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The Colored American A NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER --- Uncle Sam, Look Behind You. The Negro First of All an American. BY JUDGE ALBION W. TOURGEE. of All an American. ALBION W. TOURGEE. My study of the Negro began when he was still a slave, but when the fetters were already dropping from his hands. Fleeing from a Confederate prison, I sought his aid with confidence, and tested not only his faithfulness, but his segacity. As a soldier, I saw him shed his blood for the flag which had meant only bondage and oppression for his race, though already growing radiant with the promise of liberty. During fifteen of the early years of his freedom (1865 to 1880), I studied him as an employer, a citizen, a lawyer, a judge. I was thoroughly familiar with his status in every portion of one of the Southern States, and since that time had studied it in every State of the South, keeping always uppermost in my mind his view of his past and his hope for the future. I have studied him. I will admit, with growing appreciation. He is a new type, a new MAN. He has stoughed off the African, and is, first of all things, an American—American in instinct and aspiration, as well as largely in blood. In some respects he understands the white man better than the white man under stands himseif. A A AMERICAN PREJUDICE. While the United States is entreating with Cuba and making te the customs and religions of the United States, the American Iynched roasted, distranchised, and discriminated against in every way is entreating with Cuba and making terms with the Filipinos, both dark skil f the United States, the American Negro to the manor born, the most and discriminated against in every way. Whither are we drifting? While the United States is entreating with Cuba and making terms with the Filipinos, both dark skinned peoples, who do not understand the customs and religions of the United States, the American Negro to the manor born, the most loyal and patriotic of citizens is being ynched roasted, distranchised, and discriminated against in every way. Whither are we drifting? VOL. 8 NO. 52. PRICE FIVE CENTS. THE EDITOR'S MAIL BAG A few of the many letter of a complimentary nature received by The Colored American the past week are printed below. The Colored American goes everywhere and the best of it will be found in glancing over these letters. They come from every point in the compass. They speak for themselves. ONE OF THE BEST. St. Georges, Bermuda, February 26, '01. Editor Colored American: The Colored Ameri ican is the paper that I want and I am willing to pay the price for it. as I think it is one of the best papers that I have read published by the colored race, and I will try and see what I can do for it. Wishing the paper every success and its editor long life to help the members of the colored race, I remain yours truly. E. A. B. AN UP TO-DATE RACE JOURNAL. Colored American: Enclosed please find money order for $2 for which kindly place to my credit on subscription. The Colored American is an up-to-date race journal. Staunton, Va., February 1, or. Respectfully, W. M. C, A GREAT JOURNAL. Kathleen, Ga., February 5, 'or. Editor Cooper: Please find enclosed one dollar of my subscription bill which please accept. Will send balance the first of prox. To say the least, yours is a great journal; I can't do, without it. Much success to you. Respectfully, W M. C. A GOOD COMPANION. Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3, 31, 'or. Editor Colored American: I take pleasure in renewing my subscription for another year to your paper. It has been a great pleasure to read The Colored American. I have enjoyed a pleasant year by its visit, a good companion giving just the news one wants to know. Wishing The Colored American successful years, APPRECIATES READING IT. Editor Colored American: I receive my paper regularly and I appreciate always reading its columns. Please find enclosed $2 for which you will send paper until expiration of time stated. Very truly yours, C. M. M. Jacksonville, Fla. GOOD WISHES. Editor Colored American: I avail myself of this opportunity to congratulate you on the marked ability with which The Colored American is edited and to wish you further success in the world of journalism. With cordial respect, I remain. Yours very faithfully, M. Da R., M. D. Edinburgh, Scotland. DON'T WANT TO MISS IT. Gentlemen: Please find enclosed 50 cents in postage stamps; continue the paper. I must read The Colored American, and don't want to miss a single paper. Yours for success. W. T. H. Campbellsville, Ky. AN IDEAL PAPER. Cleveland, Ohio, January 56, 'or. Editor The American: Please find enclosed post office order for one years subscription to the Colored American. Yours is an ideal Twentieth Century paper. Wish you continued progress and success. Yours very truly, W. F. C. A GREAT COMFORT. The Colored American has been a great comfort to me, as I have been better informed through its contents of the valuable men and women of my race. Truly yours. A CYNOSURE. Manager Colored American: Please send your paper to my address for six months. Among the Negro newspapers I consider your journal a never varying cynosure. Respectfully, J. W. O. G. Henderson, N. C. WORDS FAIL Editor Colored American: I wish that I had words fit to congratulate you on your forward step, in placing The American on sale at the newsstands under the direction of the Newspaper Union. But they—words—fail me. You are the living wonder of your age in Negro journalism. And the end is not yet. M. W. S. Bristol. Tenn-Va., Feb. 4, '01. --- "A Rival by Request"—A Three Act and Comedy With Scenic Effect. The above production will be rendered at the Metropolitan Baptist church, R street, Friday, March 29, at 8 p.m. The cast includes Misses Daisy Wylie, Lucy Lumpkins, Etta Johnson, Lavenia Wylie, Mary Wilson and Messrs. Walter Hurt, Richard Younger, Harry Wilson, Jesse Chase, Charles Pryor and Daniel Chase. Soloists for the evening,Mr. Walter Hurt, baritone, "Believe;" Miss Daisy Robb, soprano, "My Sweet Heart Rose;" Miss Ticonderoga Ware, soprano, "Love's Golden Dream," and Miss Mary Leftwich. Juvenile soloists, little Marie Beckett, Beatrice Ware, al.o and Jeannette Jordan. FREE TO PATRONS Free SCOTT'S HAIR STRAIGHTENER AND GROWER -Makes curly hair grow straight and long. Free to patrons. Enclose a 2c stamp for particuars Address SCOTT REMEDY Co., Louisville, Ky. When you write mention this paper. Bill Anthony's Coolness. "Bill" Anthony was one of the best examples that came out of the Spanish War of the man who can keep his head when others have lost theirs says Richard Harding Davis in Everybody's Magazine. His coolly indifferent announcement to Sigsbee that the Maine was sinking, either showed a soul disciplined to the condition of an automaton, or a spirit which nothing could dismay. I once asked Captain Sigsbee if the popular version of Anthony's speech was correct. He said it was, but that Anthony did not salute him as was generally told. nor preface his speech with "I beg to report, sir." "We bumped into each other in the dark," Sigsbe said, "and if he had saluted and spoken with that formality, he would have been thinking of himself and of making an effect, and not of his duty. What he really said and did is better without any of the advantages which came later." To Rally for the Missions. We notice that Rev. L. G. Jordan, Correspondent Secretary of the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention, 718 W. Walnut st., Louisville, Ky., has literally carpeted the country with programs for the Annual Foreign Mission Rally in the Baptist churches, held on Easter Sunday of each year. We are told that there are nearly two million Baptists in this country and yet the Secretary of the Foreign Mission Board expects or asks that at least $2,500 from this great effort. Ten thousand dollars to our minds would be a small sum, especially when we consider the numbers and the fact that Dr Jordan has for five years spent all of his time educating and stimulating his Church in this great work. Any denomination numbering two million ought to give at least ten thousand dollars once a year for the very work for which their Church is founded. As we note marked improvements in the Baptist churches in all lines for the past two or three years we feel sure that they will measure up in this effort. 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Mr. and Mrs. Waldron have devoted years towards helping the members of the race in Jacksonville and are to be commended on this additional step. Nearly 5000 bushels of sweet potatoes were raised on the Tuskegee Institute farm last year. Mr. Roscoe C. Bruce of Harvard lectured in the St Charles A. M. E. church at Cambridge, Mass., on the 3rd inst. Mr. Paul Laurence Dunbar's new book, "The Fanatics," will be issued in April by Dodd, Mead & Co., of New York. Miss Isabella Morris left $500 to the aged and infirm colored people of Baltimore in her last will. Miss Morris died on the 20th of February. A former student of Tuskegee who received a certificate from the blacksmithing division did $1,215 worth of business at his trade last year. Mr. Thomas S. Harris, a colored man who was appointed postmaster at Live Oak, Fla., last month, has appealed to the authorities for protection because the white people of that place have threatened to lynch him if he does not resign and leave town. Georgia claims the oldest man in the world. Caesar Booker claims to be 126 years old and he has a daughter 98 years old. There are six other children, all well up in years but their father possesses a good memory, is able to do light work and talks entertainingly. An eccentric old Va. colored man who died at Leesburg recently was found to have $1200 to his credit in the People's National Bank in Martinsburg, W. Vs. For years he has received a pension, not a cent of which had been spent. He was buried in the potter's field at his own request. The Afrc-Americans of Kansas held a convention in Topeka on the 22nd of February in which every county and principal city in the state was represented. The object of the meeting was for the promotion of the interests of the Afrc-Americans and the most prominent colored men in the state attended. Jno. W. Forbes, a brother of the man who set afire the pile that burned Alexander to death in Leavenworth, Kans., has married a colored girl. He is a well-to-do Tennessee farmer, sixty-five years old and his bride is twenty-four. They were married in Leavenworth where the groom went shortly after the death of Alexander, but will make their home in Tennessee. Ex-Representative Sprague, just retired from Congress, has been confined in an insane asylum in Boston. His health has been failing for years. It will be remembered that invitations were sent out in Washington for a dinner by Mr. Sprague last month and because ex Congressman Geo. H. White was invited, some of the guests would THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. not attend and all invitations were withdrawn and the dinner did not come off. One of the most expert men in his line is Wm. Sawyer of Cincinnati, O. Mr. Sawyer is an Afro-American and is employed by the new water works plant, and few men, white or black, could fill his place because of his thorough knowledge of his work. 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Church to the Virginia and stationed at Israel Metropolitan C. M. E. church in this city in 1887. While here young Phillips began his school life in the old Lincoln school on Capitol H1 under Miss Sim- MR. C H PHILLIPS JR mons, a white teacher. At the age of seven years he joined the temperance cause, and was selected from the great host of colored boys and girls to give a recitation at the First Congregational church (white) of this city one Sunday evening. The late Miss Francis E Willard presided at the meeting. Miss Willard was the great temperance leader. His speech on "The liquor traffic is got to go" brought forth prolonged applause, when a bouquet of flowers was presented him by the District missionary. The daily papers smoke very complimentary of this incident. The flowers have since been pressed and he keeps them to remember his first speech. His people moved from here to Louisville, Ky. in 1891 and from there they moved to Jackson, Tenn. in 1894 which place is his present home. His father is editor of the Christian Index, published in that city. In 1899 he graduated from the public schools of that place, delivering one of the best addresses ever delivered on like occasions. The Hon. Thomas H. Paine, Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Tennessee, who was present at the exercises grasping the hand of his father remarked: "Doctor your boy is a young orator. He has the elements of oratory in him. It is seen in the flash of his eyes, the expression of his face and bearing generally." The Daily Sun speaking of the exercises said: "There were seventeen graduates. The exercises were highly entertaining: the music and recitations being exceedingly well rendered." A special from that city to this paper also said: "The graduating exercises of the public schools took place Thursday July 6th. Seventeen boys and girls received diplomas, among whom was C. H. Phillps, Jr. whose subject, "Failure the stepping stone to success, elicited much applause and comment." He is now attending school at Lane College in that city. In the same year by invitation of the citizens of Bethel Springs, Tennessee, Mr. Phillips was invited to deliver the Emancipation address. The Rev J. C Cotton, the leading pastor of that city, writing to a journal of that address said: "He made quite an interesting speech to a large audience holding it spell-bound throughout his address. We look upon the young orator with astonishing admiration." He delight in speaking and often represents his class in the debates and speaking efforts. He has a voice of rare sweetness. Young Phillips also enjoys the distinction of being the younger Afro-American assistant editor in the South. He has assisted his father for nearly three years on the Christian Index, setting almost wholly as departmental editor and proof reader. He has acted as secretary of Liberty Sunday school, the leading church of the city of color of which Dr. R. E. Hart, former Washingtonian is pastor for THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. nearly seven years. He fell; a call to the ministry and often says he will preach the word Mr. Phillips is a fluent and elquent young speaker and debater and bids fair to be a giant in C M. E. Method's n TO LADIES OR GENTLEMEN. SCOTT'S HAIR STRAIGHTENER AND GROW-ER-Makes curly hair grow straight and long. Free to patrons. Enclose a 2c stamp for particulars. Address SCOTT REMEDY CO., Louisville, Ky. When you write mention this paper. A Wor.hy and Deserving Charity. All who visited the beautiful exhibit of the work of colored women in the District of Columbia made a year ago by the Woman's League will be pleased to learn that another exhibit will be held in banquet room of Odd Fellows' Hall, (first floor.) The use of which has been generously alowed through the kindness of Mesers, Gray and Bro. It will continue, afternoon and evening, throughout the last week in March, 25 h to 30th inclusive. As before, the price of admissions will be only 10 cents. Apart from the pleasure of examining the dainty products of the dressmaker's art, the delicate embroideries and other objects of the interest, the two fold object of the exhibition should be kept well in mind. To assist in maintaining a day nursery and to promote the growth of industrial art among our young women are surely two worthy objects and deserve the hearty cooperation of all who have the best interests of the race at heart. The River Queen. These bright days and this balmy weather are gentle reminders that the spring time has come. The River Queen has been dressed up in new attire and looks af pretty as a May Queen. Excursions run this summer to Notley Hall Gymont and Lower Cedar Point Capt. Wellen has left no stone unturned to make these resorts the most complete in every way, and with the improvements and new dress of the River Queen, will make this season the banner season. The following dates have already been secured: May 5, Thomas Washington's Orchestra to Notley Hall May 30 The Long Star Pleasure Club to Notley Hall June 3 The Piano Movers to Notley Hall June 6, Junk Dealers to Lower Cedar Point June 21, Young Men's Protective League to Notley Hall June 24 The La Tosca Social Club to Notley Hall June 28 The Epicureans to Notley Hall From the above list it will be noted that all the best dates are still open and churches or clubs or parties desiring to secure good dates should see Capt. Wooden at once. His residence is 154 East Captiol street. JOTTINGS. Mrs. Florence Bradford of Kirby st., n. w., is very ill with diptheria. It is reported that Hon. George H. White will practice law in New York. Tharp's liquor house on F street is a good place—for Negroes to stay away from. Mrs. Junius Smith of Richmond Va. is visiting Mrs. Ada Langhorn of 4 h street n. w. Mrs. Lon Hughes of Philadelphia, Pa., spent a pleasant two weeks here as the guest of Miss Jennie Eastman. Miss Christiana Thomas of Baltimore, Md., was the guest during insurguration, of Mrs. Susie Smith of Georgetown. Mrs. Charles E. Hall left for her home in Illinois last Monday on account of the serious illness of her father Mr J. O. Watters. Miss Bertha Smith of Richmond Va. is visiting friends in this city. Miss Smith has been very ill but is convalescent at this writing. Rt. Rev Geo. W Clinton, D. D., presiding Bishop 3rd Episcopal District. A. M. E. Zion Church, will preach at John Wesley A. M. E Z church, Connecticut avenue, bet L and M streets, northwest, 11 a. m. Little Lonnie Dennis the six-year old boy preacher will preach at 8 p.m. B. J. Bolding, D. D., pastor, 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 gift 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 Fountains, the Subordinate and the Rosebud. There are two Fountains, the Subordinate and the SUBORDINATE FOUNTAINS. To join the Subordinate Fountain you must be b age. You pay $4.60 to $6.60 (according to age.) as joine the country you pay 35 cents per month as dues; if months. You pav as taxes 80 cents per month As Sick Benefits you receive from $6.00 to $9.00 p ments. As Death Benefit, your family receives $75.00 m After one year the Death Benefit is $125.00 you must be between 14 and 16 years of to age.) as joining fee. If you live in with as dues; if in the city, 50 cents per month 6.00 to $9.00 per month, in weekly payeives $75.00 if you die within a year. 6.00 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. osebud Fountain you must be between the age. You pay $1 00 either cash or by the monthly dues are either 15 or 25 cents may decide. The annual tax is 10 cents. Stock Benefit from $1 50 to $4 00 per month, cents. Benefit, your family will be paid $24 50 of the year. After one year the Death Benefit is valued first year at from $100 to $33. 60 years. Fee, $2.50 to $4.25. Annual dues, and first year at from $250 to $175. After 5 years. Fee, $5 to $6 50. Annual dues, and first year at from $250 to $175. After 10 years. Fee $11 to $13 50. Annual dues, from date of issue at from $1 000 to $700. Partnership in either of the Fountains or in the required amount of Bank stock, which it. Part of True Reformers has paid up to July 1, with a grand total of $521,264 75, over a four Savings Bank the Order has a sound institution that is a credit not only to the Orgail. It began business April 3, 1889. The 1000. The business is the same as that of a constituted bank, and is surrounded by the stock sells for $5.00 a share to dividends. Both time and demand deposits is paid on time deposits. The following Auditor of Public Accounts of Virginia shows its flourishing condition: LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in ..... 88,125 00 Surplus fund ..... 80,957 80 Undivided profits ..... 6,826 80 Demand certificate of deposit ..... 96,786 20 Time certificates of deposit 118,424 75 Total ..... 391,120 00 Bad Store is located at 501 North Sixth St. Order and the public generally save ducts. It is published by the order from its own office, the voice of the people, representing the voice and is the Beacon Light, the Headlight. Agent of the Brotherhood. It is $10 rebids for the work of the people, which is low prices. Americo County, Va., the Order has purchased a room an "Old Folk's Home". With unpaid generosity, the Order does not limit en alone, nor even to members families, but the赊pid of the whole race, regardless of the person makes itself the trustee for this glorious people, black and white, North, East, South. The carrying out of this praiseworthy part as a Grand Rally Day for the Home the casnier of the Reformer's Savings Bank account for it to The Grand Fountain. Public, when visiting Richmond, Va., and 900 North Sixth St. It is in a pleasant the best and rates are reasonable. Manages and controls all property interests in 3 buildings, 4 farms, 4 dwellings, 1 house. In addition to these the Order leases To join the Rosebud Fountain you must be between 3 and 14 year of age. You pay $100, either cash or by installments. The monthly dues are either 15 or 25 cents as Fountains may decide. The annual tax is 10 cents. You receive as Sick Benefit from $150 to $400 per month, in weekly payments. As Death Benefit, your family will be paid $2450 if you die within a year. After one year the Death Benefit is $37. In the INSURANCE DEPARTMENT, there are Three (3) Classes: -Class B, Class E, and Class M. All dues are payable annually or quarterly. In Class B, the age limit is 14 to 60 years. Fee dues. $4 75 to $7 60. The Certificate is valued first. After one year, its value is $200 to $65 In Class E, the age limit is 14 to 55 years. Fee, $9 50 to 11 40. The Certificate is valued first year at one year its value is $500 to $300 In Class M, the age limit is 14 to 50 years. Fee $21 to $25. The certificate is valued from date of issue You are entitled to a Life Membership in cith Classe B and E upon purchase of the required am pays a dividend annually of 20 per cent. The Grand Fountain United Order of True Refo 29 1900, a total of 3782 Death Benefits, with a grand HALF MILLION DOLLARS. 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. After one year, 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 $200. one year its value is $500 to $1000. 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 HALF MILLION DOLLARS. THE RANK. - In our Savings Bank the Order has a sound and flourishing institution that is a credit not only to the Order butthe race as well. It began business April 3, 1889. The capital stock is $100 000. The business is the same as that of any other regularly constituted bank, and is surrounded by the same safeguards. The stock sells for $5.00 a share to RESOURCES. Loans and discounts ..... $8,272 80 Other stock, bonds and mortgages ..... 164,423 83 Due from National Banks ..... 48,383 22 Banking House ..... 14,000 00 Other real estates ..... 99,588 00 Furniture and Fixtures ..... 6,850 00 Current expenses and taxes paid ..... 1,388 99 Specie, nickels and cents ..... 12,399 80 Paper currency ..... 35,820 00 Total ..... 391,120 84 The Reformer's Grocery and Feed Store is located Richmond, Va., and members of the Order and the 20 per cent. on the cost of food products. The REFORMER is the newspaper published by the office in Richmond, Va. It stands for the voice of the operation and combination of the race and is the General Messenger and the General Agent of the per year. A well equipped job office bids for the work out in first class style and at low prices. Six miles from Richmond, in Henrico County, 634 acres of land, and established thereon an "Old" example of liberality and broad-minded generosity, tracing to this home to its members alone, nor even doors are opened to the aged and decrepid of the village or connections. The Order makes itself a charity, and calls upon the whole people, black and West to assist by their contribution the carry on idea. April 3rd of each year is set apart as a Greene Contributions can be forwarded to the casnier of the who will send receipt for same and account for it. Members of the Order and the public, when invited to stop at The Hotel Reformer, 900 North St. and desirable location. Service is of the best and most. The Real Estate Department manages and controls the Ordeer. The Order now owns 13 buildings, 4 with a fee simple value of $122,500. In addition to buildings. members, and pays 20 per cent. dividends. Both time and demand deposits are received and 4 per cent. interest is paid on time desposits. The following is a copy of the Cashier's report to Auditor of Public Accounts of Virginia at close of business Sept.. 5. 1900 and shows its flourishing condition;— RESOURCES. Loans and discounts ..... $8,272 80 Other stock, bonds and mortgages ..... 164,423 83 Due from National Banks ..... 48,383 22 Banking House ..... 14,000 00 Other real estates ..... 99,588 00 Furniture and Fixtures ..... 6,850 00 Current expenses and taxes paid ..... 1,388 99 Specie, nickels and cents ..... 12,399 80 Paper currency ..... 35,820 00 Total ..... 391,120 84 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in ..... 88,125 00 Surplus fund ..... 80,957 81 Undivided profits ..... 6,826 80 Demand certificate of deposit ..... 96,786 29 Time certificates of deposit ..... 118,424 74 Total ..... 391,120 64 The Reformer's Grocery and Feed Store is located at 501 North Sixth St. Richmond, Va., and members of the Order and the public generally are saved 20 per cent. on the cost of food products. THE REFORMER is the newspaper published by the order from its own of fice in Richmond, Va. It stands for the voice of the people, representing cooperation and combination of the race and is the Beacon Light, the Headlight, the General Messenger and the General Agent of the Brotherhood. It is $1,000 per year. A well equipped job office bids for the work of the people, which is turned out in first class style and at low prices. Six miles from Richmond, in Henrico County, Va., the Order has purchased 634 acres of land, and established thereon an "Old Folk's Home". With unexampled liberality and broad-minded generosity, the Order does not limit entrance to this home to its members alone, nor even to members families, but the doors are opened to the aged and decrepid of the whole race, regardless of their residence or connections. The Order makes itself the trustee for this glorious charity, and calls upon the whole people, black and white, North, East, South and West to assist by their contribution the carrying out of this praiseworthy idea. April 3rd of each year is set apart as a Grand Rally Day for the Home. Contributions can be forwarded to the casnier of the Reformer's Savings Bank, who will send receipt for same and account for it to The Grand Fountain. Members of the Order and the public, when visiting Richmond, Va., are invited to stop at The Hotel Reformer, 900 North Sixth St. It is in a pleasant and desirable location. Service is of the best and rates are reasonable. The Real Estate Department manages and controls all property interests of the Ordeer. The Order now owns 13 buildings, 4 farms, 4 dwellings, 1 hotel with a fee simple value of $122,500. In addition to these the Order leases 18 buildings. --- --- A BEEHIVE For any further information, address W. L. TAYLOR, G. W. Master, W. P. BURRELL, G. W. Securtey THE INFLUENCE OF HOW&RD UNIVERSITY. THE INFLUENCE OF HOW&RD UNIVERSITY. Mrs Jones TeLs of the Early Days at Howard and Names a Number of Successful Graduates. --- Prof Kely Miller, President of the Bethel Literary and Historical Association, Washington, D.C., Dear Sir—I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your favor inviting me to be present and address your society on the evening of February 19th, when the subject of the program will "The Influence of Howard University." I regret that I cannot attend and say a word for my alma mater and the work she has done for woman, as well as to offer my meed of praise to Miss Martha B. Briggs, who was for a long time the L. MRS. ROSA K. JONES. principal of the Normal Department. The life of Miss Briggs was so intimately connected with the history of the university that to mention the one is to but to suggest the other. Miss Briggs was a woman of strong intellect and possessed rare charm of personality. She was a remarkable educator and one who always kept before her mind the real object of life. The dictates of selfishness could not find any encouragement in her heart. She did not live for herself alone nor for this world alone alone. She projected her life into the lives of others and into other times. She was a great teacher because her one aim was to direct and guide those who came under her training so that they might get the most out of life and be the most that they could be in their day and generation. Miss Briggs was an untiring worker consequently great success attended her labors. As one who eat at her feet I can say that her greatness as a sch lar and a woman of unusual endowments became more apparent with each passing day. Her name was a perpetual June fragrance to mellow and sweeten the temper and the nearts of her pupils and all others who were so fortunate as to come within the circle of her influence. As I write, the name and life of my dear friend and classmate, Alice Strange Davis come up before the mind like a panorama or a vision of the night. She was a bright scholar, a geril soul and an inspiring teacher. She was too well known for me to enter into any detailed statement as to her work and worth. Her student career was a perfect success. She was not a superficial but a thorough scholar—not spasmodic, but continuous in her work; with her "There was no excellence without great labor." In the position she occupied she maintained a womanly bearing and Christian character. On whatever side we look at her, we find something to admire and something to imitate. In time allowed we might mention the lives of Alice Kinckle Vassar. Clara Alexander Smith, Henrietta Pankey and a host of other women who are making themselves instruments for good in moulding the character of men and women as model mothers, in making model homes and teachers called to the work and touched by the inspiration of her who labored to this end. Howard University will live on and on through her daughters who strive to instil into others the great principles of right and justice. In the Southland they find a broad field of labor and they do not hesitate to give themselves to the great work of teaching men to live. Yours truly, Rosa KINKLE JONES, Richmond, Va., Feb. 16th. 1901. Invitations, tickets, etc., cheerfully accepted at this office. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. Town Topics. April 7th is Easter Sunday. No emancipation day parade wanted. Mrs. Mitte Martin goes to Atlantic City for Easter. Tomorrow is "Western Day" at the Second Baptist Lyceum. Hon. J. Milton Turner was at the Southern Hotel last week. A District sensation is promised meaning something good for the race Go to your nearest news dealer and purchase a copy of The Colored American. Missionary exercises were held Sunday evening at the Vermont Avenue Baptist church The annual conference of the A. M. E. connection will be held next month at Roanoke, Va. Quite a number of colored employees were dropped from the Government Printing Office rolls upon the adjournment of Congress. Miss Alice Louise Cleggett, niece of Mrs. Charles R Douglass and Mrs. R R Clert, returned to her home at Geneva. N. Y., last week after a three month's visit here. The Colored American can be purchased at any of the news stands. Go to your nearest news dealer and get a copy. If the dealer does not keep it insist on his keeping it. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stewart of Richmond, Mrs. Dr. Henderson. Masters Purvis and Lawrence Henderson of Boston who were the guests of Mrs. N. E McGwinn have returned to their homes. Mrs. Martha Broadus Anderson, formerly an active worker in the church and literary organizations here, is now located in DeKalb, Illinois, where her husband is doing a thriving business as a contractor. FREE TO PATRONS 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. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Cohran, of Oxford, Miss, are now comfortably domiciled at 1127 3rd street, northwest. Mr. Cohran is a clerk in the Census Office, and besides is an expert stenographer and typewriter. Mrs. Robert Pelham, of Michigan, is making a decidedly favorable impression upon the musical circles of Washington. She is a lady of rare social graces and a genuine helpmeet to her talented husband. Rev. J. C. Brown who is known as the great Southern Evangelist has been assisting Rev. Dent at M. Moriah Baptist church. Rev. Brown left there last Sunday night to assist Rev. Herben in a revival meeting. Prof. I Garland Penn, assistant general secretary of the Epworth League of the M. E. Church, will be in the city early in April to look after the interests of the proposed international convention of Christian workers which will be held here in a few months. Mr. Oliver Davis, a graduate of the High School, has passed a flattering examination for a lieutenancy in the regular army. This is a positive compliment, not only to Mr. Davis' ability, but to the splendid system of instruction in vogue at Prof. Terrell's educational establishment. Candidates for Justice of the Peace are looming up. Among the aspirants are Justice E. M. Hewlett, L. Melendez King, and several others who are not yet prepared to announce themselves. The Negro expects two out of the ten provided by the new code. Mr. Samuel E. Lacy, the accomplished private secretary to the Recorder of Deeds, has been engaged as the Washington correspondent of the True Reformer, a neat little sheet published at Littleton, N.C. Mr. Lacy furnishes an interesting picture of the life and character of the national capital. Sunday, March 31st, Dr. Frank J. Webb will address the Second Baptist Lyceum on "Trusts." As long as the Negro is compelled to buy the goods manufactured by trusts, and live under legislation influenced by them, the race has an interest in knowing about them, whether he owns a share of stock or not. FOR CHARTER SEASON 1901. STEAMER RIVER QUEEN NOTLEY HALL, GLYMONT AND LOWER CEDAR POINT. The Swift and Commodious Steamer RIVER QUEEN, with Electric Lights and fitted up with all Modern Improvements and licensed by U. S. Inspector to carry 1,000 Passengers. CAN BE CHARTERED TO RUN EXCURSIONS TO NOTLEY HALI GLYMONT AND LOWER CEDAR FOINT. Books are now Open for Charters. Office: N Street Wharf, Clvde Line. Telephone 605-2. Residence: 154 E Capitol St. Telephone 88-Y 2. HOTEL DALE OFFICE This magnificent hotel property, corner Kentucky and Arctic Avenues, Atlantic City, N. J., leased and operated by Mr. E. W. Dale of Cape May, N. J., is for sale. It is by all odds the largest and most complete hotel for the accommodation of colored people in Atlantic City. It is elegantly furnished, centrally located and the rent is paid up to May next. Its Cafe and Buffet arrangements are up to date. It can be purchased for Thirty-five Hundred Dollars ($3,500). Terms cash, will dispose of it for the above-named price; providing that it is purchased at once; but as the season advances so will the price. This includes the Stock, Furniture and Fixtures. There is not one cent against it, and, as it is already well known to the traveling public, no effort will have to be made to have the very best class of Afro-Americans as its guests and patrons. It rents for One Hundred Dollars ($100) per month. The largest and best stocked bar in the city is included in this sale. The hotel has been filled to its uttermost capacity in the past seasons --- FOR TERMS APPLY TO L. J. Woollen, C. Office: N Street Wharf, Clvde Line. Te Residence: 154 THE HOTE ATLANTIC C This magnificent hotel property Avenues, Atlantic City, N. J., lesse Dale of Cape May, N. J., is for sale and most complete hotel for the acco in Atlantic City. It is elegantly f the rent is paid up to May next. Its are up to date. It can be purchased ($3,500). Terms cash, will dispose of providing that it is purchased at once so will the price. This includes the There is not one cent against it, and the traveling public, no effort will ha best class of Afro-Americans as it's g One Hundred Dollars ($100) per m stocked bar in the city is included in filled to its uttermost capacity in the The Amphions' concert and prome made last Friday evening at Grand Army Hall was up to the usual high standard set by this popular organization. The selections were new and well rendered, reflecting marked credit upon Director J. Henry Lewis. A toothsome menu was served under the auspices of the Ladies' Auxiliary. --- E. W. DALE, Caterer, Cape May, N. J. The Congressional Lyceum. At 3 30 o'clock p. m., Sunday March 24th Prof. J. D. Baltimore of the Manual Training School will address the Congressional Lyceum at Lincoln Memorial church corner 11th and R sts., n. w., subject: "What Lack we Yet?" 14 Cures Weak Men Free Insures Love and a Happy Home For All. 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THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. MASONIC. In the death of the Grand Secretary of the white Grand Lodge and the valuable manuscripts left behind, we are reminded that we too have some old Masons who will soon be summoned to the Grand Lodge above, who are full of valuable information concerning the history of the craft in this jurisdiction, which should be gathered at once and compiled at once in book form for the information of the young Masons now coming along and those to follow. The day is not far distant when we will be anxious to know things that Brothers Gleaves, Myers, Watte, Freeman, Coleman, West, Bailey and Gray can now answer, but who will soon be numbered with the departed. I want to see Bro. Terrell designate one of these brethren to produce such a book, which shall be a history of the craft in this jurisdiction. We must not cavil as to how it can be done; the Grand Master should appoint a committee of young, active, energetic and progressive men to provide the ways and means and the movement will be a success. Let us have a history of the craft written by one of our brethren, many of whom are fully competent to do the work. Brother L. G. Fletcher is reported to be much improved. Brother W. H. J. Malvin will present a Masonic cut for this column. Watch the next issue. Brother Brown, of Social Lodge is reported sick; we hope his recovery may be a speedy one. Pythagoras Lodge has the big (5), Bamfield, Pitts, Johnson, Pendleton, and Beason, but theycan't get the jewel this year. I can't understand why the members of the craft fail to read The Colored American; the editor is a member of the craft and it publishes Masonic news. Now what is our duty? Why read the paper. Right Eminent Grand Commander Murphy of Maryland was over here on Monday and Sir Knight8 L H. Wayne and George S. Newman met him at the bridge and Sir Knight Murphy forced to yield. Brother John T. Turner, the genial secretary of Widow's Sons Lodge is one of the most popular members of the craft, has held high positions in the Grand Lodge and well deserves any honor to be conferred. Bro. Albert Neill of Warren Lodge is one of the best visualistic Masons in the fraternity. We do not an active officer now he should be invited by the Masters to exhibit his skill as a workman; it will do them good. Social Lodge voted unanimously to accept the invitation of Widows Son Lodge to attend divine service Sunday, April 21, 7 p. m. at St. Paul A. M. E. church, 8th near E streets, southwest Rev. P. W. Wortham is a member of this lodge. Past Grand Master C N Robinson of New Jersey was the guest of Grand Master Mayse of Eureka Lodge during inauguration week. Brother Robinson is now and has been for the past 25 years the Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge. Brother George S. Clinton of Prince Hall Lodge Atlantic City, N. J., was the guest of Deputy Grand Master Malvin during the inauguration week. Brother Malvin has been confined to his room since the 4th with a severe attack of cold. Past Grand Master Henry Coleman is a Mason who has the courage of his convictions and will speak out against any impositions upon his Lodge or the craft, though he be forced to take up arms against a personal friend. Every true Mason can but honor and admire such manly qualities. During the inauguration week there was a number of distinguished Masons from every section of the country and yet nothing was done by us to extend a friendly greeting. Nothing would have done the craft and jurisdiction more honor than to have had a night set apart to receive these brethren, and had an exemplification of the work by a selected team of Past Masters with a banquet at little expense. Brother Samuel H. West of Felix Lodge is a far-seeing Mason. I saw him one night week before last and he was looking over into next December around and about the 27th; he said things were looking strange; somebody may be hurt. We must not be too ambitious for Masonic honors; fling away ambition, for by that sin fill the angels. The brother who seeks official preferment must go the rounds with a padlock on his month, and like Polcnius see only as others desire him to see. There are many Masons whom we never see in any other place than in the grand lodge, who never attend the meetings of their subordinate lodges as they consume the valuable time of the grand lodge in endeavoring to impress the brethren that they are eloquent orators and profound Masonic jurist, and all they say is of no more value than an idle vapor. There should be some way adopted by which these spouters might be squelched, in order that some business might be transacted. I don't know but what I shall introduce at the next meeting a cloture resolution, for the young and intelligent men of the craft are disgusted with the idle vaporings of would-be-orators. Past Master John W. Freeman was in attendance at the meeting of his lodge, Social No. 1, on Thursday last after a severe attack of the grippe, which at one time threatened to prove disastrous. The brethren gave him a hearty welcome when he entered the lodge. Brother Freeman entered the craft long before many of the young Masons of today were born; he is an active, energetic Mason, well versed in Masonic jurisprudence and an enthusiastic supporter of the young, progressive element of the fraternity. No man is better known in the craft and because of his activity he has been called "The Kid in Masonry." Yet to him and others of his class is due the credit of preserving and keeping intact the Masonic craft during the dark days of slavery and down to the present time and we all hope that he may be spared to see many more years, and that when summoned before the Supreme Grand Master of the universe he may be found worthy and well qualified. LOTS FOR SALE WE have at Colemanville, Mineral Springs, Va., TWENTY-FIVE BUILDING LOTS, which must be sold at once. This is a great opportunity for any one who wishes to purchase property at the only mineral springs owned by colored people in the country. This is a fine place, and will be a great money making summer resort. Title guaranteed lots for cash or on instalment. If you want one, write to DR. E. PARKER READ, President of the NATIONAL CO-OPERATIVE INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION, 1037 South street, Philadelphia, Penn. J. H. Tells about business, Removes Spells and Evil Influences, Re- unites the Separated and Gives Luck to all. Cures Piles and Drunkenness. 1228 25th st. n, w. " washington D.C. No letters answered unless ac- companied by stamp. The Frederick... ...Douglass Watch. A Premium Watch which Breaks The Record. Read carefully our Offer Below. R. H. H. FREE FOR ONE DAYS' WORK. AGENTLEMAN'S watch with the bust of Hon. Frederick Douglass on the case. We have secured for our friends the most serviceable watches ever made; they are stem winders and stem setters, having all the modern apparelances known to the watchmakers' art. The cases are nickel silver. They are made on the celebrated thin model plan. Remember this is not a small clock commonly called a watch, but a highly jeweled, nickel movement, made by one of the celebrated watch manufacturers in America, on our order. These watches are guaranteed by the manufacturers, and if not found exactly as represented this guarantee is assumed by us. Watches like these a generation age would have cost $20 if they could have been produced, but the fact is, it contains apparelances then unknown. Each watch has been properly adjusted and will be sent in running order. Its characters: They have a jewel balance wheel! The cases are nickel silver. Are stem winding and stem setting. They have a duplex movement. Free to any one sending $4 for two yearly subscriptions, or $2 for one yearly and $1-$3 in all. This watch and The Colored American, one year for $3. The watch as a special inducement, postpaid, to any one send ing $2.25. It will be seen therefore from the above that no one need be without a watch equal for time keeping to any in the neighborhood, a single daylonger. Indeed it will not take a day for any one to get a small club of subscribers for The Colored American, the national news paper of the race and the newsiest and best race journal published. Try it once and see for yourself how easy it is to get this watch and to get only two subscribers for The Colored American. Don't lose time but attend to this matter as soon as you see this notice. Money can be sent by Post Office Money Order, Express Order, Bank Check, or Registered Letter, Address THE COLORED AMERICAN a = =e et” sty eg ; 1 oF rp 2 Mel? cate GAG apes in . Belts ere sae ee (ih yee Brel Leh aI Wibalte: i o8 A Pas 934s | ara ie Pert. ob aeS | Adee OURS +79 Fe a a og ae LS emanate at net RCE poe os ea ae eae an HOWARD UNIVERSITY, * Washington, D. Ce N distinct departments, under one hundred iF ompe it professors ame ieee See eee i al, Legal, College, Pedagogica’ gical, Medica ish Agriculture, Industiial, and iegcsi. Forinformationaddress— Rev, J, E. RANKIN, D. D., LI. D., President, Gso. H. SAFFORD, Secretary. Avery College Grades y Schoo) ess, ALLEGHENY, PA. 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Sold at all drug stores, hate fre cents. Pe sure to get the genuine. taathe footed hy substitutes, ‘Ten samples and & Gayrt testimonials will be mailed to any ad- Ghent five cents, forwarded to the Ripans “eutcal Company, No. 10 Spruce St., New Yorks CHARLES FISCHER, ie a oe > — Wspvssetnrer sna deaier 1n—~~- WRGICAL & ORTHOPGIDICA} instruments and Trusses. 88 SavenrH Strrer, NontHWEST Opposite Patent Office WASHINGTON, D, 0, THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. G WE'LL DO THE REST, $1,000 REWz If you are sick, i ee ee If you ere going te bave a tour, DR. SHEA’S MARVELOUS Mi If you have a friend coming to town, | —— Peete aie ee a If you are goirg to give a reception, ii S _ If you did give a reception lately, oe SQ If you have lost a member ct your 7 \ family, ee or ARS If your church is going to give a con- Fre a Sta Wp cert cr supper, i ae Bw %) If you have any good, clean news, RASS. 4 Ly; whatever, send it by card or otherwise ENS ie FF fa to The Colored American office, and we | ia a if will cheerfully give it space, Office 459 Se : ti x : C atreet, ncrihwest. ¢ EZ A S dx J rE FN x AS CITY PARAGRAPHS. ee CH TNS AGE en ee ee Wednerday of this week. Mrs. W. H. Conner has been cor: fiaed to her home with la grippe. Miss Wilhelmina B, Tate of the Sixtt Auditoi’s cffice hae been on the sick list. Mrs. Gilbert Gray of O street ba: been quite seriously ill but is now con. valescent, Metropolitan A, M. E. Sunday-school is making preparations for special Eas ter services. Mr. B, H. Baker has beer secured as cornetist, Mies Anna E. Bell, one of Atlanta’ charming young Jadies, was in the city during the Inauguration the guest o: Mrs. Mattie Cheek of K st. Mrs. Louisa A. Cooper and her sox Palmer, of New York city were th welcomed guests during the inaugura week of Mrs, D. F, Baltimore, 71 G st 8. W. Miss Hallie Q. Brown of W)lber‘ores University who was in the city durit ¢ inaugnration as the guest of her broth er, Hon. Jere Brown, has returned tc her home. here was acompetitive drill in mili tary tactics between two companies o g rls from the Suads;-2chcol at Metro politan A, M. K. church on Monday evening the 18th inet, Mis. W. H. Clifford and Mra. Wil Green of Cleveland, Ohio, were tk guests of Hon. and Mrs. John P. Gree during inauguration. They returnec home Friday evening. Dr. A. 8. Garrott formerly a $1,20 clsrk in the Pension Bureau bas m signed his position and gone to Cuil fornia where he will enter actively up on the practice of dentistry. Prof, W. Henry Thomas, late of New ark, N. J., was presented with a hand some silver medal at his farewell re. citai in that city on February 28th. He was -received a number of invite iions to give a recital in this city. Miss Maggie Shaw, a charming youn; lady from Austin, Texas, paid the cit; a short visit and took im the Inaugura Ball en route to Philadelphia wher she will reside with her elster an: brother-in law, Prof. H.T. Kealip: editor A, M, E, Cauich Review. The fcllowing were guests of Mrs M. J. Dyer of 2009 14th street, n. w. during the inauguration: Mrs. and Mie! Lipscomb of North Carolina, Mrs. G W. Bryant of Bsltimore, Mesers. J. H Loawis and J. Howard Lee of Boston John B. Nail, Foley, and J. Howar. Braxton of New York, Hon. H. A Rucker and Messrs. Matthews, Wim bish and Reeves of Georgia, Mr. Park er of Nebraska, Mr. Marin Cowder of New York and Mr. Brown of Caet $1,000 REWARD. DR. SHEA’S MARVELOUS MEDIUM. LZ SS Ee iw & Ne, a Si Ae. 3 hf a NY INS WY FY YY i Gives the names of dead and living frinds tells who and when you will marry also ot business journeys lawsuits, absent friends health or anything you wish to know, no raatter what it is. He can cali up jour spirit friends and show them to you, dan make them rap all around the room. He asks ne quesiions don’t ask you to write names f him. Don’t try to pamp you inany wa’ , out tells you right off, rie is thoroughly inuorsed by leading spiritualists everywhere, received from them a gola medal and special license to practice his wonderful powers; credentiais no one else can show can give thcusands of reterences to both white and colored patrons Twenty-five years practice—seven in srook- lyn—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 rhort what is best to do, He will succeed when all others fall, Positive satistac tion or no pay. Call and see, You will find it juck to consult this (bristian gentleman. He has a medicine that will cure drunken. ness; can be given patienis not knowing it. Thousands through hin are now BICH HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL with ali their undertakings,while those w 0 negiect his advice are still laboring again poverty. Through his perfect knowledge « chemistry he can impart to you 4 secret tha will overcome yuur enemies and win you friends. His aid and advice has often been solicited; the result has always been the ke- curing ot speedy and happy marriages and all your wishes, In love affairs he never tails. Hehastr ecret of winning the affections of theop> esex, it ist. curse of Spiritualism that in all large cities there are a class of men and wo- men who claim powers they do not possess. They have neither gifts, credentials, nor retf- erences. Surely the colored people are not so wanting in sense as to throw their time and money away onsuch. Dr. Shea refers to the Hon. Charles Miler, bo mee | 2481 Al. Jantic avenue; the Hon, William Denmore, architect and builder, 47 Cleveland avenue, and Mr. Arthur Sewell, ship buiider. South Brooklyn. All have Known him tor the past ten years. He gives a tree test of his power toall. Thedoctor has practiced five years in New Orleans, St. Louis, Memphis and Louisville, understands thoroughly the diseases, speils or influences the race is subject to. He has now and always had large patronage from them PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING: Brok lyn, August, 15, 1891—This letter is to certify that | came to New York trom Alba ny. I was @ stranger in a strange city, out of work and outof money. 1 had no luck in anything | undertook. What to do I did not know. A friend advised me to go and see Dr. Shea, Idid. Hetoid me the cause of my troubles; he took me ip and treated me asa brother. Through biuw 1 got a goo position that very week. I had been to oub- era, they took my money and did me no ood. i biessthe aay J first met br, shea a would advise ailin bad tuck, sick or in trouble to go to him at once, Sincerely, Albert Ayers, 2937 Atlantic Avenue. Brooklyn, August 15, 1891—Tis letter 1s certify hat my husband bad ~~ away and had been absent two years. mourned to! him night and day. I gave him up as dead. os of the wonderfui ihings Dr. shes vas doing | resolved to consuithim. He tolc me that my busband wasalive and weli anc where he was; told me he would come nome and when. Tomy joy sll of it came true He is home now, came back like one from the Segs: 1 also wish to say that this month I lost lam a poor woman anu | was almost insane. I went to Dr. Shea and he told me 1 would find my money and to ms intensej oy 1 find itashe told me. 1 thanks God there isa man s0 gif.ed in our midst that can help people snd teli them what t« do, Mrs. Mary Miller, South Flainfela, N J A SENSATION IN BROOKLYN—MIN1SYEB't STATEMENT 1 wish to state that one of my parishiouers was sick and in tronbie for a long time, Mrs. Brown, 37 Gay street, No one seemed to un- dersiand her case, She had several doctors but none of thera seemed to Know what wat the matter, None conid do her any er it was my duty as her pastor to c°'l and see her. ‘Hearing of the wondertul work being done by Dr. Shea the last few years, i thought I would cali and see him myself, Lfoand him a sympathetic gentleman, He gave me a ‘yondertul test of his powers, told me to send nim a lock 0. patient's hair, which 1 did by her daughter. Me told at once what was the matter, and in a short time cured her sound and weil. Her family bad seemingly been underacloud. Now all is changed, All are well ane prosperous. 1 can truly and heartily reeommend Dr. Shea, to all those insickness or distress of any Kind. Bey. William Jobn- 15 son, pastor Lebanon church, Brooklyn. Dr. Shea can show thousands such as above, DR SHEA has been carefully educated in the a thic and Electric Schools of Medicine, Hi suecess is wonderful in curing paralysis Sheumatism, Asikma, Sore as. ‘Lumors, Cancers, Constipation, Ague, spepaia, Tape Worms, Liver Con .. beltaeme, Catarrh, Dbropsy, Pies, Nervous Debuity, Heart Diseases, Consumption, Liseases ‘at Women and Children, Fits, Kidney binease, and strange mysterious diseases which eth- ers don’t understand. All diseases, no Inatter what they be. Nothing but honorable treat- ment, He can and will honestly tell you if you can becured. Has ali new remedies and new success. Has an umple experience ii public hospital and private clinics, No tre fling with human life, Callatonce. Do not delay, ipiomas hang in parlors. Is a reg- istered physician. A new remedy fo rheu malism just discovered, not a linment, Hopeless cases and those that others can not cure solicited to call, sat iolks thin, the colldiess made parents. Ali letters must contain $1.00, two stamps, age, lock of hair. Charges for Medicus treatment only. Closed Sundays, Mention this paper, 651 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N, Ys. REDUCED! REDUCED! is Readings to Ladies, 25e, Gents, 50 ¢. PPROEn, Cray, Oldest establitbed Clairvoyant, tells your business, love affairs, tamil, troub.es, about jawsuits, divorces, or aLjyihirg you Wish to know; biings se, aravea together, cxuses speedy marriages, removes family troubies, bud luck wpei.s, or mysterious feelings, 1010 A daily. 489 h'st. sw, ——$——$ ee W.H. FISHER ‘dyer and cleaner, : oe ) ¢ ge 709 9th St. n. we 1407 14th St. n w, Telephone 152, James F, Keenan Rectifier and Wholesale Liquor Lealer, Elegant Club. Whiskey a Specialty. Importer of Fine Wines, Brsndiea , Gins, Ete, 462 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W. D. E. GIBBONS, WHOLESALE MANUFACTURING RATE CONFECTIONER 523 44 Street, Southwest, WASHINGION, D. C. Wedding Cakes Made aud Parties Furnished at Short Notice Ice Cream Ail The Year W:... BUIEER, GLASS, &c., 609 O STREET, N.W. Springtime is on, and your house will need touching up. We have just what you want. W. H. BULLER, 609 C 8t., N. W. R-LP-A-N'S i eee = The modern stand- eo ard Family Medi- w|| cine: Cures tne 2] common every-day S| ills of humanity. = Taso8 S fee? THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. BE NOT D TO THE COLORED PE King of all H "OZO DECEIVED PEOPLE OF AMERICA. Hair Tonics, BE NOT DECEIVED TO THE COLORED PEOPLE OF AMERICA King of all Hair Tonics, "OZONO." BEFORE. AFTER. BEFORE. AFTER. TRADE-MARK. be used on the scalp. And, lastly, to prove our liberality, we will put in a pint package of Anti-Odor, a positive cure for Sore Throat or Mouth, all forms of Womb Diseases, Chilblains, Sore and Frosted Feet; also removes all smells and odors arising from the human body, such as feet, arm pits, etc. Recognizing the fact that there are many SO CALLED hair-growers and hair-straighteners now on the market, and knowing to a certainty that many of these are frauds pure and simple, we wish to make a straight-forward, honest statement to the colored race through this great paper. In the year 1871 our late secretary, Mrs. S. M. Moore, through a fortunate circumstance, acquired the receipt for OZONO. It was not offered for sale or purchase to any extent until 1875, when 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, true 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 cause 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 always a number of people who imitate and make capital out of the merits of other people's goods. Seeing our marked success, 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 hair 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 let us sound a warning—be careful what you use on your hair. Do not be deceived by flaring advertisements and big words. Euy the King of all Hair Tonics. The actual value of this Grand Aggregation is $4.00, but we let you have it for $1.00, simply to introduce honest goods. In order to protect the 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; so 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 Richmond, Va. We have thousands of testimonials we have not space to publish. Here is a sample of one: Boston Chemical Company ; Dear Sirs,—You are at liberty to state in any newspaper that I have used OZONO, and give it my most hearty recommendation. I have been fooled so often, it does me good to recommend honest goods. MAGGIE B. PROCTOR, Here is another: Box 114, Fairfield, Texas. Gentlemen,—After using OZONO a short while only, I am glad to say that my hair is already straight and growing finely. MISS BESSIE POWERS, 383 Missouri street, Toledo, O. 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 you a plain question—would we absolutely agree to forfeit $50.00 if you are dissatisfied with our preparations, if they were not true or 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. A last word. OZONO is absolutely guaranteed to straighten hair and cause a beautiful and luxurious growth. If your hair is already straight, you can use it to secure a glossy long growth. Buy only the genuine "OZONO." Send us $1.00 at once, and the goods will be sent the same day we receive your order. 20,000 people are today using our preparations, and every purchaser recommends Ozono as the first of all Hair Tonics. Ozono will positively take the Kinks out of Knoxy, Linky, Harsh, Curly, Refractory, Troublesome Hair. It will make short, harsh hair long and straight. It will cure your head of all itching, worrying scalp diseases. Itch, Eczema, Dandruff, and Seurf can not live after Ozono has been applied. It will stop your hair from falling out. It will restore gray hair to its natural color, making the hair long and soft. BEFORE AFTER Boston Chemical Co., Now, right here, let us make a statement. Many firms are advertising remedies to straighten hair, but when they send the preparation they tell you to use hot irons. Friends, do not use hot irons; they will burn up the life of the hair, and cause it to drop out. Ozono straightens without any outside assistance. Nothing but Ozono is necessary, and the hair stays straight forever. You can stop the use at any time. The good effects on the hair are seen in a day or two after the first application. the following goods: 4 Boxes of Ozono, worth $2.00. 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Refiner, worth 50c. 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Food, worth 50c. 1 Package (1 pint) Anti-Odor, worth 50c. 1 Package Scalp Soap, worth 50c. Total, $4.00. The price of Ozono is 50c. a bottle—4 boxes do the work. We make this liberal offer, which is good at any time: Cut out this coupon and send to us, enclosing with it the sum of One Dollar, and we will forward to you four large boxes of Ozono and one large bottle of Electrical Skin Refiner, which makes black skin bright, rough skin soft and pliant, and cures all skin diseases. Also removes all facial imperfections, and actually removes small-pox pits. We will also include one fancy jar of our Electrical Skin Food—Nature's great beautifier—removes wrinkles, moth patches, freckles, and all facial blemishes; makes the old look young and the young look younger. Name..... House, No. Street..... City..... County..... State..... If you want 4 lots like above, send $3.00. If you have a friend who has no coupon, let her write her name on a piece of paper and pin to coupon when you send your order. We will also include one package of our celebrated Scalp Soap, which is absolutely CHEMICALLY PURE, and no soap but a pure soap should ever EVERY TOWN AND CITY TO SELL AND GET SUBSCRIBERS FOR The Colored American que or faction, but represents the whole people. not a party organ, but stands for the rights of the Negro. nts. It is not a patent back, but its columns seem with spicy, original matt WE WANT AN AGENT IN EV The Frederick Douglass Watch It gives all the news. It belongs to no cliq It tells what the Negro is doing. It is n It reflects the highest thoughts and best achievement The Frederick Douglass Watch AND GET SUBSCRIBERS FOR The Colored American. It gives all the news. It belongs to no clique or faction, but represents the whole people. It tells what the Negro is doing. It is not a party organ, but stands for the rights of the Negro. It reflects the highest thoughts and best achievements. It is not a patent back, but its columns teem with spicy, original matter. Subscription Price $2.00 per Year. $1.10 for Six Months. 60cts for Three Months. Terms Invariably in Advance. For Further Information Address, THE COLORED AMERICAN, Washington, D. C. 16 OZONO. BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., 310 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. 310 East Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. I enclose you $1.00, for which please send at once THE COURT HOUSE THE MAIN BUILDING-AVERY COLLEGE TRADE SCHOOL. 2 ON THE MONONGAHELA. Avery Trade School and College-The In fluenc s f this I s u t u o n- the Progres s t the fr- amica in Weseru Pensyvahia Noes Pittsburg, Pa., [Special.]—I am in Pittsburg, and what a big, busy, smoky city it is. It is said that there is almost as much business done in Pittsburg as is done in New York or Chicago. Anyway, it is a live, stirring city. It is situated at the confluence of the Monongahela and Alleghany Rivers which form the Ohio River. To watch the waters of these streams at their conjunction reminds one of the description of Aeneas in Virgil, where he speaks of the rocks and whirl-pools, of Scylla on the one side and Charybdis on the other. The waters seem to whirl and whirl and after forming an eddy start on their journey south. The superstition of the aborigines must have been based on the fact that small canoes and crafts are unable to pass safely over this eddy. There is a charm in watching these waters, and the thought that these pourings of the great lakes of the North, fed by the tributaries of the Alleghany, Mononbahela, and Ohio rivers and those other western feeders, the Missouri, the Tennessee, and Cumberland rivers all pouring their borrowed and worn traffic to that mecca of richness, the Gulf of Mexico, was inspiring. I left Washington on the 7.45 p. m. train, on the Penn, R. R., in a sleeper, and arrived in this busy city at 8.45 the next morning. My business here is to meet a young man, a namesake, who will take a course in Avery College and Trade School of Allegheny City. Having met the object of my visit we hied away over the Alleghany River to Avery College and Trade School. I was surprised, and agreeably so, by the work done by this institution. Prof. J. D. Mahoney, Secretary and Treasurer, was there in waiting and gave me a most cordial reception. Space will not permit as full a description of this school as I should like to give. The school is unique in that it is the only industrial school in a Northern State whose faculty is nearly one-half white and whose work is almost exclusively in the hands of the members of the race. The faculty consists of the following: Doctor G. G. Turfley, President; Joseph D. Mahoney, Vice-President; Thos. S. Swam, Chairman; Miss Emma Writt, Secretary; Miss M. Bryant, Recording Secretary; Miss Nettie Johns, in charge of Millinery Department; Miss Olive Johns, Assistant; Miss Bond, Instructress in Dressmaking, McDowell system; Miss Riggs, Assistant; Miss Bryant, Millinery Department, Primary Department; Miss Dannond, Principal of School Department; Miss Writt, Assistant; Thos. Swan, Manual Training Department; Theodore Esser, Tailor; James C. Gray, Assistant; Robert Forrece, Orderly; Prof. G. S. Murry, Musical Department, Piano and Voice; Prof. H. C. Waters, String and Brass Instruments; John S. Bradly, Chef; Mrs. Bently, Matron; Rev. J. W. Jefferies, Field Agent; Rev. W. C. Robinson, Local Field Agent. In order that the readers of The Colored American may get an idea of the standing of some of the trustees I speak briefly of a few of them. Mr. Jno. D. Cherry, one of the trustees, is a prominent wholesale merchant of Pittsburg and a member of the firm of Wolf, Lane & Co., known the country over. Dr. G. M. Shillito, chairman of the Executive Committee, is President of the Board of Directors of Mercy Hospital, and resident physician of Allegheny general hospitals. He is a great friend of the colored people. Mr. Robert Jackson is one of the most prominent colored citizens of Pittsburg. He is Treasurer of Bethel A. M. E. Church and a leading and influential politician. Mr. H. Anderson, another colored leader and trustee, is a man of great wisdom and foresight and a leading spirit in the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Wm. Manley, also a colored man, was for years shipping clerk for the wholesale house of Messrs. Dilworth Bros., Pittsburg. He is prominent in Masonic circles and a most highly respected citizen. Mr. S. M. Roseman, a retired contractor, is another trustee. He spends a great THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. deal of his time at the school. He is a man of wealth and is giving the institution the benefit of his experience and counsel. A most powerful agent, however, in the work of Avery College and Trade School is Prof. J. D. Mahoney, Secretary and Treasurer. I cannot do Mr. Mahoney justice without quoting an article of Marion Mantle from Howard's American Magazine for November, 1899. "The deservedly popular and efficient secretary of the Avery Trade School was born in Peoria, Ill., August 1, 1860, his parents, Charles H. and Theresa Mahoney, being natives of Maryland, and direct descendants of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. The elder Mahoney died in San Juan del Norte in December, 1862, where he with Captain Baldwin, was engaged in the construction of docks. In April, 1863, his widow, with her three children, two boys and a girl, removed to Pittsburg, Pa., where she supported her family by needlework and a small revenue derived from the estate in Illinois. In 1868 Mrs. Mahoney became an invalid and Joseph, the oldest son, became the breadwinner of the family. At eight years of age he was employed in a brickyard as an off-bearer, working from 4 to 11 a. m., and attending school in the afternoons. He continued at this work during the winter of 1868. In the spring of 1869 he was promoted to the position of "mud-grinder" in the brickyard—preparing the mud during the night for the use of the brickmakers the next day. This cut off his opportunities for attending school, but his former schoolmates loaned him books, and he kept up his studies while driving a mule and grinding mud in the brickyard at night by the light of the kiln fires. He held this until the winter of 1872, when the smallpox became epidemic and he entered the employ of Frederick Kechler, an undertaker, as a driver, at $4 per day, Mr. Kechler having secured the contract from the city for removing all smallpox cases in the 11th and 12th wards to the pest-house. Young Mahoney worked for Kechler during the winter of '72 and '73, escaping the disease himself, but carried it home in his clothing, where his mother took it and died from its effects. After the death of his mother, the orphaned children removed to Elizabethtown, Pa., where Joseph found employment as a cabin-boy on the steamer Elizabeth, plying between Pittsburg and Elizabeth. His wages, which were small, all went to the woman at whose house he, with his brother and sister, were staying; but he made quite a good deal of extra money acting as purchasing agent for citizens of Elizabethtown in Pittsburg. In the meantime he kept up correspondence with his grandmother, Mrs. Thomas Highgate, at Chambersburg. Pa. His land- lady, who was appropriating his salary, found and read one of his letters received from his grandmother, which aroused her suspicions as to the length of time she would likely continue to draw his wages. On the 1st of July, 1873, he left the steamer at her wharfboat in Pittsburg, Pa., with $60 extra money which he had earned. At the age of thirteen he went to live with his grandmother at Chambersburg, she agreeing to give him a home and a common school education, conditioned upon his providing for her in her old age. He agreed to the terms, and in September, 1873, he entered the public schools of Chambersburg, working in the mornings before school and in the afternoons for John Stewart, Esq., which enabled him to provide his own J. MR JOSEPH MAHONEY clothing and books. In 1877 he left school at Chambersburg and went to Pittsburg, Pa., to ascertain in what condition the administrator (John D. Macon), who had charge of the family estate, was, and to provide a home for his grandmother and himself. Here he entered the employ of W. M. Blakely, attorney-at-law, intending to study law. Mr. Blakely was his guardian, and the family administrator was also an attorney. After studying law for a year in the office of Mr. Blakely, he discovered that the estate was in serious danger. He left the employ of Mr. Blakely and interested Mr. C. B. Herron, his next employer, in his case against the administrator, and saved to his sister and brother $1,800. "After working for five years, he secured through that gentleman's influence a position with the firm of Chalfant & Co., Iron Manufacturing Co., Etna Iron Works, where he remained for eighteen years, holding various responsible positions, and resigning to accept the treasuryship of the Avery fund. He also held the position of stamp clerk under Samuel Jackson, revenue collector. In 1884 he became a member of the Board of Trustees of Avery College. At that time the college was a defunct institution, inasmuch as it was closed, although handsomely endowed. "At the annual meeting in June, 1888, he and Dr. Turfley secured the passage of a resolution making the school an industrial and trade school for colored boys; and as such it threw open its doors September, 1889, with white instructors, who were continued until 1895, when the trustees elected new officers. At this election Mr. Mahoney was elected secretary and manager, and he went right to work to make the school one of the very best of its kind in the country. In the Industrial Department he has added bricklaying, plastering, dressmaking, tailoring, millinery and an efficient corps of colored instructors. Tuition is free to all students. Twelve scholarships are given to young ladies to Oberlin College and the same number to young men who wish to enter the Western Pennsylvania University. These scholarships are given to meritorious students of the Avery Trade School, or any other institution. In June, 1899, Mr. Mahoney was elected secretary-treasurer of Avery College—the first colored man ever elected to the combined positions. Mr. Mahoney represented the college at the recent Afro-American council convention in Chicago, and took active and intelligent interest in its deliberations, being made a member of the committee on address to the country issued by the council. He is happily married, and has only one child—a daughter, who is a charming and loving little miss. In electing Mr. Mahoney secretary-treasurer of this great school the trustees have chosen one of the most energetic and useful men in the race." I found Avery College a busy place. The various departments were busily engaged in the work of the day, and Prof. Mahoney only interrupted long enough to show me through the different buildings and different departments. The institution is a beehive where every bee seems to know his business. Every teacher, every assistant, and every pupil seems to have an idea of what is expected of him or her and they go through the routine work with the smoothness and the facility of a great banking concern. I am afraid that the race in general does not know of the grand opportunities afforded by this school to educate young men and women of the race in the practical vocations of life. Graduates of Avery have permission to enter the University of Pennsylvania and Oberlin College. In addition to a general education the young men are required to take some special course in either tailoring, bricklaying, blacksmithing, carpentering, and general manual training, music, printing, and to learn a knowledge of Continued on $rd page.) PEOPLE SAID TO LOOK ALIKE Few people, if any, are cast in identical molds, but Dame Nature, through some unaccountable fancy, in many instances, copies her own handiwork, with results that are always interesting, frequently confusing, and sometimes amusing. One of those fellows who are ever seeking the unique and find joy in the discovery of coincidences, asks The Colored American to lay before its readers the following list of remarkable resemblances: Richard T. Greener, consul to Viadivostock, Russia, and L. M. Hershaw. T. Thomas Fortune and Douglass B. McCary, cashier Capital Savings Bank. Prof. Kelly Miller and Isaac B. Allen, Governor's Council, Mass. Judge J. B. Raymond, Altoona, Pa. and Samuel B. Jackson. Lawyer Giles B. Jackson and Isaac H. Smith, banker. Recorder H. P. Cheatham and Dr. W. Bruce Evans. Historian E. A. Johnson and Senator Marion Butler. Bishop H. M. Turner and the late Ignatius Donnelly. Attorney D Augustus Straker and Gen. Robert Smalls. Dr. Henry L. Bailey and Mr. Wyatt Archer. Gov. P. B. S. Pinchback and the late Ex-President Benjamin Harrison. Hon. C. W. Anderson and Editor A. E. Manning. Professor Robert H. Terrell and William Shakespeare. Col. Perry H. Carson and Editor W. Calvin Chase. Edwin F. Horn and A. O. Stafford. W. T. Menard and William H. Fossett. Prof. W. H. H. Hart and Bishop W. B. Derrick. Hon. Daniel Murray and William C. Whitney. Col. John R. Marshall and Edward C. Nalle. John H. Wills, bookman, and Edward C. Allen. Emmett J, Scott, of Tuskegee, and R. W. Thompson. I. Garland Penn and Joseph H. Douglass. T. M. Dent and Joseph A. Williams. Phil H. Waters and Editor A. L. Manly. Ex Congressman George W. Murray and Stewart M. Lewis. Rev. L G. Jordan and Prof. B. T. Holmes. Henry Y. Arnett and Dr.J.G. Cayton. Hon Harry S. Cummings and Editor Caris J. Perry. Edward Everett Brown, of Boston, and Aldrich T. Lewis. Col. Robert R. Church and Prof. G. F. T. Cook. A F. Hilyer and Prof. George W. Cook. Dr. E. D. Williston and the late Charles A. Johnston. Charles Alexander and F. L. Cardozo, Jr. Prof. Booker T. Washington and E. E. Cooper. If there are any more, the press gang will please pass them up. Notice to Pittsburg Subscribers. The Colored American can be had every Saturday morning at r Nelson Coleman's restaurant, 1214 Wylie ave., Pittsburg, Pa. Get a copy. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. Little COLORED AMERICANS. The Colored American, of Washington, D. C, is the leading paper of the Negro race that is not supported by any church or organization.—Varick Christian Endeavor The Colored American, of which Hon. E E Cooper is editor, came to us this week full of good news. Mr. Cooper is one of the foremost writers of the age, and a profound thinker. He is making a tremendous effort in defense of the Afro-American—New Orleans National Advocate. Go to the news stands and ask for a copy of The Colored American. It is America's greatest and foremost Negro journal. Every Negro North and South, should help to create a demand for it. It is your paper.-Southern Voice. The Colored American of the 9th instant, gave a sketch of the life and character of the founder of the Odd Fellows' Lyceum, Bro. Thomas H. Wright, which was read with much interest and very highly commended, as he should be, for I believe that a man's worth to his fellow man ought to be spoken and written of while he lives, and not waiting until he is dead to sing his praise.—Odd Fellows Journal. Notice. If the correspondent from Chicago, who signs an article "A Race Man," will furnish us his name we shall be glad to print his article. We want the name of the writer, not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Normal Ala. Notes. Normal Ala., Special-The public rhetoricals given last Monday night, under the management of Misres E. Lee and Kelly were excellent. A concert will be given at the Huntsville Opera House in the near future. The Young Ladies Bible Class is holding praise services every Sunday morning. This society is doing good work and is a credit to the school. Dr. Thomas Derrick, who has just finished a course in pharmacy at Mehatry, Nashville, Tenn., paid his alma mater, a pleasant last week. Mr. Derrick has decided to pursue his profession in Mobile, Ala. He deserves success. Young men from white southern colleges constantly write Prof. Councill for his addresses which they use in their debates. President Council's last lecture on "The Negro as he is," "Things as they are," has been pronounced one of the most stirring and eloquent addresses of the times. Congratulations are constantly received by him from all parts of the country, from men of note and the white journals are unstinted in their high commendation of his noble effort in behalf of the race. This address is regarded as the strongest appeal ever made for the race. The Peabody Literary Society is rehearsing a part from "Uncle Tom's Cabin," which will be rendered in a short time Parts of Prof. Councill's Chattanooga speech have been placed by a northern college in a work on "Forensic Declamations for College Students." ON THE MONONGAHELA. (Continued from 21 page) the culinary art. The young women in addition to their regular English and academic course must take a special course in either dressmaking, millinery, piano and voice culture, music, as well as a knowledge of the culinary art. I do not know when I have been so impressed with a work of this kind. I have never been at Prof. Booker T. Washington's great school at Tuskeegee, but I feel that Avery must be just such a school on a small scale. The colored population of Pittsburg and Allegheny City combined is about 25,000, and in the main is keeping pace with the other peoples of the other races. The colored people own a great deal of wealth here and are represented in the various branches of business. About five colored lawyers have large and lucrative practices and stand well at the bar. Churches, lodges and barber shops are too numerous to mention. Lawyer J. Welford Holmes is perhaps one of the best known colored lawyers practicing in Pittsburg and counts his clients by the thousands. He is a graduate of Howard University Law School, and has one of the best equipped offices of any colored lawyer it has been my pleasure to visit. Mr. W. M. Randolph is another one of Pittsburg's leading lights. He is a Philadelphia and a most gifted and suave young man. He is said to have all the business he can do and was too busy to give me the information I wanted concerning him. Jennings & Brown's drug store, on Wylie ave., is a complete and an upto-date pharmacy. Dr. Jennings is a graduate of Lincoln University, and was associated with me in my early career as a newspaper man. I did not see his partner, Dr. Brown. I saw any number of barber shops, news stands and cigar stores, owned and operated by colored men, and in one particular, that of Mr. W. H. Smith, 350 Wylie ave., every colored publication was to be had, while the store was stocked with all brands of cigars and a laundry department, which indicated by the well filled shelves, that a large laundry business was being done, while in the rear of the building was a barber shop with five chairs; hot, cold and Turkish baths, made this place a most inviting and encouraging one to me. Mr. Jno. Brown, a Washington boy, owns one of the three colored saloons in Pittsburg. It is first-class in all of its departments, is located in a three story building, and the cafe department, when I saw it, impressed me as doing a big business. The little towns of Homestead, Munhall and others show thrift and enterprise on the part of the colored people. They have organizations, building and loan associations, stock companies, and are buying up property and accumulating money. I am told that a colored bank is to be started in Pittsburg at an early date. At six o'clock I was invited to the palatial home of Prof. J. D. Mahoney, on one of the hills which overlook Pittsburg, where I met his charming wife and daughter, and where a sumptuous dinner had been prepared and a large number of friends had been invited, including Lawyer Holmes, Lawyer Randolph, Rev. H. C. Robinson, formerly of Washington, D. C.; Prof. Thos. N. Swan, of the Manual Training Department of Avery College, and others. To quote from Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Prof. Mahoney "lives at home," and I felt indeed that I was in "tall grass." I took the ten o'clock New York Special for Washington and in the 36 hours I had been away had ridden nearly 700 miles, and had had a good time though busy day, and learned a great deal more than I have been able to put in this brief letter. E. E. C. All Orders Promptly Attended To Office Cor. F and 2d S. W. Terms Reasonable BLACK SKIN REMOVER. REGISTERED IN PATENT OFFICE U.S. BEFORE AFTER both in a box for $1, or three boxes for $2. 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Many of our customers say one of our dollar boxes is worth ten dollars, yet we sell it for one dollar a box. Any person sending us one dollar in a letter or Post-Office money order, express money order or registered letter, we will send it through the mail postage prepaid; or if you want it sent C. O. D., it will come by express, 35c. extra. In any case where it fails to do what we claim, we will return the money or send a box free of charge. Packed so that no one will know contents except receiver. THOS. B. CRANE, 122 West Broad St., RICHMOND, VA. Consumers Brewing Company Brews the purest Beer on the Washington Market. The highest chemical authority in the district of Columbia, after an analysis just finished of all the different beers on the market, gives this as his verdict. Don't be fooled by jealousy, envy, or prejudice, on either or all of which is based our opposition. We have the most modern plant. We brew from sterilized water and choice hops and malt. 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England, Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Philadelphia, Massachusetts Mutual Accident Association. Phone, Main 2481-2 J. E. McGIRT, 1034 Ashe St., Greensboro, N. C. AMONG THEATRICAL PEOPLE. BY J HARRY JACKSON. Wm. A. Brady, a New York manager of prominence has put on a $25 000 production of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Never in the history of the time-honored play has there been such a cast and such elaborate scenery, stage mechanism, supernumeraries—such as horses, conies, carriages, lights, music, and including about two hundred colored performers—many who are performers of ability, prominently among them being Luke Pulley, B. H Butler, Martha Pulley, the Moxleys-Joe and Amy; and Ambrose Davis and Fou1-1c-Hand Quartette, Harry Harmon and James Richmond. The levee scene at New Orleans is something realistic and the cotton scene never fails to elicit much applause from the audience at the rise of the curtain. They are packing the Academy of Music, New York city, nightly; the house being sold out a period at this house, it is Mr Brady's intention of taking, the production on the road for a tour of the principal cities of the United States. Irving Jones is in Chicago." The "A Lucky Coon" company is in New York. Eddie James is the undisputed ragtime pianist of New York city. The Black Patti Troubadours report great business through the West. The Moxleys-Joe and Amy-are featuring "If Dat's Society, Excuse Me" Miss Ollie Burgoyne will soon sail for Hamburg, Germany, to fill an engagement. Bradley and Bradley were on the bill at the Atlantic Garden, New York city Sunday night. Ernest Hogan, the "Unbleached American," was the headliner in Brooklyn, N. Y., last week. Cancey Green is with the Tom Nawn & Co, who are producing "Pat and the Genii." They are in Toronto, Canada, this week. W S. Barnett, the phenomenal barso, is booked to appear at the Appollo Music Hall, New York City, week beginning March 25th. Tom Lozan and Geo. Jones have joined hands and are meeting with good success on the Pacific Coast, appearing in vaudeville. Bessie McCoy, Pauline Cottrell, Sarah and Ida Day, comprise the Capital City Quartette now with Martell's "South Before the War." Clarence Powell, the "Exhalted Ruler of Fun," is making a big hit over the Proctor circuit. He is at Proctor's 125th Street theatre, this week. Smith and Powell-John and Belle comedy artists were big favorites on the bill at Proctor's Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York city, last week. Lewis Williams, better known around the Douglass Club, New York city, as "Dess," announces that after April 1, he can be found at the Mt. Olive Hotel, Coney Island. William Morambique English has returned to America from London, Eng, where he was a big favorite in the cast of Leferer's burlesque operatic success, "The Casino Girl." The Brittons Joe and Sadie made a big hit last Sunday on the big vaudeville bill at the New York Theatre New York city. They are great favorites in the metropolis. The Blue Ridge Quartette—Messrs. Henry Williams, Chas. Stafford, Wm. Brown and Kid Williams, left Monday for Troy, N. Y., where they joined the "Hearts of the Blue Ridge" company for the balance of the season. The Washington Trio—Dan, Minnie and Sam—in their clever exhibition of cake-valking are making good this season with Harrison Bros.' "New and Ancient South" Co. They will appear in vaudeville at the close of the season. Scott's Refined Negro Minstrels will not go on the road next season. Mr. O. P. Scott has purchased the old John Robinson circus, and states that he intends to devote all of his attention to it, for the coming season at least. By the retirement of Mr. Scott leaves the Messrs. Rusco and Holland, sole purveyors of high class Negro minstrels. The Corindy Quartette which is composed of the following well-known vocalists - Leon Williams, Chas H. White, Chas. B. Foster and W. H. Scudder are undoubtedly among the leaders. The way in which they are rendering numbers from their big repertoire of classical music has made them great favorites wherever they have appeared They are expected over the Kaith circuit soon. Arna L Stevenson, a clever young comedian, with Richards and Pringle's Georgia Minstrels, was shot and killed recently, by a fellow member of the above named aggregation. Stevenson had made for himself an enviable reputation for the clever drills and "big songs-and-jances" which have been produced under his direction with several big Negro shows also the Al G. Field Big White Minstrels. Mr. Stevenson wss an Indian apel's (Ind.) boy. DO NOT SEND US MONEY! Free Scott's Hair Straightner and Grower - Makes curly hair grow straight and long. 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These conferences were organized originally under the direction of the faculty of Tuskegee Institute "to encourage the buying of land, to get rid of the one room cabin and the abuse of the mortgage system, to promote raising food supplies, building better schoolhouses, lengthening the school term, getting better teachers and preschers and improving the relations between the races." The conference this year was attended by 2,500 farmers from twenty States and two Territories. The reports to the conference by the farmers who had been engaged in carrying out the principles of the conference in their own families fill some three columns of the Advertiser, and THE COLORD AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. 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. 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The members of the association had had to fight hard times and floods the past year, but they had on the whole gone ahead. They were especially contending against the mortgage system, and seeking to improve the methods of farming and to introduce cooperative buying at the stores, the chief aim of all being to buy homes and improve them. They number in all now 2,500 members, have bought 50,000 acres of land and own property to the total of $700,000 "Let industry, sobriety, skill, and mutual helpfulness be the Negro's platform," said Mrs Johnson, 'and he can exchange them for whatever he wants." It seems to us that a few facts like these are worth volumes of pessimistic generations such as those of Mr. William Hannibal Thomas. THIS COSTS YOU NOTHING Free SCOTT'S FACE BLAZON AND BEAUTIFUL. A perfect Skin Whitener. Free to patrons. Enclose a 20 stamp for particulars. Address SCOTT REMEDY Co., Louisville, Ky. When you write mention this paper. N. gro Authors Very few, even of those who are deeply interested and closely concerned in the Negro's efforts and development have much distinct knowledge of the varied and rich literature produced by men and women of the race Collectors, students and those interested in special phases of race literature are invited to examine my collection of books, or to correspond with me. JOHN H. WILLS, OLD BOOKS, 506 El-ven-h st., N. W., Washington, D. C. Gen. Buller's Distinction. "After the battle of Colenso," says Richard Harding Davis, in Everybody's Magazine, General Butler raised a very pretty point, and arroused an interesting discussion by promulgating the theory, that the soldier who initiates deserves more credit than the one who simply obeys orders. In his official report of the battle he recommended for the Victoria Cross the three officers who had voluntarily ridden forward to endeavor to save the guns, but withheld a like recommendation from one of his own staff, who at his command had made exactly the same attempt. Gen. Butler explained that though all four had shown equal courage, he was forced to "differentiate" in bestowing honors between the three who had volunteered, and the one who had done what he had been ordered to do. FINANCIAL. MONEY TO LOAN at 8% , 8% 4, and 4% per cent, in sums of $1,000 to $1,000 on D. C. real estate; pay off 5 and 6 per cent mortgages and begin anew, all transactions conducted with eonomical co-operation for borrowers. WM. H. SAUNDERS & CO., 14F F st. nw. Corner 15th St. and New York Ave Capital: One Million Dollars.. Pays interest on deposits. Rents Sates Insides Furglar-proof Vaults. Acts as administrator, executor, trustee, &c. 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If you have a loan with some other company we will pay it off and advance you more money if desired. Rates chee fully given and no cost to you unless the loan is made. Loans made any where in the District. Call and get rates. Front room, first floor, Scientific American Building. National Mortgage Loan Co. 625 F St., 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 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. ```markdown ``` A Sketch of the Up-to-date Manager of the Hotel Maceo, New York City. Mr. Benjamin F Thomas, the manager and junior partner of the Hotel Maceo, 213 West 53d street, New York City, was born at Allendale, S. C, Feb 10th, 1875. At the age of sixteen he engaged in the business on his own account in Savannah, which early start in commercial life shows that he has in him the proper principles of a successful business man. He went to New York in 1894 and three years later engaged in business at 931 Sixth avenue, where many of the J. MR. BENJAMIN F. THOMAS old residents will remember him favorably. His next business venture was with his present partner, Samuel W. Young, in charge of the catering for the Metropolitan Street Railway Company in the Cable Building, 621 Broadway, New York. Seeing the need of a first-class hotel for first-class colored people in New York, he and Mr Young decided to open the Hotel Maceo, where the best element of our people might find all that is offered to the other race. From the first the Hotel Maceo has prospered, and the able efforts of its proprietors have been rewarded with a splendid patronage that speaks well for the management of the house and equally well for the good taste and appreciation of the public. Mr. Thomas, by his business-like and genial manner, has made himself esteemed by all who have had the pleasure of being guests at the Maceo, for he never tires in his efforts to make guests comfortable and thoroughly at home. Being young and ambitious, it goes without saying that he is constantly on the watch for all up-to-date improvements in the cuisine and other features of the hotel that appeal to those of culture and good taste. One of his strongest characteristics is to lead rather than follow, to be first-class rather than medium; and it has always been his determination to do everything in the best possible manner. Some men have failed in life because of aiming too low. Of Mr. Thomas it is to be said that his aim is so high and his ideal so great that the most fastidious find nothing to criticise or condemn. With his great energy, backed by his ambition, it will not be too much to expect that the future will see him one of the best known and most appreciated host in that great city. He Wants a National Negro Daily. Editor The Colored American:—Please allow me space in your valuable journal to make a suggestion. There are, Mr. Editor, a great many able Negro weekly newspapers owned and controlled by members of our race, but Mr. Editor, how many good, up-to-date daily newspapers can we lay claim to? I know that there are a few daily papers owned by members of our race. but can they, or do they cope with the great dailies owned and controlled by the members of the dominant race? No, and why not? Because there is not enough money, intelligence and push behind them. Fow my suggestion is this: Let The Colored American, of Washington, D. C., The Age, of New York City, and The Planet of Richmond, Va., come together and establish in Washington, the capital of the nation, a first-class, up-to-date, daily newspaper. I would suggest that Edward E. Cooper, the pioneer in newspaperdom be made editor of this paper, and Messrs. Fortune and Mitchell be made members of the staff. This can be done, can it not, Mr. Editor? Let Washington City be the place, E. E. Cooper, the man, and the race and the nation will have a Negro daily that will be a "thing of beauty and joy forever." Hughesville, Md. Editor The Colored American:—Will you allow me space sufficient to indorse the proposition put forth by Mr. W. D. Green in your issue of last week. By all means let us have a daily newspaper. It can be done. It should be done, With The Colored American and the Bee, the Daily Record, and the New York Age and Richmond Planet united for the purpose, a daily paper operated by colored men is a possibility. There is room for such an enterprise from a business standpoint, and it could be issued both in New York and Washington simultaneously. Are you willing to try it? If so, I will agree to raise by personal subscription the first five thousand dollars for such a venture providing twenty other colored men in New York and Washington will agree to raise the same amount. Raspectfully, J. E JOHNSON. No. 1130 Fifteenth street, n. w., Wash ;ngton, D. 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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 cha ge 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. ANNOUNCEMENT NO.2. The management of The Colored American has made arrangements with one of the best cartoonists in the United States to furnish each week an original cartoon, illustrating some feature of the race prejudice which exists in this country. It will be a new and an expensive feature for the paper, but the large and increasing circulation demands the very best. Other new and interesting features will be added from time to time. BENJAMIN HARRISON. Benjamin Harrison was one of the commanding figures of the century in which he lived. He was a typical American—sturdy, patriotic and faithful to the loftiest ideals in government, the soul of purity and honesty in all his dealings, public and private. Learned in the law, profound in statecraft, eloquent in oratory, foreful as a writer, painstaking as a student, the Hoosier ex President measured up to every exaction as a man of affairs, and presented to the nation perhaps the most symmetrical character that ever sat in the White House. He was firm and constant in his convictions, and swerved not an inch from what he deemed his plain duty. He detested hypocrisy, disdained the tricks of the trimmer and timeserver. He never sacrificed principle to gain the applause of the multitude, or to win evanescent popularity. He was a friend to the whole people, and refused to weigh the black man and the white man by separate standards—insisting at all times that every man should be appraised at his true worth—no more, no less. He applied to all propositions the incisive penetration of an analytical mind, and brought to every station to which he was called a splendid judicial quality and unusual intellectual parts. He contended for an incorrupt- --- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. ible ballot, and for an industrial system that would afford the masses an equal chance with the classes in the struggle for existence. His sympatbies were ever with the oppressed peoples of the earth, and he knew no hesitation when his voice was needed to emphasize the cause of liberty and justice. He is among the last of that great galaxy of statesmen and humanitarians that once adorned public life, when Sumner, Phillips, Wade, Garrison, Stevens, Morton, Conkling and Grant stood in their places and urged that the rights of man made more for civilization and good government that did markets or martial splendor In the death of Benjamin Harrison. Indiana loses her most eminent citizen, the republic loses one of its most illustrious statesmen, and the Negro is robbed of a courageous champion who could always be depended upon when a friend was needed at court. The nation, the race, and all lovers of the altruistic in life and character are touched by a common sorrow. The name of Benjamin Harrison will not be forgotten by the posterity of America, white or black. Indiana Afro Americans seem to have no end of trouble in getting within hailing distance of the "pie counter" or the "pork barrel" DIVORCE IN THE DISTRICT Divorces will be harder to procure in the District of Columbia on account of the adoption of the new code. It is just as well. Care should be taken to choose a life partner deliberately and wisely, and when a contract is solemnly made, there should be an honest effort on the part of both man and woman to abide by it "for better or for worse" as nominated in the bond. Fickle minds, a ready ear for gossip, uncontrollable tempers and fascination for the gewgaws of life are responsible for nine tenths of the marital woe brought up in the divorce court, and society is injured when easy separation is encouraged by the judiciary. Such exposures can be averted if the friends of each party would move for harmony and private adjustment, instead of taking des and adding to the confusion. Divorce is a serious problem, and the District officials are right in taking steps to break down the infamous practice of disrupting families by accepting testimony and granting absurd separations on perjured statements and collusive arrangements. The dignity of the matrimonial tie should be upheld by all conservers of good morals and a pure social atmosphere Minister Wu not only talks a lot, but he says something every time he talks The American preachers have listed the so called "heathen Chinee" in the "too hot to handle" column. A WORD FOR A FRIEND General Harries of the District National Guard, has proven himself the sincere friend of the Negro in this community. The leasing of the Washington Light Infantry Armory for the colored inaugural ball, over the protests of the narrow-minded contingent of the directors, was a splendid example of his broad Americanism. The removal of the encampment last year from Virginia to Maryland, to prevent Negro officers from being insulted by the "jim crow" car laws of the Old Dominion was another notable case in point—and still another was the admirable position assigned the First Separate Battalion in the inaugural parade, and insisting that the colored soldiers be served their luncheon in their order, though bringing them ahead of several regiments of haughty Southerners General George H Harries is the kind of a man we like to tie to, and no one should be backward to so express himself If every Negro leader was as great as he thinks himself, the public arena would soon be uncomfortably crowded. AS TO A RACE PILOT. The erudite Indianapolis Freeman calls for a race pilot, and thinks, all things considered, that Geo. H. White is the man for the emergency—the Parnell of the situation Mr. White is indeed a most capable and courageous man, and politically speaking is the most available figure we have. It is not likely that the Negro will come to the wisdom of following a single leader during this century. In the meantime, it would be well to stand by the several forces who lead in the various departments of activity—such as Washington in education, Walters in the church. White in politics, the True Reformers in business, Dunbar, Chesnutt and others in literature, Dubois Miller and the like in sociological inquiry. After all, this may point a way out for the present. J Milton Turner shows a disposition to change the subject when politics is the theme at hand The Washington Post continues to be the brightest newspaper in the national capital, even if it does go out of its way at times to say things that makes the colored people threaten to cut it off of their list. We didn't feel right for a week when it failed to spring its postscript "squibs" two or three mornings, and its "leaders" on everything except the race problem ring true and logically, representing the best thought of the country. The Post's inauguration special was a journalistic triumph -- a "hot number." By the way, has the editorial writer and the "ad" manager pooled issues to say nothing about the "hair straightening" preparation that looms up in The Post once in a while? W. Hannibal Thomas, as an issue, has died a natural death. The visit of Assistant Chief Statistician H. T. Newcomb to the Negro Farmers' Conference at Tuskegee, was a happy compliment to that important gathering The 12th Census is making an exhaustive inquiry in to the status of the blacks in agriculture and the allied pursuits, and a personal observation of results adds greatly to an understanding of our aims and resources. Gov Merriam and Chief Powers, of the Census Bureau, had a a splendid representative at Tuskegee in the person of the fair and impartial Prof Newcomb, himself an expert in agricultural science The wily Dorsey Foultz still belongs to the army of the uncaught. Titles are frequently buoys by which little men manage to keep their heads above the waves. Great minds are beginning to disdain them. It is reported that Booker T. Washington objects to being dubbed "Prof." and when the full name is given, does not insist even on the plain "Mr." Booker T. Washington, without prefix or descriptive suffix is good enough for him. The world needs no more than that for men who have really earned their place in the hall of fame. The settlement of the Recordership of Deeds has led a host of our aspiring statesmen to hunting around for the Blue Book. A man will have no difficulty in imagining himself eminently respectable as long as he can find a neighbor who does worse than he does. If the democratic party has any sense at all, it will place the Hon. Thomas Taggart, the Indiana Ajax, at the head of its national ticket. The Government Printing Office can now avert a strong kick for many months by pointing to the selection of one young man a clerk. We are grateful for small favors, and have no disposition to look a gift horse in the mouth. Major Douglas Descants on the Extravagances of the Race—Money for Pleasure but None for Principles Mr. Editor: Now that it is all over—the festivities of inaugural week among Washington's civil population, what is the lesson? - the object lesson to our white fell w citizens, and to ourselves? It is what we can get together more money in one month for a night's pleasure than we can command in ten years for any single race enterprise of a permanent character. I do not cordemn the generous hospitality extended to the hundreds of visiting strangers by our washington colored society, but I do feel the shame of the knowledge of the fact, that for no other purpose could I we get together, and put up so much money. The following is a conservative estimate of what the week's jollification cost the race Inaugural welcome ball under the auspices of citizens and strangers: 115 members @ $5 each ..... $ 575 125 guests @ $1 each ..... 125 Citizens' reception under the auspices of the Cosmos Club, 70 members @ $5 each ..... 350 95 guests @ $1 each ..... 95 350 visitors at an average, railroad railroad fare for round trip of $8 ..... 2800 Average board per day $1 each for 3 days ..... 1050 Carriage hire to and from balls, receptions, private parties, etc ..... 500 Ladies' ball gowns and other articles of toilet (low estimate) ..... 2000 Loss of time from employment @ $1 per day (strangers alone) ..... 1050 Theatres, dinners, private receptions, and various other pleasures other than those enumerate above ..... 2000 Total outlay for the week ..... $10,545 Southern lynchings of Negroes, the south Carolina slave system, "Jim Crow cars," disfranchisement of the Negro throughout the South, race proscriptions, and numerous other grievances of the Negro all over the country, were laid in the shade to sleep and rest during inaugural week. The Negro had to attend the second inaugural of Mr McKinley, and he had to prepare for several functions of the occasion (and he missed none) from the great official ball at the Pension Office building, to the Parlor Social in Fighting Alley." He took them all in regardless of the expense. The outlay for the week amounts to more than the Afro American Council has been able to raise since the date of its existence for race interests. Many of the visitors who took in the inauguration came in Jim Crow cars. Thus it is shown that for personal pleasure of a temporary character, we are equal to any in keeping space with the customs of the day. But in enterprises tending to elevate us as a people of a permanent character, we are as wide apart as the East is from the West. Scores of Negroes who eagerly came forward with their five dollar subscriptions for these balls, would win at a suggestion of subscribing one dollar in a race enterprise of a business character, and yet we are grounding and lamenting over white prejudice against us. Think just a little of our own inconsistencies CONSTINENCES CHAS. R. DOUGLASS Washington, D. C. LIBERIA-BY MINISTER SMITH. The Apparently Slow Progress in Liberia More Superficial than Real. Prof. E A Johnson, My Very Dear Sir:—I have honor to acknowledge the receipt of your esteemed favor of December 1900 in which you ask me "What is the matter with that country (Liberia) that it makes such slow progress?" In reply I have to say that this or similar inquiries have been frequently propounded to me and my predecessors, concerning this country by persons who like yourself, have been born and reared under the most favorable circumstances in the most prosperous and highly civilized countries of the world, and in the most progressive and highly prosperous periods of their country's history. In the first place I will say, that persons who have been so favorably situated and circumstanced all their lives are very ill prepared to give an unbissed and clear conception of the hard ships, sacrifices, struggles, hindrances and obstacles or a newly settled country just emerging out of barbarism and superstition so common to all the now great countries of the world once occupied by the aborigines, prior to the settlement of a civilized government. In evidence of the above it is hardly necessary to recall your attention to the inexhaustive evidence found in the pages of the histories of the countries of Europe, as Italy, Greece, Germany, France, Spain and England, but will come to our own country and reflect upon the history of our own proud America, her noble ancestry and people. The Pilgrim Fathers and their then New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Trenton the suburbs of the same cities of today were then doubtless, the chasing grounds of the earlier settlers in pursuit of the red deer: If we took into consideration the lapse of time from the Plymouth Rock settlement to the building of the first American railroad and its graph lines, the great impetus to American expansion and inter state commerce, doubtless the most potent signs of civilization, then we find our own proud people nearly 212 years or theresbout, traveling on foot, horse back or stage coach except where they could utilize God's highways, the rivers lakes and seas to their convenience, before they began to make the steam engine their motive power for travel and electricity a medium of communication When we look at the apparently slow progress of all great nations in their fermative period from the depth from which they came to the height to which they have attained and compare the early Liberian Colonists, principally emancipated Negroes from American slavery, illiterate, ignorant as to the duties of statesmanship and in many instances penniless, save their tramp passage fare, landing on the coast December 21, 1822 among an uncivilized and hostile people whom the Colonists had to fight even to gain sufficient space to set their feet upon, and now to think that in only 76 years they have become the sole controllers, masters and rulers of 1000 000 square miles of fertile territory, subdued or brought the aborigines into an allied relation to the civilized government; having established a regular form of Constitutional Government, built the legislative, executive State, judicial, treasury and other departmental buildings, coined their own money, carrying on a regular postal carrying service with the other great Powers of the civilized world; having regularly organized and beautifully laid off villages, towns and cities, regular ports of entry, bonded warehouses, and custom houses etc., for the collecting of revenues; entered into treaty relations with all the great powers of the world, including Rome; adhearing closely to the provisions of International rights; observing and respecting the rights of neutrals as well as receiving from foreign governments and sending in return thereto, diplomatic and consular representatives besides carrying on a well established and great commercial intercourse with the great commercial countries of Europe. Notwithstanding they have no rail roads nor telegraphs for travel, traffic and communication, yet when we compare them with other great nations in the time necessarily occupied in the preparation, organization and estab- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON. D. C. EX-PRIME MINISTER OF HAWAIIAN ISLANDS Commends Peruna to His Friends as a Positive Catarrh Remedy. Hon. Celso Cæsar Moreno, Ex-Prime Minister of Hawaii. The Hon. Celso Cæsar Moreno, ex-Prime Minister of Hawaii, and projector of the Trans-Pacific cable, 1876, is a distinguished statesman, and the best known Italian in the country. In a letter from Washington, D.C., to the Peruna Medicine Co., he says: "I can commend your great national catarrh cure, Peruna, to my friends throughout the country as a safe, reliable medicine. I know of no other tonic that will build a person up as well as Peruna. It is a positive cure for the universal disease, catarrh, and those who will try this remarkable medicine will find a sure cure. Very respectfully. Celso Cæsar Moreno. ishment of similar enterprises, it certainly does not argue that the Liberians are of all nations the most inert, shiftless and unprogressive. To the contrary, considering the depth from which they came, the opposition and prejudices with which they have been forced to contend and the height to which they have already attained within the short period of seventy-six years, I am inclined to believe that all well informed and unbiased historians will not consider them a failure in the arts of civilization and statesmanship, but will when the facts are properly understood, accord them a place among the most progressive of young and weak but struggling nations. The Liberian coffee is an already great and world famed commodity. Doubtless a judicious distribution of a well regulated capital would do much in its production; but even now at the very low and discouraging market prices paid for the berry it does not justify the farmer in its production. The thing greatly needed is an open market for the product coupled with a strong and quick line of ocean steamers from here to the United States. OWEN L. W. SMITH. United States Minister Resident and Consul General to Liber a. At The American Legation. From "Le Doir," Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The grand ball of Monday evening, given on the occasion of the second advent of President McKinley to the Presidency of the United States assembled in the parlors of the American Legation more than three hundred persons belonging to the select society of the capital, Celso Caesar Moreno. The Hotel was decorated with American flags; there were also many colored lanterns, and what struck the sight, was a magnificent eagle of natural flowers, with outspread wings, holding in its beak a ribbon with the inscription "E pluribus unum" This eagle, from the information that we have received, is the work of Mrs. Lagojannis, who presented it to the sympathetic American Minister and Mrs. Powell. The American National Hymn and some other chants that opened the celebration were listened to with extreme pleasure. The ball commenced afterwards, to be prolonged into the night, two orchestras executing in succession the welzs of Strauss, Zellan, Bendix, Jarone, Roy, the Four steps of Astree, Lespinasse, Frust, the Lancers and Merrengues. At midnight supper was served. The guests, on leaving the Hotel of the Legation, could but render homage to the equisite and cordial manners of Mr. and Mrs. Powell. Echoes From the Cosmos. Hon. John W. Thompson, of Rochester, N. Y., having just returned to his home from Washington writes as follows: "The members of your Cosmos Club ought to feel proud of the very grand ball given March 5th at Builder's Exchange Hall. I have never seen its equal. I have attended the best in Chicago and New York and other places. The ladies costumes were beautiful." Charles B. Royer, 909 W. Washington street, Morristown, Pa., writes: "My oldest daughter Malinda Royer, iscured of deafness by Peruna. When she began to take Peruna we had to go up close to her and talk very loud to make her hear. Malinda Royer. "After taking one-half dozen bottles of Peruna one-half dozen bottles of Peruna she can hear you in any part of the room. She can hear an ordinary conversation." Thousands of people have catarrh who would be surprised to know it, because it has been called some other name than catarrh. The fact is, catarrh is catarrh wherever located; and another fact which is of equally great importance, that Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. Catarrh is an American disease. Fully one-half of the people are afflicted more or less with it in some form. Previous to the discovery of Peruna, catarrh was considered well nigh incurable. Since the introduction of Peruna to the medical profession thousands of cases are cured annually. Mr. W. M. Holland, of Hartwell, Ga. proprietor of the Hartwell Tin Works. writes of Peruna as follows: "I am more than pleased with the benefits derived from Peruna. The winter of 1899 my weight was 150 pounds. I used several bottles during the winter and now weigh 211. "I have recommended it to all my friends both as a tonic and catarrh cure. If I had been lucky enough to have seen it several years ago Peruna would have saved me much inconvenience. I can never be too thankful to you for the benefits received from your valuable remedy. My mother has also been wonderfully benefited by your valuable remedy." Address The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O., for free catarrh book. The complimentary reception Thursday evening to former Congressman George H White at Metropolitan A. M E. church was a magnificent affair. The crowd in attendance taxed the capacity of the auditorium, all anxious to greet the last colored member of Congress that this generation is likely to see. Miss Ella M. Boston served capably as chairman of the committee in charge of the entertainment, assisted by Dr. C. W. Childs, Mr. F. D. Lee and Miss Maria L. Jordan. Our entire Spring Stock of the very latest patterns have arrived. We offer as a special leader Black and Blue Cheviots, Fancy Worsteds and Soft Finished Diagonal Suitings, made up in the swellest style, and a perfect fit guaranteed at $10.00 Spring Top Coats made to measure, $10.00 up. [403-405 SEVENTH STREET. Branch Store, 1006 7th St.