The Colored American

The COLORED American A NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER A NOTED JOURNALIST. A.Story From the Depths-John Edward Bruce the Veteran Editor, Publisher, Author and Philosopher Portrayed Where his Diploma Came From. John Edward Bruce, better known to the public as "Bruce Grit," whose portrait graces this paper, first saw the light of this world at Piccataway, Md. February 221, 1856, and his amiable mother with whom the writer was acquainted had the good sense not to name him George Washington. If born with a spoon in his mouth, it must have been made of wood, an oyster shell or clam shell. However that may have been, we are reasonably sure that about the first object he reached for was a goose quill. That an edict was not promulgated to slay him was probably due to the ignorance of many of his existence, and of his goose quill antics. John Edward was started to school (?) quite young and being apt—a "bright child" was never permitted to attend the common schools; in fact, he seemed to have had an aversion to public schools—being a little partial to color; hence, he at once entered the university of his state from which most Negroes hold diplomas, and from which he graduated at an early age. And be now appeared to be proud of his diploma, since it was issued by the faculty of the "University of Adversity," but its only frame has been between the leads of newspapers. He has been editor and proprietor of The Argus and The Item, Washington, D.C. The Republican, Norfolk, Va, The Commonwealth, Baltimore, Md., all of which bristled with the true ring of republicanism and were ceaseless defenders and advocates of race interests. As a writer, he is aggressive, facile, tenacious, racy and tireless and those whose misfortune it has been to cross swords (quille) with him, have usually been content to sheath them when the contest was ended. Big hearted, his faci'e pen has been moved to write many kind paragraphs of struggling young men and women which have given them reputation, and even success, but Bruce Grit is remembered only as a "good writer." Among his late writings no article glitters with more brilliancy than his caustic advice to Ex-Secretary H. A. Herbert and the Montgomery Conference, which has been liberally quoted and extensively commented upon by the English press. The New Age of London, quoting from the "Negro Problem" issued by WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1901. your trust John & Bruce the writer, and devoting nearly two columns commendatory thereof, amor g other things says of Mr. Bruce's wonderful article: "All this greatly concerns ourselves, not only because America is dominated by our own Anglo-Saxon race (of whom we are sometimes told that we must believe no evil) but because its influence is strong upon ourselves. Is it not possible that the 'indirect influence' of American domestic ties may have some weight in cabinet and Anglo Indian circles? Above all, this concerns us in so much as in South Africa we are confronted with all the same 'problem' which baffle the Americans, and which every race who meets them in spirit save that of simple justice and humane consideration—the former the foundation and the latter the crown of all nobly reared state edifice." Mr Bruce's collection of literature regarding the Negro race is varied and replete, and it is doubtful if any man living can duplicate his library with respect to variety. That of itself is a clear demonstration of the journalistic trend of his mind. He is the prince of Negro newspaper correspondents, having for the past twenty six years represented papers in the West Indies, Africa and various sections of America. His articles are always eagerly sought and read because they contain food for thought, a decent threshing for some wayward brother, or a terrible drubbing for some fellow who has dared to assail the integrity of the race. It is said the existence of many Negro newspapers idle to the life infused by the articles of Bruce Grit. He has just written a caustic review of the lynching habit which is published by the Albany Argus Publishing Co. in pamphlet form. Its title is "The Blood Record." A review of lynchings etc. in the United States by civilized white men. The pamphlet is breezy, bitter, full of biting sarcasm and whole some truths. It is for sale by the Daily Argus Publishing Co. and the Capital City News Co. Washington, ave Albany, N. Y. and is well worth the price charged for it. GEO ALLEN MEBANE. Ellizabeth City, N. C., Feb. 9th 1901. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PROGRESS IN THE SOUTH. Georgia Afro Americans Set an Example for Their Northern Neighbors-Industrial and Educational Development Shown to Good Advantage-Gate City News Notes. Atlanta, Ga., Special -A recent investigation by Dr. W. E. B. DuBois of the chair of Economics and History of Atlanta University shows that there are over twenty two Negro business ventures in the city of Atlanta which may be considered successful. These ventures include almost every kind of business known to the business world, and have a total investment of sixty four thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. Some of these ventures have been the means of the accumulation of fairly large fortunes, and are now, after years of careful guidance, thriving. These ventures also have a far reaching influence not only in determining the men of the business world but of the social world also. The managers and proprietors of the firms are held in much respect by both white and colored. According to the last census there are in Atlanta about 40,000 Negroes. Among this population there are 61 business enterprises of sufficient size to be noted. These are as follows: Grocery Stores, 22; General Merchandise Stores, 5; Wood Yards, 6; Barber Shops, over $300 invested, 6; Meat Markets, 7; Restaurants, 2; Undertaker, 2; Blacksmith and Wheelrights, with stock, 2; Saloons, 2; Tailor, with stock, 1; Drug Store, 1; Creamery, 1; Pool and Billiard Parlor, 1; Loan and Investment Co., 1; Carriage and Wagon Builder, 1; Real Estate Dealer, 1; Total, 61. There is a total capitalization of $11,925 invested in grocery stores alone. The remaining $52 335 is distributed among the other business enterprises. Nearly all of these investment's have grown from very small beginnings, as for instance: Drug store capital at start was $900, now has an investment of $1 900. A restaurant started with $50 now has an investment of $500; a rocer commenced business with $50 now has $600 invested; a tailor began with $75 now has $200 invested; an undertaker began with nothing now has invested $6 000. Among the list of grocers the names of some of our wealthiest citizens might be found, as: O. C. Carter, A. O. Watts, Charles McHenry, Peter Eskridge, the firm of W O Murphy & Son, A. O Jones and A O Wimbish Messrs. (Continued on 8 h page.) --- ```markdown ``` Mr. J. W. Cobt, a colored farmer of Mound Bayou, Miss., raised last year nine bales of cotton on six and a half acres of land.—Ex. The Cotton Belt railway of Helena, Ark., has been sued by a colored woman for $20,000 for the loss of both her legs in December '99. "Christmas on the Old Plantation," a four act drama was rendered in Carnegie Hall in New York last Monday night for the benefit of Hampton Institute by the pupils of Hampton. Mr. T. I. Cook, a colored tragedian, formerly of Baltimore, now of Evanston, Ill., was to play his favorite part, Othello, at the Langley Opera House in that city the week of the 4th inst., supported by a white company. Mr. Will Harris, who for some months has been on the staff of The Enterprise of Omaha, Neb., has gone to St. Joseph, Mo., where he will have the editorial management of a new paper to be started there by a stock company. Miss Hallie Q. Brown, the well known elocutionist and lecturer, who has recently returned from a two years tour in Europe, will lecture in Brown Chapel A. M E church, Oil City, Pa., Sunday evening Feb. 24th and deliver a recitation on the 25th. The Macon (Ga.) News (a white daily) refers to "A Trip to Coontoown" as "a joyous blending of song, story and dance by the merriest people under the sun," and many other nice things. Evidently Cole and Johnson are making a decided hit in the Southern cities. The Athens (Ga.) Clipper of February 9th says: Bob Cole, in his "Trip to Coon Town," met with a big success in Atlanta this week. He played before a critical audience of both races and received many compliments from the press. Mr. Cole is a former Athenian and well known here. A white lady, Mrs. Baker, who fifty years ago attended Brown Chapel A. M. E. church, of Alleghany, Pa., because she was unable to reach the white church, being a cripple, left the church $50. She died last December and the money was turned over to the church by her son on the 3rd of this month. Russell's Review, a monthly publication issued at McKinley, Oklahoma, contains in its February number an excellent portrait of Hon. E. P. McCabe, Deputy Auditor of Oklahoma Territory. The Review sets forth many excellent reasons why the colored people should immigrate to Oklahoma and the advantages to be gained by doing so. The secretary of the National Anti Mob and Lynching Association, with headquarters at Springfield, Ohio, has received a letter from Senator Foraker, strongly condemning lynching and advocating the education of public sentiment, also one from Governor Durbin of Indiana stating that he will do all in his power to prevent injustice being done the colored people. Hannah Litsey the colored women, who was known as "The Witch of Penick," was burned to death near Penick, Ky., recently. She was ninety years old and very eccentric. No one knew anything about her and she slept in the open fields most of the time. She wandered around from place to place for years and her last refuge was in a THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. broom field on a farm near Penick. She made a fire at night to keep her warm and the sparks from an old stump set her clothing a fire while she was asleep, burning her so badly that she died in a short time. An Announcement. Beginning with this issue of The Colored American, the various branches of the American News Company throughout the country will handle it. The paper can be had at any news stand in the United States. Agents who have heretofore been supplied directly from this office will in the future call on their local newsdealer, who will supply their orders. The issuing of the paper one day earlier will make it more convenient for the agents, and the fact that the American News Company takes entire charge of the circulation of the paper means much more for The Colored American. It means a better paper and a wider circulation. This is one of the twentieth century sprints made by The Colored American.—Colored American. The foregoing from the Washington (D. C.) 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New York City a great bone d people attend the as wee id not oaly occupy pestra chairs but boxes; and it is ; setdom | a colored gentleman a iin vening suit, Gentle in when 1 e company of Jaties cupy © seats should always ra full dress suit J.adies I notice, more part r about their make They usua sar their best and pare not stingy W th the paint aud rder either. ki a certain Washington girl natarted dresstug for the theatre at if past four ¢ k in the afternoon rat vay theatrical mansgers say reason they do not solicit colored yaage is because colored people are untidy Anyhow, they can never how boisterous and untidy their In “brethren”? a Iseent'y 1 saw a ite mar . fashionable theatre nieszo, I: happened that the the- was crowded when he arrived and sea: Was AbOU tenth one in the hd row 1 yalcony. He walked eo th a little distance, m he « ver the handsome 2h covered s with his muddy es aud finally got to his seat. Being ty hot night he pulled off his coat, d tomake it more disagreeable for ladie? surrounded him he led 8 es. Still tae man rs and ushers Can never see & white nin the wrong, bat if » colored gen- man we » attempt to go out be een theacts foralittle fresh air ix @ theatres, cat-ealls are heard and macty of “sit down’’ is heard. adice exists in theatres both mh and South, and what I long te satheatre owned and run by col 1 peop 1ere are two eities tha uigk i pay well and would ap tisle the establishment of a theatr this kind, they are New York Cit; dWachingion, ) C. All manager We loug ago agreed that Washingto! cue of the zreatest cities for colores fractions t is their belief thatif. atte oft i be built heresnd hav ft. Bob Cole of a “Trip to Coontown' mabager atrs would be sur So white people as well as col ohuson Jean played at the O1 fon Ta srooklyn, N. Y., las eek tt Tom Melatosh is reported to b Springs, Ark, He iaa great f pike in \ ington, Sick Patti Troubadours” are play sat Webb City, Mo., this week an » & Asneas City next. ee Marcaret Scott, prima donna, Neeut in New York elty where a: [iteof Now York's sweetest singe: “'s always well received. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. 6. ag ge ee ne re ee ee a ae ae | Mr. Pat Chappelle of ‘‘A Rabbit’s Foot Co,” “South Before the War’ 1s playing at Glen’s Falls, New York, this week, and will play next week at Adams, Mass, Stetson’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin Com- pany reports excellent business in the New England States, the company numbers ninety people and over thirty bead of ponies. Kiog Rastus (Isham’s) which was Known by the n'me of ‘‘Isham’s Octo: roons” in former years are doing excel lent out West, although basiness is not as wellas was expected. They played last week at the Tabor Opera Hous>, Aspen, Col. “The Coontown Four Hundred’’ Com pany played at Morrison, Ill, last week This company bas not been Eart as yet, but have wired all managers that have booked them in theatres in the East to prepare for a big bank account because it will be doubled. The Gaorgia Minstrels are meeting with great success out West. They re cently p!ayed at Seattle, Washington to one of the largest audiences that city hasever had. All cololed shows are very popular in Seattle, Ruscoe and Holland are still managing this company. Mr. George H Ilarris. business man: ager of Williams and Walker’s ‘‘Sons of Ham” is in excellent health and re ports businers betterthanever. He has invented a novel advertising devise ir the form of a large ham showing the pictures of Williams and Walker, It i a very fine souvenir. Mr. Chas. Bowen, better known it ‘| professional circles as “Bonesy,”’ is thi greatest of buck and wing and sof shoe dancers. He is making his thirc '|annual tour with ‘In Old Kentucky.’ He holds the medal for the champion ship, which he won in the Athleti grounds, Asbury Park, N. J. _| ‘I see in the papers where Campbel .jone of the four in jail at Patterson _|New Jersey for murder, committe ,|snicide.”? (B) ‘‘How?’? Well you se , | he was going out of his cell to the co: , |ridor when he met Death.’’ (Death i »|one of the murderers) This j.ke i {| being used by most all ef New York’ , | comedians, e| It looks as if the Summer Garden c »| Roof Gardens in New York City wi | be dead this summer. Of all the roc «| gardens that gave vaudeville shows la summer only one or two proved a suc _|cess. 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Mr. George Lederer former manager of Williams and Walker, and the New York Casino is going to introdace in England an up to date “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” company. He thinks the Eng- lish are very much interested in the novel and will receive it the same as they did ‘““An American Beauty.” He will organize the company in America immediately. Mr. Herbert Gibson, musical comedi- an, cau be addressed in care of the New York Chipper, New York City. He will return to Washington some time in Apnil, bringing five trunks of musical instruments, gathered from al! parts of the country—some his own inventions. Recently he was present ed with a genuine Chinese fiddle made in China by a Chinese performer. He will put it on exhibition in one of the music stores of Washington; it is tone of the rarest of Chinese instra- { ments. «In Old Kentucky” is playing at the Grand Opera House, New York City, this week and the Pickaninny band is the main feature of the show. They are known as the Wcodlawn Wang- doodles, the famous and original bras: band of pickaninnies gathered from all parts of the S vuth by the management and conducted by Master John Pow- eli. The playing of this band does not equal Jenkin’s Orphan’s Band of pick. anvinnies from South Carolina. In fact the combined forces of these two band: wouldn’t jar Hoffman’s concert band in the least. it Mr. Pat Chappelle of “A Rabbit’s Foot’’ fame has retarned to his home in Florida to attend to the affairs of his own Music Hall. ‘‘A Rabbit’s Foot’’ a three act comedy by Mr, Frank Du- mont, will be a successful money get ter if ever produced by colored actors, not amateurs or ham fats as they are called by professionals. It deals direct: ly with colored man in Manila and is very funny from beginning to the end. It was not the fault of the comedy why Mr. Chappelle was not succesful with it but ifit is eyer put in respon sible hands I will assure you that it will be a money getter. 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Send all orders to 8. 8. Furr, 2104 Ward Place, n. w,, Wash‘ ington, D.C. i THE COLORED AMERICAN. WASHINGTON, D. C. ```markdown ``` 12 Ex Governor Pinchback to b2 Banqueted. A testimonial banquet to ex Governor P. B S. Pinchback of this city will be given at the West Side Lyceum, corner Broadway and 52nd streets, New York City, Tuesday evening, February 26 h, under the auspices of the Colored Citizen's League. The dinner committee consists of such well known persons as: Fred R. Moore, chairman; Rev. Hutchins C. Bishop, vice-chairman; George E. Wibecan, Jr., David N. Prime, secretaries; M. P. Saunders, treasurer; while the reception committee is made up of such well known New Yorkers as Hon. Samuel R Scotttron, T Thomas Fortune, Charles W. Anderson, Thomas B Francis, P. A. Johnson, M. D., James A. Mars, William Oscar Payne, E. V C. Eato, R. H. Hucliss, George G. McKenzie, J. W. Rutledge, Oscar Heyliger, Rev. C. T. Walker, D. D., Frederick B. Watkins, M R. Poole, John C. Wibecan, W. H. Butler, Thomas B. McKeel, William H. Smith, Walter Hatton; and Bishop Alexander Walters, J. H. E. Scotland, Alfred B Cosey, R. Henri Herbert, of New Jersey. Governor Pinchback is very popular in New York and during the last campaign made many new friends on account of his eloquence in the campaign. The Masonic News Past Master J. O Bamfield of Pythagoras Lodge is out again after a severe attack of illness. Past Grand Master Mayse of Eureka Lodge is confined to his bed with a severe attack of la grippe. Past Master J. W. Freeman of Social Lodge is still a very sick man. We hope him a speedy recovery. Brother John C. Nalle is a hard student of Mackeys. No one in the craft is more popular than Brother Nalle. The friends of Dr. W. A. Warfield of Prince Hall Lodge expect great work from him during the ensuing year. The Deputy Grand Master W. H. J. Malvin made a visit to the southwest recently and was royally entertained. Every Mason should and is expected to read The Colored American. Editor Cooper is a member of Prince Hall Lodge. Prof. Weatherless as the Senior Deacon of Pythagoras Lodge is the wonder and admiration of all who have heard him. The senior deacons of the subordinate lodge will do well to keep an eye on Dr. F J. Cardoza, the Senior Deacon of the Grand Lodge. Brother McKensie Scott of Felix Lodge makes it very pleasant for all members of the craft who favor him with their presence. The brethren enjoy going to Prince Hall Lodge, the Worshipful Master Fred. Henry has always something good to say and when he does work, all leave much benefited. Brother L. Garhsm Fletcher of Eureka Lodge had a client last week and it is said that his defense was indeed a strong one and in accordance with Mackeys Jurisprudence. Long live Robert H. Terrell to be the Grand Master of Masons for the District of Columbia. The dignity with which he bears his high honors has endeared him to the entire craft. Past Master John P. Turner has declared against taking more than ten cents from each Mason for his fund with which to purchase jewels, the movement is worthy of success. Eureka, the jewell lodge will do work in the second degree Monday March 25th. H. J. Davis and Dr. A. H. Stevens will do the work. Let the craft watch Dr. Stevens work. On motion of Past Master Richard Jones, Widows Son Lodge voted to attend divine services at St. Paul A. M. E. church, 8.h near D.st. s. w. Sunday April 15th. The entire craft is invited to be present. More Masonic Jewels. Past Master John P. Turner at the last regular meeting of Eureka Lodge, in an earnest speech presented plans for raising by popular subscription among the members of the craft two Masonic Jewels to be presented to Past Grand Master Henry Coleman and Past Grand Master Lemuel C. Bailey, the lodge heartily endorsed the movement and gave substantial financial assistance. Dr. Turner has visited all the subordinate lodges meeting since and says no movement ever inaugurated among Masons in this Jurisdiction has met with such unanimous endorsement. The fund is to be raised by a popular subscription of ten cents from each Master Mason. The jewels are to be presented in token of the appreciation of the craft for the valuable services rendered by these two men in procuring the Masonic Temple now owned by the craft in the District of Columbia. It is the purpose of Dr. Turner to make the occasion a memorable one in the history of the craft. THIS COSTS YOU NOTHING Free SCOTT'S FACE BLEACH AND BEAUTIFIER. A perfect Skin Whitener. Free to patrons. Enclose a 2c stamp for particulars. Address SCOTT REMEDY Co., Louisville, Ky. When you write mention this paper. The Douglass Watch. Let us examine the watch. You are entitled to know all about anything you are expected to part with cash or energy to obtain. They are stem-winders and stem-setters, having all the modern appliances known to the watchmaker's 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 found as exactly as represented this guarantee is assumed by us. They keep exact time. Watches like these a generation ago would have cost $20 if they could have been produced, but the fact is, it contains appliances then unknown. Each watch has been properly adjusted and will be sent in running order. Its character: They have a jewel balance wheel. The cases are nickel silver. Are stem winding and stem setting. They have a duplex movement. In addition to these sterling qualities the watch has a capital attraction for the race loving Afro-American. Each watch bears upon its face a bust medallion of Hon. Frederick Douglass, the matchless philosopher, orator and statesman. This is a novelty that all are sure to appreciate. It is further, a splendid recognition of the value of the Negro's importance in the commercial world—an obeisance to the purchasing power of his dollars—an invitation for our trade, with a generous offer attached. This shrewd manufacturer would never have conceived the idea of making a Frederick Douglass watch had he not had faith in the race pride of the Negro and his capacity to know a good bargain when it is shown to him and fully described. Now friends go to work and get up these little clubs. Let everybody wear a Frederick Douglass watch and be on time at concerts, literaries and church. Let the leaders start the fashion in their respective communities and plenty will follow. Read this all over again. Turn to the advertisement and read that. Then follow instructions and send amounts to the Colored American, 459 C street Northwest, Washington, D. C., and a watch will soon be in your hands postpaid. THE GRAND FOUNTAIN. United Order of True Reform ORGANIZED January 1, 1888 604, 606 and 608 N. 2nd St., - Richn order devoted to the interests of its members, both in their relations. We offer you an opportunity for gift edged busi- n enterprises owned and controlled by the Order and manag- en, who are members of the Order. you are sound in health and mind, of good moral character, m three (3) years nor older than sixty (60) you are eligible to m there are two Fountains, the Subordinate and the Rosebud. 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. join the Subordinate Fountain you must be between 14 and 18. You pay $4.60 to $6.60 (according to age.) as joining fee. If your country you pay 35 cents per month as dues; if in the city, 50 cents. You pay as taxes 80 cents per month. Sick Benefits you receive from $6.00 to $9.00 per month, in w. Death Benefit, your family receives $75.00 if you die with 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 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. To join the Rosebud Fountain you must be 3 and 14 year of age. You pay $1 00, either installments. The monthly dues are either 15 as Fountains may decide. The annual tax you receive as Sick Benefit from $1.50 to $4 00 in weekly payments. As Death Benefit, your family will be paid you die within a year. After one year the Debt is $37. In the INSURANCE DEPARTMENT, there are Classes:—Class B, Class E, and Class M. A payable annually or quarterly. Class B, the age limit is 14 to 60 years. Fee, $2.50 to $4.25. From 75 to $7 60. The Certifica e is valued first year at from one year, its value is $200 to $65. Class E, the age limit is 14 to 55 years. Fee, $5 to $6 50. A fee to 11.40. The Certifica e is valued first year at from $250 to $300. Its value is $500 to $300. Class M, the age limit is 14 to 50 years. Fee $11 to $13 50. A fee of $25. The certificate is valued from date of issue at from $1 00. You are entitled to a Life Membership in either of the Foundations B and E upon purchase of the required amount of Bank savings dividend annually of 20 per cent. The Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers has paid $100, a total of 3782 Death Benefits, with a grand total of $521,250,000 million DOLLARS. THE BANK.—In our Savings Bank the Order and flourishing institution that is a credit not only but the race as well. It began business April 30, capital stock is $100 000. The business is the same any other regularly constituted bank, and is save the same safeguards. The stock sells for $5.00 per person, and pays 20 per cent, dividends. Both time and demand received and 4 per cent, interest is paid on time deposits. The copy of the Cashier's report to Auditor of Public Accounts of business Sept., 5, 1900 and shows its flourishing condition. RESOURCES, Cash and discounts ... $8,272 80 Stock, bonds and mortgages ... 164 423 83 From National Banks ... 48 383 22 Living House ... 14 000 00 Real estates ... 99 588 00 Furniture and Fixtures ... 6,850 00 Inter expenses and taxes ... 1 288 99 Debt, nickels and cents ... 12,399 80 Currency ... 35 820 00 Total ... 391,120 84 LIABILITIES: Capital stock paid in ... Surplus fund ... Undivided profits ... Demand certificate of deposit ... Time certificates of deposit Total. The Reformer's Grocery and Feed Store is located at 501 North Richmond, Va., and members of the Order and the public generally pay cent. on the cost of food products. The Reformer is the newspaper published by the order from Richmond, Va. It stands for the voice of the people, representation and combination of the race and is the Beacon Light, the General Messenger and the General Agent of the Brotherhood of the Year. A well equipped job office bids for the work of the people and out in first class style and at low prices. Six miles from Richmond, in Henrico County, Va., the Order has acres of land, and established thereon an "Old Folk's Home" equipped liberality and broad-minded generosity, the Order does not leave to this home to its members alone, nor even to members familiar with the aged and decrepid of the whole race, regardless of connections. The Order makes itself the trustee for the city, and calls upon the whole people, black and white, North, West to assist by their contribution the carrying out of this work. April 3rd of each year is set apart as a Grand Rally Day for distributions can be forwarded to the casnier of the Reformer's Savings Bank will send receipt for same and account for it to The Grand Four Members of the Order and the public, when visiting Richmond to stop at The Hotel Reformer, 900 North Sixth St. It is in desirable location. Service is of the best and rates are reasonable. The Real Estate Department manages and controls all property in the area. The Order now owns 13 buildings, 4 farms, 4 dwellings, a fee simple value of $122,500. In addition to these the Order brings. 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 certi You are entitled Classe B and E upon pays a dividend annu The Grand Found 29. 1900. a total of 37 HALF MILLION DOLL 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 $6 50. Annual dues, $9 50 to 11.40. The Certificate is valued first year at from $250 to $175. After one year its value is $500 to $300. In Class M, the age limit is 14 to 50 years. Fee $11 to $13 50. Annual dues, $21 to $25. The certificate is valued from date of issue at from $1 000 to $700. You are entitled to a Life Membership in either of the Fountains or in Classe B and E upon purchase of the required amount of Bank stock, which pays a dividend annually of 20 per cent. The Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers has paid up to July 29 1900, a total of 3782 Death Benefits, with a grand total of $521,264 75, over a HALE MILLION DOLLARS. members, and pays are received and 4 pts is a copy of the Cash close of business Sept. RESOU Loans and discounts Other stock, bond mortgages ..... Due from National Banking House ..... Other real estates ..... Furniture and Fixtures Current expenses are paid ..... Specie, nickels and of Paper currency ..... Total ..... The Reformer's Richmond, Va., and 20 per cent. on the c. THE REFORMER'S office in Richmond, Va. operation and combine the General Messenger per year. A well equi-turn d out in first ch. Six miles from R 634 acres of land, and exampled liberality vtance to this home doors are opened to the residence or connect charity, and calls up and West to assist bldges. April 3rd of e. Contributions can be who will send receipt. Members of the invited to stop at The and desirable location. The Real Estate the Ordeer. The Or with a fee simple val. 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 09 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 fire in Richmond, Va. It stands for the voice of the people, representing cooperation and combination of the race and is the Beacon Light, the Headlight, the General Messenger and the General Agent of the Brotherhood. It is $100 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 13 buildings. For any further information, address W. P. BURKELL, G. W. Secretary, W. L. TAYLOR, G. W. Master. L. TAYLOR, G. W, Master. W. P. BURKELL, G. W. W. L. TAYLOR, G. W. Master. W. P. BURKELL, G. W. Secretary. BEE HIVE SUBORDINATE FOUNTAINS. ROSEBUD FOUNTAINS. To join the Rosebud Fountain you must be between 8 and 14 year of age. You pay $1 00, either cash or by installments. The monthly dues are either 15 or 25 cents as Fountains may decide. The annual tax is 10 cents. You receive as Sick Benefit from $1.50 to $4 00 per month, in weekly payments. As Death Benefit, your family will be paid $24 50 if you die within a year. After one year the Death Benefit is $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 but the 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 LIABILITIES PATRIOTISM AND OBEDIENCE. Bishop Walters Commended for his Patri: otic Utterances —Sergt. Gibson Advises Young Atro Americans to Enter the Army. Ve ee. a a can Day, touched the keynote when h: said that the colored youth must be taught patriotism, obedience to the laws, integrity end lofty moral con sciousvess. Now, there is no vocation in which the colored youth of to day cen acqdire all of these traits and have them drilled into his being so thor ougoly and readily, and in such map- ner that they will show in his daily de- portment through all of his future life, asia thearmy, Here he learns disci pline, unity of effort, responsibility, obedience t> law, integrity and fidelity to duty, self-reliance. and a moral and physical courage that know no defeat. I believe that I ata safe in saying, that the ethics of manly manhood 1s bound upin a military training. The Afro- American of todsy wants this courage that di-plays itself in silent effort, in united endeavor, that dares endure all and suffer all for success and man- hood. Ev ty step of progress in the history of our race, has been made in the face of opposition and difficulty, aud been achieved and secured by men of intre- pidity and valor. Bat as the siens of times of show that the enemy is using every means at hand both fair and foul; the educated colored man who wishes & commission in the army must plan his efforts in such manner as will enable him to take advantege of every shadow of a chance that presents itself—and if the chances do vot pre: sent themselves fast enough, make them! It the educated colored men should have gone into the regular Ar my in the same numbers and with the persistency as they have crowded into the Pallman service and hotels (for the mere take of filling menial positions) we would have had have our quota of commissioned « flicers ere this, If the officers of the 48.h and 49th Infantry make an application to the War De- partment to enter the regular Army under the new law, our leading men ought to make it their business to eee that the application is accepted bv the President I have reason to believe that this re quest will be made. Our men of influ eace should be on the alert for this ap: plication and know the very minute it Teaches Washington. This is a duty they owe to themselves, to the colored cfli ers in the Philippines who have left home, relatives and friends for the sake of country and race. Gentlemen of in* fluence, I said it was your duty, andl Meant what I said. Because man does not live for himself alone. He lives for the good of others as well as himself Consequently, the dauntlees daring of the colored suldier has benefited the entire race, and we simply ask you to appreciate and do your daty to us in teturn. The sphere of duty is infinite, and it exists in eyery station of life. Obedience to duty at all cost and risks, is what we felt—going up San Juan Hill, ard I think Bisbop Waltere points it out, as being the very essence of the highest civilized life, In all wers of this country in which the colored soldier has participated, he Patient anit Bs i THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. CG it was his duty. He had heen rent to guard the place and he never flinched; such is the Afrc-American soldier. Ani we ask our politicians to help us t> obtain colored officers, for we are tired of pulling fame and a name out of the jaws of bell for white officers. There ar3 many other lucrative positions be- sides commaissions in the regular Army thas are open to a young man of educa tioa All of the clerical work in the ommissary and quaitermaste’’s de- pirtments ate done by enlisted men, ani hundreds of thousands cf dollars pass (brough their hands annually, and they have to account for every penny of it. And consequently, a term of threo years judiciously spent in the Army i3an advantage superior to a col’ legiate course It improves him phys ically, broadens his mental views. gives him a perfect knowledge of discipline, aid fits him to compete with enterpric- | es in commercial business, You must remember that I am dictating from thirty years experience in military life aud not from hearsay or history. The Bishops and ministers of the tace ought to explain to the young men of their communities the bright chances they have in the regular Army over those menials positions they hold at present ia hotels and barber shops. There are hundreds of N, U Sraff posi tions which pay from $25 to $45 wich everything furnished. Yours sincerely, E. D. GIBSON, Sergt. U. S. Army. Salem, Rcanoke, Va, THE FREDERICK DOUGLASS WATCH. A Magnificent Time Piece Which Can be Secured by One Hour’s Work, Every well regulated citizen ought to have a watch. It matters not whether he be white or black, Jew or Gentile, Catholic or Protestant, the man to whom time is an object needs a “ticker” to guide his movements. So then, in the first place, everybody get a watch. In the second place, get a good watch. In the third place, get it at a rock bottom price. How? That is an easy proposition. You don’t need any money. You have two friends—intelligent, public _ spirited friends—who appreciate a first-class newspaper, and who also feel a per- sonal interest in your happiness. Go directly to them and explain that if each will give you a year’s subscrip- tion to The Colored American—$2.00 each, and they get more than value re- ceived—you will secure a fine watch free. No one can lose—every party to the transaction made happy. The ar- rangement can be made in a couple of hours—pick out your people. Cr send one yearly subscription at $2.00 and add $1.00 to it—$3.00 in all—and you get the watch. Again, if you are in a big hurry, and want to deal directly for cash, we will as a special induce- ment, let you have the same watch for $2.25. Now, try some of these proposi- tions, All are simple, and easy of ac- complishment. | Miss Bell Davis is msking a big hit in Vaudeville, She played last week at Hyde and Beeman’s Theatre, Brooklyn, N. Y., and her coon songs were the fea ture of the bill. She speaks of making atour of Europe this year. She is a great favorite in London, having made a great hit there with “Isham’s Orient: al America’? company during its tour of Europe a few years ago. ‘'Oriental America” was the largest company of colored performers that has ever visit ed Europe from these shores. The Fisk Jubilee Singers have made a great hit in Europe also, but never has a com: pany of up'to date performers with its racy time choruses made such a dem: onstration as “Oriental America” did, Furniture buying is easy on Credit, Will soon be here—and if you have any preparation to make, it’s time you were about it, First cf all isthe extra Bedroom suite—and probabl, an Extension Table, or some extra Table Ware. Perhaps it would be a little accommodation for you to get these things on credit—and if so, you are very weleome to the privileges of our Peerless Credit System.- We will take pleasure in arranging the payments to suit your convenience, weekly or monthly. You will find everything here—including Warm Blankets and Comforts, Fine Haviland China, Lace Cur- tains, Gas, Oil, and Coal Stoves—all on credit. MAMMOTH CREDIT HOUSE, | 817-819-821-823 Seventh Street N W, Between H and I Streets. ‘ ' , DODD D OSS O SOS GDS ODO OO ODO OO SS OD FOS ODO IIOP OOOO OOP ? WILLIS L. TUNSTELL, MANUFACTURER OF ; abad EEN EAC ALIN A CHAE” 4 , st. Nome, -Retter "76. : PATRONIZE A RACE ENTERPRISE, : | No. 435 Druid Hill Ave. . Baltimore, Md. ee . : s@x~Having had Early Experience in Handling Tobacco, a Trial ; | Only is Asked. Correspondenc> 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: . . . THE FRED. DOUGLASS, A healthy Five Cent Cigar which is bound to become a general favorite throughout the United States . . FORTUNE’S FAVORITE, An all Havana Ten Cent Cigar which will stand | upon its own dignity anywhere . . . THE B. K. BRUCE, An all Havana Fifteen Cent Cigar which has no superior of its kind in the Trade. : : El eco, Bonito. El Royalo, se@s- Orders invited by Mail or Telegram, Douglas, Fortune & Co. 4 CeparR STREET, = - New York. | THE WONDERFUL Static Electricity under the guidance of DR. CZARRA, are certainly curing people who had thought their cases incura- ble. Abscesses and even Cancer are subjugated by the doctor With the X-RAYS the seat of the trouble can be located, and skillful treatment will hasten acure. Don’t wait until your malady takes too strong a hold. Kupture Cured. Latest electric discovery; no knife, no injection, no pain. Syphilitic skin and blood poison cured without mercury Especial attention given to old and so-called incurable cases and cure accom- plished. Vitality restored. Hours 9a. m. to 6 p. m. Tuesdays and Saturdays till 8 p. m. DR. CZARRA, 314 Sixth St. and 494 La. Ave_N. W. Tek phove East 786, 14 Desirable Building Lots in the Northwest and Northeast Sec- tions, Apply for Information to Scipio L. Baker, Room 14, 609 F Street, N. W.,1 Washivgten, D.C. Standard remedy for Gleet, Gonorrhea and Runnings y IN 48 HOURS. Cures Kid= @)} Sey and Bladder Troubles, 14 Cures Weak Men Free Insures Love and a Happy Home For All. How any man may quickly cure himself after years of suffering from sexual weakness, lost vitality, night losses, varicocele, etc., and enlarge small weak organs to full size L. W, KNAPP, M. D. and vigor. Simply send your name and address to Dr. L. W. Knapp, 1811 Hull Bldg., Detroit, Mleh., and he will gladly send the free receipt with full direction so that any man may easily cure himself at home. This is certainly a most generous offer and the following extracts taken from his daily mail show what men think of his generosity. "Dear Sir:—Please accept m sincere thanks for ours of recent date. I have given your treatment a thorough test and the benefit has been extraordinar. It has completely braced me up. I am just as vigorous as when a boy and you cannot realize how happy I am." "Dear Sir:—Your method worked beautifully. Results were exactly what I needed. Strength and vigor have complete returned and enlargement is entirely satisfactory." "Dear Sir,--Yours was received and I had no trouble in making use of the receipt as directed and can truthfully say it is a boon to weak men. I am greatly improved in size, strength and vigor." All correspondence is strictly confidential, mailed in plain sealed envelope. Thereceipt is free for the asking and he wants every man to have it. CURLY HAIR MADE STRAIGHT BY THE TAKEN FROM LIFE. BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY ORIGINAL OZONIZED OX MARROW [COPYRIGHTED.] Will straighten your hair, quickly and easily so that you can do it yourself at home no matter how kinky or curly it is. This wonderful hair pomade has been made and sold many years giving perfect satisfaction to every body. It never disappoints anyone. It is the only safe preparation in the world that straightens kinky hair as shown above. Nourishes the scalp, cures dandruff, prevents falling, and makes the hair grow. Sold over forty years. Warranted harmless. Testimonials free on request. It was the first preparation ever sold for straightening kinky hair. Brow hair. Only 50 cents. Sold by dealers or we will ship you express paid one bottle for 65 cents or three for $1.40. Send postal or express money order. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. A CE 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. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. PROF. MILLER ON ETYMOLOGY. The Derivation of "Jim Crow" and Other Words Which Have Crept Into the Language. Editor Colored American; In the last issue of The Colored American, you suggested that it might be interesting for me to explain the origin of the word LYNCH. As curious etymologies is one of my pastimes, I will take the liberty, while my hand is in, of explaining the origin of several words of peculiar pertinency to the colored race. CONTRA BAND, in the sense of a slave who escaped to or was brought within the Union lines, was introduced by Gen. Benjamin Butler. In the Fay House Monographs, No. 3, entitled "Fugative Slaves," on page 74, we read—"In May, 1861, General Butler replied to all demands for them that he should retain them as "contra bands" of war. The answer was widely spread and "contra band" became the name by which such Negroes were known. JIM CROW, a name used in one of the earliest Negro minstrel songs, and taken as typical of the Negro race in certain applications. Jim Crow car is a railway car set apart for the use of Negroes, said to have been so called originally in Massachusetts in 1841. The Louisville Courier-Journal several years ago contained the following interview which throws much light on the origin of this word. "Talking of Jim-Crow, how many people in Louisville know that the original was a Louisville darky? It was sometime before the war when a famous song and dance comedian, playing an engagement at Louisville, saw from the window of his room a certain darky who was a character of his day, cutting up the most extraordinary capers to the tune of "Turn about and wheel about and jump Jim Crow." The comedian struck by the same possibilities of performance founded upon this original, made or caused to be made, a number of verses to fit this refrain; and thereafter reproduced upon the stage the untutored performance of the original James, to the delight and admiration of thousands. The darky's name was really James Crow." It is thus that the innocent frolic of a simple minded Negro has given name to the most humiliating process of discrimination against his race. LYNCH, comes from John Lynch, a farmer who inflicted summary punishment upon fugitive slaves and criminals dwelling in "Dismal Swamp" in North Carolina. These outlaws committed outrages upon persons and property which the colonial laws could not repress. John Lynch was a relative of the founder of Lynchburg, Va. He used this mode of punishment about the end of the seventeenth century. QUASSIA the bark of a South African tree. The name was given by Linaeus after a Negro named Quassia who first printed out the medicinal uses of the bark as a tonic. Quassia was alive in 1755. Pardon me, Mr. Editor, for overreaching the mark of your editorial suggestion, but I have only verified the old adagae—"Give him an inch and he'll take an ell." Yours truly. KELLY MILLER. Washington, D. C. Training School For Nurses. Tuskegee, Ala., Special.—Dear Editor Colored American: The increasing demand for colored trained nurses throughout the South, and the very excellent opportunities offered to those who are well prepared for this calling, have caused the writing of this letter. There is no field of usefulness more inviting to young women of the South than the profession of nursing. Those who have finished our course in Nurse Training are doing excellent work, most of them are holding responsible positions in Southern hospitals, schools, and infirmaries, and receiving splendid salaries. Our course of training covers three years of theoretical and practical work in the hospital. We have plenty of patients the whole year. For those who are far enough advanced in their literary education, as graduates of normal or classical schools, the course is arranged so that they can finish in two years. Those who want to continue their literary and take the nurse training course also, can do so under the three years course, by attending the night school for two years, after which they enter the day school, provided they are able to pass the eighth grade examination. By so doing, they earn the greater part of their expenses. We know of no other hospital where such advantages are offered to earnest young men and women desiring to become trained nurses. Applicants may enter at any time after their applications are accepted. Any one holding a first or second grade license or diploma from a high school, normal or classical institution, can enter without examination. We want colored trained nurses in every town and we ask your help in this effort. Will you not kindly give this letter to some young woman of good character between twenty and thirty years of age, who desires such training? We shall also be grateful if you will send us her name and have her write to us. For further information address: WE DON'T WANT MONEY FREE Scott's Face Bleach and Beautifier A perfect skin Whitener. Free to pations. Er close 2c stamp for particulars. Address. SCOTT REMEDY CO, Louisville, Ky. When you write mention this paper. The Twentieth Century Union League Directory will be issued about the last of February. It will be an exposition of the efforts of the colored people of Washington for social betterment, in business, in the government service, in the acquisition of homes and real estate, through their churches, and other organizations, and their efforts for one hundred years to educate their children. This work has cost considerable money. 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These watches are guaranteed by the manufacturers, and if you found exactly as represented this guarantee assumed by us. Watches like these a gen- tion ago would have cost $20 if they could have been produced, but the fact is, it contains a pliances then unknown. Each watch has been properly adjusted and will be sent in run- ning order. Its character: They have a jewel balance wheel. The cases are nickel silver. Are stem winding and stem setting. They have a duple movement. Free to any one send- ing $4 for two yearly subscriptions or $2 for one yearly and $1-$3 in all. This watch and The Colored Ameri- can, one year for $3. The watch has special inducement, postpaid, to any one send- ing $2.25. It will be seen therefore from the above no one need be without a watch equal for the keeping to any in the neighborhood, a single day longer. Indeed it will not take a day if any one to get a small club of subscribers in 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 see this waste and to get only two subscribers for The Colored American. Don't lose time but attend this matter as soon as you see this notice Money can be sent by Post Office Money Order Express Order, Bank Check, or Register Letter, Address THE COLORED AMERICAN 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., LI, D., President, GEO, 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 now ready. Address, JOSEPH D. MAHONEY, Principal. Allegheny, Pa. 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. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays Dressmakers and ladies who wish to do their own dressmaking. WANTED—To learn the wonderful De Lamorton French Perfection Taylor System, Seamless Basques without one inch of visible seam, in lining or goods, not even on the shoulder. 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A COPY of the COLORED AMERICAN MAGAZINE an illustrated monthly, containing the best thoughts, biographical sketches, etc., of the brightest men and women of the Negro Race, will be sent FREE to all sending this notice with name and address, and stamp to W. A. JOHNSON, Dept. B. Box 2079, Boston, - Mass. ```markdown ``` THE COLORED AMERICAN. WASHINGTON. D. C. CITY PARAGRAPHS. Mrs. Jensen of Jacksonville, Fla., is in the city for a few days. Dr. W. L. Lassiter, of Newbern, N. C., was in the city last week. Miss Hattie Crawford, of 1004 Cst, northeast, is ill with rheumatism. Rev. and Mrs. T. M. Nixon have as their guest Miss Juanita Copes of Oberlin, O., Mrs. Nixon's sister. Col. Jas. Lewis of New Orleans, La., will be in the city next month. Col. Lewis has many friends here. Rev. A. Binga, Jr., D. D., of Manchester, Va., and pastor of the First Baptist church of that city, was a guest of the Southern Hotel last week. Mr. J. B. Morris of the Chevy Chase Marylad Club, spent a few hours in town last week and made it pleasant for those who fortunate to meet him. The fair now going on at the A. M. E. Zion church, D street, southwest, of which Rev. w. H. Snowden is pastor, promises to be a great success. It is being well attended. Among the colored organization to attend the inauguration from Richmond, Va., will be the Orion, Independent, Twentieth Century, Grant, Stuart and Lincoln clubs. Rev. W. R. Gullins, pastor Third St. A M. E. church, Richmond, Va., accompanied by Messrs. G. Wm. Moon and son of Manchester, Va., were visitors at this office last week. Mrs. Jno. Keelan arrived from Boston last week and will remain in the city until after March 4th. Mrs. Keelan's husband is a compositor in the Government Printing Office. The banquet to have been given in honor of Rev. J. W. Harris, pastor of Miles Memorial C. M. E. church, was postponed until March 1st, on account of some repairing that is being done in the church. Last Sunday was Confirmation day at St. Monica's Mission, corner 2nd and E streets, southwest. Twelve persons were confirmed and the mission was packed. The progress being made reflects great credit on the rector, D. C. C. C. Mapp. Mr. Wm. H. Craighead, who played such a matchless part at center on Howard's eleven, but who is now at Cornell, is in the city for the inauguration. Mr. Craighead is making a record at Cornell not only in athletics but also in his studies. The authorities of Easton, Md., have repealed the law prohibiting crap shooting because it was too expensive. The majority of the violators arrested were unable to pay their fines and had to be kept in jail for several months at the expense of the county. Mrs. Dr. Renner, the well known and successful specialist in all women's complaints, has moved from 6'9 Pa. ave. to larger, finer and more commodious quarters in the Stuart Building, 402 6:h street, n. w., rooms no. 1 and 2. Her large practice necessitated this latest move. Dr. T. C. Unthank, formerly of this city, now practicing in Kansas City, Mo., is one of the chief and most enthusiastic workers in a movement among the colored people of that city to establish a cooperative drug store. A meeting was held on the evening of February 12th for the purpose of effecting a permanent organization and adopting a constitution; $500 have already been subscribed with fair chances of doubling the amount within the next month. $1,000 REWARD. M. 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 inocred by leading spiritualists everywhere, received from them a gold medal and special license to practice his wonderful powers; credentials no one else can show can give thousands of references to both white and colored patrons Twenty-five years practice—seven in brooklyn—will show you that he can do all he of. Can tell what business is best for you and where, how to win speedy marriage with the one you love. How to be successful in all your doings in short what is best to do. He will succeed when all others fall. Positive satisfaction or no pay. Call and see. You will find it luck to consult this Christian gentleman. He has a medicine that will cure drunkenness; can be given patients not knowing it. Thousands through him are now RICH HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL with all their undertakings, while those w o neglect his advice are still laboring again poverty. Through his perfect knowledge o chemistry he can impart to you a secret that will overcome your enemies and win you friends. His aid and advice has often been solicited; the result has always been the securing of speedy and happy marriages and all your wishes. In love affairs he never fails. He has the secret of winning the affections of the opposite sex. It is the curse of Spiritualism that in all large cities there are a class of men and women who claim powers they do not possess. They have neither gifts, credentials, nor references. Surely the colored people are not so wanting in sense as to throw their time and money away on such. Dr. Shea refers to the Hon. Charles Miller, capitalist, 2481 Atlantic avenue; the Hon. William Denmore, architect and builder, 47 Cleveland avenue, and Mr. Arthur Sewell, ship builder, South Brooklyn. All have known him for the past ten years. He gives a free test of his power to all. The doctor has practiced five years in New Orleans, St. Louis, Memphis and Louisville, understands thoroughly the diseases, spells or influences the race is subject to. He has now and always had large patronage from them PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING; Broklyn, August, 15, 1891-This letter is to certify that I came to New York from Alba ny. I was a stranger in a strange city, out of work and out of money. I had no luck in anything I undertook. What to do I did not know. A friend advised me to go and see Dr. Shea. I did. He told me the cause of my troubles; he took me in and treated me as a brother. Through him I got a good position that very week. I had been to others, they took my money and did me no good. I bless the day I first met Dr. Shea I would advise all in bad luck, sick or in trouble to go to him at once. 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 thana God there is a man so gifted in our midst that can help people and tell them what to do. Mrs. Mary Miller, South Kirkland, 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, 87 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 son, pastor Lebanon church, Brooklyn. Dr. Shea can show thousands such as above. DR SHEA has been carefully educated in the Homeopathic and Electric Schools of Medicine. His success is wonderful in curing paralysis Rheumatism, Asthma, Sore Eyes, Tumors, Cancers, Constipation, Ague, Dyspepsia, Tape Worms, Liver Con plaints, Deafness, Catarrh, Dropsy, Plies, Nervous Debility, Heart Diseases, Consumption, Diseases of Women and Children, Fits, Kidney Disease, and strange mysterious diseases which others don't understand. All diseases, no matter what they be. Nothing but honorable treatment, He can and will honestly tell you if you can be cured. Has all new remedies and new success. Has an ample experience in public hospital and private clinics. No training with human life. Call at once. Do not delay. Diplomas hang in parliors. 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. 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In order to protect the! public in general from imitations of our goods, and to avoid mistakes, we have placed upon our coupon our Trade-Mark, one head showing Short | Hair and the other head Long Hair. The U. S. Government has granted us! this trade-mark, and it is registered in the Patent Office at Washington; 80, ‘if the coupon 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- | mond, Va, We have shoussees of testimonials we have not spice to pub- lish. Here is a sample of oné: ! Boston Chemical Company : Dear Sirs—You are at liberty to state in any newsprper that I have | | nsed OZONO, and give it my most hearty recommendation. I have been, ‘fooled so often, it does me good to recommend honest goods. MAGGIE B. 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Tt was not offered for sale or purchase to any extent until 1875, whea it was put upon the market and 'met with marked success. After a thorough test by the colored people of ) that time it was pronounced an honest, legitimate remedy. trus:to all that was claimed for it, and worthy in every respect of the confidence of every ' member of the colored race, because they found it to cau-e the hair to grow | long and straight, soft and fine, and as beautiful as an April morning. Now, | whenever a genuine article appears upon the market there are slways a number of people who imitate and make capital ont of the merits of other ) people’s goods. Seeing our marked snecess, numerous firms have entered the market, offering hair-growers and hair-straighteners, many of which are worthless, causing the hair to fall out and doing great damage to the bair {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 these Jet us sound a warning—be carefu! what you use on your hair. Do not \ be decsived by flaring advertisements and big words. Buy the King of all NV which is sold with an iron-clad guarantee to do all that is claimed for it, or ‘ we will forfeit $50.00. Now, we ask youa plain question—would we abso- * lutely agree to forfeit $50.00 if yon are dissatisfied with our preparations, \ 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 . who has used Ozono has been satisfied in every respect. iN 20,000 people ure to-day using our preparations, and every purchaser WA recommends Ozono as the King of all Hats Monee. Oxono ail positively ya take the Kinke out of Knotty, Kinky, Harsh, Curly, Refractory, Trouble- \ some Hair. It will make short, harsh hair long and straight. It will cure iN your head of all itching, worrying sealp diseases. 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In an address delivered by Bishop Henry C. Potter of New York at St Pauls church. New Haven, Conn., a short time ago that learned and able prelate discussing the Chinese troubles said: "If I were to take a brief in any court in christendom for one side or the other, I should take the brief for China. And there can be no doubt as to which side was responsible for the beginning of the cause in the recent troubles. * * * Professing Christian engineers, bankers, merchants and men who had commercial interests at stake in China, are responsible for what has happened. Not all of them have been of one nation, not all English speaking men, nothing could have been more brutal than the policies of Christian nations dealing with these pagan people. We have trampled under foot everything that the Chinese deem most sacred." This is the naked truth, stript of all verilage, sentimentalism and humbug, a confession of the guilt of the so-called Christian missionaries and fore handed speculators out of all the nations of Europe including America who likvultures have swooped down upon the Chinese in their own country and like thieves have looted China after the manner of the most expert European and American burglars. If this is the teaching of western civilization and western Christianity, good Lord deliver us. The Bishops righteous denunciation of the shameless acts of professing Christians in China in destroying property, in stealing valuables, in decorating the places held sacred by these so called pagans is indeed a sad reflection upon the quality of European civilization and Christianity. Intelligent Chinamen like Mr. Wu, can have only contempt and loathing for a civilization and a religion which professes one thing and practices another. It is indeed refreshing to note that the American conscience is becoming aroused to the enormity and gravity of the iniquities which disgrace its name and belittle its manhood in far off China. It augurs well for another class of unfortunates who have in this country of ours long been the victims of this same civilization and religion. I will not call it Christianity, which is the proudest boast of the pushing, pertinacious white man of America. Some day, perhaps, before the end of the present century, an indignant white Bishop, like good Bishop Potter will rise up and denounce the shameful and cowardly treatment accorded the Negro by his white fellow-citizens and show them what rank demagogues and hypocrites—whited sepulchres some of them are. The Churchman, the official organ or one of the official organs of the great Episcopal Church in America, re inforces Bishop Potter's strong utterances in the following plain and meaningful Saxon: "So vile is the behavior of representatives of Christian nations that we cannot befoul these columns by repeating or describing or even naming them. We care not then how this infernal state of things began; we care not one straw who is responsible for the beginning of the trouble, 2 一 Those white skinned demons ought to be recalled from which they have defiled with more than blood. The behavior of the Christian powers in China is the blackest blot that has been cast upon the Christian name in many a generation, and unless we are prepared to renounce, denounce and punish these white men's crimes, in the name and truth let us stop prating of the white man's burden which we are manifestly not worthy to bear. Surely we are on the threshold of the millenium—the boldness of this editorial utterance signalizes, let us hope the beginning of the period of truth telling by white American journals, secular and religious which have heretofore conveniently and for obvious reasons failed or refused to discuss questions of the magnitude and importance of the Chinese question and of the Negro question—so called—except in a vague and meaningless way. But even this editorial utterance conceals as it admits, more than it reveals and we are left to draw upon our imagination for the details of the horrible crimes committed by these "white skinned demons," some of whom of course are Americans. What a terrible arraignment of the "superior race?" But why and how superior because it has the strength of a giant and the instinct of a barbarian does the possession of these qualities constitute superiority? or the ability to brow beat and defraud and plunder. "Loot" I believe is the correct word these helpless Chinamen, or to destroy their sacred temples of worship and cast lots among themselves for the treasure found in them? or to turn the Imperial Palace into a theatre and caricature their religious customs and habits. Do these things show the superiority of the "superior race? When a man like Bishop Potter and a religious newspaper like the Churchman condemn the practices of these "superior people" in such strong and bitter terms it is very clear that their deeds in the Orient have been so disgraceful, inhuman and brutal that they oeggar description. If all the sickening and horrible details of the work of the powers in China were fully known it is not unlikely that civilized and christianized humanity the world over whose representatives there have disgraced their civilization and religion, would hang its head in shame. The other half of the truth would come trotting along perhaps before the powers will have finished casting lots to decide how much of China each of them shall steal to indemnify them for losses sustained in a cowardly conflict with this ancient people which they, the powers precipitated with malign purposes and for commercial advantage. Adverting again to the slanderous and libelous animadversions of that unfortunate and lonesome creature, W. H. Thomas, comments on whose book fill two and a half pages in the current issue of the Literary Digest. I wish to call attention to the reasoning employed by the alleged Negro, in condemnation of the mental capacity of his(?) race. He says "The Negro has all the physical endowments of intellect, but he has a mind that never THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. 一 一 thinks in complex terms, etc., etc." If this reasoning is logical and Mr. Thomas insists that he is a Negro—he has manifestly outclassed himself. If he is a Negro with all the physical endowment etc., he has succeeded in describing himself as well as other Negroes. Mr. Thomas' book is a forcible reminder of the old saw that the fool killer is still on earth. I observe that the Southern newspapers like the Rich mond Times, News and Courier and other rank democratic sheets, are devoting not a little space to these outgivings and lauding the author of them as fulsomely as though he was a six-legged gorilla, something wonderful to contemplate. The men who edit these journals as well as those who read and approve their editorial policy would hang Mr. Tomas, the traitor, as high as he deserves to be hung if he presumed upon their favorable reception of his latest infamy to get into their social class. Now that he has told the white man all he thinks he knows about the Negro (and it isn't much) the white man will bunch him with all who wear "the shadowed livery of the burnished sun" and call him a "literary nigger" with as much unction as of yore. Self respecting Negroes can only treat him with the contempt and loathing with which they would treat any bipec that fouls its own nest, or any coward who would at tempt the life of a woman who gave him suck. The book is not worthy of serious reflection or consideration. The author has succeeded merely in demonstrating to white people, who will buy the book and read it eagerly because some of them will want to believe its slanders against the Negro—to what low depths on claiming to be or race can descend when chasing notoriety and cash. His notoriety will last longer than the cash paid for his brutal attack upon a helpless and defenseless and patient race. I do not forget Olive Schreiner's characterization of the Negroes(?) of Thomas' stamp and I will not repeat it here though it is very apropos. The New York Sun and several other newspapers of more or less prominence (and the more obscure the sheet the longer the editorial) have taken Mr. Wu, the Chinese Minister, to task for commenting on the attitude of General Otis, in re Chinese exclusion act upon which he based his declinative to accept the hospitality of a Rochester organization of which General Otis was the guest of honor. After reading Mr. Wu a lecture on the oratorical and chirographical limitations of Foreign Ambassadors in so far as the policies of the governments to which they are accredited are concerned, some of these statesmen journalists remark, parenthetically that the Minister was indiscreet in alluding to the race question as he did in the Cleveland Leader interview (which by the way did not receive as wide publicity as some other interviews which have come under my observation during the past thirty years and which were not half so interesting, instructive, truthful and readable.) None of these great journals of news and opinion were at one with the Minister in the thought that the solution of the problem is to be found in intermarriage. I cannot say that I am in agreement with that idea myself, but I believe in every man and every woman marrying whom they please if it pleases them to marry whom they please. 一 Some republican journals, notably the Albany Evening Journal, undertakes to say and without any very ac- crate knowledge is to the sentiment of the Negroes on the subject of miscegenation how they feel thereon, etc., using the following diplomatic language to express its opinion of miscegenation, "Then he (Mr. Wu) discussed in an interview for publication so delicate a question as the American race question, and made the preposterous suggestion that it could be solved by miscegenation. This view may correct from the Chinese standpoint but in this country the intelligence of both races would condemn it without qualification." This is a whole monthful of very vigorous English but they facts? I am not favoring miscegenation, I don't believe in it and want none of it, but I do believe in freedom in its largest and broadest sense when it does not trench upon prejudice the rights and freedoms others. I think I am able to read between the lines of this editorial in republican newspaper quite as much as appears in cold type. American white women are united in marriage to Indians, Chinese, Jews, Irish men, Japanese, Scotchmen, Englishmen without funds, Italians and tawny colored Spaniards. Any Negro with education, culture and money enough to marry a white woman who wants either him or his money, (generally they want the money) has a perfect right to make such a contract if the other party is agreeable and it would be no more preposterous than some the unholy alliances which are not common in South Carolina, between white men and colored women who the former are too cowardly to marry At Aiken, S. C., and numerous other points in that State the offspring these unions take the names of the white fathers who seem to be proud them, would it not be more honorable more manly for these white men to marry these Negro women than to talk with them as their mistresses? The white race at the South is fast going to seed and obs. want men of all races already see the beginning of the event though they do not talk on the subject as pointedly as sagacious Mr. whose vision is reasonably clear and penetrating. FREE TO PATRONS Scott's FACE BLEACH AND BEAUTIFUL. A perfect Skin Whitener. Free to patrons. Enclose a 2c stamp for particulars. Address SCOTT REMEDY Co., Louisville, KY When you write mention this paper. NELSONS STRAIGHTINE TRADE MARK THE LATEST DISCOVERY FOR MAKING KNOTTY. KINKY. CURLY HAIR STRAIGHT BEFORE AFTER STRAIGHTINE is no experiment, but it is ougly reliable preparation. It has been successfully used by thousands in all po- tions of the country. 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Wilson of Baraboo, Wisconsin, who for many years has been actively interested and at work to remove the wrongs and, in justice suffered by our race, especially the colored people of the South, came of a long line of Quaker ancestors. His great grand parents, Quakers, moved from near Philadelphia, a quarter of a century before the Revolution; settling on a farm in Guilford county, North Carolina, where his grand father and father were born. In the year 1812, his father, Micsjah T. Williams, then a youth of eighteen went North, becoming a resident of Cincinnati, Ohio. His grand father and family following in 1814; all leaving the South, to get away from slavery and its influence. Mr. Williams was born in Cincinnati in the year 1818. His mother was also a Quaker. He received the education to be had at the private schools, there being no public schools at that time. In 1836 when seventeen years of age, he became a redman in a party of civil engineers, engaged in the surveys for and the location of a canal in the State of Indiana, remaining in that service several years, climbing up slowly to higher positions. In 1843, following the completion of the Canal, from Cincinnati to Toledo, Ohio, he entered the Forwarding and Commission business at the latter place. He married in 1846 and in the following year, with his wife and one child moved to Milwaukee Wiscon, residing in that place until 1865, when he moved to Sauk county, Wisconsin, commencing the life of a farmer on a quarter section of unimproved land, near the village of Baraboo. From 1844, when his father departed this life, he became the admin- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. istrator of the estate, continuing in that charge for several years. While residing in Milwaukee he served for four years as Receiver of the Land Office, appointed by President Taylor. His farm life continued about thirty years, during which time, in 1862 when soldiers were needed to prevent the destruction of the Union, he raised a company of soldiers, was attached to the 23rd Regiment Wisconsin Infantry under Col. L. T. Guprey. Before being ordered to the front, he was appointed mayor of the regiment which took part in the first attack on Vicksburg, under General Sherman and at the successful battle and surrender of Fort Hindman, under General McClernand. Soon after he resigned and returned home to other duties. A few years later, served two terms as member of the Board of Regents, Wisconsin State University. Owing to the failing health of his wife, he retired from the farm, becoming a resident of the City of Baraboo, where the good wife departed this life in 92. Since that date he became much more constant in his efforts, laboring almost continually for the elevation and improvement of all people—to remove the wrongs suffered by the oppressed, especially that people having in their veins any of the blood of the stolen and enslaved Africans, who, no withstanding their ancestors, were kept in enforced ignorance, not permitted to progress as other people did. During the centuries of slavery, their unrequited labor, from which came the wealth and prosperity of the Southern people, and regardless of the great debt owing that patient and submissive people, who with their ancestors, served so long and so faithfully The white people of the South have been striving nearly forty years with a degree of cruelty, of barbarism and injustice, unknown among any other people; to deprive them of their right of citizenship, granted them by the Nation, and return them to a condition of slavery more cruel than the old one. During all those years this christian nation and its people, have stood by, looking on at their uncivilized acts, with a degree of cold indifference, truly remarkable. These conditions of the colored people of the South, being almost friendless in their dire distress, so worked upon the humane characteristics of Mr Williams, resulting from the environment and education created by and coming from the old time Quaker people, as to call him into more persistent and thorough efforts, following in the footsteps of that grand man Judge Albion W. Tourgee, who labored with large ability, so long and so faithful in efforts to extend to colored people, the common rights of citizenship; the right to be protected in person and family, and with the same right white people have, to make the best of their opportunities. 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James G. Clayton, M. D. 459 O St. N. W. Secretary. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. The following are some of the sick claims paid during the month of January 1901. Lesie V. Riddle, Ravenna, O. . 6 00 Nelson Parker, 2214 M st. n.w. . 6 00 Dr. G W Cabani s. 1906 K st . 7 00 Emma Trent, 1116 1st street . 7 00 Elizabeth Toy, 1461 Madison st. 14 00 Martha L Smith 1212 28 street . 16 00 John M. Davis, 1331 10 street . 14 00 Mary E Hart, 1713 R. I avenue . 14 00 Mary Merrick, 408 R street . . 4 00 Lucy Roy, 1632 R street . . 8 00 Victoria Slow, 1632 R street . . 4 00 Alice Grant, 1510 L street . . 8 00 Sidney Haskins 926 Grant ave. 8 00 Anna Tuttle, 1742 14 street . . 8 00 Lola Jones, 1412 28 street . . 4 00 Annie Bundy, 403 O street . . 8 00 Fannie Warrie, 924 Marshall st. 7 00 Lillian Hansborough, 19 Mass av 8 00 Luretta Harris, Baltimore, Md. . 8 00 Cora Johnson, 2241 12 street . . 8 00 Louv Hillman, 778 Sheridan st 8 00 Bettie James, 8207 Sherman ave. 7 00 Mattie W Walker, 154 Brooks Ct 4 00 Walter Carter, 21 Defrees street . 7 00 Anita R. Joy, 13 00 221 street . 8 00 Mary J. Douglass, 1130 Union Ct. 7 00 Blanche Smith, 1450 P street . 8 00 Ben. C. Proctor, Pittsburgh, Pa. 8 00 Julia Green, 413 1st street, s.e. 6 00 Virginia H Alexander 1023 17 st 8 00 Bertie Thompson, 1714 P street 8 00 Maria Lyons, 2241 Cleveland ave 4 00 Lizzie Washington 1145 Lingers Ct 4 00 Eola L Lee 1514 L street . . 7 00 Hannah Thomas, Phila., Pa. . 6 00 Pocahontas Brooks, 927 5 street 8 00 Mary Bree, 909 6 street . . 4 00 John L Lee 71 Kenton Pl . 8 00 Emma Sydnor 1722 4 street . 8 00 Mary Catlett 1225 9 street . 7 00 Margaret Honesty, Navy Yard . 4 00 Sam'l A. Morton, 216 D st., s.w. 7 00 Mildred Payne 431 D. l. ave., s.w. 8 00 Catharine Contee 1923 9 street 2 50 Martha A. Carroll 2134 Ward Pl 4 00 Martha Dorsey, 1127 20 street . 8 00 This is the SOCIETY all should join A HOME INSTITUTION. Makes no distinction as to color or sex Office 458 Louisiana avenue. Good agents always wanted. TO LADIES OR GENTLEMEN. SCOTT'S HAIR STRAIGHTENER AND GROWER—Makes curly hair grow straight and long. Free to patrons. Enclose a 2c stamp for particulars. Address. Among the Scools. Miss N. J. Jackson of Lovejoy School has been sick for over a month. Prof. F. S. Cardoza, principal of Briggs school has been confined to his bed for several weeks on account of sickness. Miss Laura Barney of the High School has suffered a severe stroke of paralysis and her friends are very much concerned about her. This week model lessons in the third grade were given by Miss Annie Payne in the 10th division and Miss Virginia Pierre in the 9th division. It is proposed to give model lessons in each grade. The model lessons given last week by Misses Nellie Dyson and Imogene Wormley were excellent and showed the strength of their pupils to a remarkable degree and clearly demonstrated that modern methods produce better results than those clung to year aftrr year. Want A Watch? If you want a watch just sit down and write a postal to Editor E. E Cooper, care of The Colored American, Washington, D C., and he will ell you how to get one free.—Red Bank (N. J.) Messenger. 5 WANTED HELP 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. Large sunny front room, also middle room, newlyapered; bath and heated; with or without board; furnished or unfurnished. One block from Capital; convenient to cars. also first-class table board, hall or address 133 B St. s. w. Enclose 2c stamp for repl, and 11 we will send particulars telling how you can make from 75 to $150 per month, and also be presented with a fine Gold Watch. Address. SCOTT REMEDY CO., Box 570, Louisville, Kv. Wanted Rooms. Persons desiring to secure first class rooms in any part of the cit will do well to put an announcement in these columns. If you have a spare room that ou would like to rent to desirable parties, advertise them in The Colored American, WANTED—Persons having rooms to rent to families, to young meh or to young women, can get tenants by advertising in this column. Help Wanted. Do you want work? Do you want a job? If so, advertise the fact in these columns. Wanted an active, intelligent young man to collect for a reliable business firm. Good place for the right man. Wanted a Partner. Wanted a partner for a business already established and paling well. Must have some cash and be able to take a position on salary. Address C, care this office. (confidential) SPE IAL. WANTED. A respectable family to jointly rent a dwelling, above 12th street n, w. Address K. L. this office. SOMETHING NEW. Colored marriage paper. Best published. Enclose stamp for special offer. The Colored Bachelor, Sabine Pass, Tex. There are letters at this office for Mr. Harry Raocliff. SPE IAL. If you can furnish meals to a select few or to persons who want breakfast and dinner you can get customers by advertising in this column. Persons who keep boarding houses, or who can take a few strangers to board and room during the holidays or inauguration, should make announcements 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 rooms and how many. GERMAN TAUGHT. A few hours each day or week will enable anyone to acquire a perfect knowledge of the German language. A native German will give instruction daily and evenings, private or class, conversational method, thorough, practical, terms low. Prof. Victor, 1339 Corcoran street. Agents Wanted. 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 St., Chicago. Active agents are wanted in ever el and town in the United States for The Colored American, the greatest and newest colored newspaper published, Write for terms, Address The Colored American, 459 C street. n. w., Washington, D. C. Colored man who reads and writes to prepare for traveling $50 monthl and expenses. Send se f addressed envelope. President Macbrae, 556 Dearborn, Chicago. WANTED—Trustworthy colored man to travel and appoint agents in the District of Columbia $50 monthly and expenses position permanent, enclose self addressed envelope for reply. Manager Cross, Star Building, Chicago. RIPANS Wanted—a case of bad health that RIPANS 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. --- THE EDITOR'S MAIL BAG 6 If it were possible to publish the many letters that deserve a place in this paper from week to week, it would consume all the space and there would be little, if any, left for the news. In order, however, that an idea may be given of the character of the letters we receive, just a few on various topics are inserted. The Colored American is read everywhere. It goes to all the points of the compass, and to the credit of the intelligence of the race, it must be said, is appreciated Editor Colored American—Please find enclosed two dollars for subscription to The Colored American. Yours truly. S. J. J. Yours truly, S. J. J. Editor Colored American—Enclosed please find money order for three dollars and ten cents as subscription for your valuable paper. Yours truly, Wm. H. P. New Orleans, La. HE LIKES THE DOUGLASS WATCH. Editor Colored American—The watch was received in good order and is satisfactory. Please accept thanks for the same. Yours truly, D. J. S. Charlotte, N.C. Editor Colored American-Enclosed please find one dollar, the amount due you for subscription, and for which you were kind enough to wait. Please continue my subscription and I will settle for it in a short while. Yours truly, W. L. S. Grubb, Ga. LIKE OLD WINE, IT IMPROVES WITH AGE. Editor The Colored American—The American is like old wine she "improves with age" and you deserve very great credit to be able in the first competition to outstrip them all. Yours for success, J. H. L. Editor Colored American—Kindly find enclosed money order for two dollars, for which please send me The Colored American for one year. I take great pleasure in reading it. Very respectfully, A. L. T. Baraboo. Wis. HE WANTS IT AT ONCE. Editor Colored American—Please find enclosed two dollars and twenty five cents for which send me the Frederick Douglass watch. I saw it advertised in The Colored American and decided to send for it at once. Yours respectfully, T. D. Ironaton Ala. A GENEROUS SPIRIT. Editor Colored American-Accept The Gazette's congratulations on your greatest movement in colored news paper lines. While The American come-regularly in exchange, we have ordered a copy through our newsdealer, and shall advise our friends to do so as often as opportunity arises. Yours truly, J. A. B. Editor, The Gazette, Biloxi, Miss, A DISHONEST AGENT DID NOT QUEER HIM Editor Colored American--I like your paper very much, and regret that I cannot enclose money order for my subscription. Please do not discontinue the paper, as I will pay you as soon as I get to work. I am surprised that Mr Henry did not inform you that I had THE COLORED AMERICAN. WASHINGTON. D. C. paid him some on my subscription, Yours truly, F. O L. Parkersburg, W. Va. HE LIKES THE COLORED AMERICAN Editor Colored American-I received a copy of your valuab'e paper a few days ago. I am very much pleased with it, and shall try to get some of my friends to subscribe for it. At any rate, I shall subscribe for it myself and send also for one of the Fred Douglass watches. Yours truly, G W. W., Jr. Dallas, Texas. BARRISTER BASS TALKS OF THE PASSING SHOW. Editor The Colored American—The American is indeed a remarkable sheet. It tells the hopeful story of a hopeful people. The Judson Lyon's issue is most excellent. I want to keep a copy of each issue that I may refer to them for useful facts in the coming years. Very truly yours, H. W. B. Philadelphia, Pa. A JUDGE ON THE KAW APPRECIATES THE COLORED AMERICAN. Editor Colored American-Enclosed please find money order for two dollars to pay subscription for The Colored American for one year. Send same to Mr C W Comager, 411 Nebraska ave., Kansas City, Kansas I hope to have several other subscribers for you within a few day. Yours respectfully, J. F. B. Kansas City, Kansas. THE MAN FROM ST JOSEPH. Editor Colored American-I enclose in this letter four dollars for two years' subscription to The Colored American. I should have sent this before, but for some reason or other I neglected it. I consider The Colored American the best effort of the race in the way of a newspaper publication. Yours respectfully, W. H. H. St. Joseph, Mo. THE DOUGLASS WATCH POPULAR IN THE BLUE GRASS REGION. Elltor Colored American—We have received from our esteemed contemporary, The Colored American, one of the Fred. Douglass waches that have been so extensively advertised. It is an excellent piece of workmanship,—"a thing of beauty and a joy forever." B G B. A FEARLESS EXPONENT. Editor Colored American—Enclosed please find four dollars for one year's subscription to your paper for E. W. Rivers of Dillon, Mont., as well as a renewal of my own. I regard The Colored American the most fearless exponent of the rights of the black man that I have ever read May the course that you have pursued in the past be maintained in the future. Yours for the race, T.A. Batte, Mont. Editor Colored American-1 received your sample copy of The Colored American and was well pleased with it Although I have read quite number of colored papers, The Colored American is the best one I have read, and I think it should be in the home of every colored person. I trust to be able to send you my subscription along with others in a short while. I enclose BORROW MONEY On terms that are arranged to suit your convenience. Any amount from $10 to $1,000, on your furniture, piano, organ, or anything of value left in your possession so you get the use of both the goods as well as the money. You want the lowest rate of course, the income to us we will arrange the payments to suit you large or small weekly or monthly installments. In dealing with us you receive the benefits of dealing w.th the oldest, largest, and most reliable company of this kind in Washington. We would be pleased to have you call even if you do not wish to borrow it will be well to know the best place to get it and you may favor your friends by sending them to us and rest assure I we will treat them with liberality and courtesy. Capital Loan Guarantee Company. Room 8 and 9 Food Building, 602 F St. N. W., corner of Sixth Street. Private entrance Room No. 9 in the rear. five cents for a copy of your pap r as cannot rest without it. Yours respectfully. T.F. Yours respectfully, Mitchell's Station, Ala IT TICKS LIKE A $15 TICKER. Editor Colored American-I received the Douglass watch last Thursday morning, and put it to ticking at once and it has been ticking ever since. It has kept time with our town clock to the minute, and has neither lost nor gained thirty seconds in six days. It is an all-round watch and ought to prove a winner. I shall speak a good word for your paper and the watch when and wherever I have the opportunity so to do. Yours very truly, L. O. S. Editor, The Messenger, Red Bank, New Jersey. Mr. E. E. Cooper, Dear sir-Enclosed you will find two dollars for renewal of my subscription to The Colored American. I must say without doubt, it is the best of its kind, being situated so as to reach the South as well as the North. Being edited at the Nation's Capital it is of much importance to the black man. For my part I must say I would not be without it. It is a bright, newsy and interesting paper and deserves the patronage of every Negro in the South. Yours for success, J. H. Savannah, Ga. FINANCIAL. The Old Reliable "CAPITAL CITY BENEFIT SOCIETY" 458 Louisiana Ave. Is Still Doing Business at the Old Stand. For $1.25 per month it pays $6, $7 or $8 per week. Pays for both Sickness, Accident and Death. No Distinction as to Color or Sex. 14 Years' Successful Business. INVESTIGATE For Real Estate Transactions CALL ON B. H. Warner Company, Real Estate Brokers, CALL ON Warner Building. Washington, D. C. The National Safe Deposit, Savings and Trust Company Corner 15th St. and New York Ave Pavs interest on deposits. Rents Safes insides Furglar-proof Vaults. Actsas administrator, executor, trustee, &c. MONEY TO LOAN At 4 1/2 and 5 PER CENT. On Real Estate in D. C. No delay beyond examination of Title. WALTER H. ACKER 704 14th St., N. W. MONEY TO LOAN at $3\frac{1}{2}, 3\frac{3}{4} 4, and 4\frac{1}{2} per cent, in sums of $1,000 to $10,000 on D. C. real estate; pay off 5 and 6 per cent mortgages and begin anew, all transactions conducted with eonomical consideration for borrowers. WM. H. SAUNDERS & CO., 147 F st. nw. The American Issues 6 per cent. ccapon certificates. 6 per cent. paid on deposits. Loans made on Washington real estate, repayable monthly. 'Phone 2026. *907 G St. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. JOHN J. KLEINER, President. W. J. FRIZZELL, Secretary. Money Loaned on Furniture, Pianos, Etc. The COLUMBIA GUARANTEE CO. will lend you any amount from $10 up. Our charges are less than any other Loan Office and we make the payments to suit Borrowers. Our business is strictly confidential and we make no charge unless the loan is made. Call and get our rates. Columbia Guarantee Co., 613 F Street N. W. DO YOU NEED Financial Assistance? If so, come to us. We are always ready to loan you any amount you may need. You can repay it in small monthly payments to suit your convenience. We make loans on Furniture, Pianos, &c., without removal or any publicity in any way. All business is private. Washington Mortgage Loan Co., 610-F Street-610 DO YOU NEED MONEY? We will lend any amount from $10 up. On Household Furniture. planos, horses, wagons, carriages, or personal property of any kind, without removal from your possession. Loans can be carried as long as desired, and payments can be made at any time to suit the convenience of the borrower. We are the only properly organized loan company in the city. If you appreciate low rates, courteous treatment, and attention to your interests, you will call on us. Offices private and easily reached. Loans made in any part of the city. No delay. Open from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. SECURITY LOAN COMPANY :Room 1, Warder Building; Corner 9th and F sts. n. w; Capital Savings -Bank- 609 F St. N. W., Washington, D. C. Capital $50,000. Hon. Jno. R. Lynch, President. L. C. Bailey, Treasurer. J. A. Johnson, Secretary. D. B. McCary, Cashier. Jno. R. Lynch, Dr. W. S. Lofton, Whitefield McKinlay, J C. Bailey, Robt, H. Terrell, W, S, Montgomery, Wyatt Archer, John A. Pierre, Henry E. Baker, James Storum, J. A. Johnson, Dr. A. W. Tancil, Howard H Williams. Deposits received from 10 cents upward. Interest allowed on $5.00 and above. Collections meet with prompt attention. A general exchange and banking business done. Bank open from 9 a. m. to 4:30 pm. Fritz Reuter's HOTEL : AND : RESTAURANT 451, 453, 455, 457 Penn. Ave. 202, 208 & 210 41 St. N. W Washington, D. C. ...C. H. NAUGHTON... LIQUORS AND SEGARS FINE WINES, Harper & Wilson a special. 1926 Fourteenth Street, Northwest. Chris. Xander's QUALITY HOUSE, 909 7th St N.W. Established 36 years ago. The largest wholesale stock in town of the most exquisite, faultless wines and distillates (in all 240 kinds) at Chris. Xander's moderate prices no others can compete in quality and purity with any of h's goods. His liquors are absolutely free from fusel poison. (No branch houses.) Phone 1425. Phone 1425. 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly assert our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable. Communications society confidential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any scientific journal. Terms, $3 a year; four months, $1. Sold by all newsdealers. MUNN & Co. 361 Broadway, New York Branch Ofice. 625 St. Washington, D.C. ILLUSTRATIONS CUTS MADE OF ANY- THING, BY ANY PROCESS. FINE WORK AT LOW PRICES. THE Maurice Joyce Engraving Company. EVENING STAR BUILDING. WASHINGTON, D.C. BENNETT B. SLADE & CO., Merchant Tailors, Cleaning, Dyeing & Repairing Goods Called for and Delivered. 1202 E Street. N. W. Gray & Costley, WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS, Ladies and Gentlemen's Dining Room up stairs. The best of service guaranteed. 1313 E Street N W. WASHINGTON, D. C. --- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. The Negro as an Inventor. Editor Colored American;-We have no greater evidence of the progress and the capabilities of the Negro race than that which he has contributed to civilization by way of inventions, and we feel heavily indebted to the Hon. C. H. Duell, the present Commissioner of Patents for having given special attention to our work in this line, and giving to the public the following information which reflects great credit to our race. (Official Gazette, U. S. Patent Office February 12.1901.) "To some one hundred and sixty-five colored inventors about four hundred patents have been issued. Twenty eight patents have been issued to one and to another twenty two. So far as the records show Henry Blair, Maryland, was the first corlored patentee. In 1834 he received a patent for a corn planter, and in 1836 one for a cotton planter. The character of the inventions follows lines suggested by their employment. Employed in the field and in the house, improvements in agricultural and articles of domestic use predominate. The sphere of their inventive effort has widened with the added opportunities afforded them to engage in mechanical avocations. They have made contributions to the electric arts and steam engineering and many improvements in railway appliances and paper bag machines. Before the Civil War the master of a slave living in Mississippi made application for a patent but the Attorney General held in an opinion reported in Vol. 9, Attorney General's Opinions page 171 that an invention, though it be new and useful, could not be patented. C C. BARNEIT. M. D. DO NOT SEND US MONEY! Free Scott's Hair Straight ner and Grower - Makes curly hair grow straight and long. Free to patrons. Enclose a 20 stamp for particulars. Address SCOTT REMEDY Co., Louisville, Ky. When you write meation this paper. Negro Colonists to Work Together. Plainfield, N. J, Feb. 9 -An interesting experiment is to be tried in Cape May County, where 1,400 acres of farm land have been bought by the Afro-American Equitable Association for the purpose of forming a colony of Negroes who will live and work by themselves. An industrial school will be established for the instruction of the children of the colony, and an agricultural plant will also be built. Each colonist will receive several acres of land, which he will be required to till and pay for in the course of ten years. It is calculated to make the payments aggregate the sum of $14 000 in that time and use the surplus in excess of the original purchase price in furnishing the scheme. Rev. J. W. Fishburn, of Cape May, is the promoter of the experiment. Only those will be accepted as colonists who are of good character, steady and industrious habits and willing to do their utmost in making the colony a success. A Bishop's Bride. 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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. --- A VALENTINE 88 The Colored American Published by THE COLORED AMERICAN Publisbing Company. A NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER Published every Saturday at 459 C St. N, W Washington, D. C. One year - - $2.00 Six months - - 1.10 Three months - - .60 INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. Subscriptions may be sent by postoffice money order, express or by registered letter. All communications for publication should be accompanied with the name of the writer—not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. We solicit news, contributions, opinions and in fact, all matters affecting the race. We will not pay for matter, however, unless it is ordered by us. All matter intended for publication must reach this office by Wednesday of each week to insure insertion in the current issue. Agents are wanted everywhere. Send or instructions. ADVERTISING RATES. Reading notices 50 cents per line. Display advertisements, $2 per square inch per insertion. Discounts made on large contracts. Entered at the Post-office as second-class matter. A letters, communications, and business matters should be addressed to THE COLORED AMERICAN, EDWARD E. COOPER, MANAGER 459 C Street Northwest. WASHINGTON, D. C. Sold by all all News Dealers. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23 1900. AN ANNGUNCEMENT. The various branches of the American News Company throughout the country will handle The Colored American henceforth. The paper can be had at any news stand in the United States Agents who have heretofore been supplied directly from this office will in the future call on their local newsdealer who will supply their orders The issuing of the paper one day earlier will make it more convenient for the agents and the fact that the American News Company takes entire charge of the circulation of the paper means much more for The Colored American It means a better paper. a more newsy paper and a wider circulation. This is one of the Twentieth Century sprints made by The Colored American. --- Mr. Wu, the Chinese Minister, seems to be having his innings. STRIKING AT THE CONSTITUTION. The State of Maryland is preparing to join the columns of Mississippi, Louisiana. South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. Just how the democratic leaders of the States named can hurrah for Cuba and Porto Rico, justify the Philippine war and reconcile these disfranchising methods to their consciences is beyond our ken. The Evening Star with its characteristic honesty and interest in justice and fair play sizes up the situation as follows: Governor Smith, after some hesitation, has at last issued a call for an extraordinary session of the Maryland legislature. He gives several reasons in support of his action, but they are not such as disguise his real object or the work his advisers have in view. That object is to secure a change in the election laws eliminating the colored vote. The hope is through such means to make democratic success in future a certainty in the state under a leadership which has under existing conditions been twice repudiated at the polls. If, --- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. when the legislature meets, a bill is presented drawn in conformity with the governor wishes its title should read, "A bill to facilitate the return of A. P. Gorman to the United States Senate, and Free Raisin to control of the city of Baltimore." Such at any rate will be the title the measure will bear in the minds of the public within and without the commonwealth of Maryland. It is hardly necessary to point out that the colored vote in Maryland has never been a menace to good government, local or national. Negro domination has never been possible, never been attempted. The republican leadership has always been native, and of unquestioned character and ability. So far above criticism are they indeed that in one state campaign and two national campaigns they took for their coadjutors the pick of the Maryland democracy and the independent press of Baltimore, and combinations won on all three combinations by handsome majorities. The colored vote in Maryland has always been well and worthily led, and its claim to consideration is based upon the fact that through its assistance the Rasin gang was driven from power and Maryland has twice recorded herself for sound money and protection to American industries. Does a vote like that deserve to be outlawed and especially in the interests of ringers of the grade of Mr. Raisin? The circulation of The Colored American is increasing at a very rapid pace. The readers of The Colored American are presented with a portrait and short biographical sketch of that noted correspondent and thinker John E. Bruce, better known as Bruce Grit. Mr. Bruce has a most interesting career, and has filled nearly, if not every position connected with the newspaper office. He has edited a large number of race newspapers and a few white ones and has been the proprietor of several. The Colored American has a special claim on Mr. Bruce since he has been associated with it, most intimately since the very beginning. The success of this paper is due very largely to the work, to the friendly advice, to his financial and literary assistance, and it is with pleasure that our readers have an opportunity to look at his "phiz" and to read briefly a short story of his life. All roads lead to Washington about inauguration times. The Mid Winter Edition of The Florida Sentinel with M. M. Lewey as editor, has just been received It is gotten up in book form the same as The Colored American, and for business tact, mechanical and typographical beauty, for the character of the contributed articles it surpasses anything attempted in recent years by race newspapers. Editor Lewey is to be congratulated on this solendid effort. The Blood Red Record a review of the horrible lynchings and burnings of Negroes by the civilized white men of the United States, has just been issued by Mr. John Edward Bruce, the well known newspaper correspondent. Mr. Bruce has made a most careful search of the records, and puts in a most tangible form the story of these records. The price per copy is twenty cents, and can be had by sending that amount to J. E. Bruce, 97 Orange St., Albany, N. Y. "The American Herald" is the latest journalistic venture in the City of Brotherly Love. It is a lusty youngster and is talking to "beat the band." The True Reformers, whose bank and headquarters are in Richmond, Va., are soon to invade Washington and with their characteristic dash, capture the city. Young men who have an ambition to go in the army should get their papers ready and prepare for the examination. Do not wait until the places are all filled. HERE AND THERE. Israel C. M. E. Church will celebrate its 81st anniversary from March 5th to the 8th. Dr. A. C. Garrott will linger amid the sweet magnolia climes of Alabama till the middle of March. Rev. C. S. Whitted of Attleboro, Mass., is the guest of Rev. B. J. Bold of John Wesley A. M. E. Zon church. If any resident of Washington has any kin folks he has not seen for a long time, prepare to see them during inauguration. A mighty lonesome time awaits those who wont attend either one of the Inaugurals. Every body of any consequence seems to be going Mrs. A.J. Dyer and Mrs F.M. White of 2009 14th street, north west, entertained Miss Bessie L. Stokes of Atlanta, Ga., at tea on the 17th. Mrs. Mattie A. Hampton of Pine Buff, Ark., accompanied by her friend Mrs. D A Summer spent Sunnay and Monday visiting friends in Baltimore. Mrs. Annie E Washington will have as her guest her daughter in-law Mrs. Mabel LeBeau Washington of Chicago, Ill. and will be pleased to have their friends call. The Light Fantastic dancing class which does its tripping at the Conservatory corner 12th and R every week has broke in two, the result of being too heavy on each end. The respective ends now meet on each Tuesday and Wednesday. Mrs. Grundy is tryin' to "staht somethin'" anent this social rift. Hon. C. J. Jones, twice elected to Congress from the famous "Shoesstring" district of Mississippi, was appointed temporary District Attorney from the Greenville district recently owing to the illness of the regular attorney. The appointment was a compliment to Mr. Jones' ability as a lawyer and his standing at the bar. Editor Magnus L. Robinson, of The National Leader, is heading a movement to present Hon. William E. Chandler with a gold headed cane as a small token of respect from the colored press and people. This thing of caning people is getting to be quite a fad. In the case of Senator Chandler, however, it is deserving, as the race has had no abler champion in the Upper House of Congress. 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 (Continued from 1st page) A F. Herodon and Com, have barber shops with a large number of chairs and have both accumulated a snug little fortune. The Gate City Drug store is owned by a company of well-known men among whom are Drs. Butler and Slater. There are also in Atlanta several large shoe shops working from six to ten hands. The shoes made by these firms are worn by the leading white men of the city. A. J. Dalbridge, N. Holmes and M. Alexander are leaders in this class of business. G. M Howell has the largest colored tailoring establishment which was THE LADY OF THE TOWN PROF W E B DuBO18. founded by him years ago and which at the present time is very prosperous. The leading real estate dealer in the city is the Hon. A. H. Graves Mr. Graves al though he has engaged in this business for several years has also taken a prominent part in politics and was placed on the electoral ticket from Georgia by the last Republican State Convention. The chief social function of the week was a masquerade ball given on the night of the 15th. The costumes were all unique and some original Among the guests were the Hon. Pink Morton of Athens, Dr. L. B. Palmer; Messrs. Henry Martin, Claude Watts, James Lemon, Luke Chapman and Thomas Holmes. Misses Ara Cook, M. Westmorelan $ ^{3} $ , M Harrison, Euchee Hutchins, Mittie Bell, Bessie Smith, Pearl Henry and Lucy Smith The affair was a most enjoyable one and will be long remembered. Mrs. Elwood Knox of Indianapolis, Ind, who has been the guest of Miss Maude P H limes for several weeks, has returned to her home. Mrs Knox was a most charming young matron and expresses herself as having enjoyed her visit immensely. The masquerade was under the direction of Miss Pearl Henry. The B. Y. P U. of Friendship Baptist church was addressed on last Sunday evening by Mr F. S. Alexander on the subject, "Confessing Christ." This Union is the best of its kind in the city and is still prospering under the guidance of its efficient president, Mr. J. T. Hill. Chas. Johnson, employed at 1761 Q street, northwest, was taken to the smallpox hospital last Saturday. It is supposed that he contracted the disease when he visited a Mr Hynson in Kensington recently, who shortly afterward was taken to the hospital suffering with smallpox. Dw GREAT INAUGURAL PREPARATIONS. The Cosmos Club Submits a Dainty Program Which Shows Thoroughness cf Detail—Notes. The citizens of Washington, D.C., under the auspices of the Cosmos Club, request the honor of your presence Tuesday evening, March fifth. nineteen hundred and one, at Builders Exchange Hall, Thirteenth between G and H sts, northwest. Dancing at nine o'clock. Officers of the Cosmos Club: F. L. Cardoza, jr., president; Robert T. Douglas, treasurer; Berkeley C. Wallar, secretary; honorary vice presidents. Hon. John F. Cook, Whitefield McKinlay; Executive Committee—Robert H. J. DR. JOHN. R. FRANCIS. Terrell, chairman; Dr. A. M. Curtis, vice chairman, Lewis H. Douglass, D. Montague, E. M. Hewlett, Dr. E. D. W. Scott, John A. Davis. Reception Committee—Hon P. B.S. Pinchback, chairman, Dr. John R. Francis, vice chairman, Hon. Judson W. Lyons, Hon. James T. Bradford, Jerome A. Johnson, Dr. E. D. Willis ton, John H. Cook, Dr. George H. Richardson. Committee of Arrangements—Maj. Charles R. Douglass, chairman, Dr. James R. Wilder, vice chairman, H. C. Tyson, Joseph H. Douglass, Charles E Lane, Prof. Ellis W. Brown, J. R. Combs, W. L. Pollard. Committee on Invitations—Wyatt Archer, chairman, Dr. Charles S. Har- J. H. MR LEWIS H. DOUGLASS. rison, vice chairman, D. B. McCary, Dr. John C. Norwood, Dr Henry L. Bailey, Prof. George W. Cook, John W. F. Smith, Dr. W. A. Warfield, Ralph V. Cook, George W. Scott. The above is the form of invitation of the citizens of Washington to the strangers who will come to Washington in attendance upon the inaugural ceremonies. Anybody at all acquainted with Washington's colored citizens will recognize at once that an entertainment in the hands of the gentlemen named cannot be otherwise than first class in every particular. Those who were here four years ago will re- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. member the reception given at this same hall; it was a grand success, though handicapped in some respects from lack of ample room for ladies' wraps, etc. This time the entire building is in the hands of the committee, giving them a supper room quite as large as the dancing hall, and where all can be served at the same time. Ladies' rooms and gents' rooms have been thoroughly renovated, repainted and gilded, making the entire premises the handsomest and most conven- J. C. PROF. ROBERT H. TERRELL. ient in Washington for purposes of a public reception and ball. No expense has been spared in the preparation for this grand function, and it will be without doubt the finest of the kind ever before attempted by the colored citizens of Washington. Persons out of town who intend being present at this reception may communicate with Mr. Berkeley Waller, secretary, 609 F street, n. w., for full particulars asto invitations, etc. Strangers should give their postoffice address upon their arrival. Its Alright. We have just received one of the Frederick Douglass watches so extensively advertised by The Colored American, and which has been advertised in this paper, It is a neat, attractive unique watch and it is guaranteed. We have donned it ourselves and we are proud to show it to our friends. Every intelligent Negro, man, woman and child ought to have one of these watches. It is not only useful but the fact of having it is the highest tribute that can be paid to the greatest Negro American this country has ever produced. The Colored American is to be congratulated on its enterprise in giving such a valuable as well as such an appropriate present. Mr. Douglass was never certain of the exact date of his birthday, but, knowing that he was born sometime 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 honor. Those who would like to have one of these watches should read their advertisement in another column or should write to The Colored American, Washington, D. C, for particulars. It is a present worth having The Douglass watch is alright. In Negro journalism, The Colored American certainly is in the lead. That's right Bro. Cooper, go on up the heights When you get there no one will ask you how you got there, nor from whence you come, but all will at once extend to you the right hand of fellowship. There is plenty of room at the top.—Red Bank (N. J.) Messenger. It is a poor social club that can't afford some sort of an old banquet during inauguration. The Sunflower State News. Baldwin, Kans., Special.—Growing out of the mass meeting held here a few weeks ago by the Negroes, a club has been organized for the advancement and improvement of the general welfare of the Negro. The club is named after Booker T. Washington. Its motto contains the theme of his life—continued advancement by means of tireless energy. Permanent officers will be elected at the next meeting. Misses Christina Brown and Maude Crosby entertained a few select friends at Miss Brown's residence on valentine evening. All present report an enjoyable evening was spent. Mr. Roger Fox won the expensive present for the gentleman winning the most games of various kinds. Choice and artistic refreshments were served. St. Luke's Choir. After a years' unexceled service as choirmaster of St. Luke's church, Mr. Thompkins retires March 1st entirely of his own suggestion and of his own volition. The superb aggregation of singers who have made St. Luke's services so spiritually helpful and bright will remain substantially the same without any reorganization under Mr. Arthur J. Harley, late organist of St. George's cathedral, W. I., who succeeds Mr. Tompkins. ARE YOU BEAUTIFUL? SCOTT'S FACE BLEACH AND BEAUTIFIER. A perfect skin whitener. Free to pat- rons. Enclose a 2c stamp for particu- lars. Address SCOTT REMEDY Co., Louisville, Kv. When you write mention this paper. Singing School at Shiloh, The Young People's Singing School at Shiloh Baptist church re opened last Sunday afternoon and will continue during the Spring. Exercises from 3 30 to 5 p.m. This Singing School is preparatory to re organizing the former Shiloh Lyceum. The affairs of the church are in fine shape and a large number was recently added. Baptizing is to take place first Sunday in March. Howard Night at Bethel. It was banner night at the Bethel Literary and Historical Association last Tuesday night. The program was an interesting one, and the several departments of Howard University were ably presented by graduates and men who have won their way up in life. The next issue of The Colored American will contain a full report of this meeting, giving a brief account of Howard University with portraits of the speakers and those who are connected with the University now. Dr. Croffut on the Filipinos. Dr. W. A. Croffut, secretary of the District Anti Imperialist League, and a staunch friend of the Negro, will address the Second Baptist Lyceum tomorrow at 3:30 p.m., sharρ, subject, "Concerning the Filipinos." By request Prof. John T. Layton will render a bass solo. All are invited. Time will be allowed for discussion. Mr. Jesse Fairfax gave a very pleasant stag to some friends at the residence of Mrs. Mattie Brown of H st., north west. Among the gentlemen present were; Messrs. James E Ellington, John Hughes, Joseph E. Walker, William Robinson, Charles Williams, James W. Lee, John Pleasant, John S Lee, W. M. Carter, Ed Allen and others. 9 Says: "I can recommend Peruna as one of the very best remedies for catarrh. I recommend Peruna to all sufferers." PERUNA THE GREAT TONIC HALF ACTUAL SIZE. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Of Tuskegee, Ala., writes: "I have never taken any medicine that has improved me as much as Peruna. For catarrh it is certainly a blessing." THE BLOOD RED RECORD A review of the horrible Lynchings and Burnings of Negroes by civilized White Men in various parts of the United States, taken from the records with comments by John E. Bruce "Bruce Grit" General Newspaper Corrnt. Price Per Copy 20 cts ADDRESS: Argus Publishing C Or, JOHN E. BRUCE, 97 Orange St, Albany N. Y. Cora E. Dorsey and Christine Dorsey Typewriting, Copying and Stenographic work satisfactorily performed at reasonable rates by the Misses Dorsey, Room 8, Le Droit Building, Corner 8th and F street northwest.