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The COLORED American Library of Congress A NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER VOL. 8 NO. 19. AN ELCQUENT PLEA. Prof. William H. Councill Sizes Up the Great American Problem in a Most Telling and Practical Deliverance at Union Springs, Ala.—Complaint of the Negro Painted a Roseate Hue. Golden Opportunities Now Ripe. Prof. W. H. Councill, president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes at Normal delivered an able address on race conditions at Union Springs last week. Among other things Prof. Councill said: WRONG IDFAALS OF CIVIL RIGHTS. Our complaint of American prejudice is not manly. American prejudice plays an important part in Negro opportunity. Never before in the history of any people has prejudice had such high valuation. Instead of seeking admission into places of amusement, pleasure and instruction run by whites for white people, let the Negro open such places for his own accommodation and grow rich. Instead of knocking for admission into white circles, adorn, beautify, elevate, enlarge Negro circles and find scope for our broadest and most lofty ambition. Every hotel which refuses the Negro a meal, every soda fountain which declines to serve him are voices telling him to go and open these places and make himself rich. That Negro is unwise who goes around asking for such accommodations among whites when the denials is only friendly advice to open business for himself; place his own boys and girls in positions and build up his race by his patronage. I wish my race to find admissions wherever honest service is wanted, and we will take care of the fun and pleasure places. The Negro can grow only by being true to his own nature, in his own sphere. When he seeks to unrace himself, to run from his black skin, his flat nose, his thick lips and flat feet, then he will make himself despicable in the eyes of other races and deserve the curse of God. We cannot make a white man a Negro, nor can we make a Negro a white man. God has made the distinction and set the bounds of each. Each will grow strong and great only as he is true to his own nature. I honor the white man because he honors himself. The Southern white man, like the old Greek, maintairs his egotism everywhere. He is Southern in New York. He is Southern in London. He Southernizes all comers into the South. He is a strong character worthy of imitation in this regard. I honor him be- WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1900. J. C. PROF. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Prometer of the National Negro Business League, called to August 23rd and 24th. This convention has been indorse leaders of Negro sentiment as a most practical agent in the race problem. Delegates are being chosen from the many states and the League is an assured success. Mr never known the meaning of the word "Fail." The loyal by him through every undertaking. Prometer of the National Negro Business League, called to meet in Boston, August 23rd and 24th. This convention has been indorsed by the press and leaders of Negro sentiment as a most practical agent in the solution of the race problem. Delegates are being chosen from the solid citizenry of many states and the League is an assured success. Mr. Washington has never known the meaning of the word "Fail." The loyal Negro will stand by him through every undertaking. cause he places mother, and sisters, wife and daughters on a platform up among the stars; gets a thousand gatling guns, and decrees death to him who seeks to drag them down. I honor him because he throws his powerful arms around every little red headed, frechle faced poor white girl and boy in the land and makes the way possible for them to rise in this world. I honor him because he does not go around whining and begging to be hepled up, but by faith in his own muscles he cuts and carves out his own destiny. Let the Negro do likewise according to his own nature and in his own sphere, without prejudice to any, --- less League, called to meet in Boston, tion has been indorsed by the press and practical agent in the solution of the long chosen from the solid citizenry of assured success. Mr. Washington has said "Fail." The loyal Negro will stand with love for all mankind and he will succeed. NOT SOLUTION—BUT EVOLUTION. We must train the hand to strike for man. Teach the heart to bear an injury but never inflict one. All solutions of all human problems, are simply evolutions. As man evolves out of selfishness into deep and broad sympathy, out of ignorance into light, out of sect, out of party into boundless humanity, then will racial conflict be diminished. There can be no racial solution, but amelioration of condition. Each individual must do his best at the black (Continued on ninth page.) ```markdown ``` --- PRICE FIVE CENTS. A REVELATION IN SURGERY. Dr. A. M. Curtis Places on Record the First Instance Where the Same Patient Has Undergone a Second Time the Caeserian Operation—Interesting History of the Case. Dr. A. M. Curtis has scored another triumph for medical science. In so doing he has registered an equally significant victory for the race with which he is identified, and proven beyond cavil that the Negro physician who applies himself can measure arms with the flower of any race. The latest feat in surgery for which Dr. Curtis is receiving so much deserved commendation from the medical profession is a successful operation known as the 'Cæsarian section,' an obstetrical complication said to have originated with the birth of the imperial Caesar, described by Avon's bard as the "foremost man of all the world." The Caesarian section is a rare and dangerous operation under all circumstances, and Washington's first case was placed on record in the spring of 1897 when Dr. D. H. Williams performed the Caesarian section on a patient at Freedmen's Hospital and delivered a healthy girl which is now living. The present case is doubly remarkable from the fact that it is the second time the same woman has been operated upon for the same trouble, and the interest is all the greater because it is believed to be the first in the history of the healing art where a patient has successfully undergone such an ordeal twice and the child living in each instance. There can be no doubt that this particular case will establish an entirely new basis of surgical calculation, and be written in the annals as the most unique that American hospital experience has ever known. It has fallen to the lot of few physicians of Dr. Curula' comparatively youthful age to be able to contribute to the Esculapian science so much that is extraordinary, practical, instructive and therefore beneficial to human society. The history of the case in point merits a technical description, and will be of as much interest and profit to the thoughtful layman as to the professional school. On Wednesday night August 1, the patient, Nancy Hill, a colored woman was admitted to the obstetrical ward at Freedmen's Hospital. (Continued on fifth page.) Bruce Grit's Melange. ```markdown ``` 2 A gentleman from a Southern State called on me a short time ago and in the course of our conversation which was a most interesting one, he held his nose and mentioned the name of Tillman, the South Carolina blackguard, who disgraces that State in the U.S. Senate. He said, "Do you know that the forbears of this foul mouthed creature were indentured slaves who were sold for a few hundred pounds of tobacco and a keg of rum?" I assured him that this information was news to me but that I did not doubt its truth as Tillman's oral gymnastics and plantation manners betrayed his lowly origin and the absence of good blood. I had for a long time believed that there was a yellow streak in his anatomy, and I was not fully prepared to believe that its origin had been located. The indentured white slaves sent out from England in colonial days, were mostly of a class distinguished for their ignorance, stupidity, criminal tendencies and gross immoralities and England always breathed fever after dumping a cargo of these vermin on the virgin soil of America. Tillman's origin, accounts for his antipathy to the Negro. He probably has not forgotten that the Negro slaves who came later supplanted these indentured white slaves and hence like the wolf in Aesop's fable who ate the lamb because as he said, his father had muddied the spring. This human South Carolina wolf intends to blackguard and shoot Negroes as long as he can pull a trigger or wag his villainous tongue. There is some compensation in the thought however, that Tillman represents in his personality the residuum of all the viciousness, villainy, mendacity and criminality of his ignorant, immoral and depraved forbears who were the scullions and beasts of burden of the white gentlemen of the South, and that his class of white men have always been looked down upon with withering contempt and loathing by the aristocracy of that section. Tillman's treatment of the representative of the Plaindealer, who tried to interview him in Kansas City shows that nature never intended that he should ever reach the plane occupied by refined and cultured gentlemen. The old axioms that you cannot make a turkey out of a turkey buzzard, nor a silk purse out of a sow's ear, apply with telling effect to one eyed Ben Tillman. He's a moral and political degenerate. Max Nordau in his "Conventionalities of our Civilization" says and with great truth, "The college graduate thinks himself of too much account to descend into and be lost in the lowest class of society by voluntarily assuming the trade of a manual laborer;" and according to the ideas prevalent in society he is correct. He demands of the world that he be supported as a master, not support himself like a slave." But the world does not always honor this demand as many struggling Negro college graduates can testify who are living from hand to mouth hoping against hope for the coming of a better and a brighter day. Continuing Nordau says: "But the world has only a limited demand for the kind of work which the college bred man considers suitable for him. Hence THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. in the older civilized countries at least one-half of the graduates are condemned to spend their lives in hoping and envying, obtaining none of life's blessings, fighting hard for the small amount of daily bread they require and often going hungry standing beside the over-loaded, groaning table of the upper ten thousand, while suffering the pangs of semi-starvation." The picture is true to nature and those who want to see it in all its hideosity may do so if they will look about them. The sham and tinsel and humbug of Negro society with its false ideals and its pretensions and nonsense, its circles and sets, can be observed without the aid of a microscope. A little inspection and reflection will suggest to the observant and thoughtful Negro Shakespeare's famous lines that carry so much meaning, "What fools these mortals be." But the Negro is not the only fool in the aggregation. The poor whites—the strainer element, is tending in the same direction; society and starvation are almost synonymous terms, and for what good is all this show and ostentation and pretence and humbug? This aversion to manual labor, this crowding of wooden-headed youngsters into the professions where they either starve or form alliances with the cooks in families adjacent to their offices who provide them with delicacies after sundown. What on earth is Miss Kathryn born caroline going to do for a living after her maw is no longer able to take lodgers and do three or four small family wash's or her paw ceases to wield as dexteriously as of yore the white wash brush or the razor on account of old age and his rheumatics? Instead of making a woman out of Miss Kathryn they've made her a wall flower, a parlor ornament. She can neither cook, sew, wash or iron. But she can sing, bang coon songs out of a piano, discuss the latest novel and talk nonsense by the yard and hour. Maw foolishly believed when she was "educating dat gal'at she'd be a hummer arter she left skule—and shine in society like the evening stash on a dark night. But society as is society has more behind it and under it than a few common place accomplishments. The society which the Negro and the poor white pattern has wealth, blood, influence and some very eminent respectability back of it. The Negro and the poor white after counting back eighty or a hundred years or less can not find many, if any of these things to boast of, and hence the humbug of their pretensions is the more transparent and ridiculous. It is really nauseating to hear some of these little pinheaded dudes and dudines boast of their ancestry and blood. The Negro in America has no ancestry worth boasting of and the least said about it the better. The poor whites are in the same fix; they are of equally doubtful origin, and the more doubtful the origin the more persistent they are to break down the bar sinister and enter the charmed circle. The white catfish aristocracy of America and the black catfish aristocracy are making themselves ridiculous, trying to create for themselves a social pedigree which will rank with that, of those whose manners, language, habits, customs, dress, methods of living and thought they are as faithfully imitating as so many ring tailed monkeys. If Negro society would take off its store clothes and paste diamonds, break up its enchre clubs and get down to the business of improving the condition of the submerged half of black humanity in the alleys and back streets of our big cities, it would come nearer doing God's service. If the white catfish aristocracy would perform a like service among the lower strata of their own race throughout the country and quit their blamed nonsense in trying to follow after people, any six of whom could buy for cash the whole outfit of white catfish aristocrats, human happiness would take a turn for the better and crimes would be greatly diminished in the land. BRUCE GRIT. THAT TELLING EDITORIAL. The Colored American's Stand Commended Editor The Colored American:—We have been closely, quietly and unbiasedly reading, watching and studying the situation as regards this race question, or problem as you may call it, for quite a while, and we have long since decided that, so far as we as a race are concerned, it is the question of questions, and your editorial of July 28th, under the caption, "North Carolina's Pititable Plight," presents the whole subject to the civilized world, to say nothing of this highly enlightened and Christian nation, in language and spirit sufficiently clear, frank and respectful to warrant the opinion that humanity itself must now rise in our defence, or the nation disrepute itself before the world and invite speedy vengeance and scourge of Almighty God. That editorial is deserving of more than incidental or casual notice. There is nothing in our whole Congressional Record, as an argument in our defense, surpassing, if equaling it. Our press throughout the country should reproduce it again and again until the reading and thinking world shall come to realize the true conception and magnitude of the case. In reality, we have no race problem. It is a white man's problem after all, and must be settled by him upon the same principle and in the same spirit that the country accepted the great Webster-Hayne state rights debate in 1830, when Mr. Webster covered the whole ground, and settled the question until the outbreak of the civil war, in the following declaration, to wit: "But I do not admit that, under the Constitution, and in conformity with it there is any mode in which a state government, as a member of the Union, can interfere and stop the progress of the general government, by force of her own laws, under any circumstance whatever." The general government has long since examined and investigated and passed upon this Negro suffrage question; and the features which were advanced as the most objectionable at the time, are proving themselves satisfactory—leaving nothing to divide except the color of the skin, and the kink of the hair. In the face of all this will the nation disrepute herself? God forbid. L. H. BROWN, Pedagogue. Coney, Ga. Mrs. Paris Lyvers left last Saturday for New York, to join her sister Miss Dillingham, of St. Paul, Minnesota, both of them having been called to the bedside of their sister, Mrs. Wesley Stafford who is quite ill. Her daughter, Miss Mallie is rusticating in Leesburg, Va. She will remain until school opens. KELLY MILLER IS PRESIDENT. The Howard University Mathematician Succeeds to the Mantle so Nobly Worn by Prof. W. H. Richards-Other Officers and News Notes. The advisory board of Bethel Literary at its last meeting elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Prof. Kelly Miller, president; W. A. Joiner, first vice president; Mrs. Jennie Conner, second vice-president; Miss Ella Boston recording secretary; L. M. Hershaw, corresponding secretary; J. W, Cromwell, librarian! Miss Mattie R. Bowen, treasurer. The retiring president, Prof. W. R. Richards, proved a tower of strength to Bethel Literary during the past two years, and popular demand that he should serve a third term is but a faint idea of the high esteem in which he is held by the people of this city. The new head, Prof. Kelly Miller, needs no introduction or eulogy. He is well-known throughout the country as an educator, scholar and sociologist, and the patrons of Bethel Literary feel that the mantle of Richards has fallen upon proper shoulders. Mr. Laura A. Joiner read an interesting report, showing the receipts of the society to be $151 71 and expenditures $127 35 during the past year. Lawyer R. S. Smith was appointed chairman of the committee to print history of the society as compiled by Prof. J. W. Cromwell and Miss Maria L. Jordan. President Miller has begun preparing his program for the approaching literary season, which opens in October. LESSONS TO BE LEARNED. The Deteat of the Boers a Divine Consumation-Oppression a Precursor to Downfall of Oppressor. The rapid close of the South African war and the thorough defeat of the Boers show that no nation can hope to systematically and persistently heap obloquy and injustice on subject people without some day, distant though it be, having to pay the penalty for its misdeeds. "The mills of the gods grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small." As with individuals, so with nations, and wrong-doing generally brings about the undoing of those who perpetrate it. One of the first disagreements which arose between the Boers and English was over the question of slavery. The English wanted to abolish it. The Boers wanted to perpetuate it. From that time on the enmity grew until it culminated into the sanguine fray which Roberts and Kitchener are bringing to such a brilliant close. The Boers are not the only people who are maltreating a portion of their fellow citizens. And the object lesson which their war, as well as the Spanish-American war, short but decisive conflict, ought to be studied with a good deal of care by every one interested in real government by the people, of the people and for the people.—Detroit Republican. While the southern end of the democratic party is doing every thing in its power to disfranchise the Negro, the northern end smilingly asks for his ballot, says the Indianapolis Recorder. This simply goes to show that the Negro must trim his sails to catch the breeze as it flies, consulting locality and its prevailing sentiment in shaping his political action. Like unto the tariff, politics is a local question, and all decisions must be governed by common sense and the needs of the situation. IN THE LAND OF "BOBBY" BURNS. Mrs. Jesse Lawson's Hearty Reception at Edinburgh, Scotland-Abiltty and Character, Not Color, the Measure of Mankind-An Ideal Representative of Afro America-Speaks Elegantly on Temperance at a Leading Presbyterian Church. The Convention of the World's Women's Christian Temperance Union had a series of very successful meetings at Edinburgh last month. Mrs. Jeese Lawson, who attended as the representative of the W. C. T. U. of America, and who was presented by Lady Henry Somerset, had a most cordial reception from the Convention. Lady Henry Somerset, in a very neat and appreciative speech, expressed the pleasure she felt in welcoming, and presenting to the World's Women's Convention, one of her colored sisters from the U. S. A. MRS. ROSETTA E. LAWSON. Mrs. Lawson then delivered an admirable address, in the course of which she paid a well-deserved tribute to Edinburgh—the modern Athens—and to her hospitable people. She expressed gratitude to the World's Women's officers for having requested that as many colored delegates as possible be sent over here, as the Scotch took a warm interest in the colored races. The colored peoples of the U. S. A. had decided to send her over, flattered by the invitation, and glad to respond because they had not been ignored, as was the case in their own land. Mrs. Lawson spoke of the colored people of America as striving hard to contribute their own quota of service to the forces making for righteousness; spoke of the progress along all lines that had been made since their emancipation. In 1865, she said, probably not one in 10,000 could read or write. To-day, they had over 23,000 acting as teachers and professors in the great centers of learning in America, besides a large number taking post-graduate courses in foreign countries. Their interest in the temperance cause, she went on to say, was manifest by the presence of 3 representatives, whose expenses had been generously defrayed by the very colored people who had sent them over. Mrs. Jesse Lawson, while in Edinburgh, was taken by her host and hostess, the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Sutherland, round the places of historic interest. She was introduced to several influential citizens, among whom was Mr. David Lewis, ex-Magistrate. Mr. Lewis and his family were most gracious to her. The ex-Magistrate presented her with several most valuable books, all written by himself, and extended to her, besides, other courtesies. Mrs. Lawson has spent a few days at Paris, at London, at Liverpool; and there can be no doubt that she has enjoyed her trip to Europe. In Mrs. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. Jesse Lawson, the colored people of America have a most worthy representative; and long may she live to place her great abilities at their disposal. Edinburgh. M. D. R MRS. JESSE LAWSON AT LEITH PRES BYTERIAN CHURCH The Rev. Mr. Sutherland, of Leith Presbyterian church, after delivering a spirited sermon on Sunday morning the 24th June, permitted Mrs. Jesse Lawson, of Washington, D. C., to address his congregation. The speaker, in the course of her remarks, said that as she reviewed the lessons learned through Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, and other famous delineators of the physical aspects of Scotland, its high moral tone, and the sterling qualities of the people, she realized how faintly she had been able to appreciate the greatness and grandeur of the noble Scotch. Who could live in this city of lofty church spires, vieing with each other for a kiss of the heavens, this city of imposing castles, renowned universities, and lofty mountains, and not be led to exclaim irresistibly, "I will lift up my eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from God who made the heavens and the earth?" Verily, God hath placed the Scotch amid physical surroundings which made it easy for them to lead aspiring youth to look through nature, up to nature's God. The speaker paid a generous tribute to the hospitality of the Scotch, for which, like the Arabs, they are so noted. She referred to the invariable kindness she had met with at their hands. She then proceeded to trace the progress of alcoholic drinks in various countries, drinks which have caused so much physical and moral harm; and to describe the splendid work done by the W. C. T. U. of America, in rescuing the fallen, in sheltering the homeless, in taking care of the infirm. She denounced the iniquitous saloon interest, which so greatly impeded the progress of Christian missionaries in remote lands. The heathen nations, she pointed out, had pleaded to be let alone, rather preferring to cling to their heathen gods than to adopt a religion followed, as ours so often is, by this great destroyer of the bodies and souls of men. The missionary was terribly hampered in his efforts to spread the gospel, and the W. C. T. U. had for about a quarter of a century been sending its workers around the globe as teachers of the principles for which it stood. 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The officers are as fol- The famous Amphion Glee Club will have their Tenth Annual Outing at Notley Hall, next Wednesday August 15. The date is well selected. The River Queen will make three trips: 9:30 a.m., 2:00 p.m., and 6:00 p.m. Round trip 25 cents. Children under 12 years 15 cents each. The outings by this organization are exceptional in that the best of order is always observed. You always meet some one whom you desire to see. Everyone knows each other. On the last boat the club will render some of their most excellent music which has made them famous. Their recent entertainment of President McKinley and Cabinet at the Country Club which is the fourth time in their history, and the first occasion that a similar organization has had that honor, has added very much to their great popularity. To hear them is worth double the fair charged. In fact "One day with them is worth a --- --- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. 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It is 27 feet by 56 feet, which is one of the largest stores controlled by colored people. It is lighted by electric lights and is stocked with dry goods, clothing, groceries, shoes, notions, stationary, etc. Glass, tin, China and earthernware. Mr. Charles A. Butler is owner and proprietor. Metropolitan A. M. E. church is drawing large Sunday morning audiences now, and the services are quite interesting. The pastor, Rev. J. Albert Johnson, is out of the city. MERE MENTION. Asbury M. E church has just concluded a very successful lawn fete. Miss Hattie Betts is spending the heated term at Lara, Va. She will return in September. Miss Jennette Harvey of 623 L street, n. w. has gone to Atlantic City where she will spend the summer. Mrs. Gertrude Merritt Payne and her interesting little family are pleasantly located at Cambridge, Md. Several very prominent school teachers are said to have missed the guillotine by a dangerously narrow margin. It is pleasant news that Mr. W. F. McKinney has consented to remain as superintendent of the Second Baptist Sunday school. Rev. O M. Waller, rector of St. Luke's P. E. church is enjoying a month's vacation with his friends at his cottage in Sea Isle, N. J. Miss Mildred and her sister Anna S. Payne of 1328 New Hampshire Ave. left last Tuesday for Westmoreland, Va. to be gore until September 15. kt. Luke's fete champetre at Lake View Park, September 7 will surpass all previous efforts in the line of amusements. It will be largely attended. Protests are again going up against the location of the colored manual training school. Nevertheless and notwithstanding, the school will go up. Miss Mabelle Carter has gone over to Baltimore to spend her vacation with her brother. Mr. Charles A. Reeder of the Executive Mansion will join her the last of the week. Monday evening's meeting of the District Afro-American Council was an enthusiastic affair. President George H. White made a most eloquent and practical address on the needs of the hour. The Second Baptist church will run an excursion to Richmond, Va., Sept. 15 to give Washington's 20,000 Baptists an opportunity to attend the annual session of the National Baptist Convention. Col. J. M. Ryan of the Southern Hotel still stands at the head of the list of successful fishermen in these diggings. His last trip up the Potomac netted him seven fine bass, ranging in weight from two to four pounds. Miss Minnie Crutchfield, who has been teaching with signal success for several terms at Unison, Va., has decided not to return this year but will remain in the city and conduct the prosperous dressmaking business that her skill and fidelity have built up. Miss Crutchfield is one of our most earnest and useful young ladies. Mr. H. P. Slaughter is making an enviable record as superintendent of St. Luke's P. E. Sunday school. He is one of the few young men whose advent in Washington has not caused him to become forgetful of the duty an individual of talent owes to the promotion of the Master's work. Mr. Slaughter is happily using his intellect and energy for the public weal. The funeral of William A. Robinson, the son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Robinson, of 1441 Madison street, was held at the Metropolitan Baptist church of which the deceased was a member, on Sunday last. He was a young man full of life and vigor and very active in church work. The services were conducted by Rev. Robert Johnson, pastor of the church and a very large number attended the services. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson have the sympathy of their many friends. 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: August. "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, Israel C. M. E. Church to Lower Cedar Point. 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. 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So urgent were the conditions, the surgeon could not wait till morning for the delicate task, and preparations were begun at once for the difficult and dangerous procedure. A. DR. A. M. CURTIS. At midnight Wednesday night, under the glare of the Welsbach lights, and in the presence of a score of physicians who had been invited to be present, Dr. Curtis, assisted by the house staff, in seven minutes banded a 9 lbs. baby to an assistant—the peediest performance of the kind on record. In spite of the unusual draft upon his nervous energy, and the terrible responsibility thrust upon him at a moment's notice, Dr. Curtis never betrayed the least sign of excitement and was actually the coolest man on the premises—showing the attributes of the true physician—a ready head and a ready hand in the most trying emergency. The operation performed upon Nancy Hill is described as a modification of the original Caesarian section, known by the scientific term of Porro-Caesarian section. This operation is one that precludes the possibility of maternity again, so far as Nancy Hill is concerned, her service as a professional storm center is a closed incident. The child weighed nine pounds and was twenty inches long, almost half the length of its mother. The diameter of the head from front to back is four inches; diameter from chin to top of head five inches, from ear to ear three and three-quarter inches, circumference of head fifteen inches, and circumference of shoulders fourteen and three quarter inches. The child is well-proportioned. The mother and child are doing nicely. The child seems THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. E. healthy and the doctor believes that it will live, and grow as healthfully as did the one that was similarly delivered three years ago. This is the fourth Caesarian operation performed at Freedmen's Hospital, but the opportunity of carrying the same subject through twice is such a signal triumph that all the week Dr. Curtis has been the recipient of congratulations the country over, at the hands of the most notable citizens, both in the medical profession and out. The skillful young doctor reaches the end of the 19th century as the lion of the times. Dr. Austin M. Curtis is too well known to require extended personal comment. He is a national figure, and has won his way to the front by merit and hard well directed work. He is a native of North Carolina, but is a product of the medical universities of Chicago, where he was located previous to his appointment as surgeon-in-chief at Freedmen's Hospital in the spring of 1897. He is the first surgeon-in-chief to come in under the civil service regulations, and his success was gained by leading all competitors in a most rigid examination. His administration of the affairs of the Freedmen's Hospital has been clean, energetic and efficient, and through careful attention to detail and quickness to grasp and adopt the very latest improvements known to medicine and surgery, he has inaugurated reforms that have placed his institution in the front rank of American hospitals. Dr. Curtis is general and sunny in disposition, gracious in manner and easy of approach by the humblest. He has kept free from all embarrassing entanglements and all will agree that Freedmen's never had a more popular chief. In all his endeavors Dr. Curtis has the good fortune to be ably and cheerfully supported by a charming and devoted wife, whose labors for the uplifting of her race and sex have been scarcely less conspicuous and successful than that of her talented husband. The Colored American says God speed to them both. R. W. T. Education the Solvent. Principal Booker T. Washington of the Tuskegee Institute contributes two papers to representative magazines of the country for the current month, August, at their special solicitation. He writes of the recent Montgomery Race Conference for the Century Magazine, and for the North American Review, in reply to Prof. John Roach Stratton's pessimistic article regarding the Negro in the June number of that publication. Mr. Washington declares his conviction that education will be the solvent for the vexing problems of the South so far as they relate to the Negro. Always an admirable writer, moderate and courteous, with a readiness to discuss every phase of the future of the race that shows nothing has escaped his observation or failed to receive his deepest thought, Mr. Washington in this North American Review article shows himself at his best. He is not over-optimistic, but he has a faith based upon facts and logic. 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 which is a wide sheet of water giving ing or fishing. 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 TERBACE. 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 airy with all modern conveniences. The Hotel is three stories high, 35 feet front and is surrounded with a beautiful lawn and wide gravel walks. For terms, address MRS. CHAS, SMITH, Snow Hill, N.J. from Camden. 25 trains stop at Lawn tristly first class. The Bed Rooms are nuces. The Hotel is three stories high, beautiful lawn and wide gravel walks. TH, Snow Hill, N.J. is on the Whitehorse Pike, seven miles from Camden. 25 trains stop at Lawn side daily. The service at the Hotel is strictly first class. The Bed Rooms are large and airy with all modern conveniences. The Hotel is three stories high, 35 feet front and is surrounded with a beautiful lawn and wide gravel walks. For tours, address MRS CHAR SMITH Snow Hill, N. J. THE ELITE-6:48. 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. CATLETTS, VA.—Summer Boarders: Parties desiring first class accommodations for the summer season will flid 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 ¼ mile above the village. B ard furnished for $12.00 per month, $4.00 per week, or 75 cents per day. Healthy climate, excellent board and comfortable rooms. Apply with stamp to Mrs. Kate McGuire. Catletts, Fauquier Co., Va. 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 terms 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. 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. 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Mr. Robert Evans, the enterprising and popular boniface, corner 18th and L streets, contemplates making many improvements in his already well established place. Mr. Evans does an immense business and can count his colored friends and patrons by the hundreds. For the best of ac commodations visit his place. The sad death of Mr. George R. Spaulding removed from us one of the most promising young men that Washington has yet seen. He had just been promoted to a clerkship at the Census Office when death seized him. Mr. Spaulding was a nephew of Congressman George H. White, and it had been planned that he was to eventually become the law partner of his distingished relative. SUMMER RESORTS. ATLANTIC CITY. FITZGERALD'S AUDITORIUM. Open all the year. Suitable for conventions receptions, ballo, 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. M. J. THE NEW HOUSE 31 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. Debtly, proprietress. THE HUB HOTEL CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. J. C. SMALLWOOD, 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. HARRIS' 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. Henderson and Murray, prop's. 5 Lawnside. N.J. ALEXANDRIA, VA. CATLETIS, VA. CAMBRIDGE, MD. WANTED HELP. RIPANS 6 LOGATING THE RESPONSIBILITY. Prof. Robert H. Terrell, Washington High School's Brainy Principal Places the Blame for Southern Outrages Upon The Shoulders of Those Who Make the Sentiment of the Reaction Region—Tribute to the Negro Soldier. Geneva, N. Y., Times. Prof. R. H. Terrell of Washington in his address yesterday afternoon at the Smith Opera House made some timely remarks as to the treatment of the Negro in the South and the laws which have been enacted in opposition to the race. He said in this connection: "Proscription against him in the trades everywhere; dishonest disfranchisement laws humiliating and insulting separate car statutes; all are conceived adopted and executed for the purpose of degrading the Negro, crushing out his ambition and wounding his self-respect. These laws are not made for the idle, vicious, unkempt J. and unclean Negro, for he has always been held in subjection and under the control of white men; but they are made to insult and humiliate the colored men and women who have aspirations for the higher and better things of life. They grow out of the hatred of the people who enact them for those at whom they are aimed. "When Stephen Foster was addressing a meeting of abolitionists near Philadelphia in the olden days, some one threw a stone at him. The chairman of the meeting arose and asked who did it. Stephen Foster himself quickly replied he knew And then pointing his finger at different men, said, 'You did it, you did, because you are responsible for the sentiment of the place in which you live.' "So it is in the south today. All of its leading citizens are responsible for the inhuman outrages upon black men that are perpetrated from day to day. Shall any man expect me to believe that the descendants of the Marione, the Sumters, the Pinckneys, the Calhouns are not responsible for the conditions that prevail in South Carolina or that the foremost men of New Orleans are not accountable for the spirit of the mob that terrorized that city a few days ago, killing innocent black men and women because one of their number had resisted arrest on suspicion by shooting two officers. "The best citizens themselves have used mobs at the ballot boxes for so many years that they are now beyond their control. I do not believe a condition so hard as that of the black man in the South can last forever. Some day the relief will come, because the humane world will no longer tolerate it and it will go as slavery went. Garrison, Phillips, Douglass, Gerritt Smith and Charles Sumner are no more THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. but there will spring up other champions of justice, who will not tolerate this great iniquity and the thing will be hit hard upon the head." The topic of Prof. Terrell's main address was "The Colored Soldier in Wars of America." It was a comprehensive and scholarly effort in which he told in great detail the story of the colored soldiers in America, from the death of Crispus Attucks in the "Boston Massacre" March 5, 1770, down to their crowning glory in the terrible charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish war. He told of their achievements in the Revolution, how they took a prominent part in the battle of Bunker Hill and numberless other engagements; how, after the war ended, they returned to peaceful pursuits, how they responded to the call for men in the war of 1812 in the Mexican war and most largely in the Civil war. He sketched their record as soldiers of the regular army in the Indian wars and how they capped it all by heoric deeds two short years ago. Prof. Terrell is principal of the Colored High School at Washington, the largest colored school in the country, having 30 regular and 10 special teachers and 800 pupils. He is a graduate of Harvard and was the first colored man to graduate from that institution with honors. He served four years as chief of the division of the auditor's office of the United States Treasury. THROUGH THE NATURAL LAW. Mr. Washington Talks Wisely Upon the Foundation of Citizenshih, and Avers that the Negro Must Pay the Price Demanded by Progress. Happy as Booker T. Washington's utterances invariably are it seems that he has never before condensed so much truth in a single paragraph as is found in this excerpt from his Bethel Literary address. It states our case in a nut shell and is a splendid sample leaf from that philosophy he so capably teaches at Tuskegee. Says Mr. Washington: "The foundation of citizenship rests upon the intrinsic worth of each individual or group of individuals. No law can push the individual forward when he is worthless; no law can hold him back when he is worthy. The worthy may be inconveniented, but never defeated. The time will come when the colored man will secure all the recognition his merits entitle him to as a man and as a citizen, but such recognition will come through no process of artificial forcing, but through the natural law of evolution. In a word, we have got to pay the price for everything we get, the price that every civilized race or nation has paid for its position, that of beginning gradually, naturally at the bottom and working up toward the highest civilization." Missee Ellen Brooks and Mazie Green left the city this week to spend a few week in La Plate, Md., Miss May Belcher, a popular young school teacher of Augusta, Ga. who has been attending the Hampton Summer Conference arrived in the city Tuesday. She will remain here several weeks with her aunt on 4th street. n.w Miss Bertha Hill, promising young niece of Mrs. Beverley Robinson of 2111 11th street, accompanied by her cousin Mr. Walter B. Robinson of the War Department, left on August 1 to visit her mother, Mrs. Emily Hill of Charles county, Maryland. AT THE TOP! A. H. COOPER MERCHANT TAILOR BECAUSE: His fits are And Quality His work A line of Special rates to Hotel A 493 Mo. OPPOSITE PENN. STA FREE BLOOD CURE. An Offer Proving Faith to Suf ferers. 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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. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays Dressmakers and ladies who wish to de 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. Summer course begins June 15th. A "WEST POINT" OF OUR OWN. Mr. J. C. Cunningham Suggests a Feasible Place for Utilizing the Military Genius of Lieut. Henry O. Flipper-How to Break Down the Excuse of Negro Inexperience When Army Commissions are Available. Editor The Colored American: -So much has been said about the re instatement of Lieutenant Flipper until his name has become a household word with all race race loving Afro Americans. But why should the leading men of our race continue to remain on their knees, begging President McKinley and Congress to re instate Lieutenant Flipper when it seem to be a part of their "plain duty" to ignore the wishes of all Negroes? It was the color of Lieutenant Flipper's skin that played the greater part in getting him out and the color of his skin only is going to keep him out. Being out of the army Lieut. Flipper is in a position to do the race much good. Would not be a good move if the leaders of the race would get together and form some plan to use Lieutenant Flipper? He knows much that the young men of the colored race should know; and he should be employed to teach them. Why not add to one of our colleges—say Livingstone or Wilberforce—a military school to train our young men in the science of war? The doors of West Point are closed against the young men of our race, and the thing for the Negro to do is to start a West Point of his own and put Lieutenant Flipper in charge of it. Lieutenant Flipper is a graduate, I am informed, of West Point, and is fully capable of managing a school of this kind. During the war with Spain a number of colored men applied for positions as colonels, captains, lieutenants, etc., but the Administration had the proud excuse of turning them down on the ground that they hadn't the proper training to lead men against the enemy. That was all true enough, but how can the colored men, who are just as true to "Old Glory" as the white men, ever be capable of leading troops against the enemy when the Government, through prejudice, has closed the doors of its military schools against them? Not only should the Negro feel proud of starting a West Point for the Negro, but such a step should meet the approval of every true American and have the liberal support of the general government. We love to join with the white man in singing: "My country,'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty,'" etc. And to show that we mean no fallacy in singing that sweet old song, we want to help defend the stars and stripes. We defended her even when we, ourselves, were bound in fetters and chains. Now let us start a military school so that while the West Point schools at New York and Annapolis, Md., are sending out their Goliaths of war, the Afro-American West Point will be able to send out her little Davids to meet them. See? Thousands would take advantage of such a school. Start the ball, editors of the colored journale and don't let it stop until Lieutenant Flipper will be so busy training the colored youth that he will not have time to serve Uncle Sam, even should he be sent for in a hurry. JOSPH C. CUNNINGRAM. Washington, D. C. Mr. J. W. Cusberd, of New York city, a former resident of Washington is in the city visiting relatives and friends. Miss Vivian Thompson Bids Farewell to Little Friends. Miss Vivian Lucilla Thompson, of 333 Spruce street, Le Droit Park, gave a "farewell party" to a housefull of her little companions and playmates last Monday, between the hours of 5 and 8 p.m., under the supervision of her father and grandmother, Mr. R. W. Thomson and Mrs. Eliza Gibbs. The time was most enjoyably spent in lively games, marching, dancing, cake-walking, the music being furnished by a graphophone Dainty refreshments were served under the direction of Mrs. Cora Ridley. The first prize in the cakewalking contest was won by Miss Vivian Thompson and Master James Kinloch. The second was carried off by Miss Vivian Williams and Master Austin Toomey, amid much laughter and applause. The young folks present besides the little hostess were Misses Phyllis Church Terrell, Vivian Williams, Grace Lyles, Viola Menard, Baby Menard, Claudine Brandon, Essie Champ, Mary Brent, Magenta Lyles, Olivia Lyles, Baby Robinson, Masters Willis Menard, James Kinloch, Austin Toomey, Willie Belcher, Richard Toomey, Willie Davis, Roscoe Robinson, Harry Toomey, and others. Among the adults who "dropped in" to enjoy the festivities with the children and to assist them with their games were Prof. and Mrs. R. H. Terrell, Lieut. and Mrs. R. E. Toomey, Mrs. J. Willis Menard, Misses Mary Menard, Ida Washington and Norma Ridley, Mrs. Martell, mother of Mrs. Terrell, Miss Lula A. Hamer, Dr. A. M. Curtis, W. L. Hawkins, and J. C. Campbell. Miss Vivian Thompson and her grandmother Mrs. Gibbs, are now at their old home in Indianapolis, Ind., for permanent residence. You Get a Copy of it and See it for Yourself for 25 Cents. Mr. Editor please gave me space in your paper to notify the people that the book I have written will be ready for shipping to those who have sent for them now in about 5 or 10 days and I ask every person who has sent for the book to be ready for to take prompt action, for the book is calculated to employ over one hundred (100,000) thousand wide-awake men and women who are to help to gather under the leadership of 3,675 high standard leaders, a cash backing of ($100,000,000) one hundred millions of dollars for the good of the Negro race of America. I also notify all men that no plan can be offered to the Negro race that will answer for the purpose or equal the plan I am now about to send out in this book, and they who get the book will have a private advantage over all other men and women of the Negro race, which will be worth a fortune to them who accept it, for it will give them power to become the first with the leaders in a plan by which a complete fortune and victory for the race is to be gained by them, and as the book only cost 25 cents, it seems to me that all sensible people ought to be glad to send and get a copy of it at once, at 712 N. 2nd street, Richmond, Va. in order that all may have equal showing in getting in the lead. I am, JUSTUS J. EVANS, Author. SHOWING UP SELFISH EDITORS. N. B.: Mr. Editor-I wonder why the other Negro Editors will not copy and republish the notices I put in your paper which all of the people ought to know about? They have the people paying them for their papers in order to get the news: why don't they let the people know that there is a Negro in the race who is offering to show them a way out? I want all men, and the very devil himself, and all his angels, to know that I am fully able to lead the Negro race to victory; the How, is in the 25 cents book I have written to the Negro Preachers. I am, JUSTUS J. EVANS. 712 N. 21d St., Richmond, Va. A new pleasure park for colored people at Mobile, Ala, has been christ ened "Ramona Park" and is now opened for the public. It is beautifully situated on the Bay and the pavilion is undoubtedly all that could be desired. The location is an ideal one. SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. AGENTS WANTED. Enclose 2c stamp for reply, and we will send particulars telling how you can make from $75 to $150 per month, and also be presented with a fine Gold Watch. Address. SCOTT REMEDY CO., Box 570, Louisville, KY. WANTED ROOMS. 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He has an array of ever so many standards of Wines and Whiskies stored in his cellars and warehouse. Remember the Number 009. Nobranch houses --- The Colored American Published by THE COLORED AMERICAN Publ ishing Company. A NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER Pub ished every Saturday at 459 C St. N. W Washington, D. C. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year - - $2.00 Six months - - 1.10 Three months - - .60 INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. Subscriptions may be sent by postoffice money order, express or by registered letter. All communications for publication should be accompanied with the name of the writer—not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. We solicit news, contributions, opinions and in fact, all matters affecting the race. We will not pay for matter, however, unless it is ordered by us. All matter intended for publication must reach this office by Wednesday of each week to insure insertion in the current issue. Agents are wanted everywhere. Send or instructions. ADVERTISING BATES. Reading notices 50 cents per line, Display advertisements, $2 per square inches per insertion. Discounts made on large certificates. Entered at the Post-office as second-class matter. All letters, communications, and business matters should be addressed to THE COLORED AMERICAN, EDWARD E. COOPER, MANAGER 459 C Street Northwest. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1900. OUR WEEKLY TEXT. "So when they continued asking Him. he lifted up Himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone." --St. John viii: 7. A WORD FOR PROF. ROBERT H. TERRELL The ovation which Prof. Robert H. Terrell received last week at Geneva, New York, calls attention anew to the splendid abilities of the popular principal of Washington's Colored High School. We do not have to learn of his merits from abroad. We know him here at home and love him for the career he has led for the noble example he has set for the youth of our land. Still we are glad when he goes out among strangers to learn from such admirable reports as we present to day from New York, that he more than meets the highest expectations of cultured and distinguished audiences, of any race. In sustaining himself so creditably at Geneva's emancipation celebration Prof. Terrell sustained the dignity and reputation of every Afro-American in the nation's capital. Although Prof. Terrell was not named for the headship of the colored District schools as many of his admirers fondly hoped he would be, that accomplished educator remains as principal of the Washington High School. Mr. Terrell is a graduate of Harvard, a man of parts, and whether in the educational or political arena, carries into his work the leavening influences of broad scholarship, irreproachable character and shrewd executive ability. This has been amply demonstrated in his administration of a responsible post in the Treasury department, at the bar, in the business world, in the fraternities, and in the school room. Mr. Terrell has not only advanced himself, unselfish to the last degree, but he has helped many promising young men, conspicuous among them such successes as Roscoe Conkling Bruce, Napoleon B. Marshall, W. L. Pollard, A. O. Stafford—besides many others of equal note. Such a man as Robert --- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. H. Terrell is a benefit to any community, and Washington has a right to congratulate itself upon having at its command a factor at once so active, so willing and so capable to serve her interests and whose disposition is so sunny that it spreads cheer wherever he goes. The Colored American makes no idle prediction when it says that should the office of the assistant superintendent become vacant for any reason, the mantle would fall upon Mr. Terrell's shoulders. Logically, he is next in line of promotion. Mr. Fortune talks like a man who does not propose to have his real position misunderstood. He is for McKinley and Roosevelt because they are abler, wiser, more honest and more patriotic—and are for us. Mr. Fortune's place on the band wagon is close to the driver. TW0 DECADES OF THE TRUE REFORMERS Grand Secretary W. P. Burrell has made public a comprehensive review of the twenty years' work of the Grand United Orders of True Reformers, now the largest and most substantial business and beneficial organization in the world, conducted by Negroes. The showing is a magnificent one, and no Afro-American can study it without feeling an increased pride in the financial capacity of his people. The story is interestingly told by Mr. Burrell, and flattering as the results appear the picture is not in the least overdrawn. The Secretary carefully traces the progress of the True Reformers from that eventful 20th of December, 1880, when William W. Browne landed in Richmond, Va., with the plans of a grand organization in his pocket and and his brain together. The review deals largely with the labors of the present administration, and the actual figures displayed, are a higher compliment to the managerial qualities of Grand Master Taylor than columns of the most florid rhetoric could set forth. The record shows that in three years, Dr. Taylor has added to the rolls 28,365 persons. September 1st, 1897, the total benefited membership in all the departments was 25,683, so that the additions for the last three years are 2,682, members more than the whole benefited membership for the previous 17 years. The total benefited membership to date is 43,157 which shows a net increase in the membership, after allowing for all deaths and lapses, of 68 per cent in three years, or 17,474 members. The increase in deposits and paid up stock has been of similarly large proportions. Those dyspeptics of our own race who make a specialty of decrying the business acumen of the Negro, and those of other races who decry our standing in the financial world do well to pause and recast their judgment upon lines more in keeping with the revelations here so clearly marked out The Colored American never tires of congratulating the True Reformers upon their phenomenal success. They are doing yeoman service in strength ening the race's "business pillar" of which we spoke, the other day. Quietly, soberly and solidly, the True Reformers are building a handsome superstructure upon the foundation of honesty, industry and integrity so deeply laid by our fathers. Rev. W. W. Taylor and his able executive staff are leaders indeed and they have a following worthy of their highest and purest endeavors. We trust that the next twenty years will bring blessings of a like degree. When the mobocrats learn that the police intend to preserve law and order at any cost and when Negroes are made to understand that justice can be had in the courts for black and white alike, the breed of Robt. Charles will have no incentive for increase. Two races share the odium of the New Orleans riot. The remedy lies not in violence on the part of either. NOT PARTIAL TO A "GALLERY" SEAT. The democratic party, under the leadership of a clean, aggressive and resourceful leader like William Jennings Bryan, will bear watching. The democratic party is in many senses an inconglomerate. disorganized mob, and piles up mistake on top of mistake when intrusted with the reins of administration, but it fights like six tigers when out of power. It is prepared to resort to any tactics to win. It will even cajole the Negro vote in the north, while clubbing it in the south. It can be all things unto all men when necessity requires it. The democratic party is never too proud to stoop to conquer. Such a foe is not to be whistled down the wind, even when you have right on your side. The Colored American warns the republican party that some solid work had better be done early among the Negroes in New York and the middle west. Over-confidence in the black vote being all right, may breed disaster. If the republicans show themselves indifferent to the Negro's support, the Negro may get an attack of a similar feeling. The Negro isn't partial to a "gallery seat in a party where he once occupied a "box." Once again we ask, 'What will the harvest be? Do your duty where you are, however humble your station. To the unthinking, success is right. To the well-balanced and philosophical, right is success. Our experience in China bids fair to throw several buckets of cold water upon the force in the missionary business. If hades is really a movable place as some assert, it hovered about North Carolina this week, veering slightly from New Orleans. The New Orleans race riot may not be without its lesson. There are some incidents connected with it that will not be seen forgotten. Will the Cleveland Gazette be courteous enough to inform a more or less anxious public just what and whom it is supporting. The ridiculous attempt of the Chicago Conservator faction to array the Council against Mr. Washington's business men's convention has failed. The fusionists of Kansas nominated Col. James Beck as a presidential elector at the Fort Scott convention a few days ago. It is not difficult for the Negro to secure a place in the columns of a forlorn hope. Why not send a few able bodied missionaries to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ into North Carolina? Such a movement would be nearer in line with common sense, and yield better results than does our assault upon the doctrines of Mohammed, Budha and Confuscius. Negro men and women who have the interests of the race at heart should deport themselves decently and orderly on the street cars, in the parks, on the streets and all the other places where bad conduct may interfere with the comfort of their neighbors. Being under suspicion anyway, and bearing a questionable reputation, it behooves us to avoid even the appearance of evil. It does not stand us well in hand to give an enemy a club with which he may beat our brains out. The Negro question as it relates to the Negro, bids fair to figure in politics this year. Whether justly or injustly, it is pointed out that nine tenths of the factories are controlled by republican capital, the beneficiaries of the protective tariff. Why can they not strain a point to deal honorably by Negro labor when the Negro is so essential to the success of the party whose legislation makes their great profits possible? If the objection rests with the labor unions, are the capitalists prepared to admit that they can control the votes of their employees on election day, yet find themselves pow erless to hire whom they choose to perform their work for them? The play is too thin. If the Negro is wise, he will secure from the capitalists some of the benefits of the tariff and sound money that his suffrage preserves to the rich man's advantage. The Negro has as much right to make his labor an issue as the white man has. The Travelling Humbug Columbus, O., Special-Along our line of travel we come across what might be termed three cent traveling editors, they pose as editors, correspondents, agents, etc., They tickle the ears of innocent people by circulation etc., of their paper, collect photo and cuts of a few of the people and a history of their life with a dollar for a year's subscription, and are gone that is the last you see of the editor, dollar, photo etc. We have no objection to their operation, except as it makes it so very hard for an agent of a first class colored newspaper to make a sale, because as soon as a person sees you coming toward them with your papers they begin to cry out no, no, I want to see no Negro papers, of course the cause is apparent. Political speeches are being made in wigwams, tents and huts preliminary to the battle just ahead. Lawyer E. J. Wazring is acting police judge this week. Rev. D. N. Ross is a member of the campaign advisory board. Mr. William Young, formerly steward to the Atheneaum Club, Baltimore, Md. is in the city. Mr. Young will engage in his profession in Pittsburg, Pa. Some of our white weekly papers here have a column or two every week devoted to the doings of colored people, it is no trouble to discover the object. The Simpson, Brown and Cathoun concert was a success. A union of the Baptists and Methodists young people's societies was a rare feature in Columbus, but a manifestation of goodness was and is seen. The oratorical contest to be given by the John M. Brown Literary is promised to be a grand affair. Columbus affords a very small amount of work for the Negro. Hon. George H. White and Prof. Jesse Lawson were elected delegates, and Mr. A. L. Manly and Dr. Lucy E. Moten alternates to represent the District Council No.1 at the Indianapolis convention. 1 AN ELOOUENT PLEA. (Continued from first page.) board of life, write plus, then go and "take his place in the silent halls of death." No three hundred years of human history have presented such wonderful evolutions as the three hundred years of Negro American history. Four millions of industrious Christians were evolved in the south from four million savages. From four millions of penniless Negroes have evolved in forty years ten millions of citizens worth a billion dollars right in the land of their bondage. From eight million white slaveholders have evolved fifteen million white tax payers who support churches and schools for their former slaves. Thus while all the outside world discusses solution, the glorious old South goes on from one triumph to another in the process of evolution in thought and industry. This is our work in life. These are the needs which we must scatter along the wayside of life until the law of love shall reign supreme in all the land, and gentle peace shall come to abide forever in the Negro's cabin, in the white man's mansion C. PROF. W. H. COUNCILL. SOCIAL SEPARATION—BUT JUSTICE. Can the strong Anglo Saxon afford to be otherwise than just with the weak Negro in his midst? Treat the Negro fairly in the courts, in the common business transactions of life, in the labor markets of the south. I stand here, having affiliated for twenty five years with the best white south in all that it considered its best welfare in politics and otqerwise, and now with all the earnestness of my soul, appeal for better treatment of the nurses, cooks and black mammies on the common carriers of the south. Separate the races in everything that looks like social intermingling, but in God's name treat us fairly. Do not subject us to treatment and to accommodation unworthy the gallantry and chivalry of the south. If the Negro girl is to be the servant girl of the south, then the white south is interested in making her refined and fill her with that tenderness, dignity, and virtue necessary for domestics in the best southern homes. Gentlemen, is there anything in the treatment of Negro women on the carriers, and at the railroad stations to fit them for service in good homes? You do not only run from social contact with the Negro, but you flee from the rough and riotous element of your own race. Help us to separate, as far as you can, from the unworthy of our own race. The best blood of the south does not know that nurse so well beloved by their sunny haired children, that cook praised by the whole family, that "Black Mammy," the glory of many a southern heart, are piled in "Jim Crow" car with dogs, convicts, train tools, roughs their cars, eyes and noses insulted in a most ungodly manner, and forced with low men in the same dirty closets of waiting stations. As the white south honors its noble womanhood and precious childhood, it must throw around its servant class, everywhere, environments of integrity and refinement. BRAWLS AND BAD CONDUCT. We waste too much time, energy and money in quarrels and law suits, and then blame the white man for sending us by the thousands to the chaiangangs, jails, coal mines and penitentaries. Nine cases in ten we are prosecutor and witness. Let us get property, pay taxes and thus employ policemen and sheriffs to do our fighting, while we attend our legitimate business. No kinds of words justify blows. Only cowards go about THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. armed to kill men. The honest, hard working Negroes has no time for lawless and riotous conduct. ORGANIC FORCES IN THE SOUTH. The few disturbances and outbreaks in the south show the wonderful organic forces in the south. We have here more than ten millions of Negroes and fifteen millions whites, and yet we have probably in the whole south only one Negro and white man in ten thousand who clash. The other nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine rub against one another every hour of the day, in every walk of life, transact their business and go their way in perfect friendship. These peaceful relations of the 9,999 give a bolder prominence to the one exception which is held up by the enemies of the south as the general rule. The love and attachment between the races of the south are more than wonderful when we consider the untiring efforts of busy and meddlesome enemies—the politician, the newspaper, the magazine, and even the pulpit seeking to scatter seeds of discord and break up our peace. We 9,999 will stand firmly for good will and happiness of both races in the south. No enemy shall take that one sinner in ten thousand and disrupt and tear us asunder. SALVATION THROUGH NEGRO WOMEN We complain too much of a lack of honor among our youth when we do not exert ourselves to give them proper encouragement. We complain of the hard hips of our women when we never do one thing to relieve them. Our female element, under mother influence attends school and church, eschews the brothels, stays at home, works, and to our shame, is the backbone of the Negro race today. Were it not for the Negro woman the outlook would be dark. I am aware of the breadth of my speech when I say that the world has never furnished a higher womanhood under like conditions than the Negro woman of the south today. With strong appetites and passions, penniless, houseless, working on "starvation wages," practically left to shift alone, amid stumbling, falling, rising, fleeing—she goes on washing, cooking, plowing, sewing, reaping—educating her daughter, building the cottage, erecting churches and schools, often supporting husband and son—this black woman deserves the admiration of the gods. Every business man will say that a Negro woman's word is worth just what she values it at. Herein we see the nobility of white southern womanhood of long ago, running through the black slave womanhood and lifting up her offspring of today—still lifting her up regardless of great drawbacks and weights GREAT OPPORTUNITIES IN THE SOUTH No ten millions of people in history have ever enjoyed better chances for material progress than the ten millions of Negroes in the South today. Every avenue in which we are capable of walking is open to us. Now and then there are exceptions, but every Negro of the ten millions in the South can get work, can make money, and can save it. The three great civilizing, refining agencies—the workshop, the school room, and the church are wide open to us. These agencies are to us what we make them and we are at we let them make us. Ten millions of people in the childhood of development never before in all the history of the world stood face to face with so great opportunities and possibilities, and so few oppositions as confront us in the South today. Our few troubles are only the pressures which have been found among all people, necessary to all ages to crystallize racial tendencies into sturdy character. A COWARD: A BRAVE MAN. Any coward can oppress a people—can be unfair—but it takes a brave man to treat all men of whatever race and condition fairly and justly. Any other ideals, any other treatment of men transmits to posterity a race of moral weaklings and cowards. Teach every Negro boy and girl that the salvation of life, the salvation of every thing in the world is the glorious end of education and duty. Then there could be no race conflict. I would rather see every Negro, of the ten million in this country, driven into the Gulf of Mexico and sink beneath its waters with spotless souls, than continue to live with the blood of human beings with the blood of another race dropping from victorious daggers in Negro hands. "THE REST IS SILENCE." The Unexpected Death of Mrs. Alice Strange Davis Leaves the Musical World Bereft of a Tuneful Chord-A Life of Earnest and Enthusiastic Struggle for the Heights-Her Success a Beacon of Hope for Ambitious Youth. The whole community was startled at the sad intelligence of the death of Mrs. Alice Strange Davis, on August 7th at Battle Creek, Mich. She had been in failing health for several years past, and had gone to the famous sanitarium at Battle Creek for a course of treatment. Alice Strange was born in Lynchburg, Va., April 21st, 1861, and was therefore, in her fortileth year. She enjoyed exceptional advantages in her native city, where was laid the basis of that culture and refinement which characterized her subsequent life. In 1876 young Alice Strange entered the Normal Department of Howard University, and four years afterwards was graduated as valedictorian of her class. As a student she was ex- J.H.C. MRS. ALICE STRANGE DAVIS. ceptionally apt and thorough, and maintained a general average of excellence in all branches of study which has been seldom equalled at her alma mater. After graduation, she entered immediately upon the work of teaching in the Washington public schools where she labored for eight years with signal fidelity and success. In 1888 she was married to Joseph S. Davis, Esq., a practicing attorney in the city of Baltimore. Upon the death of Mr. Davis in 1892, she returned to Washington where she resided up to the time of her death. To excel as a music teacher was the leading passion of Mrs. Davis' life. She began her music studies in 1874, which she has continued uninterruptedly for twenty six years. She early conceived the idea of making music teaching a profession, and devoted the main efforts of her life to the fulfillment of this purpose. It will be noticed that she entered upon her task with remarkable singleness of purpose and detachment of parts. For her ambition was not to shine as a public performer, but simply to impart musical knowledge and technical skill to the young. She underwent a systematic and thorough courses of training in both instrumental and vocal music under such famous teachers as Prof. J. W. Bischoff, Prof. Waldecker, Dr. Kimball and Prof. Richard Burmeister, himself 9 --- U.S. Hon. M. H. McCord. Hon. Myron H. McCord, Ex-Governor of New Mexico, in a letter to Dr. Hartman, from Washington, D. C., says: Dear Sir—At the suggestion of a friend I was advised to use Pe-ru-na for catarrh, and after using one bottle I began to feel better in every way. It helped me in many respects. I was troubled with colds, coughs, sore throat, etc., but as soon as I had taken your medicine I began to improve and soon got well. I take pleasure in recommending your great remedy to all who are afflicted with catarrh.—M. H. McCord. The spring presents a much more favorable opportunity for the permanent cure of chronic catarrh, especially old, stubborn cases. Now is the time to begin treatment. Insist upon having Pe-ru-na. There are no successful substitutes for this remedy. Send to Dr. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio, for a free catarrh book. a former pupil of the great Liszt. To her native gift of fine musical feeling she added the broadest culture by asiduous application and infinite technical pains. She was a student of the scientific principles, historical development, and progressive movements of the musical world. Her success as a teacher was the legitimate outcome of the conscience, industry and enthusiasm which she brought to her task. She was without doubt the foremost teacher of music that the colored race has yet produced. She has taught more than four hundred pupils, many of whom were white, in her private classes, at one time, earning as much as two thousand dollars a year. She endeavored to impart to her pupils not only her own enthusiasm for art, but also a sense of the necessity of hard, tedious, painstaking, preparatory work as the basis of all true excellence. In 1896 Mrs. Davis was appointed Director of music in the Washington public schools. She has succeeded in a most satisfactory manner in systematizing music teaching, articulating it with the programs of study, and demonstrating its pedagogical value. Mrs Davis possessed a high order of social grace and tact, and her home both in Washington and Baltimore became the center of a charming musical, literary and social circle. She became a member of the First Congregational church during the pastorate of Dr. J. E. Rankin, president of Howard University, and was at the time of her death director of music for Park Temple. Mrs. Davis leaves a mother, a brother, and a daughter of eleven years, to whom she was attached by the tenderest ties of motherly and filial feeling. They are not alone, however, in their bereavement; the whole community participates in their loss and shares in their sorrow. AMONG NEGRO PERFORMERS. The "A Rabbit's Foot" Comedy company began rehearsals at Lakeview, N J., August 1. Among the prominent people engaged are: Brandow and Arlington, Billy Leonard, Billy and Madrid Jackson, E. W. Pickett, Davis and Davis, R. H. Barnett, Ben Hunn and a score of others. The show will open its season at Paterson, N. J. August 20th. The Black Patti Troubadours have opened their season. James Hamwood, magician, died recently at Cincinnati, Ohio. Billy McClain and Mme. Cordelia are meeting with great success in Australia A. B. BLACK PATTI. Will Hayden of the famous Black stone Quartette, died recently at St Louis, Mo. Earnest Hogan was on the roof at the New York Roof Garden, last week, and went big. E. W. Pickett, the well known vocal comedian, is with Chappelle's "A Rabbit's Foot" Company. C. C. Powell has published a new sentimental ballad entitled "The Casket in the Cay." It is selling well. The True Reformers own a commodious opera house in Lynchburg, Va. W. S. Woodson is manager. J. BERT WILLIAMS. Billy Miller, the clever monologue artist, will be seen the coming season with a white minstrel company. He will be featured. Allie Brown, the dainty wire artist, has been engaged for the coming season with Chappelle's "A Rabbit's Foot" Comedy Company." Harry Fiddler, the original comedian, says on his professional card: "Hundreds know me! Thousands never heard of me!" Millions never will!!!!" The promise that this year will mark the advent of some originality in Afro-American comedies is intelligence of the most welcome character. Let us have something new. "BIG BOW" J. P. KERK, 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. Ernest Hogan has learned the concertina and renders some beautiful and taking selections upon it. It is said that he puts in three hours daily upon his chosen instrument. Williams and Walker, the "two real coons" were big cards at Keith's, New York City, last week. They are backed to appear over the Proctor circuit before the opening of their regular season. J. Harry Jackson, for a number of years dramatic editor on the Indianapolis Freeman, has resigned to accept a place on the executive staff of Pat Chappelle's "A Rabbit's Foot" Comedy Company. The colored citizens of Columbus, O., gave a magnificent production of "Thirty Years of Freedom" at the Great Southern Theater in that city last week. The play was a success in every respect, every seat and box was sold and the standing room sign was conspicuously displayed. The "Country Coon" one of the best shows out next season. The following well known people have been signed: Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis, the talented dramatic reader; Madah Hyer, Blackstone Quarteté; Thornton Sisters, Master Livers, Muriel Ringo, Little Siren, the Britton, (Joe and Sadie); Mamie Emerson, Kid Frazier, Ciero Reed, Clarence Logan, Louis Salisbury and several others. Mme. Siesieretta Jones, the "Black Patti," appeared in a New York police court recently as complainant against her former husband, Richard Jones of Newark, N. J., whom she charged with annoying and threatening her with bodily harm. Jones went to the Star Theater where Mme. Jones was singing and acted in a disorderly manner, after waiting at the stage entrance and threatening his wife. She then had him arrested. Mme. Jones say she secured a divorce a year ago. Jones had since written her threatening letters and declared he would beat her. She said this was this the result of her refusal to give him any more money. Jones was shabbily dressed. 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Church has organized the Allen League of the Folds of the Good Shepherd which provides that laymen in that denomination can have the advantage of a sick and benefit society in connection with the church. Several students who received training in the Division of Brickmasonry at Tuskegee last term, are now employed by a white contractor in the erection of a large brick building in the town of Tuskegee. They are giving perfect satisfaction in their work. That was a signal victory won by Negro laborers when the miners' union of Birmingham, Ala., forced open the door of the Trade's Council for Negro carpenters, masons, etc. Let Negro laborers join as rapidly as possible these unions and have a voice in controlling them. One of the finest saloons in Richmond, Va., and on one of the principal streets (Broad Street) is conducted by T. H. Ferrandini & Bro. It is known as "The Klondyke" and was fitted up at an expense of between $10,000 and $15,000. It caters almost exclusively to colored people. Rev. George A. Brown, the youngest son of Bishop Brown, deceased, is the founder and president of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Institute at Danville, Ill. He also founded the Industrial Institute School which enrolls 60 pupils, 3 teachers, a superintendent and secretary and has property valued at $20,000 Dr. William E. Morgan, who graduated in medicine this year at the Hahnemann Medical College, has recently been appointed Junior Physician in the Department of General Medicine in the Hahnemann Hospital For the position to which Dr. Morgan was appointed there were many applicants of his elasemates, all white, THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. More than 150 colored men in Philadelphia, in cooperation with a nearly equal number in Virginia and Maryland, have formed an organization to fight for their right in the labor field. It is called the Mechanics, Trademens and Working People's Association of America. John W. Madison is president of the organization and John Park is secretary. Mrs B. J. Bolding, wife of Rev. B. J. Bolding, pastor of the A. M. E. Zion church, Chambersburg, Pa. has received word that she inherits $30,000 through the death of her uncle, Mr. Dempsey Butler, a well known colored man, of Camden, N. J. Mr. Butler was a real estate agent in Camden and was the richest colored man in New Jersey, leaving an estate of $200,000. A sister of Mrs. Bolding also receives $30,000 A Business Men's League was organized last week at Birmingham, Ala. Rev. W. R. Pettiford, the banker, was elected president, Mr. S. S. Storrs, vice president, Dr. A. M Brown, secretary, and E. S. Ammons, assistant secretary, and H. P. Harris, treasurer. The league is composed of some of the best men of Birmingham, which gives promise of developing the much needed business relations in the district. Peter Fosset, an 85 year old colored man in Cincinnati, was formerly a slave on the Monticello plantation of Thomas Jefferson, and was taught to read, write, and cipher by Mrs. Polly Randolph, Jefferson's daughter. In 1850, aided by his father who was a free man, he purchased his liberty and settled in Cincinnati, where he has since resided, esteemed and respected by all the leading people of the city. At a recent lecture delivered there by Judge Crosby of New York on Jefferson and Lincoln, Mr. Fossett had the honor to introduce the lecturer. Public Printer Palmer and the Negro. Editor The Colored American: Under the caption, "Wanted to Know," in last week's issue of your valuable journal, we note the following: "Why some of those people who were so warm a while ago about Census Director Merriam's alleged slowness in appointing Negroes to clerkships do not turn their eagle eyes upon Public Printer Palmer's continued discrimination against the race." 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Paid Quarterly. 14 to 25 years. $5 00 $500 00 $9 50 $2 40 25 to 35 years. 5 25 500 00 9 50 ..... 35 to 45 years. 5 50 500 00 10 40 ..... 45 to 50 years. 5 75 450 00 11 40 2 35 50 to 55 years. 5 75 400 00 11 40 2 35 55 years (Complete). 6 00 350 00 11 00 2 35 Trade Mark. For Sale at 310 I Street N. W., and at all Drug Stores. Col. James Roche in a New Role. Billy Peyton's Golden Opportun Billy Peyton's Golden Opportunity. The ages are reckoned from the last birthday. One of the most notable fistic combats ever "pulled off" in this vicinity will take place on the evening of August 15 at Chesapeake Junction. Billy Peyton, the District's most popular colored pugilist, will meet the illustrious Dan Creedon. Both men are middle weights and stand away up in their class. Peyton has put some good fighters to sleep, and is the personification of cleverness. He sets great store by the chance he is getting to make a national reputation, and is training carefully every day under skilled ring generals. Dan Creedon is too well known to require comment. He is one of the country's "stars" in the roped arena. $1,000 is the purse with a percentage of gate receipts equitably divided. The "go" is attracting wide attention, and magnates from Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore are coming on to witness it. On the avenue, the local boys are offering even money that Peyton will win out. One of the most successful and best known young business men in Washington is Col. James J. Roche, who has recently purchased the McInnis Brothers' palatial bar buffet at 904 Pennsylvania Avenue, next door to Oyster's celebrated butter house and whose rear place fronts the Bijou Theater. Mr. Roche is a Washington product and has been so successful in the management of his own affairs and the affairs of others who have trusted their business with him, that his name is synonymous with success. The McInnis stand is one of the most central and best stands in the city, and at great expense Mr. Roche has modernized and improved it in every way. The place is heavily stocked from the cellar up with the old and purest grades of wines and liquors and the very choicest brands of cigars. The coolest and most palatable beer in Washington is to be had at all times. Mr. Roche invites the public in general and his friends in particular to visit his new place. He has a host of friends in all sections and parts of the city and ere long when he selects a name for his stand it will be a Mecca for the livest spirits. 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 payingenses will go to the purchase of Bank Stock for sold 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 memoirs of either one of these classes are only required to meet once or four times a year, while the Fountains and Rosebuds meet twice a month. Life benefits.—The members of B Class are allowed to purchase 15 shares of Bank Stock and two shares for each year of their membership. The stock yields a dividend of 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 in death. 15. THE TRUE REFORMERS' BANK. BEE HIVE The Savings Bank of the G. F. U. O. T. R. was chartered March 1888. Its capital stock is $100,000. It commenced business April 3, 1889. The amount of business to March 1, 1888, is $3,458,100. The stock of this bank is sold to the membership of the Fountains, Rosary buds, B and E classes, and pays a dividend of 20, per cent on the dollar. Persons can deposit their moneys on time or demand. The bank pays 4 per cent interest on all time deposits. Moneys on demand are held subject to the orders of the depositors. Deposits are received 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 the depositors during the financial stringency, while the other banks were using scrip. 6. REAL ESTATE OF THE U. O. T. R. This Department manages and controls the property of the organization. It grew out of the necessity of having offices and buildings in which to carry on the business of the organization, and to furnish halls for the Subdiviate Lodges. Buildings new owned. 12 farms, 3; dwellings, 2; hotels, 1; with a fee simple value of $104,640. Buildings leased. 18 Rev. George W. Bryant is filling the pulpit at the Second Baptist church in the absence of Rev. W. Bishop Johnson. He is having large audiences. 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 team with all its doings and achievements, both for sample copies. It is published weekly in The Reformer Printing Office, Richmond, Vt., having a first-class job department, and makes a subsidiary of Middletown Post. WHITE SULPHUR NEWS. West Virginia's Tawawa an Ideal Summer Resort-A Peep at the Social Mirror. White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., Special.—The regular weekly meeting of the White Sulphur Literary Society was held at the M. E. church Wednesday day night, Mr. R. B. Barcus, presiding. A very interesting program was rendered as follows: Singing by the congregation, oration, Mr. S. R. Carrington; Music by White Sulphur Instrumental Quartette, Messrs W. R. Brown, Samuel Webb, J. W. Cox and W. J. Poque, selections: "Aunt Jemima's Cake Walk" and others; recitation, Clarence Jones; Guitar solo, Mr. J. W. Cox, solo, Mrs. Lulu Grant: essay, Mis Lenora Ray; singing by Silver Leaf Quartette; debate: resolved, that the United States was justified in waging war in the Philippines, Mr. E. M. Syphax, affirmative and Mr. R. B. Barcus, negative; music by Instrumental Quartette, "Smoky Mokes" and "Whistling Rufus;" benediction by Rev. Brown. An interesting program has been arranged for next Wednesday night. Dr. and Mrs. Wm. Naylor and child, in company with Miss Jennie Harris of Washington, D. C., arrived last week to spend some time at "Dry Creek." Mrs. M. Whiting left last week for Goshen on account of sickness of some of her relatives there. Mr. Aleck Lee of Richmond, Va., arrived here last week. Rev. L. B. Goodall, formerly pastor of the first and Shiloh Baptist churches of Charlottesville, Va., was here this week and preached at the Baptist church Sunday night to quite a large number. Mrs. Jennie Dixon of Washington, D. C., has charge of the dessert pantry of the hotel here and presides over that department with great skill and accuracy; she is assisted by Mr. Harvey Taylor who is extremely good natured and obing. Mr. W. H. Smith, second waiter at the Grafton Hotel of Washington, D. C., is in charge of the Cafe here, assisted by Mr. Cherokee Spurlock of Fincastle, Va. Mr. Marcus Mitchell, assistant in the ordinary dining room here this season has held that position over eighteen years. Mr. Edward Kidd of Fincastle, Va., the professional ice cream maker who has held that position here for many seasons is holding the same position here this season. Messrs. Walker Payte and Robert Branch are doing a nice business in picture enlarging here, they report a good number of orders already received and more to come Among there this week and others who we have not mentioned are: Messrs. Joseph Dixon, Richard Minor, Wm. D. Brooks, Carter Kelley, Wm. H. Johnson, Isaac N. Gooch' Fred Syphax, W. Henry Payne, Richard Jackson, Thos. Keeling, E. W. Smallwood, J. A. Jefferson, James Toler, Horace Bias, A. Gassaway, Charles Hamersley, H. L. Carrington, Warwick Walker, from Washington, D. C. We are glad to have met Messrs. E. M. Syphax and Wm. D. Brooks, teachers of Washington, D. C., who are here for the summer. ABOUT THE HOTELS. We hear that Mr. J. Henry Dickinson is one of the best headwaiters ever in charge of the White Sulphur dining room. Mr. John Boom is one of the best chefs in the country. Mr. James Cross is one of the finest egg cooks who stands over the range. Messrs. Charles Moss and Washington Scott are among the swiftest broilers in the business. The Seaside News edited in Atlantic THE COLORED AMERICAN: WASHINGTON, D. C. City is being sold here by the energetic agents Miss W. F. Pogue and Mr. S. H. White, it is devoted chiefly to the doings at the several summer resorts. Capt Louis Tolliver of the Old Reserve baseball team is doing great work on the diamond here. His team hopes to win every game that is played this season. It was through the skill of Capt. Tolliver that his team has been successful. Catcher John Pryor is called by some the "Black Jennings." The American will be on sale here during the summer Do not fail to get one when the correspondent comes around. SCRIBE. WOULDN'T IT JAR YOU?- It William Jennings Bryan should be elected president. If a breed of Robert Charles should spring up throughout the Southland. If people confined their remarks to matters they know something about. If you should hear the candid opinion your best friends entertain of you. If Editor Manly should again take up his residence in Wilmington, N. C. If the glass hous you live in should be attacked by the same stone you persist in throwing. If all boot-lickers, hypocrites and informers were fired out of the executive departments. If fines for talking too much could be made operative in other places than the police court. If Lawyer Thomas L. Jones should publicly express his honest opinion of one Judge Scott. If our leading business men fail to give encouragement to the Boston business conference. If you know why Sam C. Hudnell walks up and down Spruce street with such an air of complacency. If 75 per cent of the North Carolina illiterate Negroes should master the "three R's" between now and 1902 If the local war between the "blacks" and they "yellows" should be resumed at the instance of one Oliver C. Black. If our editor did not use as much discrimination as to what is kept out of The Colored American as to what goes in. If the Women's League and the N. A. C. W., should join hands in the holy bonds of friendship and co-operation. If the department clerk who cannot live free of debt on $1,200 per year should suddenly be reduced to $6 per week. If the increased salaries of our school teachers should render them able to deposit their surplus in Capital Savings Bank. If a certain ex journalist of this city should be denied the opportunity to expel "hot air" through the columns of Negro and other journals. If charges were preferred to Bishop Handy against a certain pompous cornfed preacher for violations of pulpit ethics and Christian decency. If all indorsed notes were so promptly met by the makers that every man of finance would unhesitatingly affix his signature to a $20 call, due in 30 or 60 days. If The Colored American should enter suit to collect the overdue bills owed by men and women who make finely phrased speeches about "The Duty of the Negro." WHERE TO SPEND A PLEASANT SUNDAY AFTERNOON. SEASON OF 1900. STEAMER RIVER QUEEN TO NOTLEY HALL, SUNDAY JULY 1st 1900. RIVER QUEEN Boat leaves N street wharf, Clyde Line at 2:30, 5 and 6:30 pm. There is nothing more enjoyable than to take a trip on the Steamer River Queen Sunday afternoon, with your family, when all kinds of cold drinks and refreshments can be had at city prices. Music by Monumental Orchestra. Take Capital Traction company's cars, Penn. Ave., 14th and 7th Sts., direct to wharf and save delay at power house and you'll not 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 Wharf. THE OCEAN CITY BREEZES. In the Social Swim - Doings Political and Literary. Ocean City, Md., Special—Maryland's ideal summer resort has now reached the noonday of her season. The hotels are crowded to their full quota and hordes of people are wandering about destitute of the slightest possible accommodation. Excellent weather prevails making it an agreeable recreation for all; on a whole the island is a scene of unsolicited contentment, gayety ruling supreme. Quite an appreciative audience listened to the paper read by Mr. Walker White before the Ocean City Lyceum Monday evening. The effort was a spontaneous combination of practical thought and furnished an abundant harvest for discussion. Those who took advantage of the occasion were: Messers. Cyrus St. Clair, Green Smith, Prof. Howells, Hartgrove and Jones. The latest feature upon the program was the initial appearance of the Atlantic Quartette. It made a good showing. Mr. John Rider is entertaining his daughter Mrs. Victoria Johnson and Mrs. Jones of New York City at the "Why Cottage." Their sojourn will last a month. Messers, Charles Dulaney and John Grant will spend the heated term at Ocean City, Md. Prof. Howell's of Snow-Hill had as guest Sunday his brother, Mr. Thos. West. The sudden departure of Mrs. Charlotte Moulton to Philadelphia causes sad expressions among her host of friends. Mrs. Moulton was here nearly three weeks. The Imperial Yachting Club has arranged for a splendid outing on the night of the Fifteenth. It will evidently be the drawing card. Members of the club are: Messers. Stokes, Greere, Honeywell, Hartgrove and Wilson. Unwarranted attacks upon defenceless humanity are frequent. Those who recognize this fact are painful sufferers of attacks and pitiful objects of humiliation. This is enough aye, too much. Miss Bertania Frye of the Ocean Wave has been confined to her room by illness. Miss Frye is gradually convaleceing. A grand concert given by the waiters of the Atlantic City Hotel have been booked for the latter part of the month. Mr. Robinson, the manager, has succeeded in securing some of the best talent and promises a first class entertainment. Mr. G. Washington Brooks left the city for La Plata, Md., where he will visit his mother. He was accompanied by Mr. Thomas Pryor and after a short stay at La Plata they will go to New York. 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 care; 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, 1822 Florida avenue. SPARTA Pool and Billiard Rooms, 1206 Pennsylvania Avenue, n. w. This large, spacious and well-situated pleasure establishment has had added to it a new room in the third story for pool and billiards, where those who do not care to play in the larger apartments can have a degree of privacy not to be obtained elsewhere. This new room is handsomely furnished and lighted by electric lights. The atmosphere is cooled by electric fans. You are cordially invited to make inspection of these pool and billiard parlors. You will receive a hearty welcome at any time. Ask for SAMUEL A. TYLER, Manager. Lewis Bigger, 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. 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. --- HOWARD UNIVERSITY, Washington, D.C. EN distinct departments, under one hundred competent professors and instructors—Theo- ical, Medical, Legal, College, Pedagogical, Laboratory, English, Agriculture, Industrial, and Sical. 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 tail term beginning October 3rd 1900, the Georgia State Industrial College will receive both young men and young women as boarders. The entire expenses for boarding, washing, fuel and lights 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. K. WRIGHT, Pres't. College, Ga Avery College Trades Schools ALLEGHENY, PA. A Practical, Literary and Industrial Trade School for Colored Boys and Girls, Carpentry, Blocklaying, Plastering, Painting and Interior Decorations, Tailoring, Dress, Making, Millinery, Voice Culture and Piano Note. Literary Department from Primary Normal Course Job Work Solicited and Prints given to the Students. Catalogues now ready. Address, JOSEPH D. MAHONEY, Principal. Allegheny, Pa. Howard University, WASHINGTON, D. C. Medical, Dental and Pharmacetic Colleges Thirty-third Session (1900 1901) will begin october 1st, 1900 and continue seven (7) months. Tution fee in Medical and Dental Colleges, each $80, Pharmacetic College, $70. All students must register before October 1, 1900. For catalogue or further information apply to— F. J. SHADD, M. D., Secretary, 901 R St. N. W., Washington D. C. A RARE OPPORTUNITY For Young Men Desiring to Enter the Ministry. The Phelps's Hall Bible Training School, deduces in connection with the tuskegee formal and Industrial Institute offers exceptional opportunities for young men who wish to prepare for the Christian ministry, special building known as the Phelp's Hall Training School, is set apart for this department of the work. It contains a chapel, library, reading room, office, three recitation rooms and forty sleeping rooms. The teaching is wholly undemonstrational, the purpose being to help all denominations and to assistize any. The cost of board is per month and students are given a chance work out a portion of this, leaving, as a rule, five or six dollars to pay in cash. New who have no money are given an opportunity to work out all of their expenses. Risk of means need debar none. The teacher in this department is free. The next school term begins September 11. Further information may be had by addressing Book T Washington, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama. --- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. 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 Colosed American office, and we will cheerfully give it space. Office 459 C street northwest. The mountain and seaside pilgrims are getting homesick. Mrs. Mary Wiems, of 69 Defrees St., left Sunday for Baltimore. Mrs. Robert Harlan, of Corcoran street, is rapidly improving. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Hamer are summering at Summit Point, Jefferson Co., W. Va. Rev. Walter Brooks and his daughter-in-law and baby Evelyn, are at Atlantic City. Misses Artie Brooks and Ada Thomas leave Monday for the mountains of Virginia. Mrs. Thomas Brown, of 412 O street, is spending her summer vacation in Geneva, N. Y. Miss Mary Wilkinson of New Haven, Conn., is visiting her cousin, Miss Rebecca Gray, 1722 4th street, northwest. Mr. J. M. Acty, a prominent young man of San Francisco, California, is spending a few days in the city. He is enroute East. Miss Harriet T. Gillem, who made such an excellent record in the Normal School, is spending her vacation in Jamaica, Long Island, N. Y. 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. Miss Alfreda Kennedy, who is visiting in Philadelphia and Lancaster, Pa., will shortly go to Ocean City and Atlantic City for the rest of the summer. Do you play pool or billiards? The Sparta Palace Pool Parlors are the finest in town. Ask for Sam Tyler, the Manager 1206 Pennsylvania avenue, northwest. How would an excellently made mint julep, or a cold bottle of beer strike you these hot evenings? All skeeegy? Then stop in at Naughton's 1926 14th street, northwest. Dr. C. C. Barnett, of the Interior Department, has joined the ranks of the benedicts. The charming young lady who has become Mrs. Barnett was formerly Miss Katharine Whiting, of Gallipolis, Ohio. Prof. G. N. Grisham, of Kansas City, Mo., was a pleasant visitor in the city enroute from the educational conferences at Charleston, S. C., and Hampton, Va. While here he was the guest of Prof. Kelly Miller. Prof. C. A. Leitwich, the Educational and Financial Traveling Field Agent of Lane College, Jackson, Tenn., accompanied by Rev. Lane, pastor of Israel C. M. E. Church, in this city, were visitors at this office this week. Miss Lotta Clark, has become Mrs. Ernest Quarles Garnes. Mr. Garnes hails from Circleville, Ohio, and not long ago graduated in pharmacy from Howard University. The happy couple have gone to Boston for permanent residence. M. 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, tell you right off. He is thoroughly inured by leading spiritualists everywhere, received from them a gold medal and special license to practice his wonderful powers; credentians no one else car can show give the thousands of references to both white and colored patrons Twenty-five years' practice—seven in brooklyn—will show you that he can do all he of. Can tell what business is best for you and where, how to win speedy marriage with the one you love. How to be successful in all your doings in short what is best to do. He will succeed when all others fail. Positive satisfaction or no pay. Call and see. You will find it luck to consult this Christian gentleman. He has a medicine that will cure drunkenness; can be given patients not knowing it. Thousands through him are now RICH HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL with all their undertakings, while those w o neglect his advice are still laboring again poverty. Through his perfect knowledge chemistry he can impart to you a secret that will overcome your enemies and win you friends. His aid and advice has often been solicited; the result has always been the securing of speedy and happy marriages and all your wishes. In love affairs he never fails. He has the secret of winning the affections of the opposite sex. It is the curse of Spiritualism that in all large cities there are a class of men and women who claim powers they do not possess. They have neither gifts, credentials, nor references. Surely the colored people are not so wanting in sense as to throw their time and money away on such. Dr. Shea refers to the Hon. Charles Miler, capitalist, 2481 Atlantic avenue; the Hon. William Benmore, architect and builder, 47 Cleveland avenue, and Mr. Arthur Sewell, ship builder South Brooklyn. All have known him for the past ten years. He gives a free test of his power to all. The doctor has practiced five years in New Orleans, St. Louis, Memphis and Louisville, understands thoroughly the diseases, spells or influences the race is subject to. He has now and always had large patronage from them PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING: Brooklyn, August, 15, 1891-This letter is to certify that I came to New York from Albany. I was a stranger in a strange city, out of work and out of money. I had no luck in anything I undertook. What to do I did not know. A friend advised me to go and see Dr. Shea. I did. He told me the cause of my troubles; he took me in and treated me as a brother. Through him I got a good position that very week. I had been to others, they took my money and did me no good. I bless the day I first met Dr. Shea. I would advise all in bad luck, sick or in trouble to go to him at once. Sincerely, Albert Ayers, 2987 Atlantic Avenue. Miss. Eliza Gibbs, mother of the late Mrs. R. W. Thompson, accompanied by Miss Vivian Thompson left for Indianapolis, Ind., last Saturday night for permanent residence. Miss Vivian will enter school in the Hoosier capital, being entitled to the fifth grade course. It is understood that Mr. Thompson will remain here until the conclusion of his work in the Census Bureau, after which he will establish a first class race paper at an advantageous point in the middle West. REYNOLDS & REYNOLDS, 1210 U STREET, N. W. Architects for College Buildings, Churches, Chapels, Theatres, City and Suburban Residences from $300 up. Prospectuses furnished to intending home-seekers. DOCTOR SHER'S NOTICE! Brooklyn, August 15, 1891—This letter is to certify that my husband had gone away and had been absent two years I mourned for him night and day. I gave him up as dead. Hearing of the wonderful things Dr. Shea was doing I resolved to consult him. He told me that my husband was alive and well and where he was; told me he would come home and when. To my joy all of it came true. He is home now, came back like one from the dead, I also wish to say that this month I lost $250. I am a poor woman and I was almost insane. I went to Dr. Shea and he told me I would find my money and to my intense joy I find it as he told me. I thank God there is a man so gifted in our midst, that can help people and tell them what to do. Mrs. Mary Miller, A SENSATION IN BROOKLYN-MINISTER'S STATEMENT I wish to state that one of my parishioners was sick and in trouble for a long time, Mrs. Brown, 37 Gay street. No one seemed to understand her case. She had several doctors but none of them seemed to know what was the matter. None could do her any good. It was my duty as her pastor to call and see her. Hearing of the wonderful work being done by Dr. Shea the last few years, I thought I would call and see him myself. I found him a sympathetic gentleman. He gave me a wonderful test of his powers, told me to send him a lock o. patient's hair, which I did by her daughter. He told at once what was the matter, and in a short time cured her sound and well. Her family had seemingly been under a cloud. Now all is changed. All are well and prosperous. I can truly and heartily recommend Dr. Shea, to all those in sickness or distress of any kind. Rev. Whitman Johnson, pastor Lebanon church, Brooklyn. Dr. Shea can show thousands such as the above. has been carefully educated in the Homeopathic and Electric Schools of Medicine. His success is wonderful in curing paralysis Rheumatism Ashma, Sore Eyes, Tumors, Cancers, Constipation, Ague, Cystepsia, Tape Worms, Liver Complaints, Deutness, Catarrh, Dropsy, Fies, 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 training with human life. Call at once. Do not delay. Diplomian hang in pariors. Is a registered physician. A new remedy to rheumatism just discovered, not a jiniment Hopeless cases and those that others can not cure solicited to call. Fat folks thin, the childless made parents. 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Miss Mary V. Lacy, is spending a few weeks in Cape May, N. J. Our Mr. E. E. Cooper spent two days in Richmond, Va., last week on business. Mr. W. George Hall, clerk in the Third Auditor's Office has been spending his vacation in Atlantic City. Hon. W. L. Person has resigned his position in the Pension Office to take an active part in the coming election Miss Mary Harvey will leave about the 16th for Virginia, where she will spend about two weeks with relatives and friends. Mrs. Louis H. Costley left the city last Tuesday for Frederick, Md., where she will visit her mother and spend the heated term. For political reasons, Mr. John Duker was dropped from the Post-Office Department. Mr. Duker talks of contesting the matter. Mrs. G. P. C. Schureman and her little daughter Ida, are spending the summer with her daughter Mrs. Lillian Wade at Hughesville, Md. Dr. E. D. Scott, of 9th street, n.e., is spending some days in Boston, Mass. Among other places of interest he will visit his alma mater, Harvard University. Friends of Rev. J. W. Harris, pastor of Miles Memorial church, will be pleased to learn he is slowly improving. Not long since he had a slight stroke of paralysis. Messrs. E. Morris, Jr., and M. H. Eldridge left on the Atlantic City special for Philadelphia and Atlantic City, where they will spend two weeks or ten days. The G. U. O, of O. F. gave an excursion to Notley Hall, Aug. 6. They had a great success, carrying about 2500 people, and all had a pleasant time. Mr. W. C. Martin, District Grand Master, took an active part in the affair and aided greatly in making it a success. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. O. ISKING OF WARNED. 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Parties sending us $3.00 AGENTS WANTED. BOSTON CHEMIST 310 E.BROAD S ING OF ALL HAIR DRESS Miss Helen Parker, Miss Minnie Mulligan and Miss Eleanor Robinson who have been spending July in New York and Asbury Park left on the 10.h for Atlantic City. The birds and game of all kinds in Virginia are getting scared already as a certain member of our face is preparing to take his gun and go on his annual outing. Hon. Jere A. Brown, of the Treasury Department, left for Ohio this week where he will take part in the campaign. Mrs. Brown will estivate in Connecticut. The daughters of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Thomas' of Howard avenue, Anaccostia, D. C., are spending the months of August and September with Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Marlow of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Mr. Stephen E. K. Buchanan, of the Recorder of Deeds Office, has returned from the state of North Carolina, where he took part in the election which was held on August 5th. He reports that things were very lively down there. Among the Washingtonians who are spending the heated term at Saratoga are Gov. P. B. S. Pinchback and Miss Lucy Moten. Charles W. Anderson and John E. Bruce of New York city and Mr. Smith and family of Texas are also at the Thompson Cottage. Roche Will Jar You. As strange as it may seem he is anxious to do it. And lots of good people are anxious to be jarred. This is just the season when you want to be jarred. But you want to be sure that you get the right jar. Col. Roche keepe all kinds of jars and vessels too and he will be glad to see you. The coolest beer--the choicest o.d wines and liquors end all kinds of liquors. Mr. Thomas D. Shelton, 1st Sergeant Troop "K" 9th Calvary, Fort Duchesne, Utah, was in the city a few days last week whither he had come to bring an insane prisoner. He said the 9th was getting ready to go to China, and hastened back to the far west on that account. --- fair dealings, together with the fact that OZONO uine Hair Grower and Hair Straightener in existrace, we have met with grand success, which has your money, are putting on the market, vile nostrums WE CLOSE AT 5 P.M. SATURDAYS AT 1 P.M. The Bargain Season of the Whole gain Season of the Wh eason of the Whole Year The Bargain Season of the Whole Year Is now at its height—and careful buyers are taking advantage of the lowest prices that have been quoted in the past twelve months. We are making a clean sweep of every Baby Carriage, Go-cart, Porch Rocker, and Lawn Settee—without thought of profit—and with small regard for actual cost. But no matter how low prices are, you are always welcome to credit—and it will be our pleasure to arrange the payments to suit your convenience—weekly or monthly. Mattings laid free. 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PRICE FIVE CENTS AN ELCQUENT PLEA. ion = ” ‘—. >. = Prof. William H. Councill Sizes Up the Great American Problem in a Most Tell ing and Practical Dehverance at Union Springs, Ala.— Complaint of the Negro Painted a Roseate Hue. Golden Oppor tunities Now Ripe. Prof. W. H .Counciil, president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes at Norms! delivered an ableaddress on race conditions at Union Springs Jast week. Among cther things Prof, Couneill said: WRONG IDFALS OF CIVIL RIGHTS, Oar complaint of American prejudice is rot menly, Ameriean prejudice plays an mmportant part in Negro op: portunity. Never before in the history of any people bas prejudice had such high valuation, Instead of seeking ad: mission Into places of amusement, j/easure and inatruction ran by whites for white people, let the Negro open such places for hisown accommodation and grow tich. Instead of knocking for admistion Into white circles, adorn, beautify, elevate, enlarge Negro circles and find scope for our broadest and most lofty ambition, Every hotel which refuses the Negro a meal, every soda fountain whieh decl:nes to serve him are voices tellixg him to go and open these places and make himeeli rich. That Negro is unwise who goes around asking for such accommoda: tions among whites when the denials is only friendly advice to open business for bimself; place his'own boys and girls in positions and@ build up his race by his patronage. I wish my raee to find admissions wherever honest ser: vice is wanted, and we will take care of the fun aod pleasure places. The Negro can grow only by being true to his own nature, in bis own sphere. When he seeks to umrace bimeelf, to run from his bleck skin, his flat nose, bis thick lips and flat feet, then he will make himself despieable in the eyes of other races and deserve the curse of God. We cannot make a white man a Negro, nor can we make a Negro 8 white man. God has made the dis. Unoction and set the bounds of each. Each will grow strong and great on}y as he is tre to bisowp nature. I bon: or the white man because he honor: himself, The Southern white man, like ‘he old Greek, mairtairs his egotism every where. He is Southern in New York, He is Bouther: in London. Hi Southernizes all comers into the South lie is a stropg charge: (er worthy of im laticn in this regard. I honor him be 3 YZ BAA ay | Vi igp eZ Uy SS RC hi i) Fi oe | Co ea ie Hv LeNY tes ao | fx HP en i i CONS As} eA ASA ie i Hy} Ws aN Wa nae lilt a ja LA ee E74) | “an a. Gy || / ZA ‘ ie a i / c| Za i || \i Z A . LER t PEE || vit —= Ba EA Maen < SC [Uf = A/S SSS NW a <=, \ ———= | Za = 4 SS {oS \ i) PROF. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Promoter of the National Negro Business League, called to August 23rd and 24th. This convention has been indorsed leaders of Negro sentiment as a most practical agent in th race problem. Delegates are being chosen from the many states and the League is an assured success. Mr, never kuown the meaning of the word “Fail,” The loyal by him through every undertaking. — ————————————————_————— Promoter of the National Negro Business League, called to meet in Boston, August 23rd and 24th. This convention has been indorsed by the press and leaders of Negro sentiment as a most practical agent in the solution of the race problem. Delegates are being chosen from the solid citizenry of many states and the League is an assured success. Mr, Washington has never kuown the meaning of the word “Fail.” The loyal Negro will stand by him through every undertaking. cause he y;laces mother, and sisters, wife and daughters on a platform up among the stars; gets a thousand get’ ling guns, and decrees death to him who seeks to drag them down. I hon: or him becauee he throws his powerful arms around every little red- headed, freckle faccd poor white girl and boy in the Jand and makes the way possi ble for them to rise in this world. I bonor him because he does net go around whining and begging to be bepled up, but by faith in hisown mus: cles he cuts and carves out his own destiny. Let the Negro do likewise according to bis own nature and in bis cee sphere, without prejudice to any, with love for all mankind and he will succeed. NOT SOLUTION— BUT EVOLUTION, We must train the hand to strike for man. Teach the heart to bear ap inju- ry but wever irflictone. All slctions of ali buman problems, are simply evo lutions. A3 man evolves out of selfish: ness into deep and broad sympathy, out . f ignorance into light, out of sect, out of party into boundless bumenity, then will racial cor flict be diminished. There can be no racial solution, but amelioratien of condition. Each indi vidoal must do bis best at the black | (Centmued on ninth page.) A REVELATION IN SURGERY. Dr. A. M. Curtis Places on Record the First Instance Where the Same Patient Has Undergone a Second Time the Caeserian Operation—Interesting His- tory of the Case, _ Dr. A. M. Curtis bas scored another triumph for medical science. Into doing he has registered an equally significant victory for the rece witb which he is identified, and proven beyond cavil that the Negro physician v ho applies himeelf cau measure arms with the flower of any race, The latest feat in turgery for which Dr. Curtis is receiving so much de- served Commendation from the medi- cal profession isa successful operation known as the ‘ Cresarian section,’’ an obstetrical Compitcation said to have originated with the birth of the imper- isl Cvesar, described by Avon’s bard as the “foremost man of all the world.” The C:esarien section is 8 rare and dan gerous operation under all circumstan- ces, and Washington’s first case was placed on record in the spring of 1897 when Dr. D. H. Willams performed the Czesarian section on a patient at Freedmeu’s Hospital and delivered a healthy girl which is now living. The present case isdoubly remarkable trom the fact that it is the second time the same woman has been opera'ed upcn for the same trouble, and the interest is ali the greater because it is believed to be the first in the history of the bealing art where a patient has success fully uncerg( ne such an ordet!l twice and the child living im each instance. ‘There can be no doubt that thie partic- ular case will establish ao entirely new basis of eurgical calculation, and be written in the annals as the most unique that American hospital experi- ence bas ever known. It has fallen to the jot of few phyricians of Dr. Carte’ comparatively youthful age to be able to contribute to the Esculapian science 80 much that is extraordinary, practi- cal, instructive and therefore beneficis] to human society. The history of the case in point mer- its a technical deseription, and will be of as much interest and profit to the thoughtful layman as to the profescion- al school. Oo Wednesday night Aug- ust 1, the patient, Nancy Hill, a col- ored woman was admitted to the ob- stetrical ward at Freedmen’s Hospital, _ (Contiaued on fifih page.) Bruce Grit's Melange. --- 2 A gentleman from a Southern State called on me a short time ago and in the course of our conversation which was a most interesting one, he held his nose and mentioned the name of Tillman, the South Carolina blackguard, who disgraces that State in the U. S. Senate. He said, "Do you know that the forbears of this foul mouthed creature were indentured slaves who were sold for a few hundred pounds of tobacco and a keg of rum?" I assured him that this information was news to me but that I did not doubt its truth as Tillman's oral gymnastics and plantation manners betrayed his lowly origin and the absence of good blood. I had for a long time believed that there was a yellow streak in his anatomy, and I was not fully prepared to believe that its origin had been located. 一 The indentured white slaves sent out from England in colonial days, were mostly of a class distinguished for their ignorance, stupidity, criminal tendencies and gross immoralities and England always breathed fever after dumping a cargo of these vermin on the virgin soil of America. Tillman's origin, accounts for his antipathy to the Negro. He probably has not forgotten that the Negro slaves who came later supplanted these indentured white slaves and hence like the wolf in Aesop's fable who ate the lamb because as he said, his father had muddied the spring. This human South Carolina wolf intends to blackguard and shoot Negroes as long as he can pull a trigger or wag his villainous tongue. There is some compensation in the thought however, that Tillman represents in his personality the residuum of all the viciousness, villainy, mendacity and criminality of his ignorant, immoral and depraved forbears who were the scullions and beasts of burden of the white gentlemen of the South, and that his class of white men have always been looked down upon with withering contempt and loathing by the aristocracy of that section. Tillman's treatment of the representative of the Plaindealer, who tried to interview him in Kansas City shows that nature never intended that he should ever reach the plane occupied by refined and cultured gentlemen. The old axioms that you cannot make a turkey out of a turkey buzzard, nor a silk purse out of a sow's ear, apply with telling effect to one-eyed Ben Tillman. He's a moral and political degenerate. Max Nordau in his "Conventionalities of our Civilization" says and with great truth, "The college graduate thinks himself of too much account to descend into and be lost in the lowest class of society by voluntarily assuming the trade of a manual laborer;" and according to the ideas prevalent in society he is correct. He demands of the world that he be supported as a master, not support himself like a slave." But the world does not always honor this demand as many struggling Negro college graduates can testify who are living from hand to mouth hoping against hope for the coming of a better and a brighter day. Continuing Nordau says: "But the world has only a limited demand for the kind of work which the college bred man considers suitable for him. Hence THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. in the older civilized countries at least one-half of the graduates are condemned to spend their lives in hoping and envying, obtaining none of life's blessings, fighting hard for the small amount of daily bread they require and often going hungry standing beside the over-loaded, groaning table of the upper ten thousand, while suffering the pangs of semi-statvation." The picture is true to nature and those who want to see it in all its hideosity may do so if they will look about them. The sham and tinsel and humbug of Negro society with its false ideals and its pretensions and nonsense, its circles and sets, can be observed without the aid of a microscope. A little inspection and reflection will suggest to the observant and thoughtful Negro Shakespeare's famous lines that carry so much meaning, "What fools these mortals be." But the Negro is not the only fool in the aggregation. The poor whites—the strainer element, is tending in the same direction; society and starvation are almost synonymous terms, and for what good is all this show and ostentation and pretence and humbug? This aversion to manual labor, this crowding of wooden-headed youngsters into the professions where they either starve or form alliances with the cooks in families adjacent to their offices who provide them with delicacies after sundown. What on earth is Miss Kathryn born caroline going to do for a living after her maw is no longer able to take lodgers and do three or four small family wash's or her paw ceases to wield as dexteriously as of yore the white wash brush or the razor on account of old age and his rheumatics? Instead of making a woman out of Miss Kathryn they've made her a wall flower, a parlor ornament. She can neither cook, sew, wash or iron. But she can sing, bang coon songs out of a piano, discuss the latest novel and talk nonsense by the yard and hour. Maw foolishly believed when she was "educating dat gal 'at she'd be a hummer arter she left skule—and shine in society like the evening stash on a dark night. But society as is society has more behind it and under it than a few common place accomplishments. The society which the Negro and the poor white pattern has wealth, blood, influence and some very eminent respectability back of it. The Negro and the poor white after counting back eighty or a hundred years or less can not find many, if any of these things to boast of, and hence the humbug of their pretensions is the more transparent and ridiculous. It is really nauseating to hear some of these little pinheaded dudes and dudines boast of their ancestry and blood. The Negro in America has no ancestry worth boasting of and the least said about it the better. The poor whites are in the same fix; they are of equally doubtful origin, and the more doubtful the origin the more persistent they are to break down the bar sinister and enter the charmed circle. The white catfish aristocracy of America and the black catfish aristocracy are making themselves ridiculous, trying to create for themselves a social pedigree which will rank with that. of those whose manners, language, habits, customs, dress, methods of living and thought they are as faithfully imitating as so many ring tailed monkeys. If Negro society would take off its store clothes and paste diamonds, break up its euchre clubs and get down to the business of improving the condition of the submerged half of black humanity in the alleys and back streets of our big cities, it would come nearer doing God's service. In the white catfish aristocracy would perform a like service among the lower strata of their own race throughout the country and quit their blamed nonsense in trying to follow after people, any six of whom could buy for cash the whole outfit of white catfish aristocrats, human happiness would take a turn for the better and crimes would be greatly diminished in the land. BRUCE GRIT. THAT TELLING EDITORIAL The Colored American's Stand Commended Editor The Colored American:—We have been closely, quietly and unbiasedly reading, watching and studying the situation as regards this race question, or problem as you may call it, for quite a while, and we have long since decided that, so far as we as a race are concerned, it is the question of questions, and your editorial of July 28th, under the caption, "North Carolina's Pititable Plight," presents the whole subject to the civilized world, to say nothing of this highly enlightened and Christian nation, in language and spirit sufficiently clear, frank and respectful to warrant the opinion that humanity itself must now rise in our defence, or the nation disrepute itself before the world and invite speedy vengeance and scourge of Almighty God. That editorial is deserving of more than incidental or casual notice. There is nothing in our whole Congressional Record, as an argument in our defense, surpassing, if equaling it. Our press throughout the country should reproduce it again and again until the reading and thinking world shall come to realize the true conception and magnitude of the case. In reality, we have no race problem. It is a white man's problem after all, and must be settled by him upon the same principle and in the same spirit that the country accepted the great Webster-Hayne state rights debate in 1830, when Mr. Webster covered the whole ground, and settled the question until the outbreak of the civil war, in the following declaration, to wit: "But I do not admit that, under the Constitution, and in conformity with it there is any mode in which a state government, as a member of the Union, can interfere and stop the progress of the general government, by force of her own laws, under any circumstance whatever." The general government has long since examined and investigated and passed upon this Negro suffrage question; and the features which were advanced as the most objectionable at the time, are proving themselves satisfactory—leaving nothing to divide except the color of the skin, and the kink of the hair. In the face of all this will the nation disrepute herself? God forbid. L. H. Brown, Pedagogue. Mrs. Paris Lyvers left last Saturday for New York, to join her sister Miss Dillingham, of St. Paul, Minnesota, both of them having been called to the bedside of their sister, Mrs. Wesley Stafford who is quite ill. Her daughter, Miss Mallie is rusticating in Leesburg, Va. She will remain until school opens. KELLY MILLER IS PRESIDENT. The Howard University Mathematician Succeeds to the Mantle so Nobly Worn by Prof. W. H. Richards-Other Officers and News Notes. The advisory board of Bethel Literary at its last meeting elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Prof. Kelly Miller, president; W. A. Joiner, first vice president; Mrs. Jennie Conner, second vice-president; Miss Ella Boston recording secretary; L. M. Hershaw, corresponding secretary; J. W. Cromwell, librarian; Miss Mattie R. Bowen, treasurer. The retiring president, Prof. W. R. Richards, proved a tower of strength to Bethel Literary during the past two years, and popular demand that he should serve a third term is but a faint idea of the high esteem in which he is held by the people of this city. The new head, Prof. Kelly Miller, needs no introduction or eulogy. He is well-known throughout the country as an educator, scholar and sociologist, and the patrons of Bethel Literary feel that the mantle of Richards has fallen upon proper shoulders. Mr. Laura A. Joiner read an interesting report, showing the receipts of the society to be $151 71 and expenditures $127 35 during the past year. Lawyer R. S. Smith was appointed chairman of the committee to print history of the society as compiled by Prof. J. W. Cromwell and Miss Maria L. Jordan. President Miller has begun preparing his program for the approaching literary season, which opens in October. LESSONS TO BE LEARNED. The Deteat of the Boers a Divine Consumation—Oppression a Precursor to Downfall of Oppressor. The rapid close of the South African war and the thorough defeat of the Boers show that no nation can hope to systematically and persistently heap obloquy and injustice on subject people without some day, distant though it be, having to pay the penalty for its misdeeds. "The mills of the gods grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small." As with individuals, so with nations, and wrong-doing generally brings about the undoing of those who perpetrate it. One of the first disagreements which arose between the Boers and English was over the question of slavery. The English wanted to abolish it. The Boers wanted to perpetuate it. From that time on the enmity grew until it culminated into the sanguine fray which Roberts and Kitchener are bringing to such a brilliant close. The Boers are not the only people who are maltreating a portion of their fellow citizens. And the object lesson which their war, as well as the Spanish-American war, short but decisive conflict, ought to be studied with a good deal of care by every one interested in real government by the people, of the people and for the people.—Detroit Republican. Politics a Local Question While the southern end of the democratic party is doing every thing in its power to disfranchise the Negro, the northern end smilingly asks for his ballot, says the Indianapolis Recorder. This simply goes to show that the Negro must trim his sails to catch the breeze as it flies, consulting locality and its prevailing sentiment in shaping his political action. Like unto the tariff, politics is a local question, and all decisions must be governed by common sense and the needs of the situation. mn e | 2 my Ve 1 IN THE LAND OF “BOBBY” BURNS. Mrs. Jesse Lawson’s Hearty Reception at Edinburgh, Scotland—Abiltty and Character, Not Color, the Measure of Markind—An Ideal Representative of Atro America—Speaks Elcquently on vemperance at a Leading Presbyterian Church, The Convention of the World’s Wom- en’s Christian Temperance Union had gseries of very successful meetings at Edinburgh last month. Mrs, Jeese Lawson, who attended as the represen tative of the W. C. T. U. of America, and who was presented by Lady Henry Homerset, had a most cordial reception from the Convention. Lady Henry Somerset, 18 & very neat and apprecia- live speech, expressed the pleasure she felt in welcoming, and presenting to ihe World’s Women’s Convention, one of her colored sisters from the U.S. A. ZA SS SS | promo MS Cie ere Wy, N oe fA, <i \\ ly tae” SS Re \ Yi -\\ Yy ee AN | Y Ye Poem | VEE SE oe Mee tpl NN? VGA, Y NY) he, oo “4S. Ro serra ELAM? Mrs. Lawson then delivered an ad- mirable address, in the course ot which she paid a well-deserved tribute to Ed- inburgh—the modern Athene—and te her hospitable people. She expressed gratitude to the Worla’s Women’s of- ficers for having requested that as many colored delegates as possible be sent over here, as the Scotch took a warm interest in the colored races, The col- ored peoples of the U, 8. A, bad decided tosend her over, flattered by the invi- tation, and glad to respond because they had not been ignored, a8 was the case in their own land. Mrs. Lawson spoke of the colored people of America 48 striving hard to contribute their own quota of serviee to the forces making ‘or righteousness ; spoke of the progress slong all lines that had been made since their emaneipation, In 16¢5, she seid, probably not one in 1,000 could read or write. To-day, they had over 25,000 a ting as teachers sud professors in the great centers of learning in America, besides a targe tuinhber takipg post-graduate courses ‘a foreign countries, Their Interest in ‘he temperance cause, she went on to ‘“y, Was Manifest by the presence of 3 Tepresentatives, whose expenses had Ween generously defrayed by the very ‘lored people who had sent them over. Mrs. Jesse Lawson, while in Kdin- burgh, was taken by her host and host- “ss the Rey. Mr. and Mrs, Sutherland, ‘Und the places of historic interest. Ste was introduced to several influen- ‘al citizens, among whom was Mr. Davia Lewis, ex-Magistrate. Mr. Lewie ‘ud Lis femily were most gracious to her, the ex-Magistrate presented her “ith several most valuable books, all “ritten by bimself, and extended to ‘st, besides, other courtesies. : Mrs, Lawson has spent a few days at Re at London, at Liverpool ; and i ‘an be no doubt that she has }yed her trip to Europe. In Mrs.) THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. 0. SS Jesse Laweon, ibe colored peopte or | (ERY EVEYa ayaa Tea} Amé6fica have a most worthy represen- | ERVe LOXLOXOLO XOXO) tative; and long may she live to place | (>< SSS ES her great abilities at their dispess!, | = = Bete Edinburgh. MDB | hee ROIUINYD MRS. JE:SE LAWSON AT LEITH PRES BYTERIAN CHUKCH The Rev. Mr. Sutherland, of Leith Piesbyterian church, after delivering z Spirited sermon on Sunday soorning the 24th June, permitted Mrs. Jesse Lasson, of Washington, D. C, to ad dress his congregation. The speaker, in the course of her remarks, said that as she reviewed the lessons learned through Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, and other famous delineators of the physicel espects of Scotland, its high moral tone, and the sterling quali- ties of the people, ste realized how faintly she had been able to appreciate the greatnets and grandeur of the noble Scotch. Who couid live in this city of lofty chureh spires, vieing witb each other for a kiss of the heavens, this city of imposing castles, renowned uni. versities, and lofty mountains, and not be led to exolaim irresistibly, ‘I will lift up my eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from God whe made the heay- ens apd theearth?” Verily, God hath placed the Scotch amid physical eur- roundings which made it easy for them to lead aspiring youth to look through nature, up to nature’s God. The speak: er psid a generous tribute to the hospi tality of the Scotch, for which, like the Arabs, they are so noted. She referred to the invariable kindness she had met with at their hands, She then proceeded to trace the prog- ress of alcoholic drinks in various coun- tries, drinke which have caused so much pbysical and moral harm; and to describe the splendid work done by the W. ©. T. U. of America, in rescu- ing the fallen, in shsltering the home- jess, in taking cale of the infirm, She denounced the iniquitous saicon inter- jest, which so greatly impeded the progress of Christian missicnaries in ‘remoter lands. The heathen nations. she pointed out, had pleaded to be let alone, rather preferring to cling te | their heathen gods than to adopt religion followed, as ours sociten is, by this great destrcyer of the bodies and souls of men, The missionary was ter ribly hampered in his ¢ ftorts to spread the gospel, and the W. C. T. U. had for about a quarter of a century been sending its workers around the glone as teachers of the prinetples for which it stood. In concluding her able and elo- quent addrees, Mrs. Lawson observed that she would lesve the congregation with the impression that they, as wom- en of the Negro race, were leaving no stone un(urned to make the land of their birth better for having lived in it, and that they had always gladly con- tributed, and woald continue to con tribute their little towards she success of the cause they repr¢sented. both among the peoyle of the world, for they realized that Life was a sheet of paper white. M. D. BR. Edinburgh. Frederick Wiley, white husband oi Samantha Kobert, colored, of Indian- apolis Ind., who died in December, 1809, leaving $6,000 werth of property, is in Indianapolis to get his share. Wiley had not lived with his alleged wife for several years. Psobate-commissioner Walker notified Wiley to file a petition, then if he can prove he was her husband, he is entitled to half. Mrs. Roberts left 4 fine residence on Alvord street. 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Sold by dealers or send us $12.40 Postal or Express Money Order for 3 battles, express paid. Write your hame and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, I. 3 CHARLES FISCHER, a mana a=. aS | p Sa Lary | hae oa ——— Manufacturer and Geaierib--— - BURGICAL & ORTHOPUELIUA, instruments and Trusses. 623 BEVENTH STREET, NouTh ¥ ST Opposite Paten: Utice WAPHINGTON. D.C GREAT RACE BOOKS. It is a fact that J. T, Haley & Co. 346 Court Fquare Nashville, Tenn are the most extensive Race Book pub lishers in the United States. They are our friends and are giving employ— ment to hundreds of men and women of the race. They publish the ArRo- AMERICAN "“NCYCLOPAEDIA ( OLLEGE or Lire, Uncie Toms CaBin, SP ARK: ting Gems, Lamp or Wisi 0M, etc. These bovks sell at sight. Agente are having a barvest, Write Quick for terms and Territory HALTER AND FORNISHER U iJ eS “9 H, € a naa v Ay i Saas ‘) = +337 PENNA-AVE. 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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 perse WASH will not lighten the skin in remains soft and bright without cont does the work. It is your duty to look delighted patrons send us testimonia States. HARTONA FACE WASH will Black-Heads, Freckles, and all Blemis shade of skin on neck, face, and hands with each bottle. HARTONA FACE to any part of the United States of Remember, your money is positively fied and delighted with the Hartona R turn the skin of a black person five or six shades skin of a mulatto person perfectly white. HAR 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 of the United States on receipt of price-$1.00. Our money is positively refunded if you are not al- tuted 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 or chafed limbs, etc. HARTONA NO-SM ing from disagreeable odors caused by Sent anywhere on receipt of price----500 al smells and bad odors of the body. Cures sore a etc. HARTONA NO-SMELL is a God-send to all agreeable 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 $2 SMELL, worth 50c. The entire lot is 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 Register. Since our remedies in this city, we will send to all perail to us this Coupon and ONE DOLLAR, three HAIR STRAIGHTENER, worth $3.00; two LAce 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 seame 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 selling goods at once— Three Large Boxes HARTONA HAIR STRAIGHTENER, wo Two Large Bottles HARTONA FACE WASH, - we One Package HARTONA NO-SMELL, - - we My Name is_ House No._, Street_ City_, County_, State_ AGENTS WANTED IN EVERY TOWN IN AMERICA. OUR GOODS S THE AMPHIONS' EXCURSION. thousand." Parties of MEN:—I enclose you ONE DOLLAR, for which service is at once— Large Boxes HARTONA HAIR STRAIGHTENER, wo Large Bottles HARTONA FACE WASH, - wo Package HARTONA NO-SMELL, - wo No._____, Street_____ Y_____, County_____, State_____ PLEASE 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 AGENTS WANTED IN EVERY TOWN IN AMERICA. OUR GOODS SELL ON SIGHT. Grand Concert On The Return Trip, By The Club. The famous Amphion Glee Club will have their Tenth Annual Outing at Notley Hall, next Wednesday August 15. The date is well selected. The River Queen will make three trips: 9:30 a.m., 2:00 p.m., and 6:00 p.m. Round trip 25 cents. Children under 12 years 15 cents each. The outings by this organization are exceptional in that the best of order is always observed. You always meet some one whom you desire to see. Everyone knows each other. On the last boat the club will render some of their most excellent music which has made them famous. Their recent entertainment of President McKinley and Cabinet at the Country Club which is the fourth time in their history, and the first occasion that a similar organization has had that honor, has added very much to their great popularity. To hear them is worth double the fair charged. In fact "One day with them is worth a --- --- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. O. 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 conials 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. 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 to 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- NA HAIR STRAIGHTENER, worth $3.00 A FACE WASH, worth $2.00 SMELL, worth .50 reet county_____, State_____ IN AMERICA. OUR GOODS SELL ON SIGHT. thousand." Parties of six and more are being formed to go and spend the entire day. The officers are as follows: Jas. H. Washington. Pres., W. De Long. Secretary, Chas. H. Champ, Treasurer, Fred. A. Sabbs, Librarian, J. Henry Lewis, Director and Manager. Butler's Department Stores. Mr C. Augustus Butler has built a large department store at his home, Annapolis, Md. This store has three salesmen and a cashier. It is 27 feet by 56 feet, which is one of the largest stores controlled by colored people. It is lighted by electric lights and is stocked with dry goods, clothing, groceries, shoes, notions, stationary, etc. Glass, tin, China and earthernware. Mr. Charles A. Butler is owner and proprietor. Metropolitan A. M. E. church is drawing large Sunday morning audiences now, and the services are quite interesting. The pastor, Rev. J. Albert Johnson, is out of the city. MERE MENTION. Asbury M. E church has just concluded a very successful lawn fete. Miss Hattie Betts is spending the heated term at Lara, Va. She will return in September. Miss Jennette Harvey of 623 L street, n.w. has gone to Atlantic City where she will spend the summer. Mrs. Gertrude Merritt Payne and her interesting little family are pleasantly located at Cambridge, Md. Several very prominent school teachers are said to have missed the guillotine by a dangerously narrow margin. It is pleasant news that Mr. W. F. McKinney has consented to remain as superintendent of the Second Baptist Sunday school. Rev. O. M. Waller, rector of St. Luke's P. E. church is enjoying a month's vacation with his friends at his cottage in Sea Isle, N. J. Miss Mildred and her sister Anna S. Payne of 1328 New Hampshire Ave. left last Tuesday for Westmoreland, Va. to be gone until September 15. kt. Luke's fete champetre at Lake View Park, September 7 will surpass all previous efforts in the line of amusements. It will be largely attended. Protests are again going up against the location of the colored manual training school. Nevertheless and notwithstanding, the school will go up. Miss Mabelle Carter has gone over to Baltimore to spend her vacation with her brother. Mr. Charles A. Reeder of the Executive Mansion will join her the last of the week. Mor day evening's meeting of the District Afro-American Council was an enthusiastic affair. President George H. White made a most eloquent and practical address on the needs of the hour The Second Baptist church will run an excursion to Richmond, Va., Sept. 15 to give Washington's 20,000 Baptists an opportunity to attend the annual session of the National Baptist Convention. Col. J. M. Ryan of the Southern Hotel still stands at the head of the list of successful fishermen in these diggings. His last trip up the Potomac netted him seven fine bass, ranging in weight from two to four pounds. Miss Minnie Crutchfield, who has been teaching with signal success for several terms at Unison, Va., has decided not to return this year but will remain in the city and conduct the prosperous dressmaking business that her skill and fidelity have built up. Miss Crutchfield is one of our most earnest and useful young ladies. Mr. H. P. Slaughter is making an enviable record as superintendent of St. Luke's P. E. Sunday school. He is one of the few young men whose advent in Washington has not caused him to become forgetful of the duty an individual of talent owes to the promotion of the Master's work. Mr. Slaughter is happily using his intellect and energy for the public weal. The funeral of William A. Robinson, the son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Robinson, of 1441 Madison street, was held at the Metropolitan Baptist church of which the deceased was a member, on Sunday last. He was a young man full of life and vigor and very active in church work. The services were conducted by Rev. Robert Johnson, pastor of the church and a very large number attended the services. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson have the sympathy of their many friends. 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: August. " 12, Regular family excursion to Notley Hall. Rev. Wilibanks to Lower Cedar Point. 14, Congressional to Glymont 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, Israel C. M. E. Church to Lower Cedar Point. 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 stamus or post office money order to Charles Alexander. Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. 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 extraordinary. 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. TEES RC CECE EC Be BG 2 A RL WAY and consider Dv you know my celebrate be hx GO Bay. Ti RMSE Ste ae a ey a ae aoe SS EID y TA) Sinas TE Melatio oe het sin prsene can Vent te wm erty whee os, PAY > Ae ‘D\_ bottle ie all that is required to complete the treatment. and the use docs not have to ey) i be kept ep My Imperial Whitenet cannot fail It 1s harmless in every reapect and > | nF 1 will pay $100 to any one proving to the contrary The cffect s acer at ence By' 'o the usg of improved machinery | have managed to make it at a price within the reach EYA % . iff of ll T have beco seliing it at $6.00 a bottle Recently I reduced st to $200. but oe =F = KL Willi 20, to wtroduce it er once I will send a bottle. prepaid, to any one who will send oes 4 a Ay me 60c Remember. I guarantee every bottle. and I will send back the money if you fp nae Hoy are wot satisfied in every way Don't delay, but send Sc at once to s fey ee St RILAS GATHRIGHT, bay ARYL S18 v. Teenty-Third treet micinioxD, va. PN SCRE ORC ECC ee ee Be A REVELATION IN SURGERY. healthy and the doctor believes tha — will live, and grow as healthfolly (Continued from firat page.) it Oi ec ie ae a ee ee She was a dwarf, twenty five years old, and was bat forty twoinches tall It was soon seen hy Dr. Cartis that an operation was indicated, to save the life of the mother and unborn child, So urgent were the conditions, the sur- seon could nob wait till morning for the delicate task, avd preparations were begun at once for the difficult and dan: verous procedure, \ Sees ye 4 a 2 jj we Wied] DR. A. M. CURTIS. At midnight Wednesday night, un- der the glare of the Welsbach lights, and in the presence of a score of phy- sicians who had been invited to be present, Dr. Curtis, assisted by the house staff, in seven minutes banded a 9 ibs. baby to am assistant—the peed: iest performance of the kind onrecord. In spite of the unusual draft upon his nervous energy, and the terrible re" sponsibility thrust upon him at a mo‘ ments’ notice, Dr. Curtis never betray- ed the least sign of excitement and was actually the coolest man on the prem- ises—showing the attributes of the true physician—a ready head and a ready hand in the most trymg emergency. fhe operation performed upon Nan- cy Hill is described as a modification of the original Cresarian tection, known by the scientific term of Porro-Cvesarian sechion, This operation is one that pre- cludes the possibility of maternity again, so far as Nancy Hill is cone cerned, her service as a professional storm. center is a closed incident. Phe child weighed nine pounds and was twenty inches long, almost half the length of its mother. The diame- terof the head from front to back is four inches; diameter from chin to top ot head five inches, from ear to ear (hree and three- quarterinches, circum’ ference of head fifteen inches, and cir- cumference of shoulders fourteen and three quarter inches. The child is well proportioned) The mother and oild are doing nicely, The child seems HE COLORED AMERICAN, ‘WASHINGTON, D. B. healthy and the doctor believes that it will live, and grow as healthfolly as did the one that was similarly delivered three years ago. This is the fourth Cvesarian operation performed at Freed- men’s Hospital, but the opportunity of carrying the same subject through twice is such a signal triumph that all the week Dr. Curtis has been the reci: pient of congratulations the country over, at the hands of the most notaple citizens, both in the medical profession and out. The skillful young doctor reaches the end of the 19th century as the lion of the times, Dr. Austin M. Curtis is too well Known to require extended personal comment. He 1s a national figare, and has won his way tothe front by merit and hard well directed work. He is a native of North Carolina, but is a pro duct of the medical oniversities of Chi‘ eago, where he was located previous to his appointment as surgeon‘in: chief at Freedmen’s Hospitai in the spring of 1897. He is the first surgeon’ in-chief to come in under the civil serv’ ice regulations, and Lis success was gained hy leading all competitors ina most rigid examination. His adminis: tration of the affairs of the Freedmen’s | Hespital has been clean, energetic and ‘eflicient, and thiough careful attention ‘ detail and quickness to grasp and adopt the very latest improvements known to medicine and surgery, he has inaugurated reforms that have placed his institution in the front rank of American hospitals. Dr. Curtis is gen: ial and sunny in disposition, gracious in manner and easy of appzoach by the humblest He has kept free from all embarrassing entanglements and all will agree that Freedmen’s never had & More popular chief, Im all his en- deavors Dr. Curtis has the good fortune to be ably and cheerfully supported by a charming and devoted wife, whose labors for the uplifting of her race and sex have been scarcely less conspicuous and successfal than that of her talented husband. The Colored American says God: speed to them both, R. W. P. Education the Solvent. Principal Booker T, Washington of the Tuskegee Institute contributes two papers to representative magazines of the country for the current month, August, at their special solicitation. He writes ofthe receut Montgomery Race Conference for the Century Magazine, and for the North American Review, in reply to Prof. John Roach Sirattcn’s pessimistic article regarding the Negro in the June number of that publication. Mr. Washington declares his conviction that education will be the solvent for the vexing problems of the South go far as they relate to the Negro, Always an admirable writer, moderate and courteous, with a readiness to discuss every phase of the future of the race that shows nothing has escaped his observatioa or failed to receive his deepest thought, Mr. Washington in this North American Review article shows himseif at his best. He is not over-optimistic, but he has a faith based upon facts and logic, -SUMMER RESORTS. See ee ina. «a er Oe é a. pret poe HOTEL Che Se te Fee ee Ea. SS ; ac a ay] a W 0 0 DL A pene = TERRACE Ae ai Shins: VSS ee ees ee a ee Lawnside. N.J. This Hotel is situated on an elevation which furnishes one with a magaifi cent view for tea miles. At the base of which is a widesheet of water giving ample opportunity to those fond of sailing or fishing. WOODLAWN TERRACE. is on the Whitehorse Pike, seveu mites froma Uamden. 25 tratns stop at Lawa- side daily. The sarvice at the Hotel is strictly fiest class. The Bed Rooms are large and atry with all modern conveniences. The Hotel ie three stories high, 35 feet front and ‘3 surrounded with a besutiful lawn and wide gravel walks. For terms, addrass MRS. CHAS. SMITH, Snow Hill, N.J. sa Will open Friday, June 1, 1900. Mr. Robert Evans, the enterprising and popular boniface, corner 18th and L streets, contemplates making many improvements in his already well established place. Mr, Evans does an immense business and can count his colored friends and patrons by the handreds. For the best of ac commodations visit his place. The sad death of Mr. George R. Spaalding removed from us one of the most promising young men that Washington has yet seen. He had just been promoted to a clerkship at the Census Office when death seized him. Mr. Spaulding was a pephew of Con- gressman George H. White, and it bad been planned that he was to eventually become the law partaer of his disting wished re'ative. 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Karl Xander DEALER IN Fine Wines and Liquors Importer, Rectifier and Whole= | sale Agent for Southern Bouquet Whissey. 580-32 Seventh Street Northwest Washington, D.C, en CATLETfS, VA. WANTED HELP. 6 Prof. Robert H. Terrell, Washington High School's Brainy Principal Places the Blame for Southern Outrages Upon The Shoulders of Those Who Make the Sentiment of the Reaction Region—Tribute to the Negro Soldier. Geneva, N. Y., Times. Prof. R. H. Terrell of Washington in his address yesterday afternoon at the Smith Opera House made some timely remarks as to the treatment of the Negro in the South and the laws which have been enacted in opposition to the race. He said in this connection: "Proscription against him in the trades everywhere; dishonest disfranchisement laws humiliating and insulting separate car statutes; all are conceived adopted and executed for the purpose of degrading the Negro, crushing out his ambition and wounding his self-respect. These laws are not made for the idle, vicious, unkempt J. and unclean Negro, for he has always been held in subjection and under the control of white men; but they are made to insult and humiliate the colored men and women who have aspirations for the higher and better things of life. They grow out of the hatred of the people who enact them for those at whom they are aimed. "When Stephen Foster was addressing a meeting of abolitionists near Philadelphia in the olden days, some one threw a stone at him. The chairman of the meeting arose and asked who did it. Stephen Foster himself quickly replied he knew And then pointing his finger at different men, said, 'You did it, you did, because you are responsible for the sentiment of the place in which you live.' "So it is in the south today. All of its leading citizens are responsible for the inhuman outrages upon black men that are perpetrated from day to day. Shall any man expect me to believe that the descendants of the Marions, the Sumters, the Pinckneys, the Calhouns are not responsible for the conditions that prevail in South Carolina or that the foremost men of New Orleans are not accountable for the spirit of the mob that terrorized that city a few days ago, killing innocent black men and women because one of their number had resisted arrest on suspicion by shooting two officers. "The best citizens themselves have used mobs at the ballot boxes for so many years that they are now beyond their control. I do not believe a condition so hard as that of the black man in the South can last forever. Some day the relief will come, because the humane world will no longer tolerate it and it will go as slavery went. Garrison, Phillips, Douglass, Gerritt Smith and Charles Sumner are no more THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. but there will spring up other champions of justice, who will not tolerate this great iniquity and the thing will be hit hard upon the head." The topic of Prof. Terrell's main address was "The Colored Soldier in Wars of America." It was a comprehensive and scholarly effort in which he told in great detail the story of the colored soldiers in America, from the death of Crispus Attucks in the "Boston Massacre" March 5, 1770, down to their crowning glory in the terrible charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish war. He told of their achievements in the Revolution, how they took a prominent part in the battle of Bunker Hill and numberless other engagements; how, after the war ended, they returned to peaceful pursuits, how they responded to the call for men in the war of 1812 in the Mexican war and most largely in the Civil war. He sketched their record as soldiers of the regular army in the Indian wars and how they capped it all by heoric deeds two short years ago. Prof. Terrell is principal of the Colored High School at Washington, the largest colored school in the country, having 30 regular and 10 special teachers and 800 pupils. He is a graduate of Harvard and was the first colored man to graduate from that institution with honors. He served four years as chief of the division of the auditor's office of the United States Treasury. THROUGH THE NATURAL LAW. Mr. Washington Talks Wisely Upon the Foundation of Citizenshih, and Avers that the Negro Must Pay the Price Demanded by Progress. Happy as Booker T. Washington's utterances invariably are it seems that he has never before condensed so much truth in a single paragraph as is found in this excerpt from his Bethel Literary address. It states our case in a nut shell and is a splendid sample leaf from that philosophy he so capably teaches at Tuskegee. Says Mr. Washington: "The foundation of citizenship rests upon the intrinsic worth of each individual or group of individuals. No law can push the individual forward when he is worthless; no law can hold him back when he is worthy. The worthy may be inconvenienced, but never defeated. The time will come when the colored man will secure all the recognition his merits entitle him to as a man and as a citizen, but such recognition will come through no process of artificial forcing, but through the natural law of evolution. In a word, we have got to pay the price for everything we get, the price that every civilized race or nation has paid for its position, that of beginning gradually, naturally at the bottom and working up toward the highest civilization." Missee Ellen Brooks and Mazie Green left the city this week to spend a few week in La Plate, Md., Miss May Belcher, a popular young school teacher of Augusta, Ga. who has been attending the Hampton Summer Conference arrived in the city Tuesday. She will remain here several weeks with her aunt on 4th street, p. w. 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Summer course begins June 15th. A "WEST POINT" OF OUR OWN. Mr. J. C. Cunningham Suggests a Feasible Place for Utilizing the Military Genius of Lieut. Henry O. Flipper—How to Break Down the Excuse of Negro Inexperience When Army Commissions are Available. Editor The Colored American: -So much has been said about the re instatement of Lieutenant Flipper until his name has become a household word with all race race loving Afro Americans. But why should the leading men of our race continue to remain on their knees, begging President McKinley and Congress to re instate Lieutenant Flipper when it seem to be a part of their "pls in duty" to ignore the wishes of all Negroes? It was the color of Lieutenant Flipper's skin that played the greater part in getting him out and the color of his skin only is going to keep him out. Being out of the army Lieut. Flipper is in a position to do the race much good. Would not be a good move if the leaders of the race would get together and form some plan to use Lieutenant Flipper? He knows much that the young men of the colored race should know; and he should be employed to teach them. Why not add to one of our colleges—say Livingstone or Wilberforce—a military school to train our young men in the science of war? The doors of West Point are closed against the young men of our race, and the thing for the Negro to do is to start a West Point of his own and put Lieutenant Flipper in charge of it. Lieutenant Flipper is a graduate, I am informed, of West Point, and is fully capable of managing a school of this kind. During the war with Spain a number of colored men applied for positions as colonels, captains, lieutenants, etc., but the Administration had the proud excuse of turning them down on the ground that they hadn't the proper training to lead men against the enemy. That was all true enough, but how can the colored men, who are just as true to "Old Glory" as the white men, ever be capable of leading troops against the enemy when the Government, through prejudice, has closed the doors of its military schools against them? Not only should the Negro feel proud of starting a West Point for the Negro, but such a step should meet the approval of every true American and have the liberal support of the general government. We love to join with the white man in singing: "My country,'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty," etc. And to show that we mean no fallacy in singing that sweet old song, we want to help defend the stars and stripes. We defended her even when we, ourselves, were bound in fetters and chains. Now let us start a military school so that while the West Point schools at New York and Annapolis, Md., are sending out their Goliaths of war, the Afro-American West Point will be able to send out her little Davids to meet them. See? Thousands would take advantage of such a school. Start the ball, editors of the colored journale and don't let it stop until Lieutenant Flipper will be so busy training the colored youth that he will not have time to serve Uncle Sam, even should he be sent for in a hurry. JOSPH C. CUNNINGHAM. Washington, D. C. Mr. J. W. Cusberd, of New York city a former resident of Washington is in the city visiting relatives and friends. Miss Vivian Thompson Bids Farewell to Little Friends. Miss Vivian Lucille Thompson, of 333 Spruce street, Le Droit Park, gave a "farewell party" to a housefull of her little companions and playmates last Monday, between the hours of 5 and 8 p.m., under the supervision of her father and grandmother, Mr. R. W. Thomson and Mrs. Eliza Gibbs. The time was most enjoyably spent in lively games, marching, dancing, cake-walking, the music being furnished by a graphophone Dainty refreshments were served under the direction of Mrs. Cora Ridley. The first prize in the cakewalking contest was won by Miss Vivian Thompson and Master James Kinloch. The second was carried off by Miss Vivian Williams and Master Austin Toomey, amid much laughter and applause. The young folks present besides the illtle hostess were Misses Phyllis Church Terrell, Vivian Williams, Grace Lyles, Viola Menard, Baby Menard, Claudine Brandon, Essie Champ, Mary Brent, Magenta Lyles, Olivia Lyles, Baby Robinson, Masters Willis Menard, James Kinloch, Austin Toomey, Willie Belcher, Richard Toomey, Willie Davis, Roscoe Robinson, Harry Toomey, and others. Among the adults who "dropped in" to enjoy the festivities with the children and to assist them with their games were Prof. and Mrs. R. H. Terrell, Lieut. and Mrs. R. E. Toomey, Mrs. J. Willis Menard, Misses Mary Menard, Ida Washington and Norma Ridley, Mrs. Martell, mother of Mrs. Terrell, Miss Lula A. Hamer, Dr. A. M. Curtis, W. L. Hawkins, and J. C. Campbell. Miss Vivian Thompson and her grandmother Mrs. Gibbs, are now at their old home in Indianapolis, Ind., for permanent residence. You Get a Copy of it and See it for Yourself for 25 Cents. Mr. Editor please gave me space in your paper to notify the people that the book I have written will be ready for shipping to those who have sent for them now in about 5 or 10 days and I ask every person who has sent for the book to be ready for to take prompt action, for the book is calculated to employ over one hundred (100,000) thousand wide-awake men and women who are to help to gather under the leadership of 3,675 high standard leaders, a cash backing of ($100,000,000) one hundred millions of dollars for the good of the Negro race of America. I also notify all men that no plan can be offered to the Negro race that will answer for the purpose or equal the plan I am now about to send out in this book, and they who get the book will have a private advantage over all other men and women of the Negro race, which will be worth a fortune to them who accept it, for it will give them power to become the first with the leaders in a plan by which a complete fortune and victory for the race is to be gained by them, and as the book only cost 25 cents, it seems to me that all sensible people ought to be glad to send and get a copy of it at once, at 712 N. 2nd street, Richmond, Va. in order that all may have equal showing in getting in the lead. I am, SHOWING UP SELFISH EDITORS. N. B.: Mr. Editor-I wonder why the other Negro Editors will not copy and republish the notices I put in your paper which all of the people ought to know about? They have the people paying them for their papers in order to get the news: why don't they let the people know that there is a Negro in the race who is offering to show them a way out? I want all men, and the very devil himself, and all his angels, to know that I am fully able to lead the Negro race to victory; the How, is in the 25 cents book I have written to the Negro Preachers. I am, JUSTUS J. EVANS. 712 N. 21d St., Richmond, Va. A new pleasure park for colored people at Mobile, Ala, has been christened "Ramona Park" and is now opened for the public. It is beautifully situated on the Bay and the pavilion is undoubtedly all that could be desired. The location is an ideal one. SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. AGENTS WANTED. Enclose 20 stamp for reply, and we will send particulars telling how you can make from $75 to $180 per month, and also be presented with a fine Gold Watch. Address. SCOTT REMEDY CO. Box 570, Louisville, Ky. WANTED ROOMS. 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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 9 The Colored American Published by THE COLORED AMERICAN Publ ishing Company. A NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER Pub ished every Saturday at 459 C St. N. W Washington, D. C. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One year - - $2.00 Six months - - 1.10 Three months - - .60 INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. Subscriptions may be sent by postoffice money order, express or by registered letter. All communications for publication should be accompanied with the name of the writer—not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. We solicit news, contributions, opinions and in fact, all matters affecting the race. We will not pay for matter, however, unless it is ordered by us. All matter intended for publication must reach this office by Wednesday of each week to insure insertion in the current issue. Agents are wanted everywhere. Send or instructions. ADVERTISING RATES. Reading notices 50 cents per line. Display advertisements, 12 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 EDWARD E. COOPER, MANAGER 459 C Street Northwest. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1900. OUR WEEKLY TEXT. "So when they continued asking Him. he lifted up Himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone." --St. John viii: 7. A WORD FOR PROF. ROBERT H. TERRELL. The ovation which Prof. Robert H, Terrell received last week at Geneva, New York, calls attention anew to the splendid abilities of the popular principal of Washington's Colored High School. We do not have to learn of his merits from abroad. We know him here at home and love him for the career he has led for the noble example he has set for the youth of our land. Still we are glad when he goes out among strangers to learn from such admirable reports as we present to day from New York, that he more than meets the highest expectations of cultured and distinguished audiences, of any race. In sustaining himself so creditably at Geneva's emancipation celebration Prof. Terrell sustained the dignity and reputation of every Afro-American in the nation's capital. Although Prof. Terrell was not named for the headship of the colored District schools as many of his admirers fondly hoped he would be, that accomplished educator remains as principal of the Washington High School. Mr. Terrell is a graduate of Harvard, a man of parts, and whether in the educational or political arena, carries into his work the leavening influences of broad scholarship, irreproachable character and shrewd executive ability. This has been amply demonstrated in his administration of a responsible post in the Treasury department, at the bar, in the business world, in the fraternities, and in the school room. Mr. Terrell has not only advanced himself, unselfish to the last degree, but he has helped many promising young men, conspicuous among them such successes as Roscoe Conkling Bruce, Napoleon B. Marshall, W. L. Pollard, A. O. Stafford—besides many others of equal note. Such a man as Robert --- 20TH COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. H. Terrell is a benefit to any community, and Washington has a right to congratulate itself upon having at its command a factor at once so active, so willing and so capable to serve her interests and whose disposition is so sunny that it spreads cheer wherever he goes. The Colored American makes no idle prediction when it says that should the office of the assistant superintendent become vacant for any reason, the mantle would fall upon Mr. Terrell's shoulders. Logically, he is next in line of promotion. Mr. Fortune talks like a man who does not propose to have his real position misunderstood. He is for McKinley and Roosevelt because they are abler, wiser, more honest and more patriotic—and are for us. Mr. Fortune's place on the band wagon is close to the driver. TWO DECADES OF THE TRUE REFORMERS Grand Secretary W. P. Burrell has made public a comprehensive review of the twenty years' work of the Grand United Orders of True Reformers, now the largest and most substantial business and beneficial organization in the world, conducted by Negroes. The showing is a magnificent one, and no Afro-American can study it without feeling an increased pride in the financial capacity of his people. The story is interestingly told by Mr. Burrell, and flattering as the results appear the picture is not in the least overdrawn. The Secretary carefully traces the progress of the True Reformers from that eventful 20th of December, 1880, when William W. Browne landed in Richmond, Va., with the plans of a grand organization in his pocket and and his brain together. The review deals largely with the labors of the present administration, and the actual figures displayed, are a higher compliment to the managerial qualities of Grand Master Taylor than columns of the most florid rhetoric could set forth. The record shows that in three years, Dr. Taylor has added to the rolls 28.365 persons. September 1st, 1897, the total benefited membership in all the departments was 25,683, so that the additions for the last three years are 2,682, members more than the whole benefited membership for the previous 17 years. The total benefited membership to date is 43,157 which shows a net increase in the membership, after allowing for all deaths and lapses, of 68 per cent in three years, or 17,474 members. The increase in deposits and paid-up stock has been of similarly large proportions. Those dyspeptics of our own race who make a specialty of decrying the business acumen of the Negro, and those of other races who decry our standing in the financial world do well to pause and recast their judgment upon lines more in keeping with the revelations here so clearly marked out The Colored American never tires of congratulating the True Reformers upon their phenomenal success. They are doing yeoman service in strength ening the race's "business pillar" of which we spoke, the other day. Quietly, soberly and solidly, the True Reformers are building a handsome superstructure upon the foundation of honesty, industry and integrity so deeply laid by our fathers. Rev. W. W. Taylor and his able executive staff are leaders indeed and they have a following worthy of their highest and purest endeavors. We trust that the next twenty years will bring blessings of a like degree. When the mobocrats learn that the police intend to preserve law and order at any cost and when Negroes are made to understand that justice can be had in the courts for black and white alike, the breed of Robt. Charles will have no incentive for increase. Two races share theodium of the New Orleans riot. The remedy lies not in violence on the part of either. NOT PARTIAL TO A "GALLERY" SEAT. The democratic party, under the leadership of a clean, aggressive and resourceful leader like William Jennings Bryan, will bear watching. The democratic party is in many senses an inconglomerate. disorganized mob, and piles up mistake on top of mistake when intrusted with the reins of administration, but it fights like six tigers when out of power. It is prepared to resort to any tactics to win. It will even cajole the Negro vote in the north, while clubbing it in the south. It can be all things unto all men when necessity requires it. The democratic party is never too proud to stoop to conquer. Such a foe is not to be whistled down the wind, even when you have right on your side. The Colored American warns the republican party that some solid work had better be done early among the Negroes in New York and the middle west. Over-confidence in the black vote being all right, may breed disaster. If the republicans show themselves indifferent to the Negro's support, the Negro may get an attack of a similar feeling. The Negro isnt partial to a "gallery seat in a party where he once occupied a "box." Once again we ask, 'What will the harvest be? Do your duty where you are, however humble your station. To the unthinking, success is right. To the well-balanced and philosophical, right is success. Our experience in China bids fair to throw several buckets of cold water upon the force in the missionary business. If hades is really a movable place as some assert, it hovered about North Carolina this week, veering slightly from New Orleans. The New Orleans race riot may not be without its lesson. There are some incidents connected with it that will not be seen forgotten. Will the Cleveland Gazette be courteous enough to inform a more or less anxious public just what and whom it is supporting. The ridiculous attempt of the Chicago Conservator faction to array the Council against Mr. Washington's business men's convention has failed. The fusionists of Kansas nominated Col. James Beck as a presidential elector at the Fort Scott convention a few days ago. It is not difficult for the Negro to secure a place in the columns of a forlorn hope. Why not send a few able bodied missionaries to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ into North Carolina? Such a movement would be nearer in line with common sense, and yield better results than does our assault upon the doctrines of Mohammed, Budha and Confuscius. Negro men and women who have the interests of the race at heart should deport themselves decently and orderly on the street cars, in the parks, on the streets and all the other places where bad conduct may interfere with the comfort of their neighbors. Being under suspicion anyway, and bearing a questionable reputation, it behooves us to avoid even the appearance of evil. It does not stand us well in hand to give an enemy a club with which he may beat our brains out. The Negro question as it relates to the Negro, bids fair to figure in politics this year. Whether justly or injustly, it is pointed out that nine tenths of the factories are controlled by republican capital, the beneficiaries of the protective tariff. Why can they not strain a point to deal honorably by Negro labor when the Negro is so essential to the success of the party whose legislation makes their great profits possible? If the objection rests with the labor unions, are the capitalists prepared to admit that they can control the votes of their employees on election day, yet find themselves pow-erless to hire whom they choose to perform their work for them? The play is too thin. If the Negro is wise, he will secure from the capitalists some of the benefits of the tariff and sound money that his suffrage preserves to the rich man's advantage. The Negro has as much right to make his labor an issue as the white man has. The Travelling Humbug Columbus, O., Special-Along our line of travel we come across what might be termed three cent traveling editors, they pose as editors, correspondents, agents, etc., They tickle the ears of innocent people by circulation etc., of their paper, collect photo and cuts of a few of the people and a history of their life with a dollar for a year's subscription, and are gone that is the last you see of the editor, dollar, photo etc. We have no objection to their operation, except as it makes it so very hard for an agent of a first class colored newspaper to make a sale, because as soon as a person sees you coming toward them with your papers they begin to cry out no, no, I want to see no Negro papers, of course the cause is apparent. Political speeches are being made in wigwams, tents and huts preliminary to the battle just ahead. Lawyer E. J. Wazring is acting police judge this week. Rev. D. N. Ross is a member of the campaign advisory board. Mr. William Young, formerly steward to the Atheneaum Club, Baltimore, Md. is in the city. Mr. Young will engage in his profession in Pittsburg, Pa. Some of our white weekly papers here have a column or two every week devoted to the doings of colored people, it is no trouble to discover the object. The Simpson, Brown and Cathoun concert was a success. A union of the Baptists and Methodists young people's societies was a rare feature in Columbus, but a manifestation of goodness was and is seen. The oratorical contest to be given by the John M. Brown Literary is promised to be a grand affair. Columbus affords a very small amount of work for the Negro. Hon. George H. White and Prof. Jesse Lawson were elected delegates, and Mr. A. L. Manly and Dr. Lucy E. Moten alternates to represent the District Council No.1 at the Indianapolis convention. AN ELOQUENT PLEA. (Continued from first page.) board of life, write plus, then go and 'take his place in the silent halls of death.' No three hundred years of human history have presented such wonderful evolutions as the three hundred years of Negro American history. Four millions of industrious christians were evolved in the south from four million savages. From four millions of penniless Negroes have evolved in forty years ten millions of citizens worth a billion dollars right in the land of their bondage. From eight million white slaveholders have evolved fifteen million white tax payers who support churches and schools for their former slaves. Thus white all the outside world discusses solution, the glorious old South goes on from one triumph to another in the process of evolution in thought and industry. This is our work in life. These are the needs which we must scatter along the wayside of life until the law of love shall reign supreme in all the land, and gentle peace shall come to abide forever in the Negro's cabi in the white man's mansion PROP. W. H. COUNSHILL PROF. W. H. COUNCILL. SOCIAL SEPARATION—BUT JUSTICE. Can the strong Anglo Saxon afford to be otherwise than just with the weak Negro in his midst? Treat the Negro fairly in the courts, in the common business transactions of life, in the labor markets of the south. I stand here, having affiliated for twenty five years with the best white south in all that it considered its best welfare in politics and otherwise, and now with all the earnestness of my soul, appeal for better treatment of the nurses, cooks and black mammies on the common carriers of the south. Separate the races in everything that looks like social intermingling, but in God's name treat us fairly. Do not subject us to treatment and to accommodation unworthy the gallantry and chivalry of the south. If the Negro girl is to be the servant girl of the south, then the white south is interested in making her refined and fill her with that tenderness, dignity, and virtue necessary for domestics in the best southern homes. Gentlemen, is there anything in the treatment of Negro women on the carriers, and at the railroad stations to fit them for service in good homes? You do not only run from social contact with the Negro, but you flee from the rough and riotous element of your own race. Help us to separate, as far as you can, from the unworthy of our own race. The best blood of the south does not know that that nurse so well beloved by their sunny haired children, that cook praised by the whole family, that "Black Mammy," the glory of many a south ern heart, are piled in "Jim Crow" car with dogs, convicts, train tools, roughs their ears, eyes and noses insulted in a most ungodly manner, and forced with low men in the same dirty closets of waiting stations. As the white south honors its noble womanhood and precious childhood, it must throw around its servant class, everywhere, environments of integrity and refinement. BRAWLS AND BAD CONDUCT. We waste too much time, energy and money in quarrels and law suits, and then blame the white man for sending us by the thousands to the chaiangangs, jails, coal mines and penalentaries. Nine cases in ten we are prosecutor and witness. Let us get property, pay taxes and thus employ policemen and sheriffs to do our fighting, while we attend our legitimate business. No kinds of words justify blows. Only cowards go about THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. E. armed to kill men. The honest, hard working Negroes has no time for lawless and riotous conduct. ORGANIC FORCES IN THE SOUTH. The few disturbances and outbreaks in the south show the wonderful organic forces in the south. We have here more than ten millions of Negroes and fifteen millions whites, and yet we have probably in the whole south only one Negro and white man in ten thousand who clash. The other nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine rub against one another every hour of the day, in every walk of life, transact their business and go their way in perfect friendship. These peaceful relations of the 9,999 give a bolder prominence to the one exception which is held up by the enemies of the south as the general rule. The love and attachment between the races of the south are more than wonderful when we consider the untiring efforts of busy and meddlesome enemies—the politician, the newspaper, the magazine, and even the pulpit seeking to scatter seeds of discord and break up our peace. We 9,999 will stand firmly for good will and happiness of both races in the south. No enemy shall take that one sinner in ten thousand and disrupt and tear us asunder. SALVATION THROUGH NEGRO WOMEN We complain too much of a lack of honor among our youth when we do not exert ourselves to give them proper encouragement. We complain of the hard hips of our women when we never do one thing to relieve them. Our female element, under mother influence attends school and church, eschews the brothels, stays at home, works, and to our shame, is the backbone of the Negro race today. Were it not for the Negro woman the outlook would be dark. I am aware of the breadth of my speech when I say that the world has never furnished a higher womanhood under like conditions than the Negro woman of the south today. With strong appetites and passions, penniless, houseless, working on "starvation wages," practically left to shift alone, amid stumbling, falling, rising, fleeing—she goes on washing, cooking, plowing, sewing, reaping—educating her daughter, building the cottage, erecting churches and schools, often supporting husband and son—this black woman deserves the admiration of the gods. Every business man will say that a Negro woman's word is worth just what she values it at. Herein we see the nobility of white southern womanhood of long ago, running through the black slave womanhood and lifting up her offspring of today—still lifting her up regardless of great drawbacks and weights GREAT OPPORTUNITIES IN THE SOUTH No ten millions of people in history have ever enjoyed better chances for material progress than the ten millions of Negroes in the South today. Every avenue in which we are capable of walking is open to us. Now and then there are exceptions, but every Negro of the ten millions in the South can get work, can make money, and can save it. The three great civilizing, refining agencies—the workshop, the school room, and the church are wide open to us. These agencies are to us what we make them and we are w at we let them make us. Ten millions of people in the childhood of development never before in all the history of the world stood face to face with so great opportunities and possibilities, and so few oppositions as confront us in the South today. Our few troubles are only the pressures which have been found among all people, necessary to all ages to crystallize racial tendencies into sturdy character. A COWARD: A BRAVE MAN. Any coward can oppress a people—can be unfair—but it takes a brave man to treat all men of whatever race and condition fairly and justly. Any other ideals, any other treatment of men transmits to posterity a race of moral weaklings and cowards. Teach every Negro boy and girl that the salvation of life, the salvation of every thing in the world is the glorious end of education and duty. Then there could be no race conflict. I would rather see every Negro, of the ten million in this country, driven into the Gulf of Mexico and sink beneath its waters with spotless souls, than continue to live with the blood of human beings with the blood of another race dropping from victorious daggers in Negro hands. "THE REST IS SILENCE." The Unexpected Death of Mrs. Alice Strange Davis Leaves the Musical World Bereft of a Tuneful Chord-A Life of Earnest and Enthusiastic Struggle for the Heights-Her Success a Beacon of Hope for Ambitious Youth. The whole community was startled at the sad intelligence of the death of Mrs. Alice Strange Davis, on August 7th at Battle Creek, Mich. She had been in failing health for several years past, and had gone to the famous sanitarium at Battle Creek for a course of treatment. Alice Strange was born in Lynchburg, Va., April 21st, 1861, and was therefore, in her fortieth year. She enjoyed exceptional advantages in her native city, where was laid the basis of that culture and refinement which characterized her subsequent life. In 1876 young Alice Strange entered the Normal Department of Howard University, and four years afterwards was graduated as valedictorian of her class. As a student she was ex- A. C. MRS. ALICE STRANGE DAVIS. eceptionally apt and thorough, and maintained a general average of excellence in all branches of study which has been seldom equalled at her alma mater. After graduation, she entered immediately upon the work of teaching in the Washington public schools where she labored for eight years with signal fidelity and success. In 1888 she was married to Joseph S. Davis, Esq., a practicing attorney in the city of Baltimore. Upon the death of Mr. Davis in 1892, she returned to Washington where she resided up to the time of her death. To excel as a music teacher was the leading passion of Mrs. Davis' life. She began her music studies in 1874, which she has continued uninterruptedly for twenty six years. She early conceived the idea of making music teaching a profession, and devoted the main efforts of her life to the fulfillment of this purpose. It will be noticed that she entered upon her task with remarkable singleness of purpose and detachment of parts. For her ambition was not to shine as a public performer, but simply to impart musical knowledge and technical skill to the young. She underwent a systematic and thorough courses of training in both instrumental and vocal music under such famous teachers as Prof. J. W. Bischoff, Prof. Waldecker, Dr. Kimball and Prof. Richard Burmeister, himself 9 U547 Hon. M. H. McCord. Hon. Myron H. McCord, Ex-Governor of New Mexico, in a letter to Dr. Hartman, from Washington, D.C., says: Dear Sir—At the suggestion of a friend I was advised to use Pe-ru-na for catarrh, and after using one bottle I began to feel better in every way. It helped me in many respects. I was troubled with colds, coughs, sore throat, etc., but as soon as I had taken your medicine I began to improve and soon got well. I take pleasure in recommending your great remedy to all who are afflicted with catarrh.—M. H. McCord. The spring presents a much more favorable opportunity for the permanent cure of chronic catarrh, especially old, stubborn cases. Now is the time to begin treatment. Insist upon having Pe-ru-na. There are no successful substitutes for this remedy. Send to Dr. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio, for a free catarrh book. a former pupil of the great Liszt. To her native gift of fine musical feelings she added the broadest culture by asiduous application and infinite technical pains. She was a student of the scientific principles, historical development, and progressive movements of the musical world. Her success as a teacher was the legitimate outcome of the conscience, industry and enthusiasm which she brought to her task. She was without doubt the foremost teacher of music that the colored race has yet produced. She has taught more than four hundred pupils, many of whom were white, in her private classes, at one time, earning as much as two thousand dollars a year. She endeavored to impart to her pupils not only her own enthusiasm for art, but also a sense of the necessity of hard, tedious, painstaking, preparatory work as the basis of all true excellence. In 1896 Mrs. Davis was appointed Director of music in the Washington public schools. She has succeeded in a most satisfactory manner in systematizing music teaching, articulating it with the programs of study, and demonstrating its pedagogical value. Mrs Davis possessed a high order of social grace and tact, and her home both in Washington and Baltimore became the center of a charming musical, literary and social circle. She became a member of the First Congregational church during the pastorate of Dr. J. E. Rankin, president of Howard University, and was at the time of her death director of music for Park Temple. Mrs. Davis leaves a mother, a brother, and a daughter of eleven years, to whom she was attached by the tenderest ties of motherly and filial feeling. They are not alone, however, in their bereavement; the whole community participates in their loss and shares in their sorrow. 2 AMONG NEGRO PERFORMERS. The "A Rabbit's Foot" Comedy company began rehearsals at Lakeview, N J., August 1. Among the prominent people engaged are; Brandow and Arlington, Billy Leonard, Billy and Madrid Jackson, E. W. Pickett, Davis and Davis, R. H. Barnett, Ben Hunn and a score of others. The show will open its season at Paterson, N. J August 20tb. The Black Patti Troubadours have opened their season. James Hamwood, magician, died recently at Cincinnati, Ohio. Billy McClain and Mme. Cordelia are meeting with great success in Australia A. BLACK PATTI. Will Hayden of the famous Black stone Quartette, died recently at St Louis, Mo. Earnest Hogan was on the roof at the New York Roof Garden, last week, and went big. E. W. Pickett, the well known vocal comedian, is with Chappelle's "A Rabbit's Foot" Company. C. C. Powell has published a new sentimental ballad entitled "The Casket in the Cay." It is selling well. The True Reformers own a commodious opera house in Lynchburge Va. W. S. Woodson is manager. J. BERT WILLIAMS. Billy Miller, the clever monologue artist, will be seen the coming season with a white minstrel company. He will be featured. Allie Brown, the dainty wire artist, has been engaged for the coming season with Chappelle's "A Rabbit's Foot" Comedy Company." Harry Fiddler,the original comedian, says on his professional card: "Hundreds know me! Thousands never heard of me!! Millions never will!!" The promise that this year will mark the advent of some originality in Afro-American comedies is intelligence of the most welcome character. Let us have something new. 1111 COLOMBIA ALBUQUERQUE, WASHINGTON, D.C. "BIG BOW" J. P. KERR, 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. Ernest Hogan has learned the concertina and renders some beautiful and taking selections upon it. It is said that he puts in three hours daily upon his chosen instrument. Williams and Walker, the "two real coons" were big cards at Keith's, New York City, last week. They are backed to appear over the Proctor circuit before the opening of their regular season. J. Harry Jackson, for a number of years dramatic editor on the Indianapolis Freeman, has resigned to accept a place on the executive staff of Pat Chappelle's "A Rabbit's Foot" Comedy Company. The colored citizens of Columbus, O., gave a magnificent production of "Thirty Years of Freedom" at the Great Southern Theater in that city last week. The play was a success in every respect, every seat and box was sold and the standing room sign was conspicuously displayed. The "Country Coon" one of the best shows out next season. 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Ryan, Propride SILENCE & SILENCE, Wines Liquors and Cigar A Noonday Lunch from 11 30 to 2 p 430 EIGHTH ST., N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C. --- SHREDS AND PATCHES Estavan, a Negro, is said to have discovered New Mexico. F. E. Washington is inspector of customs at Pensacola, Fla. More than 150 colored men in Phila delphia, in cooperation with a nearly equal number in Virginia and Maryland, have formed an organization to Mobile has a shoe and department store owned and controlled by colored men. Andrew Ferguson, of Topeka, Kas., is a first-class tile and marble setter, making a salary of $21 per week. A Negro, P. Chisholm, drew the designs for the beautiful Christian Endeavor Room of Quinn Chapel, Chicago. Colored mechanics are allowed a chance in Kansas. W. T. McKnight is laying stone on the new addition to the Post Office at Topeka. H. O. Tauner's "Annunciation" has been purchased in Philadelphia and presented to the Fairmount Park Association. It hangs in the Memorial Building. Do not visit the city without seeing it. Kohala plantation owners are making a trip through the South in quest of Negro laborers. They offer to pay the expenses to the Hawaiian Island and give $30 a month. The deans of the theological departments of Wilberforce, Morris Brown and Allen, were by the Conference placed upon the pay roll, as are general officers, and are to be paid here after from the general treasury. The A. M. E. Church has organized the Allen League of the Folds of the Good Shepherd which provides that laymen in that denomination can have the advantage of a sick and benefit society in connection with the church. Several students who received training in the Division of Brickmasonry at Tuskegee last term, are now employed by a white contractor in the erection of a large brick building in the town of Tuskegee. They are giving perfect satisfaction in their work. That was a signal victory won by Negro laborers when the miners' union of Birmingham, Ala., forced open the door of the Trade's Council for Negro carpenters, masons, etc. Let Negro laborers join as rapidly as possible these unions and have a voice in controlling them. One of the finest saloons in Richmond, Va., and on one of the principal streets (Broad Street) is conducted by T. H. Ferrandini & Bro. It is known as "The Klondyke" and was fitted up at an expense of between $10,000 and $15,000. It caters almost exclusively to colored people. Rev. George A. Brown, the youngest son of Bishop Brown, deceased, is the founder and president of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Institute at Danville, Ill. He also founded the Industral Institute School which enrolls 60 pupils, 3 teachers, a superintendent and secretary and has property valued at $20,000 Dr. William E. Morgan, who graduated in medicine this year at the Hahnemann Medical College, has recently been appointed Junior Physician in the Department of General Medicine in the Hahnemann Hospital For the position to which Dr. Morgan was appointed there were many applicants of his elasemates, all white. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. More than 150 colored men in Philadelphia, in cooperation with a nearly equal number in Virginia and Maryland, have formed an organization to fight for their right in the labor field. It is called the Mechanics, Trademens and Working People's Association of America. John W. Madison is president of the organization and John Park is secretary. Mrs B. J. Bolding, wife of Rev. B. J. Bolding, pastor of the A. M. E. Zion church, Chambersburg, Pa. has received word that she inherits $30,000 through the death of her uncle, Mr. Dempsey Butler, a well known colored man, of Camden, N. J. Mr. Butler was a real estate agent in Camden and was the richest colored man in New Jersey, leaving an estate of $200,000. A sister of Mrs. Bolding also receives $30,000 A Business Men's League was organized last week at Birmingham, Ala Rev. W. R. Pettiford. the banker, was elected president, Mr. S S. Storrs, vice president, Dr. A. M Brown, secretary, and E. S. Ammons, assistant secretary, and H. P. Harris, treasurer. The league is composed of some of the best men of Birmingham, which gives promise of developing the much needed business relations in the district. Peter Fosset, an 85 year old colored man in Cincinnati, was formerly a slave on the Monticello plantation of Thomas Jefferson, and was taught to read, write, and cipher by Mrs. Polly Randolph, Jefferson's daughter. In 1850, aided by his father who was a free man, he purchased his liberty and settled in Cincinnati, where he has since resided, esteemed and respected by all the leading people of the city. At a recent lecture delivered there by Judge Crosby of New York on Jefferson and Lincoln, Mr. Fossett had the honor to introduce the lecturer. Public Printer Palmer and the Negro. Editor The Colored American: Under the caption, "Wanted to Know," in last week's issue of your valuable journal, we note the following: "Why some of those people who were so warm a while ago about Census Director Merriam's alleged slowness in appointing Negroes to clerkships do not turn their eagle eyes upon Public Printer Palmer's continued discrimination against the race." Well, Mr. Editor, if you and the readers of your paper are really anxious "to know," I think I can accommodate you that much. It is simply this, Frank W. Palmer has got a "chronic" case of "Negrophobia," and got it d--n badly. And the only sure cure for it is a change of the present Administration. To urge the "promotion" of any colored employe, under that Negro-hater, is equivalent to asking for his or her dismissal. I will say more about the colored man's chances for appointment and promotion under the Hon. (?) Frank W. Palmer later on. JOSEPH C. CUNNINGHAM. --- Miss Madeline Layton, of Philadelphia, is visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Minor, of 223 D street, south west Monday evening a very enjoyable reception was tendered her. book that shows how SEXUAL STRENGTH Is LOST and how it may be REGAINED It is securely sealed in plain envelope Free, on receipt of 2 cent stamp for postage. We are the leading specialists in curing all cases of Kidney and Bladder Trouble Sexual weakness and Impotency, Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Night Lenses, Gleet, and Scripture, quickly and permanently. We have cured thousands at their own homes. All let r kept strictly private and awered in plain sealed envelope. Consitution by mail free. Write day. Address Dr. W. H. Saunders Co. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. The Frederick... ...Douglass Watch. Premium Watch which Breaks The Record. Read carefully our Offer Below. 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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... 460 C S. A. N. Washington, D. C. 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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. FRED. H. HABLE. RAILROAD TICKET BROKER. Member of the American Ticket Brokers' Association. Cut rates to all points. Call on us and we will save you from $1 to $5. Office in National Hotel Lobby, Washington, D.C. | Virginia Union University. | : THE GRAND FOUNTAIN. a Wala = goer es Pho United Order of-— © JY ee, * fn wtih ees lNeologtel | True Rel College. Ce Hal > elormer Bea deer sie Semin bos ORGANIZED January 1, 188}, s, 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, aud Bachelor of Literature. THEOLOGICAL DEPARTIENT, 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. ACADEMY DEPARTMENT, Thorough and attractive, including College Pre- paratory Course; General Courses adapted to fit young men for useful, wise and noble living; and Normal Course to fit students for teaching. INDUSTRIAL DEPARTIIENT, For manual training in wood and iron work and use of tools and machinery. Unequalled advantages for pursuing literary along with theological studies, 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, Richmond, Va. Have You Got a JOB? IF NOT, THEN YOU ARE YOU EARNING BIG MONEY ? sxeruisstest 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. SS ’ ey A.TQ2. Wilson’s Turkish Drops. ak eee a eee Ve oo For Dyspepsia, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Wee z Cramps or Pains, Colic and Cholera Morbus, ‘Ga G2 i Cholera Infantum, Sick Headache, ee Se KT ee And all Stomach Complaints. Trade Mark. For Sale at 310 I Street N. W., and at all Drug Stores. nn — ee ————— ——__———— Col. James Roche in a NewRole. | __ Billy Peyton’s Golden Opportunity. One of the most suecessful and best known young business men 1p Nash- ington is Col. James J. Roche, who bas recently purchased the McInnis Brothers’ palatial bar buffet at 904 Pen- neylvania Avenue, next door to Oyster’s celebrated butter house and whose rear piace fronts the Bijou Theater. Mr. Roche is a Washington product and as been so succes*ful in the mavage- ment of his own affairs and the affairs of others who have trusted their busi- ness with him, that his name is syn ouymMous with success. The MeInuis Stand isone of the most central and best stands in the city, and at great ex. pense Mr. Rocbe bas modernized and im proved it iu every way. The place is heavily stocked from the cellarup with the old and purest grades of wines and liquors and the very choicest brands of cigare. The coolest and mest palatable beer in Wasbington is to be bad at aly times. Mr. Roche invites the public in general and his friends in particular to visit his new place. He has a host of friends in all sections and parts of the city and ere long when he celects a nawe for his stand it will be a Meeoa for the liveat spirits. Wayland College, Billy Peyton’s Golden Opportunity. One of the most notable fistic com- bats ever ‘‘puiled off’ in this vicinity will take place on the evening of August: 15 at Chesapeake Junction Billy Peyton, the District’s most popu lar colored pugilist, will meet the il- lustrious Dan Creedon. Both men are middle weights and stand away up in their class. Peyton has put s»me good good fighters to sleep, and is the per- sonification of cleverness. Hésets great store by the chance he is getting to make a national reputation, and ig training carefully every day under skilled ring generals, Dan Creedon is too weil known to require comment, He is one of the country’s “stars” in the roped arena. $1,000 1s the purse with a percentage of gate receipts equitably divided. The “go”? 18 attract- ing wide at: ention, and magnates from Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore are coming on to witness it, On the avenue, the loeal boys are of- fering even money that Peyton will win out. Rev. George W. Bryant 1s filling the | puipit at the Second Baptist chureh in Suen cance the absence of Rev. W. Bishop John- Fee een . sen, He is having large audiences, , { sama, Ta. sovey Re richmond Theological Seminary —_—— <a u THE GRAND FOUNTAIN. 5, ORGANIZED January 1, 188], * : : - Offices 604, 606 and 608 N. 2nd St., - Richmond, ¥ f The Strongest Financial Organization tae Negro Has Produced in count, Read and learn for yourself what it has done and how to becowe «a. (it! SUBORDINATE FOUNTAINS. Subordinate Fountains are composed of males and femaies, sound In health any w and ef good moral character. ed, Conventions.—When joining the Order through Conventions, persons are taken 18 tro) 14 to 60 years of age; when foining the Fountain by application persons arc taken fr, 14 to 60 years of age complete. ‘vay — Benefit Fees.—From \4 to #0 years of age, $4.60; at 86, $5.10; ar 55, tm, it 60, i . Deeth Benefits.—$75 and $125. waourd deweh occur within the frst your, $75: atter t first year, $125 will be paid to the heirs, assigns er tegal representatives the ‘Blox Benefits.—From $6 to $9 per montb, _e weekly. Moathly Dues are 35 or 50 cen “e= month. Taxes are 80 cents annually mala sini annually, January aud July. The ot 2e«t monthly dues secure the highest Wwerciy at benefits. ve Life Membership —Ten sharer of Bank Stock, costing each member $5 & share. my said member a life member. After paying dues and owning the stock oue ya. %% fruits of the stock wil pay the member's dees, and leave a handsome {ictle basic ey year. Just calculate—monthly dues, 50 cents ‘per month, and taxes &) ¢ox:. , °° tt amount to §6.80, and a dividend on ten shares of stock at'20 per cent oa the dolla; Jt per share, xmocnts to $10 annually, which will pay the member's dues, §.8) a2] "4 & balance of $3.20. Bhould the dues be 35 cents per momtb, and 80 cents tares jr St" the monthly dues and taxes will amount to $5 per year. The dividend of $1) wig the monthly dues end taxes, and leave a balance of $5. uid pay Additional Bem-fts of Lite Membership.—Should adverse elrcumstances befall « me ber, said member may take his ten shares of stock and Fountain policy. cod secure gu from-$1 to #58. which will enable said member to tide ever the mistortuue, py up lean, redeem his policy and stock, and go on bis way rejoicing. a 2, ROSEBUD FOUNTAIN (For the Children.) = Rosebud Fountains are composed for children, msi, (gis male, trom 3 to 14 years of age! por mies rod . =a Joining or BeneBt Fees, §150; paid spot cash or by fast —— ments. Ae Rn = Death Benefits —$24.50 and $87.00. Should death cee Mie within the trst year, $24.50; after the first year §37 wil beg oz at £ ee to the parents or guardians. ae n Sick Benefts.—From $1.50 to $4.00 per month paid weekly oS \uae 4650 cents, 75 cents and $1 per week, Fespectively. The highs . > monthly dues purchase the highest weekly sick benefts 4 < E, Monthly Dues and Taxes.—The monthly dues ere 10 cent Le = 3 15 cents, or 25 cents, respectively, just as the Fountain mg +: : By decide. Taxes, 10 cents annually, peld semiancuslly. Javea ce a em. and Joly, The child ts allowed to] purchase ve sie: of Ba qe a Stock, which makes bis policy self-supporting, with s balan, | C4 r = each year. 3. THE REGALLA. This Deyirtment furnishes ali Regalia that is worn by the members of the Oraer. For style and prites write for price list. 4 CLASSES, ae B and B \ lasses admit a membership, male and female, end secure life and death| nefits. : B Class Polk ‘es are as follows: | CT.s882 BR WARTE Joining Value of Aanual Pald Ages. Fee. Certificate, Dues. Quarterly] 14 Co BB fears.......-cccccccccscccscoeses $2 50 $200 00 HD am 2B to BB Yeare..........cccecccccccccccees 215 200 00 475 12 55 to 45 yeare..........2.scccccccccccccss 8 00 200 00 570 18 45 to BO years... ......ccccccgerossccccsess BB 140 00 6e& 10 GO to BB years.......-.cccccoscsneezesess. 8 115 60 6 1@ BS to OO years............-.cccceee—w--30 8 BO 90 0¢ 70 19 60 to GB Years.......cececeeeeceserseerser 2D & 00 1@ 1 i Joining Value of Annual Pald Ages. Fee. Certiacate. ne or 14 tO BD years....... cs seccercesscccecese> $5 00 $500 00 3 25 to SB Yeare........--ccccrcccccccscocee 8 DB eo 9 bo senee 95. 00 ME FORE. 8. os cecscccccsesceseses EAD 500 10 40 rr 4B to BO years..........0-.scccccccccccces, 5 15 2 11 40 2 BO to BE Years... ...ccccsseccccccccccees 8 TB se 11 40 28 55 years (Complete)...0.000000IIIIIIN = 6 00 00 11 00 28 The ages are reckoned from the last birthday. Remember that the spencers is benefited as soon as his policy ts Issued The annual dues of elther of the above named Classes may be divided isto quarterly payments of three months each, payable the Ist of January, April, July. end October. The balance of annual dues ee to the credit of each Member after paying wenses will go to the purchase of Bank Btock for sald member. : - If dues are pald annually in advance, the member gets & per cent drawback In ca . md his full proportion ef annual dues. sa the latter mode of payment each member " nade his own collector, thereby meking the membership independent of the arent = ee and the member receiving the Percentage that would be paid to the aged! to collect. You will readliy see that the memvers of elther one of these classes are only pai to meet once or four times a year, while the Fountaing and Rosebuds meet twice moo + Lite “ nefits.—The members of B Class are allowed to purchase 15 shares of Bast Stac ~a two shares for each year of their membership. The stock yields & ee OF reper cent. or ome dollar per share. Should misfortune befall them on their pathway of — ed may take their stock certificates and policies, and secure a loaa efter s give pert ol me. Ss Members of Class % ean purenase 25 shares of Rank Stock, and two sheres for se year of their membership; likewise, they may take their policies and certifestas of Bas Stock, and secure a loan after = Period of time. You will readily sec that the mee bership. In either ene-of these sses, like the Fountains and the Rosebuds, beaeits ¢ vwember in health, as well as his family tn death. = HE eee: teens weet oneuedt GGk auemmien anand Gmina ef OS The SSpesitors. Peporits ar |. from 10 cents and opwerds. Special attention is given te the collection of notes *nd erathe Im 1888 this was the ealy. bank In Richmond which continneé to pay currency [0 ly depositere during the financial stringency, while the other banks were using ©"). 6, REAL ESTATE OF THE U. 0. T. R. This Department manages and controls the property of the erganizatien. It grew ov of the necessity of having offices and bulldings te which to cartren the pus!sc= af th organization, and to furafeh halls for the Suberdinate Ledges. Bulldines raw owned . farms, 8; dwellings, 2; hotels, 1; with a fee simple value of $104,600. Bulldings les#e4 7. THE REFORMER, the Organ of the Order. : ‘The Reformer Is the Beacon-Tight, the Mead-Light. the ©. eval Messencer sad the General Arent of the Brotherhood. It is a live race Journal, witha. cireriavinr of #8 it ts the modiam of the Order. and Ite columns teem with all its doings 224 Cg Bene for Frances Re eee eek mm Che Eetermer Pristine Ot, BS wend, Fa, & Seetclars JOO Gepartwent, and mates & spectelty of biel-c Pe ga aes ed SF peers sa ere emt & CLASS EB TABLE. Joining v Ages. Fee. Cer te eeeeeeessesecessesess $5 OO & stsewectereccccccscsees 5 DH f tt eeeetsseeecesceserece§ 5 5D t te eececcseencsecesecees OTS _ -eseeeeretsscsececeses§ 5 TB 4 Jecwccrcssccccreccccces § 00 2 koned from the last birthday. the ap licant is benefited as soon as } of e ther of the above named Classe: nonths each, payable the ist of Janua ‘phos! dues ee to the credit o @ purchase of Bank Stock for eald mé suneally tn advence, the member get fon ef annual dues. sa the latter m« rtor, thereby making the membership the member receiving the percentage see that the memvers of elther one o! times @ year, while the Fountains an ‘he members of B Class are allowed res for each year ef their membersh! ee dollar ‘aed sbare. Should misfortun ke their certificates and policies, E can purenase 25 shares of Rank rrebip; likewise, they may teke their j loan after = Period of time. Yo se -of these Classes, like the Fountains ‘8 well as his family tn death. 15. THE TRUE REFORWeeR:?’ 2 Tne Savings Bank of the G. F. U. 1888, Its capital stock Is $100,000. 1 1889. The amount of business to M: stock of this bank ts sold to the mem buds, B and E classes, and pays a diy lar. Persons can deposit their money pays 4 per cent interest on all time d held subject to the orders of the 6 wards. Special attention fs given tet | the a bank tn Richmond which c @ financial stringency, while the othe 6. REAL ESTATE OF THE U. o. 5 lila lec i as a ot a 2S | “WHITE SULPHUR NEWS. wei \irginia’s Tawawa an Ideal Sum: 1t—A Peep at the Social Mir V Sulphur phases, WW. va, Syerial —fbe regular weekly meeting of t! hite Sulphur Literary Society wa ist the M. E, church Weduea Jay ui, Mr. &. B, Bareus, presiding. A very interesting program was rend: ed a f.llows: Singing by the corgre gation, oration, Mr 8, R. Carrington: Music by White Salphur Ipstramenta: Quarte'te, Messrs W. R. Brown, Sam | uel Webb, J. W, Cox and W. J. Poque. sekorrnus: “Auot Jemima’s Ceke Walk d others; recitation, Clarenes )Joue; Guitar eclo, Mr. J. W. Cox, sol rs. Lulu Grant: essay, Mis Le. nor ltay ; singmg by Silver Leaf Quar tele, ce bate: resolved, that the United States was justified in weging war ir the Philippiwes, Mr. E. M. Sypbax, af. firmative and Mr R. B. Barcus, nega live: musie by Instrumental Quartette “Sioky Mokes’’ and “Whistling Ro- fus;’ benediction by Rev. Brown. At interes g program bas been arranget for next ae nigbt. Dr. or. Naylor and child in company with Miss Jennie Harri: of Washington, D. C., arrived last weel to spend some time at ‘Dry Creek,’ Mis. M. Whiting left last week fo Goshen on account of sickDess of som of her relatives there. Mr. Aleck Lee of Kicbmona, Va., arrived here las week, Rey, L. B. Gocdall, former} pastor Ot Ube first and Shiloh Baptus churches of Churiottesville, Va, wa here his week and preached at the Bap ust ehuich Surday bight to quate: large mumber. Mrs. Jennie Dixon o Werhipgton, D, C,, bas charge of th dessert pantry ef the hoiel here and pr rides Over tbat department with grea chill aud accusacy; she is assisted by ‘ir, fimivey Tayicr who is extremely od balured abd obnging. Mr. W il, Smicb, secopa waiter at the Graf ton Hotel of Waehingion, D. C., os in uurge of Lue Cafe here, assisted by Mr cerckee Spuricek of Fineastle, Va Mr Marcus Mitchel, assistant in the idiuely dining room here this season bas held tbat position over eighteex years, Mr, Edward Kidd of Fincastle, Va. tLe professional ice cream make! Who bas beld that position here for maby seasons Js Lolding the same po- sition here this season, Messrs, Walk er Payte and Robert Branch are doing *uice busibess in picture enlarging here, they report a good number vf or ders already received and moreto come Amores there this week and others wh« We Lave bot mentioned are: Messrs. joseph Dixon, Riehard Minor, Wm, D Brooks, Carter Kelley, Wm. H. John- son, lsune N. Gooch! Fred Syphax, W. Henry Payne, Richard Jackson, Thos. Keeling, KE. W. Smallwood, J. A. Jeff érsou, James Toler, Horace Bias, A. “assaway, Charlies Hamersley, H. L Ustrivgton, Warwick Waiker, from Washington, D, ©. We are glad tc bave met Messrs, E, M, Syphax and ‘im. D. Brooks, teachers of Washing- ta, D.C,, who aie bere for the sum- mer, ’ \BOUT THE MOTELS, We hear thet Mr. J. Henry Dickinson as AP th Be See eee We hear thet Mr. J. Henry Dickinson Soe of the best headwaiters ever in cherge of (he White Sulphur dining ‘bi. Mr, Jobn Boom is one of the vest chefs in the country. Mr. James UToss is one of the finest egg cooks who “ands over the range. Messrs, Charles ‘losseed Washington Scctt are anaong ‘he swiftest broilers in the business. Ike Scasice News edited in Atlantic (THE UVULORED AMERICAN, WASHINGLUIN, Ds Us pS NR IOS ee RY ae ee Be City is being sold here by the energet- ic sgents Miss W. F. Pogue and Mr. 8. WHERE 10 SPE H. White, it is devoted chiefly to the —— doings at the several summer resorts. — STEAMER RB Capt Louis Tolliver of the Old Reserve baseball team is doing great work on |—————-———_ the diamond here. His team hopes to win every game that is played this sea- son. It was through the skill of Capt. 5 i? Tolliver that his team has been success- a ful. Catcher John Pryor is called by feel eet TH some the “Black Jennings.” The =a Americsn will be on sale here during i]t the summer Do not fail to getone| Gay (pe when the ccrrespondent comes sround. “ SS Se ae Boat leaves N stree | - There is nothing m¢ | WOULDN’T ITJAR YOU ?—| Queen Sunday afternoor It William Jennings Bryan should be elected president. Ifa breed of Robert Charles should spring up throughout the Southland. | If people confined their remarks t¢ matters they know scmething about. If you should hear the candid opin ion your best friends entertain of you. If Editor Manly should again take up bis residence in Wilmington, N. c. If the glass hous you liv« bould be attacked by the same stor , 0 persist in throwing. If ell boot-lickers, hy pocrites and in formers were tired out of the executive departments, If fines for talking too much could be made operative in other ylaces thar the police court. if Lawyer Thomes L. Jones should publicly express his honest opinion o: one Judge Scott. It our leading business men fail tc give encouregement tothe Boston busi ness conference. If you know wby Sam C. Hudnel walks up and down Spiuce street with such an air of complacency. _ If 75 per cent of the North Carolins illiterate Negrces should master the “three R’s” between now and 1902 if the local war between the ‘‘blacks’ and they ‘yellows’ ehculd beresumed at the instance of ore Ojiver C. Black. If our editor did not use as much dis crimination ss to what is kept cut o; The Colored Amcricen as to what goe: in, Ifthe Women’s League and the N. A. C. W., should join hands in the holy bends of friendshipand co-opera. tion. If the department clerk who canno! live free of debt on $1,£00 per year should suddenly be reduced to $6 pez week, If the increased salaries of our school teachers ¢houla render themable to de: posit their curslusin Capital Savings Bank. If a certain ex jourpalist of this city should be denied the opportunity toex pel “hot air’ through the columns of Negro and other journals. If charges were preferred to Bishop Handy against a certain pompous corn- fed preacher for violations of pulpit etbies and Christian decency 1f all indorsed notes were so prompt’ ly met by the makers thatevery man of finance would unhesitatingly affix his signature to a $20 call, due in 30 or 60 days. If The Colored American should en- ter suit to collect the overdue bills owed by men and women who make finely phrased speeches about “The Daty of the Negro.” PEND A PLEASANT SUNDAY AFTERNOON. — SEASON OF 1900. ae — STEAMER RIVER QUEEN TO NOTLEY HALL, _ SUNDAY JULY 1st 1900, 3 Mee ba 5 4 P a i. i : eas ? re i — A. er ud < LB WV Es a ce pr aI RR eS < tacts Lara @ a oe ea AIVERQUECN Benqquoogsonce hese h _ — — rseees | oa a I rece Se Se pe ee ; 2 Se oS 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 family, when all kinds of cold drinks and refreshments can be had at city prices. Music by Monumenta! Orchestra. se ‘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 ot charters for Notley Hall and Lower Cedar Point, address, L. J. WOOLEN, Manager, Steamer River Queen Whart. THE OCEAN CITY BREEZES. In the Social Swim—Doirgs Pclitical and Literary. Ocean City, Md., Specisl—Mary- land’s ideal summer resort bas now reache. ‘he noondsy of her seascn The hotels are crowded to their full quota and hordes of people sre wandering abouc destitute of the slightest possible accommodation, Excellent weather prevails making it an agreeable recre ation for all; on a whole the island isa seene of unsolicited contentment, gayety ruling supreme. Quite an ap’ preciative sudiemce listened to the paper read by Mr. Walker White be: fore the Ocean City Lycecm Monday evening. The effort was a spontameous combnetion of practical thought and furnished an abundant harvest for dis cussion. ‘Those who tock sdvantage of the eccasion were: Merers. Cyrus St, Clair, Greem Smith, Prof. Howells, Hertgrove and Jones, The latest fea: ture upon the program wes the initia) appearance of the Atlantic Quartette. It made a good showing. Mr. John Rider is entertaining his daughter Mrs. Vietoria Johnson and Mre. Jones of New York City at the “Why Cottage.” Their cojourn wifi Jast a month. Mesers, Charles Dulaney and John Grant will spend the heated term at Ocean City, Md. Prof. Howell’s of fnow ~ Hilt had as guest Sunday his brother, Mr. Thos. West. The sudden departure of Mrs. Charlotte Moulton to Philadelphia Causes Sad expressions among her host of friends. Mrs. Moviton was here nearly three weeks, The Imperial ‘Yachting Club has arrsnged for a splendid outing on the night of the Fifteenth. It will evidently be the drawing card. Members of the club are: Messrs, Stokes, Greere, Honeywell, Hartgroye and Wilson. Unwarranted attacks upon defenceless humanity are frequent. Those whorecognize this fect are paintul eufferers ef attacks and pitiful objects of humiliation. This is enough aye, too much, Miss Bertania Frye of the Ocean Ways hes been con: fined to her room by illness. Miss Frye is gradually convaleecing. A grand concert given by the waiters of the Atlantic City Hotel have been buoked for the latter part of the month. Mr. Robinson, the manager, has succeeded in securing some of the best talent and promises a first class entertainment, Mr. G. Washington Brooks left the city for La Plata, Md., where be will visit his mother. He was accompanied by Mr. Thomes Pryor and after a short stay at La Plata they will go to New York. id Lakeview Park, Md. This is the new Pleasure resort which can be reached by a most delightini car ride, It 38 the largest Park in the Dis- trict. Knowing the need of a Pleasure Park for our peopie, this park bas been arranged and fitted up with a large pavilion 40 x 60 feet. Summer houres, swings, croquet grounds, and other fa- cilities, There is plenty cf shade and an abundantly supply of elegant water HOw TO GET TO THE PARK. Take the Metropolitan care; transfer to Washingion and Great Falls road; get off at ihe station at the Dietrict Line; take the read leading to the Girls’ Reform School, The Park is 200 yards above the School only eight minutes walk frcm the care. Gates open at 9 am. cloce at 11:30 pm. Admission, 25 cents. Uhildren 15 cents. Music by Hoffman’s Ozches- tra, For dates, apply to J. W. Green, mapager, 1822 Florida avenue, Pool and Billiard Kooms, 1206 Pennsylvania Avenue, n, w. This large, spacious and well-situa- ted pleasure establishment has had added to it anew room in the thid story for pool and bilijards, where those who do not csre to play in tbe larger apartments can bave a degree of privaey not to be obtained elsewhere, This new room is handsomely furnished ana lighted by electric lights. The atmosphere is cooled by electric fans, You are cordially invited to make inspection of there pool and billiard parlors, You will receive a hearty wel- come at any time. Ask for SAMUEL A. TYLER, Manager. Lewis Biggers, INSURANCE AGENT. 111 North Clinton, 8t., = East Orange, N. J. SICK, ACCIDENT, AND DEATH BENEFIT, Patp PRoMPTLY. Seg National Benefit Association, Uapital Sav- ings Bank Building, Washington, b. 0. Walter J. Watson Real Esfafe, Loans AND COLLECTIONS, House Renting a Specialty. Care- ful and Personal Attention Given. 626 E Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. E. 'T. Kautman, Registered Plumber and Gasfitter, Hot Water and Steam Heaing, Remodeling Defective Plumbing A Specialty. 617 E St, N. W., Washington, D. 0. HOWARD UNIVERSITY, Washington, D.C. EN distinct departments, under one hundred competent professors and instructors—Theological, Medical, Legal, College, Pedagogical, Laboratory, English, Agriculture, Industrial, and Social. For information address—Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D. D., LL. D., President, Glo. H, SAFORD, Secretary. 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 lights will be only $5.10 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. K. 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 Note. Literary Department from Primary Normal Course. Job Work Solicited and Profits given to the Students. Catalogues now ready. Address, JOSEPH D. MAHONEY. Allegheny, Pa. Howard University, WASHINGTON, D. C. Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Colleges Thirty-third Session (1900 1801) will begin october 1st, 1900 and continue seven (7) months. Tunion fee in Medical and Dental Colleges, each $80, Pharmaceutical College, $70. All students must register before October 4, 1900. For catalogue or further information apply to— F. J. SHADD, M. D., Secretary, 1001 R St. N. W., Washington D. C. A RARE OPPORTUNITY or Young Men Desiring to Enter the Ministry. The Phelps's Hall Bible Training School, conducted in connection with the tuskegee normal and industrial Institute offers exceptional opportunities for young men who wish to prepare for the Christian ministry, special building known as the Phelps's Hall Training School, is set apart for this department of the work. It contains a chapel, library, reading room, office, three recitation rooms and forty sleeping rooms. The learning is wholly udenominational, the purpose being to help all denominations and not to antagonize any. The cost of board is per month and students are given a chance to work out a portion of this, leaving, as a rule, five or six dollars to pay in cash. New who have no money are given an opportunity to work out all of their expenses. Risk of means need debar none. The teaching in this department is free. The next school term begins September 11. Further information may be had by addressing Book-T Washington, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama. --- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. WE'LL DO THE REST. If you are sick, If you are going to have a tour. 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 Colosed American office, and we will cheerfully give it space. Office 459 C street northwest. The mountain and seaside pilgrims are getting homesick. Mrs. Mary Wiems, of 69 Defrees St., left Sunday for Baltimore. Mrs. Robert Harlan, of Corcoran street, is rapidly improving. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Hamer are summering at Summit Point, Jefferson Co., W. Va. Rev. Walter Brooks and his daughter-in-law and baby Evelyn, are at Atlantic City. Misses Artie Brooks and Ada Thomas leave Monday for the mountains of Virginia. Mrs. Thomas Brown, of 412 O street, is spending her summer vacation in Geneva, N. Y. Miss Mary Wilkinson of New Haven, Conn., is visiting her cousin, Miss Rebecca Gray, 1722 4th street, northwest. Mr. J. M. Acty, a prominent young man of San Francisco, California, is spending a few days in the city. He is enroute East. Miss Harriet T. Gillem, who made such an excellent record in the Normal School, is spending her vacation in Jamaica, Long Island, N. Y. 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. Miss Alfreda Kennedy, who is visiting in Philadelphia and Lancaster, Pa., will shortly go to Ocean City and Atlantic City for the rest of the summer. Do you play pool or billiards? The Sparta Palace Pool Parlors are the finest in town. Ask for Sam Tyler, the Manager 1206 Pennsylvania avenue, northwest. How would an excellently made mint julep, or a cold bottle of beer strike you these hot evenings? All skeegy? Then stop in at Naughton's 1926 14th street, northwest. Dr. C. C. Barnett, of the Interior Department, has joined the ranks of the benedicts. The charming young lady who has become Mrs. Barnett was formerly Miss Katharine Whiting, of Gallipolis, Ohio. Prof. G. N. Grisham, of Kansas City, Mo., was a pleasant visitor in the city enroute from the educational conferences at Charleston, S. C., and Hampton, Va. While here he was the guest of Prof. Kelly Miller. Prof. C. A. Leitwich, the Educational and Financial Traveling Field Agent of Lane College, Jackson, Tenn., accompanied by Rev. Lane, pastor of Israel C. M. E. Church, in this city, were visitors at this office this week. Miss Lotta Clark, has become Mrs. Ernest Quarles Garnes. Mr. Garnes hails from Circleville, Ohio, and not long ago graduated in pharmacy from Howard University. The happy couple have gone to Boston for permanent residence. A. H. 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 of him. Don't try to pump you in any way out tells you right off. He is thoroughly inured by leading spiritualists everywhere, received from them a gold medal and special license to practice his wonderful powers; credentias no one else car show can give thousands of references to both white and colored patrons Twenty-five years' practice—seven in brooklyn—will show you that he can do all he of. Can tell whatbusiness is best for you and where, how to win speedy marriage with the one you love. How to be successful in all your doings in short what is best to do. He will succeed when all others fail. Positive satisfaction or no pay. Call and see. You will find it luck to consult this christian gentleman. He has a medicine that will cure drunkenness; can be given patients not knowing it. Thousands through hip are now RICH HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL with all their undertakings,while those w o neglect his advice are still laboring again, poverty. Through his perfect knowledge chemistry he can impart to you a secret that will overcome your enemies and win you friends. His aid and advice has often been solicited; the result has always beer the securing of speedy and happy marriages and all your wishes. In love affairs he never tails. He has the secret of winning the affections of the opposite sex. It is the curse of Spiritualism that in all large cities there are a class of men and women who claim powers they do not possess. They have neither gifts, credentials, nor references. Surely the colored people are not so wanting in sense as to throw their time and money away on such. Dr. Shea refers to the Hon. Charles Miller, capitalist, 2481 Atlantic avenue; the Hon. William Denmore, architect and builder, 47 Cleveland avenue, and Mr. Arthur Sewell, ship builder South Brooklyn. All have known him for the past ten years. He gives a free test of his power to all. The doctor has practiced five years in New Orleans, St. Louis, Memphis and Louisville, understands thoroughly the diseases, spells or influences the race is subject to. He has now and always had large patronage from them. PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING: Broklyn, August, 15, 1891—This letter is to certify that I came to New York from Alba ny. I was a stranger in a strange city, out of work and out of money. I had no luck in anything I undertook. What to do I did not know. A friend advised me to go and see Dr. Shea. I did. He told me the cause of my troubles; he took me in and treated me as a brother. Through him I got a good position that very week. I had been to others, they took my money and did me no good. I bless the day I first met Dr. Shea I would advise all in bad luck, sick or in trouble to go to him at once. Sincerely, Albert Ayers, 2087 Atlantic Avenue. Mis. Eliza Gibbs, mother of the late Mrs. R. W. Thompson, accompanied by Miss Vivian Thompson left for Indianapolis, Ind., last Saturday night for permanent residence. Miss Vivian will enter school in the Hoosier capital, being entitled to the fifth grade course. It is understood that Mr. Thompson will remain here until the conclusion of his work in the Census Bureau, after which he will establish a first class race paper at an advantageous point in the middle West. REYNOLDS & REYNOLDS, 1210 U STREET, N. W. Architects for College Buildings, Churches, Chapels, Theatres, City and Suburban Residences from $300 up. Prospectuses furnished to intending home-seekers. DOCTOR SNER'S NOTICE! Brooklyn, August 15, 1891—This letter is to certify that my husband had gone away and had been absent two years. I mourned for him night and day. I gave him up as dead. Hearing of the wonderful things Dr. Shea was doing I resolved to consult him. He told me that my husband was alive and well and where he was; told me he would come home and when. To my joy all of it came true. He is home now, came back like one from the dead. I also wish to say that this month I lost $250. I am a poor woman and I was almost insane. I went to Dr. Shea and he told me I would find my money and to my intense joy I find it as he told me. I thank God there is a man so gifted in our midst, that can help people end them what to do. Mrs. Mary Miller. A SENSATION IN BROOKLYN-MINISTER'S STATEMENT I wish to state that one of my parishioners was sick and in trouble for a long time, Mrs. Brown, 37 Gay street. No one seemed to understand her case. She had several doctors but none of them seemed to know what was the matter. None could do her any good. It was my duty as her pastor to call and see her. Hearing of the wonderful work being done by Dr. Shea the last few years, I thought I would call and see him myself. I found him a sympathetic gentleman. He gave me a wonderful test of his powers, told me to send him a lock o. patient's hair, which I did by her daughter. He told at once what was the matter, and in a short time cured her sound and weil. Her family had seemingly been under a cloud. Now all is changed. All are well and prosperous. I can truly and heartily recommend Dr. Shea, to all those in sickness or distress of any kind. Rev. William Johnson, pastor Lebanon church, Brooklyn. Dr. Shea can show thousands such as the above. has been carefully educated in the Homeopathic and Electric Schools of Medicine. His success is wonderful in curing paralysis Rheumatism Asklema, Sore Eyes, Tumors, Cancers, Constipation, Ague, Ostepsis, Tape Worms, Liver Complaints, Deafness, Catarrh, Dropsy, Phes, Nervous Debtiness, 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 pariors. 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 rolks 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. 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The birds and game of all kinds in Virginia are getting scsred already as & certain member of our foce is prepar ing to take his gun and go on his an- nual outing. Hon. Jere A. Brown, of the Treasury Department, left for Ohlo this week where he will take part in the cam paigu. Mrs. Brown will estivate in Connecticut. The daughters of Mr. and Mra. H. A. Thomas’ of Howard avenue, Anaccstia, D. C., are spending the months of Au gust and September with Mr. ard Mrs, W. J. Marlow of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Mr. Stephen E. K. Buchanan, of the Recorder of Deeds Office, has returned frcm the state of North Carolina, where he took part in the election which was held on August 5th. He reports that things were very lively down there, Among the Washingtonisns who are spending the heated term at Saratoga are Gov, P. B. 8. Pinchback and Miss Lucy Moten. Charles W. Anderson and Jobn E, Bruce ot New York city and Mr. Smith ard family of Texas are also at the Thompson Cottage. Roche Wil Jar You. As Strange as it may seem he is enxious to do 1t, and lots of good yeople are anxious to be Jerred. This is just the season when you went to be jarred. But you want ‘o beture that ycu get the right jar. Col. Roche keepe aj! kings of jars snd ves- sels too and he will be glad to see you. The coolest beer--the choicest o.d wines and liquore end ai! xinds of liquors. J.J. Rccue, Propriezer, 904 Pa, Ave. N.W_ ee ne ee ——————————— Mr, Thomas D. Shelton, ist Sergeant Troop *'K” @ih Ce lvary, Fort Duchesne Utab, wes in the city a few days last week whither he had come to bring an ingane prisoner. He said the 9th was getting ready to go to China, and hastened back to the far west on that account, ] Eo OE ae ae eeepc City Paragraphs, Mr. H. H. Warner is at Berkeley Springs, W. Va. Miss Mary V. Lacy, is spending a few weeks in Uape May, N. J. Our Mr. E. E, Cooper spent two days in Richmond, Va., last week on business, Mr. W. George Hall. clerk in the Third Auditor’s Office has been spend: ing his vacation in Atlantic City. Hon. W. L. Person has resigned his position in the Pension Office to take an active part in the coming election Miss Mary Harvey will leave about the 16th for Virginia, where she will spend about two weeks with relatives and friends, Mrs, Lonis H. Costley left the city last Tuesday for Frederick, Md., where she will visit her mether and spend the heated term. For political reasons, Mr. Jonn Daker was dropped from the Post'Of fice Department. Mr. Duker talks of contesting the matter. Mrs. G. P. C. Schureman and her little daughter Ida, are spending the summer with her daughter Mrs. Lilian Wade at Hughesville, Md. Dr. E. D. Scott, of 9th atreet, n e., 1s spending some days in Boston, Mages. Among other places of interest ne will visit his alma mater, Harvard Univer. sity. Friends of Rev. J. W. Harris, pastor of Miles Memorial church, will be pleased to learn he isslowly improving. Not long since he had a slight stroke of paralysis. Meests. E, Morris, Jr., and M. H. El- dridge lefton the Atlantic City epecial for Philadelphia and Atlantic City, where they will spend two weeks or ten days. The G. U. O, of O. F. gave an excur sion to Notley Hall, Aug. 6. They had ® great euccess, carrying about 2 500 people, an@ all had a pleasant time. Mr. W. C. Martin, District Grand Master, took an active part in the affair and sided greatly in making it a sue- soe, | WE CLOSE AT 5 P.M. SATURDAYS AT1P.M. ) POPOSOPSIOLGHGLVGOISO : ‘the Whole } ‘The Bargain Season of the Whole Year Is now et its height—and careful buyers are taking advantage of the lowest prices that have been quoted in the past twelve 6 months. We are making a clean sweep of every Baby Carriage, Go-cart, Porch T ll l Rocker. and Lawn Settee—without thought of profit—and with emall regard for actual cost. 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