The Colored American

The COLORED American A NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER Library of Congress VOL. 7. NO. 51 A POWER AT TUSKEGEE Mrs. Josephine Wilson Bruce. the Head of the Girls' and Women's Work at Tuskegee - A Tribute to Her Sterling Qualities. By reason of the distinguished position held by her late husband as well as by reason of her own intrinsic worth as a woman, Mrs. B. K. Bruce has for a number of years been properly distinguished as the first lady of the land so far as the Negro race is concerned. She is a woman of superior education and possesses a delicacy and refinement of nature that would distinguish her in any company. The Negro has had few, if any, who possess the refinement, culture and irreproachable character that is true of Mrs. Bruce. A speaker not long ago in a public address referred to her as a "queenly woman." Notwithstanding all of the rare privileges which were accorded to her during the life of her husband, she never for a moment lost her head nor became intoxicated in a way to make her lose her identity with the best interests of the race. After the death of her honorable and distinguished husband, instead of living in ease and comfort as she could easily have done by reason of her fortune, she chose rather to enter into active, sympathetic and helpful work for the upbuilding of the Negro race. Mr. and Mrs. Booker T. Washington, of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, a few months after the death of her husband, offered her the position of Lady Principal of the Tuskegee Institute, and as soon as she became convinced that Tuskegee was the place where she could prove of most vital service to the race she consented to accept this important position where she could have the moulding of the thought, character and ambitions of hundreds of Negro women. Although both Mr. and Mrs. Washington had known Mrs. Bruce during her life in Washington, neither of them had a correct idea of the true worth and nobility of character of this woman until she began her work at Tuskegee about a year ago. It did not take very long to demonstrate to every one connected with the institution that she was a woman of rare executive ability and saw clearly into the present condition and needs of the race. Few people who have not had the privilege of seeing Mrs. Bruce in her actual work at Tuskegee can form a correct idea of her ability to organize and control. No de- WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 24 1900. M. MRS. B. K. BRUCE, Lady Principal of The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, at Tuskegee, Alabama. tail in connection with the work in her work at Tuskegee is left unmastered by her. She goes to the bottom of everything that she undertakes. Perhaps the thing that has helped to make her work at Tuskegee the rare success which it is, is in her high and thorough Christian character, which impresses every one at once who comes into contact with her. She is so tremendously interested in the work of her department that she forgets herself in her efforts to carry out the plans and purposes of the institution. Every girl and every lady teacher who comes into contact with her goes away the better and stronger for having had the privilege of coming under her influence. Her influence and usefulness are not confined by a great deal to merely performing the work of her immediate department. Her influence and effort extend to every department of the institution. She has already won the complete con- (Continued on 12th page.) OPERA HOUSE VENTURE FAILS. Colored Men Back of Newport News Comp pany Withdraw—House Sold. Newport News, Va. Special.—The Columbian Opera House, erected about two years ago by a company of colored men, has been sold under a deed of trust. The trust deed was for $11,500, and the price paid for the building was $16,500. While the house brought in good returns, a streak of bad luck seemed to pursue the enterprise. Just as the building was being completed the walls bulged and the roof collapsed, killing a carpenter. When the notes became due the company was unable to pay them, and the house was advertised for sale. Temporary arrangements were made, however, and the building was retained by its first owners. After a number of vicissitudes, the colored men back of the enterprise decided to give up the struggle, and the place was sold. It was purchased by a colored man who resides in New York. PRICE FIVE CENTS A REAL OTHELLO A Tribute to 'Ira Aldridge The Rosius.-His Success and Achievement in Foreign Lands -His Untimely Death An Exemplar of Histronic Art. This distinguished Negro tragedian was in his early life employed by the great Edmund Kean, in the humble capacity of valet and accompanied that gentleman to England. While in England he cultivated a taste for the stage, which Mr Kean discovering, encouraged in every possible way. Mr. Aldridge made his debut at the Royalty Theatre, London, England, as Othello. He first appeared at Ovent Garden Theatre, April 10, 1833 As Othello, in 1848 he played at the Surrey Theatre. In 1852 he visited Germany, where he played three years. Honors were showered upon him wherever he appeared. He was highly spoken of by Edmund Kean. Arrangements had been made for him to play in New York and the day fixed for him to sail from England was Aug. 15. He died April 7, 1867. The St. Petersburg Correspondent of Le Nord under date Dec. 5, 1859, wrote: "The success of the Negro actor Ira Aldridge has been wonderful. At his debut people were curious to see an Othello who needed neither crape nor pomade to blacken his face, many expected tears of laughter rather than tears of emotion when they leared that Iago and De-damona would reply to him in German. (The absence of an English troupe forced to play with German actors). Those who counted on this were strongly deceived. From his appearance on the stage the African artist completely captivated his audience by his harmonious and resonant voice and by a style full of simplicity, nature and dignity. For the first time we had seen a tragic hero talk and walk like common mortals, without declamations and without exaggerated gestures. We forgot that we were in a theatre, and followed the drama as if it had been a real transaction. The scene in the third act, when the sentiment of jealousy is roused in the ferocious Moor is the triumph of Aldridge. At the first word of the wily insinuation you see his eye kindle; you feel the tears in his voice when he questions Iago, then the deep sobs which stifle it; and finally when he is (Continued on 12th page.) A New Negro Journal Published for the Democracy—And a Mirror of the Social Life of a Villa in West Virginia. Clarkesburg, W. Va. Special.—Rev. Watson, pastor of the Water St. M. E Church, held his last grand rally and preached his farewell sermon last Sunday night. Large congregations were the order of the day. Accompanied by Mr. Samuel Covington, he left for Baltimore on Monday night to attend the General Conference. Rev. Morris and the board of trustees, of the A. M. E. Church, have issued an appeal through the local newspapers for funds to discharge the indebtedness on the church Rev. Morris is an energetic worker and his efforts have been productive of fairly good results. It is to be regretted however that our wealthy citizens do not show a more benevolent spirit, open wide their plethoric purses for such a worthy object and give plenteously. The citizens will soon be called upon to accept or reject the Council's proposition to issue bonds to pay for sewer age and the paving of streets. If this place would attain the rank and dignity of a city it must obliterate the earmarks of the village and assume the dress of a metropolis. The sanitary condition of the city (?) is deplorable, and the present condition of the streets reminds one of a "Hoosier" village. Apropos of the Council, it is rumored that higher political honors are store for Council man William Wilkinson, who has earned the subriquet of the incorruptible. It is certainly refreshing to find an honest official these days. Messrs. Thomas Scott and Dale Dean left Monday, on a pleasure trip, for Washington, Baltimore and New York. They will be absent about ten days. Mrs. S. H. Guss was summoned to Middleport, Ohio, on account of the death of her grandmother last week. Mr. Guss Green, who has been quite ill for several months, is able to be out again. Mrs. Mort Dieson, of Wheeling, is here visiting her sister Mrs. James Fowlkes. The entertainment given by the Queen Esther Club last Friday evening was a huge success. The program included papers by Misses Ruffin, Poindexter and Ogden, music by Miss Birdie Thomas and the Mandolin and Guitar Club, and recitations by Misses Rittenhouse and Epperson and Mesdames Bowyer, Watson, Tuck and Allen. The West Virginia Spokesman has made its appearance. This in itself might not seem interesting, but the fact that it is a democratic paper edited by Afro-Americans is bound to interest some people. A well written editorial urges the Negro to divide politically and it looks as though the defection in the ranks of colored voters will be considerable. It behooves the republican leaders to hold the Afro-American in line for the coming campaign. Mr. John Robinson entertained the literary department of the Epworth League with a scholarly paper last Thursday evening. Mrs Rone presided. A "nunny" of a clerk in the post office here, who reminds one of a "cold weather nubbin" informed one of our citizens that a certain portion of that building was not for the use of Negroes. He will probably regret that he did not bite his tongue before he made his "bad break. The Equal Rights League has appointed a committee to wait upon the postmaster and demand an explanation from this upstart who assumes the dress and manners of a real man. The Equal Rights League held a very lively session on Monday night and some startling results may be looked for next Monday night. The poet has well said that "fools rush in where angels fear to tread." Such a person as the poet had in mind is responsible for an article concerning a young colored woman which appeared in a local sheet called the Telegram. After reading the article I was tempted to request some one to prescribe an heroic remedy for Negro phobit and send it to the editor of the aforesaid sheet. A red rag flaunted in the face of a bull will enrage that animal beyond all control. I have just learned that diamonds seen upon the person of a Negro will so enrage an animal called the jack ass that it will throw all caution to the winds. If you do not believe it ask the editor of the Telegram. There are some occurrences which do form a basis for legitimate news. They serve some purpose or contain some motive which justifies their publication. Whenever the peace and happiness of respectable people are disturbed by drunken revels; whenever the morals of a town are being corrupted by the presence of brothels and their inmates, the condemnation of such a state of affairs through the public press secures some general purpose. But we would like to know what good resulted from the publication of the scurrilous article which appeared in the Telegram last week concerning a young colored woman of this town whom they were pleased to term "buxon negress." It is quite apparent that the animosity which prompted this chivalric gentleman (?) to show his hybrid nature by the publication of this mismatic article was due to this fact that the young woman wore diamonds, not that she had a supposed white lover. Surely his supersensitive nature has become accustomed to such regrettable things, either by reason of observation or because of personal experience. It is quite likely that he has given "such an exhibition of degeneracy in this age of civilization" himself. A fitting denouement would be the return of the woman or her lover with a good, stout whip lustily applied to the carcass of the "coot" who indulges in ugly insinuations about a colored woman, because she wears diamonds. Misses Louise and Rosa Washington. of 1617 10th street northwest, entertained their friends Friday evening of last week. Various games were played and all seemed to enjoy themselves immensely. After other delightful pastimes, the young guests repaired to the dining room where the handsomely dressed table was filled with all the charming delicacies. Those present were: Misses Nettie Strother, Luray Allen, Bertie Cowles, Irene Turner, Emma Brown, Lucy Galloway, Carrie Brooks, Florence Sneed, Georgie Bundy, Fannie Lee, Messrs. Herman Wilson, William Wye, Shirley Dodson, John Smith, Joseph Hall and Raymond Lucas. Remember the date! Friday evening, June 8, 1900, Hoffman's second annual musical festival. Hear the grand chorus, the famous band, the select orchestra. Sousa's new march "The Man Behind the Guns," as played by Hoffman's band, will be worth the price of admission alone. S. Kann Sons and Co. "THE BUSY CORNER." ALWAYS THE BEST OF EVERYTHING McCall Patterns, two prices, 10 and out. Free at this counter, section F, if you visit to our Lunch Grotto will be a light luncheon. A MOST SINGULAR SALE ON Just because we can. That's the handsome suits right on the edge of new their worth. They are suits of high chic be gotten, today, as well as yesterday, at $6 98, worth $10 and $12.50. Stylish tures, assorted camel's hair, chevoits and double breasted and tight fitting, lined silk and fancy brocades, skirts made with double titched seams, lined with good velvet binding. At $12 98, worth $15 and $18. Hand homeapuns, handsomely tailored, jack-fitting with plain backs and others with the new inverted backs and others with At $15, worth $22. Extra Quality Man assorted shades of castor and black, tight jackets are lined throughout with the extra fine percaline and are finished we are elegantly made and are exceedingly ONE ITEM IN SEPARATE SKIN. On lot of Ladies' Fine Quality Chilk silk and braided in all the new designs, in every length and in their regular w $4.98. 250 Fine Sample Taffeta Silk With narrow all-over cording. The following violet, lavender, corn, turquoise, light the most every size. Positively worth $7.50. THE BEST OF EVERYTHING FOR THE LEAST MONEY. Wherns, two prices, 10 and 15c. The new Spring Sheets are now on this counter, section F, first floor. Our Lunch Grotto will be a delightful treat to those that enjoy a meal. STINGULAR SALE OF WOMEN'S TAILORED SUITS. Use we can. That's the only tangible apology for selling these suits right on the edge of need-time on an average of a third below. They are suits of high character—in style and quality, the best to pay, as well as yesterday, at their regular prices. With $10 and $12.50. Stylishly Tailored Suits of dark Oxford mix of camel's hair, cheviots and homepuns, jackets made fly fronts, and tight fitting, lined throughout with plain shades of taffeta and brocades, skirts made with box pleat backs and finished with soft seams, lined with good quality percaline and faced with deep wrists. With $15 and $18. Handsome Suits of fine Venetian cloths and handsomely tailored, jackets are silk lined throughout, made tight plain backs and others with natty Eton jackets, skirts made with fitted backs and others with box pleat. Every size from 32 to 40. With $22. Extra Quality Man tailored Fine Venetian Cloth Suits, in sizes of castor and black, tight-fitting, double breasted Eton jackets, lined throughout with the finest quality taffeta silk, skirts with caline and are finished with double box pleat backs. These suits made and are exceedingly swell for the price. IN SEPARATE SKIRTS VERY SPECIALLY PRICED. Ladies' Fine Quality Cheviot Skirts, handsomely appliqued in all the new designs. Others are entirely plain. They come with and in their regular way would be worth $7.98 each. Special Sample Taffeta Silk Waists, handsomely tucked and made in her cording. The following is a complete roster of colors: Rose, corn, turquoise, light blue, white and black. We can give you aPositively worth $7.50. Sample price, $4.98. McCall Patterns, two prices, 10 and 15c. The new Spring Sheets are now out. Free at this counter, section F, first floor. A visit to our Lunch Grotto will be a delightful treat to those that enjoy a light luncheon. A MOST SINGULAR SALE OF WOMEN'S TAILORED SUITS. Just because we can. That's the only tangible apology for selling these handsome suits right on the edge of need-time on an average of a third below their worth. They are suits of high character—in style and quality, the best to be gotten, today, as well as yesterday, at their regular prices. At $6 98, worth $10 and $12.50. Stylishly Tailored Suits of dark Oxford mixtures, assorted camel's hair, chevoits and homepuns, jackets made fly fronts, double breasted and tight fitting, lined throughout with plain shades of taffeta silk and fancy brocades, skirts made with box pleat backs and finished with double titched seams, lined with good quality percaline and faced with deep velvet binding At $12 98, worth $15 and $18. Handsome Suits of fine Venetian cloths and homepuns, handsomely tailored, jackets are silk lined throughout, made tight fitting with plain backs and others with natty Eton jackets, skirts made with the new inverted backs and others with box pleat. Every size from 32 to 40. At $15, worth $22. Extra Quality Man tailored Fine Venetian Cloth Suits, in assorted shades of castor and black, tight-fitting, double breasted Eton jackets, jackets are lined throughout with the finest quality taffeta silk, skirts with extra fine percaline and are finished with double box pleat backs. These suits are elegantly made and are exceedingly swell for the price. ONE ITEM IN SEPARATE SKIRTS VERY SPECIALLY PRICED On lot of Ladies' Fine Quality Cheviot Skirts, handsomely appliqued in silk and braided in all the new designs. Others are entirely plain. They come in every length and in their regular way would be worth $7.98 each. Special $4.98. 250 Fine Sample Taffeta Silk Waists. handsomely tucked and made in narrow all-over cording. The following is a complete roster of colors: Rose, violet, lavender, corn, turquoise, light blue, white and black. We can give you most every size. Positively worth $7.50. Sample price. $4.98. S. KANN. SONS & Co. This Will Interest 20 PER CENT BY CO-OPERATING The National OF WASHINGTON Will Interest You ENT BY CO-OPERATION. e National Trust Company, OF WASHINGTON, D. C., Invites your co-operation in the ownership of its business. Where you can invest a little money, and KNOW just what is being done with it, and receive BIG PROFITS on your investment. THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DON'T NEGLECT IT. TAKE A Call and find out all about are out of the city. THE NA 34 Warder Building, corner 9th a IS AN OPPORTUNITY NEVER BEFORE OFFERED. EGLECT IT. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT AT ONCE. Call and find out all about it, or write us if you are out of the city. THE NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, Under Building, corner 9th and F Streets, Washington, D. C. THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY NEVER BEFORE OFFERED. DON'T NEGLECT IT. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT AT ONCE. Call and find out all about it, or write us if you are out of the city. THE NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, 34 Warder Building, corner 9th and F Streets, Washington, D.C. Consumers Brewing Company Brews the purest Beer on the Washington Market. The highest chemica authority in the district of Colum bias after an analysis just finished of all the different beers on the market, gives 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. 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Can make $75 to $150 per month. Write for instructions. Enclose 2c. stamp for reply. P.O. Box 570. SCOTT REMEDY CO.. Louisville, KY. Active agents can make $75 00 per month by selling our remedies Enclose 2 cent stamp for reply. SCOTT REMEDY CO P. O. Box, 507 Louisville Ky. eee SPARKS FROM THE ANYIL. EEE A Few Brilliants Shattered From The Opinion Page. THE HART FARM SCHOOL. Kditor Colored Americab:— ibe pud- lic naturally feele a profound interest concerning the discussion last week in Congress and 1D The Post, of the Hart Farm School and the great work it is doing for the colored people of the Dis- trict of Columbia. This benificent in: stitution, founded by Prof Hart and sustained by him for the past three yeare at 80 great a cost of money and laoor, is imperided by the desire of Mr. M. D, Peck and Mr. John F. Cook, members of the Board of Guardians, to transfer the work to Mr. Smythe’s penal settlement on the James River. sixteen miles below Riebmond, thus not only taking away over $10,000 from the merchante 1D this city who furnish the eupplies for the Hart Farm School, put quite thas amount in salaries paid by Mr, Ba t to his corps of instructors, numbering ten persons, all of whom mainiain families in this city. The cruel feature of the whole thing 18, however, the separation of the little wards of the State entirely from this community so that they will not be able to see their people and their people to see them constantly as has heretofors. bean the case at the Hart Farm School It also deporis these little ones into remote Virginia, where the Board of Guardians cannot supervise them and thereby practically abdicates the guard jansbip reposed in them by law. Be aides subjecting these litile children who belong to the District of Columbia to all the hardships and humiliations, which every one knows, colored chil dren so situated «ust endure in thst State, What, wich the Jim Crow car law and the scanty sum that Mr. Smythe proposes to accept for the care cf these children, are we coming to? It seems that the time is about ripe for the colored people of this District to make themselves heard as to these plans of Mr. John F. Goo and Mr. M. D. Peck. Fortunately, however, a majority of the Board of Children’s Guardians bave not taken Jeave of their common sense up to this time in this matter, and we surmise that they have heard a voice from the halls of Congress in the person of Congreseman John M. Allen, of Tupelo, Mies., and Gen, Grout and Representative Mc: Cleary that will make them go slow. At last a Republican Representative from New York would deport the col- ored children of the District of Colum: bia and a gallant Southern gentleman from Mississippi comes to their reseue. FatrR Puay. When are we to have representation in the clerical force of the Census Office? Will Gen, Merriam give us an anewer, Col. Pledger, of Georgia, and his big slouch hat and genial smiles promise to banish to Georgia betore the shades of another Sabbath come around. Did you ever see the boys of the Colored High School of Washington drill? What a magnificent sight it is? Major Brooks can well congratulate himself upon the degree of efficiency which he has reached in the moulding of these young citizen so'diers of the Distrie of Columbia. Prof. Terrell in directing the whole matter is also to be congratulated upon his splendid disciplinarian ability. And we are Proud of our whole school system and THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. 0. its corps of teachers. They compare favorably with those of the whites, and why shoulda’t they? Our teachers are among the best educated people in the country and there is no reason why one educated man should not, all things being equal, be as effective in his work as another, whether he be black, red or white. —————EEEEEEEess Now, who said that the Crumpack- er bill would never get out of the com: mutttee room to see its father’s face in the House of Representatives? Vulgarian Tillman of South Caro: lina has not broken out in the Federal Senate lately. We would like to feel that the Senator could be ashamed of himself, But that would be ascribing to hima virtue which we don’t feel he Nogsecawag Now, why can’t the Afro Americans have some representation in the man‘ agement of our new possessions? The mixed people in these new ‘possessions must think that the Afro-American is a very small factor in American poli: tics and hfe sice none of them lave been designated to positions of honor and trust in these new possessions. Who is to blame for this oversight or neglect or slight or whatever you may call it? It ought to be remedied. We are sending out this week a Jarge number of letters containing bills to delinquentsubscribers A large percent. of them is to persons who stand high in the communities in which they live and who are amply sble to yay their subscription bills to The Colored Amer: ican. There seems to be, however, something in the nature of some peo- ple which opposes the paying of -a newspaper bill, These letters are care tally worded and are not intended to offend any one. It is the wish of the mauager of the paper, however, that those who receive the billa will ac- knowledge the receipt of them and tend on their subscription, This will be a great year becaure of the impending campaign, because of the prosperity which follows a war, because of the Paris Exposition and last, but not least, because of the prog- ress being made by the Afro-American everywhere. Those who have read The Colored American from year to year ‘and who have followed its tcrtunes cannot afford to miss it this year; but still, if those to whom bills have been sent do not remit, they may expect to ‘part compauy with the paper and to be ‘dunned by @ lawyer for the amount that isdue. Itis a matter of business and it takes money to run a newspaper. The friends of the paper will not get offended, but the ‘‘dead beat” will probably write an ineulting letter The Colored American wants to hear ftom every subscriber whose subseription is in arrears. {In another part of this issue of The Colored American is an advertis: ment of the National Trust Company, of this city. Its offices are at room 34 Warder Building, corner 9th and F streets, and a representative of The Colored Ameri can has examined it carefully and mi- nutely. It offers excellent inducement to persons who have a littie money to invest. It 18 solvent; it is officered by men who have & standing in the com: munity and no one takes any risk who investe in it. It uffers two great advan tages: the first one 18, that you may buy one, ten or a hundred shares of stock and pay for iton the weekly or monthly plan. Every dollar you invest will bring returns. Should you need the money it can be withdrawn. The sec- PP a en ers Seta gee A, Oa St ee COREA EE Ee Oe ee ee AT THE TOP! 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Piace it on your eentre table. ‘I'he bagatelle price puta it witbin reach of all, Souvenir of Ninth Cavalry is in course of preparation. A ats wanted. Send $2 00 for ‘ Uuder Fire with 10th United states Cav.” SORA Pr TR BPRS EIR CSD om GST RRS Be oe PS Be RO ORCS 6 OCT POPP RTRs | ond inducement is, that this company controls valuable property not very far from Washington op the Chesapeake where valuable lots may be obtained for summer homes, summer resorts oO: summer cotiages. Race proseription ie eoming fo such an issue that if itie not abated in a few years there will be few if any places where respectable “colored people can spend the hot seasun out of theci‘y. Intelligent men who haye a little idle time can make money if they will consult Mr. Fletcher, the manager, and those who care to invest butwho desire more information on the au ject should call or address The Nay tional Trust Company, room 34, Warder Building, corner 9.h and F streets, Washington, D. C. The Colored A meri" can cheerfully recommends this com pany. The Charity Entertainment which was scheduled for Merch 15th, will take place next Friday evening, March 80th at the Conservatory of Music, 12th and R. The affair is under the auspices of the Sunshine Ten cf Kings Daughters snd ie givento aid ttre Day Nureery. Good music, and daucing. Tre mem: bers are: Mrs. Daisy Coleman Arnold, Emma Muse, Julia Tatem and Nannie Outlaw and Mieses Nora Hyman, Alex: zine Montague, Hattie Thomas, Laura Terrell and Annie Thomas. A Recital by Mrs. Finetta Sargent Haskell, under the auspices of the D.C. W. O. T. U., will take place at the 15th St. Presbyterian church, Wednesdsy, March 28th, 1906, 8 p.m. ‘The pro- gram wiil be as follows: 1. (a) Tue Golden Wedding, Ruth MeEnery Stuart; (b) Down to the Capital, James Whitcomb Riley;- (c) Solo: 2. (a) The Wooing and Marriage of David and Dora; Dickens; (b) Elopement. Ben King. 3. (a) Alpha and Omega, Robert F. Burdette; (b) Life Paul Law- rence Dunbar; (c) Solo. 4. (3) |How the Derby was Won, Harrison Robert son; (b) The Party, Paul Lawrence Danbar. Toda FREE, to advertise it: best i Headache Cure {fs woria: send 4 cents for sample. LAUEI017 Arch St., Phila, Pa, A Wise Suggestion. If you are not a depositer in the Capital Savings Buak, it is your duty to become one at once. This is a race institution, and should receive the support »f our people. If you have money oa deposit elsewhere, go get $5 or $10 and put it in thie bank, it will not break you, but will probably be the means of getting other depositors for this instiiation, which 1s a pride to the colored people of the city. AMUSEMENTS, eee WEBK OF MAR 2. Wed. & Sat. Mats. 25c’and 50c. The Greatest of ali Colored Comedians | Tn the Genuine Comic Novelty FA Trip to Coonfown Monday, April 2.—Hoyt’s A BLACK SHEEP. WEEK OF MARUH 26, | Matinees Wednesday and Saturday. The Woman Who Makes You Laugh. Ia Her Great Saeces>, After a Record- Breaking Run tu New York Clty of Over 5 Months Monday, Apri} 2, The Famous BOS: TONIANS, | SPECIAL, = WANTED-—2 rooms for family of 8, with respectable people, with privileges f house. Address “A. B,’’ Colored American office, 1 4 CARSON IN THE FIELD. Will Return to Active Politics to Fight Chase and Jones. From The Washington Post. Editor Post: I beg to be allowed space in your columns to repudiate a false rumor circulated to the effect that I brought forward. as candidates to the Republican National Convention, Rev. George W. Lee and Dr. Robert Reyburn, and that they were selected by me to fill the places in that body so J. COL. PERRY H. CARSON. long held by Mr. Gleason and myself. I did not know the personnel of the Lee-Reyburn ticket till I met Sergt. Mekay, a few days before the election, when he informed me. The moment I learned that Lee and Reyburn were to make the race I decided to do all in my power to elect them, but as to the formation of the ticket I had nothing whatever to do. I am deservedly proud of the part I have borne in district and national politics in the years gone by, but I am prouder still of the fact that I was an humble worker and follower of Lee and Reyburn, the people's choice, and that the people vindicated the wisdom of my views, or preference, in every one of the nine districts where there was one unbiased judge to insist upon a fair count and proper return. I drove from precinct to precinct, on election day, something I never did in my own contest in the past, and everywhere I went expressions of opinions were overwhelmingly in favor of Lee and Reyburn. I had nothing to do with bringing out any man as a candidate for the office of delegate to the Philadelphia convention, but I would rather have gone down to honorable defeat following Lee and Reyburn than to have followed Chase and Jones into the possession of a kingdom and have worn diamonds and rubies the rest of my natural life. I was not a candidate. I did not intend to go to Philadelphia even as a spectator. I was satisfied to rest upon the laurels with which the people of this District were kind enough to crown me; but now I feel that I should go to Philadelphia and use whatever influence I may have to seat in their places the men chosen by the sovereign people to represent them in that great body of wisdom, liberty, and patriotism. P. H. CARSON. An array of artists, Misses Lola Johnson, Chanie Patterson, Beatrice Jones, Madames Brooks, Smallwood and Ball, The Treble Cief Quartette, Messrs. Layton, Wormley, Lewis, Walker, Ambler, Segura, Butler, Gaines and Harlan, to be heard in the Grand Star Concert at the Berean Baptist church, 18th street, between L and M streets, Tuesday evening March 27th. Misses Lucy J. and Rebecca Moten, managers. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. MRS. MOSSELL PROTESTS Against the Policy of the Philadelphia Lecture Course, and Sounds a Note of Warning Mr. Editor: - I want to say a word in your columns concerning the lecture course on the American Negro now being given in Philadelphia. I have heard three lectures. Mr. Glenn, of Georgia; Rev. Edgar Murphy, of Alabama, and Mr. Blair, of North Carolina, have spoken. I only claim to be a woman of average common sense, but I have listened intently to all that has been said, and taken part in the after discussion; and if there is not being an effort made inimical to our best interests I do not know what else is being done, and if Booker Washington is not seemingly being used to bolster up every argument against us, I do not understand plain English. These men want the 15th Amendment repealed, they want to be placed in a position to rule without the disgrace of shooting the Negro; they say the Southern Negro has been made to appear the maryirs, and they are the real martyrs; that they have made the Southern Negro understand the futility of ever hoping for social or political equality. Now, if our colored men don't get united and stop using all their energies in keeping somebody else from getting a political or ecclesiastical position and look after the race interests they will wake up some fine day and witness the repeal of the 15th Amendment. We have had the ballot and lost it several times before in certain States. Now we have it nationally; but the South is a unit to disfranchise us and the crusade is now begun in Philadelphia, the cradle of liberty, to take it away practically forever. These speakers have drawn a picture of their suffering with an ignorant enfranchised Negro population, and then asked if you would have borne this. No. We have done thus and so, and so would you in our places, and the audience sat silent and 'silence gives consent.' Practically Ben Tillman's utterance has been repeated. Now what is to be done, will the men begin at once an agitation against this suggestion? MRS. N. F. MOSSELL. Philadelphia, Pa. The Coachmen's 18th Annual. The annual reception and banquet of the Coachman's Union and Aid Association is always an event of great interest, and is looked forward to by a large clientage of our most valuable and useful citizens. 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DEFENSE OF SUPERINTENDENT COOK. Record of the Colored Schools While He Has Been in Charge. From the Washington Post. Editor Post: The report of the board of trustees of public schools for the District of Columbia for the school year 189899, embodying the reports of superintendents and others, bearing date December 29, 1899, contains in a preface J. SUPT. GEO. F.T. COOK. by J. W. Whelpley, president, the following: As these reports show, and as we have found during the past year, the public schools of the District are in excellent condition. Superintendents and other officials, and the principals and subordinate teachers, have performed their difficult and laborious duties faithfully and well. We believe that our public schools have kept pace with the advance of modern methods in teaching and in the management of schools. The same school board passed, on Tuesday, March 14, 1900, the following resolutions: Whereas that in the investigation of the superintendent of schools of the ninth, tenth, and eleventh divisions this board find much inefficiency in the neglect by the incumbent of the work pertaining to the strictly educational features of that office; Resolved. That the board of trustees recommend to the honorable Commissioners of the District of Columbia that a change be made in the office of the superintendent of schools of the ninth, tenth, and eleventh divisions, and that they appoint to it a man who will bring to the position all that it stands for from an educational standpoint. The trustees being educated ladies and gentlemen, it is proper to infer that they understand the value of consistency; therefore, there must occurred, between December 29, 1999, and March 14, 1900, some serious remissness of duty on the part of Superintendent Cook to have induced them to recommend his removal. In looking the report of 1898 99 I find that pages from 222 to 311, inclusive, contain matter exclusively connected with the schools under the immediate supervision of Mr. Cook; and chief among the many interesting subjects are the reports of the supervising principals, principals of normal and of high schools, also directors of primary work, of manual training (wood and metal,) of drawing, of sewing,, and of cooking, all of whom acknowledge "valuable counsel and assistance" from Superintendent Cook. No neglect there. I have also examined the school reports from 1874-75, the first issued after the consolidation of the several boards, to 1898-99, and find an unbroked record of acknowledged efficiency from the various boards of trustee on the part of Superintendent Cook. The colored schools of Washington and Georgetown from 1864 to 1874 were, with few exceptions, under colored men as trustees -Mr. Cook, barring a brief period, being the superintendent. The sup- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. port given Mr. Cook, from an educational standpoint, by the trustees, was meager in the extreme. Such being the uncontrovertible history of the colored schools in the cities of Washington and Georgetown, common fairness demands that something more definite than the vague wording of the board of trustees' resolution be given befor an honest conscientious, and honorable gentleman should be ruthlessly dismissed from a position which he has, from their own showing, filled with credit and profit to those intrusted to his charge. The magnificent school system for colored children in the cities of Washington and Georgetown has grown under Mr. Cook's fostering care from 52 schools, 50 teachers, and 3,000 pupils to 269 schools, 334 teachers, and 12,794 pupils; yet, Mr. Cook is a failure! With the greatest respect personally for the members of the school board, I cannot refrain from suggesting that it is a question of taste to recommend the removal of a co-ordinate while the borad itself is under the cloud of a Senatorial investigation. HENEY JOHNSON. Answer the Question. The coming census is a matter of great interest to the American Negro. He will be expected to answer the enumerator when he comes next June, and naturally wishes to make a good showing in the big volumes that are to be printed about the people of the United States. "The population schedule" is the one that concerns everybody. On it are the questions about name, age, sex, color, relationship to the head of the family and where each individual was born, as well as where the parents of each were born. The enumerator who can read and write and how many months the children have gone to school. He will ask about the prosperity of the family, whether only the man works for money or whether the women and children do, too, and whether they own or rent the house they live in. All the enumerator can do with this information when he gets it will be to write it down, for he has sworn not to tell anything about it, and then the papers will be sent to Washington to be worked out by electricity. The great books, when printed, will show how fast the colored people have been im proving and where they have made greatest progress. QUEEN CITY CULLINGS. Graduates From the Night High School Campaign Warming up—Conservative View of Situation-Editor Anderson's Claim to Support-Editor Thompson in Town. Cincinnati, O. Special-One of the most notable events of the year was the commencement exercises of the Cincinnati night high school, which took place at the Odeon on the night of the 14th. A large audience, made up of Cincinnati's representative citizens, was present and listened with marked interest to the scholarly productions of the senior class, and mentally compared the superb equipment of the schools of today with the crude and undeveloped system in vogue in the years of their youth. The graduates numbered forty, and conspicuous among them was Miss Gertrude Hart, a young lady of brilliant attainments and whose future offers the highest promise. Mrs. Susie Johnson Higgins, of the public schools, together with her son, are domiciled at The Bee. Allen Temple recently damaged by In fact, every man whose time is precious, whose wages depend upon the actual time he puts in, should Because they can be put on or removed in one-tenth of the time that lace or button shoes occupy. Because the Electus Clasp Fasteners are as firm as if lock: Because the Electus Clasp Fasteners are as firm as if locked, and will not pull out. 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Mrs. Sara Saunders Monroe of Barr street, is taking a course in manicuring and chiropody, with a view of embarking into business for herself eventually. Mrs. Monroe is one of Washington's most welcome contributions to Cincinnati's society, and her elcutionary talent and personal graces, have made her greatly admired by our people. Editor W L. Annerson is doing well with his neatly gotten up paper, The Rostrum. He is a first class young man—a hustler, every inch of him, and the town ought to give him solid sup port. He is a fearless and outspoken champion of the rights of the Negro. Mr. Anderson has a fine mechanical equipment and a nicely furnished suite of offices in Temple Court. Mr. R. W. Thompson of the Census Bureau, Washington, D. C., president of the Second Baptist Lyceum, of that city and all around newspaper man, stopped over last Friday, en route from his Indianapolis home to the nation's capital. He was the guest of genial Mr. W. H. Fielding, and was handsomely dined at the Bee Hotel, meeting a select party of six. Cincinnati's doors always swing inward for Mr. Thompson, and it is regretted that his visits are so brief and far between. The campaign is opening hot and heavy. Slates are being made and smashed daily. The Negro as a race are standing by Cox in local affairs and the national administration, but there are enough "antis" to make the situation decidedly interesting. The Porto Rican question is being argued on every corner and descanted upon at great length in the barber shops. Many who know the least about it are talking the loudest, but the feeling among the conservative element is that the proposed tariff is unconstitutional. and if the Supreme Court is called to pass upon it, its doom is sealed. The President's intentions are regarded as good, and when the storm is over his Ohio popularity will suffer no impairment. 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If any one doubts the interest of the Negro in all the great issues of the hour, whether they directly bear upon the race problem or not, they should have been present last Sunday afternoon at the Second Baptist Lyceum. The Porto Rican tariff question was up for consideration, with that scholarly and well-posted young thinker and economist Prof. L M. Hershaw as orator of the day. An audience that tested the capacity of the spacious lecture room listened attentively throughout the address, and to say that is was highly instructive, interesting and edifying, would be but a faint description of its excellent character. A subject that might have proven dry as dust in other hands, was given a treatment that was profound and exhaustive, clear as a bell, and which laid bare with primer like simplicity the most complex problem that has vexed this nation since the Declaration of Independence. President R. W. Thompson introduced Prof. Hershaw in a felicitous manner, and pointed to his record and achievements, his superior intellect and high character as examples of the fact that this day and generation, like that which followed the civil war, is furnishing thoughtful young men, who are taking their places at the front of public affairs, and bringing to bear a potent influence in solving the problems that year by year the masses are called upon to face. He stated that he had selected the subject because the educational system followed by the Second Baptist Lyceum demanded that great questions be discussed at a time when the popular mind was most deeply concerned, and when an expression of sentiment might be of some real service to the nation. He had selected Prof. Hershaw to present the subject because he had confidence in his ability, in his honesty and his capacity to condense a powerful constitutional argument into the smallest compass, with the maximum preservation of thought and information. Prof. Hershaw is a Georgian, a post-graduate at law, and a close student of political economy. Prof. Hershaw spoke of the peculiar position this country assumes toward the recently acquired territory; of the Supreme Court in reference to the construction of the Constitution and that it had been decided that all territory over which the United States has jurisdiction comes within the perview of the Constitution and is as much a part of the United States as if it were Alaska, Arizona, Indian Territory or Oklahoma. He pointed out the danger that might come to the District of Columbia if the idea should be upheld that the term "United States" embraced only the territory of the several states which formed the Union. The District of Columbia would be outside the Union, and subject to the customs duties, and denied the privileges and immunities guaranteed to the states by the Constitution. * He did not believe a tariff law of the kind proposed would stand the test of a Supreme Court inquiry. He expressed faith in the honesty and generosity of the American people, and believed that when the mists of martial confusion had passed away, and the sober second thought should come to the land, all the problems growing out of the Span- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. ish-American war, for which we had no precedent to guide us, would be solved on just and equitable lines. At the conclusion of Prof. Hershaw's admirable address, he was roundly applauded. The discussion from the floor was one of the ablest ever heard before this lyceum, and was full of "ginger" from beginning to end, and the time for closing came all too soon. Mr. Theodore F Price, a popular white resident of the District, opened, and gave an interesting dissertation upon the demand for a foreign market, but argued strongly for free trade with Porto Rica and all of America's new dependencies. Editor T. Thomas Fortune made a vigorous speech in which he denounced the sugar and tobacco trusts for their cupidity, and hoped our government would one day cease to be led away from the right principles of our fathers and the rounders of the republic at the behest of the money changers, robbers, thieves and hypocrites who dealt with the honor of the country and bartered human life with as little compunction as clipping coupons or watering railroad stock. Col. W. A. Pledger captivated the crowd by one of his humorous talks. He promised to stand with the majority of the republican party on the Porto Rico question when the matter should come up before the national convention and he believed that the right would prevail. He will support the nominee of the Philadelphia conclave, whoever he may be, and is now for McKinley, because he is the choice of the majority of the party. Recorder H. P. Cheatham was enthusiastically called, and in his usual polished manner expressed his sympathy for all people struggling for liberty and advancement, and felt confident that out of the present tangle a happy solution would come, and that the inhabitants of Porto Rico would hold in reverent memory the day that General Miles landed on the Island, and promised in the name of the American flag that there should come to them all the opportunities for exalted civilization and progress embodied in our Magna Charia, the Constitution, that had been enjoyed by American citizens for more than a hundred years. Lieut. R. E. Toomey made a ringing talk, in which he urged that the names of the old leaders like Douglass, Bruce, Langston, Lynch, Cuney and Pinchback should never be passed over in silence when mentioned in a popular audience. On his motion, a vote of thanks was tendered Prof. Hershaw and those who participated in the exercises. The singing of Misses Georgia Smith and Georgia Makell was excellent, and was received with many evidences of appreciation. Tomorrow at 3 30 p. m., Senator William E. Mason, of Illinois. The Singing Class. Leader Hoffman stated to an American reporter that directly after last season's Festival the Elementary Singing Class was incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia, to be known by name as "The Washington Permanent Chorus," but not until after this year's festival by the Advanced Sight Singing Class (Damrosch System) will they assume the above title. A brilliant programme is promised. Hoffman's band will be increased to forty members. The big orchestra to accompany the chorus will consist of twenty-five musicians. It is expected that Mr. Harry T. Burleigh, the great basso of New York, who was a classmate of Mr. Hoffman while at the National Conservatory of Music, will render two solos. Altogether without doubt this will eclipse last year's festival which was the most successful ever launched in Washington. Late Locals. Mr. D. B. McCary. cashier of the Capital Savings Bank, who has been indisposed for the past few days, is up aud at his desk again. Ex Governor P. B. S. Pinchback, who has been attending the Mardi Gras in New Orleans and who, while there, was commissioned by the National Afro-American Council and by a committee of prominent citizens of this city to look into the Louisiana Suffrage Law, has returned to the city. The Governor is in prime condition and has been greatly benefitted by his trip South. A full report will be given of his work in connection with the Louisiana law in a subsequent issue. Lawyer Thomas L. Jones, the eloquent Virginian, is adding new laurels to his reputation because of the successful manner in which he conducts his murder cases. In the case of Ashton, which was decided in his favor last week, the lawyers and spectators in the court room paid him a high tribute for the excellent manner in which the case was conducted. He saved Ashton's life. Mr. Jones has handled more than fifteen murder cases in the last six years and to his credit may it be said that he has not lost a single case. While he has not in every case succeeded in acquitting his clients, he has saved their lives. He has a bright future. "A Trip to Coontown," by those masters of the Thesplan art, Cole and Johnson, will be on the boards at the Academy next week. Both of these talented young men are well known in this city but have never been here with their own company. "A Trip to Coontown" is said to surpass even the magnificent show put up by Williams and Walker and a crowded house may be expected at the Academy every night next week. Manager Rapley says that there will be no discrimination as was the case at the New Grand last year when Williams and Walker were here and those who know the Rapleys who manage the New National and the Academy know what to expect. Mrs. Nellie Bundy nee Tate, arrived in the city last week from Circleville, Ohio, to join her husband, M. M. J. Bundy, who has accepted a place in the Supply Division of the Post Office Department. They will reside permanently in Washington. Mr. Lewis H. Douglas, who has been up in Eastern New York for two weeks, has returned to the city. Mr. and Mrs. McKenzie Scott celebrated their eighteenth anniversary Friday, March 16th at their cozy residence on Second street, s w. Mr. Scott is one of Washington's enterprising undertakers and counts his friends by the score. A large number of friends were in attendance and the evening was pleasantly spent. A large number of presents were sent in and but for the lack of space a list of presents as well as of the guests would be printed in full. The National Colored Teachers' Bureau. Registration free, teachers wanted. Address J. G. Clayton, Md., secretary, 459 C street, n. w. Rev. Dr. S, W. Smith of Princeton, the N. J., editor of the Christian Banner, passed through the city this week en route to Richmond, Va., and other cities in the South. ...C. H. NAUGHTON... LIQUORS AND SEGARS FINE WINES. Harper & Wilson a specialty. 1926 Fourteenth Street, Northwest FUNERAL DIRECTORS Geo. W. W'se Furnishing Undertaker 2900 M street, Georgetown, D. C Telephone call, 103 83. E. H. MORSELL. Sheaves of wheat, Funeral Designs Full Line. Call and Examine. 1105 7th st. n w. Wash. D. C. Cemetery Goods. Harfina Medicated, Refresh- ing, Healthful.—Specially adapted by Dr. Philo Hay for HAIR and BATH. 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DRURY'S RESTAURANT 1100 20th St., corner L. N. W. Washington, D. C. GASKINS & GAINES [Just around the corner] 320 8th Street, N. W. Opposite Kanns'. All leading brands of wine liquors and cigars, imported and domestic. Ladies and Gentlemen's Cafe Upstairs. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. You are going out of town You have a guest visiting you, Your pastor is given a reception, You are managing a concert, You or your friends are ill, An heir is born into your house- hold. 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. Mrs. Ella B. Thompson continues ill. Put your money in the Capital Savings Bank. Senator W. E. Mason at Second Baptist Lyceum tomorrow, 3. 30 p. m. sharp. Miss Nannie E. Smith, of 475 Missouri avenue, is to visit North Carolina soon. Mrs. Marie Carver, of 4th street north west, has been spending a few days in Virginia near Culpeper. Mrs. Julia Mason Layton is preparing a history of the Woman's Relief Corps, G. A. R., to be placed on file at the Paris Exposition. Col. R R. Bowie and his bland smile are among the most taking features of the Personal Liberty League Club's Sunday session. Mr. W. A. Wells, Sr., formerly an attache at the White House, is now stationed at the main entrance of the Census Office. He is a polite and obliging official and popular with everybody. Send in a dollar to the finance committee of the National Afro-American Council and test the constitutionality of the discriminatory election laws of the South. Send money to Prof. Jesse Lawson, 2011 Vermont avenue, n. w. A symposium on "Wealth and Wealth-Producing Agencies" is scheduled for an early presentation before Bethel Literary and Historical Association. The speakers will be Hon. H. P. Cheatham, Prof. W. H. H. Hart and Hon. J. W. Lyons. Miss Daisy Alexander, of 1025 9th street, n. w. is spending a few days in Baltimore Miss Alexand r is one of the most entertaining conversationalists that Washington can boast of, and Baltimoreans will no doubt do themselves honor during her stay. Rev. J. W. Harris, pastor of Miles Memorial Church, has been conducting a revival for two weeks, assisted by Rev. Fobbs, the boy preacher, and others. The meetings have been largely attended, more so than ever before. Received twelve converts in church, Sunday, March 18. The McKinley House is receiving a large portion of the transient trade of the city. Since Messrs. Anderson and Edwards have had charge of this well known and justly popular hostelry, business has improved to a wonderful extent and the affairs of the hotel are being handled in first class style by these capable proprietors. Call on the Indian Herb Medicine Man, Dr. James P. Kerr, he cures all manner of diseases. Read his advertisement and write for particulars. Health for 10 cents. Cascarets make the bowels and kidneys act naturally destroys microbes, cure headaches, biliousness and constipation. BETHEL LITERARY'S SCHEDULE. Some Rich Intellectual Treats in Store for the Patrons of Washington's Historic Society, Bethel Literary and Historical Association is enjoying a season of unexampled prosperity. It is doubtful if any corresponding period since its formation can this society point to a series of literary offerings, so rich in thought, so entertaining in character, or so varied in the method of presenting valuable instruction as has been given by President W. H. Richards in the past season and a half. He has put into this work all the vast resources of a well-stored mind and cultivated taste, and the results he is achieving must be gratifying to him. They are certainly highly appreciated by the public. His labor is a labor of love merely, but he performs it with as much energy, patience and fidelity as if he were in receipt of $1,500 a year as compensation. He is level-headed and wonderfully even tempered—never disconcerted by mishaps or disappointments, never unduly elated by signal triumphs. Men like Prof. Richards are rare, and any community fortunate enough to possess one of his superior qualities should prize him beyond rubies. It is hoped that the electors of Bethel will be able to induce him to serve another term. Following is the highly interesting program announced by Bethel for the next few weeks: March 27.—"Religion in Politics,"—Hon. Carroll D. Wright. R·I·P·A·N·S The modern standard Family Medicine: Cures the common every-day ills of humanity. TRADE RIPANS ABULS MARK Dress-Making. DRESSMAKING ACADEMY: The de Lam Orton Famous French Perfection Tailor System Academy MME J. A. SMALLWOOD, Sole Agent 1513Madison St. Northwest. Morning class from 9 a. m. to 1 p. n. 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It has positively cured in a short time many who were bed-ridden for years; others who could only walk by the use of crutches, and still others who had been given up by competent physicians to die. This is no exaggeration. We have the evidence in our possession to prove all we say and more too. "5 DROPS" positively cures the following diseases: RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA, SCIATICA, DYSPEPSIA, BACKACHE, HAY-FEVER, CATARRH, SLEEPLESSNESS, NERVOUSNESS, HEART WEAKNESS, TOOTHACHE, EARACHE, CREEPING NUMBNESS, BRONCHITIS, LIVER and KIDNEY DISEASES, and where one is cured by this remedy, they stay cured of these diseases, for it fortifies the system against any future attack. "5 DROPS" is the name and five drops the dose. Large bottles (300 doses) prepaid by Mail or Express, $1.00, or six bottles for $5.00. Sample bottles, regular price, 25c., but for the next thirty days from the date of this paper, we will send sample bottles upon receipt of 10c. each. 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All communications for publication should be accompanied with the name of the writer—not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. We solicit news, contributions, opinions and in fact, all matters affecting the race. We will not pay for matter, however, unless it is ordered by us. All matter intended for publication must reach this office by Wednesday of each week to insure insertion in the current issue. Agents are wanted everywere, Send or instructions. For Sale by all-News Dealers. ADVERTISING RATES Reading notices 50 cents per line. Display advertisements, $2 per square inch per insertion. Discounts made on large contracts. Entered at the Post-office as second-class matter. All letters, communications, and business mailers should be addressed to THE COLORED AMERICAN, EDWARD E. COOPER, MANAGER 459 C Street Northwest. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1900. THE CAMPAIGN ISSUES OF 1900. The past four years have been prolific of momentous events in the history of the Republic. In no other space of time have the traditions of the country been more violently shaken. For a long series of years it was our settled policy that the American continent, and especially that portion of it embraced in the United States, was large enough for us. But while confining ourselves to the magnificent domain, bounded by the two greatest oceans that exist and insisting that the great powers of the world should live up to the unwritten law laid down by President Monroe that there should be no European intervention in the affairs of the Occident, although many of these powers possessed territory on the North and South American Continent, the wishes of the United States were respected in a most remarkable degree. The Spanish-American War swept away the Monroe doctrine, many wise men to the contrary notwithstanding, and placed us in the position of a great country in instant contact with the regnant powers of the world. This could not be otherwise when we possess a vast territory with a large motley population separated from us by 5,000 miles as the first stopping place in the Pacific and by 10,000 miles at the extreme end of our new possessions The question of expansion cannot be a burning question. We have expanded. We have possessed ourselves of Porto Rico, Hawaii, the Sulis and the Philippine Islands. What we have taken on as the fruits of war we cannot well throw off Having broken the Spanish power and failed to give to the late subjects of Spain their independence and having assumed the government of these countries where Spain 'left it off, the nations of the world look to us for a proper administration of affairs and for the meeting of such of the many and just obligations as came into our possession when we took on those countries. But the question of the government of these people is a burning question. We do --- MERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. an indicate this as one of the states which will enter largely into the campaign of the current year. We will say, however, that those people in Congress and out of it who insist that we have colonies and must have colonial government are at fault. The Constitution of the United States provides for territories and states. It does not provide for colonies. As President McKinley has said, "Our priceless principles for the flag." If they do, and we think they do, then eventually the people in these new countries must take the same course in the formation of their territorial and state government that obtains in the United States proper. The money question has been settled by the action of Congress and the result of the election in next November cannot affect it, as the Republicans are intrenched for the next six years in the Senate branch of Congress The same is true of the question of tariff legislation. The success of the Democratic Party, however, would necessarily by reason of the agitation that would follow disturb the industrial and financial interests of the country. And it is from this point of view that we are to consider the wisdom or unwisdom of allowing the Democratic Party to come into power again. The question of "trusts" will play a prominent part in the ensuing campaign. Trusts may be defined to be gigantic combinations of small interests and capital for the controlling of any given industry. For instance, the Standard Oil Company has purchased or crushed out all of its rivals. The Sugar Trust has done the same thing, The Cracker Trust has done the same thing, and so on to the end. Now it is natural that such large combinations of industry and capital should follow our enormous development of wealth and industry. In how far these combinations of capital and industry are to be controlled by legislation is the sharp question that will enter most largely into the discussion of the question. Indeed Mr. Bryan and his Democratic conferees are taking it for granted that in the matter of the control of the trusts they have the only right idea. There are others who don't think so. We wish that we might include among the issues of the impending campaign the large and vital question of suffrage and other class legislation in the Southern States. From the suffrage point of view, the Southern States by all the rascality known to unscrupulous politics have initiated such selfish legislation as to destroy the voting value of a large section of their citizenship. This has gone so far that one Congressional district in New York cast in the Congressional election of 1898 as many votes as were cast in the two States of Louisiana and South Carolina. The inequality of representation based upon the diminution of the colored voting population is so unjust and glaring as to call for some specific remedy for the evil by the Republican Party. No relief is to be expected from the Democratic Party because it inaugurated the system of distranchisement which has brought about the present deplorable condition of affairs. We hardly think this question will be an issue. We do think it should be. We have an abiding faith that the American people will give substantial support to the Republican policy in the matter of our foreign and domestic relations so ably inaugurated and carried out by President McKinley, who, from all indications is bound to receive a re-nomination at the Philadelphia Convention. It is not conceivable that the American people will turn over the government to people like William J. Bryan standing upon such an iconoclastic platform as that adopted by the Chicago Democratic Convention of 1896. A NEWSPAPER AN INVESTMENT. The Negro must learn many things the white man already knows. Not least among those may be cited: A newspaper is not a luxury. It is a prime necessity. It is not an expense. It is a profitable investment. The Republicans of Texas know how to get together but they don't seem to know how to stand together. Those of Louisiana seem to be in the same boat. The Republican party in both those states is so small that in the language of one of the "Fathers of the Constitution" "If they don't hang together, they are bound to hang separately." The Afr. American Republicans of Greater New York are trying'hard, and we hope with success, to envolve unity out of the chaos which has so long been a dominating characteristic among them—the disunity which makes the weakness. They have held several very large dinners and invited eminent speakers to tell them how to get together; how to evolve union out of disunion. May these dinner have laid the foundation for united work, so much of which lies just before the Republican party in the State of New York. Judging from the Republican primaries recently held in the District of Columbia, our people love politics just like the people of the states, and if they had a chance to vote they'd make things hum. OUR AUTHORS. Among the gratifying developments of the past few years has been the prominence attained by a few of our men and women in the literature of the country. In the department of history George W. Williams, W. E. B. Du Bois and Archibald H Grimke, and others have made much success. In light literature and poetry, Mr. Paul Laurence Dunbar, Mrs. Alice Dunbar, Mr. Charles W. Crest nutt and Rev. J. D. Corothers have made reputations which have given the race a splendid position. In fugitive work the field is rich with promise of the harvest yet to come. In the journalism of the country, many of the great newspapers make a feature of accepting work done by our men and women. Notably is this the case with such papers as The Boston Evening Transcript, New York Sun, The Chica go Times Herald and Daily Record. Our writers, especially those in higher literature, from all we can judge, receive excellent financial returns for their labor and as they grow in years and popularity the value of their output must necessarily be enhanced, provided, of course, there shall be no deterioration in the quality of their work. The pathways to the top of literary fame are long, and tortuous and steep, and while attempting to scale the heights but few succeed. This is not to be marvelled at. Literature is the highest development of the human intelligence, and the voice of poetry must be an inspiration such as David and Solomon possessed from on high. That we have found one whose voice has been recognized in the strength and clearness of its note in the grand symphony of song that now charms the world is a matter of the greatest satisfaction to the race. THE SOUTHERN SOCIETY. A new association has been formed in the South. It is called "The Southern Society." Its promoters are white men in Montgomery, Ala. They have their own idea about how to settle the race question, and one of them is that in the matter of education and the expenditure of money in that direction the southern white men are better able to conduct it than the northern white men who furnish it. If we are correctly informed another basic principle of the society is that Afro-American suffrage is a failure and the conferring of the ballot on Afro Americans was a gigantic mistake. A society in Philadelphia has instituted a lecture course in which several white southerners have been included, among them R. G. Glenn, State Commissioner of Education for Georgia, Mr. W. A. Blair, a prominent citizen and banker of Greensboro, N. C., and Mr. Murphy of Morgomery, Ala. The lectures delivered by these gentlemen in Philadelphia placed the race question in such a light as to carry consternation to the hearts of those who wish the race well, and a loud cry has gone out from the Quaker City that the facts and arguments advanced by these men must be met and refuted by men of the race at all hazards. We have seen only abstracts of these lectures and are not therefore in a position to discuss fully the text of them. We therefore do no more than to indicate that there is danger ahead and it behooves us to be on our guard. "The Southern Society" claims to be a staunch friend of the Afro-American race. It may be. Once upon a time circumstances in the Orient brought out from the Hebrew leadership this maxim: "Beware of the Greeks even when they bear grapes." We cannot admit that suffrage in our hands has been a failure because we have had no fair test of it; we will not admit that the conferring of the suffrage on us at the time it was, was a mistake, because if we hadn't got it when we did we would not have gotten it at all. It has been firmly implanted in the Federal Constitution and as long as it remains there no subterfuge or evasion adopted by those States which are antagonistic to us can root it out. As far as managing the moneys contributed by northern people for the education of the Afro-American youth of the South and as far as directing that education is concerned, we do not need to discuss it. The people who laid the foundation of the secondary, industrial and higher educational system of the Southern States and who in a large part sustain it by their money are not likely to turn it over to the Southern Society or any other like influence. The work will be conducted along the lines it has been conducted in the past. And the results have been eminently satisfactory from every point of view. No change in control or management appears necessary in the situation. It is generally predicted throughout the A. M. E. Zion Church that Dr. J. Harvey Anderson, of Binghampton, N. Y., will succeed Dr. J. W. Smith, Editor of the Star of Zion, who is scheduled for the Bishopric. Col. Perry H. Carson is out in The Washington Post declaring that he has reconsidered his determination to get out of politics and that he is going to get in some more. More fun ahead. (‘& a Ba a - { go " - = = Ci ~S ZN A f, ale \ a . OSC) CV Se ET gD rag tae i i ~ Y) a 4j Y \ Tee | a CO i i le 4 a 2 pee S> => —_ a <4 - Ge Vi “VOL. 7, NO. 51 WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, MARCH 24 1900. PRICE ‘FIVE CENT: A POWER AT TUSKEGEE Mrs. Je sephine Wilson Bruce. the Head of the Girls’ and Women’s Work at Tus- kegee — A Tribute to Her Sterling Qualities. By reason of the distinguished posi- tion held by,her late husband as well as by reason of herown intrinsic worth as a woman, Mrs. B, K. Bruce has for a number of years been properly dis- tinguished as the first lady of the land so tar as the Negro race is concerned. She is a woman of superior education and possesses a delicacy and refine- ment of nature that would distinguish her in any company. The Negro bas had few, if any, who possess the refine ment, culture and irreproachable char- acter that 1s true of Mrs. Bruce. A speaker not long ago in a public ad- dress referred to her.as a “‘queenly wo- mar.’ Notwithstanding all of the rare priv- ileges which were accorded to her dur- ing the life of ber hueband, she never for a moment lost her head nor became intoxicated in a way to make her lose ber identity with the best interests of the race, After the death of her honor- able aud distinguished husband, in- stead of living in ease and comfort as she could easily have done by reason of her fortune, she chose rather to exter into active, sympathetic and helpful work for the apbuilding of the Negro race. Mr. and Mrs. Booker T. Washing- ton, of the Tuskegee Normal and In- dustrial Institute, a few months after the death ef her husband, offered her the position of Lady Principal of the Tuskegee Institute, and as soon as she became convinced that Tuskegee was the place where she could prove of most vital service to the race she con sented to accept this important posi- tion where she could have the mould ing of the thought, character and am- vitions of hundreds of Negro women Although both Mr. and Mrs. Washi g- ton had known Mrs. Bruce during her life in Washington, neither of them had a correct idea of the true worth and nobility of character of this woman until she began her work at Tuskegee about a year ago. It did not take very long to demonstrate to every one con- nected with the institution that she was a woman of Fare executive ability anc saw clearly into the ;resent condition and needs of therace. Few people whc have not had the privilege of seeing Mrs. Bruce in her actual work at Tus. kegee can form a correct idea of her abil ity to organize and control, No de- we = Ze = > S A BY GONE @ SAN Se VA / es 7. ' Ii i, SS a a | eo me), >» Hf See NY] = \\ | { i Lay Md YIN Ly ae WN | a _ i IX : yy BRI AS PNAS A YY a\\\\ Ai ANS tA SS ee ; eS ei ee i) | RI a tes HCN WS Se Nie Ne ft Oat HATE ICH ERR 52 AAP AA NES YAN PSS C7 AIR Ga 4 4 WAAAY AF INAV | Pete ; { (A 1} ip i RN NY fn) MWA apd " A NaN Mn AMT ANE EVs) PAE ENN)" sy ANY M v ‘ 2 1\ \ MRS. B. K. BRUCE, Lady Principal of The ‘Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Iustititute, at Tuskegee, Alabama. tail in connection with the work in her work at Tuskegee is left unmastered by her. She goes to the bottom of everything that she undertakes. Per- haps the thimg thathas helped to make her work at Tuskegee the rare success which it is, is in her high and thorough Christian character, which impresses every one at once who comes into con- tact with her. - She te so tremendously interested in the work of her department that she forgets herselfin her efforts to varry out the plans and purposes of the in stitution. Every girl and every lady teacher who comes into contact with her goes away the better and stronger for having had the privilege of coming under her influence, Her influence and usefulness are nit confined by a great deal to merely perform- ing the work of her itomedi-te depart- ment. Her influence and effort extend to every department of the institution, She has already won the complete con. (Continued on 12th page.) OPERA HOUSE VENTURE FAILS. Colored Men Back of Newport News Com pany Withdraw—House Sold, Newport News, Va. Special.—The Columbian Opera House, erected about two years ago by a company of colored men, has been sold under a deed of trust. The trust deed was for $11,500, and the price paid for the building was $16,500. While the house brought in good returns, a etreak of bad luck seemed to pursue the enterprise. Just as the building was being completed the walls bulged and the roof collapsed, killing a carpenter. When the notes became due the company was unable to pay them, and the house was adver- tised tor ssle. Temporary arrangements were made, however, and the building was retained by its first owners. Aiter a number of vicissitudes, the colored men back of the enterprise decided to give up the siruggle, anc the place was sold. It was purchasec by a colored man who resides in New York. A REAL OTABLLO gs A Tribute to ‘Ira Aldndge The Rosius.—His Success and Achieve: in Foreign Lands —His Untimely L An Exemplar of Histronic Art. This distingaished Negro tragedian was in his early life employed by the great Edmund Kean, in the humble capacity of valet and accompsaied that gentleman to England. While in England he cultivated a taste for the stage, which Mr Kean diecovering, envouraged in every pussi- ble way. (Continued on 12th page.) oc ho eee 16) th Sade DE ar ee” a ei ES A New Negro Journal Published for the Democracy-And a Mirror of the Social Life of a Villa in West Virginia. Clarksburg, W. Va. Special.-Rev. Watson, pastor of the Water St. M. E Church, held his last grand rally and preached his farewell sermon last Sunday night. Large congregations were the order of the day. Accompanied by Mr. Samuel Covington, he left for Baltimore on Monday night to attend the General Conference. Rev. Morris and the board of trustees, of the A. M. E. Church, have issued an appeal through the local newspapers for funds to discharge the indebtedness on the church Rev. Morris is an energetic worker and his efforts have been productive of fairly good results. It is to be regretted however that our wealthy citizens do not show a more benevolent spirit, open wide their plethoric purses for such a worthy object and give plenteously. The citizens will soon be called upon to accept or reject the Council's proposition to issue bonds to pay for sewer age and the paving of streets. If this place would attain the rank and dignity of a city it must obliterate the earmarks of the village and assume the dress of a metropolis. The sanitary condition of the city (?) is deplorable, and the present condition of the streets reminds one of a "Hoosier" village. Apropos of the Council, it is rumored that higher political honors are store for Council man William Wilkinson, who has earned the subriquet of the incorruptible. It is certainly refreshing to find an honest official these days. Messrs. Thomas Scott and Dale Dean left Monday, on a pleasure trip, for Washington, Baltimore and New York. They will be absent about ten days. Mrs. S. H. Guss was summoned to Middleport, Ohio, on account of the death of her grandmother last week. Mr. Guss Green, who has been quite ill for several months, is able to be out again. Mrs. Mort Dieson, of Wheeling, is here visiting her sister Mrs. James Fowlkes. The entertainment given by the Queen Esther Club last Friday evening was a huge success. The program included papers by Misses Ruffin, Poindexter and Ogden, music by Miss Birdie Thomas and the Mandolin and Guitar Club, and recitations by Misses Rittenhouse and Epperson and Mescdames Bowyer, Watson, Tuck and Allen. The West Virginia Spokesman has made its appearance. This in itself might not seem interesting, but the fact that it is a democratic paper edited by Afro-Americans is bound to interest some people. A well written editorial urges the Negro to divide politically and it looks as though the defection in the ranks of colored voters will be considerable. It behooves the republican leaders to hold the Afro-American in line for the coming campaign. Mr. John Robinson entertained the literary department of the Epworth League with a scholarly paper last Thursday evening. Mrs Rone presided. A "nunny" of a clerk in the post office here, who reminds one of a "cold weather nubbin" informed one of our citizens that a certain portion of that building was not for the use of Negroes. He will probably regret that he did not bite his tongue before he made his "bad break. The Equal Rights League has appointed a committee to wait upon the postmaster and demand an explanation from this upstart who assumes the dress and manners of a real man. The Equal Rights League held a very likely session on Monday night and some startling results may be looked for next Monday night. The poet has well said that "fools rush in where angels fear to tread." Such a person as the poet had in mind is responsible for an article concerning a young colored woman which appeared in a local sheet called the Telegram. After reading the article I was tempted to request some one to prescribe an heroic remedy for Negro phobit and send it to the editor of the aforesaid sheet. A red rag flaunted in the face of a bull will enrage that animal beyond all control. I have just learned that diamonds seen upon the person of a Negro will so enrage an animal called the jack ass that it will throw all caution to the winds. If you do not believe it ask the editor of the Telegram. There are some occurrences which do form a basis for legitimate news. They serve some purpose or contain some motive which justifies their publication. Whenever the peace and happiness of respectable people are disturbed by drunken revels; whenever the morals of a town are being corrupted by the presence of brothels and their itmates, the condemnation of such a state of affairs through the public press secures some general purpose. But we would like to know what good resulted from the publication of the scurrilous article which appeared in the Telegram last week concerning a young colored woman of this town whom they were pleased to term "buxon negress." It is quite apparent that the animosity which prompted this chivalric gentleman (?) to show his hybrid nature by the publication of this mismatic article was due to this fact that the young woman wore diamonds, not that she had a supposed white lover. Surely his supersensitive nature has become accustomed to such regrettable things, either by reason of observation or because of personal experience. It is quite likely that he has given "such an exhibition of degeneracy in this age of civilization" himself. A fitting denouement would be the return of the woman or her lover with a good, stout whip lustily applied to the carcass of the "coot" who indulges in ugly insinuations about a colored woman, because she wears diamonds. Misses Louise and Rosa Washington. of 1617 10th street northwest, entertained their friends Friday evening of last week. Various games were played and all seemed to enjoy themselves immensely. After other delightful pastimes, the young guests repaired to the dining room where the handsomely dressed table was filled with all the charming delicacies. Those present were: Misses Nettie Strother, Luray Allen, Bertie Cowles, Irene Turner, Emma Brown, Lucy Galloway, Carrie Brooks, Florence Sneed, Georgie Bundy, Fannie Lee, Messrs. Herman Wilson, William Wye, Shirley Dodson, John Smith, Joseph Hall and Raymond Lucas. Remember the date! Friday evening. June 8, 1900, Hoffman's second annual musical festival. Hear the grand chorus, the famous band, the select orchestra. Sousa's new march "The Man Behind the Guns," as played by Hoffman's band, will be worth the price of admission alone. S. Kann Sons and Co. "THE BUSY CORNER." ALWAYS THE BEST OF EVERYTHING McCall Patterns, two prices, 10 and out. Free at this counter, section F. A visit to our Lunch Grotto will be a light luncheon. A MOST SINGULAR SALE ON Just because we can. That's the handsome suits right on the edge of my their worth. They are suits of high cut be gotten, today, as well as yesterday. At $6 98, worth $10 and $12.50. Stylish tures, assorted camel's hair, chevoits and double breasted and tight fitting, linen silk and fancy brocades, skirts made of double titched seams, lined with good velvet binding At $12 98, worth $15 and $18. Hand homespuns, handsomely tailored, jack fitting with plain backs and others with the new inverted backs and others with At $15, worth $22. Extra Quality Mix assorted shades of castor and black, the jackets are lined throughout with the extra fine percaline and are finished we are elegantly made and are exceeding. ONE ITEM IN SEPARATE SKIRT On lot of Ladies' Fine Quality Silk and braided in all the new designs in every length and in their regular price $4.98. 250 Fine Sample Taffeta Silk With narrow all-over cording. The following violet, lavender, corn, turquoise, light most every size. Positively worth $7.50. THE BEST OF EVERYTHING FOR THE LEAST MONEY. Sterns, two prices, 10 and 15c. The new Spring Sheets are now in this counter, section F, first floor. Our Lunch Grotto will be a delightful treat to those that enjoy a meal. AT SINGULAR SALE OF WOMEN'S TAILORED SUITS. House we can. That's the only targible apology for selling these suits right on the edge of need-time on an average of a third below the floor. They are suits of high character—in style and quality, the best to day, as well as yesterday, at their regular prices. Each $10 and $12.50. Stylishly Tailored Suits of dark Oxford mixed camel's hair, cheviots and homespuns, jackets made fly fronts, and tight fitting, lined throughout with plain shades of taffeta, fly brocades, skirts made with box pleat backs and finished with deep seams, lined with good quality percaline and faced with deep seams. North $15 and $18. Handsome Suits of fine Venetian cloths and handsomely tailored, jackets are silk lined throughout, made tight, plain backs and others with natty Eton jackets, skirts made with fitted backs and others with box pleat. Every size from 32 to 40. In $22. Extra Quality Man tailored. Fine Venetian Cloth Suits, in sizes of castor and black, tight-fitting, double breasted Eton jackets, lined throughout with the finest quality taffeta silk, skirts with caline and are finished with double box pleat backs. These suits made and are exceedingly swell for the price. M IN SEPARATE SKIRTS VERY SPECIALLY PRICED. Ladies' Fine Quality Cheviot Skirts, handsomely appliqued in all the new designs. Others are entirely plain. They come in both and in their regular way would be worth $7.98 each. Special offer. Sample Taffeta Silk Waists, handsomely tucked and made in her cording. The following is a complete roster of colors: Rose, silver, corn, turquoise, light blue, white and black. We can give you a size. Positively worth $7.50. Sample price, $4.98. McCall Patterns, two prices. 10 and 15c. The new Spring Sheets are now out. Free at this counter, section F, first floor. A visit to our Lunch Grotto will be a delightful treat to those that enjoy a light luncheon. A MOST SINGULAR SALE OF WOMEN'S TAILORED SUITS. Just because we can. That's the only targetable apology for selling these handsome suits right on the edge of need-time on an average of a third below their worth. They are suits of high character—in style and quality, the best to be gotten, today, as well as yesterday, at their regular prices. At $6.98 worth $10 and $12.50. at $6.00, worth $10 and $2.50. Stylishly Tailored Suits of dark Oxford mixtures, assorted camel's hair, chevoits and homepuns, jackets made fly fronts, double breasted and tight fitting, lined throughout with plain shades of taffeta silk and fancy brocades, skirts made with box pleat backs and finished with double titched seams, lined with good quality percaline and faced with deep velvet binding. At $12 98, worth $15 and $18. Handsome Suits of fine Venetian cloths and homeapurs, handsomely tailored, jackets are silk lined throughout, made tight fitting with plain backs and others with natty Eton jackets, skirts made with the new inverted backs and others with box pleat. Every size from 32 to 40. At $15, worth $22. Extra Qualify Man tailored Fine Venetian Cloth Suits, in assorted shades of castor and black, tight-fitting, double breasted Eton jackets, jackets are lined throughout with the finest quality taffeta silk, skirts with extra fine percaline and are finished with double box pleat backs. These suits are elegantly made and are exceedingly swell for the price. ONE ITEM IN SEPARATE SKIRTS VERY SPECIALLY PRICED On lot of Ladies' Fine Quality Cheviot Skirts, handsomely appliqued in silk and braided in all the new designs. Others are entirely plain They come in every length and in their regular way would be worth $7.98 each. Special $4.98. 250 Fine Sample Taffeta Silk Waists. handsomely tucked and made in narrow all-over cording. The following is a complete roster of colors: Rose, violet, lavender, corn, turquoise, light blue, white and black. We can give you most every size. Positively worth $7.50. Sample price. $4.98 S. KANN. SONS & Co. This Will Interest 20 PER CENT BY CO-OPERATE The National OF WASHI Will Interest You ENT BY CO-OPERATION. e National Trust Company, OF WASHINGTON, D. C., Invites your co-operation in the ownership of its business. Where you can invest a little money, and KNOW just what is being done with it, and receive BIG PROFITS on your investment. THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY NEVER BEFORE OFFERED. DON'T NEGLECT IT. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT AT ONCE. Call and find out all about it, or write us if you are out of the city. THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY DON'T NEGLECT IT. TAKE A Call and find out all abo are out of the city. THE N 84 Warder Building, corner 9th a IS AN OPPORTUNITY NEVER BEFORE OFFERED. EGLECT IT. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT AT ONCE. Call and find out all about it, or write us if you are out of the city. THE NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, der Building, corner 9th and F Streets, Washington, D. C. THE NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, 84 Warder Building, corner 9th and F Streets, Washington, D.C. Consumers Brewing Company Brews the purest Beer on the Washington Market. The highest chemica authority in the district of Colum bias after an analysis just finished of all the different beers on the market, gives 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. ILLUSTRATIONS CUTS MADE OF ANY- THING, BY ANY PROCESS. FINE WORK AT LOW PRICES. THE Maurice Joyce Engraving' Company. EVENING STAR BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D.C. --- --- R. L. Elliott Up-To-Date Groceries. Fresh Meats of all kinds. Goods delivered to any part of the city. Money saved by dealing at this Store. SCOTT'S MAGIC HAIR STRAIGHTENER AND GROWER ```markdown ``` A. AFTER USING. is guaranteed to be perfectly safe and harmless is the most wonderful hair preparation in the world, to make kinky, harsh and stubborn hair grow long, straight, soft, pliable and glossy. restores color, and grows hair on bald heads and thin places. A great hair tonic for all scalp dry eases. Price, 25 and 50 cents. SCOTT FACE BLEACH AND BEAUTIFIER, 25 cts. SCOTT'S WONDERFUL PILE CURE (for ever kind and degree) 25 cts. SCOTT'S NASAI CREAM FOR ALL FORMS OF CATARRH, 25 cts. For sale at all drug stores or sent by mail on receipt of price. Stamps accepted. Agents wanted. Can make $75 to $150 per month. Write for instructions. Enclose 2c stamp for reply. P.O. Box 570. SCOTT REMEDY CO.. Louisville, KY. Active agents can make $75 00 per month by selling our remedies Enclose 2 cent stamp for reply. SCOTT REMEDY CO P. O. Box, 507 Louisville Ky. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. ‘5 SPARKS FROM THE ANYIL. eee A Few Brilliants Shattered From The Opinion Page. THE HART FARM SCHOOL. Editor Colored American:—The pub- lic naturally feels a profound interest concerning the discussion last week in Congress and in The Post, of the Hart Farm School and the great work it is doing for the colored people of the Dis- trict of Colombia. This benificent ia stitution, founded by Prof Hart and sustained by him for the past three years at 80 great a cost of money and jaoor, is imperided by the desire of Mr. M. D. Peck and Mr. John F, Cook, members of the Board of Guardians, to transfer the work to Mr. Smythe’s penal settlement on the James River, sixteen miles below Riehmond, thus not only taking away over $16,000 from the merchante in this city who furnish the supplies for the Hart Farm School, put quite that amount in sslarles paid by Mr. Ha t to nis corps of instructors, numbering tem persons, all of whom mainiain families in this city. The cruel feature of the whole thing 1s, however, the separation of the little wards of the State entirely from this community so that they will not be able to see their people and their people to see them constantly as bas heretofors been the case at the Hart Farm School Ic algo deporis these little ones into remote Virginia, where the Board of Q@uardians cannot supervise them and thereby practically abdicates the guard jansbip reposed in them by law. Be sides subjecting these litile children who beleng to the District of Columbia to all the hardships and humiliations, which every ope Knows, colored chil dren so situated must endure in thst State. What, with the Jim Orow car law and the scanty sum that Mr. Smythe proposes to accept for the care cf these children, are we coming to? It seems that the time is about ripe for the colored people of this District to make themselves heard as to these plans of Mr. John F. Gook and Mr. M. D, Peck. Fortunately, however, a majority of the Board of Children’s Guardians bave not taken leave of their common sense up to this time in thie matter, and we surmise that they have heard a voice from the halls of Congress in the person of Congreseman John M. Allen, of Tupelo, Mies., and Gen. Grout and Representative Mc: Cleary that will make them go slow. At last a Republican Representative from New York would deport the col- ored children of the District of Colum: bia and a gallant Southern gentleman from Mississippi comes to their rescue. Far Puay. When are we to have representation in the clerical force of the Census Office? Will Gen, Merriam give us an answer, Cl. Pledger, of Georgia, and his big slouch hat and genial smiles promise to banish to Georgia betore the shades of another Sabbath come around. Did you ever see the boys of the Colored High School of Washington drill? What a magnificent sight it is? Major Brooks can well congratulate himself upon the degree of efficiency which he has reached in the moulding of these young citizen so'diers of the Distric of Columbia. Prof. Terrell in directing the whole matter is also to be congratulated upon his splendid disciplinarian ability. And we are proud of our whole school system and its corps of teachers. They compare favorably with those of the whites, ‘and why shoulda’t they? Ou- teachers ‘are among the best educated people in the country and there is no reason why one educated man should not, all things being equal, be as effective in his work as another, whether he be black, red or white. Ewe Now, who said that the Crumpack- er bill would never get out of the com- mitttee room to see its father’s face in the House of Representatives? Vulgarian Tiilman of South Caro lina has not broken out in the Federal Senate lately. We would like to feel that the Senator could be ashamed of himself. But that would be ascribing to him a virtue which we don’t feel he Now, why can’t the Afro Americans have some representation in the man‘ agement of our new possessions? The mixed people in these new possessions must think that the Afro-American is a very small factor in American poli tics and hfe sice none of them !ave been designated to positions of honor and trust in these new possessions. Who is to blame for this oversight or neglect or slight or whatever you may call it? It ought to be remedied. We are sending out this week a large number of letters containing bills to delinquentsubscribers A large percent. of them is to persons who stand high iu the communities in which they live and who are amply able to yay their subscription bills to The Colored Amer: ican. There seems to be, however, something in the nature of some peo- ple which opposes the paying of -a newspaper bill, These letters are care tally worded and are not intended to offend any one. It is the wish of the mauager of the paper, however, that those who receive the bills will ac- knowledge the receipt of them and rend on their subscription, This will be a great year becaure of the impending campaign, because of the prosperity which follows a war, because of the Paris Exposition and last, but not least, because of the prog- ress being made by the Afro-American everywhere. Those who have read The Colored American from year to year and who have followed its tcrtunes cannot afford to miss it this year; but still, if those to whom bills have been sent do not remit, they may expect to part company with the paper and to be dunned by a lawyer for the amount that isdue. Itisa matter of business and it takes money to run a newspaper. The friends of the paper will not get offended, but the ‘‘dead beat” will probably write ar ineulting letter The Colored American wants to hear from every subscriber whose subseription is in arrears. {n another part of this issue of The Colored American is an advertia« ment of the National Trust Company, of this city. Its offices are at room 34 Warder Building, corner $th and F streets, and a representative of The Colored Ameri can has examined it carefully and mi- nutely. It offers excellent inducement to persons who have a littie money to invest. It 18 solvent; it is officered by men who have a standing in the com: munity and no one takes any risk who invests in it. It offers two great advan tages: the first one 18, that you may buy one, ten or & hundred shares of stock and pay foriton the weekly or monthly plan, Every dollar you invest will bring returns. Should you need the money it can be withdrawn. The sec- AT THE TOP! iar : ‘ ‘ 7D “s A. H. 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CASHIN &CO., HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA Publishers of Martial and Pictorial Literature of the Negro Race Send 26 vents for copy of third and improved edition of tbe Tenth Cav airy Souvevir a gem of ietier day advanced art, containing 40 pages of dis- tinctively life-like portraitures and graphic Mlustraticns of men and inci dents connected with the Wamcus Teu:h Cavairy in ‘he battles around Santiago Every man and officer of the regiment is readily recogn zed in this superb little memento. Piace it on your eentre table. ‘I'he bagatelle price puts it witbin reach of all, Souvenir of Ninth Cavalry is in course of preparation. A ats wanted. Send $2 00 for ‘ Uuder Fire with 10th United states Cav y-”” ood inducement is, that this company controls valuable property not very far from Washington op the Chesapeake where valuable lots may be obtained for summer homes, summer resorts 0: summer cotiages. Race proseription ir eoming to such an issue that if itis nov abated in a few years there will be few if apy places where respectable “colored people can syend the hot seasun out of the ci:y. Intelligent men who haye a little idle time can make money if they will consult Mr, Fletcher, the manager, and those who care to invest butwno desire more information on the su’ ject should call or address The Na} tional Trust Company, room 34, Warder Building, corner 9.h and F streets, Washington, D. C. The Colored A meri: can cheerfully recommends this com pany. The Charity Entertainment which was scheduled for Merch 15th, will take place next Friday evening, March 80th at the Conservatory of Music, 12th and R. The affair is under the auspices of the Sunshine Ten cf Kings Daughters end is givento aid tthe Day Nureery. Good music, and dancing. The mem: bers are: Mrs, Daisy Coleman Arnold, Emma Muse, Julia Tatem and Nannie Outlaw and Mieses Nora Hyman, Alex: zine Montague, Hattis Thomas, Laura Terrell and Annie Thomas. A Recital by Mra. Finetta Sargent Haskell, under the auspices of the D.C. W. O. T. U., will take place at the 15th St. Presbyterian church, Wednesdey, March 28th, 1906, 8 p.m. ‘The pro- gram wiil be as foliews: 1. (a) Tue Golden Wedding, Ruth MeEnery Stuart; (b) Down to the Capital, James Whitcomb Riley;- (c) Solo- 2. (a) The Wooing and Marriage of David and Dora; Dickens; (b) Elopement, Ben King. 3. (8) Alpha and Omega, Robert F. Burdette; (bo) Life Paul Law- rence Dunbar; (¢) Solo. 4. (3) |How the Derby was Won, Harrieon Robert son; (b) The Party, Paul Lawrence Danbar. Headache Cure the ‘woria: read 4 cents tor . sample. LA UEI017 Arch St., Phila. Pa, A Wise Suggestion, If you are not a depositer in the Capital Savings Buak, it is your duty to become one at once. This is a race institution, and should receive the support >of our people. If you have money oa deposit elsewhere, go get $5 or $10 and put it in thie bank, it will nov break you, but will probably be the means of getting other depositors for this instiiution, which 1s a pride to the colored people of the city. AMUSEMENTS, x WEBK OF MAR 2. Wed. & Sat. Mats. 25c’and 50c. The Greatest of ali Colored Comedians Tn the Genuine Comic Novelty | Al Trip fo Coonfown Monday, April 2.—Hoyt’s A BLACK SHEEP. WEEK OF MARUH 26, Matinees Wednesday and Saturday. The Woman Who Makes You Laugh. Iu Her Great Sueces+, After a Record- Breaking Run tu New York Clty of Over 5 Months + SISTER MARY Monday, April 2, The Famous BOS: TONIANS, SPHEUIAL. WANTED—2 rooms for family of 8, with respectable people, with privileges f house. Address “‘A. B,’” Colored American office, 4 Will Return to Active Politics to Fight Chase and Jones. From The Washington Post. Editor Post: I beg to be allowed space in your columns to repudiate a false rumor circulated to the effect that I brought forward, as candidates to the Republican National Convention, Rev. George W. Lee and Dr. Robert Reyburn, and that they were selected by me to fill the places in that body so J. long held by Mr. Gleason and myself. I did not know the personnel of the Lee-Reyburn ticket till I met Sergt. Mekay, a few days before the election, when he informed me. The moment I learned that Lee and Reyburn were to make the race I decided to do all in my power to elect them, but as to the formation of the ticket I had nothing whatever to do. I am deservedly proud of the part I have borne in district and national politics in the years gone by, but I am prouder still of the fact that I was an humble worker and follower of Lee and Reyburn, the people's choice, and that the people vindicated the wisdom of my views, or preference, in every one of the nine districts where there was one unbiased judge to insist upon a fair count and proper return. I drove from precinct to precinct, on election day, something I never did in my own contest in the past, and everywhere I went expressions of opinions were overwhelmingly in favor of Lee and Reyburn. I had nothing to do with bringing out any man as a candidate for the office of delegate to the Philadelphia convention, but I would rather have gone down to honorable defeat following Lee and Reyburn than to have followed Chase and Jones into the possession of a kingdom and have worn diamonds and rubies the rest of my natural life. I was not a candidate. I did not intend to go to Philadelphia even as a spectator. I was satisfied to rest upon the laurels with which the people of this District were kind enough to crown me; but now I feel that I should go to Philadelphia and use whatever influence I may have to seat in their places the men chosen by the sovereign people to represent them in that great body of wisdom, liberty, and patriotism. P. H. CARSON. An array of artists, Misses Lola Johnson, Chanie Patterson, Beatrice Jones, Madames Brooks, Smallwood and Ball, The Treble Cief Quartette, Messrs. Layton, Wormley, Lewis, Walker, Ambler, Segura, Butler, Gaines and Harlan, to be heard in the Grand Star Concert at the Berean Baptist church. 18th street, between L and M strees, Tuesday evening March 27th. Misses Lucy J. and Rebecca Moten, managers. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. Against the Policy of the Philadelphia Lecture Course, and Sounds a Note of Warning Mr. Editor: - I want to say a word in your columns concerning the lecture course on the American Negro now being given in Philadelphia. I have heard three lectures. Mr. Glenn, of Georgia; Rev. Edgar Murphy, of Alabama, and Mr. Blair, of North Carolina, have spoken. I only claim to be a woman of average common sense, but I have listened intently to all that has been said, and taken part in the after discussion; and if there is not being an effort made inimical to our best interests I do not know what else is being done, and if Booker Washington is not seemingly being used to bolster up every argument against us, I do not understand plain English. These men want the 15th Amendment repealed, they want to be placed in a position to rule without the disgrace of shooting the Negro; they say the Southern Negro has been made to appear the martyrs, and they are the real martyrs; that they have made the Southern Negro understand the futility of ever hoping for social or political equality. Now, if our colored men don't get united and stop using all their energies in keeping somebody else from getting a political or ecclesiastical position and look after the race interests they will wake up some fine day and witness the repeal of the 15th Amendment. We have had the ballot and lost it several times before in certain States. Now we have it nationally; but the South is a unit to disfranchise us and the crusade is now begun in Philadelphia, the cradle of liberty, to take it away practically forever. These speakers have drawn a picture of their suffering with an ignorant enfranchised Negro population, and then asked if you would have borne this. No. We have done thus and so, and so would you in our places, and the audience sat silent and "silence gives consent." Practically Ben Tillman's utterance has been repeated. Now what is to be done, will the men begin at once an agitation against this suggestion? MKS. N. F. MOSSELL. Philadelphia, Pa. The Coachmen's 18th Annual. The annual reception and banquet of the Coachman's Union and Aid Association is always an event of great interest, and is looked forward to by a large clientage of our most valuable and useful citizens. The 18th annual entertainment of this popular organization will be held Monday evening, April 30, at the great Convention Hall, corner 5th and L streets northwest, doors being open from 8 p. m., until 2 a. m. 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CAPITAL, ONE MILLION DOLLARS. Pays interest on Deposits. Rents Safes inside Burglar-proof Vaults. Acts as Administrator, Executor, Trustee, &c. Record of the Colored Schools While He Has Been in Charge. From the Washington Post. Editor Post: The report of the board of trustees of public schools for the District of Columbia for the school year 1898 99, embodying the reports of superintendents and others, bearing date December 29, 1899, contains in a preface J. SUPT. GEO. F.T. COOK. by J. W. Whelpley, president, the following: As these reports show, and as we have found during the past year, the public schools of the District are in excellent condition. Superintendents and other officials, and the principals and subordinate teachers, have performed their difficult and laborious duties faithfully and well. We believe that our public schools have kept pace with the advance of modern methods in teaching and in the management of schools. The same school board passed, on Tuesday, March 14, 1900, the following resolutions: Whereas that in the investigation of the superintendent of schools of the ninth, tenth, and eleventh divisions this board find much inefficiency in the neglect by the incumbent of the work pertaining to the strictly educational features of that office: Resolved. That the board of trustees recommend to the honorable Commissioners of the District of Columbia that a change be made in the office of the superintendent of schools of the ninth, tenth, and eleventh divisions, and that they appoint to it a man who will bring to the position all that it stands for from an educational standpoint. The trustees being educated ladies and gentlemen, it is proper to infer that they understand the value of consistency; therefore, there must occurred, between December 29, 1999, and March 14, 1900, some serious remissness of duty on the part of Superintendent Cook to have induced them to recommend his removal. In looking the report of 1898 99 I find that pages from 222 to 311, inclusive, contain matter exclusively connected with the schools under the immediate supervision of Mr. Cook; and chief among the many interesting subjects are the reports of the supervising principals, principals of normal and of high schools, also directors of primary work, of manual training (wood and metal,) of drawing, of sewing,, and of cooking, all of whom acknowledge "valuable counsel and assistance" from Superintendent Cook. No neglect there. I have also examined the school reports from 1874-75, the first issued after the consolidation of the several boards, to 1898-99, and find an unbroked record of acknowledged efficiency from the various boards of trustee on the part of Superintendent Cook. The colored schools of Washington and Georgetown from 1864 to 1874 were, with few exceptions, under colored men as trustees -Mr. Cook, barring a brief period, being the superintendent. The sup- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. port given Mr. Cook, from an educational standpoint, by the trustees, was meager in the extreme. Such being the uncontrovertible history of the colored schools in the cities of Washington and Georgetown, common fairness demands that something more definite than the vague wording of the board of trustees' resolution be given befor an honest conscientious, and honorable gentleman should be ruthlessly dismissed from a position which he has, from their own showing, filled with credit and profit to those intrusted to his charge. The magnificent school system for colored children in the cities of Washington and Georgetown has grown under Mr. Cook's fostering care from 52 schools, 50 teachers, and 3,000 pupils to 269 schools, 334 teachers, and 12,794 pupils; yet, Mr. Cook is a failure! With the greatest respect personally for the members of the school board, I cannot refrain from suggesting' that it is a question of taste to recommend the removal of a co-ordinate while the borad itself is under the cloud of a Senatorial investigation. HENEY JOHNSON. Answer the Question. The coming census is a matter of great interest to the American Negro. He will be expected to answer the enumerator when he comes next June, and naturally wishes to make a good showing in the big volumes that are to be printed about the people of the United States. "The population schedule" is the one that concerns everybody. On it are the questions about name, age, sex, color, relationship to the head of the family and where each individual was born, as well as where the parents of each were born. The enumerator who can read and write and how many months the children have gone to school. He will ask about the prosperity of the family, whether only the man works for money or whether the women and children do, too, and whether they own or rent the house they live in. All the enumerator can do with this information when he gets it will be to write it down, for he has sworn not to tell anything about it, and then the papers will be sent to Washington to be worked out by electricity. The great books, when printed, will show how fast the colored people have been im proving and where they have made greatest progress. QUEEN CITY CULLINGS. Graduates From the Night High School Campaign Warming up-Conservative View of Situation-Editor Anderson's Claim to Support-Editor Thompson in Town. Cincinnati, O. Special-One of the most notable events of the year was the commencement exercises of the Cincinnati night high school, which took place at the Odeon on the night of the 14th. A large audience, made up of Cincinnati's representative citizens, was present and listened with marked interest to the scholarly productions of the senior class, and mentally compared the superb equipment of the schools of today with the crude and undeveloped system in vogue in the years of their youth. The graduates numbered forty, and conspicuous among them was Miss Gertrude Hart, a young lady of brilliant attainments and whose future offers the highest promise. Mrs. Susie Johnson Higgins, of the public schools, together with her son are domiciled at The Bee. Allen Temple recently damaged by In fact, every man whose time is precious, whose wages depend upon the actual time he puts in, should Because they can be put on or removed in one-tenth of the time that lace or button shoes occupy. Because the Electus Clasp Fasteners are as firm as if locked, and will not pull out. Because the waterproof Elastic Goring down the instep allows full play to the muscles of the feet. Because wearers of Electus Shoes will not suffer from bunions, corns, or sore feet. Because Electus Shoes cost no more than the old fogy corn and bunion developers. Because we'll show the world, when the world knows our shoes !!! 307 E.Balto. St. Balto. 1217 Market, St. Phila, 425 Broadway, N. Y. LETTER CARRIERS, FIRE MOTORMEN, POLICE --ALL BU In fact, every man whose time depend upon the actual WEAR ELECTUS Because they can time that lace Because the Elect Why? Because the water allows full play Because wearers o ions, corns, or Because Electus S and bunión de Because we'll show shoes !!! Washington Electus S OTHER ST 307 E.Balto. St. Balto. 1217 Mar fire, is being repaired, and Rev. J. M. Townsend hopes to be able to resume services in the building by Easter. Mrs. Nettie Johnson Barnes, of Newport, Ky., spent a day in the city last week. She was greeted by many old friends who knew her during her former residence in the Queen City. Mrs. Sara Saunders Monroe of Barr street, is taking a course in manicuring and chiropody, with a view of embarking into business for herself eventually. Mrs. Monroe is one of Washington's most welcome contributions to Cincinnati's society, and her elcoutionary talent and personal graces, have made her greatly admired by our people. Editor W L. Annerson is doing well with his neatly gotten up paper. The Rostrum. He is a first class young man—a hustler, every inch of him, and the town ought to give him solid sup port. He is a fearless and outspoken champion of the rights of the Negro. Mr. Anderson has a fine mechanical equipment and a nicely furnished suite of offices in Temple Court. Mr. R. W. Thompson of the Census Bureau, Washington, D. C., president of the Second Baptist Lyceum, of that city and all around newspaper man, stopped over last Friday, en route from his Indianapolis home to the nation's capital. He was the guest of genial Mr. W. H. Fielding, and was handsomely dined at the Bee Hotel, meeting a select party of six. Cincinnati's doors always swing inward for Mr. Thompson, and it is regretted that his visits are so brief and far between. The campaign is opening hot and heavy. Slates are being made and smashed daily. The Negro as a race are standing by Cox in local affairs and the national administration, but there are enough "antis" to make the situation decidedly interesting. The Porto Rican question is being argued on every corner and descanted upon at great length in the barber shop. Many who know the least about it are talking the loudest, but the feeling among the conservative element is that the proposed tariff is unconstitutional. and if the Supreme Court is called to pass upon it, its doom is sealed. The President's intentions are regarded as good, and when the storm is over his Ohio popularity will suffer no impairment. 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If any one doubts the interest of the Negro in all the great issues of the hour, whether they directly bear upon the race problem or not, they should have been present last Sunday afternoon at the Second Baptist Lyceum. The Porto Rican tariff question was up for consideration, with that scholarly and well-posted young thinker and economist Prof. L M. Hershaw as orator of the day. An audience that tested the capacity of the spacious lecture room listened attentively throughout the address, and to say that is was highly instructive, interesting and edifying, would be but a faint description of its excellent character. A subject that might have proven dry as dust in other hands, was given a treatment that was profound and exhaustive, clear as a bell, and which laid bare with primer like simplicity the most complex problem that has vexed this nation since the Declaration of Independence. President R. W. Thompson introduced Prof. Hershaw in a felicitous manner, and pointed to his record and achievements, his superior intellect and high character as examples of the fact that this day and generation, like that which followed the civil war, is furnishing thoughtful young men, who are taking their places at the front of public affairs, and bringing to bear a potent influence in solving the problems that year by year the masses are called upon to face. He stated that he had selected the subject because the educational system followed by the Second Baptist Lyceum demanded that great questions be discussed at a time when the popular mind was most deeply concerned, and when an expression of sentiment might be of some real service to the nation. He had selected Prof. Hershaw to present the subject because he had confidence in his ability, in his honesty and his capacity to condense a powerful constitutional argument into the smallest compass, with the maximum preservation of thought and information. Prof. Hershaw is a Georgian, a post-graduate at law, and a close student of political economy. Prof. Hershaw spoke of the peculiar position this country assumes toward the recently acquired territory; of the Supreme Court in reference to the construction of the Constitution and that it had been decided that all territory over which the United States has jurisdiction comes within the perview of the Constitution and is as much a part of the United States as if it were Alaska, Arizona, Indian Territory or Oklahoma. He pointed out the danger that might come to the District of Columbia if the idea should be upheld that the term "United States" embraced only the territory of the several states which formed the Union. The District of Columbia would be outside the Union, and subject to the customs duties, and denied the privileges and immunities guaranteed to the states by the Constitution. * * He did not believe a tariff law of the kind proposed would stand the test of a Supreme Court inquiry. He expressed faith in the honesty and generosity of the American people, and believed that when the mists of martial confusion had passed away, and the sober second thought should come to the land, all the problems growing out of the Span- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. ish-American war, for which we had no precedent to guide us, would be solved on just and equitable lines. At the conclusion of Prof. Hershaw's admirable address, he was roundly applauded. The discussion from the floor was one of the ablest ever heard before this lyceum, and was full of "ginger" from beginning to end, and the time for closing came all too soon. Mr. Theodore F. Price, a popular white resident of the District, opened, and gave an interesting dissertation upon the demand for a foreign market, but argued strongly for free trade with Porto Rica and all of America's new dependencies. Editor T. Thomas Fortune made a vigorous speech in which he denounced the sugar and tobacco trusts for their cupidity, and hoped our government would one day cease to be led away from the right principles of our fathers and the rounders of the republic at the behest of the money changers, robbers, thieves and hypocrites who dealt with the honor of the country and bartered human life with as little compunction as clipping coupons or watering railroad stock. Col. W. A. Pledger captivated the crowd by one of his humorous talks. He promised to stand with the majority of the republican party on the Porto Rico question when the matter should come up before the national convention and he believed that the right would prevail. He will support the nominee of the Philadelphia conclave, whoever he may be, and is now for McKinley, because he is the choice of the majority of the party. Recorder H. P. Cheatham was enthusiastically called, and in his usual polished manner expressed his sympathy for all people struggling for liberty and advancement, and felt confident that out of the present tangle a happy solution would come, and that the inhabitants of Porto Rico would hold in reverent memory the day that General Miles landed on the Island, and promised in the name of the American flag that there should come to them all the opportunities for exalted civilization and progress embodied in our Magna Charia, the Constitution, that had been enjoyed by American citizens for more than a hundred years. Lieut. R. E. Toomey made a ringing talk, in which he urged that the names of the old leaders like Donglass, Bruce, Langston, Lynch, Cuney and Pinchback should never be passed over in silence when mentioned in a popular audience. On his motion, a vote of thanks was tendered Prof. Hershaw and those who participated in the exercises. The singing of Misses Georgia Smith and Georgia Makell was excellent, and was received with many evidences of appreciation. Tomorrow at 3:30 p.m., Senator Wil- Tomorrow at 3 30 p. m., Senator William E. Mason, of Illinois. The Singing Class. Leader Hoffman stated to an American reporter that directly after last season's Festival the Elementary Singing Class was incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia, to be known by name as "The Washing'on Permanent Chorus," but not until after this year's festival by the Advanced Sight Singing Class (Damrosch System) will they assume the above title. A brilliant programme is promised. Hoffman's band will be increased to forty members. The big orchestra to accompany the chorus will consist of twenty-five musicians. It is expected that Mr. Harry T. Burleigh, the great basso of New York, who was a classmate of Mr. Hoffman while at the National Conservatory of Music, will render two solos. Altogether without doubt this will eclipse last year's festival which was the most successful ever launched in Washington. Late Locals. Mr. D. B. McCary. cashier of the Capital Savings Bank, who has been indisposed for the past few days, is up aud at his desk again. Ex Governor P. B. S. Pinchback, who has been attending the Mardi Gras in New Orleans and who, while there, was commissioned by the National Afro-American Council and by a committee of prominent citizens of this city to look into the Louisiana Suffrage Law, has returned to the city. The Governor is in prime condition and has been greatly benefitted by his trip South. A full report will be given of his work in connection with the Louisiana law in a subsequent issue. Lawyer Thomas L. Jones, the eloquent Virginian, is adding new laurels to his reputation because of the successful manner in which he conducts his murder cases. In the case of Ashton, which was decided in his favor last week, the lawyers and spectators in the court room paid him a high tribute for the excellent manner in which the case was conducted. He saved Ashton's life. Mr. Jones has handled more than fifteen murder cases in the last six years and to his credit may it be said that he has not lost a single case. While he has not in every case succeeded in acquitting his clients, he has saved their lives. He has a bright future. "A Trip to Coontown," by those masters of the Thesplan art, Cole and Johnson, will be on the boards at the Academy next week. Both of these talented young men are well known in this city but have never been here with their own company. "A Trip to Coontown" is said to surpass even the magnificent show put up by Williams and Walker and a crowded house may be expected at the Academy every night next week. Manager Rapley says that there will be no discrimination as was the case at the New Grand last year when Williams and Walker were here and those who know the Rapleys who manage the New National and the Academy know what to expect. Mrs. Nellie Bundy nee Tate, arrived in the city last week from Circleville, Ohio, to join her husband, M. M. J. Bundy, who has accepted a place in the Supply Division of the Post Office Department. They will reside permanently in Washington. Mr. Lewis H. Douglas, who has been up in Eastern New York for two weeks, has returned to the city. Mr. and Mrs. McKenzie Scott celebrated their eighteenth anniversary Friday, March 16th at their cozy residence on Second street, s w. Mr. Scott is one of Washington's enterprising undertakers and counts his friends by the score. 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R., to be placed on file at the Paris Exposition. Col. R. R. Bowie and his bland smile are among the most taking features of the Personal Liberty League Club's Sunday session. Mr. W. A. Wells, Sr., formerly an attache at the White House, is now stationed at the main entrance of the Census Office. He is a polite and obliging official and popular with everybody. Send in a dollar to the finance committee of the National Afro-American Council and test the constitutionality of the discriminatory election laws of the South. Send money to Prof. Jesse Lawson, 2011 Vermont avenue, n. w. A symposium on "Wealth and Wealth-Producing Agencies" is scheduled for an early presentation before Bethel Literary and Historical Association. The speakers will be Hon. H. P, Cheatham, Prof. W. H. H. Hart and Hon. J. W. Lyons. Miss Daisy Alexander, of 1025 9th street, n. w. is spending a few days in Baltimore Miss Alexand r is one of the most entertaining conversationalists that Washington can boast of, and Baltimoreans will no doubt do themselves honor during her stay. Rev. J. W. Harris, pastor of Miles Memorial Church, has been conducting a revival for two weeks, assisted by Rev. Fobbs, the boy prescher, and others. The meetings have been largely attended, more so than ever before. Received twelve converts in church, Sunday, March 18. The McKinley House is receiving a large portion of the transient trade of the city. Since Messrs. Anderson and Edwards have had charge of this well known and justly popular hostelry, business has improved to a wonderful extent and the affairs of the hotel are being handled in first class style by these capable proprietors. Call on the Indian Herb Medicine Man, Dr. James P. Kerr, he cures all manner of diseases. Read his advertisement and write for particulars. 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[RSEIEENSTEETT neers 2S er mene Gra a ea by a ; os *® Kf C= SS MCL YRS ZN bic \ DGG lL OGEA o: x ey fy) ty LAB i gaa oh Ce ah es LAG bin Vey Vie /y,N Ne My / ea yy, CoN aie Yr Wy EE “iy, EG AM Mad /// eee. ee / eae Sano GE yyy pat Dearne BE aM y/) ? ie ‘ Ned AAS W// y Mp | HH] ig RS NY, /, Ss Tt v AWS wy Yj le 1 a \ NH Mili NS i XX iN \ NM Wey eek Jj ENS } ‘\ SS" \ ’ AN VN ro \ YN 4 Xe THE LATE FREDERICK DOUGLASS. One of the Great Colored Men of Maryland—by John E, Bruce. MARYLAND’S RICHEST PEARL, | which was delayed by the Jobn 5 Orator, Scholar and Thinker—Fr-derick, Douglass was the Peer of any man of! his Generation The John Brown Bpisode, lf Virginia may justly lay claim to being the Mother uo: Presideuts, Mary- jaud may with equal justice Jay claim to belug the Faiber of the greatest and most eminent Negroes in America— Negroes whose genius, eloquence tal- ents, scholarly alialaments and won derfu! capabilitics have been admitted, recognized and respected, by not alone the so called superior race, but by the educated and cultured of their own race,who willugiy convede their night to siaud as the represeatatives of the best tnought, and the nighest echievements in their respective spheres, attained by the Negroes of America. Benjamin Banneker a8 were ail the other great Negroes who happened io have been born in the state of Maryland belonged to the Negro race, The accident of birth is merely an ineident, but these inci- denis bave occurred with great frequen- cy in the State of Maryland. In what civilized couaty of the globe is ihe name of Frederick Dougiasss un- known? La what part of American or of Europe is not his name and fame a8 a ruaaway Slave, anti slavery orator champion of the rights of outraged black humanity as familiar to the sta- dent of contemporaneous history as that of any one of the great charac‘ers woo have made their names immortal by glorious deed ? Frederick Douglass is confessedly facile princeps of the great Negroes of America A leader of leaders iu very trath, Noother Negro in America dead or living occupies such a conspicous place on the pages of history, or in the though's a d memory of mankind, the world over as Frederick Dougtass. Coming generation will honor him, even more than the present generation their vision will be clearer and theirap precianon of his great services to black humanity in the cause that needed de- tenders will be more siacere and practi- eal and substantial, And before the middle of the 20th Century the Negro+e of Ameria will have erected in the city of Wasnington, the scene of the greater part of his siruggie for the up lift aud regeneration of his race, a monumsat of eaduring Bronzs or marble as theil tribute to his ma'chle3s wortb, bis un selfish deyotion to their interest and his indomitable courage in public life and in private station. On its base they willeause to be inscribed these noble words of bis great friend Theo- dore Tilton: “There never waiked a grander man than he! He was a peer of princes—yea a King! Crowned In the shambles and the prison pen! The noblest slave that ever God set free! Jnat hefore hie denarture for Europe which was delayed by the Jobn Brown insurrection in West Virginia, and has Qastened by Governor ‘¥ise’s over ween: iog desire to make his acquaintance he addressed the following tetter to the Roebester Democrat, which disposes of ths charge laid against him that he was in collusion w ith Brown in bis raid on Harpers Ferry: Cansda West, Monday O>t. 18, 1859, Editor of the Rochester Demecrat, I notize that the telegram makes Mr. Cook (one of the unfortunace insurgenta at Harpers Ferry, and now a prison in the hands of that thing calling itseif the government of Virginia, but which is but an organized conspiracy py one party of the people sgainst the other and weaker) denounce me as a coward ~ and so apart that I promised to be prerent person at the Harpers Ferry insurrection. This is certainly a very grave impeachment, whether viewed in its bearings upon friends or upon foes, and you will not think it strange that I should take a somewhat serious notice of it. Having no acquaintance whatever witn Mr. Cook snd never having exchanged a word with bim about the Harpers Ferry insurrection. Tam disposed to doubt that he could have used the language concerning me which the wires attributed to me. Vhe ligntning when speaking for iteelf, iv among the most direct, reliable and truthfal of things; bu: when ep >-aking for the terror s'ricken, slave holders at Harpers Ferry it nas been made the swiftest of liars. Under their nimble and trembling fiogers 1t magnified sevens teen men intu seven hundred, and has since filled the coulmns of the New York Herald for days with intermniable contradic fons. But assuming that it has told the truth «s to the sayings of Mr. Cock in this instance, I have thie answer to make to my accuser: Mr. | Cook may be perfectly right in de. nouneing me as a coward I have not one word tosay in defense or vindica- tion of my character. I have always been more distingnished for running than figating—and ried by the Harpers Ferry insurrection test, I am most miserably deficient in courage—eyen more so than Cook when he deseried his brave old captain and fled to the mountains To this extent Mr. Cook is entirely right and will meet no con- tradiction from me or from anybody else. But wholly, greviously and mos! anaccountably wrongis Mr Cook wher he asserts that I promised co be present in person at the Harpers Ferry in aurrection. Of whatever other im. prudence and indiscretion I may have been guilty, I have never made ¢ promise so rash and wild as this The taking of Harpers Ferry was a measare never eacouraged by my word or vote atany limeor place. My wisdom o1 my cowardice bas not only kept m¢« from Harpers Ferry but has equally kept me from making any promise t& MRS. BREWER RECOMMENDS PERUNA FOR GRIP AND FEMALE CATARRH. f/ ae ee = aes SS 48 fee se ja 3 S ae ee eee les ee 2 aah en ere el oe i << : eer =. See +e pe . in a letter to Dr. Hartman concerning the merits of Pe-ru-na, Mrs. Brewer writes, among other things: WESTERLY, R. I. “Dear Dr. Hartman—I find Pe-ru-naa sure cure for all catarrhal affections so common in this part of the country. . It varesacold atonce. There is no cough medicine that can at all equal Pe-ru-na. As for la grippe, there is no other rem- edy that can at all compare with Pe- ru-na. “Iam among the sick a great deal in our city and haye supplied many in- valids with Pe-ru-na, simply because I am enthusiastic in my faith as to its re- sults, I have never known it to fail to quickly and permanently remove that temoralized state of the human system which follows la grippe. “In all cases of extreme weakness I ase Pe-ru-na with perfect confidence of a good result. In cases of weakness peculiar to my sex I am sure that no go there. I desire to be quite emphatic here forall gui'ty men,he is the guiltest who lures his fe low men to an under taking of this sort under promise of as- sistance which he afterwards fails to render. I therefore declare that there is no man living, and no man dead, who if living could truthfuily say that 1 ever promiced him or anybody else either conditionally or otherwise, that I would be present in person at the Harpers Ferry insurrection. My field of labor for the abolition of slayery has sot extended to an aitack upon the United States arsenal. In the teeth of ‘the documents already published and of those which may hereafter be published. {affirm that no maa connected with that insurrection, fron its novle and heroic leader down, can connect my name with a single broken promise of any sort whatever, So much I may deem it proper to say negatively. The time for a fall statement of what I know and of all know of this desperate and sublimely disinterested effort to emancipate the slaves of Marriand and Virginia from their crael task masters has.not yet come and may never come. In the denial which I have now made my 1aotive is more a respectful oon- sideration for the opinions of the slave’s friends than my fear of being an ac- gomplice io the general concpiracy against slavery. I am ever ready to write, speak, publish, organize, com bine and even to conspire against slavery when there is arearonable hope of success, Menwholive by robbing their fellow men of their labor and liberty bave forfetted their mgbt to know anything of the thoughts, feel ings or purp>es of those whom they rob and plunder. They have by the sivgie act of slave holding, voluntarily placed themselves beyond the laws of justice and honor, aud heve become only fitted for companionship with thieves and pirates—the common ene- mies of God and of all mankind. While it shall be considered rigat to pro- tect one’s self against thieves, burglars, robbers and assassins and toalay a wild beast in the act of deyouring bis bu- man prey, itcan never be wrong for the imbruted and whip-scarred slaves or their friends to hunt, barrase and even strike down traffickers in human flesh. If anybody is disposed to think less of me on account of this sentiment, or a ee > T may have had a knowledge other remedy can approach in good ree sults the action of Pe-ru-na. It meets all the bad symptoms to which females are subject. The irregularities and ner- vousness, the debility and miseries which afflict more or less the women | from girlhood to change of life, are one and all met and overcome by this ex- cellent remedy. I wish every young lady in our city could read your book, “Mrs. Lizzie M. Brewer.” Pe-ru-na will cure the worst cases of catarrh. La grippe is acute epidemic eatarrh, for which Pe-ru-na is a spe- cific. Mrs. J. W. Reynolds, New Lisbon, Ohio, suffered for many years with chronic catarrh of the lungs, head and throat; continuous cough; many physi- cians failed tocure. Permanently cured by Pe-ru-na. Thousands of testimonials could be produced. A valuable treatise on catarrh sent free by The Pe-ru-na Medicine Company, Columbus, 0. h of what was about to occur, and did not assume the base and detestable character of an informer, he is a man whose gocd or bad opinion of me may be equally repugnant and despicable, Entertaining thistsentime t I may be asked why I did not join Jobn Brown? — tbe noble old hero whose one right hand has shaken the foundations of the American Union, and whose ghost will haunt the bed chambers of all the born and unbora slaveholders of Vir- ginia through all their generations, filling them witb alarm and conster- nation! My answer to this has already veen given at least impliedly given. | “The tools to those who can use them.” | Let every man work for the abolition of slavery in his own way. I would help all and hinder none, My positiop n regard to the Harpers Ferry in- surrection may be easily inferred from these remarks, and I should be glad If those papers which have spoken of me in connection with it, would find room for this statement { have no apology for keeping out of the way of those gentlemenly United States marshalls, who are said to have paid Rochester a somewhat protracted visit lately with a view of an interview with me. A government recognizing the validity of the Dred Scott decision at such a time as this is not likely to have any very charitable feelings to- wards me.and if I am to meet its repreeentatives, I prefer to do 80 at Jeast upon equal terms. If I have com- ‘mitted any offenee against society I bave done so on the soil of the state of New York, andI should be perfectly willing there to be arraigned before an impartial jury; but I have quite in- superable objections to be caught in the hands of Mr. Buchanan and ‘‘bagged’’ by Gov. Wize. Mrs, Bertha Hardy Gorgas has re- turned to Philadelphia, after pleasant visit here of a week. An entertainment given by the Fif- teenth Street Sunday School for the purpose of replenishing the library with new books was a complete success. A ‘handsome sum was realized. Se Mies Minnie A. Lucas, of Bennings, Dj O., conducts a model school, x cs + ria te } FACTS FOR NEGROES. A Key for the Practica\ Solution of the Race Problem—A White Citizen ot the West Talks Good Sound Sense, asineere desire todo good. In the South we have the race troubles, while in the North we bave labor troubles. Weare apt to think of theee as entirely differ- ent questions, but they are closely al lied to each other, and the remedy for one will prove to be the remedy for both, Proud human nature will never acknowledge the servant as his equal. It does not matter whether the one is white while the other is colored, or whether both are of the same color, the wealth as a class wil! always look with contempt upon those whom poverty compels to serve them. In the North we see the wealthy treating their white employees with about as little respect as the whites in the Seuth show for the colored man. The remedy for theee abuses will never be found while we have such marked differences in the financial condition of the people. As Jong as one man must depend upon an ether for labor so long will the serving olass be the victims of indignities and contempt, As long asthe colored pop- ulation are the servants ef the whites so leng their rights will not be respected, The colored race must become indepen- dentin industrial aftairs, before they van hope for fair treatment at the hands of the whites, I would like to ask then, how are they ever to become indepen ident? The whites have possession of the land, the mills, the factories, the foundries, the railroads, the telegraph, and telephone systems, and in fact near ly all of the resources of nature, and the means of production and distribu- tion. The rent is such that the tenent can only make a living, and the wage- worker receives only enough to support himself and family—and not always that much. Ofcourse there are some who have good judgment, good health and good opportunities, that become well to do, but such a combination of gifts, and circumstances do not bless the life of one in a dozen. The great mass of the people of both races are and must remain poor, while our competi- tive industrial system stands, If, then industrial independence is neceseary, weshould pursue that policy which would bring about that condition. And that is to be found, according to my judgment, inco-operation. An associa tion should be formed for the purpose of establishing co-operative mills, fac- tories and stores, It should organize local circles, or lodges in every city, town and hamlet in the eountry. Ii should seek by all fair means to induce every houvest parson to work with it, regardiess of sex or color, and it should develope co operative industries as rap- rapidly as possible. The advantages or such @ movement are beyond computation. Competion is expensive Co-operation is economical. According to government reports. a wagon can be manufactured for $7.18. The material can be produced for about a dollar and ahalf, We ought to buy it for ten dollars, but competition runs the price up to fifty-five dollars. A seventeen jewel watch movement is manufactured at an expense ofone dollar and eighty-eight cents, The cost of material is but little, We ought to buy it for two dollars and a half, but we pay ten or twelve for it, a i Te THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. ©. to seven times as 1auch as they ought to cost. The expense of advertising, the rent on store buildings, salaries and and expenses of traveling men and profits to manufacturers wholesale and retail merchandise, must all be added added tothe costs of production and the coneumer pays it. But if the peo- ple would organize to do their own manufacturing, they would avoid all these exponses, and get goods ab about first cost. Again, slavery coneists not in one man holding a deed to another, b.t rather in taking another man’s la- bor without payixg an equivolent for it. This is the objeot of slavery, and it may be accomplished by ‘owning the man or “owning” the land upon which the man must work to earn a liying, Our Jandlord system just ae effectually con- trolls the labor of the poorer classes of both white and black, and takes all above enough to keep the man in work’ ing order, as did southern slavery. We cannot have free men without free land. And any effort to Jift up the eolored race, (or the white race either) which doos not give tbe people free access to the land, cannot be more than partial- ly asuccess, Our cause is one, and we should council together, to emancipate ourselves from industrial bondage. Onances L. Weops. Washington, fowa You can dress your hair in the latest ashionable style easily and safely with the original Ozonized' Ox Marrow, (copyrighted) as it is perfectly harm- less and never fails to make kinky hair straignt pliable and beautiful. Imite- tions won’t doit, Be sure you get the genuine. Sold over forty years. 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When yoaraat he color you wish, stop using preparation ‘The direction et preparation willbe sent to any pera fur #2, or send Post Ome doney Order, Express Money Order, Hogisiered Letter ore vill send it C. O. D.. Packed #0 that'no ene will kao soeonts cept receiver,” THOS. Hy CHAE, 123 W: Broad’St. Hick: a CANDY CATHARTIC HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS Fine Wines SW, a Cheles Cigars. philadelphia House, M. F, Carro_t, Prop. Restaurant and Saloon, 348 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W. Washington, D. C. Meala to Order. Everything First Class Billierd and Pool Parlors Attached. MOORE & PRIOLEAU - Sparta Buflet and Cafe - 1216 Pa. Ave. Washington, D.C Fine wines. liquors and cigars Hot Free Lunch Every Day wa_Ladies will receive special attention in Dining Room upstairs. HOSEL DOUGLASS. 220 B ST., AND 235 PA. AVE.N.W EHUROPEAN PLAN. First-class in every particular. MRS. DOLLY A. 0. JONES, Proprietress. Washington, D. 0. Robert fH. Key " FINE WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS, ETC. Ladies’ Dining Room. . . Meals at all Houre 443 First Street Southwest. Gray & Cosfley Wines, Liquors and Cigars Ladies and Gentlemen’s Dining ‘Room uf- stairs. The best of service guaranteed, 1313 E Street N. W. WasHinaton, D. 0. SOUTHERN HOTEL, Good board, steam heat and electric bells, Home comfort, moderate prices. 311 Pa. Ave., nw. Washing- ton, D. G. Fine wines, liquors, cigars and tobacco. Jack M Ruan, Proprietor +6he Woedson Houser First-class, newly furnished and decorated, unsurpassed cuisine, convenient to all cars, One halt square from Pennsylvania Depot, 467 Missouri Avenue. HENRY WOODSON, Proprietor. ‘THE EL CANEY CAFE 415 K Street N, W, A strictly first-cla’ 5 Cafe. Meals seryed at all hourson the American and European plan. Lunehes, ice Crean: and Soft Drinks a spe- jal y. Furnished rooms with or without t at reasonable rates, Edwards & Williamson, Props %a.Late members of the 24th U.S. Infantry Fritz Reuter’s HOTEL : AND: RESTAURANT 451, 453, 455, 457 Penn. Ave. 202, 208 & 210 44 3. N. W Washingioa, D. CG, +The McKinley Hotele 489 Mo. Ave. near 6th St. n. w, Smoking and Reading Rooms; also home for strangers. Meals served at all hours. Menu a ja Carte at popular prices. Call sud be convinced, Joshua N Anderson. 1. J. Edwards. Props. FOLKS T2°0°E8 Baer a eee Te Oe a aac al mg ima Noite adats eo Protect yourself in Case of Sickness Accident or Death by Tnsuring The Capital Cit; Of Washington, D. (0. {ncorporated feptem.sr 27, 1887, un der the laws of the District of Columbia. DIRECTORS: Anson 8. Taylor, Pres 1213 FSi, N. w. Justice of the Peace and Comm’rot Deeds Sane! H. Walker, V. Pres. and seo’y 458 La. Ave., dealer in Real Estate, B. B. Whalen, 458 La. Ave John N. Walker, . + 458 La. Ave Home Office: 458 Louisiana Avenue Rooms 11 and 12. WASH.NGTON, D.C. Office hours from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m CHARLES FISCHE® — = 5 pss $8 N ee ——-Manofacturer and dealer in—— SURGICAL & ORTHOP@DICA: Instruments and Trusses. 623 SEVENTH STREET, NoRTHW E81 Opposite Patent Office WASHINGTON, D. ©, J. U, CRONIE, casH oR Furniture, Carpets, creoit Stoves Mattings, &€ Seld on Weekly or Monthly Payments 913 TTHSTREET.N.W. 615 4 1-2 STREET, S.W Waebington, ).C THE MOST WONDERFUL DIGIVERY Ever Made for the Hair. wantin 6G = . Ge ago Seas P35 ee geeneees oe 2ibon at this. ae a Caee Sig Bree BEEF MARROW HAIR POMADE & PERFECT HAIR DRESSING Se - < ban ae BY A eae, DELIGHTFULLY PERFUMED. Will make curly hair straight. Nothing equal to it. Positively the very best prepara tion on the market for} straightening, in vigora ting and beaut: ifying the hair. Son will find after using it a short time that it excells any- thing You ever tried. ‘Absolutely free from chemicals; so pu re and harmless that it can be used every day with petoce satisfaction, It renders the air soft, pliable and beautiful It pre: vents the hair from breaking off aud falling out. It nourishes the roots aad makes the hair grow, often starting? new growth and restoring tle hairto ite natural color. Fulldirections with each bottle. Price 2% and 50 cents. Ji a Srungiet does not keepit three ie tles willbe sent prepaid_on receip| oo Send money by postoffice money or registered tetter. Write yout; fame and address plainly. Bix mooer/ agents, Write tor particuia:s 4 manuractunce omer 8? MMBWORAE BAS FYMADE CU, 671 Averaeen Bt, cues | What is it? The Militay and Historical Portrait of the Third North Carolina U. 8 Volunteer in the war with Spain In every city, town and county in the United States to take orders and deliver the beautiful Souvenir. Fifty per cent to agents. All orders sent C. O. D by express to any part of the country. Agents are making big money. Now is your chance to secure a profitable employment. Any Shrewd man or woman wishing to travel can more than pay their way to any part of the country by introducing the beautiful portrait group in cities and towns as they go. GOLD WATCHES ETC. FREE. Any minister, teacher, lady or gentleman who don't care to canvass as a 7 jewels. Order 35 I will send you a gentleman 14 karat gold filled hunting case stem winding watch guaranteed to ware 25 years, with a Waltham or Elgin movement, 7 jewels. Same grade of watch to the lady who orders 30. Order 25 I will send you a twenty year filled case, same movement. Don't ask me how I can afford to do this. Send $1.00 for each souvenir and the premium will be sent you. If the watches are not just as I represent them, or if I fail to do just what I say I will do in this advertisement, then you are at liberty to denounce me through The Colored American and all other Negro journals. You need not order all at once. If you are not able to send large orders, send in small ones—not however less than five at a time. Soon as you shall have ordered the required number I will send the premium. Send $1.00 for sample and begin to take orders. You see, you get the premium for a few hours work. The souvenir sells at sight among all admirers of portraits and race pride people. You pay all express charges. Don't write for further information, if you do send a stamp. It cost money to advertise—besides, I have not the time to write any one who can't understand my proposition, herein stated. I mean business, and I hope all who decide to accept my offers, will likewise mean business. For the next twenty days address, Charlottesville Items. Charlottesville, Va., Special.—Rev. R. J. Perkins of Hinton West Virginia, who has been assisting in conducting the revival at the First Baptist church, left last week for his home. 'he meetings are continued this week, and the pastor, Rev. Quarles will be assisted by Rev. Hawkins of Gordonsville, and other pastors of the city. The number of converts reported to date is about 35. At the Mt. Zion Baptist church the revival continues with great success. Up to the present time about 45 converts are reported. The Y. M. C. A. is becoming the center of attraction for our young men on Sunday evenings. A good number was present last Sunday evening. The Bible lesson was "Sowing the Seed" which was interestingly and instructively discussed. We hope to be able to report before very long that our rooms are not sufficient to accommodate the young men at these meetings. Next Sunday's Bible study is "Unchastity and Its Cure," St. Mark 1, 21:34. All men are invited to come. Rev. E. Duke Venture left Saturday to attend the M. E. Church Conference which is in session at Baltimore, Md. Mr. Adam Wnipps is home from Washington, D. C. Messrs. W. E. Bowles, A. W. Bullock and J. Christian left last week for Hot Springs, Va. Miss Bettie James left this week for Richmond, Va. Mrs. Gertrude Heiskell who has been teaching at Free Union Virginia, has closed her school for the session and is home again. Mr. J. A. Kennie of Leonard Medical College arrived Monday in company with Mr. J. J. Quarles, of Louisa, Va., who is a recent graduate in the Medical Department of the class of 1900. Mr. Eugene Dickerson, A. B., M. D., a graduate of the college department of the V. N. and C. I., Petersburg, and of the medical department of Shaw University of the class of 1900, arrived home Tuesday. He brings with him one of the medals for exellency which is the second medal he has won at the Medical College. Messrs. Noah Jackson, Charles Goodloe and Robert Buckner who have been quite sick are all much improved. Mr W. H. Dabney, Manager of the Richmond Beneficial Insurance Company branch office, is having a very nice restaurant fitted up on West Main street, across from the Odd Fellow's Hall. He will open up in a few days and solicits the patronage of the public. Quite a grand entertainment is being planned by Mrs. W. H. Dabney to be given Easter under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. at the Opera House. The American is still on sale at Pollard and Noble's or can be had from A. F. Angel at the University. MONTICELLO. At St. Paul A, M. E. Church, At the St Paul A. M. E. Church, 8th street southwest, between D and E, Sunday, March 25, 1900, there will be three special sermons delivered by three of the most able pulpit orators of the city. The public is invited to hear them. At 11 o'clock Dr. M. M. Moore, financial secretary of the A. M. E. Church will fill the pulpit. At 3 o'clock Dr. J. Albert Johnson, pastor Metropolitan Church, M street northwest, will fill the pulpit. At 7.30 Rev. A. D. Olley Holder will preach; subject, "Dry Bones." All who will avail themselves of the opportunity of hearing these divines enjoy a rare treat. P. W. WORTHAM, Pastor. Toothache Cure FREE, to advertise it: best in the world: send 4 cents for a sample. LA RUE 1017 Area St. Philia, Pa; THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. COLE & JOHNSON Ia The Brightest Ebony Offering A TRIP TO COONTOWN Academy of Music. One Week Only, Commencing Monday March 26th. UBV J. BOB COLE. BOB COLE. In The Brightest Ebony Offer A TRIP TO COON Academy of Mus NINTH AND D STREETS, Northwest. One Week Only, Comment MME. DAVIS MARY J. W. C. Born Clairvoyant & Card Reader Tells about business, Removes Spells and Evil Influences, Reunites the Separated and Gives Luck to all. Cures Piles and Drunkenness. 1228 25th st. n. w. Washington D.C. No letters answered unless ac companied by stamp. To Repair Broken Articles use Major's Cement Remember MAJOR'S RUBBER CEMENT, MAJOR'S LEATHER CEMENT. Metropolitan Hotel Pennsylvania ve. bet. 6 & 7 Sts. WALTER BURTON, Manager. Washington, D.C. WITH THE FOLLOWING GREAT CAST. RYD A. GIBBS, EDNA ALEXANDER, ALTER DIXON, MOLLIE DILL, AM COUSINS ALICE MACKEY, BARRY CARTER, PAULINE FREEMAN, KING. CLARA FREEMAN, M CRAIG, JENNIE HILLMAN, WILLIS ACCOOE, LAVINA JONES, GEO. LEDBETTER, JENNIE SCHEPER, BROWN. ESTELLE WARE, TTE GLEN, WILLIE DUNCAN, JULIA SMITH, LLOYD A. GIBBS, EDNA ALEXANDER, WALTER DIXON, MOLLIE DILL, SAM COUSINS ALICE MACKEY, BARRY CARTER, PAULINE FREEMAN, SAM KING. CLARA FREEMAN, TOM CRAIG, JENNIE HILLMAN, WILLIS ACCOOE, LAVINA JONES, GEO. LEDBETTER, JENNIE SCHEPER, GEO. BROWN. ESTELLE WARE, NEITIE GLEN, WILLIE DUNCAN, JULIA SMITH. GENTS WANTED. The Militay and Historical Portrait of the Third North Caro- lar in the war with Spain own and county in the United States to take orders and de- bouvenir. Fifty per cent to agents. All orders sent C. O. part of the country. Agents are making big money. Now secure a profitable employment. Any Shrewd man or woman in more than pay their way to any part of the country by in- ful portrait group in cities and towns as they go. GOLD WATCHES ETC. FREE. Teacher, lady or gentleman who don't care to canvass as a means of support, but could secure a large number of orders among their immediate friends, I will give the most handsome and valuable prem um ever given for like amount of work. HERE WE ARE Order 75 souven- nirs for your neighbors and I will send you a high grade bicycle. Order 50, I will send you a 14 karat warranted U. S. assays solid gold hunting case stem winding ladies watch with American Waltham or Elgin movement. I will send you a gentleman 14 karat gold filled hunting watch guaranteed to ware 25 years, with a Waltham or Elgin Same grade of watch to the lady who orders 30. Order twenty year filled case, same movement. Don't ask me to do this. Send $1.00 for each souvenir and the premium will watches are not just as I represent them, or if I fail to do do in this advertisement, then you are at liberty to de- The Colored American and all other Negro journals. You once. If you are not able to send large orders, send in wever less than five at a time. Soon as you shall have a number I will send the premium. Send $1.00 for sample orders. You see, you get the premium for a few hours work. It sight among all admirers of portraits and race pride peo press charges. Don't write for further information, if you cost money to advertise—besides, I have not the time to can't understand my proposition, herein stated. I mean he all who decide to accept my offers, will likewise mean For the next twenty days address, AGENTS WANTED. home office, Asheville, North Carolina. his ad\e tisement out and give it\jto some one who canvasses, After that date, home office, Asheville, North Carolina. Please cut this advertisement out and give it to some one who canvasses. LLOYD A. GIU WALTER D. SAM COUS BARRY O SAM KING. TOM CRAIG, WILLIS AG GEO. LE GEO. BROWN NEFTIE GLE MR. SAM LUCAS. A. ED. and North Caro- orders and de- ders sent C. O. g money. Now man or woman the country by in- ey go. o canvass as a means of support, but could secure a large number of orders among their immediate friends, I will give the most handsome and valuable premium ever given for like amount of work. HERE WE ARE. Order 75 souvenirs for your neighbors and I will send you a high grade bicycle. Order 50, I will send you a 14 karat warranted U. S. assays solid gold, hunting case, stem winding, ladies watch with American Waltham or Elgin movement filled hunting Waltham or Elgin ders 30. Order Don't ask me the premium will if I fail to do liberty to de- journals. You orders, send in you shall have 100 for sample new hours work. face pride peo formation, if you not the time to stated. I mean likewise mean Capt. Thos. L. Leatherwood, Publisher, Augusta, Ga. Asheville, North Carolina. sent out and give it to some one who canvasses, W. H. JOHNSON. 2 ee ee ee . a ce 2 0 i, £8 Fo ee THE COLORED ‘AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. 0. 1 eke YS a RIS RSS Rr cra re een TEE j Pe er ’ ; By ” rn ‘ aay Ga ‘ae ee a ee Zee Bee es : scl =e: Baie 7 Re ee ee yy cals SD Esse 4 a8) oy Te es Hititttays> oat j 1) EN x Ei | Na ee SAN 2 Fi pA Abletebleeae [ish be Vg ees | lie ET ~ | ee Ne em Mae ager it: a SSS a OOS SA Na ea) IRA ALDXKIDGE (THE BLACK ROSIUS). orn in Bellair near Baltimore, Md., 1810. Died at Lodz, Poland. 1867. A REAL OTHELLv, (Continued from ist page.) persuaded that his wretcheduees is | complete, a cry of rage, or rather a roar like that of a wild besst starts from hie adomen, I still seem to hear that cry; it chilled us with with fear and made every spectator shudder. Tears wet his cheeks; his mouth foamed and bis eyes flashed fire. I bave never seen an artist identify him self so perfectly with the character which he represents. An actor told me he saw him eob for some moments after his exit from the scene. Every bo¢é y men and women wept. Botleau was right in saying to actors: ‘Weep yourselves if you would make others weep.” Rachel, in the fourth act of Les Horace is the only artist who ever produced so great an effect. The Correspondent of the New York Herald writing about the ssme period eaid: “An American Negro named Ira Aldridge hes been performing at the Imperial Theatre in several of Sbakespeare’s pieces and hes met with great applause. His principal character of course, ie Othello, and he portrays the jealous African with such truth and energy that even those amateurs who recol. lect our great Russian tragedian, Kar. atugin, acknowledge the superiority of his sable successor. In Shylock too, he shows unusual dramatic powers; and painted and tricked out for the stage he passes very well by Jamplight for “the Jew that Shakespeare drew,”’ The woret is that Mr. Aldridge 1s accom panied by a German troupe who per- form the parts assigned to them in their vernacular, and the effect produced by their German answers to his English speeches is the most comical imavin- able and puts ail illusion vut of the question. Only think of Othello cal! ing for hie handkercheif, a Shylock claiming his pound of fiesh, in Kngh- lish and Desdemona excusing herself or Portia expounding the law in High Dutch! Fortunately the majority of our Petersburg audiences are “heathen Greek” so that the incongruity of the performance 13 not felt by (bem so strongly as by that compaitively small portion of the spectators who were ac- quainted with the two languages,’’ NO stronger or better words could have been employed than thee two correspondents have employea in their several accounts of Mr Aldridge’s matchless acting, his great genius as au interpreter of Shakespeare’s plays, And it 18 to be regretted that no Ne gro has as yet risen who is sufficiently capable of wearing the mantle of the “African Roacius,” or of adorning with «qual brillianey ihe honorable profes- sion which he dignified by his incom- parable genius, talents and abilities, The State of Maryland may with tru'h be said to have produced the greatest Negro tragedian of the 19th Century, What state, what country will pro duce in the twentieth Century his equal or bis superior ? A POWER AT TUSK: GEE, (Continued from firat psze.) ee AR cal nN fidence and bighest resyect of all the girls in the institution aud has made the institution stronger than it has ever been before in the direction of training women. The whole race is deeply indebted to Mrs. Bruce for the work she is so faithfally and uneel fish. ly performing. Neither is her work and influence iimited to what she does at che iwstitu- tion. fogether with Mrs. Wasbington she is resching ont and assisting the vericus women’s organizations through out the South, and esp cially is this true in helping the poor and oDforten. ate colored pecple in the immediate vicinity of Tuskegee. | In the truest and broadest sense of ‘the term Mrs. Brace is brovirg herself ap eduestor of rare ability. She is in the section of the South where her help is most needed and where her in flaence is being made of the bighest value to the entire rece Few people of apy race are placed in & position where in so large a measure they can influence the giowth of an entire race as is true of Mrs, Bruce, and she sees clearly her Opportunity and is making the most of the field that is before her, ¢ u THE GRAND - FOUNTAIN. = “ ORGANIZED January 3, 1881. a : E 3 J Offices 604, 606 and 608 N. 2nd St, - - Richmond, Va, The Strongest Financial Organization the Negro Has Produced in This Countcy Read and learn for yourself what it has done and how to become a meme: SUBORDINATE FOUNTAINS. Subordinate Fountains are composed of males and femaies, sound in health and ming, and of good moral character. Conventions.—When joining the Order through Conventions, persons are taken in from 14 to 50 years of age; when Pising the Fountain by application persons are takeu ( oD 14 to 60 years of age complete. : guining, oc Benefit Fees.—Frow 4 to ao years of age, $4.60; at 50, $5.10; at 55, 95.00; hat 60, $6. Death Benefits —$75 and $125. WSoutd aeaeh occur within the frst yeax, $75; after the first I; $125 will be paid to the heirs, assigns o !<gal representatives. Sick Benefits.—From $6 to $9 per month, paid weekly. anes, Dues are 35 or 50 centr ‘© month. Taxes are 80 cents annually, ald sem). Soy january and July, The uw .-<t monthly dues secure the highest wees): sick enefits. entete, Membership -Ten sharer of Bank Stock, costing each member $5 a share, m+ sald member a life member. After paying dues and owning the stock one year frults of the stock wil pay the member's dees, an¢ leaye a handsome little balance cart 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, si per share, amounts to $10 annually, which will pay the member's dues, $6.80, and iar a balance of $3.20. Should the dues be 85 cents per moath, and 80 cents taxes per ycar the monthly dues and taxes will amount to $5 per year. The dividend of $10 would pay the monthly dues aud taxes, and leave a balance of $5. Additional Ber -fits of Life Membership.—Should adverse circumstances befall a mem ber, sald member may take his ten shares of stock and Fountain policy, and secure a 1..4 from $1 to $88, which will enable suid member to tide over the misfortune, puy up tue loan, redeem his policy and stock, and go op his way rejoicing. 2, ROSEBUD FOUNTAIN (For the Children.) zm Rosebud Fountains are composed for children, male and ¢ (Arr male, from 3 to 14 years of i. ic é Joining or Benefit Fees, $1.50; pald spot cash or by instal- nd = ments. x oe Death Benefits.—§24.50 and $37.00. Should death o ur * Within the first year, $24.50; after the first year $37 will be paid . ; : to the parents or guardians. Ae ae Sick Benefits.—From $1.50 to $4.00 per month pald weekly; “add XP (50 cents, 75 cents and $1 per week, respectively. The highest : re N monthly dues purchase the highest weekly sick benefits y Bh Monthly Dues and Taxes.—The monthly dues are 10 cents, me é 15 cents, or 25 cents, respectively, just as the Fountain may 4° Pi my decide. Taxes, 10 cents annually, paid semiannually, January ry ° and July, The child is allowed to purchase five shares of Punk AN Fs Stock, which makes his policy self-supporting, with a talecs a aa each year, =_ Sok aac at ane RRS tig BL 3. THE REGALLA. This Dexirtment furnishes all Regalia that is worn by the members of the Order, For style and prizes write for price list. 4 CLASSES. > and E \ lasses admit a membership, male and female, and secure life and death benefits. B Class Polit es are as follows: i es Ss CLASS B TARLE. Joining — -Valueof = Annual Patd Ages. Fee. Certificate, Dues. Quarterly. 14 to 2 years.......-ccccecececccccsceces $2 50 $200 00 $4 75 $1 20 25 £0 B5 YOAts..,.0.<ssvveccceseccescosses 215 200 00 475 120 BB 10 SB FERTE, sec ec ccccenvetcccscccses 8 OD 200 00 570 1 43 45 to GO Years.......ccecseeeg--s-ceceeeee 825 140 00 6 6 164 5O to 5G years.........sescceces. -apcecces 825 115 00 6 6 1 66 55 to 60 years.......cesceeeeeeeees— -- 850 90 00 7 60 1% GO to 65 Years........sseeeseeeececee sree 250 65 00 7 ee Leo E Class Policies are as follows: CLASS EB TABLE. Joining Value of Annual! Pald 4 to Ages. $5°8 oS as eae 0 BS FORIB. 0.0... 0ccecceseseccrcereee $500 2 40 ES BORE YORE. ccc ccencccsctccecascecss Sam 500 00 9 50 eee POS WO SB FORTE. cnc cccccctcesesssccccecces BBO 500 00 10 40 wees 45 tO BO Years... ....c.ceeeceeeecereceeeee 5 75 450 00 11 40 2 oF 5O to 55 Years.......sscecscccccccccccseee 8 7B 400 00 il 40 2% 55 years (Complete)..........sse00scse00 600 850 00 11 00 23 poe, Skee are reckoned from the last birthday. Remember that the oo is benefited as soon ag his policy Is Issued. The annual dues of elther of the above named Classes may be divided into quarterly Payments of three months each, payable the 1st of January, a. July, and October. The balance of annual dues oF ening, to the credit of each member after paylug ex: ‘enses will go to the purchase of Bank Stock for sald member. It dues are paid annually in advance, the member gets 5 per cent drawback In cash ind his full proportion of annual dues, 3 the latter mode of et each member Is nade his own collector, thereby making the membership independent of the agent, #01 SE TE DOrting, and the member receiving the percentage that would be paid to the sgrut co collect. You will readily see that the members of elther 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 nefits.—The members of B Class are allowed to purchase 15 shares of !aok Star ..a two shares for each year of their membership. The stock ylelds a dividend of |. per cent, or one dollar per share. Should misfortune befall them on their pathway of te ser, may take their stock certificates and policies, and secure a loan after » given period of time. Members of Class E can purchase 25 shares of Bank Stock, and two shares for each year of thelr membership; likewise, they may take thelr Dolicies and certificates of Bank Stock, and secure a loan after a ranted period of time. You will readily see that the mem bership, In either one of these Classes, like the Fountains and the Rosebuds, beneiits (he “member in health, as well as his family in death. ee se Aa gt pal ee Tn, 1808 thin wae the onic hee, attention is given to the collection of notes and drafts. Tn 1808 this was the only bank in Richmond which continued to pay carreucy to itt depositors during the financial stringency, while the other banks were using scr/i 6. REAL ESTATE OF THE U.0.T R. This Department manages and controls the property of the o: nization. It grew out of the necessity of having offices and buildings in which to carrion the bushes oy te organisation, and to furnish halls for the Subordinate Lodges. Bulldings now ow. 12 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 ts the Beacon-Light, the Head-Light, the G I Messence! the General Agent of the Brotherhood. ‘It'Is a live race journal, Withee: qe It ts the medium of the Order, and its columns teem with all Its doings and nclieveneat, Bend for sample copies. It is ponaeeet weekly in The Reformer Printin Office, Rich- mond, Va., having « first-class job department, aud makes a specialty of Blt clan? work ne ae The Sayings Bank of the G. F. U. 1888. Its capital stock Is $100,000. 1 1889. The amount of business’ to Ma stock of this bank Is sold to the mem buds, B and E classes, and pays a diy’ Jar. Persons can deposit their moneys pays 4 Ped cent Interest on all time d¢ eld sul ead to the orders of the dey pwards. Special attention is given to th s the only bank In Richmond which ne financial stringency, while the other 6. REAL ESTATE OF THE U. 0. t manages and controls the ey. of having offices and buildings in which | » furnish halls for the Subordinate Lod 2; hotels, 1; with a fee simple value of 7, THE REFORMER, the Organ of s the Beacon-Light, the Head-Light, t he Brotherhood. It’ is a lve race jourz the Order, and ite cotumine trem with : pies. is publis! weekly e Srat-class fo department, and makes Afro-Americans in Manilla. (Continued from last week.) became light we could see insurgents on all sides like bees, the officers could be seen trying to urge their men on but they seemed to falter under the deadly fire of the Krags, for those behind our guns knew that unless ancessant fire was maintained by us, death would be the consequence if they gained our position. At this juncture of the engagement Captain O'Niel took a squad of F company to see if he could drive them back far enough to allow the scouts to come out of warehouse. When outside these men fired a volley in the air and charged, as they did so the scouts took advantage of the momentary stampede among the insurrectos and rushed out. Now all hands got out in the opening and things began to resemble a slaughter pen, bolo men armed with long knives being encouraged by officers tried to stand but were shot down, they began a slow retreat, but finanily those who could took to their heels, carrying and dragging many of their dead and wounded with them and leaving a great many behind. In the road in rear of the scouts quarters where the final charge was made, men were piled upon one another dead and wounded, it was an awful sight, one not easily forgotten, but it was fight or die with us for things were exceedingly desperate for a while. Our commanding officer remarked after the fight, concerning the coolness of the men, saying it surpassed anything he had seen of the kind. Not a man shirked his duty, and acted as if at target practice, firing carefully and accurately all the while, and even making comical remarks concerning the appearances of the insurgents who could be plainly seen on all sides. We were all day burying their dead and caring for the wounded. I am exceedingly thankful that I can say that not a man was injured on our side which I consider almost miraculous. The boys feel that they have avenged the cowardly murder of our friend and comrade, William Shepard, who was murder d several days previous to the fight, while bathing by ten bolo-men. We received this information from a Cheno spy employed by our command. I could say much concerning the capture of Fort Comancia, but fearing to consume too much of your valuable time and perhaps space, if you see fit to publish this article, I will only say that it was a very difficult and perilous undertaking. We lost one corporal and a private was badly wounded, the insurgent lost was 12 killed and wounded, and before leaving the hill all of the houses were burned. In conclusion I will say that, we of the 25th Infantry feel rather discouraged over the fact that the sacrifice of life and health has to be made for a cause so unpopular among our people. Yet the fact that we are American Soldiers instills within us the feeling and resolve to perform our duty as such, no matter what the consequence may be, as to public sentiment. Those who are thoughtful do not attempt to discuss the "why" concerning the enlisted man. We have been warned several times by insurgent leaders in shape of placards, some being placed on the trees, others left mysteriously in houses we have occupied; saying to the colored soldier that while he is contending on the field of battle against a people who are struggling for recognition and freedom, your people in America are being lynched and dis- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. G. franchised by the same who are trying to compel us to believe that their government will deal justly and fairly by us. Hoping you may find space in your valuable paper for a portion at least, of this article, though the attempt be but a feeble one, I trust it may serve (with your corrections) to convey the meaning intended, I am Yours obediently, MICHAEL H. ROBINSON, JR Company F 25th Infantry. DO YOU LOVE HEALTH? If so, get your blood purified as the Spring demands. BIG BOW THE INDIAN MEDICINE Call and see the Indian Herb Medicine Man, No. 620 North Eutaw Street, Baltimore. He cures all diseases that are known to man or beast, or no charge, no matter what your disease or affliction may be, and restore you to perfect health. Millions of people, the best and leading ones in the United States, will testify that he is the most wonderful healer of all complaints in the world. He uses nothing but Herbs, Roots, Barks, Gums, Balsams, Leaves, Seeds, Berries, Flowers and Plants, made into teas. 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The greatest sensation of the age, on the greatest social theme of modern times—The Negro Problem in the Sunny South. This priceless production grandly gives the conditions, the triumphs, the prospects, hopes and aims of the Negro in the United States. Every white and colored man should read this matchless book. It sublimely shows that man is the product of his natural and social surroundings, that the South is no exception to the general rule. It gives the grandest explanation of the Negro Problem in all its forms; the most thrilling pen pictures of the most frightful cruelties and crimes against the colored race; the most marvelous achievements of the Negro's wisdom, genius, heart and brain—without a parallel in the history of the world since man has kept a record of events. The great and grand solution of the Negro Problem in peerless eloquence and a loftiness of thought that are immortal and sublime. 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Church, the Foremost Afro-American in Western Tennessee-A Delegate to the Philadelphia Convention. Mr. Robert R. Church, of Memphis, Tenn., a leading business man in his community and one of the best known colored men in America, was recently elected a delegate from the 10th Congressional district of his State to the National Republican Convention to be held at Philadelphia in June J. MR. ROBERT B. CHURCH. next. The election of such a man as Mr. Church to a distinguished place in the council of his political party marks an epoch in the history of the colored people of this country. It is a rare compliment to Mr. Church, and it reflects the intelligence and advanced thought of his constituents. Mr. Church is not and has never been an office seeker. He is a business man pure and simple and has never allowed the thought of personal politics to disturb his equanimity or to interfere with his established ideas of a business career He is a politician only in that broad sense that the affairs of a State should concern all of its citizens of character, reputation and manhood. He has always believed that the elective franchise should be exercised to the end that the best men should make and exercise the laws of the State and the municipality. Mr. Church has never sought political recognition of any kind for himself but has heretofore steadily and firmly refused it. He has however, constantly spent his time and liberally given his means to advance the political ambitions of others in whose honesty of purpose he believed. In this respect he has been the ideal citizen. The honor which Mr. Church has just received came to him unsolicited and almost against his will. It was in truth the case of the office seeking the man. It is a hopeful sign for the colored people when such a man of their number is put forward for political preferment—a man independent of political office and party leaders for a livelihood. A thousand such representative would mean political dignity and political elevation for the Negro in America. The respect which they would command and the independence with which they might act would be worth more than one can estimate. Mr. Church is a man of large means; indeed, he is one of the wealthiest colored men in the country. His accumulations were gained by indefatigable industry and extraordinary business ability. His purpose to make for himself a competency was so firm that he has never allowed the glamor of shad- COLONIAL AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. owy and temporary honors to swerve him from the path of his goal. No man of any race is more completely identified with the commercial interest of his community than is Mr. Church with those of Memphis. His name is connected with every great movement undertaken, looking to the growth and advancement of that city. In every printed statement touching its progress the name of Robert R. Church finds a prominent place. Few, if any, colored men have been conceded just such a status as he has in connection with the great business interests of a large city. This has grown out of the fact that he has always responded readily to all monetary demands for public improvements and has been willing to take the chances that other men take in such matters. His success in this direction has been due to a judicious and sensible use of his means. No man in any part of the country has been a braver, more radical and more ardent champion of his race and its interests than Mr. Church. He was a leader in every movement for the alleviation of its hard conditions at a time when it tried men's soul to be courageous. He is known everywhere as a man of the strongest character and absolutely fearless in the performance of a duty. He is, indeed, a leader of men. Mr. Church has travelled extensively both in this country and Europe in company with his charming family. He lives in an elegant house and is widely known for his generous hospitality. His home has been the rendezvous for all of the leading colored men in the country who have have from time to time visited Memphis. The 10.h Congressional district of Tennessee will be well represented at Philadelphia next June. Mr. Church, himself, is splendidly informed on all great public questions. His colleague is Hon. L. W. Dutro, postmaster of the city of Memphis, one of the big Republican leaders of the State of Tennessee. NEGRO ANTI IMPERIALISTS. National Organization May Meet in Kansas City. Cairo, Ill., Special.—Colonel W. T. Scott of this city, who is president of the Negro National Anti-Imperial and Anti-Trust League, states that he has been requested, through L. A. Newby, secretary of the society at Chicago, Ill., to call a meeting of the organization at Kansas City, Mo., about May 16, to formulate plans for the coming campaign The following are the members of the Executive Committee: J. Milton Turner, St. Louis, Mo.; G. H. Plummer, Boston, Mass.; Chas. H. Croswait, Nashville, Tenn.; James A. Ross, editor of the Buffalo Globe, New York; Doctor W. T. Peyton, Louisville, Ky.; F. W. Ernst, Detroit, Mich.; J. H. C. Howard, Philadelphia, Pa.; J. T. V. Hill, Indianapolis, Ind.; C. F. Armsted, Gallopolis, O.; Joseph Houser, editor of the Negro World, St. Paul, Minn.; ex-Senator Stamps, New Orleans, La.; Edward I. Clark, San Francisco; John B. Vashon, St. Louis, Mo.; Dr. J. B. Riley, Seattle, Wash., George I. Downing, Rhode Island; George E. Taylor, Oscaloosa, Ia.; Wm. E. Gross, Greater New York, N. Y.; D. T. Freemont, Virginia; F. C. Brown, Baltimore, Md., A. B. Davidson, Newark, N. J. Mr. George Watkins, president of the American Count Club of Washington, D.C., will spend the early part of next week in Baltimore attending to business for the above named club which will give their semi-annual ball a. Grand Army Hall April 9th 1900 HAIR-HEALTH. The sale of three million bottles of this elegant hair dressing in the United States and Great Britain in 1898 proves surpassing mecit. 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 HAIR-FINAL 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 HAIR Refuse Substitutes. 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HAY'S HARFINA MEDICATED SOAP, the best soap you can use for Hair, Scalp, Complexion, Bath and Toilet, both for 50 cents, regular retail price, 75 cents. This offer is good once only to same family. Redeemed by druggists below at their shops only, or by LONDON SUPPLY CO. 853 Broadway, New York, by express prepaid, on receipt of 60 cents and this advertisement 3 bottles, $1.50. Following druggists supply HAY'S HAIR-HEALTH HARFINA SOAP at then stores only WILLIAMS and CO., 600 9th st. n. w.; STEVENS, Pa. ave. and 9th st. n. w. EVANS, 988 F st. n. w.; DANIELS, 1900 14th st. cor. T n. w.; HUDDLESON 1400 14th st. n. w.; MAJOR, 7th and G sts. n. w.; SIMMS, N. Y. ave 14th st. n. w. HODGES, Pa. ave. and 2nd st. s. e.; DUCKETT, 2150 Pa. n. w.; WHITE- SIDE & WALION, 1921 Pa. ave. n. w.; WEISS 25 Monroe st., Anacostia, ROE, 7th and L sts. n. w.; KOSS, 7th and Fla. ave.; McCARTHY & FAWCETT 7th and I sts. n. w.; CHRISTIANI, 484 Pa. ave. n. w.; STOIT, 505 Pa. ave. n. w; GILMAN, 627 Pa. ave. n. w.; MONTGOMERY, 13h 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. a.; L. F. BRADLEY, 8th and E sts. s. e.; ISOHIFFLEY, 475 Penna. ave n. w.; THOMPSON, 708 15th st. CRISWELL, 1901 7th st. cor. T n. w.; DIEULONNE & GON, 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. Hurlebush, 14th & V sts. n. w.; McGlue, 4th & L sts., Cassin, 7th and M sts. n. w.; Purdy, 7th and Q sts.; Field, 237 H st. n. e. $1.00 — ONLY — $1.00 HISTORY of the COLORED SOLDIERS IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR By EDWARD A. JOHNSON, Author of the Famous "School History of the N. CONTAINS—Pen pictures of the Daring Charges made by the Juan, El Caney, and around Santiago. Corporal Brown killed at cannon which knocked over the block house and saved the Roof 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 Olseros, and the Cultan Women Cavairy.—The Negro Army—The Negro Poet, Paul Lawrence Junbar—"Eddie" Savoy outwitted the diplomacy of the Spanish Minister at Washington-Uncle Sam's money.—The colored Register of the Treasury who has money to make it good. Every Page Brimful of New and Interesting Readings to e and line engravings of soldier, officers, and scenes of the War, with A FINE PICTURE OF AGUINALDO, his headquarters, a nita, and a brief sketch of the Phillipinos and their civilization. Handsome Picture of General Nelson A. Miles, the M mand of all the American Army, who said the fighting of the co Santiago was "without a parallel in the history of the world." Little" Mailed Free. in the Daring Charges made by Negro Soldiers at San Itagua.—Corporal Brown killed at his post while firing a the block house and saved the Rough Riders.—Sergeant was first to raise the American flag on San J an Hill- ley, Miles, Roosevelt, and many others on the bravery agan advocates Negro officers.—Antonio and Jose Maclo, bautal Women Cavalry.—The Negro Paymasters in the lawrence !unbar—"Eddie" Savoy, the colored man who Spanish Minister at Washington.—The Negro who seals and Register of the Treasury who has to sign Uncle San.'s new and Interesting Reading, with about fifty half- holder, officers, and scenes of the late Spanish-American AGUINALDO, his headquarters, a Filipino lady of Ma- Philippines and their civilization. General Nelson A. Miles, the Major General in com- merce, who said the fighting of the colored soldiers around hel in the history of the world." All for $1, "Much in Author of the Famous "School History of the Negro Race." CONTAINS—Pen pictures of the Daring Charges made by Negro Soldiers at San Juan, El Caney, and around Santiago.—Corporal Brown killed at his post while firing a cannon which knocked over the block house and saved the Rough Riders.—Sergeant Berry, the colored soldier who was first to raise the American flag on San J an Hill.—The glowing tribute to McKinley, Miles, Roosevelt, and many others on the bravery of Negro Soldiers—General Morgan advocates Negro officers.—Antonio and Jose Maclo, Gomez, Miss Oissers, and the Cuban Women Cavalry.—The Negro Paymasters in the Army.—The Negro Poet, Paul Lawrence "unbar"—"Eddie" Seyvoy, the colored man who outwittened 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 Philippinos and their civilization. Handsome Picture of General Nelson A. Miles, the Major General in command of all the American Army, who said the fighting of the colored soldiers around Santiago was "without a parallel in the history of the world." All for $1, "Much in Little." Mailed Free. AGENTS WANTED. Big percentage. Send for copy of book and Agent E. A. JOHNSON Corner West and Lenoir Streets, Raleigh for copy of book and Agents' terms. Address A. JOHNSON seets, Raleigh North Carolina. —THE— Adams House Big percentage. Send for copy of book and Agents' terms. Address E. A. JOHNSON Corner West and Lenoir Streets, Raleigh North Carolina. 582 and 584 BROADWAY, ALBANY, N. Y. 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C. to restore gray, white or bleached hair to youthful color and life. Not a dye; does not stain scalp or linen. "NOT A GRAY HAIR LEFT," the testimony of hundreds using it. A CLEAN, DAINTY DRESSING, DELIICATELY PERFUMED AND AN IMPORTANT ADJUNCT TO EVERY TOILET. IF YOUR HAIR IS FALLING OUT, BREAKING OR FADING, TR" IT NOW. Alexandria, V., Special.—Notwithstanding the funeral services of Miss Ada Strange held at the First Baptist church, at 8 o'clock p. m., a few Sundays ago, there was a large attendance at the B. Y. P. Union of said church to listen to the program from 4 to 5 p. m. The meeting was addressed by Rev. W. Bishop Johnson, D. D., pastor Second Baptist church, Washington, D. C. Dr. Johnson made an able address. He spoke of the work of the Union in its local and general work, not only as an organization to develop spiritual among the young in the church, but as an educator in church doctrines and church history—Baptist of course. Dr. Johnson talked about 80 minutes. He spoke of the spiritual power that had manifested itself through the introduction of this society in his own church and commended it as well as all other societies of a similar character. Special music was rendered by the Quintette consisting of Messrs. Samuel Jackson, Alvin Truatt, Geo. Howard and Misses Bessie Howard and Mabel Reddick. The selection was well rendered. The Quintette is under the efficient directorship of Mrs. Lottie Buckner, organist. Music was also rendered by a Quartette, consisting of Misses Amanda Buckner, Sena Truatt, Messrs Henry Buckner and Sldney Parker. An able paper was read by Mr. Jesse Madden, subject "Faith" The installation of Rev. Henderson of the Third Baptist took place last Thursday evening. There were present a number of divines, among whom were Rev. Alexander Truatt, Rev. W. H. Johnson. The exercises of the evening were quite interesting and the good people of the Third Baptist church look forward to a bright future in the history of their church under the leadership of their newly elected pastor. The funeral services of Mr. Spriggs father of Miss Bessie Spriggs, a teacher in the public schools of this city, took place from his residence, Washington street, Sunday at 3 o'clock p.m. The funeral was largely attended by the host of friends of the deceased. Miss Bessie Spriggs is loved and respected by all who know her and she has the deepest sympathy of all in her bereavement. Our people should take special pride in the Art Loan Exhibit which is to be held on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week, evenings included, at the residence of Mrs. Helen Cook, 1118 16th street. The exhibition is under the auspices of the Woman's League for the benefit of the day nursery and the admission is only 10 cents. There will be good music. All kinds of woman's work will be on exhibition. These ladies intend to hold these exhibitions annually, not only for the sake of a worthy charity but to let all classses see that many of our women are engaged in useful occupations. Every man, woman and child should attend. Those who have not sent in articles for exhibition can do so on Monday and Tuesday of the coming week. Mr. Charles S. Johnston, who has been touring Europe with the Loudon Jubilee Singers, has returned to this country on a brief furlough. He is expected in Washington about the middle of April. The announcement in last week's issue that the Second Annual Musical Festival conducted by Mr. Elzie S. Hoffman would occur this year on the evening of Friday, June 8, 1900, seems to have caught the popular favor of the public. Washington, D. C., is prepared to furnish CAPABLE TEACHERS of every branch of instruction and DESIRABLE SCHOOLS in all parts of the country. REGISTRATION FREE but applicants must be fully competent to teach or possess the ability to learn how to teach. NO SCHOOL—NO PAY 6 per cent of the first year's salary will be charged those for whom positions are secureded, payable Dec. 1, 1900. The Demand exceed the Supply for suitable teachers during the past year, hence our liberal inducements. Send for registration blank briefly stating your full qualifications and enclose ten two cent stamps for postage. '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 interested, be for necessary blanks and enclose (80cts.) thirty cents in United States postage stamps, to R. M. R. Nelson 26 C Barraconne St., Santiago de Cuba, J. E. Bruce, (Bruce Grit) 11 Congress Street Albany N. Y., or E. E. Cooper, The Colored American, Washington, D. C. Sugar offers an opportunity to make $5000 per annum, for eight years, after two years hard labor. W. H BUTLER, PAINTS OILS Springtime is on, and your house will need touching up. We have just what you want. W H. BUTLER, 609 C St., N W NELSONS STRAIGHTINE TRADE MARK The LATEST DISCOVERY FOR MAKING KNOTTY, KINKY, CURLY HAIR STRAIGHT BEFORE AFTER STRAIGHTINE is no experiment, but a thoroughly reliable preparation. It has been successfully used by thousands in all portions of the country. We have hundreds of letters speaking in the highest terms of its merit, and every mail brings us fresh testimonials. Straightine is a highly perfumed pomade; it not only Straightens the Hair, but removes Dandruff, Keeps the Hair from Falling Out, cures Itching, Irritating Scalp Diseases, giving a rich, long and luxurious head of hair—so much to be desired. Guaranteed perfectly harmless. Price, 25 Cents a can at all drug stores, or sent by mail to any address on receipt of 30 Cents in stamps or silver. Address, NELSON M'F'G CO., Richmond, Va. Big Money for Agents. Write for Terms. DOCTOR SNEA'S Gives the names of dead and living frinds 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 or him. Don't try to pump you in any way, out tell you right off. He is thoroughly incursed by leading spiritualists everywhere, received from them a gold medal and special license to practice his wonderful powers; credentials no one else can show can give thousands of references to both white and colored patrons Twenty-five years' practice—seven in brooklyn—will show you that he can do all he of. Can tell what business is best for you and where, how to win speedy marriage with the one you love. How to be successful in all your doings in short what is best to do. He will succeed when all others 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 him are now RICH HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL with all their undertakings,while those w o neglect his advice are still laboring again poverty. Through his perfect knowledge 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 recurring of speedy and happy marriages and all your wishes. In love affairs he never fails. He has the secret of winning the affections of the opposite sex. It is the curse of Spiritualism that in all large cities there are a class of men and women who claim powers they do not possess. They have neither gifts, credentials, nor references. Surely the colored people are not so wanting in sense as to throw their time and money away on such. Dr. Shea refers to the Hon. Charles Miller, capitalist, 2481 Atlantic avenue; the Hon. William Denmore, architect and builder, 47 Cleveland avenue, and Mr. Arthur Sewell, ship builder South Brooklyn. All have known him for the past ten years. He gives a free test of his power to all. The doctor has practiced five years in New Orleans, St. Louis, Memphis and Louisville, understands thoroughly the diseases, spells or influences the race is subject to. He has now and always had large patronage from them. PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING: Broklyn. August, 15, 1881-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 br. 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, 2087 Atlantic Avenue. HOTELS A NATION HOTELS AND RESTAURANIS NATIONAL HOTEL OPPOSITE PENNSYLVANIA DEPOT WASHINGTON, D.C. Rates $2 50 to $4 per day on American plan and $1 up on European plan. G. F. SHUTT, Manager. DR. HENRY'S BLOOD TEA. For Constipation, Billiousness, Indigestion Sick Headache and all disorders of the stomach and Liver. 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable. Communications strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. 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. 361 Broadway, New York Branch Office. 625 F St., Washington, D.C. MRS. DR. RENNER SPECIALIST n obstetrics; gold medal awarded for the science of obstetrics from the University of Munich, Bavaria; treats successfully womens complaints and irregularities; private sanitis-rium for ladies before and during confine-ment. Office hours from 3 to 6 p.m. 619 Penn. Avenue, Washington, D.C. $1,000 REWARD. A. H. Brooklyn, August 15, 1881—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 well. Her family had seemingly been under a cloud. Now all is changed. All are well and prosperous. I can truly and heartily recommend Dr. Shea, to all those in sickness or distress of any kind. Rev. William Johnson, pastor Lebanon church, Brooklyn. Dr. Shea can show thousands such as the above. has been carefully educated in the Homeopathic and Electric Schools of Medicine. His success is wonderful in curing paralysis Rheumatism, Asthma, Sore Eyes, Tumors, Cancers, Constipation, Ague, Dyspepsia, Tape Worms, Liver Conplaints, Dearness, 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 to 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. MARVELOUS MEDIUM. DR SHEA M The same identical new spring styles in fine Madras Negligee Shirts that you see marked $1.50 City Faragraphs. Mr. Daniel Murray has returned from New York. Miss Mary Over, a teacher of the Giddings school has been quite indisposed. Rev. W. iB. Johnson, pastor of Second Baptist church has been sick the last few days, but is now improving. Call on the Indian Herb Medicine Man, Dr. James P. Kerr, he cures all manner of diseases. Read his advertise ment and write for particulars. Hon. "Abe" Middleton, of Kenansville, N. C., a noted politician of that State, is in the city the guest of Mr. J. N. McDuffie, 426 I street, n. w. There was no session of school at the Banneker building Monday owing to the unimproved sanitary condition. Where is Health Officer Woodard? Health for 10 cents. Cascarets make the bowels and kidneys act naturally, destroys microbes, cure headaches, billiousness and constipation. Mr. H. A. Kelsey, formerly of the A. M. E. Zion Publication House, Charlotte, N. C., is "holding down the case" at the Government Printing Office. Mr. Chales H. Wilson, who has recently returned from Bordentown, N. J is taking special studies at Howard University, prior to a pharmaceutical course. A grand party and entertainment will be given at the residence of Miss Bessie Campbell, 56 Defrees street, n. w., March 29th, for the benefit of Galbraith A. M. E. Z. church. Mr. J. Madison Jackson the "prime favorite" at Messrs. Gaskins and Gaines is winning new laurels for the gilt-edged service he is putting up at that enterprising hostelry. Look out for the Grand Star Concert at Berean Baptist Church, Tuesday, March 27th. A rich and rare program will greet all who may take advantage of the opportunity. Rev. Rivers pastor of the Berean Baptist church preached a most eloquent and touching sermon at 11 a.m. last Sunday. He took for his text "The Mark of the Beast." Many favorable comments have been made on it. Dr. J. W. Smith, editor of the Star of Zion, Charlotte, N. C., and candidate for Bishop of the A. M. E. Zion Church, passed through the city last week, having been to Carlisle, Pa., to attend the funeral of his father in-law. He was the guest of Revs. Snowden and Cuyler while here. The Calumet Pleasure Club will give an entertainment Friday evening March 30th at Sojourners Truth Home, 2007 Vermont Avenue, n. w., Dancing will be indulged in and a good time is expected by those who will attend. Funds for the Sojourner Truths Home. Messrs. Edward C. Allen, Fred. Booker, J. W. Brooks and James Edwards left last night for New York where they will witness the pugilistic bout between Joe Gans and Frenk Erner at the Athletic Club on Broadway. Mr. Allen loses none of his popularity as "front" at Moore and Prioleaus popular cafe. The Pen and Pencil Club gave a stag ih honor of Editor T. Thomas Fortune Saturday evening, March 10th. A large attendance of the members were present, and the occasion was brightened by sallies of wit and mirth Mr. Fortune has host of friends here who de light to honor him when he comes to Washington. Has J. Harry Ward spoken to you as yet concerning your spring suit and overcoat? If not he will soon, as he is out as the representative of A. H. Cooper, the merchant tailor, 493 Mo. Ave, opposite the Pennsylvania depot and is taking orders for some of the nobbiest and most stylish suits that will be worn this spring. It will pay you to inspect his immense stock whether you intend ordering or not. Mr. Andrew F. Hilyer, one of the race's best posted statisticians, has accepted an invitation to address the Second Baptist Lyceum. He will speak on the third Sunday in April, the 15th, on "Gleanings From a Recent Trip Through the South." Mr. Hilyer has been traveling over this section in the interest of the Paris Exposition, and being an unusually close observer, has gathered a rich store of information which the people of Washington will be glad to hear. Mrs. Hyman's Confectionery and Ice Cream Parlor. The best goods only, and elegant serv vice. We welcome you at, 1618 7th Street, Northwest. WANTED. 000 Enterprising, Young Colored Men. 000 000 In every town in the United States to start Factories and other establishments. Must have little schooling, and plenty of good common sense. We teach you and furnish supplies. Don't delay. Apply now. Just one person appointed for a locality. This advertisement appears only while vacancies exist. Enclose a two cent stamp for particulars. The Merthantile Syndicate. 3717 Dirr Street, Cincinnati, Ohoi. Tobacco, Pipes, Cigarettes. J. W. BARKLEY, Prop., ...CAPITOL HILL... POOL PARLOR, -Finest equipped billiard room in the city.— Everything Strictly First Class. 639 Pennsylvania Avenue, S. E., Billiards Pool, Fine Cigars. CHRISTOPHER ENG 60. RICHMOND, VA. RECOGNIZING THE FACT that there are many so-called hair growers and straight rivers now being offered on the market, and knowing to a certainty that most of these are frauds pure and simple. We wish to make a straight forward statement to the colored people of America, through its paper, THE COL ORED AMERICAN. In the year of 1871 our present Secretary through a fortunate circumstance acquired the receipt for OZONO. It was not offered for sale or pushed to any extent until 1875 whe it was put upon the market, and met with marked success. After a thorough test by the leading colored people of that time, it was pronounced an honest, legitimate remedy. True to all we claimed for it and worthy in every respect of the confidence and attention of every member of the colored race. Because they found it to cause the hair to GROW LONG AND STRIGHT soft and fine and as beautiful as an April morning. It also cures all arms of itching humiliating scalp diseases, stops the hair from falling out, and causes a new growth to grow on the baldest head. Now, when ever a gern u n eri- cle appears the market. Of course the colored people had no way tell that they were being fooled and bought most of them to their sorrow. Now we ask you a plain question: Would we absolutely agree to refund you your money provided you are not satisfied with the preparations we manufacture if our goods were not true to all we claim for them. Ozono will positively take kinks out of knotty, Kinky, Curley, Refractory Hair. It will make short, harsh hair, long and straight. It will care cure your head of all itching, worrying, running scalp diseases, Eezema, Pimples Dandruff Itch, etc. It will stop your hair from falling out and keep it from falling out. It will restore gray hair to its natural color, making the hair Long and Soft, Fine and Silky and beautiful as an April mording. 10,000 people are to-day using Ozono and not one complaint. We have thousands of testo- nials. We've not space to publish Rev. B, Hertz an eminent Colored Divine of the Church writes: I have found your Ozono to prove satisfactory in every particular. Kate W. Page. Blacksburg writes: Your preparation has proven true to all you claim for it. The Price of OZONO is 50 cents a box. It takes from three to four boxes to accomplish the treatment. We make this liberal offer for a limited time only. Cut out this coupon and send it to us with $1.00 and we will forward to you 4 boxes of Ozono and one bottle of Electric Skin Refiner which makes black skin bright, rough skin soft and cures all skin diseases. We will also include one fancy jar of our Electrical Skin Ford—natures great beautifier removes wrinkles, Moth patches, freckles and all facial blemishes and to prove our liberality we will add to this one Package of Anti Oder. A protective cure for Sore Throat. all forms Womb Diseases, Chilblains, Sore and Frosted Feet, also Removes all Smells and Odors arising from the human body such as Feet, Arm Pits, Etc. Cut out and mail this Coupon to us with One Dollar and get this grand Combination Offer, as this opportunity will not occur again. BEFORE. AFTER. I enclose you $1.00 (One Dollar) for which send me the following goods at once; 4- [FOUR] Large Boxes "Ozono" Hair Grower and Hair Straightener. 1- [ONE] Large Bottle Electrical Skin Refiner. 1- [ONE] Large Jar Electrical Skin Food. 1- [ONE] Lage Package Anti-Odor. The Best and most experienced, the one to Diseases & Excuses. Prof. G. F. THEEL, M. D., 604 North Sixth St., Philadelphia, Pa., gives a Guarantee in every case. Varicocele & Structure (no cutting). Lost Vigor & Health restored. Parts enlarged. Hours: 9:3, evgs 6-9. Sun. 9-12. Hours for long standing and dangerous cases daily 10:30 to 2:30. Fresh cases cured 4 to 10 days. Send for Sworn testimonials and Book. All friends exposed. Cora E. Dorsey and Christine Dorsey Typewriting, Copying and Stenographic work satisfactorily performed at reasonable rates by the Misses Dorsey, Room 8, Le Droit Building Corner 8th and F street northwest.