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The COLORED American A NATIONAL REGRO NEWSPAPER VOL. 8 NO. 46. WASHINGTON, D C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1901. PRICE FIVE CENTS S * ```markdown ``` Hon. JUDSON W. LYONS, EDITORIAL: MISCELLANY. GOTHAM NOTES. REGISTER LYONS' CAREER. PREJUDICE IN THE ARMY. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Hon. GEO. H. WHITE, THE LAST COLORED CONGRESSMAN DELIVERS AN ELOQUENT VALEDICTORY TO THE MEMBERS OF THE LOWER HOUSE OF CONGRESS. THE PASSING THRONG. HOW NEGRO DISFRANCHISE MENT HAS WORKED. AFRO-AMERICAN COUNCIL DAY. ```markdown ``` --- A FAMOUS MUSICIAN Cured of Catarrh and La Grippe by Peruna. COLORED PRINTERS AGAIN. Bruce Grit "Lines Out a Few Safe Ones and Discusses Negro Journalism Generally. I don't know that I ought to consume time and space in noticing Mr. Emmett C. Jones' rejoiner to my animadversious upon the methods of careless Negro printers, sometimes called "blacksmiths and type butchers." But I must call Mr Jones' hand when he assails the newspaper offices owned by colored men for making the wild statement that they havent type enough to do good work. Pernaps Mr. Jones never heard the adage "that bad work men quarrel with their tools." I have been in a number of Negro printing offices in my life time, as well as white ones, and it is only fair that I should state that the former were as complete in their appointments, and some of them more so, than the latter. Mr Jones should not make loose and wild statements in the effort to bolster up a bad cause. He must know that the Planet, Odd Fellows', Journal, York Age, Colored American and many other offices are well equipped with material. The Age is one of the best in the country, and he ought to know that there isn't a single "type butcher" on that paper. The foreman of the Age composing room, Mr. W. E. H. Chase, learned the best part of his trade in my office in Washington and is as good a printer as can be found in any newspaper office. Mr. Chase was not satisfied with being a mere machine he wanted to become a thorough master of his trade and he diligently applied himself and now he knows what he knows and why he knows it. There is no excuse for a bungler, no matter how much he thinks he knows, and "rag bag" printers think they know a great many things that would be important if they were only true. A friend of mine, who is a printer, not a butcher, writes me as follows: "I note your criticisms of type butchers in The Colored American and heartily subscribe to them. For while the proof reader must always come in for his share of responsibility, the average apprentice is too desirous of, and even encouraged, to become a journeyman bef re he has learned the first principles of even the devilship. The laws governing the trade require the white youth to serve an apprenticeship of three years, three months too often suffice to perfect the Negro wouldbe printer in the various branches of the "art preservative." My time at the — was largely taken in the instruction of apprentices and I know whereof I speak Time and again has pressure been brought to bear both from the apprentice himself, desirous of too speedy advancement, and the management from a pecuniary standpoint, as well as the exigencies of the situation to have me put a man to the case who barely knew the lay of it to say nothing of the nice points of spacing, justification, etc. This same man five years later (or twenty-five years later for that matter) is placed on his merit (as in the establishment of which I am now foreman) beside his three year apprenticeship white neighbor and after he has signed the pay roll perhaps twice he is gone fired, kicked out. Ask him why 'Be cause I am a Negro.' But look at his record. Three months apprenticeship! And these finished artists who absolutely refuse while drawing men's pay for boys' work to improve their opportunities in the "poorly equipped" composing rooms of Negro journals because they think they know it all, or because the proof readers don't do their part or because there is no copy editor, bosh! nonsense! Then Mr. Jones, who is evidently accustomed to setting type his fashion from engraved copy on 50 lb book paper makes fun of the chirography of contributors to Negro newspapers and confesses that he cannot read it—this is really too bad. If Mr. Jones had ever worked on the New York Tribune or the Commercial Gazette or any of the great metropolitan dailies in the days of Greely and Murat Halstead he would have been fired instanter for his egregious stupidity and mental obfuscation in being unable to decipher the hieroglyphics of some of the great writers of those days. Mr Greely's handwriting was execrable, Mr Halstead's copy, yards and yards of which I have handled, was almost if not quite undecipherable and Charles THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. ERIC HENRY DISTIN. OF PHILADELPHIA. Henry Distin, the inventor and maker of Henry Distin Manufacturing Co., at W. active old man in Philadelphia today. The fiftieth anniversary of their marriage, and Distin comes from one of the most famous father and grandfather before him, as well as the royal courts of England and the courts of England. 1441 South Ninth St. Dr. S. B. Hartman: Dear Sir—I write to inform you that the cember which lasted more than three m and several of my friends advised me that I began with a bottle the first week in deal of good. I was so well satisfied that lowed your directions, which you furnish say that it has cured me. I shall certain friends, Yours, very truly, Henry Distin, the inventor and maker of all the band instruments for the Henry Distin Manufacturing Co., at Williamsport, Pa., is probably the most active old man in Philadelphia today. He and his wife recently celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage, at their home, on South Ninth street. Mr. Distin comes from one of the most famous musical families of the old world, his father and grandfather before him, as well as himself, having played at most all the royal courts of England and the continent. 1441 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia, Pa., May 6, 1899. Dr. S. B. Hartman: Dear Sir—I write to inform you that I had a bad attack of la grippe last December which lasted more than three months, and which left me with catarrh, and several of my friends advised me to try your wonderful medicine, Peruna. I began with a bottle the first week in March and it certainly did me a great deal of good. I was so well satisfied that I purchased another bottle and followed your directions, which you furnish with every bottle, and I am glad to say that it has cured me. I shall certainly recommend the Peruna to all my friends. Yours, very truly, Henry Distin. Sumner wrote a flat which few men could read. But good printers who handled the manuscripts of these men somehow or other always managed to translate their copy. What does Mr. Jones want for the "butchers" whom he is defending, ready print copy? It is the business of a man calling himself a printer to know his business. When he doesn't know it he is just a plain "blacksmith" and if he were surrounded with all the type and paraphernalia of the best equipped office in the country his work would show the ear marks of the slovenly, careless "blacksmith." Young men the fault is not in your stars nor in the offices where you have opportunities and privileges you could not get elsewhere—but in yourself. The man who has the WILL to do comes nearer to success than the man who is always complaining about lack of opportunity. I pity any editor who is reduced to the necessity of allowing these "butchers." I say butchers and mean it, to edit his paper. Mr Jones I am glad to say is at one with me in the thought that these alleged printers should at least equal any in the profession, but he asks too much — "clean, properly prepared copy, sufficient material to work with, proof readers and his little 'encouragement' every pay day" in order to develop an acceptable workman. This is tantamount to saying that these brethren are really printers, but because they do not have all these nice things Mr Jones suggests they prefer to remain butchers. But what evidence do these ragbag printers give that they are entitled to this consideration and the "encouragement" which Mr. Jones bespeaks for --- rder of all the band instruments for the Williamsport, Pa., is probably the most He and his wife recently celebrated the at their home, on South Ninth street. Mr. his musical families of the old world, his well as himself, having played at most all attinent. Street, Philadelphia, Pa., May 6, 1899. I had a bad attack of la grippe last Denonths, and which left me with catarrh, so try your wonderful medicine, Peruna. March and it certainly did me a great that I purchased another bottle and follish with every bottle, and I am glad to only recommend the Peruna to all my Henry Distln. them? What encouragement do they give publishers to pay out good money for botch work? It is useless to argue the question, there is no excuse, no justification for the reckless, shiftless, unprogressive young Negro who dubs himself a printer, who lacks fact, enterprise. Interest in himself, interest in his employer who is an eye servant and a bad one at tht and who like the democratic party, neither learns anything or forgets anything. There isn't a white shop in the country that would put up with these "finished" artists more than twenty four hours. A compositor should take as much pride in the mechanical make up of a newspaper one job as the editor, or the foreman or the proof reader. This plea about the lack of material etc., etc., is all rot. It is a lack of interest. I have spent as much money paying type butchers--and I don't owe any of them a penny--as any man of my age and opportunities. I employed three to do the work on a little weekly sheet I once edited in Washington, they put me in a whole three weeks out of the four and I put them out and hired a Frerchman and two colored apprentices who did more and better work in two days than this bunch of incompetents did in two weeks—these butchers never distributed type excepted as they wanted to use them and they had a habit of sowing the floor of the composing room with type evidently to hide the dirt. Why wouldn't I have a grudge against the tyre butcher? I don't see that he has improved and until he does my opinion of him will be very pronounced and emphatic. I always try to sneak my piece plainly and I hore Brer Jones follows me. I'm through. --- As soon as any one is attacked with la gripe Peruna should be taken every two hours during the day-adults a tablespoonful, children a teaspoonful. But it is the after-effects of la gripe which are generally the most serious unless Peruna is taken. In all cases where Peruna is taken as above during the acute stage the recovery is prompt and complete; but where the ordinary treatment is followed the patient will complain for weeks and months of weakness, slight headache, want of appetite, and many other symptoms of low vitality. Such people should begin at once the use of Peruna-a tablespoonful before each meal, gradually increasing the dose to two tablespoonfuls. Mrs. Theophile Schmitt, wife of the Ex-Secretary of the German consulate, writes the following letter to Dr. Hart. man in regard to Peruna : 3417 WABASH, AVE., CHICAGO, ILL., The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O.: Gentlemen—"I suffered this winter with a severe attack of la grippe, and having repeatedly heard of the value of Peruna in such cases, I thought I would try it. I used it faithfully, and began to feel a change for the better the second day, and in the course of a week I was very much improved. Mrs. Schmitt. After using three bottles I not only found the la gripe had disappeared, but my general health was much better. I am satisfied that Peruna is a wonderful family remedy, and gladly endorse it." Yours, Mrs.Theophile Schmitt. La gripe is epidemic catarrh. Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. Send for a free copy of "Winter Catarrh." This book contains a lecture by Dr Hartman on la gripe, which has attracted wide attention. Address Dr. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio. BRUCE GRIT. A NEW SUPERINTENDENT Of Nurses and Head of Training School for Nurses at Freedmen's Hospital. Mrs. Sarah I. Fleetwood, the estimable and talented wife of Major C. A. Fleetwood, has just won a signal victory in a national civil service examination and received the appointment indicated in the head lines Mrs. Fleetwood's record was not only the best of all the competitors in various parts of the country but it was exceedingly high and creditable to a marked degree. It was to be expected that a woman of Mrs. Fleetwood's splendid education and broad culture would do well in any mental test, but her superb standing in an examination of such a character as the one through which she has won such a triumph for her race was beyond expectation. The Freedmen's Hospital is to be congratulated on this new acquisition as the head of one of its departments—a branch hitherto under the supervision of white women. Mrs. Fleetwood brings to her new place exceptional mental and moral qualifications. She is a woman who has had the best of social and educational environment and has always occupied a foremost position in the fields of activity for the development of her race. She was once a school teacher in our public school's, and in recent years she entered the regular training school for nurses at the Freedmen's Hospital from which she graduated with distinction. WF8F5Y.SFJ MBS. MARY E. WHETSEL. MISS WHETSEL'S DEMISE A Former Student of Howard University and a Promising Young Woman Goes Over to the Great Beyond. Sr. Johns, New Brunswick Special Jan. 10. 1901.—The death occurred yesterday afternoon of Mary Elizabeth only daughter of Mrs Robert Whetsel. The deceased, who was an exceedingly clever young lady, had been ill for about a year, during which time, in company with her mother, she visited several American health resorts, but at her own request returned home some little time ago. Miss Whetsel was 22 years of age, and a favorite with all who enjoyed the pleasure of her acquaintance. Mrs. Whetsel will leave with her daughter's remains Friday morning for Bedford, N. S., from which place the funeral takes place on Saturday at 230. Funeral service at the house at 8 p. m. on Thursday.—Daily Sun, St. John, N. B. The Halifax Recorder contained the following account of the burial of Miss Whetsel: The Episcopal church at Bedford, N. S., was fairly attended at the funeral services of Mary Elizabeth Whetsel, who died at the home of her mother, St. John, on the 9th inst. The gathering was made up of relatives and friends quite a number of whom went by train from the city. The services both at the church and grave were conducted by the Rev. Mr. Donaldson, of St. Paul's church, Halifax and consisted of prayers, Scripture reading and the singing of "Abide with me," the favorite hymn of the deceased. The floral tributes were particularly beautiful; among them were a pillow, our "sister," from her brother; bouquets of roses from each of the following: Mrs. J. Allison, W. H Barnaby, Mrs. L. McLean, Mrs. R. Keltie Jones, Mrs. W. H. Jones, Mrs. Boyle Travers, Mrs. Washington and daughter; a cross, Mrs. Lang, all of St. John and cut flowers, Miss Wilhelmina MacKerrow, of Halifax. The remains were placed at rest in the family lot adjoining the church. Miss Whetsel spent two years at Howard University, and greatly endeared herself to the many friends whom she met while here, all of whom are greatly saddened at the announcement of her untimely death, and extend to her loving and devoted mother heartfelt sympathy in her sad bereavement. 10 CITY PARAGRAPHS. Why don't you get a Douglasswatch? Mrs. S. E. K. Buchanan is very ill. Master Charles E. Cheatham is able to be out again. Mrs. Savoy who resides on 4th s'reet n. w. is improving. Mrs George H. White is improving from a long spell of illness. Hon. H. P. Cheatham is spending a few days in Littleton, N. C. Mr. Samuel N. Dulaney of 1528 New Jersey ave. n. w. continues very ill. Rev. J. I. Loving is conducting a revival meeting at Enon Baptist church. Miss Estelle Mitchell is now in Winchester, Va. where she will remain for the winter. Messrs. Charles Russell and John T. Howe has resumed their duties in the office of Recorder of Deeds. Master William Waters is in this city He is the son of Rev. J. C. Waters who is now in Wilmington, N. C. Miss Adna V. Hance, of Lexington, Va. is spending a few weeks in Pittsburg, Pa. with relatives and friends. Mesers. John W. Pope, Horace Sedgwich, Walter R. Franklin and George A. Cox, all of the Census Office have been promoted from $720 to $900 per annum by reason of the efficient rendered. Misses Annie King and Hattie Reed of Annapolis, Md., were the guest Friday, Saturday and Sunday of Miss Esseie Brown. Both young ladies regret their stay was so short but their school duties compelled them to leave Sunday night after a delightful visit. Get a Copy. Mr. Booker T. Washington's Autobiography continues to attract wide spread interest. The instalment contained in the February Magszine Number of The Outlook includes the famous address made by Mr. Washington at the opening of the Atlanta Exposition, when for the first time in Southern history a Negro was called upon to speak as a representative of Negro enterprise and Negro civilization in a great public meeting managed and controlled by the white people of the State. ($3 year. The Outlook Company, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York.) --- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. Get a Copy. DO YOU LOVE HEALTH? If so, consult the Indian Herb Medicine Man. L.J. Hayden, Manufacturer of the J.P. KERR Medicines, 620 N. Eutaw St. I cure all diseases that are known to man or beast or no charge, no matter what your disease, 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, leaves, seeds, berries, flowers and plants made into teas, for all complaints. I have cured thousands that the most skillful physicians and the best hospital physicians in America and Europe have given up to die, and said there was no cure for them. I cure the following diseases: Heart Disease, Consumption, Blood, Kidney, B'adder Structure, Piles in any form, Vertigo, Quincy, Sore Throat, Lung, Dypepsia, Indigestion, Constipation, Rheumatism in any form, Pains and aches of any kind Col's Bronchial troub'es, Sores, Skin Diseases, all itching senal Female Complaints, La Grippe or Pneuor Pneumonia, Ulcers, Carbuncles, Boils, Cancer, the worst forms 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. All venereal diseases a specialty. Medicine sent to any address by express. Consultation free by mail. 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First-class in every particular. MRS. DOLLY . JONES, Proprietress. Washington, D. C. SOUTHERN HOTEL Good board, stea, heat and electric bells, Home comfort, moderate prices. 311 Pa. Ave., nw. Washington, D. G. Fine wines liquor, cigars and tobacco. Jack M Ryan, Proprietor THE SUCCESSFUL CAREER OF AN Honest Man—The Life Portrayed of One of Virginia Noblest Son who has Risen From Low Estate to High Prominence in the Councils of a Great Denomination. Rev. L. W. Wa'es the subject of this short sketch was born of slave parents in Albermarle county in the year of 1660, state of Virginia. His parents being subjects of another were denied the privilege of giving their offspring the advantage of higher intelligence in incipiency of childhood. With only that which is the common heritage of all—could they endowed, faith in God and his all-ruling providence they gave Christopher Eugene REV. L. W. WALES him strong encouragement in the hope of eternal life. His father, the Rev. M. Wales also a man of God who led many right, left his son an unsullied name which any one may remember with pride. Rev Wales, the son of him who was known throughout the Piedmont section of Virginia as the father of the Baptist denomination, to day gives great evidence of the worth of such a godly man like Rev. Mansah Wales as father. When the roar of cannon had ceased and the smoke of musketry had cleared away, the public school training of African descent began. The young Wales was found soon thereafter attending school at Gordonsville tutored by Prof. Walter Johnson, who now holds the chair of Applied Mathematics in the Va. Nor. and Col. Inst. at Petersburg, Va. Here he made rapid progress finally entering the Richmond Institute, but upon learning more of man and matter, being convinced of his call to the highest profession known to men on earth ministering to the ills of the souls of immortals. Rev. Wales pursued diligently the course of studies mapped out by the Institute faculty. He soon became proficient in his studies, very easily ranking foremost in Theology and Hebrew of his class. During the last years in Richmond the Institute assumed the form of the Theological Seminary in which Greek and Hebrew were taught Rev. Wales taking advantage of these studies. Upon his graduation in 1885 he was called to the pastorate of one of the Baptist churches in Williamsburg, Va., where he has successfully labored and has lived ever since. He now preaches to as many people and members as the most favored men in the ministry of to day. To hear him preach once means you will seek another opportunity to have him speak for your personal edification. His services have been secured by many less favored to erect large and commodious church buildings: and to pay off many harassing debts. He is a financier of keen perception. He is now the honored treasurer of the Vir- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. ginia Baptist State Convention, Corresponding Secretary of the Tide Water Peninsula Association. Editor and proprietor of the "Peninsula Churchman," an excellent defender of the Baptist faith and practices; member of the State Executive Board of Va. Baptist State Convention, and one of the trustees of Va. Seminary and College. He is always able to find the truth and send it home to the hearts of his associates in business, church and state. Indeed it seems as though he holds the key to the mines of Him who controls the gold and silver of the earth and who counts His cattle upon a thousand hills. The Lord has blessed the life and labors of Rev. L W. Wales. And may his life be emulated by the young people of our race, for the world is certainly made better by such noble men and women who love God and who serve their neighbor as Rev. Wales has done. We could not forget the noble assistantance rendered him in his upward climb by companion Mrs. Sarah Wales with whom this man of God been associated for the past thirteen years. God bless them both, and all who read and take notice. G. C. COLEMAN. "FRED" DOUGLASS WATCHES. We have just received one of the Fred Douglass watches from The Colored American and which has been advertised in this paper. It is a neat, attractive, unique watch and it is guaranteed. It is not only a useful article but the fast of having is the highest tribute that can be paid to the greatest Negro American the country has ever produced. The Co'ored American is to be congratulated on its enterprise in giving such a valuable as well as such an ap propriate present. Mr. Douglass was never certain of the exact date of his birthday, but, knowing that he was born some time in February, he selected St. Valentine's Day as his birthday, and once a year the colored schools of the District of Columbia, as well as many schools in the other States, give the pupils a holiday in his honor. Those who would like to have one of these watches should read the advertisement in another column or should write to The Colored American, D C., for particulars. It is a present that is worth having.—The Afro American Ledger. And They Lived Happily Ever Afterward. There was a quiet but beautiful wedding at the rectory of St. Mary's Roman Catholic church at Bryantown, Md., on Wednesday Jan. 31st, the contracting parties being Waverly D. Green and Miss Sarah A. Wade. The groom is principal of the graded school at Hughesville, Md., and the bride is a prominent member and worker in St. Mary's church. 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Table Board—Meals Cooked to Order. Parties, Receptions and Suppers Catered To. ICE CREAM AND OYSTERS, Wholesale and Retail. 1800 FOURTEENTH STREET, Washington, D. C. 11 CHARLES H. SMILEY, 76 N. 221 St., Chicago, Ill. AFTER. 12 GOTHAM NOTES COLORED AMERICAN DIONYSIUS III NOTED PEOPLE. Aaron J. Oliver, Esq., the popular and capable messenger in the board of public instruction at Albany, is one of the most expert packers in the state service. He packs nearly all of the thousands of public documents that issue from that office. He is a bicycle enthusiast and owns one of the latest improved wheels. Aaron's a peach. The Rev. W. S. Kane, pastor of the Hamilton Street A. M. E. church, Albany, is reasonably happy as the result of the outcome of the fair recently given by that church which netted over $200. Dr. Kane is a forceful and convincing speaker and a very agreeable gentleman. William H. Brent, Esq. is the popular head waiter at Stanwix Hall. He is a Marylander and an uncle of the late Calvin Brent the architect of this city. Mr. Brent is prominently identified with church and society work in, Albany and is one of the trustees of Dr. Kane's church Mr. John D. Nichols is a promising young man who will some day loom up in the missionary field and make his mark. He is a fluent talker and is heartily devoted to church work. Henry A. Spencer, Esq, of Rochester known as "Old Adam" because he is so good, is the confidential messenger of Speaker Nixon of the New York State Assembly. Mr. Spencer is a product of the Rochester schools and is as bright as a new silver dollar. He is the director of the Crummell Historical Club of Albany and at a recent meeting of that organization paid eloquent and deserved tribute to the memory of the good Queen Victoria which was most highly appreciated. The Hon. Geo. H. Fitts is one of the most capable and efficient public servants in the county of Albany. He is a distinguished member of the Albany bar and is popular with all classes. The colored people have no better friend than he. He is one of the most approachable and affable men in public life and this is the secret of his great popularity. Judge George Addington of the city court of Albany, is a republican and a good one He is a young, brilliant lawyer and a spellbinder, who is in demand in every local or state campaign. He is president of the Unconditional Republican Club, the leading republican organization of Albany County, and a prominent member of the Elks. His star is in the ascendant and he has youth on his side and all the youths who like good people The Hon. John E. McElry who some years ago entertained Mr. Booker T. Washington at his palatial residence in this city when Mr. Washington addressed the Regents of the State Library at their convocation, is a brothel-in-law of the late President Chester A. Arthur, and is one of the leading business men of Albany and is prominently identified with the famous historicrl society of that city. He is greatly interested in Negro industrial education and is a great admirer of the Wizard of Tuskegee. He is a most genial gentleman. Edward G. Hitchcock, Esq. supervisor of the 13th Ward of Albany is one of the shrewdest political tacticians in Albany County. He is the founder of the 13th Ward Republican Club composed of young republicans who wisely follow his leadership and have implicit confidence in his political judgment. He is a cultured and refined gentleman, and when he is not playing politics, he devotes his spare moments to his books. The geneaology of the Hitchcock family—one of the oldest and best in the Empire State. George W. McKenzie, a former businees partner of our fellow townsman, Joseph Stewart of 15th Street who many years ago conducted one of the most popular hostelries in New York City, is, we learn an employee of the State Senate at Albany and a decided improvement over many of his predecessors in the office to which he has been appointed in that he does not attempt to enact the dual role of statesman and hired man. He is modest, unassuming, courteous and attentive to business and is making favorable record for him self among the solons of the state. George is al- right. Miss Mary R. Hoyt is a woman with decidely THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. strong and correct views on the question of the moral advancement of Negro women and girls in Albany, N. Y. She believes that the women of the race who have superior advantages should interest themselves more in the uplift of these unfortunate of her race and sex who she says "are too much neglected." She is an active church worker and a woman of more than ordinary intelligence. The great W. Dean Howells in the Literary Digest of February says: "I willing, rather than un-willing in coming down to the close of the century to find in Emily Dickinson, in Richard Hovey, in Stephen Crane, in Paul Laurence Dunbar, and in Edwin Markham assurances of continued vitality in our poets who if they no longer roll the psalm to wintry skies or put our national conscience into verse or have not, like the great New Englander the pathos of escape from the iminent deadly moral into the keeping of a somewhat timorous and self doubting beautiful, are still poets of as rare calling and election as most of the e remembered from the former centuries." HE SIGNS ALL MONEY. (Continued from 8th page) joys the universal respect and confidence of the men and women of his own race. While entertaining views and convictions that he cherishes, he expresses them with such courtesy and unfailing good temper that he never inflicts wounds that rankle and foster. Mr. Lyons is thoroughly and naturally popular in his tastes and habits. He listens to what every one who calls to see him, has to say, and does it too without any show of condescension. Nothing gives him greater pain than to be unable to bestow a favor. A gentleman speaking recently of Mr. Lyons' kindness to the race, said: "I think he has obtained more audiences for colored men seeking interviews with the President, than any other man of his race in a given time." This statement is doubtless true, and illustrates how untiring he is in effort that will help the race. As an administrative officer Mr. Lyons has shown himself to be a man of marked talent. His genius for detail already referred to, has enabled him to master the affairs of his office even to the matters of small daily routine. The manner in which his office handled the Spanish American War loan of 1898 is a permanent testimony of his faculty for administration. This loan presented new problems to the office of the Register. The loan was to be taken by the people; former ones had been taken by banks and syndicates. The clerical force of the office had to be temporarily increased to meet the emergency. But notwithstanding the new conditions imposed, the large force of inexperienced clerks to be trained, the thousands of bidders to be dealt with;—not a single error occurred, not a single bond went astray. Two hundred million dollars in bonds were sent to thousands of purchasers without a hitch or a mistake. The spirit of the times demands in leaders discipline, efficiency and experience. The tendency to continue in become a fixed not in our national life. The trained, experienced man has the call in this age. The colored race will not fail to give due credit to these qualities, and will support in places of honor and authority those who show themselves fit to discharge high duties. Such a man is Judson W, Lyons Blameless in integrity, ripe in scholarship, vigorous in mentality, loyal to race, crowned with achievement and recognized and commended by the strongest forces in our national life, he is now at the place in his career where the race cannot with justice to itself dispense with his services. The explosion of a gasoline stove shortly before 1 o'clock last Sunday afternoon set fire to the residence of E. G. Bailey, 229 New Jersey avenue, northwest. The fire department responded to an alarm from box 15 and prevented the damage from exceeding $20. Dr. A C Garrott of the Pension Bureau left for Montgomery Ala. last Sunday night to spend his annual leave. It is believed by a few knowing ones that the genial Doctor will consume his stay in feeling the public pulse as to the possibilities of locating there permanently in the practice of his profession. Call at your nearest news dealer for a copy of The Colored American. United Order of True Reformers. ORGANIZED January 1, 1881. Office 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 Rosebud. SUBORDINATE FOUNTAINS. 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 months. 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 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 months. 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 ROSEBUD FOUNTAINS. 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 m you die within a year. After one year the Death Benefit is $37. In the INSURANCE DEPARTMENT, there are Three (3) Classes:—Class B, Class E, and Class M. All dues are payable annually or quarterly. In Class B, the a dues, $4 75 to $7 60. After one year, its va In Class E, the a $9 50 to 11 40. The O one year its value is $ In Class M, the a $21 to $25. The cert You are entitled Classe B and E upo pays a dividend annu The Grand Four 29 1900. a total of 37 HALF MILLION DOLL Class B. the age limit is 14 to 60 years, 14 to 75 to $7 60. The Certifica e is valued one year, its value is $200 to $65. Class E, the age limit is 14 to 55 years, to 11 40. The Certifica e is valued first, its value is $500 to $300. Class M, the age limit is 14 to 50 years, $25. The certificate is valued from date you are entitled to a Life Membership. B and E upon purchase of the required dividend annually of 20 per cent. The Grand Fountain United Order of Trade, a total of 3782 Death Benefits, with a MILLION DOLLARS. THE BANK.—In our Sage and flourishing institution, der butthe race as well. Its capital stock is $100,000. Any other regularly constituting the same safeguards. The owners, and pays 20 per cent. dividends, received and 4 per cent. interest is paid by copy of the Cashier's report to Auditor of business Sept., 5, 1900 and shows its RESOURCES. and discounts ..... $8,272 80 stock, bonds and barges ..... 164,423 83 from National Banks ..... 48,383 22 Lung House ..... 14,000 00 real estates ..... 99,588 00 future and Fixtures ..... 6,850 00 nt expenses and taxes ..... 1,388 99 nicks, nickels and cents ..... 12,399 80 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 vocation and combination of the race and the General Messenger and the General Agent. A well equipped job office bids for out in first class style and at low price six miles from Richmond, in Henrico County of land, and established thereon an applied liberality and broad-minded genre to this home to its members alone, we are opened to the aged and decrepid orence or connections. The Order makes easy, and calls upon the whole people, by West to assist by their contribution the April 3rd of each year is set apart as distributions can be forwarded to the casmon 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 add- In Class B. the age limit is 14 to 60 years. Fee, $2.50 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 $200 to $65. In Class E, the age limit is 14 to 55 years. Fee, $5 to $650. Annual dues, $950 to 1140. 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 $1350. 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 HALF MILLION DOLLARS. THE BANK. In our Savings Bank the Order has a sound and flourishing 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 members, and pays are received and 4 pts a copy of the Cas close of business Sep RESOUR Loans and discount Other stock, bond mortgages ..... Due from National B Banking House ..... Other real estates ..... Furniture and Fixtu Current expenses are paid ..... Specle, nickels and Paper currency ..... Total ...... The Reformer's Richmond, Va., and 20 per cent. on the a THE REFORMER face in Richmond, V operation and combi the General Messen per year. A well ect turn d out in first o Six miles from 634 acres of land, an examplied liberality trance to this home doors are opened to residence or connec charity, and calls u and West to assist idea. April 3rd of Contributions can b who will send recei Members of the invited to stop at T and desirable locati The Real Estate the Ordeer. The C with a fee simple va buildings. 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 ..... 48,383 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 ..... 80,967 81 Undivided profits ..... 6,826 80 Demand certificate of deposit ..... 96,786 29 Time certificates of deposit ..... 118,424 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 Beaecon Light, the Headlight, the General Messenger and the General Agent of the Brotherhood. It is $1,000 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. BURKELL, G. W. Secretary] W. L. TAYLOR, L. TAYLOR, G. W, Master. SUBORDINATE FOUNTAINS. The Fountain you must be between 1 60 (according to age.) as joining fee ents, per month as dues; if in the ies 80 cents per month receive from $6.00 to $9.00 per month. our family receives $75.00 if you dr Benefit is $125.00 To join the Rosebud Fountain voucher and 14 year of age. You pay $100,000 installments. The monthly dues are 6% of Fountains may decide. The annual you receive as Sick Benefit from $1,50 to weekly payments. As Death Benefit, your family will pay you die within a year. After one year, pay $37. In the INSURANCE DEPARTMENT, the classes:—Class B, Class E, and Class F, payable annually or quarterly. Limit is 14 to 60 years. Fee, $2.50 for the Certifica e is valued first year at this is $200 to $65. Limit is 14 to 55 years. Fee, $5 to $6.50 for the Certifica e is valued first year at from $200 to $300. Limit is 14 to 50 years. Fee $11 to $13 for the Certifica e is valued from date of issue at from a Life Membership in either of the purchase of the required amount of money of 20 per cent. In United Order of True Reformers have Death Benefits, with a grand total of $1,000. THE BANK.—In our Savings Bank the flourishing institution that is a credit to the race as well. It began business in 1900 and regularly constituted bank, and time safeguards. The stock sells for per cent, dividends. Both time and interest is paid on time deposit's report to Auditor of Public Accounts, 1900 and shows its flourishing condition. RES. LIABILITY $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 pos.t..... Time certificates of Total..... Grocery and Feed Store is located at 501 N. members of the Order and the public garden of food products. The newspaper published by the order. It stands for the voice of the people, nation of the race and is the Beacon Light and the General Agent of the Brotherhood. It jobs office bids for the work of the lifestyle and at low prices. Richmond, in Henrico County, Va., the established thereon an "Old Folk's House" broad-minded generosity, the Order's members 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, their contribution the carrying out of a year is set apart as a Grand Rally Day. Forwarded to the casier of the Reformer for same and account for it to The Grand Order and the public, when visiting R Hotel Reformer, 900 North Sixth St. Service is of the best and rates are in department manages and controls all our now owns 13 buildings, 4 farms, 4 of $122,500. In addition to these the To join the Rosebud Fountain you must be between 3 and 14 year of age You pay $100, 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 $400 per month, in weekly payments. As Death Benefit, your family will be paid $2450 if you die within a year. After one year the Death Benefit is $37. 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 flourishing 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 V, Master. BOSEBUD FOUNTAINS. AN ADVANCE MOVEMENT. The Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in the District of Columbia Under the Leadership of M. V. P. Thomas H. Wright, Takes an Advanced Step with the Incoming of the New Century. Mr. Thos. H. Wright is regarded by many as the most prominent Odd Fellow in the District, and by reason of the eminently successful management of the affairs of the Odd Fellows' Hall Association for the past ten years in connection with erection of the Odd Fellows' Hall, as well as by the fidelity and zeal with which he has discharged the duties of the many other positions he has been called upon to fill, has done as much, perhaps, as any other one member of the Order of Odd Fellows in bringing this organization up to that high standard of moral worth and excellence that it now occupies in this city. The movement to which attention is herein called is the organization of the Odd Fellows' Lyceum, which holds its sessions each Sunday afternoon, in the spacious auditorium of Odd Fellows' Hall, M street northwest, and which its founder, Mr. Wright, says is designed for the especial benefit of the many young men coming into the Order, as well as for those that are not members of the Fraternity. So that not only will Odd Fellowship, in all its phases, be presented and discussed at the Lyceum by those connected with the Order and familiar with its principles and purposes, but that the many other matters relating to the interests of the race on all lines will also be brought to the attention of the Lyceum from time to time, and the foremost thinkers and ablest speakers invited to present them and the public given an opportunity to participate in their discussion. Mr. Wright is very enthusiastic over the successful organization of the Lyceum, and thinks that wisely managed it is destined to be of incalculable benefit to the Order and will greatly advance its interests, and believes that if the members of the Fraternity will cooperate with its President, Mr. J. B. Askins, that it will exert a strong influence and prove a powerful factor in the development of Odd Fellowship and the mental, moral and intellectual advancement of its members. There are in the District twenty-seven subordinate lodges, sixteen households of Ruth (the female branch), two Past Grand Masters Councils, two Patriarchies (the military branch), and four or five juvenile branches (sons and daughters of Odo Fellows), embracing altogether a membership of upward of three thousand; and to assist in the proper education and enlightenment of these, so that they may be the better prepared for the work of life and the uplifting of the race, are among the objects contemplated in the organization of this Lyceum and that actuated its founder, Mr. Wright, in his laudable effort in bringing about its formation; and he says that if it succeeds in any appreciable degree in doing this he shall feel that his effort shall not have been altogether in vain. In talking in a general way about the affairs of the Order and his long connection therewith, very many interesting incidents in his notable career as an Odd Fellow were brought to light. Not only is Mr. Wright a deep thinker and an entertaining conversationalist, but he is a forceful speaker, and has made many speeches and addresses in the interests of the Order here and in other places. It will be remembered by the readers of the Colored American that Mr. Wright's address delivered (and published in this paper) at the general meeting of the Order held in Indianapolis, Ind., about four years ago, was pronounced to be one of the most scholarly, eloquent and forceful addresses ever made before that body, and that such was the impression it made that had he consented to enter the race he could easily have been elected the Grand Master of the Order. It is said that in his masterly presentation and discussion of the "Aims and Purposes of Odd Fellowship" he not only demonstrated his ability as a speaker, but that his address in its appropriateness to the occasion has been unsurpassed by none and equaled by few of those who have enjoyed the honor of ad- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. dressing these distinguished biennial gatherings. Mr. Wright referred to two speeches that he had made that he said were exceedingly gratifying to him because they seem to have been productive of some good—one, made at Little Rock, Ark., in 1879, on the occasion of his first attendance as a Delegate to a general meeting of the Order, when, on account of some alleged irregularities in the management of its affairs, much dissatisfaction existed and its disruption was seriously threatened. Mr. Wright prepared a set of resolutions and supported them in a speech that completely changed the aspect of things, brought together the discordant elements, harmonized matters and set at rest all thought of severance between the sections. His other speech, which has also been referred to in the columns of this paper, was made here at the celebration of the forty-third anniversary of the introduction of the Order in this city. In this address, Mr. Wright, in the most forceful manner, called attention to the then deplorable condition of the Order in not having a decent place in which to meet and the urgent necessity of providing a home of its own. That address led to the erection of the beautiful and imposing structure located on M street northwest, in the very heart of the city and known as "Odd Fellows' Hall," Mr. Wright having been chosen as the President of the association charged with its erection—an office which he has held continuously for the past ten years and the duties of which he has performed with signal ability and success—and to his excellent business capacity, untiring energy, wonderful tact, indefatigable zeal and unswerving fidelity, is largely due the encouraging success so far made in the payment of the large debt incurred in the erection of this splendid building. The ground whereon this building stands cost, in round numbers, $100,000, and has long since been paid, and over $11,000 of the amount borrowed to put up the building has also been returned. When the adjoining lot at the corner of 16th and M streets was for sale Mr. Wright strongly urged its purchase and had his suggestion been adopted the Order would today have been the owner of one of the most beautiful sites in the city of Washington. Reference has heretofore been made in the columns of this paper to Mr. Wright as a school trustee, and, no doubt, had he been permitted to remain on the Board long enough, he would have made his mark. But, under the new law, being in the Government service, he was legislated out before he had the opportunity of familiarizing himself with his duties or formulate his plans. Everyone in Washington knows of Mr. Wright's prominence in the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church and the important services he has rendered in the establishment of that great connexional church. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees and the Superintendent of the Church almost ever since its construction, and by his unassuming manners, quiet energy, and ready tact in the performance of his exacting duties, has done much for the upbuilding of this great church. He has for the past five years worked heart and hand with its present scholarly pastor, Dr. J. Albert Johnson, whom he says he regards as one of the best exponents of Methodism that the A. M. E. Church has ever had in the Nation's Capital City. Referring again to the "Odd Fellows' Lyceum," he says that he is greatly encouraged at the outlook and believes it has come to stay. Last Sunday there was a very large attendance to listen to an exceedingly interesting and thoughtful paper presented by Mrs. Collier, of Queen of Sheba Household, entitled "Woman as a Factor in Civilization," which provoked a lively discussion. Next Sunday Lawyer R. S. Smith will read a paper on "Abraham Lincoln." The following Sunday Prof. J. W. Cromwell speaks on "Banneker," and on the fourth Sunday M. V. P. Samuel W. Watson, a prominent member of the Fraternity, will discuss the "Duties and Responsibilities of the Order." It is to be hoped that the members of the order throughout the jurisdiction and the community at large will Furniture buying is easy on Credit. EASY PA The paying of a small ame makes house furnishing an eas everything you need without and you have the use of the You need not be a judge of qua we guarantee the durability of are marked in plain figures—w they are as low as the lowest Furniture for every room in th tains, Fine Haviland China, B and Coal Heaters and Ranges— payments. Groga EASY PAYMENT paying of a small amount once a week, or on use furnishing an easy matter. It enables you need without any trouble, or incon- ceive the use of the furniture while payin- not be a judge of quality when you buy he see the durability of everything we sell. And in plain figures—which furnish abundan- t is low as the lowest, cash prices elsewhere for every room in the house—you will find Haviland China, Blankets, and Comforts Heaters and Ranges—all on easy weekly o Grogan's MA CRED EASY PAYMENTS. The paying of a small amount once a week, or once a month makes house furnishing an easy matter. It enables you to get everything you need without any trouble, or inconvenience and you have the use of the furniture while paying the bill. You need not be a judge of quality when you buy here, because we guarantee the durability of everything we sell. All prices are marked in plain figures—which furnish abundant proof that they are as low as the lowest cash prices elsewhere. Besides Furniture for every room in the house—you will find Lace Curtains, Fine Haviland China, Blankets, and Comforts, Gas, Oil, and Coal Heaters and Ranges—all on easy weekly or monthly payments. Grogan's MAMMOTH CREDIT HOUSE, 817-819-821-823 Seventh Street N W, Between H and I Streets. WILLIS L. T. MANUFACTURE FINE HAVANA .. None PATRONIZE A RA No. 435 Druid Hill Ave. Having had Early Experien Only is Asked. .. La Hones We take pleasure in ann we are prepared to fun Cigars, all hand made: THE FRED. DOUGLASS A healthy Five Cent Cigar a general favorite through FORTUNE'S FAVORITE An all Havana Ten Cent upon its own dignity anyw THE B K. BRUCE, An all Havana Fifteen superior of its kind in the El Eco. Boni Orders invited Douglas, Fo 4 CEDAR STREET, MILLIS L. TUNSTEL MANUFACTURER OF THE HAVANA CIGAR None Better ATRONIZE A RACE ENTERPRISE Druid Hill Ave. Baltimore had Early Experience in Handling Tobacco Only is Asked. Correspondence Invited. a Honesta Cigar take pleasure in announcing to the Trade are prepared to furnish the following lin- cars, all hand made: RED. DOUGLASS, healthy Five Cent Cigar which is bound to be general favorite throughout the United States. ONE'S FAVORITE, all Havana Ten Cent Cigar which will its own dignity anywhere K. BRUCE, all Havana Fifteen Cent Cigar which ha- dior of its kind in the Trade. CO. Bonito. El Ro Orders invited by Mail or Telegram. Douglas, Fortune & Co. STREET, No. 435 Druid Hill Ave. Baltimore, Md. Having had Early Experience in Handling Tobacco, a Trial Only is Asked. Correspondence Invited. .. La Honesta Cigars We take pleasure in announcing to the Trade that we are prepared to furnish the following line of Cigars, all hand made: A healthy Five Cent Cigar which is bound to become a general favorite throughout the United States. El Eco. Bonito. El Royalo. Orders invited by Mail or Telegram. Douglas, Fortune & Co., 4 CEDAR STREET, NEW YORK. FOR SALE Desirable Building Lots in the Northwest and Northeast Sections. Apply for Information to Scipio L. Baker, Room 14, 609 F Street, N. W., Washington, D.C. avail themselves of the opportunity presented by this Lyceum to spend an hour in pleasurable and profitable pastime each Sunday afternoon. --- YMENTS. unt once a week, or once a month by matter. It enables you to get any trouble, or inconvenience— furniture while paying the bill. city when you buy here, because everything we sell. All prices which furnish abundant proof that cash prices elsewhere. Besides house—you will find Lace Cur- ankets, and Comforts, Gas, Oil, all on easy weekly or monthly n's MAMMOTH CREDIT HOUSE, TUNSTELL, CURER OF NACIGARS Better . CE ENTERPRISE. Baltimore, Md. ce in Handling Tobacco, a Trial respondence Invited. ta Cigars . . bouncing to the Trade that will finish the following line of which is bound to become out the United States . . Cigar which will stand here . . Cent Cigar which has no Trade. El Royalo. By Mail or Telegram. Fortune & Co., NEW YORK. STUDIO OF COLUMBIA NEGRO ART CO. 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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. 10439 The Nicholson Institute, 780, Eighth Avenue, New York, U. S. A. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. How Negro Disfranchisement Has Worked. ```markdown ``` The disfranchisement of the Negro is forthwith to be accomplished in Virginia. An extra session of the legislature will meet January 23rd to issue a call for a state convention so to amend the constitution as to deprive the mass of blacks of the ballot. Virginia will then put itself in line with the Carolinas, Mississippi, and Louisiana; and Alabama is likely soon to follow. While well-informed public sentiment everywhere would approve the disfranchisement of the illiterate, white and black alike, it is plain that the dominant southern sentiment approves the disfranchisement of the illiterate black but lacks the fairness and the courage to disfranchise the illiterate white man also. The Virginia convention seems likely to accomplish the result by a variation of the 'grand father" clause (which permits an illiterate man to vote if his father or grandfather voted before the Negro was enfranchised) by permitting illiterate men to vote whose fathers or grandfathers were in the military service. This provision will give the ballot to most illiterate whites and to few illiterate Negroes. For it will disfranchise practically all the blacks and practically no whites. The frankly avowed purpose in all these states is simply to disbar the Negro. The provocation to do this any man who knows southern conditions can understand. Heretofore, it is frankly confessed, the Negro has been disbarred by fraud; and is it not better to disbar him openly by law? But the selection of illiteracy as a disqualifying reason is not frank; for illiterate white men are nowhere disfranchised. The motive, therefore, is deliberate, deep seated, lasting. At no time within a period that living men need concern themselves about will the Negro vote in any considerable numbers. This is the definite and final and deliberate action of the dominant southern sentiment. Upon this basis these states are now beginning a new era of political experiment. And many thoughtful men there hope for good results. They think that the Negro will soon come to take an active part in politics—the late ligent and thoughtful Negro, for the educated Negro who pays his taxes is not disbarred; and many men think that there will be a division of party opinion and a new era of political thought and activity. But so far, the disfranchisement of the mass of blacks in South Carolins, in Mississippi, and in Louisiana (and there has been time enough in these states for results now to be apparent) has not brought such results. The Negro eliminated, only one political party remains, and political stagnation has followed. In Mississippi, the requirement that a poll tax be paid long before the election deprives many white men also of their votes. But it does not bar them out of nominating conventions. Many communities are ruled by a mere handful of whites who cannot even cast ballot. For instance, there are 320,000 males of voting age in Mississippi, but the whole vote cast in the state in November was only 59 000. This is 11,000 votes less than were cast four years ago under the same restrictions of suffrage. In other words, the whole state of Mist sissippi cast practically no more ballots to elect seven members of Congress than were cast in a single congressional district in New York. (The fourteenth New York district cast 58,000 votes.) In the town of Eudora, where a mayor, a marshall, a treasurer, and four aldermen were elected, only eight votes were cast, and of the eight voters seven are said to have been candidates for office. "The same men," says a trustworthy despatch from New Orleans, "were voters, candidates for office, and judges of election to pass as judges on their own votes as voters for themselves; and in spite of all their efforts they could get only one outsider to come to the polls and cast his ballot." This is an extreme case; but in every state that has disfranchised the Negro (making a discrimination between him and the ignorant white man, in the white man's favor) political activity has constantly disappeared, the vote has shrunk, public spirit in politics has died. In Louisiana the total vote in November fell from 90000 in 1896 to 61000; of Mississippi, from 69000 to 59,000; of South Carolina, from 68,000 to 50,000—the shrinkage in four years in these three states being nearly 68,000 votes, in spite of the increase of population. Such profound and increasing indifference of an electorate is a state of things never contemplated in republic. The proposal to reduce the South's representation in Congress may or may not now be carried out in the new apportionment; but these states can hardly hope that the elimination of a large part of the voters, and the neglect by the rest of the highest privilege of citizenship, will bring the South political power, respect or honor. What a sorry showing it is of political spirit and intelligence alongside of the great advance in material prosperity there! "Politics in Mississippi," said one of the most public spirited and distinguished citizens of the state; not long ago,—a man of distinction who has always been a democrat,—"politics in Mississippi has sunk so low that irresponsible little bosses rule in every precinct, and a self respecting citizen feels as named to take part in any contest; for all contests have become mere personal scrambles. As for the future, I cannot see a foot before me through the darkness." RACE LITERATURE Our enterprising bookman, Mr. Wills, has for years been making a specialty of books by Negro authors, and about the Negro. Those interested in this subject will do well to call at his book shop and examine his collection, or write him regarding their wants in this and other literary lines. His address is: John H. Wills, Old Books, 506 11th street northwest, Washington, D. C. GET ONE. Every intelligent Afro-American, who has a spark of race pride, should wear one of the Frederick Douglass watches. These watches are good time keepers and are things of beauty. You can get one by getting two of your friends to subscribe for The Coloreld American. It does not cost you anything. See advertisement. M. 200 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. A Premium Watch which Breaks The Record. Read carefully our Offer Below. [Pocket Watch with a portrait of a man with a long beard and a mustache, wearing a suit and bow tie. The watch face is circular with a ring at the top.] FREE FOR ONE DAYS' WORK. AGENTLEMAN'S watch with the bust of Hon. Frederick Douglass on the case. We have secured for our friends the most serviceable watches ever made; they are stem winders and stem setters, having all the modern apliances known to the watchmakers' art. The cases are nickel silver. They are made on the celebrated thin model plan. Remember this is not a small clock commonly called a watch, but a highly jeweled, nickel movement, made by one of the celebrated watch manufacturers in America, on our order. These watches are guaranteed by the manufacturers, and if not exactly as represented this guarantee is assumed by us. Watches like these a generation ago would have cost $20 if they could have been produced, but the fact is, it contains apliances then unknown. Each watch has been properly adjusted and will be sent in running order. Its character: They have a jewel balance wheel. The cases are nickel silver. Are stem winding and stem setting. They have a duplex movement. Free to any one sending $4 for two yearly subscriptions, or $2 for one yearly and $1-$3 in all. This watch and The Colored American, one year for $3. The watch as a special inducement, postpaid, to any one send ing $2.25. It will be seen therefore from the above that no one need be without a watch equal for time keeping to any in the neighborhood, a single day longer. Indeed it will not take a day for any one to get a small club of subscribers for The Colored American, the national newspaper of the race and the newsiest and best race journal published. Try it once and see for yourself how easy it is to get this watch and to get only two subscribers for The Colored American. Don't lose time but attend to this matter as soon as you see this notice. Money can be sent by Post Office Money, Order, Express Order, Bank Check, or Registered Letter. Address ...THE COLORED AMERICAN... THE MUSEUM OF THE ARTS HOWARD UNIVERSITY, Washington, D.C. 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. 680. H. SAFFORD, 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 department from Primary to Normal Course. Job Work Solicited and Profits given to the Students. Catalogues row ready. Address, JOSEPH D. MAHONEY, Principal. Allegheny, Pa. The Evans Dental Parlors 1309 F St. N. W. Guaranteed $5.00 Set of Teeth, Branch Office, 307 7th St., N. W. Painless Extracting 50 CENTS. ESTABLISHED 1886 BRIDGE RIPA.NS Wanted—a case of bad health that RIPA.NS will not benefit. One gives relief. No matter what's the matter, one will do you good. A cure will result if directions are followed. They banish pain, induce sleep, prolong life. Sold at all drug stores, ten for five cents. Be sure to get the genuine. Don't be fooled by substitutes. Ten samples and a thousand testimonials will be mailed to any address for five cents, forwarded to the Ripans Chemical Company, No.10 Spruce St., New York. EXPERIENCED GERMAN SPECIALISTS. IN ATTENDANCE AT THE RAY URIC ACID, RHEUMATISM. NOSE, THROAT. LUNGS, HEART NERVES, BRAIN. BLOOD, SKIN. PRIVATE DISEASES OF BOTH SEVERS. STOMACH. KIDNEY. BLADDER. SEXUAL WEAKNESS STRUCTURE. VARICOCELE HYDROCELE CURED. MEDICAL INSTITUTE. 317 6TH ST. N.W. WASHINGTON, D.C. BUPTURE CURED. Latest ectric discovery; no knife, no injection, no pain. Trusses on trial. Stricture, impotency, syphilitic skin and blood poison cured without mercury. Especial attention given to old and so-called incurable cases and cure accomplished. Vitality restored. Hours 10 to 12, 2 to 6. Tuesdays and Saturdays till 8 p. m. DR CZARRA. 6 6th Street and 494 Louisiana Ave., N. W. SANTAL-MIDY Standard remedy for Gleet, Gonorrhoea and Runnings IN 48 HOURS. Cures Kid- ney and Bladder Troublés. MIDY All Orders Promptly Attended To. Office Cor. Fjand 2d S. W. Terms Reasonable. THE COLORED AMERICAN. WASHINGTON. D. C. THE BUSY WORLD. Albert Means of Memphis, Tennowns one of the largest hat stores in that city. The largest grocery stores in Tuskegee is run by a graduate of Tuskegee, Mr. A. J. Wilborn. Through the efforts of Attorney Wilford H. Smith, the Negro has at last been granted the right to serve on juries in the State of Texas. Messis. R. C. Martin and Clem C. James have been appointed deputies in the appointed deputies in the city as sessor's office at Kansas City, Mo. Mr. J. M. Griffin, editor of the Albuquerque American of New Mexico was unanimously elected journal clerk of the Council of the Territorial Senate. Mr. Haslon V. Eagleson, a prominent colored man of Indiana, is at the head of a movement to establish an industrial school at Bloomington, Ind. for colored people. Fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) of the amount necessary to build a cotton factory at Jackson, Miss., has been subscribed. It will be owned and operated by colored men. Fayette county, Pa. has a colored mail carrier who is a young lady of eighteen. She receives $140 a year for carrying the mail daily from Union-town town Jumonville. Mr. P, S. Umbles of Kansas City, Mo. president of the Negro State Democratic League and a senior law student, has been appointed assistant doorkeeper in the Senate chamber at Jefferson City. J. J. Bunell of Brooklyn, N. Y., is a colored graduate of Pratt Institute in mechanical engineering has put into position most of the cancelling machines in use in the large postoffices in the country. On January 24th, a mass meeting was held by the colored citizens of Topeka Kans., at which speeches were made by many able men of the race and resolutions passed condemning the burning of Alexander at Leavenworth. Mr. Nathan Williams of Fair Haven, N J. and Mr. Wm. B. Scott of Long Branch, N. J. have the honor of being the only colored men who have served on the jury in Monmouth county New Jersey. Mr. Scott is an employee of the New York and Long Branch Railroad at Long Branch and owns considerable property. Mr. Dempsey Hare, the wealthiest Negro in Eastern Virginia and owner of two thousand acres of farm lands, died January 30th in Nansemond county, Va. He was very eccentric and several years ago built a marble vault for his remains which cost over $500. He was a mulatto but never associated with colored people and his remains were borne to the grave by white pall-bearers. There was no preacher, but a white layman read the burial service. There has been no public reading of the will, but it is understood that Hare's real estate goes to State's Attorney Edward E. Holland, of Suffolk, and Dr. Job Holland, of Nansemond county. Laura Ann White, Hare's only daughter, whom he had reared for a white man's wife, and who incurred his dis pleasure by marrying a Negro, is cut off with $10. WANTED.—Capable, reliable person in every county to represent large company of solid financial reputation; $936 salary per year, payable weekly; $3 per day absolutely sure and all expenses; straight, bona-fide, definite salary, no commission; salary paid each Saturday and expense money advanced each week. STANDARD HOUSE, 334 Dearborn Street, Chicago. $1,000 REWARD. M. B. Gives the names of dead and living frinds tells who and when you will marry also of business journeys lawsuits, absent friends health or anything you wish to know, no matter what 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 inroads by leading spiritualists everywhere, received from them a gold medal and special license to practice his wonderful powers; credentias no one else can show can give thousands of references to both white and colored patrons Twenty-five years practice—seven in brooklyn—will show you that he can do all he of. Can tell what business is best for you and where, how to win speedy marriage with the one you love. How to be successful in all your doings in short what is best to do. He will succeed when all others fall. Positive satisfaction or no pay. Call and see. You will find it luck to consult this Christian gentleman. He has a medicine that will cure drunkenness; can be given patients not knowing it. Thousands through him are now RICH HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL with all their undertakings,while those w o neglect his advice are still laboring again poverty. Through his perfect knowledge o chemistry he can impart to you a secret tha will overcome your enemies and win you friends. His aid and advice has often been solicited; the result has always been the securing of speedy and happy marriages and all your wishes. In love affairs he never fails. He has the secret of winning the affections of the opposite sex. It is the curse of Spiritualism that in all large cities there are a class of men and women who claim powers they do not possess. They have neither gifts, credentials, nor references. Surely the colored people are not so wanting in sense as to throw their time and money away on such. Dr. Shea refers to the Hon. Charles Muller, 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, 1881-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. Brooklyn, August 15, 1891—This letter is to certify that my husband had gone away and had been absent two years. I mourned for him night and day. I gave him up as dead. Hearing of the wonderful things Dr. Shea was doing I resolved to consult him. He told me that my husband was alive and well and where he was; told me he would come home and when. To my joy all of it came true. He is home now, came back like one from the dead. I also wish to say that this month I lost $250. I am a poor woman and I was almost insane. I went to Dr. Shea and he told me I would find my money and to my intense joy I find it as he told me. I thank God there is a man so gifted in our midst, that can help people and tell them what to do. Mrs. Mary Miller, South Fairfield, N.J. 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 nim a lock o. patient's hair, which I did by her daughter. He told at once what was the matter, and in a short time cured her sound and well. Her family had seemingly been under a cloud. Now all is changed. All are well and prosperous. I can truly and heartily recommend Dr. Shea, to all those in sickness or distress of any kind. Rev. William John- 15 on, pastor Lebanon church, Brooklyn. Dr. Klea can show thousands such as above. DR 8HEA has been carefully educated in the Homeops thic and Electric Schools of Medicine. His success is wonderful in curing paralysis Rheumatism. Ashma, Sore Eyes, Tumors, Cancers, Constipation, Ague, Dyspnea, Tape Worms, Liver Complaints, Digestion, Catarrh, Dropsy, Fles, Nervous Disability, Heart Diseases, Consumption, Diseases of Women and Children, Fits, Kidney Disease, and strange mysterious diseases which others don't understand. All diseases, no matter what they be. Nothing but honorable treatment. He can and will honestly tell you if you can be cured. Has all new remedies and new success. Has an ample experience in public hospital and private clinics. No training with human life. Call at once. Do not delay. Diplomans hang in parlors. Is a registered physician. A new remedy to rheumatism just discovered, not a liniment. Hopeless cases and those that others can not cure solicited to call. Kat toks 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. 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 se, arraced together, causes speedy marriages, removes family troubles, bad luck spells, or mysterious feelings. 10 to 11 daily. 489 h. st. sw, W. H. FISHER ::Dyer and Cleaner,:: 709 9th St. n. w. 1407 14th St. n w. Telephone 152. James F. Keenan Rectifier and Wholesale Liquor Dealer. Elegant Club! Whiskey a Specialty. Importer of Fine' Wines, Brindha Gins, Etc. 462 Pennsylvania Avenue. N. W. 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 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. 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Tt was not offered for sale or purchase to any extent until 1875, when it was put upon the market and gy, met with marked success. After a thorough test by the colored people of #§ that time it was pronounced an honest, legitimate remedy, truo-to all that was claimed for it, and worthy in every respect of the confidence of every gy member of the colored race, because they found it to cau-e the hair to grow AWN long and straight, soft-and fine, and as beautiful as an April morning. Now, whenever a genuine article appears upon the market there are ulways a gy, Dumber of people who imitate and make capital out of the merits of other EWN people’s goods. Seeing our marked snecess, numerous firms have entered the market, offering hair-growers and hair straighteners, many of which are gy, Worthless, causing the hair to fall out and doing great damage to the hair fA and scalp, and the colored people are buying these spurious compounds, which are filled with animal fats, and do the hair more harm than good. To gy these let us sound a warning—be careful what you useon yourhair. Do not Z§% be deceived by flaring advertisements and big words. Buy the King of all Hair Tonics, AN OZONO, FVS which is sold with an iron-clad guarantee to do all that is cluimed for it, or “AN we will forfeit $50.00. Now, we ask you a plain question—would we abso- yy iutely agree to forfeit $50.00 if you are dissatisfied with our preparations, AUN if they were not true to all we claim for them? We have advertised for several years under this guarantee, and we are glad to say that every one gx, “ho has used Ozono has been satisfied in every respect. A 20,000 people are to-day using our preparations, and every purchaser recommends Ozono as the King of all nee Tonics. Ozono will positively ay, ‘ake the Kinke out of Knotty, Linky, Harsh, Curly, Refractory, Trouble- AN some Hair. It will make short, hare. baie long and straight, Tt will enre AN your head of all itching, worrying sealp diseases. Ttch, Eczema, Dandruff, gy, 2nd Scurf can not live after Ozono has been applied. It will stop your hair PVs from falling out. Tt will restore gray hair to its natural color, making the hair long and soft. A Now, right here, let us make a statement. Many firms are advertising AN remedies to straighten fair, but when they send the preparation they tell you to use hot irons. Friends, do not use hat irons; they will burn up the Zi, life of the hair, and canse it to drop out. Ozono Straightens withont any AUS outside assistance. Nothing but Ozono is necessary, and the hair stays straight forever. You can stop the use at any time. The good effects on J, the hair are seen in a day or two after the first appli: ation. nes The price of OZono is 50c. a bottle—4 boxes do the work. We make | this liberal offer, which is good at any time: Cut out this coupon and send “i, ‘© us, enclosing with it the sum of Onc Dollar, and we wiil forward to you F¥S four large boxes of Ozono and one large bottle of Electrical Skin Refiner, which makes black skin bright, rough skin soft and pliant, and cures all Ay, skin diseases. Also retnoves all facial imperfe>tions, and actually removes | ny smallpox pits. We wili also include one fancy jar of our Electrical Skin Food—Nature’s great beautifier—removes wrinkles, moth patches, freckles, | 4, and all facial blemishes; makes the old look young and the young look nas voanger- | ® We will also include one package of our celebrated Scalp Soap, which is | Ji 2bsolutely CHEMICALLY PURE, and no soap but a pure soap should ever | = Sy, a," > > > > - > - > > > * s > . > > > > > s . >. be used onthe scalp. And, lastly, to prove our liberality, we will put in a pint i package of Anti-Odor, a positive cure for Sore Throat or Mouth, all forms of Womb Diseases, Chilblains, Sore and Frosted Feet; also removes all | smells and odors arising from the human body, such as feet, arm pits, ete. , The actual value of this Grand Aggregation is $4.00, but we let you“ have it for $1.00, simply to introduce honest goods. In order to protect the é public in general from imitations of our goods, and to avoid mistakes, we | have placed upon our coupon ovr Trade-Mark, one head showing Short ' Hair and the other head Long Hair. The U. 8. Government has granted us 4 this trade-mark, and it is registered in the Patent Office at Washington; so | if the conpon has this trade-mark on it, you will make no mistake. Use only the coupon having the two heads on it. As to our responsibility, we | refer you to the Editor of this paper or to the Metropolitan Bank of Rich- é mond, Va. We have thousands of testimonials we have not space to Bo lish. Here is a sample of one: 3 Boston Chemical Company : f Dear Sirs,—You are at liberty to state in any newspaper that I have é pad OZONO, and give it my most hearty recommendation. I have been f fooled so often, it does me good to recommend honest goods. 4 = 4 MAGGIE B. PROCTOR, ; Here is another: Box 114, Fairfield, Texas. é Gentlemen,—After using OZONO a short while only, I am glad to say f that my hair is already straight and growing finely. / | MiSS BESSIE POWERS, f 383 Missouri street, Toledo, 0. / . A last word. OZONO is absolutely guaranteed to straighten hair and eause a beautiful and luxurious growth. If your hair is already straight, ' you can use it to secure a glossy long growth. Buy only the genuine f “ OZONO,”’ Send us $1.00 at once, and the goods will be sent the same ¢ day we receive your order. j BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., 310 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. / ote sh woe ec bye a Ee ee ee eee : ASQ ° ‘fa. Boston Chemical Co., i 8 aia * ees 310 East Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. CEP BR / tee. Caney T enclose you $1.00, for which please send st once | the following goods: / 4 Boxes of Ozono, worth $2.00. 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Refiner, ‘ worth 50c. 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Food, worth 50c. 1 Package / ) (1 pint) Anti-Odor, worth 50c. 1 Package Scalp Soap, worth 50¢c. / Total, $4.00. / Name lee oe te Ee / CCG an ye rites esr wriecann be wictagcauy CARVE ee ee . / Coa hty. sas ete aoe see ee / Tf vou want 4 lots like above, send $3.00. If you have a friend who has f no coupon, let her write her name on a piece of paper and pin to coupon j when you send your order. f ~—eee eee / WE WANT AN AGENT IN EVERY TOWN AND CITY TO SELL ' The Frederick Douglass Watch ...<:2",.. The Colored American ¢ [ e ETIC OU dSS d ( SUBSCRIBERS FOR ¢ 0 Ort It gives all the news, It belongs to no clique or faction, but represents the whole people. It tells what the Negro ia doing. It is not a party organ, but stands for the rights of the Negro. It reflects the highest thoughts and best achievements. It is not a patent back, put its columns teem with spicy, original matter. Subscription Price $2.00 per Year, $1.10 for Six Months, 60cts for Three Months. Terms Invariably in Advance. For Further Information Address, THE COLORED AMERICAN, Washington, D, C, 16 The Passing Throng. ```markdown ``` 2 Colonel Henry Watterson, of Kentucky, does not agree with F Hopkinson Smith's recent assertion that "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was an untruthful picture of slavery days in the South, or that the book has done and is still doing harm to the Southern people. When seen at the Waldorf Astoria yesterday, Colonel Watterson said: Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith says that 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did a great deal to precipitate the war. 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did undoubtedly make a great imPRESSION upon the susceptibilities of the people of the United States—and nowhere more than in the Southern States—who instantly recognized its fidelity to truth. But to say that it cut any figure in the final crisis is wholly a misconception. Nothing could have delayed the ultimate trials of arms more than four years. If Judge Douglas had been elected President in 1860 the war between the sections would have been postponed from 1861 to 1865. Mrs. Stowe's novel was merely a spoke in an exorable wheel, which for the time being represented perpetual motion. But so far from being a cruel attack upon the people of the South, it was a most kindly representation. Mrs. Stowe begins with the sunny side of slavery in Kentucky and indicates its possibilities by traversing the career of Uncle Tom to a Louisiana plantation. But you will observe that the villain of the book, Legree, is a Yankee, and that leads me to say—what, indeed, Abraham Lincoln preceded me in saying—that the Yankees brought the nigger to America in their ships and sold him to the Southerners. I think it extremely unkind that, having got their money, they came down South in 1861 and annihilated property of their own creation. But that is neither here nor there. All the gentlemen of the South in the days of Washington and Jefferson were opposed to slavery. It was a wholly monstrous and indefensible institution. Even in 1861 the good men and women of the South were at heart opposed to the whole system. With a gray jacket on my back for four years, I was an outspoken sentimental free soiler. At Dalton, Ga., in the winter of 1863 4. General Hindman submitted to General Joseph E. Johnston the commanding general of the Confederate Army, a scheme to emancipate the entire black population of the South and to conscript them upon the basis of their 'white fellow citizens'. General Hindman took the expression 'white fellow citizens' from a proclamation issued by General Andrew Jackson when in command before New Orleans in 1814 15. General Johnston entirely approved this plan, but, the only general in the council of war who supported him being General Harden, it was abandoned." NOT AN ATTACK ON THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE. "I know it to be a fact," continued Colonel Watterson, "that England and France would have intervened in our war on Southern side if slavery could have been put in the shape of gradual emancipation. Nobody, not even Mr. Davis, could give any assurance on this point to the French and British governments. God be praised, because to that circumcise we owe our solidarity as a Nation to day. But to come back to 'Uncle Tom's Cabin.' It is one of the great books of the world. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. am willing to bet the author of Colonel Carter of Cartersville' a cigar that he never read 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and leave the decision of the bet to him. It is this dreadful sensitivity of provincialism, this astounding ignorance of the world at large, that has kept the South in leading strings for a hundred years. The leaders of the South, not to mention a certain George Washington, but particularly to mention one Thomas Jefferson, knew slavery to be abhorrent to manhood, womanhood and all the graces of human life. The South is well rid of it, Mr. Smith is wholly mistaken in supposing that the Negro is worse off than in slavery Booker Washington, a great and noble man, one of the greatest men living to-day, considering practical affairs as the test of greatness, is doing an amazing work, and if the true and good men of the North having money to spend on philanthropy would contribute a little attention and some money to the development of his scheme at Tuskegee Ala., it would pay richly on the investment. In short and in fine while I am not surprised at Mr. Hopkinson Smith's verdict about a book of which he cannot know a great deal—even if he has read it—he falls into the prevailing error of the educated Southerner, in supposing that attacks upon the institution of African slavery are attacks upon the people of the South. The South is open to great impressions. The Nicaraguan Canal will revolutionize all conditions in Texas and the Gulf States. It will convert the Gulf of Mexico into the Mediterranean of the Western Hemisphere. Mr. Hopkinson Smith is a great painter, I am afraid I must say a great romanticist. Though 'Colonel Carter of Cartersville' shocked my sensibilities as a Southern man, and particularly as a Virginia product, very much more than did Mrs. Stowe's 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' literary criticism avount. There never was yet a literary man who was not a hopeless politician 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' was a great book and Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe was a great woman—New York Tribune. "The V. N. and C. L." For The Colored American. Near the city of Petersburg, As seen by the passers-by In the neighborhood of Etricks, Stands the V. N. and C. I. A building loved by many Who have toiled within her walls, And tried to respond with pleasure To every beck and call. Her situation is beautiful, As lofty she stands Facing the Appomattox So picturesque and grand. In the beautiful month of September As the days glide swiftly by, Students leave their various homes For the V. N. and C. I. And ere many hours have passed They're sheltered within her walls Their minds from pleasure cast, To answer to her calls. And for months, weeks and days, Earnestly they work— On their different studies Trying none to shirk. And after the cold, wintry days have passed Still resuming their daily tasks, They're told of the coming spring By the birds as they sweetly warble and sing. And then on the beautiful campus green Of the V. N. and C. I. may be seen. Students who seem to have won much fame In playing the various outdoor games. The girls with croquet and tennis employed, Seen to enjoy it much; joyed While the boys with their football seem over As it lightly moves at a touch. After a few years shall have passed. And these boys and girls shall have finished their task. No more their faces will be seen. Or their voices heard on the campus green. As in various sections their lots may be cast. Fond recollections they'll have of the past. And as years, months and days glide slowly Ever they'll remember, V. N. and C. I. by Colored Model Makers Wanted. Houpton, Tex., Feb. 2 1901 Edward E. Cooper, Washington, D. C., My dear sir; - I beg to ask a favor of you; if you know of any colored man in or near your city who is a model or instrument maker or inventor or in a kindred business please give me his name and I will consider it a favor. Very truly, S. T. N. B. Readers of The Colored American will oblige the editor by sending in the names and address of colored model workers to this office. --- A FREDERICK DOUGLASS WATCH. A Valuable Present to Any Friend and Useful at That. (Dalias Express. For any man, woman, boy, or girl there is nothing in the shape of a present that will be more acceptable and more useful than the Frederick Donglass Watch. For a boy a watch—think of it—a real ticking, actual running watch—the same in appearance and running qualities as his father's—it would be the proudest moment of his life to possess one of these watches. And who is it that does not almost daily feel the need of a timepiece to carry around in his or her pocket? The doctor wants one on his lonely trips; the school teacher wants one in order to reach her schoolhouse in time; the hunter wants one and the farmer wants one. The carpenter does not like to wear a valuable watch when he is hammering around, and this Frederick Douglass Watch is just the watch. This can be had without the expenditure of one penny. Get us two one year subscribers at two dollars, or four six months subscribers at $110, or eight three months subscribers at sixty cents each. Send these names with the money and a Frederick Douglass Watch will be sent you by registered mail. It is guaranteed. Address The Colored American 459 C street, n. w., Washington, D. C. In Oklahoma there are 60 000 colored people, men, women and children, or 13,000 colored voters; from careful compilation of statistics there are 7,000 colored men owning farms, which will strike an average of $800 each; which is a very low average, as there are numbers of colored farmers who can cash their farms today for $3 000. But placing all at $800 each, that would make a grand total of at least $5 600 000 owned in farm property by colored men of Oklahoma,—Rising Sun, Kansas City, Mo. A BOOK FREE Tuskegee! True story of Tuskegee Institute and Booket Washington's wonderful work, illustrated. Send stamp how to get book free. F. L. TYLES, Charlemont, Mass. DREESMAKING ACADEMY. The de Lam Orton Famous French Perfection Tailor System Academy MME J. A. SMALLWOOD, Sole Agent 1518 Madison St. Northwest. Morning class from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. Afternoon class 2 to 5 j. m. daily. 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 fining 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. Winter classes now forming. NELSONS STRAIGHTINE 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 50 Cents in stamps or silver. Address, NELSON M'F'G CO., Richmond, Va. Big Money for Agents. Write for Terms. The National Colored Teachers Bureau Washington, D. C., is prepared to furnish CAPABLE TEACHERS of every branch of instruction and DESIRABLE SCHOOLS in all parts of the country. REGISTRATION FREE but applicants must be fully competent to teach or possess the ability to learn how to teach. NO SCHOOL—NO PAY 6 per cent of the first year's salary will be charged those for whom positions are secureded, payable Dec. 1, 1900. The Demand exceed the Supply for suitable teachers during the past year, hence our liberal inducements. Send for registration blank briefly stating your full qualifications and enclose ten two cent stamps for postage. Address James G. Clayton, M. D. 459 C St. N. W. Secretary The Passing Throng. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" a True Picture. ```markdown ``` 2 Colonel Henry Watterson, of Kentucky, does not agree with F Hopkinson Smith's recent assertion that "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was an untruthful picture of slavery days in the South, or that the book has done and is still doing harm to the Southern people. When seen at the Waldorf Astoria yesterday; Colonel Watterson said: Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith says that 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did a great deal to precipitate the war. 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did undoubtedly make a great impression upon the susceptibilities of the people of the United States—and nowhere more than in the Southern States—who instantly recognized its fidelity to truth. But to say that it cut any figure in the final crisis is wholly a misconception. Nothing could have delayed the ultimate trials of arms more than four years. If Judge Douglas had been elected President in 1860 the war between the sections would have been postponed from 1861 to 1865. Mrs. Stowe's novel was merely a spoke in an exorable wheel, which for the time being represented perpetual motion. But so far from being a cruel attack upon the people of the South, it was a most kindly representation. Mrs. Stowe begins with the sunny side of slavery in Kentucky and indicates its possibilities by traversing the career of Uncle Tom to a Louisiana plantation. But you will observe that the villain of the book, Legree, is a Yankee, and that leads me to say—what, indeed, Abraham Lincoln preceded me in saying—that the Yankees brought the nigger to America in their ships and sold him to the Southerners. I think it extremely unkind that, having got their money, they came down South in 1861 and annihilated property of their own creation. But that is neither here nor there. All the gentlemen of the South in the days of Washington and Jefferson were opposed to slavery. It was a wholly monstrous and indefensible institution. Even in 1861 the good men and women of the South were at heart opposed to the whole system. With a gray jacket on my back for four years, I was an outspoken sentimental free soiler. At Dalton, Ga., in the winter of 1863 4. General Hindman submitted to General Joseph E. Johnston, the commanding general of the Confederate Army, a scheme to emancipate the entire black population of the South and to conscript them upon the basis of their 'white fellow citizens'. Heneral Hindman took the expression 'white fellow citizens' from a proclamation issued by General Andrew Jackson when in command before New Orleans in 1814 15. General Johnston entirely approved this plan, but, the only general in the council of war who supported him being General Hardee, it was abandoned." NOT AN ATTACK ON THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE. "I know it to be a fact," continued Colonel Watterson, 'that England and France would have intervened in our war on Southern side if slavery could have been put in the shape of gradual emancipation. Nobody, not even Mr. Davis, could give any assurance on this point to the French and British governments. God be praised, because to that circumstance we owe our solidarity as a Nation to day. But to come back to 'Uncle Tom's Cabin.' It is one of the great books of the world. I THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. am willing to bet the author of Colonel Carter of Cartersville' a cigar that he never read 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and leave the decision of the bet to him. It is this dreadful sensitivity of provincialism, this astounding ignorance of the world at large, that has kept the South in leading strings for a hundred years. The leaders of the South, not to mention a certain George Washington, but particularly to mention one Thomas Jefferson, knew slavery to be abhorrent to manhood, womanhood and all the graces of human life. The South is well rid of it. Mr. Smith is wholly mistaken in supposing that the Negro is worse off than in slavery. Booker Washington, a great and noble man, one of the greatest men living to-day, considering practical affairs as the test of greatness, is doing an amazing work, and if the true and good men of the North having money to spend on philanthropy would contribute a little attention and some money to the development of his scheme at Tuskegee Ala., it would pay richly on the investment. In short and in fine while I am not surprised at Mr. Hopkinson Smith's verdict about a book of which he cannot know a great deal—even if he has read it—he falls into the prevailing error of the educated Southerner, in supposing that attacks upon the institution of African slavery are attacks upon the people of the South The South is open to great impressions The Nicaraguan Canal will revolutionize all conditions in Texas and the Gulf States. It will convert the Gulf of Mexico into the Mediterranean of the Western Hemisphere. Mr. Hopkinson Smith is a great painter, I am afraid I must say a great romanticist. Though 'Colonel Carter of Cartersville' shocked my sensibilities as a Southern msn, and particularly as a Virginia product, very much more than did Mrs. Stowe's 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' literary criticism avaunt. There never was yet a literary man who was not a hopeless politician 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' was a great book and Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe was a great woman.—New York Tribune. "The V. N. and C. I." For The Colored American. Near the city of Petersburg, As seen by the passers-by In the neighborhood of Ettricks, Stands the V. N. and C. I. A building loved by many Who have toiled within her walls, And tried to respond with pleasure To every beck and call. Her situation is beautiful, As lofty she stands Facing the Appomattox So picturesque and grand. In the beautiful month of September As the days glide swiftly by, Students leave their various homes For the V. N. and C. I. And ere many hours have passed They're sheltered within her walls Their minds from pleasure cast, To answer to her calls. And for months, weeks and days, Earnestly they work— On their different studies Trying none to shirk. And after the cold, wintry days have passed Still resuming their daily tasks, They're told of the coming spring By the birds as they sweetly warble an sing, And then on the beautiful campus green Of the V. N. and C. I. may be seen, Students who seem to have won much fame In playing the various outdoor games. The girls with croquet and tennis employed, Seem to enjoy it much; [joyed] While the boys with their football seem over As it lightly moves at a touch. After a few years shall have passed, And these boys and girls shall have finished their task. As in various sections their lots may be cast, Fond recollections they'll have of the past, And as years, months and days glide slowly Ever they'll remember, V. N. and C. I.[by. —By MAGGIE Y. POGUE. Colored Model Makers Wanted. Houston, Tex., Feb. 2 1901. Edward E. Cooper, Washington, D. C., My dear sir: - I beg to ask a favor of you; if you know of any colored man in or near your city who is a model or instrument maker or inventor or in a kindred business please give me his name and I will consider it a favor. Very truly, S. T. N. B. Readers of The Colored American will oblige the editor by sending in the names and address of colored model workers to this office. --- A FREDERICK DOUGLASS WATCH. A Valuable Present to Any Friend and Useful at That. (Dallas Express.) For any man, woman, boy, or girl there is nothing in the shape of a present that will be more acceptable and more useful than the Frederick Douglass Watch. For a boy a watch—think of it—a real ticking, actual running watch—the same in appearance and running qualities as his father's—it would be the proudest moment of his life to possess one of these watches. And who is it that does not almost daily feel the need of a timepiece to carry around in his or her pocket? The doctor wants one on his lonely trips; the school teacher wants one in order to reach her schoolhouse in time, the hunter wants one and the farmer wants one. The carpenter does not like to wear a valuable watch when he is hammering around, and this Frederick Douglass Watch is just the watch. This can be had without the expenditure of one penny. Get us two one year subscribers at two dollars, or four six months subscribers at $1 10, or eight three months subscribers at sixty cents each. Send these names with the money and a Frederick Douglass Watch will be sent you by registered mail. It is guaranteed. Address The Colored American, 459 C street, n. w., Washington, D. C. In Oklahoma there are 60 000 colored people, men, women and children, or 13,000 colored voters; from careful compilation of statistics there are 7,000 colored men owning farms, which will strike an average of $800 each; which is a very low average, as there are numbers of colored farmers who can cash their farms today for $3 000. But placing all at $800 each, that would make a grand total of at least $5 600 000 owned in farm property by colored men of Oklahoma,—Rising Sun, Kansas City, Mo. A BOOK FREE Tuskegee! True story of Tuskegee Institute and Booker Washington's wonderful work, illus trated. Send stamp how to get book free. F. L. TYLEB, Charlemont, Mass. DRESSMAKING ACADEMY The de Lam Orton Famous French Perfection Tailor System Academy MME J. A. SMALLWOOD, Sole Agent 1513 Madison St. Northwest. Morning class from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. Afternoon class 2 to 5 p. m. daily. Evenings from 7.30 to 10 o'clock. 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. Winter classes now forming. 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 ``` 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 AFRO-AMERICAN COUNCIL DAY. Bishop Alexander Walters Discourses Upon "The Need of Good Citizenship"—Concentration the Race's Hope—Help for the National Council's Test Case on Louisiana. The popular and influential Second Baptist Lyceum in all its history never held a more enthusiastic or more profitable meeting than that of last Sunday. It was National Afro-American Council Day. That eminent race leader and successful president of the National Afro-American Council, Bishop Alexander Walters, was the speaker of the hour. His Washington friends turned out en masse, and the result was that it taxed the seating capacity of the church, and placed standing room at a decided premium. The genial Zion prelate was never in happier vein, and his address on "The Need of Good Citizenship" was handled in the lucid, forcible and engaging style, for which he is famous the country over. From the opening sentence, which contained a highly complimentary reference to the broad reputation of the Second Baptist Lyceum and a tribute to the intellectuality of its president, who was once a member of his Sunday School class and for twenty-five years an esteemed personal friend, Bishop Walters held the rapt attention of every one present, and his utterances were frequently interrupted by enthusiastic applause. He came to bring our citizens 20th Century greetings from the National Afro-American Council and the great A. M. E. Zion church. In developing his subject, the Bishop defined "good citizenship," and showed it to be essential to good government, to the establishment of justice, and for the preservation of natural rights. He pointed out the dire results that grew out of bad citizenship, and the tragedies that inevitably follow in the wake of nations that temporize with the spirit of lawlessness. Analyzing the untoward conditions under which the Negro must live in America, he deplored the fact that it became necessary for Mr. Wu, the illustrious Chinese minister, a supposed heathen, to come to our shores and indict the Christianity of the nation for the barbarities, cruelties and pusillanimity displayed in its treatment of the Negro. It was the duty he claimed, of the leaders of the race to call attention to the wrongs in no uncertain tone, and while advising the assertion of every right guaranteed by the Constitution, they must also teach our youth patriotism, obedience to the laws, integrity and lofty moral consciousness—never excusing shortcomings in character and conduct on the score that the Caucasian possesses a similar weakness. He thought the safeguards that made most surely for good citizenship were bound up in religious homes, spiritual churches, efficient and patriotic schools, and last, but of immeasurable importance, by good citizenship councils. He dwelt at some length upon the value of good citizenship clubs, where the ethics of good deportment were taught through topical discussions and where the issues of the day might be intelligently presented, to the end that voters might know the direction in which their best interests lay. While commercialism, personal valor, and sturdy ambition were essential to a well rounded race, the prime requisite in the equation of success, he held was character, and strength of character should be instilled early in life. Referring to the potent achievements of the Church and Churchmen, the THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. JOHN H. HARRIS BISHOP ALEXANDER WALTERS. Bishop thought it was a pernicious notion that ministers of the Gospel should be expected to hold their peace when the wrongs of humanity were being perpetrated, on the theory of the divorcement of the affairs of the Church and State. The minister, he argued, owed it to himself, to his manhood and love of justice to speak out and condemn wrong, even though some politics crept into the issue. He was a Negro before he was a churchman, and not even the possibility of being shorn of the priestly robes of the office to which he had been chosen could deter his speech. No ecclesiastical reward could tempt him to stand silently by and permit outrage, rapine and disfranchisement go unrebuke. Addressing himself to reforms in church worship he believed we should discard such methods as seemed likely to lay us open to ridicule, and he discountened the excessive display of emotionalism, which had come down from the dark days of slavery. This sound and courageous position, though somewhat unusual evoked the most continuous burst of applause of the day. Its hearty endorsement spoke well for the progressive spirit of the race. He urged again, that schools be provided by the States, with long terms, that good citizenship clubs educate in public morals, and that all ecclesiastical bodies join in the work of reducing the illiteracy, crime, and reactionary impulses that threaten the peace and dignity of our beloved land. Organization was an essential factor. If capital, labor, parties and every interest imaginable see the value of concentration, we should, by all means learn the lesson of cooperation and unity. The National Afro-American Council, he said, was the outcome of such a necessity, and it should be sustained by the intelligence and wealth of the race. Branches should be established in every township, and all Negro societies now in existence should stand with it as affiliated bodies. There is nothing in the law of the Council repugnant to any organization in the country, as it has no requirement bearing upon politics, religion or social status. The Bishop concluded his eloquent address with a prediction for more hopeful conditions if we remain alert and true to our print- ciples. He appealed for more generous support for the Council, and felt that every manly Negro who loved his people and who wished to rise in the scale of citizenship, should rally to this massive combination of race effort, the object of which is: "To labor for man because he is man man's noblest work." At the close of the address, the Bishop was presented with a handsome bouquet of roses and received an ovation. Short speeches were made by Congressman George H. White, Editor T. Thomas as Fortune and Hon John H. Hannon, all joining in an appeal for material support for the Council in its work of testing the constitutionality of the disfranchising laws of Louisiana and other Southern States. A collection followed, which netted $30 in cash. and $30 more in subscriptions- $60 all told. The collection was taken amid great enthusiasm. Rev. W. Bishop Johnson rendered valuable assistance. Local interest in the Afro-American Council is largely augmented because of this meeting, and Bishop Walters cannot be too highly extolled for travelling all the way from Jersey City especially to co operate with the plan wisely marked out by President R. W. Thompson and his able staff of officers. The Second Baptist Lyceum is doing the best work of its life. 1000 Agents Wanted to canvass and take orders and deliver the Military and Historical Souvenir Portrait Group of the officers of the Third North Carolina United States Volunteers. The first Negro regiment formed and entirely officered by colored men. Big percentage allowed to agents. They sell at sight. For particulars, address CAPT. THOS . LEATHERWOOD, Publisher, 1612 5th st. n. w., Washington n. D. C. tf. MRS. DR. RENNER SPECIALIST on obstetrics; gold medal awarded for the science of obstetrics from the University of Muni ch, Bavaria; treats successfully women complaints and irregularities; private sanitation for ladies before and during confinement, Office hours from 8 to 9 p.m. 619 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. 33 BLACK SKIN REMOVER. REGISTERED IN PATENT OFFICE U.S. BEFORE AFTER AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER. both in a box for $1, or three boxes for $2. Guaranteed to do what we say and to be the "best in the world." One box is all that is required if used as directed. 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 malatto 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, the skin remaining beautiful without continual use. Will remove wrinkles, freckles, dark spots, plimsoles or bumps or black heads, making the skin very soft and smooth. Small pox pits, tan, liver spots removed without harm to the skin. When you get the color you wish, stop using the preparation. THE HAIR STRAIGHTENER that goes in every one dollar box is enough to make anyone's hair grow long and straight, and keeps it from falling out. Highly perfumed and makes the hair soft and easy to comb. Many of our customers say one of our dollar boxes is worth ten dollars, yet we sell it for one dollar a box. Any person sending us one dollar in a letter or Post-Office money order, express money order or registered letter, we will send it through the mail postage prepaid; or if you want it sent C. O. D., it will come by express, 35c. extra. In any case where it fails to do what we claim, we will return the money or send a box free of charge. Packed so that no one will know contents except receiver. THOS. B. CRANE, 122 West Broad St., PICHMOND, V. 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 skilful brew masters in the county. Visit our plant and insist on us proving our assertions. We will be glad to show all. ARE KING Sec'y and Treas. E. L. JORDAN, Pres and Gen'l Mgr. SPARTA Pool and Billiard Rooms, 1206 Pennsylvania Avenue, n. w. This large, spacious and well-situated pleasure establishment has had added to it a new room in the third story for pool and billiards, where those who do not care to play in the larger apartments can have a degree of privacy not to be obtained elsewhere. This new room is handsomely furnished and lighted by electric lights. The atmosphere is cooled by electric fans. You are cordially invited to make inspection of these pool and billiard parlors. You will receive a hearty welcome at any time. Ask for SAMUEL A. TYLER, Manager. T.F. Conoy & Co. Distillers' Agents and Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Wines and Liquors. 1421 1421 P St. N. W. Hartona will make the hair grow long and soft, straight and beautiful. Makes the hair grow on bald and thin places. Restores GRAY HAIR to its original color. Hartona cures Dandruff, Baldness, falling out of the hair, itching, and all scalp diseases. Hartona does not have to be used all the time, as it straightens the hair and gives it fresh life and lustre, and the hair stays and grows naturally beautiful and straight after the use of Hartona. No hot irons necessary. No pasting the hair down with grease. Hartona is positively harmless—one box can be used by every one in the family. Benefits and improves children's hair just the same as adults. To meet the popular and ever-increasing demand for Hartona Hair-Grower and Straightener, we have placed it on sale in 25c. and 50c. sizes, in our special round, patent box. See that the word Hartona is on every box. Money positively refunded if you are not absolutely delighted with the Hartona remedies. Remember, we handle no fake goods, and you are positively protected by our $100.00 guarantee to any one proving otherwise. All our remedies are trade-marked, registered and copyrighted at United States Patent Office at Washington, D. C., in the years 1892 and 1900. We refer you, as to our responsibility, to the City Bank of Richmond, Va., Adams and Southern Express Companies, and to the editor of this paper. We want lady and gentlemen agents, white or colored, in every city and town in the United States. Write to us to-day, no matter if you are employed or not, and we will show you how to make a splendid living, with easy and pleasant work, and no risk of losing your good money. Write to us and we will send you a book of over one hundred genuine testimonials in your own State of people who have used and are using Hartona remedies. Is this not fair and honest enough? HARTONA FACE WASH. Hartona Face Wash will gradually turn the skin of a black person five or six shades lighter, and will turn the skin of a mulatto person perfectly white. The skin remains soft and bright without continual use of the face wash. One bottle does the work. Hartona Face Wash will remove wrinkles, dark spots, pimples, blackheads, freckles, and all blemishes of the skin. You can regulate the shade of skin on neck, face and hands to any shade you wish. Full directions with each bottle. Hartona Face Wash is perfectly harmless, and is sent to any part of the United States on receipt of price, 50c. per bottle; securely sealed from observation. It is your duty to look as beautiful as possible. Thousands of delighted patrons send us testimonials every year. Please remember that your money is positively refunded if you are not perfectly satisfied and delighted with the Hartona remedies. We want agents in every city in the United States. Write to us, no matter if you are employed or not, and we will show you how to make money without risking any of your own money. Hartona No-Smell will remove all smells and bad odors of the body; cures sore and aching feet, chafed limbs, etc. Hartona No-Smell is a God-send to all persons suffering from disagreeable odors caused by perspiration of the feet, arm-pits, etc. Sent anywhere on receipt of price, 10 cents and 25 cents a package. Address all orders to HARTONA REMEDY CO., 909 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. Send us One Dollar, and mention this paper, and we will send you three large boxes of Hartona Hair-Grower and Straightener, two large bottles of Hartona Face Wash, and one large box of Hartona No-Smell. Goods will be sent securely sealed from observation. Write your name and post-office and express-office address very plainly. Money can be sent by post-office money order, or enclosed in a registered letter, or by express. Address all Orders to HARTONA REMEDY CO., 909 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. TRADE MARK REGISTERED 1892. U.S. PATENT OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. BEFORE USING HARTONA AFTER USING HARTONA 4 Town Topics. Town Topics. Wanted—A first-class stenographer and typewriter. One who writes a good long hand preferred. Address with reference, H. J. GREEN, BOX 116, Charlotte, N. C. Miss Ella Freeman was quite ill last week, Miss Kate Faulkner is ill at the Homoeopathic Hospital. Mrs. C. H Griffin of 330 E street is recovering from attack of blood poisoning. Miss Nan T. Jackson of 318 M street, s. w. has been quite ill recently, but is speedily improving. Mr. McKenzie Scott, the undertaker, has been drawn on the Jury of Circuit Court No. 2 for February. Miss Lucy Kirby of E street, n. w was removed to Garfield Hospital on the $0th of January. She has been sick some time. Charles Harris of 449 Washington st. n. w fell while getting on an express wagon Monday morning and fractured his left leg. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. SPECIAL GRAND OFFER. Mr. Chas. Ricks of 321 Virginia ave Mr, H. Clay Hawkins, Mr. J. S. Settle of 727 4th st. and Dr. E. D. Williston al have the gripe. Mrs. Mary Wood, wife of G. W. Wood and mother of Mrs. Martha Tucker, died at her home, 413 B street, southeast, February 4th. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis W. Giles are the happy parents of an addition to their family, a bouncing young man.—Newport News (Va.) Recorder. Dr. M. J. Winn, formerly of this city has opened up dental parlors in Columbus, Ohio, at 689 $ \frac{1}{2} $ Mt. Vernon ave. He has associated with him Dr. J. W. Woodlin. Mrs. Amelia Simms of 1519 P street, northwest, died February 2.d at her home. The funeral services was held from St. Augustines church Wednesday aq 9 o'clock. Mr. Albert S. D. Taylor of the Amphion Glee Club and Miss Narcissus Tasker of Worcester, Mass. sang solos at John Wesley A. M. E. church on the 27th ult. As the inauguration approaches large numbers of Washingtonians receive letters, loving and sweet in tone from ..HARTONA.. Preparations for the arations for the Preparations for the Hair! The Original and Only Hartona. catchless and Positively Unequaled for ening all Kinky, Knotty, Stub and Positively Unequaled for g all Kinky, Knotty, Stub Harsh, Curly Hair. beautiful. Makes the hair grow on balding out of the hair, itching, and all over life and lustre, and the hair stays in the hair down with grease. His children's hair just the same as any we have placed it on sale in 25c. and in the Hartona remedies. Remember, otherwise. All our remedies are true years 1892 and 1900. We refer you, and to the editor of this paper. City and town in the United States, and did living, with easy and pleasant hundred genuine testimonials in your thought? STACE WASH on five or six shades lighter, and with unusual use of the face wash. One bottle blackheads, freckles, and all blemishes. Full directions with each bottle. Out of the United States on receipt orable. Thousands of delighted patrons are not perfectly satisfied and delighted, no matter if you are employed or employed all orders to DONA REMEDY CO., 909 E. MAIN ST. AND OFFER. You three large boxes of Hartona Hair-Smell. Goods will be sent securely plainly. Money can be sent by post. takes the hair grow on bald and thin places. R ease hair, itching, and all scalp diseases. Hair mastre, and the hair stays and grows naturally down with grease. Hartona is positively hair just the same as adults. To meet the need it on sale in 25c. and 50c. sizes, in our na remedies. Remember, we handle no fake All our remedies are trade-marked, registered and 1900. We refer you, as to our response the editor of this paper. own in the United States. Write to us to o- with easy and pleasant work, and no risk ine testimonials in your own State of per E WASH. fix shades lighter, and will turn the skin of the face wash. One bottle does the work. freckles, and all blemishes of the skin. actions with each bottle. United States on receipt of price, 50c. per b ands of delighted patrons send us testimoni ectly satisfied and delighted with the Hart if you are employed or not, and we will sh -SMELL. store and aching feet, chafed limbs, etc. odors caused by perspiration of the feet, all orders to EDY CO., 909 E. Main St., Richmo OFFER. large boxes of Hartona Hair-Grower and Str oods will be sent securely sealed from observ Money can be sent by post-office money order Main St., Richmo out of town friends from whom they have never before heard. It has been rumored of late that Mr. Chas. Reeder of the Executive Mansion is to be married very soon. We are authorized to say that there is not a word of truth in this statement. A new Sunday afternoon lyceum has been established at Israel C. M B. church. It will meet at 3 p.m. every Sunday and Mr. C. F. Lafon is president and Mr. Beaufort C. Lee is secretary. Mr. R. F. Fortune formerly of the Treasury Department is now located in Philadelphia and has one of the finest tonsorial parlors in that city. Mr. Fortune was in the city this week for a few days. Miss Nannie H. Burrows, formerly of this city, but now of Nashville, Tenn. delivered a lecture in Indianapolis January 25th under the auspices of the Marion County Baptist Woman's Missionary Societies. Dr. Barnett and Dr. Blackshear are the prominent projectors of the colored medical academy, an institution for which there is a most conspicuous field in this city and of which much more will be heard later. --- --- for the Hair! Jnequaled for Straight Knotty, Stubborn, and thin places. Restores GRAY scalp diseases. Hartona does not and grows naturally beautiful and Hartona is positively harmless—one ults. To meet the popular and 50c. sizes, in our special round, we handle no fake goods, and you made-marked, registered and copy- n, as to our responsibility, to the s. Write to us to-day, no matter work, and no risk of losing your our own State of people who have SH. will turn the skin of a mulatto per- tle does the work. ashes of the skin. You can regu- of price, 50c. per bottle; securely us send us testimonials every year. inted with the Hartona remedies. not, and we will show you how to LL. safed limbs, etc. iration of the feet, arm-pits, etc. Grain St., Richmond, Va. air-Grower and Straightener, two y sealed from observation. st-office money order, or enclosed Richmond, Va. "OUR LORD'S LETTER." All persons desiring "Our Lord's Letter" which brings happiness and success to each home, send 10 cents for one or 25 cents for three to S. S. F. 2104 Ward Place, N. W., Washington, D. C. FURR'S COCOANUT CREAM Makes the hair grow keeps it soft, stops it from breaking off and falling out and removes the dandruff and tetter. It does not straighten hair, make it grow seven feet in length, or turn it a blond color. It is for the above only. Each person selling 25 boxes gets $10. Price per box $1,00 or 6 boxes for $5.00 with directions. Send all orders to S. S. Furr 2104 Ward Place, n. w., Washington, D. C. 1006 F street, n. w., Jan. 12th, 1901. Cardozo, Druggist, 1201 R st.—We regard your Queen Pomade as the most satisfactory hair preparation we handle. It invigorates the hair and stops it from falling out and for cleansing the scalp of dandruff it is excellent. GEORGE EVANS. Foreman Dabney's Barbe Shop. | UAE eS eA INNS gee be MN i NS ea Ml \\\ i cae aS ree Y \\ J ee iN ee BA!) fi Ge Be St LET RES NN AZ B UR RRO NG J es S ZENS WEEN JA Lox ESHER aXe EZZ: ZA Ge ee L f SS Z 5 Ree Z oo ie — \ GZ — Wt LLM j Z WEE EE See hi) TA : CE? CEB Ke Ve Wy WW Z- Zz NG ZY, , er ’ Sf Hon. Georce H. Wairr, The Sole Colored Member of the 56th Congress. A TELLING APPEAL. ment that the musty: SS filed eway in the archiv The Negro’s Temporary Farewell to Con- capitols, as to what the | gress—the Great Achievements of the] ty years ago, isnot a {| Negro in its Few Years of Freedom 'py which the Negro Hon Gzorge H. White Delivers an| threshold of the twe: Eloquent Spzech to tha Lower. jensen be measured. & (Washington Star.) With the close of this session Mr. White of North Carolina, the only col ored man in the House of Representa- tives, goes out of Congress. January 29:h, in the House, Mr. White pro- nounced “the Negro’s temporary fare- well tothe American Congress” in an impassioned speecb, which brought forth applause on the floor aad in the Ralleries, “I want to enter a plea for the colored man, the colored woman, the colored boy and the coiored girl of this coun- try,’ said Mr. White, in part. “£ would not thus digress from the question at issue and detain the House in a dis- cussion of the interests of this particu- lar people at this time bnt for the con stant and the persistent efforts of cer ‘sin gentlemen upon this floor to mold Sud rivet public sentiment against us 48a people and to lose no opportunity to hold up the unfortunate few who commit crimes and depredations and lead lives of infamy and shame, as other races do, as fair specimens of rep* sentatives of the entire colored race And st no one time, perhaps, during the Fifty-sixth Congress were thete charges and countercharges, contain- ing, as they do, slanderous statements, tore persistently meguified and press *d upoa theatteotion of thenation than during the consideration of the recent Teapportionment bill, which 1s now a Jaw. Ag Stated some days ago on this floor by me, I then sought dilligently * obtain an opportunity to answer ‘ome of the statements made by gentle Men from different ‘states, bus the Frivilege was denied me; and I there* ‘ore must embrace this opportunity to *4y, out of season, perhaps, that which Twas not permitted to say in season WHAT THE RACE HAS ACCOMPLISHED. “1 would like to advance the state THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. ment that the musty records of 1868, filed 2way in the archives of Southern capitols, as to what the Negro was thir ty years ago, is not a proper standard by which the Negro living on the threshold of the twentieth century should be measured. Since that time we have redtced the illiteracy of the race at least 45 percent. We have writ ten and published nearly 500 books. We have nearly 800 newspapers, three ot which are dailies. We have now in practice over 2 000 lawyers, and a cor: responding number of doctors We have accumulated over $12 000,000 w rth of school property snd about $40, 000,000 worth of church property. We have about 140,000 farms and homes, valued at in the neighborhood of $750, 000,000, and personal property valued at about $170 000.000. We bave raiced about $11,000 0U0 for educational pur’ poses, and the property per capita for every colored man. woman and child in the United States is estimated at $75. “We are operating successfully sev: eral banks, commercial enterprises among our people in the Southland, in- cluding one siik mill and one cotton factory. We have 32000 teachers in the schools of the country; we have built, with the aid of our friends about 20,000 churches, and support seven col: leges, seventeen academies, fifty high schools, five law schools, five medical schools and twenty-five the logical seminaries. We have over 600,000 acres of land in the south alone. The cot ton produced, mainly by black labor, hes increased from 4 669,770 bales in 1860 to 11,235,000 in 1899. A!l this wa bave done under the most adverre cir cumstances. We have dene it in the face of lynching, burning at the stake, with the humilation of ‘Jim Crow’ cars the disfranchisemeut of our male citi- zens, Slander and degradation of our women withthe factories closed against us, no Negro permityed to be copduc’ toron the railway cars, whether run through the sticets of our cities or across the prairies of our great country, no Negro permitted to run as engineer on a locomotive, most of the mines closed against us. BARRED FROM LABOR UNIONS. — was —Carpenters, painters, brick masons, machinists, hackmen apd those supplying nearly every con- civable avocation for livelihood, have banded themselves together to better their condition, but, with few excep’ tions, the black has been Jeft out. The Negroes are seldom employed in ou: mercantile stores. At this we do not wonder. Some day we hope to have them employed in our own stores. With all these odds against us we are forging our wy abead, slowly, perhaps but surely. You may tie ue and then taunt us for alack of bravery, but one day we will break the bonds. You may use our Jsbor fortwo and a balf centuries and then taunt us for our poverty, but let me remind you we will not always remain poor. You may withhold even the knowledge of how t« read God’s word and learn the way from earth to glory and then teunt u= for our ignorance, but we will remind you that there is plenty of room at the top, and we are climbing. Afterenforeed debauchery with many kindred horrors incident to slavery, it comes with ill grace from the perpetra tors of these deeds to hold up the ehort comings of some of our race to ridicule and scorn. The new man, the slave who has grown out of the ashes of thirty five years ago, is inducted into the politica! and sooial system, cast into the arens of manhood, where he constitutes a new element and becomes a competitor for all its emoluments He ts put upor trial to test his ability to be counted worthy of freedom, worthy of the elec- tive franchise; and after thirty-fitve years of struggling against almost in surmountable odds, under condition: but litue removed trom slavery itself, be asks a fair and just judgment, no of thcse whose prejadice has endeav- ored to forestall, to frustrate his every forward movement, rather than those who have lent a helping hand, that he might demonstrate the truth of the ‘fatherhood of God and the brother hood of man.’ HOW TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM. Now, Mr. Chairman, before conclud ing my remarks I want to submit a bilef recipe for the sclution of the ro called American Negro problem. He asks no special favors, but simply de mands that he be given thesame chance tor existence, for earning a livelihood for raisiag himself in the scales of manhood and womarhood that are ac corded t) kindred nationalities. Treat him as a man; go into his home and learn of his social condilions; learn of his cares, his troubles and his hope for the future; gain bis confidence; ope the doors of industry to bim; let the word ‘negro,’ ‘colored,’ and ‘black’ be stricken from sll the organizations enumerated in the Federation of La- bor, Help him to overcome his weak nesses, punish the crime-committing class by the courtsof the land. measure the standard of the race by its best material, cease to mold vredjndictal and upjust public sentiment seainst ‘him, and my word for it, he will learn to support, hold up the hands of, and join 1m with that political party, that insti tution, whether secular or religious, in every community where he lives, which is destined to do the greatest gocd for the greatest number. Obliterate race hatred, party prejudice, and help us to achieve nobler ends, greater results and become satisfactory citizens to our brother in white This, Mr. Cosirman, is perhaps the ‘Negro’s temperary farewell to the Ge Congress; but let me say, ‘Phoenix like, he will rise up some day and come agaip. These parting worde ‘are in behalf of an outraged, heart hroken brniced and bleeding. but God 5 SaaS SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. WANTED HELP. Sa Ee Senn A active, energetic young man who has some exp .rience as collector and who can ride a bicycle, can “find employment at this office if he desires to work. eee Large sunny front room, also middle room, newly papered; bath and heated; with or without board: furnished or unfurnished.’ One block from Capi- tal; convenient to cars, also first-class table board. Call or address 133 B St. s. w. Se Encloue 2c stamp tor repl, a1 we will send eet telling how ou can make trom to $150 per month, and aiso be presented with a fine Gold Watch. Address. SCOTT REMEDY Co,, Box 570, Louisville, Ky, ———________ RVOUS FOR RENT, ee Two rooms furnished or unfurnished with or without board. Convenient to two car lines. Near Government Printing Office. 624 3rd street, n. e. eee ) An elegant furnished or unfurnished front room to lady or gentleman or family of two, in northwest and near two car lines. Terms reasonable. For further information address “Earl” Colored Ameri- can office. S mINISe SS Wanted Rooms. ————— Persons desiring to secure firat class rooms in any part ot the cit will do well lo put an anbouncement in these columns. ————— eee it you baveaspareroom that ou would like to rent to desirable parties, advertise them ta The Golored Ameriean, — Wantep—Persons having rooms to rent to fami- lies, to young meh or to young women, can get ten- ants by advertising in this column. Help Wanted. eee ee Do ou want work? Do ou wapta job? It 80, advertise the tact in these columns es Wanted an active, intelligent oung man to collect for 4 relianie business firm. Good piace for the right man, —— —laaa——eo—w—wva—X—X—F———— Wanted a Partner, — Wanted a partner fora business alread es- tablished and paing well. Must nave some cash and be abie to take a position on salary Address C, care this office. (Confidential) —————eS=——_—_—_—_—_—_—_— SPE-.IAL. ee _ There are letters at this office tor Mr, Har- ry Radeciiff, Hon. William Harris and Mrs. Louisa F, Washington. ee eee If you can furnish meals toa select few or to Persons who want breakfast and dinner you can get customers by advertising in this column. Se eee Persons who keep boarding houses, or who can take a few strangers to board and room during the holidays or inauguration, should make announce- ments through these columns. Letters are coming each day and if your announcement appears in the paper the parties can write direct to you. Let us know if you can take boarders and roomes and how many. ee Agents Wanted, —. _ WANTED.—Capable, reliable person in every county to represent large company of solid finan- cial reputation; $936 salary per year, payable week- ly; $3 per day ‘absolutely sure and all expenses: straight, bona-fide, definite salary, no commission; salary paid each Saturday and expense money ad- vanced each week. STANDARD HOUSE, 334 Dearborn St., Chicago. Active agents are wanted in ever ce} and town in the United States for The C lored American, the greatest and new.iest colored bewsparer pubiished, Write fer terms, ad- dress The Colored American, 459 C street, n, w., Wasbington, v. C. -)— Colored man who reads and write« to pre- pare for trave ing $50 montbl apd expenses. Seud ce f addressed envelope. President Mac- brad, 86 Dearborn, Chicago. SSS LEGAL NOTICE. IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS- TRICT OF COLUMBIA, the 18th day of Jan- uary 1901. Annie M. Clifton, ( vs. Equity No. 21,806, Docket 49. Joseph M. Clifton, ¢ On motion of the plaintiff, by Mr. R. S. Smith, her solicitor. it is ordered that’ the defendant, Joseph M. Clifton cause his appearance to be ‘entered herein on or before the first rule-day occurring forty days after this day: otherwise the cause will be proceeded with as in case of default. The object of this suit is for absolute divorce, on the grounds of cruelty and desertion. ‘A copy of this order shall be published in The Washington Law Reporter. and in The Colored American once per week for three successive weeks. By the Court, JOB BARNARD, Justice, &c. True copy. Test: J. R. YOUNG, Clerk, &c. By j, WILMER LATIMER, Asst. Clerk. 6 LITTLE ARMY PREJUDICE. A Colored Veteran Makes a Strong Appeal to the Young Men of the Race The D mind of Today is for Educated Men, of Culture, Stamina and Courage Havana, Cuba. Special—A great many of our people think that Congress should withdraw some colored regiments to be called on freely by our men, and to view of the fact, that we have not used the professional training that many white men have had, that the standards of old administration of our men to three regiments should be lower than at present. If Congress should raise a law an amendment are required to be carried by our men whose *surrender* of service [Illustration of a man in military uniform]. GENE L. NELSON A. MILES son was lowest than that for the regiments now in the Regular Army, it would be simply a bid for honour among colored men. There are already four regiments of colored troops in the Regular Army which call for officers as well equipped physically and mentally as any other regiments. Why don't colored men try to enter these regiments as officers? Between fifty and one hundred white men enter the army every year as officers. Some years more. This year there will probably be nine hundred or a thousand. Many go from West Point Military Academy. We know at present it is well might impossible for a colored boy to enter this institution, but there are two other ways he can become a commissioned officer—one the strenge, it is easier the army as a present officer and rise from [Pencil sketch of a man in a suit with a bow tie.] LIMIT HENRY OHAN FLIPPER The First Colored Graduate from West Point. LIMIT HENRY ORGAN FLIPPER The First Colored Graduate from West Point. the ranks. This can be done in two years, most that get commissions that was get them in that time. The other way is to wait for an opportunity and secure an appointment from civil life. Every year a number of young men are commissioned from the ranks, and good wear since 1895 a very large number have been a commissioned from civil life, worn in eight years we have heard of only four colored men who have ever tried to secure a commission, either way, and those four failed, and so far we have learned and am able to judge should have failed. As men of color willing, then, to admit that the educational qualification is too high I believe not I believe many of our young men who matriculate at colleges and universities with white men with averages none the tower for the color, could easily pass THE COLORED AMERICAN. WASHINGTON, D. C. the examinations for commissions. I believe it is because he has been so used to hearing the kickers of his race now about race prejudice and unfairness in examinations that he allows himself to be blinded to the real truth. That the educated and cultured Negroes should be so indifferent to the army when that constitution, now, as it always has, exercises such an inference upon civilization, when so many men not one f-arms by means of it, who, without an army, would never be spoken [Illustration of a man in a military uniform with a high collar and stars on his chest]. CAPT. CHARLES YOUNG. A West Point Graduate and New Captain. of, is a disarrate to the race. How many Negro mothers and fathers educate their sons to listen on street a trenches, to become barbers, waiters and low rate politicians, to "work up influence" in the lodges of the states and the National Capital for an appointment to a messengership, a courteseyship, or some other flunkyship, rather than see him enter the song where he may rise to emulate Charles, Louism, Lewson, Wiles. They tell us there is prejudice in the society. We say there is, but those that know the most about it are those that know of it in the least. There is less prejudice. J. CAPIT FRANK R. SIEWARD. A Captain in the Philippines Appointed from Civil Life injure shown in the same than there is anywhere in the United States. Young has been nearly eleven years a commission officer and the bill which recently passed Congress will make him a certain. We would like for some of those who prove about prejudice point to a single instance when prejudice reaffirmed his advancement, or prove to us that he did not receive the same promotions that he would have answered had he been a white man. They may ask as they always do "why don't they make commissioners off of some of us who have served on fifteen twenty years in the army or soldier?" In answer we would ask "Do you know that every commissioned officer in the Regular Army is supposed to be a polished gentleman?" He is taught the highest cultures. He may at any time be called upon to represent the United States as a foreign country—probably a London to Berlin—where he will come in to act with kings, queens and other foreign officers. He must be well posted on international law. Could those old soldiers do that with credit to the nation and to their servants? The answer is no. Long and fatimid service as soldiers does not BORROW MONEY On terms that are arranged to suit your convenience. Any amount from £1,000. on your furniture, plants, organs, or anything or value left in your possession as you get the use of both the goods as well as the money. You want the lowest rate of course the come so we will arrange the payments to suit your large or email weekly or monthly installments. In dealing with us you receive the benefits of deal long with the code s, largest, and most reliable from any of the goods in Washington. most relatable company to you. 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It Salutes the Race Throughout the World and Hopes Much-Objects of the Association Stated and a Call Made for Funds to Prosecute the Work it has in Hands. The Pan African Association, through its executive, greets the members of the race throughout the world, and desires at the dawn of the Twentieth Century to call their attention to its aims and objects, as formulated by a conference consisting of prominent members of the African race assembled from all parts of the globe in London during the month of July, 1900 and which form its raison d'etre. The objects of this association are: (1) To secure to Africans and their descendants throughout the world their civil and political rights; (2) To ame to rate the condition of our oppressed brethren in the continents of Africa, America, and other parts of the world, by promoting efforts to secure effective legislation; (3) To encourage our people in educational, industrial and commercial enterprises; (4) To foster friendly relations between the Caucasian and African races; (5) To organize a bureau as a depository for collections of authorized productions, writings and statistics relating to our people everywhere; (6) To rase a fund to be used solely for the forwarding of the above objects. We fully recognize and note the estimable efforts of Europeans and Americans in the past century, and especially the success resulting therefrom in the latter part of the same, which has, in a word, placed us upon the platform of freedom, with the consequent responsibilities in common with other races of mankind. It behoves us to realize this and to occupy our position as real factors and producers in the progress of civilization. We have likewise notice with marked satisfaction the attainments and aspirations of the race in British Colonies, America, Hayti, Liberia, Brazil, Abyssinia, Cuba and the Philippines, and are sanguine of the future. But there are instances of retrogression in British territory, the United States, Congo Free States, German territory in Africa, Pemba and Zanzibar, and Portuguese territory, which necessitate determined and organized efforts on our own behalf to strive to have righted by constitutional means. The dawn of the Twentieth Century will demand alertness in every sphere, and we cannot but expect every member to be active to a practical degree. This association desires the race to be represented in every stage of progress, otherwise our interests must continue to be neglected. Placed as we are, and having the recognition of the authorities, much good and useful work can be accomplished here in London. But means are absolutely necessary to carry forward this work, and the executive would suggest that every able member of the race should associate in city, town and village to form branches to be affiliated with head quarters, and so contribute towards its maintenance. We should request authentic and bonafide reports of circumstances as they affect the welfare of our people under the various governments, for the purpose of dissemination, and thereby to instruct public opinion. 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The Colored American, with its usual enterprise, has copyrighted a watch, with full jewel movements, known as the Frederick Douglass watch. Every intelligent Afro-American, every preacher, every school teacher and every school boy ought to have one of these watches. It won't cost anything to get one. See advertisement, Fhe Colored American Puptehed by CHE CeLoEED Awznicas Pub sbing Company. A *SATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER Pub ubed every Saturday at 38 C Si. NW Washington, D.C. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One year - = $2.00 Six months - - 1.10 Three months - = cot INVABIASLY IN ADVANCE. Subscriptions may ve seni oF pusiofice money order, express or by registered letter. AU communications for povilcation should be a>com panied Wilh ihe name of tbe writer— Bot secemsarily tor puplication. vut as 8 guar- ante € of good fab. ‘We solicit news. coniribations, opinions and in fact, all matters affecting tbe race We «ll noi pay for matter, however, unless it ts ordered by us. Al! matter intended for pub seallon musi reach inis office by Wednes. Gsy of exeb week to insure insertion in the enrrest isene ‘S& Agents are Wanted everywoere. Senc or astructiona ADVERTISING RATES. Reading notices 50 cents per line. Display edvertisemenis, $2 per square incon per inser- tien Mecounts mace on large contracts. Entered at ihe Post-omce as second-class matter. A seUiers, Com municetions, anc vusipess Ma 16Ts SPCOld be eGaressed 10 THE COLORED AMERICAN, EDWARD E COOPER, Masacen 459 C Street Northwest. WASHINGTON, D.C Sold by all all News Dealers. —_—_—_—_— SATURDA*, FESRUARY 9, 1900. — THE ARMY REORGANIZATION. The bill providing for the reorgan- ization ef the Uni ed Stats Army. ova larger scale, was signed by the Presi- deat a few days ago. It is a very gen- erous measure, and it affords an oppor tunity for those in authority to give proper recognition to the gallant boys who have won their spurs at the front. Ot course, the white soldiers will be ha .dsomely cared tor, but how about the colored brother? Race prejadice has shut bim ovt trom the advantages afforded for a military education at the acadery at West Point, but it has not da~pened his ardour es a patriot, nor taken from bim the instincts and bearing cf a s:idier. He maintains goei disciphoe; drivs well, and fights courageously! This has been demon: strated on many a battlefield in all the wa-s ot the Kepublic. What is more, he is anxious tw fizht and die, if needs be, in detence of his country's flag! Why ant give him a chasce not only 3a privxte soldier in the ranks, bat tosh ud.r the responsibility of com mand? W- tate it that our militery estab: lishment s auxious w bring ab-ut the bes r save pesbie under exsting ¢ n° deeus, and -ill therefore avail itelf of the b-st maerial at band The non-c mmissioned «ficers of the rb and 10ch Cavairy and the 24th and 25:h Tataatry o' the regular establishment. aad the officers of toe 45th and 49 b Voiusteer Intaatry, many of whom have been tried. as it were, by fire, and proved wor hy of a foeman’s ateel, eould be utilized to good acvantage ‘n the reorganization of the army, and we hope that President McKinley will see to it that such action is taken as will do ful! justice to the memoers of our race who are now in the army, and who have proved themselves worthy of promotion, and who shall bereatter enlist. If we are to have separate regiments, we want men ef our own race to com mand those regiments. This is the sentiment of che colored people THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. Cc. thoughout the coustry. and they will he greatly disappointed if their just de mand is disregarded ia the revrgaviza” tion of the army, now about to take place. nn’ | We sometimes tall: with dull mis apprehension of our inheritance, a2 y the mingling here of the different nationalities of the earth was a mere accident of our own time, and as if because some of our misfortunes are ‘traceable to it we are privileged to | deny to any less fortunate brother such opportumty to seek a home upon this free and byu:tiful conti. | nent as our ancestors enjoyed Gen oes on Marepall’> M mory. | THE WATYONAL CAPITAL SEARCHLIGHT. The above is the name ct the latest infant prodigy that has appeared in our midst. From all a; pearances it i= indeed a most lusty youngeter. and ua- jess all signs fail it is d-stined to chisel out @ brend new niche in the field of literature. | Bat ah me! what manifold ille are ‘Dot in store for the average infant. ‘There's the croup, clic, measles. whooping cough and a whole tr-in cf calamnties—necessary copcomitants of precarious growth The genius who bas the responsibil. ity of plavking down the hard cash to get out each succeeding number will be able t» appreciate in all ite fullress the likeness of his effort ta the afore | mentioned maladies. The splendid jand really excellent first sppearance at this magazine ought to insure “t uninterrupted appearance withsut s |single fioancial jar. But we who have ‘been there and traversed the route know too well whai lions lie in wai ny the wayside. The old saying “many jeame to scoff but few remained t pray” can aptly be paraphrased int’ | “many eame to read but few remainet |to pay” when applied to bealthy men ital pabulum. We wish the Search'igh jleek. There is no royal road in jour nalism. It our infantile neighbor find: jthe way or has the plu~k to make | way, well and gond for it will fiod no _ beartier well-wisher of abundant suc | cess than The Colored American. Col R. R. Church, the Afro- American money king ot Memphis, Tenn., 26ts a splendid example of “getting together” by writing his check tor $1,000 tor the tund to cover the expense of the meeting ot the (on: tederate veteravs in that city in May next. The Colored American is responsible for the Statement that the inangeral committee, which will conduct the ceremonies on March 4th bee wholis ignored the colored man and brother —Dab las Express. Yes, Mr Ki g rot only this but since the colored people have been ex cluded trom the platform of the inau- gural festivines they have started a local e-cial war among themselves The Colored American can only guar- antee to Texans of Atrican descent who intend coming to the nation’s Capital to witzess the inaugural bip. podrome. a place to eat, a pl.ce to sleep and plenty of room on the side walks pn —_ A colored veteran talks wisely in todau’s issue ef this paper on the opportunities for colored men in the aumy. Prof. Booker T. Washington's ad- vice to “make friends with your neigb- bor and get the respect and confi-ience of the white people among whom you live.” 1s abiy seconded by Col. RR. Chureb of Memphis, Tenn. The Colored American is the first Negro publication that bas been ac cepted by the American News Compa- ny end its branches throughout the United States and Canada Friends of the race as well as friends of the pa- per can do it a s-rvice oy salliog at any and every news stand aod pur- chasiag a copy uf it, Make a demand for it In another column of this issue of The Colored American a review is given of the work of Mr. Thomas H. Wright. es an Odd Fellow, a factor in the eburch and es a citizen. Odd Fel- lowship has no stronger agent than Thos. H. Wright. He bas made all the fortunes of that great order in the Dis trict of Columbia and Odd Fellows ‘Hall on M street is a monument to bis untiring industry and exeeative abili ty. The account is s0 comprebensive and gives s0 minutely the work ac emmplished by Mr. Wright, that fur ther comment is not necessary. The race neets more men of the Thos. H. Wright ilk HE SIGNS ALL MONEY. The Career of Hon Judson W. Lyons— The Register of the Unwed States Treasury Reviewed —An Int-resting Story of a Boy Born in be Dark Days Who Has Risea to Em:ninence and Leacersbip. The propriety of sriting critically of 4 Wan duriog bis life time bes oeen seriousiy qiestiuned. li is -ericu-ly arged iba: bo Gsiimsie, Woriby ine uame, can b2 formed of the chaisc-cr @f a puolic Map, until hie Carcer bas been compieted, until his life has come waclose Howevertrue tui- conten ivun may be for the purpose of perma aen. history, 1 bas no true rela isn vo eurren aff .isor io temporary chougat. Pudiic Mich Sustain tuck cluse reieuen so tbe peupie wedi they rej resent, 40 tLe intelést of ibe people im their fep-escniauves is s0 iively and serud uizipg. thst tnere is constean: d. mind for moTm@iatiou, €Ven tO Lbe smiaiicet de.sll f pi.vate life, Comcerming those ws whom great in eresis are commited. Wine ine public career of Jud-ou W. Lyonsin is ustone] aspect may be said tw Rave oniy fairly Deguu. set tbe fGiailop wDich De sustains Ww Lbe coun: try «a geDeral, and o his own peepe 10 particular, focusss attention upp Bim a: it docs up» few men in the re- vauic The lsvorer op tne fsrm ana iu ibe mime, tse toler in Lhe various pursnoits of nfe, the worker in tae faci ory, tae Mescbant. the backer. _ne cap: a8 of iDausiry, (be cabllaust at home, sae lby¥<ror scrusd—in s word wtou ever Dandees any of the curiency of we Untied iates, or any of iis securides ec8 lu-critd outbeur isc. the pame ux J W.Ly ns. Toe Regisiereb:p of tne Treasury carries WHD it ibe politica: vw Tbacy of the colored race m the Calica Sites. NO man of either race uss ever ueid the pusiuen who hs vot demonsira.ed qualities of icader Bip of adigh oruer. apd wh.se char acter¢e U:d ut De eDijecied to tne clos ect invesiigation Ta- peeecnt R gis er of the Tress ary Jud-on -. L.ons, meeia bon of ‘hose Tequifemeaia. in ine simosi iuMy iurre years cf Lis lie, surrug ro Ma.Ce ac@ svlld, sturcy, pr Sressive acolevedient Will be found Dienued iz ega:l proporrios Rora m Barke cour ty. G.urgis, im 1858, che yesr ia waiet abiauam Lincan aud Stephen A. Dougias were deoating, on ihe prairies f Liinols, tuose migoty questiune costa lituie later divided the county 2 O two warring cam, s, his life seem: to Dave taben its impetus acd directx from tRat event. ibe cise of the Givi War found bim a chi dcf tender years but fostered by ibe hopes and prayeu: and siruggies of a loving motter, hail conscious Of the career ibai was « “pen beiore bim. The first four yesr- of bis educstion was ootained in tbe county of bis astivity. Sab quently }Movl.g to Avgasss, Georgia, in whic cliy_be resiced uutt! «is appoint meni *8 Register of the Tressury, he at vended night school for a time and the: matriculated at the Augusta Instiiat ees a SE? MR tates bat owing to the ask of orelimina’ tesiaing oa ths part of apy isan? sdaission to ite course ig theo branches of a common s:h) ol aad bed eeratery education were a!;, Sanea Mc Lyons was s student o: th, “te tit Institate for six years, ang though having no purpose t, Se the misistry asa ealling pursued th study of theology slong wi: the other young men breanse the fsculty of i, Instiiute reqaired it He bas nove gretted bis €xearsion into the fieig = tecology, but bas often expresseq fs opinion that these studies had mat to do in torming bis ensracter, and 4 ine ia bie lifes sericus Purpose. He legal ednestion waa obtained at the Howard University Law schoo} é a whieb institntion be was gradueteq 1884 Son after his return to Georgia : corgi, be wae sdmirted to the practice of the taw st tbe Richmord county par and \for fourteen years practic: d hig Pree jfesion winning tame. ang the cong. | dence and resrect of the courts, mem, bers of the bar and bis fellow Citizens, | Mr. Lyors’ polities) career embreces | * Short experience s8 a news; eper eo; _t Fr, Dumerous elections as delega ¢ to geek Cor gte-sionsl, stste ang batien si Conventions once candidate fa | Congress, Once cancicste gs electors large, two terms ss Nationa Commit. teeman of bis state. and Rezis er of the Treasury. He is the only colored m-mber of the present Republican National Committee Nstere placed the sign and seal of leadership upon Jadsron W. Lyons in every element of hit constitution. Ris physique and dgaity make bim the ob-erved of all observers in any gather ing Tall, erect, esty of csrrisge, com Pact and well-proportioned, he would be the delizht of any srtist in search of perfec: mode) of the “buman form |divice ” The description thst 5 cele. brated map gave f Danie) webster a3 spproprisiely be made'o deserite jtre physies] appesrance of Mr Lyon: “Webster came bome to Fanuel Hsll to protest agaipst the breaking cp of the Whig psriy. and f ur thoussnd | Sbiee came out to meet him. He lift itd up bes msjestic presence before that j*es of buman faces, bis brow charged with th under and ssid, ‘Gentlemen | sms Whig; a “Massachusetts Whig; 4 Revelu ionary Whig; 8 Constituticnal Whe; s Fapuel Hall Whig; snd if yon ereak up the Whig party woere aw | tog?’ And says Lowell, ‘we all held ‘jour bresth. thinking where he could go’ ‘But’ says Lowell, ‘if he had bees five feet three we should have ssid, *“Coafound you, wo do you sunpxe esres where you gc?’’’ Lyons’ magui’ | Gicent statue suggests a! this His mind is cast in a like mold. He | Fessoning is s'ri ng, coget and convine ing. Be possesses ir finite patierce aud self ermtrol. He never loses bit temper He isabsolately proof szalrst ‘jexertemen:; bence be speaks with dis '| crimination sod deliberation, He ner’ jer goes cH “half cocked;” bexce te bever bas to expisin cr to retract. The | years be bse given to the prscticed | the lsw bsve developed in bims markt '|tsient for details. Worn be once isi ‘lop & subject be stidies iv as clorely *| Napoleon studied che map of the sett ef war. This trait of mind 1s part of nis well earned éucerss During the " |iast presidential ca psign the amcust of resily ford mrnvsi, unecen work cbat be did was enormous Although : be made a number of speeches in the ‘| campaign that were notstl+ aod por erful a® vote getters, yet the work be ‘idid im the way of furpisbing (a! ‘| which @ thousand orators might Weert jinto epeect es; m giving counsel ss 10 ‘| eactical and strstegics! movements j=nd in watching critics! positians, ‘ ‘lexceeded these ip value and io acl i ecnba. (Continued on 12th page)