so many sta dards of Wines and Whiskies stored in his cellars and warehouse. Remember the Number 909. No branch houses. W. H. FISHER ..Dyer and Cleaner.. 709 9th St. n. w. 1407 14th St. n. w. Telephone 1152 PEOPLE FOR WHO M THERE'LL BE NO PLACE IN HEAVEN:— "Rubber-necks." Some poets we know. Hide bounced purtisans. Politicians who forget their friends. Growlers with a perpetual grievance Opponents to McKinleys renomination. Late comers at Lyceums and concerts. The frequent defendants in the police courts. Lawyers who mistake abuse for argument. Idiots who laugh inordinately at their own jokes. Preachers who indulge in long-winded sermons. Fellows who quit work to hunt a miner office. Negroes who tremble when the white man thunders. Women who confide their secrets to a female "friend." Office holders who stand in fear of their own shadow. People who deal in "tomorrows" instead of "todays." People who make engagements for 8 p.m. and come at 9. Money-making subscribers who fail to pay for their papers. The man who save 10 cents out of every dollars he earns. Chronic borrowers who forget to pay sundry dimes and quartess. Washingtonians who are satisfied to be without the right of suffrage. Mulatto Negroes who look down upon their brethren of darker hue. Loafers who won't work, and who sit around you until you can't work. Folks who insist upon entering a car by the front door on a blustery day. The composer of flowery resultions, which may mean anything or nothing. Women who kiss another woman, and then cast slurs upon her reputation. The liar who says everytime he meets you "I've just been thinking about you." Gobblers who tell you all the unpleasaut things they have heard said of you. Occupants of glass houses, who indulge promiscuously in the stone-throwing habit. Jurors who sit on civil rights cases when the Negro appears as prosecuting witness. Showy fellows who "blow" their cash for a "good time" and neglect to pay honest debts. The next door neighbor who watches to see who calls at your house and how long they stay. Pop-gun orators who talk a heap and say nothing in the running discussions at our literaries. Hypocrits who besmatter you with praise to your face, and "cuss" you behind your back. Alleged Christians who wear the livery of heaven in order to serve the devil more effectively. Negro capitalists who wont invest their money in a way to benefit others besides themselves. Selfish folks who want you to do something for them when they would not do a thing for you. Self-appointed critics who sneer at THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. the work of others, but never do any. thing worthy themselves. Politicians who try to make each voter feel that he (the voter) is the only thing that ever happened. Women who paint their faces in such gorgeous hues that their claim to respectability is open to doubt. The puffed-up minister who claims to be above the need of newspapers to further the interests of his work. Critics who fail to inform themselves upon the subjects they essay to discuss and thereby grieve judicious men. The foul minded gossiper who places an evil construction upon every matter that comes under his or her notice. Office-holders who fear to attend a public meeting or stand up for their rights, fos fear of losing their jobs. Imbecile who waste your time don't with alleged funny stories when you want to talk a thing but business. Office-holders who put on airs because they hail from Canton, or some other portion of the sacred soil of Ohio. People who habitually claim to have been the inspiring force of things they knew nothing about until all was our. Husbands who decry their wives, and wives who tattle about their husbands, or listen to the tattle of other women. Female bicyclists who wear outlaudish costumes and make themselves ridiculous by scorching on popular thoroughfares. The government employed who sticks to a $60 per month job after winning a post-graduate diploma in a paying profession. Government clerks who live beyond their means,—that is, at the expense of those foolish enough to a credit business with them. The fellow who knows he is isn't half as smart as he pretends to be, and lives in constant dread that his humbuggery will be exposed. The sweet-faced lady who wants the most trivial incidents of her house-hold and baby's exploits written up in full for the benefit of the anxious public. People who pass by a colored man's place of business and buy of an Irishman two blocks father at an advanced price. The fellow who brings around a "short article" about three columns long and asks for the free publications because he is a subscriber to the paper, slightly in arrears. The over-modest person who tells you a lot of stuff about his glowing achievements, and gently hints that is "not for publication" as he detests "notoriety." Society ladies who act graciously to a poor editor, and then look for a write up of their "rare accomplishments and indescribable charm of manner." The member of the arrangements committee who takes you one side and tells you confidentially that had it not been for his sagacity the whole affair would have been a flat failure. Married men who prefer the society of other women to that of their wives, and married women who make home so unpleasant that a husband only comes when everything else closes up or stays in only when he's "broke." Our agents will not be allowed any commission for subscription they may take at the one dollar rate. It only applies to persons who send their money direct to the office. Agents who collect and who expect their commission must collect at the old rate of $2 per year. MEN CURED FREE A most successful remedy has been found for sexual weakness such as impotence varicocle, shrunken organs, evous debility, lost nahrhood, night emissions, premature discharge and all other results of self abuse or excess. It cures any case of the difficulty, never fails to restore the organs to full natural strength and vigor. The doctor who made this wonderful d scovery wants to let every man know about it. 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Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge. In the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any scientific journal. Terms, $3 a year; four months, $1. Sold by all newsdealers. MUNN & Co. 361Broadway, New York Branch Office, 625 F St., Washington, D. C. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. 4 HOPE FOR DEMOCRACY. The Newer Generation of Jeffersonians Trampling Upon Ancestral Traditions. Food for Thought. Strange as it may seem, yet nevertheless it is a fact, that Judge James Mathews, of Albany, N. Y., who was elected to office by democrats a year or two ago, Judge Ruffin (deceased) of Boston, appointed by Gov. Ben Butler, (deceased,) and Mr. Carr, are the only Afro-Americans who have been so honored in the North, or in the South, since the days of reconstruction. We are cognizant of the fact that a number of justices of the peace have been elected and appointed in different parts of the country, but they are not judges, nor for that matter assistant district attorneys. Attorney Barnett, of Chicago, termed assistant state's attorney is really what is regarded in this part of the country as an assistant prosecuting attorney of the county. If this be true, there is this that democracy is entitled to, and that is, credit for taking the initiative and the lead in maintaining the same in the appointment and election of Afro-Americans to high grade positions along a legal line.—Cleveland Gazette. The latest report of the relative rank of the officers of the District National Guard shows the colored members representing the 1st Separate Battalion to stand as follows: Of the Majors, Arthur Brooks ranks eighth, out of fifteen named. Captains-Jonn H. Campbell, second Frederick T. Webster, fourth; E. L. Webster, seventeenth, in claas of twenty eight. First lieutenants--Francis J. Cardozo fifth; James E. Walker, eleventh; Robt. B. Covington, thirteenth; Dr. Phil Brcome Brooks, surgeon, seventeenth; Samuel Piper, nineteenth; Dr. W. Bruce Evans, twenty ninth; Samuel A Ward, thirty second; Joseph H. Johnson, thirty fifth in a class of forty. Second lieutenants--Frank N. Robinson, second; Louis H. Patterson, eleventh; Raymond A. Jackson, thirteen; Henry Chase, fifteenth in a class of sixteen. The register further shows Capt. Peter B. Meredith, Company C, to have died; Corporal Leigh R, Whip per, Privates William P. Allen, Robert R. Johnson and Walter Washington, all of Company C dishonorably discharged: Privates William Buchanan and Lewis M. Carroll, Company A, dropped as deserters. 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. Feelihg Like "Thirty Cents." John Quarterdollar and Nancy Nichol were married at Providence, R. I., the other day. How like thirty cents they must feel. FREEDOM. BY JAMES RUSSEL LOWELL. Men! whose boast is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave Are you truly free and brave? If you do not feel the chain, When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed? Women who shall one day bear Sons to breathe New England air, If ye hear without a blush, Deeds to make the roused blood rush Like red lava through your veins, For your sister row in chains— Answer! are ye fit to be Mothers of the brave and free. Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And, with leathern heart, forget That we owe mankind a debt? No! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear And w th heart and hand to be, Earnest to make others free! They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three The Academy Restaurant. Messrs. Gaskins and Ganes, two popular and enterprising young men of this city, have leased and fitted up most elegantly what is now known as "The Academy Restaurant" at 820 8th street, northwest. This is one of the best locations in the city, the rear entrance in front of the Academy of Music and the front entrance opposite Kann's. They opened the doors to the public last Monday and since then the restaurant has been crowded with their patrons and with friends offering congratulations. "The Academy Restaurant" will be conducted on a high plane and will be first class in every particular. The very best of everything may be had and those who patronize the place may expect gilt edged service for the smallest money. Mr. A J. Gaskins the senior member of the firm was for seven years manager of the Chevy Chase Club, one of the richest clubs of its kind in this section, but left that club to enter into business for himself. Mr. Frank Gaines has been connected as head man at Osborne and Hoban's corner G and 7th streets, for number of years and has managed that place to the satisfaction of the firm and the public generally. They start under bright auspices and will no doubt get their share of the business. FREE BLOOD (URE An Offer Proving Faith to Sufferers. Ulcers, Cancers, Eating Sores, Painful Swellings, Effects of Blood Poison, Persistent Eruptions, that refuse to heal under ordinary treatment are quickly cured by B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm), the most wonderful Blood Purifier of the age, made especially to cure all terrible obstinate deep seated Blood and Skin troubles? Is your blood thin? Are you pale? All run down? Have you Eczema? Pimples? Biotches and Bumps? Skin or Scalp Humors? Boils? Eruptions? Skin Itches and Swollen? Aching Bones? Rheumatism? Scrofula? Catarrh? Then you need B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm), because it drains from the blood and entire system all the poisons and humors which cause all of these troubles, and the cause being removed, a permanent cure follows. B B B thoroughly tested for thirty years, and thous ands cured after doctors and patent medicines had failed. For sale by druggists at $1 per large bottle, or 6 large bottles (full treatment) $5 To prove our faith in B. B B. we will send a Trial Bottle Free to sufferers, so they may test remedy at our expense. Address Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. 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. Up-To-Date Groceries. Fresh Meats of all kinds. Goods delived to any part of the city. Money saved by dealing at this Store. 4TH AND OST.N.W. Found At Last The great Afro Electro Comb. Positively and permanently straightens kinky, knotty, Nappy, Curly, Trouble some hair. Surely but man's triumph over matter is progressing. The steam boat, the engine, the telegraph, the telephone, the horseless car and the automobile are facts demonstrating man's ability to accomplish all things. Just in this way have we perfected the Great Afro-Electro Comb. Used as an ordinary comb it will positively by aid of its great magnetic power cause the hair to grow long and straight. It is indestructable. It is everlasting. It is guaranteed to do all that its claimed for it. It is an honest article. Not only harmless, but gives life strength and beauty to the hair and scalp. Worth $5.00 each. For a limited time we will sell these combs prepaid to any address for $1.00. THE AFRO-ELECTRO COMB MF'G. Co. Box No. 5 Station B. Richmond, Va. Make all Postal and express orders pay able to M. H. Gathright, Secretary and Treasurer. Money back if dissatisfied. B.A.WAGGAMAN&Co. ...Best Shoe Made for the Money... Every Pair Guaranteed ONE PRICE, $3.50 "The Gem of the Antilles" Everybody who wishes to better their condition will find that Cuba offers the best opportunities upon this hemisphere. If you have not less than ($400) four hundred dollars and are interested, send for necessary blanks and enclose (30cts.) thirty cents n U. S. postage stamps, to R. M. R. Nelson. 26 C Barraconne St., Santiago de Cuba, or Capt Jno. L. Waller, 21 C Posodel Rey Baje, Santiago de Cuba, J. E. Bruce, (Bruce Grit) 11 Congress Street, Albany, N. Y., or E. E. Cooper, Colored American, Washington, D. C. Sugar offers an opportunity to make $5000 per annum, for eight years after two years hard labor Agents Wanted. 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. SCOTT REMEDY CO. Box 570, Louisville, KY. The special rate of one dollar per year will not and does not apply to people who pay our agents or representatives. To obtain the benefit of this rate, subscribers must send or bring their money direct to the office. ```markdown ``` R. L. Elliott A. H. COOPER Mo. Ave. and 6th St. Opposite Pa. Station AMUSEMENTS. Week of January 22. W. H. CRANE And His Excellent Company. Mon., Tues., Wed., and Thurs, and Mat. Wed., His Happiest Success. A RICH MAN'S SON. Friday and Saturday and Mat. Sat. A VIRGINIA COURTSHIP. Jan. 29. Alice Neilson Opera Company, in The Singing Girl. Academy Week of January 22. Matinees Wed. nesday and Saturday 25 and 50 cents. First Time in Washington. The EVIL EYE Or the many merry mishaps of Nid and the Weird wonderul wandering of Nod Management of the author Sidney R. Ellis. With a Company of 40 People. Al H. Wilson, Fannie Bloodgood, Rosaire & Elliott and the famous Phasey Troup of English Specialis s. Jan 29. HAYES and LYTTON. ⇨SECOND BAPTIST LYCEUM ⇨ A Free Forum, devoted to the Instruction of the Masses on the Social, Economic, Religious, Educational and Business Issues of the Day, and their relation to the Progress of the Negro Race. Meets every Sunday afternoon [except second Sunday in each month] at Second Baptist Church, 3rd Street, between H and I Str., northwest. Everybody invited. Richard W. Thomrson, President, R. S. Smith and C. L. Marshall, V. Pres. Miss Emma E. Tolliver, Secretary. Willis T. Menard, Statistician. GASKINS & GAINS. Academy Restaurant [just around the corner] 320 8th Street, N. W. All leading brands of wine, liquors and cigars, imported and domestic. Ladies and Gentlemen's Cate Upstairs. ATH RIVING COLOREDCITY News Notes and Personal Men: tion from Concord. concord, N. C.,™Spectal.—A few months ago the Rising Mount Zion nose was Organized in Charity Hall py ov. Thomas D Atkins. The church rallies eyery Sunday and has already raised a snug sum of money topey im part for the Episcopalian churen, into which it removed last we Th’s is a fine church, beautifal- jy «(uated in the southern part of the town The Baptist Young People’s Uoion will meet in this church every Thursday night. Mrs. Sallie Rhines, e) Wallace, who is president is earnestly involved in the reformation be young peopleof Concord, In this respect she hasa plenty to “do. The Rev. Dr. P. F. Maloy, district mission - ary of western North Carolina was with us in our last week’s meeting and told us many good things. On Friday night of the same week the doctor preached »a crowded house, subject ‘‘And heis the prince of many other devils.’’ Miss {da Shanke of Charlotte is preparing a concert for next week, There are many admirable features in the charac: ter of this young lady. Her progress ive ideas are generally accepted with out question. The small pox farce is on. Prof, J). A. Lankford, master mechanic who bas charge of the engineer works of the Coleman cotton mills is a man of splendid parts and very pleasant to meet. The Cotton Boll, edited by J. P. Blackwell, has suspended publica- tion. David M. Turner, son ef Bishop ‘Turner is here in the employ of Mr. W. C. Coleman. Rey. Dr. G. L. Biack: well, manager ofthe A. M. E Zion Pablishing House at Charlot:e has re. signed bis charge of Price’s Memorial Temple in this town. The Councils Finance Committee. the finance committee of the National Afro-American Council met Thursday even ingattha residence of Prot, Jesse Lawson Lawson and mapped outa splendid system or collecting fundsto put into operation the plans of the body. The Louisiana election \aw and the Georgia convict lease system are vooked sor early attention, The committeo has representatives in every state in the Uniou aad Includes bishops, educators, min* ‘sters politicians and professional and busi sesstien, Hon. John H. Hannon, former ‘emberot North Carolina !egislature former register ef Deeds of Halifax cpunty and former postmaster oj Halitax, N,C., is chair’ man, He is now prominently connected with the Recorder’s Off e. Prot. Jesse Law’ “on, one Ot the race’s best workers, is secre: lary of the commifttee. —_-->+—___ Likes the Way We Talk. ‘tis more to the poiat to encourage aud help a man while be lives, then to Suild monuments to his memory after Se has been hounded to his death by ‘ack of support and appreciation.— Colored American. You are right Brother Cooper; a column of that doctrine, in sermons of ‘he above length, will result in great food, but, judging from the appearance ! your very excellent journal, the cswoof the twentieth century will ave come and long gone before your ‘eods can chant these words in lam: eotations in your memory. Negro newspaper is the black ‘tsa’ only forum where an impartial Kearos ig guaranteed, It is not a ‘sx cy, but one of the most pressing heveosites of this age. The Negro who *e'-ses ty custain an honest race jour: “s'\s bliad to his best mterests.—The red American. “ore than that Brother Cooper. A Negro who refuses to sustain an honest ‘sce ournal, 18 more Often otherwise, pw ‘o'y blind to his best interests, but THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHIN GTON, D. c. ee $0 prejudiced and chock fall of cussed | Press Comments On The Colored An Bess that, even if he sees the good ina Be eek ae Negro journal, he pretends that he} fhe Colored American, Washin doesn’t see it, and is never so happy | D.C., comes to us this week chang as when engaged in the nefarious work | a 16 page journal.—Baptist Amer of crippling the influ2nce ot the paper The Colored American has been and speaking ill of tbe men who make | oq down from a blanket sheet to ¢ sacrifices that the race may have this | ysnent pamphlet form; it shows most effective champion of the rights Bro. K. E Cooper, its brilliant e and liberties of a long oppressed and | is yp with the times.—The Free | proscripted people.—Omaha Progress. ( Miss.) a The Conservator congratulate: OUT IN WEST VIRGINIA, Colored American on its new « Like the Conservator, it has ris the times, and is now well on int: (Continued from 1st page.) Be ee ond er ee eee eee ing with unqualified and well deserved Success and among his numerous patients includes many whites. ‘I'he Hasty Padding Lyceum which was organized last week, began its meetings on Monday night. Miss Florence Sehon, who teaches in Bridgeport, spent Sun’ day in town. Mrs. Sherman H. Guss has returned from her home in Ohio, where she was summoned on account cf her grand mothers illness. Mrs M. W. Grayson who has been quite ill, has recevered Mra. John Nelson, who has just returnec from Chicago, is quite il, The many friends of Mr. John Robinson were glad to welcome him home after his long absence. Miss Ella Colston 18 sufferiag from an attack of a grippe. Mr. and Mre. Richard West anticipate an early return to Washing: ton, D.C. Mrs. Auna Freeman has been called to Steubensville. Ohio, on account of the serious illness of her daughter, Mrs. Tuck. She has the sympathy of the entire community as her mother is also critically ill. The Kaights of Pythias have a very pros. perous lodge here, the second largest in the state, and the Vice Grand Ohan- cellor of the state is a member of the iocal in the person of Prof. 8. H. Guss S W. Starks, Supreme Chancellor of the order 18a West Virginian. The bigh school class of 1900 will give a musical and literary entertainment our Friday evening. E. H: Should Stand for Epeland. Editor Colored American.— While a few noisy Irishmen and Germans, both probably naturalized citizens, are en- gaged in trying to create a sentiment in this country antagonistic to Great Britam, the former because of fancied wrongs to Ireland of a century or more ago and the latter on account of the mother tongue solely or nationality— one for ona cause, the other for another —yet both against Eogland. Why not the colored press un snimously speak or take the side of Esgland, which has in all cases stood for the freedom of the black naan, while on the other hand the Boers held slaves until England paid them for their slaves and forced them to drop the system of slavery en: tirely. Itis stated that a black man is not allowed to walk, except im the middle of the street in many of the Boer villages even now, and not al- lowed to attesd any school in the Transvaal, while echools are establish: ed for native black children in all the English possessions in Africa. Now then as between the English and the Boers, I am sure that the colored Americans are fer Eogiand, and if it was possible for troops to be raised in this country for the ‘‘Queen’s army,” one hundred thousand colored Ameri: cans could be raised inside of a han: dred days and as good fighters a3 can be found anywhere the world over, but with their own officers always. Very truly, H. C. Brucs, 1926 11th St, N. W. Press Comments On The Colored American The Uoiored American, Washington, D.C., comes to us this week changed to 16 page journal.—Baptist American. The Colored American has been bol 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, ( Miss.) 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 front rank of Negro journals. Success to you Brer’ Kditor.—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 It is one of the best edited c:lored jour. uals in America. It is always full of choice literature and the best resding matter. We recommend this valuable paper to the race as an able and fear’ lese defender of its right: —The Pro gressive Age (La. ) Hon, E. E. Cooper, the manager o! The Colored American, Washington, D. C., is indeed a progressive journalist. The new form of The Uolored 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 a‘ Washington, D. G., reached us this week chang2d 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 P.aindeal er, Utah. The Colored American and Chicagc Conservator have broken away from the old style of six column folio sheets. In their new form of four column, six teen pages, shows that our esteemed journalist Edward E. Cooper of the American and Messrs, DeClelland and Rameey, publishers of the Conservator: ale progressive newspaper men. The two papers are not only representative in form, neatness and typographics appearance, but their news depart- ments, pointed and interesting editor: ials on questions of a national and lo: cal character make these journals clean cut publications of which Negroes in all sections of the country should feel a degree: of pride commensarate with the journalistic ability of these editors. —The Florida Sentinel. A JOURNAL OF VARIED AND USEFUL A JOURNAL OF VARIED AND USEFUL INFORMATION, Editor, Colored American, My dear sir—I want to compliment The Colored American on its new dress Typo- graphically itisa pretty thing. The style of the paper is also an improve- ment. It looks mcre like a journal now, which I look upon The Colored American as being. 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WHOLESALE MANUFACTURING RETAIL CONFECTIONER 523 44 Street, Southwest, WASHINGTON, D. C. Wedding Cakes Made and Parties Furnished at Short Notice. Ice Cream All The Year: 6 A NEW ADMINISTRATION. Mr. R. W. Thompson Becomes President of Second Baptist Lyceum-Prof. Lawson's Valuable Services Highly Indorsed —"Field Day." On the first Sunday in the new year an audience gathered at the Second Baptist Lyceum that crowded the spacious lecture room from the rostru to the doors. It was "field day," so to speak, the program taking wide range. President Jesse Lawson delivered a stirring address reviewing the progress J. MR. R. W. THOMPSON. of the race since emancipation, stating that the Negro like any sensible business man should, at the end of each year take an inventory of stock on hand, balance his books, and find out whether the year has resulted in profit or loss. He referred to the report made by Dr. H. B. Frissell, of Hampton Institute before the Industrial Commission in which the latter declared that the Negro people might properly be divided into three classes—one third who had retrograded since the dawn of freedom; one third who had remained at a standstill, and the other third who had made some progress. He asked in Dr. Frissell's testimony could be regarded as reliable. It is, he said, the legitimate function of our lyceums to inquire into these matters and before accepting any evidence as true, call for papers and statistics. He felt confident that our thirty-seven years of journeying through the wilderness had brought substantial returns and that perhaps at the end of forty years we might, like the Children of Israel, come within sight of the Promised Land. Prof. Lawson then introduced Mr. A. Wendell Scott, of the District bar, who in eloquent style gave a comprehensive summary of the paper on "The Negro as a Citizen and soldier," read by him on the preceding Sunday. An interesting discussion followed, after which, by request, Lieut. R. E. Toomey recited an original poem entitled "The end of the Year." Prof. Lawson, in a speech full of feeling announced that his labors as president were at an end, and that a new administration would be installed. He heartily thanked the old officers and members for the strong and uniform support given him during his term of seven years, and urged that the organization use its best endeavors to maintain the standard toward which he had aimed. The officers for the new year were reported from the executive committee and their election ratified by the lyceum as follows: President—Mr. R. W. Thompson, 1st Vice President—Mr. R. S. Smith, 2nd Vice President—Mr. C. L. Marshall, Recording Secretary—Miss Emma E. Tolliver. Financial Secretary—Miss Almira Crutchfield, Corresponding Secretary—Miss Bessie Miller, Treasurer—Miss Evelyn Carey, Chaplain—Mr. T. H. Norman, Director of Music—Mr. Benjamen Washington, Pianist—Miss Lillian V. Green. Cornetist—Prof. B. T. Holmes. Ushers-Mr. Thos. Ware, chief; Messrs. Tazewell Towles, Clarence Davis, J. E. Slaughter, Robert Lee, Jerome Jenkins and Robert Dodson. The retiring president introduced Mr. Thompson as his successor, paying a high tribute to his worth and ability. The new president expressed his thanks for the honor coffered and accepted it as a sacred trust recognizing fully the many responsibilities which the post carries with it. He asked the support and co-operation of the strong forces that had stood by Prof. Lawson and had combined to make the Second Baptist Lyceum an organization of national repute and a powerful agent in the work of civilization. After installing the other officers the committee on resolutions reported a memorial enlarging the character of Prof. Lawson, unreservedly indorsing his splendid administration and expressing regret at pressure of other interests rendering it impossible for him to further serve them as president. The resolutions were unanimously adopted by a rising vote. The next meeting of the lyceum will be held January 28, at which time Prof. Robert H. Terrell, principal of the Washington High School will be the speaker of the day. Prof. McGee at Bethel. Prof. W. J. McGee, president of the Anthropological Society, in charge of the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, delivered a scholarly lecture Tuesday evening of last week before Bethel Literary and Historical Association on "Our Aboriginal Landholders." He gave a vivid and accurate account of the origin, distribution and characteristic of the red men who roamed over this land long before the advent of the Caucasian. Prof. McGee's addaddress was a scientific treat and the full text with an analysis of the phases of anthropology, was enjoyed by a distinguished audience. Questions were propounded by Attorney R. S. Smith, J. W. Cromwell, George W. Cook, Register Lyons and others. Prof. Kelly Miller and Recorder Cheatham highly approved the address as a masterly presentation of a most interesting historical subject. Prof. W. H. Richards presided, and Messrs. Lyon and Cheatham occupied seats with the speaker of the evening on the platform. 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. The Colored American for 1900 will be a thing of value and of beauty. 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The Conference was one the most successful ever held and the hospitality of the people of Norfolk will be long remembered by all who attended. The people of Norfolk are wide awake to the Y. M. C. A. work, having erected a building at the cost of $8,000 Messrs. J. E. Moore and W. A. Hunton, International Committee Secretaries, and Mr. C. C. Dogan, Gen'l Secretary Norfolk Association did everything possible to make it pleasant for the several delegates. We stopped in company with Mr. Hargrave of Riddle University, of Charlottesville, at the home of Mrs. Ida Raudolph, Queenstet, whose treatment of us shall never be forgotten. We had the pleasure of meeting Revs. R. A. Bowling, H. H. Mitchell, D. P. Seaton of Norfolk, Prof. J. M. Gandy of Y. M. C. L., Petersburg, Prof. B. Livingstone College, S.bury, N. C., M. J. Gilliam, Corand Prof. G. W. Bray. Public Schools, Berkeley, Va. very pleasant for us while Norfolk; and a host of et whom space will not alention. At Hampton Nor- we had a pleasant chat principal H. B. Frissell and y of the students. Stopping in and, while waiting for the train at the time pleasantly with Hon. Mitchell, jr., Editor Planet, and yer J. E. Byrd, President of Unit and Insurance Co., who reports prosperity is on the increase in at section. Mr. Chas. Preston visit-Richmond during the Xmas holi days. Mr. A. Scott Webb, who has been spending some time in Philadelphia is in the city, en route to Butte, Montana, with W. A. jr., son of Senator Clark the Copper King of the West. Miss Jennie Brown is home after several days visit to Washington, D. C. Miss Rosa Whipps, after a few days visit returned to Washington this week. Mr. N. F. Berry of Lychburg, Va., and Mr. E L. Baptist of Buffalo Springs, Va., were in the city last week the guests of Mr. J. Henry Dickerson on 5th street. Mr. J H. Dickerson gave a dinner Sunday in honor of Messrs. N. F. Berry and E. L. Baptist at his home on N. 5th street. We must say it was the most up-to date dinner we have had the pleasure of attending, Mr. Dickerson is our leading caterer of the city. Those present were: Mr. J. H. Dickerson, the host, Messrs. N. F. Berry, Lynchburg, E. L. Baptist, Buffalo Springs, R. W. Graves, Danville, Root, Kelser, Jno. L. Harris, C. H. Brown and C. H. Bullock. The American can be gotten at Pollard and Noble's barber shop or from Mr. A. F. Angel at the University. C. H. BULLOCK If you are wise you will take advantage of our special rate of one dollar per year and send us the dollar at once. Money sent by express or post office money order, or even postage stamps is preferable to currency sent in a letter unless the letter is registered. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. 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. 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This week many of our subscribers and friends will receive the pleasant announcement that for fifteen days from date, The Colored American can be had for the small sum of one dollar one half the usual price. Every person who takes advantage of this remarkable offer, helps himself and helps us. Let us all rally friends, and place The Colored American in every home in this broad land. There is no reason why it should not be there, and there is every reason why it should be. The race journal is not a luxury. It is a weapon of defense, a medium of instruction, and a vehicle for business communication. It presents the issues of the hour as they appeal to us and moulds public sentiment in our favor more strongly than any other force. It sustains the efforts of the pulpit and the bar, and supplements the work of the school. It is a compendium of Negro history, and stirs race pride, inculcates race unity, and urges race cooperation for the general good. The Colored American meets the popular demand. It contains just what the people want and ought to have. We are giving you an opportunity to get it at the lowest of rates—one dollar per year. This year The Colored American will be better than ever. Its present features will be brightened and improved, and new ones constantly added. For fifteen days it will be cheaper, but only in temporary price. At the expiration of that time, the old rate of $2.00 per year, will be restored. In order to give old friends an equal chance with the new in this bonanza, subscribers in arrears, may pay the old bill at the one dollar rate, if paid within those fifteen days. Don't wait, for time flies. Write at once, with your order and that of as many others as possible. Whether this is the end of 19th or the beginning of the 20th century is a question in the minds of some, but we think all agree without debate, that now is the time to subscribe for the THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. race's greatest advocate—The Colored American. It is the people's opportunity. The fellows who are getting jobs at the federal trough nowadays, are in excellent condition to see the evidences of prosperity offered by the new year. A MERITED RECOGNITION. Mr. R. W. Thompson's appointment in the Census Bureau is a most deserving one. There are but few young men in this community who have the rare ability possessed by Mr. Thompson, or who have been identified so closely with the City of Washington. The "powers" are doing themselves credit in recognizing the young men of ability hereabouts.—Daily Record. The Colored American takes great pleasure in indorsing the liberal and kindly sentiments expressed by our esteemed contemporary toward a valued member of our staff. The Colored American merely wishes to modestly observe that it always picks the best timber available, for the pace we set is a sharp one. We congratulate Mr. Thompson, and bespeak for him much success. We are also pleased to announce that his relations with The Colored American remain unchanged. Through a typographical error, the wording under the "cut" of Dr. J. E. Rankin, in our last week's issue, was misleading, and gave an impression far from the editor's meaning. Instead of the apparent statement "Can be made to go," the question "Can he be made to go?" was intended. "WHO WILL GO TO HEA vEN. In another column of this issue The Colored American names a large list of people "For whom there'll be no room in heaven." We believe every word of those descriptions, and if you just study a moment, you can put your finger on an individual of your acquaintance who will tally perfectly with some one of the classes enumerated in our feature. The matter was prepared by our high-salaried "funny" man, but we don't see much joke about it—its too true to life, and the memory of how we have been "done" by some of the characters portrayed, stirs up a feeling that is far from blissful. Anyhow, dear reader, the column will repay perusal, and if any of the "shoes" happen to fit your feet, don't accuse us of having had you in mind at the time the paragraph was written. We meant "the other fellow" of the same kind as yourself. If all our indictments stick, the question arises, "Who indeed will get toheaven? Indiana made no mistake when she sent Albert J. Beveridge to the United States Senate. His maiden speech on the Philippine question was a masterpiece. Mr. Beveridge is a young man, but he can hold his own with the best of them. HOWARD UNIVERSITY AND ITS OFFICERS. We print in another portion of this issue a letter from the pen of Professor William H. H. Hart, in which he makes a ringing defense of Howard University and its President, Dr. J. E. Rankin. Prof. Hart is one of the ablest law instructors, broadest-gauged philanthropists and most useful citizens we have among us, and it is with infinite regret that he has seen fit to take issue with The Colored American where no issue has been drawn. We should dislike to part company so estimable a gentleman as Prof. Hart upon any question, and most of all to lose so good a customer and friend through what seems to be a misapprehension of our position with reference to Howard University. The cause of the trouble arises from the publication in last week's paper of a letter signed "An Alumnus," calling attention to some alleged abuses in the management of Howard, and charging discrimination and favoritism on the part of President Rankin. The letter was reprinted from the Washington Times, and duly credited to that sheet To proceed intelligently, one or two things should be understood in this connection. The Colored American is a newspaper. It's function is to report facts or occurrences as they exists or happened. A news report or communication is one thing, and an editorial expression is another. It has always been our policy to accord to all sides a fair and impartial hearing, to the end that the truth may be brought out and justice established. Anything short of this is a departure from the true purpose of journalism. The letter in question was a signed communication. It was published in a paper not read by colored people outside of Washington. Allegations were made which demaded authoritative contradiction or investigation. As a matter of news we gave the article space, presuming that the persons in interest would understand the unvariable rule of journalism—that no publisher assumes responsibility for the opinions of his contributors, reserving the editorial page for the expression of his own views. The press, to be effective, must be a free forum, and every cause should be fully heard. The facts in hand, the people can be trusted to decide. It is but fair to ourselves to say the article signed, "An Alumnus" did not represent our views on the management of Howard University, but the publication had the effect we desired. It rallied the friends of the school, and so stirred those who know Dr. Rankin's virtues, that should such statements be made again soon, the person responsible therefor is apt to be compelled to defend himself in an action at law. We are a friend to Howard University and an ardent admirer of Dr. Rankin. The school is the most widely known institution in the country for the higher education of the Negro youth. Dr. Rankin is a Christian gentleman, a scholar and humanitarian. He has from the beginning of our citizenship, given of his time and means to aid in the uplifting and broadening out of the Negro people, and accepting at a personal sacrifice the headship of Howard at a time when it was run down and almost in the throes of dissolution, he has erected an institution that shall stand forever as a monument to his sterling character, executive skill and liberal methods. The Negro is not naturally ungrateful, and in this instance it ought not to be truthfully said that we are willing to sting the hard of a noble white man, whose heart has ever been loyal to our cause. The beneficial influence of Howard University is not confined to Washington nor to the United States. Go where you will—North, East, South or West, to Africa, to the islands of the sea—and you will find emblazoned upon the walls of the best and most prosperous citizens, a diploma of some kind, granted by Howard. Her graduates have gone out to the corners of the earth, and spread the glory of their alma mater in law, medicine, pharmacy theology and the classics. Grandly are they sustaining the mission of this well-managed and well-equipped school and through Dr. Rankin's counsel and constant encouragement a larger number have made their way in the world, than can be recorded of any other administration. The race should stand by and hold up the hands of such men as President Rankin. Great results, visible to the dullest eye, and intelligible to the densest mind, give the lie to the complaints and charges of the malicious and the disgruntled. Personal grievances should be as chaff before the wind when vital educational interests—our higher culture, our moral development, our plan—are at stake. All of Howard's departments are prospering, and all of her branches are in good hands. The faculty is a capable and conscientious body. Freedmen's Hospital, representing the medical, dental and pharmaceutical branch, is admirably controlled by colored men and women and in the other departments competent colored instructors are numerously engaged. The relations between President Rankin and his staff are of the most cordial character. Spasmodic attacks like that of an "An Alumnus" come at intervals. Their inherent weakness and their want of substantial ground are so apparent to the thoughtful, that after each assault the institution and Dr. Rankin are left stronger than ever in the affections of the masses. The Colored American's publication of the "Alumnus" article did just what we wanted it to do. The factions have "lined up" and the advantage is in favor of Howard. Prof. Hart's rejoinder sounds a keynote, and performs an invaluable service to the race. In behalf of the school he very properly assumes the aggressive. The friends of Howard University, when counted, in number will seem as the leaves of Vallambrosa. The Colored American is pleased to record itself as one of that conquering host. 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 leaeing editotial 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. The Colored American for 1900 will be a thing of value and of beauty. Our special offer of fifteen days at one dollar per year gives the poorest as well as the wisest and most economical an opportunity to get the best Negro journal published at the very small price of one dollar per year. A GOOD SHOWING The Metropolitan Baptist Church Sets a Pace in Raising Funds and in Clearing off Its Indebtedness. Washington city is known as a "city of churches." There are said to more than eighty colored churches in the District of Columbia and of that number more than forty are Baptists. The largest the richest and the best attended Baptist churches among the colored people can be counted on the digits. Among the few that stand high is the Metropolitan Baptist church, located on R street between 12th and 13th streets, n. w. This church is one of the landmarks of Wasbington. It A. H. REV. ROBERT JOHNSON. is located in the aristocratic part of the city and is a splendid building with all of the departments for the various services, even to a comfortable and wellarranged study for the pastor. Like all churches and race enterprises it had its beginning in an humble way and while the building and grounds are of great value the membership has so rallied to its pastor that it will not be many years before the church will be entirely out of debt. Dr. Johnson, ite pastor, is making herculean efforts to liquidate the indebtness of the church; and as an example of his success it need only be stated that from November '98 to November '99 more than $2,600 was paid on the standing debt of the church. It must be borne in mind that in addition to this all the expense of the church including pastor's salary, etc., have been promptly paid. Through his untiring efforts the membership of the church as well as the Sunday-school department is organized on the military plan into companies and tribes, and so thoroughly are are they organized and so well has the selection of leaders been made in the different tribes and companies, that at almost any given time when it is announced to the leaders that a certain amount must be raised, it is raised in true military style with promptness and decision. Too much cannot be said in commendation of the magnificent work of Dr. Johnson at the Metropolitan Baptist Church. He has devoted the best years of his life to this work and in the days of the tribulation of the church he sacrificed his home and property that his flock might be kept together and that the temple might be held in which it could worship. Other races honor their heroes; monuments are going up daily for men who served their people and their causes. When Dewey returned from Manila a $50,000 home was presented to him THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON D. C. When the news flashed over the wires that Gen. Lawton had fallen in battle in the Philippine Archipelago, a fund of nearly $100,000 was almost instantly raised to prepare a home for his widow and orphans. The members of the Metropolitan Baptist Church who have listened to the counsel, who have heard the eloquence and who drank the wisdom from the pulpit where Dr Johnson has labored so long could do no nobler thing than to organize some movement to present him a home or at least to redeem his old home. We are a grateful people and more than once this idea has been suggested. The Colored American takes pleasure in making the suggestion and will co-operate in any way with the members of the church or those who desire to lead in the movement. Dr. Johnson deserves much at the hands of his congregation and his friends. PROGRESS OF WHITE MAN An Esteemed Caucasian Contemporary Vividly Portrays the Advancement its People Have Made in Half a Century. One need not go back a century, nor yet half of that distance, to discover in this "happy land of freedom" millions of intelligent citizens, including scholars, divines, statesmen, philosophers and other leaders of men, who sincerely believed in and earnestly spoke and learnedly wrote in support of that "hideous atrocity" — slavery. Fifty years ago the fugitive slave law was in force, according to the terms of which it was a crime to give shelter or food or assistance of any kind to a runaway slave. Fifty years ago in all the free states the United States marshals, aided by the United States district attorneys, were discharging their duty, fulfilling the obligations of their official oath, by hunting, capturing, and returning to their owners such men, women and children as had escaped from slavery and taken refuge among the enemies of that constitutional institution which the World describes as "the "hideous atrocity." Fifty years ago there were pulpits in New England from which no word of condemnation of slavery or of sympathy with the slaves was ever heard. Millions of Americans now living remember the rendition of Anthony Burns, the mobbing of abolitionists, the destruction of anti-slavery newspaper offices, and other exciting incidents growing out of "the irrepressible conflict." It was less than fifty years ago that Daniel Webster, the greatest statesman this country has ever produced, made that fatal 7th of March speech, which, although invincible in logic, cut him off from the sympathy of his fellow-citizens of Massachusetts.—Washington Post. 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. Tomorrow afternoon at Second Baptist church, Rev. W. Bishop Johnson will begin his "20th Century Greeting," Eminent speakers are scheduled for tomorrow a d every night during the week. The affair runs up to and including Friday night. The full program was published in our last issue. S. J. BAMFIELD. Late Postmaster at Beaufort. S. C. When the news came to Washington on Christmas Day that Mr. S. J. Bam field, Postmaster at Beaufort, S. G. had passed away, it shocked a large number of people in this community who had known him so long, so well and so favorably. He was indeed a leader in the Sea Island State. He died in his fiftieth year and left a widow and ten children. He was the son in law of Gen. Robert Smalls, and for the past ten or fifteen years he has been associated with the "hero of the Planter." He began his public career in South Carolina in the early 70's and was clerk of the courts in that state for years. In 1874 he was elected a member or the legislature and filed that position with honor to himself and with credit to the race. For more than twenty years he held public office in South Carolina and as an evidence of the appreciation and the high esteem J.H.C. MR. S J. BAMFIEL D. in which he is held, the leading business men of Beaufort, white as well as colored, have joined in a petition to have his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Bamfield, appointed as Postmistress at Beaufort. Mr. Bamfield was well known in journalistic circles, having edieed a paper in that city for quite a number of years. His paper was recognized by the entire press fraternity for its good sense, striking editorials and for the fairness with which he treated and di4cussed all subjects. In the death of Mr. Bamfield the race loses one of its most useful and most able exposments. COLORED AMERICAN'S HIGH IDEAL Indianapolis. Dec. 12th: 1899. 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Clean coal, 2240 pounds to the ton. Lowest Prices. Health for 10 cents. Cascarets make the bowels and kidneys act naturally, destroy microbes, cure headaches, billiousness and constipation. V 10 HOWARD'S PRESIDENT. Prof. W. H. H. Hart Vigorously Defends the University and Dr J E. Rankin-Attacks on Negros' Greatest School Inspired by Disgruntled Place-Hunters, Editor The Colored American, Sir. I have just received today's issue of your paper and find in it an outrageous and wholly unjustifiable article against Rev. J. E. Rankin, D. D., L.L. D., president of Howard University. I am not only surprised but pained beyond measure that a man of your good sense usually should see fit to join a Negro-hating sheet in this city in an effort to destroy the institution standing foremost in this land for helping the colored people to a higher level of culture and character; and in wounding the devoted bosom of the best and bravest and truest friend that the colored people have in this republic today. No one knows better than yourself that the shameful attacks upon Howard University and its good and great president proceed from unworthy and ignoble motives of envious, disgruntled place seekers, and yet you have allowed your columns to be used as a means of spreading this venom, to the prejudice of colored youth in our whole republic. If the very persons now ingaged in promuligating these unfair criticisms of the administration of Howard University were given charge of that or any other great public interest, they would wreck it in a month. You, yourself, would not be willing to trust your interest in their hands for a single moment. I doubt whether your paper will ever be able to undo the positive injury and hurt to the best interests of the colored people done by your paper in giving aid and comfort to these attacks upon the best living friends of our people. I have subscribed for two copies of your paper, and paid you four dollars in advance for the same I do not wish the paper sent either to my school or myself any longer, and hereby direct you to cancel my subscription. I have paid you from time to time within the last year from eighteen to thirty dollars for work done by your paper. I shall have no more such work for you in the future. So you see it is apt to cost you something to thus assail the noblest friend of our people. Yours, 420 5th street, n. w., Washington, D. . January 14th, 1900. To Support Indigent Children. The Commissioners have been asked to forward to Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives a request for the appropriation of $10,500 for the support of dependent colored children at the Hart Farm School, under a contract to be made by the Commissioners with the principal of the school. The matter has been referred to the superintendent of charities. Prof. Hart is doing a splendid work at his agricultural school, and is reclaiming from degradation boys that will by and by be an honor to the race. The appropriation is reasonable and should be allowed. A journalistic symposium will be among the early attractions offered by the Second Baptist Lyceum. Leading representatives of newspaperdom in Washington have been invited to participate, and present certain phases of the work of sentiment moulding. The engagement of Miss Ida G. Mason of 1530 Pierce Place to Mr. Samuel Dickerson of Pennsylvania, formerly of this city has been announced. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. CLUBS. LODGES AND SOCIETIES Bishop C. C. Pettey, A M. D. D, delivered a great speech on "Masonry" at a grand reception tendered recently in Pensacola, Florida, to Grand Master J. H. Dickerson. Sunday night January 14th Silver Queen Household of Ruth, No.140, attended Metropolitan A. M. E. Zion church, D street, southwest to hear their annual sermon. At a special,communication of Eureka Lodge No. 5, held on December 26, 1889, Dr. C. W. Chuld and J. Henry Lewis, director of the Amphron Glee Club, were passed to the Fellow Craft Degree and on the same evening, the same lodge entered Chas. W. Asbury and H. W. Lewis as apprentices. The United Supreme Council of Ancient and Accepted Rite Masons of the 33rd degree of the southern and western masonic jurisdiction, United States of America, its territories and dependencies, will convene in annual communication on the 1st of October, 1900, at Washington, D. C. At a special communication of Prince Hall Lodge No.14, held on December 26, 1899, Bros. E. E. Cooper, Drs. George W. Cabaniss and R. T. Hamilton, I H. Turner, Lewis P. Costley, H. H. Naylor and J. R. F. Brown were raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason. Prof. J. T. Layton delivered the charge. Hon. George F. Bowles died at Natchez, Miss., Tuesday, December 26th. He was well known throughout the country. He was Major General of the Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias. It has not been long since his wife passed away. His estate is said to be worth $100,000. He was one of the land-marks of the reconstruction period. He was editor of a paper called The Brotherhood. "Wendell Phillips." Next Tuesday evening Bethel Literary and Historical Association will treat the people of Washington to an opportunity to renew their memory of one of America's greatest orator, humanitarians, and noted apostle of abolition, "Wendell Phillips." The history of this famous champion of human rights will be presented by Rev. Jeremiah Eames Rankin, president of Howard University. This meeting will be held at Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel, on the Howard campus, and will be presided over by Prof. W. H. Richards. The chapel should be crowded on next Tuesday evening. St Augustine's College Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 2, 1900. Mr. E. E. Cooper, Dear Sir:—With the best wishe and graces for the New Year, I salute you, and extend congratulations for the beautiful and captivating way in which The Colored American makes its debut as our foremost journal. D. Lery Furgeson. 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. Everything First Class Billiard and Pool Parlors Attached. MOORE & PRIOLEAU - Sparta Buffet and Cafe - 1216 Pa. 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In point of success, Bishop Grant South Carolina Conferences, comes next with an increase of sixteen hundred dollars thirty five cents. The sixth district, Georgia and Alabama under Bishop Turner reports fifteen hundred eighty-four dollars, eleven cents increase. Bishop Lee, of the Second district, comes next with an increase of over a thousand dollars. The secretary is quite confident of realizing for the quadrennium the four hundred thousand dollars asked for. Dr. Moore is an able financier. The Christian Endeavorers meet in London in July. Bishop Handy of Baltimore, has returned from Hayti. The A. M. E. Church continues the work of electing delegates to the Columbus General Conference. Rev James Edward Mason is said to be casting affectionate glances toward the presidency of Livingstone College. There are Baptist enough in Mississippi to conquer the Phillipines. Think of it-180,000 says the Preacher Safeguard. The Florida Evangelist suggests that the Negro Baptists ought to raise one million dollars during the year 1900 for missions and education. Rev. W. A. Creditt, of Cherry Street Baptist church, Philadelphia, formerly of this city, received many valuable presents on Christmas Day. Among them was a fine overcoat. There is not a single officer in the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention who gets one dollar salary. The money collected for Africa goes to Africa. The Catholics at Leavenworth, Ks., have given the Colored Orphans a farm worth $8,000. While others are trying to help by wordy solutions of the problem, the Catholics are acting The Rev. Henry B. Delaney of Raleigh, N. C., has been chosen as the successor of the lamented Dr. Alexander Crummell on the Episcopal Commission on Church Work Among the Colored People. We have no respect for, and no faith in, a church which will turn out a member for going to the theater, and at the same time retain drunken deacons and libertine preachers to preside over them.—Lexington (Ky.) Standard. The Rev. Beverly Tucker,D.D., (Episcopalian) is now the secretary of the THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. Commission on Church Work Among Colored People, vice the Hon. Henry E. Pellew, who filled this position so effectively for several years. There are eighty three colored priests and deacons in the Episcopal Church. There are two bishops belonging to the American Episcopate-the Rt. Rev. James Theodore Holly, D. D., Bishop of Hayti and the Rt. Rev. Samuel D. Ferguson, D. D., Bishop of Cape Palmas and parts adjacent. Bishops Holly and Ferguson re both American born. Rev. W. H. Snowden, pastor of Metropolitan Wesley A. M. E Zion church is working like a beaver getting ready for the holding of the Zion General Conference in this city next May. The session is expected to be a grand one and many visitors from abroad will be in attendance, besides the Bishops, delegates and general officers. Write him for particuliers. Dr Snowden has formally announced his candidacy for the office of General Manager of the Zion Publication Department, located at Charlotte, N. C. To my mind we need at least, twelve Zion bishops, ten to reside in the United States, one in Africa, and one in the Phillipine Islands. After having scanned the scope and strength of the Church, I have thought that the following named men would form an excellent group of characters to help to ring in the 20th century jubilee For bishops, Rev. J. W. Smith, D. D, Rev. J W. Alstork, D. D., Rev. A. J. Warner, D. D., and the Rev. Benjamin F. Wheeler, A. M., D. D., whom I regard as one of the best equipped Negroes in the country for administrative work.—Rev. S L Corrothers in Star of Zion. Normal Notes. Emancipation Day was celebrated by the Frederick Douglass Debating Society composed entirely of young men with a creditable program. The following program was rendered: Lincoln's Proclamation, H. W. Handy; Slavery in America, H. P. Slatter; American Hymn, Douglass Quartette; Abolitionists, Mr. Ocea Taylor; Lincoln, Statesman, Emancipator, Martyr, Dr. W. L Council, Chattanooga, Tenn.; America, Society. The evening was spent in a social which the young people enjoyed very much. The Labratories are being enlarged at a very great cost to meet the demands of the college. Many new students came during the holidays. Dr. W. L Council of Chattanooga, Tenn., who has been visiting here, gave a very interesting lecture to the students Sunday evening. H. D. SLATTER A Leader Indeed. Dear Sir: -The new addition on The Colored American has made a marked improvement in its looks and journalism. It is a leader among leaders. Thomas Kinard, Fort Ringgold, Tex. 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Any person using it can see the result in forty-eight hours. It does not turn the skin in spots but bleaches out white. It is a very good thing for the eyes if allowed to get in the eye while washing the face. One box of this preparation is all that is required if used as directed, the skin remaining beautiful without continual use, and is perfectly harmless. Will remove wrinkles, freckles, dark spots, and pimples from the face without harm to the skin. Direction and preparation will be sent to any address on receipt of $2.00, C. O. D., or send money order. Packed so that no one can know contents except the receiver. THOMAS B. CRANE, 122½ W. Broad St., Richmond, Va. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. 12 EDUCATIONAL RALLY. The Claims of John Hay Industrial School Forcibly Presented by Eminent Speakers. A wellattended Education Rally was at John Wesley A. M. E Zion church, Thursday night of last week in the interest of the John Hay Normal and Industrial School, of Alexandria, Va. Congressman George H. White of North Carolina presided, and delivered a telling speech setting forth the value to our people of practical education This school was organized in 1894 for the purpose of industrial training of the Colored Youth, and is doing a great work in Virginia. The school is named in honor of Col. John Hay, the friend of the immortal Lincoln, and now the distinguished Secretary of State. This is the first meeting in its interest held in Washington and the number of pastors and leading citizens present was decidedly encouraging to the management. Among the speakers invited to address the gathering were: Rev. W. A. M. Cypress; Mrs. Rosetta E. Lawson National Organizer of the W.C.T.U.; Prof. Jesse Lawson, President Executive Committee, Afro-American Council; Rev. R. B. Robinson, President John Hay Normal and Industrial School Rev E. W. S. Peck, pastor Mt. Zion M. E. Church; Rev. Geo. S. Duncan, of the Eckington Presbyterian Church, Chairman Committee on Endowment Fund of the School; Simon Lyon, Attorney at Law Committee on Endowment Fund; and Rev. Robt. H. Robinson, pastor Central M. E Church, Chairman Board Trustees of the School. Promising Young Thespians. The IV scene from "The Merchant of Venice" was recently interpreted before an interested assembly of friends by students of the St. Augustine's, Raleigh, N. C. The leading characters represented were: Portia, Miss Susie B. Johnson; Mr. G. A. Sinkler, Shylock; Antonio, Mr. W. F. Wallace; Bassanio, D. L. Ferguson; Gratiano, Mr. S. W, Grice; The Duke, Mr. J. Pollard; Narisso, Miss L. Sanford; messengers and clerk, Messrs Ed. Browden, H. H. Erwin and J. Simmons. All the characters represented were splendidly potrayed and the lines creditably recited. Prof. Chas. Boyer had charge of the rehersals and received praises with the players for the successful evening of the dramatic renditions. CharlottesVillc. (Va.) Items. Charlottesville, Va. Special—The celebration of the anniversary of the Y. M. C. A. will take place on the 26th inst. This association was organized just one year ago and is destined to be a great power for good of our young men. The officers are as follows; J. W. Dickinson, president; S. B. Legan, 1st vice president; Wm. Jackson, 2nd vice president; C. H. Bullock, general secretary; Saint L. Angel, assistant secretary; J. U. Baker, treasurer; A. F. 'Angel, chaplain. Rev. R. C. Quarles, pastor of the First Baptist church and family were the recipient of an agreeablesurprise at his home on 6th street, Friday night. A surprise party headed by Mrs. Annie Brackett Baker and Mrs. Nancy Clayton carried a host of the most useful articles. Consisting of groceries, dry goods. etc., too numerous for us to here mention: The Furniture Club of the Ebenezer Baptist church, Rev. C. N. Harris, pastor, met the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Barcus on 5t street Monday night. The business of the club being completed all present partook of some of the most delicious refreshments of the season prepared for this occasion by the hospitable hostess. The American can be gotten at Pollard and Noble's barber shop or from Mr A. F. Angel at the university. MONTICELLO. ILLINOIS - LINCOLN'S HOME The State of Grant, Sheridan and Logan The Negroes of this country always look with pride upon the Congressmen and Senators from the above named state. On the 15th inst. the Illinois delegation in Congress met in caucus in the rooms of the committee on appropriations, and among the many things they agreed to do, was, to stand first and last in favor of the resolution introduced by Congressman James R. Mann of the First Illinois district, which if passed will give to Hon. T. T. Allain of Chicago, one of our best and most eloquent campaign orators and organizers, the preparation of all Senate and House bills for binding. The present delegation in Congress from Illinois is as follows: James R. Mann, William Lorimer, George P. Foster, Thomas Cusack, Edward T. Neonan Henry S. Boutelle, George E. Foss, all of Chicago; Albert J. Hopkins, Aurora, Robert R. Hitt, Mount Morris; George W. Prince, Galesburg; Walter Reeves, Streator; Joseph G. Cannon, Danville; Vespasian Warner, Clinton; Joseph V. Graff, Pekin; Benjamin F. Marsh, Warsaw; Wm. E. Williams, Prtfield; Ben F. Caldwell, Chatham; Thomas M. Jett, Hillsboro; Joseph S. Crowley, Robinson; James R. Williams, Carmi William A. Rodenberg, East St. Louis; and George W. Smith, Murphysboro Senator Allain, while stumping New York this year for McKinley, will ask the republicans of New York to send our friend Hon. W. J. Glenn the Doorkeeper of the House to represent his district in the 57th Congress. The same will be said and done in behalf of Hon. A McDowell, the distinguished clerk of the House. He too must be sent to the 57th Congress from his district. DAY OF EMANCIPATION Thirty. Seventh Anniversary Celebrated at Zion Baptist Church. The thirty-seventh anniversary of the day when the emancipation proclamation went into effect was celebrated at Zion Baptist church, January 1st, in the presence of a fair sized crowd. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Congressional Lyceum Musical and Historical Association. W. C. Martin, the president, presided, and musical selections were rendered by the church choir. After prayer by Rev. W. J. Howard, pastor of the church the emancipation proclamation was read by W. Calvin Chase. Addresses were made by John H. Simpson, excommander of the G. A. R., Department of California; John P. Green of Onio, Mrs William Scott, an agent of the Baptist Home Missionary Society, and Rev. J. Anderson Taylor, pastor of Shiloh church. Nearly all of the speakers drew comparisons between the present condition of the colored people and the progress made during the period of freedom and the picture was, in most respects, an encouraging one These meetings will be made an annual feature, to take place on January 1. CANDY CATHARTIC Cancareth REGULATE THE LIVER THE GRAND FOUNTAIN. United Order of True Reformers. 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. SUBORDINATE FOUNTAINS. Subordinate Fountains are composed of males and females, sound in health and mind, and of good moral character. Conventions.—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. Monthly Dues are 35 or 50 cents per month. Taxes are 80 cents annually, paid semi-annually, 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, said 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. Subordinate Fountains are composed of males and females, sound in health and mind, and of good moral character. Conventions.—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. Monthly Dues are 35 or 50 cents per month. Taxes are 80 cents annually, paid semi-annually, 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, said 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 refolcing. 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 installments. 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 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. 3. THE REGALLA. 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. $2 50 2 75 3 00 3 25 3 25 3 50 3 50 Value of Certificate. $200 00 200 00 200 00 140 00 115 00 90 00 65 00 Annual Dues. $4 75 4 75 5 70 6 65 6 65 7 60 7 60 Paid Quarterly. $1 20 1 20 1 43 1 66 1 66 1 90 1 90 E Class Policies are as follows: CLASS E TABLE. Ages. Joining Fee. $5 00 5 25 5 50 5 75 5 75 6 00 Value of Certificate. $500 00 500 00 500 00 450 00 400 00 350 00 Annual Dues. $9 50 9 50 10 40 11 40 11 40 11 00 Paid Quarterly. $2 40 ..... ..... 2 35 2 35 2 35 3. THE REGALLA. 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. Pald 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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. 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 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, Rosebuds, B and E classes, and pays a dividend of 20 per cent on the dollar. Persons can deposit their monies 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 pwards. Special attention is given to the collection of notes and drafts to the only bank in Richmond which continued to pay currency to its 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. B. 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, 12 farms, 3; dwellings, 2; hotels, 1; with a fee simple value of $104,000. Buildings leased, 13 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, 124 farms, 3; dwellings, 2; hotels, 1; with a fee simple value of $104,000. Buildings leased, 13. 7. THE REFORMER, the Organ of the Order. 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. 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 speciality of high-class work. cece er GEE PSA AMMA aa as I ec ee ‘LATE LOCALS. pe political convention of the Lin- coln Hmaneipation League will be held yevruary 13:h and 14tb, at Enon Bap- tist church, © street, southeast. A pumoer of honorary members have heen c ected and a big meeting is an- ticipated poe National Volored Teachers’ Bu- real) s anxious to eecure a large list cf thoroughly competent teachers for the soming year, It costs you nothing to revter. There will be nothing to pay pees you secures a school. Register now. See advertisement in another olum 0. prof, BT. Holmes concert Monday evening at John Wesley A. M- E. Zion chureb on Connecticut avenue, drew out alarge and enthusiastic audience. Nearly every member was encored, and the solo favorites were repeatedly re called. Prof. Hulmes has been asked to favor the extreme north end with a visit. Mr. McNeill of Qaander street e. e., who hurt himself while lifting at the Coast snd Geodelic Survey, 1s improv- ng wonderfully under the cere of Dr, tzarra, after having failed to get apy benefit at all from the treatment of several specialists intown. Dr, Czarra whose offices are at Gthand La. ave.. is daily curing cases that baffle the skill of local physicians It is a pleasure to know that Freed- men’s Hospital isin charge of such a magnificent and able young Man as Dr. Curtis, who is administering its af fairs ina way tbat deserves the just commendation of the public. He is ably seconded ty Dr, W. A. Warfield, who is also deseiving of bigh praise for tue fidelity and ability with which he has long served this splendid insti- tution. Mr. FP. R. Remer, of Martinsburgp, W. Va, who represented his state at the recent meeting of the eexcutive committee of the National Afro-Ameri. can Council, made an excellent impres sion here. He is a graduate of the law department of Howard University and bas earned enviable fame as a newspa- per correspondent and all-round writer Mr. Remer was placed on the special finance coramittee. matic eee DONT’S Don't turn the corners. < Don’t keep books in damp places. Don’t borrow books from private libraries. Don’t wet your fingers when turning leaves, Don’t leave a book “face down,” 1. e., open. Don’t shut a book up with anything bigger than a narrow ribbon in it. Don’t mark a book in any way unless it’s your own. Don’t scorn cheap books if you can- ‘ot afford better publications. Don't buy cheap books if you can efford better ones. Don’t lend books. No one will treat your books as you yourself do if you love them. Don’t increase the quantity of your books at the expense of quality in con- tents, Don’t keep books on open shelves it you can avoid it. Don't forget that bookcases with Cust-proof glass doors are best. Don’t read too much. There is such @ thing as book indigestion. Don't handle books carelessly. Treat them as if thay were alive. Jon’t forget that good books are the beet company in the world, if read un- éerstandingiy and appreciatively- $ THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. 0. The Mysteriou: Assassin. [ One night, shortly after the cele- brated battle of Fontenoy, its hero, Marshal De Saxe, arrived at a little village in which was an inn with a pe- suliar reputation. It was said that in this inn there were ghosts who stabbed or strangled all who attempted to pass the night in a certain room. The conqueror of Fontenoy was far ‘rom being susceptible to superstitious terrors, and was ready to face an army of ghosts. He dismounted, ate his sup- per, and went up to the fatal room, tak- ‘ng with him his arms and his body servant. His arrangements completed, the Marshal went to bed and was soon in 2 profound slumber, with his sentinel ensconced in an arm chair by the fire. About I o’clock in the morning the watcher by the fire, wanted to get tome sleep himself, approached his master to awaken him, but to his call te received no response. Thinking the | Marshal soundly asleep he called again. ‘Btartled at the continued silence, the ‘man shook him; the Marshal did not stir. As he lifted his hands from the form {n the bed, the frightened servant saw that they were red. The Marshal was tying ina pool of blood! Drawing down the cover the soldier saw a strange thing. An enormous insect was fastened to the side of De Saxe, and was sucking at a wound from which the blood fiowed freely. The man sprang to the fireplace, grasped the tongs, and ran back to the bed. Seizing the monster, he cast it Into the flames, where‘it was instantly consumed. Help was called, and the Marshal was soon out of danger; but the great General, who had escaped fire and steel for years, had barely escaped dying of the bite of an insect. He had found the ghost A Freak in Peacocks, About three months ago Mr. Frisch of Thirty-seventh and Market Streets, received from his brother, who is a missionary in India, two eggs that were joined together. A note accompany- ing them explained that they were pea- cock eggs, and a great curiosity on ac- eount of their strange form. Now, Mr. Frisch has a friend in West Philadel- phia who is a poultry farmer, and the idea struck him to have the eggs hatched in an incubator. In the course of a month the shells fell apart, and in- stead of two separate birds stepping out, the pair came forth joined togeth- er by a thick band of what appeared te be gristle. By dint of extreme caré and careful feeding, the strange pair ‘were nursed through babyhood, and ire now beginning to get pin feathers of o colors.—Philadelphia Record. The Lizard was too Sprv. While in the country last Sunday, the editor of The Gazette saw a black snake try to capture a lizard for its inner. The lizard had the better of ‘the snake in the contest, which took place in a cluster of saplings. The liz- ard would run up a sapling clear to the top and patiently wait until the snake would slowly wind its way about half way up the sapling, when the lizard would ae from the top of the tree to the ground, and the snake would fling Itself from the tree, both striking the ground about the same time, but before the snake could get itself straightened out, the lizard, which did not have to ancoil, would scale up another sapling, when the snake would repeat its ef- tort to procure a dinner. The snake, not being the ready climber the lizard was, was at a great disadvantage in the contest, and, after many efforts, apparently gave it up as a fruitless job. —Greenup (Ky.) Gazette. The Wife as First Clerk, In French families, where the father tonducts any business, the wife be- tomes his best clerk, and usually his sashier. The wives are exceedingly in- telligent and acute, extremely sharp at driving bargains, and accurate in keep- (ng accounts. They are their hus- bands’ partifers in every sense of the word, and it fs wonderful to see how they acquit themselves of such a mul- tiplicity of duties. Self is completely annihilated; and if weak health is mentioned, fa mever an impediment 10 what they have to do for thair child- ven or their husbands. a ae Subscribe for The Colored American. An Colden__ Opportunit oo Upporiunity . it not come to every mortal but once. Here is one, however, which every subscriber and friend who have followed the fortunes : of THE COLORED:AMERICAN will appreciate. ’ The year 1900 will be a remarkable one in many respects. America ‘ is making history at a rapid pace and the colored people are keeping up with the procession In fact, they are fairly surpassing themselves, ‘ It is the purpose of The Colored American for 1900 to excel itself in : 2 in every way. .The object of the uianagement is to print more news 2 and to get icup ina better form and in a more readable and attrac— 2 tive way. The columns will teem with the news, the doings, and the | 2 achievements of the colored people everywhere. Suitable and gilt- , 2 edged illustrations will be profusely used when the occasion requires. | : 4s an inducement to all of the old subscribers and to secure as | 2 many new ones as possible, the management has decided to reduce the | $ subscriptiou price of The Colored American for the next fifteen (15) 3 days from two dollars per year to one dollar per year. This proposi« 2 tion will hold good for fifteen days only, or until February 5th, At the expiration of the fitteen days the original price of two dollars - will be restored, It is hoped that each and every subscriber will take advantage ; of this one-dollar rate and that they will not only send in their own : subscriptions but wiil make an effort to induce a few of their friends ‘ and acquaintances to pay one dollar and take advantage of the reduc- ‘ tion price. Those who are in arrears may pay the old bill if paid within these fifteen days at the rate of one dollar per year. This reduced rate will not permit any commission to agents and ; the full amount of one dollar must be sent. It is the sincere wish of | the management that every subscriber take advantage of this offer. Remember you have only two weeks in which to take advantage of this low rate. Address all letters to | he Colored Ameri The Colored American, = Washington. D.C. ar areiens subseribers will send an additional 50 cents or $1.50 0; be benefitted by. this reduction price. THE GREATEST RACE JOURNAL. Editor Colored American, Dear sir— When I received The Colored Ameri« can a week ago, transformed and adorned and obristlirg with editorial and newsmatter, I spontancously in- dited youa letter of hearty congratula- tions. As it failed to be mailed until too old, I decided to write again sub- stantially as 1 wrote you firct 1 think The American is now in the lesd of all other papers piblished by and on be- half of the race, You and your as- soviates therefore deserve unsiinied praise for establishing and building up in this community a paper whose in- fluence for good is felt tbrovghout the country. Wi-hing you and ycurs & most happy new year, I baye the honor to be dear sir, Very truly yours, R. 5. SMITH Washington, D.C. St Augustine’s College, Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 2. 1949. Mr. E. 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Boston, Mass., Special—The eyes of many colored voters of New England are now turned toward Boston. The atmosphere is full of expectancy because of the appointments which Mayor-elect Hart is said to have up his sleeve for the colored politicians of the city. These positions have already been fixed upon by the colored leaders and they are now waiting to see if the mayor will accede to their demands. Among these offices are some very high positions, to which no colored man has in the past aspired. One of these is the office of superintendent of lamps, for which ex-Representative William L. Reed has been slated. The attitude of the mayor in regard to these appointments will decide the question whether it is the best policy for the colored man in this section of the country to turn democratic in municipal affairs as well as in voting for president. White and colored people agree alike that the colored men picked out for the positions are fully capable of holding them. The only questions is: Will the colored man get his just recognition? The colored voters of New England usually look to Boston for advice on the subject of voting, so that the appointment or refusal of appointment to these offices, may send what is left of the colored republicans over to the democratic party. It is estimated that half of the colored voting population of Boston went democratic on the last election. Roscoe Conkling Bruce, son of late Senator Blanche K. Bruce, is to address the Fraternal Association at the celebration of its 30th anniversary on Jan. 25. Mr. Bruce is the most popular colored student in Harvard. His forensic abilities have placed him as a peer of any of any of the white orators in the college this year. Not only is he well liked in Cambridge, but he is the star among the society folk of the city. The people of the city have become very indignant over the alleged discrimination of the colored officers of the 49th United States volunteers at the mess table. This regiment contains some officers from Boston. The story runs as follows: Soon after leaving San Francisco it was evident that at least in the dining room of the transport Warren the racial line would be drawn. As soon as the first gong sounded the white officers would quietly make their way to the saloon and occupy all the seats at the table. When the second gong sounded the colored officers would find that there was no place for them and they were compelled to await the pleasure of the white officers and eat at the second table. The colored officers endured this state of affairs for a few days, until they were certain that there was a premeditated design to keep them at a distance. Then one of the colored officers sought cut the colonel and asked why the distinction was made. The colored officers further punctuated his remarks by saying "Colonel, there will be a big row raised in Washington when this distinction among the officers becomes known." Perhaps there will if the statements are fully borne out, as an officer's shoulder straps give him equal rights and privileges, whether he is white or colored, the army regulations precribing rigid observance of respect and deference from the other officers and sailors alike. Child culture among the lowly colored people of the South is liable to be greatly helped by an association which THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. has been started in the city under the supervision of Mrs. Josephine Ruffin. The Association is composed of female race workers, who have recognized that the primal duty to the colored people of these dark regions is to give the children some sort of insight into the knowledge of how to live. The Soldiers' Aid Society, composed of young society, girls gave a charity hop a few nights ago in Paine Memorial Hall. Miss Mamie Lewis, the daughter of J. H Lewis was floor director, assisted by Miss Lillian Lewis and Miss Georgine Glover. The affair was one of the society events of the season. Rapid strides have been made during the past few months by the True Reformers of this city. Chief Hamilton is now preparing to start a new foun tain. That prejudice in the athletics of the schools is gradually dying out is shown by the election of George Stanley Lewis the youngest son of J. H. Lewis, to the captaincy of the English High School football team. The team this year will probably be composed of all white fellows. Edward Everett Brown, looking as jovial as ever, arrived in the city from Philadelphia last Sunday. He spoke very enthusiastically of the reception that was given him in Washington, and told the members of the Colored National League of the possibilities of his anti lynching bill becoming a law. FREDERICK F. SMITH. 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. 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. Mr, and Mrs. T. T. Reilly of New York and his valet, Geo. E. DeShields, formerly of this city, are spending the winter in Pasadena, California. Miss Henrietta Marshall of 12th St. n. w., had visiting her during the holidays Miss Cdessa Quarles of Boston and Mr. George Moore of New Haven, Conn., Miss Quarles will remain the balance of the winter. 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. LARGE 50 BOTTLES 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 cents, regular retail price, 75 cents. This offer is good once only to sell 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 HARFINA SOAP WILLIAMS and CO., 600 9th st. n. w.; STEVENS, Pa. EVANS, 938 F st. n. w.; DANIELS, 1900 14th st. cor. 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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. express prepaid, on receipt of 60 cents and this advertisement. HAY'S HAIR-HEALTH AND HARFINA SOAP. dealers Make More Profit on Inferior Preparations. HAY'S HAIR-HEALTH HARFINA SOAP at then stores only: n. st. n. w.; STEVENS, Pa. ave. and 9th st. n. w. NIELS, 1900 14th st. cor. T. n. w.; HUDDLESON n. h and G. sts. n. w.; SIMMS, N. Y. ave 14th st. n. w. n. st. s. e.; DUCKETT, 2150 Pa. n. w.; WHITE- ave. n. w.; WEISS 25 Monroe st., 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. TTTS, 4th and Mass ave.; L F. BRADLEY, 8th and 475 Penna. ave. n. w.; THOMPSON, 708 15th st.; r. 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Dealers Make More Profit on Inferior Preparations. 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 14tn 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. av. n. w.; MONTGOMERY, 13th st. cor. I n. w.; ACKER & AFFLECK, 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.; 1SJHIFFLEY, 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 13th 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., 823 H st. n. e. Neely, 11th cor. C st., s. e. Remsburg & Elliott, 1608 14 h st., Hurlebaush, 14th & V sts. n. w., McGlue, 4th and 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 By EDWARD A. JOHNSON. CONTAINS—Pen pictures of the Daring Charges made by the Juan, El Caney, and around Santiago.—Corporal Brown killed at the 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 Giseros, 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 see and line engravings of soldier, officers, and scenes of the War, with a FINE PICTURE OF AGUINALDO, his headquarters, an nisa, and a brief sketch of the Philippinos and their civilization. Handsome Picture of General Nelson A. Miles, the 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. AGENTS WANTED. Big percentage. Send for copy of book and Agent E. A. JOHNSON Corner West and Lenoir Streets, Raleigh the Daring Charges made by Negro Soldiers at San Santiago.—Corporal Brown killed at his post while firing a fire block house and saved the Rough Riders.—Sergeant was first to raise the American flag on San J an Hill—May, Miles, Roosevelt, and many others on the bravery of an advocates Negro officers.—Antonio and Jose Macio, Cuban Women Cavalry.—The Negro Paymasters in the Lawrence Sunbar.—"Eddie" Savoy, the colored man who Spanish Minister at Washington.—The Negro who seals and Register of the Treasury who has to sign Uncle Sam's New and Interesting Reading, with about fifty half-dozen officers, and scenes of the late Spanish-American Maguinaldo, his headquarters, a Filipino lady of Máhillipinos and their civilization. General Nelson A. Miles, the Major General in company, who said the fighting of the colored soldiers around the island in the history of the world." All for $1, "Much in AGENTS WANTED. For copy of book and Agents' terms. Address A. JOHNSON Seets, Raleigh, North Carolina. 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, Roosevelt, and many others on the bravery of Negro Soldiers—General Morgan advocates Negro officers.—Antonio and Jose Macio, Gomez, Miss Giseros, and the Cuban Women Cavalry.—The Negro Paymasters in the Army.—The Negro Poet, Paul Lawrence Sunbar—"Eddie" Savoy, the colored man who outwitted 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 Brimful 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 Philipinos 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 $1, "Much in Little." Mailed Free. Big percentage. Send for copy of book and Agents' terms. Address E. A. JOHNSON Corner West and Lenoir Streets. Raleigh, North Carolina. Adams House 582 and 584 BROADWAY, ALBANY, N. Y. Opposite Delavan House First-class accommodation for Ladies and Gentlemen. T. H. DIGGS JOHN IRVING Keenan & Feghan WHOLESALE LIQUOR DEALERS 462 Pennsylvania Ave., N. 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IF YOUR HAIR IS FALLING OUT, BREAKING CR FADING, TRY IT NOW. FLORIDA'S GOOD SHO WING The Colored People Well Represented in the Business, Educational and Religious World News Nuggets Galore. Jacksonville, Fla., Special. This city is the metropolis of the state of Florida and the Negroes are well represented. In every walk of life our people are the most unassuming in this section. For that reason and others the outside world has not learned much of the character, attainments, wealth and enterprise of our people here They are making solid progress with out making any fuss about it. IN BUSINESS. We note the Ferguson Ice Delivery company. Ross and Austin grocery dealers, Davis and Robinson, P. A. Moore and Son, vegetable and poultry dealers and commissioh merchants; C. C. Manigault & company.; Abe Campbell, J. Clark Greely, wholesale and retail dealers in meats; E. J. Alexander aud S. Boyce, dry goods merchants; J D. McClendon is the manager of the El Modelo shoe store; M. J. Preston and J. W. Marshall, real estate dealers; Edward Long, manager People's Dry Goods store; Gen. W. A. Glover runs a tailor shop. The Florida Evangelist Publishing company with A. W. Price manager; we have three drug stores owned by Drs. T E. Butler Gao P. Hart, Ph. D., J. E. Crum, M D; The Jeter Bros run a large blacksmith shop; J S. Patterson is a wagon and carriage manufacturer and does ship and mill work. We also have a score of colored men in all parts of the city doing business on small scales. We have a number of colored sales men employed in white stores. IN EDUCATION. We have Cookman college, Edwaters college with a law department, the Florida Baptist college, Boylan Industrial Home for Girls, Frederick Alston Business college, beside our city public schools: We have seven practicing physicians, one dentist and six lawyers. IN RELIGION. This comes like manna. We have sixty or more colored churches, divided among the Missionary Baptists, Primitive Baptists, O Z Baptists, A. M. E; A. M. E. Zion.; C. M. E.; I. A. M. E. Presbyterians, and Protestant Episcopal denominations. The leading churches are Bethel Baptist church Rev. J. Milton Waldron, A. M., D. D., pastor; this is a fine brick edifice costing nearly $50,000; Mt. Zion A. M, E. church, Rev. E. J. Griggs pastor, and Ebenezer M. E. church, Rev. J. F. Elllott, B. D. pastor. It would be quite a task to number the preachers here. IN POLITICS. The republican state convention is called to meet at St. Augustine on January 17th, 1900, to elect delegates to the national convention. This brings to my mind the number of Negroes in the government service here. Rev. J. E. Lee, pastor of Grant's Chapel A. M.E. church is collector of internal revenue of the state, with four colored deputies. J. W. Jones is inspector of customs. P. McGray is the watchman in charge of the government building. There are 12 colored men in the post office as clerks and letter carriers. C. C. Manigault is the only colored member of the city council. D. S. D. Bellameny and J. E. Spearing are sanitary patrolmen. John Peloit is prisoner's guard. Richard Mitchell and John Green are deputy sheriffs. IN SOCIETY. The Independent Order Mutual Aid THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. Society have nearly 2,000 members in this city. The Masonic Grand Lodge meets at Tallahassee next week. There are nearly a dozen candidates in the field for Grand Master. The Grand Council of the Independent Order of the Sons and Daughters of Jacobs of Florida, is having some trouble in the courts. The grand officers attempted to pay off the claim of the late John Collins to another woman. Mrs. Sarah Collins his widow brought suit against them. The claim is one hundred dollars. Col. George W. Walker is her attorney. The Jacobs is a strong order in this state. A great legal battle is looked for. Gen. W. A. Glover, Grand Chancellor of the K. of P. of Florida, has been elected Grand Venerable Patron of the Heroines of the state The Improved Order of the Sons and Daughters of Ham is the latest society among us. The grand officers are: Kev. J. S. Pintard, Grand Master; L. Jessie, Deputy Grand Master; Rev. C. F Sams, Grand Recorder and register of the endowment bureau. F. J Young secretary. F. J. Thomas, grand treasurer. This order starts out under favorable consideration among the people. Deacon Jerry Harris, $ 3 2^{\circ} $ Mason has been elected the nineteenth time as treasurer of Harmony Lodge No.1, F. and A. M. GENERAL NEWS. Hon. J. B. Blodgett, the wealthy farmer and politician can be seen every afternoon holding the ribbons over his two fine greys, driving over the city. Mr. Martin Ferguson has recently purchased two fine horses. He will leave shortly for Nashville, Tenn., where he will be married to a prominent young widow. Mr. D. J. Weathers is working on his invention. He has just arrived from an extensive trip through Alabama, Texas and West Florida. Rev. M. B. C. McCarthy, D. D., has been elected General Missionary and State Evangelist of the Primitive Baptist church. Rev. C. F. Sams is now applying his time to the study of medicine. THE PAST YEAR'S RECORD. This city has a population of 33,000, 16,000 whites and 17,000 colored. There were 3,675 arrests made by the Police Department, of this number 2,712 were Negroes. The death rate was 753 and 515 were Negroes; 83 colored died from the cause of consumption. There were 515 marriages and 322 were Negroes. The above statistics are official and it is an interesting study of the condition of our people in this city. This year is to be a great year, in politics and religion—the battle of ballots for the president and vice president and the election of bishops among our Methodist brethren. Keep your eye on Florida. The annual convention of the Young People's Baptist Union, held at Richmond, Va., showed Afro American Baptists that they were not wanted, by shamefully treating Rev. Reuben J. Gaines and other race delegates. This organization needs to have fewer convictions, and to put more study on the Bible. Subscribers who are in arrears and who desire to pay their honest debts will take advantage of the one dollar rate and send it within the next 15 days. Delinquent subscribers may never have such an opportunity as this again. $1,000 REWARD. A. H. 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, 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 her sound and weil. 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 Agents Wanted. 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. SCOTT REMEDY CO., Box 570, Louisville, KY. Gives the names of dead and living frie 1 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; credentialis 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 fail. 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 hip are now RICH HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL with all their undertakings,while those who neglect his advice are still laboring against poverty. Through his perfect know'edge 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 $ n $ oney 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: Broklyn, August, 15, 1891-This letter is to certify that I came to New York from Alba ny. 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. SEND ONE DOLLAR Cut this ad, out and send to us, mention No. 2141, state your Height, Weight, Bust Measure, Length of garment from collar down back to waist line, and waist line to bottom of skirt, state BLACK OR BLUE, and we will send you this WATERPROOF MACKINTOSH by express C. O. D., subject to examination. Examine and try it on at your nearest express office and if found exactly as represented, and the greatest value you ever saw, pay your express agent OUR SPECIAL PRICE $3.75, less the $1.00, or $2.75 and express charges. THIS MACKINTOSH is made of black or blue genuine WILCOX ENGLISH CASH-MERE WATERPROOF CLOTH, fancy plaid lining, velvet collar, double detachable cape, full sweep cape and skirt, latest style and finest tailor made. Bust size 32 to 42. AGENTS WANTED MEN and WOMEN to take orders for Waterproof Garments. Men's Mackintoshes $3.00 up, Ladies' Mackintoshes $8.50 up, Skirts and Caps from $2.25 up. WE FURNISH a big book of samples and complete outfit. W. out previous experience you can make $5.00 to $10.00 every day in the year. Write for full particulars. Adds DUNDEE RUBBER CORPORATION, Chica. This firm is thoroughly reliable.—Editor. 31 FAT FOLKS REDUCED 15 to 25 pounds per month. HARMLESS; no starving 22 years' BOOK FREE. Address DR. SNYDER, A. 907 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 15 MARVELOUS MEDIUM. DR SHEA 16 15c. and 20c. Hose, 9c. pair. OUR trade making sale was a winner from the first hour. Did you see those nobby Sack Suits at $6.75? Every body thought they were $10 values. See them to day. $1.50 Fancy Dress Shirts, $1.15. ```markdown ``` D. J. Kaufman, 1007 Pa. ave. CROP US A POSTAL CARD A meeting for a specific purpose is called, Your pastor preaches an exceptionally good sermon, You buy a piece of property, You are appointed to an office, You know anything of general interest, drop us a card, briefly stating the facts. City Paragraphs. The Amphions have a comic opera in preparation. Mr. M. J. Bundy of Chicago, Ill., is in the city the guest of Mr. E. E. Cooper. The banquet Tuesday evening at Liberty Baptist church was largely attended. Mrs. Marbara Cole, 1315 15th street, northwest, has been quite ill, but is now out again. Miss Florence Carter, of 2239 12th street northwest, is out again, after a severe illness. Rev. W. Bishop Johnson lectured on "Frederick Douglass" in Lynchburg, Va., last night. Mrs. Henry Lacy and Mrs. Samuel E. Lacy, of 1625 10th street, have both been on the sick list. Prof. Robert H. Terrell will be the speaker at the Second Baptist Lyceum one week from tomorrow afternoon. Mr. J. Thomas Bntler, the well known dramatic reader gave a recital Wednesday evening at Lincoln Memorial church. Mrs. Harry W. Cornell has been quite ill for the few weeks at her home, 1148 16th street, n. w. Many anxious friends wish her a speedy recovery. Miss Jessie Keevner, matron of Dr. John R. Francis' Sanitarium, was recently called to her home, Springfield, Ohio, by the death of her sister. Miss E. L. Leftwich spent the holidays in Philadelphia as the guest of Mrs. E. C. Nickens, where she was entertained by her many friends. The funeral of Mrs. West, late of 2323 7th street, northwest. took place Tuesday afternoon at Slimpson Chapel, on Florida avenue, between 9th and 10th streets. Madam G. A. Mack the hair dresser, of 1431 W street northwest. has re THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. moved to 1617 Cochran street. She will be glad to have her friends and customers to call. Mr. Thos. R. W. Jackson a prominent citizen of Mobile, Ala., and member of the B. M. C. passed through the city last Monday en route home from Philadelphia. If you want to be a stenographer and typewriter, I can teach you in ten easy lessons for five dollars. Send me a card and I will call. Address Prof. Banket, 2108 C street, northwest. The engagement of Miss Martha Daly of 1147 20 h street, n. w., and Mr. Robt. F. Freeman of 915 8.h street, n w., has been announced. The wedding will take place in the near future. Gen. Robert Smalls, Collector of Customs at Beaufort, S.C, is in the city. He is a guest at 1818 11th street, n. w., and is taking advantage of his visit to have special treatment for his eyes. The special one dollar rate for a subscript to The Colored American for one year will last for only 15 days. After that date the original price of $2.00 per year will be restored. Send in your one dollar now, $75.00 A MONTH!-The National Colored Teachers' Bureau has a position at that salary for a capable teacher of agriculture and dairying. Address J G Clayton, M. D., Secretary, 459 C street, n. w. at once. Rev. W. R. Tolliver, the scholarly young minister who formerly assisted his father, Rev. I. Tolliver in the pastorate of Liberty Baptist church, has returned to the city, after an extended tour through the West. Mr. R L. Elliott, one of the best known groceryman in this city has opened one of the best and up to-date grocery stores in the city, at the corner of 4th and O streets northwest. Everything in the grocery line is found at store. Miss Beatrice Jones is carrying soprano leads with excellent success in the Second Baptist choir. Her sweet voice shows steady improvement in quality and volume under the training of Prof. R. W. Thompkins, the efficient directo. 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 Portieres $ 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 plaid at $2.50. effects. Sold for $5.00 elsewhere. NO EXTRA CHARGE for Skirts Made to Order Phenomenal Bargains in Bedwear Starfling Selling of New Dress Goods Black Serge—all wool and a yard wide, heavy twilled sort; Excellent for fall and winter wear; elsewhere, 50 cents. Double width plaids, in 20 different plaids, worth 12½ 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 Street 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. 39 C 8 C 12 $ \frac{1}{2} $ C 49 C $1.39 Lace Curtains, 75c. 200 pretty Nottingham lace curtains good lengths and widths—floral and Brussels effects—worth up to $1.39 for 75 cents a pair. $250 Lace Curtains $1.39 300 pairs of Nottingham lace curtains—embracing Irish point fish-net, Brussels and floral effects—full width and 31 yards long, worth up to $2,50 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.