The Colored American

The COLORED American NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER Library of Congress Prof Booker T. Washington # UNITED COLORED DEMOCRACY. How the Famous Adjunct to New York's Tamnany Organization was Conceived and Made Strong—Chief Edward E. Lee a Born Leader of Men. New York, N. Y., Special-When Richard Croker installed Edward E. Lee as "the Black Croker" with powers among the colored voters, equal to his own among the white voters of Tamnany Hall, and recognized Lee's United Colored Democracy J. of all the boroughs of the greater city of New York, as adjunct to Tammany Hall, it struck republicans generally with dismay and dazed thousands of democrats. Many of the politically wise ones of all parties shook their heads with negative nods, as if in doubt as to the wisdom of so radical a move. But Mr. Croker saw things differently and assumed entire responsibility for his action. How well the whole thing has worked will show by a glance at the following figures: There are in Borough of Manhattan alone, about nine thousand colored voters, ninety-seven per cent of whom voted the republican ticket from the day the Fifteenth Amendment went into effect, up to 1897. In the campaign of that year, Mr. Croker put Edward E. Lee in charge of the colored voters, telling him if he made a good showing that he, Croker, would recognize and treat the colored democrats just as he did the white voters of that party, according to the number of votes cast by them. And Lee went to work, organized the United Colored Democracy, with headquarters at 152 West 53rd street. Through this organization Robert A. Van Wyck for mayor, received about fifty-two per cent of the nine thousand of colored voters in the Borough of Manhattan. In 1898 Augustus Van Wyck for governor, through this same organization, under Mr. Croker's guidance and Lee's leadership, received sixty-five per cent of these voters. At the election of 1899, seventy-one per cent was cast for the democratic ticket, and in an off year at that. And still the organization is growing, for in every instance Mr. Croker has kept his word with his black leader, Edward E. Lee, and Lee has in all cases fulfilled his promise to Croker. Thus confidence has been fully established on both sides. That the United Colored Democracy has done good work, speaks for itself; for it controlled at the last general election, in spite of McCullough's manipulation and garbling of the returns, three thousand, one hundred and sixty-two bona fide declared colored democratic voters, eligible to vote at the next democratic primary election. That the United Colored Democracy has come to stay, cannot be doubted after a glance at the character and caliber of men just elected officers of the organization. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. Edward E. Lee, chief of the United Colored Democracy of all the boroughs of the Greater City of New York, was born in Virginia about forty-two years ago, amid environments that would have been fatal to any man of less indomitable will. His very build is in harmony with the Herculean task set him by Mr. Croker of moulding and controlling a colored democratic organization. Mr. Lee stands about six feet, two inches in his socks, and weighs two hundred and ten pounds. He is of large physique, has a large brain, a big ears, and an iron will. Lee is a born leader of men. His followers regard his word as sacred. In a word there is nothing small about Leader Lee but his purse, and that will never be larger. He is ever seeking something for his constituents, but for himself, nothing; and in this lies the secret of his success as an organizer of his people. In leaving the republican party and going into the democratic party, Mr. Lee took nearly one thousand colored republicans with him to organize his United Colored Democracy. He has been extremely fortunate in surrounding himself with young, trustworthy and influential men of his race. He is responsible for the presence in the democratic party of such independent and brainy young men as Ralph E Langston, leader of the colored democrats of the twenty-fifth assembly district, and who has just been elected president of the United Colored Democracy of all the boroughs of the Greater City of New York. Leader Langston is the second son of the late John Mercer Langston. Mr. Langston senior, was born in Virginia and was educated in Oberlin College, Ohio. He was a man of letters and refinement. He was an able lawyer and A. RALPH E. LANGSTON. was said to be one of the strongest at the bars of Washington, D. C. and Virginia. He was minister to Hayti for eight years under Grant and Hayes respectively. Also represented the 4th Congressional district of Virginia in the House of Representatives for two terms He was an uncompromising republican, as was also his son Ralph, until Lee took him into the United Colored Democracy. Mr. R, R. Langston has lived in the twenty fifth assembly district about fifteen years. He was a republican leader and worker up to 1897. His home is in the eighth election district of the twenty-fifth assembly district, where there were registered in the campaign of 1899, ninety-three colored voters, and out of that number sixty-four voted the democratic ticket, owing to Langston's popularity among them. On Monday March 5th, he was elected president of the United Colored Democracy without a dissenting voice and carried the entire ticket through with him His advent into the democratic party has greatly helped to cut the usual republican majority of three thousand to six hundred and sixty-seven at the fall election in the twenty-fifth, or the Tenderloin district. Langston took into the democratic party with him his bosom friend, Augustus Murray, a life long, rock-ribbed republican. Murray, white living in New York, is a railroad man, running between New York and Boston. Being in New York one day and in Boston the next, he has organized in Boston a democratic club of two eundred strong. John C. Johnson, chairman of the executive committee of the United Colored Democracy, was born in New York City in 1858, is a bright young man and popular wish the young element of the colored race, also an able executive officer, easy and graceful in manner and works in harmony with Chief Lee and President Langston. William Russell Johnson, leader of the United Colored Democracy for the Borough of King's, was born in New York City forty-two years ago. He is not only leader of the United Colored Democracy for the Borough, but is one A. H. WILLIAM RUSSEL JOHNSON. of Chief Lee's most respected and trusted lieutenants. Mr. Johnson was one of the founders of the Alfred C. Chapin Club, the first recognized Negro democratic club in the city of Brooklyn, was assistant steward of the Constitutional Club of Brooklyn of which Boss McLaughlin was an honorary member. Mr. Johnson was president of the society of the Sons of New York, a social order, for two terms. This is the largest organization of its kind in the United States. He was also a member of the Board of Vestry, St. Augustine P. E. church. Mr. Johnson is a splendid conversationalist, and is well versed in all current events, social and political. Being a man of brilliant ideas and fluency of speech, makes him an ideal leader among his people. This fact no one better understands or more thoroughly appreciates than Chief Lee. Mr. Madison S. Jones is a native of the District of Columbia, and one of Mr. Lee's strongest supporters, and holds one of the most important positions in the United Colored Democracy of Greater New York. When Mr. Lee first decided to accept the position of chief of the United Colored Democracy his first official act was the selection of Mr. Jones as his private secretary. Mr. Jones proved to be an indispensable aid to the organization and shortly after he was made private secretary to the Chief, he was unanimously chosen as official stenographer of the organization. He is liked by all who knew him. He is a gentleman, and comes from one of the oldest and most highly respected families in Washington. His father was one of the first trustees of the colored schools of the District of Columbia and today there is a school in that city that bears his name. Mr. Jones well deserves the honor conferred upon him. He came to this city in the summer of 1892 and immediately began to try to do something with short hand. He was here sometime before he succeeded, but being a young man with push, pluck and ambition he finally landed, and today holds a position in the District Attorney's office of the city and county of New York that no other colored man has ever held in the history of the office. Thus the United Colored Democracy goes into the campaign of 1800, well armed and equipped to produce results creditable to the organization and beneficial to the colored race. FACT AND FANCY. Lieut. Toomey has been dubbed the poet laureate of the Second Baptist Lyceum. H. Eugene Wilson is preparing to issue a volume of his poetical effusions for distribution among his personal friends. Senator Mason is swinging merrily around the colored circuit, scattering sunshine and excoviating "canned liberty" as impure food. The District Commissioner's name is Macfarland. Get onto the spelling and style, fellow craftsmen, before writing any more about him. While the Mystic Shriners were disporting themselves this week in festa array, and the town was giving them the "glad hand"—the Negro looked on. Dooker T. Washington has a strong champion, oratorically and mentally, in the person of Mr. John T. Haskins, foreman of The Colored American com- posing room. Lieut. R. E. Gaither is the tallest employee in the Census Bureau and Mr. Samuel H Bond is the shortest—and it is a remarkable coincidence that both extremes are colored. There is scarcely a government employee in town who doesn't have a special work outside of his departmental duties—law, medicine, preaching, newspaper, music, organization, private instruction, or political manipulation. It means the expenditure of a lot of energy, but it keeps a fellow's faculties on keen edge, and the stray dollars materially augment the nectoo-liberal salaries received. There are a lot of "brave" people in Washington and the North who are continually "spouting" about what the colored leaders in the South should do, and what they should not do, etc. These men in the southland have acquired land, are growing crops, and many are in business. They are, for the most part, at peace with their white neighbors, and have no sympathy with the idle, shiftless class of their own race who hang around bar rooms, commit larcenies and other crimes which make statistics that give plausibility to the criticisms of the Charles Dudley Warners and the editors of such journals as The Atlanta Constitution. The men who live in the South know what is best, and don't need the gratuitous advice of the smart people who never give a penny to help, and who keep their carcasses in safety on this side of the Potomac. The Delmo Koonce cafe is the finest this side of New York City. THE SPIRITUAL SIDE OF LIFE Is Given a Dcided Business Tingo by the Deliberations of the Great A. M E Conference at Columbus. Bishop Lee's Masterly Presentation of the Church's Progress. Columbus, O, Special.—The great gathering of representatives of the African Methodist Episcopal church in quadrennial session in Columbus has attracted attention all over the country and its utterances are being quoted and near. Paramount of these was the resolution of sympathy with England in her conflict in South. Sunday one of the most scholarly and masterful addresses ever made, was pronounced by Bishop Benjamin F. Lee. This address is calculated to be of immense benefit to the race, in its eloquent, lucid and powerful exposition of the church represented by the speaker and of the general advancement of the colored people. As an end-of-the-century resume of the rescue of our people from the shackles of slavery, their recognition as human beings instead of chattels, their elevation to the plane of enfranchised citizens and their great stides upward and forward, Bishop Lee's address is well worthy of perusal and generous praise. Bishops were elected May 16. Over five hundred delegates are present, and fully 2000 visitors from all parts of the country, South Carolina and Kentucky. Booker T. Washington was expected to address the conference but pressure of other engagements made it impossible for him to be present this week. He comes later. Rev. M. M. Moore presented his quadrennial report as financial secretary. This was the best report ever presented to the general conference and was received with great applause. The total dollar money collection for the quadrennial was $403,407.62 The sentiment of the majority of delegates is decidedly in favor of the British in their conflict with the Boers, and Bishop Derrick's masterly pro British resolutions were enthusiastically adopted at a largely attended mass meeting. The Church as a body, however, decided that it was expedient to remain neutral, and make no definite statement. When the intelligent reader stops to reflect that it was only a third of a century ago that the colored race was in abject slavery, its progress, even though its present condition may not fulfill the highest ambition, shines forth as one of the wonderful transformations of this marvelous century, and with the impetus already received they may expect much in the future. Rev. H. T. Johnson, editor of the Christian Recorder, in his report said that the past four years had been a period of nervousness, official aspiration and journalistic activity without a parallel in the history of the church. He commended that the paper be placed under control of a managing editor. The feeling is that such editor should be a layman, to avoid repetition of the conditions complained of by Dr, Johnson. The report of Rev. T. W. Henderson, business manager of the publication department, made a splendid showing. He referred enthusiastically to the fact that the circulation of the Christian Recorder had doubled in the past four years. In the job department of the publishing house in Philadelphia many colored girls and boys are learning the printing trade. The grand total receipts THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. for the four years were $6784679 The debt of the department is $11263,a decrease of $5,000 in four years. Manager Henderson recommended that he be compiled to do a strictly cash buiness. With all its benefits, however, B shop Lee finds that the condition of the Afro American race is not altogether satisfying, although it has made great strides from bondage and contributes to the intelligence, wealth and virtue of the nation. In certain states there is discrimination, particularly in traveling conveniences, and the remedy for this is suggested in the appointment of a commission for the next four years which shall present remonstrances to state legislatures, petitions to railroad bodies and conventions and keep up an agitation in the different communities. The growth and prosperity of the A. M. E church as set forth by Bishop Lee, is a picture of which the colored race may well feel proud—expanding, as he expresses it, from a blacksmith shop, in 1787, to 5,095 church edifices; from 42 communicant members to 663, 706 and a total number of adherents of 1,659,765; from two ministers to 5,439 The church has nine bishops and more than ten million dollars' worth of church property. It has twenty colleges, 165 teachers and 5,257 pupils. The last four years, it is pointed out, have produced more churches, educated more people and wrought a greater number of conversions than any preceding quadrennium Three or four southern delegates were on a car last evening, and fell to discussing the conditions of the Afro American in the north as compared with his condition in the south. They all agreed with one scholarly-looking man, who said: "The colored man up here can ride on street cars, railroad cars, attend theaters, etc., without discrimination, but when that is said all is said. There is nothing for a colored man to work at up here except in a few isolated cases, but to carry the hod and do porter work. Down south we can work at any and all trades. We build the cars and, in fact, all trades are open to us. Up north all trades are closed to the Negro. Give me the sunny south after all. We encounter more discrimination in the way of public conveyances, theaters, etc., but we are not restricted in the world of industry. Really, I look upon the condition of our people up here as being far worse than in th south. The only freedom up here is freedom to spend their money, but not freedom to make money. Dr. Bryant's Sermons. Rev. George Wellington Bryant presented two unusually able and eloquent sermons last Sunday at the Second Baptist church. In the morning, he was at his best, and delivered as fine a discourse or "Character Building" as has ever been heard in a Washington pulpit, Talmage not excepted. At night he held a large audience spellbound by his famous dessertation on "The Mighty Eaters—Fire, Water, Sun and Death." Dr. Bryant has a strong, resonant voice, a magnificent physique, and an attractive address. For his literary matter he draws upon an apparently inexhaustible fund of history, ancient and modern, theological data, science, philosophy, and personal experience, garbed in the richest diction, the most glowing rhetoric and the most vivid word painting. Washington is to see more of Dr. Bryaut, as he is to fill the pulpit at Second Baptist church during the coming absence of Rev. W. Bishop Johnson, the pastor. THE BOWTIE MR. THOMAS C. COLE. Proprietor and Manager of the Manhattan Inn, 17 North Michigan Avenue Atlantic City, New Jersey. Comic Opera Company. The performance of the "Pirates of Penzance" by the "Dvorak Musical Society" at the Academy of Music, Friday evening, June 1. will be somewhat of an event in that the cast, principals and chorus, will be composed of colored people. It will be their first attempt to produce an opera in this city. Prof. J. Henry Lewis, the director, has been teaching vocal music here for several years. He is the organizer J. and director of the "Amphion Glee Club" which will soon celebrate the tenth year of its existence, and which has appeared before the President of the United States, members of the Cabinet, and people prominent in social and official life. Prof. Lewis is also the director of the Asbury church choir. He is identified with other musical enterprises, and is very earnest in his work. He has selected fifty of the best ameteur voices for the "Pirates of Penzance," and has succeeded in securing a very capable company. The stage will be in charge of one of the best local managers; the costumes will be furnished by a first class theatrical outfitter, and the music by a selected orchestra. The idea is to encourage patronage for the advanced class of music by the colored people, and Prof. Lewis is fitted by his education and musical ability to foster such a move among his race. The entertainment will evidence the culture along lines delineating the advancement of the best element of Afro-Americans. I buy all my cream and water ices from the popular Delmo Koonce Cafe. Health for 10 cents. Cascarets make the bowels and kidneys act naturally, destroy microbes, cure headaches, biliousness and constipation. A Former Teacher Banqueted. Mrs. Anna Bailey Casey of Newark, N. J., former principal of Ambush School of this city, is here, the guest of the Misses Saunders 812 3rd st., southwest. As a testimonial of the high esteem in which Mrs Cosey is held the teachers of the Ambush tendered her a luncheon on Tuesday May 15, between twelve and one o'clock. The table was elegantly set up in silver and cut glass, and the floral decorations were most elaborate. The menu consisted of salads, creams, ices, chocolate and fruits. Miss Rebecca J. Baldin, the principal of the building, welcomed Mis. Cosey in a few well chosen remarks, and introduced her to the new teachers. The Supervising Principal Mr. E. W. Brown was present and every one seemed delighted to have in their midst a lady who has done so much to elevate the tone of that school section. After the lunch on Mrs. Cosey was presented with a handsome bouquet of American Beauty roses, and red carnations. Miss Baldwin making the presentation. The teachers of Ambush consist of the following ladies and gentlemen: Principal; Miss R. J. Baldwin, Misses A. V. Saunders, A. V. Smith, J. M. Taylor, S. E Jackson, L. S. Lacey, A. T. Brown, E. T Madden, M. A. Smith and Messrs. U. G Black and Clarence Wormley. We, the family of Isaiah C. Wears, desire to express our sincerest thanks to each and every one of the many friends who have sent us, by letter and telegram, messages of condolence and sympathy in our bereavement. These tender and thoughtful messages have been a source of consolation to us in our sorrow, and we are truly grateful for them. Mesdames M. F. Wears, M. L. Dorsey, A. J. Johnson and A. F. Calloway, 955 North Sixth street, Philadelphia, Pa. May, 1900. The operetta, "Lost in the Woods," will be given by the pupils of the Metropolitan Baptist Sunday School, at the chu on R street, bet. 12th and 13th streets, northwest, on Wednesday evening, May 30, 1900. Among the attractive features, there will be a May Pole Winding by twenty boys and girls and a Chinese lantern drill by 19 girls. Admission 15 cents, children 10 cents. Boys if you want to get a run for your money just stop by the Deimo Koonce cafe. NOTICE AMCEMS FITZGEMALD'S ACQUISITION FITZGEMALD JOKE ENG CO. The Fitzgerald Auditorium. Buffet and Cafe at 30-32 Kentucky Ave., Atlantic City, New Jersey. THE CITY BY THE SEA. landlords do not make much from ed A Fen Picture of Atlantic City as Seen by a Scribe of the Races Leading Journal. Atlantic City, N.J., Special—I was in Atlantic City two days this week, and for the size and character of the city it beats anything I ever saw. While the season proper is not yet open, yet for life and activity it contains more, than any city in the United States of its size. I find many things here to amuse and interest me. It is a "city of hotels;" it's a city whose aim in life seems to be to entertain people who visit and to get all they can out of those J. MR GEORGE H. HARRIS who are lucky enough to come here. There are hotels, cottages, boarding houses, restaurants and bar rooms to burn, so to speak. The whole vocabulary of names seems to be exhausted. The names run from "Liberty Bell" to "Kekemo" and to "Yaller Cat." The manager of the Pullman Palace Car Company might do well to visit the city to enrich himself on names to apply to the new palace cars that are being turned out from day to day at Pullman, Ill. There are plenty of colored people here and there is plenty of prejudice here. There is but one colored cottage on Atlantic avenue, the main thoroughfare and there is none on the great five mile board walk. One was there last year, the Grand Pacific, but it had to succumb. Colored saloon keepers cannot get license to do business on Atlantic avenue, but unlike most cities the colored population lives in the northern part of the city. This, however, may be due to the fact that the high water, when it is high, backs up in this part of the city and makes it damp and uncomfortable for the inhabitants. More than ten thousand colored people are employed in this city during the busy season which lasts about four months, June, July, August and September. They make good wages during the busy season and painful. The season over, THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. landlords do not make much from collecting rent but negotiate for rents to tide over the next season. There are between 4,000 and 5,000 colored people who live in this little town year in and year out and many of them are in business, owning good property and making money. It was my pleasure in connection with W. R. Brooks, the representative of The Colored American in Atlantic City and the talented son of Rev. Walter H Brooks, pastor of the 19th Street Baptist church in Washington, D. C., to visit many of the leading places of business owned and operated by colored men. One of the largest and most successful places is the Auditorium Cafe, and buffet conducted by Mr. B. G. Fitzgerald at 80 and 88 North Kentucky avenue. This property is a four story building owned entirely by Mr. Fitzgerald, containing on the one side a first-class cafe with a complete outfit for the culinary department, ice boxes, eto, a soda fountain with polite lady clerks, with an auditorium up stairs capable of seating one thousand, with arrangements for stage, for orchestra and most excellent acoustic properties. It is used largely for public gatherings, but mainly for dinners, seceptions, balls and parties. On the ground floor of the other side of the building is a bar extending back to the pool room, consisting of eight elegantly upholstered pool tables and equipped in the most up to date style. Mr. Fitzgerald does a business of over $20,000 a year and the picture which is herewith given gives but a faint idea of the magnitude of his business and of the elegance of its equipment Down at 1189 Atlantic avenue is the Harris Hotel, owned and operated by Mr. George H. Harris. While the place is known as a hotel it is really a hall large enough to entertain conventions, concerts and theatrical entertainments and is divided up into many departments. Mr. Harris is one of the most successful Afro-Americans in the city and is said to do the biggest business of any colored man in Atlantic City. In my visit to his place I found an elegant dining and lunch room, private dining rooms and while the season was not on, the place seemed to be doing a thriving business. Mr. Harris is so philanthropic that even in his dull season he gives a bountiful free lunch once a day to his patrons who are not required to buy the "regular glass" of beer. The lunch is wholesome and edible. Mr. Harrie is also a political leader of great force and is the head of the McKinley Club which will visit Philadelphia June. He is a young man and a native of the South The Henderson Hotel, operated by Mr. Thomas C. Murray, formerly of Washington, is one of the largest and most complete hotels in Atlantic City opened to colored people. It contains thirty two rooms. Its apartments are of the very best and it is owned and operated by that veteran boni face Mr. Thomas C. Murray. I am stopping at this hotel while here and I am afraid that if I should remain too long I would —Some Matting—a Refrigerator or Ice Chest—perhaps a Baby Carriage. Get whatever you need HERE. You know we are in no hurry for the money. What you can spare—as well as not—weekly or monthly—will be a great plenty for us. We tack all matting down free—and there is no waste to pay for. We charge only for the actual number of yards as you see it tacked on your floor. Our Refrigerators are Reliable, warranted to Give Complete Satisfaction. All sizes and prices. Furniture here for any room in your house—all on Credit. Groga 317-819-821-823 Seventh Street N W. Between H and I Streets. REBUILDING 10 Per Cent off Rich Cut Glass, Gold Decorated Glass, Glassware, Silverware, Cutlery, Bric-a-Brac, Lamps, Globes, &c, with the single exception of the frigerators. Just think what an opportunity Home, and especially to buy thor erator, Ice Chest, and Ice Cream from regular prices. DULIN & M Just think what an opportunity this affords to furnish your Home, and especially to buy those summer necessities—a Refrigerator, Ice Chest, and Ice Cream Freezer—at this big reduction from regular prices. DULIN & MARTIN, CO. SUCCESSORS TO M. W. BEVERIDGE. 1215 F Street and 1214 G Street. have the gout. The Henderson is at 120 North Mississippi avenue, but two squares from the depot and in a quiet and very prominent part of the city. You can hear the roar and see the waves of the ocean from this popular house. The Debity Cottage, located at 31 North Ohio avenue, and conducted by Mrs. J. F. Debity for many years, is another first class cottage and one which should receive a large share of the patronage from the Washington public. It has large airy rooms, all modern improvements and is spick-span clean. The Manhattan Inn is one of the centers of attraction in the city and is owned and run by a most popular and enterprising young man, Mr. Thomas Cole. Mr. Cole is a Buckeye by birth but left his home in Hamilton county Ohio, when a mere youth. He followed the race horses, made a reputation as a pugilist and all round sport and a few years ago settled in Atlantic City and opened the Manhattan Inn. All young men of Washington who chance to visit Atlantic City but who do not call at the Manhattan Inn will miss a good chance. I am under personal obligations to Mr. Cole for the many courtesies shown me while here. The portrait printed in another part of this paper hardly does Mr. Cole justice. He --- MAMMOTH CREDIT HOUSE. DULIN & MARTIN CO. NG SALE. FOR CASH ON Everything in the House. China, Dinner Sets, Toilet Sets, Refrigerators, Ice Chests, Ice Cream Freezers, Kitchen Utensils, &c. the Monroe Porcelain-lined Reunity this affords to furnish your nose summer necessities—a Refriger Freezer-at this big reduction MARTIN, CO. is young, good looking and hospitable to a degree that is commendable. Many Washingtonians will remember Mr. J. O. Smallwood who conducts the Hub Hotel at 15 North Illinois avenue this city. This popular house reminds me very much of the Sparta Cafe in Washington conducted by Messrs. Moore and Prioleau. It is first class in all its departments and Mr. Smallwood gives personal attention to the management of the house. He has private dining rooms and a public dining room and his public service is first claim in every particular. The Colored American will be on sale at all of the hotels, cottages and news stands in Atlantic City and Washingtonians will have no trouble in getting a copy of it each week when they visit the city. Mr. Warren R. Brooks, 126 Bay street is the Atlantic City representative and will see to it that every item of news is printed and that all who want a copy of the paper may procure one. My short visit to Atlantic City makes it impossible for me to mention the many nice things that I saw if I had the time and the space. Miss Annie S. Johnson, a talented young school marm of Columbus, Ohio and who has devoted special attention to kindergarten work, is in the city. She is a guest of Hon. John P.; Green and will be assigned to kindergarten work at an early date in the District through the kindly influences of Sirn. Daniel Murray. FOUND AT LAST The Magnetic Comb. BEFORE USING. Hair Disease Germ Under Microscope. AFTER USING POSITIVELY and permanently straightens Knotty, Knappy, Kinky hair. Electricity is life. This Comb in connection with Electrical Hair Restorative, the great hair grower. Causes the hair to grow long and straight. This great Electrical invention, by its marvelous magnetic powers give new life to the hair, causing the hair to grow long and straight. The effect is seen at once. The hair commences to grow straight as soon as the use of the Comb is commenced. Look at the BUG. This is a hair germ parasite. They are invisible to the naked eye, but under the rays of a powerful microscope the above picture is what they look like. Hundreds and thousands of these germs burrow at the roots of the hair, destroying the life of the hair causing, it to fall out. 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Address all orders to MAGNETIC COMB CO., Box No. 5, Station B. Richmond, Va. Our Guarantee TAKE NOTICE. There being so many evil minded skeptical persons who deory every honest article as a humbug we take the following methods of repudiating all such evil minded slanders. By absolutely guaranteeing that we will refund the money for every case of dissatisfaction. This is a reputable paper and would take no advertisement from a dishonest firm. THE NEGRO LABOR PROBLEM. Mr. W. T. Menard, expert typo in the Government Printing Office and Washington correspondent for The New York Age and Dallas Express, faced a large and appreciative audience last Sunday at the Second Baptist Lyceum, and presented an instructive and convincing paper on "The Labor Problem From a Negro's Point of View." It was full of valuable data illustrative of race progress in the industries, and predicted a bright future for the Negro when the head and hand are taught to work together and when the world is taught that Negro skill and fidelity can cope with the enterprise and ingenuity of the most favored classes. The production showed close study of of the problems at issue and that careful research had been made in the realm of history that few have the time or opportunity to examine. As a contribution to contemporaneous thought; the paper is entitled to the highest rank. The discussion was vigorous and many new facts were evolved. Those who participated were: Messrs. R. S. Smith, J. T. Haskins, Jesse Lawson, A. L. Manly, T. T. Allain, Benjamin Washington and others. Mr. Frederick Williams, an accomplished violinist from Boston, made his initial bow to a Washington audience and scored a pronounced hit, winning an enthusiastic recall for his masterly rendition of "Bacarole." To Reply to Charles Dudley Warner. Tomorrow will be "field day" at the Second Baptist Lyoeum, and will also mark the close of the season. By general request the day has been set apart to offer a reply to the unwarranted criticism of the Negro progress recently made by Charles Dudley Warner. The discussion will be opened by Dr. H. R. Klemm, of the United States Bureau of Education. Dr. Lucy M. Moten, Hone. H. P Cheatham, J. W. Lyon, P. B S Pinchback, John P. Green, George H. White, Profs. Kelly Miller, W. H Richards, L. M. Hershaw, A. H. Grimke, Mrs. J W. Pope, Miss Frances A. Riley and Miss Hattie Drew have been invited to make brief remarks on the status of the Negro in America. Special music by Miss Beatrice Jones. Mr. Benjamin Wash- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. ington, Mr. T. N. Dixon and the As sembly chorus. The exercises will pepgin promptly at 3:30 p m , and the house should be crowded at that hour. WANTED TO KNOW. Is Maryland still on the map. Where are the anti-Washingtonites. If it is to be be Vice President Rossevelt after all. Who is The New Age's vice presidential candidate. Will Commissioner Ross help us to organize a col red fire company. If Senator Mason as the new Charles Sumner isn't proving an excellent fit. Why Public Printer Palmer cannot see his way to re-instate J. C. Cunningham. When the new Negro clerks will go on duty at the Government Printing Office. If Alphonse O. Stafford would not make a splendid clerk for the new Board of Education. How would Lawson, Murray and Shadd do as the colored contingent of the Board of Education. If Col. L. M. Hershaw can be persuaded to make a third cash into the Bethel presidential arena. How many Negro clerks, collectors, staff writers or reporters do The Post carry upon its pay roll. Would The Washington Post give employment to a Negro printer, if he came around with a union card. If the race could not fare better if we had fewer churches, but stronger ones—fewer preachers, but abler ones. What is the utility of a civil service law that fails to accomplish, a single thing that its promoters claim for it. If the presidency of Bethel Literary ever went a begging before such a swift pace as was set by Prof. W. H. Richards. Is that peculiar noise that comes from Baltimore the sharpening of pencils and the rustling of paper preparatory to the issuance of another famous Watty-Cummings political pronunciation. SUMMER RESORTS. The Summer season is about here, will be lots of money spent this summer classes at resorts. The Colored American announcements of all hotels, cottages and entertain summer visitors. Send us you to spend a few weeks away from home rates will be. Our price for printing these per month. Terms in advance. Send you to spend. The Colored American will be treatment. The Summer season is about here, and the good times are also here. There will be lots of money spent this summer by the intelligent and well to do classes at resorts. The Colored American with its usual enterprise solicits the announcements of all hotels, cottages and property holders who desire to entertain summer visitors. Send us your cards and rates that those who wish to spend a few weeks away from home may know where to go and what the rates will be. Our price for printing these cards for the season is $5.00 or $2.00 per month. Terms in advance. Send your cards and the amount you desire to spend. The Colored American will be sent free during the life of your advertisement. THE MUSEUM This Hotel is situated on an elevation cent view for tea miles. At the base of wample opportunity to those fond of sailing WOODLAWN is on the Whitehorse Pike, seven miles from side daily. The service at the Hotel is str large and airy with all modern conveniences 55 feet front and is surrounded with a best For terms, address MRS. CHAS. SMITH Will open Friday, June 1, 1900. SUMMER RESORTS. ATLANTIC CITY. FITZGERALD'S This Hotel is situated on an elevation which furnishes one with a magnificent view for tea miles. At the base of which is a wide sheet of water giving ample opportunity to those fond of sailing or fishing. WOODLAWN TERRACE. is on the Whitehorse Pike, seven miles from Camden. 25 trains stop at Lawnside daily. The service at the Hotel is striotly first class. The Bed Rooms are large and airy with all modern conveniences. The Hotel is three stories high, 35 feet front and is surrounded with a beautiful lawn and wide gravel walks. For terms, address MRS. CHAS. SMITH, Snow Hill, N.J. Will open Friday, June 1, 1900. AUDITORIUM Open all the year. Suitable for conventions receptions, balls, concerts and theatrical entertainments. Choice wines, liquors and cigars. Attached the finest billiard room in the city. The Auditorium Cafe attached is strictly first class. Special attention given collation parties, weddings, receptiens, etc. B, G. Fitzgerald, proprietor, 30 and 32 North Kentucky avenue, Atlantic City, N.J. 81 N. Ohio Ave., Atlantic City, N. J. Excels any in the city. All modern im- provements. Two squares from the Reading Bailroad depot. Two squares from the beach I kindly thank my old as well as new patrons for their liberal patronage and hope for a continuance of the same. Mrs, J F. Debtio, proprietress. LIQUORS, AND CIGARS. J. C. SMALLWOOD, Proprietor. 15 N. Illinois Ave., Atlantic City, N. J. 17 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. THOMAS COLE, Proprietor. Choice wines, Liquors and Cigars. CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS HARRIS' HOTEL GEORGE H HARRIS, PROPRIETOR, 1139 Baltic Avenue, Atlantic City, N. J. Meals Served at all Hours. Madre's Park for the season. On the Eckington Street Railway. Twenty minutes ride from the city. A delightful trip, good cool water. A splendid dancing pavilion and all conveniences for picnics and private parties. Terms within the reach of all. The electric cars are now running and the park can be reached for one fare. Address M. Madre, Madre's Park, Eckington, D. C. HOIEL HENDERSON—120 N Mississippi ave., Atlantic City, N. J., two squares from Reading depot; three minutes walk to Bathing Beach. Special rates for families and permanent boarders. The hotel has been newly papered and has 39 neatly fitted up sleeping rooms. Terms moderate. European and American plan. Henderson and Murray, prop's. THE ELITE—6248. Washington street; Alexandria, Va., Ice cream, confectionery, soda water and milk shakes, all flayers. Lunches and sandwiches. Cool, exclusive, up to date. The only first class pleasure resort in the city. When in Alexandria call on us. Opens May 15th. W. F. Hammond, proprietor. THE NEW HOUSE DEBITY COTTAGE. THE HUB HOTEL CHOIQE WINES. LIQUORS. me, and the good times are also here. There summer by the intelligent and well to do clean with its usual enterprise solicits the and property holders who desire to your cards and rates that those who wish time may know where to go and what the these cards for the season is $5.00 or $2.00 all your cards and the amount you desire be sent free during the life of your adver HOTEL WOODLAWN TERRACE. Lawnside. N.J. in which furnishes one with a magnifi- which is a wide sheet of water giving ing or fishing. N TERRACE. from Camden. 25 trains stop at Lawn- triotly first class. The Bed Rooms are ences. The Hotel is three stories high, beautiful lawn and wide gravel walks. TH, Snow Hill, N.J. CATLETTS, VA.—Summer Boarders: Parties desiring first class accommodations for the summer season will find it to their advantage to spend their vacation at Catletts Faquier county, Va. Forty-eight miles from this city, there are three accommodation trains to the city per day. The house is situated about ¼ mile above the village. B ard furnished for $12.00 per month, $4.00 per week, or 75 cents per day. Healthy climate, excellent board and comfortable rooms. Apply with stamp to Mrs. Kate McGuire, Catletts, Faquier Co., Va. HOTEL SHEPHARDS HILL Open for the Season on June 1st. Beautifully situated near the Petomac River. on St. Patrick's Creek. Cool Rooms, Bathing, Boating, Fishing and Crabbing. For terms address Wm. D. Bond, Colton's Point, St. Mary's county Maryland. GEND ONE DOLLAR, cut this out and mail to us at once enclosing one dollar and we will send you a beautiful twenty one piece china tea set handsomely decorated in three color floral patterns. This set consists of 6 cups, 6 saucers, 6 plates, tea pot, sugar bowl and cream pitcher. We will not send more than one set to a person. This offer good for 30 days only, Earle, Dillman, Wheeler and Co. China, crockery, brassware and brie-a-brac, 2 and 4 Sherman street, Chicago, Ill. COLORED UNION LUNCH ROOM. Any colored lady or gentleman, tired of hard work, and having saved up $78 to $100 can buy one of the best paying businesses in Washington city. Daily sales ten to twenty dollars, and has made more cash trade than I can serve. I must sell on account of ill-health. Call or write all this week to 1908 7th Street northwest, Colored Union Room. CANDY CATHARTIC Cincareto REGULATE THE LIVE. Sixth Annual Picnic OF THE SAINT LUKE'S CHURCH, THURSDAY JUNE 21st, 1900. At Eureka Park, Hillsdale, D. C. Hoffman's Orehestra, Country Dinner, Ice Cream, Eto. Admission 25 cents. Children under 12 years, 10 cents. The Delmo Koonce cafe puts up the finest ice cream in the city. SPECIAL. THE AVERY TRADE SCHOOL. Progress of Race Built upon Enduring Foundation by this Practical Institution - Marketable Education the Demand of the Tim s No truer reason can be given for the degeneration of any race than that is its efforts are not founded upon education. Upon no bse but that of popular education can the Negro of this country hope to erect the superstruction of an enduring civilization. In accord with this great principle, the progressive and intelligent people of this country ought to take pride in one of J. PROF. JOSEPH D. MAHONEY. our noblest institutions, Avery College Trade School, which was built upon the banks of the "classic" Monongahela at Alleghany City, Pa., fully fifty years ago. This institution is conceded to be the oldest colored school of its kind in America. It had its birth in necessity, and was designed by its founders to bring the benefits of an education and a practical trade within the reach of every colored boy and girl, and to give the rising Negro a well rounded equipment in the essentials of life- intellectuality, prosperity, thrift, skill and Christian character. That end is promoted in this institution by providing young men and women with an education that is marketable, productive of self-satisfaction, and that will make them useful and appreciated citizens. Every young man and woman who complies with the conditions of admission is welcome there and made comfortable. The race demands intelligent, energetic and industrious factors in the equation of progress who can be trusted with the ship of state when its helm fails, as it must in the course of time, fall to new hands. In this school the tuition is free in all departments, and offers to the Negro youth the golden opportunity of his life. Avery College Trade School is in Allegheny City. Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, in one of the most picturesque regions of the Key tone state. Now that we have more convenient access than formally to the avenues of learning, it is of the highest importance that we let no opportunity escape that is calculated to aid us in getting practical knowledge. Learning will elevate us according to the wisdom that should go hand in hand with mental culture, and the use of which the individual puts it. Under favorable or unfavorable circumstances it is to be sought and mastered. One man is better than another only in proportion to the amount of cultivation the mind of each has received, and it is only the ignorant who can be kept down when the immortal God of reason is unfettered. A soul guided by a well ordered brain THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. will soar aloft and seek the ideal, the perfection of duty, of manners and morals—till at last its possessor stands among his fellows, noble and erect Avery College stands ready to give every boy and girl a practical trade, who wishes to acquire one. Here you learn the whole trade, not merely a part of one. The workman who leaves the above school is prepared to compete in the open field with the most experienced artisan. The trades taught here are, carpentry, cabinet making, bricklaying, plastering, painting and interior decorations, tailoring for gentlemen and ladies, millinery, dress making, music and pianoforte—all have places in the curriculum. The instruction is given in such a manner as not only to enable the student to do his or her own home work, but the chief aim is to impart such thorough knowledge of the various callings as to supply a profession for life, and to afford a comfort able livelihood. In all departments the most thorough and careful training is given, with a view to securing the utmost proficiency on the part of the student, as well as to demonstrate the high degree of efficiency of the faculty. The English branches and mathematics are not neglected, as mind culture is necessary to give finish to hand culture, and to protect the workman in the matter of contracts, and ability to make correct estimates. Full and practical instruction in the English grade is given by educated and competent teachers. They are members of our own race and, we are proud to say, equal to the test. The text books used are the same as those in use in the public school of the city of Pittsburg, and graduates are admitted to the city high school. The course of instruction is so broad and practical that the student cannot fail to find some occupation for which his taste and talents are especially fitted. The time of the student is about equally divided between the class room and the industrial department. The English instruction which is carried on throughout the entire course is complete and comprehensive. The school has a magnificent library containing 1,500 volumes of choice and well selected books. This is a great aid to the work of the departments and the pupils have also the use of the reading room, which is well supplied with the best foreign and domestic periodicals relating to art, science and literature. It is the aim of the trustees and faculty to bring the facilities for improvement, which are so liberally provided, within the reach of the largest possible number, both sexes coming in on equal footing. Free students are recommended to enter regularly one of the departments or courses, but the same liberal opportunities are provided for those taking special or elective courses. Regular attendance and strict attention to studies and training under taking are required of all students, and none are allowed to continue who do not make good use of the exceptional opportunities offered. The rapid growth of the institution has rendered necessary the addition of a new annex or dormitory, which is now completed. It is heated through out by hot water, lighted by its own electric plant, and elegantly furnished. The officers of the school are as follows: George G. Turley, M. D., president; Wm. Manley, vice president; Joseph D. Mahoney, secretary and treasurer. Executive committee: Dr. Turley, chairman; Samuel Rosemond and Joseph D. Mahoney. Finance committee: Dr. G. M. Shillito, Robert Jackson and Joseph D. Mahoney. The executive officer is Mr. Joseph D. Mahoney, a young man exceptionally fitted by nature, education and experience for the arduous duties that fall to him. He has given the best years of his life to this work, and is of course gratified over the splendid results that have been achieved and the glowing promise held out by the future. That Mr. Mahoney's efforts are highly ap preciated is testified to by the many complimentary sentiments expressed by all who visit the institution, and by strong letters from former students AT THE TOP! A. H. 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SWANSON RHEUMATIC CURE CO., 160-164 E. LAKE ST., CHICAGO. THIRD ANNUAL SEASON FOR STEAMER RIVER QUEEN. THE STEAMER RIVER QUEEN AND NOTLEY HALL FOR THE SEASON OF 1900 I wish to call your attention to the swift and commodious steamer River Queen, with electric lights and all modern improvements, which has just undergone a through overhauling at a cost of $5,000, and is licensed by the U. S. Inspector to carry 1,000 passengers. RIVER QUEEN With its Large Dancing Pavilion, and other Attractions, has been Improved by an ELECTRIC PLANT to Light up the Grounds and other improvements and attractions will be added so as to make Notley Hall one of The Best Excursion Resorts on the Potomac River! FOR PARTICULAR APPLY TO Books are nowopen for Charters. There are always choice dates to be had by applying early. L. J. Woollen, GENERAL MANAGER, --- --- 5 DROPS [TRADE MARK.] who are successfully making their way by reason of his painstaking drill and salutary discipline. 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Bruce Grit's Snappy Report of a Speech, Which, if Uttered by the Great Southerner, Would Have Awakened the Dormant Conscience of the Nation. Albany, N. Y., Special—The Alabama conference "have come and went" and I reckon the earth will continue to revolve on its own axis as usual. There was only one speech made before that body of the assembled wisdom of the South that deserves to be noticed or characterized as statesmanlike and able—that speech was made by Gov MacCorkle of West Virginia Ex Secretary of the Navy, Hilary A. Herbert's speech on the opening of the conference, as a literary effort, makes mighty fine reading, but it is woefully lacking in logic and sound reasoning. Bourke Cockran's promised deliverance in opposition to the XVth Amendment won't stand fire. The New York Sun has already knocked it all to pieces editorially, and in the language of diplomacy has characterised this brilliant, but misguided Irishman as an ass. "If you see it in the Sun its so." There's a humorous side to this conference and the more I study it, the more I smile as I think of the mental gymnastics of the stalid and solemn white men there assembled, to "do," the Negro, whom their fathers made all that he is not, in their virtuous and holy eyes, I smile at the inconsistency and the jackassical persistency of these consolence stricken white men of the South in measuring the Negro by the same standards they would measure men who have always been free and always had opportunities for mental and moral growth and development. I smile when I remember what Tacitus wrote about the ignorance, stupidity and barbarous manners of the ancestors of these white men of the South and North, whom it took centuries to civilize and refine and make respectable, and who now hold up their hands in holy horror because the Negro with only 35 years of opportunity isn't a paragon of wisdom, virtue or knowledge. This Negro, the product of their civilization and christianity after 950 years tutelage in their school of ethics and morals is now being judged by the sons of the men who ate sour grapes, and put their children's teeth on edge. These orators of the South in discussing the problem, haven't touched the problem once. They haven't dared to touch it. They have been talking at it, over it, around it and under it, but none of them have hit the bull's eye, (and there are some pretty good marks men down South, too.) Why didn't Herbert say in so many words: "We of the South are the residuary legatees of a century of dishonor, the work of our fathers in depriving the Negro race of an equal chance in life. Our fathers spoiled their women, and broke the spirit of their men, and our blood is mingled with theirs. They are flesh of our flesh, bone of our bone. We have wronged them and we are still wronging them, in refusing to treat them fairly, to give them equal chance in life and to help them rise and to live down the infamy bequeathed to them by our forbears. We are all aware that some of the best blood of the South courses in the veins of this race and that even Thomas Jefferson himself had a Negro grand daughter. How many of us gentlemen here present who have not only Negro grand daughters, but illegitimate sons and daughters, whom we dare not recognize or own. Gentlemen, the 'damned spot will not out,' We have inherited from our fathers, and we are bequeathing to our children the same social corruption and impurity which wrought destruction to the social fabric in the old days and polluted the stream and tainted the blood of the aristocracy of the South. Let us now be honest to ourselves, honest with the Negro who is closer to us by ties of blood and consanguinity than any alien race. We have been the aggressors, we are the real criminals, we were the original rapists and upon our head be all the blood that has been spilled during a century of shame and dishonor and in which we have sought to make this race responsible for the crimes we taught it to commit. The Negro has been unjustly accused at the bar of public opinion we have taken a mean and cowardly advantage of him. We have held, and are still holding him up to soorn and ridicule and contempt for crimes which we have been teaching him for 250 years. We are the only original libertines and polygamists on the Western Hemisphere. Our fathers sowed the seed when slavery became a fixture on this continent. They had white wives and Negro concubines and mistresses and through the latter gave our blood to these whose future we are met to discuss. Indignation over the condition which confronts us, ill becomes us. Penitence, remorse, shame, humiliation and disgrace should be the feelings which we ought to experience during the sessions of this conference. Let no man here present take to his soul the unotion that he is better than other men—better than the Negro. For to this patient, plodding, toiling, uncomplaining Negro the white men of the South owe more for their advantages in material and moral progress than to any other race on earth. The bulk of our wealth has its foundation in the unrequited toll of the black man for we have robbed him. Systematically, and by law, both before and since his emancipation from bondage. Our boasted morality, intelligence, virtues and civilization represent two hundred and fifty years of opportunity of which we have denied this people. We have wasted them and built upon the rules of their misfortunes and disadvantages. Every southern white boy and girl whom we have educated owe their education to a black boy and girl whom we have deprived of equal chances and opportunities for acquiring knowledge and of an equal chance when acquired in spite of us of developing the highest and best in them. This gentlemen is the kernel in the problem we are met to discuss and to solve with our multiplied wisdom and intelligence." This kind of a speech would have better become Secretary Herbert than the platitudinal and sophistical jumble which he emitted on the opening of the conference, because it contains more real facts, more truth, more reason, more consistency. But he didn't make this kind of a speech and more's the pity. Before the problem is solved some great white man at the South will make just such a speech and awake the sleeping conscience of the people of that section to its gravity and importance. The Alabama Conference will do neither good, nor harm. It was a gathering of Pnarisees who continually thanked God that they were not as other men. We all know in what esteem the Almighty held the Pharisees of old and with what consideration he treated the Publican who confessed his faults. The South must confess its faults and begin to make restitution to the Negro for its hell black crimes, covering a period of two and a half centuries. Every one of the men who spoke against us at Mobile should put his red hand over his mouth and hang his head in shame. The Almighty will settle this problem, and the southern white man, try he never so hard, can not escape his just share of punishment for his failure to settle it as God would have him settle it, because he has the intelligence, the means and the ability to settle it right. When human justice fails, God's justice is all sufficient and God's justice never fails. Don't forget Mr. Southern white man "The fathers have eaten sour grapes and set the children's teeth on edge." 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The highest chemical authority in the district of Columbia, 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, on 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 brewmasters in the county. Visit our plant and insist on us proving our assertions. We will be glad to show all. ARE KING. Sec'y and Treas. E. L. JORDAN, Pres and Gen'l Mgr. The Gem of the Antitles 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, see for necessary blank and enclose (80cts.) thirty cents in United States postage stamps, to R. M. R. Nelson n 26 C Barraconue St.. Santiago de Cuba, J E. Bruce, (Bruce Grit) 11 Congress Street Albany N. Y., or E. E. 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SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1900. THE NEW SCHOOL LAW. The provisions of the amendment to the District appropriation bill for the government of the public schools, as reported from the conference committee, make a few additional changes to those recently stated. As it now stands the District Commissioners appoint the Board of Education, of seven members, and the Board in turn elects all subordinate officials, etc. There will be a superintendent at $4,000, two assistants, at $2,500 each, one secretary at $1,800, one clerk at $1,400, and two at $1,000. It is generally understood that the colored people are to name three members of the Board, one assistant superintendent and one clerk. Every vestige of the old Board is to go, they say, with the possible exception of Mr. Harries, of whose retention all right-minded citizens will approve. There will be no difficulty in finding available timber to fill out the Negro quota upon the Board. Messrs. Daniel A. P. Murray, Jesse Lawson, Dr. C. B. Purvis, Dr. F. J. Shadd, Dr. C. W. Childs, Rev. W. J. Howard, John F. Cook, W. H. H. Hart, Henry Johnson, G. H. Richardson, W. H. Richards and Rev. Sterling N. Brown are all good men, and no mistake could be made should the three be taken from this roster. Superintendent Cook has many strong friends who will try to have him retained, and those who believe a change all around would be the best policy, will rally around Mr. Robert H. Terrell, the very capable principal of Washington High School. The brainy chap who writes the stock editorials for the national campaign committee is showing up well in the columns of the party organs. Some editors find this supply quite a labor-saving process, and then again it is better than many of them could write. The Colored American's leader on The Washington Post and Charles Dudley Warner was pronounced a "bell-ringer." We haven't heard from The Post. It seems to have copied the base ball players' "hit and run" policy. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. The civil service law, as administered, is a miserable farce. Has the esteemed Washington Post quit reading its colored exchanges? We have no idea that we shall meet Ben Tillman in heaven. He wont be there. Some men are born great, some achieve greatness—while others simply have long memories. The beginning of the end of the British-Boer war is in sight. The British will win, and they deserve to win. Two thousand mules have sailed from Louisiana to South Africa. It must be stated, with regret, that they were of the 4-legged variety. PRAISE FROM AN EMINENT AUTHORITY. William Dean Howells who is unquestionably the Dean of American literature writes an appreciative review of Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt's stories in the May Atlantic Monthly. He also takes occasion to praise other distinguished Negroes who have won fame and reputation. He concludes: "With Mr. Booker T. Washington the first American orator of our time, fresh upon the time of Frederick Douglass; with Mr. Dunbar among the truest of our poets, with Mr. Tanner, a black American among the only three Americans from whom the French Government ever bought a picture, Mr. Chesnutt may be willing to own his color." This is splendid praise indeed and will be appreciated throughout the country by the race. To call Mr. Washington the first of American orators is tribute indeed to the worth and ability of that great man. Queen "Lil" has sailed away for her Honolulu home. As she did not associate with us much anyway, her absence will not cause us to shed a single old briny tear. At the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, where the civil service law obtains, employees, engaged in exactly the same work, are receiving $1.25, $1.50 and $200 per day. Had any Negro been prominently concerned in the Cuban rascality, it would have served as a clincher to the argument of some rattle brained idiots that all Negroes are natural-born thieves. The civil service law protects nobody but members of the opposite party with a "pull,"—which would, however, more than likely be strong enough to save them anyway, under certain agreements. A sham battle is to be arranged shortly, by the District military and naval forces. The objective idea is to blow up Long Bridge. It is a pity the real thing can not be accomplished, and a new and modern bridge erected instead. Let the Cuban thievery be probed to its very bottom. The interests of our country, the redemption of our solemn pledge, and the salvation of the republican party all demand that every guilty man be punished. Congressman White is in great demand as a commencement orator. The Negroes at Glenville, Alabama, are trying to build a High School. It is no mean project. Bruce Jackson is the only colored member of the Senior Class of the High School at Washington Court House Ohio. He is a bright young man. Dr. Daniel Brown, a graduate of the Indiana Medical College of the class of 1900 has been appointed in the city dispensary of Indianapolis, after a competitive examination. W. A. White has definitely decided to establish in Anniston, Ala., a boys' training school, and by the first of September he hopes to open the doors of the institution to those boys and young men of the city who wish to thoroughly prepare for a university course. Principal Washington, of Tuskegee, has just been notified of his election to membership in the American Historical Association, one of the most famous organizations of the country. The object of this association is the promotion of historical studies. Its membership, past and present, embraces nearly every leader of thought and opinion America has produced. It was organised at Saratoga, September 10,1884,and had as its president Hon. Andrew D. White, the present Ambassador to Germany. The president at this time is James Ford Rhodes, the historian. This election is unquestionally a signal honor. Since 1895 there have been 196 graduates who received diplomas from reputable medical colleges, making a total of 805. This list does not include the large number of Negro men who have graduated from northern schools. There are twelve schools for training colored women as nurses; 200 nurses have been trained and are in training. Provident Hospital in Chicago, is the pioneer school in this work. The Freedman's Hospital in Washington, D. C., is the largest hospital in the country opened to colored people. The medical department of Howard University is located at this hospital. It has graduated 958 colored doctors. There are 80 practicing physicians in the District of Columbia. The latest statistics of the great A. M. church made the following phenomenal showing: 70,000 members, over 5,000 traveling ministers, 5,000 churches valued at $10,000,000, with nine living Bishops, a financial department, located in Washington City, and this department during the last four years has collected over $400,000. The business transacted at her publishing house last year, 631 Pine street Philadelphia, Pa. amounted to $16,224.80. The total expenditures for all purposes last year—April 1890 to April 1900, $17,925.80, leaving a balance of $298.50. The outstanding indebtedness is $11,263.60 and total assets at $67,099.84, which is $58,635.64 in excess of liabilities. The Crummell Historical Society. The Henry A. Spencer prize, (Williams History of the Negro Race) offered for the best historical paper on a given subject by members of the Alexander Crummell Historical Society of Albany, N. Y. was won by Miss S. Oliver whose subject was "The Negro as a Mechanic." The paper receivable mention was "The Negro an Actor" by Miss Mary R. Hoyt. The winner of the Fortune prize for the best paper on Nat Turner will be an nounced at the next meeting of the club. The club will continue its sessions during the summer. Messrs. J. W. Lyons and H. P. Cheatham Honored the Bright Lights of Black Methodism—Notes. During the sessions of the A. M. R. Zion General Conference in this city the bishops and general officers of the church were the guests at a complimentary dinner given in their honor by Hon. J. W. Lyens, Hon. H. P. Chasham, at Gray's cafe 1505 M street northwest. The dinner was an informal but thoroughly enjoyable assemblage. Reminiscence, wit, humor and amuse date made the two hours during which the company sat at the table seem all too short. Those present were Bishop J. W. Hood, Bishop T. H. Lomax, Bishop L. O. Clinton, Bishop A. Walters, Bishop C. C. Petty, Bishop G. W. Clinton, Bishop elect J. W. Alstork, Bishop J. B. Small, Bishop C. R. Harris, Owen L. W. Smith, Minister to Liberia, B. A Johnson, Dr. J. E. Mason, E. D. W. Jones. B. F. Wheeler, Andrew J. Warner, W. Goler, J. Harvey Anderson, T. Jacobs and John C. Dancey. Messrs. John P. Green, E. E. Cooper, L. M. Hershaw and Hon George White assisted Mesers. Lyons and Cheatham in receiving the guests of honor. It is conceded on all hands that Messrs. Lyons and Cheatham know how to make themselves agreeable and hospitable. Hoffman's Big Musical Festival. All is in readiness for Hoffman's Second Annual Musical Festival June 8th next at the Academy of Music. The following magnificent program will be rendered: PART 1. Symphony Orchestra 25 musician in grand orchestical numbers as follows: 1. Overture, Musical, Rollinsor. 2. Selection, The Ameer, Herbert. 3. Value the Viceroy, Herbert. 4. Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana, Mascani. 5. March, Up Broadway Toler. 6. Idylle Hearts and Flowers, Tobani. PART 2. VOCAL. 1. Solo and chorus, Gounods Gallus, Gounod, Mme. Martina Itving and Washington Permanent Chorus 60 voices. 2. Tenersolo, Come Back Deer Heart, Arnold, Mr. Wm. Goodrich. 3. Chorus, The Gallant Troubador, Wat- son, Washington Permanent Chorus 60 voices. 4. Medley of 80 minutes in Operatic chorus under the direction of assistant leader Nathaniel Bowles. 5. Violin Cello Solo, Awakening of Spring, Bachr, Mr. Alexandria Lee. PART 8. Finale appearance on the stage of Hoffman's Concert Band of fortymusicians handsomely unifored celebrating their first anniversary previous to their trip to the National Republican Convention to be held at Philadelphia. PROGRAM 1. March, Singing Girl, Herbert; 2. Overture, Lustpiel, Keler-Beler; 3. March, The Man Behind the Gun, Sousa. 4. Cornet Solo, Russian Fantasia, Levy, Mr. William Robinson; 5. Valse, Wedding of the Winds, Hall 6. Comic, The Patrol of the Boer, Schleiffarth. Commencement at Greensboro The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Greensboro, N. O. held its second annual commencement May 80 and 24. All the incident exercises were interesting and of a high order of excellence and the many bright young men and women who left its portals speaks well for the sp'endid institution President James B. Dudley and his excellent corps of instructors are to be highly commended for the increasing success and growing interest in the A and M. College of Greensboro, N. O. The Georgians living in Washington met at the residence of Mr. L. M. Hershaw, 1460 T street, n. w. Friday evening May 18, and decided to entertain the Georgia delegation to the Philadelphia convention at a complimentary breakfast at Gaskins and Gaines Cafe on Monday June 18 Nearly all the Georgians resident in Washington are subscribers to the breakfast, and a most enjoyable reunion is anticipated. Mr. L. M. Hershaw is president of the Georgia Association and Dr. Bolcher is secretary. Dr. J. A. McDuffie is chairman of the committee of arrangements, WASHINGTON AT HIS BEST. The Tuskegee Wizard Tendered an Ovation by the Intellect and Culture of the Nation's Capital—More Clearly Than Ever, He Enunciates the Principles Upon Which the Negro Must Build a Successful Future—Inter Racial Cooperation and Proportion Training of Head and Hand the Essentials Booker T. Washington has come and gone. His visit was a triumph. Our community knows more of the man and his work, and his influence has expanded and taken firmer root. Tuesday evening the famous "wizard of Tuskegee," the most illustrious apostle of industrial education, addressed the people of Washington on the status of the negro treating the theme on entirely new lines analyzing our condition from moral, religious, political, economic and educational standpoints. Despite the strong counter attractions, an illuminated parade down town and a fire only a block away, spacious Metropolitan A. M. E. Church has rarely been filled by a larger or more thoroughly representative audience than that which greeted Mr. Washington on this occasion. Mr. Washington came by invitation or Bethel Literary and Historical Association of which Prof. W. H. Richards is the capable and energetic presiding officer. Professional men and women, industrial factors and commercial agents, of all degrees, typical of the best progress and development of the race, sat side by side and listened, spell-hound, for an hour and a half to the eloquence and wisdom of the most renowned negro on American soil. Fully 2,000 persons were there, and the best evidence that the address struck a popular chord was the rapturous applause which followed every significant utterance and punctuated every paragraph. Mr. Washington's appearance upon the rostrum was the signal for a storm of hand-clapping and the fluttering of ladies' dainty handkerchiefs. He was introduced in happily phrased and highly complimentary speech by Prof. W. H. Richards. "The wizard" used but a moment for preliminary remarks, proceeding directly to the discussion of his subject. He was never in better voice, and, though speaking for the most part from manuscript, so thoroughly was his topic imbedded in his mind, and so comprehensive was his grasp of the thought that none of his thrilling and magnetic or torical powers were sacrificed thereby. The opinion was generally expressed that the address Tuesday evening was the finest ef fort yet put forth by the distinguished industrialist, and that it more clearly than any previous utterance enunciated the principles upon which he has built his life's reputation. Mr. Washington said in part: Mr. Washington's Address. When a great ship at sea is being tossed during anxious days and nights by wind and wave, and its very life seems threatened by the elements of nature, then is the time for all on board, and especially those charged with the duty of managing the vessel, to keep a cool head, a clear conscience and a steady hand. In the midst of such danger and excitement it becomes doubly important that every insignificant and selfish consideration be lost sight of, that every fiber of energy of each individual on board the endangered vessel be bent in one direction—that of bringing the imperilled craft into a harbor of safety. If ever a race needed supreme faith, calmness, unity and invincible determination those qualities are needed by the black race in America at the present time when it is passing through a season of trial and testing such as has seldom fallen to the lot of any race in the history of the world. But beyond and above all we must not lose hope or courage. In the midst of the storm let us be guided by the compass. The ocean track through which our vessel is to pass was carefully and safely charted in Holy Writ more than eighteen hundred years ago. Let us examine it. The chart: "In much patience, in affliction, in necessity, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings in fastings; by pureness, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers and yet true, as unknown and yet well known, as dying and behold we live, as chastened and not killed, as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich: as having nothing and yet possessing all things." The Storm the Test. It is in the storm that the vessel is tested and not in the calm. In our case, the world should be constantly reminded that the problems that have grown out of our presence as a race in this country are not of our seeking or making. White Americans should always bear in mind that their duty toward the American negro is a unique one. Yea, more than that, it is a sacred obligation. The black man was not only brought to this country without his consent, but in the face of his most earnest protest. Every cry, every wall, every moan of anguish of the broken-hearted, heathen mother, as THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. S. she saw her child forced aboard the slave ship; every suicide and every groan and every pleading in the middle passage that marked the journey of the negro from the shores of Africa to the shores of America, was an earnest plea to the white man not to desecrate the soil of America by engrafting upon it the serious problems which are today demanding solution. But the voice of right then, as I fear it is today in some quarters, was smothered by the voice of selfishness; the voice of the statesman was throttled, then, as now, in too many cases, by the voice of the short-sighted demagogue, and we went on sowing the wind, and now we reap the whirlwind. "Be not deceived, God is not mocked." Whatsoever a nation or a community sows, that it shall also reap. But all this belongs to history. Our duty is with the present. No one who looks deeply, calmly, conscientiously, into the present thought and activity, can overlook the fact that we are now passing through a stage of race development which is serious at every step and demands as never before our deepest thought, ripest investigation and most unselfish assistance. Political history in our case points to no path blazed through the forests, which is an absolute guide in the task before us. Ours is a task which demands and which should have the earnest assistance of the wisest statesmen, investigators and philanthropists of both races, in all sections of the country. To be permanent in its influence and operation, every scheme for the settlement of the difficulties that beset us should have the indorsement of the white man at the south, the white man at the north and that of the negro himself. Our duty is to face the present and not to wail over the past. In the midst of the present seeming doubt, uncertainty and timidity on the part of many one or two things seem clear. We shall not settle our present problem by time spent in useless debate as to whether the white man north or the white man south was responsible for the introduction of American slavery. Co-Operation of Races Essential. No settlement will be permanent and satisfactory that does not command the confidence and the respect of the southern white man, the northern white man and the negro himself. Further, I am convinced that nothing can be gained, but much lost to the cause of the negro by time spent in the mere bandiage of words of blame and censure between the white man north and the white man south. In the same spirit, I would add that the negro cannot make stronger his cause by aimless railings against the southern white man, neither can the southern white man assist much in the solution of the difficulty which is so vital to him, by mere condemnation of the negro. Both the teachings of history and the warnings of the present emphasize that the question of the negro will not be settled. will not remove itself from across the pathway of our progress, till it is settled in absolute, unimpeachable justice to all parties concerned—justice to the north, who freed the negro; justice to the southern white man, in whose midst the negro resides, and justice to the negro himself. The foundation of citizenship, it seems to me, rests upon the intrinsic worth of each individual or group of individuals. No law can push the individual forward when he is worthless, no law can hold him back when he is worthy. The worthy may be inconvenienced, but never defeated. No praise on the part of ourselves or friends can help us if we are meritless. No abuse from any quarter can permanently injure us if we possess intrinsic worth. In all the history of government I do not believe that in any large degree any race has been permitted to share in the control of government till a large number of the individual members of that race have demonstrated beyond question their ability to succeed in controlling successfully their own individual business affairs. The Triumph of Natural Laws. My own belief is that the time will come when the negro in this country will secure all the recognition which his merits entitle him to as a man and as a citizen, but such recognition will come through no process of artificial forcing, but through the natural law of evolution. In a word, we have got to pay the price for everything that we get, the price that every civilized race or nation has paid for its position, that of beginning gradually, naturally, at the bottom and working up toward the highest civilization. What I am most anxious about is that the negro shall be himself, not a second or third-rate imitation of some one else. "An original man; not a second hand, borrowing or begging man. Let us stand on our own basis, at any rate! On such shoes as we ourselves can get. On frost and mud, if you will, but honestly on that; on the reality and substance which nature gives us, not on the semblance, on the thing she has given another than us!" The Evil of Superficial Show. If we are poor, let us be poor and not attempt in our poverty to imitate the rich and thus hold ourselves up to the ridicule of the world. There is no more sad sight in christendom than to see a young colored man who is minus a bank account, minus a foot of real estate, minus a home for himself or parents, minus the saving habit, spending all he earns, and too often, more than he earns, in the mere vain attempt to deceive the world by superficial show. But the world has a way of not being deceived, and in the long run rates every individual and every race at its true worth. For a number of years I have tried to advocate the advantages of industrial training for the negro, because it starts the race off on a real, sure foundation, and not upon a false and deceptive one. Last year, when in England, I observed in Birmingham, London and elsewhere, in the large polytechnic schools, that thousands of men and women were being trained in the trades that cover work in the earth, in metal, wood, tin, leather, cloth, food preparation and whatnot. When I asked why do you give this man or this woman training in this or that industry, the answer came that when these students come to us we ask in each case, what are the prevailing occupations of the people in the community where the student lives. In a word, it is found out what the student can find to do in his immediate community, not what he ought to find to do, not what the instructors might desire him to do, but what the economic and other conditions prevailing in his neighborhood will actually permit him to do. With this knowledge obtained the student was trained, for example, in leather because at his home that was the prevailing industry; that was the occupation at which he could find immediate and profitable employment. The same logical and common sense principle should be applied to our own race. For example, the great bulk of our people live directly or indirectly by work in the soil. This gives us a tremendous advantage in the way of a foundation. Agriculture as a Basis. From the beginning of time agriculture has constituted the main foundation upon which all races have grown useful and strong. In the present condition of our race it is a grave error to take a negro boy from a farming community and educate him in about everything in heaven and earth, educate him into sympathy with everything that has no bearing upon the life of the community to which he should return, and out of sympathy with most that concerns agricultural life. The result of this process is that in too many cases the boy thus trained fails to return to his father's farm, but takes up his abode in the city and falls. In too many cases, into the temptation of trying to live by his wits, without honest productive employment. And, my friends, if there is one thing at the present time that should give us more serious concern than another, it is the large idle class of our people that linger about the sidewalks bar rooms and dens of sin and misery of our large cities. Every influential man and woman should make it a part of his duty to reach the individuals of this class and either see that they find employment in the cities or are scattered to the four winds of the earth in agricultural communities where they can make an honorable living and where their services are needed. If it be suggested that the white boy is not always thus dealt with, my answer is: My friends, the white man is three thousand years ahead of us, and this fact we might as well face now as well as later, and that at one stage of his development, either in Europe or America, he has gone through every stage of development that I now advocate for our race. No race can be lifted till its mind is awakened and strengthened. By the side of industrial training should always go mental and moral training. But the mere pushing of abstract knowledge into the head means little. We want more than the mere performance of mental gymnastics. Our knowledge must be harnessed to the things of real life. Would Not Confine Negro to Industrial Life. Again, it is asked, wou'd you limit or circumscribe the mental development of the negro boy? Emphatically I answer with a hundred "Noes." I would encourage the negro to secure all the mental strength, all the mental culture, whether gleaned from science, mathematics, history, language or literature, that his pocket book and circumstances will enable him to pay for, but I repeat with all the emphasis of my soul that the negro's education should be so directed and controlled for years to come that the greatest proportion of the mental strength of the masses will be brought to bear upon the every-day practical affairs of life, upon something that is needed to be done and something that they are permitted to do in the community where they reside. When it comes to the professional class which our race needs and must have I would say, give them that training which will best fit them to perform in the most successful manner the service which the race demands. But would you confine the negro to industrial life, to agriculture, for example? No. But I would teach the race that here the foundation must be laid, and that the very best service which any one can render to what is called the higher education is to teach the present generation to provide a material or industrial foundation. On this industrial foundation will grow habits of thrift, the love of work, economy, ownership in property, a bank account. Out of it in future generations will grow classical education, professional education, positions of public responsibility. Out of it will grow moral and religious strength. Out of it will grow that wealth which brings leisure and, with it opportunity for the enjoyment of literature and the fine arts. In the words of the late Frederick Douglass, which I quote, "Every blow of the sledge hammer, wielded by a sable arm, is a powerful blow in support of our cause. Every colored mechanic is, by virtue of circumstance, an elevator of his --- A. H. Hon. James Lewis, Surveyor General of Louisiana. Pe-ru-na Drug M'f'g Co., Columbus, O.: "Gentlemen—I have used Pe-ru-na for a short time and can cheerfully recommend it as being all you represent and wish every man who is suffering with catarrh could know of its great value. Should I at any future time have occasion to recommend a treatment of your kind, rest assured that yours will be the one. James Lewis." Wherever the catarrh is, there is sure to be a waste of mucus. The mucus is as precious as blood. It is blood, in fact. It is blood plasma—blood with the corpuscles removed. To stop this waste, you must stop this catarrh. A course of treatment with Pe-ru-na never fails to do this. Send for free catarrh book. Address The Pe-ru-na Drug Manufacturing Co. Columbus, Q. race. Every house built by black men is a strong tower against the allied hosts of prejudice. It is impossible for us to attach too much importance to this aspect of the subject. Without industrial development there can be no wealth; without wealth there can be no leisure; without leisure, no opportunity for thoughtful reflection and the cultivation of the higher arts." I would set no limitations on the attainments of the negro in arts, letters or statesmanship, but, my friends, the surest and speediest way to reach these ends is by laying the foundation in the little things of life that are immediately at our door. The man who has never learned how to make money to pay his own debts is not the one to be intrusted with the duty of making laws to pay the national debt. How to Create a Business for One's Self. I have read recently an account of a young colored man in the District of Columbia who graduated from college and then from a school of technology, and then what? He did not go about seeking for a position which other brains and other hands had created, but used his knowledge of the sciences and mathematics in creating a bootblack establishment, where he manufactures his own blacking and polish. Starting with one chair, he now has a dozen; starting with one place of business, he now has several. What matters it to this man whether republicans, democrats or populists are in power in Washington? He knows that he has a business that gives him independence, and with its expansion and growth will come wealth and leisure and the highest educational opportunities for his children. Oh, for a thousand men with the force of character and common sense to begin on such a foundation! It is not alone the mere matter of the negro learning this or that trade for which I plead, but through the trade, the industry; out from the trade or industry I want to see evolved the full-fledged, unhampered, unfettered man. I plead for industrial development, not because I want to crump the negro, but because I want to free him. I want to see him enter the great and all-powerful business and commercial world. By the side of every church I want to see the factory. Surrounding every school house I want to see a hundred farms. By the side of your certificate of church mem- membership I want to see you place the bank book. If you give a promise to carry a torch in the political parade, secure a promise that you will be permitted to march in the labor parade with dinner bucket in hand the next morning and every day in the year. It is far from my purpose to advocate a mere theory. Most that I have sought in this address to emphasize I have tried to live by and practice. The Magnificent Work at Tuskegee. If for a brief moment you will excuse me for the seeming egotism I will tell you what a set of devoted colored men and wo- (Continued on 13th page.) COLLEGE, GA., EXERCISES. The State Industrial College Makes a Good Showing, Collega, Ga., Special-The Georgia State Industrial College will hold its commencement exercises beginning with the Baccalaureate sermon on Sunday June 3rd, by Rev. L. B. Maxwell. Monday June, 4th, annual address by Hon. George H. White and alumni address by Mr J. C. Few, class of '95. Tuesday, June 5th, graduating exercises and the commencement address by Bishop W. J. Gaines. A number of other prominent speakers will be present. Among them are expected Governor A. D. Candler, State School Commissioner Gleen and Prof. Booker T. Washington. The school has had an enrollment this year of 438 and graduates quite a large class of young men and young women. Congratulations have come in on all sides to President R. R. Wright for the matchless success of the work done this year. The editor of this paper is cordially invited to be present. COMMENOEMENT EXERCISES. Tuesday, June 5th, 11 o'clock a.m. Music—"Waterville March,"—College Band. 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Washington Principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute—The Negro's Foremost Advocate of Industrial Education—Philosopher, Statesman and Economist—His Great Speech at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church this City. City Paragraphs. City Paragraphs. Attorney W. L. Pollard is convalescent. Dr. G. W. Bryant lectures at Second Baptist church June 11. For banquets and parties the Delmo Koonce cafe can't be beat. Mrs. Bessie Fletcher Webster is delighted with her new home in the British West Indies. Chaplain W. H. Coston of the 48th, expects to report for duty in the Philippines at an early date. Miss Martha Pollock has returned to her home in Norwich, Coun., after enjoying much social attention here. Next Friday night rain or shine the Academy of Music will contain more people than it has for many moons. The entertainment Friday evening at Carroll Hall, given by the Teachers' Beneficial Association, was well attended. The Delmo Koonce cafe puts up the finest ice cream in the city. The opera. The girls. The pirates and policemen. Automobiles, locomotiles, carriages. The supper. June 1. Expenses $ $ $ $$. Misses Sarah and Lizzie Tancil, of Alexandria, Va., were in the city last week, the guests of Miss Blvira Robinson, 617 M street, northwest. The headquarters of the District Afro-American Council are now located in the Capital Savings Bank Building, 609 F street, northwest, third floor. The advance sale of the remaining seats for the opera, June 1, will be conducted at the Academy beginning Monday, May 28 You had better get yours today. High School Commencement ought to be held in a larger hall than the Academy of Music What is the matter with securing the Grand, National or Lafayette. As the time for the opera draws near, how our hearts' palpitation increases? We are bubling over with interest and excitement. One week from today and we'll tell you all about it. More snon. While out for an evening don't forget to stop by the Delmo Koonce cafe. The management of the opera June 1, has been urged to present a Saturday matinee to accommodate the overflow. If this course is decided upon due announcement will be made. The management of the opera company that will entertain at the Academy of Music next Friday evening, conduct affairs on a liberal scale. The company has been photographed, and they present a very fine appearance. Mr. Paul Laurence Dunbar, the distinguished author, was in the city several days this week. He has published a new book entitled "The Strength of Gidon and Other Stories." The work is highly commended by William Dean Howells and other eminent literateurs. Lieut. R. B. Toomey has returned from a trip to Baltimore. While there he attended an operetta produced by a fine class, instructed by his brother, with whom Lieut. Toomey collaborated in its authorship. Mr. Toomey's poems made a hit. Let everybody turn out en, masse next Friday evening, and give the Dvorak Musical Society a rousing send off in the initial effort to give us ad- The National Colored Teachers Bureau OF 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 Teleph vanced music under favorable conditions. Race pride alone should over flow the place. Get your seats now. Tickets are selling rapidly for the grand summer night's festival and lawn fete to be given by the Second Baptist Lyceum Friday, June 15, at the residence of Mrs. Lucy E. Neal, 1250 New Jersey avenue, northwest. The occasion promises to be a most enjoyable one. Rev. W. Bishop Johnson was able to be present at both services last Sunday at the Second Baptist church, but is still suffering acutely from his old enemy, rheumatism. He denies the report that he has been living high enough to contract the gout. Dr. Johnson has planned to spend several weeks at Hot Springs, Ark., where he will endeavor to rehabilitate his shattered health. To the good thinking people of Washington, if you are thinking of given a party don't forget to consult the Delmo Koonce. The Henderson Hotel. The Henderson Hotel, 120 N Mississippi avenue, Atlantic City, N. J., with Messrs. Henderson and Murray as proprietors, has 88 roome, nicely papered and newly fitted up. Three minutes walk to Bathing Beach, two squares to Reading Depot, and plazzas that encircles the whole house. All excursion trains via this avenue. A large dance hall that will form a prominent feature for this season's entertainment. As for Mr. Thomas C. Murray's ability for running a hotel it goes without questioning, he so successfully ran Clinton Cottage for five years, that it has won for him a wide reputation as a popular host, he has done much to elevate his race along social lines and deserves much credit for the manly effort he made in the last season in securing the finest hotel on the Beach front for his people. 6 per cent of the first year's salary will be charged those for whom positions are secureded, payable Dec. 1, 1900. The Demand exceed the Supply for suitable teachers during the past year, hence our liberal inducements. Send for registration blank briefly stating your full qualifications and enclose ten two cent stamps for postage. James G. Clayton, M. D. 459 C St, N, W. Secretary. SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. HELP WANTED. WANTED-An educated young woman who understands proof reading and newspaper writing. Experience not necessary. 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The report dealt at some length with the question of the suffrage for the Negro, and Editor Fortune, in speaking on this point vigorously denounced Ben Tillman, of South Carolina, and in the most unstinted terms pitched into the one-eyed scoundrel who daily digraces the United States Senate by his presence, and who outrages every instinct of decency by his brutal and cowardly attacks upon helpless black people. It had cost tons of blood and tons of money, he said, to place the fifteenth amendment in the Constitution of the United States, and it will cost tons of blood and tons of money to get it out. The speaker was applauded to the echo when he sat down, after urging the Negroes to organize. The address scintillated with bright points and was delivered in Mr. Fortune's earnest and insultable style. It was said to be the New Yorker's best oratorical effort in recent years. Editor Manly. Prof. Lawson and Mr. Whitfield McKinly also spoke. The report of the committee on the state of the country was a lengthy one. It was submitted by John O. Dancy, the chairman of the committee, and dealt principally with the work of the Negroes during the period that has elapsed since the civil war. The report extolled the bravery of the colored regiments in Cuba and the Philippines and went on to say that, while blunders might have been made, it was the duty of the people of the church to accept the situation and carry on missionary work in the countries that have recently been acquired by the United States. It pointed to the strides that had been made by the people of the colored race, along industrial and professional lines, and deplored the fact that the national government had not provided a system of national education for the colored people. The report further commended the proposition to take away the franchise of illiterate Negroes and allow illiterate whites to vote, and said while opportunity for education was denied to the Negro he ought not to be condemned for not having sufficient learning to properly cast his ballot. The orimes against women and wrongdoing of every kind was denounced, and the members of the Conference were urged to begin a crusade to prevent this stain upon their race. The war in South Africa was dismissed with the expression that had the Boers observed the "golden rule" in the past, they would now be entitled to the sympathy of the people of this country, but that the conference hoped under the circumstances that the national government would not be missed into an expression of sympathy for the side of that people against England. The desire for a fair chance to compete in the labor world and an expression of support for the national council closed the report. J. CONFERENCE AETFRMATH, Bishop Hoed was the sage. It was a successful Conference. Bishop Walters was the giant of the occasion. Rev. E. D. W. Jones was a fine reading clerk. Nearly every man of prominence here got in a speech Editor J. W. Smith will be elected Bishop next time. Tom Fortune scores every time he mounts a rostrum Rev. W. E. Snowden proved him self a capable manager. No minister failed to get all the chicken that he wanted. Bishop Pettey's proposition to ordain Bishops did not become a law. The spirit was so spontaneous that it moved many delegates to talk at once. Adebt of $500 to the M. E. Church was ordered paid out of the contingent fund. Bishop Harris doesn't talk a great deal, but there is real meat in all that he says. Several ladies said that Rev. W. H. Chambers was the Beau Brummell of the gathering. Mrs. C. C. Pettey's commanding figure and social graces made her the observed of all observers. Geographically speaking, the new episcopal districts look like a capital piece of gerrymandering. The commission on organic union will have power to codify the laws enacted by the Conference. The Editor of the Zion newspaper was elected a general officer, and S. G. Atkins, a general evangelist. The following boards were provided for: Church extension, missionary, worn-out preachers, publication, Christian Endeavor, auditing Sunday school Union, statistics and education. Bishop Walters remains in charge of the 6th District, but it has been enlarged to include Chicago and Indianapolis. A fine church is to be established by Bishop Walters in the Illinois metropolis. Those who deal in comparisons noted that Bishop I. O. Clinton bore a striking resemblance to Alexander Dumas, and that Bishop G. W. Clinton looked enough like our Col. Stewart M. Lew is to be that worthy's twin brother. The episcopal committee recommended that no minister who has two living wives shall be eligible to election as a bishop, nor any minister over forty yearg old or one who has been expelled, suspended, or who deserts his family, unless de is restored and placed in good standing by the Conference. The North Carolina young ladies took immense pride in pointing out the trim and gentlemanly Mr. J. E. Crawley as "one of our smart boys who have come to Washington and succeeded." Mr. Crawley represented The Colored American, and his affability add business tact made many friends in the Conference for this paper. To the good thinking people of Washington, if you are thinking of given a party don't forget to consult the Delmo Koonce United Order of ORGANIZED January 1, 1881. Offices 604, 606 and 608 N. 2nd St., - - Richmond, Va The Strongest Financial Organization the Negro Has Produced in This Country. Read and learn for yourself what it has done and how to become a member. Subordinate Fountains are composed of males of good moral character. Conventions.—When joining the Order through to 50 years of age; when joining the Fountains to 60 years of age complete. Joining or Benefit Fees.—From 14 to 60 years 30, $6.60. Death Benefits.—$75 and $125. Should death occur year, $125 will be paid to the heirs, assigns er, Sick Benefits.—From $6 to $9 per month, paid Monthly Dues are 35 or 50 cent per month. Usually, January and July. The amount monthly benefits. Life Membership—Ten shares of Bank Stock, a member a life member. After paying duces of the stock will pay the member's dues, and. Just calculate—monthly dues, 50 cents per share to $6.80, and a dividend on ten shares of the share, amounts to $10 annually, which will balance of $3.20. Should the dues be 35 cents per monthly dues and taxes will amount to $5 per monthly dues and taxes, and leave a balance of Additional Benefits of Life Membership.—Should a member may take his ten shares of stock from $1 to $88, which will enable said member to redeem his policy and stock, and go on his w Subordinate Fountains are composed of males and females, sound in health and mind, and of good moral character. Conventions.—When joining the Order through Conventions, persons are taken in from 14 to 50 years of age; when joining the Fountain by application persons are taken from 14 to 60 years of age complete. Joining or Benefit Fees.—From 14 to 30 years of age, $4.60; at 50, $5.10; at 55, $5.60; at 60, $6.60. Death Benefits.—$75 and $125. Should death occur within the first year, $75; after the first year, $125 will be paid to the heirs, assigns or legal representatives. Sick Benefits.—From $6 to $9 per month, paid weekly. Monthly Dues are 35 or 50 cents per month. Taxes are 80 cents annually, paid semiannually, January and July. The amount monthly dues secure the highest weekly sick benefits. Life Membership—Ten sharer of Bank Stock, costing each member $5 a share, made sald member a life member. After paying dues and owning the stock one year, the fruits of the stock will pay the member's dues, and leave a handsome little balance each year. Just calculate—monthly dues, 50 cents per month, and taxes 80 cents per year, amount to $6.80, and a dividend on ten shares of stock at 20 per cent on the dollar, or 80 per share, amounts to $10 annually, which will pay the member's dues, $6.80, and leave a balance of $3.20. Should the dues be 85 cents per month, and 80 cents taxes per year, the monthly dues and taxes will amount to $5 per year. The dividend of $10 would pay the monthly dues and taxes, and leave a balance of $5. Additional Benefits of Life Membership.—Should adverse circumstances befall a member, sald member may take his ten shares of stock and Fountain policy, and secure a loan from $1 to $88, which will enable sald member to tide over the misfortune, pay up the loan, redeem his policy and stock, and go on his way rejoicing. A This Department fur- style and prints write B and E (Classes and benefits. B Class Policies are Age 14 to 25 years..... 25 to 35 years..... 35 to 45 years..... 45 to 50 years..... 50 to 55 years..... 55 to 60 years..... 60 to 65 years..... Class Policies are Age 14 to 25 years..... 25 to 35 years..... 35 to 45 years..... 45 to 50 years..... 50 to 55 years..... 55 years (Complete)... This Department furnishes all Regalla that is vole and prices write for price list. 4. CLASSES B and E (classes admit a membership, male benefits. B Class Policies are as follows: CLASS B TAK Ages. Joins in Fee. to 25 years. $2 50 to 85 years. 2 75 to 45 years. 8 00 to 50 years. 8 25 to 55 years. 8 25 to 60 years. 8 50 to 65 years. 8 50 Class Policies are as follows: CLASS B TAK Ages. Joins in Fee. to 25 years. $5 00 to 85 years. 5 25 to 45 years. 5 50 to 50 years. 5 75 to 55 years. 5 75 years (Complete). 6 00 This Department furnishes all Regalia that is worn by the members of the Order. For style and prices write for price list. B and E Vasses admit a membership, male and female, and secure life and death benefits. Ages. Joining Fee. Value of Certificate. Annual Dues. Paid Quarterly 14 to 25 years. $2 50 $200 00 $4 75 $1 20 25 to 35 years. 2 75 200 00 4 75 1 20 35 to 45 years. 3 00 200 00 5 70 1 48 45 to 50 years. 8 25 140 00 6 65 1 08 50 to 55 years. 8 25 115 00 6 65 1 08 55 to 60 years. 8 50 90 00 7 60 1 90 60 to 65 years. 8 50 65 00 7 60 1 90 Ages. Joining Fee. Value of Certificate. Annual Dues. Paid Quarterly. 14 to 25 years..... $5 00 $500 00 $9 50 $2 40 25 to 35 years..... 5 25 500 00 9 50 ..... 35 to 45 years..... 5 50 500 00 10 40 ..... 45 to 50 years..... 5 75 450 00 11 40 2 85 50 to 55 years..... 5 75 400 00 11 40 2 85 55 years (Complete)..... 6 00 350 00 11 00 2 85 The ages are reckoned from the last birthday. Remember that the applicant is benefited as soon as his policy is issued. Remember that the the annual dues of payments of three mo The balance of annu senses will go to the p If dues are paid and his full proportion made his own collector self-supporting, and the to collect. You will readily see to meet once or four t Life benefits.-The Stock a two shares of per cent, or one of life, they may take period of time. Members of Class year of their members Stock, and secure a lo bership, in either one member in health, as Remember that the applicant is benefited as a The annual dues of either of the above named payments of three months each, payable the 1st of The balance of annual dues remaining to the 1st ases will go to the purchase of Bank Stock for If dues are paid annually in advance, the mea- d his full proportion of annual dues. By the lde his own collector, thereby making the mem- of-supporting, and the member receiving the per- collect. You will readily see that the members of either meet once or four times a year, while the Foun- Life nents.-The members of B Class are me u two shares for each year of their me per cent, or one dollar per share. Should m life, they may take their stock certificates and period of time. Members of Class E can purchase 25 shares o ear of their membership; likewise, they may take stock, and secure a loan after a given period of the orship, in either one of these Classes, like the E member in health, as well as his family in death. The annual dues of either of the above named Classes may be divided into quarterly payments of three months each, payable the 1st of January, April, July, and October. The balance of annual dues remaining to the credit of each member after paying expenses will go to the purchase of Bank Stock for said member. If dues are paid annually in advance, the member gets 5 per cent drawback in cash and his full proportion of annual dues. By the latter mode of payment each member made his own collector, thereby making the membership independent of the agent, and self-supporting, and the member receiving the percentage that would be paid to the agent to collect. You will readily see that the members of either one of these classes are only required to meet once or four times a year, while the Fountains and Rosebuds meet twice a month. Life benefits.—The members of B Class are allowed to purchase 15 shares of Bank Stock and two shares for each year of their membership. The stock yields a dividend of one cent, or one dollar per share. Should misfortune befall them on their pathway of life, they may take their stock certificates and policies, and secure a loan after a given period of time. Members of Class E can purchase 25 shares of Bank Stock, and two shares for each year of their membership; likewise, they may take their policies and certificates of Bank Stock, and secure a loan after a given period of time. You will readily see that the membership, in either one of these Classes, like the Fountains and the Rosebuds, benefits the member in health, as well as his family in death. from 10 cents and upw In 1898 this was the depositors during the This Department u of the necessity of ha organization, and to f farms, 3; dwellings, 2 from 10 cents and upwards. Special attention is given to the collection of notes and drafts. In 1898 this was the only bank in Richmond which continued to pay currency to its depositors during the financial stringency, while the other banks were using scrip. 6. REAL ESTATE OF THE U. O. T. R. This Department manages and controls the property of the organization. It grew out of the necessity of having offices and buildings in which to carry on the business of the organization, and to furnish halls for the Subordinate Lodges. Buildings now owned, 12 farms, 3; dwellings, 2; hotels, 1; with a fee simple value of $104,000. Buildings leased, 12 This Department manages and controls the property of the organization. It grew out of the necessity of having offices and buildings in which to carry on the business of the organization, and to furnish halls for the Subordinate Lodges. Buildings now owned, 12 farms, 3; dwellings, 2; hotels, 1; with a fee simple value of $104,000. Buildings leased, 12. 7. THE REFORMER, the Organ of the Order. The Reformer is the Beacon-Light, the Head-Light, the General Messenger and the General Agent of the Brotherhood. It is a live race journal, with a circulation of 6,000. It is the medium of the Order, and its columns teem with all its doings and achievements. Send for sample copies. It is published weekly in The Reformer Printing Office, Elk mond, Va., having a first-class job department, and makes a specialty of high-class work. The Reformer is the Beacon-Light, the Head-Light, the General Messenger and the General Agent of the Brotherhood. It is a live race journal, with a circulation of 6,000. It is the medium of the Order, and its columns teem with all its doings and achievements. Send for sample copies. It is published weekly in The Reformer Printing Office, Richmond, Va., having a Brief-class job department, and makes a specialty of high-class work. SUBORDINATE FOUNTAINS. mountains are composed of males and females, sound like character. When joining the Order through Conventions, personnel age; when joining the Fountain by application please complete. Benefit Fees.—From 14 to 30 years of age, $4.60; at 50, —$75 and $125. Should death occur within the first be paid to the heirs, assigns or legal representatives. From $6 to $9 per month, paid weekly. Are 35 or 50 cents per month. Taxes are 80 cents an and July. The amount monthly dues secure the h help—Ten shares of Bank Stock, costing each member the member. After paying dues and owning the st will pay the member's dues, and leave a handsome rate—monthly dues, 50 cents per month, and taxes and a dividend on ten shares of stock at 20 per cent to $10 annually, which will pay the member's dues. Should the dues be 35 cents per month, and 80 cen and taxes will amount to $5 per year. The dividend d taxes, and leave a balance of $5. Affords of Life Membership.—Should adverse circumstances may take his ten shares of stock and Fountain policy, which will enable said member to tide over the misfit policy and stock, and go on his way rejoicing. 2. ROSEBUD FOUNTAIN (For the Children.) Rosebud Fountains are composed for child male, from 8 to 14 years of age. Joining or Benefit Fees, $1.50; paid spotments. Death Benefits.—$24.50 and $37.00. Shift within the first year, $24.50; after the first year to the parents or guardians. Sick Benefits.—From $1.50 to $4.00 per m. 50 cents, 75 cents and $1 per week, respect monthly dues purchase the highest weekly m. Monthly Dues and Taxes.—The monthly 15 cents, or 25 cents, respectively, just as decide. Taxes, 10 cents annually, paid seud and July. The child is allowed to purchase stock, which makes his policy self-support each year. Joining or Benefit Fees, $1.50; paid spot cash or by installments. Death Benefits.—$24.50 and $37.00. Should death occur within the first year, $24.50; after the first year $37 will be paid to the parents or guardians. Sick Benefits.—From $1.50 to $4.00 per month paid weekly; 50 cents, 75 cents and $1 per week, respectively. The highest monthly dues purchase the highest weekly sick benefits. Monthly Dues and Taxes.—The monthly dues are 10 cents, 15 cents, or 25 cents, respectively, just as the Fountain may decide. Taxes, 10 cents annually, paid semiannually, January and July. The child is allowed to purchase five shares of Bank Stock, which makes his policy self-supporting, with a balance each year. 3. THE REGALLA. nt furnishes all Regalla that is worn by the member rite for price list. 4. CLASSES. uses admit a membership, male and female, and see are as follows: CLASS B TABLE. Agees. Joining Fee. Value of Certificate. $2 50 200 00 2 75 200 00 8 00 200 00 8 25 140 00 8 25 115 00 8 50 90 00 8 50 65 00 are as follows. CLASS B TABLE. Agees. Joining Fee. Value of Certificate. $5 00 500 00 25 500 00 50 500 00 75 450 00 5 75 400 00 00 850 00 But the applicant is benefited as soon as his policy is issued of either of the above named Classes may be discharged months each, payable the 1st of January, April, June of annual dues remaining to the credit of each member, the purchase of Bank Stock for said member, and annually in advance, the member gets 5 per cent portion of annual dues. By the latter mode of payment, selector, thereby making the membership independent and the member receiving the percentage that would be payable to the members of either one of these classes, four times a year, while the Fountains and Rosebuds masters. The members of B Class are allowed to purchase shares for each year of their membership. The stock is one dollar per share. Should misfortune befall them, take their stock certificates and policies, and secure a Class E can purchase 25 shares of Bank Stock, and the membership; likewise, they may take their policies and a loan after a given period of time. You will readily one of these Classes, like the Fountains and the Rosebuds, as well as his family in death. 5. THE TRUE REFORMERS' BANK. The Savings Bank of the G. F. U. O. T. B. w. 1888. Its capital stock is $100,000. It commence 1889. The amount of business to March 1, 1898 stock of this bank is sold to the membership of the buds, B and E classes, and pays a dividend of 20 lar. Persons can deposit their moneys on time or pays 4 per cent interest on all time deposits. Mo held subject to the orders of the depositors. Do upwards. Special attention is given to the collection was the only bank in Richmond which continued to the financial stringency, while the other banks were The Savings Bank of the G. F. U. O. T. B. was chartered March 1888. Its capital stock is $100,000. It commenced business April 1889. The amount of business to March 1, 1888, is $3,458,100. The stock of this bank is sold to the membership of the Fountainls, Rose buds, B and E classes, and pays a dividend of 20 per cent on the dollar. Persons can deposit their monies on time or demand. The bank pays 4 per cent interest on all time deposits. Moneys on demand and held subject to the orders of the depositors. Deposits are received 6. REAL ESTATE OF THE U. O. T. R. ment manages and controls the property of the organization of having offices and buildings in which to carry out its duties to furnish halls for the Subordinate Lodges. Buildings, 2; hotels, 1; with a fee simple value of $104,000. I 7. THE REFORMER, the Organ of the Order. It is the Beacon-Light, the Head-Light, the General of the Brotherhood. It is a live race journal, with a number of the Order, and its columns teem with all its doing people. It is published weekly in The Reformer Press as a first-class job department, and makes a specialty of Beginning in 1881 with absolutely no property the Tuskegee Institute now owns 2,500 acres of land. Of this amount about 100 acres are this year under cultivation. There are upon the school grounds forty-eight buildings, and of these all except four have been wholly erected by the labor of the students. Students and their instructors have done the work, from the drawing of the plans and making of the bricks to the putting in of the electric fixtures. There are fifty wagons and buggies and 200 head of live stock. The total value of the real and personal property is $300,000. If we add to this our endowment fund of $455,000, the total property is $465,000, and if we add to this the value of the 25,000 acres of public land recently granted to this institution by Congress, the total property of this institution is $590,000. The students earn by work at their trades and other industries, about $56,000 a year. The total annual expenditure for carrying on this work is about $90,000. The total monthly expenditure is nearly $7,500. The total daily expenditure is not far from Beginning with thirty students, the number has grown until at the present time there are connected with the institution a thousand and more students from twenty-four states, Africa, Jamaica, Cuba, Porto Rico and other foreign countries. In all of our departments, industrial, academic and religious, there are eighty-eight officers and teachers, making a total population on our grounds of about 1,200 people. During the nineteen years the institution has been in existence hundreds of students have finished the academic and industrial courses, and if we add to this number about 2,000 students who were not able to remain and get a diploma or certificate, who, nevertheless, got the spirit of the institution and a knowledge of an industry to an extent that they are doing good work as teachers, as farmers, as tradesmen, as leaders of thought, industry, thrift, morality and religion, the number can safely be placed at nearly 2,500. Free From Criminal Record. Not a single one of our graduates has ever been convicted by any court of crime. Not a single one of our graduates has ever been charged with the crime of attempting an assault upon a woman. At least half of these students are working in part or wholly at the trades or industries which they learned at Tuskegee. Whether they are working at the immediate trade which they learned or not, all have the spirit of industry and thrift that makes them valuable citizens. The Tuskegee Institute does not confine its work to the industrial training. Along with industrial training goes thorough mental and religious training. We keep in constant operation at which the various students receive training twenty-eight industries. All of these are industries at which our students can find immediate employment as soon as they leave the institution; in fact, we cannot begin to supply the demand for our graduates, and a large portion of these demands come from southern white men and women. We can now erect a building of any size without going off of the school grounds to employ a single outside workman. o "Cast Down Our Buckets Where We Are?" This industrial development leads me in a logical order to the discussion of the most delicate part of my subject, that of the permanent residence of the negro, the relation of the two races and the question of citizenship. Whether our habitat is to be in the south, the north, or west, the islands of the sea, or in Africa, I think you will agree with me that the elements of strength to which we have referred will be most valuable qualities for us as a race. My own belief is that we are to remain permanently in this country and the great bulk of us at the south, and until those who advocate a return to Africa prove their faith by their works, I shall judge them by their actions, and believe that they agree with me, that this is the better country to live in because they are most careful to reside here themselves. Nearly all opportunities and privileges exist upon an economic or industrial basis, and when I say this I mean every time that this economic and commercial basis must be fortified and surrounded by mental development and religion. But there is the foundation. This granted, I do not believe, with all her fault and wrongs, you can find a habitable portion of the globe where there is such opportunity for business, for commercial development, as the grog has open to him in our southern states. The black man who cannot succeed in business in the south cannot succeed out of it. But you suggest that commerce, mere dollars, is not all of life; there is something higher and beyond mere visible accumulation. In this I agree with you, but the history of all races and nations show that they came into the enjoyment of those higher things through the economic gate. This is a great historic and economic fact, which we cannot change, and in the words of another. When we cannot make our theories agree with the facts we had better change our theories." Economic Development as a Lever. In our present mental, economic andoral condition the same difficulties willarrent us, no matter to what portion of the globe we go, in equal numbers. With THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. U. economic development will come protection to property, security to life and the right of trial by jury in all cases. There is no reason for despondency. The negro in the south is in a more hopeful condition than the serfs of Russia, has brighter prospects than the peasants of France and throughout the United States exercises more influence and control in government than an equal number of white people in the same material condition that can be found anywhere in Europe. We may have to struggle for decades and centuries before we get upon our feet, but out of the struggle we will gain a strength and confidence that we secure in no other way. We shall get more out of struggle than out of contentment. Place today every desire of the heart at our feet and within a few centuries our usefulness, strivings and ambitions will disappear. Interracial Co-Operation the Remedy. Interracial Co-Operation the Remedy. Now I come to that part of the discussion upon which you and I are most likely to disagree—that of the relation of the races. In this matter I favor the negro taking an absolutely impregnable position, a position away up on high ground; a position where in future years there will be nothing to regret and nothing to explain. I want to see the negro be greater if possible, in sympathy than the white man. No race or individual can cherish hatred or practice injustice and cruelty against another race or individual without growing weak and narrow, without the conscience becoming seared and blunted to all the higher and sweeter things in life. If for no higher reason, in self-defense, we should learn to love instead of hate. I want to see the black man take his place on high ground, away up in the atmosphere of usefulness, generosity, love and forgiveness. If any white man would be mean, let us be good; if any white man would be little, let us be great; if any white man would push us down, let us help push him up. If others can excel us hating, let us excel them in loving. If others can excel us in acts of cruelty, let us excel them in acts of mercy. You may call this cowardice; if so, it is the kind of cowardice that the Christ taught and practiced, and it is the kind of cowardice that in the long run will win our cause. In plain words, the negro must learn to do what the white man does, what every other race does, and that is, make constant effort in every manly, straightforward, honorable way, not by crouching or debasing himself to make a friend of the man by whose side he lives. This is the policy that the white man from the north pursues; this is the policy that the white man from Europe pursues. This is the policy that the black Cuban pursues in reference to the white Cuban. This is the policy that the negro in Jamaica pursues in reference to the white man in Jamaica. Negro Should Be Sensible in Politics. While in national politics I am a republican, and expect to remain such till I can discover something better, yet I am free to say that there is little reason why in the future we should pursue the policy of arraying ourselves in all local matters solidly in politics against the men whose interests are mutually our own, and to whom we go naturally for assistance and advice. The negro in the south has as much right to consult the interests of his immediate employer in regard to his voting as has the laborer in New York or Ohio. I have little faith in the negro who abuses the southern white man in public and goes in the dark to beg the southern man for money to help him out of difficulty. Let us be manly and straightforward. In the future, more than in the past, it should be the policy of the best representatives of the two races in the various communities to come together in small meetings, to come face to face, to shake hands and talk as brother to brother concerning the problems that surround us. Since the negro is the weaker race, in most cases he must take the initiative. During recent weeks we have heard many mutterings as to the citizenship of our race. The south's material prosperity is in a large degree bound up in the negro. There are hundreds of counties in the south which if deprived of the black man's presence and toil would soon be howling wildernesses. The south cannot afford to jeopardize its prosperity by any practice that keeps alive in the negro a spirit of unrest, of fear, of suspicion; a feeling that life and property are not safe, a feeling that opportunities for education may be removed and he eventually deprived of his citizenship. All this tends to keep the negro shifting from one portion of the country to another, and, worst of all, results in his leaving the large plantation districts of the south, where his labor is needed, for the cities, where his labor is not, as a rule, needed. Fifteenth Amendment to Remain. In these latter days we hear much about a new method of settling this problem, that of removing from our fundamental law, that great sheet anchor of our faith, the precious magna charta of our citizenship, the fifteenth amendment. Whether wisely or unwisely, this guarantee of our rights was placed in the Constitution by the ripest thought of the nation at the time it was enacted; it was placed there as a result of the sacrifice of a million heroic lives, as the result of the expenditure of millions of dollars, and there, in my opinion, at the wish of the conservative and patriotic lives, as the result of the expenditure of the millions of dollars, and there, in my mind, at the behest of the conservative and patriotic opinion of both the south and the north, it will remain while the Constitution itself stands. Why divert attention and force from something that can be done, to something that can not be done? In saying what I have, I would not convey the impression that a mere law can make one individual equal to another. No law can make ignorance equal with intelligence. The feet do not rule the head, simply because there are two of them. What the negro does ask is equality of opportunity, that the door which rewards and encourages virtue, intelligence, thrift, economy, usefulness, the possession of property, be kept wide open to the humblest black man from one shore of this continent to the other. Close this door against a negro now, and within a few years the temptation will be to close it against a class of white men. The minute you recognize a law which taxes a negro for support of government and denies him the opportunity to make his wishes felt at the ballot box, that minute you begin to undermine our whole theory of government and throw to the winds the principles for which the revolutionary war was fought. To Preserve a Republic. The minute you deprive one-eighth of the population of the right of franchise, by reason of the accident of birth and race, that minute this country ceases to be a republic. I stand today where I have always stood, advising my race that in their present condition it is a mistake for them to enter actively into general political agitation and activity; but when the foundation of our citizenship is attacked I think I have a right to speak, and I speak here in the same spirit that I have already spoken in the heart of the south. It is to the interests of the southern white that there shall not be one law which can be made to apply to the white man, and another to the negro. Take away from any class of people in a free government the hope of reward, that the use of the ballot holds, and you produce a state of stagnation, ignorance, crime, corruption. A people thus deprived of hope of reward becomes an eternal millstone about the neck of the body politic. Any subterfuge, any makeshift in the form of law that gives the ignorant white man a right to express his wants at the ballot box and withholds the same privilege from the ignorant negro, is an injustice to both races. In most cases such laws give the negro the incentive to prepare to become a voter by getting property and intelligence, but says to the white man in so many words, remain in ignorance and poverty, and a way will be found for you to exercise the franchise. No question is ever settled till settled right, till settled by the absolute immutable laws of justice. Qualified Suffrage the Way Out. In this matter there is but one way out of our difficulties in the south, and that is for each state that finds it necessary to change its constitution to make an election law, excepting possibly the soldiers who fought on both sides in all wars, that shall be based on intelligence, or poverty, or both, that shall apply every day in the year, honestly, squarely, fearlessly to both races. Surely if the negro is willing to meet this test the white man should not shrink from it. In closing, may I repeat a thought with which I began. It is my faith that the matchless combination of the northern white men and southern white man and black Americans who during three centuries have exhibited virtue, patience, wisdom, skill, physical power and perseverance enough to clear the forests, build the railroads and highways, tunnel the mountains, plant the cities, defeat foreign foes and establish a system of schools and churches, that has made ours the most inviting country known to man, I say the forces that could achieve these results will not be baffled or defeated in the settlement of our race problem. No, there will be no race war. Race wars have been predicted in this country for three centuries, and the first has not occurred. The main weapons of defense used by the negro have been the hoe, the suvel, the plow, the pick, the school, the church, kindness, forgiveness, meekness, his foreday prayers, his midnight groans, his songs and an inherent faith in the justice of his cause. The Caucasian in the south needs the negro, the negro needs the Caucasian. The black man has gotten much from the white man. The white man has gotten much from the black man. Judge Us by Our Best. We must teach the white man to judge us by our best and not by our/worst. We must judge the south by the best types of her white manhood, not by her worst. This is not an age for pessimism, doubt and halting and prediction of disaster. The world is going forward, not backward. The accumulated and accelerated momentum of the universe for 4,000 years is in favor of giving men everywhere more liberty, more opportunity, more intelligence; is in favor of more sympathy and more brotherly kindness, and the trend in this direction can no more be resisted in any part of the country, than we can stay the life-giving influence of the rays of the daily sun. "The stormy billows are high; their fury is mighty, but the Lord is above them and almighty and almighty." REASON FOR ACTING. News Notes and Nuggets From Monticello. Charlottesville, Va., Special. The celebration of the fourth anniversary of the Zion Union Baptist Sunday School, Mr. S. H. White, superintendent, was held at the above-named church, Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Rev. C. N. Harris, pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist church, preached a very appropriate sermon for the occasion, his text being, "Reason for Acting." The Y. M: O. A. men's meeting on Sunday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock was largely attended. Great interest was taken in the discussion of the topic, "Stand still and see the salvation of God." A pink tea entertainment was given Monday night at the First Baptist church by Young People's Aid Club of the church. The musical and literary program was of a very high order, especially pleasing were the cernet solos by Mr. B. H. Baker of Washington, D. C. Mr. Bernard Sammons, who had been in bad health for some time, died at his home on 5th street, southeast, last week. The funeral took place from the home of the deceased, Thursday the 17th inst. Rev. James H. Ferguson officiated. Prof. D. N. Vassar, D. D., of Richmond Theological Seminary, was in the city Sunday and preached at the First Baptist church Sunday night. Mr. A. Scott Webb is home from Butte, Montana, having been called on account of the illness of his mother who is much impaoved Mr. Webb expects to remain here until about the first of July when he will return to Butte. Mr. Adam Whipps went to White Sulphur Springs last week. Mr. Maury and wife, of Hinton. W. Va., were in the city last week visiting Mr. and Mrs. Charles Daniel. Rev. R. C. Quarles returned home last week from Danville, Va., where he attended the General Baptist Association; and Richmond, Va. to the dedication of Virginia Union University. Miss Eva Coles has returned from Richmond, Va., where she attended the closing of Hartshorn Memorial College of which she is a graduate. Mr. Linwood Kelley of Washington, D. C., was in the city last week. Rev. Bernard W. Tyrrell, principal of Valley Institute, was in the city Saturday. Mr. J. W: Whipps attended the Carnival in Richmond last week. Mrs. C. E. Coles has returned home from Cumberland where she went on account of the illness of her sister, who she reports is convalescent. Mr. R. B. Barcus and Miss Beatrice Terry are at home from the V. N. and C. Institute, Petersburg, Va. Misses Susie Buckner, Alberta Coles, Seppie West, Janie Johnson, Susie and Sadie Brown, and Messrs. John H. Lewis and Elijah Gilmer, jr., are at home from Jersey City, N. J. Mr. J. J. Potete of Danville, Va., is in the city as head waiter at the Clermont Hotel. The "Life of Booker T. Washington" can be gotten from Mr. William Sheppard, agent, at Mr. John Sellers' shoe shop. MONTICELLO. Hoffman's Big Musical Festival. "The Patrol of the Boers" and Sousa's new march "The Man behind the Gun" are new and sensational. Hear the famous band render both at Hoffman's 2nd annual musical festival June 8. The prices for reserved seats now on sale at musical bureau, 1180 15th st, n. w., are as follows: orchestra, 75 cents; orchestra circle, 50 cents; dress circle, 35 cents; gallery, 25 cents. 7 THE ZION CONFERENCE. Review in Detail of the Work Accomplished. General Officers Elected. Changes in Pastorates and Distribution of Episcopal Districts. St. Louis in 1904. Because of the press of work, the Conference has been having both night and day sessions during the past week. The Committee on Episcopacy has made the following recommendations: First district—New England, New York, Central North Carolina and Nova Scotia, Bishop J. W. Hood. Second district—North Carolina, Alabama and North Georgia, Bishop T. H. Lomax. Third district—South Carolina, Palmetto and South Georgia, Bishop C. C. Pettey. Fourth District—Blue Ridge, Central Alabama and South Florida, Bishop C. R. Harris, Fifth district—Western North Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Bishop I. C. Clinton. Sixth district—Virginia, New Jersey, Missouri, Michigan and Canada, Bishop A. Walters. Seventh district—Philadelphia and Baltimore, West Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky and North Arkansas, Bishop George W. Clinton. Eighth district—Allegheny and Ohio, Western New York, West Alabama, South Mississippi and Africa, Bishop J. B. Small. Ninth district—North Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Cuba, Porto Rico and Oklahoma, Bishop J. W. Alstork. The Philippine work has been distributed among all of the bishops, while the California Conference is to be visited alternately each year by the bishops. The next session of the General Conference will be held in 1904 at St Louis, Mo. Rev. W. H. Day, J. H. McMullen, W. A. Blackwell and E. A. U. Brooks are the secretaries of the Conference. Rev. E. George Biddle, leader of the Holiness movement in the church and editor of The Trumpet, is one of the representatives of the New York Conference. Among the prominent young ministerial delegates are Rev. W. H. Davenport, E. D. W. Jones, A. A. Crooke, George C. Clements, W. A. Blackwell, W. H. Marshall, J. H. McMullen and W. J. Holland. There are perhaps more women delegates in this Conference than any similar body has ever had. There are perhaps twenty, one of which is an ornamented elder, Mrs. Mary Small, wife of Bishop Small. The Conference and delegations from same have been elaborately entertained by the several A. M. E. Zion churches in the city, and by Hons. H. P. Cheatham and J. W. Lyons, Mrs. Bertie Brooks Lewis, Miss Mabel E. Brooks and Lr. Philip Broome Brooks. Many prominent visitors have been in attendance upon the sessions, among whom were Hons. H. P. Cheatham, J. W. Lyons, J. P. Green, Editor E. E. Cooper, Senator T. T. Allain, Hon. George H. White and R. W. Thompson, Jesse Lawson and Editor T. Thomas Fortune. The Connectional schools are well represented in the persons of Dr. W. H. Goler, president of Livingstone College; Rev. M. D. Lee, principal of Lancaster (S. O.) Normal; A. McCallan, Atkinson College, Kentucky; Greenville, Tenn. College and Walters Institute of Ark. are represented by Bishop Harris and Pref. Douglass respectively. In the absence of the superintendent of the African work, a report of the same was made by Dr. Owen L. W. Smith, who is the accredited minister to the Republic of Liberia from the COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, B. C. United States, now in this country on leave of absence. Special provision will be made at this session of the Conference to spread the work on that continent. The one hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Brown was celebrated. Addresses were delivered by Dr. A. J. Warner, Jesse Lawson, John H. Hector, the great temperance orator, who has recently returned from England where he has been for the past three years; F. J. Grimke, and an excellent paper prepared and read by Prof. Kelly Miller. There will be many changes made in the pastorate of several of the largest churches. The New York church will be supplied either by Rev. W. J. Holland or Rev. E. D. W. Jones. Philadelphia by Rev. George L. Blackwell. Boston, Rev. J. H. McMullen or Rev. W. H. Davenport. In addition to this there are Allegheny City, Pa., Brooklyn, N. Y. and Camden, N. J. The election of General Officers took place Wednesday, which resulted in the election of the following named persons: General Steward, Rev. Dr. J. S. Caldwell; Editor Star of Zion, Rev. J. W. Smith; Manages Publication House, J. M. Hill; President Livingstone College, W. H. Goler; Editor Sabbath School Literature, R. B. Bruce; Editor Quarterly Review, John C. Dancy; President W. H. and F. M. Society, Mrs. J. W. Hood. Among the most prominent lay delegates are Hon John C. Dancy, Collector of Port of Wilmington, N. C.; Prof. S. G. Atkins, President Slater Normal and Industrial Academy, Winston, N. C.; Prof. B. A. Johnson, Livingstone College; W. F. Fonvelle, the versatile newspaper correspondent and champion of lay representation in the church; Mej. R. R. Mims of Mobile, Ala., and Capt. Leatherwood of Asheville, N. C. The General Conference of the A. M. E. Zion Church which convened in Metropolitan Zion church D street, southwest, on May 2d, is still in session. The Conference is composed of a fine looking delegation of men and women representing every department of the church, lay and ministerial. A great effort was made by some to commit the Conference to the election of two or more bishops; but the major portion of the delegates, backed by the people from whom they came, were inclined the other way. All of the candidates, save one, having withdrawn, the Rev. J. W. Alstork of Montgomery, Ala., was elected by the acclimation. The past two or three days of the sessions of the Conference have been given over to the reading of reports of the different departments of the church work most of which show gratifying signs of the spread of the work. The Conference is composed of about 320 delegates. There are nine bishops. Bishop J. W. Hoed of Fayetteville, N. C., is the senior bishop. Drunkenness IS YOUR HUSBAND BROTHER, FATHER, or any of your relatives afflicted with t: Disease of Drunkness? We have a sure cure which can be given with or with out the knowledge of the patient. Send for particulars, in closing 2 cent stamp for reply, Address, Dr. W. H. Saunders & Co., Chicago, Ill. W. H. FISHER 709 9th St. n. w. Cures Weak Men Free Insures Love and Happiness. How any man may quickly cure himself after years of suffering from sexual weakness, lost vitality, varieocle, etc. and enlarge small weak organs to full size and vigor. 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All correspondence is strictly confidential, mailed in plain sealed envelope. The receipt is free for the asking and he wants every man to have it. $1.00—ONLY $1.00 HISTORY of the COLORED SOLDIERS IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. 4 By EDWARD A. JOHNSON, Author of the Famous "School" CONTAINS—Pen pictures of the Darling Juan, El Caney, and around Santiago.—Corp cannon which knocked over the block box Berry, the colored soldier who was first to kill The glowing tribute to McKinley, Miles, Ra of Negro Soldiers—General Morgan advocate Gomez, Miss Oiserson, and the Colar Wom Army—The Negro Poet, Paul Lawrence Pun outwitter the diplomacy of the Spanish Min Uncle Sam's money—The coined Register of money to make it good. Every Page Brimful of New and Important and line engravings of soldier, officer, War, with A FINE PICTURE OF AGUINALDO,onia, and a brief sketch of the Philippines and Handsome Picture of General Nelson mand of all the American Army, who said Santiago was "without a parallel in the his Little," Mailed Free. AGENTS W Big percentage. Send for copy E. A. 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JOHNSON teets, Raleigh, North Carolina. 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 Juan Hill.—The glowing tribute to McKinley, Miles, Roosevelt, and many others on the bravery of Negro Soldiers—General Morgan advocates Negro officers.—Antonio and Jose Macio, Gomez, Miss Oisieros, and the Curar Women Cavaliers.—The Negro Paymasters in the Army.—The Negro Poet, Paul Lawrence Dunbar.—"Eddie" Savoy, the colored man who outwitte the diplomacy of the Spanish Minister at Washington.—The Negro who seeks 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 Philippines 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." Matched Free. Big percentage. Send for copy of book and Agents' terms. Address E. A. JOHNSON Corner West and Lenoir Streets. Raleigh, North Carolina. ```markdown ``` Manufacturer and dealer in SURGICAL & ORTHOPEDICAL Instruments and Trusses. 623 SEVENTH STREET, NORTHWEST Opposite Patent Office WASHINGTON, D. 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The men’s meeting of the Y. M. O. A. fer Bible study was largely attended Sunday at 430 o'clock. The subject for next Sunday’s Bible study is: ‘ Stand etill gud see the Salvatiom of God,’’ Exodus 14: 1-18. The several delegates who attended the meetings of the Baptist Conventions which met in Danville and Lynchburg respectively, have re- turned and give encouraging reports of the State work. Mr. Wm. H. Para- go. who is agent forthe Oable Music Company of Richmond, Va., and who is probably the only colored represen- tative of this firm in the state, recently made 16 sales of pianos for said firm in and near Charlottesville. Mr. B. H. Baker, Generai Agent, Royal Benefit Soeety, Washingtom, D.C., is in the clty im the interest of said Society Messrs, James H, Heiskeli and Wil liam Noble are home from Hot Spriags. Mie, Eliza Carter Heiskell left las wee for Hot Springe, Va., where sh will spend some time. Mesdames J. ¥. 8, Yaylor and Annie Prescvtt let this week for Richmond, Va., wher they will spend some time visiting friends, Mr. Yaylor of New York i visiting in the city, Miss Mary A Buchanan has closed her sebool in th county and is heme again. Messrs. B Bullock, S8r., and Kiah Logan, anc Mrs, Harriet Bullock and Miss Betti James left this week for Warm Springs Va. Mr. RK. H. Baker, who bas beer teaching in the county left this weet for Philadelphia. A May Queen wa: given at the Ebenezer Baptist churcl under the management of Mrs. M, L. Cary, by the ehildren which was very much epjoyed by all present. A ger- man was given at Odd Fellow’s Hal: on the night of May 8tb by the West End German Olub, of which Mr. N, P. Washington is president. The german was led by Mr. Frank Key. Among those present were: Miss Aldretts Ayeis, Anna and Lottie Perry, Eunice Carr, Cora Killey, Zeila Scott, Ressis Jackson, Resa Banister, Stella Winston Mary Lee, Anna Snead, Annie Jack son, Gertrude Ward, Lillie Sellera Marie Alien, Marshy Tinsley, Cornelis Coles, Rosa Fiannagan, Nannie Juck son, Nannie Franklin, Carry Perry Lie Ward, Messrs. Frank Key, Otto wa Ward, Kaleigh Thomas, N. P. Wask ington, W. Barber, 8. Grant, N. Church map, Robt. Weod, E, Smith. H. Pres: ton, W. Bannister, George Jones, F. jackson, V, Bhomas, E. Wood, D. Reed, James Monroe, O. Brooks, Wm Mitchell, P, Thomas, Charles Perry. The supper was served by Messrs. D. Ward, andG. Jackson. The Americar can be had at Pellard and Noble’s o1 from A, F, Angelat the University. MewlOgLLo. J.8. Koence is now giving his fall time to the direction of the famous Delmo Koonce cafein the Odd Fellows’ Hall Building. 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It is as pure as the dew-drop, beautiful as the morn, and harmless as the rippling water in the babbling brook. Cleanliness is next to Godliness; filth is a crime. If your hair is short and harsh and kinky; if your scalp is covered with scurf and dandruff, or itch, or eczema, it is doubtless your fault alone. If your little ones' heads are a mass of crusty, scaly, flaky scurf, teeming with germs and microbes, that are invisible to the naked eye, but which are sapping the life from the hair and destroying it forever, and you allow this state to go on, it is a crime. It is your place to stop this—a duty you owe to yourself, to your child, to your Maker. OZONO is your remedy. OZONO will positively and permanently remove all the diseases, and straighten and beautify the hair, making it silky and glossy and black as the raven's wing. OZONO, as compared with other hair remedies, stands as high as the mountain peak, fair as the lily, and glorious as the sun. OZONO is King. The price is 50c. a box. It requires about four boxes to complete the treatment. Write to us at once, enclosing the small sum of ONE DOLLAR, and we will immediately forward to you four large boxes of OZONO. We will also send you one large bottle of ELECTRIC SKIN REFINER, which makes rough skin soft and brightens the blackest skin, making it several shades lighter. Now, there is much fraud practiced with face bleaches. Understand, we do not advertise this bleach to make one white. God alone can accomplish this, and it would be miraculous. Unpin your faith from frauds. We assert that our Refiner will soften rough skin and brighten black skin, but it can do no more. Take our advice; don't fool with any bleach that is advertised to make you white: it is more apt to poison you. We will also include one fancy jar of ELECTRICAL SKIN FOOD, which is a sure remedy for all Skin Eruptions, Pimples, Black Heads, Liver Spots, and all Skin Diseases. It will remove Wrinkles, Scars, Facial Blemishes, and will positively take out Small-Pox Pits. This is saying a great deal, but it is true. It makes the old look young and the young look younger. And, lastly, to prove our liberality, we will add a one-pint package of ANTI-ODOR. This remedy removes all smells and odors arising from the human body. Its uses are too numerous to mention. Full directions go with all goods. This grand aggregation is worth $3.50. Send $1.00, mention the name of this paper, and you will get the goods at once. We ship all orders same day goods are received. We wish to state that we are a thoroughly reliable firm, having many thousand dollars in our business. We refer to the editor of this paper, or to any business house in Richmond. Our remedies and our business is founded on the altar of truth. Write your name and address plainly. OZONO IS GUARANTEED. BEFORE AFTER A preparation prepared solely and injurious nostrums, but a delicately peeled OZONO straightens knotty, nappy, kinked, vidually straightens, without any outside the hair to grow long and straight, soft Tetter, Scurf, and Eczema. Itch cannot in the babbling brook. Cleanliness is not druff, or itch, or eczema, it is doubtless you invisible to the naked eye, but which are stop this—a duty you owe to yourself, and straighten and beautify the hair, many mountain peak, fair as the lily, and glorious. Write to us at once, enclosing the one large bottle of ELECTRIC SKIN much fraud practiced with face bleaches, lous. Unpin your faith from frauds. We with any bleach that is advertised to make sure remedy for all Skin Eruptions, Pimt take out Small-Pox Pits. This is saying we will add a one-pint package of ANT Full directions go with all goods. This is ship all orders same day goods are receive. We wish to state that we are a thor house in Richmond. Our remedies and o OZONO IS GUAR City Paragraphs. City Paragraphs. Editor T. Thomas Fortune has been in the city this week. Don't you need a nice fitting serge suit? See Cooper the tailor 493 Missouri avenue. Mr. G. J. Pickett has been elected as sergeant at arms of the Illinois Republic Association. Hon. John S. Durham, of Philadelphia, ex minister to Hayti circulated among Washington friends this week. The pupils of the High School gave a successful dramatic and musical entertainment last night at Israel C. M. E. church. The Second Baptist Lyceur holds a farewell session tomorrow afternoon to reply to the criticisms of Charles Ludley Warner. The Odd Fellows' Hall building in M street, was slightly damaged by fire Tuesday evening. Mr. David Turner arrived in the city Monday evening, after an extended stay in Atlanta and other points South. Hear the two instrumental solos at Roffman Musical Festival, June 8. Mr. Alexander Lee cello solo, Mr. William Robinson cornetist. Mrs. Adline Jackson of this city has gone to Atlantic City, N. J. to spend the summer with her sisters, Mrs. M. Davis and Mrs. I. M. Richardson. Mr. Sidney Woodward, the premier Afro-American tenor, will be heard to advantage at the Grand Musical Concert at Shiloh Baptist church, Monday evening, June 11. Are you using Harris' New Blood Tonic? No? Well then that's the reason you are so worn out and listless in the evening's although you haven't been working very hard either. Mr. Paul Laurence Dunbar has returned to the city after a pleasant tour of many months in the Rocky Mountains. He will make his first public appearance at Shiloh [Baptist church, June 11. Mrs. Lulu Joy Brooks needs little if any introduction to the Washington public. She will be heard to great advantage at the Grand Musical Concert at Shiloh Baptist church, Monday evening, June 11. Through the instrumentality of Editor W. Calvin Chase, fifteen colored census enumerators has been appointed --- THE COLLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. O. OZONO! King of Hair Dressings. WHAT IS OZONO? OUR GRAND OFFER for the District of Columbia by Supervisor Harrison Dingman. They will go on duty June 1st. Madame Irving of St. Augustine's church will sing the beautiful solo's in Gonnods Gallia and Mr. William Good rich tenor soloist makes his reentry into the musical arena at the big musical arena at the big musical festival June 8. The annual drill of the High School Cadets will take place Monday at 4.15 p.m. at the Base Ball Park and promises to be the finest exhibition of tactical skill they have ever put up. If we have "Shriner weather" the affair will be a glorious success. Rev. A. P. Miller, B. D., will deliver a memorial address to the Douglass Post G. A. R. Sunday evening at 8 o'clock in the Lincoln Memorial Congregational church. Companies A. and B. of National Guards have been invited to be present in their uniforms. The pupils of the Metropolitan Baptist Sunday school will give a grand operetta entitled "Lost in the Woods," Wednesday evening, May 80th. There will be a grand spectacular novelty drill, "The March of the Chinese Lanterns," winding of the May pole and various solos, choruses, etc. Mr. and Mrs. John P. Green and son, Mr. T. P. Green, invited a few friends to their cozy residence to meet Mrs. Sarah S Skeene and the Misses Kitty S. and Kitty T. Skeene of Cleveland, Friday evening, the 55th inst. A representative gathering was present and made the evening very pleasant for the host and their company. The prizes to be given by the Households of Ruth at the fair and entertainment at Odd Fellows' Hall last week, were won by Green Mountain Lodge 1477 G. U. O. of O. F. and by Queen Deborah Household of Ruth. Mr. William E. Washington, Chairman, on behalf of the committee made the presentation address in a most masterly and pleasing way. Capt. Leatherwood's sonvenir shows 36 of the officers in military uniform, a scene of the charge made by the colored troops at San Juan Hill, a camp scene in Cuba, and sketches of each officer. This was the first Negro regiment ever organized and entirely officered by colored men. Every patriotic race man will buy one to keep as a memento, and as an ornament for his home. Mrs. Daniel Murray left last Saturday for Des Moines, Iowa, where she is attending the Mother's Congress. Before returning, she will pay a visit to Milwaukee where she he has been urgently BOSTON CHEMICAL CO.. Invited to deliver on address on the utility of the kindergarten. While abroad, Mrs. Murray has been the recipient of much social attention at the hands of America's most distinguished women of both races. Dress-Making DRESSMAKING ACADEMY The de Lam Orton Famous Friend Perfection Tailor System Acade Capt. Thomas L. Leatherwood, of Asheville, N. C., who was a lay delegate to the General Conference, will remain in the city a few days for the purpose of introducing a publication of his own, which he calls "The Military and Historical Souvenir Portrait Groupe of the Officers of the 8rd N. C. U. S. V. Infantry in the War with Spain." The souvenir is a beautiful one, and should be in all the homes, halls, and places of business of the colored people. Agents wanted. Address Capt. Thomas L. Leatherwood, 1225 22d street. The officers of The Washington Permanent Chorus who are doing so much in endeavoring to upbuild the race engaged in the musical work are as follows: President Ms. J. E. Rattley, Vice President Mr. J. Townsend Beason, Secretary and Treasurer Mr. Elmer Pettiford Musical Director, Mr. Elzie S Hoffman Assistant Director, Mr. Na theniel Bowles the lather of whom is director of the famous Mt. Zion choir, of Georgetown the entire body of which will sing at the big Festival. The executive committee is composed of Mr. James L. Johnson, chairman, Mr. Leon Wheeler and Mr. Alfred Pope. A Boston Newspaper Man. Mr. Max Bennett Thrasher, a Boston newspaper and magazine writer of national fame, who has devoted much of the time during the last few years to a study of the methods and results of the Negro schools in the South was in Washington recently on his way back from the Montgomery conference. Mr. Thrasher has in press a book entitled 'Tuskegee,' which in a new and interesting way tells the story of Booker T. Washington's famous school in Alabama. NOTICE 1210 U STREET, N. W. The only colored architects in the city, since the death of C. S. T. Brent. Architects for churches and chapels anywhere in the United States. BEFORE. AFTER. less, offensive, obnoxious, greasy mass of human, benefit youth, and gladden old age, deriving down with grease. OZONO indi- hair to its natural color. It will cause ing, humiliating Scalp Diseases, Dandruff, morn, and harmless as the rippling water our scalp is covered with scurf and dance- ming with germs and microbes, that are to go on, it is a crime. It is your place to and permanently remove all the diseases, other hair remedies, stands as high as the boxes to complete the treatment. boxes of OZONO. We will also send you it several shades lighter. Now, there is accomplish this, and it would be miraculo no more. Take our advice; don't fool ELECTRICAL SKIN FOOD, which is aears, Facial Blemishes, and will positively anger. And, lastly, to prove our liberality, Its uses are too numerous to mention. and you will get the goods at once. 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