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The COLORED American A NATIONAL REGRO NEWSPAPER LIBRARY OF CONGRESS RECEIVED JUL 21 1900 PERIODICAL DIV. VOL. 8 NO. 16 A DARING DEED. A Colored Youth's Heroism at a Holocast News Notes From the Windy City—Rev Ransom Retained—An Odd Fellows Temple in Prospect- Olivet Baptist Church Makes a Good Showing. Chicago, Ill., Special.—Mrs. Mary Church Terrell passed through our city Sunday. She had been lecturing in South Dakota and was enroute to Washington. Mrs. Terrell's name is a household word in the West. She won the highest admiration last summer, when she was here as president of the Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. Her splendid ability, affability, and personal magnetism won for her a warm place in the hearts of the people of Chicago. It is hoped it is true that this gifted woman will give her host of friends a chance to hear her in August. Dr. Wilson, a prominent physician and surgeon of Nashville, Tenn. is in the city taking special courses in surgery at some of our best institutions. Dr. A. H. Kennibrew, resident physician at the Tuskegee Institute, spent several weeks in this city taking laboratory courses in the Post Graduate school. His charming wife joined him the last week of his stay. After spending a few days in Jacksonville, Ill., they will return to Tuskegee. The Edelweiss, a wealthy beer garden that has succeeded in fastening its fangs in the fashionable Hyde Park district of this city, was partially destroyed by fire recently. The building known as "Ye Tavern" at the west end of the grounds also suffered a great loss. About one dozen servants were employed in them, among them a colored boy, William Drake who succeeded in securing $25,000 from the safe, and rushed into the street while the flames licked him on both cheeks. This was truly a heroic deed, yet the daily papers in reporting the fire could not spare but four lines to devote to the deed, and that was merely a mention. Rev. Reverdy C. Ransom preached his farewell sermon at Bethel church Sunday night. During his four years pastorate he endeared himself to his large congregation by his honest, earnest administration; and won the esteem of the best citizens of Chicago. In his congregation could be found many of Chicago's intellectual lights who were attracted by the literary merit of this eminent divines sermons. The race needs such men as Rev. Ranson and rejoice to know that he is going to remain with us as pastor and superinten J. C. HON. W. F. POWELL. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister P The Black Republic--Now Spending Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Port-au Prince, Haiti, The Black Republic--Now Spending His Vacation in the United States. dent of the Institutional church which has recently been organized by the A. M. E. Church. The colored Odd Fellows throughout the United States will be glad to know that the Odd Fellows of Chicago have paid $16,000 cash for a large lot on State Street on which they will build an Odd Fellows Temple. The plans have been completed and the larger part of the money is in hand to begin the erection of the building. It has not been definitely settled just when the corner stone will be laid, but it is thought some time in the early fall. In connection with the building will be one of the largest, most elegant, and completely furnished auditoriums in the city. There will a'so be at least six lodge halls properly fitted up for the meetings of the different organizations. This enterprise will fill a long felt want in this city. Prof. J. W. Hall, who conducts the most successful dancing school in the city is a teacher of no small ability. He has made a decided success of his art, is well known and merits the high es- enipotentiary to Port-au Prince, Haiti, His Vacation in the United States. teem in which he is held by the public. He is the only colored member of the Dancing Masters' Association, which body he attended in June. His new dance hall at Arlington Hall is provided with every thing for the comfort of patrons; electric fans and palms adding to its beauty. Prof. Hall is dignified and manly, and his name appears as "prompter" on the invitation of the largest and most successful balls given in the city. Rev. J. F. Thomas, pastor of Olivet Baptist church is a man whose merits as a minister of the gospel ought not be hid behind a bushel. Olivet, a magnificent brick structure, stands at the corner of 27th and Dearborn streets, and has been unfortunate from a financial standpoint, many times just escaping embarassment by the good judgment of this earnest worker; and not only judgment, but many times has he consulted his own bank book in order to uphold the church he had started to build. ne'er wavering in the attention due the duty he had been summoned (Continued on fourth page.) ```markdown ``` PRICE FIVE CENTS. THE FORWARD MOVEMENT Christianity as a Lever to Advance the Negro and to Solve the Problem-His Ambition to Hold High Office in the Church not Encouraged-Some Cases in Point-Bruce Grits Scintillations. Albany, N. Y., Special:— For a long time the christian churches of the superior race have been greatly annoyed and perplexed over the question "what shall we do with the Negro?" and at each recurring conference, synod, session or council of these various christian denominations,the question has grown larger and hence more troublesome to handle. This is due very greatly to the fact that the Negro insists on getting religion And every year large numbers of them by reason of their conversion to the christian faith, claim fellowship with their white brethren and expect to be treated by them as equals. Herein is the kernel of the great problem and it is not difficult for anyone to see, for it is quite a large kernel. These Negroes not only absorb our religion, but they hanker after positions in our various churches. Only a short time ago one of these "christian Negroes," a man of quite considerable ability, a scholar of no mean pretensions and a gentleman of culture and refinement had the temerity to aspire to the Bishopric, and was quite a formidable candidate. Many of our good christian brethren in the conference voted for him on the first ballot by way of complimenting him, and he came dangerously near being elected as he received nearly 500 votes. When this was discovered the brethren at once decided to reduce his vote on each succeeding ballot, with the result that when the balloting was over he was not visible in the count. The election of that Negro would have disrupted the Christian Church and established a precedent which would have retarded the progress of our Holy religion fifty years to come. The brethren who were responsible for encouraging the ambition of this Negro were roundly censured in caucus for their action in voting for him. It was maintained that while he possibly possessed all the requirements the moral character and mental equipment needed in a Bishop, the fact remained that he is a Negro, and that by virtue of his election to the Bishopric he would necessarily have the unquestioned right to preside over white conferences in Baltimore and other southern cities and he would be thrown in social contact with our women and children in their homes. 2 The gravity of the situation being thus made plain the matter was made the subject of prayer both by the presiding Bishops, ministers and laymen, and when it was finally disposed of it was made clear that the Lord had opened the eyes of the trethren and shown them the duty which lay in their path. At the final session of our conference there was an outpouring of His Holy Spirit and showers of blessing immersed us, and filled our souls with the love and peace which passeth understanding, and we say with great unction that grand old spiritual: But there were still obstacles in the way, another Negro of equal talent, culture and ability and who had cultivated a taste for our Holy religion and for office, took advantage of our session of rejoicing over our narrow escape from electing one of his race to the Bishopric, and prevailed upon the brethren to vote for him for secretary—missionary secretary. They elected him though we cannot believe that they did it cheerfully or willingly. Many of the brethren said afterwards that had they known the Negro brother had so thoroughly systematized his canvass they would have cast their votes for his opponent. They did not dream that he would succeed any better than the black brother, who had been defeated for Bishop. When the vote was announced and it was found that the Negro brother had been elected we all bowed to the decision as gracefully as we could, feeling that our "Heavenly Father doeth all things well." Yet we were unable to see or to understand this manifestation of his Providence. The election of this Negro brother is even more repugnant to some of us than would have been the election of our other Negro brother to the Bishopric Already there have been heard mutterings of disapproval from our white brethren in various quarters who strongly and vigorously protest against the selection of this Negro brother for missionary secretary, an office which per force brings him in contact personally, and by correspondence with the workers in the vineyard, of both sexes who feel somewhat humiliated in the thought that their superior is a one of an "inferior and despised race." This bring us down to the consideration of the forward movement in Christianity—and the causes which make such a movement necessary. We are met at the threshold of the discussion with the question. "What shall we do with the Negro?" This is a weighty and serious question—and its proper solution can be found only in appeal to the throne of Grace for light and guidance and wisdom in finding its correct answer. We feel nowever that in matters of religion as in politics, the Negro's place can only be a secondary one in America. If he is encouraged by fanatics in the white christian churches to aspire to leadership in religious matters, as some have been encouraged to aspire politically, (and as we think mistakenly) interest in the growth and spread of the christian religion will receive as terrible a set back as has certain kind of politics in certain sections of our country wherein Negroes have presumed to shape political principles and policies. The forward movement in religion is the work, and the master work of "the stronger race." Nothing can be more THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. clear than that a race which has the highest civilization, the highest culture and untold wealth should give direction to all these matters which concern the moral, religious and political growth and development of the nation. Manifest destiny has stamped upon the brow of every Anglo-Russian his proud title to leadership in all things which make for the uplift of the human family. It more than any other race comprehends the Divine Will, and it has accomplished more than any other race in bringing souls to Christ and thus making possible His Kingdom upon the earth. In Africa, in Asia and the islands of the sea, it has planted the cross of Christ, and the stars and stripes. It has translated the Bible in every language and hundreds of heathen dialects. The persuasive power of American Rum has been felt by these heathens through the good offices of the martyrs of the cross—our beloved missionaries in these foreign lands, who are teaching these heathens that Jesus died for them, that He loves them and wants them to come to him. Only superior intellects could have accomplished these mighty results, and the work, thanks to Anglo-Saxon energy, enterprise and pluck, is still stirring at the gates of imperial China, in the priest-ridden islands of the Phillipines, and Cuba, in Africa and in Turkey and emblazoned upon the banner of these self-sacrificing pioneers in the spread of the gospel are the conquering words: "The world for Christ." The dominating spirit of the Anglo-Saxon race must prevail in the work of redeeming the world for Christ. This is manifest destiny. And it must be the shibboleth in the forward movement in christianity. There are many gratify ing evidences that the white christian church in America now realizes that its position is one of command, and direction in these matters, which concern the salvation of men's souls, and that nothing is plainer than that the Almighty Father has entrusted to the great Anglo Saxon race the duty and the responsibility of planting the seeds of His holy religion in the hearts of the heathen of all races and all lands. "Praise God from whom all blessings flow." BRUCE GRIT. That Boston Business League. Booker T. Washington writes that the effort to organize a National Negro Business League at Boston, August 23, 24, 1900, is meeting with the most gratifying commendation and assistance from business men and women in every section of the country. It is to be understood that this organization is for colored people who are engaged in the most humble lines of business as well as for those who are engaged in the higher lines of trade. Few people understand how many successful colored men and women there who are engaged in business of all kinds in remote towns and who are succeeding in a quiet way. The object of this meeting will be to get hold of such people and give them such encouragement and advice as will enable them to do more and better business. At the same time a demonstration will be made of the enterprises of the race that will do much to help and strengthen it in the eyes of the world. All persons engaged in business who have not yet communicated with Mr. Washington are urged to do so at Tuskegee, Alabama, at once. Such an effort deserves and should receive the hearty encouragement and assistance of every man and woman of the race interested in its future. The Laws and Customs in the Transvaal Thrown on Panorama—Dr. W. A. Croffut Descants on the Much Mooted Subject—The Boers the Friends and Saviors of the Natives. Editor Colored American: - There has been of late considerable discussion of the treatment of the native races of South Africa by the Boers, and one reason put forward to reconcile the scrupulous among us to the extinction of the two little republics has been the alleged refusal, particularly of the Transvaal, to allow the blacks to hold laud, and the provision of its constitution announcing that "the people will not allow any equalization of the colored inhabitants with the white." It may not be known to the majority of those who triumphantly quote this provision to us, that in our own United States, and not south of Mason and Dixon's line, there exists a similar if not more sweeping enactment, so stringent that it might almost apply to the right of birth. On the statue books of the State of Oregon we find the following: "No free Negro or mulatto not residing in this State at the time of the adoption of this constitution shall come reside, or be within this State, or hold any real estate, or make any contracts, or maintain any suit therein; and the legislative Assembly shall provide by penal laws the removal, by public officers, of all such Negroes and mulattoes and for their effectual exclusion from this State, and for the punishment of persons who shall bring them into the State or employ or harbor them therein." And, so far from being obsolete, an amendment to the Constitution proposing the repeal of this law was vetoed down in the recent election held within that State! There is ample room for comment on the situation, for granting that this outrageous and infamous discrimination on account of color was inserted in the fundamental law of Oregon in ante-bellum days, more than the life time of a generation has elapsed in which the removal might have been accomplished, and in the closing year of the nineteenth century, in the midst of a great triumph of the Republican party, it has been seen fit to retain it. Now for a moment let us listen to the statement of the Boer envoys on the question of the rights of the blacks in the twin republics, published in the Washington Post during their stay in this country: "The report that Negroes did not have fair play in the South African republics being alluded to, the envoys said: "It is like the other reports just disposed of—it is not true. Americans who are among us admit the very contrary to be the case. The fact that natives constantly and rapidly increase proves this. The only discrimination that is made against the Negroes in either of the republics is in the matter of whisky selling. They are not allowed to buy liquor without an order from their employers. Please remember that they are not at all like your Negroes American Negroes are civilized—many of them educated and enlightened. Ours are wild men, and they have come out of the woods too recently to have been generally much improved by surrounding influences. Whisky makes them crazy and irresponsible, and we try to keep it away from them. In the British territory around us Negroes have free access to liquor; any man who has money can buy it, and the British Negroes are therefore more reckless, more demoralized, more dangerous, more ignorant, shiftless, and poor than ours. We and the Negroes do not sit together in church, but we have built them a church in every town and we support it with white men's taxes. They also have schools. On account of their enforced temperance. our Negroes are economical, religious, thrifty, and happy as compared with any others around them. This is proved by the fact that they increase in number some 20 per cent. a year. The border is unprotected; natives can come and go at pleasure. The last census showed that there were more than twice as many as whites. There are nearly a million in the republics. If our natives are handled harshly and badly, why do they not fly across the near-by frontier to the kind and humane British? No; they have constantly come from the British to us." This would seem a fair and temperate argument. Let us see if it is substantiated. It is a well known fact that slavery was not originally instituted by the Dutch in South Africa. It was introduced, and repeatedly, persistently urged and pressed upon them by the English. Says Rev. Lewis Grout, an American missionary for 15 years to Natal, the author of numerous works on Africa and in particular of the Zulu grammar which is now passing through its second edition "In the very beginning, whatever may eventually have been the feeling of the Dutch at times toward the black races, it was only kind and Christly. It is on record that when the Dutch went, about the middle of the seventeenth century, to settle at the Cape, one great object was that in this way the religious well being of the aborigines might be promoted, that many souls of the natives might be brought to a knowledge of religion and saved to God." That no fault can be found with their treatment is shown by the fact for the land upon which they built their fort and planted their garden they paid to the owners the sum of 50,000 gilders, beside which the 60 gilders paid for Manhattan Island makes a poor showing. It was not on account of the abolition of slavery, as has been asserted, that the trek of the Boers to the northward began. It was undertaken in 1833, whereas the emancipation of slaves took place a year later, and then it was not so much the act as the manner of it which aroused the indignation of the Dutch farmers. The miserably inadequate sum allotted to them in purchase never reached the majority of owners, owing to the requirement that it be paid in London. While constantly reiterated the charge is never pressed by English historians or advocates that the exodus of their slaves from bondage was the determining cause of the departure of the Boers from beneath British rule. Says one of the most ardent supporters of the imperial policy in South Africa, "I must admit that the history of the English in South Africa, or to be more accurate, of the English Government—of the English Cabinet—in South Africa, makes about the most discreditable and unhappy reading that an Englishman can face in all the great history of his people." In the land to which the Dutch betook themselves after their expulsion from Natal there were no blacks, Internecine wars and the aridity of the region had rendered it uninhabited. In fact it is to the development of the country by the white man and the immense importation of food stuffs incident to the opening of the mines which has enabled the black race to obey the Biblical injunction to "increase and multiply" there. That they never objected to the dominion of the Dutch is shown by the fact that during the six years the Boers were in possession of Natal the black population "regarding ing the Voortrekker commandants as deliverers, under whose rule they came to place themselves, in thousands and tens of thousands," increased, according British historians, from between 5,000 and 6,000 to the neighborhood of (Continued on fourteenth page.) THE RECORD OF A BUSY LIFE. Mr R W. Thompson's Exhaustive Review of "The Story of My Life and Work," by Prof. Booker T. Washington. A Priceless Contribution to the Bibliography of All Time-The Candor and Clearness that Stamp the Volume With the Washington Character- Analysis of Incident and Motive-The Story in Detail-A Remarkable Book by the Race's Most Remarkable Man. "A Remakable Book by a Remarkable Man," is the first comment that the reader invariably gives expression to after having read "The Story of my life and work," by Booker T. Washington, for that is exactly what it is. To say that "it reads like a romance," is to deal with the common place, in this new age of epigram-moulding. Mr. Washington's latest volume is perhaps the most touching recitals of the struggles and triumphs, growing out of a natural ambition for a larger life, of the sacrifices and success that accompany one who strives for high standards and exalted goals that the American people have listened to since it was charmed, inspired and thrilled by the marvelous story of the rise of those two thoroughly representative types of American possibilities, under opposing social systems,—Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. And Booker Washington's glory is not lessened in the comparison when it is remembered that he had not the fortune to begin his career as the advocate of the destruction of an almost universally detested institution which gave no man the illegitimate mastery of another. He did not garner fame from an exciting age when "wars and rumors of wars" cast a halo of martial splendor about the heads of abolition's champion. He had not the fascinating influences nor the adventitious aids that politics brings to bear as a lever toward eminence, nor the prestige of a conquering race to botster up his efforts. He simply dug his remarkable career out of the soil—the hills and dales of the Virginia and the toole lands of Alabama serving as the theater of his principal achievements. No stranger picture is offered by contemperateous history of a man who has more completely risen by his own might,—by the sheer force of a commanding personality—than is illustrated in the phenomenal record of Booker T. Washington. His chosen work possessed none of the sensational features that belonged to the forces of destruction. He could lead no assault upon a temple of infamy already standing, as fell to the lot of slavery's foes. It was his prosy and unsentimental mission to construct from such material as could be found, a new order of thought and morals that would counteract the vicious and unwholesome tendencies of the age with reference to our race, and reform a dangerous and unsatisfactory educational system. He is the only Negro in two decades to earn a leadership outside of the church and politics, and one of the two of any race below the Mason and Dixon's line to win a national reputation in the same period. "The Story of My Life" goes over all this ground made familiar by Mr. Washington's addresses, the facts being so deftly arranged and so attract, ively stated that the reader is led on and on through the 423 pages with increasing interest, closing with a regret that the end had been reached. The volume is thoroughly characteristic THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. of Mr. Washington—plain, direct and modest. There is no attempt at "fine writin"—no effort to exploit the gewgaws of rhetoric—not a superfluous word is used with the idea of arousing the "galleries." From the simple story of his earliest childhood to the concluding paragraph, one is struck with the refreshing candor of the author. He omits nothing necessary to a complete statement, either as to the incident or motive. He tells much inside history of his plans and purposes, doubts and fears, hopes and ambitions, that is made public for the first time. The salient points in his life are given a fitting rehearsal, and his principal speeches are so admirably selected and arranged, that the book gives to those who have had little opportunity to follow him heretofore, a clear and comprehensive view of his actual position on all the great questions of the century. Every individual is thus enabled to get Mr. Washington's utterances from an authoritative source, and not be forced to form his opinion of the man from garbled and misleading press reports, or upon what he has heard some one say, he had heard that the great educator has said on certain occasions. It is a notable and significant fact that Mr. Washington's newest admirers are those who know him best, and who understand the true greatness of his heart, the depth of his superb mind and the earnestness and sincerity of his labors. His opponents are chiefly professional rivals—people who have never heard him speak or read in full a single public statement or letter. Few will read his book without being convinced of the soundness of his philosophy, and converted into advocates of industrial education scarcely less intense than the "Tuskegee Wizard" himself. Washington's frankness and freedom from the rain beating of the latter day snob, is shown in his description of his obscure birth amd parentage and the poverty surrounding his early life in the Virginia's. Portraits are given of the tumble down log cabin where he first saw the light—and opportunities seemed plentiful through both roof and walls—and of pathetic scenes between the sprightly youngster and his sainted mother. Her tack of literary training is delicately referred to, but what will commend the writer to every manly man is the beautiful tribute to the fidelity, devotion and character of that slave mother, and how magnaniously he arrays the ethics of honesty on her side when he tells of her nocturnal forages upon the "big house" to secure by whatever means most expedient a supply of food for her loved little ones. The same spirit of candor regarding his humble beginnings pervades each of the twenty-two chapters into which the book is divided. Mr. Washington's first employment, how his boyish ambition to "be something, to do something" was fired by the sight of a colored man reading a newspaper in a crowd, his weary trip to Hampton, his famous "examination" for admission, how he acquired the name of "Washington," his advent into the Sunday school, his valuable discipline learned under the tutelage of Mrs. Viola Ruffner—all these and other facts are brought out, leading up to his graduation from Hampton in, 1875, after which the second epoch of his career may be said to have begun. Mr. Washington's experiences covering the next six years are kalidescopic (Continued on seventh page.) FOUND AT LAST The Magnetic Comb. 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. 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Order goods now, as this g Write your name and address plainly. Order, Express, or enclosed in a Regi HARTONA REM Since our remedies in this city, we will send to all people a mail to us this Coupon and ONE DOLLAR, three AIR STRAIGHTENER, worth $3.00; two LAST SPACE WASH, worth $2.00; one package of HAIR in 50c. The entire lot of remedies, worth $5.50, so that no one can tell contents, for ONE DOLLAR or goods now, as this grand offer will last but a short time and address plainly. Money can be sent by Post, or enclosed in a Registered Letter. To introduce our remedies in this city, we will send to all persons who will cut out and mail to us this Coupon and ONE DOLLAR, three large boxes of HARTONA HAIR STRAIGHTENER, worth $3.00; two large bottles of HARTONA FACE WASH, worth $2.00; one package of HARTONA NO-SMELL, worth 50c. The entire lot of remedies, worth $5.50, will be sent securely sealed, so that no one can tell contents, for ONE DOLLAR and this Coupon. Order goods now, as this grand offer will last but a short time only. Write your name and address plainly. Money can be sent by Post-Office Money Order, Express, or enclosed in a Registered Letter. HARTONA REMEDY COMPANY. 909 E. Main Street, RICHMOND, VA. GENTLEMEN:—I enclose you ONE DOLLAR, for which serv- lowing goods at once— Three Large Boxes HARTONA HAIR STRAIGHTENER, wo- Two Large Bottles HARTONA FACE WASH, - wo- One Package HARTONA NO-SMELL, - wo- My Name is___ House No.___, Street___ City___, County___, State___ AGENTS WANTED IN EVERY TOWN IN AMERICA. OUR GOODS S EN:—I enclose you ONE DOLLAR, for which service at once— Large Boxes HARTONA HAIR STRAIGHTENER, wo- lde Bottles HARTONA FACE WASH, wo- lde HARTONA NO-SMELL, wo- o._____, Street_____ _____, County_____, State_____ D IN EVERY TOWN IN AMERICA. OUR GOODS S GENTLEMEN:I enclose you ONE DOLLAR, for which send me the following goods at once Three Large Boxes HARTONA HAIR STRAIGHTENER, worth $3.00 Two Large Bottles HARTONA FACE WASH, worth $2.00 One Package HARTONA NO-SMELL, worth .50 House No.____, Street____ City____, County____, State____ AGENTS WANTED IN EVERY TOWN IN AMERICA. OUR GOODS SELL ON SIGHT The Delmo-Koonce Cafe Manufacturers of Ice Cream and Water Ices. Meals served a la carte. Special rates to table boarders. ICE CREAM 90C PER GALLON (Wholesale.) Odd Fellows Hall, 1606 M St. N. W. Washington, D. C. Banquet Hall attached. Told For 10 cts. and 25 cts. Don't fail to have your fortune told by the Scientific Palmists, they never fail to please you. The Palmists will be at the above place for a short time only. Cut this out and present this to the Palmist and get a picture of your future Husband or Wife free. REMEMBER THE PLACE 1220 7th Street, Northwest. FOR RENT several furnished rooms, with board if desired. MARY E. LANE, 1409 Columbia Street. --- --- 4 Your Fortune THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. black person five or six shades lighter, and person perfectly white. HARTONA FACE in spots, but all over evenly. The skin continual use of the Face Wash. One bottle look as beautiful as possible. Thousands of monials every year from all over the United I will remove Wrinkles, Dark Spots, Pimples, remises of the Skin. You can regulate the hands to any shade you wish. Full directions CE WASH is perfectly harmless, and is sent on receipt of price—$1.00 per bottle. Very refunded if you are not absolutely satisfa- ia Remedies. rs of the body. Cures sore and aching feet. SMELL is a God-send to all persons suffered by perspiration of the feet, arm-pits, etc. 50c. a package. HARTONA REMEDY COMPANY. 909 E. Main St., RICHMOND, VA. this city, we will send to all persons who will own and ONE DOLLAR, three large boxes of NER, worth $3.00; two large bottles of $2.00; one package of HARTONA NO- lot of remedies, worth $5.50, will be sent tell contents, for ONE DOLLAR and this is grand offer will last but a short time only. Money can be sent by Post-Office Money registered Letter. ONE DOLLAR, for which send me the fol- A HAIR STRAIGHTENER, worth $3.00 A FACE WASH, - worth $2.00 SMELL, - worth .50 reet nity_____, State_____ IN AMERICA. OUR GOODS SELL ON SIGHT. Lewis Riqqers, INSURANCE AGENT. 111 North Clinton, St., East Orange, N. J. SICK, ACCIDENT, AND DEATH BENEFIT PAID PROMPTLY. National Benefit Association, Capital Savings Bank Building, Washington, D. C. Walter J. Watson Real Estate, Loans AND COLLECTIONS, House Renting a Specialty. Careful and Personal Attention Given. 626 E Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. E. T. Kautman, Registered Plumber and Gasfitter, Hot Water and Steam Heating, Remodeling Defective Plumbing A Specialty. 617 E St., N. W., Washington, D. C. --- MONUMENT TO SUMNER. The Charles Sumner Post No. 9 G. A. R., Department of the Potomac, is to be congratulated for its initiatory movement in devising ways and means for raising subscriptions to erect a monument in honor of Hon. Charles Sumner, the great friend and champion of the Negro. The first meeting of the Post was held June 17th and a number of strong resolutions were adopted outlining the plan of the work and asking the assistance and co operation of the race in all parts and sections of the country. Commander William H. Grimshaw cannot be too highly commended for his efforts in this direction. He has written a letter to the Governors of nearly all the states asking them to appoint a representative Afro-American to interest the people in his state in the movement. It is desired that every member of the race who knows of the great friendship of Sumner for the Negro contribute his mite to the cause. The race journals are requested to copy this article and to make such mention as they may see fit. Already the names of twenty representative men have been appointed from that many states and have pledged themselves to keep the work before the people. The Colored American will devote space from time to time to giving the facts and the doing of the movement and will publish a list of the donations. For further information address Commander William H. Grimshaw, 247 10th street northeast Washington, D, C. MERE MENTION. Mr: and and Mrs. Manning C. Jones left Thursday for Newport, R. I. where they will spend their honeymoon vacation. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell has been in Big Stone, South Dakota, for several days having gone there to address the Chautauqua assembly. She has several other engagements for the month. On the night of Wednesday, July 11, Henrietta, beloved wife of Ignatius Smallwood, died at her residence, 80 D street southwest. The funeral took place from Israel C. M. E. church Sunday at 8 o'clock, Rev. C. W. Lane, officiated. On Thursday evening, July 12, after a long and painful illness, Amanda Young, beloved mother of Nellie Williams, departed this life at her residence 821 2d street, southeast, aged seventy five years. The funeral took place Sunday at 2 o'clock p.m. from Enon Baptist church, C street between 6th and 7th streets southeast. Prejudice against the Negro is not a Southern but an American institution. It is not confined to the politicians, merchants, trades unions, and infidels, but it is in the House of God. The white Methodists, Baptists, Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Disciples and Episcopalians all discriminate against the Negro. The Catholic church is perhaps an exception to the rule. In places where there are but a few Negroes they are admitted and permitted to worship with the whites without question as to color. In communities where there are enough Negroes to warrant a church one is established for them, and even then the white Catholics join the Negro church and become active communicants. That church comes nearest to Christ that teaches his everlasting doctrine of universal brotherhood of man. to perform. Olivet's collection last Sunday was over $600. The school numbers over 500 pupils and through the untiring efforts of this good man, her head is now above water. Rev. Thomas spend last week in Springfield at camp with "his boys" as he calls them. In speaking of the doings of the week he said: "On Wednesday evening the non commissioned staff was entertained at a banquet by the 1st Regiment. Thursday Adjt. Gen. Reece eettained the line officers at a banquet. Friday Governor John R. Tanner entertained the staff, and in responding to the speeches, he expressed his pride in Col. John R. Marshall and the 8th Regiment, Illinois National Guard, and impressed upon his guests that he had not been disap pointed in their service." THE SUMMER SEASON. Captain L. J. Woolen, the manager of the River Queen, announces in another column to the public that the books are opened for excursions to Notley Hall, that popular summer resort, and that the River Queen has been repainted, refitted up in every way and new electric lights put in at the expense of five thousand dollars and is in better condition than ever to serve the public. The following dates have all been taken: July: "23, American Star Social Club Notley Hall. " 24, N. E. Magnolia Social Club to Notley Hall. " 25, Yale Social Club, to Notley Hall. " 26, Bowin Road Investment Club, to Notley Hall. " 27,The Young Ladies' Immed. late Relief Ass'n to Notley Hall. " 29, Regular Sunday excursion to Notley Hall. " 30, St. Cyprian excursion to Notley Hall. " 31, D. B. Webster Lodge Lower Cedar Point. " 1, American Glee Club to Notley Hall " 2, Masonic Lodge to Notley Hall. " 3, Dr. Dickson, Galbraith church to Lower Cedar Point. " 5, Regular family excursion to Notley Hall. " 6, Odd Fellows' Lodge to Notley Hall. " 7, East Washington Brickmakers to Notley Hall. " 8, Wesley Fletcher Co. K to Lower Cedar Point. " 9, Oxfords Pleasure Club to Notley Hall. " 10, Excelsior Social Club to Notley Hall. " 12, Regular family excursion to Notley Hall. " Rev. Wilibanks to Lower Cedar Point. " 14, Congressional to Glymont " 15, Amphion Glee Club to Notley Hall. " 16, D. W. Plummer to Notley Hall. " Belfords Outing Club to Notley Hall. " 19 Regular family excursion to Notley Hall. " 20, The Mysterious Pleasure Club to Notley Hall. " 23, Felix Ledge, No. 3 to Notley Hall. The Amphions Enter tain the President And Cabinet. After the dinner given to the President at the Country Club last Wednes day evening by Secretary Root and Adjt. General Corbin, the well-known Amphion Glee Club, J. Henry Lewis director, furnished an excellent program of vocal and instrumental music. The other guests were all the members of the Cabinet, Hon Charles Dawes, Comptroller of the Currency, Col. Webb Hayes, and Mr. William Barbour. The affair was entirely of a social character. The Amphions roster was composed as follows: Messrs Fred. A. Sabbs, Chas. A. Champ, Jas. D. Wilson. Wm. DeLong, Wm. T. Isbell, Jas. H. Washington, Wm. Cooper. Messrs. Robt. Harris and F. R. Payne furnished the instrumental selections. Messers W. W. Cochran, of Oxford, Miss., Maurice N. Corbett of North Carolina, Walter R Carter, of Montgomery, Ala., and W. T. Ferguson, of Alabama, are among the new clerks assigned to the agricultural division of the Census Office. Mr. Ferguson came in from the Government Printing Office, having resigned the place held by him for quite a while in that picturesque "Botany Bay." Cures Weak Men Free Insures Love and Happiness. How any man may quickly cure himself after years of suffering from sexual weakness, lost vitality, varicocle, etc. and enlarge small weak organs to full size and vigor. Simply send your name and address to Dr. L. W. Knapp, 1811 Hull Bldg., Detroit, Mich., and he will gladly send the free receipt with full directions so that any man may easily cure himself at home. This is certainly a most generous offer and the following extracts taken from his daily mail show how men write him. "DearSir:—Please accept my sincere thanks for yours of recent date. I have given your treatment a thorough test and the benefit has been extraordinar. It has completely braced me up. I am just as vigorous as when a boy and you cannot realize how happy I am." "Dear Sir:—Your method worked beautifully. Results were exactly what I needed. Strength and vigor have completely returned and enlargement is entirely satisfactory." "Dear Sir:—Yours was received and I had no trouble in making use of the receipt as directed, and after a few days use can truthfully say it is a boon to weak men. I am greatly improved in size, strength and vigor." 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. Karl Xander DEALER IN Fine Wines and Liquors Importer, Rectifier and Wholesale Agent for Southern Bouquet Whiskey. 530-32 Seventh Street North west Washington, D. C. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. U. WOES OF THE AGENT. His Experience With Leaders Social Flashes Columbus, O., Special - Numerous are the obstacles that confront an agent of a Negro newspaper. On receiving his papers the agent starts out on his mission of distribution. As is expected he first hunts Negro leaders with the confirmed idea of delivering a few copies to them, and if there be any left, the supposition is that they will be gotten rid of with difficulty among the ordinary people. But from my heart, sorry am I to say the conditions are just to the reverse of the above sentences. The first race leader you meet you begin to speak to him of the qualifications of your paper, editor, contributors etc., and of the sterling contents in the present issue, and close with the words, "would you like to have a copy?" Then begins the tirade, thus: "I know your paper to be a good one etc. I used to take it several years ago but it did not come regularly and on time, and when my subscription ran out, the editor failed to notify me, but continued to send the paper, and because I did not send money at once abused me in a letter. There is no business in colored people, etc. The agent breaks in by saying the paper is on a solid foundation and its surety of coming is as clockwork, and the publishers and owners are men of responsibility and long business integrity. Then begins again the leader by saying, "I have no money." The agent offers to give him the paper and collect fee the next week, or advance him a year's, six month's or three month's subscription. Leader says, "No, don't care to do business that way. I have not read the papers I already have." And finally winds up with the words, "I have an article to sell you for your paper on the race problem." Thus you see, the way of an agent of a Negro newspaper is hard, and his path is not beset with roses. How any person, black or white, can lead, represent, and control a people without being a regular subscriber to a genuine race paper, is a mystery to angels, and a problem to humanity; and the fact that the Anglo-Saxon fails to know our progress and needs is that he consults Negro leaders who never read a Negro journal and know nothing of us one way nor the other outside of their own district. The drama entitled "Thirty Years of Freedom," was played here for charitable purposes, by the elite of the race, and its rendition brought down a storm of applause and commendation from those who attended. The orchestral arrangement was under the management of the efficient leader Prof. Thomas Howard. The Brown-Whittaker concert at Mt. Vernon A. M. E. church was a success. Rev. H. E. Stewart, B. D., the energetic pastor of the above named church, turns defeat into victory and failure into success. Rev. Horace Talbot, M. A., secretary of Wilberforce University, preached at St. Paul A. M. E. church last Sunday in the absence of the pastor. In the future will give to your able paper some political gems. C. H. Y. Mrs. William A. Dinquid of 23rd street, and Miss Sarah C. Lewis, principal of the Cook school this city, will estivate in the mountains of Prince William County, Va. Mr. Dinquid will join them later on in the season. SUMMER RESORTS HOTEL WOODLAWN TERRACE. This Hotel is situated on an elevation which furnis cent view for tea miles. At the base of which is a wide ample opportunity to those fond of sailing or fishing. in which furnishes one with a magnifi- tion which is a wide sheet of water giving ing or fishing. IN TERRACE. from Camden. 25 trains stop at Lawn- trictly first class. The Bed Rooms are enches. The Hotel is three stories high, beautiful lawn and wide gravel walks. TH, Snow Hill, N.J. 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 strictly first class. The Bed Rooms are large and alry 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. is on the Whitehorse Pike, seven miles from Camden. 25 trains stop at Lawnside daily. The service at the Hotel is strictly first class. The Bed Rooms are large and alry 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 MBR CHAR SMITH SHOW HILL N L For terms, address MRS. CHAS. SMITH, Snow Hill, N.J. HOTEL SHEPHARDS HILL Open for the Season on June 1st. Beautifully situated near the Potomac River, on St. Patricks's Creek. Cool Rooms. Bathing, Boating, Fishing and Crabbing. For terma address Wm. D. Bond, Colton's Point, St. Mary's County, Maryland. Mrs Cyrus St Clair has concluded to open her lovely private residence to boarders for the summer, at Cambridge Md. Persons desiring further information can address Mrs. Cyrus St. Clair, Cambridge, Md. Terms reasonable. Loudoun county is claimed by many to be the healthiest county in Virginia. An ideal summer home for the accommodation of city guests. Good food, cool rooms; plenty of shade; first class in every particular; city references; address Mrs. Delia Howard at Wilburn P. O., above county, or Robt. Lockwood, "The Alban,y" 17th and H nw., city. CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS, AND CIGARS. J. C. SMALLWOOD, Proprietor. SPECIAL. AT LAST! There is a First Class Ice Cream Parlor and Confectionery, Where our people are not refused, but are invited to sit and enjoy the best cream and cake with elegant service. No color line at MRS. HYMAN'S 1618 7th St., nw., bet, Q and R Sta. WANfED-A colored plumber. Enquire at this office. WANTED—An active young man as collector. Must be well acquainted with the city. Married man preferred. WANTED—Young women about 20, some knowledge of dressmaking, good home and wages. Address, Mrs I. Williams, 262 W 40th street, New York City. An energetic colored woman who understands canvassing can secure permanent employment with good pay by addressing "Benevolence" care 450 O st. n. w. An Excellent Opportunity for Our High School Graduates. Any one with a business turn can earn two or three dollars a day by taking up the work laid out by the American Savings Industrial Company. room 3 609 F street, n. w. Explanation free. Cal from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. Only those who are willing to work need apply tf. WANTED AT ONCE—A woman about 35 or 40, unmarried, or widow without children, for Matron of the FRIENDLESS GIRLS' HOME. She must play piano or organ. Address P. Thos. Stanford, D. D., LL. D., President Massachusetts Aid and Protective Association for Friendless Colored Girls, North Cambridge, Mass. Send photo and reference. --- --- 1890 Will open Friday. June 1. 1900. SUMMER RESORTS. ATLANPIC CITY. FITZGERALD'S 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 stricly first class. Special attention given collation parties, weddings, receptions, etc. B, G. Fitzgerald, proprietor, 30 and 32 North Kentucky avenue, Atlantic City, N. J. THE NEW HOUSE DEBITY COTTAGE. 81 N. Ohio Ave., Atlantic City, N. J. Excels any in the city. All modern improvements. Two squares from the Reading Railroad 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. THE HUB HOTEL CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS, 15 N. Illinois Ave., Atlantic City, N. J. MANHATTAN INN. 17 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. THOMAS COLE, Proprietor. Choice wines, Liquors and Cigars. CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS HAKRIS' HOTEL GEORGE H HARRIS, PROPRIETOR, 1139 Baltic Avenue, Atlantic City, N. J. Meals Served at all Hours. 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 32 neatly fitted up sleeping rooms. Terms moderate. European and American plan. Henderson and Murray, prop's. ALEXANDRIA, VA. 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. CATLETf8, VA. 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 Faunquier county, Va. Forty-eight miles from this city, there are three accommodation trains to the city per day. The house is situated about 1/4 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, Faunquier Co., Va. --- 5 Lawnside. N.J. CAMBRIDGE, MD. LOUDOUN CO. VA. SPECIAL. AT LAST! WANTED HELP. SHREDS AND PATCHES 6 Dr. W. E. B. DuBois sailed this week for Europe. Matt Lewis is making a vigorous effort to give the people of Newport News a wide awake daily. Rev J. M. Townsend has been made the traveling representative of the Missionary Department of the A. M. E. Church. Bishop Abram Grant has selected Indianapolis as his place of residence for the next four years and the Hoosiers are rejoiced accordingly. Dr. Daniel H. Williams of Chicago, has been added to the faculty of the Meharry Medical school at Nashville, Tenn. He will give each year a course of lectures on Operative Surgery. Booker T. Washington's call to organize a National Negro Business League at Boston, Aug. 23d and 24th has the unanimous approval of the colored press as a most timely step. The death of Rev. Alexander Ellis, D. D., one of the leading Baptist clergymen of this country occurred a couple of weeks ago at Savannah, Ga., shortly after that of his opponent, Rev. E. K. Love. Prof. Hugh O'Cook of this city, and Miss Daisy L. Jackson of Lynchburg, well known in our city, were quietly married at Normal, Ala., last week. Mr. Cook is one of the faculty at the Normal A. & M. College of which Prof. W. H. Councill is Principal. The separate street car business has reached Louisiana The Southwestern Christian Advocate (NewOrleans) says: "There are hundreds of Negroes in this city who will not ride under such circumstances and they have begun already to organize for the purpose of controlling the masses. In an interview with Mr. J. W. Cromwell, published in the Star of Zion, Maj. John R. Lynch says: "I have been in every province in the Island of Cuba; I have kept my eyes and ears open. I have enough material for four or more lectures, for one could not contain it all,—such as the climate, the people, their habits, their customs, and their laws and political future. Gov. Wm. H. Johnson whom Bruce Grit dubs "The Sage of Maiden Lane" takes exceptions to that statement in the new well known sermon of Rev. Dr Brandage entitled, "Is the Negro a man that said it was impossible for the Negro to secure a respectable home in Albany?" The Governor says that they can buy property or rent houses in any quarter of the city. The Sage is bound to be heard from. The Indianapolis Freeman, referring to the plank in the Republican Convention respecting the suppression of the Negro vote in the South says; "A great convention has uttered its dictum against these wrongs thus disabusing the minds of skeptical Negroes, and confounding mischief-making white men who have been asserting that the party means to abandon the Negro Othello's occupation gave. Rev. J. W. E. Bowen of Gammon Seminary who enjoys the rare distinction of having been balloted for Bishop in two General Conferences of the M. E Church, takes a radical departure in his lectures on the Negro problem which he is now delivering in the West. The attainment of wealth and education is THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. the ideal of the average exploiter of this vexed problem but he places character first. The learned doctor is not very far from being right. Rev. W. L. Taylor, successor to Wm. W. Browne as president of the True Reformers is demonstrating his ability as a worthy financial leader. Under his administration he has made purchases amounting to $19,975; and improvements as follows: $12,000 to the general office at Richmond, $8,000 at Portsmouth, Va., and additions to the Hotel Reformer at Richmond adding twenty-two extra rooms at a cost of over $5,000 making this the finest hotel owned and operated by the race in this country. A further summary shows an increase in the cash balance of over one hundred per cent. above that of last year. Rev. Joshua H. Jones, D. D., a native of South Carolina, graduate of Claflin University of the theological department of Wilberforce some time studied at Harvard and Yale Universities has been unanimously elected president of Wilberforce. Rev Jones has been for eight years a member of the Columbus Ohio school board, is a man of commanding personal presence, is nearly six feet in height, weighs two hundred and fifty pounds and is a model of dignity and geniality. Now that the cities of Rome and Augusta, Ga. have enacted ordinances restricting the Negroes to two or three last back seats of the street railway cars and the Negro prefers to walk, the whites are complaining. The Christian Index registers the popular will thus: "By every consideration of justice and self respect the Negroes of Georgia are justified in walking rather than being forced to ride on the rear seats of cars that are public conveyances for every body. J. Thomas Heard, one of the Georgia colony makes a very liberal offer to his home town (Athens) for an organization to establish a night school and library for the colored citizens of that place. The scheme is so novel as well as commendable that more then a passing notice of it is deserved. He purposes an association for the purpose consisting of the customary officers but that no one shall be considered an applicant for the office of president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer, and board of directors unless he or she agrees to give $100, $75, $50, and $25 respectively. Since Mr. Heard himself offers to give $100 it is certain he will be the first presiding officer. This offer is open for six months. Dont Read This! More than 500 letters were sent out from this office last week. They were all of the same nature and they treated the same subject. A great many who who will read this item received one of these letters. This notice is a reminder and if you have not sent in what is due on the subscription, you should send it at once. The Colored American is brimful of news and those who read it and appreciate it should send along their subscriptions as soon as they know it to be due. AT THE TOP! A. H. 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The struggle during the school's formative period, the quests for help to meet growing claims upon finances and space; the enlargement of scope, the strong friends enlisted and final guarantee of permanent existence are told in an engaging way, and no one can read the account] without feeling encouraged. Had some Rip Vau Winkle fallen asleep at Tuskegee twenty years ago, and remained so until today, he would awaken amazed and incredulous that such a magic modern city—an educational Mecca—could have sprung up in that one time waste, and that the genius and industry of one man and a black man at that—was responsible for its being. Is not such a magnificent product of two decades an inspiration to our young men, especially coming as it does from an ex slave with no opportunities save those made by himself and no capital save a clear mind, and honest heart and willing hands? Is not the comparison between Mr. Washington's positive results and those of the average assisted youth today very greatly discredit—if not shame—of the latter? The story of Tuskegee's development and the analysis of the character of its projector and fitting companion pieces—one supplements the other. Mr. Washington's career and achievements are the best exemplars of the doctrine he so eloquently preaches. As a means of preserving precious race records and giving posterity a store house of rich thought, the volume has a value far beyond its market price. It contains the principal speeches and letters delivered by its author, and each of them has proven an epochmaker. Notable among them are his famous Atlanta speech in 1895, which set the country afire with a newer and loftier conception of the race problem; his address at Howard upon receiving the degree of A. M., his dedication of monument to Robert Geuid Shaw in Boston; the Peace Jubilee speech at Chicago, and several others, besides his open letters to Senator Tillman and to the Louisiana Constitutional Constitutional Convention, pleading in firm and dignified terms for the rights of the Negro people. These productions deserve a prominent place in the library of every race-loving colored man in America. The generous and wholly unselfish character of the author is shown in the liberal praise he bestows upon others in connection with the work at Tuskegee. He gives Miss Oliva A. Davidson, who afterward became his second wife, her full measure of credit for the great assistance which she rendered his now famous school, in its darkest hours of poverty and adversity. How easily it would have been for him to have minimized her work and thus glorified himself! In doing justice by her he has, however, "chosen the better part," and given the world an insight into that which is best for him. In the list of those of his own race who have helped him in no small degree are included Editor T. Thomas Fortune, Lewis Adams, Edgar Webber, J. H. Washington, Warren Logan and his highly capable confidential secretary, Bammett J. Scott. When we can admire his THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. U. frankness in avowing that the idea of industrial education for the emancipated blacks, was neither his nor General Armstrong's, but that it had been advocated by Frederick Douglass, as far back as 1853, when, in a letter to Harriett Beecher-Stowe, he advised her to use some funds which she desired to devote to the uplifting of the colored people, in erecting and equip- ping a college which should provide an industrial as well as a literary education. Modesty is another distinguishing quality portrayed in this volume. He wrote not to distinguish himself, but at the behest of his family—particularly his beloved daughter Portia. In recounting his own successes, successes which well might turn the head of any ordinary man, Mr. Washington modestly lets others speak for him and quotes extensively from reports and editorials which have appeared in the daily press of the country. He draws as lightly as possible upon the upper case "I." Mr. Washington's book contains numberless bits of timely logic, trite aphorisms, and glimpses into the realm of deep philosophy. They are happily placed and go far to imbue the work with the effervescent individuality of the writer. He takes his reader thoroughly into his confidence. A scrap indicative of his conscientiousness, is worthy of quotation here: "I have, says he, 'always made it a rule to keep engagements of a public nature where I have once made a promise to do so. On one occasion I had an appointment to speak in a small country church not far from Boston. Just before night a severe snowstorm came up, and although I knew this storm would keep everyone from the meeting I made it a point to be present. When I got to the church there was no one there but the sexton. The minister himself did not come, and when I saw him later he was surprised to find that I had been at the church on the night appointed, and told me he felt sure I would not be present on account of the storm." Mr. Washington is a stickler for punctuality and promptness. Eight o'clock with him, means eight o'clock to the dot. His inexhaustible energy is in evidence throughout the book, when the reader observes how much ground Mr. Washington covers in a short time, and what distant points he reaches, without intervals of rest. There have been occasions where the carrying out of a lecture schedule made it necessary for him to sleep in three beds in the same night. His indomitable courage in the face of difficulties is also faithfully brought out. Stormed at by the jealous, scoffed at by the unthinking, unsupported by the small-minded, and reviled by the incompetent because he dared to tell the truth, he stuck to his text, he stood it all like a man, and has seen the world inch by inch, roll around to his position. He has proven his case. He says, with grim humor, that he has always found it easy to find people who can tell him how a thing could not be accomplished but very hard to find any one who could tell him how a thing could be accomplished. He is of the opinion that the world is on the lookout for and has rich favors to be stow upon a man who goes ahead undaunted by criticism, unspoiled by praise, and accomplishes results. Mr. Washington's concluding remarks are geums of wisdom, common sense and practical utility. They are as safe a guide as the Golden Rule. He says: "I have been asked many times how I have succeeded in this thing or in that thing. In most ever case I have replied that it has required constant, hard conscientious work. I consider that there is no permanent success possible without hard and severe effort, coupled with the highest and most praiseworthy aims. Luck, as I have experienced it, is only another name for hard work. Almost any individual can succeed in any legitimate enterprise that he sets his heart upon if he is willing to pay the price, but the price, in most cases, is being willing to toil when others are resting, being willing to work when others are sleeping, being willing to put forth the severest effort when there is no one to see or applaud." This is the keynote of Mr. Washington's "Life and Work. It expresses the kernel of the Tuskegee spirit. It touches the mainspring of the "Wizard's" hold upon the intellectual and financial resources of the land. 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We solicit news, contributions, opinions and in fact, all matters affecting the race. We will not pay for matter, however, unless it is ordered by us. All matter intended for publication must reach this office by Wednesday of each week to insure insertion in the current issue. Agents are wanted everywhere. Send or instructions. ADVERTISING RATES. Reading notices 50 cents per line. Display advertisements, 82 per square inch per insertion. Discounts made on large contracts. Entered at the Post-office as second-class matter. All letters, communications, and business matters should be addressed to EDWARD E. COOPER, MANAGER WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1900. OUR WEEKLY TEXT. "Cast the net on the right side and ye shall find."—John xxi : 6. SIMPLY A MATTER OF TASTE. We are glad to know the esteemed Washington Post does find the time to peruse its colored exchanges and that The Colored American frequently comes under the argus eye of its talented and erudite editor. It is not for us to be captious in discussing the tastes of our readers, nor can we properly undertake to say what portion of our paper the public can read to its best advantage, but we respectfully throw out the suggestion that those who seek to understand the real tone, character and purpose of a journal should turn their attention to the editorial page. There is where the guiding spirit places his jewels of thought and turns on the fountain of inspiration Of course we are delighted to find that our advertising columns are sufficiently well set and artistically arranged as to attract frequent and admiring comments from our esteemed morning contemporary, and we pass over the delicate insinuation on its part that our editorials are of secondary consideration. We have been told by many who willingly pay the subscription price asked for The Colorep American that our editorial page is quite a brilliant affair, and that it scintillates week after week with sparkling gems of wit and wisdom. The Post will pardon us if we agree with this estimate. But that by the way is a mere matter of opinion. We are none the less strong in our suspicion, however that the Post has missed a great deal of very useful information by its preference for novel advertising matter, and its consequent want of appetite for our glittering editorials. Of course if it chooses, as it did last week, to overlook a column and a half indorsement of Booker T. Washington's proposed business league, a resume of Negro's progress in the realm of classic music, observations on the political, religious, and social life of the nation, couched in choice and readable English, a quality of taste is indicated that THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. argument from us will be powerless to alter or improve. The Negro of this country has often set the "superior" race some commendable examples in charity, forbearance, and nobility of soul. The Colored American can afford to be generous, even when the Post is inclined to be squint eyed as to Negro virtues. We prefer to pass over the many nostrums advertised in the Post, embracing an array of palmists, absurd specialists in unnamable diseases, suggestive of vices and excesses, clairvoyants and fakirs. We presume that these belong to the business end of the office and that the editor neither knows nor cares anything about the efficacy of the same, leaving that to the adjudication of the parties interested, in case of misrepresentation. We read with much interest, if not always with edification, the quite well phrased editorials and special articles in the esteemed Post, and it has a stellar place upon our roster of exchanges. We shall respect it none the less, even if after this it continues to revel in the rhetorical mazes of Hartona literature in preference to our able, forceful and scholarly opinion page, with its record of race advancement in thought and morals. What one picks out for his mental food is simply a matter of taste. STRENGTHEN OUR BUSINESS PILLAR: The legion of Afro Americans whose strong public spirit and race pride have prompted them to patronize trades men of their own color, are thanking Mr. Booker T. Washington for being so thoughtful as to suggest a National Negro Business League. They see visions of a better order of things in the way of speedier service, higher quality of goods and more reasonable prices. Phenomenal as our progress in business has been, (and no agency has been more enthusiastic in its laudation than The Colored American), the Negro has much to learn about the art of attracting and holding trade. The first aggravating indictment which sticks against our business class is their wretched slowness. It takes them too long at restaurants to serve a lunch and at groceries there is an inexcusable delay in tying up a bag of meal. There is a woeful lack of system in management, lack of tidiness in personal appearance, lack of variety in stock, and an absence of that confidence inspiring air of appearing to know just exactly what to do in an emergency. If. Mr. Washington's conference in Boston next month can devise some means by which the Negro tradesmen and the Negro consumer can "get together" and do business on business principles, with promptness, accuracy and justice, the millions who want to keep their money in the hands of the race will rise up and call him blessed. Finance and trade are the two weak pillows of our temple. They must be girded by the iron bands of fellowship, cheerful assistance, race loyalty, patience, and capacity; to suffer much that good may eventually come. The gathering at Boston can exert a powerful influence in awakening the race to its responsibilities and its opportunities. Letters indicate that the meeting will be well-attended—which is highly encouraging. But it is far more to the point that its factors be representative of our best intellect and character, earnest, active and untiring in pushing to a practical and profitable conclusion the objects set forth in Mr. Washington's call. Those who intend to be present should send word to Tuskegee at once. Our business pillar must be strengthened—and quickly, too. "HOT AIR" FROM THE CHICAGO CONSERVATOR. The esteemed Chicago Conservator goes away back to last summer's meeting of the Afro-American Council to get a dig at Mr. Booker T. Washington's proposed business conference. Mr. Washington was in Chicago during the setting of the Council and the reason he did not take part was because he was advised by the leaders of the Council (his personal friends.) not to do so. They gave excellent reasons therefor, and everybody appeared satisfied with Mr. Washington's acceptance of their idea,—until the Conservator comes out with an inspired groan. Nobody is frightened, however, and the Negro's interests will be boosted upward both at Indianapolis and Boston. Our next issue will be a "hummer." It's a secret. Don't give it away. Joe Gans is a "Boxer." Mr. McKinley now knows officially that he has been renominated. To be respected in politics, the Negro must get money enough to be able to refuse what he does not want. We are not through congratulating ourselves that neither Snell nor Neely were colored men. The habit of industry, the habit of saving and the habit of self-denial, can all be acquired, if you have the determination to do so. The Washington Post reads the advertising columns of its colored exchanges. Business men will please take notice and get their copy in at once. The Prohibitionists must be in it. The liquor evil cannot be handled as a political measure. It belongs to the religious world, the school room and the arena of medicine. The Colored American and the Hartona Remedy Company are under deep obligations to the esteemed Washington Post for a large chunk of free advertising-top of column and next to pure reading matter, too. Will the local committee at Indianapolis, having in charge the arrangements for the National Council meeting, give the press the name of the hall or church in which the sessions will be held? Now that the Hoosier campaign is growing hot, Kentuckians whose predisposition to heart trouble caused them to move over into Indiana a few weeks ago, are preparing to move back to the Blue Grass regions, where comparative rest may be had: Fifteen colored clerks are engaged in the Agricultural division of the Census office which occupies the second floor of the Union Building, G Street. There is no suggestion of colonization under the liberal policy of the chief statistician, Hon. L. Grand Powers. Hon. George H. White is undecided whether he can accept the presidency of the National Afro-American Council. He is the very best and most available man for the place, should Bishop Walters adhere to his decision to retire. Should Mr. White find himself unable to serve, President Walters can surely be prevailed upon to remain. --- When a white man appears to grow alarmed at the squalor of the average Negro quarter and talks warningly for the public prints about their "menace to the public health, etc.," we are mean enough to wish he could turn black for a season, and have to undergo the torture of trying to rent a decent house in a decent neighborhood Early next month North Carolina votes upon her proposed constitutional amendments. Leaders like White, Cheatham, Hannon, Dancy and others are fighting, teeth and toe nail, for the defeat of the measure and think they have it. Anyway, North Carolina is getting ready to tell the world whether she prefers to go forward or backward in the scale of civilization If the New York republicans are hunting a "war hero" for their gubernatorial nominee, we do not know why Commissioner of Patents, Charles H. Duell will not fit. While the record does not state that he ever participated in any of our great sanguinary conflicts, his name is suggestive of battle, bloodshed and "coffee for two." Why not Duell for Governor of the Empire State? The National Afro-American Council will make a mistake if it takes partisan sides at its forthcoming meeting. The Negro needs friends wherever he can find them, regardless of locality or party label. The Council will also find it a profitable move to put an able organizer into the field—a good talker and a good mixer, who can give his entire time to the work. Who can name the right man? It would be an interesting line of investigation if a table could be prepared, showing how many of Washington's $1000 department clerks have money in a bank,—how many own stock in any corporation, building association, or are investors in any enterprise. Further, to what use they put the hours between 4 p. m. and 9 a.m. next day. Such an exhibit would be sure to point a moral, if it failed to adorn a tale. Improve a man's moral nature educate him into a knowledge of the evil consequence to his health from excessive indulgence and illustrate the deterioration of character and mental efficiency—then you reach him right where he lives. As a home question, a moral issue and a business proposition, the liquor evil can be regulated and controlled. It has no more place in politics than divorce, suicide, food or base ball. The Indianapolis date line promises to figure conspicuously in the coming campaign—and it is well. For genuine progress, thrift, cleanliness, artistic beauty and liberal, big-hearted and broad-minded and home-loving citizens, Indianapolis stands in class A. There isn't a prettier city in the country, and when republicans, democrats, populists or Bryanites make up their minds to enter her "open door" they show a degree of wisdom and appreciation that is an honor to their headpiece. The second outing this season of St. Luke's church will take place at Lake View Park, Friday, September 7th. The committee having the affair in chrge promises novel and attractive features, and a highly enjoyable affair. It would be well to keep both day and date in mind. Particulars will be given later. mm a: HONOR OLD GLORY: .- rhe Black Boys in Blua Celeorate The Fourth in the Philippine Islands ia a penttiog Way—Lieut, Gilmore’s Pati- otic Address. jicutenant David J, Gilmore of the porty ninth made a speech in the pres* eave of his eclored soldiers, President pulido, and 500 Filipinos of Saushez Mira, on the oceasion of the raising of the \merizan flag over the town, April j=. It breathes of patriotism and 10 the presence of the colored treops it created a most favorable impression. The speech was in part: “Pprestdent Pulido and Filipinos: BEE ee ga eS ft =e OS 9. & oa Ae ~~ SS Se) <6 Seite Sor hes RS ea: ANS QS A A MT) MY LIEUT DAVID J. GILMER. The duty we have gathered here to perform gives me more pleasure than apy previous ore, and soldiers of this detachment of the Forty ainth Infantry you, too, may ferl proud to know you are standing behind your guns, per: forming one of the duties that Mr. Lin- cola said you would some day live to do. You can look around you and see men with uncovered beads as an act of vppreciation fcr this oozasion, who a few days ago fougnt you and this flag, with shot and shell. = President Pulido, in ralsing the American flag over Sauchez Mira and your people, we raise for them and for all who reapect it, a fisg for peace; a tlag for justice; for liberty; for pure homes, for educated ehildren; for vir tue: for the rights of women and for free religion. Mr, Pulido, this flag commands over seventy five millions of Americans and one hundred thousand well equipped soldiers. Wherever the flag leads we follow, and your people accept its ailent but supreme commands as it mingles with the breezes of the Orient’ Nolon: ger will the interior and exterior juris- diction of your people’s domestic af* fairs be subjected to the wishes of the oppressor, and no louger will your good women have to flee from the bra: tal longings of vicious men. Mr, President, this flag raised a race of people from the lowest pit of ignor ance, and from chattel bondage to the highest ranks of civilization, education, and opulence, and sir, your people might well thank God our Father for such a symbol of capable protection and guidance, Any attempt on the part of your people to haul down this flag will be nothing more nor less than self mur- der, — Oar newly acquired constituents, you haye never before had such an emble- matical fortress, and you will never live to regret it. Your posterity will thank God for this period, and gladly join hands with al! America and sing in one sweet accord, ‘*My Country Tis of Thee, Sweet Land ot Liberty.” When the soldiers who are now fight ing for your peace and safety set sail for their homes across the Pacific, ope and all of them will leave with you all THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. 0. the parting words of Christ when he left this earth, ‘‘peace on earth, good will toward men,” and the Americans who come to dwell with you will bring and unfold to your people the blessin gs of @ great nation.” In reply President Pulido said: “We, the people of this town, have ~cume together to assist in the very sol- emn act of blessing ani raising over this town the much respected ffig of the great North American Nation. This flag, my brethren, is that which confirms to us our liberty from the slavery under the dominion of Spain; that which brings to us the true peace ‘with our enemies, and our tranquility, We recognize that grace and compass. ion that guards us in the way of indas- try, reason, science, and vealth, and it will lead us to true progress. “Let us take shelter, my brethren, under its shadow, in order that it may unfold over us the wings ofits power, seeing in this manner oir adherence and obedience it will give us that which we have so long wished for, independ- ence or complete liberty, as it has prom. ised us, “And in order to prove our love and adherence to this very solemn act let ue ail cry, ‘‘Long live thechampion libera- tor, the great North American Nation, Long live its President—McKinley. Long live General Otis, Long live the Philippines, ” Miss D, M. Green’s Sudden Demise, There are but few occasians when human kind can feliow the biblical in. junction of rejoice at the outgoing of a soul from this terestial spere to their eternal home, even when the one called has been long a sufferer and has served their allotted three score and ten, but when the grim visitor, without pre- monition, knocks, enters, and demands the being of one approaching the full bloom of honored womanhood, one who ha ingratiated herselfinto the hearts ef all who knew her, and actively en- gaged slong elevating Jines, it must truly seem that the above #njunction waa intended for people and conditions other than those which have existed in the civilized men of this and all past times. Miss D. Mosella Green, of St. Mich- aeil, Md, was visiting her aunt Mrs. Mary A. Hackett, and on Wednesday evening the 11th inst., arose from the dinner table complaining of a slight in- disposition. At ne time did she seem ill. but at 2:45 next morning the great Master called her unto his chosen few and a void exists In the hearts of those who will know her no more. Her sis- ter Mrs Helen G, Turner, principal of the St. Michael colored szhoo!s, came in response te a telegram, and upon her devolved the cad duty of accom- panying the remains home. An acute form of gastritis was the cause of death. A CORRECTION, Washingtoa, D. C. July 12, 1900. Bditor The Colored American—I call your attention toa mis'ake of the ex: cursion for the 27;:h ot July to Notley Hall. You bave Young Ladies’ im: mediate Club and it is Young Ladies’ Immednats Relief Association. Mrs. HARRIS eee NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC! Stewart M. Lewis, beretofore con: nected with The Colored American as collector and advertisement solicitor, is no longer with the paper. The pub licis warned against paying him any money on behalf of the paper. EDWARD H. QooPeR, Manager. Poverty Our Drawback. from the arena where we were once in- fluential and powerful. Itis not difficult to determine the reasons underlying this uopleasant sitpaticn. The chief cause is that our Political@rowth has been unnatural, and faiine to s'rengthen ourselves adopg material lines in the degree ne- cessary to reinforce that abnormal de- velopment, our house of cards is simply tumbling down from its own top- heaviness. The artrficial props p’aced under us by the friendly and sanguine elements of the white race, have been torp away by the grasping hand of commercialism, and we find now after a third of a century of frecdom that we must begin our fife scructure anew, building up from the very bottom, This may savor of pessimism, but itis true. Our difficulty is not due to the fact that we are not wanted in politics—as far as the North is conzerned. It is be- cause we have nothing to offer except ourlopne vote. We have not the fi- paocial res‘ urces and business prestege of the white man with whom our am- bition Jeads us to compete. We haye no commercial interests to make cam- paign issues mean anything but “words, words, words’? tous Currency, levislation, tariff reform, municipal system3 and expansion problems are axploited by the money kings and :on trolling factors of the government, while we sit in the gallery as mere spectators—as we did very largely at the Pb:ladelphia Convention. We con- tribute little or nothing to campaign funds aud can searcely pay our own way tothe naticnal gathering place. We must open our eyes tothe real- ization that we have been making pro- grese in an ill balanced direction. A full head is a de:irablething, but when agsociated with au empty pocket the combination is an ugly misfit To bea successful and well rounded race our finencial and business progress must keep pace with the intellectual and moral Wemust be able to pay our way, like other people, or else take pot luck on the back creat. The dollar is mighty and almighty. Mo public man will fellowship on equal terms with sn fadividual of any race who finds it ne~ cessary to do hischceres for him, or to solicit an old pair of trousers. It fs our political mendicaney—not our color, that places us at such a tremendous disadvantage. We supplicate too much. We ‘‘resc- lute’? too much. We talk entirely too much. You don’t see or Fear the Germans, or the Irish indulging in there things, to any great extent. When they have business or personal interests to pro’ect they simply go abead and protect them. asking no favers of anybody. Pariies cater to their wishes —not they to parties. They scan platformsso worded by shrewd politicians as to tickle their fancy, and choose cold blocdedly that man or party which concedes most toward their Oe The Negrocan get similar courfesy shown him, but only SN ea tg I ee eee 9 when we have demanded meat. The powers Know this and treat us accord= ingly. The remedy lies in our getting on a newer and more vigorous “hustle’”’ for the goods of this world—money, prop- erty, education. We must not, we can- not ‘‘abandon politics,” but if we hope fer salvation, we must cease to depend upon so fluctuating a market for our living. Office holdmg is 3 means to an end—not the end itself. Have a busi- ness, a profession ora trade by which you can support yourself and family. Then when you go the ballot box you can bea man and citizen, Committees will ask you what you want, instead of grudgingly granting you a three-min- utes hearing, after a most humbie ap- peal. Far from “getting out of politics,”the thing todoisto get deeper into the game—but get in with means ab your command, and thus wield an influence which will compel the respect of all. Poverty isthe Negro’s gravest draw: back in the politics of today. THE OCEAN CITY NEWS A New Literary—A Glance at the Social World —Driftings. Ocean City, Maryland, Special— A lierary society was organized last Thursday night by the young men of Oczan City. Grea, care was exercised in tke selection of officers es it is the purpoee of the Aesocia.ion to make it unparalleled. The meeting was ealled to order by Mr.J.L Honeywell, acting chairman, and after stating the object and importance of such a move the selection of officers took plage. Robert Greene, president; Alonza Mitchell, vice president; Bernard Hartgrove, financial secretary; C. H. Stokes, treas- “urer; Geo. H. Smith, chaylain; C, H, ‘Chestnut, serg’t'at arm. Meetings will ‘be held every Monday evening at the Ocean City chapel. Miss Bertinia Frye of Salisbury, Md , will spend the sum: ‘m:F at the Ocean Wave Hotel, Mr. Geo. St. Clair, cf Atlantic City paid a visit bere last week. Mr. John Rider, the dinirgroom chief of Congress Hall epjoys the distinction of great popu: larity on the island. Mr. Rider has been head waiter at Corgress Hall for the past nine years the excellent ser* vice of this hotel is due mainly to the skilled and efficient management of Mr, Rider. Mr. Wm. J, Miller is sec: ond map and also holds the confidence of the evtire dining room foree. The | culinary depar!ment is under the super’ vision of Mr. Watson Nickels, a young man of unique taste. The board walk furnishes much amucement. At night the calcium light upon the Atlantic Casino casts its reflection for a consid: erable distance cut at sea. The illumi: nation is something beautiful and eaves room for unprecedented commet. Mr. John Berg and Fred Wander, bak ers ab the Atlantic Hotel, enjoy the confidence of all. Their services in said capacity is the finest in years. Mr. Samuel Robbins, a prominent hotel proprietor of New York has opened a firet class house directly upon the beach Mr. Robbins has placed the hostelry in first class order, sparing no pains for ‘the comfort of hie guests. Messrs. ‘Hartgrove snd are as-istant correspon* | dente of Phe Colored American at Ocean ‘City. St Monica’s Episcopal mission gave a well attended cocial and promenade Wednesday evening of last week at Batier’s Park, Anacostia. A neat sum was cleared, 10 WELL DO THE REST. If you are sick, If you are going to have a tour, If you have a friend coming to town, If you are going to give a reception. If you did give a reception lately. If you have lost a member of your family, If your church is going to give a concert or supper, If you have any good, clean news, whatever, send it by card or otherwise to The Colored American office, and we will cheerfully give it space. Office 459 C street northwest. IN THE EDUCATIONAL ARENA. In the death of the late Rev. J. Braden, D. D., the colored man loses a friend. He spent many years of his life to educate and help him as only such a man could do. Booker T. Washington, who has been in the East the past three weeks hustling in the interest of his Tuskegee work, went South this week. He attended the Educational meeting at Charleston and delivered an address. The first anniversary of the Amanda Smith Orphan Home, North Haryey, Ill., was observed June 26. The home was opened on the 28th day of June, 1899, free of debt. In July, 1899, the first children, six in number, came to the home. In January, 1900, three others came, making in all nine children in the home. At present they have en file six applications for admission. The Southern Reporter says that it was decided at the last session of the M. E. Conference in Chicago that kneeling is no longer an exaction in connection with the act of prayer. Since the more simple method of merely bowing the head has come into general use, the Conference thought best to give permission to this in its Discipline. Form is nothing-sincerity is everything in prayer. Another colored student has won high honors in an eastern college. He is from Montgomery, Ala., and is named W. C. Matthews. Not long ago he was elected captain of the Phillips Andover baseball team. Andover is one of the finest preparatory schools in the country, and its clientele is the best. He has been short-stop on the team for the past three seasons, and is regarded as the best all around player in the academy. He also the end rush of the football team. Matthews is 22 years of age. All of the colored professors and teachers of Morgan College at Baltimore, except one, were recently removed and white ones placec in their stead. Prof. James H. Blackwell of Manchester, who is the principal of the High and public school of that city was recently elected again, by a narrow margin, as some white man was put up against him. Think of it, says the Norfolk Recorder, he has taught there for 20 years, has been principal for 13 years, and then a white man is put up against him for his position and almost elected, -ne'er a charge against the present colored principal but simply a desire to relegate the Negro and elevate some unknown quantity—some white man out of a job. For the best and largest glass of ice cream Soda for 5 cents, drop in these warm evenings at Cardozo's Drug Store, at 12th and R streets. -tf. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. "BIG BOW" The Indian Medicine Man Cures all Diseases or no Charge. Call or Write. Get Your Blood Purified as the Spring Demands. Office Hours 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Daily. Lakeview Park, Md. This is the new Pleasure resort which can be reached by a most delightful car ride. It is the largest Park in the District. Knowing the need of a Pleasure Park for our people, this park has been arranged and fitted up with a large pavilion 40 x 60 feet. Summer houses, swings, croquet grounds, and other facilities. There is plenty of shade and an abundantly supply of elegant water HOW TO GET TO THE PARK. Take the Metropolitan cars; transfer to Washington and Great Falls road; get off at the station at the District Line; take the road leading to the Girls' Reform School. The Park is 200 yards above the School only eight minutes walk from the cars. Gates open at 9 am. close at 11:30 pm. Admission, 25 cents. Children 15 cents. Music by Hoffman's Orchestra. For dates, apply to J. W. Green, manager, 1825 Florida avenue. The National Colored Teachers Bureau Washington, D. C., is prepared to furnish CAPABLE TEACHERS of every branch of instruction and DESIRABLE SCHOOLS in all parts of the country. REGISTRATION FREE but applicants must be fully competent to teach or possess the ability to learn how to teach. NO SCHOOL—NO PAY 6 per cent of the first year's salary will be charged those for whom positions are secureded, payable Dec. 1, 1900. The Demand exceed the Supply for suitable teachers during the past year, hence our liberal inducements. Send for registration blank briefly stating your full qualifications and enclose ten two cent stamps for postage. James G. Clayton, M. D. 459 O St. N. W. Secretary DO YOU LOVE HEALTH? If so, call and see the Indian Herb Medicine Man, 620 North Eutaw Street, Baltimore, Md. I cure all diseases that are known to man or beast or no charge, no matter what your disease or sickness or affliction may be, and restore you to perfect health. Millions of people, the best and leading ones in the United States and Europe, will testify that I am the most wonderful healer of all complaints in the world. I use nothing but herbs, roots, barks, gums, balsams, seeds, berries, flowers and plants, made into teas. I have cured thousands that the most skillful physicians and the best hospital physicians in America and Europe had given up to die, and said there was no cure for them. I cure the following diseases: Heart Disease, Consumption, Blood, Kidney, Bladder, Stricture, Piles in any form, Vertigo, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Lung, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Constipation, Rheumatism in any form, Pains and Aches of any kind, Colds, Bronchial troubles, Sores, Skin Diseases, all itching sensations, all Female Complaints, La Grippe or Pneumonia, Ulcers, Carbuncles, Boils, Cancer, the worst form, without the use of knife or instruments, Eczema, Pimples on face and body, Diabetes of Kidneys or Bright's Disease of the Kidneys. I cure any disease, no matter of what nature. J. P. KERR, None genuine unless bought imitators, as we have many. HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS GASKINS & GAINES. Academy Restaurant [Just around the corner] 320 8th Street, N. W. Opposite Kanns'. All leading brands of wine liquors and cigars, imported and domestic. Ladies and Gentlemen's Oafe Upstairs. FINE WINES Liquors of all kinds. OLD WHISKIES Choice Cigars. AND BRANDIES. Philadelphia House, M. F. CARROLL, Prop. Restaurant and Saloon, 348 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W. Washington, D. C. Meals to Order. Everything First Class. Billiard and Pool Parlors Attached. HOSEL DOUGLASS. 220 B ST., AD 235 PA. AVE. N. W EUROPEAN PLAN. First-class in every particular. M E.S. DOLLY C. JONES, Proprietress. Washington, D. C. Robert H. Key FINE WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS, ETC. Ladies' Dining Room. Meals at all Hours 443 First Street Southwest. Gray & Costley Wines, Liquors and Cigars Ladies and Gentlemen's Dining Room up stairs. The best of service guaranteed. 1313 E Street N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. Fritz Reuter's HOTEL : AND : RESTAURANT 451, 453, 455, 457 Penn. Ave. 202, 208 & 210 41 St. N. W Washington, D. C. The Woodson House First-class, newly furnished and decorated, unsurpassed cuisine, convenient to all cars. One half square from Pennsylvania Depot, 467 Missouri Avenue. HENRY WOODSON, PROPRIETOR. HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS D. T. GIBBODS. CONFECTIONER 523 41 Street, Southwest, WASHINGTON, D. C. Wedding Cakes Made and Parties Furnished at Short Notice Ice Cream All The Year she McKinley Hotel 489 Mo. Ave. near 6th St. n. w. Smoking and Reading Rooms; also home for strangers. Meals served at all hours. Menu a la Carte at popular prices. Call and be convinced. Joshua N. Anderson. J. J. Edwards. Props. W. M. DRURY'S RESTAURANT 1100 20th St., corner L. N. W. Washington, D. C. HOTELCLYDE 475 MISSOURI AVE, NW. First-Class Accomodations For Ladies and Gentlemen. Hot and Cold Baths. MRS. ALICE E. HALL, Proprietress. MOORE & PRIOLEAU - Sparta Buffet and Cale - 1216 Pa. Ave. Washington, D.C. Fine wines, liquors and cigars Hot Free Lunch Every Day Ladies will receive special attention in Dining Room upstairs. SOUTHERN HOTEL, Good board, steam heat and electric bells, Home comfort, moderate prices. 311 Pa. Ave., dw. Washington, D. C. Fine wines, liquors, cigars and tobacco. Jack M Ryan, Proprietor SILENCE & SILENCE, Wines, Liquors and Cigars, A Noonday Lunch from 11,30 to 2 p.m. 430 EIGHTH ST., N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C. HERE AND THERE The Clinton Cottage opening at Atlantic City was a brilliant social success. Rev. H. C. Astwood, editor of the Bryn Mawr Defender, has been placed in charge of Allen A. M. E. Church, one of Philadelphia's most important stations. Rev. Mark C. Haford of the Gold Coast, Africa, who is visiting the United States, has been made an honorary fellow of the British Colonial Scientific Association. Bishop L.J Coppin, late charge Bethel Church, Philadelphia, led the van of the A. M. E. denomination in Easter collections, turning in the hands one sum of $250. Metropolitan church, Washington, J.Abert Johnson, pastor, fell down to $160. Several wealthy white gentlemen of Chicago have agreed to furnish the $35,000 necessary to manufacture a working model of the new automatic machine gun, recently invented by Eugene Burkins, a colored boy. The gun will be constructed at Baltimore. "The National Council of the Constitutional Rights Association of the United States," with headquarters at Richinond, Va., has issued an address appealing for assistance in its fight against the oppressive and repressive laws of the South. Dr. J. E. Jones is president and Giles B. Jackson is Secretary. The association deserves to succeed. The Women's Club Association of Massachusetts has visited a stunning blow on the head of Mrs. B. Lowe of Atlanta, the President of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, by electing Mrs. Josephine St. P. Ruffin a member of the official board. When the Federation meets again the chances are that the life will be banged out of Mrs. Lowe's color-line scheme. Eugene Burkin, a colored boy of 19 years, who lives over in Chicago's great West side, is the inventor of a rapid fire machine gun which he claims is the most effective weapon of its kind in the world, and is destined to throw the invention of Maxim and Nordenfeldt, now in general use in the armaments of the world, into the scrap heap. Several experts who have seen the model of Burkin's gun pronounce it a marvel of ingenuity. Another National Race Conference is to be held at Montgomery, Ala., Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, July 25, 26 and 27. The call is as follows: "This notice is an invitation to every lover of all the colored race, North, South, East and West, of the United States of America. The great questions that confront the race, especially the disfranchisement and kindred questions, will be discussed by able representatives of the race. The meeting is not an antagonistic one, but an endeavor to throw a better light upon the problems now under consideration and to strive to better the condition of humanity. An extensive program has been arranged and will be sent out as soon as possible. For further information, address Rev. W. H. Mixon, THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. O. chairman, 807 Madison avenue, Montgomery, Ala. " General Robert Smalls whose daring feat of capturing a rebel gunboat single handed during the rebellion, made him a hero, has just receive tardy recognition of his services. He had a claim for his booty and instead of allowing it with a promptness which the brilliant act merited, the government delayed shifting the matter until the closing hours of congress. Finally it concluded to make award, and gave the hero of the Planter incident the sum of five thousand dollars. M. GENERAL ROBERT SMALLS. Hero of "The Planter." A new grocery business has been inaugurated in Chicago by colored men at 3453 State Street. The store is airy, clean and prosperous in appearance. A number of colored women clerks are employed. These girls are all high school graduates, and were it not for the enterprise of the Henry M. Turner Grocery Co., they would be at home, because they could get nothing to do. The girls are neat, prepossessing and courteous. If they maintain the standard by strict attention to business and treating all their customers with politeness, they will open the way for other young women who are waiting a chance for employment commensurate with their education and abilities. A House Hold Necessity. Camp Nelson, Ky., July 11, 1900. Mr. E. E. Cooper, Editor The Colored American. Dear Sir: Please continue the paper as they will not let me stay at home without it. The oldest boy Willie, names the large letters. The 2nd boy Clarence, looks at the pictures and the baby boy Langston tries to put the entire paper in his mouth and my wife and I enjoy reading it. Very Truly, John W. Bate. FRED. H. HABLE, FRED. H. HABLE, RAILROAD TICKET BROKER. Member of the American Ticket Call on us and we will save you from $1 to $5. Office in National Hotel Lobby, Washington, D.C. Drunkenness CAN BE CURED IS YOUR HUSBAND, BROTHER, FATHER, or any of your relatives afflicted with the Disease of Drunkenness? We have a sure cure which can be given with or with out the knowledge of the patient. Send for particulars, inclusins 2 cent stamp for reply. Address Dr. W. H. Saunders & Co., Chicago, Ill. book that shows how SEXUAL STRENGTH Is LOST and how it may be REGAINED. It is securely sealed in plain en- velope Free, on receipt of 2 cent stamp for postage. 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Remember this is not a small clock commonly called a watch, but a highly jeweled, nickel movement, made by one of the celebrated watch manufacturers in America, on our order. These watches are guaranteed by the manufacturers, and if not found exactly as represented this guarantee is assumed by us. Watches like these a generation ago would have cost $20 if they could have been produced, but the fact is, it contains appliances then unknown. Each watch has been properly adjusted and will be sent in running order. Its character! They have a jewel balance wheel. The cases are nickel silver. Are stem winding and stem setting. They have a duplex movement. Free to any one sending $4 for two yearly subscriptions, or $2 for one yearly and $1-$3 in all. This watch and The Colored American, one year for $3. The watch as a special inducement, postpaid, to any one send-ing $2.25. It will be seen therefore from the above that no one need be without a watch equal for timekeeping to any in the neighborhood, a single day longer. Indeed it will not take a day for any one to get a small club of subscribers for The Colored American, the national newspaper of the race and the newsiest and best race journal published. Try it once and see for yourself how easy it is to get this watch and to get only two subscribers for The Colored American. Don't lose time but attend to this matter as soon as you see this notice. Money can be sent by Post Office Money Order, Express Order, Bank Check, or Registered Letter. Address— ...THE COLORED AMERICAN... 450 6 St., L. W. Washington, D. C. --- MME. DAVIS YEAR 1806 Born Clairvoyant & Card Reader Tells about business, Removes Spells and Evil Influences, Reunites the Separated and Gives Luck to all. Cures Piles and Drunkenness. 1228 25th st. n. w. Washington D.C. No letters answered unless accompanied by stamp. W. H BUTLER, PAINTS OILS GLASS, &c., 609 C STREET, N.W. Springtime is on, and your house will need touching up. We have just what you want. W. H. BUTLER, 609 C St., N. W. To Repair Broken Articles use Major's Cement Remember MAJOR'S RUBBER CEMENT, MAJOR'S LEATHER CEMENT. ...C. H. NAUGHTON.. LIQUORS AND SEGARS FINE WINES. Harper & Wilson a specialty. 1926 Fourteenth Street, Northwest ILLUSTRATIONS CUTS MADE OF ANY- THING, BY ANY PROCESS. FINE WORK AT LOW PRICES. THE Maurice Joyce Engraving Company. EVENING STAR BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D.C. T. CARTER'S BAGGAGE EXPRESS. No. 2. Residence 467 Missouri Ave., Northwest, Washington, D. C. Stand B. & P. Depot, 6th and B Streets, nw. Baggage called for and delivered to all parts of the city. All orders promptly attended to. ```markdown ``` THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. THE WHITE SULPHUR. One of the Most Renowned Resorts in the Country - Doings of the People White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., Special—We are now sojourning at the White Sulphur, enjoying the pure, refreshing mountain air. As of old the White Sulphur is one of the most beautiful and picturesque resorts in the mountains and is still the place where some of the leading people of the country come to pass away the hot summer months. In the dining room and other departments of the hotel, those employed are chiefly from Charlottesville, Washington, Richmond and Fincastle as well as many from other places. The dining room is one of the largest in the country and is presided over by Mr. J. H. Dickinson, headwaiter of Charlottesville, Va. who is fully equal to the great task in every respect and who has the confidence and respect of the large number of men under his charge as well as the large number of the guests who are here. He is a man of wide and varied experience in the work and his straightforward, kindly disposition wins for him friends with all with whom he comes in contact. Mr. Ernest Martin of Washington, D. C. is second waiter, and a man who understands his business and is ever alive to the full discharge of his duty. Mr. D. A. Smith of Charlottesville, secretary of the dining room, needs no introduction to those who have ever met him. Intelligent, quick sighted, genial and energetic, he is a faithful keeper of the records and other duties pertaining to his office. Mr. S. H. White of Charlottesville, Mr. Richard Carr of Washington, D. C. and Mr. Robert Branch of Richmond are in charge of the dining room watches as captain. In the ordinary dining room, Mr. James Allen of Charlottesville is headwaiter. Mr. Allen is thoroughly acquainted with the work and we believe a better selection could not have been made. He is highly respected by everybody as his gentlemanly bearing justly merits. There are here a most genteel, polite and intelligent set of young men. Many engaged in or aspiring to the several professions. The White Sulphur Literary Society was organized last week with the following officers: Mr. Robert B. Barcus, president; Mr. Clayton Brown, vice president; Miss Lena Whipps, secretary; Mr Woolfolk Briscoe, treasurer. The next meeting of the literary will be held Wednesday night, and account of which we will give in our next news letter. One of Charlottesville's most noted jesters told us on our arrival that Fincastle, Va., one of our western Virginia towns has closed up for the summer owing to the large number of its inhabitants who are here for the summer. SCRIBE. Miss Susie A. Brent, a charming young lady from Chicago, is the guest of Miss Hattie George, 619 B. St., Northeast. Mr. Edgar Furbush, Secretary of the United States Legation at Port au Prince, Hayti, is spending his vacation in this country. He will be in Washington for a few weeks and is the guest of his brother in law, Mr. D. M. Messer of 11th St. Northwest. Mr. H. J. White, a prosperous business man of Atlanta, Ga., is spending a few weeks in the city, the guest of his brother in law, Col. Jack M. Ryan of the Southern Hotel. Mr. White will spend a few days in Atlantic City and other eastern points before returning to his home in Dixie. 12 AS THE CURTAINS GO UP Movements of Stage People and How They are Endeavoring to Hold the Mirror up to Nature. Mr. Theodore Drury, the distinguish ed baritone, announces the production of Bizet's opera "Carmen', (in English), at Park Opera House, Asbury Park, New Jersey, on Monday night August 6. This production having been given with enormous success at Lexington Opera House, New York. Mr. Drury is prompted to repeat it at Asbury Park, confident that he will have the support of all loyers of operatic art. The remarkable strong cast will include Mme. Dessario Plato, Mrs. M. Randall, Mrs. T. Gields, Miss E. De Lyons, Theodore Drury, G W Taylor, Fredric Shaldon, A. DeAncy, R. R. Johnson, Miss Daisy Laturner. Ernest Hogan has purchased a fine little cottage in Honolulu. Mrs. A. P. Albert, a highly cultured Washington lady, is the author of a drama that has been well spoken of by the critics. Miss Heurietta Vinton Davis, the talented Washington elocutionist, is working her way homeward, after a successful tour of the South and West. Prof. Wm. H. Reid, of Cincinnati, Ohio, has a national reputation as a teacher of pickaninny bands. The music rendered by these youngsters comparing favorably with that of older musicians. The Webber-Doak and Burton company, presenting "Colored Aristocracy" this season will be under the directorship of Charles S. Sager, the rising young author. The company opens August 20. A literary and musical troupe has been recently formed at Wilberforce by Miss Hallie Q. Brown, Profs. Wm. H. Calhoun and George T. Simpson. They have already made several engagements. Rusco and Holland's attractions this season will employ 210 colored performers; five managers and ten agents; and will use ten private cars. The attractions representing an investment of $150,000.00 The tours of these companies will embrace every city of the United States and Canada of any importance. Ernest Hogan has just signed a contract with Messrs. Rusco and Holland for a number of years to back all of his productions. He is to venture in a new field, believing that the day of the cake walk craze has seen its usefulness, and that there can be gotten together enough Negro performers to give a first class musical comedy. He has, therefore, taken the initial steps to put together a company of that class of performers and expects liberal support. Madame Jennie M. Doyle, the noted leading soprana of Wesley choir, Philadelphia, died at the Douglass Hospital in the Quaker City recently. She had been ailing for some time. She was thirty three years old and leaves one child. She was a member of Wright's Quarkette and the Carolina Jubilee Singers. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. G. L. Blackwell, the pastor, Bishop L. J. Coppin and Rev. J. B. Caldwell. Members of the different church choirs rendered the music. Mrs. J. W. Moore, of Paducah, Ky. is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Houston, 1705 10th St., Northwest. THE GRAND FOUNTAIN. United Order of True Reformers. ORGANIZED January 1, 1881. Offices 604, 606 and 608 N. 2nd St., - - Richmond, Va. The Strongest Financial Organization the Negro Has Produced in This Country. Bead and learn for yourself what it has done and how to become a member. SUBORDINATE FOUNTAINS. Subordinate Fountains are composed of males and females, sound in health and mind, and of good moral character. Conventions.—When joining the Order through Conventions, persons are taken in from 14 to 50 years of age; when joining the Fountain by application persons are taken from 14 to 60 years of age complete. Joining or Benefit Fees.—From 14 to 60 years of age, $4.60; at 50, $5.10; at 55, $5.60; at 60, $8.60. Death Benefits—$75 and $125. Could death occur within the first year, $78; after the first year, $125, will be paid to the heirs, assigns or local representatives. 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, $5.16; at 55, $5.60; at 60, $8.60. Death Benefits—$75 and $125. Would 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 $8 to $9 per month, paid weekly. Monthly Dues are 85 or 50 cent. month. Taxes are 80 cents annually, paid semi-annually, January and July. The monthly dues secure the highest weekly sick benefits. Life Membership—Ten shares of Bank Stock, costing each member $5 a share, made said member a life member. After paying dues and owning the stock one year, fruits of the stock will pay the member's dues, and leave a handsome little balance each year. Just calculate—monthly dues, 50 cents per month, and taxes 80 cents per year, amount to $6.80, and a dividend on ten shares of stock at 20 per cent on the dollar, or $1 per share, amounts to $10 annually, which will pay the member's dues, $6.80, and leave a balance of $3.20. Should the dues be 35 cents per month, and 80 cents taxes per year, the monthly dues and taxes will amount to $5 per year. The dividend of $10 would pay the monthly dues and taxes, and leave a balance of $8. Additional Benefits of Life Membership.—Should adverse circumstances befall a member, said member may take his ten shares of stock and Fountain policy, and secure a loan from $1 to $88, which will enable said member to tide over the misfortune, pay up the loan, redeem his policy and stock, and go on his way rejoicing. Monthly Dues are 85 or 50 cents per month. Taxes are 80 cents annually, paid semi-annually, January and July. The monthly dues secure the highest weekly sick benefits. Life Membership—Ten shares of Bank Stock, costing each member $5 a share, may said member a life member. After paying dues and owning the stock one year, 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, $1 per share, amounts to $10 annually, which will pay the member's dues, $6.80, and leave a balance of $3.20. Should the dues be 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, said member may take his ten shares of stock and Fountain policy, and secure a loan from $1 to $88, which will enable said member to tide over the misfortune, pay up the loan, redeem his policy and stock, and go on his way rejoicing. 2. ROSEBUD FOUNTAIN (For the Children.) A Rosebed Fountains are composed for children, male and female, from 8 to 14 years of age. Joining or Benefit Fees, $1.50; paid spot cash or by instalments. Death Benefits.—$24.50 and $37.00. Should death occur within the first year, $24.50; after the first year $37 will be paid to the parents or guardians. Sick Benefits.—From $1.50 to $4.00 per month paid weekly, 50 cents, 75 cents and $1 per week, respectively. The highest monthly dues purchase the highest weekly sick benefits. Monthly Dues and Taxes.—The monthly dues are 10 cents, 15 cents, or 25 cents, respectively, just as the Fountain may decide. Taxes, 10 cents annually, paid semiannually, January and July. The child is allowed to purchase five shares of Bank Stock, which makes his policy self-supporting, with a balance each year. 3. THE REGALLA. This Department furnishes all Regalla that is worn by the members of the Order. For style and prices write for price list. 4 CLASSES. B and E Classes admit a membership, male and female, and secure life and death benefits. B Class Polls are as follows: CLASS B TABLE. Ages. Joining Fee. Value of Certificate. Annual Dues. Paid Quarterly. 14 to 23 years. $2 50 $200 00 $4 75 $1 20. 25 to 35 years. 2 75 200 00 4 75 1 20. 35 to 45 years. 3 00 200 00 5 70 1 43. 45 to 50 years. 3 25 140 00 6 65 1 06. 50 to 55 years. 3 25 115 00 6 65 1 06. 55 to 60 years. 3 50 90 00 7 60 1 00. 60 to 65 years. 3 50 65 00 7 60 1 00. E Class Policies are as follows: CLASS E TABLE. Ages. Joining Fee. Value of Certificate. Annual Dues. Paid Quarterly. 14 to 25 years. $5 00 $50 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 00 850 00 11 00 2 85 3. THE BEGALLA. This Department furnishes all Regalia that is worn by the members of the Order. For style and prices write for price list. 4 CLASSES. B and E classes admit a membership, male and female, and secure life and death benefits. B Class Polls are as follows: CLASS B TABLE. Ages. Joining Fee. Value of Certificate. Annual Dues. Paid Quarterly. 14 to 25 years. $2 50 $200 00 $4 75 $1 20 25 to 35 years. 2 75 200 00 4 75 1 20 35 to 45 years. 3 00 200 00 5 70 1 43 45 to 50 years. 3 25 140 00 6 65 1 06 50 to 55 years. 3 25 115 00 6 65 1 06 55 to 60 years. 3 50 90 00 7 60 1 00 60 to 65 years. 3 50 65 00 7 60 1 00 Ages. Joining Fee. Value of Certificate. Annual Dues. Paid Quarterly. 14 to 25 years.....$5 00 $500 00 $9 50 $2 40 25 to 85 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 35 The ages are reckoned from the last birthday. Remember that the applicant is benefited as soon as his policy is issued. The annual dues of either of the above named Classes may be divided into quarterly payments of three months each, payable the 1st of January, April, July, and October. The balance of annual dues remaining to the credit of each member after paying expenses will go to the purchase of Bank Stock for sald member. If dues are paid annually in advance, the member gets 5 per cent drawback in cash, and his full proportion of annual dues. By the latter mode of payment each member is made his own collector, thereby making the membership independent of the agent, and self-supporting, and the member receiving the percentage that would be paid to the agent to collect. You will readily see that the members of either one of these classes are only required to meet once or four times a year, while the Fountains and Rosebuds meet twice a month. Life benefits.—The members of B Class are allowed to purchase 15 shares of Bank Stock, two shares for each year of their membership. The stock yields a dividend of per cent, or one dollar per share. Should misfortune befall them on their pathway of life, they may take their stock certificates and policies, and secure a loan after a given period of time. Members of Class E can purchase 25 shares of Bank Stock, and two shares for each year of their membership; likewise, they may take their policies and certificates of Bank Stock, and secure a loan after a given period of time. You will readily see that the membership, in either one of these Classes, like the Fountains and the Rosebuds, benefits the member in health, as well as his family in death. Remember that the applicant is benefited as soon as his policy is issued. The annual dues of either of the above named Classes may be divided into quarterly payments of three months each, payable the 1st of January, April, July, and October. The balance of annual dues remaining to the credit of each member after paying expenses will go to the purchase of Bank Stock for said member. If dues are paid annually in advance, the member gets 5 per cent drawback in cash, and his full proportion of annual dues. By the latter mode of payment each member is made his own collector, thereby making the membership independent of the agent, and self-supporting, and the member receiving the percentage that would be paid to the agent to collect. You will readily see that the members of either one of these classes are only required to meet once or four times a year, while the Fountains and Rosebuds meet twice a month. Life nefits.—The members of B Class are allowed to purchase 15 shares of Bank Stock, two shares for each year of their membership. The stock yields a dividend of per cent, or one dollar per share. Should misfortune befall them on their pathway of life, they may take their stock certificates and policies, and secure a loan after a given period of time. Members of Class E can purchase 25 shares of Bank Stock, and two shares for each year of their membership; likewise, they may take their policies and certificates of Bank Stock, and secure a loan after a given period of time. You will readily see that the membership, in either one of these Classes, like the Fountains and the Rosebuds, benefits the member in health, as well as his family in death. 15. THE TRUE REFORMERS' BANK The Savings Bank of the G. F. U. O. T. R. was chartered March. 1888. Its capital stock is $100,000. It commenced business April 3, 1889. The amount of business to March 1, 1888, is $8,453,100. The stock of this bank is sold to the membership of the Fountains. Rosebud, B and E classes, and pays a dividend of 20 per cent on the dollar. Persons can deposit their menes on time or demand. The bank pays 4 per cent interest on all time deposits. Moneys on demand are held subject to the orders of the depositors. Deposits are received from 10 cents and upwards. Special attention is given to the collection of notes and drafts. In 1888 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 serip. BEE HIVE The Savings Bank of the G. F. U. O. T. R. was chartered March. 1888. Its capital stock is $100,000. It commenced business April 3, 1889. The amount of business to March 1, 1888, is $8,453,100. The stock of this bank is sold to the membership of the Fountains. Rosebud, B and E classes, and pays a dividend of 20 per cent on the dollar. Persons can deposit their menesys on time or demand. The bank pays 4 per cent interest on all time deposits. Moneys on demand are held subject to the orders of the depositors. Deposits are received upwards. Special attention is given to the collection of notes and drafts was the only bank in Richmond which continued to pay currency to its the financial stringency, while the other banks. 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. 125 farms, 3; dwellings, 2; hotels, 1; with a fee simple value of $104,000. Buildings leased. 18. 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 12, farms 3, 3; dwellings, 2; hotels, 1; with a fee simple value of $104,000. Buildings leased, 13. 7. THE REFORMER, the Organ of the Order The Reformer is the Beacon-Light, the Head-Light, the General Messenger and the General Agent of the Brotherhood. It is a live race journal, with a circulation of 6,000. It is the medium of the Order, and its columns teem with all its doings and achievements. Send for sample copies. It is published weekly in The Reformer Printing Office, Richmond, Va., having a first-class job department, and makes a specialty of high-class work. The Reformer is the Beacon-Light, the Head-Light, the General Messenger and the General Agent of the Bretherhood. It is a live race journal, with a circulation of 6,000. It is the medium of the Order, and its columns teem with all its doings and achievements, send for sample copies. It is published weekly in The Reformer Printing Office, Richmond, Va., having a first-class job department, and makes a speciality of high-class wear AMO CH The Ninth Presbyterian church, Indianapolis, Ind., has extended a call to Rev. Dr. Harper of Cincinnati. The Rev. R. W. Christian and family, formerly of Bloomingtan, Ill., will remain in Indianapolis indefinitely. Rev. D. A. Graham, the well known divine, is now located in New Orleans, La He deliver the baccalaureate sermon for the Southern University of that city, Sunday June, 24. Rev. C. S. Brown, president of Waters Normal Institute, Winton, N. C. has been given the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Shaw University. He is one of the ablest men in the Baptist ranks. The National Baptist Convention that will convene in Richmond, Va., next September will be one of the largest and most representative body of Negroes that ever met on the American continent. The death of Dr. R. M. Cheeks, late editor of the Southern Christian Recorder, will not necessitate the removal of the publication of that paper from Atlanta, Ga. It will still be published in that city by the new editor, Rev. G. E. Tayler. Dr. Harizell presented for use by the recent M. E. General Conference at Chicago a beautiful gavel made of ivory from the center of Africa, the handle being made of African ebony. The gavel was made in an industrial school by a black boy, in Monrovia, Liberia. A resolution forbidding General Officers from holding churches did not pass in the recent A. M. E. Zion Conference. Dr. W. H. Goler and others opposed it. It was left to the discretion of the Bishop to use a general officer wherever he saw fit for the good of the Connection. Rev. J. D. Caldwell, the newly elected general steward of the A. M. E. Zion Connection will make his headquarters in Philadelphia. The position is second in importance to that of Bishop. Dr. Caldwell has many friends in all denominations, and is well worthy of his position. Rev J. H. Henderson, general statistician of the Zion M. E. Church, reports a large increase in church membership, finance and ministerial influence. The Church ranks fourth in Methodism, second in Negro Methodism and thirteenth in general denominationalism. Bishop Walters and Prof. B. A. Johnson left for Europe July 3rd, sailing from Boston to attend the London Christian Endeaver convention, and return August 15th to attend the Afro- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. American Council, The Bishop is to speak twice at the great Alexandria Palace. They will also go to Scotland, Berlin, and the Paris Exposition. Editor J. W. Smith calmly announces that Rev. C. D. Hazel, of Paterson, N. J., will occasionally furnish the Star with short articles—not over 500 words—on Pastoral Theology, Homiletic Thoughts and New Testaments Exege sis. We hope to be able to go over this interesting symposium with a great deal of care, and shall certainly glean great inspiration. The General Conference of the A. M. E. Church passed a resolution requiring bishops, elders, and all ordained ministers to wear robes on certain occasions and all unordained ministers to wear regular ministerial suits. There is no compulsion behind the resolution. The robe and ministerial garb will be entirely optional. Some will wear these garments. A large number never will. Dr. J. M. Buckley, speaking of the fraternal addresses of Revs. R. A. Carter and L. J. Coppin, before the General Conference of the M. E. Church at Chicago, says in a recent issue of the Christian Advocate: "Delegates from the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church and from the African Methodist Episcopal Church addressed the Conference, making in each case a most favorable impression." Rev. James E. Mason, D. D., of Livingston College, was the fraternal delegate of Zion Church to the Methodist Episcopal Conference held at Chicago in May. In the course of his address delivered before that body, Dr. Mason laid special emphasis on the part his denomination was playing in the intellectual elevation of the race. He said that Zion Church is operating twenty institutions of learning in which elementary and academic branches are taught, and has five schools of higher grade in which a collegiate training is given. Rev. R. H. W. Leake, of North Carolina, has assumed charge of the publication department of the A. M. E. Church at Philadelphia. He will make an able officer as he thoroughly understands the practical side of the business. Dr. T. W. Henderson did well but he lost out from over confidence in his own power, and neglect to organize the elements with which he was surrounded. It is rumored that he has been offered the pastorate of Metropolitan A. M. E. church, Washington, when a change is talked of. A secular paper, speaking of the remarkable tendency of the times to abuse or denounce somebody or everybody, without impartial examination of the evidence, gives this wise counsel: "If you have been unjustly or courteously treated, the worse for the person who has committed the offence. It is infinitely better to suffer wrong than to do wrong. The judicious way is to takeep silent, and the still nobler way is to so overcome evil with good that it is driven away as the darkness flees before the light." There is a nugget of sound philosophy here—if the individual has the POISE and self control to live up to it. WHERE TO SPEND A PLEASANT SUNDAY AFTERNOON. RIVER QUEEN Boat leaves N street wharf, Clyde Line at 2:30, 5 and 6:30 pm. Fare, 25 cents. For terms of charters for Notley Hall and Lower Cedar Point, address. L. J. WOOLEN, Manager, Steamer River Queen Wharf. Wayland College. Richmond Theological Seminary. MAGNIFICENT BUILDINGS OF GRANITE. New Equipment, Fine Library, Electric Light, Steam Heat. Commanding Location on Border of Richmond. Large Faculty of Enthusiastic and Able Professors. Lectures by Distinguished Scholars, Educators and Preachers. 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Training in manners, habits and character receive special attention. Entrance examination and classification of new students Tuesday, Oct. 2, 8:45 a.m. Term begins Wednesday, Oct. 3, at 8:45 a.m. Catalogue and further information on application to THE PRESIDENT, Have You Got a JOB? ARE YOU EARNING BIG MONEY? IF NOT, THEN YOU SHOULD WRITE AT ONCE TO- HARTONA REMEDY CO., 909 E. Main Street, RICHMOND, VA. We want lady or gentlemen Agents in every town in the United States. You can earn big money if you will work for us even in your spare time. Write to us to-day. This may be the chance of your life. This offer is open to ladies or gentlemen—white or colored. Wayland College. MAGNIFICENT BUILD New Equipment, Fine Library Commanding Location Large Faculty of Enthusiastic Lectures by Distinguished Scol COLLEGE DEPARTMENT, Of High many Electives. Courses lea Bachelor of Science, and Bacch THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT, Bapt electives; with Hebrew and G elor of Divinity, and English o Theology; Ministers' Course fo tion, desire to fit themselves ACADEMY DEPARTMENT, Thorough paratory Course; General Cou wise and noble living; and Nor INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT, For m and use of tools and machinery Unequalled advantages for pursuing Training in manners, habits and ch Entrance examination and classifi 8:45 a. m. Term begins Wednesday further information on application to Have You ARE YOU EARNING BIG HARTONA R 909 E. Main Street We want lady or gentlemen Agents You can earn big money if you will Write to us to-day. This may be t open to ladies or gentlemen—white The A. M. E. general conference made the following episcopal assignments for the ensuing quadrenial. Keep it for ready reference: First District—New England, New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia Conferences Bishop W. B. Derrick. Second District—Baltimore, Virginia, West and North Carolina. Bishop Benjamin F. Lee. Third District—Ohlo and Pittsburg, Bishop B. W. Arnett. Fourth District—Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Michigan, Bishop Abraham Grant. Fifth District-Colorado. Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska, Bishop C. T. Shaffer, 5 13 Richmond, Va. Sixth District—Georgia and Alabama Bishop H. M. Turner. Seventh District—South Carolina Bishop W. J. Gaines. Eighth District—Arkansas and Mississippi Bishop Evans Tyree. Ninth District—Tennessee and Kentucky Bishop B. T. Tanner. Tenth District—Texas and Louisiana Bishop Moses B. Salters. Eleventh District—Florida Bishop James A. Handy. Twelfth District—West Indies,Bishop Charles Spencer Smith. Thirteenth District—West Afrlea, Bishop M. M. Moore. Fourteenth District—South Africa, Bishop L. J. Coppin. 14 (Continued from second page.) 100,000. and that they today outnumber the Dutch in the Transvaal two to one is conclusive proof that they do not object to a system which makes them thrifty and industrious, spontaneous workers, in sharp contrast to the Hottentotts who have become extinct under the British sway at the Cape. Mr. Silas Hocking in a speech at Exeter Hall in March of this year declared: "I do hate hypocrisy, and if there be any cry that savors of cant and hypocrisy it is in this cry that we have have gone to war for the protection of the natives of South Africa. We have heard a great deal about how badly the Boers have treated the natives, and yet I ask you to consider this question. How does it happen that now that every man, aye, and every boy, has been commanded, when all the male population of the Transvaal and the Free State are on the border, and all the women and children are left unprotected on the lonely farms of the veldt—how does it happen that they are perfectly safe with this vast population of natives all around them?" One reason for their willingness to remain under the tyrannous sway of the Dutoh is perhaps to be found in the fact that the Transvaal never allowed the compound system of labor to be set up within its boundaries; that it maintained an eight-hour labor law, and prohibited labor on Sundays. The demand of the mining companies before the Industrial Commission at Johannesburg was that the government should "procure a steady and sufficient supply of Kaffirs for the mines." This was to be done by accrediting and assisting agents of the companies to obtain native labor, by paying premiums to Kaffir chiefs, by furnishing extra pay to the native commissioners for the same object, and by conveying the blacks thus secured to the mines "under supervision," with a reduction of railroad fare to one third of existing rates, and with the erection of compounds along the road. The reason that the Transvaal government should go to so much trouble and expense was confessedly to regulate the wages of the Kaffirs." Mr. Albu stated before the Commission: "The native at the present time receives a wage which is far in excess of the exigences of his existence. The native earns between fifty shillings and sixty shillings per month, and then he pays nothing for food or lodging. In fact, he can save nearly all that he receives. If the native can save twenty pounds a year, it is almost sufficient for him to go home and live on the fat of the land. In five or six years' time the native population will have saved enough money to make it unnecessary for them to work any more. The consequence of this will be most disastrous for the industry and the State. This question applies to any class of labor and in any country, whether it be in Africa, Europe or America. I think if the native get enough to save five pounds a year, the sum is quite enough for his requirements and will prevent natives from becoming rich in a short space of time." Hays Hammond, the American who figured conspicuously in the Jameson Raid, and who owes his life to the clemency of the despised "oligarchy" declared: "There are in South Africa millions of Kaffirs, and it does seem preposterous that we are not able to obtain 70,000 or 80,000 Kaffirs to work the mines. With good government there should be an abundance of labor, and with an abundance of labor there will be no difficulty in cutting down wages, because it is preposterous to pay a Kaffir the present wages. He would be quite a well satisfied—in fact, he would work longer—if you gave him half the amount. His wages are altogether disproportionate to his requirements." THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. This is philanthropy with a vengeance. In Kimberley, it may be added the working day is 12 hours long, and the working week, seven days The compound system, another name for slavery, is also in full force Missionary work has been done among the natives by the Boers from the days of Peter Van der Stael, "the sick comforter," who labored so earnestly for the education and Christianization of the blacks. The chief cause of the condemnation so freely bestowed by the British was to be found in the difference of method employed in early mission work by the two nations. The British insisted on the importance of "book learning," while the Boers like Booker Washington, and other leaders of thought in dealing with the race problem of our county, considered that salvation lay largely in "manual training" for the blacks. Livingstone, him self, leaned to this side, but the majority of his brethren found fault with the Boers, and as they reached a large audience, in a familiar tongue, the other side has been little heard from. Theal, the historian of South Africa, says: "There was thus a broad line of demarkation between the colonists and such of the missionaries as held these views; and the tendency of each side was to make it broader. It was deepened into positive antipathy toward those missionaries who, following Dr. Vanderkemp's example, united them selves in marriage with black women and claimed themselves the champions of the black population against the white." Of the law forbidding natives the use of the sidewalks in Johannperburg, it must be remembered was made by municipal council of that city, composed of elected property holders of three month's residence, and Englishmen were largely represented. Of the treatment of blacks by individual Britons and Boers, it may be truthfully contended that little choice is to be make between them. It is simply that accorded by the dominant race to an inferior one, on the frontiers of civilization the world over, and in all time. Sir George Gray, for yaars the famous governor of Cape Colony denied emphatically his belief in the reported cruelty of the Boers, and F. C. Selous, the hunter and explorer of 28 years experience, sums up his experience thus, "I will only say that, in my opinion: the average Dutch Boer treats the natives in South Africa quite as well as the average Englishman. Dr. Grout sustains his judgment, giving it as his own. Rhodesian loyalists of the Cape it is claimed, single out the Boer method of dealing with the natives as the one special feature of the Boer government deserving of the commendation, and F. V. Kirby, well known as a hunter and traveler in those wilds and an imperialist, strongly in favor of annexing the Republics, thus protests in a letter to the Uitenhage Times against the charges of oppression brought against the Boers:— "I claim to know the Transvaal, its Boers and its natives, as well as many and better than most people in this Colony, and I have no hesitation in saying that these charges are often maliciously false and more often grossly exaggerated. The native of the Transvaal are as happy and contented under Boer rule as they were during the British occupation, for the average Boer is every whit as kind to his native servants as the average Britisher. As regards the relations between the Boer government and the native tribes generally the protection of life and property was always assured to the latter, and this was all they ever asked for or desired from a governing body." This evidence would seem to be conclusive. W. A. CROFFUT, 140 B. St., N. E, Washington D.C. Telephone: 797 THE RAY MEDICAL INSTITUTE X Ray in use for examination and diagnosis. German specialists treat all chronic diseases of man and woman; catarrh, rheumatism, brain, stomach, heart, kidney, bladder, hemorrhoids (piles) cured; vitality restored. RUPTURE CURED. Latest electric discovery; no knife, no injection; no pain. Trusses on trial Private diseases, stricture, impotency, varicocele, hydroccele, syphilitic skin and blood poison cured without mercury. Special attention given to old and so-called incurable cases treated and cure accomplished. Hours 10 to 12.2 to 6 Tuesdays and Saturdays till 8 evening. DR. CZARRA. 316 6th street and 494 Louisiana avenue, northwest $1.00----ONLY----$1.00 HISTORY of the COLORED SOLDIERS IN THE SPANISH-AMREICAN WAR. ```markdown ``` By EDWARD A. JOHNSON. Author of the Famous "Scho CONTAINS—Pen pictures of the Dar- Juan, El Caney, and around Santiago.—Co- cannon which knocked over the block in Berry, the colored soldier who was first t The glowing tribute to McKinley, Miles of Negro soldiers—General Morgan advo- Gomez, Miss Olseros, and the Cular Wor- Army—The Negro Poet, Paul Lawrence S outwitted the diploncy of the Spanish M Uncle Sam's money—The colored Register money to make it good. Every Page Brimful of New and I to e and line engravings of soldier, office War, with a FINE PICTURE OF AGUBINAL nia, and a brief sketch of the Phillipinos. Handsome Picture of General N mand of all the American Army, who sa Santiago was "without a parallel in the H Little." Mailed Free. us "School History of the Negro Race." At the Daring Charges made by Negro Soldiers at San Montique.—Corporal Brown killed at his post while firing a the block house and saved the Rough Riders—Sergeant was first to raise the American flag on San J as Hill- ey, Miles. Roosevelt and many others on the bravery man advocates Negro officers.—Antonio and Jose Macio, Mular Women Cavary.—The Negro Paymasters in the Lawrence Jumber—"Eddie" Savoy, the colored man who Spanish Minister at Washington—The Negro who seals and Register of the Treasury who has to sign Uncle San's New and Interesting Reading, with about fifty half- teller, officers, and scenes of the late Spanish-American MAGBUNALDO, his headquarters, a Filipino lady of Ma- philipinos and their civilization. General Nelson A. Miles, the Major General in com- mery, who said the fighting of the colored soldiers around in the history of the world." All for $1, "Much in Author of the Famous "School History of the Negro Race." CONTAINS—Pen pictures of the Daring Charges made by Negro Soldiers at San Juan, El Caney, and around Santiago. Corporal Brown killed at his post while firing a cannon which knocked over the block house and saved the Rough Riders—Sergeant Berry, the colored soldier who was first to raise the American flag on San Jas Hill. The glowing tribute to McKinley, Miles, Roosevelt and many others on the bravery of Negro soldiers—General Morgan advocates Negro officers. Antonito and Jose Macio, Gomez, Miss Ciseros, and the Culair Women Cavailry. The Negro Paymasters in the Army. The Negro Poet, Paul Lawrence Jumbrer. "Eddie" Savoy, the colored man who outwitted the diplomacy of the Spanish Minister at Washington. The Negro who seals Uncle Sam's money. The colored Register of the Treasury who has to sign Uncle Sam's money to make it good. Every Page Brimful of New and Interesting Reading, with about fifty half to e 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 Phillipinos and their civilization. Handsome Picture of General Nelson A. Miles, the Major General in command of all the American Army, who said the fighting of the colored soldiers around Santiago was "without a parallel in the history of the world." All for $1, "Much in Little." Mailed Free. AGENTS WANTED. Big percentage. Send for copy E. A. JO Corner West and Lenoir Streets, for copy of book and Agents' terms. Address A. JOHNSON eets, Raleigh North Carolina. James F. Keenan Rectifier and Wholesale Liquor Dealer. Corner West and Lenoir Streets, Raleigh North Carolina. FREE SCOTT'S MAGIC HAIR STRAIGHTENER AND GROWER. BEFORE AFTER Is the recipe of a Celebrated Chemist, and is guaranteed to be absolutely safe and harmless. It is the most wonderful preparation in the world to make kinky, knotty, stubborn, harsh, short and thin hair, long, thick, beautiful, straight, soft, glossy and pliable. It stops hair from falling out, promotes a rapid growth, restores natural color, and gives health to the hair and scalp, by positively curing dandruff and all scalp diseases. This marvelous remedy grows hair on bald heads and thin places. Please try it, and also read some of the testimonials from thousands of persons who are now using it. Price 30 and 55 cents, by mail. Little Hero Pills, 10 and 25 cents. Scott's Face Bleach and Beautifier, 30 cents. Scott's Mustache Forcer, 25 cents. Scott's Catarrh Cure, (Liquid) 25 cents. Scott's Nasal Cream, (for Catarrh) 25 cents. Dr. Marian's Female Tabuloids (for Female troubles) 25 cents. Scott's Wonderful Pile Cure, 25 cents. NOTICE! With each order of one or more of any of our remedies, we will send you a free treatment of our Celebrated Little Hero Pills, (for all forms of Kidney, Liver, Stomach and Urinary Diseases), at Drug Stores or sent by MAIL on receipt of price.amps accepted. Agents wanted, can make $15 to $150 month. Write to-day for instructions. Enclose stamps for reply. P. O. BOX 570. The Colored American is on sale at J Bishop Johnson's, 1201 R str. n. w., The Koonce Cafe, 1606 M str.; Bellers, 16th and M streets; Davis 11th and U streets; Wagner's 14th Pierce Place; Chapman's, 14th and P; The McKinley House, 489 Missouri avenue; Hyman's 1618 7th str.; Walker and Newman's, 3rd and D streets s. w., and at Marcoe's 421 12th street n. w. --- --- 462 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W. Miss Maggie E. Wilson FORMERLY VOCAL SOLOIST with Loudin's Fisk Jubilee Singers, is now prepared to give Vocal and Instrumental instruction either privately or in class. STUDIO 1820 20th street, northwest. Terms reasonable. Pupils can enter at any time. Prominent Colored Men Agents wanted to sell "One Hundred Distinguished Leaders," a beautiful book containing one hundred portraits and sketches of the leading colored men in the United States. Price 25 cents per copy. Send stamps or post office money order to - ALSO - Charles Alexander, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. cerca , a a KDUCATIONAL, - ae 2FAe i ' a Pa rg <P" Snes iting A a! Aaa a By eet Sith ties nen Reet 4 eT = ee (ub Rogge cS tee ae te: oceatyame ul eo RN LT Nee Cann Fee ol ate eaee Ul ee eT wEuTEs pale go RTT RRS OS. ae PR recency ene Soa Cae Nal alga SS agape ary ee HOWARD UNIVERSITY, Washington, D. C. 1 net departments, under one hundred | tent professors and instructors—Theo- 7 edical, Legal, College, Pedagogica’, ory, English, Agriculture, Industrial, and y Forinformation address— 7 J. E. RANKrN, D. D., LL. D., President, Gro. H, SAFFORD, Secretary, onan OES nee aero Gergia State Industrial College, Open to Both Sexes. ee ve fal! term beginning Oetober 3rd 1900, the Georgia State Industrial Celiege will cceive both young men and young we- cn as boarders. The entire expenses for vard, Weshivg, fuel and nights will be oly $.U0 per month. The locaticn and surroundings are healthful and elevating. A first-class opportunity for young men ind women to obtain a good literary aud ndustrialeducation. The trades of Black- smithing, Wheelwrigbting, Carpentry, Paintiog, Bricklaying and Shoemsking, will be laught the boys and the arts of Sewing and Cogging will be taught tle sirls. Boarding sWace is limited and those who wish to come must apply early. Respectfully, R. RK. WRIGHT, Pres’t. College, Ga Avery College Grad Avery Gollege Grades Schocls ass ALLEGHENY, PA. A Practical, Literary and Industria! Trade School tor Colored Boys ard Girls, Caryen- ry, Bricklaying, Plastering, Painting and Interior Decorations. ‘Tailoring, Dress, making, Millinery. Vorce Culture and Piano Yorte. Literary Departa ent fr _m Primary » Normal Course Job Work Solicited and Profits given to the Students. Cr talogues 1oW ready. Acdress, Joseru D, MAHONEY, Principal. Allegheny, Pa ae + : Howard University, WasuHinaton, D. C. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, INCLUDING ncdical, Dental and Pharmacenutic Colleges rty-third Session (19(0 4901) will begin ber Ist, 180 and continue seven (7 on fee in Mcdical and veatal Colleges, Ls*0, Pharmaceutic College, $70. -tudents must register before October r catalogue or further information ap F, J, SHADD, M, D.,, Secretary, 1 R St, N. W., Washington. D. €. )RESSMAKING ACADEMY. the de Lam Orton Famous #renck Perfection Tailor System Academy Mon J, A, SMALLWwoop, Sole Agent is Madison St. Northwest. Morning class from 9 a. m, to 1 p.m \fternoon class 2 to 5 p.m. daily. Evenings from 7.30 to 10 o’clock. Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday: Dressmakers and ladies who wish to d¢ their own dressmaking. ta WANTED—To learn the wonder ful De Lamorton French Perfectior lsaylor System, Seamless Basques Without one inch of visible seam, i inmeg or goods, not even on the shoul fer. Suecessful Dressmaking requires *s huch earnest progressive study af ssful work in any of the profes us. No detail is too small to be arefully looked after. We teach you \o make dresses with or without seam sud guarantee perfect fits, and com plete your course with a diploma. Pupils can enter at any time. Summer course begins June 15th. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D.C. See COLORED, NEWSPAPERS. § Do the Leading and Representative People Read Them? The Dallas Express, one of our lead- ing exchanges, handles this timely topic in its current issue in regards to prominent Negroes in Dallas, Texas, who boast of not subscribing fer col: ored newspapers but who are paying subscribers to the white journals which show to them and to their families all of the shortcomings of therace The article which we reproduce below states the casetruthfully and it applies to Washington, D. C., and to other large centers ef colored population just as well as it does to Dallas, Texas. It may be added here that ip the large number of cases where first class portraits and sketches are printed of leading eolored menin The Colored American, that they not only themselves du pot sub- scribe forthe paper but advise their friends not to do so. The Colored American prints items of news, ete, about them more asa matter of news avd beoauge it is its duty rather than from any encouragement on their part. Like the so called leading Negroes of Dailas they subscribe for the white papers which show them up to be mis- guided leaders, their sons to be crap shooters, and their daughters to be only fit for the menials of white people. “*We have a number of prominent Ne gtoes in this city, and perhaps else: where, who refuse to subscribe for the Dailas Express or any other Negro paper. ‘Inis class of Negroes are al ways very loud in their advice for the rece to be like “de white folks.” Won- der if these fellows ever found aby ieading white man in Dallas, who re: fused and refuscs to ever subscribe for aby white paper printed im the city, What would such white men as Mayor Cabell, Dr. Rosser, Prof. Long, Capt. Gaston and Hon, HKugepe Marshall, look like, going arourd Dallas brag’ ging about refusing to take the Dailas News or Times Herald? Our ‘‘ieaaing”’ people should stop and consider, Let the leaders iead, so that the people can tollow. The Negro newspaper should receive t hesuppoit of iexding Negroes first, and no intelligent Negro home should be without one. The Colored American, The Indiauapolis Freeman, 8. ‘Vv. C. Advocate, The Christian Re corder, A.M. K, Oburch Review, Paul Quinn Weekly, Victoria Guide and many other Negro papers which we can meption, are splendid publications and should be a part of the regular read'ng Muatter of every colored child in the lend.” ays - DOWN THE HUDSON. Trojans Have a Delightful Excursion. Troy, New York, Special—One of the most enjoyable excursions of the sea- 80n was that given by the Presbyterian church of Troy July 11, to Coley Grove, 83 miles down the Hudson. ‘I'he day was pesfect, and a jollier crowd was never gatbered together on the billowy waves. Nearly 400 hundred persons took advantage of the trip. A splendid orchestra was aboard and furnished music Of 8 kind that kept the feet of the brethren and sisteren busy during the whole two hours cf the delightful ride. A committee of ladies trom the eburch furnished a palatable and sub- ‘stantial dinner and sold out everything in the eating line before the barge reached its dettination, and were obliged to repleoish their sto*k at Oat- skill, which sbated the ssme fate on the uptrip. ‘Lhecommittee appeared to be pleated with this food famine their smiles were beatific, Rev, Mr. Boddy, pastor of the church and At- torney Fred Chew and other gentlemen connected with the committee were untiring in their efforts to promote the comfort and happiness of their guests. The two former gentlemen were quite exhausted carrying atound the great foad of bills and silver which were poured into their capacious grips. The Misses Chew and an able corps of lady assistants did taemeelves proud at the tables, their patrons did the rest. It was the greatest exculsion that ever weut down the Onhanvel. Everybody says 80 and its so, Brues Garr, $1,0c00r REWARD. : SF 00 cc \ oTOx ae N SHEA'S ° Wee (ey A sue: ee gf i MEDIO ars AY PANN XS ANY re Ke ~ Key SY fo Gives the names of dead and living frinds tells who and when you will marry also of business journeys lawsuits, absent friends health or anything you wish to know, no matter what itis, He can call up your spirit friends and show them to you, Can make them rap all around the room. He atks ne quesiions don’t ask youto write names ¢£ him. Don’t try to pump you inany wa‘, out tells youright off. rie is thoroughly inuorsed by leading spiritualists everywhere, received trom them a gold medal and special license to practice his wonderful powers, credentiais no one else can Show can give tBcusands of reterences to both white und colored patrons Twenty-five years’ practice—seven in srook- lyn—will show you that he can do all he of. Can tell what business is best for you and where, how to win speedy marriage with the one you love. How to be successful in ali your doings in short what is best to do. He will succeed when ail others faii, Positive satistac tion or no pay. Call and see, You will find it juck to consult this ( bristian gentleman. He hasa medicine that will cure drunken ness; can be given patients not knowing it. Thousands through hin are now RICH HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL with all their undertakings,while those w 0 neglect his advice are stil! laboring again poverty. Through his perfect knowledge chemistry he can impart to you a secret tha will overcome yuur enemies snd win you friends. His aid and advice has often been solicited; the result has always beer the se- curing of speedy and happy marriages and all your wishes, In love affairs he never fails. He has the secret of winning the affections of the opposite sex, itis the curse of Spiritualism that In all large cities there are a class of men and wo- men who claim powers they do not possess. They have neither gifts, credentials, nor ref erences, Surely the colored peopie are not so wanting in sense as to throw their time and n.oney away onsuch. Dr. Shea refers to the Hon. Charlee Miiler, cop teuee 2481 At. lJantic avenue; the Hon. William Denmore, architect and builder, 47 Cleveland avenue, and Mr. Arthur Sewell, ship builder South Brooklyn. All have known him tor the past ten years. He gives a tree test of his power toall. The doctor has practiced five years in New Orleans, St.Louis, Memphis and Louisville, understands thoroughly the diseases, spells or influences the race is subject to. He has now and always had large patronage from them PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING: Broklyn. August, 15, 1891—This letter is to certify that 1 came to New York from Alba ny. 1 was a stranger ina strange city , out of work and outof money. I had no luck in aus i undertook. What to do I did not know. A friend advised me to go and see Dr. Shea, Idid. Hetold me the cause of my troubles; he took me in and treated me asa brother. Through him 1 gota good position that very week. 1 had been to oib- ers, they took my money and did me no good. i biessthe day [ first met Dr, shea i would advise allin bad ‘uck, sick or in trouble to go to hit at once, Sincerely, Albert Ayers, 2987 Atlantic Avenue. HARRIS’ NEW BLOOD TONIC Have you beard what this Great znd Won: derfui Medicine willdo?| Have you tried a bottle? Hzve you seen some of ihe msryel- ous cures effected by tts use? It shou!d be in every household. We gu: rantee the ingredi- ents are pure, the compound is pe fect, the taste is pleasant and the cure is permanent You may have tried different remedies, but this is superior to many of the so-called pat: ent remedies. ‘This preparation contains the most valua ble Biood Purifiers known to medical science and its use wil) convince you that it has no equal for Impure Blood, Rheumatism, Liver and kidney Complaints Boils, pimples. ring worms, tetters and humors of scrofulous div seases it makes pure, healthy blood. regu lates the heart, ¢ uses the blood to circulate treely and at normal temperature. It re, moves the causes producing itching, ner ‘yousness, biliousness, indigestion, constipa- ‘tion, Exhaustion ard that tired teeling. Ks: pecially adapted to the restoration of Torpi¢ Liver, gives tne to the stomach invigoraies the kidneys, cures constipation, produces a healthy appetite, sound digestion. reguiar stools, clear skin and a vigorous body. Re. vives vitality in the weak, despondent and overtasked females, strengthens the sexual organs and restores new Jife. Strictly pure ana highly concentrated. Small doses and quiak cures. Price 50 Cents. Prepared only by ARRIS’ CHEMICAL COMPANY, Cor. 3d and F Sta., sw., Wash., D.@ | Brooklyn, August 15, 1891—Tris letter is to certify that my husband had gone away and had been absent two yeurs, i mourned tor him night and day, I gave him up as dead. ‘Bearing of the wonderful things Dr. Shea was doing I resolved to consult him. He told me that my husband was alive and well and where he was; told me he would come home and when. fo my joy #11 of it came true. ‘He is home now, came back like one from the dead, J also wish to say that this month 1 lost $250. 1 am a poor woman anu I was almost insaue. 1 went to Dr. Shea and he told me I would find my money and to wy intensej oy 1 find itashe told me, 1 than God there isa man so gified in our midst, that can help people snd tell them what 10 do, Mrs. Mary Miller, South Piamfeia, NJ A SENSATION IN BROOKLYN—MINISYER'S STATBMENT 1 wish to state that one of my parishioners Was sick and in trouble for a long time, Mrs. Brown, 37 Gay street. No one seemed to un- derstand her case, She had several doctors but none of thera seemed to know what was the matter. None conid du her any ,.ood. It was my duty as her pastor to cail and see her. Hearing of the wonaertul work being done by Dr. Shea the last few years, 1 taought i would call and see him myself. 1 found nim a sympatnetic gentleman, He gare me a vondertul test of his powers, told me to send nim a lock 0. patient’s hatr, which 1 did by her daughter. He told at once what was the matter, and in @ short time cured her suund and weil. Her family had seemingly been under a cloud. Now all is changed. All are well &nd prosperous, 1 can truly and heartily Tecommend Dr. Shea, to all those in sickness or distress of any khid. Rev, William Jobn- son, ;astor Lebanon church, Brooklyn. Dr. Shea can show thousands such as the above, DR SHEA inas been carefully educated in the Homeopa thie and Electric Schools of Medicine. Hi success 1s wonderful in curing paralysis XKbeumatism, Asthma, Sore Eyes, Tumors, Cancers, Constipation, Ague, Dyspepsia, Tape Worms, Liver Cou Paints, Deafness, Catarrh, Dropsy, Pues, Nervous Debuiity, Heart Liseases, Consumption, Liseases of Women and Children, Fits, Kidney Disease, and strange mysterious diseases which ath. ers don’t understand, All diseases, no matter what they be. Nothing but honorable treat- ment, He can and will honestly tell you it you can be cured. Has all new remedies and hew success, Has an umple experience in public hospital and private clinics. No tri- fling with human life, Callatonce. Do not geiay. Diplomas hang in parlors. Is a reg? ‘Wstered physician. A new remedy fo rheu matism just discovered, not a lin ment. Hopeless cases and those that others can not cure solicited to call, ¥at tolks thin, the childless made parents. All letters must contain 1.00, two stamps, age, lock of hair, Charges for medical treatment only. 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A’ ie, Washington. O 3 15 THE COLORADO AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. OZONO! King of Hair Dressings. A preparation prepared solely and distinctly to improve the condition of the hair of the negro race. Not a worthless, offensive, obnoxious, greasy mass of injurious nostrums, but a delicately perfumed unguent, beautiful to look upon; made to adorn the lady, polish the gentleman, benefit youth, and gladden old age. OZONO straightens knotty, nappy, kinky, refractory hair. OZONO does this alone. No hot irons are necessary; no plastering down with grease. OZONO inhibits visually straightens, without any outside assistance. It will cause the hair to come back on bald spots. It will restore gray hair to its natural color. It will cause the hair to grow long and straight, soft and fine, and beautiful as an April morn. It will cure all itching, burning, running, humiliating Scalp Diseases. Dendruff, Tetter, Scurf, and Eczema. Itch cannot live after OZONO has been applied. 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 *erime*. 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 *erime*. 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. OUR GRAND OFFER. 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. OZONO IS GUARANTEED. BEFORE AFTER A preparation prepared solely and injurious nostrums, but a delicately pearl OZONO straightens knotty, nappy, kink vividly straightens, without any outside the hair to grow long and straight, soft Tetter, Scurf, and Eczema. Itch cannot in the babbling brook. Cleanliness is needruff, or itch, or eczema, it is doubtless y invisible to the naked eye, but which are stop this—a duty you owe to yourself, and straighten and beautify the hair, main mountain peak, fair as the lily, and glorious. Unpin your faith from frauds. With any bleach that is advertised to make sure remedy for all Skin Eruptions, Pimt take out Small-Pox Pits. This is saving we will add a one-pint package of ANT Full directions go with all goods. This 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. Our local teachers have all been re appointed. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Cornish are spending the summer in Atlantic City. Miss Mary E. Johnson is spending the summer at Atlantic City. Mrs. Mary E. Hunter is spending the summer in Pennsylvania with friends. Mrs. Isabel S. Lacy, of W street has been confined to her bed several days this week. C. W. Williams, of the Government Printing Office, is spending his vacation at his old home in Kansas. Mr. W. T. Menard, of the specification division of the Government Printing Office, is on a 30-days leave. Prof. Kelly Milier was rated for in the Board of Education for assistant superintendent of the public schools. Mrs. Clara Shields is in Philadelphia visiting Miss Willie Rutledge and her cousin, Miss Mary Shields, 22 Clifford street. Dr. C. C. Stewart, who has a fine office at 201$ E street, n. w., is one of the leading physicians and surgeons at the Capital. Mr. John T. Haskins, for several months connected with The Colored American, has returned to his home in in Petersburg, Va. A delegation of colored business men are preparing to go from here to the Boston Conference, called for next month by Booker T. Washington. Dr. Lucy E. Moten, the popular principal of the Normal School, is enjoying the breezes and invigorating waters at Saratogo Springs, N. Y. Mr. W. L. Hawkins, a typewriter and stenographer in the Census Office, leave August 1, for his home in Milwaukee, Wis., to spend a month's vacation. It is said that Prof. W. H. H. Hart was very seriously considered for the position on the Board of Charities, which finally fell to Prof. George W. Cook. --- ```markdown ``` Miss Francis A. Riley, of 327 Elm street, Le Droit Park, has been engaged by the educational committee of the National Baptist Association for work in the field. Mr. H. A. Rossett of Cincinnati, Ohio, is shaking hands with friends in the city. He is the picture of health and reports prosperity in the Ohio metropolis. Miss Lourenda Duvall left the city Tuesday for her home in Lincoln, Va., where she will spend a portion of her vacation. Hon. H. P. Cheathan, Recorder of Deeds left this week for North Carolina where he will participate in the very warm political contest that is going on in the state. Mr. James W. Taylor, the well known tonsorial artist who conducted two successful stands at 906 and 1609 11th street, n. w., is now down on his farm in York County, Va. He writes that it is a land of plenty. He has just passed an examination for teacher and received a very high per cent. He will teach school in the autumn. Mrs. J. W. Pope, who has been in the city since Christmas, has returned to her home at Richsquare, N. G., for the summer. During her stay in Washington Mrs. Pope has won many friends. Mrs. Pope was deeply interested in all matters of interests to the race and was an energetic worker in the Second Baptist Lyceum. 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A Colored Youth's Heroism at a Holocast News Notes From the Windy City—Rev Ransom Retained—An Odd Fellows Temple in Prospect- Olivet Baptist Church Makes a Good Showing. Chicago, Ill., Special.—Mrs. Mary Church Terrell passed through our city Sunday. She had been lecturing in South Dakota and was enroute to Washington. Mrs. Terrell's name is a household word in the West. She won the highest admiration last summer, when she was here as president of the Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. Her splendid ability, affability, and personal magnetism won for her a warm place in the hearts of the people of Chicago. It is hoped it is true that this gifted woman will give her host of friends a chance to hear her in August. Dr. Wilson, a prominent physician and surgeon of Nashville, Tenn. is in the city taking special courses in surgery at some of our best institutions. Dr. A. H, Kennibrew, resident physician at the Tuskegee Institute, spent several weeks in this city taking laboratory courses in the Post Graduate school. His charming wife joined him the last week of his stay. After spending a few days in Jacksonville, Ill., they will return to Tuskegee. The Edelweiss, a wealthy beer garden that has succeeded in fastening its fangs in the fashionable Hyde Park district of this city, was partially destroyed by fire recently. The building known as "Ye Tavern" at the west end of the grounds also suffered a great loss. About one dozen servants were employed in them, among them a colored boy, William Drake who succeeded in securing $25,000 from the safe, and rushed into the street while the flames licked him on both cheeks. This was truly a heroic deed, yet the daily papers in reporting the fire could not spare but four lines to devote to the deed, and that was merely a mention. Rev. Reverdy C. Ransom preached his farewell sermon at Bethel church Sunday night. During his four years pastorate he endeared himself to his large congregation by his honest, earnest administration; and won the esteem of the best citizens of Chicago. In his congregation could be found many of Chicago's intellectual lights who were attracted by the literary merit of this eminent divines sermons. The race needs such men as Rev. Ransom and rejoice to know that he is going to remain with us as pastor and superinten WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1900. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1900. J. C. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Port-au Prince, Haiti, The Black Republic--Now Spending His Vacation in the United States. dent of the Institutional church which has recently been organized by the A. M. E. Church. The colored Odd Fellows throughout the United States will be glad to know that the Odd Fellows of Chicago have paid $16,000 cash for a large lot on State Street on which they will build an Odd Fellows Temple. The plans have been completed and the larger part of the money is in hand to begin the erection of the building. It has not been definitely settled just when the corner stone will be laid, but it is thought some time in the early fall. In connection with the building will be one of the largest, most elegant, and completely furnished auditoriums in the city. There will a'so be at least six lodge halls properly fitted up for the meetings of the different organizations. This enterprise will fill a long felt want in this city. Prof. J. W. Hall, who conducts the most successful dancing school in the city is a teacher of no small ability. He has made a decided success of his art, is well known and merits the high es- teem in which he is held by the public. He is the only colored member of the Dancing Masters' Association, which body he attended in June. His new dance hall at Arlington Hall is provided with every thing for the comfort of patrons; electric fans and palms adding to its beauty. Prof. Hall is dignified and manly, and his name appears as "prompter" on the invitation of the largest and most successful balls given in the city. Rev. J. F. Thomas, pastor of Olivet Baptist church is a man whose merits as a minister of the gospel ought not be hid behind a bushel. Olivet, a magnificent brick structure, stands at the corner of 27th and Dearborn streets, and has been unfortunate from a financial standpoint, many times just escaping embarrassment by the good judgment of this earnest worker; and not only judgment, but many times has he consulted his own bank book in order to uphold the church he had started to build, ne'er wavering in the attention due the duty he had been summoned (Continued on fourth page.) PRICE FIVE CENTS. THE FORWARD MOVEMENT Christianity as a Lever to Advance the Negro and to Solve the Problem-His Ambition to Hold High Office in the Church not Encouraged-Some Cases in Point-Bruce Grits Scintillations. Albany, N. Y. Special:— For a long time the christian churches of the superior race have been greatly annoyed and perplexed over the question "what shall we do with the Negro?" and at each recurring conference, synod, session or council of these various christian denominations, the question has grown larger and hence more troublesome to handle. This is due very greatly to the fact that the Negro insists on getting religion And every year large numbers of them by reason of their conversion to the christian faith, claim fellowship with their white brethren and expect to be treated by them as equals. Herein is the kernel of the great problem and it is not difficult for anyone to see, for it is quite a large kernel. These Negroes not only absorb our religion, but they hanker after positions in our various churches. Only a short time ago one of these "christian Negroes," a man of quite considerable ability, a scholar of no mean pretensions and a gentleman of culture and refinement had the temerity to aspire to the Bishopric, and was quite a formidable candidate. Many of our good christian brethren in the conference voted for him on the first ballot by way of complimenting him, and he came dangerously near being elected as he received nearly 500 votes. When this was discovered the brethren at once decided to reduce his vote on each succeeding ballot, with the result that when the balloting was over he was not visible in the count. The election of that Negro would have disrupted the Christian Church and established a precedent which would have retarded the progress of our Holy religion fifty years to come. The brethren who were responsible for encouraging the ambition of this Negro were roundly censured in caucus for their action in voting for him. It was maintained that while he possibly possessed all the requirements the moral character and mental equipment needed in a Bishop, the fact remained that he is a Negro, and that by virtue of his election to the Bishopric he would necessarily have the unquestioned right to preside over white conferences in Baltimore and other southern cities and he would be thrown in social contact with our women and children in their homes. 2 The gravity of the situation being thus made plain the matter was made the subject of prayer both by the presiding Bishops, ministers and laymen, and when it was finally disposed of it was made clear that the Lord had opened the eyes of the trethren and shown them the duty which lay in their path. At the final session of our conference there was an outpouring of His Holy Spirit and showers of blessing immersed us, and filled our souls with the love and peace which passeth understanding, and we say with great unction that grand old spiritual: But there were still obstacles in the way, another Negro of equal talent, culture and ability and who had cultivated a taste for our Holy religion and for office, took advantage of our session of rejoicing over our narrow escape from electing one of his race to the Bishopric, and prevailed upon the brethren to vote for him for secretary—missionary secretary. They elected him though we cannot believe that they did it cheerfully or willingly. Many of the brethren said afterwards that had they known the Negro brother had so thoroughly systematized his canyass they would have cast their votes for his opponent. They did not dream that he would succeed any better than the black brother, who had been defeated for Bishop. When the vote was announced and it was found that the Negro brother had been elected we all bowed to the decision as gracefully as we could, feeling that our "Heavenly Father doeth all things well." Yet we were unable to see or to understand this manifestation of his Providence. The election of this Negro brother is even more repugnant to some of us than would have been the election of our other Negro brother to the Bishopric Already there have been heard mutterings of disapproval from our white brethren in various quarters who strongly and vigorously protest against the selection of this Negro brother for missionary secretary, an office which per force brings him in contact personally, and by correspondence with the workers in the vineyard, of both sexes who feel somewhat humiliated in the thought that their superior is a one of an "inferior and despised race." This bring us down to the consideration of the forward movement in Christianity—and the causes which make such a movement necessary. We are met at the threshold of the discussion with the question. "What shall we do with the Negro?" This is a weighty and serious question—and its proper solution can be found only in appeal to the throne of Grace for light and guidance and wisdom in finding its correct answer. We feel nowever that in matters of religion as in politics, the Negro's place can only be a secondary one in America. If he is encouraged by fanatics in the white christian churches to aspire to leadership in religious matters, as some have been encouraged to aspire politically, (and as we think mistakenly) interest in the growth and spread of the christian religion will receive as terrible a set back as has certain kind of politics in certain sections of our country wherein Negroes have presumed to shape political principles and policies. The forward movement in religion is the work, and the master work of "the stronger race." Nothing can be more THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. clear than that a race which has the highest civilization, the highest culture and untold wealth should give direction to all these matters which concern the moral, religious and political growth and development of the nation. Manifest destiny has stamped upon the brow of every Anglo-Gazon his proud title to leadership in all things which make for the uplift of the human family. It more than any other race comprehends the Divine Will, and it has accomplished more than any other race in bringing souls to Christ and thus making possible His Kingdom upon the earth. In Africa, in Asia and the islands of the sea, it has planted the cross of Christ, and the stars and stripes. It has translated the Bible in every language and hundreds of heathen dialects. The persuasive power of American Rum has been felt by these heathens through the good offices of the martyrs of the cross—our beloved missionaries in these foreign lands, who are teaching these heathens that Jesus died for them, that He loves them and wants them to come to him. Only superior intellects could have accomplished these mighty results, and the work, thanks to Anglo-Saxon energy, enterprise and pluck, is still stirring at the gates of imperial China, in the priest-ridden islands of the Phillipines, and Cuba, in Africa and in Turkey and emblazoned upon the banner of these self-sacrificing pioneers in the spread of the gospel are the conquering words: "The world for Christ." The dominating spirit of the Anglo Saxon race must prevail in the work of redeeming the world for Christ. This is manifest destiny. And it must be the shibboleth in the forward movement in Christianity. There are many gratifying evidences that the white Christian church in America now realizes that its position is one of command, and direction in these matters, which concern the salvation of men's souls, and that nothing is plainer than that the Almighty Father has entrusted to the great Anglo Saxon race the duty and the responsibility of planting the seeds of His holy religion in the hearts of the heathen of all races and all lands. "Praise God from whom all blessings flow." BRUCE GRIT. That Boston Business League. Booker T. Washington writes that the effort to organize a National Negro Business League at Boston, August 23, 24, 1900, is meeting with the most gratifying commendation and assistance from business men and women in every section of the country. It is to be understood that this organization is for colored people who are engaged in the most humble lines of business as well as for those who are engaged in the higher lines of trade. Few people understand how many successful colored men and women there who are engaged in business of all kinds in remote towns and who are succeeding in a quiet way. The object of this meeting will be to get hold of such people and give them such encouragement and advice as will enable them to do more and better business. At the same time a demonstration will be made of the enterprises of the race that will do much to help and strengthen it in the eyes of the world. All persons engaged in business who have not yet communicated with Mr. Washington are urged to do so at Tuskegee, Alabama, at once. Such an effort deserves and should receive the hearty encouragement and assistance of every man and woman of the race interested in its future. THE BOERS AND KAFFIRS. The Laws and Customs in the Transvaal Thrown on Panorama—Dr. W. A. Croffut Descants on the Much Mooted Subject—The Boers the Friends and Saviors of the Natives. Editor Colored American:—There has been of late considerable discussion of the treatment of the native races of South Africa by the Boers, and one reason put forward to reconcile the scrupulous among us to the extinction of the two little republics has been the alleged refusal, particularly of the Transvaal, to allow the blacks to hold land, and the provision of its constitution announcing that "the people will not allow any equalization of the colored inhabitants with the white." It may not be known to the majority of those who triumphantly quote this provision to us, that in our own United States, and not south of Mason and Dixon's line, there exists a similar if not more sweeping enactment, so stringent that it might almost apply to the right of birth. On the statue books of the State of Oregon we find the following: "No free Negro or mulatto not residing in this State at the time of the adoption of this constitution shall come reside, or be within this State, or hold any real estate, or make any contracts, or maintain any suit therein; and the legislative Assembly shall provide by penal laws the removal, by public officers, of all such Negroes and mulattoes and for their effectual exclusion from this State, and for the punishment of persons who shall bring them into the State or employ or harbor them therein." And, so far from being obsolete, an amendment to the Constitution proposing the repeal of this law was vetoed down in the recent election held within that State! There is ample room for comment on the situation, for granting that this outrageous and infamous discrimination on account of color was inserted in the fundamental law of Oregon in ante-bellum days, more than the life time of a generation has elapsed in which the removal might have been accomplished, and in the closing year of the nineteenth century, in the midst of a great triumph of the Republican party, it has been seen fit to retain it. So much for outlook at home Now for a moment let us listen to the statement of the Boer envoys on the question of the rights of the blacks in the twin republics, published in the Washington Post during their stay in this country: "The report that Negroes did not have fair play in the South African republics being alluded to, the envoys said: "It is like the other reports just disposed of—it is not true. Americans who are among us admit the very contrary to be the case. The fact that natives constantly and rapidly increase proves this. The only discrimination that is made against the Negroes in either of the republics is in the matter of whisky selling. They are not allowed to buy liquor without an order from their employers. Please remember that they are not at all like your Negroes. American Negroes are civilized—many of them educated and enlightened. Ours are wild men, and they have come out of the woods too recently to have been generally much improved by surrounding influences. Whisky makes them crazy and irresponsible, and we try to keep it away from them. In the British territory around us Negroes have free access to liquor; any man who has money can buy it, and the British Negroes are therefore more reckless, more demoralized, more dangerous, more ignorant, shiftless, and poor than ours. We and the Negroes do not sit together in church, but we have built them a church in every town and we support it with white men's taxes. They also have schools. On account of their enforced temperance, our Negroes are economical, religious, thrifty, and happy as compared with any others around them. This is proved by the fact that they increase in number some 20 per cent. a year. The border is unprotected; natives can come and go at pleasure. The last census showed that there were more than twice as many as whites. There are nearly a million in the republics. If our natives are handled harshly and badly, why do they not fly across the near-by frontier to the kind and humane British? No; they have constantly come from the British to us." This would seem a fair and temperate argument. Let us see if it is substantiated. It is a well known fact that slavery was not originally instituted by the Dutch in South Africa. It was introduced, and repeatedly, persistently urged and pressed upon them by the English. Says Rev. Lewis Grout, an American missionary for 15 years to Natal, the author of numerous works on Africa and in particular of the Zulu grammar which is now passing through its second edition "In the very beginning, whatever may eventually have been the feeling of the Dutch at times toward the black races, it was only kind and Christly. It is on record that when the Dutch went, about the middle of the seventeenth century, to settle at the Cape, one great object was that in this way the religious well being of the aboriginess might be promoted, that many souls of the natives might be brought to a knowledge of religion and saved to God." That no fault can be found with their treatment is shown by the fact for the land upon which they built their fort and planted their garden they paid to the owners the sum of 50,000 gilders, beside which the 60 gilders paid for Manhattan Island makes a poor showing. It was not on account of the abolition of slavery, as has been asserted, that the trek of the Boers to the northward began. It was undertaken in 1833, whereas the emancipation of slaves took place a year later, and then it was not so much the act as the manner of it which aroused the indignation of the Dutch farmers. The miserably inadequate sum allotted to them in purchase never reached the majority of owners, owing to the requirement that it be paid in London. While constantly reiterated the charge is never pressed by English historians or advocates that the exodus of their slaves from bondage was the determining cause of the departure of the Boers from beneath British rule. Says one of the most ardent supporters of the imperial policy in South Africa, "I must admit that the history of the English in South Africa, or to be more accurate, of the English Government—of the English Cabinet—in South Africa, makes about the most discreditable and unhappy reading that an Englishman can face in all the great history of his people." In the land to which the Dutch betook themselves after their expulsion from Natal there were no blacks, Internecine wars and the aridity of the region had rendered it uninhabited. In fact it is to the development of the country by the white man and the immense importation of food stuffs incident to the opening of the mines which has enabled the black race to obey the Biblical injunction to "increase and multiply" there. That they never objected to the dominion of the Dutch is shown by the fact that during the six years the Boers were in possession of Natal the black population "fegarding ing the Voortrekker commandants as deliverers, under whose rule they came to place themselves, in thousands and tens of thousands," increased, according British historians, from between 5,000 and 6,000 to the neighborhood of (Continued on fourteenth page.) THE RECORD OF A BUSY LIFE. Mr R W. Thompson's Exhaustive Review of "The Story of My Life and Work,' by Prof. Booker T. Washington. A Priceless Contribution to the Bibliography of All Time-The Candor and Clearness that Stamp the Volumn With the Washington Character- Analysis of Incident and Motive-The Story in Detail-A Remarkable Book by the Race's Most Remarkable Man. "A Remakable Book by a Remarkable Man," is the first comment that the reader invariably gives expression to after having read "The Story of my life and work," by Booker T. Washington, for that is exactly what it is. To say that "it reads like a romance," is to deal with the common place, in this new age of epigram-moulding. Mr. Washington's latest volume is perhaps the most touching recitals of the struggles and triumphs, growing out of a natural ambition for a larger life, of the sacrifices and success that accompany one who strives for high standards and exalted goals that the American people have listened to since it was charmed, inspired and thrilled by the marvelous story of the rise of those two thoroughly representative types of American possibilities, under opposing social systems,—Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. And Booker Washington's glory is not lessened in the comparison when it is remembered that he had not the fortune to begin his career as the advocate of the destruction of an almost universally detested institution which gave no man the illegitimate mastery of another. He did not garner fame from an exciting age when "wars and rumors of wars" cast a halo of martial splendor about the heads of abolition's champion. He had not the fascinating influences nor the adventitious aids that politics brings to bear as a lever toward eminence, nor the prestige of a conquering race to botster up his efforts. He simply dug his remarkable career out of the soil—the hills and dales of the Virginias and the toole lands of Alabama serving as the theater of his principal achievements. No stranger picture is offered by contemperateous history of a man who has more completely risen by his own might,—by the sheer force of a commanding personality—than is illustrated in the phenomenal record of Booker T. Washington. His chosen work possessed none of the sensational features that belonged to the forces of destruction. He could lead no assault upon a temple of infamy already standing, as fell to the lot of slavery's foes. It was his prosy and unsentimental mission to construct from such material as could be found, a new order of thought and morals that would counteract the vicious and unwholesome tendencies of the age with reference to our race, and reform a dangerous and unsatisfactory educational system. He is the only Negro in two decades to earn a leadership outside of the church and politics, and one of the two of any race below the Mason and Dixon's line to win a national reputation in the same period. "The Story of My Life" goes over all this ground made familiar by Mr. Washington's addresses, the facts being so deftly arranged and so attract. lively stated that the reader is led on and on through the 423 pages with increasing interest, closing with a regret that the end had been reached. The volume is thoroughly characteristic THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. G. of Mr. Washington—plain, direct and modest. There is no attempt at "fine writin"—no effort to exploit the gewgaws of rhetoric—not a superfluous word is used with the idea of arousing the "galleries." From the simple story of his earliest childhood to the concluding paragraph, one is struck with the refreshing candor of the author. He omits nothing necessary to a complete statement, either as to the incident or motive. He tells much inside history of his plans and purposes, doubts and fears, hopes and ambitions, that is made public for the first time. The salient points in his life are given a fitting rehearsal, and his principal speeches are so admirably selected and arranged, that the book gives to those who have had little opportunity to follow him heretofore, a clear and comprehensive view of his actual position on all the great questions of the century. Every individual is thus enabled to get Mr. Washington's utterances from an authoritative source, and not be forced to form his opinion of the man from garbled and misleading press reports, or upon what he has heard some one say, he had heard that the great educator has said on certain occasions. It is a notable and significant fact that Mr. Washington's newest admirers are those who know him best, and who understand the true greatness of his heart, the depth of his superb mind and the earnestness and sincerity of his labors. His opponents are chiefly professional rivals—people who have never heard him speak or read in full a single public statement or letter. Few will read his book without being convinced of the soundness of his philosophy, and converted into advocates of industrial education scarcely less intense than the "Tuskegee Wizard" himself. Washington's frankness and freedom from the rain beating of the latter day snob, is shown in his description of his obscure birth amd parentage and the poverty surrounding his early life in the Virginia's. Portraits are given of the tumble down log cabin where he first saw the light—and opportunities seemed plentiful through both roof and walls—and of pathetic scenes between the sprightly youngster and his sainted mother. Her tack of literary training is delicately referred to, but what will commend the writer to every manly man is the beautiful tribute to the fidelity, devotion and character of that slave mother, and how magnanimously he arrays the ethics of honesty on her side when he tells of her nocturnal forages upon the "big house" to secure by whatever means most expedient a supply of food for her loved little ones. The same spirit of candor regarding his humble beginnings pervades each of the twenty-two chapters into which the book is divided. Mr. Washington's first employment, how his boyish ambition to "be something, to do something" was fired by the sight of a colored man reading a newspaper in a crowd, his weary trip to Hampton, his famous "examination" for admission, how he acquired the name of "Washington," his advent into the Sunday school, his valuable discipline learned under the tutelage of Mrs. Viola Ruffner—all these and other facts are brought out, leading up to his graduation from Hampton in, 1875, after which the second epoch of his career may be said to have begun. Mr. Washington's experiences covering the next six years are kalidescopic (Continued on seventh page.) 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. 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Two boxes of the great hair grower "Electrical Hair Restorative" are sent with each Comb. Notice. TO QUICKLY Introduce this great invention, we have decided to give every reader of The Colored American, this opportunity. Cut out this advertisement and mail to us with ONE DOLLAR and we will mail you at once prepaid, THE MANETIC COMB and Two Boxes of Electrical Hair Restorative. Make all money and express orders payable to R. GATHRIGHT, President. Register your letters; It protects you. Address all orders to MAGNETIC COMB CO., Box No. 5, Station B, Richmond, Va. Our Guarantee humbug we take the following methods slanderers. By absolutely guaranteeing the case of dissatisfaction. This is a reputable ment from a dishonest firm. CHR. XANDER 909 Seventh Street N. W. His Sweet Norton, a deep tinted red wine, his own pressing, allows double dilution in the drinking glass and remains as vinous and sweet, as the best sweet Catawba unwatered. Both he sells at $1 gallon, 50c the half gallon. Chr. Xander's Rye Whiskies at 75c, 65c, 60c and 50c the full quart, are free from fusel poison of some age, kept in heated storage, and compare advantageously with any whisks at their price. Equally so his Brandies, Gins and Rum are pure and well developed, and the moderate use of them ever cause a headache. He has an array of ever so many standards of Wines and Whiskies stored in his cellars and warehouse Remember the Number 909. Nobranch houses WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE: BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. OZONIZED OX MARROW THE ORIGINAL—COPYRIGHTED. This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky hair straight as shown above. It nourishes the scalp, prevents the hair from falling out and makes it grow. Sold over 40 years and used by thousands. Warranted harmless. Testimonials free on request. It was the first preparation ever sold for straightening kinky hair. Beware of imitations. Get the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow, as the genuine never fails to keep the hair pliable and beautiful. A toilet necessity for ladies and gentlemen. Elegantly perfumed. The great advantage of this wonderful pomade is that by its use you can straighten your own hair at home. Owing to its superior and lasting quality it is the most economical. It is not possible for anybody to produce a preparation equal to it. Full directions with every bottle. Only 50 cents. Sold by dealers or send us $1.40 Postal or Express Money Order for 3 bottles, express paid. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. --- 3 CHARLES FISCHER, Manufacturer and dealer in SURGICAL & ORTHOPEDICAL Instruments and Trusses. 623 SEVENTH STREET, NORTHWEST Opposite Patent Office WASHINGTON, D. C. GREAT RACE BOOKS. It is a fact that J. T. Haley & Co. 346 Court Square Nashville, Tenn are the most extensive Race Book publishers in the United States. They are our friends and are giving employment to hundreds of men and women of the race. They publish the AFRoAMERICAN ENCYCLOPAEDIA COLLEGE OF LIFE, UNCLE TOMS CABIN, SPARK LING GEMS, LAMP OF WISDOM, etc. These books sell at sight. Agents are having a harvest. Write Quick for terms and Territory. HASTER AND FURNISHER COLUMBUS 337 PENNA AVE. N.W. WASHINGTON, DC --- =HARTONA= Matchless and Positively Unequalled for Straightening all Kinky, Knotty, Stubborn, Harsh, Curly Hair. HARTONA will make the hair grow long, soft, and straight. The use of one box of HARTONA will show immediate results. Makes the hair grow on bald and thin places. HARTONA cures Dandruff, Baldness, Falling Out of the Hair, and all Scalp Diseases. Remember, that HARTONA is the highest-priced hair remedy on the market, because it is the best. Price, $1.00 a box. Don't allow your hair and face to be ruined by dangerous chemicals that are sold cheap to catch the ignorant and uneducated classes. HARTONA is used by over 50,000 people in every State in the Union. HARTONA does not have to be used all the time, as it straightens the hair and gives it fresh life and lustre, and the hair stays and grows naturally straight after the use of HARTONA. On box of HARTONA can be used by every one in the family. Benefits and improves children's hair just the same as adults. Money positively refunded if you are not perfectly satisfied. HARTONA FACE WASH will gradually turn the skin of a black will turn the skin of a mulatto person WASH will not lighten the skin in remains soft and bright without conti does the work. It is your duty to look delighted patrons send us testimonial States. HARTONA FACE WASH will Black-Heads, Freckles, and all Blemis shade of skin on neck, face, and hands with each bottle. HARTONA FACE W to any part of the United States or Remember, your money is positively fied and delighted with the Hartona Re turn the skin of a black person five or six shades, skin of a mulatto person perfectly white. HAIR not lighten the skin in spots, but all over even and bright without continual use of the Face Wash. It is your duty to look as beautiful as possible. Cons send us testimonials every year from all over HARTONA FACE WASH will remove Wrinkles, Dark S Freckles, and all Blemishes of the Skin. You can on neck, face, and hands to any shade you wish. Use. HARTONA FACE WASH is perfectly harmless if the United States on receipt of price-$1.00 Your money is positively refunded if you are not allied with the Hartona Remedies. will gradually turn the skin of a black person five or six shades lighter, and will turn the skin of a mulatto person perfectly white. HARTONA FACE WASH will not lighten the skin in spots, but all over evenly. The skin remains soft and bright without continual use of the Face.Wash. One bottle does the work. It is your duty to look as beautiful as possible. Thousands of delighted patrons send us testimonials every year from all over the United States. HARTONA FACE WASH will remove Wrinkles, Dark Spots, Pimples, Black-Heads, Freckles, and all Blemishes of the Skin. You can regulate the shade of skin on neck, face, and hands to any shade you wish. Full directions with each bottle. HARTONA FACE WASH is perfectly harmless, and is sent to any part of the United States on receipt of price—$1.00 per bottle. Remember, your money is positively refunded if you are not absolutely satisfied and delighted with the Hartona Remedies. HARTONA NO-SMELL will remove all smells and bad odors on chafed limbs, etc. HARTONA NO-SM ing from disagreeable odors caused by Sent anywhere on receipt of price—500 smells and bad odors of the body. Cures sore a tc. HARTONA NO-SMELL is a God-send to all greeable odors caused by perspiration of the feet on receipt of price----50c. a package. orders to- will remove all smells and bad odors of the body. Cures sore and aching feet, chafed limbs, etc. HARTONA NO-SMELL is a God-send to all persons suffering from disagreeable odors caused by perspiration of the feet, arm-pits, etc. Sent anywhere on receipt of price—50c. a package. Address all orders to— To introduce our remedies in this cut out and mail to us this Coupon and HARTONA HAIR STRAIGHTENER, HARTONA FACE WASH, worth $25 SMELL, worth 50c. The entire lot of securely sealed, so that no one can tell Coupon. Order goods now, as this gr Write your name and address plainly. Order, Express, or enclosed in a Regist HARTONA REM Since our remedies in this city, we will send to all per- mail to us this Coupon and ONE DOLLAR, three HAIR STRAIGHTENER, worth $3.00; two lace PACE WASH, worth $2.00; one package of HAIR 50c. The entire lot of remedies, worth $5.50, and so that no one can tell contents, for ONE DOLLAR goods now, as this grand offer will last but a s- time and address plainly. Money can be sent by Post, or enclosed in a Registered Letter. To introduce our remedies in this city, we will send to all persons who will cut out and mail to us this Coupon and ONE DOLLAR, three large boxes of HARTONA HAIR STRAIGHTENER, worth $3.00; two large bottles of HARTONA FACE WASH, worth $2.00; one package of HARTONA NO-SMELL, worth 50c. The entire lot of remedies, worth $5.50, will be sent securely sealed, so that no one can tell contents, for ONE DOLLAR and this Coupon. Order goods now, as this grand offer will last but a short time only. Write your name and address plainly. Money can be sent by Post-Office Money Order, Express, or enclosed in a Registered Letter. HARTONA REMEDY COMPANY. 909 E. Main Street, RICHMOND, VA. GENTLEMEN:—I enclose you ONE DOLLAR, for which se- lowing goods at once— Three Large Boxes HARTONA HAIR STRAIGHTENER, wo Two Large Bottles HARTONA FACE WASH, - wu One Package HARTONA NO-SMELL, - - wo My Name is____ EN:—I enclose you ONE DOLLAR, for which service at once— Large Boxes HARTONA HAIR STRAIGHTENER, wo age Bottles HARTONA FACE WASH, - w xage HARTONA NO-SMELL, - - wo GENTLEMEN:—I enclose you ONE DOLLAR, for which send me the following goods at once— Three Large Boxes HARTONA HAIR STRAIGHTENER, worth $3.00 Two Large Bottles HARTONA FACE WASH, worth $2.00 One Package HARTONA NO-SMELL, worth .50 House No.____, Street City____, County AGENTS WANTED IN EVERY TOWN IN A , County , State City_____, County_____, State_____ AGENTS WANTED IN EVERY TOWN IN AMERICA. OUR GOODS SELL ON SIGHT The Delmo-Koonce Cafe Manufacturers of Ice Cream and Water Ices. Meals served a la carte. Special rates to table boarders. ICE CREAM 90C PER GALLON (Wholesale.) Odd Fellows Hall, 1606 M St. N. W. Washington, D. C. Banquet Hall attached. Told For 10 cts. and 28 cts. Don't fail to have your fortune told by the Scientific Palmists, they never fail to please you. The Palmists will be at the above place for a short time only. Cut this out and present this to the Palmist and get a picture of your future Husband or Wife free. REMEMBER THE PLACE 1220 7th Street, Northwest. FOR RENT several furnished rooms, with board if desired. MARY E. LANE, 1409 Columbia Street. --- 1 4 Your Fortune THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. black person five or six shades lighter, and person perfectly white. HARTONA FACE in spots, but all over evenly. The skin continual use of the Face Wash. One bottle look as beautiful as possible. Thousands of bonnials every year from all over the United will remove Wrinkles, Dark Spots, Pimples, remishes of the Skin. You can regulate the hands to any shade you wish. Full directions FACE WASH is perfectly harmless, and is sent on receipt of price-$1.00 per bottle. Likely refunded if you are not absolutely satisfa Remedies. ors of the body. Cures sore and aching feet. SMELL is a God-send to all persons suffered by perspiration of the feet, arm-pits, etc. 50c. a package. HARTONA REMEDY COMPANY. 909 E. Main St., RICHMOND, VA. this city, we will send to all persons who will own and ONE DOLLAR, three large boxes of ENER, worth $3.00; two large bottles of $2.00; one package of HARTONA NO- lot of remedies, worth $5.50, will be sent tell contents, for ONE DOLLAR and this is grand offer will last but a short time only. Money can be sent by Post-Office Money registered Letter. ONE DOLLAR, for which send me the fol- HA HAIR STRAIGHTENER, worth $3.00 A FACE WASH, worth $2.00 SMELL, worth .50 reet county_____, State_____ IN AMERICA. OUR GOODS SELL ON SIGHT. Lewis Riqqers, INSURANCE AGENT. 111 North Clinton, St., East Orange, N. J. SICK, ACCIDENT, AND DEATH BENEFIT, PAID PROMPTLY. National Benefit Association, Capital Savings Bank Building, Washington, L. C. Real Estate, Loans House Renting a Specialty. Careful and Personal Attention Given. 626 E Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. E. T. Kautman, Registered Plumber and Gasfitter, Hot Water and Steam Heating, Remodeling Defective Plumbing A Specialty. 617 E St., N. W., Washington, D. C. --- MONUMENT TO SUMNER. The Charles Sumner Post No. 9 G. A. R., Department of the Potomac, is to be congratulated for its initiatory movement in devising ways and means for raising subscriptions to erect a monument in honor of Hon. Charles Sumner, the great friend and champion of the Negro. The first meeting of the Post was held June 17th and a number of strong resolutions were adopted outlining the plan of the work and asking the assistance and co operation of the race in all parts and sections of the country. Commander William H. Grimshaw cannot be too highly commended for his efforts in this direction. He has written a letter to the Governors of nearly all the states asking them to appoint a representative Afro-American to interest the people in his state in the movement. It is desired that every member of the race who knows of the great friendship of Sumner for the Negro contribute his mite to the cause. The race journals are requested to copy this article and to make such mention as they may see fit. Already the names of twenty representative men have been appointed from that many states and have pledged themselves to keep the work before the people. The Colored American will devote space from time to time to giving the facts and the doing of the movement and will publish a list of the donations. For further information address Commander William H. Grimshaw, 247 10th street northeast Washington, D. C. MERE MENTION. Mr: and and Mrs. Manning C. Jones left Thursday for Newport, R. I. where they will spend their honeymoon vacation. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell has been in Big Stone, South Dakota, for several days having gone there to address the Chautauqua assembly. She has several other engagements for the month. On the night of Wednesday, July 11, Henrietta, beloved wife of Ignatius Smallwood, died at her residence, 80 D street southwest. The funeral took place from Israel C. M. E. church Sunday at 8 o'clock, Rev. C. W. Lane, officiated. On Thursday evening, July 12, after a long and painful illness, Amanda Young, beloved mother of Nellie Williams, departed this life at her residence 821 2d street, southeast, aged seventy five years. The funeral took place Sunday at 2 o'clock p.m. from Enon Baptist church, C street between 6th and 7th streets southeast. Prejudice against the Negro is not a Southern but an American institution. It is not confined to the politicians, merchants, trades unions, and infidels, but it is in the House of God. The white Methodists, Baptists, Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Disciples and Episcopalians all discriminate against the Negro. The Catholic church is perhaps an exception to the rule. In places where there are but a few Negroes they are admitted and permitted to worship with the whites without question as to color. In communities where there are enough Negroes to warrant a church one is established for them, and even then the white Catholics join the Negro church and become active communicants. That church comes nearest to Christ that teaches his everlasting doctrine of universal brotherhood of man. A DARING DEED. to perform. Olivet's collection last Sunday was over $600. The school numbers over 500 pupils and through the untiring efforts of this good man, her head is now above water. Rev. Thomas spend last week in Springfield at camp with "his boys" as he calls them. In speaking of the doings of the week he said: "On Wednesday evening the non commissioned staff was entertained at a banquet by the 1st Regiment. Thursday Adjt. Gen. Reece eettained the line officers at a banquet. Friday Governor John R. Tanner entertained the staff, and in responding to the speeches, he expressed his pride in Col. John R. Marshall and the 8th Regiment, Illinois National Guard, and impressed upon his guests that he had not been disap pointed in their service." THE SUMMER SEASON. Captain L. J. Woolen, the manager of the River Queen, announces in another column to the public that the books are opened for excursions to Notley Hall, that popular summer resort, and that the River Queen has been repainted, refitted up in every way and new electric lights put in at the expense of five thousand dollars and is in better condition than ever to serve the public. The following dates have all been taken : July: " 23, American Star Social Club Notley Hall. " 1, American Glee Club to Notley Hall " 2, Masonic Lodge to Notley Hall. " 3, Dr. Dickson, Galbraith church to Lower Cedar Point. " 5, Regular family excursion to Notley Hall. " 6, Odd Fellows' Lodge to Notley Hall. " 7, East Washington Brickmakers to Notley Hall. " 8, Wesley Fletcher Co. K to Lower Cedar Point. " 9, Oxford's Pleasure Club to Notley Hall. " 10, Excelsior Social Club to Notley Hall. " 12, Regular family excursion to Notley Hall. " Rev. Wilibanks to Lower Cedar Point. " 14, Congressional to Glymont " 15, Amphion Glee Club to Notley Hall. " 16, D. W. Plummer to Notley Hall. " Belfords Outing Club to Notley Hall. " 19 Regular family excursion to Notley Hall. " 20, The Mysterious Pleasure Club to Notley Hall. " 23, Felix Ledge, No. 3 to Notley Hall. This Hotel is situated on an elevation which furnishes one with a magnificent view for ten 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 strictly first class. The Bed Rooms are large and alry 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. The Amphions Enter tain the President And Cabinet. After the dinner given to the President at the Country Club last Wednes day evening by Secretary Root and Adjt. General Corbin, the well-known Amphion Glee Club, J. Henry Lewis director, furnished an excellent program of vocal and instrumental music. The other guests were all the members of the Cabinet, Hon Charles Dawes, Comptroller of the Currency, Col. Webb Hayes, and Mr. William Barbour. The affair was entirely of a social character. The Amphions roster was composed as follows: Messrs Fred. A. Sabbs, Chas. A. Champ, Jas. D. Wilson. Wm. DeLong, Wm. T. Isbell, Jas. H Washington, Wm. Cooper. Messrs Robt. Harris and F. R. Payne furnished the instrumental selections. Messers W. W. Cochran, of Oxford, Miss., Maurice N. Corbett of North Carolina, Walter R Carter, of Montgomery, Ala., and W. T. Ferguson, of Alabama, are among the new clerks assigned to the agricultural division of the Census Office. Mr. Ferguson came in from the Government Printing Office, having resigned the place held by him for quite a while in that picturesque "Botany Bay." Cures Weak Men Free Insures Love and Happiness. How any man may quickly cure himself after years of suffering from sexual weakness, lost vitality, varicocle, etc. and enlarge small weak organs to full size and vigor. Simply send your name and address to Dr. L. W.Knapp, 1811 Hull Bldg., Detroit, Mich., and he will gladly send the free receipt with full directions so that any man may easily cure himself at home. This is certainly a most generous offer and the following extracts taken from his daily mail show how men write him. "DearSir:—Please accept my sincere thanks for yours of recent date. I have given your treatment a thorough test and the benefit has been extraordinar. It has completely braced me up. I am just as vigorous as when a boy and you cannot realize how happy I am." "Dear Sir:—Your method worked beautifully. Results were exactly what I needed. Strength and vigor have completely returned and enlargement is entirely satisfactory." "Dear Sir;—Yours was received and I had no trouble in making use of the receipt as directed, and after a few days use can truthfully say it is a boon to weak men. I am greatly improved in size, strength and vigor." 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. Kar1 Xander DEALER IN Fine Wines and Liquors Importer, Rectifier and Wholesale Agent for Southern Bouquet Whiskey. 530-32 Seventh Street North west Washington, D. C. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. U. 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 fr side daily. The service at the Hotel is str large and alry with all modern conveniences 35 feet (front and is surrounded with a best For terms, address MRS. CHAS. SMITH Will open Friday, June 1, 1900. FITZGERALD'S 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, receptions, etc. B. G. Fitzgerald, proprietor, 30 and 32 North Kentucky avenue, Atlantic City, N. J. 81 N. Ohio Ave., Atlantic City, N. J. Excells any in the city. All modern improvements. Two squares from the Reading Railroad 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. Debity, proprietress. CHOICE WINES. J. C. SMALLWOOD, Proprietor. 15 N. Illinois Ave., Atlantic City, N. J. MANHATTAN INN. 17 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. THOMAS COLE, Proprietor. Choice wines, Liquors and Cigars. CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS HAKRIS' HOTEL GEORGE H HARRIS, PROPRIETOR, 1139 Baltic Avenue, Atlantic City, N. J. Meals Served at all Hours. HOTEL 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 32 neatly fitted up sleeping rooms. Terms moderate. European and American plan. THE ELITE-6248. Washington street; Alexandria, Va., Ice cream, confectionery, soda water and milk shakes, all flayers. Lunches and sandwiches. Oool, 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. 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 Fauquier county, Va. Forty-eight miles from this city, there are three accommodation trains to the city per day. The house is situated about 1/4 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, Fauquier Co., Va. WOES OF THE AGENT. His Experience With Leaders Social Flashes Columbus, O., Special.—Numerous are the obstacles that confront an agent of a Negro newspaper. On receiving his papers the agent starts out on his mission of distribution. As is expected he first hunts Negro leaders with the confirmed idea of delivering a few copies to them, and if there be any left, the supposition is that they will be gotten rid of with difficulty among the ordinary people. But from my heart, sorry am I to say the conditions are just to the reverse of the above sentences. The first race leader you meet you begin to speak to him of the qualifications of your paper, editor, contributors etc., and of the sterling contents in the present issue, and close with the words, "would you like to have a copy?" Then begins the tirade, thus: "I know your paper to be a good one etc. I used to take it several years ago but it did not come regularly and on time, and when my subscription ran out, the editor failed to notify me, but continued to send the paper, and because I did not send money at once abused me in a letter. There is no business in colored people, etc. The agent breaks in by saying the paper is on a solid foundation and its surety of coming is as clockwork, and the publishers and owners are men of responsibility and long business integrity. Then begins again the leader by saying, "I have no money." The agent offers to give him the paper and collect fee the next week, or advance him a year's, six month's or three month's subscription. Leader says, "No, don't care to do business that way. I have not read the papers I already have." And finally winds up with the words, "I have an article to sell you for your paper on the race problem." Thus you see, the way of an agent of a Negro newspaper is hard, and his path is not beset with roses. How any person, black or white, can lead, represent, and control a people without being a regular subsoriter to a genuine race paper, is a mystery to angels, and a problem to humanity; and the fact that the Anglo-Saxon fails to know our progress and needs is that he consults Negro leaders who never read a Negro journal and know nothing of us one way nor the other outside of their own district. The drama entitled "Thirty Years of Freedom," was played here for charitable purposes, by the elite of the race, and its rendition brought down a storm of applause and commendation from those who attended. The orchestral arrangement was under the management of the efficient leader Prof. Thomas Howard. The Brown-Whittaker concert at Mt. Vernon A. M. E. church was a success. Rev. H. E. Stewart, B. D., the energetic pastor of the above named church, turns defeat into victory and failure into success. Rev. Horace Talbot, M. A., secretary of Wilberforce University, preached at St. Paul A. M. E. church last Sunday in the absence of the pastor. In the future will give to your able paper some political gems. C. H. Y. Mrs. William A. Dinquid of 23rd street, and Miss Sarah C. Lewis, principal of the Cook school this city, will estivate in the mountains of Prince William County, Va. Mr. Dinquid will join them later on in the season. SUMMER RESORTS Henderson and Murray, prop's. SUMMER RESORTS. ATLANTIC CITY. THE NEW HOUSE DEBITY COTTAGE. THE HUB HOTEL LIQUORS. ALEXANDRIA, VA. CATLETTS, VA. HOTEL WOODLAWN TERRACE. Lawnside. N.J. In which furnishes one with a magnifi- tion which is a wide sheet of water giving ing or fishing. IN TERRACE. From Camden. 25 trains stop at Lawn- trictly first class. The Bed Rooms are enches. The Hotel is three stories high, beautiful lawn and wide gravel walks. TH, Snow Hill, N.J. HOTEL SHEPHARDS HILL Open for the Season on June 1st. Beautifully situated near the Potomac River, on St. Patrick's Creek, Cool Rooms, Bathing, Boating, Fishing and Crabbing. For terms address Wm. D. Bond, Coiton's Point, St. Mary's County, Maryland. Mrs Cyrus St. Clair has concluded to open her lovely private residence to boarders for the summer, at Cambridge Md. Persons desiring further information can address Mrs. Cyrus St. Clair, Cambridge, Md. Terms reasonable. LOUDOUN CO., VA. Loudoun county is claimed by many to be the healthiest county in Virginia. An ideal summer home for the accommodation of city guests. Good food, cool rooms; plenty of shade; first class in every particular; city references; address Mrs. Delia Howard at Willburn P. O., above county, or Robt. Lockwood, "The Alban,y" 17th and H nw., city. Parlor and Confectionery, Where our people are not refused, but are invited to sit and enjoy the best cream and cake with elegant service. No color line at MRS. HYMAN'S 1618 7th St., nw., bet. Q. and R Sts. WANTED-A colored plumber. Enquire at this office. WANTED-An active young man as collector. Must be well acquainted with the city. Married man preferred. WANTED-Young women about 20, some knowledge of dressmaking, good home and wages. Address, Mrs I. Williams, 262 W. 40th street, New York City. An energetic colored woman who understands canvassing can secure permanent employment with good pay by addressing "Benevolence" care 459 O st. n. w. An Excellent Opportunity for Our High School Graduates. Any one with a business turn can earn two or three dollars a day by taking up the work laid out by the American Savings Industrial Company. Room 3 609 F street, n. w. Explanation free. Cal from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. Only those who are willing to work need apply tf. WANTED AT ONCE—A woman about 35 or 40, unmarried, or widow without children, for Matron of the FRIENDLESS GIRLS' HOME. She must play piano or organ. Address P. Thos. Stanford, D. D., LL. D., President Massachusetts Aid and Protective Association for Friendless Colored Girls, North Cambridge, Mass. Send photo and reference. 1. 5 CAMBRIDGE, MD. SPECIAL. AT LAST! WANTED HELP. aca So seis Ja cee re eeepc Se. n> aan a SA a a a RD ———LELLLEOSSS S~=S nO ————E—EEEEE__O_ rd : ape (P<) SHREDS DXeS a Che 5 ES 6 for Europe. Matt Lewis is making a vigorous ef- fort to give the people of Newport News a wide awake daily. Rev. J. M. Townsend has been made the traveling representative of the Mis- sionary Department of the 4. M. E Obureh. Bishop Abram Grant has selected In- dianaspolis as his place of residence for the next four years and the Hoosiers are rejoiced accordingly. Dr. Daniel H. Williams of Chicago, hae been added to the faculty of the Meharry Medical school at Nashville, Tenn. He will give each year a course of lectures on Operative Surgery. Booker T. Washington’s call to or- ganize a National Negro Business League at Boston, Aug. 23d & 24th has the unanimous approval of the colored press az a most timely step. The death of Rev. Alexander Elils, D. D., one of the leading Baptist cler- gymen of this country occurred a couple of weeks ago at Savannah, Ga., shortly after that of bis opponent, Rev. E. K. Love. Prot: Hugh O’Cook of this city, and Mies Daisy L. Jackson of Lynchburg, well Known in our city, were quietly married at Normal, Ala., last week, Mr. Cook is cne of the faoulty at the Normal A. & M.College of which Prof. W. 4M. Councill fs Principal. The separate street car business has reached Louisiana The Southwestern Christian Advocate (NewOrleans) says «“ There are hundreds of Negroes in this olty who will not ride under such cir- cumstances and they bave begun al: ready to organ'ze for the purpose o controlling the masses. In an interview with Mr. J. W Oromwell, published im the Star o Zion, Maj. John R, Lynch says: **: have been in every province in the Is land of Cubs; I have kept my eyes anc ears open. I have enough material for four or more lectures, for one could no contsin it all,—such as the climate, th people, their habits, their customs ant their laws and political future. Gov. Wm. H. Johnson whom Brué: Grit dubs “ The Sage of Maiden Lane’ takes exceptions to that statement it the new well known sermon of Rev. D Brandage entitled, ‘‘Is the Negro | man that said it was impossible for thi Negro to secure a respectable home it Albany?” The Governor says that they ean buy property or rent houses {n an; quarter of the city. The Fage is bounc to be heard from. The Indianapolis Freeman, referrin; to the plank in the Kepublican Cotiven tion respecting the suppression of th Negro vote in the South says; ‘*: great convention has uttered its dictan against these wrongs thus disabusin: the minds of skeptical Negroes, anc eonfounding mischief-making whit men who have been asserting that th party means to abandon the Negro Othello’s occapation gave. Rev. J. W. FE. Bowen of Gammot Remtnary who enjoys the rare distinct fon of having bepu_balloted for Bisho in two General Conterenees of the M. E Ohurch. takes a radical devarturein ht THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. 0. the ideal of the average exploiter of this vexed problem but he places charaeter first. The learned doctor is not very far from being right. Rev. W. L. Taylor, successor to Wm, W. Browne as president of the True Re- formers is demonstrating his ability a8 @ worthy financial leader. Under his sdministration he has made purchases amounting te $19,875; and improve- ments as follows: $12,000 to the general office at Richmond, $8,000 at Porte- mouth, Va., and additions to the Hotel Reformer at Richmond adding twenty- two extra rooms at a cost of over $5 000 making this the finest hotel owned and operatcd by the race in this country. A further summary shows aa increase in the cash balance of over one hundred per cent, above that of last year. Rev. Jeshua H. Jones, D. D., a na- tive ef South Carolina, graduate of Claflin University of the theological de- partment of Wilberforce some time studied at Harvard and Yale Uviversi+ ties has been ananimously elected pres- ident of Wilberforce. Kev Jones bas been for eight years a member of the Columbus Ohio sehool board, is a map of commanding persoaal presence, is nearly six feet in height, weighs two bundred snd fifty pounds and is a mod- el of dignity and geniality. Now that the cities of Rome and Augusta, Ga. bave enacted ordinances restricting the Negroes to two or three last back seats of the street railway ears and the Negro prefers to walk, the whites are complaining. The Christian Index registers the popular will thus: “ By every consideration of justice and self respect the Negroes of Georgia ate justified in walking rather than be- ing foreed to ride on the rear seats of ears that are public conveyances fo1 every body, J. Thomas Heard, one of the Georgie colony makes‘a very liberal offer to his | home town (Athens) for an organiza. tion to establish a night school and 1i- brary for the colored citizens of that place. The scheme is so novel as wel as commendable that more then a pass ing notice of it is deserved. He pur: poses an association for the purpos¢ consisting of the customary officers bu that no one sball be considered an ap. | plicant for the office of president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer, anc | board of direstors unless he or sh agrees to give $100, $75, $50, and $2: respectively. Since Mr. Heard him. self offers to give $100 it ie certain h will be the first presiding officer. Thi: offer is open for six months. “Dont Read This! More than 500 letters were sent out from this office last week. They were all of the same nature and they treated the same subject. A great many who who will read this item received ene of these letters. This notice is a re- minder and if-you have not sent in what is due on the subscription, you should send it at once. The Oolored American }s brimful of news and those who read it and appreciate it should send along their subscriptions as soon as they know it to be due, Ts AT DHE TOF! | pica | 4 A. H. 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We solicit news, contributions, opinions and in fact, all matters affecting the race. We will not pay for matter, however, unless it is ordered by us. All matter intended for publication must reach this office by Wednesday of each week to insure insertion in the current issue. Agents are wanted everywhere. Send or instructions. ADVERTISING RATES. Reading notices 50 cents per line. Display advertisements, $2 per square inch per insertion. Discounts made on large contracts. Entered at the Post-office as second-class matter. All letters, communications, and business matters should be addressed to. THE COLORED AMERICAN. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1900. OUR WEEKLY TEXT. "Cast the net on the right side and ye shall find."—John xxi : 6. SIMPLY A MATTER OF TASTE. We are glad to know the esteemed Washington Post does find the time to peruse its colored exchanges and that The Colored American frequently comes under the argus eye of its talented and erudite editor. It is not for us to be captious in discussing the tastes of our readers, nor can we properly undertake to say what portion of our paper the public can read to its best advantage, but we respectfully throw out the suggestion that those who seek to understand the real tone, character and purpose of a journal should turn their attention to the editorial page. There is where the guiding spirit places his jewels of thought and turns on the fountain of inspiration. Of course we are delighted to find that our advertising columns are sufficiently well set and artistically arranged as to attract frequent and admiring comments from our esteemed morning contemporary, and we pass over the delicate insinuation on its part that our editorials are of secondary consideration. We have been told by many who willingly pay the subscription price asked for The Colorep American that our editorial page is quite a brilliant affair, and that it scintillates week after week with sparkling gems of wit and wisdom. The Post will pardon us if we agree with this estimate. But that by the way is a mere matter of opinion. We are none the less strong in our suspicion, however that the Post has missed a great deal of very useful information by its preference for novel advertising matter, and its consequent want of appetite for our glittering editorials. Of course if it chooses, as it did last week, to overlook a column and a half indorsement of Booker T. Washington's proposed business league, a resume of Negro's progress in the realm of classic music, observations on the political, religious, and social life of the nation, couched in choice and readable English, a quality of taste is indicated that THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. argument from us will be powerless to alter or improve. The Negro of this country has often set the "superior" race some commendable examples in charity, forbearance, and nobility of soul. The Colored American can afford to be generous, even when the Post is inclined to be squint eyed as to Negro virtues. We prefer to pass over the many nostrums advertised in the Post, embracing an array of palmists, absurd specialists in unnamable diseases, suggestive of vices and excesses, clairvoyants and fakirs. We presume that these belong to the business end of the office and that the editor neither knows nor cares anything about the efficacy of the same, leaving that to the adjudication of the parties interested, in case of misrepresentation. We read with much interest, if not always with edification, the quite well phrased editorials and special articles in the esteemed Post, and it has a stellar place upon our roster of exchanges. We shall respect it none the less, even if after this it continues to revel in the rhetorical mazes of Hartona literature in preference to our able, forceful and scholarly opinion page, with its record of race advancement in thought and morals. What one picks out for his mental food is simply a matter of taste, STRENGTHEN OUR BUSINESS PILLAR. The legion of Afro Americans whose strong public spirit and race pride have prompted them to patronize trades men of their own color, are thanking Mr. Booker T. Washington for being so thoughtful as to suggest a National Negro Business League. They see visions of a better order of things in the way of speedier service, higher quality of goods and more reasonable prices. Phenomenal as our progress in business has been, (and no agency has been more enthusiastic in its laudation than The Colored American), the Negro has much to learn about the art of attracting and holding trade. The first aggravating indictment which sticks against our business class is their wretched slowness. It takes them too long at restaurants to serve a lunch and at groceries there is an inexcusable delay in tying up a bag of meal. There is a woeful lack of system in management, lack of tidiness in personal appearance, lack of variety in stock, and an absence of that confidence inspiring air of appearing to know just exactly what to do in an emergency. If. Mr. Washington's conference in Boston next month can devise some means by which the Negro tradesmen and the Negro consumer can "get together" and do business on business principles, with promptness, accuracy and justice, the millions who want to keep their money in the hands of the race will rise up and call him blessed. Finance and trade are the two weak pillows of our temple. They must be girded by the iron bands of fellowship, cheerful assistance, race loyalty, patience, and capacity to suffer much that good may eventually come. The gathering at Boston can exert a powerful influence in awakening the race to its responsibilities and its opportunities. Letters indicate that the meeting will be well-attended—which is highly encouraging. But it is far more to the point that its factors be representative of our best intellect and character, earnest, active and untiring in pushing to a practical and profitable conclusion the objects set forth in Mr. Washington's call. Those who intend to be present should send word to Tuskegee at once. Our business pillar must be strengthened—and quickly, too. "HOT AIR" FROM THE CHICAGO CONSERVATOR. The esteemed Chicago Conservator goes away back to last summer's meeting of the Afro-American Council to get a dig at Mr. Booker T. Washington's proposed business conference. Mr. Washington was in Chicago during the setting of the Council and the reason he did not take part was because he was advised by the leaders of the Council (his personal friends.) not to do so. They gave excellent reasons therefor, and everybody appeared satisfied with Mr. Washington's acceptance of their idea,—until the Conservator comes out with an inspired groan. Nobody is frightened, however, and the Negro's interests will be boosted upward both at Indianapolis and Boston. Our next issue will be a "hummer." It's a secret. Don't give it away. Joe Gans is a "Boxer." Mr. McKinley now knows officially that he has been renominated. To be respected in politics, the Negro must get money enough to be able to refuse what he does not want. We are not through congratulating ourselves that neither Snell nor Neely were colored men. The habit of industry, the habit of saving and the habit of self-denial, can all be acquired, if you have the determination to do so. The Washington Post reads the advertising columns of its colored exchanges. Business men will please take notice and get their copy in at once. The Prohibitionists must be in it. The liquor evil cannot be handled as a political measure. It belongs to the religious world, the school room and the arena of medicine. The Colored American and the Hartona Remedy Company are under deep obligations to the esteemed Washington Post for a large chunk of free advertising-top of column and next to pure reading matter, too. Will the local committee at Indianapolis, having in charge the arrangements for the National Council meeting, give the press the name of the hall or church in which the sessions will be held? Now that the Hoosier campaign is growing hot, Kentuekians whose predisposition to heart trouble caused them to move over into Indiana a few weeks ago, are preparing to move back to the Blue Grass regions, where comparative rest may be had: Fifteen colored clerks are engaged in the Agricultural division of the Census office which occupies the second floor of the Union Building, G Street. There is no suggestion of colonization under the liberal policy of the chief statistician, Hon. L. Grand Powers. Hon. George H. White is undecided whether he can accept the presidency of the National Afro-American Council. He is the very best and most available man for the place, should Bishop Walters adhere to his decision to retire. Should Mr. White find himself unable to serve, President Walters can surely be prevailed upon to remain. When a white man appears to grow alarmed at the squall of the average Negro quarter and talks warningly for the public prints about their "menace to the public health, etc.," we are mean enough to wish he could turn black for a season, and have to undergo the torture of trying to rent a decent house in a decent neighborhood. Early next month North Carolina votes upon her proposed constitutional amendments. Leaders like White, Cheatham, Hannon, Dancy and others are fighting, teeth and toe nail, for the defeat of the measure and think they have it. Anyway, North Carolina is getting ready to tell the world whether she prefers to go forward or backward in the scale of civilization. If the New York republicans are hunting a "war hero" for their gubernatorial nominee, we do not know why Commissioner of Patents, Charles H. Duell will not fit. While the record does not state that he ever participated in any of our great sanguinary conflicts, his name is suggestive of battle, bloodshed and "coffee for two." Why not Duell for Governor of the Empire State? The National Afro-American Council will make a mistake if it takes partisan sides at its forthcoming meeting. The Negro needs friends wherever he can find them, regardless of locality or party label. The Council will also find it a profitable move to put an able organizer into the field—a good talker and a good mixer, who can give his entire time to the work. Who can name the right man? It would be an interesting line of investigation if a table could be prepared, showing how many of Washington's $1000 department clerks have money in a bank,—how many own stock in any corporation, building association, or are investors in any enterprise. Further, to what use they put the hours between 4 p. m. and 9 a.m. next day. Such an exhibit would be sure to point a moral, if it failed to adorn a tale. Improve a man's moral nature educate him into a knowledge of the evil consequence to his health from excessive indulgence and illustrate the deterioration of character and mental efficiency—then you reach him right where he lives. As a home question, a moral issue and a business proposition, the liquor evil can be regulated and controlled. It has no more place in politics than divorce, suicide, food or base ball. The Indianapolis date line promises to figure conspicuously in the coming campaign—and it is well. For genuine progress, thrift, cleanliness, artistic beauty and liberal, big-hearted and broad minded and home-loving citizens, Indianapolis stands in class A. There isn't a prettier city in the country, and when republicans, democrats, populists or Bryanites make up their minds to enter her "open door" they show a degree of wisdom and appreciation that is an honor to their headpiece. The second outing this season of St. Luke's church will take place at Lake View Park, Friday, September 7th. The committee having the affair in chrhrge promises novel and attractive features, and a highly enjoyable affair. It would be well to keep both day and date in mind. Particulars will be given later. HONOR OLD GLORY The Black Boys in Blue Celebrate The Fourth in the Philippine Islands in a Benitting Way—Lieut. Gilmore's Patriotic Address. Lieutenant David J, Gilmore of the Forty ninth made a speech in the presence of his colored soldiers, President Pulido, and 500 Filipinos of Sauchez Mira, on the occasion of the raising of the American flag over the town, April 1st. It breathes of patriotism and in the presence of the colored troops it created a most favorable impression. The speech was in part: "President Pulido and Filipinos: USY LIEUT. DAVID J. GILMER. The duty we have gathered here to perform gives me more pleasure than any previous one, and soldiers of this detachment of the Forty ninth Infantry you, too, may feel proud to know you are standing behind your guns, performing one of the duties that Mr. Lincoln said you would some day live to do. You can look around you and see men with uncovered heads as an act of appreciation for this occasion, who a few days ago fought you and this flag, with shot and shell. President Pulido, in raising the American flag over Sauchez Mira and your people, we raise for them and for all who respect it, a flag for peace; a flag for justice; for liberty; for pure homes, for educated children; for virtue; for the rights of women and for free religion. Mr. Pulido, this flag commands over seventy five millions of Americans and one hundred thousand well equipped soldiers. Wherever the flag leads we follow, and your people accept its silent but supreme commands as it mingles with the breezes of the Orient. Nolonger will the interior and exterior jurisdiction of your people's domestic affairs be subjected to the wishes of the oppressor, and no longer will your good women have to flee from the brutal longings of vicious men. Mr. President, this flag raised a race of people from the lowest pit of ignorance, and from chattel bondage to the highest ranks of civilization, education, and opulence, and sir, your people might well thank God our Father for such a symbol of capable protection and guidance. Any attempt on the part of your people to haul down this flag will be nothing more nor less than self murder. Our newly acquired constituents, you have never before had such an emblematic fortress, and you will never live to regret it. Your posterity will thank God for this period, and gladly join hands with all America and sing in one sweet accord, "My Country'Tis of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty." When the soldiers who are now fighting for your peace and safety set sail for their homes across the Pacific, one and all of them will leave with you all THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. the parting words of Christ when he left this earth, "peace on earth, good will toward men," and the Americans who come to dwell with you will bring and unfold to your people the blessings of a great nation." In reply President Pulido said: "We, the people of this town, have come together to assist in the very solemn act of blessing and raising over this town the much respected flag of the great North American Nation. This flag, my brethren, is that which confirms to us our liberty from the slavery under the dominion of Spain; that which brings to us the true peace with our enemies, and our tranquility. We recognize that grace and compassion that guards us in the way of industry, reason, science, and wealth, and it will lead us to true progress. "Let us take shelter, my brethren, under its shadow, in order that it may unfold over us the wings of its power, seeing in this manner our adherence and obedience it will give us that which we have so long wished for, independence or complete liberty, as it has promised us. "And in order to prove our love and adherence to this very solemn act let us all cry, 'Long live the champion liberator, the great North American Nation. Long live its President—McKinley. Long live General Otis. Long live the Philippines." Miss D. M. Green's Sudden Demise. There are but few occasions when human kind can follow the biblical injunction of rejoice at the outgoing of a soul from this terrestial spere to their eternal home, even when the one called has been long a sufferer and has served their allotted three score and ten, but when the grim visitor, without premonition, knocks, enters, and demands the being of one approaching the full bloom of honored womanhood, one who has ingratiated herself into the hearts of all who knew her, and actively engaged along elevating lines, it must truly seem that the above injunction was intended for people and conditions other than those which have existed in the civilized man of this and all past times. Miss D. Mosella Green, of St. Michael, Md., was visiting her aunt Mrs. Mary A. Hackett, and on Wednesday evening the 11th inst., arose from the dinner table complaining of a slight indisposition. At no time did she seem ill, but at 2:45 next morning the great Master called her unto his chosen few and a void exists in the hearts of those who will know her no more. Her sister Mrs Helen G. Turner, principal of the St. Michael colored schools, came in response to a telegram, and upon her devolved the sad duty of accompanying the remains home. An acute form of gastritis was the cause of death. A CORRECTION. Washington, D. C. July 12, 1900. Editor The Colored American-I call your attention to a mistake of the excursion for the 27th of July to Notley Hall. You have Young Ladies' Immediate Club and it is Young Ladies' Immediate Relief Association. MRS. HARRIS NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC Stewart M. Lewis, heretofore connected with The Colored American as collector and advertisement solicitor, is no longer with the paper. The public is warned against paying him any money on behalf of the paper. EDWARD E. COOPER, Manager. Poverty Our Drawback. The political future of the Negro at this juncture is not bright. Slowly, but surely, we are being eliminated from the arena where we were once influential and powerful. It is not difficult to determine the reasons underlying this unpleasant situation. The chief cause is that our political growth has been unnatural, and failing to strengthen ourselves along material lines in the degree necessary to reinforce that abnormal development, our house of cards is simply tumbling down from its own top-heaviness. The artificial props p'aced under us by the friendly and sanguine elements of the white race, have been torn away by the grasping hand of commercialism, and we find now after a third of a century of freedom that we must begin our life structure anew, building up from the very bottom. This may savor of pessimism, but it is true. Our difficulty is not due to the fact that we are not wanted in politics—as far as the North is concerned. It is because we have nothing to offer except our lone vote. We have not the financial resources and business prestage of the white man with whom our ambition leads us to compete. We have no commercial interests to make campaign issues mean anything but "words, words, words" tous Currency, legislation, tariff reform, municipal systems and expansion problems are exploited by the money kings and controlling factors of the government, while we sit in the gallery as mere spectators—as we did very largely at the Philadelphia Convention. We contribute little or nothing to campaign funds and can scarcely pay our own way to the national gathering place. We must open our eyes to the realization that we have been making progress in an ill balanced direction. A full head is a desirable thing, but when associated with an empty pocket the combination is an ugly misfit. To be a successful and well rounded race our financial and business progress must keep pace with the intellectual and moral. We must be able to pay our way, like other people, or else take pot luck on the back seat. The dollar is mighty and almighty. No public man will fellowship on equal terms with an individual of any race who finds it necessary to do his chores for him, or to solicit an old pair of trousers. It is our political mendicancy—not our color, that places us at such a tremendous disadvantage. We supplicate too much. We "rescolute" too much. We talk entirely too much. You don't see or hear the Germans, or the Irish indulging in these things, to any great extent. When they have business or personal interests to protect they simply go ahead and protect them, asking no favors of anybody. Parties cater to their wishes—not they to parties. They scan platforms so worded by shrewd politicians as to tickle their fancy, and choose cold bloodedly that man or party which concedes most toward their betterment. The Negro can get similar courtesy shown him, but only by being in a position to persuade a similar course, and having enough manhood to stick to it. Poverty is the millstone that hangs about our necks. We are too poor to be independent. No man can dictate terms, nor stand upon his dignity when the pangs of hunger annoy his stomach. We are not able to refuse the bone that is flung as 9 when we have demanded meat. The powers know this and treat us accordingly. The remedy lies in our getting on a newer and more vigorous "hustle" for the goods of this world-money, property, education. We must not, we cannot "abandon politics," but if we hope for salvation, we must cease to depend upon so fluctuating a market for our living. Office holding is a means to an end-not the end itself. Have a business, a profession or a trade by which you can support yourself and family. Then when you go the ballot box you can be a man and citizen. Committees will ask you what you want, instead of grudgingly granting you a three-minutes hearing, after a most humble appeal. Far from "getting out of politics," the thing to do is to get deeper into the game—but get in with means at your command, and thus wield an influence which will compel the respect of all. Poverty is the Negro's gravest drawback in the politics of today. THE OCEAN CITY NEWS A New Literary-A Glance at the Social World-Driftings. Ocean City, Maryland, Special—A literary society was organized last Thursday night by the young men of Ocean City. Great care was exercised in the selection of officers as it is the purpose of the Association to make it unparalleled. The meeting was called to order by Mr. J. L. Honeywell, acting chairman, and after stating the object and importance of such a move the selection of officers took place. Robert Greene, president; Alonza Mitchell, vice president; Bernard Hartgrove, financial secretary; C. H. Stokes, treasurer; Geo. H. Smith, chaplain; C. H. Chestnut, serg't at arm. Meetings will be held every Monday evening at the Ocean City chapel. Miss Bertinia Frye of Salisbury, Md., will spend the summer at the Ocean Wave Hotel. Mr. Geo. St. Clair, of Atlantic City paid a visit here last week. Mr. John Rider, the dining room chief of Congress Hall enjoys the distinction of great popularity on the island. Mr. Rider has been head waiter at Congress Hall for the past nine years, the excellent service of this hotel is due mainly to the skilled and efficient management of Mr. Rider. Mr. Wm. J. Miller is second man and also holds the confidence of the entire dining room force. The culinary department is under the supervision of Mr. Watson Nickels, a young man of unique taste. The board walk furnishes much amusement. At night the calcium light upon the Atlantic Casino casts its reflection for a considerable distance out at sea. The illumination is something beautiful and leaves room for unprecedented commet. Mr. John Berg and Fred Wander bakers at the Atlantic Hotel, enjoy the confidence of all. Their services in said capacity is the finest in years. Mr. Samuel Robbins, a prominent hotel proprietor of New York has opened a first class house directly upon the beach. Mr. Robbins has placed the hostelry in first class order, sparing no pains for the comfort of his guests. Messrs. Hartgrove and are assistant correspondents of The Colored American at Ocean City. St Monica's Episcopal mission gave a well attended social and promenade Wednesday evening of last week at Butler's Park, Anacostia. A neat sum was cleared. 10 WE'LL DO THE REST. If you are sick, If you are going to have a tour, If you have a friend coming to town, If you are going to give a reception. If you did give a reception lately. If you have lost a member of your family, If your church is going to give a concert or supper, If you have any good, clean news, whatever, send it by card or otherwise to The Colored American office, and we will cheerfully give it space. Office 459 C street northwest. IN THE EDUCATIONAL ARENA. In the death of the late Rev. J. Braden, D. D., the colored man loses a friend. He spent many years of his life to educate and help him as only such a man could do. Booker T. Washington, who has been in the East the past three weeks hustling in the interest of his Tuskegee work, went South this week. He attended the Educational meeting at Charleston and delivered an address. The first anniversary of the Amanda Smith Orphan Home, North Haryey, Ill., was observed June 26. The home was opened on the 28th day of June, 1899, free of debt. In July, 1899, the first children, six in number, came to the home. In January, 1900, three others came, making in all nine children in the home. At present they have on file six applications for admission. The Southern Reporter says that it was decided at the last session of the M. E. Conference in Chicago that kneeling is no longer an exaction in connection with the act of prayer. Since the more simple method of merely bowing the head has come into general use, the Conference thought best to give permission to this in its Discipline. Form is nothing-sincerity is everything in prayer. Another colored student has won high honors in an eastern college. He is from Montgomery, Ala., and is named W. C. Matthews. Not long ago he was elected captain of the Phillips Andover baseball team. Andover is one of the finest preparatory schools in the country, and its clientele is the best. He has been short-stop on the team for the past three seasons, and is regarded as the best all around player in the academy. He also the end rush of the football team. Matthews is 22 years of age. All of the colored professors and teachers of Morgan College at Baltimore, except one, were recently removed and white ones placee in their stead. Prof. James H. Blackwell of Manchester, who is the principal of the High and public school of that city was recently elected again, by a narrow margin, as some white man was put up against him. Think of it, says the Norfolk Recorder, he has taught there for 20 years, has been principal for 13 years, and then a white man is put up against him for his position and almost elected,—ne'er a charge against the present colored principal but simply a desire to relegate the Negro and elevate some unknown quantity—some white man out of a job. For the best and largest glass of ice cream Soda for 5 cents, drop in these warm evenings at Cardozo's Drug Store, at 12th and R streets. -tf. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. "BIG. BOW" The Indian Medicine Man Cures all Diseases or no Charge. Call or Write. Get Your Blood Purified as the Spring Demands. Office Hours 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Daily. Lakeview Park, Md. This is the new Pleasure resort which can be reached by a most delightful car ride. It is the largest Park in the District. Knowing the need of a Pleasure Park for our people, this park has been arranged and fitted up with a large pavilion 40 x 60 feet. Summer houses, swings, croquet grounds, and other facilities. There is plenty of shade and an abundantly supply of elegant water HOW TO GET TO THE PARK. Take the Metropolitan cars; transfer to Washington and Great Falls road; get off at the station at the District Line; take the road leading to the Girls' Reform School. The Park is 200 yards above the School only eight minutes walk from the cars. Gates open at 9 am. close at 11:30 pm. Admission, 25 cents. Children 15 cents. Music by Hoffman's Orchestra. For dates, apply to J. W. Green, manager, 1825 Florida avenue. The National Colored Teachers Bureau Washington, D. C., is prepared to furnish CAPABLE TEACHERS of every branch of instruction and DESIRABLE SCHOOLS in all parts of the country. REGISTRATION FREE but applicants must be fully competent to teach or possess the ability to learn how to teach. NO SCHOOL—NO PAY 6 per cent of the first year's salary will be charged those for whom positions are secureded, payable Dec. 1, 1900. The Demand exceed the Supply for suitable teachers during the past year, hence our liberal inducements. Send for registration blank briefly stating your full qualifications and enclose ten two cent stamps for postage. James G. Clayton, M. D. 459 O St. N. W. Secretary. DO YOU LOVE HEALTH? If so, call and see the Indian Herb Medicine Man, 620 North Eutaw Street, Baltimore, Md. I cure all diseases that are known to man or beast or no charge, no matter what your disease or sickness or affliction may be, and restore you to perfect health. Millions of people, the best and leading ones in the United States and Europe, will testify that I am the most wonderful healer of all complaints in the world. I use nothing but herbs, roots, barks, gums, balsams, seeds, berries, flowers and plants, made into teas. I have cured thousands that the most skillful physicians and the best hospital physicians in America and Europe had given up to die, and said there was no cure for them. I cure the following diseases: Heart Disease, Consumption, Blood, Kidney, Bladder, Stricture, Piles in any form, Vertigo, Quinsy, Sore Threat, Lung, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Constipation, Rheumatism in any form, Pains and Aches of any kind, Colds, Bronchial troubles, Sores, Skin Diseases, all itching sensations, all Female Complaints, La Grippe or Pneumonia, Ulcers, Carbuncles, Boils, Cancer, the worst form, without the use of knife or instruments, Eczema, Pimples on face and body, Diabetes of Kidneys or Bright's Disease of the Kidneys. I cure any disease, no matter of what nature. Medicine sent to any address by express. For full particulars send 2 None genuine unless bought at imitators,as we have many. HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS GASKINS & GAINES. Academy Restaurant [just around the corner] 320 8th Street, N. W. All leading brands of wine liquors and etgars, imported and domestic. Ladies and Gentlemen's Cafe Upstairs. FINE WINES Liquors of all kinds. OLD WHISKIES Choice Cigars. AND BRANDIES. Philadelphia M. F. CARROLL, Prop. Restaurant and Saloon, 348 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W. Washington, D. C. Meals to Order. Everything First Class. Billiard and Pool Parlors Attached. GOSEL DOUGLASS. 220 B ST., AD 235 PA. AVE. N. W EUROPEAN PLAN. First-class in every particular. M R.S. DOLLY C. JONES, Proprietress. Washington, D. C. Robert H. Key FINE WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS, ETC. Ladies' Dining Room. Meals at all Hours 443 First Street Southwest. Gray & Costley Wines, Liquors and Cigars Ladies and Gentlemen's Dining Room upstairs. 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Metropolitan church, Wa-hingtoa, J.Aloert Johnson, pastor, fell dows to $160, Several wealthy white gentlemen of Chicago have agreed to furnish the $35,000 nacessaty to manufacture a working model of the new automatic Machine gun, reeently invented by Eugene Barkins, a colored boy. The gun will be constructed at Baitimore, “The National Council of the Consti- tutional Rights Association of the United States,’ with headquarters at Richinond, Va., has issued an address appealing for assistance in its fight against the oppressive and repressive tewsof theSouth. Dr. J. E. Jones is president aud Giles 8. Jackson is Sec- retary. The aseociation deserves to succeed, The Women’s Clab Association of Massachussetts has visited a stanning }iow on the head of Mrs. B. Lowe of Atlanta,the President of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, by slect- ing Mes. Josephine St. P. Ruffia a member of the official board. When the Federation meets again the chances ere that the life will be banged out of Mrs, Lowe’s color-line scheme. Eugene Burkin, a colored boy of 19 years, who lives over in Chicago’s great West side, is the inventor of a rapid firemachine gun which be claims is the most effective weapon of Its kind in the world, andis destined to throw the invention of Maxim and Nordenteldt, now in general use in the armaments of the world, into the scrap heap. Several experts who have seep the model of Burkin’s gun pronounce it a marvel of ingenuity. Another National Race Conference is to be beld at Montgomery, Ala., Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Jaly 25, 26and 27, Tae call is as fol lows: “This notice isan invitation t every lover of all, the colored “Tace North, South, East and West, of the United States of America, The grea uestions that confront the race, espec lally the disfranchisement and Bindrec questions, will be discussed by able rep resentatives of the race. The meeting ls not au antagonistic one, but an en deavor to throw a better light upon th provlems now under consideration an to strive to better the condition © humanity. An exvensive progran has been arranged and will be sent ou a ao acl ela Sia ie chairman, 807 Madison avenue, Mont. gomery, Ala.’ General Robert Smalle whose daring feat of capturing a rebel gunboat single handed during the rebellion, made him '# hero, has just receive tardy recogni- ‘tion of bis services. He had a claim for his booty and instead of allowing it with a promptness which the brilliant act merited, the government delayed shifting the matter until the closing hours of congress. Finally ib con cludei to make award, and gave the hero of the Planter incident the sum of five thousand dollars. Lge i: ot Ne vl uy VW EZ ie GENERAT, RORERT SMAT.US. A new grocery business has been in- augarated in Chicago by colored men at 3453 State Street. Tae store is airy, clean and prosperovs in eppearance. A number of colored women olerks are employed. These girls are all high school graduates, and were it not for the enterprise of the Henry M. Turner Grocery Co., they would be at home, because they could get nothing to do. The gisls are-neat, prepossessing and courteous. If they maintain the ‘Standard by strict attention to business and treatiog all their customers with politeness, they will open the way for other young women who are waiting a chance for employment commensurate ae their educaiion and abilities. A Honse Hold Necessity, Cawp Nelson, Ky., July 11, 1900, Mr. E. E. Coop2r, Editor The Colored American. Dear Sit:—Please continue the paper as they will not kt me stay at home without it. The oldest boy Willie, names the large letters. The 2ad boy Clarence, looke at the pictures and the baby boy Langston tries to pui ‘the entire paper in his mouth and my wife and I epjoy reading it. | Very Truly, Jobn W. Bate. FRED. H. HABL . . r RAILROAD TICKET BROKER. 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One of the Most Renowned Resorts in the Country - Doings of the People Wise and Otherwise. White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Special—We are now sojourning at the White Sulphur, enjoying the pure, refreshing mountain air. As of old the White Sulphur is one of the most beautiful and picturesque resorts in the mountains and is still the place where some of the leading people of the country come to pass away the hot summer months. In the dining room and other departments of the hotel, those employed are chiefly from Charlottesville, Washington, Richmond and Pincastle as well as many from other places. The dining room is one of the largest in the country and is presided over by Mr. J. H. Dickinson, headwaiter of Charlottesville, Va. who is fully equal to the great task in every respect and who has the confidence and respect of the large number of men under his charge as well as the large number of the guests who are here. He is a man of wide and varied experience in the work and his straightforward, kindly disposition wins for him friends with all with whom he comes in contact. Mr. Ernest Martin of Washington, D. C. is second waiter, and a man who understands his business and is ever alive to the full discharge of his duty. Mr. D. A. Smith of Charlottesville, secretary of the dining room, needs no introduction to those who have ever met him Intelligent, quick-sighted, genial and energetic, he is a faithful keeper of the records and other duties pertaining to his office. Mr S. H. White of Charlottesville, Mr. Richard Carr of Washington, D. C. and Mr Robert Branch of Richmond are in charge of the dining room watches as captain. In the ordinary dining room, Mr. James Allen of Charlottesville is headwaiter. Mr. Allen is thoroughly acquainted with the work and we believe a better selection could not have been made. He is highly respected by everybody as his gentlemanly bearing justly merits. There are here a most genteel, polite and intelligent set of young men. Many engaged in or aspiring to the several professions. The White Sulphur Literary Society was organized last week with the following officers: Mr. Robert B. Barcus, president; Mr. Clayton Brown, vice president; Miss Lena Whipps, secretary; Mr Woolfolk Briscoe, treasurer. The next meeting of the literary will be held Wednesday night, and account of which we will give in our next news letter. One of Charlottesville's most noted jesters told us on our arrival that Fincastle, Va., one of our western Virginia towns has closed up for the summer owing to the large number of its inhabitants who are here for the summer. SCRIBE. Miss Susie A. Brent, a charming young lady from Chicago, is the guest of Miss Hattie George, 619 B. St., Northeast. Mr. Edgar Furbush, Secretary of the United States Legation at Port su Prince, Hayti, is spending his vacation in this country. He will be in Washington for a few weeks and is the guest of his brother in law, Mr. D. M. Messer of 11th St. Northwest. Mr. H. J. White, a prosperous business man of Atlanta, Ga., is spending a few weeks in the city, the guest of his brother-in-law, Col. Jack M. Ryan of the Southern Hotel. Mr. White will spend a few days in Atlantic City and other eastern points before returning to his home in Dixie. 12 AS THE CURTAINS GO UP. Movements of Stage People and How They are Endeavoring to Hold the Mirror up to Nature. Mr. Theodore Drury, the distinguish ed baritone, announces the production of Bizet's opera "Carmen", (in English), at Park Opera House, Asbury Park, New Jersey, on Monday night August 6. This production having been given with enormous success at Lexington Opera House, New York, Mr. Drury is prompted to repeat it at Asbury Park, confident that he will have the support of all lovers of operatic art. The remarkable strong cast will include Mme. Dessario Plato, Mrs. M. Randall, Mrs. T. Gields, Miss E De Lyons, Theodore Drury, G W Taylor, Fredric Sheldon, A. DeAncy, R. R. Johnson, Miss Daisy Laturner. Ernest Hogan has purchased a fine little cottage in Honolulu. Mrs. A. P. Albert, a highly cultured Washington lady, is the author of a drama that has been well spoken of by the critics. Miss Heurietta Vinton Davis, the talented Washington elocutionist, is working her way homeward, after a successful tour of the South and West. Prof. Wm. H. Reid, of Cincinnati, Ohio, has a national reputation as a teacher of pickaninny bands. The music rendered by these youngsters comparing favorably with that of older musicians. The Webber-Doak and Burton company, presenting "Colored Aristocracy" this season will be under the directorship of Charles S. Sager, the rising young author. The company opens August 20. A literary and musical troupe has been recently formed at Wilberforce by Miss Hallie Q. Brown, Profs. Wm. H. Calhoun and George T. Simpson. They have already made several engagements. Rusco and Holland's attractions this season will employ 210 colored performers; five managers and ten agents; and will use ten private cars. The attractions representing an investment of $150,000.00 The tours of these companies will embrace every city of the United States and Canada of any importance. Ernest Hogan has just signed a contract with Messrs. Rusco and Holland for a number of years to back all of his productions. He is to venture in a new field, believing that the day of the cake walk craze has seen its usefulness, and that there can be gotten together enough Negro performers to give a first class musical comedy. He has, therefore, taken the initial steps to put together a company of that class of performers and expects liberal support. Madame Jennie M. Doyle, the noted leading soprana of Wesley choir, Philadelphia, died at the Douglass Hospital in the Quaker City recently. She had been ailing for some time. She was thisty three years old and leaves one child. She was a member of Wright's Quartette and the Carolina Jubilee Singers. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. G. L. Blackwell, the pastor, Bishop L. J. Coppin and Rev. J. B. Caldwell. Members of the different church choirs rendered the music. Mrs. J. W. Moore, of Paducah, Ky. is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Houston, 1705 10th St., Northwest. United Order of True Reformers. ORGANIZED January 1, 1881. Offices 604, 606 and 608 N. 2nd St., - - Richmond, Va. The Strongest Financial Organization the Negro Has Produced in This Country. Read and learn for yourself what it has done and how to become a member. True Reformers. ORGANIZED January 1, 1881. Offices 604, 606 and 608 N. 2nd St., - - Richmond, Va. The Strongest Financial Organization the Negro Has Produced in This Country. Read and learn for yourself what it has done and how to become a member. SUBORDINATE FOUNTAIN. 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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 20 years of age, $4.60; at 50, $5.10; at 55, $5.60; at 60, $6.60 Death Benefits.—$75 and $125. Could 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 $8 to $9 per month, paid weekly. Monthly Dues are 85 or 50 cents a month. Taxes are 80 cents annually, paid semi-annually, January and July. The monthly dues secure the highest weekly sick benefits. Life Membership—Ten shares of Bank Stock, costing each member $5 a share, must said member a life member. After paying dues and owning the stock one year, fruits of the stock will pay the member's dues, and leave a handsome little balance each year. Just calculate—monthly dues, 50 cents per month, and taxes 80 cents per year, amount to $6.80, and a dividend on ten shares of stock at 20 per cent on the dollar, or $1 per share, amounts to $10 annually, which will pay the member's dues, $6.80, and leave a balance of $3.20. Should the dues be 35 cents per month, and 80 cents taxes per year, the monthly dues and taxes will amount to $5 per year. The dividend of $10 would pay the monthly dues and taxes, and leave a balance of $8. Additional Benefits of Life Membership.—Should adverse circumstances befall a member, said member may take his ten shares of stock and Fountain policy, and secure a loan from $1 to $58, which will enable said member to tide over the misfortune, pay up the loan, redeem his policy and stock, and go on his way resolving. 2. ROSEBUD FOUNTAIN (For the Children.) A Rosebud Fountains are composed for children, male and female, from 8 to 14 years of age. Joining or Benefit Fees, $1.50; paid spot cash or by installments. Death Benefits--$24.50 and $37.00. Should death occur within the first year, $24.50; after the first year $37 will be paid to the parents or guardians. Sick Benefits.-From $1.50 to $4.00 per month paid weekly; 50 cents, 75 cents and $1 per week, respectively. The highest monthly dues purchase the highest weekly sick benefits. Monthly Dues and Taxes.-The monthly dues are 10 cents, 15 cents, or 25 cents, respectively, just as the Fountain may decide. Taxes, 10 cents annually, paid semiannually, January and July. The child is allowed to purchase five shares of Bank Stock, which makes his policy self-supporting, with a balance each year. 3. THE REGALLA. This Department furnishes all Regalla that is worn by the members of the Order. For style and prices write for price list. 4 CLASSES. B and E classes admit a membership, male and female, and secure life and death benefits. B Class Policies are as follows: CLASS B TABLE. Ages. Joining Fee. Value of Certificate. Annual Dues. Paid Quarterly. 14 to 25 years.....$2 50 $200 00 $4 75 $1 20 25 to 85 years.....2 75 200 00 4 75 1 20 35 to 45 years.....3 00 200 00 5 70 1 45 45 to 50 years.....3 25 140 00 6 85 1 00 50 to 55 years.....3 25 115 00 6 85 1 00 55 to 60 years.....3 50 90 00 7 60 1 90 60 to 65 years.....2 50 65 00 7 60 1 90 E Class Policies are as follows: CLASS E TABLE. Ages. Joining Fee. Value of Certificate. Annual Dues. Paid Quarterly. 14 to 25 years.....$5 00 $500 00 $9 50 $2 40 25 to 85 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 00 850 00 11 00 2 85 3. THE BEGALLA. This Department furnishes all Regalia that is worn by the members of the Order. For style and prices write for price list. 4 CLASSEER. B and E classes admit a membership, male and female, and secure life and death benefits. B Class Polls are as follows: CLASS B TABLE. Age. Joining Fee. Value of Certificate. Annual Dues. Paid Quarterly. 14 to 25 years. $2 50 $200 00 $4 75 $1 20 25 to 35 years. 2 75 200 00 4 75 1 20 35 to 45 years. 3 00 200 00 5 70 1 43 45 to 50 years. 3 25 140 00 6 85 1 68 50 to 55 years. 3 25 115 00 6 85 1 68 55 to 60 years. 3 50 90 00 7 60 1 90 60 to 65 years. 50 65 00 7 60 1 90 E Class Policies are as follows: CLASS E TABLE. 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 8* 50 to 55 years. 5 75 400 00 11 40 2 85 55 years (Complete). 6 00 850 00 11 00 2 35 The ages are reckoned from the last birthday. Remember that the applicant is benefited as soon as his policy is issued. The annual dues of either of the above named Classes may be divided into quarterly payments of three months each, payable the 1st of January, April, July, and October. The balance of annual dues remaining to the credit of each member after paying expenses will go to the purchase of Bank Stock for said member. If dues are paid annually in advance, the member gets 5 per cent drawback in cash, and his full proportion of annual dues. By the latter mode of payment each member is made his own collector, thereby making the membership independent of the agent, and self-supporting, and the member receiving the percentage that would be paid to the agent to collect. You will readily see that the members of either one of these classes are only required to meet once or four times a year, while the Fountains and Rosebuds meet twice a month. Life needs.—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 per cent, or one dollar per share. Should misfortune befall them on their pathway of life, they may take their stock certificates and policies, and secure a loan after a given period of time. Members of Class E can purchase 25 shares of Bank Stock, and two shares for each year of their membership; likewise, they may take their policies and certificates of Bank Stock, and secure a loan after a given period of time. You will readily see that the member, in either one of these Classes, like the Fountains and the Rosebuds, benefits the member in health, as well as his family in death. Remember that the applicant is benefited as soon as his policy is issued The annual dues of either of the above named Classes may be divided into quarterly payments of three months each, payable the 1st of January, April, July, and October. The balance of annual dues remaining to the credit of each member after paying expenses will go to the purchase of Bank Stock for said member. If dues are paid annually in advance, the member gets 5 per cent drawback in cash, and his full proportion of annual dues. By the latter mode of payment each member is made his own collector, thereby making the membership independent of the agent, and self-supporting, and the member receiving the percentage that would be paid to the agent to collect. You will readily see that the members of either one of these classes are only required to meet once or four times a year, while the Fountains and Rosebuds meet twice a month. Life benefits.—The members of B Class are allowed to purchase 15 shares of Bank Stock in two shares for each year of their membership. The stock yields a dividend of per cent, or one dollar per share. Should misfortune befall them on their pathway of life, they may take their stock certificates and policies, and secure a loan after a given period of time. Members of Class E can purchase 25 shares of Bank Stock, and two shares for each year of their membership; likewise, they may take their policies and certificates of Bank Stock, and secure a loan after a given period of time. You will readily see that the member in health, as well as his family is death. 15. THE TRUE REFORMERS' BANK The Savings Bank of the G. F. U. O. T. R. was chartered March. 1888. Its capital stock is $100,000. It commenced business April 3, 1889. The amount of business to March 1, 1888, is $8,458,100. The stock of this bank is sold to the membership of the Fountains. Rosebud, B and E classes, and pays a dividend of 20 per cent on the dollar. Persons can deposit their menes on time or demand. The bank pays 4 per cent interest on all time deposits. Moneys on demand are held subject to the orders of the depositors. Deposits are received from 10 cents and upwards. Special attention is given to the collection of notes and drafts. In 1893 this was the only bank in Richmond which continued to pay currency to its depositors during the financial stringency, while the other banks were using serip. BEE HIVE The Savings Bank of the G. F. U. O. T. R. was chartered March 1888. Its capital stock is $100,000. It commenced business April 3, 1889. The amount of business to March 1, 1888, is $8,458,100. The stock of this bank is sold to the membership of the Fountains. Rose buds, B and E classes, and pays a dividend of 20 per cent on the dollar. Persons can deposit their menagers on time or demand. The bank pays 4 per cent interest on all time deposits. Moneys on demand are held subject to the orders of the depositors. Deposits are received from 10 cents and upwards. Special attention is given to the collection of notes and drafts. In 1893 this was the only bank in Richmond which continued to pay currency to its depositors during the financial stringency, while the other banks were not active. 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 te carry on the business of the organization, and te 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 lessed. 13. This Department manages and controls the property of the organization. It grew out of the necessity of having offices and buildings in which to carry on the business of the organization, and to furnish halls for the Subordinate Lodges buildings now owned. In farms, 3; dwellings, 2; hotels, 1; with a fee simple value of $164 000. 7. THE REFORMER, the Organ of the Order The Reformer is the Beacon-Light, the Head-Light, the General Messenger and the General Agent of the Brotherhood. It is a live race journal, with a circulation of 6,000. It is the medium of the Order, and its columns teem with all its doings and achievements. Send for sample copies. It is published weekly in The Reformer Printing Office, Richmond, Va., having a first-class job department, and makes a specialty of high-class work. The Reformer is the Beacon-Light, the Head-Light, the General Messenger and the General Agent of the Brotherhood. It is a live race journal, with a circulation of 6,000. It is the medium of the Order, and its columns teem with all its doings and gobbles. Send for sample copies. It is published weekly in The Reformer Printing Office, Richmond, Va., having a first-class job department, and makes a specialty of high-class work TT be — AMG # ER “NZ pe Oso C: ie are . : TH | NORD a reeaene oe fae) 4\ y oh i ° rae Hh | "eee li Q i ¢ en ca OC ies 5 ON. \ aa on Ie vil are ite ears ial Ow sabe ff ; a rs xf a AY As *y f ul at fp La hi Hala ‘eS ae ec ane en — T Ninth Presbyterian church, 1p disnspolis, Ind., has extended a call t Rey. Dr. Harper of Cincinnati. lhe Rev. R, W. Christian and fami jy, formerly of Bioomingtan, Li, wil remain in Indianapolis indefinitely. vy. D. A. Graham, the well know: (vine, is row Iccated in New O:leans La He deliver the baccalaureate ser mon for theSouthern University of tha city, Swadsy June, 24, Rey. C. 8. Brown, president o Waters Normal Institute, Wintcn, N 0. bas been given the degree of Locto f Divinity trom Shaw University. H Is one of the ablest men im the Baptis ranks. The Nationa) Baptist Convention tha will ccnvene in Kiihmond, Va., nex september will be one of the larges aud most representative body of Ne groes that ever met onthe Americar ecutinent. »e death of Dr. R. M. Cheeks, late ditor of the Scuthern Christian Recor- er, will not Lecessitate the removal o! the puplication of that paper from At lanta, Ga, It will still be published in tha y by the new editor, Rev. G. E. ly, Har. zell presented for use by the rr M, BE. General Conference at ( .go a beautiful gavel madecfivory fr he center of Africa, the handle be made of African ebony. The gai ves made in an industrial schoo! by a black boy, in Monrovia, Liberia. \ resolution forbidding General Offi. cers ir¢ma fLo'ding churches did not ba: the recent A. M. E. Zion Con’ fercuce. Dr. W. H. Goler and others pored it, It was left to the discre tion he Bishop to use a general offi er wherever he saw fit for the good of the Connection, Rey . D. Caldwell, the newly lected general steward of the A. M. E, ion Connection will make his head: 1st in Philadelphia. The positien is second in importance to thatof Bish: op r Caldwell bas mawy friends in 4il (nominations, and is well worthy of his position. Rey Hi, Henderson, general statis: tie fthe Zion M. E, Church, re polls a large increase in church mem: Setsiip, finance and ministerial in: fue ihe Church ranks fourth in Methodism, second in Negro Metho. (ism and thirteenth in general de Lominationalism, Bishop Walters and Prof. B. A. John Son for Europe July 3rd, sailing fon ston to attend the London Cotstion Endeaver eonveniion, and ieluln Auguet 15th to attend the Afro- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. ©. ee Palace. They will aleo goto Scotland Bertin, and the Paris Exposition Editor J W. Smith calmly announce that Rev. © D, Hazel, of Paterson, N. J., will occasionally furnish the Sta with short articles—not over 500 werd: —on Pastoral Theology, Homiletic Tbcughts and New Testamens Exege sis. We hope to be able to go over this interesting symposium with a great deal of care, and shall certainly glean great inspiration. The General Conference of the A. M. E. Charch passed a resolution requiring bishops, elders, and all ordained min isters to wear robes on certain occae- ious and ail unordained ministers to wea? Ieguiar ministerial suits. There is no compulsicn behind the resclution. The robe and ministerial garb will be entirely optional. Some will wear these garments. A large number never will, Dr. J. M. Buckley, speaking of the fraternal addresses of Revs, R. A. Car ter and L. J. Coppin, before the Gen- eral Conference of the M. B, Church a! Chicago, ssye in a recent issue of the Christian Advocate: “ Delegates from the Colored Meth- odist Episcopal Church and from the African Me.hodist Episcopal Chureb addressed the Conference, making in each case a most favorable impression.” Rev. James E. Mason, D. D., of Liv’ ingston Oollege, was the fraternal dele: gate of Zion Church to the Methodist Episcopal Conference held at Chicago in May. In the courge of his address de livered before that body, Dr. Mason laid special emphasis cn the part his de nomination was playing in the intel lectual elevation of the race. He said that Ziop Church is operating twenty institutions of learning in which ele’ mentary and academic branches are taught, and has five schools of higher grade in which a collegiate training is given. Rev. R. H. W. Leske, of North Car’ olina, has assumed charge of the publi: cation depaitment of the A. M. E. Chureh at Philadelphia. He wil! make an able officer as he thoroughly under’ stands the practical side of the busi- ness. Dr. T. W. Henderson did well but he lost owt from over confidemce in his own power, and neglect to organize the elements with which he was sur’ rounded. Itis rumored that he has been offered the pastorate of Metropol: itan A. M. E. church, Wasbiogion, when a change is talked of, A secular paper, speaking of the re- markable tendency of the times to abuse or denounce somebody or ever; - body, without impartial examination of the evidence, gives this wise counsel: “If you have been unjustly or dis- courteousiy treated, the worse for the person who has committed the offence. It is infinitely better to suffer wrong than todo wrong. The judicious way is tokeep silent, aud the still nobler way is to su overcome evil with gcod that it is driven away as the darkness flees before the light.’’ There is a nugget of sound philosophy here—if the individual has the POISE WHERE TO SPEND A PLEASANT SUNDAY AFTERNGON, ae SEASON OF 1900. —— — STEAMER RIVER QUEEN TO NOTLEY HALL, _ SUNDAY JULY Ist 1900, E fa ~ | i ot PT ma, Sort Ape ter be SS eRe i free orto elie NS TE 5 taal ectlatcl al Goan 6 eG RIVERQUEEN EUAAuooRon ee Wace es Wwevedes = = SS ee SS SS SS Se Boat leaves N street wharf, Clyde Line at 230, 5 and 6.30 pm.; There is nothing more enjoyable than to take atripon the Steamer River Queen Sunday afternoon, with your tamily, when all kinds of cold drinks and refreshments can be had at city prices. Music by Monumental Orchestra. eae Take Capital Traction company’s cars, Penn. Ave., 14th and 7th Sts., ‘direct to wharf and save delay at power house and you'll net miss the boat. Fare, 25 cents. For terms of charters for Notley Hall and Lower Cedar Point, address, L. J. WOOLEN, Manager, Steamer River Queen Whart. Virginia Union University. oe Ly Wee eae oe A * Sere i al Gi at it as Theological 4B ee ST yl ee i ie, As age Sm MAGNIFICENT BUILDINGS OF GRANITE. New Equipment, Fine Library, Electric Light, Steam Heat. Commanding Location on Border of Richmond. Large Faculty of Enthusiastic and Able Professors. Lectures by Distinguished Scholars, Educators and Preachers. COLLEGE DEPARTMENT, Of High Grade, Modern, Broad, Thorough, with many Electives. Courses leading to Degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, axd Bachelor of Literature. -- THEOLOGICAL DEPARTIIENT, Baptist, Conservative, Scholarly, with many ~~ electives; with Hebrew and Greek Courses leading to Degree of Bach- ~. elor of Divinity, and English courses leading to Degree of Bachelor of Theology; Ministers’ Course for those who with little previous educa- tion, desire to fit themselves for the ministry. 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This offer is open to ladies or gentlemen—white or colored. Sixth District -Georgiaand Alabama Bishop H. M. Turner, Seventh District—South Carelina Bishop W, J. Gaines. Eighth District—Arkansas and Mis: sissipp! Bishop Evans Tyree, Ninth District—Tennessee and Ken- tuckxy Bishop B. T. Tanner. Tenth District—Texas and Lou‘siana Bishop Moses B. Salters. Eieventh Distriet‘—Florida Bishop James A. Handy. fwelfth District— West Indies, Bishop Charles Spencer Smith. Thirteenth District—West Afriea, Bishop M. M, Moore. “Fourteenth District—South Africa, Bishop L, J. Coppin. The A. M. E. generai conference made the follewing episcopa) assign’ ments for the ensuing quadrenial. Keep it for ready reference: | First District—-New England, New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia Conferences Bishop W. B. Derrick. Second District—Baltimore, Virginia, West and North Carolina. Bishop Ben- jamin F. Lee. Third District—Ohio and Pittsburg, Bishop B. W. Arnett. Fourth Districi—Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Michigan, Bishop Abraham Grant, Fifth District—Colorado, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska, Bishop C. 7. Shaffer, 18 Pichmond Tena Seminary 14 (Continued from second page.) 100,000, and that they today outnumber the Dutch in the Transvaal two to one is conclusive proof that they do not object to a system which makes them thrifty and industrious, spontaneous workers, in sharp contrast to the Hottentotts who have become extinct under the British way at the Cape. Mr. Silas Hocking in a speech at Exeter Hall in March of this year declared: "I do hate hypocrisy, and if there be any cry that savors of cant and hypocrisy it is in this cry that we have have gone to war for the protection of the natives of South Africa. We have heard a great deal about how badly the Boers have treated the natives, and yet I ask you to consider this question. How does it happen that now that every man, aye, and every boy, has been commandeered, when all the male population of the Transvaal and the Free State are on the border, and all the women and children are left unprotected on the lonely farms of the veldt—how does it happen that they are perfectly safe with this vast population of natives all around them?" One reason for their willingness to remain under the tyrannous sway of the Dutch is perhaps to be found in the fact that the Transvaal never allowed the compound system of labor to be set up within its boundaries; that it maintained an eight-hour labor law, and prohibited labor on Sundays. The demand of the mining companies before the Industrial Commission at Johannesburg was that the government should "procure a steady and sufficient supply of Kaffirs for the mines." This was to be done by accrediting and assisting agents of the companies to obtain native labor, by paying premiums to Kaffir chiefs, by furnishing extra pay to the native commissioners for the same object, and by conveying the blacks thus secured to the mines "under supervision," with a reduction of railroad fare to one-third of existing rates, and with the erection of compounds along the road. The reason that the Transvaal government should go to so much trouble and expense was confessedly to regulate the wages of the Kaffirs." Mr. Albu stated before the Commission: "The native at the present time receives a wage which is far in excess of the exigences of his existence. The native earns between fifty shillings and sixty shillings per month, and then he pays nothing for food or lodging. In fact, he can save nearly all that he receives. If the native can save twenty pounds a year, it is almost sufficient for him to go home and live on the fat of the land. In five or six years' time the native population will have saved enough money to make it unnecessary for them to work any more. The consequence of this will be most disastrous for the industry and the State. This question applies to any class of labor and in any country, whether it be in Africa, Europe or America. I think if the native get enough to save five pounds a year, the sum is quite enough for his requirements and will prevent natives from becoming rich in a short space of time." Hays Hammond, the American who figured conspicuously in the Jameson Raid, and who owes his life to the clemency of the despised "oligarchy" declared: "There are in South Africa millions of Kaffirs, and it does seem preposterous that we are not able to obtain 70,000 or 80,000 Kaffirs to work the mines. With good government there should be an abundance of labor, and with an abundance of labor there will be no difficulty in cutting down wages, because it is preposterous to pay a Kaffir the present wages. He would be quite a well satisfied—in fact, he would work longer—if you gave him half the amount. His wages are altogether disproportionate to his requirements." THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. This is philanthropy with a vengeance. In Kimberley, it may be added the working day is 12 hours long, and the working week, seven days. The compound system, another name for slavery, is also in full force. Missionary work has been done among the natives by the Boers from the days of Peter Van der Stael, "the sick comforter," who labored so earnestly for the education and Christianization of the blacks. The chief cause of the condemnation so freely bestowed by the British was to be found in the difference of method employed in early mission work by the two nations. The British insisted on the importance of "book learning," while the Boers like Booker Washington, and other leaders of thought in dealing with the race problem of our county, considered that salvation lay largely in "manual training" for the blacks. Livingstone, him self, leaned to this side, but the majority of his brethren found fault with the Boers, and as they reached a large audience, in a familiar tongue, the other side has been little heard from. Theal, the historian of South Africa, says: "There was thus a broad line of demarkation between the colonists and such of the missionaries as held these views; and the tendency of each side was to make it broader. It was deepened into positive antipathy toward those missionaries who, following Dr. Vanderkemp's example, united them selves in marriage with black women and claimed themselves the champions of the black population against the white." Of the law forbidding natives the use of the sidewalks in Johannperburg, it must be remembered was made by municipal council of that city, composed of elected property holders of three month's residence, and Englishmen were largely represented. Of the treatment of blacks by individual Britons and Boers, it may be truthfully contended that little choice is to be make between them. It is simply that accorded by the dominant race to an inferior one, on the frontiers of civilization the world over, and in all time. Sir George Gray, for yaas the famous governor of Cape Colony denied emphatically his belief in the reported cruelty of the Boers, and F. C. Selous, the hunter and explorer of 28 years experience, sums up his experience thus, "I will only say that, in my opinion: the average Dutch Boer treats the natives in South Africa quite as well as the average Englishman. Dr. Grout sustains his judgment, giving it as his own. Rhodesian loyalists of the Cape it is claimed, single out the Boer method of dealing with the natives as the one special feature of the Boer government deserving of the commendation, and F. V. Kirby, well known as a hunter and traveler in those wilds and an imperialist, strongly in favor of annexing the Republics, thus protests in a letter to the Uitenhage Times agains the charges of oppression brought against the Boers:— "I claim to know the Transvaal, its Boers and its natives, as well as many and better than most people in this Colony, and I have no hesitation in saying that these charges are often maliciously false and more often grossly exaggerated. The native of the Transvaal are as happy and contented under Boer rule as they were during the British occupation, for the average Boer is every whit as kind to his native servants as the average Britisher. 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CONTAINS—Pen pictures of the Darling Charges made by Negro Soldiers at San Juan, El Caney, and around Santiago.—Corporal Brown killed at his post while filing 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 Ciseros, and the Culter Women Caversy.—The Negro Paymasters in the Army.—The Negro Poet, Paul Lawrence Tunber—"Eddie" Savoy, the colored man who outwitted the diplon acy of the Spanish Minister at Washington.—The Negro who seals Uncle Sam's money.—The colored Register of the Treasury who has to sign Uncle Sam's money to make it good. Every Page Brimful of New and Interesting Reading, with about fifty half to e and line engravings of soldier, officers and scenes of the late Spanish-American War, with A FINE PICTURE OF AGUINALDO, his headquarters, a Filipino lady of Manila, and a brief sketch of the Philippinos and their civilization. Handsome Picture of General Nelson A. Miles, the Major General in command of all the American Army, who said the fighting of the colored soldiers around Santiago was "without a parallel in the history of the world." All for $1, "Much in Little." Mailed Free. AGENTS WANTED. Big percentage. Send for copy of book and Agents' terms. Address Corner West and Lenoir Streets. James F. Keenan Rectifier and Who'sale Liquor Dealer. — ALSO — FREE SGOTT'S MAGIC HAIR STRAIGHTENER AND GROWER. Miss Maggie E. Wilson - - Is the recipe of a Celebrated Chemist, and is guaranteed to be absolutely safe and harmless. It is the most wonderful preparation in the world to make kinky, knotty, stubborn, harsh, short and thin hair, long, thick, beautiful, straight, soft, glossy and pliable. It stops hair from falling out, promotes a rapid growth, restores natural color, and gives health to the hair and scalp, by positively curing dandruff and all scalp diseases. This marvelous remedy grows hair on bald heads and thin places. Please try it, and also read some of the testimonials from thousands of persons who are now using it. Price 30 and 55 cents, by mail. Little Hero Pills, 10 and 25 cents. Scott's Face Bleach and Beautiful Pills, Scott's Mustache Forcer, 25 cents. Scott's Catarrh Cure, (Liquid) 25 cts. Scott's Nasal Cream, (for Catarrh) 25 cts. Dr. Marian's Female Tabuloids (for female troubles) 25 cts. Scott's Wonderful Pile Cure, 25 cts. NOTICE! With each order of one or more of any of our remedies, we will send you a free treatment of the Celebrated Little Hero Pills, (for all forms of kidney, Liver, Stomach and Urinary Diseases), drug Stores or sent by MAIL on receipt of price. Stamp Wanted. Agents wanted. can make $15 to $150 per month. Write to day for instructions. Enclose stamps for reply. O. BOX $70. The Colored American is on sale at J Bishop Johnson's, 1201 R str n. w., The Koonce Cafe, 1606 M str.; Bellers, 16th and M streets; Davis 11th and U streets; Wagner's 14th Pierce Place; Chapman's, 14th and P; The McKinley House, 489 Missouri avenue; Hyman's 1618 7th str.; Walker and Newman's, 3rd and D streets s. w., and at Marcoe's 421 12th street n. w. --- --- Importer of Fire Wines. Brendies Gins, Etc 462 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W. with Loudin's Fisk Jubilee Singers, is now prepared to give Vocal and Instrumental instruction either privately or in class. 1820 20th street, northwest. Terms reasonable. Pupils can enter at any time. Prominent Colored Men. Agents wanted to sell "One Hundred Distinguished Leaders," a beautiful book containing one hundred portraits and sketches of the leading colored men in the United States. Price 26 cents per copy. Send stamps or post office money order to Raleigh North Carolina. FORMERLY VOCAL SOLOIST STUDIO Charles Alexander, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. PRESIDENTIAL BUILDING HOWARD UNIVERSITY, Washington, D. C. TEN distinct departments, under one hundred competent professors and instructors—Theo- logical, Medical, Legal, College, Pedagogical, Preparatory, English, Agriculture, Industrial, and Musical. For information address— Rev. J, E. RANKIN, D. D., LL. D., President. GEO. H. SAFFORD, Secretary. THE Georgia State Industrial College, Open to Both Sexes. The fall term beginning October 3rd 1900, the Georgia State Industrial College will receive both young men and young women as boarders. The entire expenses for board, washing, fuel and nights will be only $5.00 per month. The location and surroundings are healthful and elevating. A first-class opportunity for young men and women to obtain a good literary and industrial education. The trades of Blacksmithing, Wheelwrighting, Carpentry, Painting, Bricklaying and Shoemaking, will be taught the boys and the arts of Sewing and Cooking will be taught the girls. Boarding space is limited and those who wish to come must apply early. Respectfully, R. R. WRIGHT, Pres't. College, Ga Avery College Trades Schools ALLEGHENY, PA. A Practical, Literary and Industrial Trade School for Colored Boys and Girls, Carpentry, Bricklaying, Plastering, Painting and Interior Decorations. Tailoring, Dress making, Millinery. Voice Culture and Piano Forte. Literary Departnent fr m Primary to Normal Course Job Work Solicited and Profits given to the Students. Catalogues row ready. Address, JOSEPH D. MAHONEY, Principal. Allegheny, Pa Howard University, WASHINGTON, D. C. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, INCLUDING Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Colleges Thirty-third Session (1900-1901) will begin October 1st, 1900 and continue seven (7) months. Tuition fee in Medical and Dental Colleges, each $80, Pharmaceutical College, $70. All students must register before October 12, 1900. For catalogue or further information apply to— F. J. SHADD, M. D., Secretary, 901 R St. N. W., Washington, D. C. DRESSMAKING ACADEMY. The de Lam Orton Famous French Perfection Tailor System Academy MME J. A. SMALLWOOD, Sole Agent 1513 Madison St. Northwest. Morning class from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m Afternoon class 2 to 5 p. m. daily. Evenings from 7 30 to 10 o'clock. Evenings from 7.30 to 10 o'clock. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays Dressmakers and ladies who wish to do their own dressmaking. WANTED—To learn the wonderful De Lamorton French Perfection Taylor System, Seamless Basques without one inch of visible seam, in lining or goods, not even on the shoulder. Successful Dressmaking requires as much earnest progressive study as successful work in any of the professions. No detail is too small to be carefully looked after. We teach you to make dresses with or without seam and guarantee perfect fits, and complete your course with a diploma. Pupils can enter at any time. Summer course begins June 15th. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. COLORED, NEWSPAPERS Do the Leading and Representative People Read Them? The Dallas Express, one of our leading exchanges, handles this timely topic in its current issue in regards to prominent Negroes in Dallas, Texas, who boast of not subscribing for colored newspapers but who are paying subscribers to the white journals which show to them and to their families all of the shortcomings of the race. The article which we reproduce below states the case truthfully and it applies to Washington, D. C., and to other large centers of colored population just as well as it does to Dallas, Texas. It may be added here that in the large number of cases where first class portraits and sketches are printed of leading colored men in The Colored American, that they not only themselves do not subscribe for the paper but advise their friends not to do so. The Colored American prints items of news, etc., about them more as a matter of news and because it is its duty rather than from any encouragement on their part. Like the so called leading Negroes of Dallas they subscribe to the white papers which show them up to be misguided leaders, their sons to be crap shooters, and their daughters to be only fit for the menials of white people. "We have a number of prominent Negroes in this city, and perhaps elsewhere, who refuse to subscribe for the Dallas Express or any other Negro paper. This class of Negroes are always very loud in their advice for the race to be like "de white folks." Wonder if these fellows ever found any leading white man in Dallas, who refused and refuses to ever subscribe for any white paper printed in the city. What would such white men as Mayor Cabell, Dr. Rosser, Prof. Long, Capt. Gaston and Hon. Eugene Marshall, look like, going around Dallas bragging about refusing to take the Dallas News or Times Herald? Our "leading" people should stop and consider. Let the leaders lead, so that the people can follow. The Negro newspaper should receive the support of leading Negroes first, and no intelligent Negro home should be without one. The Colored American, The Indianapolis Freeman, S. W. C. Advocate, The Christian Recorder, A. M. E. Church Review, Paul Quinn Weekly, Victoria Guide and many other Negro papers which we can mention, are splendid publications and should be a part of the regular reading matter of every colored child in the land." DOWN THE HUDSON. Trojans Have a Delightful Excursion. Troy, New York, Special- One of the most enjoyable excursions of the season was that given by the Presbyterian church of Troy July 11, to Coley Grove, 83 miles down the Hudson. The day was perfect, and a jollier crowd was never gathered together on the billow waves. Nearly 400 hundred persons took advantage of the trip. A splendid orchestra was aboard and furnished music of a kind that kept the feet of the brethren and sisteren busy during the whole two hours of the delightful ride. A committee of ladies from the church furnished a palatable and substantial dinner and sold out everything in the eating line before the barge reached its destination, and were obliged to replenish their stock at Catskill, which shared the same fate on the up trip. The committee appeared to be pleased with this food famine their smiles were beatific, Rev, Mr. Boddy, pastor of the church and Attorney Fred Chew and other gentlemen connected with the committee were untiring in their efforts to promote the comfort and happiness of their guests. The two former gentlemen were quite exhausted carrying around the great load of bills and silver which were poured into their capacious grips. The Misses Chew and an able corps of lady assistants did themselves proud at the tables, their patrons did the rest. It was the greatest excursion that ever went down the Channel. Everybody says so and its so. BRUCE GRIT. $1,000 REWARD. DOCTOR SHEA'S MARVELOUS MEDIUM Gives the names of dead and living friends tells who and when you will marry also of business journeys lawsuits, absent friends health or anything you wish to know, no matter what it is. He can call up your spirit friends and show them to you. Can make them rap all around the room. He asks no questions don't ask you to write names or him. Don't try to pump you in any way, out tells you right off. He is thoroughly incursed by leading spiritualists everywhere, received from them a gold medal and special license to practice his wonderful powers; credentias no one else can show can give thousands of references to both white and colored patrons Twent-five years' practice—seven in brooklyn—will show you that he can do all he of. Can tell what business is best for you and where, how to win speedy marriage with the one you love. How to be successful in all your doings in short what is best to do. He will succeed when all others fall. Positive satisfaction or no pay. Call and see. You will find it luck to consult this Christian gentleman. He has a medicine that will cure drunkenness; can be given patients not knowing it. Thousands through him are now RICH HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL with all their undertakings, while those w o neglect his advice are still laboring again, poverty. Through his perfect knowledge chemistry he can impart to you a secret tha will overcome your enemies and win you friends. His aid and advice has often been solicited; the result has always been the securing of speedy and happy marriages and all your wishes. In love affairs he never fails. He has the secret of winning the affections of the opposite sex. It is the curse of Spiritualism that in all large cities there are a class or men and women who claim powers they do not possess. They have neither gifts, credentials, nor references. Surely the colored people are not so wanting in sense as to throw their time and money away on such. Dr. Shea refers to the Hon. Charles Milier, capitalist, 2481 Atlantic avenue; the Hon. William Denmore, architect and builder, 47 Cleveland avenue, and Mr. Arthur Sewell, ship builder South Brooklyn. All have known him for the past ten years. He gives a free test of his power to all. The doctor has practiced five years in New Orleans, St. Louis, Memphis and Louisville, understands thoroughly the diseases, spells or influences the race is subject to. He has now and always had large patronage from them. PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING: Broklyn, August, 15, 1891—This letter is to certify that I came to New York from Albany. I was a stranger in a strange city, out of work and out of money. I had no luck in anything I undertook. What to do I did not know. A friend advised me to go and see Dr. Shea. I did. He told me the cause of my troubles; he took me in and treated me as a brother. Through him I got a good position that very week. I had been to others, they took my money and did me no good. I bless the day I first met Dr. Shea I would advise all in bad luck, sick or in trouble to go to him at once. Sincerely, Albert Ayers, 2987 Atlantic Avenue. HARRIS' NEW BLOOD TONIC Have you heard what this Great and Wonderful Medicine will do? Have you tried a bottle? Have you seen some of the marvelous cures effected by its use? It should be in every household. We gur rantee the ingredients are pure, the compound is pefect, the taste is pleasant and the cure is permanent. You may have tried different remedies, but this is superior to many of the so-called patient remedies. This preparation contains the most valuable Blood Purifiers known to medical science and its use will convince you that it has no equal for Impure Blood, Rheumatism, Liver and Kidney Complaints Boils, pimples ring worms, tetters and humors of scrofulous diseases. It makes pure, healthy blood, regulates the heart, c uses the blood to circulate freely and at normal temperature. It re, moves the causes producing itching, nervousness, biliousness, indigestion, constipation, Exhaustion and that tired feeling. Especially adapted to the restoration of Torpid Liver, gives tone to the stomach invigorates the kidneys, cures constipation, produces a healthy appetite, sound digestion, regular stools, clear skin and a vigorous body. Re, vives vitality in the weak, despondent and overtasked females, strengthens the sexual organs and restores new life. Strictly pure and highly concentrated. Small doses and quick cures. Price 50 Cents. Prepared only by HARRIS' CHEMICAL COMPANY, Cor. 3d and F Sts., sw., Wash., D. C Agents wanted. Write for terms. 15 Brooklyn, August 15, 1891—This letter is to certify that my husband had gone away and had been absent two years. I mourned for him night and day. I gave him up as dead. Hearing of the wonderful things Dr. Shea was doing I resolved to consult him. He told me that my husband was alive and well and where he was; told me he would come home and when. To my joy all of it came true. He is home now, came back like one from the dead. I also wish to say that this month I lost $250. I am a poor woman and I was almost insane. I went to Dr. Shea and he told me I would my money and to my intense joy I find it as he told me. I thank God there is a man so gifted in our midst, that can help people and tell them what to do. Mrs. Mary Miller. A SENSATION IN BROOKLYN-MINISTER'S STATEMENT I wish to state that one of my parishioners was sick and in trouble for a long time, Mrs. Brown, 37 Gay street. No one seemed to understand her case. She had several doctors but none of them seemed to know what was the matter. None could do her any good. It was my duty as her pastor to call and see her. Hearing of the wonderful work being done by Dr. Shea the last few years, I thought I would call and see him myself. I found him a sympathetic gentleman. He gave me a wonderful test of his powers, told me to send him a lock o. patient's hair, which I did by her daughter. He told at once what was the matter, and in a short time cured her sound and weil. Her family had seemingly been under a cloud. Now all is changed. All are well and prosperous. I can truly and heartily recommend Dr. Shea, to all those in sickness or distress of any kind. Kev. William Johnson, pastor Lebanon church, Brooklyn. Dr. Shea can show thousands such as the above. DR SHEA has been carefully educated in the Homeopathic and Electric Schools of Medicine. His success is wonderful in curing paralysis Rheumatism, Asikuma, Sore Eyes, Tumors, Cancers, Constipation, Ague, Oyspepsia, Tape Worms, Liver Complaints, Deafness, Catarrh, Dropsy, Piles, Nervous Debility, Heart Diseases, Consumption, Diseases of Women and Children, Fits, Kidney Disease, and strange mysterious diseases which others don't understand. All diseases, no matter what they be. Nothing but honorable treatment, He can and will honestly tell you if you can be cured. Has all new remedies and new success. Has an ample experience in public hospital and private clinics. No trifling with human life. Call at once. Do not delay. Diplomas hang in parlors. Is a registered physician. A new remedy to rheumatism just discovered, not a liniment. Hopeless cases and those that others can not cure solicited to call. Fat folks thin, the childless made parents. All letters must contain $1.00; two stamps, age, lock of hair. Charges for medical treatment only. Closed Sundays. Mention this paper. 651 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable. Communications strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any scientific journal. 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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 $1.00, mention the name of this paper, and you will get the goods at once. We ship all orders same day goods are received. 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Prof. Kelly Miller was rated for in the Board of Education for assistant superintendent of the public schools. Mrs. Clara Shields is in Philadelphia visiting Miss Willie Rutledge and her cousin, Miss Mary Shields, 22 Clifford street. Dr. C. C. Stewart, who has a fine office at 201$ E street, n. w., is one of the leading physicians and surgeons at the Capital. Mr. John T. Haskins, for several months connected with The Colored American, has returned to his home in in Petersburg, Va. A delegation of colored business men are preparing to go from here to the Boston Conference, called for next month by Booker T. Washington. Dr. Lucy E. Moten, the popular principal of the Normal School, is enjoying the breezes and invigorating waters at Saratogo Springs. N. Y. Mr. W. L. Hawkins, a typewriter and stenographer in the Census Office, leave August 1, for his home in Milwaukee, Wis., to spend a month's vacation. It is said that Prof. W. H. H. 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He has just passed an examination for teacher and received a very high per cent. He will teach school in the autumn. Mrs. J. W. Pope, who has been in the city since Christmas, has returned to her home at Richsquare, N. G., for the summer. During her stay in Washington Mrs. Pope has won many friends. Mrs. Pope was deeply interested in all matters of interests to the race and was an energetic worker in the Second Baptist Lyceum. Just before the close of the lyceum Mrs. Pope read a paper on race conditions which met with unanimous indorsement and established herself as a lady of high literary attainments. Go to Catletts Station. Persons who desire to spend a few days of the heated term out of the city will find no better place than Catletts, Va. Mrs. McGuire is well known to all Washingtonians and in addition to having a neat, cool country home, is an expert cook. There is plenty of shade and water and it is a delightful ride of only forty-eight miles from Washington. 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