The Colored American

The COLORED American A NATIONAL REGRO NEWSPAPER VOL. 8 NO. 23. THE WAITES STRIKE. A Brutal Policeman Dismissed for Being too Handy With His Baton-Major Douglass Strikes a Class Who Use False Liveries to Serve Their Ends. White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., Special.—The closing exercises of the White Sulphur Literary Association, took place in the M. E. church, Wed. the 29th. The meeting was called to order by President Robert Barcus and opened with music, with Mr. E. M. Syphax of Washington at the organ. The program included a well-written paper on one of the five issues of the day, by Mr. Roberts, followed by a recitation, "The organ builder," by Mrs. Hale of South Carolina. This was followed by a mandolin and guitar duett, by Messers. Odeil of Huntington, and Syphax. The feature of the evening was a scholarly address by Mr. W. L. Board of Washington, D. C. The literary has accomplished a most worthy object. At this place are to be found many well educated young men who aspire to something higher than can be found at the gaming table, which unfortunately has such a fatal power in destroying the worth of many who might otherwise be a credit to a race so sadly in need of such. A gratifyingly large per cent of the boys are teachers from different towns and cities or students, many of the most conspicuous halling from our well beloved Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute. Conspicuous among those from the Petersburg Institute are Mr. Robert Barcus, president of the literary, to whose untiring energy, much of the success of the work is due, and Mr. Pratt Thomas, the promising young orator who has favored more than one audience with a display of unusual ability. As the climax we must speak of Miss Maggie Y. Pogue the prettess of her class, who, at the organ, with the guitar and by her ability as speaker and singer, has had a large share of the applause of the season. No one of the boys who has ever worked under his direction will ever forget Mr. Jas. A. Alien of Charlottesville, Va. He has not only won the admiration of his men by careful attention to details of management but his manner has been such as to win their personal friendship and they look to him first as a highly esteemed friend and adviser, and then as a capable officer-in-charge. He comes of one of the best families of Charlottesville and is a brother-in-law of Mr. Harrison Terrell of Washington, D. C. Mr. W. F. Brown and Mr. S. B. Jackson have left for their homes in Charlottesville. The boys are congratulating themselves on a triumph scored some days ago. In our last issue was given an account of the shooting of Mr. Hankless, one of the waiters, by the bartender. The peculiarly irritating feature of the affair was that chief of police Horton was at hand at the time of the shooting but made no attempt to arrest the would be murderer. Two days after, Chief Horton was seen to assault one of the young men who was leaving on horse back for his home in the neighborhood. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1900. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1900. JOHN H. HARRIS Re-elected President of the National Afro-American Council Which Recently Held Sessions in Indianapolis, Indiana. The act was reported to the men by an eyewitness. The men quit immediately and declared that they would not work another minute until the obnoxious officer was discharged by the proprietor, Harrington Mills. Mr. J. H. Dickerson the head-waiter, assembled the men in main dining room and urged them to keep cool while Horton made an explanation. This the officer did but in so unsatisfactory a manner that the murmurs recommenced and only the men's regard for their chief prevented what might have been serious trouble. They agreed to demand the removal of Horton which the proprietor was forced to accede to and the fact, drawn up in writing, was read to the men by the head waiter. The men, with expressions of satisfaction returned quietly to work, thus showing that united, conservative action under cool leadership is the winning policy which the Negro will always find it to his policy to adopt. THE OBSERVER. Editor Colored American:- One word if you please as to the propriety or impropriety of certain organizations giving their approval or disapproval, of the administration of the government under which they live. To my mind a resolution of endorsement of the administration of the affairs of the government, whether administered by a republican or democratic executive, provided only that such administration devises approval, is in order in any gathering of American citizens, from the church down. If a disgruntled republican desires to rebuke his party by reason of some real or fancied grievance, he should not attempt to disguise his opposition by affectation of high moral grounds, but should throw off the mask and come out openly and defiantly and defend his position by sound argument. We are just now in the thick of what promises to be one of the hottest contested campaigns that either of the great political parties have yet engaged in. To my mind it is not difficult for any Negro to choose between the two, which party be should support. I am not unmindful of the many grievances that we have, chargeable to the indifference of the republican party, but those grievances will not be listened to by the democratic party, for they caused them, and but for the action of that party we would have no political grievances. Our duty then is a plain one, and that is to fight out our grievances inside the party, the only party that ever recognized our right to citizenship. The National Republican ticket should be voted this Fall by every Negro in the United States entitled to a vote, and should be endorsed in every Negro gathering of whatever description. This is no time for hedging. CHAS. R. DOUGLAFS. --- PRICE FIVE CENTS. NEGROES IN COUNCIL. Third Annual Session of the National Afro-American Council-Welcome Addresses Were Delivered by Attorney General Taylor and Mayor Taggart Brief Proceedings of this Body of Brainy Race Men. ____. The third national convention of the National Afro American Council began in the Senate chamber at the State House, shortly after 10 o'clock Tuesday forenoon, with over 300 delegates and visitors in attendance. The gathering was made up of something over 150 delegates to the convention from various parts of the United States, and a large attendance from this city and state. The assemblage is one representative of the highest intellect of the colored race. Among tho delegates were Congressmen, state senators, men holding high appointive positions in the governmental service, men in the councils of both national parties, and men who occupy positions of honor and responsibility in the church. In the absence of Governor Mount, William L Taylor, Attorney General of the state, made the welcome address on behalf of Indiana. Mayor Taggart, on behalf of the city, said the objects of the meeting were commendable ones. He believed the most important question was how the council was to continue the work it had undertaken. He felt that the Federal Government should contribute to carry on the work, and believed every citizen, regardless of color, should voluntarily contribute to the work of the council. These expressions were loudly applauded by the convention. The question of Negro education, he said, was one of the paramount issues of the convention. Education would do more than anything else to bring the Negro to a high standard of citizenship. Federick L. McGhee, of St. Paul, Minn., spoke enthusiastically in favor of the purpose of the convention, and was followed by Congressman White, of North Carolina, who made an effective address. He said it was not the purpose of the convention to meet and discuss political themes. Politics was to be avoided as dangerous ground when the interests of the colored race were at stake. The prime object of the meeting was to discuss methods by which the colored man might be improved. The Council already, in its comparatively brief existence, had done much toward the improvement of the race, and it was to do more. It should take up its work with more vigor and allow nothing to swerve it from its intended course. IN A JIM CROW CAR. Col. W. A. Pledger, of Georgia, one of the prominent men of the convention followed with a rousing address that was heartily received. His remarks had a humorous turn as he told of the unpleasantness of riding in the "jim crow car" to the city. One of the best speeches was made by Dr. M. C. B. Mason, secretary of the (Continued on ninth page.) Tammany and the Negro. BY JOHN E. BRUCE. --- 2 Mr. Croker's organ, The New York Telegraph, seems to regard the stringing up of a Negro to a lamp post in the streets of New York by the mob during the late riots in that city as a very rich joke. The incident seems to have furnished considerable matter for its facetious space writers, who were brutally witty at the expense of this innocent and outraged Negro citizen. The Tammany police are the real aggressors and the criminals who should be punished for that disgraceful riot. The system of highway robbery introduced into the Tenderloin and other districts of New York City by police captains and their go betweens, by which they exact blood money from the criminal classes in return for immunity from arrest for open violation of the law, is the true cause of the recent riot there and the terrible consequences which followed it. The New York Democrats of the baser element are not novices at the business of hanging Negroes to lamp posts. They tried their hands at that business during the draft riots in 1868, which have gone into history, and they made themselves infamous by breaking into the Negro orphan asylum and murdering innocent Negro babes in other quarters of the city. Of course the Negro Democracy of New York led by Chief Lee will march the black legions to the polls in November next, and vote them solidly for Bryan and Stevenson. They would not be good and consistent Democrats if they did not lick the hands that smote them. 一 The delegation of colored men headed by Chief Lee that called on Acting Mayor Guggenheimer to demand that the officers who clubbed innocent colored citizens during the riot, be punished are all of them humorists of a very superior order. Nobody has any faith in the sincerity of these new champions of the race, for the good reasons that they have heretofore had no word to say against the brutal treatment of the Negro by the democratic party in other States, that they have not used their influence (if they have any) in urging the democracy to put something in state and national platforms against lawlessness. So that this recent ebulition of indignation which emanates from these Negro Democrats is a grand stand play and the idea is not of Negro origin. The Democrats are not in the habit of playing that kind of politics. They do not keep it on tap. The significance of this move is obvious and the move itself will prove impotent. No police officers will be punished for clubbing Negroes, but the protest of the Negro Democrats against their brutal assaults upon the race, is on record and will be considered good campaign material by the short-sighted black brethren who are unable to see how very shallow is this whole performance of the smooth and counterfeit presentment of the Hon. Richard Croker. Tammany Hall is the real criminal because it has made and is making merchandise of its official power and its political influence. Tammany Hall reeking with corruption from head to foot, a stench in the nostrils of decent men, a festering scab on the body of THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. society, is responsible for all the villainy, all the ruffianism and rowdyism which recently disgraced the second largest city in the world, and caused the statute of Liberty on Bedloe's Island to blush for shame at the depravity and barbavism of its enlightened white men. Can any decent or self-respecting, race-loving Negro so far forget his manhood as to cast his vote for this party? God forbid! Chairman Hanna's recent speech to the Republicans of Asbury Park, N. J., is worth remembering by all Republicans who want to see President McKinley re-elected. Too much overconfidence will not accomplish that result. "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" and the more vigilance all Republicans exercise, the surer the victory which is already expected, but which a foolish indifference to the points of vantage we have already gained may prove disastrous. We want to go into this campaign with the feeling that nothing is sure or certain except death and taxes, and we should speedily get out of the habit of accepting as gospel truth Democratic versions of the disintegration of that party. Tammany Hall is as foxy now as it has always been, and it always gets together with celerity and despatch on election day. The splits, factions and bad feelings said to exist in that party among the leaders who are more or less anxious to attend Mr. Croker's political funeral are part of a deep scheme which is intended to create a feeling of security among Republicans which will of course assist the Democrats in securing the prize. The Democratic family quarrel will be settled in sixty-five minutes after they have discovered that confiding Republicans have taken them seriously and are sleeping on their guns. Guns do not make good beds and it is best not to sleep on them at all. Democrats never sleep. People who are hungry for spoils have not time for sleep. We must give our friends the enemy, credit for having a system of organization and a method of doing business with its opponents which is practical, if not always successful. The tactical Democratic fighter takes nothing for granted. He believes in the potency, and value of details, and in the efficiency of bull dog tenacity in a fight for big stakes. He has a penchant for steaks and stakes and when he wins them he enjoys them. The headquarters and blue pencil fighter, who is too tired to take the field and too willing to take and adopt as his own the opinions and estimates of others, as to the result of the battle, has never yet won a battle and never will. The Democrats have reduced campaigning to a positive science. They are real Democrats in the struggle for supremacy, for every man in the party from the highest to the lowest mingles in splendid alliance, each imbued with the one central idea—victory—and to secure this they stop at nothing short of indulious defeat. It is to be hoped that the Republicans in the present campaign will throw off some off their reserve and begin to "play ball" in earnest. The duty of all Republican is to get together immediately. If they will do this Mr. Bryan will be one consecutive week after November 6th trying to find out whether he was blown up by dynamite or kicked by the nameless long eared animal which s pictured to represent the Democratic party in action. One of Mr. Lincoln's witticism which will apply to the methods of the democratic party to day, will not be out of place here. The passage occurs in one of his messages after his first inauguration. He said: "With rebellion thus sugar-coated they have been drugging the public mind of their section for more than thirty years until at length they have brought many good men to a willingness to take up arms against the government." The public printer excepted to the use of the word "sugar coated" as being undignified! These words express precisely my idea and I am not going to change them. The time will never come when the people wont know exactly what "sugar coated" means. Mr. Lincoln was right. The sugar coated speeches of Mr. Bryan have almost per suaded a number of good Americans to commit political suicide by going against the best and only party which has demonstrated its capacity to govern this country as it ought to be governed. It is the only party that can honestly be accused of posseesing practical knowledge of the science of government. Democracy cost the South $5,262,405,553.26. At the close of the war of the Rebellion the debt of the Confederate Government was $2,345,207,823. With the surrender of the rebel armies every dollar of this war debt was wiped out of existence and it was a dead loss to those who held its securities. No better illustration of democratic incapacity can be furnished than these figures furnish. The democratic party has not learned much since the war of the Rebellion. It has not demonstrated any more ability than it originally possessed. It still believes in repudiation and in juggling with the finances of the country. It took a good many years to bring the Republican party up to its present standard and a great many millions of money and thousands of lives to make possible the existence of such a party. What has been accomplished cannot with safety to the party nor the honor and good faith of the nation be undone. Great parties are not made in four years nor are they created in Nebraska. It is a noticeable fact that all the howlers for a change in the Presidential office wear long hair, except those who are short haired and that they are familiar with such works as "Looking Backward,'" "Progress and Poverty," "The Money of Nations," (which they do not handle). "The Life and Times of W. J. Bryan" and other standard literature more or less diverting. The Imperial Roscoe Conkling once gave utterance to a sentence in replying to a Democratic opponent in the Senate which was as meaty as it was meaningful: "The shallows murmur while the deeps are dumb." If you will put you ear to the ground you will hear a great deal of murmuring just now of hungry patriots on the other side who are just dying for a chance to save the country from McKinleyism, Trusts, Imperialism and all the other items in their political vocabulary. "Understanding the spirit of our institutions" said Lincoln, "To aim at --- the elevation of men. I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them." This is not Democratic doctrine. The democracy believes in elevating black men with a rope and it degrades them by making them political pariahs robbing them of constitutional rights and manhood. Are you with these reformers? JOHN E. BRUCE. The National Colored Teachers Bureau Washington, D. C., is prepared to furnish CAPABLE TEACHERS of every branch of instruction and DESIRABLE SCHOOLS in all parts of the country. REGISTRATION FREE but applicants must be fully competent to teach or possess the ability to learn how to teach. NO SCHOOL—NO PAY 6 per cent of the first year's salary will be charged those for whom positions are secureded, payable Dec. 1, 1900. The Demand exceed the Supply for suitable teachers during the past year, hence our liberal inducements. Send for registration blank briefly stating your full qualifications and enclose ten two cent stamps for postage. Address James G. Clayton, M. D. 459 C St. N. W. Secretary. IMPORTANT IN CHANGE IN THE JOB NO. 2. Sprint Premier No. 2. The Smith Premier Typewriter marks the very highest point reached in writing machine mechanism. It leads in the typewriter world. Thousands of satisfied users pronounce it.... Perfectly Simple and Simply Perfect. Their testimony is that Smith Premier capacity for good work all the time is unequaled. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE FREE. The Smith Premier is especially adapted to the "Touch Sytem" of Typewriting. THE SMITH PREMIER TYPEWRITER CO. 519 11th Street, Northwest, WASHINGTON, D. C. CONFERENCE OF COLORED MEN. Leading Colored Men of the State Meet and Confer as to the Best Methods to Adopt for the Betterment of our People. Personals and Other Items of the City. Charlottesville, Va., Special—A conference of leading men from all parts of the state was held at the Odd Fellows Hall in this city on Wednesday, the 22nd August. At 19 m. o'c'ock, Lawyer A. W. Harris of Petersburg called the conference to order. After a very fervent prayer by Rev. Alexander Gordon of Philadelphia, formerly of Virginia, Lawyer Harris stated the object of the conference. Lawyer T. C. Walker of Gloucester was made Temporary Chairman and Mr. Robert Cox of Lynchburg, Temporary Secretary, with Mr. Dandridge Epps of Rockbridge County as Sergeant at Arms. After the appointment of the following committees:—Committee on Credentials, Committee on Permanent organization and Committee on Resolutions and address, and the transaction of other business, the conference adjourned until 2:30 o'clock. Opening again at 2:30 o'clock, the reports of the committees were then read and approved in their proper order. Editor C. C. Stewart of Bristol, Va., of the "Ship" was made permanent Chairman and Mr. Robert Cox, of Lynchburg, Permanent Secretary. The meeting was one of perfect harmony throughout. No hotheaded and unwise speeches were made, and the whole delegation demonstrated the fact that their business was, the looking out for the best interests of their people. The resolutions and addresses will be published later in pamphlet form and distributed over the state. There was nothing political about the conference. The object as stated was to have a permanent organization in the state to look to the colored people's best interests. The conference closed at 12 o'clock midnight, after a twelve hour session. This conference will go down in history as one of the most noteworthy of the age and we have seldom seen so much of importance transacted in so short a space of time. Among the delegates we noted: Prof. G. W. Hayes, president Virginia Seminary and College, Lynchburg; Lawyers, A. W. Harris, Petersburg, T. C. Walker, Gloucester; A. J. Oliver, Roanoke; R. P. Armistead, Lynchburg; J. L. Parker, Pocahontas; F. D. Lee, Gloucester; Profs. W. T. S. Jackson, Washington; J. H. Duckwilder, Salem; H. B. Fields, Culpeper; Robert Cox, Lynchburg; Rev. E. Duke Venture, Salem; W. G. Singleton, Richmond; Dr. W. R. Mapp, Northampton; Willis M Carter, J. J. Brooks of Staunton; Jordon Thompson, Norfolk; H. P. Bland, Prince Edward County and many other names we might mention, but space will not allow. Mr. Geo. Brown of Washington is on a two weeks visit to relatives and friends in the city. Miss Lottie Wallace of Petersburg, Va. is visiting her sister, Mrs. W. H. Dabney on W. Main street, Prof. and Mrs. Edward Glens of Frankfort, Ky., are visiting his mother, Mr. Thes. Whiting on N. 5th street. Mrs. Dabney, mother of Mr. W. H. Dabney arrived in the city this week. Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Thompson of Nelson County, Va. are visiting her sister, Mrs. Hudson Jenkins on White's avenue. Mr. Louis Ambler and sister, Miss Natherine Ambler of Washington, D. C. spent a week in our city visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. S. Taylor. Mrs. Virginia Henry of Washington, D. C. visited her mother Mrs. James Allen on Page THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. E. street this week. Mr. M. G. Curry of the Post Office Department, Washington, D. C., was in the city this week Mr. J. L. Lawson of North Garden was in the city last Saturday on business. Mr. W. H. Parago, agent for the Cable Music Co. went to Richmond this week on a matter of business Revs R. B. Hardy, R. C. Quarles, C. N Harris, Misses Mary E Lewis, Mary E. Monroe and Mr. John W. Harris attended the meeting of the Virginia Baptist State Sunday School Convention in Manchester Va. last week. Misses Martha and Maggie Robinson of Washington are spending the summer at their former home near Preston Heights. An excursion train bringing several Washingtonians arrived in the city Sunday about 5 o'clock a.m. and left Monday night under the management of Rev. W. P. Gibbons of the Mt. Carmel Baptist church of Washington. Many of the excursionists stopped off at stations below Charlottesville. Mrs. Nannie Smith and Mrs. Mary Brown of Washington were in the city this week visit ing relatives and friends. Mrs. Horace Kenney formerly of this city but now of Boston, Mass. is visiting relatives and friends in the city. The city public schools open next Monday September 3rd. The boys and girls are beginning to hunt up their books and other school necessities. Mr. B. H. Peyton, inspector of the Richmond Beneficial Insurance Co. is in the city. Rey, C. C. Boone of Richmond, Va. is visiting in the city. He expects to leave this country in October to take up missionary work in Africa. Lawyer Hutchins Inge of St. Louis, Mo. is visiting his brother, Mr George P. Inge, one of our leading merchants on W. Main street He will visit Washington and other points before returning to St. Louis. MONTIQELLO. A TEXAN'S VIEWS On Colored Newspapers With Bigheads. The marked improvement of the Negro newspapers which come here every week is a source of great encouragement to our young people who may be inclined to pursue the profession of journalism. A few of the papers, like The Washington Colored American, the Indianapolis Freeman and the Chicago, Illinois Conservator, still have the big head, but their contents are alright. The white merchants and business men are showing a commendable spirit of generosity by their continued patronage, while our laboring folk are continuing to bear the brunt of battle. Occasionally the "big nigger" is joining the ranks. He is gradually getting his eyes open, and as a consequence is marching in the procession. This is at it should be. The educated youth is returning from school on almost every train and is demanding something to do along the line of his learning, and if we are not greatly mistaken, the newspaper business properly supported offers a shining opportunity.—Dallas Express. Tuskegee, Ala. Noes. In the death of Mr. C. P. Huntington, Tuskegee loses a most valuable friend. During all of the school's years he has been interested in it. Only recently he gave $50,000 to the endowment fund besides valuable machinery for the industrial plant. Huntington Hall, the new girls' dormitory, was given by Mrs. Huntington. A number of our graduates will return at the opening of the next school session for the purpose of taking postgraduate trade work. Three graduates Virginia Union University. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MAGNIFICENT BUILD New Equipment, Fine Library Commanding Location Large Faculty of Enthusiastic and Lectures by Distinguished Schol COLLEGE DEPARTMENT, Of High many Electives. 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Two box HAIR RESTORATIVE, are sent w your address, prepaid, on receipt of pr is great invention, we have decided paper this opportunity. Cut out the DOLLAR, and we will mail you at on two boxes of ELECTRICAL HA Express Orders payable to R. GAT it protects you. NETIC COMB COMPANY, Box 5, Station B, Richmond, W NOTICE—There being so many eve epirical persons, who decry every he owing method of repudiating all su teeing that we will refund the more reputable paper, and would take A. B. --- 3 Richmond, Va. mb. ir. Elec- LL HAIR long and ever, gives is seen at Comb is invisible picture is the roots no causes ; if your the tem- NETIC case, thus two boxes ment with of price. decided to out this at once, LL HAIR GATH- ond, Va. my evil- ery hon- all such money take no To Repair Broken Arti- cles use Major's Cement Remember MAJOR'S RUBBER CEMENT, MAJOR'S LEATHER CEMENT, OPENS TODAY. GRAY'S CAFE, Odd Fellows Hall, No. 16.6 M Street, N. Cafe Open From 7 a. m. to 11 p. m. Meals Odd Fellows Hall, No. 16.6 M Street, N. W. In From 7 a. m. to 11 p. m. Meals a la Carte. Odd Fellows Hall, No. 16.6 M Street, N. W. Cafe Open From 7 a. m. to 11 p. m. Meals a la Carte. Regular Breakfast from 7 to 10 a. m. " Dinner from 4 to 7 p. m. Sunday Dinner from 2 to 4 p. m. Ice Cream and Ices Constantly on Hand. Flavors for Sunday, Vanilla, Peach, Strawberry, Chocolata Fine Catering a Special Soliciting the patronage of our friends and the publi are Very respectfully, For Sunday, Vanilla, Peach, Strawberry, Chocolate, Lemon Ice. Fine Catering a Specialty ing the patronage of our friends and the public generally, we Very respectfully, Flavors for Sunday, Vanilla, Peach, Strawberry, Chocolate, Lemon Ice Fine Catering a Specialty Soliciting the patronage of our friends and the public generally, we are Very respectfully, GRAY & BRO., PROPRIETORS. = HARTONA The Grandest of all Press THE ORIGINAL AND Matchless and Positively Unequal Knotty, Stubborn, I HARTONA will make the hair grow the box of HARTONA will show imme- dial and thin places. HARTONA cures hair, and all Scalp Diseases. Remember hair remedy on the market, because it is now your hair and face to be ruined to catch the ignorant and uneduc er 50,000 people in every State in the used all the time, as it straightens the d the hair stays and grows naturally a box of HARTONA can be used by ev proves children's hair just the same you are not perfectly satisfied. HARTONA= handest of all Preparations for the Hair! THE ORIGINAL AND ONLY HARTONA. and Positively Unequalled for Straightening all Kinky, Knotty, Stubborn, Harsh, Curly Hair. HARTONA will make the hair grow long, soft, and straight. The use of HARTONA will show immediate results. Makes the hair grow on places. HARTONA cures Dandruff, Baldness, Falling Out of the Scalp Diseases. Remember, that HARTONA is the highest-priced in the market, because it is the best. Price, $1.00 a box. Don't hair and face to be ruined by dangerous chemicals that are sold with the ignorant and uneducated classes. HARTONA is used by people in every State in the Union. HARTONA does not have to be time, as it straightens the hair and gives it fresh life and lustre. stays and grows naturally straight after the use of HARTONA. HARTONA can be used by every one in the family. Benefits and children's hair just the same as adults. Money positively refunded perfectly satisfied. =HARTONA= Matchless and Positively Unequalled for Straightening all Kinky, Knotty, Stubborn, Harsh, Curly Hair. HARTONA will make the hair grow long, soft, and straight. The use of one box of HARTONA will show immediate results. Makes the hair grow on bald and thin places. HARTONA cures Dandruff, Baldness, Falling Out of the Hair, and all Scalp Diseases. Remember, that HARTONA is the highest-priced hair remedy on the market, because it is the best. Price, $1.00 a box. Don't allow your hair and face to be ruined by dangerous chemicals that are sold cheap to catch the ignorant and uneducated classes. HARTONA is used by over 50,000 people in every State in the Union. HARTONA does not have to be used all the time, as it straightens the hair and gives it fresh life and lustre, and the hair stays and grows naturally straight after the use of HARTONA. On box of HARTONA can be used by every one in the family. Benefits and improves children's hair just the same as adults. Money positively refunded if you are not perfectly satisfied. HARTONA FACE WASH all gradually turn the skin of a black all turn the skin of a mulatto person WASH will not lighten the skin in sp mains soft and bright without continu es the work. It is your duty to look a lighted patrons send us testimonials States. HARTONA FACE WASH will m ack-Heads, Freckles, and all Blemish side of skin on neck, face, and hands to each bottle. HARTONA FACE WASH any part of the United States on member, your money is positively rea l and delighted with the Hartona Rem by turn the skin of a black person five or six shades lighter, and the skin of a mulatto person perfectly white. HARTONA FACE Wash lighten the skin in spots, but all over evenly. The skin and bright without continual use of the Face Wash. One bottle is it is your duty to look as beautiful as possible. Thousands ofrons send us testimonials every year from all over the United FORTONA FACE WASH will remove Wrinkles, Dark Spots, Pimples, Freckles, and all Blemishes of the Skin. You can regulate the on neck, face, and hands to any shade you wish. Full directions tle. HARTONA FACE WASH is perfectly harmless, and is sent of the United States on receipt of price—$1.00 per bottle. Our money is positively refunded if you are not absolutely satisfied 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 I remove all smells and bad odors of the fed limbs, etc. HARTONA NO-SMEL from disagreeable odors caused by at anywhere on receipt of price—50c. all smells and bad odors of the body. Cures sore and aching feet, etc. HARTONA NO-SMELL is a God-send to all persons suffer- greeable odors caused by perspiration of the feet, arm-pits, etc. on receipt of price—50c. a package. All 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. HARTONA To introduce our remedies in this city out and mail to us this Coupon and HARTONA HAIR STRAIGHTENER, HARTONA FACE WASH, worth $2.00 ELL, worth 50c. The entire lot of securely sealed, so that no one can tell coupon. Order goods now, as this grand write your name and address plainly. Mailer, Express, or enclosed in a Register. HARTONA REME Since our remedies in this city, we will send to all persons who will mail to us this Coupon and ONE DOLLAR, three large boxes of HAIR STRAIGHTENER, worth $3.00; two large bottles of PACE WASH, worth $2.00; one package of HARTONA NO- 50c. The entire lot of remedies, worth $5.50, will be sent, so that no one can tell contents, for ONE DOLLAR and this or goods now, as this grand offer will last but a short time only. One and address plainly. Money can be sent by Post-Office Money, 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, wo One Package HARTONA NO-SMELL, wo My Name is___ House No.___, Street___ City___, County___, State___ ENTS WANTED IN EVERY TOWN IN AMERICA. OUR GOODS S EN:—I enclose you ONE DOLLAR, for which send me the fol- at once— Large Boxes HARTONA HAIR STRAIGHTENER, worth $3.00 Large Bottles HARTONA FACE WASH, worth $2.00 Large HARTONA NO-SMELL, worth .50 o.____, Street____ ____, County____, State____ BED IN EVERY TOWN IN AMERICA. OUR GOODS SELL ON SIGHT 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. 4 Address all orders to— THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. HARTONA REMEDY COMPANY. 909 E. Main St., RICHMOND, VA. THE G. A. R. MEET. A Washington Delegate in Evidence and Strikes at the Color Line—Echoes of the Meeting. Mrs. Julia Mason Layton has returned from Chicago where she was in attendance at the 17th national convention of the W. K. C. auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic. She reports a pleasant trip throughout. She was the guest of her adopted brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Peyton Taylor and Captain Hunt and wife. Captain Hunt is of the famous 8th Illinois Volunteers who did such excellent service in Cuba in the Spanish-American War. On her way home she stopped over in Cincinnati with Dr. Louis Cornish and wife in their cosy little home. They are as comfortably quartered as though they had been housekeeping eight years instead of eight months. A handsome buggy and horse completes the outfit. The W. R. C's. of St. Paul and Minneapolis sent and immense and very handsome flag to be presented to the national president and she in turn presented it to the Atlanta University that it may float every day over the M. sons and daughters of the black soldiers Mrs. Layton in the name of the ten millions of her race thanked these patriotic women of the twin cities and assured them that her race was as loyal today to all that was just and right as they were on the field from 1861 to 1865 etc. The audience was moved to tears at the close of the speech of about ten minutes. Among the many resolutions and able decisions made by this graud body of nearly 150,000 women represented in convention by about 800 delegates and only 13 were colored--the one that brought about the greatest discussion was, the colored corps belonging to the Departments of Maryland and Kentucky be set apart to themselves. This resolution was supported by women from Massachusetts, Connecticut, N. Dakota and Ohio, but strongly opposed by Mrs. Steismeier of St. Louis Missouri, a wealthy German woman, but true as steel. The officers of the Department of Maryland and our own Mrs. Layton, the only colored delegate who said a word. Mrs. Layton spoke for about 25 minutes and refuted every plea made by the opposition and gave practical illustration to prove the same. For instance, one said the colored people were happier by being apart. Mrs. Layton said, "you mean you are happier by their being apart. Take a man who has been reared in dirt, always lived in dirt, he knows nothing else. Take him out of that, clean him off, put him in a clean place and very soon he will want to insult any one who says he came from the other home. The same is true of our women who have never known, never been allowed by your loyal vote to be anything but set apart and they seem happy, etc. Then as a rce, we endeavor to adapt ourselves to our surroundings. Show me another race one-third as great in numbers as ours, who have stood as much as we have for you and yours from 1865 till now and have not struck back" and so point after point was taken up and when she had finished, the resolution was lost and in its stead came "If any any white woman or corps wishes to be set apart from the colored corps, they may do so through the proper channel and if a colored corps wishes they same it may." This was unanimously carried. The next convention will be held in Denver, Colorado. Mrs. Layton reports Lawyers Carlisle Mason and Albert George of our city doing a thriving business. Mr. Albertus Brown also of our city is making his mark as stenographer to National Republican Committee. Prof. Robert H. Terrell has been invited by the Republican State Central Committee of Maryland to deliver a number of speeches in that state. He was especially invited to accompany Congressman Pierre of the Sixth District Hon. A M. Gould, Assistant U. S. District Attorney. CHARLES FISCHER, WASHINGTON, D. C. 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:—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." "Dear Sir:—Your method worked beautifully. Results were exactly what I needed. Strength and vigor have completely returned and enlargement is entirely satisfactory." 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. A RISING ALABAMIAN. Editor A. H. Davidson Fulfills the Prophecy of his Youth-A Leader in Religious Works and Politics. Henry D. Davidson was born on the Davidson plantation near Centreville, Ala., Dec. 16, 1869. He was the only son of Damon and Adaline Davidson. There were four children in all, three girls who are all dead. The late Capt. Samuel W. Davison said to Henry's father Damon while Henry was a baby in the cradle, "Damon, you had better take care of and educate that boy; I see a brilliant future for him. Ten dollars in his head will be worth a thousand in his pocket." This bore upon the boy's father's mind very heavily, so as soon as Henry was old enough he was sent to the common schools of Centreville, which was only of three months duration each year. However Henry managed to pick up enough information with what G. EDITOR HENRY D. DAVIDSON. he gained from these little schools to cause the late Ex-Governor E. H. Moren to exclaim to the boy's father one day, "Damon, 'tis time that you were teaching that boy to work; he knows more than three-fourths of the white folks of Bibb county now." "All right Doctor, he does whatever work I want him to do." said Damon. Henry was much noted in the community around for his honesty and integrity, Older as well as well as young er boys always sought his council. He was converted and joined the A. M. E. Church at the age of ten, and at 17 elected superintendent of the Mt. Sinai A. M. E. Sunday school which position he holds until today. He entered the Selma University the fall of 1888 He attended this school only one session, went back home, took the examination, passed and taught the same school of which he was a pupil the year before, and has taught this school nearly every year since. He entered Payne University at Selma, Ala., when it was first started and graduated from the Normal Academic department of this school in 1893 with the first class. He has been teaching every year since graduation. He married February 16th 1899 to Miss Lula J. Davis, a graduate of Tuskegee and an old time class and school mate. He has been honored in several ways by the people. He was a lay delegate to the late General Conference of the A. M E. Church at Columbus, Ohio. In 1896 he was principal of the Sherwood Institute Columbiana, Ala. Mr. Davidson has twice been elected chairman of the republican executive committee of Bibb county, Ala., and was an alter- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, B. E. nate delegate to the National Republican Convention at Philadelphia. He established The Bibb Sentinel, a newspaper published at Centreville, Ala He is 30 years old at this writing and is rightly regarded as one of the coming men of Alabama. A BUSINESS WOMAN. Madame Turners Wonderful Soap. A few more business firms like Mme. Turner's will solve the race problem. While in New Orleans this summer, I stopped at a house where there was a child with a very sore head, it was covered with one solid scab and was awful to look at but in a weeks time the childs head was to all appearance perfectly well to my surprise. I asked what cured it and was told they used Mme. Turner's skin and scalp soap with hot water and that it worked like a charm. So I went down to 1312 Carondelet street and bought a cake for my face which was fairly knotty with bumps and black heads. I had spent several dollars for different preparations, but they failed every time, but after using Mme. Turner's skin and scalp soap for a few days, every bump and black head was gone, so I consider that was the best 25 cents ever spent. I also heard that this soap was used in some of hospitals there. So I say again such merit as that will go far towards solving the race problem. 41 Clarkson street. New York. Beautiful, soft hair comes to every woman who uses our Queen Pomade. It invigorates the scalp and makes the hair soft and pliable, and cleans the scalp of dandruff and itching. Makes the hair grow and prevents it from turning gray. An elegantly perfumed hair dressing for men or women. Price large bottle 25 cents. Drop a postal card for city order delivered free. Sent anywhere by mail on receipt of price and 5 cents extra to pay postage. Stamps or silver accepted. Cardozo's Pharmacy, 1201 R street, Washington, D.C. Telephone 2481-5. For sale also at Harris' Drug Store, 8rd and F streets southwest. The True Reformers are having a gala week in Richmond, a full account of which will appear in our next issue. Prominent Colored Men. Agents wanted to sell "One Hundred Distinguished Leaders," a beautiful book containing one hundred portraits and sketches of the leading colored men in the United States. Price 25 cents per copy. Send stamps or post office money order to Charles Alexander, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. St. Ann's Academy 310 8th Street Southeast. Under the direction of the Oblate Sisters of Providence. For young ladies and children of color. For prospectus address Sr. M. Cecilia Xavier, O. P. Superior. Re-opens Sept. 10th. At Keene's Shoe Store At Keene's Shoe Store 908 G Street, Northwest. 2000 prs Ladies' $2.50, $3.00, $3.50 and $4.00 Oxford Ties to go at $1.95. 1000 prs Men's Shoes, all styles, sizes and widths, made to sell for $5.00, $6.00 and $7.00; for a few days to go at $2.85. SUMMER RESORTS HOTEL WOODLAWN TERRACE. on which furnishes one with a magnif- ition which is a wide sheet of water giving fishing or fishing. IN TERRACE. from Camden. 25 trains stop at Lawu- tritly first class. The Bed Rooms areences. The Hotel is three stories high, beautiful lawn and wide gravel walks. TH, Snow Hill, N.J. This Hotel is situated on an elevation which furnishes cent view for tea miles. At the base of which is a wide ample opportunity to those fond of sailing or fishing. This Hotel is situated on an elevation which furnishes one with a magnificent view for ten miles. At the base of which is a wide sheet of water giving ample opportunity to those fond of sailing or fishing. WOODLAWN TERRACE. is on the Whitehorse Pike, seven miles from Camden. 25 trains stop at 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 terms, address MRS. CHAS. SMITH, Snow Hill, N.J. Will open Friday, June 1, 1900. 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 Booms are large and ally with all modern conveniences. The Hotel is three stories high, 35 feet front and is surrounded with a beautiful lawn and wide gravel walks. WANTED—An active young man as collector. Must be well acquainted with the city. Married man preferred. An energetic colored woman who understands canvassing can secure permanent employment with good pay by addressing "Benevolence" care 459 C st. n. w. WANTED—By family of two, 8 unfurnished rooms or would take half of a house. Northwest section preferred. Address "D," Colored American office. For Rent-Furnished room for a gentleman; convenient to car lines and departments. 1117} 5th street, n.w.tf All members of the National Cooperative Investment Association are hereby notified that there will be a meeting on the 18th of Sept. at 212 Champlain avenue, n. w. By order of Robt. Holiday, President, G. R. Rhone, Acting Secretary. 2t Wanted—a case of bad health that R-T-P-A-N'S will not benefit. One gives relief. No matter what's the matter, one will do you good. A cure will result if directions are followed. They banish pain, induce sleep, prolong life. Sold at all drug stores, ten for five cents. Be sure to get the genuine. Don't be fooled by substitutes. Ten samples and thousand testimonials will be mailed to any address for five cents, forwarded to the Ripans Chemical Company, No. 10 Spruce St., New York. Prof. G.F. THEEL, M.D. N. Sixth St., Philadelphia, Pa. Elm deutscher Art. rantees to cure after all others fail. NATE DISEASES, DISCHARGES, RUNNING ABSUSE LOSSSES (uses no mercury or toxic injection or nauseating drugs) EXCESSES, BLOOD POISON LOST MANHOOD, Farces, no pain, no cutting. 35 years practical & year hospital experience in Germany. Fresh cases practical & a catch. Ruins Thousands. Send for Swear Treadmails & Book exposing medical & electrical frauds. Treatment by Mail. Instant relief. NELSONS STRAIGHTINE TRADITIONAL THE LATEST DISCOVERY FOR MAKING/ KNOTTY, KINNY, CURLY HAIR STRAIGHT BEFORE AFTER CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS, AND CIGARS. J. C. SMALLWOOD, Proprietor. 15 N. Illinois Ave, Atlantic City, N. J. MANHATTAN INN. 17 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. THOMAS COLE, Proprietor. GEORGE H HARRIS, PROPRIETOR, 1139 Baltic Avenue, Atlantic City, N. J. Meals Served at all Hours. STRAIGHTINE is no experiment, but a thoroughly reliable preparation. It has been successfully used by thousands in all portions of the country. We have hundreds of letters speaking in the highest terms of its merit, and every mail brings us fresh testimonials. Straightine is a highly perfumed pomade; it not only Straightens the Hair, but removes Dandruff, Keeps the Hair from Falling Out, cures Itching, Irritating Scalp Diseases, giving a rich, long and luxurious head of hair—so much to be desired. Guaranteed perfectly harmless. Price, 25 Cents a can at all drug stores, or sent by mail to any address on receipt of 30 Cents in stamps or silver. Address, NELSON M'P'G CO., Richmond, Va. Aar-Big Money for Agents. Write for Terms. --- --- THE MOTHERHOUSE ALEXANDRIA, VA. THE ELITE-624 R. Washington street; Alexandria, Va., Ice cream, confectionery, soda water and milk shakes, all flavors. 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. CATLETS8, VA. CATLETTS, VA.—Summer Boarders: Parties desiring first class accommodations for the summer season will find it to their advantage to spend their vacation at Catletts Faquier county, Va. Forty-eight miles from this city, there are three accommodation trains to the city per day. The house is situated about ¼ mile above the village. Bard furnished for $12.00 per month, $4.60 per week, or 75 cents per day. Healthy climate, excellent board and comfortable rooms. Apply with stamp to Mrs. Kate McGuire, Catletts, Faquier Co., Va. HOTEL SHEPHARDS HILL Open for the Season on June 1st. Beautifully situated near the 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. ATLANPIC CITY. FITZGERALD'S AUDITORIUM Open all the year. Suitable for convention receptions, balz, 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 38 North Kentucky avenue. Atlantic City, N. J. THE NEW HOUSE DEBITY COTTAGE 31 N. Ohio Ave., Atlantic City, N. J. Excells any in the city. All modern improvements. Two squares from the Reading Railroad depot. Two squares from the beach I kindly thank my old as well as new patrons for their liberal patronage and hope for a continuance of the same. Mrs, J F. Debtly, proprietress. THE AUB HOTEL Choice wines, Liquors and Cigars. CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS HAKRIS' HOTEL HOIEL HENDERSON—120 N Mississippi ave., Atlantic City, N. J., two squares from Reading depot; three minutes walk to Bathing Beach. Special rates for families and permanent boarders. The hotel has been newly papered and has 32 neatly fitted up sleeping rooms. Terms moderate. European and American plan. Henderson and Murray, prop's. --- Lawnside. N.J. WANTED HELP. NOTICE RIPANS No West Point of Our Own. BY LIEUT. H. O. FLIPPER. Editor of The Colored American, Washington, D.C., Dear sir: After I had sent you my views as to how to keep one or more Negro students at the Naval and Military Academies, The Colored American brought me the proposition of Mr. J. C. Cunningham for "A West Point of our own" I wish to register my objection to such a proposition. It is not practicable. Every state and territory in the Union has a military academy and there are hundreds of private military institutions. There are also a large number of schools that give so-called military instruction, and even have army officers detailed as instructors. None of them give more than the most rudimentary instruction and do not go beyond the school of the company in in- J. LIEUT. HENRY OSSIAN FLIPPER fantry or the school of the cannoneer in artillery and pay no attention whatever to cavalry or to military or international law, as to the rights and obligations of belligerants, neutrals and non combatants. Not one of them has the one thousandth part of the equipment which West Point has. Not one of them has a siege or sea coast battery, a pentoon train or field telegraph. Not one of them is prepared to give practical instruction in ballistics, field fortification or military mining. Not one of them has a laboratory where the students can be instructed in making fuses, fixing ammunition, rockets, etc., Not one of them undertakes to teach logistics. The instruction in all of them is limited to even less than that which the average militiaman gets, for he occasionally sees battalion or regimental manoeuvres. If it has not been practicable or politic for the states to bring their military schools up to the standard of West Point, I do not believe it will be possible or practicable or politic for the Negro to do so. Such a school, unless adequately equipped, would be worthless, and we have enough of such schools in the country now. A mere chair in some school would not meet the requirements of the case. Mr. Cunningham thinks the government keeps us out of responsible positions in the service on the plea that we are incompetent, which he admits is the fact, and then keeps us out of the service schools, that we may not become competent. He says the government "has closed the doors of its military schools against us". When has the government done so? Some fifteen Negroes have entered West Point and ```markdown ``` 6 THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. three have been graduated there. The treatment accorded the Negro cadets has steadily grown better from the time the first one entered there in 1870 down to the graduation of Major Young. It has never been what it ought to be, but it has always been what we might have expected among so large a number of students drawn from all parts of the coudtry. Personally, I have never known of any ill treatment of a Negro cadet by the government or by any professor or officer at West Point and, frankly, I do not believe there has ever been such a case. What ill treatment Negro cadets have received has come from the white cadets, and that as I have stated, has grown less every succeeding year. It is not in the power of the government or of its officers to put down prejudice at West Point any more than it is in its power to put it down in the country at large. Manifestly the doors of West Point have not been closed against us by the government. It is not probable that a Negro could obtain appointment in a democratic state for obvious reasons, but there is no reason why, in a republican state, he should not seek that appointment just as he seeks any other appointment, nor is there any reason why he should not get the one just as he gets the other. But when he gets the appointment his education should be sufficiently advanced to enable him to hold the position. It does us no good to send incompetents to West Point, have them fail and then blame the government for it. A student who has not gone beyond common fractions in arithmetic will find it up hill work to jump to Bourdon's algebra, plane and spherical geometry and plane and spherical trigonometry during his first year at West Point, where something more than 'elements' are taught. When I went to West Point I had already mastered those branches and my first year's work there was in the nature of a review, except as to the practical part of the course, drill, etc. It seems that Mr. Cunningham would have us confess incapacity to take the course at West Point and lack of moral as well as physical courage to face the prejudice that exists there among the students. He thinks the government does not want us at all but proposes that we educate ourselves and offer our services to the government, which could not then charge us with incompetency. He assumes that the government would accept us. Possibly. I am not prepared to admit either charge, nor do I approve the remedy he proposes. I am not an advocate of equal rights. I believe in a steady, persistent, unrelaxing determination to obtain identical rights. I am not in favor of surrendering anything we have gained. The Negro has as much right to be a cadet as he has to be a registrar of the Treasury, or minister or consul or hold any other official position under the government, and the government has the right to demand that he be fit and competent. Conditions at our service school are abnormal beyond any doubt, just as they are abnormal in all departments of activity in all parts of the country, so far as the Negro is concerned, and for the same reasons. but he is attacking the trenches every where and he has learned that he can expect nothing, if he be unfit and incompetent, and where fit and competent, he is making his way, if indeed it be slowly and laboriously. Why should he throw down his gun and turn away from the trenches that seem to hedge West Point and Annapolis, especially since he knows how the enemy is situated. Now, I propose that the idea of "A West Point of our own" be abandoned as impracticable and chimerical. Take a boy fourteen, fifteen or sixteen years of age, several of them if you please, from one or more republican states; put them under the care of Professor Kelly iller and let him give them the identical mathematical course taught at West Point for two or three years and then let them go home and seek appointment by all the means in the power of themselves, their friends at home and influential Negroes and others all over the land, if need be. I have no doubt they will get it and when they go to West Point, they will be able to get in and to stay. The boys selected must be physically sound. The boy who likes to study and is fond of work is far better than the naturally bright but careless or indifferent. Such a boy has little love for hard work and too much time in which to get insulted. That part of the mathematical course embracing pure mathematics should be thoroughly drilled into the pupil. I refer to algebra, plane and spherical geometry, plane and spherical trigonometry, descriptive geometry, analytical geometry, shades, shadows and perspective, stereotomy and differential and integral calculus. Applied mathematics need not be so thoroughly taught because with a full knowledge of pure mathematics, the former would have no terrors. They embrace analytical mechanics, civil and military engineering, acoustics and optics, astronomy, ordnance and gunnery, and field and sea coast fortification. I am glad to note Mr. Cunningham's interest in this very important matter and trust he has many followers. I am equally glad to note his belief in having only competent men to represent the race in responsible positions, men trained therefor. The bravery of the British officer and soldier is the admiration of the world, but the incompetency of the officers of all grades is a byword in every military center in the world. 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We solicit news, contributions, opinion’ 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 pubiication must reach this office by Wednes- day of each week to insure insertion in the current issue ‘we Agents are wanted everywnere, Send or .ustructions, ADVERTISING RATES, Reading notices 50 cents per line, Display advertisements, $2 per square incn per inser- tion. Discounts made on large contracts, Entered at the Post-office a8 second-class matter. Au letters, communications, and business matters shanid be addressed to THE COLORED AMERICAN, EDWARD E. COOPER, Manacer 459 C Street Northwest. WASHINGTON, D. C. EEEE—————ELLEE——eEeEE SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1900, ———— eee THE IMPENDING CAMPAIGN. In every war that has been fought for our country—whether for its estab. lishment as a nation or its maintenance as an independent government, the Negro hay played his part as a valiant and patriotic soldier. In the war of the Revolution he bore himself gal- lantly on many a field of brilliant ac. complishments ; he won the admira- tion and commendation of that sturdy warrior Andrew Jackson in the strug- gle of 1812; and yet when our coun try was in the throes of the great civil war, and when again the contest was on between the United States and Spain the enemies of the black Americans claimed that they possessed not the fi- ber that makes men warriors. [n all these martial combats he gave indis- putable proof of his courage and unde- niable evidence of his loyalty to his country, And so in every political contest in which the Negro has played a part since he obtained the right of manhood suffrage, through the efforts of the Re- publican party and against the persis- tent protest of the Democratic party, he has been true to the principles of the men who stood for his liberation from slavery and for his enfranchise- ment as a citizen. And yet as he was called upon to prove his courage in war after war, he is asked again and again in one political campaign after another to demonstrate his loyalty to that party to which he is bound with hooks of steel—the party which has given him every right which he pos- sesses, civil and political and made it possible for him to take a dignified and commendable position in the intellec- tual and material pursuits of his coun- try. "fn 1896 the Negro vote was almost solid for McKinley and Hopart, the standard bearers of the Republican party. In the year of our Lord 1900 it will be counted—in those places where honest politics wili allow it to be counted—for McKinley and Roose- velt, the representatives of the, party HE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. 6. that has a higher claim on its support to'day than it has ever had since the name of the great military captain Ulysses 8. Grant was first printed on its ballot. For has not the Republican party kept its every pledge with the Negro during the past four years; has it not given him place of honor and emolument and thereby given him power; and has it net done all that has been done for him and has it not said all that has been said for him dur- ing this period? Is it reasonable to suppose that a people constantly grow- ing in intelligence and the ways of gov ernment and statesmanship will forsake such a party and support one that openly and defiantly everywhere stands for their humiliation and degradation in every form of diseriminatien that man can devise ; a party that has not only not given them any rights, but by all kinds of fraud, open and concealed. taken away those granted through the efforts of others who believe in honest dealings with and fair treatment of all men, black or white? So far as the Negro vote is con- cerned the prosperity of the country, in which the black man shares, will be safe for four years more. The Negroes of self-respect and honor will refuse to vote for a man in whose cabinet Ben Tillman will have a place. The average colored democrat looks like a bloated bond-holder these days. Something must be ‘doing” in the demoeratic camp. The National Republican Oommit- tee should muzzle Vice-Chairman Payne of Wisconsin. It was Payne who fathered the effort to reduce the representation of Southern delegates to the National Convention before the last session of Congress and before the National Republican Committee at Philadelphia. Mr. Payne is carrying his idiocy one step farther now by say- ing that he believes “‘a division of the colored vote would be unqualifidly a blessing for the country at large and for the republican party.” **Divide the Negro vote, he exclaims, and you remove the race question in the south.” This sentiment is a ghost that has stalked in the minds of a few so-called republican leaders for the past thirty: five years. Since the administration of the late lamented Hays, a small wing of the republican party has kept up a flirtation with the south with the hope of bringing it intu the republican fold. The south remains assolid as ever and continues its ignoble work in distranchising a large per cent ef its thriving and most industrious popula- tion. If Mr. Payne knows anything he should know that the colored dele gates from the south nominated Mr, McKinley four years ago and the col* ored votes of the northern states elected him. Is there to be a Burchard in this campaign? Lieut. H. O. Flipper, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, contributes a timely arti: cle to this issue of The Celored Amer: ican on “No West Peint of Our Own.” Lieutenant Flipper is the first colored graduate of West Point and as a mathematician and linguist, 12 one of the best in the United States. So effi: cient is he that tor a number of years he has been employed by the United States Court of Claims to translate all of the Spanish and Mexican laws for the benefit of the Government service and make new surveys and investiga: tions in civil engimeering all over the Southwestern Territory. His sugges- tiong are practical and timely, One successful business man in @ community is worth a dozen politicians and calamity howlers. —————————— Prof. John T. Layton fx the choice of he colored people of the District of Columbia, for Director of Music for the colored schools. An individual of merit in any community is not forced to seek his status in that community. It is the man and not the color of his skin which counts. | 2S President McKinley will be reelected this fall in spite of the Paynes and Wellingtons The colored voters are too loyal to desert even though they are given the lower berths, This is the most imp»rtant campaign in the history of campaigns in this country. There isa shifting of plat- forms, of policies and of isms. It will bea battle royal in which the newspa: per will be the most powerful agent. The National Afro-American Press Association which met at Indianapolis Ind. Monday ot this week was a tame affair. But a few of the opinion moul ders were present. The names of the officers elected are printed in another part of this issue. Hon. Judson W. Lyons, as a visitor to the National Afro-American Coun: cil at Indianapolis, Ind., impressed himself upon all the men there asa leader of the highest and truest type Mr. Lyons stands high in the councils of the republican party, and predicts an overwhelming re-election of Presi dent McKinley. Oppression has its virtues. In En- field. N.C, the white and colored merchants are about equal in number. Before the recent farce of an election the trade of the colored people was about equally divided. Since the election, however, the colored people confine their trade entirely with the colored merchants. What’s ina name?” asks Shakes: peare. In New York politics there seems to be something mit. Edward E Lee, the colored chief of Tammany, is the acknowledged leader among the colorel people of that organization. He is a hotel man by profession. Mr. J. T. Tyee, of Saratoga is the acknow: ledged leader among the colored re: publicans of that section. He too, is a hotel man by profession Which ever way the election goes. one of the Lees is bound to be on top. The wheel of progress does not run backward and the Negro notwithstand- ing the many oppressions and oppesition to his progress is succeeding. Mr. Ralp W. Tyler is the leading spirit in the management of “The Columbus Dis patch,” the leading afternoon paper in Columbus, O., a Mr, Stevens of Bos- ton, Mass, isa private Secretary to Mayor Hart of that city; a colored tel- egrapber holds the first place in the Western Union Telegraph Office at Macon, Ga, Score one more point for for the race, _—_—_—_ Politics indeed make strange bed- fellows. The National Atro-American Press Association which met at Indian: apolis, Ind. last week, did not endorse the admiuis'ration of President McKin: ley, Iu order however to get votes enough a number were cast for each paper, namely, “The Appeal” cast three votes, T, T. Allain, formerly of New Orleans but now of Chieago voted fer a Texas paper, an Indianapplis delegate voted for a Mississippi paper, Col. James Lewis, an officeholder jn Louisiana, represented a paper; Hon, Jobn P. Green represented The Wash: ington Bee, and Congressman Georg, H. White, The True Reformer. The votes were a trifle topheavy as well as numerous and at that pace any resoly: tion could have gone through, There are 100,000 colored people in Washington. They pay taxes on thous. ands of dollars worth of real estate, They spend a mint of money for dry goods, clothing, furniture, thoes, mil. linery and groceries. There is nota colored dry goods, nor clothing, nor a furniture store, nor a millinery store in Washington. The wealth and intelli. gence of the race is said to be centered in Washington, and yet the above statement is a sad commentary on their intelligence and on their bnsiness tact White merchants do not employ colored people ebove the position of laborer in any of the business houses of Washing- ton. The colored people are denied ac commodation in the meanest soup houses and lunchrooms and yet with ail their intelligence, their wealth and their g it tering abilities they have no concerns of their own where their boys and girls may be employed and where they can control at least a fraction of the money that is being spent by the great mass of Negroes in the District. REV. ERNEST LYON. A Member of the Advisory Board of the Republican National Committee. The Republican National Committee could have made no better or wiser se- lection than in appointing Rev Ernest i ee Se fe {Ushi Bee = Seyi Mes SDE || Fa ee gee. es ‘e ee ae SS ee” KN oa Ro PIN 42 eS AS LN VZE! SS9 X VEIN EY MW WON Oe: utp f REV EBNES! LYUN. Lyon of Maryland and New York asa member of the Advisory Board of the National Committee. Dr. Lyon has been an aetive partisan for year® and is thoroughly posted and equipped in the ways and methods of politics. He is loyal and unflinching republican, aud in the past as well as at present 1s do- ing yeoman work for the party. The colored papers are all pleased with (be appointment, knowing as they do, Dr. Lyon's well Known disposition to belp the bast papers. Thus far none of the ‘colored newspapers have been recok nized, but it will be tbrough no fault of Mr. Lyon if before many dsys 4 ‘pum ber of the best papers are not used as are nearly all of the white dailies and weeklies. Mr. Lyon is located in ‘New York where he will remain until ‘the ides of November. Mr. William L, Pollard hes reivrne? from Shepherdstown, W. Va., w! «I? he spent a pleasant two week’s vact’ tion. NEGROES IN COUNCIL. (Continued from first page.) Freedmen's Society and Social Educational Society He said he believed the colored race had reached the most critical point in its history. It had come to an era of untried responsibilities, when calm and deliberate judgment would be necessary, to a full appreciation of the race. Bishop Alexander Walters discussed boldly and intelligently the various questions of direct interest to the colored race. "It is evident to the thoughtful among us," he said, "that we are passing through one of our most critical periods of existence in this country. The race is now facing the question of its complete civil and political rights, and from the struggle it dares not retreat. People are prejudiced and sensitive on the Negro question, and while there is nothing to be done but to stand for principle, it should be done in a maully, courteous spirit and not in a spirit of strife. J. H. M. "The colored race pleaded for its constitutional rights because it believed the gift of suffrage is not a natural and an inherited right, but a conferred right, and when it had once been conferred by the Federal Government it should be inviolable. The powers of the Federal Government were not conferred by a single state, but by all the states, therefore the general government, through Congress could enforce the provisions of the constitution. The Federal Government, when it can but refuses to protect its citizens, is guilty of gross neglect." With regard to politics, Bishop Walters said: "I have no sympathy with that class of leaders who are advising the Negro to voluntarily eschew politics in deference to color prejudice. Certainly I would not have them all meddle with politics and such has never been the case, but since politics is a legitimate, profitable, and in some respects, honorable business, why should not the black brother, who is beginning to pay taxes, have a share in the offices and emoluments?" "The Negro is not to be eliminated because he is not as intelligent as some other people in this country, not because he is not a tax payer, not because he is not improving in his morals, but because he is black and was once a slave, and is therefore despised. The alien races of the world may come here, who are unacquainted with our institutions; and more ignorant than the Negroes, and ere they become enlightened, are allowed to vote. And why? Because their skin is white. But the loyal Negro who has helped to make the country what it is and fought in every war to save it, must be disfranchised because somebody does not like him. This is not only unjust and unchristian, but is base ingratitude "Some of us have signified to the democratic party our willingness to unite with it anywhere and whenever it will make it advantageous to our cause to do so. Since we have taken the initiative it is for it to say whether it desires our votes by a consideration in the way of just legislation and kind treatment. Until this is done, I do not see how we can consistently help it into national power—and I for one will not do so." THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. Despite the admonitions of Bishop Walters, the debate following the brief address of Judson W. Lyons, of Georgia. Register of the Treasury, finally degenerated into a hot political outburst, especially on the part of C. N. Crews and T. E. Woods, of Missouri Col. Lewis, of New Orleans, W. E. Henderson of Indianapolis, John P. Green of Ohio, and several others. in which glorification of the republican and damnation of the democratic parties were dealt out in equal doses. Mr. Lyons, after denouncing the recent disfranchisement constitutional amendment adopted in North Carolina and those of other southern states as worse attempts at nullification than that of the southern states in 1860 and 1861, usged that the practical thing for the Afro-American to do would be to go to the republican party in Congress and demand a reduction of the representation in those states of the South which had ignored the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments of the Federal Constitution in placing on their statute books laws disfranchising the Negro. T. Thomas Fortune, of New York, who had stepped up to the rostrum to speak to Bishop Walters, was asked by the presiding officer to speak, and C N. Crews, the big Missourian, at once objected to Mr. Fortune speaking except down on the floor among the other delegates. Then Fortune scored Crews and others who, he intimated, were actuated more by political regard for the elevation of Afro-American citizenship Fortune said he had worked for ten years for the benefit of the movement when some others were skulking in their tents. Delegate Crosthwaite, of Tennessee, urged that the political rights which had come to the American Negro had drifted to him on the ocean of public opinion; that he was not indebted to any political party for them, and that the Negro has been reading history wrong if he is imbued with any other idea. The issue would never have risen if the labor of the South had not begun to enslave the labor of the North. J. Milton Turner, of St. Louis, dispassionately urged that instead of indulging in personalities and abuse the delegates had better get together and attempt to formulate some comforting message to send abroad into the homes of the colored people all over the country. J. CYRUS FIELD ADAMS. A disturbance arose over the report of the Legislative committee, written by Daniel Murray, of Washington, D. C. The objections to the report were based principally upon its references to the alleged rater of the Negro in the South by their white brothers. At the conclusion of the reading of the report a score of delegates were on their feet, clamoring for recognition. R. R. Wright was recognized by the chair, who denounced the written statements of Mr. Murray as a pack of falsehoods and showed dense ignorance on the part of the writer. The report recommends that the race, in states that have discriminating laws, refuse to ride on railroads or engage in any form of diversion in which they are subjects of discrimination. This boycotting plan seemed to meet the approval of the body. President Walters, to end the discussion, referred the report back to the committee, and begun reading a list of names of prominent men whom he had invited to address the council. SYSTEMIC CATARRH. SYSTEMIC CATARRH. Thousands Suffer From It and Do Not Know It. Hon. A. T. Wimberly, Collector of the Port of New Orleans, La., and member of the National Republican Committee, in writing of Pe-ru-na, says: [Illustration of a man with a mustache and glasses, wearing a suit and tie.] Hon. A. T. Wimberly, "Pe-ru-na Drug M'f'g Co., Columbus, O.: "Gentlemen—I have used Pe-ru-na and can gladly recommend it as being all you represent. I wish that every man who is in need of a good tonic could know of it. I would advise all such to take it now, and am sure it would never be regretted." A. T. Wimberly. Pe-ru-na is an internal remedy—a scientific remedy for catarrh. It cures catarrh wherever located. Its cures last. Pe-ru-na gives strength by stopping waste. By saving the mucus it enriches the blood. By cleansing the mucous membranes it preserves the vital force. AFTERNOON SESSION. Gen. John Coburn was the guest of honor ht the session Wednesday afternoon. President Walters personally invited him to the platform and in his introductory remarks said that General Coburn was "one of the best friends the Negro had in America," which was seconded by A. E Manning, of Indiana, who furnished reasons in support of its truth. Gen. Coburn congratulated the Council upon the commendable spirit of their deliberations in the face of the indignities heaped upon the race He urged them to consult together as to the best mode by which their full rights may be obtained. His address was well received and was frequently applauded. Among the other speakers were Rev. J. J. Blackshear and Prof. H. T. Kealing. Prof Kealing proved himself to be an orator of great force and a profound and logical thinker, Bishop C. R. Harris, of Salisbury, N. C., next read a paper on "Immigration" for which he received the thanks of the Council. The remainder of the afternoon was devoted to ten minute speech as by members of the council. The resolution committee submitted its report, in support of which speeches were made by John C. Dancy, L. M. Hagood, R. C. Ransom and Gurley Brewer. A motion was made for an hour's discussion before adoption, but was lost, and the meeting adjourned until Thursday morning, at which time the resolutions were discussed. At the opening of the session Thursday afternoon, the following officers were elected: President, Bishop Alexander Walters of Mew Jersey; Vice-presidents, T. T. Fortune of New York; W. A. Pledger, of Georgia; Ernest Lyons of Maryland; Harry C. Smith, of Ohio; O. M. Woods of Missouri; Col. M. Marshall, of Illinois; Bishop G. W. Clinton, of North Carolina; W. H. Stewart of Kentucky; Mrs. Lilian Thomas-Fox, of Indiana; Secretary, Cyrus Field Adams, of Illinois; Financial Secretary, J. Frank Blagburn, of Iowa; Treasurer, J. W. Thompson of New York; National Organizer, Mrs. Ida Welle-Barnett of Illinois; Corresponding Secretary, Dr. I. B. Scott, of Louisiana; Sergeant at Arms, J. W. Wheeler, of Missouri; Chaplain, Rev. J. S. Caldwell, of Pennsylvania; Asst. Cor. Sec., Filas Harris, of Missouri. --- 9 A constant drain of mucus from the system is known as systemic catarrh. This may occur from any organ of the body. Systemic catarrh is more common in spring and summer than in the winter. Dr. Rachel A. Magaw, 67 West Jefferson Street, Springfield, Ohio: "Your Pe-ru-na is worth its weight in gold. I feel like a new woman. I can't praise it enough. I spent a great deal of money on doctors, but nothing ever did me any good until I sent to you and tried your Pe-ru-na. I now feel well of the catarrh." Ralph W. Chulip, of La Porte, Ind., says the following as regards Pe-ru-na for catarrh: "I had been troubled with catarrh for the past eight years. I became so bad a year and a half ago that I took treatment from two different specialists on catarrh. The discharge from my head was dreadful. Finally my stom- A. H. ach became affected, and eight months ago I had to quit work. I lost in weight from 165 pounds to 140. I was completely discouraged. I procured a bottle of Pe-ru-na and had not taken half the bottle, when, to my joy and surprise, I began feeling better. My head began to get better; the discharge began to dry up. I kept on, and have now taken two bottles. I have resumed my work, have a good appetite, and have not felt better in ten years. I am now 30, and I thank Pe-ru-na for the way I feel to-day." For free book address Dr. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio. Directors of Bureaus—Education, W. C. Jason, of Deleware; Legislative, F. L. McGhee, of Minnesota; Ecclesiastical, Rev. J. W. Alexander, of New York Business, W. E. B Dubois, of Georgia; Literary, Dr. M. C. B. Mason, of Ohio; Newspaper, A. L Manly, of Washington, D. O.; Emigration, Rev. J. R. Sea brook, of Oregon; Lynching John Mitchell of Virginia. The most heated discussion of Thursday day's session was over a resolution endorsing the President's public utterances on lynching, which was adopted. A short session was held Thursday evening, after which the delegates repaired to Tomlinson Hall where a banquet was given in honor of the distin guised visitors. Dr. J. H. Ward of Indiana, was toast master, and quite a number of toasts were responded to by the "strangers within our gates." The last session of the Council was held Friday afternoon, at which time Prof.Booker T. Washington delivered an eloquent address. He was greeted by a very large audience, who listened with breathless silence throughout his address. At the conclusion of Prof. Washington's address the council adjourned sine die. A Gem From The Council. Looking at it from this point of view, we should be unfaithful to the trust committed to us if we do not warn the race against the danger of supporting any man or party North or South, who is opposed to the full and free exercise of the elective franchise under the provisions of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution.—Extract from address of Afro-American Council, adooted at Indianapolis, Ind., Aug 80, 1900 This means that the only party, in the wisdom of that body, for whom the colored man can safely vote is the party of Lincoln and Grant, of Douglass and Sumner—the grand old Republican party as now led by William McKinley and his brilliant running mate—Colonel Roosevelt. Mis Priscilla Jones of 1831 14th street went to Richmond this week to remain ten days, ```markdown ``` 10 Wanted to Know-- Why it is that true love never runs smooth. Why colored men in business do not advertise. Why it is that the fool-killer does not visit Washington. What the average department olerk does with his money. Why it is that some small people imagine themselves great. Why you don't deposit your money in the Capital Savings Bank. Why some colored men in business will not pay their honest debts. Why it is that the man whom you favor becomes your bitterest enemy. Why it is that the poorest talker insists on doing all the talk in the group. Why it is that the average colored barber shop is regarded by woman as a place for gossip. How much money the local pedagogue will have to begin business with when school begins. Why is it that so many colored or ganizations as well as individuals keep their money in white banks. Why does the head of a family get angry when a subscription bill for a newspaper is presented to him. Why is it that the colored men in the Pullman service never get any higher than the position of porter. Why some people are so quick to find fault with their own race and never dis cover the infirmities of other races. Why is it that so many bad pay sub scribers are continually asking that their names be printed in the paper. Why is it that some married men never stay at home but seem to find pleasure and comfort in somebody else's home. Why no colored man of prominence in the State of Maryland has received any recognition whatever from the present Administration. Why is it that accommodations are refused to colored people at all of the resorts near by and adjacent to Washington, except Jackson City. Why our ministers continue to read hand bills and announcements from their pulpits Sunday nights instead of having them sent to the newspapers. Why don't the married men of Washington take their wives and families to the first class buffets, such as Gray & Costley's, Moore & Prioleau's or Gaskins & Gaines'. How you account for it that the people whose names are most heard of in the papers, at the lyceums and at public places amount to so little among the people who know them best. Why the District Commissioners do not appoint leading colored men on the committees that govern the centennial and other public entertainments given for the benefit of the city. Why some enterprising colored man does not rent one of the vacant store rooms on 7th street northwest and open up a shore store. The Jews are getting all of the business; he could get some of it. Why the 100,000 colored people of the District of Columbia do not organize a stock company for a big clothing store where employment will be given to the young men and to the young women of the race. --- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. "BIG BOW" J. P. KERR, The Indian Medicine Man Cures all Diseasesor no Charge. Call or Write. Dr. L. G. Hayden, General Manager, Office hours 6 a. m. to 6 p. m. daily. MissHarriet A. Gibbs, MissHarriet A. Gibbs, Graduate of Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and late of Boston. VOICE CULTURE, PIANO, ORGAN, HARMONY AND COUNTERPOINT. STUDIO: 14 N ST., N. W. GREAT RACE BOOKS, It is a fact that J. T. Haley & Co. 346 Court Square Nashville, Tenn. are the most extensive Race Book publishers in the United States. They are our friends and are giving employment to hundreds of men and women of the race. They publish the AFROAMERICAN ENCYCLOPAEDIA COLLEGE OF LIFE, UNCLE TOMS CABIN, SPARK LING GEMS, LAMP OF WISDOM, etc. These books sell at sight. Agents are having a harvest. Write Quick for terms and Territory. BUSH'S CAFE Is now open. It contains all that is up-to-date. A high line of Liquors, the choicest Cigars and an appetizing Free Lunch with a glass of Beer. You must make a visit to get an idea of the place. GEORGE BUSH, PROP., 701 4th Street, Opp. Pension Office. THE M'KINLEY HOUSE. 489 Missouri Ave., Near 6th St. First-class accommodations for all. An up-to-date Hotel for colored people. Rooms neatly furnished, linens clean, and prices within reach of all. Meals and Lunches served at all hours. THE PORTER HOUSE CAFE, 103 6 h St., N. W. Wines, Liquors and Cigars.—A full line of the choicest liquors, the best brands of cigars and the coolest beer in Washington. Messrs. B. T. Fields and John T. Lewis mixelogists. MRS. M. S. BROWN & CO. Proprietors. If so, call and see the Indian Herb Medicine Man, 620 North Eutaw Street, Baltimore, Md. I cure all diseases that are known to man or beast or no charge, no matter what your disease or sickness or affliction may be, and restore you to perfect health. Millions of people, the best and leading ones in the United States and Europe, will testify that I am the most wonderful healer of all complaints in the world. I use nothing but herbs, roots, barks, gums, balsams, seeds, berries, flowers and plants, made into teas. I have cured thousands that the most skillful physicians and the best hospital physicians in America and Europe had given up to die, and said there was no cure for them. I cure the following diseases: Heart Disease, Consumption, Blood, Kidney, Bladder, Stricture, Piles in any form, Vertigo, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Lung, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Constipation, Rheumatism in any form, Pains and Aches of any kind, Colds, Bronchial troubles, Sores, Skin Diseases, all itching sensations, all Female Complaints, La Grippe or Pneumonia, Ulcers, Carbuncles, Boils, Cancer, the worst form, without the use of knife or instruments, Eczema, Pimples on face and body, Diabetes of Kidneys or Bright's Disease of the Kidneys. I cure any disease, no matter of what nature. Medicine sent to any address by express. For full particulars send 12 cent stamp for answer. None genuine unless bought a imitators, as we have many. HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS FINE WINES OLD WHISKIES AND BRANDIES Liquors of all kinds. Choice Cigars. Philadelphia House, M. F. CARROLL, Prop. Restaurant and Saloon, 348 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W. Washington, D. C. Meals to Order. Everything First Class. Billiard and Pool Parlors Attached. HOSEL DOUGLASS. 220 B ST., AD 235 PA. AVE. N. W EUROPEAN PLAN. First-class in every particular. M RS. DOLLY C. JONES, Proprietress. Washington, D. C. Robert H. Key FINE WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS, ETC. Ladies' Dining Room. Meals at all Hours 443 First Street Southwest. Gray & Costley Wines, Liquors and Cigars Lanies and Gentlemen's Dining Room up- stairs. The best of service guaranteed. 1313 E Street N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. Fritz Reuter's HOTEL : AND : RESTAURANT 451, 453, 455, 457 Penn. Ave. 202, 208 & 210 41 St. N. W Washington, D. C. The Woodson House First class, newly furnished and decorated, unsurpassed cuisine, convenient to all cars. One half square from Pennsylvania Depot. 467 Missouri Avenue. HENRY WOODSON PROPRIETOR GASKINS & GAINES. Academy Restaurant [just around the corner] 320 8th Street, N. W. Opposite Kanns'. All leading brands of wine liquors and etc, imported and domestic. Ladies and Gentlemen's Code Uniform. --- THE INDIAN HERB MEDICINE MAN, 620 N. EUTAW ST. BALTIMORE, MD. at 620 North Eutaw Street. Beware of HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS. D. T. GIBBODS. WHOLESALE MANUFACTURING RETA CONFECTIONER 523 41 Street, Southwest, WASHINGTON, D. C. Wedding Cakes Made and Parties Furnished at Short Notice. Ice Cream All The Year The Langston House 479 Mo. Ave. near 6th St. n. w, Smoking and Reading Rooms; also home for strangers. Meals served at all hours. Menu a la Carte at popular prices. Call and be convinced, Joshua N. Anderson I. J. Edwards, Props W. M. DRURY'S RESTAURANT 1100 20th St., corner L. N. W. Washington, D. C. HOTEL CLYDE First-Class Accomodations For Ladies and Gentlemen. Hot and Cold Baths. MRS. ALICE E. HALL, Proprietress. MOORE & PRIOLEAU - Sparta Buffet and Cafe 1216 Pa. Ave. Washington, D.C. Fine wines, liquors and cigars Hot Free Lunch Every Day Ladies will receive special attention in Dining Room upstairs. SOUTHERN HOTEL Good board, steam heat and electric bells, Home comfort, moderate prices. 311 Pa. Ave., nw. Washington, D. C. Fine wines, liquors, cigars and tobacco. Jack M Ryan. Proprietor SILENCE BRCS., Wines, Liquors and Cigars, A Noonday Lunch from 11.30 to 2 p.m. 430 EIGHTH ST., N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C. --- FROM FOREIGN SHORES. Consul Gibbs Writes From Madagascar The Supremacy of the French-Colored Men Holding High Official Position and Eligible to All Places of Trust and Honor-A Dark Picture From Home. Tamative, Madagascar, Aug. 5. 1900. Dear Friend Cooper: I have your favor June 14th last, in which you say you would like to have a line from me, that you may let the friends over here know what you are doing. Well here it is line upon line, if not precept, etc. I am "still doing business at the same old stand," and doubt if I have anything to say regarding this "far away post," that would particularly interest your readers, engrossed as I perceive they are, in domestic phases and in the alignment of our recent acquisitions. Regarding the physical development or moral progress of Madagascar, as you know it is now a French province, with a Governor General and staff. all appointees from France. The Government is doing considerable to open up the country by means of telegraphs, railroads, turnpikes and canals. At Paris they recently voted sixty millions francs (12 million dollars) for a railroad from here to Tananarivo the capital-200 miles from here, over a mountainous and broken country. The cap- J. HON. M. W. GIBBS, U. S. Consul to Tamatave, Madagascar. ital is situated on a plateau 5,000 feet above sea level, with a climate cool and bracing, Here at Tamative a fire place or heating stove in a house are unknown appendages. The Hovas for a long period were the rulers previous to the conquest and occupation by the French who by diplomacy "force and iron will" the means usually adopted by the strong when a coveted prize looms in the distance, added an immense territory to their colonial possessions. But perhaps in the interest of civilization, the change is not to be deplored. The Hovas were a superior class of the Madagascan people, the rulers being men of education and ability, but not equal in quality or quantity to cope with the energy, wealth and military prowess of a power like France. The mental and physical conditions of the great bulk of the natives were not, and are not, inviting; they were held by a mild system of slavery, a system that in substance still exists under French rule as to forced labor on public works. The severity of tasks and bad rum are said by a friendly society at Paris in its protest, "to be faet decimating their number." The French Government, however, are establishing an extension of schools for the natives, where industrial training will be the marked feature, and which on yesterday, the occasion being an official visit, THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. the Governor was pleased to pay me, I took pains to extol; as you know industrial training is my pet. The General wisely remarking, "we wish first to place the present generation in a position to earn more money, so they will be able to give their offspring a higher education if they wish." The English, Norwegians from America, the Friends and other missions are doing something for their educational and moral progress, but the appliances are meager compared with the herculean task that awaits them. There is however this difference in the problem here. There are colored men occupying places of prominence as officials, as tellers in banks, elerks in counting houses and merchant stores. Here it is condition and not color, wealth and position, the "open sesame." On social occasions the brother in black is in evidence, without special notice of the past, and strangest of it all, on the following day, the sun and other heavenly bodies seem to stand or revolve in their accustomed orbits. My health has been good although the bubonic pest, periodical in its visitations, has been alarming in the suddenness of its destruction of life. In the spring it is again expected to alight without "healing in its wings." But I will not longer dwell on Madagascan peculiarities, many of which, as elsewhere, are not chastening. What I am interested in, and want to know about is, how you are getting on with the "old grudge?" If I judge correctly from the journals that reach me, that during my near three years' absence, its status, unlike renowned grape juice has neither er dissipated or improved bylapse of time, and that lynching and disfranchisement still have the right of way." The expansion of our sovereignty is brought with complications and onerous duties from the statesman, the zeal of the humanitarium, and one of reformer and friends of equitable government, unflinching determination, that kindness and justice shall be ceded to the people thereof. But is the prospect for the dissemination or ascendency of these virtues either bright or promising? If the exercise and enjoyments of these attributes are not growing to millions of the American household, is it reasonable to expect they will dominate abroad? There is reason for apprehension that our cousins in the East will find little change of despotic tendencies amid the rank and file of American adventurers. The philosophy of our system of government seems out of balance, Cicero wrote "that excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery." But amid the lights and shadows that environ the Negroes he is neither undeserving of the assistance rendered, and indispensible for educational development, which has been generous, one for which he is grateful, although handicapped by a prejudice confronting on so many avenues of industry, and forbiding his entry. Not undeserving for patient and non-anarchist in the realms of labor, his right to possess and enjoying equality of citizenship is written with blood and bravery on the battle field of every war of the republic where he "fell forward as fits a man." Munificent contributions of Christians and philanthropists, for missionary work abroad, are greatly in evidence, given with a self complacency of duty done; but however, fail to vivify the declining pulse beat for equality before the law and justice fat home. Manifestly there is an absence of that ar- raignment and condemnation of wrong done the weak, that contributed so largely to abolish the "coor laws of England" and slavery on the United States. History is the record, that it is the men of moral courage and heroism who by pen and voice, that socallity and gain cannot intimidate and combat evil in their very midst that "leave foot prints in the sands of time." This we know to be abundantly beneficial. But is it not also true that the rapidity of reform is accelerated by wisdom in recognizing aright present conditions, rather than by a strained conception of gratitude for the past. Do we not trust too much to appeal, folded arms, and the "masterly inactivity" of the even tenor of our political ways. Gibbon in his "decline of Rome" wrote that "gratitude was expensive." It has taken a long time for the idea to penetrate the Negro, but he should not be blamed if what phrenologist say of him be true, but he is absorbing and asking if he is making the best practical use of his franchise by cohesion; while every ofthem class of voters enjoy protection and emoluments by division. I must close this letter already too long. Don't regard me as a pessimist, I know that Bacon wrote that "men of age object too much", but the fact is, Cooper, it has been so long since I heard a 4th of July hallelujah chorus that I am getting out of tune. McKinley has been again nominated I see, and doubtless will be elected with a Congress in harmony, thus giving the party another lease of power, which, God grant, let us hope, may redound to the welfare of all the people. Say to my many friends that they are, "though lost to sight to memory dear." Truly your friend, M W. GIBBS. AN ALL STAR CONCERT. A grand star concert will be given at the John Wesley church, Connecticut avenue between L and M streets, Friday evening, September 21st, 1900, under the auspices of the Bishop Walter's Club. On this occasion great pleasure will be taken to present the leading talent of the District. The following named singers and speakers will participate: The Amphton Glee Club, Prof. J. T. Layton. Mr. Winston Payne, Miss Chanie Patterseu, Mrs. Lula Joy Brooks, Miss Mattie R Bowen, Miss Ottie M. Brooks, Prof. J. Henry Lewis, musical director; Prof. Wm. Braxton, pianist. Every one who wishes to spend an evening of pleasure should not miss this opportunity of a rare treat. Committee of arrangements: Mrs. S. I. Orme, president; Miss Marie Brown, secretary; Mrs. M. R. Wright, treasurer. Rev. B. J. Bolding, pastor. Admission 25 cents. Geo. W. Wise Furnishing Undertaker PRACTICAL EMBALMER Geo. W. Wise Furnishing Undertaker PRACTICAL EMBALMER 2900 M street. Georgetewn,D. G. Telephone call. 108-88. 111 North Clinton, St., East Orange, N. J. BICK, ACCIDENT, AND DEATH BENEFIT, PAID PROMPTLY. National Benefit Association, Capital Savings Bank Building, Washington, D. C. ```markdown ``` 11 MME. DAVIS M. H. Born Clairvoyant & Card Reader Tells about business, Removes Spells and Evil Influences, Reunites the Separated and Gives Luck to all. Cures Piles and Drunkenness. 1228 25th st. n. w. Washington D.C. No letters answered unless accompanied by stamp. W. H BUTLER, PAINTS OILS GLASS, &c., 609 C STREET, N.W. Springtime is on, and your house will need touching up. We have just what you want. W. H. BUTLER, 609 C St., N. W. ILLUSTRATIONS CUIS MADE OF ANY THING, BY ANY PROCESS. FINE WORK AT LOW PRICES. THE Maurice Joyce Engraving Company. EVENING STAR BUILDING, WASHINGTON, B.C. 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Aurone sending a sketch and description may priorly assert our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable. Communications strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents ent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest cir- culation of any scientific journal. Terms, $3 a year four months, $1. Sold by all newsdealers. NEW & Co. 361 Broadway, New York Office, 625 F St., Washington, D.C. NOTICE! NOTICE 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. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, H. --- 12 BISHOP WALTERS SPEAKS. He Has Never at Any Time Urged a Division of the Negro Vote. Bishop Alexander Walters is confessedly one of the ablest, best known and most popular Negro divines in this country. He has recently been honored by an election to the Presidency for a term of two years, of the Pan African Society which assembled in London a few days ago, and to honorary membership in the Reform Club of London, England. He is one of the directors of the great Christian Endeavor Association of the United States and was chosen a delegate to represent that body in the recent convention held in England. The Bishop has always been a republican and he has always had the courage of his convictions. Sometimes ago he criticised the attitude of the administration toward his race, and did it in a straight forward way. Since then the attitude of the administration toward the Negro has changed in his favor, and the Bishop is still a republican. The speech which he delivered at Washington criticising the President, has been gobbled up and printed in a distorted form by the Democratic Literary Bureau, or its accomplices, and is being circulated in pamphlet form with a zeal worthy of a better cause. The Bishop is just as good a republican as Senator W. M. Stewart, the father of the xvth Amendment, who has recently deserted Bryan to support McKinley. The following letter will show where the Bishop is "at," and at the same time discover the crafty methods of our friend the enemy, of horn snoggling and honey fugleing susceptible Negroes: Fon du Lac. Wls. 8.23.1900. My Dear Bruce:— I have just received your letter. Glad to hear from you. I write in haste to say that I have not written a word or had any private interview with anyone on the subject of a division of the Negro vote since last winter or early spring. I never advised anyone to vote for Mr. Bryan. I have done and shall do just the opposite. You are authorized to deny with all honorable emphasis the statements direct or implied that I have advised any Negro to vote for Bryan. I have never seen or heard of until today, the pamphlet to which you allude. If my address or rather letter, is being used as democratic campaign literature, it is without my knowledge or consent, and I unhesitatingly repudiate it and authorize you to do so. North Carolina's Crack Industrial School. Mr. I. S. Cunningham, inspector of joinery and wood turning at the State Agricultural and Mechanical College, Greensboro, N. C., was in this city a few days this week. He is a graduate of that great school and this will be his second year as instructor. He has spent his entire vacation visiting the various schools and mechanical institutions of the North and East, studying their methods, etc. He brought a large number of specimens with him showing the kind of work done by the school, and he left a beautiful gavel and other carvings for The Colored American as a sample of the work done at his school. Mr. Cunningham is a good type of the young Afro-Americans who are coming up in the South and who are imbued with a great future of the possibility of industrial education in the South. The Greensboro College is to be congratulated upon having so valuable a representative as Mr. Cunningham. Dr. Arthur M. Brown of Birmingham, Ala. One of the prominent young men from the South who attended the National Negro Business League at Boston, Mass., and who made one of the most effective and telling off-hand speeches that were made at that meeting was Dr. Arthur E. Brown now located at Birmingham, Ala. The Doctor comes of a family with a history. Himself a college graduate he was ap' J. DR. ARTHUR M. BROWN. pointed surgeon of the 10th United States Cavalry during the Spanish-American war and rendered service in Cuba, in the South and on the war hips. After leaving the service, he began the practice of medicine in Birmingham where he is doing a large and lucrative business. He says "there is plenty of opportunity for the young men of the race at the South who go there prepared to take up their profession and to accept things as they find them and not as they would have them." The South needs more young men like Dr. Brown. A Fishing Party. A fisheng party composed of Messrs, Robert H. Terrell, George S. Newman, John N. Dorster, John T. Layton, Robert D. Pendleton, D. B. McCary, Lewis H. Wayne, Mackenzie Scott, Dr. F. J. Cardozo and Editor E. E. Cooper boarded the steam launch Jennie Irene, owned by Mr. O. T. Taylor on Tuesday night at 12 o'clock and went 40 miles down the Potomac and enjoyed the sport of the angler until late Wednesday afternoon. All of the members of the party are prominent Masons and they had a thoroughly good time and caught a large number of the "gamey" bass. On the return trip the party put in at Glymont and other points of interest. It is the purpose of the gentlemen named to repeat the excursion before the end of the season. Several of the party brought back a goodly number of reed birds which they had brought down with their guns early Wednesday morning. Mr. Clinton L. Battle, an enterprising young man, has opened a very fine ice cream parlor on the triangle at the corner of 12th and R streets. On or about the 15th he will add a dining room where the best service will be rendered. THE GRAND FOUNTAIN. United Order of True Relor ORGANIZED January 1 Offices 604, 606 and 608 N. 2nd St., The Strongest Financial Organization the Negro Has Produced Read and learn for yourself what it has done and how to be 1 Order of True Reform GANIZED January 1, 606 and 608 N. 2nd St., - - - Financial Organization the Negro Has Produced it learn for yourself what it has done and how to becom er of rue Reformers. D January 1, 1881. N. 2nd St., - - Richmond, Va lon the Negro Has Produced in This Country. at it has done and how to become a member. United Order of ORGANIZED January 1, 1881. Offices 604, 606 and 608 N. 2nd St., - - Richmond, Va The Strongest Financial Organization the Negro Has Produced in This Country. Read and learn for yourself what it has done and how to become a member. SUBORDINATE FOUNTAINS. Subordinat. Fountains are of males and of good local character. Conventions.—When joining the Order through 14 to 50 years of age; when joining the Fountains 14 to 60 years of age complete. Joining or Benefit Fees.—From 14 to 60 years at 60, $6.0. Death benefits.—$75 and $125. Should death occur first year, $125 will be paid to the heirs, assigns or Sick benefits.—From $6 to $9 per month, paid Monthly Dues are 35 or 50 cents per month. annually, January and July. The next monthly benefits. Life membership—Ten snakes of Bank Stock, said member a life member. After paying dues fruits of the stock will pay the member's dues, an year. Just calculate—monthly dues, 50 cents per amount to $6.80, and a dividend on ten shares of a per share, amounts to $10 annually, which will pay a balance of $3.20. Should the dues be 35 cents per the monthly dues and taxes will amount to $5 per the monthly dues and taxes, and leave a balance of Additional Benefits of Life Membership.—Shoulder, said member may take his ten shares of stock from $1 to $68, which will enable said member to loan, redeem his policy and stock, and go on his w Mountains are composed of males and females, sound in character. When joining the Order through Conventions, personal age; when joining the Fountain by application person complete. Best Fees.—From 14 to 60 years of age, $4.60; at 60, —$75 and $125. Should death occur within the first be paid to the heirs, assigns or legal representatives. From $6 to $9 per month, paid weekly. Are 35 or 50 cents per month. Taxes are 80 cents a and July. The annual monthly dues secure the help—Ten snails of Bank Stock, costing each member life member. After paying dues and owning the su will pay the member's dues, and leave a handsome rate—monthly dues, 50 cents per month, and taxes and a dividend on ten shares of stock at 20 per cent to $10 annually, which will pay the member's dues. Should the dues be 35 cents per month, and 80 ce and taxes will amount to $5 per year. The dividend and taxes, and leave a balance of $5. Rights of Life Membership.—Should adverse circumstance may take his ten shares of stock and Fountain policy which will enable said member to tide over the misi policy and stock, and go on his way rejoicing. and of males and females, sound in health and mind, under through Conventions, persons are taken in from the Fountain by application persons are taken from into 80 years of age, $4.60; at 50, $5.10; at 55, $5.60. Sound death occur within the first year, $75; after the assigns or legal representatives, month, paid weekly. Per month. Taxes are 80 cents annually, paid semi- monthly dues secure the highest weekly sick Bank Stock, costing each member $5 a share, many paying dues and owning the stock one year, be- ter's dues, and leave a handsome little balance each 80 cents per month, and taxes 80 cents per year, a shares of stock at 20 per cent on the dollar, or $1 which will pay the member's dues, $6.80, and leave 85 cents per month, and 80 cents taxes per year, ent to $5 per year. The dividend of $10 would pay a balance of $5. Worship. Should adverse circumstances befall a mem- ories of stock and Fountain policy, and secure a loan member to tide over the misfortune, pay up the go on his way rejoicing. Subordinat Fountains are composed of males and females, sound in health and mind, and of good oral character. Conventions.—When joining the Order through Conventions, persons are taken in from 14 to 50 years of age; when joining the B'ountain by application persons are taken from 14 to 60 years of age complete. Joining or Benefit Fees.—From 14 to 20 years of age, $4.60; at 50, $5.10; at 55, $5.60; at 60, $6.00. Death benefits.—$75 and $125. Should death occur within the first year, $75; after the first year, $125 will be paid to the heirs, assigns or legal representatives. Sick benefits.—From $6 to $9 per month, paid weekly. Monthly Dues are 35 or 50 cents per month. Taxes are 80 cents annually, paid semi-annually, January and July. The monthly dues secure the highest weekly sick benefits. Life membership—Ten shares of Bank Stock, costing each member $5 a share, may said member a life member. After paying dues and owning the stock one year, fruits of the stock will pay the member's dues, and leave a handsome little balance each year. Just calculate monthly dues, 50 cents per month, and taxes 80 cents per year, amount to $6.80, and a dividend on ten shares of stock at 20 per cent on the dollar, or 1 per share, amounts to $10 annually, which will pay the member's dues, $6.80, and leave a balance of $3.20. Should the dues be 35 cents per month, and 80 cents taxes per year, the monthly dues and taxes will amount to $5 per year. The dividend of $10 would pay the monthly dues and taxes, and leave a balance of $5. Additional Benefits of Life Membership.—Should adverse circumstances befall a member, said member may take his ten shares of stock and Fountain policy, and secure a loan from $1 to $68, which will enable said member to tide over the misfortune, pay up the loan, redeem his policy and stock, and go on his way rejoicing. 2. ROSEBUD FOUNTAIN (For the Children.) Rosebud Fountains are male, from 8 to 14 years. Joining or Benefit Fountains. Death Benefits.—$24.8 within the first year, $24.8 to the parents or guardian. Sick Benefits.—From 50 cents, 75 cents and 5 monthly dues purchase the Monthly Dues and The 15 cents or 25 cents, the 10 cents, the child is a makes his HE REGAL Rosebud Fountains are composed for child male, from 8 to 14 years of age. Joining or Benefit Fees, $1.50; paid spotments. Death Benefits.—$24.50 and $7.00. Shift within the first year, $24.50; after the first year to the parents or guardians. Sick Benefits.—From $1.50 to $4.00 per month 50 cents, 75 cents and $1 per week, respect monthly dues purchase the highest weekly rate. Monthly Dues and Taxes.—The monthly 15 cents or 25 cents, respectively, just as usual, 10 cents annually, paid semi-annually, makes his policy self-supportive. Fountains are composed for children, male and female to 14 years of age. For Benefit Fees, $1.50; paid spot cash or by installment. Benefits.—$24.50 and $97.00. Should death occur first year, $24.50; after the first year $57 will be paid as guardians. Benefits.—From $1.50 to $4.00 per month paid weekly, cents and $1 per week, respectively. The highest purchase the highest weekly sick benefits. Dues and Taxes.—The monthly dues are 10 cents, 25 cents, respectively, just as the Fountain may, 10 cents annually, paid semiannually, January the child is allowed to purchase five shares of Bank makes his policy self-supporting, with a balance Hosebond mountains are composed of children, male and female, from 8 to 14 years of age. Joining or Benefit Fees, $1.50; paid spot cash or by installations. Death Benefits.—$24.50 and $87.00. Should death occur within the first year, $24.50; after the first year $87 will be paid to the parents or guardians. Sick Benefits.—From $1.50 to $4.00 per month paid weekly; 50 cents, 75 cents and $1 per week, respectively. The highest monthly dues purchase the highest weekly sick benefits. Monthly Dues and Taxes.—The monthly dues are 10 cents, 15 cents or 25 cents, respectively, just as the Fountain may, 10 cents annually, paid semiannually, January the child is allowed to purchase five shares of Bank makes his policy self-supporting, with a balance HE REGALLA. in that is worn by the members of the Order. For ship, male and female, and secure life and death 14 to 20 years..... $2 50 25 to 35 years..... 2 75 35 to 45 years..... 3 00 45 to 50 years..... 8 25 50 to 55 years..... 8 25 55 to 60 years..... 8 50 60 to 65 years..... 8 50 H Class Policies are as follows: CLASS H TAX Ages. Joinin Fee. 14 to 25 years..... $5 00 25 to 35 years..... 5 25 35 to 45 years..... 5 50 45 to 50 years..... 5 75 50 to 55 years..... 5 75 55 years (Complete)..... 6 00 mes are as follows: CLASS H TABLE. Agea. Joining Fee. Value of Certificate. Agea. $5 00 $500 00 5 25 500 00 5 50 500 00 5 75 450 00 5 75 400 00 6 00 850 00 CLASS H TABLE. Joining Fee. Value of Certificate. Annual Dues. Paid Quarterly. $5 00 $500 00 $9 50 $2 40 5 25 500 00 9 50 ..... 5 50 500 00 10 40 ..... 5 75 450 00 11 40 2 85 5 75 400 00 11 40 2 85 6 00 350 00 11 00 2 85 last birthday. Benefited as soon as his policy is issued. Above named Classes may be divided into quarterly the 1st of January, April, July, and October. going to the credit of each member after paying Stock for said member. three, the member gets 5 per cent drawback in cash. By the latter mode of payment each member is giving the membership independent of the agent, and giving the percentage that would be paid to the agent of either one of these classes are only required for the Fountains and Rosebuds meet twice a month. Class are allowed to purchase 15 shares of Bank of their membership. The stock yields a dividend. Should misfortune befall them on their pathway indicates and policies, and secure a loan after a given 25 shares of Bank Stock, and two shares for each may may take their policies and certificates of Bank period of time. You will readily see that the mem- like the Fountains and the Rosebuds, benefits the only in death. Ages. Joining Fee. Value of Certificate. Annual Dues. Paid Quarterly. 14 to 25 years. $5 00 $500 00 $9 50 $2 40 25 to 55 years. 5 25 500 00 9 50 ..... 35 to 45 years. 5 50 500 00 10 40 ..... 45 to 50 years. 5 75 450 00 11 40 2 85 50 to 55 years. 5 75 400 00 11 40 2 85 55 years (Complete). 6 00 850 00 11 00 2 85 The ages are reckoned from the last birthday. Remember that the applicant is benefited as s The annual dues of either of the above named payments of three months each, payable the 1st o The balance of annual dues remaining to the enses will go to the purchase of Bank Stock for If dues are paid annually in advance, the men and his full proportion of annual dues. By the B nade his own collector, thereby making the mec self-supporting, and the member receiving the per to collect. You will readily see that the members of either to meet once or four times a year, while the Foun Life benefits.-The members of B Class are Stock and two shares for each year of their me of per cent, or one dollar per share. Should m of life, they may take their stock certificates and period of time. Members of Class E can purchase 25 shares a year of their membership; likewise, they may take Stock, and secure a loan after a given period of the borship, in either one of these Classes, like the B member in health, as well as his family in death. at the applicant is benefited as soon as his policy is less of either of the above named Classes may be divi- sed months each, payable the 1st of January, April, Jun- fifth annual dues remaining to the credit of each member the purchase of Bank Stock for said member. Bid annually in advance, the member gets 5 per cent portion of annual dues. By the latter mode of payment selector, thereby making the membership independent and the member receiving the percentage that would be to see that the members of either one of these classes our times a year, while the Fountains and Rosebuds u The members of B Class are allowed to purchase shares for each year of their membership. The stock one dollar per share. Should misfortune befall them take their stock certificates and policies, and secure a class E can purchase 25 shares of Bank Stock, and the membership; likewise, they may take their policies and a loan after a given period of time. You will readily one of these Classes, like the Fountains and the Rose- B as well as his family in death. The annual dues of either of the above named Classes may be divided into quarterly payments of three months each, payable the 1st of January, April, July, and October. The balance of annual dues remaining to the credit of each member after paying expenses will go to the purchase of Bank Stock for said member. If dues are paid annually in advance, the member gets 5 per cent drawback in cash and his full proportion of annual dues. By the latter mode of payment each member is made his own collector, thereby making the membership independent of the agent, and self-supporting, and the member receiving the percentage that would be paid to the agent to collect. You will readily see that the members of either one of these classes are only required to meet once or four times a year, while the Fountains and Rosebuds meet twice a month. Life events.—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 builf them on their pathway of life, they may take their stock certificates and policies, and secure a loan after a given period of time. Members of Class E can purchase 25 shares of Bank Stock, and two shares for each year of their membership; likewise, they may take their policies and certificates of Bank Stock, and secure a loan after a given period of time. You will readily see that the membership, in either one of these Classes, like the Fountains and Rosebuds, benefits the member in health, as well as his family in death. 15. THE TRUE REFORMERS' BANK. The Savings Bank of the G. F. U. O. F. R. was 1888. Its capital stock is $100,000. It commencement 1889. The amount of business to March 1, 1898, stock of this bank is sold to the membership of the buds, B and E classes, and pays a dividend of 20 lar. Persons can deposit their money on time or pays 4 per cent interest on all time deposits. More hold subject to the orders of the depositors. Do upwards. Special attention is given to the collection as the only bank in Elehmond which continued to the financial stringency, while the other banks were bank of the G. F. U. O. F. R. was chartered March. stock is $100,000. It commenced business April 3. of business to March 1, 1898, is $3,495,100. The it is sold to the membership of the Fountains, Rose-resses, and pays a dividend of 20 per cent on the do-l deposit their moneys on time or demand. The bank interest on all time deposits. Moneys on demand are the orders of the depositors. Deposits are received attention is given to the collection of notes and drafts. Richmond which continued to pay currency to its money, while the other banks were using script. The Savings Bank of the G. F. U. O. F. R. was chartered March 1888. Its capital stock is $100,000. It commanded business April 3, 1890. The amount of business to March 1, 1890, is $8,400,100. The stock of this bank is sold to the membership of the Fountainus. Rosebuds, B and E classes, and pays a dividend of 20 per cent on the dollar. Persons can deposit their money on time or demand. The bank pays 4 per cent interest on all time deposits. Monies 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 draft. In 1893 this was the only bank in Richmond which continued to pay currency to its depositors during the financial stringency, while the other banks were using scrip. 6. REAL ESTATE OF THE U. O. T. B. This Department manages and controls the pr of the necessity of having offices and buildings in organization, and to furnish halls for the Subordi farms, 3; dwellings, 2; hotels, 1; with a fee simple ont manages and controls the property of the organi of having offices and buildings in which to carry on to furnish halls for the Subordinate Lodge. Buildi c, 2; hotels, 1; with a fee simple value of $104,000. strols the property of the organisation. It grew out buildings in which to carry on the business of the the Subordinate Ledger. Buildings new owned, 12; a fee simple value of $164,000. Buildings leased, 18. This Department manages and controls the property of the organisation. It grew out of the necessity of having offices and buildings in which to carry on the business of the organisation, and to furnish halls for the Subordinate Lodges. Buildings now owned, 21 farms 3; dwellings, 2; hotels 1; with a fee simple value of $104,600. Buildings leased, 18 7. THE REFORMER, the Organ of the Order. The Reformer is the Beacon-Light, the Head General Agent of the Brotherhood. It is a live m. It is the medium of the Order, and its columns teach good for sample opinion. It is published weekly in mind, Pa., having a first-class job Department, and is the Beacon-Light, the Head-Light, the General of the Brotherhood. It is a live race journal, with a copy of the Order, and its columns team with all its doing region. It is published weekly in The Reformer Papers a hard-class job department, and makes a specialty. t, the Head-Light, the General Messenger and the It is a live race journal, with a circulation of 6,000 columns team with all its delays and achievements. Used weekly in The Reformer Printing Office, Rich department, and makes a specialty of high-class work The Reformer is the Beacon-Light, the Head-Light, the General Messenger and the General Agent of the Brotherhood. It is a live race journal, with a circulation of 6,000. It is the medium of the Order, and its columns team with all its delays and achievements. Send for sample copies. It is published weekly in The Reformer Printing Office, Ebbw Vale, Blaenavon, having a full-time job Government and makes a speciality of high class work. This Depth style and style 4. CLASSES. B and H benefits. B Chase Poll THE BEEHIVE Joining Fee. $2 50 2 75 3 00 8 25 8 25 8 50 8 50 Value of Certificate. $200 00 200 00 200 00 140 00 115 00 90 00 65 00 Annual Dues. $4 75 4 75 5 70 6 65 6 65 7 60 7 60 Paid Quarterly. $1 20 1 20 1 43 1 66 1 66 1 90 1 90 OO nOT ey a eC nt RNHINGTON, DO : eC EEREEIISINIIVES ESIEITURIN, WSSEEEINT LUI, Wee Oe We 2 ee 4 Ve Viz ew & Ha HAW = 11) |\ \ Qe gages Ce Vp 1 TLV \\\ WQS ey br | {YAY \\\! 4 ee eh BH WA Re, ZR BEATS) WM NS) ew Be) PRU cece na eran AS ct yt | A ee SS SEIZES YNZ ng BREESE RRENOG YEN AIS SEN YEE EAN EES Reh GE AN \ ES WRN Lg EE \ aig se CZ ff Ee ‘ HESS 2S \VZES Bee Ge Ze VE cS WE MY Lg tL 5 —— WW er Tey a WGA Zi NCEE CME ZB SV fe (We Zag G4, y men Z HON. GEO. H. WHITE. The Lone Afro-American of the Present Congress who has Declined to Make Another Race and Will Settle in New York or Some Eastern State. Orange Blossoms. Mr Charles BE. Hall, of Illinois, and Mises Lena D. Waters of the same State were married Wednesday at 12:30 p. m at (he home of Rev. J. Albert Johnson, pastor of Metropolitan A.M. E church. Mi-s Waters arrived in the city on the 11.20 tai, was met at the depot by Mr. Hell, Mrs. M,C. Terrell, Mrs. H. Y. Arnett and Mr. U. T. Pickett. The perty was driven to the home of Rev. Jobnson and married in the presence of Dr. snd Mrs. A. M. Curtis, Mr. and ‘Mrs H.Y,. Arnett, Mr. and Mrs. D. B Allen, Mrs Terrell, Mieses Koss, Mrs Johnson and Mr. Pickett. Atter re ceiving the congratulations of the brid al party Mr. and Mrs. Hall were driven to their nome 1929 11th street, n. w The cyoom is one of the most prominent politicians of Illinois ard the bride is a leading social hgbtof ber State. Wash ington is to be congratulated upon the acquisition of this distinguisbed cou’ ple. The Colored American extends beariy congratula ‘ions. eee King Rastus at The Bijou. Billy Kersande tre King Pin of the colored Mipatrelsy will be at the‘ Bijou’ next week in Ishsm’s New Operatic Comery, * King Restos,” the funniest farce ever written, With such come. 6 = e GO = tye % Ke “Be We <<) fF A A SA eM! ear CR Al y hee i253]/"” (ey pedede lians as Kersands, Smartand Williams allory res. and Brooke, Tom Brown, 4. Dudley and a big chorus of stre sing exceltence, The quality of the Telormance can be 1magined. Fun “its supreme, Numerous specialties Ud sll of the latest music, song, ‘Suces and cake walks are introduced. olf you are looking for three hours of clid enjoyment it can be found :at the Bijou’ next week, | Jolly Girls and Boys, _ The Misses Gordons were joyously entertained Monday even:ng Septem: ber 8rd by a number of their frieude Dancing began at 6 p. m., the music being rendered by Prof. Wm. H. Gor: don, later he gave the piano forte over to Prof. Wm. Towles who gave fine selections. Ever and anon dainties were had by the folly makers. Solos were rendered Misses Pharien and Hattie Gordon. Among the jolly boys and girls were, the Misses A. and H Grant, C. Valentine, V. Jones Mis “~Graut Perry, Messts. D and J. Vaw’ ters, J. Johneon, G. Grant and J. Wright. ——_.__. THE DISTRICT GRAND LODGE. The District Grand Lodg: No, 20G U. O of O. F., of the District of Col- umbia will begin its twentieth annual session at Odd Fellows’ Hall M street, n. w.,at8 p m., Monday next. The twenty seven subordinate lodges will be represented by about fifty delegates and life members, District Grand Master W. C. Martin will preside and District Grand Secretary C. B. Walkez willact as secretary. The other mem bers of the Executive Committee are Deputy Grand Master W. H. Rose, Dis urict Grand Treasurer, T. W. West and District Grand Director T. J. Field, Jr. +2 + Death ot Orpheus McAdoo, A message was received by Mr. John Allen, of Granville street, this morn- ing, announcing the death, in Austra- lia, of Mr. Orpheus McAdoo, The deceased married Mies Mattie Allen, of this city, and since their marriage, they have spent the past ten years in Australia and South Africa, touring those countries with Mr. McAdoo’s jubilee singers. Just a year ago Mr. McAdoo came to America snd to Co Jumbns and gathered together here thirty colored artiste, a few from this city, and took them to Australia, mak- ing a second troupe under bis manage- ment.— Columbus Despatch, SSA Prof. Jease Lawson and Editor Man- ly of The Daily Record have returned from their visit to the meeting of the National Afro-American Counsil at Indianapolis, Ind, NEW B I J 0 U ——————_ THE WASHINGTON HOME OF CLEAN Every BURLESQUE AND VAUDEVILLE. . Afternoon eae 23 RES = and 2 Evening First Appearance Here of except I ’ ¢ Snde sham's Big Comedy Popalar Exfravaganza Company rices —— In the Brilliant Mirth Producer, Entitled : Reserved aoe CEING: ao bebe Bs Introducing a Company of Thirty Comedians, Vocalists _ Show and Dancers, Headed by the King Pin of Colored Artists in 2 Town =o Billy Kersands ren And a Host of Others of Prominence including Mallory Brothers and Brooks; Smart and Williams, Tom Brown, 8. H. Dudley, and a Big Chorus. The Sensation of the Season, Secure Seats in Advance. 2 ake GE Ree ee = AN ALL DAY ee a \ NX 6>o0 } i“ : ? Jones’ Park, Glen Echo, Md. Mr. Robert Lewis invites his city frierds to spend a day with —& ; him at Jones’ Park next Sunday, September 9th, at a grand Oyster Roast. The Roast will last from early in the morning until late 2M %] in the evening, and there will be other refreshments in abundance. [S) ] You and your friends are especially invited to come. Take the [Mj Great Falls car. Get cft at Jones’ Park a little south of Glen ise] a Echo Junction. Admission FREE. sel (i ie eee Eee ‘orci aiiicaiaiiaaasa 2 Has it Ever Occurred to You? That the Barber Shop at the corner of 6th and Missouri avenue, northwest, is the neatest, coolest and most up to-date in the city? Work done in first-class style by first-claes artists, Come once and you will come again. All brands of imported and demettie cigars and tobacco - - - - Bud Harris, of Kentucky, Barpers:4 Peter Walsh, ot Washington, D. C. Wilber Richards, E, L. Payne, of Washington, D. C. Porter. W.M. HILL, Prop., 101 6th St., N. W., Opp. 6th St. Depot. eet Spee RES ! a poabbbbbbhohbhbbhbdbbhti Mme Turner’s Great French Sysfem Gives a Wonderful... And Beautiful Complexion. Prices Reduced Until September 29th: Now is your chance to get rid of your Liver Spots, Freckies, and all Blemishes, in 8 or 10 days. Mystic Face Bleach and accompanying Soap 75 Cents. If not found at your druggist’s eend te MME. M. C. TURNER, 1312 Carondelet Street, New Orleans, La, 74 A MANLY ADDRESS. The National Afro-American Council Issues a Pronunciamento Defining the Status and Duty of the Afro-American. The Civil Rights of the Black Man—Sensible and Timely Advice. Members of the National Afro-American Council- Your committee to whom was referred the work of preparing the address to the country as an expression of the opinion of the National Afro-American Council begs leave to report the following for your consideration: "In every democracy the ballot is regarded as the chief safeguard of the rights and immunities of the citizen. In every democracy reasonable restrictions upon the exercise of the elective franchise have been imposed upon the electerate in the best interest of the State: but in all such democracies such restrictions have been imposed without invidious distinction upon all the members of the citizenship. J. HON. JUDSON W. LYONS "It is universally regarded as a fact, incontestible, not only in this Republic, but in all republics, ancient and modern, that a voteless citizen is a man who had no rights that citizens who vote feel bound to respect. We feel that all of the inequality under the law which has grown out of conditions that have developed since the subversion of the reconstruction governments in 1876, hinges entirely upon the disproportionate influence which Afro-American citizens, through the indisposition or negligence of the national government, have exercised in the States of the Union where they preponderate numerically, or are a respectable minority. "We feel it to be of supreme moment to protest against the nullification by fundamental enactment of the suffrage provisions of the Federal Constitution by the States of Mississippi, South Carolina, Louisiana and North Carolina, and against the accomplishment of the same purpose by the late slave-holding group of States by indirect, but methods equally as repugnant to constitutional provisions and sound morality. "The equality of citizens of the Republic under the Federal Constitution is a principle of the government which affects all alike, and infraction of the rights of one inevitably involves infraction of the rights of the other. The tendency towards disfranchisement is not a race question, nor a sectional question, although for the present we are the principal victims of it; it is a national question, and affects all of the citizens of the United States, because where we are injured in our rights today others may be injured in theirs tomorrow. Indeed, if a fundamental guarantee of the right of life, liberty or property under the Constitution, in which we are vitally concerned, may be violated with impunity, there is no reason why the cognate rights of others may not at some stage of our politics be THE COLLEGE MICHIGAN, WASHINGTON, D. O. violated with equal impunity. We regard it as an immoral and unprecedented construction of the fourteenth amendment to covertly seek to rob a large number of the citizenship of this country by State nullification of the precious rights guaranteed to them by the fourteenth amendment. What we contend for is that the citizenship of the United States as prescribed by the supreme law should not be affected in any of its parts for whater reason, by any co-ordinate member of the federal compact. "We are not opposed to restriction of suffrage rights by any State, by property or educational test, which shall apply to all citizens alike; but we maintain the State constitutions of Mississippi, South Carolina, North Carolina and Louisiana, enacted by a minority of the citizens of those States without submission for ratification to the people confessing that the action would not receive the approval of the people, are immoral in their purpose, in contravention of positive guarantees of the Federal Constitution, and in direct violation of the reconstruction acts by which those States were re-admitted into the Union. "The suffrage rights of the Afro American people, assured by the valorous conduct of the 180,000 black soldiers who fought to preserve the Union of our States and to suppress slave power, is the priceless jewel that we enjoy as the result of that valor; and we are unalterably opposed to any restriction of it which does not apply to all citizens of the State alike. "The interests of the white men of the South are as much involved in this suffrage question as are ours. Their interests are identical with ours; what benefits them must benefit us; what in jures them must injure us. It should not be difficult for them to see that forcing this question into the prominence which has been true of late can not be injurious to their influence as well as to their own in the government. There is not a member of this Council who does not know that the white man of the South can be generous as well as magnanimous, and where our interests are so generally intertwined we have a just right, and we do not feel that we entertain it in vain, to ask them to make a larger exhibition of this generosity and magnanimity which we know by personal experience to form so large a part of their character. "We feel to say to them that it is well to have the strength of a giant, but at the same time we ask them if it is wise to use such strength as a giant. Let the Afro-American people stand unflinchingly by their suffrage rights. It is a life and death struggle. Looking at it from this point of view we should be unfaithful to the trust committed to us if we did not warn the race against the danger of supporting any man or party in the North or South who is opposed to the full and free exercise of the elective franchise, under the provisions of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution. "We have faith to believe that revolutions never go backwards, and that the abiding sense of justice in the American people, North and South, will ultimately impel them to concede to us all that we contend for, and which is inherently ours, as it is theirs, and we believe that the God of our destiny will guide us to that good understanding which is the basis of national power and happiness." Mis Priscilla Jones of 1881 14th street went to Richmond this week to remain ten days. Telephone: 797 THE RAY MEDICAL INSTITUTE X. 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JOHNSON, Author of the Famous "Schoe CONTAINS—Pen pictures of the Dan Juan, El Caney, and around Santiago.—Co cannon which knocked over the block in Berry, the colored soldier who was first t The glowing tribute to McKinley, Miles, of Negro Soldiers—General Morgan advo Gomez, Miss Ciseros, and the Cutar Wor Army—The Negro Poet, Paul Lawrence outwitted the diplomacy of the Spanish M Uncle Sam's money—The colored Register money to make it good. Every Page Brimful of New and I to e and line engravings of soldier, office War, with A FINE PICTURE OF AGUINAL nia, and a brief sketch of the Philippinos Handsome Picture of General N mand of all the American Army, who sa Santiago was "without a parallel in the h Little," Mailed Free. AGENTS Big percentage. Send for copy E. A. JO of the Daring Charges made by Negro Soldiers at San Santiago.—Corporal Brown killed at his post while firing a block house and saved the Rough Riders.—Sergeant was first to raise the American flag on San Juan Hill—May, Miles, Roosevelt, and many others on the bravery of advocates Negro officers.—Antonio and Jose Macio, Mutual Women Cavalry.—The Negro Paymasters in the Lawrence Junbar—"Eddie" Savoy, the colored man who Spanish Minister at Washington.—The Negro who seals and Register of the Treasury who has to sign Uncle Sam's New and Interesting Reading, with about fifty half-tailier, officers, and scenes of the late Spanish-American Maguinaldo, his headquarters, a Filipino lady of Maltipinos and their civilization. General Nelson A. Miles, the Major General in company, who said the fighting of the colored soldiers around in the history of the world." All for $1, "Much in ENTS WANTED, for copy of book and Agents' terms. Address A. JOHNSON Author of the Famous "School History of the Negro Race." CONTAINS—Pen pictures of the Daring Charges made by Negro Soldiers at San Juan, El Caney, and around Santiago.—Corporal Brown killed at his post while firing a cannon which knocked over the block house and saved the Rough Riders.—Sergeant Berry, the colored soldier who was first to raise the American flag on San Juan Hill.—The glowing tribute to McKinley, Miles, Roosevelt, and many others on the bravery of Negro Soldiers—General Morgan advocates Negro officers.—Antonio and Jose Macio, Gomez, Miss Ciseros, and the Cukar Women Cavalry.—The Negro Paymasters in the Army.—The Negro Poet, Paul Lawrence Junbar—"Eddie" Savoy, the colored man who outwitted the diplomacy of the Spanish Minister at Washington.—The Negro who seals Uncle Sam's money.—The colored Register of the Treasury who has to sign Uncle Sam's money to make it good. Every Page Brimful of New and Interesting Reading, with about fifty half to one and line engravings of soldier, officers, and scenes of the late Spanish-American War, with A FINE PICTURE OF AGUINALDO, his headquarters, a Filipino lady of Manila, and a brief sketch of the Philippinos and their civilization. Handsome Picture of General Nelson A. Miles, the Major General in command of all the American Army, who said the fighting of the colored soldiers around Santiago was "without a parallel in the history of the world." All for $1, "Much in Little." Mailed Free. Corner West and Lenoir Streets. Wanted--Mr. "A.," a prosperous young, colored business man of this city, desires to open correspondence with some young lady with a view to marriage. The only requirement is that the lady applying must not be above forty years of age and must own some property. Ladies living in any section of the country may apply. Address all communications to Mr. "A." in care of The Colored American Washington, D. C. DRESSMAKING ACADEMY The de Lam Orton Famous French Perfection Tailor System Academy MME J. A. SMALLWOOD, Sole Ager 1513 Madison St. Northwest. Morning class from 9 a. m. to 1 p. n Afternoon class 2 to 5 p. m. daily. Evenings from 7.30 to 10 o'clock. Evenings from 7.30 to 10 o'clock. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays Dressmakers and ladies who wish to do their own dressmaking. WANTED—To learn the wonderful De Lamorton French Perfection Taylor System, Seamless Basques without one inch of visible seam, in lining or goods, not even on the shoulder. Successful Dressmaking requires as much earnest progressive study as successful work in any of the professions. No detail is too small to be carefully looked after. We teach you to make dresses with or without seam and guarantee perfect fits, and complete your course with a diploma. Pupils can enter at any time. 15th. 610 Penn. Avenue, Washington, D. C. 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Scott's Wonderful Pile Cure, 25 cts. NOTICE! With each order of one or more of any of our remedies, we will send you a free treatment of the Celebrated Little Hero Pills, (for all forms of Kidney, Liver, Stomach and Urinary Diseases), at Drug Stores or sent by MAIL on receipt of price. Stamps accepted. Agents wanted. can make $15 to $150 per month. Write to-day for instructions. Enclose stamps for reply. P.O. BOX 570. SCOTT REMEDY CO., Louisville, Ky. MRS. DR. RENNER on obstetrics; gold medal awarded for the science of obstetrics from the University of Muni ch, Bavaria; treats successfully womens complaints and irregularities; private sanitation for ladies before and during condemnment, Office hours from 3 to 9 p.m. Sc try In m Fo to Pr no Raleigh, North Carolina. SPECIALIST Washington, D. C ec fe eA ee gs > Br tee fas acy ey 2 alates eae te eee PGR: Tue cara ‘ pd eros BEI Ss UM Bs 5s ape aac ts ot Las eA Ae ee er ae penne wares eae Gree HOWARD UNIVERSITY, Washington, D. C. EN distinct departments, under one hundred iL: ynpetent professors and instructors—Theo- fica! Medical, Legal, College, Pedagogical paparatory, English, Agriculture, Industrial, and Nolcl. Forinformation address— Rev. J, E. RANKIN, D. D., LL. D., President, Gro. H, SAFFORD, Secretary. «0 4 EES Ses ce Goirgia State Industrial College, Open to Both Sexes. —_—_——=__—_. The tall term beginning Oetober Srd. 1900, the Georgia State Industrial College will receive both young men and yourg wo- men as boarders. ‘The entire expenses for board, washing, fuel and fights will be or ly $5.0 per month, The location and surroundings are healthful and elevating. A firet-class opportunity for young men and women tw obtain @ good literary and industrial education. The trades of Bluck- smithing, Wheelwrigbting, Carpentry, Palnting, Bricklaying and Shoemsking, 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. Respectiully, R. K. WRIGHT, Pres’t. College, Ga.” Schoo) ss. ALLEGHENY, PA. A Practical, Literary and Industrial Trade School for Colored Boys ard Girls, Carpen- tip, Brieklaying, Flastering, Painting and Interior Decorations. ‘Tailoring, Dress, making, Millimery. Voice Culture and Piano Forte. Literary Departn ent trom Primary to Normal Course. Job Work Solicited and Profits given to the Students, Cs talogues pow resdy. Address, Joserx D. MAHONEY, Principal. Allegheny, Pa. a : * Howard University, 1 WasHineaTon, D. C. MEDICAL DEPARTMERT, INCLUDING Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutic Colleges Thirty-tbird Session (1901901) will begin October Ist, 19(0 and continue seven (7) months. ‘Tuition fee in Medical and vental Colleges, each £50, Pharmaceutic College, $70. All students must register before October 12, 1900, For catalogue or further information ap- Ply to~ F, J, 8HADD, M, D., Becretary, “LR St, N, W., Washington. D.C. A RARE OPPORTUNITY For Young Men Desiring to Enter the Ministry. The Phelps's Hall Bible Training School. Conducted In connection with the ‘cuskegee Normal and industrial Institute offers ex- ({ptlonal opportunities tor young men who (sh to prepare for the Chrfstian ministry. {pbecial building known as the Phelp’s Hall Bible Training school, is set apart ror this ferartment ofthe work. It contains & chap: (i library, reading room, office, three reosta' ‘lon rooms and forty sleeping rooms. The patting is wholly undenominational, the Firbove being to help all denominations and Otto kntagonizeany. The cost of board is {per month and students are given a chance 1° Work out @ portion of this, leaving, as @ 4 veultve or six dollars to pay in cash. 4 ‘ew who have no money are given an pobortunity to work out all of their expenses. tick of means need debar none. The teach’ wf i2 this department is free. The next bool term begins September 11. Murther ifonnation may be had by addressing Book: Tack, Washington, Tuskegee Normal and CRGtrial Institute, Tuskewes, Alabama, Sa COLOHED MMEBSUMN, WARERV@IGN, B. 6. lle Gity Paragraphs, | § .. eiock The Dvorake who made such a pro- nounced hit June Ist, are getting down to work preparatory for the coming season. : Messrs. John E, Cooper and Hamp: ton Jacobs, two capable tonsorial’ ar tists of the city have returned from Mid dleboro, Va. Miss F. B. 8. Johnson of Anacostia, D.C, ieft Monday the 27th ult. for Saratoga Springs, N. Y., where she will remain until school opens, Rev. J. Andersen Taylor, pastor of Shiloh Baptist ehurch, and his family have returned to the city from Atlantic City where they spent a very pleasant summer, The literary and lyceum season is open and ere long the future Burkes, Websters and literateurs of high and lowe estate will be heard from many platforms. Mesers. William’ M. Henderson of The Boston Courant and Mr. Roscoe Simmons, of Concord, N. C., spent last Friday and Saturday in this city en route South. Col. J. Ross Stewart of the U. 8. Barge office New York, joined his wife who $e the guest of Mr. Thomes Bar: nunssl, Long Branch last week. He will spend his vacation there. J. Henry Lewis has returned to the city after a pleasant vacation spent at New York and Atlantic City. Muss Addie, his daughter, is still in New York with his uncle, Edw. Tyler of 58rd street. Grey and Brother caterers will be lo: eated at Odd Fellows’ Hall Cafe, 1706 M street, n, w. on or about the 6th of September whero they will be pleased to see their friends and the public generally. Mr. William L. Mosley, editor of The Republican, Atlanta, Ga., passed through the city last week en route trom his home in Georgia. He had returned from the National Negro Bus!- ness League in Boston. The wonderful Face Bleach has been introduced in Washington and 1s offer- ed to the public at a special rate. The two dollar packages can now be had for one dollar by calling at Drew’s Drog Store, Connecticut avenue and L street, Mr. and Mrs, David H. Massey, of 265 West 47 street, New York, after spending tne month of August the guest of Mre, Henry Wattersof Pough’ keepsie, N. Y., have returned to the city to prepare for their trip to Santiago de Cuba. Mr. W. H. Dawley, jr., Who has been spending the summer with his parents at 325 8thn.e., left Saturday the 25th ult. for Chicago and after spending a while there and at St. Louis, Mo., will proceed to Kansss City, Mo., te resume his work aa teacher in the High school. Mr. Z. P. Moore, who has for years been connected with J. H. Winslow, the undertaker. has just returned from a pleasant vacation taking in sucb towns as Buffalo, Toronte, Roche-ter and other eastern points, He is much improved in appearance and returns to to his work with renewed vigor. roses SLOOG REWARD. ( E S a ‘ DOCTOR ce . } MARYELOUS} son jal = Cy AN Zaki EY Y). NN his iN is A ANS — OX sr NQY fo Have You Got a JOB? NOT, EN YOU ARE YOU EARNING BIG MONEY ? 3ee'ayts=4# 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 useven 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. PDH HH He ee hed ‘and consider Dy you know that my celebrated Imperial Bod i ee Oh. Ladies! Stop Writer wit peated brgiicn black sie mating t PAY Oa ery Tinos white. Nelatto or light skim persone can bleach the akin entirely white One Po] be A. EL Bottle in all that is reqeired to complete the treatment, and the use dove not have to BF ges ‘be kept ap My Imperial Whitener cannot foil It w harmless in every respect. and O.° 7. 2 Twill pay $100 to any one proving to the contrary The effect seco at ome ‘he ir fa Shi the use of improved machinery I have managed to make It at » price snthre the . o es Billa of all 1 have bern wrlling it at 96.00 a bottle Recently J reduced w to $2.00. bet ro} now, te tatrodeer it ‘at ofce. | will eend 2 bottle. prepaid, te any cor whe will oad Dy ss a we 0c Remember. I guaraster every bottle. sod } will send beck the money if you OM i ‘cov et cntiafed le every way Oca't Gciay. but send SB 49 corr to * fy dl SN Be 7 gE AR SATHIIUAT Be eo 5 ¢ om ey 5 See BS eden Anchin: hae oon, i PSA te , Gives the names of dead and ltving frinds tells who and when you will marry also of business journeys lawsuits, absent friends health or anyeing you wish to know, no matter what It is. He can call up your spirit friends and shew them to you, Can make them rap all around the room. He aeks ne | Spesttons @on’t ask you to ee names -f \. n't try to pump you any we7. out tells you right of. tHe is t) een by leaging sprritualists esr ere, received from them 3 gold medal and specia! license to practice his wonderful powers; credentials no one else cap show can give theusands of Teterences to both ¥ bite and colored patrous Twenty-five years’ practice—seven tn brook- lyn—wiil show you thst he can do all he of. Gan tell what business is best for you and where, how to win speedy mere With the one you love. How to be successful in all ou doings im rhort what is best to do. He will succeed when all others fall, Positive satistac tion or mo pay. Call and see, You will find it luck to coneult this (bristian gentleman. Hehasa — that SS ee ness; can en patien' owing it. Thousands *Erough Yam are now RIOH HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL with ali their eee tua eer, these Ww 0 neglect his advice are laboring again poverty. Through his perfect or t chemistry he can impart to you a secret tha will overcome your enemies and win you friends. Hmaid and advice has often been solicited; the result has always been the se- cusing of speedy and happy marriages and ail your wishes, In love annire he never fails. He has the seeret of winning the affections of the opposite sex, itis curse of Spiritualism that in all large cities there are a class of men and wo- men who claim powers they do not possess. They have neither gifts, crédentials, nor ref erences. Surely the colored sa are not so Wanting im sense as to throw their time and money away on such. Dr. Shea refers to the Hon. Charles Miler, PRigiat 2481 At. Jeatio avenue; the Hon. 1am Denmore, architect amd builder, 47 Oleveland avenue, and Mr. Arthur Sewell, ship builder, South Brooklyn. All have known him for the past ten years. He gives a tree test of his pewer toali. The dpetor has practiced five years in New Orleans, 8t. Louis, Memphis and Louisville, understands thoroughly the diseases, = or influences the race is subject te. He has now and always had large patronage from them PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING: eur an August, 15, 1891—This letter is to Sr at 1 came to New York from aioe ny. 1 was a stranger in a strange city, out o: work and out of money. I nad no luck in anything) { undertook. What to do I did not know. A friend advised me to goand see Dr. Shea. I did. Hetold me the cause at my troubles; he took me in and treated me asa brother. Through him I got a good position that very week, I had been to oth- ers, _—T took my money and did me no ce biessthe day I first met Dr, Shea would advise allin bad luck, sick or in trouble to go to him at once, Sincerely, Albert Ayers, 2987 Atlantic Avenue. | 15 Brooklyn, August 6, 180}—Tbis letter is to certify that my husband had gone away and had been absent two Ce mourned tor him night ai day. I gave him up as dead, Hearing of the wonderfu things Dr. Shea was doing I resolved to consult him. Heteld me that my husband was alive amd well and where he was; told me he would come home and when. To my joy al of it came true. He is home now, came back like one from the dead, I also Wish to say that this th estes ena peer eaten on Tones almost insane. I went to Dr. Shea and he told me I would find my money and_ to intense) oy I find it ashe told me, I ‘Thank God there is aman so —— in our midst, that ean help people and t6li them what te do, Mrs. Mary Milles, South Fisinfem, NJ A SERGASSON IN BROOKLYN—MINISTER'S STATEMENT 1 wish to state that one of my parishioners Was sick and in trouble ior a long time, Mra. Brown, 37 Gay street, No one seemed to un- derstand her case, She had severai uoctors but none ot thera seemed to knew what was the matter, None conid do her any foes it was my duty as her pastor to call and see her. Hearing of the wondertul work being done by Dr. Shea the last few years, | Laoughs I would call and see him myself, 1 found aim @ sympathetic gentiomam, he gave me & yondertul test of his pewers, told me to send aim 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 tamily hag seemingly been under a cloud. Now all is changed. ji are weil and prosperous. 1 can truly And heartily recommend br. Shea, to all those in sickness or distress of any kiud. Rey. William John- son, pastor Lebanon churoh, Brooklyn. Dr. Shea can show thousands such as the above, DR SHBA has been carefully educated in ne Remeepe thic and Electric Schools ot Mi ine, success is wondertul in img Se Kheumatism, Ania Hore yes, umors, ancers, Constipation, Agus, pepepala, fare Worms, Laver Con eae, Catarrh, Dropsy, Piles, Nerveus Debility, Heart Diseasea, Consumption, Diseases of Women and Children, Fits, Kidney Lirease, and strange mystexieus diseases which oth- ers don’t understand. All diseases, no natter what they be. Nothing but honorabie treat- ment, He can and will honestly tell you if you can becured. Hasall new remedies and ew success, Has an ample experience in bic ee and private clinics, No trr Bing with human life, Callatence. Do not delay. Diplomas hang in parlors. Is a reg- istered physician. A new remedy io rheu matism just discovered, oot a lin ment. Hopeless cases and those that ethers can ngt eure solicited to call, Fat folks thin, te childless made parents. Ali letters must contain $1.00, two stamps, age, lock of hair. Charges for medical treatment only. Closed Sundays, tention this paper, 65i Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N, Ys THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. 6. Yet ar Ce REY PO PET IR Pon TITAS RET Ee ROR RNS can eR UE NS SSS MS UE cert dred ts BSE EN Le ee Gea eae A aOR eT aR eS a BE RR a ULM tN SSeS eee z > : x Bees ROL en ered oe ee Ve. y Lt S Be : Ee NEIN © Gee RA a i f ee ees , : o>. <= 6 2 ee Cee. is nee Ae” ke Chem : SUE ee eee c Cr Ce i r LS aie pe mf SRO GS te Se EE A i | tay KING OF | R TONICS WORN on Ue 1c GOTT. GN 5 Se MAA aa ys KI | G O oe “es EN a a ee ae Nie eae Koad yD 3 | Oe Rt eee by se, Se geese eee ZO) as OG eg es a) Na bie Co ILE es, i ae \\\ eae fe eae we ee (Co. 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Be paroed don’t pan Sone aueney) £Or Get, ie tecome bai: Bea ; a RRO excited : d ‘skin,’ and dangerous to hes einen | : 2 RA cat to the hair an + injure your hair and cause We do coleaaleeaes fe ar trae 0 ee a / fajarions d tallow and animal fats, that ing ete ad cares (eal ont slemnly wncar hat our rene ‘ra E Nie of lard and tal firm, who will treat you fairly and gi ial Ext oe ieforiene devee, and were ct the money for every case of dines. 3 es with a pecitenee them; that they do not contain any, sue so the etfter ot tiie tote, The word 6 as & YR ; " Sa AAS ly prosecu a aries Ms a all we claim see Metropolitan Bank, Richmond, Va. Obes j Any eeugene wil be fw Yon are none s Pasa isfaction. We refer to r trade-mark in U. S. Patent orn, Harsh, Refractory Hair. Ng Bees tierce aod erakine the Re Ni savertiscment are registered as ou: Knappy. 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NICHOLS & CO., Naperville, Ill. @ 16 City Paragraphs. There is a letter thie office for Liew _tenant Thomas H. Clark Mr. R. A, Cuney of the @ P. O. was a visitor to our office this week. Mies Maggie Claggett is home from a two weeks’ visit in New York city. Mrs. H. Y. Arnett has returned after 8 two months’ vacation at her home. Mrs. Lieut. R. E. Toomey has re turned from her home in Tennessee Mr. James C. Waters, Jr, is spend: ing the summerat Atlantic City, N, J. Dr and Mrs. Curtis have returned to the city from their st “Arundel on the bay.”’ Miss Virginia R~blnson of 102 L st., nu. W., has been ill but is able to be out again. Miss Lucy Robinson is going to Bal* timore Monday to spend a few days of her vacation. Mrs. Effie Henderson, of 84 19th st., southeast, has been very ill but js slow: ly improving at this writing. Mr. D, F, Seville who has been cen- nected with the Post Office Department for years has resigned his position. Miss Mary E. Harvey, has returned from Virginia where she spent about two weeks. She had a very pleasant trip, M.ss Bessie E. Willis, of 1128 New Jersey avenue, n. W., is very ill, She has been suffering from asevere gore throat. Miss Effie A. Johnsen has returned from Staunton, Va. and reports a de- lightfal time among her friends and relatives, Messrs. Gray and Costley at 1313 E Street, 0. W., are Kept busy these hot daye catering to the wishes of their large patronage, Mrs. James L. Johnson, of Nicholas avenue, Anacostia, the wife of the pop: ular Deputy Grand Master of Masons for the District, is epending ten days in Philadeipbia and Atlantic City. Mr. Johnson will return to'day for a shert stay, Mies Louise Bradley of W’street has rerurned very muchimproved in health from a very pleasant stay at Berkeley Springs, W. Va. Mrs, Ida P, Belcher after spending a very enjoyable ten days at Atlantic City returned home last week much benefited by her trip. The excursion to Glymont which Ool. Robert H, Key will “pul off? on the 15th inst. promises to be the ex cursion event of the season. Miss Blanch Langhorn, who resides on 4th street, n. w., went to Richmond Va., this week to spend eeveral days with relatives and friends. Dr. E. Parker Read of Philadelphia paesed through this city last Monday en routeto Lynchburg. having been called there by the illness of his sister. Mrs, Pais Lyvers has not returned home yet. She is now with her sister, Mrs. Wesley Stafford(who bas been if!) at Asbury Park. New Jersey fora few days. Col. W. R. Laws, the well known Virginia orator and politician has been invited to take part in the campaign of several statesin the East and Middle West. | Mr. J. E. Smith of the Goverrment ‘Printing Office, returned last week for Charlotte, N. C., where he spent a | very pleasant vacaticn among relatives land friends. Mr. snd Mrs: Scphrarie Payne are al: smiles, A beautiful nine pound girl has come to bless their home. Her birthday will date from Thursday, Av* gust 31, 1900. The school teachers and the depart- ment people who have been sojourning in the mountains and at the summer resorts are now returning to the city in great numbers, After a pleasant sojourn of fifteen days in Atlantic City, Miss EK. J. John son of 445 N street, n. w. 1s home much benefited by the trip. She was joined after aweek by her sister, Miss Florence and both returned together with pleas: ‘ant memories of their dayson the sea shore. The COLORED American A NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER VOL. 8 NO. 23. THE WAITES STRIKE. A Brutal Policeman Dismissed for Being too Handy With His Baton-Major Douglass Strikes a Class Who Use False Liveries to Serve Their Ends. White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., Special.—The closing exercises of the White Sulphur Literary Association, took place in the M. E. church, Wed. the 20th. The meeting was called to order by President Robert Barcus and opened with music, with Mr. E. M. Syphax of Washington at the organ. The program included a well-written paper on one of the five issues of the day, by Mr. Roberts, followed by a recitation, "The organ builder," by Mrs. Hale of South Carolina. This was followed by a mandolin and guitar duett, by Messrs. Odeil of Huntington, and Syphax. The feature of the evening was a scholarly address by Mr. W. L. Board of Washington, D. C. The literary has accomplished a most worthy object. At this place are to be found many well educated young men who aspire to something higher than can be found at the gaming table, which unfortunately has such a fatal power in destroying the worth of many who might otherwise be a credit to a race so sadly in need of such. A gratifyingly large per cent of the boys are teachers from different towns and cities or students, many of the most conspicuous halling from our well beloved Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute. Conspicuous among those from the Petersburg Institute are Mr. Robert Barcus, president of the literary, to whose untiring energy, much of the success of the work is due, and Mr. Pratt Thomas, the promising young orator who has favored more than one audience with a display of unusual ability. As the climax we must speak of Miss Maggie Y. Pogue the pretest of her class, who, at the organ, with the guitar and by her ability as speaker and singer, has had a large share of the applause of the season. No one of the boys who has ever worked under his direction will ever forget Mr. Jas. A. Alien of Charlottesville, Va. He has not only won the admiration of his men by careful attention to details of management but his manner has been such as to win their personal friendship and they look to him first as a highly esteemed friend and adviser, and then as a capable officer-in-charge. He comes of one of the best families of Charlottesville and is a brother-in-law of Mr. Harrison Terrell of Washington, D. C. Mr. W. F. Brown and Mr. S. B. Jackson have left for their homes in Charlottesville. The boys are congratulating themselves on a triumph scored some days ago. In our last issue was given an account of the shooting of Mr. Harkless, one of the waiters, by the bartender. The peculiarly irritating feature of the affair was that chief of police Horton was at hand at the time of the shooting but made no attempt to arrest the would be murderer. Two days after, Chief Horton was seen to assault one of the young men who was leaving on horse back for his home in the neighborhood. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1900. P. The act was reported to the men by an eyewitness. The men quit immediately and declared that they would not work another minute until the obnoxious officer was discharged by the proprietor, Harrington Mills. Mr. J. H. Dickerson the head waiter, assembled the men in main dining room and urged them to keep cool while Horton made an explanation. This the officer did but in so unsatisfactory a manner that the murmurs recommenced and only the men's regard for their chief prevented what might have been serious trouble. They agreed to demand the removal of Horton which the proprietor was forced to accede to and the fact, drawn up in writing, was read to the men by the head waiter. The men, with expressions of satisfaction returned quietly to work, thus showing that united, conservative action under cool leadership is the winning policy which the Negro will always find it to his policy to adopt. THE OBSERVER. Editor Colored American:- One word if you please as to the propriety or impropriety of certain organizations giving their approval or disapproval, of the administration of the government under which they live. To my mind a resolution of endorsement of the administration of the affairs of the government, whether administered by a republican or democratic executive, provided only that such administration deserves approval, is in order in any gathering of American citizens, from the church down. If a disgruntled re publican desires to rebuke his party by reason of some real or fancied grievance, he should not attempt to disguise his opposition by affectation of high moral grounds, but should throw off the mask and come out openly and defiantly and defend his position by sound argument. We are just now in the thick of what promises to be one of the hottest contested campaigns that either of the great political parties have yet engaged in. To my mind it is not difficult for any Negro to choose between the two, which party be should support. I am not unmindful of the many grievances that we have, chargeable to the indifference of the republican party, but those grievances will not be listened to by the democratic party, for they caused them, and but for the action of that party we would have no political grievances. Our duty then is a plain one, and that is to fight out our grievances inside the party, the only party that ever recognized our right to citizenship. The National Republican ticket should be voted this Fall by every Negro in the United States entitled to a vote, and should be endorsed in every Negro gathering of whatever description. This is no time for hedging. CHAS. R. DOUGLAES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. NEGROES IN COUNCIL. Third Annual Session of the National Afro-American Council—Welcome Addresses Were Delivered by Attorney General Taylor and Mayor Taggart—Brief Proceedings of this Body of Brainy Race Men. ____. The third national convention of the National Afro American Council began in the Senate chamber at the State House, shortly after 10 o'clock Tuesday forenoon, with over 300 delegates and visitors in attendance. The gathering was made up of something over 150 delegates to the convention from various parts of the United States, and a large attendance from this city and state. The assemblage is one representative of the highest intellect of the colored race. Among the delegates were Congressmen, states senators, men holding high appointive positions in the governmental service, men in the councils of both national parties, and men who occupy positions of honor and responsibility in the church. In the absence of Governor Mount, William L Taylor, Attorney General of the state, made the welcome address on behalf of Indiana. Mayor Taggart, on behalf of the city, said the objects of the meeting were commendable ones. He believed the most important question was how the council was to continue the work it had undertaken. He felt that the Federal Government should contribute to carry on the work, and believed every citizen, regardless of color, should voluntarily contribute to the work of the council. These expressions were loudly applauded by the convention. The question of Negro education, he said, was one of the paramount issues of the convention. Education would do more than anything else to bring the Negro to a high standard of citizenship. Federick L. McGhee, of St. Paul, Minn., spoke enthusiastically in favor of the purpose of the convention, and was followed by Congressman White, of North Carolina, who made an effective address. He said it was not the purpose of the convention to meet and discuss political themes. Politics was to be avoided as dangerous ground when the interests of the colored race were at stake. The prime object of the meeting was to discuss methods by which the colored man might be improved. The Council already, in its comparatively brief existence, had done much toward the improvement of the race, and it was to do more. It should take up its work with more vigor and allow nothing to aweve it from its intended course. IN A JIM CROW CAR. Col. W. A. Pledger, of Georgia, one of the prominent men of the convention followed with a rousing address that was heartily received. His remarks had a humorous turn as he told of the unpleasantness of riding in the "jim crow car" to the city. One of the best speeches was made by Dr. M. C. B. Mason, secretary of the (Continued on ninth page.) Tammany and the Negro. BY JOHN E. BRUCE. 2 Mr. Croker's organ, The New York Telegraph, seems to regard the stringing up of a Negro to a lamp post in the streets of New York by the mob during the late riots in that city as a very rich joke. The incident seems to have furnished considerable matter for its facetious space writers, who were brutally witty at the expense of this innocent and outraged Negro citizen. The Tammany police are the real aggressors and the criminals who should be punished for that disgraceful riot. The system of highway robbery introduced into the Tenderloin and other districts of New York City by police captains and their go betweens, by which they exact blood money from the criminal classes in return for immunity from arrest for open violation of the law, is the true cause of the recent riot there and the terrible consequences which followed it. The New York Democrats of the baser element are not novices at the business of hanging Negroes to lamp posts. They tried their hands at that business during the draft riots in 1868, which have gone into history, and they made themselves infamous by breaking into the Negro orphan asylum and murdering innocent Negro babes in other quarters of the city. Of course the Negro Democracy of New York led by Chief Lee will march the black legions to the polls in November next, and vote them solidly for Bryan and Stevenson. They would not be good and consistent Democrats if they did not lick the hands that smote them. 一 The delegation of colored men headed by Chief Lee that called on Acting Mayor Guggenheimer to demand that the officers who clubbed innocent colored citizens during the riot, be punished are all of them humorists of a very superior order. Nobody has any faith in the sincerity of these new champions of the race, for the good reasons that they have heretofore had no word to say against the brutal treatment of the Negro by the democratic party in other States, that they have not used their influence (if they have any) in urging the democracy to put something in state and national platforms against lawlessness. So that this recent ebulition of indignation which emanates from these Negro Democrats is a grand stand play and the idea is not of Negro origin. The Democrats are not in the habit of playing that kind of politics. They do not keep it on tap. The significance of this move is obvious and the move itself will prove impotent. No police officers will be punished for clubbing Negroes, but the protest of the Negro Democrats against their brutal assaults upon the race, is on record and will be considered good campaign material by the short-sighted black brethren who are unable to see how very shallow is this whole performance of the smooth and counterfeit presentment of the Hon. Richard Croker. Tammany Hall is the real criminal because it has made and is making merchandise of its official power and its political influence. Tammany Hall reeking with corruption from head to foot, a stench in the nostrils of decent men, a festering scab on the body of THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. society, is responsible for all the villainy, all the ruffianism and rowdyism which recently disgraced the second largest city in the world, and caused the statute of Liberty on Bedloe's Island to blush for shame at the depravity and barbavism of its enlightened white men. Can any decent or self-respecting, race-loving Negro so far forget his manhood as to cast his vote for this party? God forbid! Chairman Hanna's recent speech to the Republicans of Asbury Park, N. J., is worth remembering by all Republicans who want to see President McKinley re-elected. Too much over confidence will not accomplish that result. "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" and the more vigilance all Republicans exercise, the surer the victory which is already expected, but which a foolish indifference to the points of vantage we have already gained may prove disastrous. We want to go into this campaign with the feeling that nothing is sure or certain except death and taxes, and we should speedily get out of the habit of accepting as gospel truth Democratic versions of the disintegration of that party. Tammany Hall is as foxy now as it has always been, and it always gets together with celerity and despatch on election day. The splits, factions and bad feelings said to exist in that party among the leaders who are more or less anxious to attend Mr. Croker's political funeral are part of a deep scheme which is intended to create a feeling of security among Republicans which will of course assist the Democrats in securing the prize. The Democratic family quarrel will be settled in sixty-five minutes after they have discovered that confiding Republicans have taken them seriously and are sleeping on their guns. Guns do not make good beds and it is best not to sleep on them at all. --- Democrats never sleep. People who are hungry for spoils have not time for sleep. We must give our friends the enemy, credit for having a system of organization and a method of doing business with its opponents which is practical, if not always successful. The tactical Democratic fighter takes nothing for granted. He believes in the potency, and value of details, and in the efficiency of bull dog tenacity in a fight for big stakes. He has a penchant for steaks and stakes and when he wins them he enjoys them. The headquarters and blue pencil fighter, who is too tired to take the field and too willing to take and adopt as his own the opinions and estimates of others, as to the result of the battle, has never yet won a battle and never will. The Democrats have reduced campaigning to a positive science. They are real Democrats in the struggle for supremacy, for every man in the party from the highest to the lowest mingles in splendid alliance, each imbued with the one central idea—victory—and to secure this they stop at nothing short of inglorious defeat. It is to be hoped that the Republicans in the present campaign will throw off some off their reserve and begin to "play ball" in earnest. The duty of all Republican is to get together immediately. If they will do this Mr. Bryan will be one consecutive week after November 6th trying to find out whether he was blown up by dynamite or kicked by the nameless long eared animal which s pictured to represent the Democratic party in action. One of Mr. Lincoln's witticism which will apply to the methods of the democratic party to day, will not be out of place here. The passage occurs in one of his messages after his first inauguration. He said: "With rebellion thus sugar-coated they have been drugging the public mind of their section for more than thirty years until at length they have brought many good men to a willingness to take up arms against the government." The public printer excepted to the use of the word "sugar coated" as being undignified! These words express precisely my idea and I am not going to change them. The time will never come when the people wont know exactly what "sugar coated" means. Mr. Lincoln was right. The sugar coated speeches of Mr. Bryan have almost persuaded a number of good Americans to commit political suicide by going against the best and only party which has demonstrated its capacity to govern this country as it ought to be governed. It is the only party that can honestly be accused of possessing practical knowledge of the selence of government. Democracy cost the South $5,262,405,553.26. At the close of the war of the Rebellion the debt of the Confederate Government was $2,345,207,823. With the surrender of the rebel armies every dollar of this war debt was wiped out of existence and it was a dead loss to those who held its securities. No better illustration of democratic incapacity can be furnished than these figures furnish. The democratic party has not learned much since the war of the Rebellion. It has not demonstrated any more ability than it originally possessed. It still believes in repudiation and in juggling with the finances of the country. It took a good many years to bring the Republican party up to its present standard and a great many millions of money and thousands of lives to make possible the existence of such a party. What has been accomplished cannot with safety to the party nor the honor and good faith of the nation be undone. Great parties are not made in four years nor are they created in Nebraska. It is a noticeable fact that all the howlers for a change in the Presidential office wear long hair, except those who are short haired and that they are familiar with such works as "Looking Backward," "Progress and Poverty," "The Money of Nations," (which they do not handle). "The Life and Times of W. J. Bryan" and other standard literature more or less diverting. The Imperial Roscoe Conkling once gave utterance to a sentence in replying to a Democratic opponent in the Senate which was as meaty as it was meaningful: "The shallows murmur while the deeps are dumb." If you will put you ear to the ground you will hear a great deal of murmuring just now of hungry patriots on the other side who are just dying for a chance to save the country from McKinleyism, Trusts, Imperialism and all the other items in their political vocabulary. "Understanding the spirit of our institutions" said Lincoln, "To aim at the elevation of men. I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them." This is not Democratic doctrine. The democracy believes in elevating black men with a rope and it degrades them by making them political pariahs robbing them of constitutional rights and manhood. Are you with these reformers? JOHN E. BRUCE. The National Colored Teachers Bureau OF Washington, D. C., is prepared to furnish CAPABLE TEACHERS of every branch of instruction and DESIRABLE SCHOOLS in all parts of the country. REGISTRATION FREE but applicants must be fully competent to teach or possess the ability to learn how to teach. NO SCHOOL—NO PAY 6 per cent of the first year's salary will be charged those for whom positions are secureded, payable Dec. 1, 1900. The Demand exceed the Supply for suitable teachers during the past year, hence our liberal inducements. Send for registration blank briefly stating your full qualifications and enclose ten two cent stamps for postage. Address James G. Clayton, M. D. 459 C St, N. W. Secretary, IMPRESSION THE QUEEN OF THE WORLD No 2. 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Alexan der Gordon of Philadelphia, formerly of Virginia, Lawyer Harris stated the object of the conference. Lawyer T. C, Walker of Gloucester was made Temporary Chairman and Mr. Robert Cox of Lynehburg, Temporary Secre- tary, with Mr, Dandridge Epps ot! Rockbridge County as Sergeant at Arms. After the appointment of the following committees:—Committee on Credentials, Committee on Permanent organization and Committee on Reso- lutions and address, and the transaction of other business, the conference ad: journed until 2:30 o'clock, Opening again at 2:30 o’clock, the reports of the committees were then read and ap: proved in their proper order. Editor U. C. Stewart of Bristol, Va., of the “Ship”? was made permanent Chair: man and Mr, Kobert Cox, of Lynch‘ burg, Permanent Secretary. The meeting was one of perfect harmony throughout, No hotheaded and un’ wise speeches were made, and the whole delegation dewonstrated the fact that their business was, the looking out for the best interests of their people. The resolutions and addresses wili be published Jater in pamphiet form and distributed over the state. ‘There was nothing political about the conference. ‘The object as stated was to have a per manens organization in the state to look to the colored people’s best inte: rests, The conference olosed at 12 o’clock midnight, after a twelve hour session, This conference will go down in history as one of the most note- worthy of the age and we have seldom seen 80 much of importance transacted in so short # spaceof time. Among the delegates we noted: Prof.G. W. Hayes, president Virginia Seminary and UCol- lege, Lynchburg; Lawyers, A. W. Har- ris, Petersburg, ‘i’, C. Walker, Glouces- ter; A. J. Oliver, Roanoke; R. P. Armistead, Lynehpurg; J. L. Parker, Pocahontas; F. D. Lee, Gloucester; Profs. W. I, 8. Jackson, Washington; J. H. Duckwilder, Salem; H. B. Fields, Culpeper; Robert Cox, Lyneb- burg; Rey. E. Duke Venture, Salem; W.G. Singleton, Richmond; Dr. W. i. Mapp, Northampton; Willis M Carter, J. J, Brooks of Staunton; Jordon Thompson, Norfolk; H. P. Bland, Prince Edward County and many othermames we might mention, but space will not allow. Mr. Geo. Brown of Washington is on a two weeks visit to relatives and friends in the city. Miss Lottie Wallace of Petersburg, Va. is Visiting her sieter, Mrs. W. H. Dab- hey on W. Main street, Prof.and Mrs Edward Givens of Frankfort, Ky., are visiting bis mother, Mr, Thes, Whiting ou N. Sth street. Mrs. Dabney, mother of Mr.W.H. Dabney arriyed in the city this week, Mr, and Mrs. Cleve Thompson of Nelson County, Va. are visiting her sister. Mrs. Hudson Jenkins THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTOR, I. 5. street this week. Mr. M. G Curry of the Post Office Department, Washing- ton, D. C., was in the city this week Mr. J. L. Lawson of North Gerden was in the city last Saturday on business, Mr. W. H. Parago, agent for the Cable Music Go, went to Richmond this week on a matter of business Revs R, B. Hardy, R. U. Quarles, ©, N- Harris, Misses Mary E Lewis, Mary E. Monroe and Mr. John W. Harris attended the meeting of tho Virginia Baptist State Sunday School Convention in Man- chester Va. last week. Misses Martha and Maggie Robinson of Washington are spending the summer at their former home near Preston Heigbts. An excursion train bringing several Wash- ingtonians arrived inthe city Sunday about 5 o’clock a. m. and left Monday night under the mansgement of Rev. W. P. Gibbons «f the Mt. Carmel Bap- tist church of Washington. Many of the excursionists stopped cf at stations below Charlotteevijle. Mis, Nennie Smith and Mrs. Mary Brown of Wash- ington were in the city this week visit. ing relatives and friends. Mrs, Horace Kenney formerly of this city but now of Boston, Mags. 1s visiting relatives ond friends in the city. The city pub lic schools open next Monday Septem- ber 3rd. The boys ard girss are be- ginning to hunt up their books and other echool necessities. Mr. B. H. Peyton, imspector of the Richmond Boneficial Ineurance Co. is in the city. Rey. C. C. Boone of Richmond, Va. is visiting in the city. He expects toleave this country in October to take up mis- rionary work in Africa. Lawyer Hutchins Inge of St. Louis, Mo. is, visiting his brother, Mr GecrgeP. Inge, one of our leadiug werchants on W. Main street He will visit Wasbington and other points before returning to St.Louis MONTIOFLLO. A TEXAN’S VIEWS On C olored Newspapers With Bigheads, The marked improvement of the Negro newspapere which come here every week is a source of great en= couragement to our young people who may be inclined to pureue the profes sion of :jcutpalism. A few of the papers, like The Washington Colored American, the Indianapolis Fieeman and the Chicago, Lilinois Conservator, still have the big head, but their con- tents are alright. The white mer chants and business men are showing a commendable spirit of generosity by their continued patronage, while our laboring folk are continuing to bear the brunt of battle. Occasionally the “big nigger’ is joing the ranks. He is gradually getting his eyes open, aud asa consequence is marching in the procession. This is at it should be. The educsted youth is returning from school on almost every train and is demanding something to do along the line of his Jearning, and if we are not greatly mistaken, the newspaper busi- nes properly supported offers a ehin- iog « pportunity.— Dallas K xpress, Tuskegee, Ala. Noes. In the death of Mr. ©. P. Hunting- ton, Tuskegee loses @ most yaluable friend. During all of the school’s years he has been interested in it. Onty recentiy he gave $50,000 to the endowment fund besides valuable ma- ebinery for the industrial plant. Hunt- ington Hall, the new girls’ dormitory, was given by Mrs. Huntington. A number of our graduates will re- turn at the opening of the next school seesion for the purpose of taking post- graduate trade work. Three graduates Virginia Union University. ee ule, AG eile et ON, RLU ge Semin 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. 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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 person WASH will not lighten the skin in it remains soft and bright without continuing the work. It is your duty to look delighted patrons send us testimonial states. HARTONA FACE WASH will black-Heads, Freckles, and all Blemish made of skin on neck, face, and hands with each bottle. HARTONA FACE Wash any part of the United States on remember, your money is positively needed and delighted with the Hartona Re turn the skin of a black person five or six shades skin of a mulatto person perfectly white. HAL not lighten the skin in spots, but all over ever and bright without continual use of the Face Wash. It is your duty to look as beautiful as possible. ons send us testimonials every year from all ONTONA FACE WASH will remove Wrinkles, Dark Freckles, and all Blemishes of the Skin. You can neck, face, and hands to any shade you wish. Use. HARTONA FACE WASH is perfectly harml of the United States on receipt of price—$1.00 our money is positively refunded if you are not aited 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 ill remove all smells and bad odors of cafed limbs, etc. HARTONA NO-SM ing from disagreeable odors caused by ent anywhere on receipt of price----50c l smells and bad odors of the body. Cures sore a tc. HARTONA NO-SMELL is a God-send to all freeable odors caused by perspiration of the feet on receipt of price----50c. a package. l 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— HARTONA To introduce our remedies in this city out and mail to us this Coupon and HARTONA HAIR STRAIGHTENER HARTONA FACE WASH, worth $2.0 MELL, worth 50c. The entire lot of securely sealed, so that no one can tell Coupon. Order goods now, as this gra- Write your name and address plainly. Order, Express, or enclosed in a Register HARTONA REM once our remedies in this city, we will send to all per- mail to us this Coupon and ONE DOLLAR, three HAIR STRAIGHTENER, worth $3.00; two la- ace WASH, worth $2.00; one package of HA- in 50c. The entire lot of remedies, worth $5.50, so that no one can tell contents, for ONE DOLLAR or goods now, as this grand offer will last but a s- one 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 service following goods at once— Three Large Boxes HARTONA HAIR STRAIGHTENER, wo Two Large Bottles HARTONA FACE WASH, wo One Package HARTONA NO-SMELL, wo My Name is___ House No.___, Street___ City___, County___, State___ GENTS WANTED IN EVERY TOWN IN AMERICA. OUR GOODS S EN:—I enclose you ONE DOLLAR, for which service at once— Large Boxes HARTONA HAIR STRAIGHTENER, wo Large Bottles HARTONA FACE WASH, wo Large HARTONA NO-SMELL, wo No.____, Street____ ____, County____, State____ ED 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. 4 THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. O. No. 16.6 M Street, N. W. p. m. Meals a la Carte. ing a Specialty our friends and the public generally, we spectfully, TONA= Preparations for the Hair! AND ONLY HARTONA. equalled for Straightening all Kinky, Corn, Harsh, Curly Hair. Hair grow long, soft, and straight. The use of immediate results. Makes the hair grow o. cures Dandruff, Baldness, Falling Out of the member, that HARTONA is the highest-priced it is the best. Price, $1.00 a box. Don't sinned by dangerous chemicals that are sold uneducated classes. HARTONA is used by in the Union. HARTONA does not have to ins the hair and gives it fresh life and lustre, naturally straight after the use of HARTONA, by every one in the family. Benefits and same as adults. Money positively refunded black person five or six shades lighter, and person perfectly white. HARTONA FACE is in spots, but all over evenly. The skin continual use of the Face Wash. One bottle look as beautiful as possible. Thousands of bonials every year from all over the United States will remove Wrinkles, Dark Spots, Pimples, remishes of the Skin. You can regulate the hands to any shade you wish. Full directions CE WASH is perfectly harmless, and is sent on receipt of price—$1.00 per bottle. likely refunded if you are not absolutely satisfa Remedies. rs of the body. Cures sore and aching feet, SMELL is a God-send to all persons suffered by perspiration of the feet, arm-pits, etc. 50c. a package. HARTONA REMEDY COMPANY. 909 E. Main St., RICHMOND, VA. this city, we will send to all persons who will en and ONE DOLLAR, three large boxes of NER, worth $3.00; two large bottles of $2.00; one package of HARTONA NO-lot of remedies, worth $5.50, will be sent tell contents, for ONE DOLLAR and this is grand offer will last but a short time only. Money can be sent by Post-Office Money registered Letter. ONE DOLLAR, for which send me the fol- HA HAIR STRAIGHTENER, worth $3.00 HA FACE WASH, worth $2.00 SMELL, worth .50 reet county_____, State_____ THE G. A. R. MEET. A Washington Delegate in Evidence and Strikes at the Color Line—Echoes of the Meeting. Mrs. Julia Mason Layton has returned from Chicago where she was in attendance at the 17th national convention of the W.K. C. auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic. She reports a pleasant trip throughout. She was the guest of her adopted brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Peyton Taylor and Captain Hunt and wife. Captain Hunt is of the famous 8th Illinois Volunteers who did such excellent service in Cuba in the Spanish-American War. On her way home she stopped over in Cincinnati with Dr. Louis Cornish and wife in their cosy little home. They are as comfortably quartered as though they had been housekeeping eight years instead of eight months. A handsome buggy and horse completes the outfit. The W. R. C.'s. of St. Paul and Minneapolis sent and immense and very handsome flag to be presented to the national president and she in turn presented it to the Atlanta University that it may float every day over the M. sons and daughters of the black soldiers Mrs. Layton in the name of the ten millions of her race thanked these patriotic women of the twin cities and assured them that her race was as loyal today to all that was just and right as they were on the field from 1861 to 1865 etc. The audience was moved to tears at the close of the speech of about ten minutes. Among the many resolutions and able decisions made by this grand body of nearly 150,000 women represented in convention by about 800 delegates and only 13 were colored--the one that brought about the greatest discussion was, the colored corps belonging to the Departments of Maryland and Kentucky be set apart to themselves. This resolution was supported by women from Massachusetts, Connecticut, N. Dakota and Ohio, but strongly opposed by Mrs. Steismeier of St. Louis Missouri, a wealthy German woman, but true as steel. The officers of the Department of Maryland and our own Mrs. Layton, the only colored delegate who said a word. Mrs. Layton spoke for about 25 minutes and refuted every plea made by the opposition and gave practical illustration to prove the same. For instance, one said the colored people were happier by being apart. Mrs. Layton said, "you mean you are happier by their being apart. Take a man who has been reared in dirt, always lived in dirt, he knows nothing else. Take him out of that, clean him off, put him in a clean place and very soon he will want to insult any one who says he came from the other home. The same is true of our women who have never known, never been allowed by your loyal vote to be anything but set apart and they seem happy, etc. Then as a race, we endeavor to adapt ourselves to our surroundings. Show me another race one-third as great in numbers as ours, who have stood as much as we have for you and yours from 1865 till now and have not struck back" and so point after point was taken up and when she had finished, the resolution was lost and in its stead came "If any any white woman or corps wishes to be set apart from the colored corps, they may do so through the proper channel and if a colored corps wishes they same it may." This was unanimously carried. The next convention will be held in Denver, Colorado. Mrs. Layton reports Lawyers Carlisle Mason and Albert George of our city doing a thriving business. Mr. Albertus Brown also of our city is making his mark as stenographer to National Republican Committee. Prof. Robert H. Terrell has been invited by the Republican State Central Committee of Maryland to deliver a number of speeches in that state. He was especially invited to accompany Congressman Pierre of the Sixth District Hon. A M. Gould, Assistant U. S. District Attorney. CHARLES FISCHER ```markdown ``` Manufacturer and dealer in SURGICAL & ORTHOPEDICAL Instruments and Trusses. 623 SEVENTH STREET, NORTHWEST Opposite Patent Office WASHINGTON, D. C. 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:—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." "Dear Sir:—Your method worked beautifully. Results were exactly what I needed. Strength and vigor have completely returned and enlargement is entirely satisfactory." 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. A RISING ALABAMIAN. Editor A. H. Davidson Fulfills the Prophecy of his Youth - A Leader in Religious Works and Politics. Henry D. Davidson was born on the Davidson plantation near Centreville, Ala., Dec. 16, 1869. He was the only son of Damon and Adaline Davidson. There were four children in all, three girls who are all dead. The late Capt. Samuel W. Davison said to Henry's father Damon while Henry was a baby in the cradle, "Damon, you had better take care of and educate that boy; I see a brilliant future for him. Ten dollars in his head will be worth a thousand in his pocket." This bore upon the boy's father's mind very heavily, so as soon as Henry was old enough he was sent to the common schools of Centreville, which was only of three months duration each year. However Henry managed to pick up enough information with what M. G. EDITOR HENRY D. DAVIDSON. he gained from these little schools to cause the late Ex-Governor E. H. Moren to exclaim to the boy's father one day, "Damon, 'tis time that you were teaching that boy to work; he knows more than three-fourths of the white folks of Bibb county now." "All right Doctor, he does whatever work I want him to do," said Damou. Henry was much noted in the community around for his honesty and integrity, Older as well as well as younger boys always sought his council. He was converted and joined the A. M. E. Church at the age of ten, and at 17 elected superintendent of the Mt. Sinai A. M. E. Sunday school which position he holds until today. He entered the Selma University the fall of 1888 He attended this school only one session, went back home, took the examination, passed and taught the same school of which he was a pupil the year before, and has taught this school nearly every year since. He entered Payne University at Selma, Ala., when it was first started and graduated from the Normal Academic department of this school in 1893 with the first class. He has been teaching every year since graduation. He married February 16th 1899 to Miss Lula J. Davis, a graduate of Tuskegee and an old time class and school mate. He has been honored in several ways by the people. He was a lay delegate to the late General Conference of the A. M. E. Church at Columbus, Ohio. In 1896 he was principal of the Sherwood Institute Columbiana, Ala. Mr. Davidson has twice been elected chairman of the republican executive committee of Bibb county, Ala., and was an alter- nate delegate to the National Republi can Convention at Philadelphia. He established The Bibb Sentinel, a newspaper published at Centreville, Ala He is 30 years old at this writing and is rightly regarded as one of the coming men of Alabama. A BUSINESS WOMAN. Madame Turners Wonderful Soap. A few more business firms like Mme. Turner's will solve the race problem. While in New Orleans this summer, I stopped at a house where there was a child with a very sore head, it was covered with one solid scab and was awful to look at but in a weeks time the childs head was to all appearance perfectly well to my surprise. I asked what cared it and was told they used Mme. Turner's skin and scalp soap with hot water and that it worked like a charm. So I went down to 1312 Carondelet street and bought a cake for my face which was fairly knotty with bumps and black heads. I had spent several dollars for different preparations, but they failed every time, but after using Mme. Turner's skin and scalp soap for a few days, every bump and black head was gone, so I consider that was the best 25 cents ever spent. I also heard that this soap was used in some of hospitals there. So I say again such merit as that will go far towards solving the race problem. 41 Clarkson street. New York. Beautiful, soft hair comes to every woman who uses our Queen Pomade. It invigorates the scalp and makes the hair soft and pliable, and cleans the scalp of dandruff and itching. Makes the hair grow and prevents it from turning gray. An elegantly perfumed hair dressing for men or women. Price large bottle 25 cents. Drop a postal card for city order delivered free. Sent anywhere by mail on receipt of price and 5 cents extra to pay postage. Stamps or silver accepted. Cardozo's Pharmacy, 1201 R street, Washington, D.C. Telephone 2481-5. For sale also at Harris' Drug Store, 8rd and F streets southwest. The True Reformers are having a gala week in Richmond, a full account of which will appear in our next issue. Prominent Colored Men. Agents wanted to sell "One Hundred Distinguished Leaders," a beautiful book containing one hundred portraits and sketches of the leading colored men in the United States. Price 25 cents per copy. Send stamps or post office money order to Charles Alexander, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. St. Ann's Academy 310 8th Street Southeast. Under the direction of the Oblate Sisters of Providence. For young ladies and children of color. For prospectus address Sr. M. Cecilia Xavier, O. P. Superior. Re-opens Sept. 10th. At Keene's Shoe Store At Keene's Shoe Store go8 G Street. Northwest. 2000 prs Ladies' $2.50, $3.00, $3.50 and $4.00 Oxford Ties to go at $1.95. 1000 prs Men's Shoes, all styles, sizes and widths, made to sell for $5.00, $6.00 and $7.00; for a few days to go at $2.85. SUMMER RESORTS HOTEL WOODLAWN TERRACE. This Hotel is situated on an elevation which furnis cent view for tea miles. At the base of which is a wide ample opportunity to those fond of sailing or fishing. in which furnishes one with a magnifi which is a wide sheet of water giving ag or fishing. This Hotel is situated on an elevation which furnishes one with a magnificent view for ten miles. At the base of which is a wide sheet of water giving ample opportunity to those fond of sailing or fishing. WOODLAWN TERRACE. is on the Whitehorse Pike, seven miles from Camden. 25 trains stop at 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 terms, address MRS. CHAS. SMITH, Snow Hill, N. J. Will open Friday, June 1, 1900. from Camden. 25 trains stop at Lawn- tritly first class. The Bed Rooms are nces. 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 Lawnside daily. The service at the Hotel is strictly first class. The Bed Rooms are large and alry with all modern conveniences. The Hotel is three stories high, 35 feet front and is surrounded with a beautiful lawn and wide gravel walks. For tours, address MRS. CHAS. SMITH, Snow Hill, N. J. WANTED-An active young man as collector. Must be well acquainted with the city. Married man preferred. An energetic colored woman who understands canvassing can secure permanent employment with good pay by addressing "Benevolence" care 459 Cst. n. w. WANTED-By family of two, 2 unfurnished rooms or would take half of a house. Northwest section preferred. Address "D." Colored American office. For Rent-Furnished room for a gentleman; convenient to car lines and departments. 11174 5th street, n.w.tf All members of the National Cooperative Investment Association are hereby notified that there will be a meeting on the 18th of Sept. at 2212 Champlain avenue, n. w. By order of Robt Holiday, President, G. R. Rhone, Acting Secretary. 2t Wanted—a case of bad health that R-T-P-A-N'S will not benefit. One gives relief. No matter what's the matter, one will do you good. A cure will result if directions are followed. They ban pain, induce sleep, prolong life. Sold at all drug stores, ten for five cents. Be sure to get the genuine. Don't be fooled by substitutes. Tear samples and a thousand testimonials will be mailed to any address for five cents, forwarded to the Ripans Chemical Company, No. 10 Spruce St., New York. Prof. G.F. THEEL, M.D. N. S. 527 St., Philadelphi, Pa, Knoxdale Area, N.J. Cut out all others fail. PRIVATE DISEASES, DISCHARGES, RUNNINGS, ABUSES LOSSES (uses no mercury no caustic injection or nauseating drugs). EXCESSES, BLOOD POISON LOST MANHOOD, Vareloele & Stirletures, no cutting. 33 years practical & 6 years hospital experience in Germany. Fresh cases cured in 4 to 10 days. Avoid cheap treatment only offered as a catch. Rulns Thousands. Send for Sword Treatmentmials & Good medical treatment. Treasure them at Mail. Instant relief. 57 Writen NELSONS STRAIGHTINE TRADE MARK THE LATEST DISCOVERY FOR MAKING/ KNOTTY, KINKY, CURLY HAIR STRAIGHT BEFORE AFTER CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS, AND CIGARS. J. C. SMALLWOOD, Proprietor. 15 N. Illinois Ave , Atlantic City, N. J. MANHATTAN INN. 17 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. THOMAS COLE, Proprietor. Choice wines, Liquors and Cigars. GEORGE H HARRIS, PROPRIETOR, 1139 Baltic Avenue, Atlantic City, N. J. Meals Served at all Hours. STRAIGHTINE is no experiment, but a thoroughly reliable preparation. It has been successfully used by thousands in all portions of the country. We have hundreds of letters speaking in the highest terms of its merit, and every mail brings us fresh testimonials. Straightine is a highly perfumed pomade; it not only Straightens the Hair, but removes Dandruff, Keeps the Hair from Falling Out, cures Itching, Irritating Scalp Diseases, giving a rich, long and luxurious head of hair—so much to be desired. Guaranteed perfectly harmless. Price, 25 Cents a can at all drug stores, or sent by mail to any address on receipt of 30 Cents in stamps or silver. Address, NELSON M'P'G CO., Richmond, Va. Aa-Big Money for Agents. Write for Terms. --- --- THE HOTEL ALEXANDRIA, VA. THE ELITE-624 H. Washington street; Alexandria, Va., Ice cream, confectionery, soda water and milk shakes, all flavors. 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. CATLETT8. VA. CATLETTS, VA.—Summer Boarders: Parties desiring first class accommodations for the summer season will find it to their advantage to spend their vacation at Catletts Fauquier county, Va, Forty-eight miles from this city, there are three accommodation trains to the city per day. The house is situated about 1/4 mile above the village. Board furnished for $12.00 per month, $4.60 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. ATLANTIC CITY. FITZGERALD'S AUDITORIUM Open all the year. Suitable for conventions receptions, balks, 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 38 North Kentucky avenue, Atlantic City, N. J. THE NEW HOUSE DEBITY COTTAGE 31 N. Ohio Ave., Atlantic City, N. J. Excells any in the city. All modern improvements. Two squares from the Reading Railroad depot. Two squares from the beach I kindly thank my old as well as new patrons for their liberal patronage and hope for a continuance of the same. Mrs, J F. Debtio, proprietress. THE HUB HOTEL CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS HAKRIS' HOTEL 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. WANTED HELP. NOTICE RIPANS APPEALS TO MR. HANNA. The Colored Republicans of Louisiana Protests Against The Warmouth Policy and Withdraw Their Indorsement. Hon. Marcus A. Hanna, Chairman National Republican Committee, Chicago, Ill., Dear Sir:—The condition of the republican party in Louisiana is so changed since I advised my colored republican friends from Donaldsonville, La., on the 10th day of June, 1900, to petition you and the members of the late National Republican Committee, begging your honorable body to give recognition to the delegation headed by the Hon. H. Clay Warmoth. As representing the only true, able and effective and aggressive republican organization in the state of Louisiana, we told you that you would be told by the Wimberly people that the people represented by the Warmoth delegation are drawing the color line in the party. This, we said, was a subterfuge intended to mislead the National organization. We further stated that it did not deceive the honest Negro republicans of Louisiana, and we felt sure that it would not deceive nor could it mislead you. We further stated as colored men representing the best element of our race, we boldly asserted to you that we nor the thousands we represent have found any occasion to complain because of any disposition to draw the color line in the ranks of the new blood which is being infused into the party. We said to you for the sake of the future of the party in this state, accord representation in the National Committee, to the delegation headed by H. Clay Warmouth. This, my dear sir, is to inform you that we have been most shamefully deceived, The honest republican Negroes of Louisiana have been misled. He is not the least represented in the New Republican organization. He is told today in plain words, that it was not intended for him to affiliate with the new party, his vote is all which will be required, that being a fact I doubt that it will be acquired. Since I was one of the first in lending my aid and support in advising the recognition of those people. I deem it my duty to be one of the first to inform you that the present plan of organization will prove disastrous. It is by far worse than the old. If this is the new plan, or one of the new principles to be injected in the party of Lincoln and Grant, the Negro will have nothing to do with it. I think it will be to his best interest to be a democrat. I cannot lead myself to believe that the policy is greater than the principle. I have been a republican all my days and I am forced for the sake of my future, that of my children's and my race to condemn that new organization to brand it as untrue, desiring to rob the old party of one of its cardinal principles. The warning is timely and just. I am yours respectfully, P. L. CARMOUSHE. Late 1st Lieut., 9th U. S., V. I. Donaldsonville. La. Down in Virginia. Messrs. Allen L. Deans, Will Isbel and Edgar E. Ricks have returned to the city after spending a pleasant and profitable time with Mr. Charles Deans, at Portsmouth, Va. Owing to the popularity of Mr. Al. Deans, the young men were the recipients of numerous invitations, and were out each afternoon and evening during their stay in Virginia. They visited Hampton, Atlantic City, Buckroe Beach, Norfolk, Fort Monroe and Newport New. They are delighted at the progress of the young colored men at the latter place, having a number of lawyers, doctors, merchants and real estate agents. Mr J. Thomas Newsome, a graduate of Howard University Law Department is one of the most prosperous young men of the place. Mr. E. E. Ricks and his mother and his mother are now spending a few days at Opequon, in the mountains of Virginia and are stopping at the Tokus Cottage. THE SEASHORE MEWS. The Social Life at Rhode Island's Ideal Summer Resorts. Naragansett Pier, R I, Speolal The season at the Pier is about over and the conversation generally starts with, "when do you leave?" It seems strange this beautiful place should be deserted so soon, when, in fast, Septem ber is its most ideal month. Those who are here from Washington seem to appreciate this, and are generally among the last to leave. It is not until duty and they must obey that they Narragansett's summer girl until next season Most of the young men are contemplating a short sojourn at some other place before rdaching home. Mr. Benjamin Washington intends visiting his brother William Washington in Boston; Mr. John White is to spend a few days with Mr. Charlie Johnson in New Haven; Mr. Sumner Taylor goes to York, Pennsylvania; Mr. James Payne is to visit friends in New York; Mr. Charles Maston meets his wife in New York and they will return to Washington in a few days; Mr. Clarence Wormly, Butcher, Gaskins and Harris will make short stops in the cities of Philadelphia, and New York; Mr. Lawrence Bradley left the Pier August 23th for an extended tour through the New England States. The literary met Wednesday the 29th for the last time this season; some interesting papers have been prepared and read, the most interesting one perhaps, being, "What the Church has done and is doing today for civilization." by Andrew Black. This young man who is a post graduate of Howard Law School, is one who has a bright future as evidenced by his character, intellectual ability, independence of thought and sound judgment. There are many others at the Pier from Washington, but instead of hearing of the others they will be sooner seen. Dr. Charles Tignor has had quite a practice here this summer. Many of his nights have been interrupted by his patients who felt that only the Doctor would do. He leaves all patients doing well. X. B. X. Washingtonians Were in it. The Business Convention at Boston had more than one hundred and fifty delegates. Our city was honored by the presence of Messrs. E. E. Cooper, A. F. Hilyer and D. B. McCary, all of whom received high recognition. Mr. Cooper in being secretary, Mr. McCary in being one of the vlce presidents and Mr. A. F. Hilyer's paper has been editorially commended by the Star. Judging from the character of the attendance the convention will do much to stimulate business enterprises among our people throughout the country.—The Daily Record. Prof. C. H. Barnett of Huntington, W. 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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, SEPTEMBER 8, 1900. THE IMPENDING CAMPAIGN. In every war that has been fought for our country—whether for its establishment as a nation or its maintenance as an independent government, the Negro has played his part as a valiant and patriotic soldier. In the war of the Revolution he bore his self gallantly on many a field of brilliant accomplishments; he won the admiration and commendation of that sturdy warrior Andrew Jackson in the struggle of 1812; and yet when our country was in the throes of the great civil war, and when again the contest was on between the United States and Spain the enemies of the black Americans claimed that they possessed not the fiber that makes men warriors. In all these martial combats he gave indisputable proof of his courage and undeniable evidence of his loyalty to his country. And so in every political contest in which the Negro has played a part since he obtained the right of manhood suffrage, through the efforts of the Republican party and against the persistent protest of the Democratic party, he has been true to the principles of the men who stood for his liberation from slavery and for his enfranchisement as a citizen. And yet as he was called upon to prove his courage in war after war, he is asked again and again in one political campaign after another to demonstrate his loyalty to that party to which he is bound with hooks of steel—the party which has given him every right which he possesses, civil and political and made it possible for him to take a dignified and commendable position in the intellectual and material pursuits of his country. In 1896 the Negro vote was almost solid for McKinley and Hobart, the standard bearers of the Republican party. In the year of our Lord 1900 it will be counted—in those places where honest politics will allow it to be counted—for McKinley and Roosevelt, the representatives of the party --- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. that has a higher claim on its support to-day than it has ever had since the name of the great military captain Ulysses S. Grant was first printed on its ballot. For has not the Republican party kept its every pledge with the Negro during the past four years; has it not given him place of honor and emolument and thereby given him power; and has it not done all that has been done for him and has it not said all that has been said for him during this period? Is it reasonable to suppose that a people constantly growing in intelligence and the ways of government and statesmanship will forsake such a party and support one that openly and defiantly everywhere stands for their humiliation and degradation in every form of discrimination that man can devise; a party that has not only not given them any rights, but by all kinds of fraud, open and concealed, taken away those granted through the efforts of others who believe in honest dealings with and fair treatment of all men, black or white? So far as the Negro vote is concerned the prosperity of the country, in which the black man shares, will be safe for four years more. The Negroes of self-respect and honor will refuse to vote for a man in whose cabinet Ben Tillman will have a place. The average colored democrat looks like a bloated bond-holder these days. Something must be "doing" in the democratic camp. The National Republican Committee should muzzle Vice-Chairman Payne of Wisconsin. It was Payne who fathered the effort to reduce the representation of Southern delegates to the National Convention before the last session of Congress and before the National Republican Committee at Philadelphia. Mr. Payne is carrying his idiocy one step farther now by saying that he believes "a division of the colored vote would be unqualifiedly a blessing for the country at large and for the republican party." "Divide the Negro vote, he exclaims, and you remove the race question in the south." This sentiment is a ghost that has stalked in the minds of a few so-called republican leaders for the past thirty five years. Since the administration of the late lamented Hays, a small wing of the republican party has kept up a flirtation with the south with the hope of bringing it into the republican fold. The south remains as solid as ever and continues its ignoble work in disfranchising a large per cent of its thriving and most industrious population. If Mr. Payne knows anything he should know that the colored delegates from the south nominated Mr. McKinley four years ago and the colored votes of the northern states elected him. Is there to be a Burchard in this campaign? Lieut. H. O. Flipper, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, contributes a timely article to this issue of The Colored American on "No West Point of Our Own." Lieutenant Flipper is the first colored graduate of West Point and as a mathematician and linguist, is one of the best in the United States. So efficient is he that for a number of years he has been employed by the United States Court of Claims to translate all of the Spanish and Mexican laws for the benefit of the Government service and make new surveys and investigations in civil engineering all over the Southwestern Territory. His suggestions are practical and timely. One successful business man in a community is worth a dozen politicians and calamity howlers. Prof. John T. Layton is the choice of he colored people of the District of Columbia, for Director of Music for the colored schools. An individual of merit in any community is not forced to seek his status in that community. It is the man and not the color of his skin which counts. President McKinley will be reelected this fall in spite of the Paynes and Wellingtons The colored voters are too loyal to desert even though they are given the lower berths. This is the most important campaign in the history of campaigns in this country. There is a shifting of platforms, of policies and of isms. It will be a battle royal in which the newspaper will be the most powerful agent. The National Afro-American Press Association which met at Indianapolis Ind. Monday of this week was a tame affair. But a few of the opinion moulders were present. The names of the officers elected are printed in another part of this issue. Hon. Judson W. Lyons, as a visitor to the National Afro-American Council at Indianapolis, Ind., impressed himself upon all the men there as a leader of the highest and truest type. Mr. Lyons stands high in the councils of the republican party, and predicts an overwhelming re-election of President McKinley. Oppression has its virtues. In Enfield. N.C, the white and colored merchants are about equal in number. Before the recent farce of an election the trade of the colored people was about equally divided. Since the election, however, the colored people confine their trade entirely with the colored merchants. What's in a name?" asks Shakespeare. In New York politics there seems to be something in it. Edward E Lee, the colored chief of Tammany, is the acknowledged leader among the colored people of that organization. He is a hotel man by profession. Mr. J. T. Lee, of Saratoga is the acknowledged leader among the colored republicans of that section. He too, is a hotel man by profession Which ever way the election goes. one of the Lees is bound to be on top. The wheel of progress does not run backward and the Negro notwithstanding the many oppressions and opposition to his progress is succeeding. Mr. Ralp W. Tyler is the leading spirit in the management of "The Columbus Dispatch," the leading afternoon paper in Columbus, O., a Mr. Stevens of Boston, Mass., is a private Secretary to Mayor Hart of that city; a colored telegrapher holds the first place in the Western Union Telegraph Office at Macon, Ga., Score one more point for for the race. Politics indeed make strange bedfellows. The National Afro-American Press Association which met at Indianapolis, Ind. last week, did not endorse the administration of President McKinley. In order however to get votes enough a number were cast for each paper, namely, "The Appeal" cast three votes, T. T. Allain, formerly of New Orleans but now of Chicago voted for a Texas paper, an Indianapolis delegate voted for a Mississippi paper, Col. James Lewis, an officeholder in Louisiana, represented a paper; Hon. John P. Green represented The Washington Bee, and Congressman George H. White, The True Reformer. The votes were a trifle topheavy as well as numerous and at that pace any resolution could have gone through. There are 100,000 colored people in Washington. They pay taxes on thousands of dollars worth of real estate. They spend a mint of money for dry goods, clothing, furniture, shoes, millinery and groceries. There is not a colored dry goods, nor clothing, nor a furniture store, nor a millinery store in Washington. The wealth and intelligence of the race is said to be centered in Washington, and yet the above statement is a sad commentary on their intelligence and on their business tactics. White merchants do not employ colored people above the position of laborer in any of the business houses of Washington. The colored people are denied accommodation in the meanest soup houses and lunchrooms and yet with all their intelligence, their wealth and their grittering abilities they have no concerns of their own where their boys and girls may be employed and where they can control at least a fraction of the money that is being spent by the great mass of Negroes in the District. REV. ERNEST LYON. A Member of the Advisory Board of the Republican National Committee. The Republican National Committee could have made no better or wiser selection than in appointing Rev Ernest P. REV ERNESFLYON Lyon of Maryland and New York as a member of the Advisory Board of the National Committee. Dr. Lyon has been an active partisan for years and is thoroughly posted and equipped in the ways and methods of politics. He is a loyal and unflinching republican, and in the past as well as at present is doing yeoman work for the party. The colored papers are all pleased with the appointment, knowing as they do, Dr. Lyon's well known disposition to help the best papers. Thus far none of the colored newspapers have been recognized, but it will be through no fault of Mr. Lyon if before many days a number of the best papers are not used as are nearly all of the white dailies and weeklies. Mr. Lyon is located in New York where he will remain until the idees of November. Mr. William L. Pollard has returned from Shepherdstown, W. Va., where he spent a pleasant two week's vacation. NEGROES IN COUNCIL. (Continued from first page.) Freedmen's Society and Social Educational Society He said he believed the colored race had reached the most critical point in its history. It had come to an era of untried responsibilities, when calm and deliberate judgment would be necessary, to a full appreciation of the race. Bishop Alexander Walters discussed boldly and intelligently the various questions of direct interest to the colored race. "It is evident to the thoughtful among us," he said, "that we are passing through one of our most critical periods of existence in this country. The race is now facing the question of its complete civil and political rights, and from the struggle it dares not retreat. People are prejudiced and sensitive on the Negro question, and while there is nothing to be done but to stand for principle, it should be done in a manly, courteous spirit and not in a spirit of strife. J. M. M. GOL. W. A. PLEDGER. "The colored race pleaded for its constitutional rights because it believed the gift of suffrage is not a natural and an inherited right, but a conferred right, and when it had once been conferred by the Federal Government it should be inviolable. The powers of the Federal Government were not conferred by a single state, but by all the states, therefore the general government, through Congress could enforce the provisions of the constitution. The Federal Government, when it can but refuses to protect its citizens, is guilty of gross neglect." With regard to politics, Blishop Walters said: "I have no sympathy with that class of leaders who are advising the Negro to voluntarily eschew politics in deference to color prejudice. Certainly I would not have them all meddle with politics and such has never been the case, but since politics is a legitimate, profitable, and in some respects, honorable business, why should not the black brother, who is beginning to pay taxes, have a share in the offices and emoluments? "The Negro is not to be eliminated because he is not as intelligent as some other people in this country, not because he is not a tax payer, not because he is not improving in his morals, but because he is black and was once a slave, and is therefore despised. The alien races of the world may come here, who are unacquainted with our institutions; and more ignorant than the Negroes, and ere they become enlightened, are allowed to vote. And why? Because their skin is white. But the loyal Negro who has helped to make the country what it is and fought in every war to save it, must be disfranchised because somebody does not like him. This is not only unjust and unchristian, but is base ingratitude "Some of us have signified to the democratic party our willingness to unite with it anywhere and whenever it will make it advantageous to our cause to do so. Since we have taken the initiative it is for it to say whether it desires our votes by a consideration in the way of just legislation and kind treatment. Until this is done, I do not see how we can consistently help it into national power—and I for one will not do so." THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. E. Despite the admonitions of Bishop Walters, the debate following the brief address of Judson W. Lyons, of Georgia. Register of the Treasury, finally degenerated into a hot political outburst, especially on the part of C. N. Crews and T. E. Woods, of Missouri Col. Lewis, of New Orleans, W. E. Henderson of Indianapolis, John P. Green of Ohio, and several others, in which glorification of the republican and damnation of the democratic parties were dealt out in equal doses. Mr. Lyons, after denouncing the recent disfranchisement constitutional amendment adopted in North Carolina and those of other southern states as worse attempts at nullification than that of the southern states in 1860 and 1861, urged that the practical thing for the Afro-American to do would be to go to the republican party in Congress and demand a reduction of the representation in those states of the South which had ignored the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments of the Federal Constitution in placing on their statute books laws disfranchising the Negro. T. Thomas Fortune, of New York, who had stepped up to the rostrum to speak to Bishop Walters, was asked by the presiding officer to speak, and C N. Crews, the big Missourian, at once objected to Mr. Fortune speaking except down on the floor among the other delegates. Then Fortune scored Crews and others who, he intimated, were actuated more by political regard for the elevation of Afro-American citizenship Fortune said he had worked for ten years for the benefit of the movement when some others were skulking in their tents. Delegate Crosthwaite, of Tennessee, urged that the political rights which had come to the American Negro had drifted to him on the ocean of public opinion; that he was not indebted to any political party for them, and that the Negro has been reading history wrong if he is imbued with any other idea. The issue would never have risen if the labor of the South had not begun to enslave the labor of the North. J. Milton Turner, of St. Louis, passionately urged that instead of indulging in personalities and abuse the delegates had better get together and attempt to formulate some comforting message to send abroad into the homes of the colored people all over the country. J. CYRUS FIELD ADAMS. A disturbance arose over the report of the Legislative committee, written by Daniel Murray, of Washington, D. C. The objections to the report were based principally upon its references to the alleged matred of the Negro in the South by their white brothers. At the conclusion of the reading of the report a score of delegates were on their feet, clamoring for recognition. R. R. Wright was recognized by the chair, who denounced the written statements of Mr. Murray as a pack of falsehoods and showed dense ignorance on the part of the writer. The report recommends that the race, in states that have discriminating laws, refuse to ride on railroads or engage in any form of diversion in which they are subjects of discrimination. This boycotting plan seemed to meet the approval of the body. President Walters, to end the discussion, referred the report back to the committee, and begun reading a list of names of prominent men whom he had invited to address the council. SYSTEMIC CATABRH. Thousands Suffer From It and Do Not Know It. Hon. A. T. Wimberly, Collector of the Port of New Orleans, La., and member of the National Republican Committee, in writing of Pe-ru-na, says: [Illustration of a man with a mustache and glasses, wearing a suit and tie.] Hon. A. T. Wimberly, Pe-ru-na Drug M'f'g Co., Columbus, O.: "Gentlemen—I have used Pe-ru-na and can gladly recommend it as being all you represent. I wish that every man who is in need of a good tonic could know of it. I would advise all such to take it now, and am sure it would never be regretted." A. T. Wimberly. Pe-ru-na is an internal remedy—a scientific remedy. for catarrh. It cures catarrh wherever located. Its cures last. Pe-ru-na gives strength by stopping waste. By saving the mucus it enriches the blood. By cleansing the mucous membranes it preserves the vital force. AFTERNOON SESSION. Gen. John Coburn was the guest of honor ht the session Wednesday afternoon. President Walters personally invited him to the platform and in his introductory remarks said that General Coburn was "one of the best friends the Negro had in America," which was seconded by A. E Manning, of Indiana, who furnished reasons in support of its truth. Gen. Coburn congratulated the Council upon the commendable spirit of their deliberations in the face of the indignities heaped upon the race. He urged them to consult together as to the best mode by which their full rights may be obtained. His address was well received and was frequently applauded. Among the other speakers were Rev. J. J. Blackshear and Prof. H. T. Kealing. Prof Kealing proved himself to be an orator of great force and a profound and logical thinker, Bishop C. R. Harris, of Salisbury, N. C., next read a paper on "Immigration" for which he received the thanks of the Council. The remainder of the afternoon was devoted to ten minute speech as by members of the council. The resolution committee submitted its report, in support of which speeches were made by John C. Dancy, L. M. Hagood, R. C. Ransom and Gurley Brewer. A motion was made for an hour's discussion before adoption, but was lost, and the meeting adjourned until Thursday morning, at which time the resolutions were discussed. At the opening of the session Thursday afternoon, the following officers were elected: President, Bishop Alexander Walters of Mew Jersey; Vice-presidents, T. T. Fortune of New York; W. A. Pledger, of Georgia; Ernest Lyons of Maryland; Harry C. Smith, of Ohio; O. M. Woods of Missouri; Col. M. Marshall, of Illinois; Bishop G. W. Clinton, of North Carolina; W. H. Stewart of Kentucky; Mrs. Lillian Thomas-Fox, of Indiana; Secretary, Cyrus Field Adams, of Illinois; Financial Secretary, J. Frank Blagburn, of Iowa; Treasurer, J. W. Thompson of New York; National Organizer, Mrs. Ida Wells-Barnett of Illinois; Corresponding Secretary, Dr. I.B. Scott, of Louisiana; Sergeant at Arms, J. W. Wheeler, of Missouri; Chaplain, Rev. J. S. Caldwell, of Pennsylvania; Asst. Cor. Sec., Filas Harris, of Missouri. 9 A constant drain of mucus from the system is known as systemic catarrh. This may occur from any organ of the body. Systemic catarrh is more common in spring and summer than in the winter. Dr. Rachel A. Magaw, 67 West Jefferson Street, Springfield, Ohio: "Your Pe-ru-na is worth its weight in gold. I feel like a new woman. I can't praise it enough. I spent a great deal of money on doctors, but nothing ever did me any good until I sent to you and tried your Pe-ru-na. I now feel well of the catarrh." Ralph W. Chulip, of La Porte, Ind., says the following as regards Pe-ru-na for catarrh: "I had been troubled with catarrh for the past eight years. I became so bad a year and a half ago that I took treatment from two different specialists on catarrh. The discharge from my head was dreadful. Finally my stom- A. B. ach became affected, and eight months ago I had to quit work. I lost in weight from 165 pounds to 140. I was completely discouraged. I procured a bottle of Pe-ru-na and had not taken half the bottle, when, to my joy and surprise, I began feeling better. My head began to get better; the discharge began to dry up. I kept on, and have now taken two bottles. I have resumed my work, have a good appetite, and have not felt better in ten years. I am now 30, and I thank Pe-ru-na for the way I feel to-day." For free book address Dr. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio. Directors of Bureaus—Education, W. C. Jason, of Deleware; Legislative, F. L. McGhee, of Minnesota; Ecclesiastical, Rev. J. W. Alexander, of New York Business, W. E. B Dubois, of Georgia; Literary, Dr. M. C. B. Mason, of Ohio; Newspaper, A. L Manly, of Washington, D. C.; Emigration, Rev. J. R. Sea brook, of Oregon; Lynching John Mitchell of Virginia. The most heated discussion of Thursday's session was over a resolution endorsing the President's public utterances on lynching, which was adopted. A short session was held Thursday evening, after which the delegates repaired to Tomlinson Hall where a banquet was given in honor of the distin guised visitors. Dr. J. H. Ward of Indiana, was toast master, and quite a number of toasts were responded to by the "strangers within our gates." The last session of the Council was held Friday afternoon, at which time Prof.Booker T. Washington delivered an eloquent address. He was greeted by a very large audience, who listened with breathless silence throughout his address. At the conclusion of Prof. Washington's address the council ad journed sine die. A Gem From The Council. Looking at it from this point of view, we should be unfaithful to the trust committed to us if we do not warn the race against the danger of supporting any man or party North or South, who is opposed to the full and free exercise of the elective franchise under the provisions of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution.—Extract from address of Afro-American Council, adopted at Indianapolis, Ind., Aug 80, 1900. This means that the only party, in the wisdom of that body, for whom the colored man can safely vote is the party of Lincoln and Grant, of Douglass and Sumner—the grand old Republican party as now led by William McKinley and his brilliant running mate—Colonel Roosevelt. Mis Priscilla Jones of 183114th street went to Richmond this week to remain ten days, 9 10 Wanted to Know-- Why it is that true love never runs smooth. Why colored men in business do not advertise. Why it is that the fool-killer does not visit Washington. What the average department olerk does with his money. Why it is that some small people imagine themselves great. Why you don't deposit your money in the Capital Savings Bank. Why some colored men in business will not pay their honest debts. Why it is that the man whom you favor becomes your bitterest enemy. Why it is that the poorest talker insists on doing all the talk in the group. Why it is that the average colored barber shop is regarded by woman as a place for gossip. How much money the local pedagogue will have to begin business with when school begins. Why is it that so many colored organizations as well as individuals keep their money in white banks. Why does the head of a family get angry when a subscription bill for a newspaper is presented to him. Why is it that the colored men in the Pullman service never get any higher than the position of porter. Why some people are so quick to find fault with their own race and never dis cover the infirmities of other races. Why is it that so many bad pay sub scribers are continually asking that their names be printed in the paper. Why is it that some married men never stay at home but seem to find pleasure and comfort in somebody else's home. Why no colored man of prominence in the State of Maryland has received any recognition whatever from the present Administration. Why is it that accommodations are refused to colored people at all of the resorts near by and adjacent to Washington, except Jackson City. Why our ministers continue to read hand bills and announcements from their pulpits Sunday nights instead of having them sent to the newspapers. Why don't the married men of Washington take their wives and families to the first-class buffets, such as Gray & Costley's, Moore & Prioleau's or Gaskins & Gaines'. How you account for it that the people whose names are most heard of in the papers, at the lyceums and at public places amount to so little among the people who know them best. Why the District Commissioners do not appoint leading colored men on the committees that govern the centennial and other public entertainments given for the benefit of the city. Why some enterprising colored man does not rent one of the vacant store rooms on 7th street northwest and open up a shore store. The Jews are getting all of the business; he could get some of it. Why the 100,000 colored people of the District of Columbia do not organize a stock company for a big clothing store where employment will be given to the young men and to the young women of the race. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. "BIG BOW" The Indian Medicine Man Cures all Diseasesor no Charge. Call or Write. Dr. L. G. Hayden, General Manager, Office hours 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. MissHarriet A. Gibbs, MissHarriet A. Gibbs, Graduate of Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and late of Boston, TEACHER OF MUSIC VOICE CULTURE, PIANO, ORGAN, HARMONY AND COUNTERPOINT. STUDIO: 14 N ST., N. W. GREAT RACE BOOKS. It is a fact that J. T. Haley & Co. 346 Court Square Nashville, Tenn. are the most extensive Race Book publishers in the United States. They are our friends and are giving employment to hundreds of men and women of the race. They publish the AFROAMERICAN ENCYCLOPAEDIA COLLEGE OF LIFE, UNCLE TOMS CABIN, SPARK LING GEMS, LAMP OF WISDOM, etc. These books sell at sight. Agents are having a harvest. Write Quick for terms and Territory. BUSH'S CAFE Is now open. It contains all that is up-to-date. A high line of Liquors, the choicest Cigars and an appetizing Free Lunch with a glass of Beer. You must make a visit to get an idea of the place. GEORGE BUSH, PROP., 701 4th Street, Opp. Pension Office. THE M'KINLEY HOUSE, 489 Missouri Ave., Near 6th St. First-class accommodations for all. An up-to-date Hotel for colored people. Rooms neatly furnished, linens clean, and prices within reach of all. Meals and Lunches served at all hours. THE PORTER HOUSE CAFE, 103 6'h St., N. W. Wines, Liquors and Cigars.—A full line of the choicest liquors, the best brands of cigars and the coolest beer in Washington. Messrs. B.T. Fields and John T. Lewis mixelogists. MRS. M. S. BROWN & CO. Proprietors. DO YOU LOVE HEALTH? If so, call and see the Indian Herb Medicine Man, 620 North Eutaw Street, Baltimore, Md. I cure all diseases that are known to man or beast or no charge, no matter what your disease or sickness or affliction may be, and restore you to perfect health. Millions of people, the best and leading ones in the United States and Europe, will testify that I am the most wonderful healer of all complaints in the world. I use nothing but herbs, roots, barks, gums, balsams, seeds, berries, flowers and plants, made into teas. I have cured thousands that the most skillful physicians and the best hospital physicians in America and Europe had given up to die, and said there was no cure for them. I cure the following diseases: Heart Disease, Consumption, Blood, Kidney, Bladder, Stricture, Piles in any form, Vertigo, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Lung, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Constipation, Rheumatism in any form, Pains and Aches of any kind, Colds, Bronchial troubles, Sores, Skin Diseases, all itching sensations, all Female Complaints, La Grippe or Pneumonia, Ulcers, Carbuncles, Boils, Cancer, the worst form, without the use of knife or instruments, Eczema, Pimples on face and body, Diabetes of Kidneys or Bright's Disease of the Kidneys. I cure any disease, no matter of what nature. Medicine sent to any address by express. For full particulars send 12 cent stamp for answer. None genuine unless bought imitators, as we have many. HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS FINE WINES Liquors of all kinds. OLD WHICKIES Choice Cigars. AND BRANDIED. Philadelphia House, M. F. CARROLL, Prop. Restaurant and Saloon, 348 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W. Washington, D. C. Meals to Order. Everything First Class. Billiard and Pool Parlors Attached. HOSEL DOUGLASS. 220 B ST., AD 235 PA. AVE. N. W EUROPEAN PLAN. First-olass in every particular. M RS. DOLLY C. JONES, Proprietress. Washington, D. C. Robert H. Key FINE WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS, ETC. Ladies' Dining Room. Meals at all Hours 443 First Street Southwest. Gray & Costley Wines, Liquors and Cigars Lagles and Gentlemen's Dining Room up- stairs. The best of service guaranteed. 1313 E Street N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. Fritz Reuter's HOTEL : AND : RESTAURANT 451,453,455,457 Penn.Ave. 202,208 & 210 41 St.N.W Washington,D.C. The Woodson House First-class, newly furnished and decorated, unsurpassed outside, convenient to all cars. One half square from Pennsylvania Depot. 467 Missouri Avenue. HENRY WOODSON. PROPRIETOR. GASKINS & GAINES. Academy Restaurant [Just around the corner] 320 8th Street, N. W. Opposite Kanns'. All leading brands of wine liquors and cigars, imported and domestic. Ladies and Gentlemen's Ode Upstairs. --- THE INDIAN HERB MEDICINE MAN 620 N. EUTAW ST. BALTIMORE, MD. at 620 North Eutaw Street. Beware of HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS. D. T. GIBBONS. WHOLESALE MANUFACTURING RETA CONFECTIONER 523 41 Street, Southwest, WASHINGTON, D. C. Wedding Cakes Made and Parties Furnished at Short Notice. Ice Cream All The Year The Langston House 479 Mo. Ave. near 6th St. n. w, Smoking and Reading Rooms; also home for strangers. Meals served at all hours. Menu a la Oarte at popular prices. Call and be convinced, Joshua N. Anderson. I. J. Edwards, Props. W. M. DRURY'S RESTAURANT 1100 20th St., corner L. N. W. Washington, D. C. HOTEL CLYDE 475 MISSOURI AVE. NW. First-Class Accomodations For Ladies and Gentlemen. Hot and Cold Baths. MRS. ALICE E. HALL, Proprietress. MOORE & PRIOLEAU - Sparta Buffet and Cafe 1216 Pa. Ave. Washington, D.C Fine wines, liquors and cigars Hot Free Lunch Every Day Ladies will receive special attention in Dining Room upstairs. SOUTHERN HOTEL Good board, steam heat and electric bells, Home comfort, moderate prices. 311 Pa. Ave., nw. Washington, D. C. Fine wines, liquors, cigars and tobacco. Jack M Ryan, Proprietor SILENCE BROS., Wines, Liquors and Cigars, A Noonday Lunch from 11.30 to 2 p.m. 430 EIGHTH ST., N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C. FROM FOREIGN SHORES. Consul Gibbs Writes From Madagascar The Supremacy of the French-Colored Men Holding High Official Position and Eligible to All Places of Trust and Honor-A Dark Picture From Home. Tamative, Madagascar, Aug. 5. 1900. Dear Friend Cooper: I have your favor June 14th last, in which you say you would like to have a line from me, that you may let the friends over here know what you are doing. Well here it is line upon line, if not precept, etc. I am "still doing business at the same old stand," and doubt if I have anything to say regarding this "far away post," that would particularly interest your readers, engrossed as I perceive they are, in domestic phases and in the alignment of our recent acquisitions. Regarding the physical development or moral progress of Madagascar, as you know it is now a French province, with a Governor General and staff. all appointees from France. The Government is doing considerable to open up the country by means of telegraphs, railroads, turnpikes and canals. At Paris they recently voted sixty millions francs (12 million dollars) for a railroad from here to Tananarivo the capital-200 miles from here, over a mountainous and broken country. The cap- 1 HON. M. W. GIBBS, U. S. Consul to Tamatave, Madagascar. ital is situated on a plateau 5,000 feet above sea level, with a climate cool and bracing, Here at Tamative a fire place or heating stove in a house are unknown appendages. The Hovas for a long period were the rulers previous to the conquest and occupation by the French who by diplomacy "force and iron will" the means usually adopted by the strong when a coveted prize looms in the distance, added an immense territory to their colonial possessions. But perhaps in the interest of civilization, the change is not to be deplored. The Hovas were a superior class of the Madagascan people, the rulers being men of education and ability, but not equal in quality or quantity to cope with the energy, wealth and military prowess of a power like France. The mental and physical conditions of the great bulk of the natives were not, and are not, inviting; they were held by a mild system of slavery, a system that in substance still exists under French rule as to forced labor on public works. The severity of tasks and bad rum are said by a friendly society at Paris in its protest, "to be fact decimating their number." The French Government, however, are establishing an extension of schools for the natives, where industrial training will be the marked feature, and which on yesterday, the occasion being an official visit, THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. the Governor was pleased to pay me, I took pains to extol; as you know industrial training is my pet. The General wisely remarking, "we wish first to place the present generation in a position to earn more money, so they will be able to give their offspring a higher education if they wish." The English, Norwegians from America, the Friends and other missions are doing something for their educational and moral progress, but the appliances are meager compared with the herculean task that awaits them. There is however this difference in the problem here. There are colored men occupying places of prominence as officials, as tellers in banks, clerks in counting houses and merchant stores. Here it is condition and not color, wealth and position, the "open sesame." On social occasions the brother in black is in evidence, without special notice of the past, and strangest of it all, on the following day, the sun and other heavenly bodies seem to stand or revolve in their accustomed orbits. My health has been good although the bubonic pest, periodical in its visitations, has been alarming in the suddenness of its destruction of life. In the spring it is again expected to alight without "healing in its wings." But I will not longer dwell on Madagascan peculiarities, many of which, as elsewhere, are not chastening. What I am interested in, and want to know about is, how you are getting on with the "old grudge?" If I judge correctly from the journals that reach me, that during my near three years' absence, its status, unlike renowned grape juice has neither dissipated or improved bylapse of time, and that lynching and disfranchisement still have the right of way." The expansion of our sovereignty is brought with complications and onerous duties from the statesman, the zeal of the humanitarium, and one of reformer and friends of equitable government, unflinching determination, that kindness and justice shall be ceded to the people thereof. But is the prospect for the dissemination or ascendency of these virtues either bright or promising? If the exercise and enjoyments of these attributes are not growing to millions of the American household, is it reasonable to expect they will dominate abroad? There is reason for apprehension that our cousins in the East will find little change of despotic tendencies amid the rank and file of American adventurers. The philosophy of our system of government seems out of balance, Cicero wrote "that excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery." But amid the lights and shadows that environ the Negroes he is neither undeserving of the assistance rendered, and indispensible for educational development, which has been generous, one for which he is grateful, although handicapped by a prejudice confronting on so many avenues of industry, and forbiding his entry. Not undeserving for patient and non-anarchist in the realms of labor, his right to possess and enjoying equality of citizenship is written with blood and bravery on the battle field of every war of the republic where he "fell forward as fits a man." Munificent contributions of Christians and philanthropists, for missionary work abroad, are greatly in evidence, given with a self complacency of duty done; but however, fail to vivify the declining pulse beat for equality before the law and justice fat home. Manifestly there is an absence of that ar- raignment and condemnation of wrong done the weak, that contributed so largely to abolish the "coor laws of England" and slavery on the United States. History is the record, that it is the men of moral courage and heroism who by pen and voice, that socallity and gain cannot intimidate and combat evil in their very midst that "leave foot prints in the sands of time." This we know to be abundantly beneficial. But is it not also true that the rapidity of reform is accelerated by wisdom in recognizing aright present conditions, rather than by a strained conception of gratitude for the past. Do we not trust too much to appeal, folded arms, and the "masterly inactivity" of the even tenor of our political ways. Gibbon in his "decline of Rome" wrote that "gratitude was expensive." It has taken a long time for the idea to penetrate the Negro, but he should not be blamed if what phrenologist say of him be true, but he is absorbing and asking if he is making the best practical use of his franchise by cohesion; while every ofthe class of voters enjoy protection and emoluments by division. I must close this letter already too long. Don't regard me as a pessimist, I know that Bacon wrote that "men of age object too much", but the fact is, Cooper, it has been so long since I heard a 4th of July hallelujah chorus that I am getting out of tune. McKinley has been again nominated I see, and doubtless will be elected with a Congress in harmony, thus giving the party another lease of power, which, God grant, let us hope, may redound to the welfare of all the people. Say to my many friends that they are, "though lost to sight to memory dear." M W. GIBBS. AN ALL STAR CONCERT. A grand star concert will be given at the John Wesley church, Connecticut avenue between L and M streets, Friday evening, September 21st, 1900, under the auspices of the Bishop Walter's Club. On this occasion great pleasure will be taken to present the leading talent of the District. The following named singers and speakers will participate: The Amphion Glee Club, Prof. J. T. Layton. Mr. Winston Payne, Miss Chanie Patterson, Mrs. Lula Joy Brooks, Miss Mattie R Bowen, Miss Ottie M. Brooks, Prof. J. Henry Lewis, musical director; Prof. Wm. Braxton, pianist. Every one who wishes to spend an evening of pleasure should not miss this opportunity of a rare treat. Committee of arrangements: Mrs. S. I. Orme, president; Miss Marie Brown, secretary; Mrs. M. R. Wright, treasurer. Rev. B. J. Boiding, pastor. Admission 25 cents. tf. Geo. W. Wise Furniaking Undertaker PRACTICAL EMBALMER 2900 M street. Georgetown, D. C. Telephone call. 103-83. Lewis Bigger, INSURANCE AGENT. 111 North Clinton, St., East Orange, N. J. SICK, ACCIDENT, AND DEATH BENEFIT, PAID PROMPTL. National Benefit Association, Capital Savings Bank Building, Washington, D. C. --- 11 MME. DAVIS M. K. K. Born Clairvoyant & Card Reader Tells about business, Removes Spells and Evil Influences, Reunites the Separated and Gives Luck to all. Cures Piles and Drunkenness. 1228 25th st. n, w. Washington D.C. No letters answered unless accompanied by stamp. W. H BUTLER, PAINTS OILS GLASS, &c., 609 C STREET, N.W. Springtime is on, and your house will need touching up. We have just what you want. W. H. BUTLER. 609 C St., N. W. ILLUSTRATIONS CUTS MADE OF ANY- THING BY ANY PROCESS. FINE WORK AT LOW PRICES. THE Maurice Joyce Engraving Company. EVENING STAR BUILDING, WASHINGTON, B.C. 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable. Communications strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any scientific journal. Terms, $3 a year for four months, $1. Sold by all newsdealers. MNM & Co. 361 Broadway, New York Office: 625 F St., Washington, D.C. NOTICE! NOTICE! 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. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, E. E. United Order of ORGANIZED January 1, 1881. Offices 604, 606 and 608 N. 2nd St., - - Richmond, Va. The Strongest Financial Organization the Negre Has Produced in This Country. Read and learn for yourself what it has done and how to become a member. Subordinat Fountains are composed of males of good local character. Conventions.—When joining the Order through to 50 years of age; when joining the Fountains to 60 years of age complete. Joining or Benefit Fees.—From 14 to 60 years of $0, $6.0 Death Benefits.—$75 and $125. Should death occur year, $125 will be paid to the heirs, assigns or Sick Benefits.—From $6 to $9 per month, paid Monthly Dues are 35 or 50 cents per month. Tually, January and July. The are just monthly fees. Life membership—Ten shares of Bank Stock, a member a life member. After paying dues, 1/2 of the stock will pay the member's dues, and r. Just calculate—monthly dues, 50 cents per month to $6.80, and a dividend on ten shares of a share, amounts to $10 annually, which will per balance of $3.20. Should the dues be 35 cents per monthly dues and taxes will amount to $5 per monthly dues and taxes, and leave a balance of Additional Benefits of Life Membership.—Should a member may take his ten shares of stock from $1 to $68, which will enable said member to, redeem his policy and stock, and go on his w Subordinat Fountains are composed of males and females, sound in health and mind, and of good feral character. Conventions.—When joining the Order through Conventions, persons are taken in from 14 to 60 years of age; when joining the Fountain by application persons are taken from 14 to 60 years of age complete. Joining or Benefit Fees.—From 14 to 30 years of age, $4.60; at 50, $5.10; at 55, $5.60; at 60, $6.00. Death benefits.—$75 and $125. Should death occur within the first year, $75; after the first year, $125 will be paid to the heirs, assigns or legal representatives. Sick benefits.—From $6 to $9 per month, paid weekly. Monthly Dues are 35 or 50 cents per month. Taxes are 80 cents annually, paid semi-annually, January and July. The most monthly dues secure the highest weekly sick benefits. Life Membership—Ten shares of Bank Stock, costing each member $5 a share, made a member a life member. After paying dues and owning the stock one year, the fruits of the stock will pay the member's dues, and leave a handsome little balance each year. Just calculate—monthly dues, 50 cents per month, and taxes 80 cents per year, amount to $6.80, and a dividend on ten shares of stock at 20 per cent on the dollar, or 10 per share, amounts to $10 annually, which will pay the member's dues, $6.80, and leave a balance of $3.20. Should the dues be 35 cents per month, and 80 cents taxes per year, the monthly dues and taxes will amount to $5 per year. The dividend of $10 would pay the monthly dues and taxes, and leave a balance of $5. Additional Benefits of Life Membership.—Should adverse circumstances befall a member, said member may take his ten shares of stock and Fountain policy, and secure a loan from $1 to $88, which will enable said member to tide over the misfortune, pay up the loan, redeem his policy and stock, and go on his way retiring. Rosebud Fountains are male, from 8 to 14 years. Joining or Benefit Feeds. Death Benefits.—$24.5 within the first year, $24.5 to the parents or guardian. Sick Benefits.—From 50 cents, 75 cents and 8 monthly dues purchase the Monthly Dues and Tickets, 10 cents, the child is to make his HE REGAL This Depth is that is w le and plive 4. CLASSES B and H benefits. B Class Poll CLASS B TAKEN Ages. Joining Fee. to 20 years. $2 50 to 35 years. 2 75 to 45 years. 3 00 to 50 years. 3 25 to 65 years. 3 25 to 60 years. 3 50 to 65 years. 3 50 H Class Policies are as follows: CLASS H TAKEN Ages. Joining Fee. to 25 years. $5 00 to 35 years. 5 25 to 45 years. 5 50 to 50 years. 5 75 to 65 years. 5 75 years (Complete). 6 00 Ages. Joining Fee. Value of Certificate. Annual Dues. Paid Quarterly. 14 to 20 years. $2 50 $200 00 $4 75 $1 20 25 to 35 years. 2 75 200 00 4 75 1 20 35 to 45 years. 3 00 200 00 5 70 1 48 45 to 50 years. 8 25 140 00 6 65 1 08 50 to 55 years. 8 25 115 00 6 65 1 08 55 to 60 years. 8 50 90 00 7 60 1 00 60 to 65 years. 8 50 65 00 7 60 1 00 Ages. Joining Fee. Value of Certificate. Annual Dues. Paid Quarterly. 14 to 25 years..... $5 00 $500 00 $9 50 $2 40 25 to 65 years..... 5 25 500 00 9 50 ..... 35 to 45 years..... 5 50 500 00 10 40 ..... 45 to 50 years..... 5 75 450 00 11 40 2 85 50 to 65 years..... 5 75 400 00 11 40 2 85 65 years (Complete)..... 6 00 850 00 11 00 2 85 The ages are reckoned from the last birthday. Remember that the applicant is benefited as soon as his policy is issued. Remember that the applicant is benefited as s The annual dues of either of the above named ymants of three months each, payable the 1st o The balance of annual dues remaining to the uses will go to the purchase of Bank Stock for If dues are paid annually in advance, the me and his full proportion of annual dues. By the l de his own collector, thereby making the me of supporting, and the member receiving the per collect. You will readily see that the members of either meet once or four times a year, while the Foun Life nents.—The members of B Class are two shares for each year of their me per cent, or one dollar per share. Should a life, they may take their stock certificates and period of time. Members of Class B can purchase 25 shares o ear of their membership; likewise, they may take stock, and secure a loan after a given period of the rship, in either one of these Classes, like the B member in health, as well as his family in death. The annual dues of either of the above named Classes may be divided into quarterly payments of three months each, payable the 1st of January, April, July, and October. The balance of annual dues remaining to the credit of each member after paying expenses will go to the purchase of Bank Stock for sale member. If dues are paid annually in advance, the member gets 5 per cent drawback in cash, and his full proportion of annual dues. By the latter mode of payment each member made his own collector, thereby making the membership independent of the agent, and self-supporting, and the member receiving the percentage that would be paid to the agent so collect. You will readily see that the members of either one of these classes are only required to meet once or four times a year, while the Fountains and Rosebuds meet twice a month. Life Benefits.—The members of B Class are allowed to purchase 15 shares of Bank Stock and two shares for each year of their membership. The stock yields a dividend of per cent, or one dollar per share. Should misfortune befall them on their pathway of life, they may take their stock certificates and policies, and secure a loan after a given period of time. Members of Class E can purchase 25 shares of Bank Stock, and two shares for each year of their membership; likewise, they may take their policies and certificates of Bank Stock, and secure a loan after a given period of time. You will readily see that the membership, in either one of these Classes, like the Fountains and the Rosebuds, benefits the member in health, as well as his family in death. from 10 cents and upwards. Special attention is given to the collection of notes and drafts. In 1808 this was the only bank in Richmond which continued to pay currency to its depositors during the financial stringency, while the other banks were using script. 6. REAL ESTATE OF THE U. O. T. R. This Department manages and controls the property of the organization. It grew out of the necessity of having offices and buildings in which to carry on the business of the organization, and to furnish halls for the Subordinate Ledger. Buildings now owned, 12; farms, 3; dwellings, 2; hotels, 1; with a fee simple value of $164,000. Buildings leased, 18. This Department manages and controls the property of the organization. It grew out of the necessity of having offices and buildings in which to carry on the business of the organization, and to furnish halls for the Subordinate Lodges. Buildings now owned, 12 farms, 3; dwellings, 2; hotels, 1; with a fee simple value of $164,000. Buildings leased, 12. The Reformer is the Beacon-Light, the Head General Agent of the Bretherhood. It is a live te is the medium of the Order, and its columns te and for ampicle copies. It is published weekly and, Fa., having a first-class job department, and 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. Sound for sample cogges. It is published weekly in The Reformer Printing Office, Richmond, N.C., having a first-class job department, and makes a smoothity of high-class work. 12 BISHOP WALTERS SPEAKS. He Has Never at Any Time Urged a Division of the Negro Vote. Bishop Alexander Walters is confessedly one of the ablest, best known and most popular Negro divines in this country. He has recently been honored by an election to the Presidency for a term of two years, of the Pan African Society which assembled in London a few days ago, and to honorary membership in the Reform Club of London, England. He is one of the directors of the great Christian Endeavor Association of the United States and was chosen a delegate to represent that body in the recent convention held in England. The Bishop has always been a republican and he has always had the courage of his convictions. Sometime ago he criticised the attitude of the administration toward his race, and did it in a straight forward way. Since then the attitude of the administration toward the Negro has changed in his favor, and the Bishop is still a republican. The speech which he delivered at Washington criticising the President, has been gobbled up and printed in a distorted form by the Democratic Literary Bureau, or its accomplices, and is being circulated in pamphlet form with a zeal worthy of a better cause. The Bishop is just as good a republican as Senator W. M. Stewart, the father of the xvth Amendment, who has recently deserted Bryan to support McKinley. The following letter will show where the Bishop is "at," and at the same time discover the crafty methods of our friend the enemy, of horn snuggling and honey fugleing susceptible Negroes: Fon du Lac, Wis. 8.23.1900. My Dear Bruce:— I have just received your letter. Glad to hear from you. I write in haste to say that I have not written a word or had any private interview with anyone on the subject of a division of the Negro vote since last winter or early spring. I never advised anyone to vote for Mr. Bryan. I have done and shall do just the opposite. You are authorized to deny with all honorable emphasis the statements direct or implied that I have advised any Negro to vote for Bryan. I have never seen or heard of until today, the pamphlet to which you allude. If my address or rather letter, is being used as democratic campaign literature, it is without my knowledge or consent, and I unhesitatingly repudiate it and authorize you to do so. Always Your Friend. North Carolina's Crack Industrial School. Mr. I. S. Cunningham, inspector of joinery and wood turning at the State Agricultural and Mechanical College, Greensboro, N. C., was in this city a few days this week. He is a graduate of that great school and this will be his second year as instructor. He has spent his entire vacation visiting the various schools and mechanical institutions of the North and East, studying their methods, etc. He brought a large number of specimens with him showing the kind of work done by the school, and he left a beautiful gavel and other carvings for The Colored American as a sample of the work done at his school. Mr. Cunningham is a good type of the young Afro-Americans who are coming up in the South and This Depth style and price B and B benefits. B Class Foil SANTA MARIA who are imbued with a great future of the possibility of industrial education in the South. The Greensboro College is to be congratulated upon having so valuable a representative as Mr. Cunningham. Dr. Arthur M. Brown of Birmingham. Ala. One of the prominent young men from the South who attended the National Negro Business League at Boston, Mass., and who made one of the most effective and telling off-hand speeches that were made at that meeting was Dr. Arthur E. Brown now located at Birmingham, Ala. The Doctor comes of a family with a history. Himself a college graduate he was ap' J. DR. ARTHUR M. BROWN. pointed surgeon of the 10th United States Cavalry during the SpanishAmerican war and rendered service in Cuba, in the South and on the war hips. After leaving the service, he began the practice of medicine in Birmingham where he is doing a large and lucrative business. He says "there is plenty of opportunity for the young men of the race at the South who go there prepared to take up their profession and to accept things as they find them and not as they would have them." The South needs more young men like Dr. Brown. --- A Fishing Party. A fishsung party composed of Messrs. Robert H. Terrell, George S. Newman, John N. Dorster, John T. Layton, Robert D. Pendleton, D. B. McCary, Lewis H. Wayne, Mackenzie Scott, Dr. F. J. Cardozo and Editor E. E. Cooper boarded the steam launch Jennie Irene, owned by Mr. O. T. Taylor on Tuesday night at 12 o'clock and went 40 miles down the Potomac and enjoyed the sport of the angler until late Wednesday afternoon. All of the members of the party are prominent Masons and they had a thoroughly good time and caught a large number of the "gamey" bass. On the return trip the party put in at Glymont and other points of interest. It is the purpose of the gentlemen named to repeat the excursion before the end of the season. Several of the party brought back a goodly number of reed birds which they had brought down with their guns early Wednesday morning. Mr. Clinton L. Battle, an enterprising young man, has opened a very fine ice cream parlor on the triangle at the corner of 12th and R streets. On or about the 15th he will add a dining room where the best service will be rendered. SUBORDINATE FOUNTAINS. Mountains are composed of males and females, sound in character. When joining the Order through Conventions, persons of age; when joining the Fountain by application person complete. Cent Fees.—From 14 to 60 years of age, $4.60; at 60, $75 and $125. Should death occur within the first year be paid to the heirs, assigns or legal representatives. From $6 to $9 per month, paid weekly. Are 35 or 50 cents per month. Taxes are 80 cents per and July. The annual monthly dues secure the help—Ten shares of Bank Stock, costing each member, the member. After paying dues and owning the stock will pay the member's dues, and leave a handsome rate—monthly, dues, 50 cents per month, and taxes and a dividend on ten shares of stock at 20 per cent dues to $10 annually, which will pay the member's dues. Should the dues be 35 cents per month, and 80 cents and taxes will amount to $5 per year. The dividend and taxes, and leave a balance of $5. Rights of Life Membership.—Should adverse circumstances may take his ten shares of stock and Fountain policy, which will enable said member to tide over the misfit policy and stock, and go on his way rejoicing. and of males and females, sound in health and mind, under through Conventions, persons are taken in from the Fountain by application persons are taken from into 60 years of age, $4.60; at 60, $5.10; at 55, $5.60; and death occur within the first year, $75; after the first, assigns or legal representatives, month, paid weekly. Next month. Taxes are 80 cents annually, paid semi- monthly dues secure the highest weekly sick Bank Stock, costing each member $5 a share, made paying dues and owning the stock one year, be- cause dues, and leave a handsome little balance each 80 cents per month, and taxes 80 cents per year, which will pay the member's dues, $6.80, and leave the 85 cents per month, and 80 cents taxes per year, unt to $5 per year. The dividend of $10 would pay a balance of $5. Worship. Should adverse circumstances befall a mem- ories of stock and Fountain policy, and secure a loan and member to tide over the misfortune, pay up the go on his way rejoicing. 2. ROSEBUD FOUNTAIN (For the Children.) Rosebud Fountains are composed for child male, from 8 to 14 years of age. Joining or Benefit Fees, $1.50; paid spotments. Death Benefits.—$24.50 and $37.00. Shown within the first year, $24.50; after the first year to the parents or guardians. Sick Benefits.—From $1.50 to $4.00 per month, 50 cents, 75 cents and $1 per week, respects monthly dues purchase the highest weekly rate. Monthly Dues and Taxes.—The monthly dues, 15 cents or 25 cents, respectively, just as usual, 10 cents annually, paid semi-annually, makes his policy self-supportive. Fountains are composed for children, male and female to 14 years of age. For Benefit Fees, $1.50; paid spot cash or by installment. $24.50 and $87.00. Should death occur first year, $24.50; after the first year $87 will be paid as fees or guardians. —From $1.50 to $4.00 per month paid weekly, 10 cents and $1 per week, respectively. The highest is purchase the highest weekly sick benefits. Dues and Taxes.-The monthly dues are 10 cents, 25 cents, respectively, just as the Fountain may issue, 10 cents annually, paid semiannually, January. The child is allowed to purchase five shares of Bank note makes his policy self-supporting, with a balance Rosebud Fountains are composed for children, male and female, from 8 to 14 years of age. Joining or Benefit Fees, $1.50; paid spot cash or by installments. Death Benefits.—$24.50 and $87.00. Should death occur within the first year, $24.50; after the first year $87 will be paid to the parents or guardians. Sick Benefits.—From $1.50 to $4.00 per month paid weekly; 50 cents, 75 cents and $1 per week, respectively. The highest monthly dues purchase the highest weekly sick benefits. Monthly Dues and Taxes.—The monthly dues are 10 cents, 15 cents or 25 cents, respectively, just as the Fountain may be, 10 cents annually, paid semiannually, January the child is allowed to purchase five shares of Bank makes his policy self-supporting, with a balance HE REGALLA. is that is worn by the members of the Order. For ship, male and female, and secure life and death CLASS B TABLE. Ages. Joining Fee. $2 50 2 75 3 00 8 25 8 25 8 50 4 50 Value of Certificate. $200 00 200 00 200 00 140 00 115 00 90 00 65 00 ees are as follows: CLASS B TABLE. Ages. Joining Fee. $5 00 5 25 5 50 5 75 5 75 6 00 Value of Certificate. $500 00 500 00 500 00 450 00 400 00 850 00 CLASS B TABLE. Joining Fee. Value of Certificate. Annual Dues. Paid Quarterly. $2 50 $200 00 $4 75 $1 20 2 75 200 00 4 75 1 20 3 00 200 00 5 70 1 48 8 25 140 00 6 65 1 68 8 25 115 00 6 65 1 68 8 50 90 00 7 60 1 90 8 50 65 00 7 60 1 90 CLASS B TABLE. Joining Fee. Value of Certificate. Annual Dues. Paid Quarterly. $5 00 $500 00 $9 50 $2 40 5 25 500 00 9 50 .... 5 50 500 00 10 40 .... 5 75 450 00 11 40 .... 5 75 400 00 11 40 .... 6 00 850 00 11 00 ... 2 85 First birthday. Benefited as soon as his policy is issued. Above named Classes may be divided into quarterly Table the 1st of January, April, July, and October. Including to the credit of each member after paying ex- ch Stock for sald member. Once, the member gets 5 per cent drawback in cash. By the latter mode of payment each member is being the membership independent of the agent, and being the percentage that would be paid to the agent Others of either one of these classes are only required like the Fountains and Rosebuds meet twice a month. 5 Class are allowed to purchase 15 shares of Bank of their membership. The stock yields a dividend. Should misfortune befall them on their pathway certificates and policies, and secure a loan after a given 25 shares of Bank Stock, and two shares for each day may take their policies and certificates of Bank period of time. You will readily see that the mem- bers, like the Fountains and Rosebuds, benefits the only in death. at the applicant is benefited as soon as his policy is issued or of the above named Classes may be divided months each, payable the 1st of January, April, June of annual dues remaining to the credit of each member of the purchase of Bank Stock for sali member. Dues annually in advance, the member gets 5 per cent portion of annual dues. By the latter mode of payment selector, thereby making the membership independent and the member receiving the percentage that would be payed see that the members of either one of these classes four times a year, while the Fountains and Rosebuds masters The members of B Class are allowed to purchase shares for each year of their membership. The stock one dollar per share. Should misfortune bafall them take their stock certificates and policies, and secure a Class B can purchase 25 shares of Bank Stock, and the membership; likewise, they may take their policies and a loan after a given period of time. You will readily one of these Classes, like the Fountains and the Rosebuds, as well as his family in death. 15. THE TRUE REFORMERS' BANK. The Savings Bank of the G. F. U. O. F. E. was 1888. Its capital stock is $100,000. It commenced 1889. The amount of business to March 1, 1898, stock of this bank is sold to the membership of the buds, B and E classes, and pays a dividend of 20 dollar. Persons can deposit their money on time or pays 4 per cent interest on all time deposits. More hold subject to the orders of the depositors. Do upwards. Special attention is given to the collection was the only bank in Richmond which continued to the financial stringency, while the other banks were Bank of the G. F. U. O. F. R. was chartered March. Stock is $100,000. It commenced business April 3. Lot of business to March 1, 1898, is $3,400,100. The is sold to the membership of the Fountains. Rose-asses, and pays a dividend of 20 per cent on the del- deposit their moneys on time or demand. The bank interest on all time deposits. Moneys on demand are the orders of the depositors. Deposits are received attention is given to the collection of notes and drafts. In Richmond which continued to pay currency to its agency, while the other banks were using script. 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 8, 1889. The amount of business to March 1, 1888, is $8,400,100. The stock of this bank is sold to the membership of the Fountains, Rosebuds, B and E classes, and pays a dividend of 20 per cent on the dollar. Persons can deposit their money on time or demand. The bank pays 4 per cent interest on all time deposits. Monies on demand are held subject to the orders of the depositor. Deposits are received 6. REAL ESTATE OF THE U. O. T. R. ment manages and controls the property of the organi of having offices and buildings in which to carry on to furnish halls for the Subordinate Lodges. Buildings, 2; hotels, 1; with a fee simple value of $164,000. ment manages and controls the property of the organisation. It grew out of having offices and buildings in which to carry on the business of the to furnish halls for the Subordinate Lodge. Buildings now owned, 12; houses, 2; hotels, 1; with a fee simple value of $164,000. Buildings leased, 18. 7. THE REFORMER, the Organ of the Order. It is the Beacon-Light, the Head-Light, the General Messenger and the Brotherhood. It is a live race journal, with a circulation of 6,000 of the Order, and its columns team with all its doings and achievements. It is published weekly in The Reformer Printing Office, Birch a first-class job department, and makes a specialty of high-elegant work. at, the Head-Light, the General Messenger and the It is a live race journal, with a circulation of 6,000. colums team with all its doings and achievements. nked weekly in The Reform Printing Office, Rich department, and makes a specialty of high-class work 4. CLASSES. 14 A MANLY ADDRESS. The National Afro-American Council Issues a Pronunciamento Defining the Status and Duty of the Afro-American. The Civil Rights of the Black Man—Sensible and Timely Advice. Members of the National Afro-American Council- Your committee to whom was referred the work of preparing the address to the country as an expression of the opinion of the National Afro-American Council begs leave to report the following for your consideration: "In every democracy the ballot is regarded as the chief safeguard of the rights and immunities of the citizen. In every democracy reasonable restrictions upon the exercise of the elective franchise have been imposed upon the electerate in the best interest of the State: but in all such democracies such restrictions have been imposed without invidious distinction upon all the members of the citizenship. J. H. HON. JUDSON W. LYONS "It is universally regarded as a fact, incontestible, not only in this Republic, but in all republics, ancient and modern, that a voteless citizen is a man who had no rights that citizens who vote feel bound to respect. We feel that all of the inequality under the law which has grown out of conditions that have developed since the subversion of the reconstruction governments in 1876, hinges entirely upon the disproportionate influence which Afro-American citizens, through the indisposition or negligence of the national government, have exercised in the States of the Union where they preponderate numerically, or are a respectable minority. "We feel it to be of supreme moment to protest against the nullification by fundamental enactment of the suffrage provisions of the Federal Constitution by the States of Mississippi, South Carolina, Louisiana and North Carolina, and against the accomplishment of the same purpose by the late slave-holding group of States by indirect, but methods equally as repugnant to constitutional provisions and sound morality. "The equality of citizens of the Republic under the Federal Constitution is a principle of the government which affects all alike, and infraction of the rights of one inevitably involves infraction of the rights of the other. The tendency towards disfranchisement is not a race question, nor a sectional question, although for the present we are the principal victims of it; it is a national question, and affects all of the citizens of the United States, because where we are injured in our rights today others may be injured in theirs tomorrow. Indeed, if a fundamental guarantee of the right of life, liberty or property under the Constitution, in which we are vitally concerned, may be violated with impunity, there is no reason why the cognate rights of others may not at some stage of our politics be THE COLONIAL AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. O. violated with equal impunity. We regard it as an immoral and unprecedented construction of the fourteenth amendment to covertly seek to rob a large number of the citizenship of this country by State nullification of the precious rights guaranteed to them by the fourteenth amendment. What we contend for is that the citizenship of the United States as prescribed by the supreme law should not be affected in any of its parts for whater reason, by any co-ordinate member of the federal compact. "We are not opposed to restriction of suffrage rights by any State, by property or educational test, which shall apply to all citizens alike; but we maintain the State constitutions of Mississippi, South Carolina, North Carolina and Louisiana, enacted by a minority of the citizens of those States without submission for ratification to the people confessing that the action would not receive the approval of the people, are immoral in their purpose, in contravention of positive guarantees of the Federal Constitution, and in direct violation of the reconstruction acts by which those States were readmitted into the Union. "The suffrage rights of the Afro American people, assured by the valorous conduct of the 180,000 black soldiers who fought to preserve the Union of our States and to suppress slave power, is the priceless jewel that we enjoy as the result of that valor; and we are unalterably opposed to any restriction of it which does not apply to all citizens of the State alike. "The interests of the white men of the South are as much involved in this suffrage question as are ours. Their interests are identical with ours; what benefits them must benefit us; what in jures them must injure us. It should not be difficult for them to see that forcing this question into the prominence which has been true of late can not be injurious to their influence as well as to their own in the government. There is not a member of this Council who does not know that the white man of the South can be generous as well as magnanimous, and where our interests are so generally intertwined we have a just right, and we do not feel that we entertain it in vain, to ask them to make a larger exhibition of this generosity and magnanimity which we know by personal experience to form so large a part of their character. "We feel to say to them that it is well to have the strength of a giant, but at the same time we ask them if it is wise to use such strength as a giant. Let the Afso-American people stand unflinchingly by their suffrage rights. It is a life and death struggle. Looking at it from this point of view we should be unfaithful to the trust committed to us if we did not warn the race against the danger of supporting any man or party in the North or South who is opposed to the full and free exercise of the elective franchise, under the provisions of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution. "We have faith to believe that revolutions never go backwards, and that the abiding sense of justice in the American people, North and South, will ultimately impel them to concede to us all that we contend for, and which is inherently ours, as it is theirs, and we believe that the God of our destiny will guide us to that good understanding which is the basis of national power and happiness." Mis Priscilla Jones of 188114th street went to Richmond this week to remain ten days. Telephone. 797 THE RAY MEDICAL INSTITUTE X. 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CONTAINS—Pen pictures of the Daring Charges made by Negro Soldiers at San Juan, El Caney, and around Santiago.—Corporal Brown killed at his post while firing a cannon which knocked over the block house and saved the Rough Riders.—Sergeant Berry, the colored soldier who was first to raise the American flag on San J. an Hill.—The glowing tribute to McKinley, Miles, Roosevelt, and many others on the bravery of Negro Soldiers.—General Morgan advocates Negro officers.—Antonio and Jose Macio, Gomez, Miss Oiseros, and the Cuban Women Cavalry.—The Negro Paymasters in the Army.—The Negro Poet, Paul Lawrence Junbar.—"Eddie" Savoy, the colored man who outwitteed the diplomacy of the Spanish Minister at Washington.—The Negro who seals Uncle sam's money.—The colored Register of the Treasury who has to sign Uncle Sam's money to make it good. money to make it good. Every Page Brimful of New and Interesting Reading, with about fifty half to one and line engravings of soldier, officers, and scenes of the late Spanish-American War, with a FINE PICTURE OF AGUINALDO, his headquarters, a Filipino lady of Manila, and a brief sketch of the Phillipinos and their civilization. Handsome Picture of General Nelson A. Miles, the Major General in command of all the American Army, who said the fighting of the colored soldiers around Santiago was "without a parallel in the history of the world." All for $1, "Much in Little." Mailed Free. AGENTS WANTED. Big percentage. Send for copy E. A. JO Corner West and Lenoir Streets, A. JOHNSON eets, Raleigh, North Carolina. Corner West and Lenoir Streets, Raleigh, North Carolina. A WIFE WANTED. Wanted--Mr. "A.," a prosperous young, colored business man of this city, desires to open correspondence with some young lady with a view to marriage. The only requirement is that the lady applying must not be above forty years of age and must own some property. Ladies living in any section of the country may apply. Address all communications to Mr. "A." in care of The Colored American Washington, D. C. DRESSMAKING ACADEMY. The de Lam Orton Famous French Perfection Tailor System Academy MME J. A. SMALLWOOD, Sole Ager 1513 Madison St. Northwest. Morning class from 9 a. m. to 1 p. n Afternoon class 2 to 5 p. m. daily. Evenings from 7.30 to 10 o'clock. Evenings from 7.30 to 10 o'clock. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays Dressmakers and ladies who wish to do their own dressmaking. WANTED—To learn the wonderful De Lamorton French Perfection Taylor System, Seamless Basques without one inch of visible seam, in lining or goods, not even on the shoulder. Successful Dressmaking requires as much earnest progressive study as successful work in any of the professions. No detail is too small to be carefully looked after. 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TEN distinct departments, under one hundred competent professors and instructors—Theological, Medical, Legal, College, Pedagogical, Preparatory, English, Agriculture, Industrial, and Musical. For information address— Rev, J. E. RANKIN, D. D., LL. D., President, Geo. H. SAFFORD, Secretary. ...THE... 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 $5.00 per month. The location and surroundings are healthful and elevating. A first-class opportunity for young men and women to obtain a good literary and industrial education. The trades of Blacksmithing, Wheelwrighting, Carpentry, Painting, Bricklaying and Shoemaking, will be taught the boys and the arts of Sewing and Cooking will be taught the girls. Boarding space is limited and those who wish to come must apply early. Respectfully, R. R. WRIGHT, Pres't. College, Ga. Avery College Trades School ALLEGHENY, PA. A Practical, Literary and Industrial Trade School for Colored Boys and Girls, Carpentry, Bricklaying, Plastering, Painting and Interior Decorations. Tailoring, Dress, making, Millinery. Voice Culture and Piano Forte. Literary Departn ent from Primary to Normal Course. Job Work Solicited and Profits given to the Students. Catalogues now ready. Address, JOSEPH D. MAHONEY, Principal. Allegheny, Pa. Howard University, WASHINGTON, D. C. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, INCLUDING Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Colleges Thirty-third Session (1900-1901) will begin October 1st, 1900 and continue seven (7) months. Tuition fee in Medical and Dental Colleges, each $80. Pharmaceutical College, $70. All students must register before October 12, 1900. For catalogue or further information apply to- F, J. SHADD, M. D., Secretary, 901 R St, N, W., Washington, D. C. A RARE OPPORTUNITY For 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. A special building known as the Phelp's Hall Bible 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 undenominational, the purpose being to help all denominations and not antagonize any. The cost of board is $8 per month and students are given a chance to work out a portion of this, leaving, as a rule, but five or six dollars to pay in cash. A few who have no money are given an opportunity to work out all of their expenses. Lack 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 R T. Washington, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute Tuskegee, Alabama. --- THE COLORADO AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. City Paragraphs. The Amphions open the concert season at the John Wesley church Friday, Sept. 21st. The Dvoraks who made such a pronounced hit June 1st, are getting down to work preparatory for the coming season. Messrs. John E. Cooper and Hampton Jacobs, two capable tonsorial artists of the city have returned from Midleboro, Va. Miss F. B. S. Johnson of Anacostia, D. C., left Monday the 27th ult. for Saratoga Springs, N. Y., where she will remain until school opens. Rev. J. Anderson Taylor, pastor of Shiloh Baptist church, and his family have returned to the city from Atlantic City where they spent a very pleasant summer. The literary and lyceum season is open and ere long the future Burkes, Websters and literateurs of high and lowe estate will be heard from many platforms. Messrs. William M. Henderson of The Boston Courant and Mr. Roscoe Simmons, of Concord, N. C., spent last Friday and Saturday in this city en route South. Col. J. Ross Stewart of the U. S. Barge office New York, joined his wife who is the guest of Mr. Thomas Barrnunsal, Long Branch last week. He will spend his vacation there. J. Henry Lewis has returned to the city after a pleasant vacation spent at New York and Atlantic City. Miss Addie, his daughter, is still in New York with his uncle, Edw. Tyler of 53rd street. Gray and Brother caterers will be located at Odd Fellows' Hall Cafe, 1706 M street, n. w. on or about the 5th of September where they will be pleased to see their friends and the public generally. Mr. William L. Mosley, editor of The Republican, Atlanta, Ga., passed through the city last week en route from his home in Georgia. He had returned from the National Negro Business League in Boston. The wonderful Face Bleach has been introduced in Washington and is offered to the public at a special rate. The two dollar packages can now be had for one dollar by calling at Drew's Drug Store, Connecticut avenue and L street. Mr. and Mrs. David H. Massey, of 265 West 47 street, New York, after spending the month of August the guest of Mrs. Henry Watters of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., have returned to the city to prepare for their trip to Santiago de Cuba. Mr. W. H. Dawley, jr., who has been spending the summer with his parents at 325 8th n. e., left Saturday the 25th ult. for Chicago and after spending a while there and at St. Louis, Mo., will proceed to Kansas City, Mo., to resume his work as teacher in the High school. Mr. Z. P. Moore, who has for years been connected with J. H. Winslow, the undertaker, has just returned from a pleasant vacation taking in such towns as Buffalo, Toronto, Roche-ter and other eastern points. He is much improved in appearance and returns to his work with renewed vigor. Mr. J. T. Reynolds of Danville, Va., who is associated with Mr. George P. Risen of that city in furnishing employees for the W. D. and Iron Railway of West Virginia, was in the city last week. This enterprising firm is kept busy supplying this railroad company and other companies with colored help. J. Gives the names of dead and living friends tells who and when you will marry also of business journeys lawsuits, absent friends health or anything you wish to know, no matter what it is. He can call up your spirit friends and show them to you. Can make them rap all around the room. He asks no questions don't ask you to write names or him. Don't try to pump you in any way, out tells you right off. He is thoroughly inured by leading spiritualists everywhere, received from them a gold medal and special license to practice his wonderful powers; credentials no one else can show can give thousands of references to both white and colored patrons Twenty-five years' practice—seven in brooklyn—will show you that he can do all he of. Can tell what business is best for you and where, how to win speedy marriage with the one you love. How to be successful in all your doings in short what is best to do. He will succeed when all others fall. Positive satisfaction or no pay. Call and see. You will find it luck to consult this Christian gentleman. He has a medicine that will cure drunkenness; can be given patients not knowing it. Thousands through him are now RICH HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL with all their undertakings, while those w o neglect his advice are still laboring again poverty. Through his perfect knowledge of chemistry he can impart to you a secret that will overcome your enemies and win you friends. His aid and advice has often been solicited; the result has always been the securing of speedy and happy marriages and all your wishes. In love affairs he never fails. He has the secret of winning the affections of the opposite sex. It is the curse of Spiritualism that in all large cities there are a class of men and women who claim powers they do not possess. They have neither gifts, credentials, nor references. Surely the colored people are not so wanting in sense as to throw their time and 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, 2937 Atlantic Avenue. Have You Got a JOB? ARE YOU EARNING BIG MONEY ? IF NOT, THEN YOU SHOULD WRITE AT ONCE TO— HARTONA REMEDY CO., 909 E. Main Street, RICHMOND, VA. We want lady or gentlemen Agents in every town in the United States. You can earn big money if you will work for us even in your spare time. Write to us to-day. This may be the chance of your life. This offer is open to ladies or gentlemen—white or colored. Oh, Ladies! Stop and consider. Do you know that my celebrated Imperial Whitener will positively brighten black skin making it almost white. Mulatto or light skin persons can bleach the skin entirely white. One bottle is all that is required to complete the treatment, and the use does not have to be kept up. My Imperial Whitener cannot fail. It is harmless in every respect, and I will pay $1.00 to any one proving to the contrary. The effect is seen at once. By the use of improved machinery I have managed to make it at a price within the reach of all. I have been selling it at $6.00 a bottle. Recently I reduced it to $2.00, but now, to introduce it at once, I will send a bottle, prepaid, to any one who will send me $60. Remember. I guarantee every bottle, and I will send back the money if you are not satisfied in every way. Don't delay, but send $80 at once to BILAS GATHRIGHT 611 K. TOWNSHIP STREET, BIRMINGHAM, VA. DOCTOR SHEA'S 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 on patient's hair, which I did by her daughter. He told at once what was the matter, and in a short time cured her sound and well. Her family had seemingly been under a cloud. Now all is changed. All are well and prosperous. I can truly and heartily recommend Dr. Shea, to all those in sickness or distress of any kind. Rev. William Johnson, pastor Lebanon church, Brooklyn. Dr. Shea can show thousands such as the above. has been carefully educated in the Homeopathic and Electric Schools of Medicine, His success is wonderful in curing paralysis Rheumatism, Asthma, Sore Eyes, Tumors, Cancers, Constipation, Ague, Dyspepsia, Tape Worms, Liver Complaints, Deafness, Catarrh, Dropsy, Piles, Nervous Debility, Heart Diseases, Consumption, Diseases of Women and Children, Fits, Kidney Disease, and strange mysterious diseases which others don't understand. All diseases, no matter what they be. Nothing but honorable treatment, He can and will honestly tell you if you can be cured. Has all new remedies and new success. Has an ample experience in public hospital and private clinics. No trifling with human life. Call at once. Do not delay. Diplomias hang in parlors. Is a registered physician. A new remedy to rhenumatism just discovered, not a liniment. Hopeless cases and those that others can not cure solicited to call. Fat folks thin, the childless made parents. 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Mrs. Lieut. KR. E. Toomey has re turned from her home in Tennessee Mr. James C, Waters, Jr, is spend’ ing the summerat Atlantic City, N, J. Dr and Mrs. Curtis have returned to the city from their st “Arundel on the bay.”’ Miss Virginia R-blnson of 102 L st., 0. W., has been ili but is able vo be out again. Miss Lucy Robinson is going to Ba]* timore Monday to spend a few days of her vacation. Mre. Effie Henderson, of 84 19th st., southeast, has been very ill but is slow: ly improving at this writing. Mr. D. F. Seville who bas been cen- nected with the Post Office Department for years has resigned his position. Miss Mary E. Harvey, has returned from Virginia where she spent about two weeks. She had a very pleasant trip. Mss Bessie E. Willis, of 1128 New Jersey avenue, n. W,, is very ill. She has been suffering from asevere sore throat. Miss Effie A. Johnsen has returned from Staunton, Va. and reports ade lightfal time among her friends and relatives, Messrs. Gray and Costley at 1313 E Street, D. w., are Kept busy these hot days catering to the wishes of their lJarge patronage. Mrs. James L. Jebnson, of Nicholas avenue, Anacostia, the wife of the pop: ular Deputy Grand Master of Masons for the District, is spending ten days in Philadetpbia and Atlantic City. Mr. Johnson will return to‘day for a shert stay, Mies Louise Bradley of Wstreet has rerurned very much improved in health from a very pleasant stay at Berkeley Springs, W. Va. Mrs. Ida P, Belcher after spending a very enjoyable ten days at Atlantic City returned home last week much benefited by her trip. The excursion to Glymont which Ool. Robert H. Key will “puoi off’ on the 15th inst. promises to be the ex cursion event of the season. Miss Blanch Lapghorn, who resides on 4sh street, n. w., went to Richmond Va., this week to spend ceveral days with relatives and friends. Dr. E. Parker Read of Philade!phia passed through this city last Monday en route to Lynchburg, having been ‘called there by the illness of his sister. Mrs, Paiis Lyvers has not returned home yet. She is now with her sister, Mrs. Wesley Sta fford(who bas been fl) at Asbury Park. New Jetsey fora few days. Col. W. R. Laws, the well known Virginia orator and politician has been invited to take part in the campaign of several statesinthe East and Middle West. Mr. J. E, Smith of the Goverrment Printing Office, returned last week for Charlotte, N. C., where be spent a very pleasant vacaticn among relatives and friends. Mr. snd Mrs- Scphrarie Payne are ali smiles, A beautifal nine pound girl has come to bless their home. Her birthday will date from Thursday, Av’ gust 31, 1900. The sehool teachers and the depart- ment people who have been sojoaruing in the Mountains and at the sammer resorts are now returning to the city in great numbers, After a pleasant sojourn of fifteen days in Atlantic City, Miss KE. J. John son of 445 N street, n. w. 1s home much benefited by the trip. She was joined after aweek by her sister, Miss Florence and both returned together with pleas: ant memories of their dayson the sea shore.