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The COLORED AMERICAN A NATIONAL REGRO NEWSPAPER VOL. 8 NO. 30. A MODERN CINCINNATUS. Mr. Jas. T. Bradford Baltimore's Veteran Leader and Business Man-A Pen Picture of his Career. James T Bradford, Esq, of Baltimore, Md., was born in that city which has been his home and the field of his successes in life, and is a stirring example to all young men, to show the height attainable by earnest work, absolute integrity and indomitable energy and pluck. Starting out in life under circumstances more adverse by far than those which obtain to-day, surrounded by actual physical bondage he had won a high place in the business and intellectual world before emancipation came to the slave. At an age when our boys of this day and time are not out of the graded schools, young Bradford was selling fruit in the B. & O. depot at Camden street, and even at that early day he always made it a point to have the best fruit obtainable, and that has been the central idea in all of his business relations since—to keep the best of everything in his line. ```markdown ``` In 1861, he left his station at the depot, to enter as a clerk in the provision store kept by John P. Jones at Charles and Centre streets, in the heart of the residence district, under the shadow of the Washington monument and which was patronized by the bluest bloods of Maryland. Here he remained until 1865, gaining a thorough insight and mastery of the business in all its details. In that year, the failing health of Mr. Jones compelled him to retire from business, selling out to Mr. Burwell Banks, and Mr. Bradford accepted an offer of a partnership with Mr. Osborne Burley, whose establishment immediately adjoined that of Mr. Jones, and who antedated Mr. Jones in the business. 2 e d l o, r, e o e. d i a l l s h At the end of the first year this partnership was dissolved by mutual consent to enable Mr. Bradford to go into partnership with Mr. Banks, the successor of Mr. Jones, and they continued harmoniously together six years. When the building of the St. James hotel forced all the sub tenants to seek other quarters Mr. Banks concluded to move higher up town and nearer to his home. Mr. Bradford bought the building at the corner of Center and St. Paul sts. one square east of the old place and opened up for himself, and there holds forth to day, as sole owner and proprietor, having now the assistance of his two sons, James T., jr., and Gray B. dford, in carrying on the business. MR. JAMES T. BRADFORD, The Leading Afro-American Business Man of Baltimore, and a Strong Factor in the Politics of the State of Maryland. Next year will bring about the fortieth anniversary of the day when the boy clerk started in to work for John P. Jones, and the thirtieth year of his independent business at the present location. While never neglectful in the slightest degree of his business duties, Mr. Bradford has always found the time, and strength to be a strong factor in church, in literature and in society. Connected from his earliest childhood with the Bethel Sabbath-school, he filled in succession all of its offices and was for many years its superintendent, during which time it was by far the largest in the city. Connecting himself with King Solomon Lyceum, he at once took front rank among its close debaters and interesting writers, serving here also as its president. When the war of the Bebellion was on, he was secretary of the Baltimore branch of the Sanitary Commission, and rendered splendid assistance to the boys in blue who served in the field. He is now president of Provident Hos pital on Biddle street, a director on the Board of the Home for Friendless Children. Courtland street. He is also a member of the Board of Trade in Washington, D. C. Socially there is no better known man in the county. From East, West, North and South, the names of those who have enjoyed his generous hospitality during the past thirty years truly may be called legion. Though always a staunch republican and a liberal contributor to the party treasury, it is only within a few years past that Mr. Bradford has taken any active part in the party work; but here also he has taken front rank. He was a strong candidate for Register of the Treasury at the beginning of the McKinley administration, or Register of Deeds, made a splendid run and was only beaten by party exigences to which he yielded in good spirit and did not "sulk in his tent." Last year he entered the field against the "Regulars" in (Continued on ninth page.) ```markdown ``` PRICE FIVE CENTS. IN THE GREAT WEST. Prominent Afro-Americans Active in the Campaign. Everything Republiican. Interviews and a Mirror of the Social World. Chicago, Ills., Special—Probably the most prosperous manufacturing business carried on by a colored man in Chicago is that of Mr. A. C. Howard, who has spent many years experimenting in shoe polish, and today there is no polish in the market more satisfactory than Howard's. His foreign export business has reached as far as Scotland and Ireland and one order was filled in Germany last week. An excellent trade is carried on in Mexico and all parts of the United States. He has only been in business four years and is assisted in every duty pertaining to his success by his amiable wife, who is a good business woman. Howard's Shoe Polish has a space at the Paris Exposition and it is said will be sure to receive highest awards. Mr. John Davis and wife of Louis ana are in the city the guest of Mr. B. French and wife. Miss Marie Madison of Parkersburg, W. Va. is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Lawrence Jones of Chicago. Mr. J. C. Craig of Grand Rapids, Michigan, spent a few days in Chicago last week en route to Cleveland. The Quinn Chapel Kindergarten, Mrs. J. W. E. Thomas president, had its formal opening last Monday, October 15th. Miss Daisy Robinson, the pianist of the Clayton Concert Company left for the East Friday week to be gone an indefinite period. Bishops Arnett, Turner, Grant and Derrick are expected in the next week to attend the formal opening of the Institutional church. Rev. Moses Jackson, pastor of Grace Presbyterian church, has been appointed by the Presbytery to attend the Synod at Decatur, Illinois. Rev. S. T. Tice of Boston, Mass., pastor of St. Paul A. M. E church, preached at the Institutional church, Sunday night to a large audience. Commissioner E. H. Wright has been recently elected president of the County Board which is the highest honor afforded by that department. Mrs. Dr. Bryant arrived in the city last week from Baltimore, Md. to spend a few days with her husband, (Continued on eighth page. Southern Methods Ventilated. A Rape Case. BY JOHN E. BRUCE. Albany, N. Y., Special - There has come into my possession a transcript of the testimony taken in the case of the state of South Carolina vs. J. I. Heirs a white man and a clerk in the store of a Mr. Burckmeyer of Port Royal, S. C. The magistrate before whom the testimony was taken is a moral degenerate and a disgrace to the noble profession of the law. The attorney for the white brute—one Verdier is a monstrosity of which there are many of its kind in South Carolina. Here is as clear case of attempted rape upon an innocent Negro child as ever occurred in any part of the country and yet nobody in Washington or any where in the North has seen even an allusion to it in the associated press dispatches. Are the great journals of this country in the conspiracy to crush out the Negro? Are they too cowardly to publish all the news? It looks that way. My informant, a northern gentleman temporarily sojourning in that God forsaken state, personally and at his own expense investigated this matter and had type written copy of the testimony which I herewith append made from the record. In a personal letter he says: "I was informed yesterday that a certain white man received a finger with a ring on it from Texas. A gruesome souvenir truly! I have been on a still hunt all day to see it so I could talk out, but am not successful so far I have some others at work on it. In Texas they are shooting for fun alleging they are looters. These fingers were doubtless some of those we read about the Negroes having in their pockets when shot. Then do they parcel them out at headquarters or do the executioners fall heir? Think of a civilization where a human finger is sent around for a souvenir. The Negroes are to mutilate dead bodies, secure values, are killed, and the whites keep the booty. The whites down this way do not even believe this themselves, though they smile and look at each other knowingly when these terrible reports are published. The Negro is rather serviceable, I find, in certain ways to rascally white men in this section and he appears to be bearing the white man's burden of crime with patience and heroism. I have mingled with a good many of all sorts and kinds of white men in this state who have talked freely with me about these matters. They think it no particular harm to disguise themselves as Negroes and assault women knowing that when they have accomplished their purpose some Negro will be caught, identified and summarily dealt with. I did not believe that white men anywhere were capable of such contemptible conduct or that such depravity existed among the white men of the South and I frankly confess to you that I am mortally ashamed of my race. Do you know the whites of the better class in this section are bitter against Senator Tillman for that Port Royal matter. Think of his lown nephew being lieutenant governor! But when I come to think of it, the eternal fitness of things is manifest. A poor white, murderous cracker, governor and a miserable scoundrel senator of this once proud state, indeed a far cry from the Rutledge and the Pinkneys, Hayne and Murdell to McSweeney and Tillman. O temporario mores!" ```markdown ``` 2 A personal paragraph in this interesting letter explains that Ben Tillman's influence secured the release of the white brute Heirs from the charge of criminal assault upon a little colored Lavinia Smith. Following is the testimony taken in the case, together with the dastardly and cowardly attack of defendant's counsel, Verdier, on the virtue of Negro women. It is a true copy. the State vs. J, I. Heirs Assault with intent to Ravish. TESTIMONY Lavinia Smith, the 13 year old girl upon whom the assault was made, testified as follows: I was standing near the store of Mr. Burckmeyer in the town of Port Royal, waiting for Mr. Sanders to come and pay me some money for milk. I waited there a long time and got tired standing on the outside, so I stepped in the store near the show case looking at the things in the show case. There was no one in the store at the time but the defendant: he is the clerk in the store; he was behind the counter; he made an insulting proposition to me, and I asked him what he meant. I didn't know what he was talking about. He said give me —— —— I said I did not have anything and that I did not know what he was talking about. He then came from behind the counter and told me to go in the dark room at the rear of the store and he would show me what he meant. At the same time he went to the door and shut and looked it. I told him to open that door and let me out of his store. He said no you go into the dark room and I will show you what I mean. I again told him I would not go, and he caught hold of me, took me up and started to carry me in the room. I caught hold of the counter and he pulled my hands loose. He then carried me further, and as he got me to the door of the dark room, I caught hold of the oil tank that is near the door. He pulled my hand loose and carried me through the door into the room and tried to make me lie on the floor. I refused to do so, and he still tried to throw me down, I would not let him do so and told him if he did not turn me loese and open the door. I would holler and tell mama and para. I then jerked and he turned me loose and went and opened the door. When he opened the door and I went out papa was on the out side. Mrs. Smith, the mother, testifies: That after I heard what had been done to my daughter, I went to the hotel where the defendant was at dinner and sent in to tell him that I wanted to see him. I waited till he came out. I had a talk with him, and he did not deny anything I charged him with, but asked me not to talk too loud as he did not want his name to get out. Some young white men saw him talking to me and called him in the hotel I then went back home and examined the girl more carefully. After hearing her full statement, I waited until I saw him going from his dinner to the sto e. I went out and called him and told him all that the girl had told me. He said that what the girl told me was true and that as she was not hurt in any way, he would give me something if I would quash the matter. I told him I did not want any of his money, and would get satisfaction. He then turned away from me and said I could do as I chose. Mr. Smith, the girl's father, testified as follows: I am a shoe maker. I wanted to get some shoe tacks and went down to Burckmeyer's store to buy some. When I got there I found the doors closed. I went to the door and took hold of the knob and shook it, but found it was locked. I then stepped to the window and saw the clerk in the baex room holding some one by the arm. I could not see who it was. I stepped to the sidewalk and waited till the door was opened As soon as it was opened my daughter came out. She told me that the defendant, Heirs, had locked her in there. I then made for the door but Heirs slammed the door in my face and locked himself in Above is the testimony taken before Magistrate Rodgers at the examination held on Thursday, the 6th of sept, 1900, and upon which he was asked to bind defendant over for trial. He refused to do so and discharged him, because "the evidence is not sufficient to hold him." The State was represented by J. 1. Washington, Esq., and the defendant was repre- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. sented by W. J. Verdier, Esq. In the course of counsel for the State, he said that he regarded this as a very serious case indeed, "so serious that if the defendant were a black man, and this outraged girl was a white girl, instead of your Honor sitting there hearing this case to determine whether it should be sent to the grand jury, the coroner of the county would be here holding an inquest of the dead body of the accused." The counsel for the defendant got very indignant and said, that such a comparison of a Negro girl with a white girl—is ridiculous, because you cannot find any Negro woman with any virtue to all. To this Washington replied that he was very much mistaken, for there are colored women who are just as virtuous and pure as any white woman anywhere. This remark greatly enroged Verdier who excitedly exclaimed, "Sir, you ought to be lynched for making such an assertion," and called upon Washington to know if he meant what he said. Washington repeated it with more emphasis, whereupon Verdier again said, "For making that assertion you ought to be lynched, and I will lead a party anytime to lynch you." This is an example of the way Tillman will run things at Washington if Bryan should be elected. His mailed hand would strike the Negro many a blow in unexpected quarters while in his own State his name would be a terror than it now is, though he is known to be a miserable, skulking coward whose bark is worse than its bite. Again I ask is the associated press of this country in the conspiracy to crush the Negro or is it the subservient tool of the murderous and lecherous white brutes of the South who despoil Negro girls and outrage Negro women and seem to exercise a censorship over the news that emanates from that quarter especially of the character of that of which this letter treats? I presume Mr. J. J. Washington on the attorney for the Smith girl will corroborate every word I have written on this subject. Any person sufficiently interested in the case can I am sure have their doubts removed if they have any respecting the authenticity of the facts here related. I don't know Mr. Washington and have had no correspondence with him on the subject because I didn't wish to compromise him in any way. I get my facts from a reliable and trustworthy white man who is traveling in the South with his eyes wide open and his hand on his hip pocket. JOHN E. PRUCE 97 Orange St., Albany, N. Y. Tuskegee (Ala.) Notes. Mr. W. A. Hunton, International Secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association, in charge of the colored men's department, was a visitor at Tuskegee last week. Mr. Hunton is deeply interested in the Tuskegee Y. M. C. A. and his visits are always looked upon as a source of help by the young men. The model training school in connection with the Tuskegee Institute, opened Monday October 1st, with a large number of students enrolled. Principal Washington's Sunday evening talks are proving helpful to the teachers and students. His talks on honesty and stability since the opening of school were exceedingly interesting and inspiring. --- LET US REASON TOGETHER This is the first week in October and every subscriber and agent knows what this means. It means that all monthly bills must be paid. It takes money to pay bills, and The Colored American has a great many of them. Subscribers who know themselves to be in arrears should send their subscriptions in at once. This applies also to our great army of agents who have not settled for September. Don't wait to be dunned and then get mad about it. Settle up now and this means YOU. Eugene Field's Poems A $'7.00 Book Eugene Field's Poems A $'7.00 Book Given Free to each person interested in subscribing to the Eugene Field Monument Souvenir Fund. 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Thus sayeth the Fellowship Club And the Fellowship Club knows where of it speaks, for it had that rare pleas ure last Saturday night. J.H.C. T. THOMAS FORTUNE. It happened this way: Dr. A. M. Curtis is an honorary member of the Fellowship Club, He is passing through the city. And the club always takes advantage of his presence here to do him honor. For he is one of Chicago's own, the club's own. In fact, the Fellowship Club gave Dr. Curtis to the world. It has more men, too, just like him. Don't forget that. However, on the occasion in question, a peculiar condition prevailed. The guests were late in arriving, and not- H. withstanding the fact that they all knew they were coming to a feast, each man seemed bowed down beneath some mighty burden. Amusements were eschewed, conversation lagged, and there was a general feeling that the entertainment would be insipid and dull beyond redemption. But such, happily, proved not to be the case. When the gentlemen were summoned downstairs, and were seated at the table, and the lights turned full on so that all their faces could be plainly seen, that same stolid, heavy expression I have mentioned was still visible in every countenance. Not even the supper was able to brighten them. Just THE COLONEL AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. E. why this condition should obtain among gentlemen on a festive occasion I am not able to say. Perhaps it was due to the lateness of the hour; perhaps it was the darkness which appears just before the first burst of sunshine. At any rate when the Toastmaster, Mr. W. F. Taylor, arose and rapped for order, his deep, well modulated J. voice announcing the purpose of the gathering, his tall, striking figure outlined against the white curtains, as a background, his genial face beaming with smiles, not even he was able to drag the entertainment from beneath its heavy spell. The gentlemen pushed their chairs back and prepared to listen, their faces lit up with dull smiles In fact the air was surcharged with a strange interest. It was felt by everyone in the room. Each man was an RICHARD B. HARRISON. Atlas with the world on his back. R. A. J. Shaw was the first man called upon. Suave and graceful, he did much to lighten the burden. He responded to the toast, "Our Guest." That gentleman he found in the south land, where the magnolia nods its head in unison to the babbling of brooks, and when he brought him North and landed him among the rustle and bustle of Chicago, and finally in the chair at the head of Freedmen's Hospital, he not only covered himself with glory, but put every man in the room on his mattle. Throats were cleared, heads were raised and eyes sparkled with a new interest. Bob had set the pace. After one or two other gentlemen had been called upon, T. Thomas Fortune was asked to respond to the toast, "Supremest Moments." 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The big Injun, Hoop-la Tillmen, with his many-tined oi chfork, came in for a scoring about as severe as was ever poured out upon the head of man. His De Kalb speech was noticed, and, for that matter, his impudent audacity along every line considered as only Thomas Fortune can consider it. Trembling and much overwrought from his effort, he sat down amid tremendous applause. J. Madison Vance spoke of Chicago from a southerner's point of view. He likes Chicago, likes the atmosphere, the hustle and get there of the people. Dr. George C. Hall was called upon to respond to the toast, "Aspiration." Dr. Wesley was asked to speak, and then Harry C. Smith, of the Cleveland Gazette, was requested to speak to the toast. "The Joys of a Journalist." If Mr. Fortune had been striking and eloquent, if Mr. Fortune had been impassioned and pleading in his manner, Mr. Smith, if possible, was more so. His words flowed from his lips smooth and red hot, burning themselves in the brain of every man about him. He took the present past and future of the Negro and told how he thought their great problem could in a measure be solved. Not by a Crumpacker bill, he said, but by the intelligent Negroes unifying their interests so that they could make of themselves a bulwark that would be strong enough to protect the ignorant, a bulwark that could stand for all time against the dashing waves of the tempestuous enemy. His greatest joy, he said, lay in advising his people, as best he could, how to attain that end. The speech-making was now over. ```markdown ``` So Richard B. Harrison was called upon for a recitation. Richard, too, had caught the fever. He had been inoculated with the virus of the eloquence that had just preceded him. He recited Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Pahty;" and he put his whole soul into the work. 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GENTLEMEN:—I enclose you ON lowing goods at once— Three Large Boxes HARTONA Two Large Bottles HARTONA One Package HARTONA NO-SM My Name is_____ House No._____, Street City_____, Coun AGENTS WANTED IN EVERY TOWN IN NOW READY EN:—I enclose you ONE DOLLAR, for which service at once— Large Boxes HARTONA HAIR STRAIGHTENER, wo- large Bottles HARTONA FACE WASH, - wo- age HARTONA NO-SMELL, - - wo- No.____, Street_____ ____, County____, State_____ ED IN EVERY TOWN IN AMERICA. OUR GOODS S NEW READY FOR BUSINES GENTLEMEN:I enclose you ONE DOLLAR, for which send me the following goods at once Three Large Boxes HARTONA HAIR STRAIGHTENER, worth $3.00 Two Large Bottles HARTONA FACE WASH, worth $2.00 One Package HARTONA NO-SMELL, worth .50 House No.____, Street____ City____, County____, State____ AGENTS WANTED IN EVERY TOWN IN AMERICA. OUR GOODS SELL ON SIGHT. NOW READY FOR BUSINESS. GRAY'S CAFE, Odd Fellows Hall, No. 1606 M Street, N. W. Cafe Open From 7 a. m. to 11 p. m. Meals a la Id Fellows Hall, No. 1606 M Street, N. W From 7 a. m. to 11 p. m. Meals Odd Fellows Hall, No. 1606 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, Chocolate, Lemon Ice Fine Catering a Specialty. Soliciting the patronage of our friends and the public generally, we are Very respectfully, Ice Cream and Ices Constantly on Hand. Sunday, Vanilla. Peach, Strawberry, Chocolate. One Catering a Specialty the patronage of our friends and the public go Very respectfully, Ice Cream and Ices Constantly on Hand. 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. Mr Clarence C. White as violinist possesses the artistic temperament to a marked degree, as well as the in dispensable gift of sympathetic interdretation. His tone is full and his facility of execution is wonderful. Elviria (O.) Daily News. --- 1. 4 --- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. a black person five or six shades lighter, and a person perfectly white. HARTONA FACE in spots, but all over evenly. The skin continual use of the Face Wash. One bottle I look as beautiful as possible. Thousands of monials every year from all over the United I will remove Wrinkles, Dark Spots, Pimples, remises of the Skin. You can regulate the hands to any shade you wish. Full directions CE WASH is perfectly harmless, and is sent on receipt of price-$1.00 per bottle, freely refunded if you are not absolutely satisfa- ia Remedies. ars of the body. Cures sore and aching feet, SMELL is a God-send to all persons suffered by perspiration of the feet, arm-pits, etc. 50c. a package. HARTONA REMEDY COMPANY. 909 E. Main St., RICHMOND, VA. this city, we will send to all persons who will own and ONE DOLLAR, three large boxes of NER, worth $3.00; two large bottles of $2.00; one package of HARTONA NO- lot of remedies, worth $5.50, will be sent tell contents, for ONE DOLLAR and this is grand offer will last but a short time only. Money can be sent by Post-Office Money registered Letter. REMEDY COMPANY, ONE DOLLAR, for which send me the fol- A HAIR STRAIGHTENER, worth $3.00 A FACE WASH, worth $2.00 SMELL, worth .50 reet county_____, State_____ IN AMERICA. OUR GOODS SELL ON SIGHT. No. 1606 M Street, N. W. p. m. Meals a la Carte. ices Constantly on Hand. Beach, Strawberry, Chocolate, Lemon Ice. ing a Specialty. our friends and the public generally, we spectfully, The third anniversary of the 10th Street Baptist church will be celebrated from October 21st to November 4th. It will begin tomorrow and will be one of the greatest gospel feasts that the people of Washington have ever witnessed. The exercises will begin at 11 a.m. tomorrow. --- IT IS RUMORED THAT— Race prejudice is rampant there. Col. Perry Carson is "sawing wood." The "eyes of the country" are upon it Second Baptist church Lyceum is a popular forum. Recorder Henry P. Cheatham is still in evidence. The Negro preacher politician is an 18 carat failure. Henry Lacey is making an enviable record as a detective. The Pen and Pencil Club is doing the Rip Van Winkle act. J B, Edlin, of the Capital City Club is growing in popularity. Major Charles R. Douglass is the Apollo of Capitol Hill. Dr. Phil Broome Brooks is an ornament to the profession. Jack Ryan caught a mermaid last week while fishing at Little Falls. Ed. Allen's new fish story would make Ananias turn over in his grave. McKinley will be re-elected by a rousing majority in the electoral college. All anti McKinley Negroes in Washington City are crawling in under the republican tent. The New Grand Opera House is like a piano—all the white keys below and the darkkeys above. T. Thomas Fortune is a valuable adjunct to the Republican Western Bureau at Chicago. The selection of an assistant musical director in the colored schools will be made in a few days Prof. W. H. Richards will continue a potent factor in all matters pertaining to Bethel Literary. Bethel Literary will soon resume its sessions under the conservative guidance of Prof. Kelly Miller. Gov. P. B. S. Pinchback is in the "harness" once more, dealing solarplexus blows to Democracy. Many persons who clamored for a change in our public school trustees are still "walking the floor" at night. Many local politicians who were scheduled to "stump" Indiana and Ohio are still ornamenting our curbstones. The genial countenance of Col. Gaskins of the Academy Cafe is the secret of his success and the admiration of his patrons. John Edward Bruce (Bruce Grit) ably represents the race republican headquarters in New York city. Bruce Grit is an incorrigible republican. Tha recent campaign issue of The Colored American made a convincing impression upon New York voters, and was read with intense interest by voters all over the country. Mr. Clarence C. White as violinist possesses the artistic temperament to a marked degree, as well as the indispensable gift of sympathetic interpretation. His tone is full and his facility of execution is wonderful.—Elyria (O.) Daily News. WANTED—ACTIVE MAN OF GOOD CHARACTER to deliver and collect in the District of Columbia, for old established manufacturing wholesale house. $900 a year, sure pay. Honesty more than experience required. Our reference, any bank in any city. Enclose self-addressed stamped envelope. Manufacturers, Third Floor, 334 Dearborn St., Chicago. --- 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 Cures WeakMen Free Insures Love and a Marry Home For All. How any man may quickly cure himself after years of suffering from sexual weakness, lost vitality, night osses, varicose e., etc. and enlarge small weak organs to full size J. B. L. W, KNAPP, M. D. and vigor. Simply send your name and address to Dr. L. W. Knapp, 181 Hull Bldg., Detroit, Mich., and he will gladly send the free receipt with full direction 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 what men think of his generosity. Dear Sir:- Please accept my sincere thanks for yours of recent d-te. I have given your treatment a thorough test and the benefit has been extraordinary. It has completely braced me up. I am just as vigorous as when a boy and you cannot realize how happy I am." Dear Sir:- Your method worked beautifully. Results were exactly what I needed. Strength and vigor have completely returned and enlargement is entirely satisfactory." "Dear Sir,--Yours was received and I had no trouble in making use of the receipt as directed and can truthfully say it is a boon to weak men. I am greatly improved in size, strength and vigor." All correspondence is strictly confidential, mailed in plain sealed envelope. The receipt is free for the asking and he wants every to have it. RESTRICTION OF SUFFRAGE Senator Pritchard Discusses the Democratic Scheme of Disfranchisement in the South. The Democrats Have Not Only Deprived the Afro-American of the Right to Have His Vote Counted as Cast, But Have Used His Vote to Nullify the Vote of the White Man Who Favors Free Institutions. The adoption of the amendment to our state constitution which has for its object the restriction of the right of suffrage marks another step on the part of the democracy of the south in its efforts to nullify the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution of the United States. M. SENATOR JEIER C. PRITCHARD. When the southern states were readmitted into the union after the late civil war it was expressly provided as a fundamental condition precedent to their right to representation in congress and in the electoral college, that neither of the said states should ever amend its constitution so as to abridge the right of any voter residing therein. The act in question was passed on the 28th day of July, 1868, and reads as follows: "That each of the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama and Florida, shall be entitled and admitted to representation in congress, as a State of the union when the legislature of such State shall have duly ratified the amendment to the constitution of the United States proposed by the 39th congress, known as article 14, upon the following fundamental conditions: That the constitution of neither of said States shall be so amended or changed as to deprive any citizen or class of citizens of the United States of the right to vote in said State, who are entitled to vote by the constitution thereof, herein recognized, except as a punishment for such crimes as are now felonies at common law, whereof they shall have been convicted under laws equally applicable to the inhabitants of all the States." The foregoing leaves no doubt as to the condition upon which the southern states were re-admitted to the union. While it is a contract that is not binding in a strictly legal sense, in so far as the states are concerned, at the same time it is an agreement on the part of the citizens of those states that they will observe in good faith the principles enunciated in the fifteenth amendment. It is an obligation which those of us who live south of Mason and Dixon's line cannot afford to ignore. The democratic party of the nation, in 1872, after the amendment in question had been ratified, declared in their party platform that they would oppose all efforts to reopen the questions growing out of the adoption of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fif- PEN COLORADO AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, E. E. teenth amendments. They declared as follows: "1. We recognize the equality of all men before the law, and hold that it is the duty of the government in its dealings with the people to mete out equal and exact justice to all, of whatever nativity, race, color, persuasion, religious or political. "2. We pledge ourselves to maintain the union of these States, emancipation and enfranchisement, and to oppose any reopening of the questions settled by the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution." In addition to making the foregoing declaration, they named Mr. Greeley as their standard bearer, and, in his letter of acceptance, among other things, he said: "All the political rights which have been acquired through our late bloody convulsion must and shall be guaranteed, maintained, enjoyed, respected forevermore." Town Topics. Mr. E. E. Cooper spent a few days in Baltimore last week on business. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Nevitts of New York spent a few days here this week. Capt. Jas. A. Perry of the Interior Dept. has been seriously ill for the past few days. Master Roy Beverly met with an accident last week. He was struck by a bicyclist and had one leg broken. A rare musical treat is in store for you Friday evening, November 2nd at the the Metropolitan church Mr. Samuel C. Jones, an all around sport, is betting even money and giving odds on the election of McKinley and Roosevelt. Rev. A. P. Miller pastor of Lincoln Memorial church was elected president of the Ministerial Union of the District last Monday. Mr. William E. Benson, president of the Dixie Land Co., Kowaliga, Alabama, passed through the city this week en route home. The Philharmonic Quartet makes its first appearance before a Washington audience on November 2nd and they say it is hard to excel. Mr. Haley G. Douglass, son of Major Charles R. Douglass, is taking a special course in Exeter Academy preparatory to entering Harvard College. At the rally of Asbury church, Lieut. Toomey will deliver an address at 3 80 Sunday, Oct. 21; Subject, "The Negro's Past, a Warrant for Present Hope." "A free supper" is on the tapis at The Sparta to night at 1216, Pa. ave. It will be a typical Virginia supper and the public is cordially invited. Messrs. Moore and Prioleau are up to date. Mr. Jas. T. Carter of Richmond, Va., spent a few days in the city this week, the guest of his brother. He is an expert stenographer and copyist and holds a responsible position with a large white law firm. Mr. Washington Wood, the old guard at Gray and Costley's, spent a few days up the Potomac river this week after the gamey bass. At this writing no report has been received of Mr. Wood's catch. Mrs. C. Cary the astrologist, has returned from abroad and is now located in Philadelphia, Pa. She will be remembered by many people in Washington as a wonder in her science. Read her add on another page. Mr. J. B. Askins of the Treasury Department has returned to the city after attending a most successful meeting of the B. M. C. at Louisville, Ky. He took a prominent and active part in the proceedings. The Astury church choir has announced a song service for the last Sunday in October. Miss Eva Tinney the daughter of Captain and Mrs. Welch who has been for the past two years attending the Washington High School has entered the Baptist university at Lynchburg, Va. May success crown her efforts. Mr. Richard Wells of the Mexican Legation has just returned from a ten days vacation. He spent the major part of his time in Portsmouth and other points in Virginia visiting his daughter and son in-law Mr. Giles I. Caffee of the Post Office Departmedt at Portsmouth. Mr. Benjamin Washington one of our well known and popular school teachers, has arrived in town after a severe tussle with typhoid fever in Boston for about six weeks. He is in good health now and expects to resume his school work very soon. The mere mention of the names of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Clarence C. White in connection with a program is sufficient guarantee that you will be satisfactorily entertained. Go hear them Friday November 2nd at Metropolitan A. M. E. church. Mr. N. L. Wyche, the local musical wonder of Charlotte, N. C., dropped in and gave our force a lift the other day, he being a rapid slinger of the leaden missiles. He was returning to Biddle University from which he will graduate next year, after which he contemplates pursuing a dental course in Howard University. REDUCED! REDUCED! His Readings to Ladies, 25c. Gents, 50 c. PROF. CLAY, Oldest established Clairvoyant, tells your business, love affairs, family troubles, about lawsuits, divorces, or anything you wish to know; brings searaed together, causes speedy marriages, removes family troubles, bad luck spells, or mysterious feelings. 10 to 10 daily. 489 H st. sw, MRS. C. CARY, ```markdown ``` Gains the love of those you desire, causes happy marriages to those you love, unites separated long or short distance--never fails, makes your enemies your friends, overcomes spells, conjuration, bad luck and mysterious sickness of all kinds. Reader, if you have been deceived and disappointed by others don't despair; before giving up write or call, satisfaction guaranteed. Truthful and re-liable on receipt of $1.00, dates of birth, color of eyes and hair. Further information on receipt of stamp. 1406 W. York St., Philadelphia, Pa. MISS IDA PRETER, of Paris, Mo., writes the following: I have been using the Original OZONIZED OX MARROW for two months only and I am well pleased with it. I was so bald that I was ashamed of myself, to-day I have a thick growth of hair all over my head three inches long. When I am asked by people what I am doing for my hair that it is grown so beautifully I tell them it is the original Ozonized Ox Marrow that did the work. Ozonized Ox Marrow (copyrighted) also makes early or kinky hair straight, smooth and pliable. Prevents falling out and breaking off. The genuine never disappoints. Warranted harmless. Only 50 cents. Sold by dealers. If your dealer cannot supply you we will send you express paid one bottle for 65 cents or three for $1.40. Write your name and address plainly to the OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 80 Wabash Ave., Chicago. --- ```markdown ``` 5 SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. WANTED HELP. 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 pav by addressing "Benevolence" care 459 Ost n. w. WANTED—Trustworthy colored man to travel and apoint agents in the District of Columbia $50 monthly and expenses, position permanent, enclose self addressed envelope for reply. Manager Cross, Star Building, Chicago. WANTED-ACTIVE MAN OF GOOD CHARACTER to deliver and collect in the District of Columbia, for old established manufacturing wholesale house. $900 a year, sure pay, Honesty more than experience required. Our reference, any bank in any city. Enclose self-addressed stamped envelope. Manufacturers, Third Floor, 334 Dearborn St, Chicago. Enclose 2c stamp for reply, and we will send particulars telling how you can make from $75 to $150 per month, and also be presented with a fine Gold Watch. Address. SCOTT REMEDY CO. Box 570, Louisville, Ky. ROOMS FOR RENT. TWO neatly furnished front rooms in private family with or without board. 1988 4th street, northwest. Le Droit Park. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT.—Two single rooms in private family, with table board, lady or gentleman. Modern improve ments, near two lines of cars north west section, apply Mrs. J. A, The Colored American office. Wanted Rooms Persons desiring to secure first class rooms in any part of the city will do well to put an announcement in these columns. If you have a spare room that you would like to rent to desirable parties, advertise them in The Colored American. Do you want work? Do you want a job? If so, advertise the fact in tlse columns. Wanted an active, intelligent young man to collect for a reliable business firm. Good place for the right man. Wanted a Partner. Wanted a partner for a business already established and paying well. Must have some cash and be able to take a position on salary. Address C. care this office. (Confidential). Agents Wanted. Active agents are wanted in every city and town in the United States for The Colored American, the greatest and newest colored newspaper published, Write for terms, Address The Colored American, 459 C street, n. w., Washington, D. C. LOTS FOR SALE. WE have at Colemanville, Mineral Springs, Va., TWENTY-FIVE BUILDING LOTS, which must be sold at once. This is a great opportunity for any one who wishes to purchase property at the only mineral springs owned by colored people in the country. This is a fine place, and will be a great money making summer resort. Title guaranteed lots for cessh or on instalment. If you want one, write to DR. E. PARKER READ. President of the NATIONAL CO OPERATIVE INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION. 1037 South street, Philadelphia, Penna. Cora E. Dorsey and Christine Dorsey Typewriting, Copying and Stenographic work satisfactorily performed at reasonable rates by the Misses Dorsey, Room 8, Le Droit Building, Corner 8th and F street northwest. FOR MALARIA, CHILLS, AND FEVERS. USE Dr. Hoskin's INDIAN SAGE THE KIND THAT CURES. AT YOUR DRUGGIST'S, 50 CTS. CAPTAIN CHARLES L. MITCHELL Mr. CHARLES L. MITCHELL. A Hero of Two Wars-The Idol of Garrison and Phillips-a Man of Many Honors-Boston's Most Representative Negro-An Interesting Life and Character. The story of Captain Mitchell's life is an interesting one. He was born in Hartford, Conn., at about the middle of the present century. His father, Mr. William M. Mitchell, was a deacon in one of the churches of that city, and the family is known as one of the best families of color in the state. At the age of 17 the boy became an apprentice in the printing office of Mr. William H. Burleigh, publisher of a Hartford abolition paper entitled the Charter Oak Two years later Mr. Burleigh sold his office to Mr. Baldwin, afterward editor and senior publisher of the Worchester Spy, and for several years representative in congress of the Eighth Massachusetts district. With him Mr. Mitchell completed his term of apprenticeship. In 1853 he came to Boston and worked at his trade in various offices, including those of the Riverside press at Cambridge and the Liberator. He was regarded by Mr. Garrison as one of the best compositors in the city. In the congenial and inspiring atmosphere of such an office he naturally grew into vital touch with the principles of universal freedom proclaimed by its proprietor, and when the days of strife came and Massachusetts led the van enlisting colored troops, he united his fate and his fortune with the Fifty-fifth regiment of infantry, one of the two Massachusetts colored regiments, and enlisted as private July 1, 1863. He did not long remain a private, however, but was rapidly promoted for bravery and meritorious service. One month after entering the army he was made corporal, and on July 20, 1864 he became sergeant. For several months he served as sergeant major. His knowledge of his trade opened up for him temporarily a wider sphere of usefulness. In the early months of the fall of 1864 he was detailed for duty as post printer at the headquarters of General John P. Hatch, at Morris Island, S. C. In setting up the orders issued Mr. Mitchell saw that the union forces were on the eve of a movement that would mean active work in the field for the command. He therefore urgently requested Major L. B. Perry, adjutant general of the United States Vol., for ```markdown ``` 6 --- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. permission to rejoin his company in the Fifty-fifth for the purpose of taking part in the expedition that terminated in the battle of Honey hill, S. C. Permission was granted reluctantly, because it would be difficult to find a successor to so valuable a man, and Mr. Mitehell rejoined his company on the eve of its departure for Hilton Head. It was in the battle of Honey hill, one of the most disastrous conflicts on the southern main in which one-half the officers and one-third of the men in action were killed or wounded, that Sergeant Mitchell, while charging a battery in aiding General Sherman in cutting through the railroad, received the cannon shot which deprived him of his right foot. The fortitude with which he bore his wound was equal to his bravery. As they were carrying him past his lieutenant colonel on a strecher the young sergeant, forgetting it all as he saw a strong regiment go by to make a fresh charge rose up, saluted and cheered him, and bade him "go ahead." For this display of gallantry, which created much favorable comment in the nation al press at the time, he received from Governor Andrew, at the request of his superior officer, a second lieutenantcy. Mr. Mitchell was one of the few colored men upon whom this distinction was conferred. During the war he served also in the siege of Charleston, S. C. In the battle of James Island he assisted in capturing two Napolean guns and turning them upon the fleeing enemy with their own ammunition. He was placed in command of the detachments to serve these guns, which were afterwards placed as trophies at headquarters of the fifty-fifth regiment. He was honorably discharged from service Oct. 20. 1865. Returning to Boston, with as Wendell Phillips said in describing him "that added grace, the halting which is the statiest step of the soldier," Lieutenant Mitchell received from Collector Russell an appointment in the Boston custom house to the inspectorship formerly held by the Rev. J. C. Loveyjoy. Jubsequently Collector A. W. Beard promoted him to a clerkship at an increased salary. For 30 years he has been employed in the custom service and his efficiency, intelligence and fidelity to principle have won for him much esteem. In 1866 he received fitting recognition of his services and suffering for his country in the Republican nomination as representative to the Massachusetts legislature from ward 6, Boston, the home of Governor Andrew, and the wealthiest ward in the state embracing "within its limits more literary culture and more liberally educated men than any other representative district" known. He was cordially supported by the union papers of Boston, and was elected by a handsome vote. Upon him and upon his colleague, Mr. E. G. Walker of Charlestown, "devolved the duty not only of representing the districts from which they came, but the far higher and more responsible duty of representing a race about entering upon a career of equal citizenship." Capt. Mitchell enlisted in sixth Massachusetts infantry and was made captain of Co. L. The recollections of the struggles of the Union forces in the 60s to liberate the oppressed slave, made the desire even greater to help Cuba free herself of Spain's yoke of slavery. The Captain was a prominent figure at the Boston meeting, being chairman of the committee on reception. His life is one which has in it every phase of a good life, from the dramatical to the to the general common place every day sphere of life; an inspiration to the colored youth of the land as well as those of any other hue or nationality. Several years ago Mr. Mitchell was married to Miss Nellie Brown of Dover, N. H., whose prestige as a musician and whose ability as a teacher have made her as dear and as familiar to the public as is her husband. Her voice has received enthusiastic comment from the press throughout the country, and among her delighted auditors have been General Grant and others of equal note Not the least of Mrs. Mitchell's achievements is the invention of the phoneterion, a silver device for the use of those among her vocal pupils whose purity of tone is impaired because they cannot keep the tongue in place while singing. Mrs. Mitchell's modesty has made her husband the nominal inventor and patentee of this instrument, but the title is a nominal one only, and the right of discovery lies wholly with Mrs. Mitchell herself. The device was awarded the prize medal and diploma at the 16th exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics' association in 1887, and was exhibited by Mrs. Mitchell at the 19th anniversary of the Music Teachers' National association convention in New York last year. It is much used by musicians, and is especially helpful to those inclined to a throaty intonation. The instrument is destined to be more widely known. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell's policy in recommending it only where they know it is needed, rather than in promiscuously advertising it, has made it advance in public favor slow and certain, but has also, as their friends assure them, obscured a light which is just beginning to shine. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell have a delightful home at 24 Sherman street, and their charming hospitality has been extended to many. Capt. Mitchell holds his custom house place and is one of the fixtures there. A Resignation. Dr. E. D. Scott has tendered his resignation as clerk in the office of the Auditor of the Post Office Department. Dr. Scott has an extensive practice in the northeastern section of the city and finds it necessary to devote his entire time to it. Messrs. A. B. and J. B. Christian, of Shaw and Glater schools respectively, stopped over a few hours recently while on their way South, having spent the summer with their parents in Braddock, Pa. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell has returned from a most successful lecture tour in the West. She has also just received an invitation to address the American Missionary Association at its annual meeting which will be held October 23d and 25th inclusive at Springfield, Mass. No other woman of the race is in such demand as Mrs. Terrell as a speaker and writer. A rich lady cured of her deafness and Noises in the Head by Dr. Nicholson's Artificial Ear Drums, gave $10,000 to his Institute, so that deaf people unable to procure the Ear Drums may have them free. Address No. 10429 The Nicholson Institute, 780, Eighth Avenue, New York, U. S. A. FINANCIAL. The National Safe Deposit, Savings and Trust Company. Corner 15th St. and New York Ave Capital: One Million Dollars. Pays interest on deposits. Rents Safes inside Furglar-proof Vaults. Actsas administrator, executor, trustee, &c. Money $50,000 Money To loan on furniture, planos, 4c., without removal or publicity, and the day you ask for it. We will loan any amount making time and payments to suit, giving one month or one year as you desire, and at rates that you can afford to pay. If you now have a loan with any other company and desire more money, give us a call. Will as cheerfully make a $10 loan as $100, and no charge or expense if loan is not made. Always ready to give information regarding rates and methods to secure a loan. We are the oldest loan company in the city, and will give you honest treatment. All business strictly confidential. Private offices. 610 F Street, N. W. DO YOU NEED MONEY? We will lend any amount from $10 up. On Household Furniture. planos, horses, wagons, carriages, or personal property of any kind, without removal from your possession. Loans can be carried as long as desired, and payments can be made at any time to suit the convenience of the of the borrower. We are the only properly organized loan company in the city. If you appreciate low rates, courteous treatment, and attention to your interests, you will call on us. Offices private and easily reached. Loans made in any part of the city. No delay. Open from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. SECURITY LOAN COMPANY Room 1, Warder Building,; Corner 9th and F sts. n. w. Capital Savings Bank- 609 F St. N. W., Washington, D. C. Capital $50,000. Hon. Jno. R. Lynch, President. L. C. Bailey, Treasurer. J. A. Johnson, Secretary. D. B. McCary, Cashier. Directors: Jno. R. Lynch, Dr. W. S. Lofton, Whitefield McKinlay, J. C. Bailey, Robt. H. Terrell, W. S. Montgomery, Wyatt Archer, John A. Pierre, Henry E. Baker, James Storum, J. A. Johnson, Dr. A. W. Tancil, Howard H Williams. Deposits received from 10 cents upward. Interest allowed on $5,00 and above. Collections meet with prompt attention. A general exchange and banking business done. Bank open from 9 a. m. to 4:30p AUGUSTUS L. McLENDON. The Life of a Boy, the Man, Affording Inspiration to-A Student-Secretary to a General-Journalist and Eusiness Man. The subject of this sketch was born in that state which has given to the world some of the most noted Negroes of our times, in the state where they have imbibed the idea "to be somebody," they must do something, get something and have on hand money. His birthplace was in Aberdeen, Miss., where he first saw the beautiful rays of a peaceful sunlight, after four years of territorial peace which was subsequent of the war of the Rebellion, which had given father and mother the desire to achieve success in the walks of life. They gave to the child this make-up. He was born September 27, 1869. Like all parents they were indeed proud of their child. He grew rapidly, and when a J. H. AUGUSTUS L. M'LENDON. mere boy he came to Helena, Ark., in 1883, where he worked in hotels, restaurants, and attended the public schools of the city. McLendon was careful with his time and learned readily. Teachers and pupils loved him and it was not long before the boy had made for himself a record as being honest and industrious. In December '89, he wended his way to Wilberforce University at Xenia, Ohio, and for four years he diligently prosecuted his studies and builted firmer the foundation for his future usefulness. He went to Terre Haute, Indiana, wherehe entered a business college and remained until he graduated with credit and honor. It was business that was uppermost in his mind as is shown in his career. He served as corresponding secretary to Major Defreese of the U. S. A., at the Grand Army Encampment of the State of Indiana in 1893, an exalted position for a young man, and especially a colored man. In 1894 he accepted the editorial chair of the Ultimatum, published at Hot Springs, Ark., and the paper grew and prospered; was read by thousands and was greatly appreciated. He severed his connection with the paper and in 1898 he formed the firm of Wilson & McLendon, wholesale and retail liquor dealers, and this house is one of the largest in the state. They enjoy a fine trade and their check will be accepted for as many thousands of dollars as they choose to give. They are rated in the commercial world at $20,000. Mr. McLendon was present at the Boston meeting and made a pronounced logical speech on the problem affecting our race. It was an exposition of facts—solid as they were, and he brought forth wealth as a solution to this vexing, troublesome question. Mr. McLendon's speech was equally as well received as it was delivered. His life is free from the old, old, yet ever new story of hard work—honest toil and a good harvest at the end. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. 2 Hon. John N. Ruffin, U. S. Consul to Asuncion, Paragua, is in the city, the guest of Mr. U. G Black, cor. 11th and U streets, northwest. Mr. Ruffin is home on leave after an extended trip through Europe. During his stay in this country he has visited Canton, Chicago, Memphis and other cities. He will be in the city until Nov. 1st when he will return to his post of duty. HOWARD UNIVERSITY REPORT. President Rankin Submits Annual Statement to Secretary of Interior. President Rankin, of Howard University, has forwarded to the Secretary of the Interior a report of the institution for the year ended June 30 1900. The students have aggregated 810, from forty different States and Territories and ten foreign countries. During the year the University expended about $3,000 for the repairs of buildings, of which $2,000 was appropriated by Congress. The appropriation of $900 for the law and general library was expended under the direction of the several faculties. The sum of $200 appropriated for chemical apparatus was used by the professor of chemistry, physics, and natural history, after submission of the proposals to the Secretary of the Interior. The medical department of Howard University has opened with bright prospects. A large number of students have matriculated, and the secretary reports that there will be over 200 students in the medical, dental and pharmaceutic colleges of the University. All of the instructors and professors are ready for the years work in their special branches except Dr. C. B. Purvis, whose recent illness have caused him to leave the city for a few weeks. During his absence Dr. Curtis will lecture on gynecology, and Dr. Warfield on obstetrics, In chemistry Prof. Seaman is ready for his large classes, and has added an X-ray machine to complete his labatory appliances. In histology, Prof. J. M. Lamb will be assisted by Dr. Sylvannus Jones. In the dental college there have been made many improvements, especially in the infirmary. Dr. C. R. Howland, Dr. J. E. McConnell, and Dr. L. S. Meikle have been added to the faculty. Scholarships for High School Boys. The scholarships offered graduates of the Washington High School by the School of Pharmacy and the Dental School of Howard University have been allotted this year to Benjamin F. Hailstorks in pharmacy and James Slaughter in dentistry both of the class of 1900. These scholarships are valuable. They mean free tuition for the full course. The spirit of the medical school faculty that prompted this splendid contribution to the professional education of our boys and girls is highly commendatory. The medical school of Howard University takes a very high rank among the schools of medicine in this country. It has, indeed, peculiar advantages as to hospital practice that are unexcelled anywhere. No school in the country has done more for young colored men than this one. Its broad and catholic spirit is shown in this generous offer to graduates of cur local high school. The community is justly proud of the splendid medical school of Howard University and its very able faculty, of which Dr. F. J. Shadd is the efficient secretary and a member. 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. Mr. Henry Y. Arnett of the Recorder of Deeds office has gone West and may not return until after the Novem ber election. Rumor has it he was summoned to the Chicago National Republican headquarters to do important campaign work. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE: BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. OZONIZED OX MARROW THE ORIGINAL—COPYRIGHTED. This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky hair straight as shown above. It mourishes it and keeps the hair from falling out and makes it grow. Sold over 40 years and used by thousands. Warranted harmless. Testimonials free on request. It was the first preparation ever sold for straightening kinky hair. Beware of imitations. Get the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow, as the genuine never fails to keep the hair hairliable and beautiful. A toilet necessity for ladies and gentlemen. Elegantly perfumed. The great advantage of this wonderful pomade is that by its use you can straighten your own hair at home. Being to its superior and lasting quality it is the most popular. It is not suitable for any body to produce a preparation equal to it. Full directions with every bottle. Only 50 cents. Sold by dealers or send us $1.40 Postal or Express Money Order for 3 bottles, express paid. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. ```markdown ``` The National Colored Teachers Bureau Washington, D. C., is prepared to furnish CAPABLE TEACHERS of every branch of instruction and DESIRABLE SCHOOLS in all parts of the country. REGISTRATION FREE but applicants must be fully competent to teach or possess the ability to learn how to teach. NO SCHOOL—NO PAY 6 per cent of the first year's salary will be charged those for whom positions are secureded, payable Dec. 1, 1900. The Demand exceed the Supply for suitable teachers during the past year, hence our liberal inducements. Send for registration blank briefly stating your full qualifications and enclose ten two cent stamps for postage. James G. Clayton, M. D. 459 C St. N. W. Secretary, 7 Consumers Brewing Company Brews the purest Beer on the Washington Market. The highest chemical authority in the district of Columbia, after an analysis just finished of all the different beers on the market, gives this as his verdict. Don't be fooled by jealousy, envy, or prejudice, on either or all of which is based our opposition. We have the most modern plant. We brew from sterilized water and choice hops and malt. We have one of the most skillful brew masters in the county. Visit our plant and insist on us proving our assertions. We will be glad to show all. ABE KING. Sec'y and Treas, E. L. JORDAN, Fres and Gen'l Mgr. SPARTA Pool and Billiard Rooms, 1206 Pennsylvania Avenue, n. w. This large, spacious and well-situated pleasure establishment has had added to it a new room in the third story for pool and billiards, where those who do not care to play in the larger apartments can have a degree of privacy not to be obtained elsewhere. This new room is handsomely furnished and lighted by electric lights. The atmosphere is cooled by electric fans. You are cordially invited to make inspection of these pool and billiard parlors You will receive a hearty wel come at any time. Ask for SAMUEL A. TYLER, Manager. Chris. Xander's QUALITY HOUSE, 909 7th St N.W. Established 36 years ago. The largest wholesale stock in town of the most exquisite, faultless wines and distillates (in all 240 kinds,) at Chris. Xander's moderate prices no others can compete in quality and purity with any of his goods. His liquors are absolutely free from fusel poison. Phone 1425. ...C. H. NAUGHTON... LIQUORS AND SEGARS Harper & Wilson a specialty. 1926 Fourteenth Street, Northwest. James F. Keenan Rectifier and Wholesale Liquor Dealer. Elegant Club Whiskey a Specialty. Importer of Fine Wines, Brandies Gins, Etc 462 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W. Fritz Reuter's HOTEL : AND : RESTAURANT 451, 453, 455, 457 Penn. Ave. |202, 208 & 210 41 St. N. W Washington, D. C. ```markdown ``` The Colored American Published by THE COLORED AMERICAN Pub lisbing Company. 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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, OCTOBER 20, 1900. We invite the attention to the article in another column bearing upon the moral depravity of the white men of a certain class in South Carolina, as well as in other portions of the South who are strenuously opposed to Negro domination and Negro suffrage, white men who have no aversion to good looking Negro women or bad looking ones, either for that matter, when once their lustful animal passions are aroused. White men who lead mobs of infuriated brutes and barbarians to lynch or roast any Negro who looks cross-eyed at the commonest white female street walker in the South, yet think it no crime against society or against morals to outrage Negro girls and Negro women and their own women, disguising themselves as Negroes to accomplish their diabolical purposes and helping on the next day or next week to lynch or roast some innocent Negro for their own brutal and bestial acts. The white men of the South who commit these crimes are fast bringing the destruction upon that section by their shametul and cowardly course toward Negroes of both sexes. The judgment of the Almighty has already been visited upon Texas and His wrath will yet be visited on South Carolina and other States which are as morally corrupt as Sodom of old. On the Centennial Committee we have but two representatives of our race, although we form on third of the population of the District. THE COLORED HIGH $CHOOL. The Afro-American Ledger of last week has an excellent editorial on the Colored High School of this city based on an article in The Colored American. We are glad to see that thoughtful men in other places are beginning to see what a great instrument for good this school is. As the Ledger says this superb corps of colored men and women who are teachers in this institution is an inspiration to our young men and --- 2014.01.01 14:49:41 UA, WASHINGTON, D. C. young women. In the Faculty of our High School are graduates of Harvard, Yale, Ann Harbor, Cornell, Howard University, Wilberforce, Catholic University, Oberlin and several first-rate special schools. In every contest where the colored High School has been pitted against the white High Schools of the city, it has taken a veri high rank. In the examination of the pupils of five high schools in Washington last spring by the United States Senate it will be remembered that the Colored High School led all the schools in English and was second in general average. Of the 450 colored teachers in the schools of the District of Columbia at least seven-eighths of them were trained in our own High and Normal Schools by colored teachers It is a remarkable tribute to the genius and capacity of the colored people of this community to say that what our schools are to-day in their handiwork. For more than thirty years they have been under the almost exclusive control of Negro officials, who not only looked after their intellectual but also their financial welfare—dispensing the appropriations made by Congress as they felt was for the best good of the schools. We have always maintained that what the Negro needs is opportunity. When he gets that he generally does as well with it as a white man. Of the few colored graduates of Harvard College six of them were trained in our High School, and young Bruce, the son of ex Senator Bruce, who is now doing so well at Cambridge was also a pupil here. All of these men are doing well and reflecting credit on their early teachers. We hope that it will not be long before the Colored High School of the great metropolis of Maryland will be manned throughout with colored men and women from Principal to the janitor. The Record a local hebdomedal and said to be backed by Hon. George H. White is indirectly supporting the democratic ticket. We are sending out this week to delinquent subscribers, a bill and a personal letter asking for a settlement of their account. It is the duty of every good citizen to pay his or her honest debts and with a newspaper struggling as is The Colored American, and all race journals as to that matter. It is necessary that delinquent subscription bills be paid. There is no stronger agency for the advancement and promotion of the race than a live up to date newspaper. The Colored American fills in a full measure an up to date journal. It is newsy, clean, enterprising and safe. The individual members of the race owe it to themselves to sustain a paper like The Colored American. We are sending out daily over a hundred letters to persons who are able to pay, who are intelligent and who evidently enjoy reading The Colored American. We have sent some of these subscribers as many as three and four letters and they do not answer the letters but read on and on and protest when the bills are placed in the hands of an attorney for collection. If you owe for the paper and are not able to pay for it, answer the letter at least and tell us about it or send us what you can. The anniversary services and rally at Lincoln Memorial church which ended last Monday night with a reception tendered the pastor, Rev. A. P. Miller and wife, were a grand success, netting over $250. Dr. George W. Bryant who is in Chicago in the interest of the campaign. Mr. John C. Keelan of Washington, D. C. is spending a few days in Chicago with his family. Mr. Keelan's principal object in coming to Chicago just at this time is to cast a vote for McKinley. Rev. D. W. Jones, general missionary for the city of Chicago, has been indisposed ever since his return from conference at Minn., and has been unable to attend to business properly but hopes to be out again soon. Mr. D. R. Wilkins, the present manager of The Conservator is a man of push and shrewd business ability. The Conservator is coming out in good shape, and the editorials coming from his pen are the subject of much favorable comment. Mr. W. L. Martin, one of Chicago's enterprising young lawyers was elected president of the Young Men's Lyceum of Bethel church. This organization is in its youth, but with an able young man like Mr. Martin at its head it bids fair to become the center of attraction for the young men of Chicago. Mr. Martin is a forceful speaker and well qualified for the honor bestowed upon him, and Bethel church, being centrally located is an assurance of many pleasant Sunday afternoons for the coming winter. The Fellowship Club of this city recently entertained at dinner Dr. A. M. Curtis of Washington, D. C., T. Thomas Fortune of New York, J. Madison Vance of Louisiana and Harry C. Smith of Cleveland. The scene of the testal occasion was at the home of Mr. R. B. Harrison. The dinner was given in honor of Dr. Curtis, who is an honorary member of the club. An elegant repast was served and each gentleman present responded to a toast. Mr R. B. Harrison in his usual pleasing manner recited "The Pahty," and "When Melinda Sings" by Paul Laurence Dunbar. The Times Herald of this city recently published two portraits of colored men who rank high in music. One was that of Mr. Samuel Coleridge Taylor, of England who is startling the English and American music public with the distinction of his songs and the breadth and beauty of his "Hiawatha's Wooing," and "The Wedding Feast," while the other is that of Mr. Pedro T. Tinsley of Chicago. The Times Herald said: "Many will be interested to know that the most sympathetic interpreter of Samuel Coleridge Taylor's songs in America is Pedro T. Tinsley, a colored man and a resident of Chicago. Mr. Tinsley, however, is the first American singer to make us familiar with the rare distinction and beauty of his songs. He was the choir master of Grace Presbyterian church in this city, and recently gave a song recital, the program of which contained exclusively the songs of Samuel Coleridge Taylor. A colored man himself, it is not passing strange that Mr. Tinsley is a sympathetic interpeted of Taylor's compositions. Mr. Finsley is a pupil of Mr. Wm. N. Burritt, Kimball Hall Chicago." CHICAGO POLITICAL HOROSCOPE. Prospects for republican success are growing brighter everyday.—Jordan C. Chavis, Chairman of Bureau of Colored Voters, Illinois. The Talisman in the counties in the State of Illinois, report that the republican nominees will come to the lines of Cook county with 100,000 majority and in accordance with best republican majority, Cook county will go 40,000. So surely as night succeeds the day, just so surely will President William Mckinley succeed himself as President of the United States. Judge Richard Yates will be elected governor of Illinois, by one-hundred thousand majority.—Dr. J. H. Magee. With the horrible nightmare of Tillman of South Carolina as the power behind the throne and Jones of Arkansas and Stone of Missouri as the right and left supporters of the possible Bryan dynasty, there should be no question as to the position of the colored man in this "second battle."—J. Madison Vance. Louisiana. My impression is that the election of McKinley and Roosevelt is a cinch, New York, Indiana and Illinois were made the battle ground by the democrats and they have been whipped in all those states in a stand-up fight. I have spent much time in Indiana and and Illinois and I believe those states, as well as New York, may be considered as safe for the republican party. T. Thomas Fortune, New York. The colored voters of Cook county are fully aroused, and almost our solid vote will be polled for President McKinley and against Bryan and Tillmam Last week the irrepressible gentleman of "Pitchfork" fame addressed a big democratic audience, and speaking of colored voters in the South, boldly declared, "Of course we don't let them vote." There were no colored democrats presents, but the news got out, and it is now zero weather in the camp of the colored democracy.—F. L. Barnett, Chairman, National Bureau of Colored Voters. For some time there was quite an apathy in the city of Chicago and the county of Cook, but during the past ten days the change has been marvelous. Every meeting daily, and they are legion, is attended by thousands of solid republican voters whose unbounded enthusiasm gives inspiration to the workers. That the entire republican ticket, National Congressional, State and local will be elected by an equal if not an increased majority, over that of 1896 is sure. There are meetings held at 12 m 3 and 8 p. m., while a score of wagons with speakers and bands are holding meetings in every block in the city.—G. W. Bryant, M. D., Baltimore, Md. SENATOR T. T. ALLAIN. Mr. W. W. Jefferson. Mr. Wesley W. Jefferson, a graduate of Tuskegee and who has been teaching in the West Indies has just returned to Washington. Mr. Jefferson is indeed a brilliant young man and made an enviable reputation across the waters. Mr. Jefferson comes to enter the Dental Department at Howard. So well pleased were the managers with Mr. Jefferson's worth they offered to hold the place open or employ any one he might suggest, providing they are from Tuskegee. A jolly fishing party composed largely of the employees of the Treasury Department spent four days this week up the Potomac. It was composed of Messrs. J. B. Askins, James W. Gray, W. B. Coles. Wm. E. L. Sanford, H. M. Reynolds, Frank Dickson and Washington Weod. When last seen they were headed for Harper's Ferry but later reports show they camped at Lake View Park and fished in the Falls near Glen Echo. They report a good time. REGISTER LYON'S TOUR. Hon. Judson W. Lyons Successful Campaign Tour of Illinois and Missouri-A Negro Town. The recent campaign tour of Hon. Judson W. Lyons, register United States Treasury, throughout Illinois and Missouri was one of the most brilliant of the campaign. Thoroughly equipped with facts and data of all issues pertaining to the principles and platform of the republican party, the welfare of the race, and the stability of government, this able leader delivered a series of speeches that were characterized by sound logic, terse phrase, convincing argument, and eloquent climaxes Large audiences greeted Mr. Lyons everywhere, one of his most successful meetings being the demonstration given J. H. HON JUDSON W. LYONS. in his honor by the Business Men's Sound Money League, of St. Louis. The republicans of Missouri feel elated over the visit of Mr. Lyons, and many erring colored voters there have returned to the party fold by reason of his powerful arguments in favor of expansion, stable currency, retention of the Philippines, the Negro soldier, and the great wave of prosperity now in evidence. While in Illinois, Mr. Lyons visited Brooklyn, a small town of 1,500 inhabitants, in the southern part of the State commonly known as "Egypt." The town is mainly populated by colored people, and healthy signs of progress and prosperity are visible on every hand. Mr. B. F. Washington, a colored citizen is mayor of the town, while the board of alderman is almost exclusively composed of colored men. The great commercial houses of Armour and Swift of Chicago, have branch establishments there, while many colored men are conducting business enterprises. Mr. Lyons is pre-eminently fitted for campaign work. Possessed of magnificent physique, magnetic presence good command of language, and with ready facts at his disposal, he cannot fail to win his audiences and silence his opponents. The Republican National Committee are to be congratulated in selecting as an expounder of republican doctrine and principles the stalwart Register of the Treasury—Hon. Judson W. Lyons. 'LITTLE LAFFS." An elevator boy in a big hotel near the Brooklyn bridge, east Albany, yclept Greater New York, was discussing rather glibly to some persons on the proper manner of bringing up chil dren. Noticing his youthful face one of his hearers said what do you know about the rearing of children you are not married are you? "No" said he, "but I've brought up a good families in my time." Curtain— THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. S. An Irish Calf—The Irish secretary of a prominent man, who died rather suddenly on going into the private office of his employer found a letter written by deceased laying upon his desk to be mailed which was not sealed. He removed the letter and added the following: P. R. 'Since writing the above I am sorry to say that I have died." Sealed it and put it into the mail. Had the clerk been of maturer years this would have been a bull. His extreme youth makes it a calf. A certain lequacious spell binder with a penchant for scriptural quotations began a harrangue with this passage; "Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting." His application was so far fetched that his audience began to thin out. Observing the exodus he paused and said: "That's right gentlemen as fast as you are weighed pass out." BRUCE GRIT. Alexandria (Va.) Notes The Bohemian club was organized Thursday night at the residence of Mr. F. W. Lumpkins. Quite a large number was present and the following officers were elected: Miss A. B. Hopkins, president; Dr. Albert J. Johnson, vice president; Wm. F. Evans, secretary; Robert A. Dorsey, asst. secretary; F. H. M. Murray, treasurer; J. W. Lumpkins, sergt. at arms. The club contemplates giving a reception in the near future. Mr. L. F. Forrester (accompanied by his wife and niece) of Green Cove Springs, Fla., spent a few dsys in the city with his cousin, Mrs. D. F. Balti timore, 71 G street, southwest. M. DR. A. M. GURT1S, Surgeon-in-Chief Freedmen's Hospital (See Eloquence, Wit and Humor on Page 3.) THE GEORGIA WOMEN Hold a Rousing W. C. T. U. Meeting— News Notes From the Gate City. Atlanta, Ga., Special.—The W. C. T. U, No. — of Georgia will convene in this city on the 20th inst. and will remain in session until the 24th. The session will be held in the Loyd street M. E. church. The local unions have arranged a fine program for the entertainment of the visiting delegates. Revs. Drs. H. H. Proctor, E. R. Carter, A. A. Whiteman, J. A. Rush, E. W. Lee, are to address the convention during its session. On the welcome night exercises Drs. H. R. Butler, W. F. Penn, J. R. Porter and W. O. Murphy, Esq., are to talk. Dr. Rush the pastor of Loyd street church will preach the annual sermon on Sunday night at his church. On Wednesday afternoon a five o'clock tea will be tendered the delegation at the residence of the president Mrs. Dr. J. W, E. Bowen by the ladies of the city. MRS. J.W.E. BOWEN Mrs. J.W.E.BOWEN Maj. S. W. Easley, jr., our popular townsman has been selected by the local unions in the city to deliver the address of welcome to the delegates, and Atlanta will be given a rare treat as the Major will be at his best on that occasion as he is a great temperance advocate. Mrs. Amelia Underwood one of Atlanta's oldest citizens died last Sunday night. She was buried from Friendship Baptist church, the largest church and congregation in the city; she was one of the founders of this church over 40 years ago—she was mother of Mrs. S. W. Easley, jr. Mrs. Alexander Hamilton gave a very fine entertainment Monday night out at Old Folks Home for the benefit of the home. On Her Annual Inspection Tour. Mme J. A. Smallwood who has met with such wonderful success in her dressmaking classes here, leaves to day on her annual inspection visit to her branch classes in Baltimore and New York City where her classes are equally as successful. She will be gone a week or ten days, returning in time to re-open her fall classes here at the classrooms 1513 Madison avenue, n. w., the first Monday in November. She will also have a class in millinery this term. Classes are forming now and pupils can enter at any time. Many pupils from out of town are taking up residence in this city in order to avail themselves of this grand opportunity. A party of representative young men, from Portsmouth, Va., took advantage of the excursion rates last Saturday and remained over until Tuesday in the Capital city. The party was composed of Messrs. H. F. Knight, G. I. Cuffee, Wm. H. Balentine and Walter E. Todd. They were in the hands of that prince of entertainers, Mr. Richard E. Wells, of the Mexican Legation who showed them the city, took them to the minstrels and wound up with a midnight stag at his cosy home 1633 O st, n. w. The Philharmonic Quartet composed of Mr. Clarence C. White, first violin; Miss Mamie Onley, second violin; Mr. Alexander Lee, violoncello and Miss Beatrice L. Warrick, pianist, will appear before a Washington audience for the first time, November 2d, at Metropolitah A. M.E. church. ```markdown ``` . THE WHOLE SYSTEM May Become Invaded by Catarrh General Lewis' Case. A. H. Hon. James Lewis. Surveyor General of Louisiana. Pe-ru-na Drug M'f'g Co., Columbus, O.: "Gentlemen-I have used Pe-ru-na for a short time and can cheerfully recommend it as being all you represent and wish every man who is suffering with catarrh could know of its great value. Should I at any future time have occasion to recommend a treatment of your kind, rest assured that yours will be the one. James Lewis." Wherever the catarrh is, there is sure to be a waste of mucus. The mucus is as precious as blood. It is blood, in fact. It is blood plasma—blood with the corpuscles removed. To stop this waste, you must stop this catarrh. A course of treatment with Pe-ru-na never fails to do this. Send for free catarrh book. Address The Pe-ru-na Drug Manufacturing Co. Columbus, O. A MODERN CINCINNATUS. (Continued from first page.) his district, and won out handily being elected the only colored delegate to the nominating Convention in Philadelphia, and was the representative of Maryland on the Notification Committee to Governor Roosevelt. He is now working like a beaver to redeem the state and swing its vote to McKinley and Roosevelt in November with bright prospects of success. And when the fourth of March has come and gone again, and the faithful are called up to receive the reward of their labors, there will no one be found who will not wish and root for James T. Bradford to have whatever he wants, excepts the present incumbents. Of spotless personal character, unimpeachable business integrity, liberal in church generous and unostentatious in his charities, a staunch friend, an open and manly foe, a model in domestic life and the social peer of any, a Christian gentleman, and representative American. A FACT. The Vero Dentist are extracting teeth without pain, making beautiful gold teeth and fillings, and putting the Vero double suction in all their plates. Even with these advantages they can save you money. Call, now; 12th and Penn. ave., over Davis' Hat Store. Hours: 8 a. m. to 8 p. m. Sundays 9 to 4. Aims to meet a special need in the art of plain sewing, dressmaking and fancy needle work. The training is done with the view of fitting for teaching as well as for practical purposes. Classes for 1900 01 begin October 9th, 5 p.m. at chapel, 6th and Trumbull streets, northwest. Information will be given by inquiring of Rev. Sterling N. Brown, 2464 6th street, northwest. ```markdown ``` 10 FROM THE SMOKY CITY. McKinley Will Win in a Walk—Politics Doings and Progress of the Race. Pittsburg, Pa., Special-Doubtless your many readers would like to know how the Afro-Americans are getting along in the "Smoky City." First, we have four physicians, Dr. Turfley, a native and graduate of Cleveland, Ohio; Medicine College; Dr. Clinton, of Chester, S. C., a graduate of Shaw, Raleigh, N. C., Dr. J. B. Sheppard, of Howard Medical School and Dr. J. N. Brown of Winchester, Va., whose alma mater is Howard. We have one drug store owned by Jenning and Brown. It is beyond a doubt one of the best drug stores in our in our city, and the proprietors are seeking for larger quarters. A. DR. J. B. SHEPPARD, Of Howard Medical School. We have four Undertaking establishments, Mr. Robert Jackson owns three with headquarters in Chicago, Ill., the fourth is owned and conducted by Mr. Daniel Edwards. There are three contractors, Messrs. Isaac Bryant, Jacob Captain and George Holmes. Three lawyers, Messrs. J. W. Holmes, A. C. Randolph and Bryan. Two printers, Messrs. J. B. E. Tyler, foreman for Messrs. Perley Bros., one of the largest job offices in the city. Mr. Tyler runs seven cylinder presses also has six compositors under him. N. J. Miles has a job office of his own on Wyle avenue. We have one newspaper here, The Plowshead. it is just a few weeks old and bids fair to live along and prosperous life. Messrs. John A. Brown, Geo. Nelson and — Barnes, late of Washington, D. C., have three of the finest restaurants and bars in this city. All of these gentlemen are from Washington. Well, Mr. Editor, Alleghany county will give the largest republican majority that was ever polled next month. Col. M. S. Quay, Governor Stone and Attorney-General Elkins are arousing a great deal of enthusiasm in this state and the "insurgents" will be buried beyond resurrection. The silver tongued orator, statesman and scholar, Hon. John Dalzell is making the welkin ring in West Virginia while we are getting ready to send him back to Congress with the largest majority he has ever had. Just let our "Honest John" go all over the country and work for McKinley and Prosperity and when the general roll is called on November 6th next, Allegheny county will be there for John Dalzell and the whole republican ticket to the tune of 60,000 majority. George H. Proctor is with the boys working for Billy McKinley and Prosperity. SHOOTING STICK. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. "BIG BOW" The Indian Medicine Man Cures all Diseasesor no Charge. Call or Write. Mr. L. G. Hayden, Manufacturer. Office hours 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. Notice To Pittsburg Subscsribers. Hereafter The Colored American can be had at the restaurant of Mr. Nelson Coleman, 1214 Wylie Ave., Pittsburg, Pa. Call there every Saturday morning and get a copy. Mr. Clarence C. White, who has completed a course of study in the Oberlin Ohio Conservatory of Music, and has taken an additional course of instruction under one of the professors from the Berlin Conservatory of Music, will give a violin recital under the auspices of the Sunday school of the Metropolitan A. M. E. church, Friday evening, November 2d, 1900. Admission twenty-five cents. The New York Mozart Conservatory of Music. Branches of instruction.—Violin, piano, organ, harmony, counterpoint, composition, ensemble playing, chamber music, orchestral and classic music a specialby. The Conservatory Sextette and Concert Orchestra, Albert F. Mando, conductor can be engaged for concerts and all occasions. The course of instruction adopted throughout all departments, is thorough, and precisely the same as taught in the leading con J. PROF. ALBERT F. MANDO. servatories in this city and Europe. Instructions given from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Upon request evening lessons can be arranged. Session 1900-1801—Beginning Oct. 1st. The regular school year consists of four terms of (ten weeks each), per quarter $15 00. (20 lessons of one hour)—terms in advance—which includes free of charge ensemble, chamber music and orchestral playing. For terms call or address, ALBERT F. MANDO, Musical Director, 2105 Madison Avenue. 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 2 cent stamp for answer. None genuine unless bought at 620 North Eutaw Street. Beware of imitators, as we have many. J. P. KERR, None genuine unless bought a imitators,as we have many. MRS. DR. RENNER SPECIALIST on obstetrics; gold medal awarded for the science of obstetrics from the University of Munich, Bavaria; treats successfully womens complaints and irregularities; private sanitarium for ladies before and during confinement. Office hours from 8 to 9 p.m. 619 Pace Ave. Avenida Harboston, D.C. HOTEL AND RESTAURANTS 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 mixologists. MRS. M. S. BROWN & CO. Proprietors. FINE WINES Liquors of all kinds. OLD WHISKIES Choice Cigars. AND BRANDIES. Philadelphia House, M. F. CARROLL, Prop. Restaurant and Saloon. 348 Pennsylvania Avenue, N W. Washington, D. C. Meals to Order. Everything First Class Billiard and Pool Parlors Attached. HOSEL DOUGLASS. 220 B ST., AD 235 PA. AVE. N. W EUROPEAN PLAN. First-class in every particular. MRS. 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. THE INDIAN HERB MEDICINE MAN. 620 N. EUTAW ST. BALIIMORE, MD. t 620 North Eutaw Street. Beware of HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS. D. T. GIBBONS. WHOLESALE MANUFACTURING RATE 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 kud be convinced. Joshua N Anderson. I. J. Edwards, Props. W. M. DRURY'S RESTAURANT 1100 20th St., corner L. N. W. Washington, D. C. HOTELCLYDE 475 MISSECURI AVE. NW. First-Class Accomodations For Ladies and Gentlemen. Hot and Cold Baths. MRS. ALICE E. HALL, Proprietress. MOORE & PRIOLEAU - Sparta Bullet and Cale - 1216 Pa. Ave. Washington, D.C. Fine wines, liquors and cigars Hot Free Lunch Every Day Ladies will receive special attention in Dining Room upstairs. SOUTHERN HOTEL, Good board, steam heat and electric bells, Home comfort, moderate prices. 311 Pa. Ave., nw. Washington, D. C. Fine wines, liquors, cigars and tobacco. Jack M Ryan, Proprietor Gray & Costley Ladies and Gentlemen's Dining Room upstairs. The best of service guaranteed. 1313 E Street N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. THE SEA ISLAND NEWS. A Brilliant Marriage at St. Mark's Episcopal Church—Two Hearts Beat as One Beautiful Costumes Worn. Charleston, S. C., Special—Mr. David wiborn of Springfield, Ohio, and Miss Mary Elizabeth Bulkley of Charleston were marrid at St. Mark's Church, Charleston, S. C. on Wednesday afternoon, September 27, 1900 at 4 o'clock. The high social standing of the contracting parties together with the fact that the bridal party would leave immediately after their marriage for an extended wedding tour, made the event of unusual interest and caused the large circle of friends of the family to fill the large auditorium of the church long before the time fixed for the ceremony. On the arrival of the happy couple with their train at the church all the window blinds of the building were promptly closed, and the several hundred gas jets were lighted, which together with the altar lights produced not only a most pleasing effect, but led one involuntarily to the realization of a marriage at night. The four ushers viz, Misses Florence E. Miller, Julia E. Wilson, Genivieve E. Clyde and Mary E. Heron led the march to the steps of the chancel to the tune of Mendelssohn's famous march. The bride followed immediately leaning upon the arm of the Rev. Rainey Roberts who a little later would give the bride away. The groom bearing upon his arm Miss Julia E. Bulkley, an aunt of the bride, followed. The ceremony was performed by the rector of the parish, Rev. E. N. Hollings. The general opinion was that this was one of the prettiest weddings ever held in this city. After stopping at Summerville, S. C., Atlanta, Ga., Crattanooga, Tenn and Cincinnati, Ohio, they will reach their home in Springfield, Ohio, on or about the 5th of October to which they will be followed by the good wishes of their many Charleston friends. A special shipment of the many useful and valuable presents will be made later in the week. DOWN IN VIRGINIA. Charlottesville, Va., Special—The Y. M. C. A. Sunday meeting of men for Bible study was held at the M. E. chapell last Sunday at 4:30 o'clock p. m. Rev. Joseph Perry, Sunday-school Missionary of Western Virginia delivered an able classical address to the young men, which abounded in deep inspiring thoughts and solid advice, which was enthusiastically received by all present. Mr. A. C. Mabry, who has been engaged in the undertaking, furniture repairing and upholstering business here, left last week for Staunton, Va., where he is now located in business Misses Rosa Howard, Gertrude and Nannie Stewart, Zalder Scott, Lettie Ferguson, Hattie Newman and Mr. George Southall left last week for the Hampton Normal and Industrial Institute, Hampton, Va. Misses Bertie Saunders and Alberta Coles left for Hartshorn College, Richmond, last week. Messrs. James Harris, P. S. Hocker, S. L. Bundy from Warm Springs, Mr. D. D. Alexander from Millboro, Mr. and Mrs. Adam Whipper and Mrs. Rebecca Shelton from White Sulphur and Mrs. Maria Chapman from the Healing Springs are back to the city. Mr. B. H. Baker of the Royal Benefit Society of Washington, D. C., is the city looking after the business of the Society. Mr. Charles L. Chapman has purchased the lunch room formerly owned by Mr. Thomas Whiting and THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. is prepared to feed the hungry at reasonable prices. The American can be gotten from Pollard and Noble's or A. F. Angel at the University. MONTICELLO. A PROMINENT WASHINGTONIAN. Mr. Samuel E. Lacy—Secretary to the Recorder of Deeds. Among the popular and highly esteemed young men of this city there is none who enjoys a greater popularity with the masses than Mr. Samuel E. Lacy of whom the above "cut" is a fair likeness. Mr. Lacy is a "native born" District of Columbia boy a member of one of its best and long established families, being a son of Detective Henry Lacy of national reputation. He is a product of the District schools from which he graduated with distinction. He first J. H. H. SAMUEL E. LACY. became a school teacher in the state of Maryland, where he made for himself an enviable reputation by his ability and disposition of sunshine. After passing a flattering civil service examination he was appointed to a position in the city post office which he held for six years. He now occupies the responsible position of private secretary to the Recorder of Deeds and in this position he displays his superior qualities of gentleman, official and diplomat. He never fails to look after the interest of his friends and of his race. He is interested and active in all public affairs which are for the betterment of his people. He is financial secretary of the AfroAmerican Council and executive committeeman of the Second Baptist Lyceum. He is the head of a most charming and interesting family. The future will see Mr. Lacy in more responsible positions and his ability and "mixing" qualities are sure to place him very prominently before the public eye. Roosevelt and the Colored Soldier. Gov. Roosevelt's article in Scribner's Magazine in April last year has been cited in the present campaign as a reflection, in one of its statesments, upon the bravery of the colored soldier. To a reporter for The Daily News the governor not only denied that any such reflection was intended but he also incidentally paid an enthusiastic and just tribute to the colored soldier as "a first-class fighting man." Said the governor: "I would be the last man in the world to say anything against the colored soldier, because I know of his bravery and his character. He saved my life at Santiago, and I have had occasion to say so in many articles and speeches The rough riders were in a bad position when the 9th and 10th cavalry came rushing up the hill carrying everything before them. "The colored soldier has the faculty of coming to the front when he is needed most. In the civil war he came 200,000 strong, and I believe he saved NOT AN EXPERIMENT. Into Thousands of Homes stamps it as a Success. THIRD EDITION just out. Enormous sales and handsome prizes. No Agent for this chart cries "Hard Times" We are going to place 10,000 of these charts into your homes by Xmas. We live for the children, and we make the following proposition to the school children of the country. We give Ten Dollars ($10.00) in gold as prizes for the ten best reasons why every home should have a copy of this chart. First prize, $5.00; second prize, $8.00; third prize, $2.00. The conditions are brief and simple: First, the applicant himself must be a subscriber. Second, he must send four other cash subscribers. Remit the $5.00 to us, with the manuscript containing reasons, and we bear all express charges to your subscribers. Send for your own first as you will need it as a sample. Price $1.00. Address JOHN K. RECTOR, Little Rock, Ark. Big inducements to Agents. Send 10 cents in cash or stamps for descriptive circulars. the union. He has done excellent work in all of the Indian campaigns and while I was in the west I had a number of opportunities of witnessing his wonderful work. He saved a massacre of the 7th in 1890. "At San Juan hill the colored soldiers rendered an object lesson to all of the soldiers assembled there. They sung and fought and pushed the laggard troopers up the hill and the great victory at that point was theirs as much as, if not more than, any of the soldiers there." This statement is in full accord with the account The Daily News at the time editorially of the distinguished part the colored soldiers played in the decisive battle of San Juan. No man doubts Col. Roosevelt's bravery, and he, for his part, has no doubt of the fighting qualities of the colored soldier. Simple justice, both to Col. Roosevelt and the men who helped to win the hottest battle of the Spanish war, requires this refutation of an unjust attack and of the unfair methods of campaigning that prompted it. Chicago Daily News. We have been reliably informed that the evidence of Negrophobia which recently manifested itself in the conduct of the lunch room at the City Hall has been thoroughly attended to by Hon. Aulick Palmer, the Marshal of the District and that there is no fear of its recurrence. The Righteous Negro Defender a Wonder. There is a most wonderful Negro Newspaper published at 122 W. Broad St., Richmond, Va., known as the Righteous Negro Defender. This week it sheds a most wonderful light to the minds of the Negro people of America. Every body in the Negro race who loves the race ought to send at once and get a copy of it this week; 2 cents in coppers sent in an envelope sealed will bring you a copy of that great and most wonderful paper; with great news of vast importance to the Negro people of America. Address, "The Righteous Negro Defender at 122 W. Broad St., Riehmond, Va. P. S. One hundred (100 000) thousand copies of the above-named Negro newspaper is to be rushed out to the wise and the prudent men and women of the Negro race as quick as possible for special purposes and advantages to the Negro people which the paper itself will show to them who get a copy of it. You hurry up and get a copy of it this week and tell your friends about this. FOR SALE. 331 SpruceSt., N. W. Le Droit Park. Cheap, a ten-room house including bath. All modern improvements. Terms cash. Apply at 1911 7th street northwest. 111 North Clinton, St., East Orange, N. J. SICK, ACCIDENT, AND DEATH BENEFIT, PAID PROMPTLY. National Benefit Association, Capital Savings Bank Building, Washington, D. C. Lewis Bigger, 11 MME. DAVIS JENNIE JAMES 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. R·I·P·A·N·S The modern standard Family Medicine: Cures the common every-day ills of humanity. TRADE RIPANS ABUCS MARK REDUCED TO $1.00 BLACK SKIN REMOVER COPYRIGHTED. BEFORE AFTER A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH. HAIR STRAIGHTENER. One LARGE JAR thrown in, enough to make any one person's hair grow long and straight. A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH. A PEACH-LIKE complexion obtained if used as directed. Will turn the skin of a black or brown person four or five shades lighter, and a mulatto person perfectly white. In forty-eight hours a shade or two lighter will be noticeable. It does not turn the skin in spots but bleaches out white. One box of this preparation is all that is required if used as directed, the skin remaining beautiful without continual use. Will remove wrinkles, freckles, dark spots, pimples and black-heads, smallpox pits, tan and liver spots without harm to the skin. When you get the color you wish, stop using the preparation. The directions and preparation will be sent to any person for $1.00, or send Post-Office Money Order, Express Money Order, Registered Letter. or we will send it C. O. D. Packed so that no one will know contents except receiver. THOS. B. CERANE. 122½ W. Broad St., Richmond, Va. 12 ```markdown ``` HOWARD UNDER A NEW REGIME. A Large Attendance and Bright Auspices —The Literaries in Full Blast—College Sports Galore. All departments of Howard University are now in working order with eight hundred and ten enrolled. The various societies for the year have been organized and there is no lack of enthusiasm. The officers for the fall term in the Y. P. S. C. E. who have been carefully chosen, are recorded thus: President Mr. Martin R. Powell; vice-president, Miss Rachel McGuinn; secretary. Miss Hattie Hubbard; treasurer, Miss Maud D. Johnson; corresponding secretary. Mr. J. B. Allen; librarian, Mr. I. F. Carroil; choir directress, Miss T. M. Durgee. Every effort will be made to make these meetings interesting, even elpful, and a general invitation is extended to the public. The Alphia Phi Society of the college held a spirited meeting to which many friends and visitors came Friday last. The initial program is a splendid precedent. Miss Robinson put grace and expression in her reading while Mr. Turner discussing "The Action of the Allied Powers in China as a Moral Wrong," presented many original and unique points, which were in turn heatedly examined both pro and con by other members during the general debate. Mr. G. M. Cathrell presided with dignity becoming the occasion and cleverly managed all points of order. During the business meeting profound arguments were made concerning the Public Debate which evidently will be the all-important thme from now on in the minds of the members. The Eureka Society presented a program of unusual merits, which was hugely enjoyed by a large bodies of students. Their officers have been wise ly chosen and a profitable year in literary work is assured. Mr Augustus Roker is respected as president. Clusters of young men, loyers of football, can be seen around the campus speculating on the game scheduled for to day, October 20, between the Howard Reserves and the Princeton Athletic Club. Mr. Jackson, captain of the Reserves has been conscientiously training a squad of thirty young aspirants from which he has a splendid nucleus for a winning eleven. The boys are not afraid of themselves and handle the pigskin like veterans. The gridiron promises to be full of expert plays—says Captain Jackson; anyway, we are going to see the game to day on the Howard campus! A fine list of games in which the oval will be roughly handled, has been arranged, including such colleges as Morgan, Union, Shaw University, Mt. Airy, Jefferson Medical of Philadelphia. The services at Rankin chapel were largely attended Sunday afternoon. Dr. R. Klemm of the U. S. Bureau of Education gave his first lecture, entitled "Friedrich Schiller and his Influences," October 18. The King Hall students have settled down to study for the year with eight young men in attendance. Mr. Chas. Parker of Spokane, Washington, has been appointed teacher of the Bible class in St. Luke's church. The Brotherhood will soon be organized for more extended work in the community. Harriet Beecher Stowe Mother's Club. A well attended meeting of this club was held at the residence of the president, Mrs. Jesse Lawson on Wednesday evening, the occasion being the election of officers and appointment of THE COLORED MEMORIES, WASHINGTON, R. E. committees in charge of the work for the year 1900 and 1901. Mrs. Scott of Lynchburg. Va. and Mrs. A. M. Chase were among the visitors, Officers elected: Mrs. Lawson, president; Mrs. H C. Bruce, vice president; Miss Lina E Jean, recording secretary, Mrs J. G Hutchins, corresponding secretary; Mrs. H. C. Tyson, treasurer; Mrs. John R. Francis, librarian. Social committee, Mrs. M B Wood, chairman, Mrs. A. F. Hilyer, Mrs. M. C. Terrell, Dr. Garrott, R. D. Sprague. Literary committee, Mesdames L B. Moore chairman, A. P. Albert, J. G. Hutchins J. H. Meriwether, R. E. Lawson. By invitation of the president; Mrs. Anna J. Murray was present and gave Mary MRS. ROSETTA E. LAWSON. a graphic and most interesting account of her trip to Des Moines as delegate to the Mothers' Congress, for which the club extended her a hearty vote of thanks. The plan of work for last year was most beneficial to its members, most excellent papers having been presented on the following subject: I. Knowledge Essential to Best Parenthood, Mrs. Hilyer; 2. First Three Years of Child Life, Mrs. Hutchins; 3 Kindergarten Age, Mrs. Gray; 4. School Age, Mrs. Meriwether; 5. The Adolescent Period, Mrs. Lawson; 6. Art, Mr. Walter B. Hayson; 7. Music, Mrs. Alice Strange Davis. A course of reading is also pursued by this club at its forty-nightly meetings, and its social gatherings will be open to the public and constitute an important feature in its plan for disseminating helpful hints for culture among the masses. Nearly every one seems to be going to the violin recital November 2nd. Clarence C. White, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Miss Beatrice L. Warrick, Miss Mamie Onley and Alex. Lee. Mr. Sophranie Payne, who has been connected with the Army and Navy Club for the past fourteen years and who for the last six or eight years has been steward, has resigned. He contem plates engaging in business for himself. The Bethel Literary and Historical Association will resume its sessions Tuesday evening October 3rd at the 23rd at the Metropolitan A. M. E. church. Bishop B. F. Lee will deliver the opening address, subject "The Century." The Union League Business Directory under Mr. A. F. Hilyer and his lieutenants, is making rapid progress. The object of this league is to show the number of colored men engaged in business in the District of Columbia as well as to show the amount of capital invested and the business that is done by them. Mr. Hilyer is a veteran in this work. THE GRAND FOUNTAIN. United Order of True Reformers. ORGANIZED January 1, 1881. Offices 604, 606 and 608 N. 2nd St., - - Richmond, Va. An order devoted to the interests of its members, both in their home and business relations. We offer you an opportunity for gilt edged business investment, in enterprises owned and controlled by the Order and managed by colored men, who are members of the Order. If you are sound in health and mind, of good moral character, not younger than three (3) years nor older than sixty (60) you are eligible to membership. There are two Fountains, the Subordinate and the Rosebnd to join the Subordinate Fountain you You pay $4.60 to $6.60 (according to country you pay 35 cents per month this. You pay as taxes 80 cents per mo s Sick Benefits you receive from $6 00 s Death Benefit, your family receive one year the Death Benefit is $125.00 To join the Subordinate Fountain you must be between 14 and 16 years of age. You pay $4.60 to $6.60 (according to age.) as joining fee. If you live in the country you pay 35 cents per month as dues; if in the city, 50 cents per month. You pay as taxes 80 cents per month. As Sick Benefits you receive from $6.00 to $9.00 per month, in weekly payments. As Death Benefit, your family receives $75.00 if you die within a year. After one year the Death Benefit is $125.00 A In Class B, the a dues, $4.75 to $7.60. After one year, its va In Class E, the a s $9.50 to 11.40. The C one year its value is $ In Class M, the a s $21 to $25. The certi You are entitled Classe B and E upon pays a dividend annu The Grand Found 29, 1900, a total of 378 HALF MILLION DOLLAR In Class B, the age limit is 14 to 60 ye $4.75 to $7.60. The Certifica e is val one year, its value is $100 to $65 In Class E, the age limit is 14 to 55 ye to 11.40. The Certificate is valued fin ear its value is $500 to $300 In Class M, the age limit is 14 to 50 ye to $25. The certificate is valued from d You are entitled to a Life Membership B and E upon purchase of the req a dividend annually of 20 per cent. The Grand Fountain United Order of T 900, a total of 3782 Death Benefits, wit 7 MILLION DOLLARS. In Class B, the age limit is 14 to 60 years. Fee, $1 50 to $4.25. Annual dues, $4.75 to $7 60. The Certifica e is valued first year at from $100 to $33. After one year, its value is $100 to $65 In Class E, the age limit is 14 to 55 years. Fee, $5 to $6 50. Annual dues, $9 50 to 11.40. The Certificate is valued first year at from $250 to $175. After one year its value is $500 to $300 In Class M, the age limit is 14 to 50 years. Fee $11 to $13 50. Annual dues, $21 to $25. The certificate is valued from date of issue at from $1 000 to $700. You are entitled to a Life Membership in either of the Fountains or in Classe B and E upon purchase of the required amount of Bank stock, which pays a dividend annually of 20 per cent. The Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers has paid up to July 29, 1900, a total of 3782 Death Benefits, with a grand total of $521,264 75, over a HALE MILLION DOLLARS. BEE HIVE members, and pays 2 are received and 4 per is a copy of the Cash close of business Sept. RESOUE Loans and discounts Other stock, bond mortgages ..... Due from National B Banking House ..... Other real estates ..... Furniture and Fixture Current expenses and paid ..... Specie, nickels and co Paper currency ..... Total ..... The Reformer's O Richmond, Va., and a 20 per cent. on the co THE REFORMER is fice in Richmond, Va. operation and combine the General Message per year. A well equi turned out in first class Six miles from R 634 acres of land, and exampled liberality a trance to this home to doors are opened to the residence or connecti charity, and calls up and West to assist by idea. April 3rd of ea Contributions can be who will send receipt Members of the O invited to stop at The and desirable location The Real Estate in the Ordeer. The Oro with a fee simple valu buildings. RESOURCES. Sales and discounts ..... $8,272 80 For stock, bonds and mortgages ..... 164,423 83 From National Banks ..... 48,383 22 Making House ..... 14,000 00 For real estates ..... 99,588 00 Furniture and Fixtures ..... 6,850 00 Amount expenses and taxes paid ..... 1,388 99 Ease, nickels and cents ..... 12,399 80 For currency ..... 35,820 00 Total ..... 391,120 84 The Reformer's Grocery and Feed Store, Richmond, Va., and members of the Order are cent, on the cost of food products. The REFORMER is the newspaper published in Richmond, Va. It stands for the location and combination of the race and general Messenger and the General Age year. A well equipped job office bids out in first class style and at low prices from Richmond, in Henrico counties of land, and established thereon a sampled liberality and broad-minded genius to this home to its members alone, we are opened to the aged and decrepit nature or connections. The Order makes city, and calls upon the whole people. We West to assist by their contribution the April 3rd of each year is set apart as contributions can be forwarded to the cash will send receipt for same and account members of the Order and the public, we need to stop at The Hotel Reformer, 900 N. desirable location. Service is of the best the Real Estate Department manages Ordeer. The Order now owns 13 buildings a fee simple value of $122,500. In additions. members, and pays 20 per cent, dividends. Both time and demand deposits are received and 4 per cent. interest is paid on time deposits. The following is a copy of the Cashier's report to Auditor of Public Accounts of Virginia at close of business Sept., 5, 1900 and shows its flourishing condition:— RESOURCES. Loans and discounts ..... $8,272 80 Other stock, bonds and mortgages ..... 164,423 83 Due from National Banks ..... 48,393 22 Banking House ..... 14,000 00 Other real estates ..... 99,588 00 Furniture and Fixtures ..... 6,850 00 Current expenses and taxes paid ..... 1,388 99 Specie, nickels and cents ..... 12,399 80 Paper currency ..... 35,820 00 Total ..... 391,120 84 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in ..... 88,125 00 Surplus fund ..... 80,957 81 Undivided profits ..... 6,826 80 Demand certificate of deposits t ..... 96,786 20 Time certificates of deposit ..... 118,494 74 Total ..... 391,120 64 The Reformer's Grocery and Feed Store is located at 501 North Sixth St., Richmond, Va., and members of the Order and the public generally are saved 20 per cent. on the cost of food products. THE REFORMER is the newspaper published by the order from its own of fice in Richmond, Va. It stands for the voice of the people, representing cooperation and combination of the race and is the Beacon Light, the Headlight, the General Messenger and the General Agent of the Brotherhood. It is $1.00 per year. A well equipped job office bids for the work of the people, which is turned out in first class style and at low prices. Six miles from Richmond, in Henrico County, Va., the Order has purchased 634 acres of land, and established thereon an "Old Folk's Home". With unexampled liberality and broad-minded generosity, the Order does not limit entrance to this home to its members alone, nor even to members families, but the doors are opened to the aged and decrepid of the whole race, regardless of their residence or connections. The Order makes itself the trustee for this glorious charity, and calls upon the whole people, black and white, North, East, South and West to assist by their contribution the carrying out of this praiseworthy idea. April 3rd of each year is set apart as a Grend Rally Day for the Home. Contributions can be forwarded to the casnier of the Reformer's Savings Bank, who will send receipt for same and account for it to The Grand Fountain. Members of the Order and the public, when visiting Richmond, Va, are invited to stop at The Hotel Reformer, 900 North Sixth St. It is in a pleasant and desirable location. Service is of the best and rates are reasonable. The Real Estate Department manages and controls all property interests of the Ordeer. The Order now owns 13 buildings, 4 farms, 4 dwellings, 1 hotel with a fee simple value of $122,500. In addition to these the Order leases 18 buildings. For any further information, address W. L. TAYLOR, G. W. Master. W. P. BURBELL, G. W. Secretary, W. L. TAYLOR, G. L. TAYLOR, G. W. Master. SUBORDINATE FOUNTAINS. The Fountain you must be between 160 (according to age.) as joining fee ents per month as dues; if in the es 80 cents per month receive from $6.00 to $9.00 per month our family receives $75.00 if you do Benefit is $125.00 To join the Rosebud Fountain you spend 14 year of age. You pay $100 of installments. The monthly dues are city Fountains may decide. The annual you receive as Sick Benefit from $1.50 to weekly payments. As Death Benefit, your family will live within a year. After one year, $57. In the INSURANCE DEPARTMENT, the classes: - Class B, Class E, and Class F are payable annually or quarterly. Mit is 14 to 60 years. Fee, $150 to the Certifica e is valued first year at from $200 to $65. Mit is 14 to 55 years. Fee, $5 to $65 certificate is valued first year at from $200 to $300. Mit is 14 to 50 years. Fee $11 to $13 certificate is valued from date of issue at from a Life Membership in either of the purchase of the required amount of Bills of 20 per cent. United Order of True Reformers has death Benefits, with a grand total of $1,000. BANK. - In our Savings Bank the Gratifying institution that is a credit note for the race as well. It began business A Stock is $100,000. The business is the older regularly constituted bank, and the safeguards. The stock sells for one cent, dividends. Both time and interest is paid on time deposits. We report to Auditor of Public Accounts in 1900 and shows its flourishing condition. ISS. LIABILITIES $8,272 80 164,423 83 48,383 22 14,000 00 99,588 00 6,850 00 1,388 99 12,399 80 35,820 00 391,120 84 Capital stock paid in Surplus fund Undivided profits Demand certificate for pcs t. Time certificates of Total. Eury and Feed Store is located at 501 N. Monroe Street of the Order and the public general food products. The newspaper published by the order stands for the voice of the people, one of the race and is the Beacon Light and the General Agent of the Brotherhood and job office bids for the work of the style and at low prices. Bond, in Henrico County, Va., the Order published thereon an "Old Folk's House" broad-minded generosity, the Order remembers alone, nor even to members aged and decrepid of the whole race. The Order makes itself the trustee of the whole people, black and white, Noir contr bution the carrying out of the year is set apart as a Grand Rally Day. Awarded to the casier of the Reformer same and account for it to The Grand Rally and the public, when visiting Richard Reformer, 900 North Sixth St. Its service is of the best and rates are real department manages and controls all property owns 13 buildings, 4 farms, 4 dwellings $122,500. In addition to these the To join the Rosebud Fountain you must be between 3 and 14 year of age. You pay $1 00 either cash or by installments. The monthly dues are either 15 or 25 cents as Fountains may decide. The annual tax is 10 cents. You receive as Sick Benefit from $1.50 to $4 00 per month, in weekly payments. As Death Benefit, your family will be paid $24 50 if you die within a year. After one year the Death Benefit is $57. In the INSURANCE DEPARTMENT, there are Three (3) Classes: -Class B, Class E, and Class M. All dues are payable annually or quarterly. THE BANK. In our Savings Bank the Order has a sound and florishing institution that is a credit not only to the Order butthe race as well. It began business April 3, 1889. The capital stock is $100 000. The business is the same as that of any other regularly constituted bank, and is surrounded by the same safeguards. The stock sells for $5.00 a share to Master. W. P. BURRELL, G. ROSEBUD FOUNTAINS. A Remarkable Career Of a Remarkable Man PROFESSOR WILLIAM HENRY RICHARDS' EARLY STRUGGLE WITH BITTER POVERTY A Devoted Mother's Love and Unsparing Sacrifice, With Great Men as Companions and Counsellors, Fulfil PRESIDENT GARFIELD'S WISE PREDICTION The true biographer seeks to throw upon the canvas of lasting remembrance the correct outlines of an individual life, and to retouch the picture with such fine lines as will bring to view distinctive characteristics and give expression to the spirit of the subject The first requisite for a pleasing portrait or an interesting sketch is a good object. This is certainly offered in the character and attainments of Professor William H Richrrds, whose life and work will continue to be an inspiration to many a youth who, amid adverse circumstances seeks a career of usefulness and real honor. It is not because Frederick Douglass rose by his own inherent power to a place among the immortals, that he is the Abou Ben Adhem, whose name leads all the rest of America's self-made men, but because he did this from a cowlier starting point than all others and in spite of weights which would have crushed a less Titanic soul. It is not alone for the success which Professor Richards has won in the fields of learning and the faithfulness with which he has served humanity in the walks of peace where noblest heroes are, that we cry "Bravo" when we see him honored by all who appreciate true culture and acknowledge the peer of the leading legal instructors of the present age. Born at Athens, Tennessee, in the very days preceding the "irrepressible conflict" his only ground of vantage over the sage of Anacostia was that he was born of free parents. "The child of the free woman is the child of promise;" but there was little chance for the fulfillment of early promise to the children of free colored people in a slave State. They had not even the protection which regard for their market value caused the least humane masters to give their human chattels. Before the birth of her distinguished grandson, Hannah Richards, who, with her whole family, had been mum used as a reward of faithful service, is taken bound to a cotton plant in Alabama, and it was only by her in domitable courage and almost superhuman endurance that she effected her escape swimming streams and crossing mountains on her perilous journey back to her humble home in Tennessee. To the care and support of this grave woman was left the "Mitherless cairn," who was completely orphaned before reaching his fourth year, and, although she was then about 70 years of age, she labored energetically to keep the proverbial wolf from the door, and fought at least two battles royal with wolves in sheep's clothing, who and stolen her pet lamb and hoped to retain him by force and fraud. When her personal efforts for his rescue were met with threats of clubs and dogs and runs, she appealed to the justice-loving citizens to enable her to recover her treasure by law, and easily proved that she was an efficient guardian for him. Partly to keep him safe and partly to keep him employed, wise Hannah Richards sent her Willie to work on a farm in summer before he was nine THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. E. years old, and every summer thereafter until he was sixteen years of age and six feet in height; his wages rising steadily from three dollars per month and board with which he began, to ten dollars, the maximum wages for a man So the ill wind of poverty blew to the orphan boy such blessings as are seldom found in the track of the fair winds of fortune. It blew him to the country at an age when the sons of many well-to-do parents are starting on the road to loaferdom. It gave him healthful exercise amid the beauties of nature, in a mountainous region where air and water are unsurpassed in purity, and where the skies rival the skies of Sunny Italy in tints of blue and gold and amethyst. It gave him physical development to stand the coming strain when the noble mind would struggle for wider range and higher view. It gave him enough of the discipline of daily duty to prepare him for the responsibilities of any position to which an honorable American citizen may aspire. When a small boy he learned his letters from white girls at places where his grandmother was employed. She took him with her instead of leaving him alone or in doubtful company, and was as particular in training him as if he had been a girl. He attended a Sunday school taught by a free colored man and woman and a favored slave, and there learned to spell words of two syllables. In the winter of 1864 he began going to a private school, which he continued to attend until the Freedmen's Bureau sent teachers to Athens in 1865. What if his first school room had a dirt floor? What if his first teachers used Webster's spelling-book and Noah's methods of teaching? He was eager and glad and happy to sit on a rough bench and take home some kind of script to copy, as there were no desks in the primitive school houses. Three of these Negro school houses in the town of Athens, and four others in the vicinity were destroyed by fire. One of these stood so near the little cottage of his grandmother that the same fire swept away both buildings in August, 1868. After the Freedmen's Bureau, came the helping hand of northern philanthropy and excellent teachers, whose souls glowed with pity, and piety, and patriotism, left pleasant homes in communities where they were loved and honored, to teach the most needy and unfriended class in their own country under far different circumstances. Not only did these Christian women delight in giving instruction to the polite, docile and studious lad, but many others took an interest in one whose ideals were so high and gave such promise of becoming the scholar and polished gentleman that he is. Yardly Warner, superintent of the Friends' Mission schools, gave him valuable assistance. Rev. James W. White, at whose home he met Bishop Gilbert Haven and other eminent philanthropists, lent him books and thus opened to him the choicest fields of literature. Rev. David M. Wilson, for fourteen years a missionary in Syria, and who afterwards gave to Athens, Tenn. the leaven of a brave and practical Christian ministry, was a true and faithful counsellor. He gave him sympathy, treated him as an equal, visited his humble home and invited him to his own house, as well as gave him the use of his splendid library. For ten years he was his Sunday school teacher, directed his course of reading and study, gave him his first ideas of the nature of society and human rights, and instructed him in mental and moral philosophy. As a pupil he had often been called up on to act as monitor, and frequently to hear classes recite, and he began in his seventeenth year to teach school at Mt. Harmony, Tenn., raising the standard for temperance and purity, and carrying on a vigorous crusade against the use of tobacco. He organized a debating society and strove to improve the condition of the people. An enthusiastic and successful teacher from the beginning he was employed a second year. As a student-teacher at Athens and afterwards at Warner Institute, Jonesborough, he won the highest praise. He conducted school at Johnson City and at Greeneville with remarkable success, continuing his studies while teaching, and occasionally reporting to the Institute for emanation and instruction. Vacation always found him with a book in his hand. He began to take an interest in public affairs by circulating a petition memorializing Congress for the passage of Charles Sumner's Supplemental Civil Rights' Bill. As this was in the trying days of Reconstruction, a white physician who favored the measure was driven out of the town with his family and others threatened. Young Richards early acquired a reputation in his native county as a speaker, having carried off the prize in an oratorical contest at Forest Hill in his sixteenth year, his competitors being picked scholars three or four years his seniors. His first political address, delivered in the court house at Athens in 1876, before he had reach his majority, attracted wide attention and elicited much favorable comment. In 1878 he entered Howard University, and during his last two years there led his classes in most of the college studies, although pursuing at the same time a course in the Law Department from which he graduated as valedictorian, June 1, 1881. President Garfield, who conferred the degrees upon the class, said of the valedictorian, "The country will hear from that young man". And it has often been remarked that his address on "The Genius of Popular Government" remains the best that has yet been delivered by a student of the Howard University Law School during the thirty-three years of its existence. Having considerable political influence he was appointed to a $1000 clerkship in the Treasury Department July 1, 1881, and promoted for efficiency to $1,200 the following year. This appointment enabled him to pay off his debts. The only financial aid he had ever had was the loan of money from the writer of this article, which money he now returned as he had borrowed it, by installments. In 1882 he completed a post graduate course in law at the head of his class, continuing the study of Latin and also of Greek, having originally learned the latter language with out a teacher, and devoted himself for several years, under able instructors to the acquisition of the French, Italian, German and Spanish tongues. On December 21, 1885, President Cleveland dismissed Mr. Richards from the Treasury Department for "offensive partisanship," and on January 1, 1886, he was given a school in the District Columbia, of which he remained in charge till June 15, 1886, when he returned to Tennessee, where he ministered to the only parent he had ever known in her declining years, and remained until after the close of her early pilgrimage. Wherever he had taught, he was sought as a teacher. Wherever he had spoken people wanted to bear him again In 1892 he had spoken along the line of the Southern Railroad against the repudiation of the State debt, and his speaches were so logical and persuasive, and so tempered with tact and kindliness; that he won golden opinions and many friends among both races. In 1887 he ardently supported the Prohibitory Amendment through East Tennessee, and spent election day at the polls working with the temperance women. During the same year he was elected --- alderman in a white liquor ward of his native town, receiving more votes than his three white competitors together, and was re-elected in 1888 by a similar majority, though he had taken an active part in the fight to close the saloons at night. He was e'ected Mayor pro-tem, for the year 1889 by acelama tion, as many Democrats as Republicans voting for him, and so was the first Negro to serve as Mayor in a Southern white community. Mr. Richards was admitted to the Athens bar December 5, 1887, and in the following April won distinction in the case of the State against Oscar Fifer, white, for the murder of Matt. Whiteside, colored. The Athenian says: "The Attorney General conducted the prosecution with the assistance of several distinguished lawyers, among them W. H. Richards." On the other side also was a goodly array of the best legal talent in the state. An exhaustive effort was made on both sides, and each of the attorneys made able and elaborate speeches in the case before it was submitted to the jury. The accused was sentenced to the penitentiary. Give a credit mark to Athens, Tenn., and don't forget that in the consumption of this victory for justice there was the fine, firm hand of the boy who had been left homeless on the hillside when one of the freedmen's school houses was caught in the prevailing epidemic of fire just 20 years before. In 1888 he was elected a delegate to the Republican County, Congressional and state conventions, and on returning to Washington in 1889, he was a favorite son of Tennessee; no man ever went up to the capital with better testimonials to the essentials of a true and noble manhood. Colored men praised him for his devotion to the cause of the weak and helpless. Republicans lauded him for his able advocacy of their principles, and Democratic members of the bar said he was a good lawyer, a thorough scholar, and a perfect gentleman. All Tennesseans agreed that he was able and worthy to fill any position of responsibility and honor. He wanted a consulship on the Mediterranean, but was offered a clerkship in the Post Office Department, and later a position in the Interior Department, which he accepted January 3, 1890, serving a year and a half, being once promoted. In 1890 he accepted the Professorship in the Law Department of Howard University, which he had declined four years before and has for the past ten years been an honored and useful member of the law faculty, being at present Professor of the Law of Evidence, International law and Personal Property, and has a law office at 420 Fifth street, n w., Washington, D. C. He is a member of the Graduate Club, president of the Howard University Union Alumni Association, is the literary spirit of the law faculty, and at president of the Bethel Literary and Historical Association for the past two years, has done much to develop a taste for all that is best in art, in literature, and in life. J.B.N. NELSONS STRAIGHTINE TRADE MARK THE LATEST DISCOVERY FOR MAKING KNOTTY. KINKY. CURLY HAIR STRAIGHT BEFORE AFTER STRAIGHTINE is no experiment, but a thoroughly reliable preparation. It has been successfully used by thousands in all portions of the country. We have hundreds of letters speaking in the highest terms of its merit, and every mail brings us fresh testimonials. Straightine is a highly perfumed pomade; it not only Straightens the Hair, but removes Dandruff, Keeps the Hair from Falling Out, cures Itching, Irritating Scalp Diseases, giving a rich, long and luxurious head of hair—so much to be desired. Guaranteed perfectly harmless. Price, 25 Cents a can at all drug stores, or sent by mail to any address on receipt of 30 Cents in stamps or silver. Address, NELSON M'F'G CO., Richmond, Va. & Big Money for Agents. Write for Terms. ```markdown ``` POLITICAL REVIEW OF THE WEEK Signs and omens: When the Democratic party is reduced to the necessity of hiring plug uglies and thugs to rotten egg, stone and otherwise insult the most distinguished men in the Republican party who make speeches in behalf of their party, it portends that the Democratic party is in the highway to defeat and that decomposition and disintegration will shortly eventuate. When Governor Roosevelt was assaulted and insulted in Colorado re- J. LIEUT. GOV. WOODRUFF. cently, it was a sign that all the Democrats in that particular section of Colorado would soon be afflicted with oral incoherence and that there wasn't anybody in that village who could measure up to Colonel Roosevelt in brains, ability or physical courage that is, nobody of the Democratic faith. When a Democratic bummer and rowdy threw a cake of ice at Senator Hanna, who was speaking in a western city recently, it was an omen of evil to the New York ICE TRUST. There are other signs too numerous to mention, among which is the loquacity of the "emperor of New York," Richard the First. When Richard ejaculates overmuch at this stage of a campaign, state or national, it is an unfailing sign that he doesn't know "where he is at," or, if he knows, is not willing to tell. Lieutenant Governor Woodruff was the orator of the day at the emancipation celebration at Binghamton, Sept. 27, and delivered an oration which is still being applauded. The lieutenant governor's familiarity with the history of the negro as "soldier, citizen, public official, professional man and industrial" opened the eyes of his auditors, and the Binghamton Republican says that during the delivery of his oration "he was frequently interrupted by thunders of applause." He made a great hit, and he will be in greater demand hereafter by colored organizations. The lieutenant governor is one of the most graceful, eloquent and pleasing platform speakers in the Empire State. One of the tricks of the white men of the south who are desirous of giving a black eye to negro suffrage in that section is to induce alleged "well known business and professional men" in that section to write to the New York Sun and other northern Republican papers to say that they are quite willing to support and vote for McKinley provided they can be assured that the negro will be eliminated as a factor in the politics of the south, etc., ad nauseam. When these men—these traitors—were conspiring to shake the foundations of the republic and to trail the stars and stripes in the dust of humiliation and defeat, to blot out the constitution and to make human slavery the corner stone of liberty, the negroes were the only real patriots and honest defenders and protectors of the nation's honor and integrity in the south. They gave aid and comfort to the Yankee soldiers in camp and field; they fed the half starved Federal prisoners in rebel prisons and helped thousands to escape the horrors of these earthly hells; they acted as spies and guides to the Union troops in the "enemy's country," and there never was found among them a traitor in a black skin. In the still hours of the night and the early hours of the morning they were faithful and true friends to the hated Yankee soldiers, and when white winged peace o'erspread her wings upon the ruins of the Southern Confederacy the faithful and loyal negro stood by the Yankee until he had made this a nation and the union perpetual. And now the conquered white men of the south are seeking to obtain by strategy and diplomacy, by hypocrisy and half hearted protestations of loyalty to a magnanimous foe, what they could not obtain by treachery and force of arms. What monumental audacity, what cold blooded effrontery, to ask and expect the Republican party to eliminate the negro from politics when the negro was the bulwark of the party in the halcyon days of its power in the south. Perish the thought! JOHN E. BRUCE. IN THE EMPIRE STATE. Mr. Anderson's Telling Speech-The Ladies Preparing for Thanksgiving. Buffalo New York, Special.—Officers and members of the Buffalo Working Boys' club and the ladies and gentlemen of the community are putting toth very strenuous efforts and energy for their "Ladies' evening full dress reception" and gentlemen's evening full dress ball on Thanksgiving every November 29th. This ball will be of unique style and order. The Marshall and Robinson dancing class Friday evening. October 17th, at Walker's dancing academy instruction in all the latest dances. Special attention to beginners. The regular monthly meeting of the Afro American Investment Company will be held at the Michigan Street Baptist church, Friday evening, Nov. 2nd. The ladies of this company will give their old folks concert at Golden Hall, Oak and Clinton streets, Thursday evening, Oct. 25th. Admission 25 cents. The Phyllis Wheatly club held its first open meeting for the season at the Michigan Street Baptist church, Sunday, Oct. 6th, which was largely attended. The regular,monthly meeting of Buffalo Working Boys' club will be held at the residence of Mr. Robert Buckner Thursday, November 25th. Members are requested to be present. Mr. Thos. Robinson, excorresponding secretary of the Buffalo Working Boys' club slipped and bruised his knee cap but is now recovering. Mr. Anderson, of New York city, the republican political philosopher, addressed the colored republican league last week at Town Hall. Mr. Anderson in fact did not address the league but preached. His text was taken from Deut. 32 chapter and 15th verse. He showed in his sermon that he was well acquainted with the political situation of the American Negro. He held the audience spell-bound for 45 minutes and won great applause. Public sentiment has been aroused as to the forming of a new citizens league which is much needed in this community. The Negro is fast realizing the fact that the strength of the white man in America lies within the efficiency of organization; that if he ever ex- ducts to be lifted to the standard of respectability and strength he must do the same. The Colored American can be had of Jas. W, Marshall, 280 Elm street. Malaria, chills, and fevers cured by Dr. Hoskins Indian Sage. Telephone: 797 THE RAY MEDICAL INSTITUTE X Ray in use for examination and diagnosis. German specialists treat all chronic diseases of man and woman; catarrh, rheumatism, brain, stomach, hear t, kidney, bladder, hemorrhoids (piles) cured; vitality restored. RUPTURE CURED. Latest electric discovery; no knife, no injection; no pain. Trusses on trial Private diseases, stricture, impotency, varicocelle, hydrocele, syphilitic skin and blood poison cured without mercury. Especial attention given to old and so-called incurable cases treated and cure accomplished. Hours 10 to 12, 2 to 6 Tuesdays and Saturdays till 8 evening. DR. CZARRA, 316 6th street and 494 Louisiana avenue, northwest $1.00——ONLY——$1.00 HISTORY of the COLORED SODERS IN THE SPANISH-AMREICAN WAR ```markdown ``` By EDWARD A. JOHNSON, Author of the Famous "School History of the CONTAINS—Pen pictures of the Daring Charges made Juan, El Caney, and around Santiago.—Corporal Brown killed cannon which knocked over the block house and saved the Berry, the colored soldier who was first to raise the An erica The glowing tribute to McKinley, Miles, Roosevelt, and man of Negro Soldiers—General Morgan advocates Negro officers. Gomez, Miss Ciseros, and the Cuban Women Cavalry.—The Army.—The Negro Poet, Paul Lawrence Junber—"Eddie" is outwitted the diplomacy of the Spanish Minister at Washing Uncle Sam's money.—The colored Register of the Treasury whom money to it good. Every Page Briiful of New and Interesting Reads to me and line engravings of soldier, officers, and scenes of the War, with A FINE PICTURE OF AGUINALDO, his headquarter nia, and a brief sketch of the Phillipinos and their civilizati Handsome Picture of General Nelson A. Miles, the mand of all the American Army, who said the fighting of the Santiago was "without a parallel in the history of the world, Little." Mailed Free. us "School History of the Negro Race." At the Daring Charges made by Negro Soldiers at San Santiago.—Corporal Brown killed at his post while firing a the block house and saved the Rough Riders.—Sergeant was first to raise the American flag on San J an Hill-ly, Miles, Roosevelt, and many others on the bravery man advocates Negro officers.—Antonio and Jose Maco,utar Women Cavalry.—The Negro Paymasters in the Lawrence Junber—"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 fifty half-adder, officers, and scenes of the late Spanish-American MAGUINALDO, his headquarters, a Filipino lady of Mali-llipinos and their civilization. General Nelson A. Miles, the Major General in com-ny, who said the fighting of the colored soldiers around el in the history of the world." All for $1, "Much in Author of the Famous "School History of the Negro Race." CONTAINS—Pen pictures of the Daring Charges made by Negro Soldiers at San Juan, El Caney, and around Santiago.—Corporal Brown killed at his post while diving 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 Jan Hili.—The glowing tribute to McKinley, Miles, Rootevelt, and many others on the bravery of Negro Soldiers—General Morgan advocates Negro officers.—Antonio and Jose Maclo, Gomez, Miss Ciseros, and the Cuban 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 Bribulous of New and Interesting Reading, with about fifty half to one and line engravings of soldier, officers, and scenes of the late Spanish-American War, with A FINE PICTURE OF AGUINALDO, his headquarters, a Filipino lady of Manila, and a brief sketch of the Philippinos and their civilization. Handsome Picture of General Nelson A. Miles, the Major General in command of all the American Army, who said the fighting of the colored soldiers around Santiago was "without a parallel in the history of the world." All for $1, "Much in Little." Mailed Free. AGENTS WANTED. Big percentage. Send for copy E. A. JO Corner West and Lenoir Streets, A. JOHNSON Raleigh, North Carolina. Corner West and Lenoir Streets. Raleigh, North Carolina. A Great Paper. It is no disparagement to the worth of any of our great colored journals, and there are several, to say that The Colored American, edited by Mr. E. E. Cooper, Washington, D. C., is an easy leader.—The Demonstrator. 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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, GRO. J. SAFPORD, Secretary. 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 Departent from Primary to Normal Course. Job Work Solicited and Profits given to the Students. Catalogues now ready. Address, JOSEPH D. MAHONEY. Allegheny, Pa. 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 Phelps'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 to 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. Back 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 Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama. DRESSMAKING ACADEMY. The de Lam Orton Famous French Perfection Tailor System Academy MME J. A. SMALLWOOD, Sole Agent 1513 Madison St. Northwest. Morning class from 9 a. m. to 1 p. 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. Pupils can enter at any time. Summer course begins June 15th. RIPANS Wanted—a case of bad health that R-TP-A-N-S will not benefit. One gives relief. No matter what's the matter, one will do you good. A cure will result; reactions are followed. They banish pain, induce sleep, prolong life. Sold as a drug stores, ten for five cents. He cure is got the genuine. Don't be fooled by substitutes. Ten 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. Sixth St., Philadelphia, Pa. En.detseicher Artet. Guarantees to cure after all others fail. PRIVATE DISEASES. DISCHARGES. RUNNINGS. ABUSES. LOSSES (uses no mercury no caustic injection) or nauseating drugs) EXCESSES. BLOOD POISON. LOST MANHOOD. Varicocele & Strietures, no cutting. 35 practice & 6 years hospital experienced. Prescribed in 4 to 10 days. Avoid any treatment in a patch. Ruins. Amount to send for stimulants & Blooms. Electrical frauds. Treatment by Mail. Instant relief. $7 Write. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D.C. Town Topics. Nice and cool isn't it? Play pool? Sparta Billiard Rooms 1203 Pa. ave. Billy Kessands made quite a hit in Columbus, O., during the past week. Mr W. C Ross, who spent the summer in Atlantic City, left for Cincinnati last Wednesday where he will take charge of the Burnett House as headwaiter. Mr. Berkley Waller, spent a few days in Baltimore this week. While there he registered and proposes to cast a straightout republican vote for McKinley and Roosevelt. For first class groceries, finest imported and domestic wines, liquors, cigars and everything to be found in a high class, up-to-date grocery, goto H. H. Elliotts, 1520 14th street, northwest. Mr. James McIntosh and Miss Lottie Connor of sixth street were quietly married in Baltimore, Wednesday night. The reception on 22d inst., from 8 to 10 p. m. Friends invited; residence 1525 6 street, northwest. Mr. W. D. Montague, assistant assessor for the District of Columbia, is taking a much needed rest in the way of a vacation. Mr. Montague is one of the most popular officials around the District building and has a host of friends among all classes. His vacation lasts a month and he will spend a part of it out of the city. Miss Maggie G Kelsey, of Salisbury, N. U., accompanied by Mr. C. N. Garland, a Shaw University medical student, passed through the city recently. Miss Kelsey had spent the summer visiting Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A Kelsey and other friends North. Mr. Garland was returning to Shaw to complete his course in medicine. Mr. Theodore Drury, of the Drury Grand Opera Company, and the premier baritone and pianist of the race, is contributing an article on successful Afro-Americans on the stage for Werner's Magazine. Mr. Drury's Grand Opera Company will be at the Metropolitan A.M.E. church this season, when all Washington will turn out to hear it. Rev. Garnett R. Waller, pastor of the Trinity Baptist church in Baltimore and brother of Rev O. M. Waller of St. Luke's P. E. church of this city, was married in Richmond last Tuesday night. Accompanied by his bride he spent a few hours in Washington last Wednesday and left for Baltimore where a grand reception was tendered him by with his friends and members of his flock. Mr. Aaron Oliver the popular messenger of Supt. C. R. Skinner of the Department of Public Instruction who has been spending his vacation for the past 6 weeks at St. Lawrence Park, Jefferson county, has returned to his to his desk weighing 18 ounces more than he did when he left Albany. Aaron took his wheel with him and fed sumptuously on Jefferson County ozone. Hence his fatness. Mr. George Young of Springfield, Ill. has just entered Howard University. He is a son of Hon. J. W. Young, one of the supervisors of Sangamon county, one of the most important elective positions in the county. The son has been for six years page in the Illinois legislature. At the last two legislatures he was elected chief page of the senate, a distinction never before accorded to an Afro-American. He is stopping with his uncle, Mr. George C. Smith of the Treasury Department. A. H. Gives the names of dead and living friends tells who and when you will marry also of business journeys lawsuits, absent friends health or anything you wish to know, no matter what it is. He can call up your spirit friends and show them to you. Can make them rap all around the room. He asks no questions don't ask you to write names or him. Don't try to pump you in any way, out tells you right off. He is thoroughly informed by leading spiritualists everywhere, received from them a gold medal and special license to practice his wonderful powers; credentials no one else can show can give thousands of references to both white and colored patrons Twenty-five years' practice—seven in brooklyn—will show you that he can do all he of. Can tell what business is best for you and where, how to win speedy marriage with the one you love. How to be successful in all your doings in short what is best to do. He will succeed when all others fail. Positive satistaction or no pay. Call and see. You will find it luck to consult this (Christian gentleman). He has a medicine that will cure drunkenness; can be given patients not knowing it. Thousands through him are now RICH HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL with all their undertakings,while those w o neglect his advice are still laboring again. poverty. Through his perfect knowledge chemistry he can impart to you a secret that will overcome your enemies and win you friends. His aid and advice has often been solicited; the result has always been the securing of speedy and happy marriages and all your wishes. In love affairs he never falls. 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 noney away on such. Dr. Shea refers to the Hon. Charles Miler, capitalist, 2481 Atlantic avenue; the Hon. William Denmore, architect and builder, 47 Cleveland avenue, and Mr. Arthur Sewell, ship builder South Brooklyn. All have known him for the past ten years. He gives a free test of his power to all. The doctor has practiced five years in New Orleans, St. Louis, Memphis and Louisville, understands thoroughly the diseases, spells or influences the race is subject to. He has now and always had large patronage from them. PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING: Broklyn, August, 15, 1891-This letter is to certify that I came to New York from Albany. I was a stranger in a strange city, out of work and out of money. I had no luck in anything I undertook. What to do I did not know. A friend advised me to go and see Dr. Shea. I did. He told me the cause of my troubles; he took me in and treated me as a brother. Through him I got a good position that very week. I had been to others, they took my money and did me no good. I bless the day I first met Dr. Shea I would advise all in bad luck, sick or in trouble to go to him at once. Sincerely, Albert Ayers, 2987 Atlantic Avenue. IMPERIAL WHITENER Oh, Ladies! Stop and Wear almost white. Melatto or like bottle is all that is required be kept up. My Imperial Wine I will pay $100 to any one the use of improved machines of all I have been willing it now, to introduce it at once. Me 60. Remember. I guaran are not excluded to every way. Oh, Ladies! Stop and consider. Do you know that my celebrated Imperial Whitener will positively brighten black skin, making it almost white. Molatto 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 $100 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 $5.00 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 $0. Remember. I guarantee every bottle, and I will send both the money if you are not satisfied in every way. Don't delay, but send life as soon as BILAS GATHRIGHT, 141 W. 100th Street, New York, N.Y. ILLUSTRATIONS CUTS MADE OF ANY- THING, BY ANY PROCESS. FINE WORK AT LOW PRICES. THE Maurice Joyce Engraving Company. EVENING STAR BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D.C. --- 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 sill 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. 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 look o. patient's hair, which I did by her daughter. He told at once what was the matter, and in a short time cured her sound and well. Her family had seemingly been under a cloud. Now all is changed. All are well and prosperous. I can truly and heartily recommend Dr. Shea, to all those in sickness or distress of any kind. Rev. William Johnson, pastor Lebanon church, Brooklyn. Dr. Shea can show thousands such as the above. has been carefully educated in the Homeopathic and Electric Schools of Medicine. His success is wonderful in curing paralysis Rheumatism, Asthma, Sore Eyes, Tumors, Cancers, Constipation, Ague, Dyspepsia, Tape Worms, Liver Con plains, 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. Be can and will honestly tell you if you can be cured. Has all new remedies and new success. Has an ample experience in public hospital and private clinics. No trifling with human life. Call at once. Do not delay. Diplomas hang in parlors. Is a registered physician. A new remedy to then matism just discovered, not a liniment. Hopeless cases and those that others can not cure solicited to call. Fat folks thin, the childless made parents. All letters must contain $1.00, two stamps, age, lock of hair. Charges for medical treatment only. Closed Sundays. Mention this paper. and consider. Do you know that my celebrated Imperial Whitener will positively brighten black skin, making it right skin persons can bleach the skin entirely white. One to complete the treatment, and the use does not have to Whitener cannot fail. It is harmless in every respect, and proving to the contrary. The effect is seen at once. By my I have managed to make it at a price within the reach at 85.00 a bottle. Recently I reduced it to 82.00, but I will send a bottle, prepaid, to any one who will send over every bottle, and I will send both the money if you don't delay, but send 80s at once to WILAS GATHRIGHT, 441 H. S. Street, New York, N.Y. 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, --- MARKELOUS MEDIUM Mrs. Mary Miller, South Flatfield, N.J. DR SHEA THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. OZONO IS KING OF ALL HAIRTONICS BE WARNED. By honest methods and is to-day the only gen-ence, and possessing the confidence of the colored excited the cupidity of the unprincipled, who, to get injurious to the hair and skin, and dangerous to health and life. Be warned; don't send your money to get only in return a mass of lard and tallow and animal fats, that injure your hair and cause it to fall out, destroy its growth, and cause you to become bald. Deal with a legitimate firm, who will treat you fairly and give you value for your money. We do solemnly swear that our remedies are true to all we claim for them; that they do not contain any animal fat or injurious drugs, and we will return the money for every case of disease isfaction. We refer to Metropolitan Bank, Richmond, Va., or to the editor of this paper. The word OZONO and the cuts shown in this advertisement are registered as our trade-mark in U. S. Patent Office. Any infringement will be promptly prosecuted. OZONO positively straightens Knotty, Knappy, Kinky, Stubborn, Harsh, Refractory Hair. No injurious hot irons are necessary so produce this effect. OZONO does the work alone, and the use does not have to be kept up after the hair becomes stright, and washing the hair hastens the treatment, doing it good in every way. Cures Dandruff, Baldness, and all itching, running, scaly, humiliating scalp Diseases; causes the hair to grow long and straight, soft, fine, and beautiful as an April morning. Price, 50c. a box; 4 boxes does the work OZONO cannot fail. Read our grand offer: Cut out this advertisement and send to us with $1.00, and we will send you immediately long boxes of OZONO; one bottle of ELECTRICAL SKIN REFINER, which makes rough skin soft and brightens up black skin several shades; also one bottle of SKIN FOOD, which removes Wrinkles, Freckles, Moth Patches, Tan, Liver Spots, Small-Pox Pits, Birthmarks, &c. It makes the aged look young, and the young look younger. We will also, to show our liberality, include a package of ANTI-ODOR, which removes all smells and odors arising from the human body—such as feet, arm-pits, &c.; cures Sore Throat and Mouth, Womb Diseases, Sore and Frosted Feet, &c. This grand combination, worth $8.50, we will send you on receipt of One Dollar, to introduce honest goods. Parties sending us $8.00 will receive four lots. Register your letters. AGENTS WANTED. BOSTON CHEMICAL COMPANY. 310 E.BROAD ST.RICHMOND,VA. is the fastest selling article ever offered to agents. The price is low (25c), and it pays the agent a good profit. It is well advertised in the newspapers, and is not like trying to sell a preparation that is unknown. We keep our agents supplied with circulars and other advertising matter, and guarantee the sale of our goods. The Company making Straightline is chartered under the laws of the State of Virginia, with ample capital to carry out all its promises. Its officers are among the leading citizens of this city, and should not be, confounded with the many "take" concerns that are trying to do business on the reputation we have made for Straightline. Straightline to-day has the largest sale of any hair preparation on the market. It is sold and used in every State in the Union, and in many foreign countries, and is highly endowed by all users. and other advertising matter, and guarantee the sale of our goods. The Straightline is chartered under the laws of the State of Virginia, sal to carry out all its promises. Its officers are among the leading city, and should not be,confounded with the many 'fake' concerns to do business on the reputation we have made for Straightline. Today has the largest sale of any hair preparation on the market. It is every State in the Union, and in many foreign countries, and is high- users. WE WANT 10,000 MORE AGENTS AT ONCE. Write to day for terms and f in your place. A trial can (about will be mailed to any address or and letters to NELSON MANUFACT for terms and full information before someone else gets the agency trial can (about one month's treatment) of Nelson's Straightline any address on receipt of 80c. in stamps or silver. Address all orders MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Richmond, Va. 1001 ACTIVE AGENTS WANTED TO SELL "The Story of My Life and Work" Write to day for terms and full information before someone else gets the agency in your place. A trial can (about one month's treatment) of Nelson's Straightline will be mailed to any address on receipt of 30c. in stamps or silver. Address all orders and letters to NELSON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Richmond, Va. J. B. "The book is of more than First, it is a shining example to perseverance may do. Second, Record. OUTFIT FREE TO A s of more than ordinary interest for it possesses a double significance. Inning example to both the white and black man of what forbearance and may do. Second, its connection with the race problem."—Philadelphia FREE TO AGENTS: Send 24c in stamps for mailing and we will forward free our Magnificent Prospectus actions for canvassing. The book is sold only on subscription through agents. Address, J. L. NICHOLS & CO., Naperville, Ill. "The book is of more than ordinary interest for it possesses a double significance. First, it is a shining example to both the white and black man of what forbearance and perseverance may do. Second, its connection with the race problem."—Philadelphia Record. OUTFIT FREE TO AGENTS: Send 24c in stamps for mailing and we will forward free our Magnificent Prospectus with full instructions for canvassing. The book is sold only on subscription through our authorized agents. Address, J. L. NICHOLS & CO., Naperville, Ill. 16 8 We Want Agents in every City, Town and Village in the United States to sell The Grandest Hair Preparation ever discovered, Nelson's Straightine Agents can make from $2.50 to $5.00 a day working for us, or they can devote their spare time to the work and make from $1 to $3.00. BY BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute and the popular leader of the Negro Race. Published in one large volume of over 400 pages and appropriately illustrated with more than 50 original drawings and photo-engravings; size 6 x 8½ inches. Sample copies mailed direct on receipt of price, $1.50, in cloth. Few books have become so quickly and so immensely popular as Mr. Washington's Autobiography. Prominent men and the public press throughout the country have many words of praise. The following are samples: "I assure you the book is greatly appreciated."— Wm. McKinley, President of the United States. PARLOR FURNITURE ON EASY PAYMENTS. Not only Parlor Furniture, but every thing else necessary to make your home cozy and comfortable for winter. Our new stock of Parlor Suites embraces the newest and handsomest patterns in silk and satin damask, tapestries, and broca-telles. We devote one entire floor to their display, and you will find a Suite here at almost any price you can mention. We CARPETS MADE, LAID, AND LINED FREE. the quickest kind of work in making and lay- before 2 o'clock will be executed the FOL- no extra charge for making, laying, and three yards that are wasted in matching figures. is arranged to suit you. have the facilities for doing the quickest k ing carpets. Orders received before 2 o'c LOWING day. We make no extra c lining—nor for the two or three yards that Weekly or monthly payments arranged to Grogan have the facilities for doing the quickest kind of work in making and laying carpets. Orders received before 2 o'clock will be executed the FOLLOWING day. We make no extra charge for making, laying, and lining—nor for the two or three yards that are wasted in matching figures. Weekly or monthly payments arranged to suit you. 817-819-821-823 Seventh Street N W, Between H and I Streets. Mme Turner's Great French System M. Gives a Wonderful And Beautiful Complexion. Prices Reduced Until September 29th. Now is your chance to get rid of your Liver Spots, Freckles, and all Blemishes in 8 or 10 days. Mystic Face Bleach and accompanying Soap 75 Cents. If not found at your druggist's send to 1312 Carondelet Street. New Orleans, La. BENNETT B SLADE & CO. MERCHANT TAILORS, Cleaning, Dyeing & Repairing, 1202 E Street, N. W. --- CARPETS MADE, LAID, AND LINED FREE. MAMMOTH CREDIT HOUSE MME. M. C. TURNER. NOTICE. Madam G A. Finnie Mack will open a class this fall by request. The class will open with five ladies If there are any others desirous of joining, call or address her at 1840 Vermout ave. n w. The class will open October the 15 h. Would like to have all to begin as near together as possible. Office hours from 9 to 12 a. m. and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p. m.