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The COLORED American LIBRARY OF CONGRESS A NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER VOL. X, NO.2. THE SPIRIT OF DIANE BRUCE GRIT REVIEWS DUR HAM'S GREAT NOVEL. The Thread of The Story and Some Noted Characters That Point a Moral Graphic Pen Pictures of Haitian Life President Hypolites Prototype in Fiction. The Hon. John S. Durham, former minister to Haiti, has added another laurel to his fame as a writer, by contributing to Lippinott's Magazine for April, a complete novel which appears in the current issue of that deservedly popular periodical under the title "Diane—Priestess of Haiti." The scene, of course, is laid in the little black Republic, and the dramatis personae are a mixture of Germans and Haitians and an American newspaper correspondent. "Mr. Wiley," of a New York "yellow." The heroine of the story is Diane, a Haitian girl, beautiful, ignorant, weak, more sinned against than sinning, who makes a sacrifice for the man she loves. A German syndicate hatches a revolution in the island for commercial advantages. Diane and Alcide, a protege of the German minister, Hauffman, furnish the sentiment—the love-making which runs through the story. Papa Louis, a crafty and cunning old conjuror, is employed by the revolutionists to help them out with their plot. Diane, over whom he exercises a mysterious influence, is necessary to the successful prosecution of their scheme. But Alcide is in the way. He loves Diane, hence heroic methods must be applied. Alcide is forced into the Haitian army. Diane, who loves Alcide very much, is ambitious to become a priestess of the Voudoos, because Papa Louis, who is a skillful and artistic old liar, has told her some things that appeal to her vanity and whet her ambition. Alcide, being forced into the Haitian army through the good offices of a German jayhawker named Meissner, and Papa Louis, is promised immunity from harm by this old fraud by the exercise of his occult powers. After he enlists in the army he appears to have had a very close call and came pretty near reporting for duty in another clime, save for the bad marksmanship of one of the revolutionists. Alcide was declaiming against the execution of recaptured prisoners, which had been ordered by the President, when he was shot at. He spoils his pretty uniform and feathers by falling as a result of the shock from the report of the gun, into the mud, of which there appears to be considerable in the streets of Port au Prince, whereupon Mr. Wiley, of the New York Prevaricator, which issues an edition every hour, happening to be in the thick of this bloodless revolution, rescues Alcide and forthwith proceeds to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth—as a yellow journalist understands it—in regard to this horrible affair. Every time Wiley's facts gave out he immediately drew upon his imagination, and being a capable artist, J. Secretary of The A.M.E. Financial Board, Now in Session at The Fourteenth Street Headquarters. His Report Indicates a Record Breaking Administration. his word pictures were something wonderful to contemplate. Mr. Wiley had a nose for news. He was fond of snake and fish stories. Some of his own fish stories were marvellous chiefly for their inaccuracies. Mr. Wiley came to Haiti primarily to get confirmation of the alleged truth of an elaborate assortment of well-worded lies, written and promulgated by a dyspeptic Englishman many years ago, named St. John, who asseverated that the Haitians practiced human sacrifice and ate nice, fat babies. Mr. Wiley failed to find the evidence, and this seems to have been a sore disappointment to this fertile genius. Alcide, so the story goes, makes his escape and goes on a still hunt for Diane. He finds her the center of attraction at a feast. Meissner, the German jayhawker, and a few friends are dining, and she is dancing for their amusement. Angered by the spectacle he seizes a knife and attempts to kill Meissner. Diane performs the Pocahontas act, which resulted more fatally in her case than n that of her dusky Indian cousin, since one blow intended for Meissner, pierced her sable body, inflicting an injury from which she finally recovers. This little love tragedy, instead of widening the gulf between Alcide and Diane, draws them closer together and they lived happy ever afterward in each other's love and affections. The story is admirably told and is intensely interesting. The author discovers his great familiarity with the ways of the Haitian diplomat and politician, and his attention to details, as they relate specifically and particularly to the affairs of State, and matters of great pith and moment, which from time to time engage the attention of his excellency, and his excellency's keen insight into things going on around him, indicate that the Haitian diplomat and politician knows a few things and knows them tolerably well. Mr. President wore smoked or dark glasses when he was analyzing a visit of whose loyalty he had double (Continued on fo TOPICS OF THE TIMES TRUE REFORMERS BUILDING A BOON TO WASHINGTON. Mr Lankford an Architect of Rare Ability-Loving Cup for a Faithful Director -White Corporation Against "Jim Crowism" Because Separate Service is Unprofitable. J. A. Lankford, M. S., professor of science and superintendent of Industrial Department at Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C., was in the city this week, to look over the ground upon which is to be erected the great building of the United Order of True Reformers. He has prepared the preliminary plans in blue print, and they indicate a beautiful structure of five stories, 100 by 60 feet, providing for store rooms, offices, lodge rooms, and a hall, which with gallery and stage, will seat 2,000 persons. The location will be easy of access to the best citizens of Washington, for both business and social purposes. Prof. Lankford's ideas are endorsed by the leading local True Reformers, such as Messrs. C. L. Marshall, W. S. Woodson, Mrs. James and others, and the architect now goes to Raleigh to perfect his designs in accord with the latest instructions of the Order. The building will cost in the neighborhood of $40,000 and will be a monument to the business genius of Washington. Prof. Lankford is a gentleman of engaging address and made an excellent impression here. Mr. Frederick Allen was in the city two days last week the guest of his many friends in this city. He was the special guest of Messrs. Gray and Costley who made his sojourn here one long to be remembered. A number of select friends were invited to meet him at dinner last Saturday and to drink from the "loving cup." It took nearly two dozen quarts of Mumm's Extra to satisfy the assembled party and to quench their enthusiasm. It will be remembered that this "loving cup" was presented to Mr. Allen at Palm Beach, Fla., a short time ago, by the guests of the Hotel Royal Ponciona and his subordinates, as a testimonial of the satisfaction his administration had given. It was made by the expert jeweler, Ganley, and cost $125. It is "a thing of beauty" and will be "a joy forever." The presentation speech delivered on that occasion was praised by all as a model of polished eloquence and the eulogy of Mr. Allen's varied abilities was particularly fine, as well as just. Fredericksburg, Va., Special.—The Weems Steamboat Company has taken an appeal in the case of Capt. D. M. Davis, commander of one of its steamers, who was fined $25 last week in a magistrate's court, in Lancaster county, on the charge of violating the separate car law or white and colored people, as applied Continued on fourth page ROOSEVELT PRAISED, Lawyer Johnson's Eulogy Prior to The Death of McKinley President and The South - The Local News Budget. Atlanta, Ga., Special—The remains of Joseph Murray arrived here last Wednesday from Pittsburg, Penn. and were taken to the funeral parlors of L. L. Lee. Mr. Murray was related to one of our most popular families. The remains were interred at Grantville, Ga. Mr. George Daley, an old and popular citizen of Atlanta, after an illness for several weeks, died at his home last Tuesday, surrounded by his family and friends. His remains were shipped to Savannah, by Undertaker Lee. Mr. Dal y was a valuable citizen and his death is a very sad blow to a host of people. H. S Wooten, of Indianapolis, is in the city visiting his family on his vacation The Fulton Guards under Capt. Andrew Hill were out last Sunday afternoon at Wheat Street Baptist church, where Rev. Dr P. J. Bryant prescheed the annual sermon to the soldier boys. The Fulton Guards is the crack military company of Georgia Mrs. W. H. Harden, principal of the kindergarten school no 1 is doing a great work among the little ones in West Atlanta. Her school is in the Old Folk's Home on Mitchell street. She spent last summer in Boston at the kindergarten training school and she returns with a full knowledge of the work. Miss F. A Lyons is one of the agents of The Colored American at the Wheat Street Baptist church. Her efforts are satisfactory in every way. The past week at Friendship Baptist church has been one halo of glory for Rev. Dr. Carter, celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the pastorate of Dr Carter. On Monday night Dr Landrum, pastor of the First Baptist church here for the whites, spoke to a large audience commendatory of Dr. Carter; on Tuesday night, Rev. Dr H. H Proctor and Dr. L. B. Palmer spoke to a crowded house; on Thursday night Rev. W H Lucas of the Gammon Theological Seminary, delighted the many persons there with an elequent tribute to Dr Carter. Last Sunday morning Mrs. Sladen, of Pennsylvania addressed the members of old Friendship and in the afternoon, Dr. C W. Newton, pastor of Big Bethel, with his large congregation, went over to add their testimony to the moral worth and Christian character of Dr Carter. There is some talk here of having 'Judge' T. H Malone appointed a U. S Attorney in the Philippines. The appointment would be a good and happy one. By all means have the Judge appointed. Mr. 'Yank' Taylor, of Kome, Ga. was in the city one day last week visiting friends, Major R J Henry had him in charge. Mr. Taylor is one of the most substantial business men in the state. His family is one of the first. Ms Davis, the mother of Miss Ella Davis, who has been so seriously ill for the last four weeks, is able to be up again to the delight of her friends. Out of a class of seventy-eight medical students who appeared for examination last week before the state board, seventy-four passed. Of this number there were eight colored candidates who passed with flying colors. Mr Earnest Dupree, the popular messenger of Phillip Crew Piano Co. has received a meritorious promotion with increased pay. There was a great debate at the colored Y. M. C. A last Tuesday night on the subject: Resolve. That public utilities should THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. be owned by the city. Dr. H. R. Butler and Major S. W. Easley, Jr., joined issue for and against the proposition. Dr. J, W. E Bowen and Rev. W, W. Lucas, who have been in the East and West for some weeks, have returned to their post at Gammon Theological Seminary. The local committee of the Negro Young People's Christian Congress held an interesting meeting at Big Bethel church last Thursday night. $125 were subscribed and other important business matters were arranged. The local committee has pledged $1 000 to the cause of this movement. Dr Bowen and Prof. Penn, who have just returned from an extensive trip, gave some information concerning the approaching congress. Prof. W, B Matthews is president of the local committee, Prof. John Hope, secretary; Hon. H A. Rucker, treasurer; Major S. W. Easley, Jr. assistant secretary; Rev. Dr J. H. Rush, chairman of the finance committee. Rev. Dr. Glenn pastor of the Presbyterian church at Newnan, Ga passed through the city last Wednesday on his way to the Presbytery at Madison Collector Rucker is nursing his usual spring cold. He appears to enjoy a cold, as he has more of them any one I ever saw. Three cheers for Senator Depew and his amendment to the Senatorial election bill. This is sensible legislation and it should pass. Invitations are out announcing the marriage of Miss Mattle Beutah Davis and Prof. James Albert Bay of Athens, Ga on the 23rd inst. The contracting parties are of worthy parents. Miss Davis being a daughter of Hon. Mad son Davis, an old legislator and ex-postmaster at Athens She is also a sister of Mrs. Johnson of Augusta, Mrs. Dr. Carey of Chicago and Mrs. Tucker of Savannah. Mr. Bray is a graduate of the Atlanta University and has been a teacher in the public schools in Athens for many years. The President's speech at Charleston had the right ring to it. It has popularized him in the South. The President is all right. And by the way this reminds me of a conversation of some months ago with regard to the President. Upon the accession of Mr. Roosevelt to the Presidency, when speculation was life among leading colored men as to his attitude toward the colored people, one of the first and most sanguine believers in Theodore Roosevelt was H. L Johnson, the well and favorably known colored lawyer of Atlanta, Ga. The writer remembers hearing Lawyer Johnson express himself while talking to a party of leading citizens near Big Bethel church just before the death of President McKinley in about these words: "To my mind America has produced three prominent patriote: Patrick Henry, Wendell Phillips and Theodore Roosevelt, devoted to the principles of liberty and justice. The first two were patriots only. Roosevelt, greatest of all, is as distinctively a statesman as patriot and the White House has had no occupant devoted to loftier ideals. You need have no fear of Roo evelt if he becomes President, for strong and rugged in his honesty, truth will get a hearing, and no petitioner however abject, will be turned away without the kindliest consideration." Coming as it did before the death of McKinley and at the time when it was thought the President would recover, this was a bright and elegant tribute and the more so because Mr. Johnson was no applicant for presidential ap- NERVOUSNESS OF WOMEN. MISS JULIA MARLOWE. In a recent letter to The Peruna Medicine Co., Miss Julia Marlowe of New York City, has the following to say of Peruna: "I am glad to write my endorsement of the great remedy, Peruna, as a nerve tonic. I do so most heartily." Julia Marlowe. tion for the digested food of life with strong, stea ishes life. Peruna is men, expectations that a tem. Peru Nervousness is very common among women. This condition is due to anemic nerye centers. The nerve centers are the reservoirs of nervous vitality. These centers become bloodless for want of proper nutrition. This is especially true in the spring season. Every spring a host of invalids are produced as the direct result of weak nerves. This could be easily obviated by the use of Peruna. Peruna strikes at the root of the difficulty by correcting the digestion. Digestion furnishes nutri- pointment, and under the light of developments was indeed prophetic. Scope of Economic Influence. Sunday afternoon Mr. George W. Ellis, of Kansas, addressed a large audience at the Second Baptist Lyceum. His theme "The Scope of Economic Influence," was treated on broad lines as the subject demanded, showing that every relation of life among all people was affected by economic conditions. He urged that every citizen should study with care the questions of labor, immigration, finance and the entire science of government. The paper showed fine scholarship and the best authorities were quoted. An interesting discussion followed, participated in by Messrs. Moore, Pope, Dawson, Marshall and Thompson. Mr. Samuel E. Lacy presided. Editor The Colored American. Dear Sir—The unauthorizd announcement of the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Thomas has caused them much annoyance. Their son, Malcolm, was born October 7, 1900 Respectfully, CHAS M. THOMAS 1213 11th street, northwest. (This report was made only a few A Delayed Report. tion for the nerve centers. Properly digested food furnishes these reservoirs of life with vitality which leads to strong, steady nerves, and thus nourishes life. Peruna is in great favor among women, especially those who have vocations that are trying to the nervous system. Peruna furnishes the lasting invigoration for the nerves that such people so much need. Thousands of testimonials from women in all parts of the United States are being received every year. Such unsolicited evidence surely proves that Peruna is without an equal as a nerve tonic and vital invigrator. Buy a bottle of Peruna to-day. If you do not receive all the benefits from Peruna that you expected, write to Dr. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio. days ago to one of our staff, who not being personally acquainted with Mr. Thomas, accepted the announcement in good faith, and presumed that the incident was of very recent occurrence, the exact date not being given. We regret that annoyance has been unintententionally caused to good friends of The Colored American. It is our hope that some day we may be able to have a sufficient force of reporters to verify every statement made in these columns, to insure accuracy. - Ed ) Opened Oysters for Lincoln. Samuel Sunby, for forty one years a faithful colored man, employed at Harvey's as an oyster opener, died Saturday night of last week at his residence at 818 Third street, southwest; at the uipe old age of eighty-three years. It was his boast that he had oysters for Lincoln, Grant and Garfield. Stony Point, Va., Special—Mr. Dudley Price, a very enterprising farmer near here, died Wednesday April 6th at his home about 2 o'clock. He leaves a wife, one child and a best of friends to mourn his death. He was a brother of Dr. P. W. Price of Washington, D. C. and W. G. Price, the principal of Gloucester High School. Dudley Price Dead. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. 10 A COLORED CROESUS. Remarkable Career of a Negro Who Had Amassed a Fortune of Two Million Dollars. A striking evidence of the capacity of the Negro to acquire wealth by thrift and economy is found in the successful career of Colonel John McKee, who died a few days ago in Philadelphia. He was one of the wealthiest colored men in Philadelphia, if not in the country. At one time he owned more than 1,000,000 acres of land, and his estate is said to be valued between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000. Colonel McKee was born in 1821 at Alexandria, Va., and was indentured as a brickmaker when he was in his teens. He was of an adventurous temperament and ran away, but was brought back and compelled to finish his apprenticeship. At the age of 21 he reached Philadelphia, worked first in a livery stable, and afterwards at the restaurant of James Prosser. He married his employer's daughter, and later succeeded him in the business, conducting it until 1866. He had been buying property from time to time, and on his retirement from the restaurant entered actively in the real estate business, buying and selling property for himself. Colonel McKee owned at the time of his death from 300 to 400 houses, each of them unencumbered. He was the founder and owner of McKee City on the West Jersey Railroad, New Jersey, a tract of 4,500 acres divided into twenty-one farms. He also owned about 300,000 acres of coal and oil lands in Kentucky and in Logan county, W. Va.; a tract of twenty-one acres at Fifth street and Oregon avenue, Philadelphia; over 23,000 acres of land in Bath and Steuben counties, N. Y.; a farm of sixty-six acres at Croydon, on the Delaware river, besides many other properties in Pennsylvania and in other States. Colonel McKee in 1870 organized and was colonel of the Thirteenth Regiment, N. G. P., in the Fifth Brigade, of which General Louis Wagner was brigadier general, and continued in the command for two years. Afterward he organized and was colonel of the Eighth New Jersey, another colored regiment. There are surviving Colonel McKee a daughter, Mrs. A. A. P. Syphax, of Philadelphia, and six grandsons, who are Harry McKee Minton and Ernest F. and Theophilus M. McKee, of that city, and John and Douglass Syphax and Marcellus M. McKee, of Washington, D. C. The deceased had many peculiarities, one of them being the distribution of gifts at Christmas to his tenants. Wagons with poultry stopped at each door the day before that festival, and each house renter was the recipient of his bounty. The children were remembered by toys and candies. The surplus was distributed to the children of his own neighborhood, and in the bestowal the policemen and firemen were always on hand to help the donor. He was taciturn and self-engrossed always, and his personal appearance marked the eccentric man, but gave no evidence of one with such vast riches. During the days of the colored militia he was liberal to the regiment over which he was lieutenant colonel, equipping the fife and drum corps and contributing in other ways to its success. An editorial elsewhere discusses fur their incidents bearing upon this remarkable character. A Negro Playwright. Those who enjoyed the several dramatic productions last year under the direction of Mr. W. Henry Thomas, will be glad to know that this talented young actor and playwright has returned to the city. During his absence he and his company scored flattering successes in New York and New Jersey. The troupe bears the title of the Thomas Imperial Dramatic Company. While only a year old, to its entertainments here last fall large audiences were attracted, which filled such representative churches as John Wesley A. M. E. Zion church, Shiloh Baptist, Bethlehem Baptist and others, besides halls in the city and Anacostia. Mr. Thomas had been preparing to produce a big melodrama here at one of the theatres about the latter part of April, but death in his family has made a delay necessary. He will spend some time in Washington, but expects to reside in New York next year. Gay Season at Annapolis Annapolis, Md., Special:—As if to forget the sad days of the penitential season society has now rushed into gayety heretofore unknown,—weddings, dances, receptions, teas and innumerable pleasures. One of the prettiest weddings of the season was that of Miss Hattie Mayme Reed, daughter of Mrs. Sidonia Reed Johnson, to Mr. Thomas Edward Baden on Monday evening, March 31st, at St. Phillips P. E. church. The church was beautifully decorated with potted palms and flowers. The bride, who who was beautifully attired in organdie, with chiffon and pearl trimming, carried lilies of the valley. She entered the church to the strains of Mendelssohn's wedding march with her brother-in-law, Mr. Benjamin Phillips, preceded by two ushers, Messrs John T. Stepney and Mr J Albert Little, and two bridesmaids, Misses Lizzie Welis and Annie King who wore pink organdie, and Miss Irene Stewart as made of honor, who wore white organdie. The bride was met at the altar by the groom and his best man, Mr John H. King, jr. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. Simone, priest in charge. Immediately after the ceremony a reception was given at the residence of the bride's mother, West st. An immense throng witnessed the ceremony. The reception was nagnificent and the presents were numerous and costly. The Inquise Circle gave their semi-annual reception on Tuesday, April 1 at the Assembly Rooms, Gloucester street. It was a decided success, the music was entrancing and the guests did justice to the occasion. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Abrams arrived here to spend the first days of their honeymoon at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. E Fletcher of Murray Hill. Quite a number of friends attended the reception. The parlor was elaborately decorated. The menu was fit for an opicure. Several selections were rendered by Mr. Thomas Baden On Thursday evening, April 3rd, Mrs. Johns of Germantown gave an "At Home" in honor of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Abrams. The supper consisted of salads, ices, cake and wine. Dancing was indulged in by the younger set. Many out of town guests were present. Friday evening the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bates was a scene of beauty, the occasion being a tea in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Abrams. The dominant color was red. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Richardson gave a dinner on Sunday evening, April 6th at their residence, 17 South street, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Baden. The table was spread for ten Prof. Kealir.g at Nashville Mr. Kealing, editor of the A. M. E Review, Philadelphia, Pa, delivered the lectures this year before the InterCollegiate Lecture Bureau of Nashville, Tenn., April 18, 1902 Mr. Kealing's subject was "The Increments of Civilization." The lecture bureau has been maintained successfully for thirteen years by Walden University, and Roger Williams University, and has had such speakers as Hon. John M. Langston, Hon. Frederick Douglas, Revs. Wm. A. Creditt, J. W E Bowen, M C. B. Mason and C S. Smith. Prof Kealing is a scholar and an orator, and his lecture was equal to the demands of the occasion. 514 9th Street No tjwest. 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And if they're wise, we're not content— We murmur: "'Twas an accident." We Would Like To See Less hammering. Hypocrites harpooned. George W. Ellis fixed. Idle people put to work. A Cecil Rhodes in bronze. Sycophants turned down. Fake organizations squelched. Lyceum orators stick to the subjects, Less selfishness among local leaders. The Orpheus Glee Club come again. Live material in our public offices. Fewar Negro hangers on at the Capitol. A Negro Business League in Washington. Alleged Christians quit their meanness. The roster of the Metropole Club increased. More ministers preaching the gospel of work. The St. Louis Exposition postponed until 1905. Colored people keep out of the police courts. Koester, the lyncher, defeated for confirmation. Fortissimo Voiced Dixon take the lecture platform. Harry Johnson keep tab on his various engagements. Col T. M. Dent appointed postmaster at Rome, Ga. A theater in Washington operated by Negro capitalists Harmony among the progressive women of the capital. Quicker service at our restaurants and boarding houses. Prof. W. H Richards given a judicial post in the Philippines. Social calls made at busy man's home, not at his office. An expert mouse catcher appointed at the People's Literary. The five o'clock rule abolished at Second Baptist Lyceum. Visiting statesman stop at places worthy of their standing. A few matches between home boys and home girls, for a change. Processions to the collection table stopped in modern courches. Tattlers and informers fired out of the government departments. Director Merriam read The Colored American carefully each week. Better chair accommodations at Odd Fellows Hall on star occasions. Better weather on S. Coleridge Taylor days and evenings at literaries. Whi field McKinley call a meeting of business men to form a business league. Only mass meetings that mean racial betterment—not personal exploitation. W. L. Houston get what he wants in the B. M. C. at the New London meet. Preachers cut their sermons down to a reasonable discussion of one central idea. A common sense view taken by both races anent the mixed-marriage questions. National race protective organizations allied with the Afro-American Council. Colored millionaires leave money where it will redound to the glory of their race. Rev. W. Bishop Johnson elected educational secretary of the Baptists of the country. A testimonial given to Ex-Superintendent George F. T. Cook by the Washington public. Colored students compete for the Oxford Scholarship offered by the late Cecil Rhodes. The Pittsburg schools come to a close in the interest of W. M. Wilson's matrimonial plans. Congressmen White's accomplished daughter returned to the rolls of the Census Office. High-salaried clerks pay their newspaper bills, even if they have to visit bar rooms less. Penitentiary doors open wide for Negro lawyers who make a practice of filching es ates. Some one of our lyceum presidents give orator W. J. Singleton a date for a forensic effort. Gossipers who hang around people's houses, study the fate of "The Unwel welcome Mrs. Hatch." Colored folks get out of the notion that an article is not good because made by Negro hands. Independent action of state clubs settle the color fuss in the National Federation of Women. A complimentary testimonial given Post Laureate R. E Toomey by the Second Baptist Lyceum. Smart Alecks who collect funds for the needy to turn it over to the persons for whom it is subscribed: Negro public men who can take a joke good humoredly and laugh at side-hits in a column of newspaper snaps. Incoming presidents of organizations have the nerve to make the reforms shown by experience to be necessary. An adjustment of the affairs of the High and Normal Schools in such a fashion as to make everybody happy. The passage of the Morrell bill,' the Crumpacker resolution and the bill for the Freedmen's Inquiry Commission. The practice of attaching men's names to affairs, without their knowledge or consent, vigorously rebuked. Breadth of mind on the part of people that can distinguish a love for fair play from lukewarmness or double dealing. The Pen and Pencil Club give an entertainment soon and raise a fund to operate a bureau of publicity and information. Some federal patronage distributed judiciously in Virginia. New York. New Jersey, Maryland, West Virginia and Indiana. Hot air speeches worked off at inconsequential mess meetings instead of at clubs where good order is the price of their existence. Harper's Weekly post up on politics and learn that the Register of the Treasury's name is Judson W. Lyons—not Judson W. Johnson. Openings on the professional stage for such talented young artists as Misses Addie Addie Wormley, Grace Storum, Helen Cooper, Lillian Parker and others. Steady agitation of the right in white and black pulpits, rather than spasmodic meetings where too often passion, prejudice and rivalry run rampant. The fool-killer take a jaunt up to New Jersey and do business with the imbeciles who permitted themselves to CURES WEAK MEN FREE. CURES WEAK MEN FREE. SEND NAME AND ADDRESS TO DAY YOU CAN HAVE IT FREE AND BE TRONG AND VIGOROUS FOR LIFE. Insures Love and a Happy Home. M. W. Health, Strength And Vigor For Men. How any man may quickly cure himself after years of suffering from sexual weakness, lost vitality, night losses, varicocelle, etc., and enlarge small weak organs to full size and vigor Simply send your name and address to the Dr. Knapp. Medical Company 1811 Hull Building. Detroit. Mich., and they will gladly send the free receipt with directions so that any man may easily cure himself at home. This is certainly a most generous offer and the following extracts taken from their daily mail show what men think of their generosity "Dear Sirs: Please accept my sincere thanks for yours of recent date. I have given your treatment a thorough test and the benefit has been ex- BURCHELL'S "SPRING LEAF" TEA. Remarkable for its fine, delicate flavor, 60c. lb. Will be10c. less when the war tax is taken off. N. W. BURCHELL, 1325 F ST. Buy your Shoes and Rubbers from The Capital Shoe Store. 733 7TH STREET, N W, Bet G & H Sts. A fine line of Men's, Women's and Children's Shoes and Rubbers at lowest prices, The Only Shoe Store in the City Conducted by Colored Men. get excited over the marriage of three white girls to Negroes. The Afro-American League of Dauphin county Pennsylvania, devote the bulk of its time at the August meeting to a discussion of the mi-takes of its presiding officer, instead of traducing the greatest Negro of this generation. 11 traordinary. It has completely braced me up, am just as vigorous as when a boy and you cannot realize how happy I am.' "Dear Sirs:—Your method worked beautifully. Results were exactly what I needed. Strength and vigor have returned and enlargement is entirely satisfactory." "Dear Sirs:—Yours was received and I had no trouble in making use of the receipt as directed and can truthfully say it is a boon to weak men I am greatly improved in size, strength and vigor." All correspondence is strictly confidential mailed in plain sealed envelope. The receipt is free for the asking and they want every man to have it. MME. DAVIS F. C. Born Clairvoyant & Card Reader Tells about business, Removes pelts and Evil Influences, Reunites the Separated and Gives Luck to all. Cures Piles and Drunkenness. 1228 25th st. n, w. Washington D. C. No letters answered unless accompanied by stamp. THE EDITOR'S MAIL BAG 12 The Colored American is the people's paper. Our many readers are quick to note improvements in its general make-up and keen of discernment as to its literary quality, variety and depth of thought embodied in its articles. We are constantly in receipt of letters from subscribers testifying their hearty appreciation of our efforts to produce a live, up-to-date journal of news and opinion. Most of them accompany their commendation with cash. Below are given a few excerpts, from letters from representative people, selected at random from an immense batch: You have a great paper, worthy of support, and merits a successful career. Yours for success. Louisville, Ky. A. E. MEYZEEK. We can't get on without The American, I trust it will never die. I am youys truly, Crewe, Va. L. B. STEPHENS. I note with satisfaction the unique place you have fought for, won and hold in the fore front of Negro journalism. Your², New York. CHARLES S. MORRIS. The Colored American is setting a pace which will bring it new prestige and wealth. I am sure. Tuskegee, Ala. Our students thoroughly enjoy the weekly visits of your splendid paper Long may it live as a beacon light to the colored race. Very truly, E. A. ROBERTSON, President George R. Smith College, Sedalia, Mo. Enclosed find money order for continuation of The Colored American. I cannot afford to be without it. As a race paper it stands without a peer. Very truly yours. Kansas City, Mo. JAMES JONES. The Colored Amesican, one of the foremost journal exponents for truth and justice of the Negro in our land today, under your skillful management makes wonderful advancements in proportion as the times. With best wishes I am yours. G. E. Logan, Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn I have just arrived in the United States from the Philippine Islands after nearly two year's absence. My wife was just about to remit to you money for renewal. You will find herewith money order for $2 00 renewal subscription for one year. GEO. W. PRIOLEAU, Chaplain 9th Cavalry. New Orleans, La. Enclosed you will please find check for $300, one year's subscription for The Colored American which has never failed to arrive on time. Your paper keeps me well osted on affairs specific and general as regards the race and I believe I would be at a great disadvantage without it. I believe yours is first among all the race journals. Wishing you continued success I am THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. yours for happiness and all the good things of life. P. D. ROBINSON. I have read a great number of Negro papers, but The Colored American is the best Negro journal in this country. Truly democratic, spicy and just what every Negro in this country ought to read. I speak with proudility, if such a word be found, of The Colored American. Yours respectfully. Washington, D. C. I must offer my congratulations on congratulations on the noticeable improvements in the typographical and general appearance of the American Its tone is high and lofty and its treatment of racial and public questions attests, the ability of its hustling manager and chief push. The Conservator and Dallas Express and Pioneer Press, bark at your heels like the little curs whose bark is always more dangerous than their bite and your aggravating contempt of their outgivings greatly incense them. Always Faithfully yours, Philadelphin, Pa. J. E. BRUCE Praise for Coleridge Taylor. "Hiawatha's Departure" a cantata for soprana, tenor, and baritone soli, chorus and orchestra, the words by H. W. Longfellow, the music by S. Cole ridge Taylor, will be given by the Cleveland Vocal Society, with orchestra of over forty pieces at its last concert in May. Too much cannot be said with regard to this beautiful work, it being about the best of the three scenes set to music by the above composer. The orchestration is superb, abounding in the most beautiful modulations and having a rhythm throughout, that is very unique and fascinating. The best talent will be engaged for the solo parts.—Cleveland Leader. The More the Merrier. Mr. Willis Mitchell, will leave soon for Washington, D. C., where he has received an appointment in one of the departments of government. Mr. Mitchell will be missed from social circles. We bespeak for him a welcome reception into Washington society circles, believing him worthy of all honors that may be bestowed.—Columbus (Ohic) Standard. Jackson-Howard Nuptials The wedding of Mr. W. T. S. Jack Jackson of the High School, and Miss May Howard, of Philadelphia, took place at Atlantic City, Esster Monday. At the elaborate reception in this city. April 4, at 1737 11th street, northwest, a large concourse of friends were present to extend congratulations to the couple and to welcome the fair bride to the social circles of the nation's capital. Agents wanted to sell "Shadow and Light" by Hon. M. W. Gibbs. Address John H. Wills, "The Literary Shop" 506 Eleventh Street, n. w., Washington, D. C. THE GRAND FOUNTAIN. United Order of True Reformers. ORGANIZED January 1, 1881 Office 604, 606 and 608 N. 2nd St., - - Richmond, Va. An order devoted to the interests of its members, both in their home and business relations. We offer you an opportunity for gilt edged business investment, in enterprises owned and controlled by the Order and managed by colored men, who are members of the Order. If you are sound in health and mind, of good moral character, not younger than three (3) years nor older than sixty (60) you are eligible to membership. There are two Fountains, the Subordinate and the Rosebud. SUBORDINATE FOUNTAINS. To join the Subordinate Forstain 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 0 if you die within a year After one year the Death Benefit is $125.00 To join the Rosebud Fountain you must be between 3 and 14 year of age. You pay $1.00, either cash or by installments. The monthly dues are either 15 or 25 cents as Fountains may decide. The annual tax is 10 cents. You receive as Sick Benefit from $1.50 to $4.00 per month, in weekly payments. As Death Benefit, your family will be paid $24.50 if you die within a year. After one year the Death Benefit is $37. In the INSURANCE DEPARTMENT, there are Three Classes:—Class B, Class E, and Class M. All dues payable annually or quarterly. 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 Certificate is valued first year at from $100 to $33. After one year, its value is $200 to $65. In Class E, the age limit is 14 to 55 years. Fee, $5 to $6.50. Annual dues, $9.50 to 11.40. The Certificate is valued first year at from $250 to $175. After one year its value is $500 to $300. In Class M, the age limit is 14 to 50 years. Fee $11 to $13 50 Annual dues $21 to $25. The certificate I valued from date of issue at from $1 000 to $700. You are entitled to a Life Membership in either of the Fountains or in Classe B and E upon purchase of the required amount of Bank stock, which pays a dividend annually of 20 per cent. The Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers has paid up to July 29, 1900, a total of 3782 Death Benefits, with a grand total of $521,264 75, over a HALF MILLION DOLLARS. THE BANK.—In our Savings Bank the Order has a sound and flourishing institution that is a credit not only to the Order but the race as well. It began business April 3, 1889. The capital stock is $100,000. The business is the same as that of any other regularly constituted bank, and is surrounded by the same safeguards. The stock sells for $5.00 a share to 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:— 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 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 ofice in Richmond, Va. It stands for the voice of the people, representing cooperation and combination of the race and is the Beacon Light, the Headlight, the General Messenger and the General Agent of the Brotherhood. It is $1.00 per year. A well-equipped job office bids for the work of the people, which is turned out in first class style and at low prices. Six miles from Richmond, in Henrico County, Va., the Order has purchased 634 acres of land, and established thereon an "Old Folk's Home." With unexampled liberality and broad-minded generosity, the Order does not limit entrance to this home to its members alone, nor even to members families, but the doors are opened to the aged and decrepid of the whole race, regardless of their residence or connections. The Order makes itself the trustee for this glorious charity, and calls upon the whole people, black and white, North, East, South and West to assist by their contribution the carrying out of this praiseworthy idea. April 3rd of each year is set apart as a Grend Rally Day for the Home Contributive 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 ho with a fee simple value of $122,500 Ir addition to these the Order leases buildings. ```markdown ``` In Class B, the age limit is 14 to 60 ye duce, $4.75 to $7.60. The Certificate is val After one year, its value is $200 to $65. In Class E, the age limit is 14 to 55 year $9.50 to 11.40. The Certificate is valued first one year its value is $500 to $300. In Class M, the age limit is 14 to 50 year $21 to $25. The certificate I valued from da You are entitled to a Life Membership Classe B and E upon purchase of the req pays a dividend annually of 20 per cent. The Grand Fountain United Order of T 29, 1900, a total of 3782 Death Benefits, with HALF MILLION DOLLARS. BIRDHOUSE 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, Richmond, Va., and members of the Order, 20 per cent. on the cost of food products. The REFORMER is the newspaper public office in Richmond, Va. It stands for the vote operation and combination of the race and the General Messenger and the General Agent per year. A well-equipped job office bids for turned out in first class style and at low price. Six miles from Richmond, in Henrico O 634 acres of land, and established thereon are exampled liberality and broad-minded genrance to this home to its members alone, no doors are opened to the aged and decrepid or connections. The Order makes charity, and calls upon the whole people, be and West to assist by their contribution the idea. April 3rd of each year is set apart as a Contributic can be forwarded to the casin who will send receipt for same and account. Members of the Order and the public, we invited to stop at The Hotel Reformer, 900 1 and desirable location. Service is of the best. The Real Estate Department manages the Ordeer. The Order now owns 13 build with a fee simple value of $122,500. Ir ad builduings. For any further information, address Wm. L. TAYLOR, W, M. Master. ROSEBUD FOUNTAINS. rosebud Fountain you may age. You pay $1,000,000 the monthly dues are either pay decide. The annual stock Benefit from $1,500 grants. Benefit, your family will pay this year. After one year. BRANCE DEPARTMENT, the B, Class E, and Class F or quarterly. 60 years. Fee, $2.50 to its valued first year at from 2 years. Fee, $5 to $6.50 first year at from 2 years. Fee $11 to $13.50 from date of issue at from ownership in either of the required amount of B. of True Reformers hand with a grand total of $100. Your Savings Bank the Constitution that is a credit mail. It began business A.000. The business is the constituted bank, and the stock sells for funds. Both time and paid on time desposits and auditor of Public Accounts its flourishing condition. LIABILITIES Capital stock paid in Surplus fund Undivided profits Demand certificate of posit. Time certificates of B. Total. Store is located at 501 North Order and the public genius. Published by the order to the voice of the people, and is the Beacon Light Agent of the Brotherhoods for the work of the city prices. Mico County, Va., the Orion on an "Old Folk's House of generosity, the Order of the, nor even to member rapid of the whole race, that makes itself the trustee of the, black and white, No in the carrying out of it as a Grend Rally Day, casnier of the Reformer count for it to The Grand Public, when visiting Rico 900 North Sixth St. In the best and rates are reprints and controls all buildings, 4 farms, 4 or addition to these the Fountain you must be between you pay $1 00, either cash or by only dues are either 15 or 25 cents. The annual tax is 10 cents, fit from $1.50 to $4.00 per month. Your family will be paid $24 50 if after one year the Death Benefit DEPARTMENT, there are Three E, and Class M. All dues latterly. Fee, $2.50 to $4 25. Annual first year at from $100 to $33. Fee, $5 to $6 50. Annual dues, year at from $250 to $175. After Fee $11 to $13 50. Annual dues of issue at from $1 000 to $700. Either of the Fountains or in total amount of Bank stock, which Reformers has paid up to July grand total of $521,264 75, over a Logs Bank the Order has a sound that is a credit not only to the Origan business April 3, 1889. The business is the same as that of old bank, and is surrounded by stock sells for $5.00 a share to both time and demand deposits time desposits. The following Public Accounts of Virginia at nourishing condition:— LIABILITIES. Stock paid in ... 88,125 00 Fund ... 80,957 81 Ded profits ... 6,826 80 Certificate of de- certificates of deposit 118,424 74 Total ... 891,120 64 Located at 501 North Sixth St., the public generally are saved by the order from its own of the people, representing co-Beacon Light, the Headlight, the Brotherhood. It is $1.00 the work of the people, which is city, Va., the Order has purchased Old Folk's Home.' With unity, the Order does not limit enmen to members families, but the whole race, regardless of their self the trustee for this glorious and white, North, East, South trying out of this praiseworthy Rend Rally Day for the Home of the Reformer's Savings Bank, out to The Grand Fountain. Visiting Richmond, Va., are Sixth St. It is in a pleasant and rates are reasonable. Controls all property interests o, 4 farms, 4 dwellings, 1 house to these the Order leases W P BURRELL, G. W. Secretary --- WE TRUST YOU AND SEND OUR GOODS TO YOU ON CREDIT. We Pay all the Express Charges. OU can earn from $10.00 to $50.00 a week selling our great remedy. If you already have a position, you can make good money by working in your spare time. Now is the accepted time. Write before some one else gets the Agency, as we only want one Agent in a place. How many opportunities to make money have you lost? Here is a chance for every man or woman, boy or girl, to make money every day in the year. IRONAL, the great natural medicine, is a certain cure for all diseases of the Stomach, Liver, Kidneys, Bladder, Bowels, and Blood. It cures Headache, Backache, Cramps, Colic, Pains in the Shoulders, Arms, Breast, Back, Legs, and Lungs. Cures Rheumatism, Sore Throat, Dropsy, Kidney Diseases, Fevers of all kinds, Malaria, Gout, Lumbago, and all diseases of the human system which are not of an organic nature—such as Cancer and Consumption. It is especially curative in Asthma, Scrofula, Syphilis, Eczema, and all breaking-out diseases of the skin. Also cures all forms of diseases peculiar to women. It is Nature's own remedy. Non-poisonous, and no dose, no matter how large, can hurt any one. It is taken both internally and applied externally on Sores, Eruptions, &c. The price is 25c., mailed to any address on receipt of price. We want one Agent in every locality to sell this great remedy. It never fails to satisfy. If you want the Agency, send in your application quick, and we will send the goods promptly by express. Send no money; just fill out the coupon, and we will not only send you the goods, but we will also pay the express on this end. Now is not this fair? You can see that we are not frauds or fakirs, for we trust you with our goods. We will send you two dozen packages of IRONAL; these you sell for 25c. each, or $6.00 in all. You keep $3.00 and send us $3.00. After you have sold out, and remitted the money to us, you can get all the goods on credit from us that you want. Write your name and address plainly, so that we can read it. If the name is not plainly written it makes trouble and delays shipping the goods. GENTLEMEN,—I hereby apply for the Agency for IRONAL, the great natural remedy. Please send me at once by Express two dozen packages of IRONAL (24). These I agree to sell for 25c. each, or $6.00 in all. I will send you $3.00 and keep $3.00 for my trouble. The Ironal Co. is to pay the express charges. If I cannot sell the goods, I will return them. The Name of the Street I live on is_____ The number of my house is. If there is no Express Office in your town, state nearest town where there is one. Report of Chicago Meeting Soon to be Issued by S. Laing Williams - Should be Wiuely Read. EDITOR COLORED AMERICANS-As official compiler of "The National Negro Business League," I am pleased to send to you this notice that the complete report of the Chicago convention of the League is in the hands of the printer, and will be ready for distribution on the 1st day of April next. The report is finely printed on heavy finished paper, and in clean large type. It is to be artistically gotten up in a photo printed cover of gray. The report will contain over 100 pages of matter, arranged conveniently for reference. This report promises to be one of the most interesting manuals of information and instruction concerning the material progress of the American Negro ever gotten out by a Negro organization in this country. The following table of contents will indicate its scope and value: Message of congratulation from the late President McKinley; Introdution by Booker T. Washington; Scope and significance of the Convention—Preface; Name of Officers and the Executive Committee; Official program; Minutes of the proceedings in detail; Interesting extracts from all written addresses; Reports of business enterprises from several cities; Resolutions adopted; Rules governing the League; Newspaper comments. The Executive Committee is very desirous that the widest possible circulation be given to this report, believing by this means that interest in the purposes of the League will be enlarged and intensified. To this end the cost of the Report, $0.35, has been put within easy reach of every one interested. You will greatly aid the work of distribution by sending in your order at once. Please send 2 cent stamp with the price of the Report and address. S. LAING WILLIAMS, 113 Adams St., Chicago, Ill. N. B.-It is a pleasure to note that this printing of the report has been done by Mr. R. S. Abbott, a graduate of Hampton, of the class of 1896. The Colored American Can be Purchased at All News Stands. The friends of the Colored American when wanting to purchase a copy of it will do it a great favor by calling on the nearest news stand and purchasing a copy. If the newsdealer does not keek it, insist that he procure it for you. This notice is written for the reason that many people, not only in Washington, but in other cities call at the office or write for copies of The American when the same can be had by going to the nearest news stand. Every news dealer keeps, or should keep The Colored American for sale. Ozonized Ox Marrow. State A. & M College: J. W. Hoffman, Ph.D. March 6th, 1902. Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. Gentlemen: I have made a very careful test of your Ox Marrow among our (colored) students and found it a most excellent hair tonic. It is just the thing to make he hair soft, yielding and straight. Kindy send me two bottles per express at once. Enclose bill for full amount. Find P. O. Order. Yours very truly, J. W. HOFFMAN. Editor Cooper of the Washington (D.C.) Colored American is the best newspaper hustler of the age, barring no one.—Times-Speaker, Denver, Colorado. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. THE IRONAL CO., $106\frac{1}{2}$ E. Clay St., Richmond, Va. : Address all communications to— THE IRONAL CO., 106½ E. Cla GENTLEMEN,—I here Please send me at once by Express 25c. each, or $6.00 in all. I will send pay the express charges. If I cann My Name is___ The Name of the Street I live My Post-Office is___ My State is___ If there is no Express Office in your WHEN LEARNING LEARN THE BEST Dress Making School. MRS, L. R. Clark, principal of the Livingston School of Dress Making, a No 1439 W Street Northwest Washington, has a fine school, and we advise all those who wish to learn this valuable trade to go to her school. She is a fine teacher and a credit to her race. He A terms are reasonable, and all her scholars who have graduated from her school are making a success as dress makers She has the only school of its kind in the city. The improved French drafting machine is the most wonderful achievement of Mathematical skill for cutting ladies' and children's garments. It is not difficult to learn, as it does not require any complicated figuring. Special lessons given in the Art of Ladies' Tailoring, also in blending colors. Young men are taught Ladies' Tailoring at this school 'lass for young men from 2-30 to 5-30 p m Thursday 9:30 to 1:30 a m Saturdays. For information call at the school: MRS. L R CLARKE, Principal WANTED A POSITION. A respectable young widow who is industrious and willing to work desires a position as a helper or maid. Call at 228 Mass. Ave. N. A. THE KEYSTONE PARK The Keystone Park, Suitland, Md., will be open and ready for business June 1st. A commodious house with large and improved premises, plenty of fresh water with garden and chickens where a number of select couples or people can be accommodated. Everything is strictly first-class. The Route Cars run to the new Pennsylvania ave. bridge and for those who drive, follow the straight road and watch the signs. Private parties will be met at the bridge conveyances. For those who desire to spend the heated term arrangements will be made for trips morning and evening. For further information apply at 443 1st st., s w Lost Relative WNTED—To know the whereabouts of David Walker, who is a sailor by occupation and lives or did in Boston, Mass., up until a few years ago. He was an ctive Mason and belonged to the Blue Lodge No. 4 or 5. The colored Masons in Boston will please make inquiries. Information sent to William Walker, 131 First St. S.W. Washington, D.C. will be gratefully received THE IRONAL CO.. 106 $ \frac{1}{2} $ E. Clay St., RICHMOND, VA. ```markdown ``` to $50.00 a week selling our great remedy good money by working in your spare time. We else gets the Agency, as we only want one money have you lost? Here is a chance for you in the year. IRONAL, the great natu- rch, Liver, Kidneys, Bladder, Bowels, and Bl the Shoulders, Arms, Breast, Back, Legs, and Diseases, Fevers of all kinds, Malaria, Gow not of an organic nature—such as Cancer, Crofula, Syphilis, Eczema, and all breaking upliar to women. It is Nature's own remedy, art any one. It is taken both internally and 25c., mailed to any address on receipt of your remedy. It never fails to satisfy. If you will send the goods promptly by express. Se send you the goods, but we will also pay the that we are not frauds or fakirs, for we trust of IRONAL; these you sell for 25c. each, have sold out, and remitted the money to you. Write your name and address plainly. makes trouble and delays shipping the goods to— THE IRONAL 106½ E. Clay E. Clay St., Richmond, Va.: -I hereby apply for the Agency for IRONAL express two dozen packages of IRONAL (2 will send you $3.00 and keep $3.00 for my I cannot sell the goods, I will return them It I live on is _____ The nu _____ My County is _____ _____ My nearest Express Office in in your town, state nearest town where th DID YOU EVER THINK That $10.00 per week Sick and $20.00 Accidan would be a very good thing to have around, if only for Pin Money? Special Rates to all readers of this paper. Call or drop a postal to B. H. BAKER, General Agent, For District of Columbia and Virginia. Royal Benefit Society, Room 60 Loan and Trust Building, Cor. 9th and F Sts. Washington, D. C. DRESS MAKING ACADEMY. The de Lam Orton Famous French Perfect on Tailor System Mme J. A. Smallwood, Sole Agent 1518 Madison street, northwest, Evenings from 7.30 to 10.00 clock Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, dressmakers and ladies who wish to do their own dressmaking. WANTED-To learn the wonderful De Lam Orton French Perfection Tailor System. Lam Essam Basques without one inch of visible seam, in living or goods, not even on the shoulder. Successful dressmaking requires as much earnest progressive study as successful work in any of the professions. No detail is too small to be looked after. We teach you to make dresses with or without seam and guarantee perfect fits, and complete your course with a diploma. Pupils can enter at any time. Wanted Rooms If you have a spare room that you would like to rent to desirable parties, advertise them in The Colored American. MISS A. L. TILGHMAN TEACHER OF MUSIC. Thorough and systematic training in instrumental and vocal music. Special attention given to pupils in the primary course, and those wishing to prepare themselves for concerts or any public or parlor entertainment. "Miss Tilghman is an accomplished musician and has devoted many years to the study of music."—Our Woman and Children." "Miss A. L. Tilghman has proven herself to be thoroughly versed in teaching."—Odd Fellows' journal." Apply 806 M Street, Northwest. COTTAGES FOR SALE. Four desirable Cottages on Jefferson Street, between Washington and La Fayette Streets. In the very best locality, newly, painted and papered all the latest improvements on easy terrains. For further particulars address J. Harry Hughes Cape May, N. J. 13 LADIES NEEDING CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT, safe and sure relief in all female troubles, constipation, irregularities, &c. A gold medal awarded for the science of obstetrics from University of Munich, Bavaria Separate rooms for Ladies before and during confinement. Infants adopted. Strictly private MRS DR RENNER Office Hours, 10 A M to 6 P M. 402 Sixth Street northwest, Washington, D.C. FOR RENT—Three unfurnished rooms convenient to car lines. Gentlemen preferred. 624 3rd Street, Northeast. Off for Narragansett Pier. Mr. Fred Freeman, who again has charge of the New Matthewson at Narragansett Pier, formally opened his books Wednesday for the season of 1902 at Gray and Costley's. The time was happily chosen, as the 16th was emancipation day, and Mr. Freeman desired to contribute his share in commemorating the event. The Best Choirs Some of the best choirs in the country are honoring Edwin Hill, Philadelphia's colored composer of sacred music, by giving his anthems place on their Easter programs Send for "Christ, the Lord is Risen," 5c; "Angels Ral'ed the Stone Away," 10c; 'Shout for Joy,' 103; "He Burst the Bars of Death," 25c. Sent by mail on receipt of price. Get complete catalogue. Address: Edwin Hill, 1614 Chancellor street, Philadelphia, Pa. Don't miss a single issue of THE COLORED AMERICAN. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. Straightens OZONO TRADITIONAL KING OF A BEFORE. IN order to protect the public from the numerous quality hair to grow long, and which are simply put up by sole idea to get your hard-earned cash and give you greases, which injure the hair and cause it to fall of the United States of America, on every box of OZONO consists of two heads, as shown in this advertisement—one for preparation showing the heads with the hair done up iniment, is not OZONO. Seeing our marked success with this are now widely advertising spurious compounds, and tracing by these flaring advertisements, which are all promises. Hundred and fifty thousand colored people bought OZONO all over Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America, also because it is a true Hair Tonic, that straightens without only straightens the hair, but produces a long, silky, beaten foolish, when you can increase its beauty by a few live in, no matter where you may live. The price of OZONO complete treatment. In order to introduce this great hair aggregation: Four boxes of OZONO; one bottle of ELEC skin, making it several shades lighter, worth 50c.; also one such as Pimples, Tan, Acne, Itch, Eczema, and Boils. It include a one-pint package of ANTI-ODOR, which removes pits, &c.; also one bar of our PURITY SCALP SOAP, made to introduce honest goods. Cut out this coupon and make money. If you send $3.00, we will send you four lots; wishes to take advantage of this lot, let them pin their is read by some one who does not own this newspaper, that the paper in which they saw our advertisement. Parties straightening process, can obtain same by sending 50. BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., 310 E. Broad St., Richmond Enclosed find $1.00, for which please send me the following: Four large boxes of Ozono, worth..... One large bottle of Electrical Skin Refiner. One large bottle of Electrical Skin Food. One large pint package Anti-Odor, worth..... One large package Purity Scalp Soap, worth..... Total..... Name___ House No.___ Post-Office___ Nearest Express Office___ County___ State___ The Ozono preparations can be obtained at Singleton WE WANT AN AGENT from the numerous quack nostrums now on the market, which claim to straighten hair are simply put up by a lot of quacks, charlatans, and fakirs, who have no cherished cash and give you nothing in return for your money but a dirty, sticky hair and cause it to fall out, we have placed our trade-mark, granted to us by on every box of OZONO, King of all Hair-Growers and Hair-Straighteners. This advertisement—one head showing short, curly hair, the other showing long, with the hair done up in a coil, or showing features different from the faces shown—marked success with the true hair-straightener, OZONO, King of all Hair-Growers, whose compounds, and trading on the reputation that we have made for OZONO, which are all promises. Buy the genuine and only original King of all Hair Tonic, and people bought OZONO in the last twelve months. OZONO is sold in every country and South America, also in Cuba and the West Indies. Its fame has travelled, that straightens without any outside assistance. No hot irons are used; nothing produces a long, silky, beautiful, luxurious growth of soft, fine hair. To neglect its beauty by a few applications of OZONO. We can send OZONO to any city or live. The price of OZONO is 50c. a box, sent to any point on receipt of price. Introduce this great Hair Tonic, we will send to you, on receipt of only $1.00, the OZONO; one bottle of ELECTRICAL SKIN REFINER, which softens rough skin and thicker, worth 50c.; also one bottle of ELECTRICAL SKIN FOOD, Nature's cure, Eczema, and Boils. It also removes Wrinkles, and makes the skin soft and pH-ODOR, which removes all smells and odors arising from the human body. CRITI-SCALP. SOAP, made expressly for the human scalp. This grand aggregates this coupon and mail to us, with $1.00, and we will send the goods the same, will send you four lots; if you send $2.00, we will send you three lots. If you lot, let them pin their name to this coupon, and the goods will be sent promptly to this newspaper, they can get the goods by simply sending $1.00 and mentions advertisement. Parties who desire one of our MAGNETIC COMBS, which a the market, which claim to straighten and cause the means, and fakirs, who have no chemical skill, with the for your money but a dirty, sticky mass of worthless and our trade-mark, granted to us by the Government owers and Hair-Straighteners. This trade-mark con- tinently hair, the other showing long, flowing hair. Any fures different from the faces shown in this advertise- ment, OZONO, King of all Hair-Growers, numerous firms in that we have made for OZONO. Do not be fooled only original King of all Hair Tonics, OZONO. Two months. OZONO is sold in every State in the Union, in Indies. Its fame has travelled around the world, No hot irons are used; nothing but OZONO. It not with of soft, fine hair. To neglect your hair is more good. We can send OZONO to any place that you may not to any point on receipt of price. Four boxes is a to you, on receipt of only $1.00, the following grand GENER, which softens rough skin and brightens black CAL SKIN FOOD, Nature's cure for all skin diseases, and makes the skin soft and pliant. We will also also arise from the human body, such as feet, arm- human scalp. This grand aggregation offer is made and we will send the goods the same day we receive the will send you three lots. If you have a friend who is, and the goods will be sent promptly. If this offer is simply sending $1.00 and mentioning the name of MAGNETIC COMBS, which aids materially in the Straightens Kinky, Curly Hair OZONO TRADE MARK KING OF ALL HAIR TONICS. 50¢ BEFORE. AFTER. BE WARNED IN order to protect the public from the numerous quack nostrums now on the market, which claim to straighten and cause the hair to grow long, and which are simply put up by a lot of quacks, charlatans, and fakirs, who have no chemical skill, with the sole idea to get your hard-earned cash and give you nothing in return for your money but a dirty, sticky mass of worthless greases, which injure the hair and cause it to fall out, we have placed our trade-mark, granted to us by the Government of the United States of America, on every box of OZONO, King of all Hair-Growers and Hair-Straighteners. This trade-mark consists of two heads, as shown in this advertisement—one head showing short, curly hair, the other showing long, flowing hair. Any preparation showing the heads with the hair done up in a coil, or showing features different from the faces shown in this advertisement, is not OZONO. Seeing our marked success with the true hair-straightener, OZONO, King of all Hair-Growers, numerous firms are now widely advertising spurious compounds, and trading on the reputation that we have made for OZONO. Do not be fooled by these flaring advertisements, which are all promises. Buy the genuine and only original King of all Hair Tonics, OZONO. Two hundred and fifty thousand colored people bought OZONO in the last twelve months. OZONO is sold in every State in the Union, all over Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America, also in Cuba and the West Indies. Its fame has travelled around the world, because it is a true Hair Tonic, that straightens without any outside assistance. No hot irons are used; nothing but OZONO. It not only straightens the hair, but produces a long, silky, beautiful, luxurious growth of soft, fine hair. To neglect your hair is more than foolish, when you can increase its beauty by a few applications of OZONO. We can send OZONO to any place that you may live in, no matter where you may live. The price of OZONO is 50c. a box, sent to any point on receipt of price. Four boxes is a complete treatment. In order to introduce this great Hair Tonic, we will send to you, on receipt of only $1.00, the following grand aggregation: Four boxes of OZONO; one bottle of ELECTRICAL SKIN REFINER, which softens rough skin and brightens black skin, making it several shades lighter, worth 50c.; also one bottle of ELECTRICAL SKIN FOOD, Nature's cure for all skin diseases, such as Pimples, Tan, Acne, Itch, Eczema, and Boils. It also removes Wrinkles, and makes the skin soft and pliant. We will also include a one-pint package of ANTI-ODOR, which removes all smells and odors arising from the human body, such as feet, armpits, &c.; also one bar of our PURITY SCALP SOAP, made expressly for the human scalp. This grand aggregation offer is made to introduce honest goods. Cut out this coupon and mail to us, with $1.00, and we will send the goods the same day we receive the money. If you send $3.00, we will send you four lots; if you send $2.00, we will send you three lots. If you have a friend who wishes to take advantage of this lot, let them pin their name to this coupon, and the goods will be sent promptly. If this offer is read by some one who does not own this newspaper, they can get the goods by simply sending $1.00 and mentioning the name of the paper in which they saw our advertisement. Parties who desire one of our MAGNETIC COMBS, which aids materially in the straightening process, can obtain same by sending 50c. extra. Remember, OZONO is guaranteed to straighten the hair—to OZONO is guaranteed to straighten the hair—to make it grow long, soft, and glossy; also to cure all itching, burning, humiliating scalp diseases. To make the hair grow out again on bald spots, especially around the temples, there is no Hair Tonic on earth one-half so good. The Boston Chemical Company holds a charter granted by the State of Virginia. We also refer to the Metropolitan Bank of Richmond, Va., and to the Southern Express Company. Register your letters; it protects you. Address your letters plainly to— BOSTON CHEMICAL COMPANY, 310 East Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. be obtained at Singleton's Pharmacy Cor. 20th and E streets, Northwest, Wash. ANT AN AGENT IN EVERY TOWN AND CITY TO SELL MY LIFE AND GET SUBSCRIBERS FOR The Color It belongs to no clique or faction, but represents the whole people and E streets, Northwest, Washington, D. C." WN AND CITY TO SELL FOR The Colored Ameri The STORY OF MY LIFE It gives all the news. It belongs It tells what the Negro is doing. It reflects the highest thoughts and best s Subscription Price $2.00 per Year, $1.10 for Six Months. For Further 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 matters. 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. 14 MANN'S CAPITAL CITY LAWN GRASS SEED The best Grass Seed there is. Makes lawns like velvet. Just the right time to plant it now. Headquarters Lawn Fertilizers, Garden Seed, Flower Seed, Bulbs of all kinds. P. Mann AND Co. 207 7th St PHONE MAIN, 807 3 Choice Cut Flowers. A Special Offer For Easter Flowers at C . E. Brooks, FLORIST. 1527 14th STREET Northwest, Artistic Funeral Designs at Reasonable Prices. My Specialty All Orders Received by Mail or Phone. will Receive Prompt Attention. PHONE MAIN 868-5 Harry G. Isel, Bellbanger and Electrical Contractor 1405 P ST. Northwest, WASHINGTON, D. C. Locksmithing Orders Promptly Attended To THE WONDERFUL Static Electricity AND X-RAY under the guidance of DR. CZARRA, are certainly curing people who had thought their cases incurable. Abscesses and even Cancer are subjugated by the doctor. With the X-RAYS the seat of the trouble canbe located, and skillful treatment will hasten a cure. Don't wait until your malady takes too strong a hold. Rupture Cured. By the latest medical discovery without pain, cutting, loss of time or any of the dangerous injections Lost vitality, Loss by dreams fully restored and all private diseases of both sexes, blood, skin, rheumatism piles, stricture bladder, kidney, Hydrocele Va- Rupture Cured. By the latest medical discovery without pain, cutting, loss of time or any of the dangerous injections Lost vitality, Loss by dreams fully restored and all private diseases of both sexes, blood, skin, rheumatism piles, stricture bladder, kidney, Hydrocele Vaticocele in old and so-called incurable cases cured, Urine examined chemically and microscopically. Consultation and advice free. DR. CZARRA, 317 6th St. and 494 La. Ave. N. W Telephone East 21 F. The Hotel Brunswick, 235 PENNSYLVANIA AVE., AND 220 B.. ST., N.W On European Plan. First Class in Every Particular. J. G. VAN BRACKLE, PROPRIETOR, WASHINGTON, D. C ```markdown ``` ILLUSTRATIONS CUTS MADE OF ANY- THING, BY ANY PROCESS. FINE WORK AT LOW PRICES. THE Maurice Joyce Engraving Company. EVENING STAR BUILDING WASHINGTON, I. W. H. FISHER DYER AND CLEANER, 709 9th St. n. w Washington 1407 14th St. n w Telephone 1152. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. City Paragraphs. ```markdown ``` Mr. Owen Shelvey is at home from Palm Beach, Fla. Keystone Park will be a popular resort this summer. Mrs. J. Edgar Smith has fully recovered from her recent illness. Mr. Henry Y, Arnett has gone to Wilberforce, Ohio. He is reported sick. The Ohioans have returned. Some are happy and others have nothing to say. Miss Nannie Robinson, of Harrisburg, Pa. has been visiting friends in this city. Mr. Ernest Pinn, 1902 10th street is suffering with a lame foot. His many friends hope he will soon recover The piano used at the Sojourner Truth Home with such pleasing effect is kindly loaned by Prof. John T. Layton. Extensive repairs are in progress at the 10 h Street Baptist church. A special feature is the recalsomining of both auditoriums. Miss Mattie R. Bowen, a forceful and witty speaker, talked interestingly Wednesday evening at the People's Literary on "Woman's Work in Charity. The Business High School graduates will do well by organizing an alumni to look after the interests of their school. Who will make a start? John C. Payne, of Randall school, returned from a gala vacation in Baltimore, speaking in flattering terms of the hospitality of the Monumental City. Mr. W. Henry Thomas, the playwright, recited one of his own compositions "Caesar Humbled" with fine effect, Wednesday evening at the People's Literary. Messrs, H, S Cummings and Hiram Watty of Baltimore were in the city last Tuesday, the guests of Recorder J C. Dancy and E. E Cooper of The Colored American. Editor J. W. Smith, of the Star of Zion, Charlotte, N C, was in the city last week on business. The Reverend is growing corpulent and already has the mien of a bishop. The Banjo and Mandolin Club under the management of Dr. Napper had ovations in both Baltimore and Philadelphia Their trip was a great success artistically, financially and socially. Mrs. A. F. Hilyer took a respite from her work in the S. Coleridge Taylor Choral Society, and spent the Easter holidays at Augusta, Ga., with her sister, the wife of Bishop Williams She also looked in upon the Charleston Exposition. At a recent oratorical contest held at Livingstone College, Salisbury N. C., the daughter of the late Prof. J. C. Price, won first honor. Miss Price is said to be a talented and most accomplished young lady and seems to have inherited the gifts of her father. Mr. Chas. H. Anderson, of Galbraith church, who is at president of Christian Endeavor, assistant superintendent of Sunday school, secretary of Imperial Relief Association and secretary of Mason Lodge, Meridian No. 6, F. A. A. M. has gone to St. Iouis, Mo. to accept a position in an insurance office, of which Mr. Armin L. O. Schueler is manager and [Dr. J. B. Colbert, general agent. M. Goldsmith & Son, 911 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE OPTICIANS. WASHINGTON, D. C. Whelan's Market Everything the best at the lowest Prices. A full supply of Fresh Meats received daily. $ $ Cor. 3rd and C Sts., S. W. M J., WHELAN. T. F. Conroy & Co Disiller's Agen's & Wholesale Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Wines AND Liquors 1421 and 1421 P Street, N. W. MRS. D. R. GIBBONS WHOLESALE MANUFACTURING and RETAIL CONFECTIONER. 523 41 Street Southwest, WASHINGTON, D. C. Wedding Cakes Made and Parties Furnished at Short Notice Ice Cream All Year Round HARRY G LENZ. HUGO LOSSAU LENZ & LOSSAU. Successors to CHARLES FISCHER, SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS. Trusses, Crutches, Syringes, Cutlery Artificial Human Eyes, Elastic Hosiery. Abdominal Supporters Rubber Goods of Every Description. 623 SEVENTH ST NORTWEST, Opposite Patent Office WASHINGTON. D. C. Competent Lady Attendant. R·I·P·A·N·S The modern standard Family Medicine: Cures the common every-day ills of humanity. --- 15 THE HOTEL HOWARD UNIVERSITY Washington, D. C. EN distinct departments, under one hundred competent professors and instructors—Theological, Medical, Legal, College, Pedagogical, Preparatory, English, Agriculture, Industrial, and Musical. For information address— Rev. J. E. RANKIN. D. D., LL. D., President. GEO H. SAFFORD. Secretary. THE NATIONAL COLORED Teachers Bureau. 459 C St., N. W. Washington, D. C. TEACHERS WANTED. --- AVENUE COLLEGE TRADES SCHOOL A Practical, Literary and Industrial Trade School for Colored Boys and Girls, Carpentry, Bricklaying, Plastering, Painting and Interior D corations. Tailoring, Dress-making, Millinery, Voice Culture and Piano Forte. Literary Department from Primary to Normal Course. Job Work Solicited and Profits given to the Students. Catalogues now ready. Unusual advantages for Girls and a separate building. Fall terms begins Sept. 9th, 1901. Address JOSEPH D. MAZONEY. JOSEPH D. MAMONEY, Allegheny, Pa. Principal. Everybody Eats CORBY'S "MOTHER'S" BREAD. It is easily the best bread in the world. It is pare and wholesome and is the greatest strength food you can eat, Mothers Bread is sold in over a thousand grocers in this city. Try it. Corby's Modern Bakery A RACE MAGAZINE. Do you realize that there is published in Boston, Mass., a high grade illustrated magazine, devoted exclusively to the interests of the Negro race, and which is edited, published and controlled by members of the race? If you would like to see a sample copy of this magazine same will be sent you on receipt of 8 cents in stamps, or one year for $1.50. Address, THE COLORED AMERICAN MAGA ZINE, Dept. A. 5 Park Square, Boston, Mass. = SE: SSS eae bE SP I er EEE 16 Houses For Sale. FOR SALE.—No. 7 and 9 Hanover Piace, northwest. two-story and cellar, nearly new, 6 rooms and bath all modern im- rrovements. Nice location and convenient to two car lines. Price, $3,200, or will ex- change. We have, also. some nieve two-story prick houses in Patterson St.,6 ro-ms and bath, which wecan seli for §220). Cali at cffice for number avd permit to examine, FOR SALE-—4 fine corner in Youthwest Washington, No, 90 F, 8t,, 8, W,, can be converted into store 2t small expenee, Prive only $2.590. FOR SA4LE--A two-story brick house on £E Street, northwest, between 18h and 19th Bireeis, 6rcoms and bath Price $2,210 We have a number of other srrall houses in different sections of the city which we can = on @asy terms, Call at office for our Wm. H Saunders & Company, - 1407 F st, N W. - City Paragraphs. SSASLASLAALASAAS Col. W. A. Plodger is in the city. Rav. F.J. @:imke has returned from Tuskegee. = Mrs Judson W. Lyors is on the road to recovery. Mrs Mary Caurch Terrell has been seriously indisposed for severs] days. The financial board of the A, M. E. Connection has been in ses-ion thia week, School street southwest should be opered as advised vy Mr. B. H. Warner Mr A. Wendell Scott ran down from New York for a few day’s stay with local friends. “Bishop G. W. Clinton and Rev. B, J. Bolding were pleasant callers at this office Wednesday, When you are inneed in money go toH. K. Fulton’s, 314 9 b street, n. w. See advertisement. Call at the Metropolitan Store and News Depot, 1501 M etreet, n. w. for The Colored American, which 1s al- ways on sale there tf. M's. Bennett B_ Slade, who has been quite ili for the past two weeks is con va'escent. Dr. J. C. Norwood is the attending pbysician. Mrs. Albert Hopkins and Mrs. Aaron Odell, of Alexandria, are cousins of the late millionaire, C.1 John Mc Kee who died recently at Philadelphia. A salary has been granted to Prof Joun T. Layton, who for a quarter of: century has directed Metropolitan A E Choir free of charge. This is 43 i should be, Agents wanted to sell “Shadow an Light” by Hon. M. W. Gibbs. Addres Jobn H. Wills, ‘The Literary Shop,’ 506 Eleventh s reet,n. w., Washing toa, D.C., tf. Dr. J. R. A. Crossland, the ney minister to Liberia, sailes for bis pos at Monrovia this week. Mr. Georg W. Eilie, of Kansas accompanies hit as private secretary. At Bathel Liierary next Tuesds evening, At‘orney Reuben 8S, Smit will speak on the subject: ‘‘Washin; ton Public Schools.” The 19th Sire Baptist choir wiil sing. Mies B’anche Downes, of 1632 O 8 northwest, assisted by Mrs. F! ren Downes Garn2r, informelly entertains 8 party of friends in their handeon parlors Monday evening. Asbury M. E. Choir by epecial iny tation, will sing at Sharp Strest chor in Baltimore, Sunday, April 27tn, Re THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. ©. I L, Thomas, formerly pastor here is no ¥ at the Baltimore charge. Dr D W. Ogden, 8 p puar Phil- adelphia specialist spent 2 few deys in this city last week: He made many new friends while here and was the guest of Mr, and Mra. Joha H, Paynter on Capitol Hill. | Mr Joseph Minor of 741 Marsha’l street, Mt. Pleasant, after fifteen yea s of service in the employ of the Capital | Traction Company, has resigned to ac’ c?pta more lucrative position in the governmont eer vice. The Afro-American Council held @ monster public meeting Morday even ing at 19th Street Baptist church. A collection of $50.50 was teken. The next meeting will be held Monday evening at the John Wesley A. M. E Zon church, Connecticut Avenus, | between L and M streets, northwest. | lsasc L Purcell, Esq , of Pensacola, | Fla., is in the city to argue a case be fore the Supreme Court of the Uaited States, involving the question of thé uresnstitutionality of the exclusion 9 colored men from the jury box on ac count of race. color or previous con dition of servitude. Hon. JobnC Dancy’s Esster ad dress at Galbraith Zion cburch wa voted by his many «dmirers as the ablest ot his several versatile effort: Jbere. Mr. Dancy telks on any subjec or any occasion, it seems, with equa | ease and sppropriateness. : Mr.J.S. Rawling. mansger of th 6th street branch of the Bennett B | Slade Tailoring Co. ws suddenly calle ,| to Philade) phia last week on accoun of the accidental death of his brother He brought the body to this city wher +] it was in'erred in Woodlawn Cemetery . The committee in charge of the pro duction of ‘ Hiawatha” has not ma¢ >] grest haste to make fin arrangement -| with Mr, S Coleridge Tay'or until sur that the chorus now in active rehearss i] could do credit to bis great work. Th rjoutlook at this time is highly satie - | factory. Prof. Hugh M. Browne has finall 1 | accepted the principalsbip of the Phi *| adelphia Ins*itate for Colored Youth e} He takes charge next September DL: W. Bruce vans has been mentione njasthe probable successor to the Balt f | more High Schoo! the principalship ¢ , | which- is at present held by Pro Pp.own. For Rent to Permanent Tenant. Nice seven room frame house; three minutes from electric cars; wide halls; targe double parlors, and dining room; papered throughout; latrobe and open grate heat; cabinct mantels; wide front, side and back porch; fine well of water; large back yard; peaches, grapes, etc.; out houses; Spacious stabie lot; two story stable, with box stalls, loft for two tons of hay, bins for sixty bushels of oats, room for four carriages or wagons and cases for eight sets of harness; chicken house 8 x 32 feet arranged for different breeds of chickens; large garden and chicken park. Lot contains over eleven thousand square feet of ground. ALSO a full acre of fine garden land, only two lots away from above, with small house under rent to prompt-pay- ing tenant. Price, $14 and $4 per month, respectively, or the two for $17.50 per month. FOR SALE—Two lots 30 x 100 each, on Stanton Avenue, convenient to cars, growing locality. Price, 5 cents pei foot; casy payments. Investigate thes« “opportunities.’” Address, R. L. PENDLETON, 524 toth St., N, W., Washington, D. C. or call at 110 Howard Ave., Anacostia aud inspect premises, CHK MK CCC MCCCMCMHKAHRKHAHHHKHKHHHAAHAHKHSHINTE 2 y Dr. Crapsey Here Again 2 ee y Rev. Algernon Sidney Crapsey, D D., of ; Roehester, N. Y. author of “Constitutional : Defense” will deliver a Lecture Entitled % “The Afro American—His Past, Present, and Fu'ure. 3 Philosophical Consideration of his Presence : and Status in this Country in the ’ | 3 | R Srreer Merroroiira® Barrisr (urca (Near 12th Street 3 : s ’ Friday April 25th, at 8 pm. % ’ : ADMISSION = z ¥ 15c : CHILDREN a = 10c ’ et 5 oS SSS SASSER KS KA KAAS AS GRAND OPENING! _ BM. LOFTUS, Washington’s well-know furniture dealer. is Jocated now at 12! 7th et nw., at his new and elegant store, compri-ing 4 large {iors nearer the business center. H»s plevty of room for hs splendid stock of furniture, carpets, mattinge baby carriages, refrigerators, stoves, go-carts, etc., purchased expressly for his new store. These desirable goods that are sed every day will be offered at prices that will surprise Waghington buyers for cash or on essy weekly or monthly payment. Come ard see us and price our goods bcfore going elsewhere. No trouble to show you goods, B M LOFTUS 729 7TH STREET, N W. e ° ’ ..Between G and H ——eEe eae TH roe 2559. PHONE MAIN 2559. OE, GOGEER, : FINE TAILORING = \ NY, Pa q a er ee ee Sy i A colored tailor that wants your trade, not because 2S be velongs to your rece, bot because he can cm ee y pete with the very best white tail r This tact is Ped demons rated as he has among his customers me ‘ot 4 the best dressed men in Was! ington. Call and give 4 him a tria!, and he'will convince you to your delight ~— 925 18TH STREET, N Ww. ee ee Low PRICES. — On Beau'ifal gold crowns and all other work e positively extract teeth without pain, 9 WF ot 3 ot OF «rath and * vise. Vero Dentists. Mours$ a.m to6p m- Sunday 9am to 12m. Sarin eden irae eer se es MAX GREENBER 3, ! PRACTICAL —Watchmaker & J w icr— 523 TENTH ST.NW. Repairing of Foreign Watches, French Clocks, and Music Boxes a specialty Al! work warranted one year Watches cieaned 75¢. main springs 75, erystalsroc {-ocks ca !ed for and delivered —_——— } 7 (ly UNITED STATES STORAGE Ce. 418 & 420 10 St, N. w, Furniture [Stoves, Store Fixtures, ete , bought and suld. Storage 75 cent per month. We buy and se!! everythnng. P, Shugrue, Corner 14 bh and s CHOICE WIN Es, LIQ- UORS AND Chui A RS. «High and as Grades. . 1942 14th $t. NW. BLACK SKIN REMOVER. ye i 8 c= hfe = go ee recistento = “i PATENT OFFICE —< U.S. a RG y, BEFORE TAFIER ‘A Wonderful Face Bleach. AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER. both in a box for $1, orthree boxes for $2. “ast ted to do what we say and to be the “bess ie world.” One box is all that is required 1/0 directed. A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH. A PEACH-LIKE complexion obtained 'f needs directed Will turn the skin of a black or bom person four or five shades lighter. and 8 = a person perfectly white. in forty-eight hours asf Or two Will be noticeable.@It does not tur whe skinin spots br. sleaches out white, the s64,° maining bea” .ul_ without continual we, remove wr’ 4.€3, frec™les, dark spots, PLP bumpsor ack heads, making the skin ver! andsmo.in. Small pox pits, tan, liver 000 oy moved without harm to the skin. When 20 the color you wish, stop using the preparstil® THE HAIR STRAIGHTENER. that goes in every one dollar box ig enous? 4 make anyone's hair grow Jong and straight, >, mm falling out. Highly pertue\iog soot the hair and and easy to comb, Mau of our customers say one of our dollar Wrk worth ten dollars, yet we sell it for one 10' Ore THE NO-SMELL thrown in free. ser of ee sending us one dollar in & caer a Post-Office money order, exprest MODEY "rl | registered sar eee it ae : 6. Da | par = * or if you want it sent | it will come by express. 25¢.€2!7% ojatst In a ‘where 1tfails to do what ¥° 7g we will return the money or send & D0* ‘00 | charge. Packed so that no one will * w 0 | tents except receiver. CRANE AND COs 423 west Brosd Sireee Re ota NAIA proanor Wl tages (F<) Sere a ee Mil KC — a a a= ng | EEA \ Ce a i) a =. 1 | SVEN ie ee . Oe ew ZR eT 8 a Sei . Sis ~ Wh di m= Zee" | Patella aliel| fal] rete a < SSS |i La Sa Dy iaiilices | aust Th ( e& i ae hG i ( i) Bi | ee EH al fatal | (te Z = . f f yf Ne sain | i; AL ree f KS\ aN y (| i lf, fr i Dao L 7 h —~ | AY ) \ Wy La 7 VY) i i Sy f i | i M | ( OLOKEY MS = y Ye Se — — W) i \—, tt t \ | : —~y eee = ey ~ —s TONAL 2 a — =X SL wT ZF ama | Pee S aN SR Wht iD FREER GS Witssise e1 <A UW WA\ te aie (Ce yy Vas GS zs i= = Se \ a Y= yy é aS OIL G5 SFOS I S ECS RRS, = OT YY NL SS ee VOL. X, NO. 2. WASHINGTON, D. C., APRIL 19, 1902. PRG ne ee THE SPIRIT OF DIANE BRUCE GRIT REVIEWS DUR HAM’'S GREAT NOVEL. The Thread of Ghe Story and Some Noted Characters That Point a Moral— Graphic Pen Pictures of Haitian Life - President Hypolites Prototype in Fic tion. % S& & The Hon. John S. Durham, former minister to Haiti, has added another laurel to his fame as a writer, by con- tributing to Lippinott’s Magazine for April, a complete novel which appears im the current issue of that deservedly popular periodical under the _ title “Diane—Priestess of Haiti.” The scene, of course, is laid in the little black Re- public, and the dramatis personae are a mixture of Germans and Haitians and an American newspaper correspondent, “Mr- Wiley,” of a New York “yellow.” The heroine of the story is Diane, a Haitian girl, beautiful, ignorant, weak, more sinned against than sinning, who makes a sacrifice for the man she loves. \ German syndicate hatches a revolu- tion in the island for commercial advan- tages. Diane and Alcide, a protege of the German minister, Hauffman, furnish the sentiment—the love-making which runs through the story. Papa Louis, a crafty and cunning old conjuror, is employed by the revolution- ists to help them out with their plot. Iiane, over whom he exercises a mys- terious influence, is necessary to the successful prosecution of their scheme. But Alcide is in the way. He loves Diane, hence heroic methods must be ipplied. Alcide is forced into the Hai- tan army. Diane, who loves Alcide very much, is ambitious to become a priestess of the Voudoos, because Papa Louis, who is a skillful and artistic old liar, has told her some things that appeal to her vamty and whet her ambition. Alcide, being forced into the Haitian army throngh the good offices of a German ‘yhawker named Meissner, and Papa Louis, is promised immunity from harm ‘y this old fraud by the exercise of his eccult powers. After he enlists in the irmy he appears to have had a very close ill and came pretty near reporting for ‘uty in another clime, save for the bad_ marksmanship of one of the revolution- ists. Alcide was declaiming against the execution of recaptured prisoners, which id been ordered by the President, when he was shot at. He spoils his pretty uniform and feathers bv falling as a result of the shock from the report of the gun, into ‘he mud, of which there appears to be usiderable in the streets of Port au Vrince, whereupon Mr. Wiley. of the New York Prevaricator, which issues an vdition everv hour, happening to be in © thick of this bloodless revolution. escues Alcide and forthwith proceeds ') tell the truth, the whole truth, and othing but the truth—as a yellow jour- valist understands it—in regard to this sorrible affair, Every time Wiley’s facts sve out he immediately drew upon his ‘uiagination, and being a capable artist, MEN OF THE HOUR FE \\ 2 i y \ Lie 4 | \N ae \l Ree ee YF \|\ (NS ay SS \\\ | i i a NSA 1 | Niger poow INR MAW. 2 a Aw ya <a / \ RE... SY AN i. . St Se De Ra ~ YHINSN SS \ Wy \ = ZZ AAW cA VK ie. SSN Yi ® Nay M+) Ze: Rew Y YY SS YY 1 ee Lyi, SSX WK “Liat Sf LV) WKWXXS88\ Pees i — ZEH//// \ NN gece gS). OE TR | ZS CA\ \\ \\ LERNER NL EE i Z = \\ PERNA MRCOIORS | |) fe \\ 4 EN |. ——L——————==>, NN \ \W NS co Wy Na Yj IE S\N ——__— ZO) ORR oe —— i LDR —__ i; BES)” T BAX0rUédeF P==—=[==—_ —L<LLl cCicacucuu....._-"_ A SMSO —— / CZ ; 1p GE SE ( Y Let (97 “4 i REV. E. W. LAMPTON, D. D., Secretary of G4e A.M.E. Financial Board, Now in Session at Ghe Four- teenth Street Headquarters. His Report Indicates a Record Breaking Administration. his word pictures were something won- derful to contemplate. Mr. Wiley had a nose for news. He was fond of snake and fish stories. Some of his own fish stories were marvellous chiefly for their inaccuracies. Mr. Wiley came to Haiti primarily to get confirmation of the al- leged truth of an elaborate assortment of well-worded lies, written and _pro- mulgated by a dyspeptic Englishman many years ago, named St. John, who asseverated that the Haitians practiced human sacrifice and ate nice, fat babies. Mr. Wiley failed to find the evidence, and this seems to have been a sore dis- appointment to this fertile genius. Alcide, so the story goes, makes his escape and goes on a still hunt for Diane. He finds her the center of attraction at a feast. Meissner, the German jay- hawker, and a few friends are dining, and she is dancing for their amusement. Angered by the spectacle he seizes a knife and attempts to kill Meissner. ~ Di- ane performs the Pocahontas act, which resulted more fatally in her case than n that of her dusky Indian cousin, since ne blow intended for Meissner, pierced her sable body, inflicting an injury from which she finally recovers. This little love tragedy, instead of widening the gulf between Alcide and Diane, draws them closer together and they lived hap- oy ever afterward in each other's love and affections. The story is admirably told and is intensely interesting. The author discovers his great familiarity with the ways of the Haitian diplomat and politician, and his attention to de- tails, as they relate specifically and par- ticularly to the affairs of State, and matters of great pith and moment, which from time to time engage the attention of his excellency, and his excellency’s keen insight irito things going on around him, indicate that the Haitian diplomat and politician knows a few things and knows them tolerably well. Mr. President wore smoked or dark glasses when he was analyzing a yis** of whose loyalty he had doubt- <li de lglie lane eta ett (Gontinued on f~ SS SE IE Be Seg TOPICS OF THE TIMES TRUE REFORMERS BUILDING A BOON TO WASHING TON. Mr Lankford an Architect of Rare Abil- ity —Loving Cup for a Faithful Director —White Corpora ion Against “Jim Crowism” Because Separate Service is Unprofit:ble. J. A. Lankford, M. S.,’ professor of science and superintendent of Industrial Department at Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C., was in the city this week, to look over the ground upon which is to be erected the great building of the United Order of True Reformers. He has pre- pared the preliminary plans in blue print, and they indicate a beautiful structure of five stories, 100 by 60 feet, providing for store rooms, offices, lodge rooms, and a hall, which with gallery and stage, will seat 2,000 persons. ‘Tne location will be easy of access to the best citizens of Washington, for both business and social purposes. Prof. Lankford’s ideas are endorsed by the leading local True Reformers, such as Messrs. C. L. Mar- shall, W. S. Woodson, Mrs. James and others, and the architect now goes to Raleigh to perfect his designs in accord with the latest instructions of the Order. The building will cost in the neighbor- hood of $40,000 and will be a monument to the business genius of Washington. Prof. Lankford is a gentleman of engag- ing address and made an excellent im- pression here. Mr. Frederick Allen was in the city two days last week the guest of his many friends in this city. He was the special zuest of Messrs. Gray and Costley who made his sojourn here one long to be re- membered. A number of select friends were invited to meet him at dinner last Saturday and to drink from the “loving cup.” It took nearly two dozen quarts of Mumm’s Extra to satisfy the assem- bled party and to quench their enthu- siasm. It_will be remembered that this “loving cup” was presented to Mr. Allen at Palm Beach, Fla., a short time ago, by the guests of the Hotel Royal Ponciona and ais subordinates, as a testimonial of the satisfaction his administration had given. it was made by the expert jeweler, Ganley, and cost $125. It is “a thing of beauty” and will be “a joy forever.” The presentation speech. delivered on that occasion ‘was praised by all as .a model of polished eloquence and the eulogy of Mr. Allen’s varied abilities was particularly fine, as well as just. Fredericksburg, Va., Special—The Weems Steamboat Company has taken an appeal in the case of Capt. D. M. Da- vis, commander of one of its steamers, who was fined $25 last week in a magis- trate’s court, in Lancaster county, on the harge of violating the separate car law r white and colored people, as applied SS Continved on fourth pase 2 ASSURANCES OF AID. Leading Women of Washington Endorse The Great Movement Planned by Miss Burroughs. Louisville, Ky., April 10, 1902.—Since we have made known our intention to organize the Baptist women of Washington for the purpose of enlisting them in our educational and missionary work many of our friends, prominent in the religious affairs of the District, have M. Mrs. Julia Mason Layton. written us pledging us their help and prayers. Miss Louise Peebles writes as follows: "Yours received and I hastily write to say that I will sign a call to organize a District Union." "I am ready to do what I can. Just let me know in time just what you want me to do and it will be done."—J. M. Layton. "I hail with heartfelt gladness and earnest sympathy any effort to uplift womanhood. I heartily agree with you as to the need of concentrated effort and think that the meeting of which you speak will be productive of good. I will not only affix my signature to the call but will do all in my power to make the meeting a success by keeping it constantly before the women of my church."—Hattie J. McIntosh. "Cheerfully will I unite with the other Mary Mrs. Rosetta E Lawson Baptist women here in calling a convention for May."—R. E. Lawson. "Let me know all about the woman's meeting in May and I will try to have as many as possible take hold of the good work."—Emma Cusberd Lewis. "Yes the women of this city ought to be organized. There is not that spirit of helping others manifesting itself in our churches as it should. I believe God will give you the victory.-J. Bell. OUR AIM. Knowing as we do the needs of the THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. masses we shall aim in each subject discussed in the meetings to give practical plans by which we shall administer to these needs. If we can once get the women of the race interested in a movement that will help uplift the masses, raise them in the scales of industry and self respect, crucifying intemperance and vice we can be a great power for good in bettering the home life of our women. We shall bring before the people only those women who are ready to engage or are now at work among our people helping them to overcome their weaknesses. Women who have given this work some study and will aim in a practical way to better prepare us for the test through which we must pass. We shall condemn any spasmodic effort but hope to decide on some program of action to which we will apply ourselves. I have been thoroughly convinced that the day the Negro women of the country take decided steps toward a moral reform that day our white sisters will lend a hand. The fact that we have seemed satisfied with our condition in the homes and lives of our women has warranted them in remaining silent. Let us break the spell and under God teach the world that Negro women have ambitions as noble, aspirations as great, longings as intense for higher living as those that beat immortal in the breast of Anglo-Saxon women. All we need is a womanhood inspired with a zeal to lift up the fallen, demanding purity of character from men and women alike. We shall give in the next issue of the paper the place of meeting and some of the principal speakers. We ask of every woman her hearty co-operation and prayers. (Miss) NANNIE H. BURROUGHS, Corresponding Secretary Woman's Convention Auxiliary to the National Baptist Convention. Another Discrimination. At a recent meeting of the Bethel Literary the speaker of the evening, a prominent professional gentleman, made the statement that colored people are not more or less susceptible to certain diseases than are the whites as has often been claimed by learned scientists. Another professional gentleman in the audience took part in the discussion of the paper and declared most emphatically that we are as a race more immune to certain ailments than are the whites, and also that in certain other diseases the latter are much less liable to contagion than are we. It would appear that the second professional gentleman is right, for beyond question the colored people are much less frequently attacked by malarial and yellow fevers than are the whites and the reason therefor is very plausible. These fevers are mainly prevalent in the warmer and tropical climates and are transmitted largely by mosquitos. As we all well know those pesky insects get in their deadly work after dark and in seeking whom they may devour, they generally fail to see the people of the darker persuasion while the whites invariably fall easy victims to their venom While this explanation was not given during the discussion of the paper it is known to be the true one by all devotees of Esculapius. The Minute Men's Club. The Minute Men's Club of this city which is known for its hospitality and jolly good fellowship, was tendered a grand stag party by their genial secretary, Mr. Joseph D. Lawson, at his residence, No. 101 Keating avenue northeast, on Tuesday evening, April 1st. The club had quite an enjoyable evening, a principal feature being the many toasts that were given in honor of the club's success and prosperity. The club has a jolly good time and embraces a thriving set of young men. Their purpose is pleasure but at the same time they take care of each other in the time of sickness and distress. They also have a snug little account with the Capital Savings Bank. They intend at an early date to establish a business of some kind. The officers of the club are: H. E. Grymes, president; Henry Smith, vice-president; James Thomas, treasurer; Joseph D. Lawson, secretary; Harry F. Luckett, assistant secretary; George Brown, sergeant-at-arms; Benjamin Bond, chaplain. NEW BUSINESS VENTURE. Department Store to be Operated by Colored Company. An organization from which great good may come has been incorporated under the name of the People's Mercantile Association of Washington, D. C. Its object is to establish a co-operative department store, carrying as many lines of living necessities as can be done with profit. The capital stock is $20,000, divided into 2,000 shares at $10 each. Stock is now on the market and the store is to be opened as soon as sufficient money is raised. Headquarters are located at 515 Q street northwest. The officers, all well-known and reliable men, are: C. H. Watson, president and general manager; O'H. C. Jerome, vice-president; F. G. Manly, secretary; E. R. Russell, treasurer; directors, W. A. Joiner, chairman; Jno. N. Goins, F. G. Manly, C. H. Watson, H. W. White, E. R. Russell, D. J. Jordan, J. R. Watson, O'H. C. Jerome. This company is an answer to the COLORED AMERICAN'S continuous agitation for the Negro's participation in the business world. AID TO THE AILING. Answers to Queries of Curious Correspondents - More Anon. BY ANN OLE DUNN. Dear Mrs. Dunn:—Your most kind and helpful advice to others makes me venture to seek your aid in my own case. I am a young girl of eighteen and the young man I keep company with is twenty-two. We are not yet engaged but expect to be. He says I must not eat onions and as I love them dearly I do not wish to give them up. Do you not think that they are a healthy food and that he is rather previous in saying what I must not do before we are engaged? Also, where is the proper place to kiss a girl? I say on the cheek or forehead, but he says on the lips. Now which of us is right? MARY JANE. You are right about the onions, as they are appetizing and nourishing, but your friend evidently does not like the subtle fragrance which they leave in their wake. You should always take the precaution to slowly masticate half a pound of cloves and some Sen-Sen, both of which you can get from him, as he doubtless uses them himself—and not for onions. As to your last question I think the proper place for a young man to kiss a girl is wherever he can—in the parlor, in the vestibule or any nice dark place where nobody will see. Dear Mrs. Dunn:—I am a young man something more than of age and I dearly love a very sweet and charming girl, but I fear she does not reciprocate my affection. I have written her the most tender missives which she did not answer, and though I call on her frequently and she cannot help seeing by my subdued and sympathetic manner how I love her yet she does not seem to really care for me. Now I must win her and as, I do not know what to do next I ask your advice, knowing that it will be most timely. Anxiously, WILLIE D. F. Take a dose of pills. You are bilious. Dear Mrs. Dunn:—I am the mother of three infant children and my husband's wages are so small we cannot afford to keep a servant. Please answer me these two questions: First, Should my husband in his leisure time help me in nursing the little ones or not? Second, is it not his duty to make the fire Sunday mornings when he does not have to go to work? Please answer this for a hard working WIFE. It seems to me that nature has answered your first query. As for the second, yes. Of the hundreds of letters daily received by me I can necessarily answer but a few, those which I think will be of benefit to the majority of my readers. Those desiring personal answers must enclose a seven-cent stamp, for postage and things. ANN OLE DUNN. HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS THE M'KINLEY HOUSE. 489 Missouri Ave. Near 6 St. First-class accommodations for all. An up to date Hotel for colored people. Rooms neatly furnished, linens clean, and prices within reach of all. Meals and Lunches served at all hours. The PORTER : HOUSE ; CAFE 103 6th St., N. W. Wines, Liquors and Cigars.—A full line of the choicest liquors, the best brands of cigars and the coolest beer in Washington. BROWN & SMITH, Proprietors. W. M. DRURY'S RESTAURANT 1100 20th St., corner L. N. W. Washington. D C. HOTEL CLYDE, 475 MISSOURI AVE, N.W. First-Class Accomodations For Ladies and Gentlemen. Hot and Cold Baths. MRS. ALICE E. HALL, Proprietress. THE SOUTHERN HOTEL, Good board, steam heat and electric bells. Home comforts, moderate prices. 311 Pa. Av., n. w., Washington, D. G. Fine wines, licuors, cigars and To' acco. JACK M. RYAN, PROP. The Woodson House First-class, newly furnished and decorated, unurpassed cuisine. convenient to all cars. Only alf square from Pennsylvania Eepot. 467 Missouri Avenue. HENRY WOODSON, Proprietor. FINE WINES OLD WHIRKEY AND BRANNDIES Liquors of all kinds, Choice Cigars. PHILADELPHIA HOUSE. M. F. CARROLL, Prop. Restaurant and Saloon 348 Pennsylvania Avenue, N W. Washington, D. C. Meals to Order. Everything First Class Billiard and Pool Parlors Attached. SMITH CAFE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN'S DINING ROOM. Board by the Day or Week. A. M. SMITH, 479 Missouri Ave. Prop. 4 What Comedian Ben Hunn Has Done for The Elevation of Negroes in The Theatrical Profession Ranks With The best A performer who has been making the people of America "laugh and grow fat" for twenty years, is Mr. Ben Hunn. He belongs, however, to the younger class of comedians, who were wise enough to enter the door of popular favor opened so auspiciously in the long ago by such artists as Sam Lucas, Billy Kersands and Tom McIntosh, improving and modernizing the features introduced by those pioneers of the "fun world." Mr. Hunn is both the forerunner and contemporary of the kings of comedy of this generation, ranking side by side with Ernest Hogan, Billy McClain, Irving Jones, Williams and Walker and Cole and Johnson. He has J. been particularly strenuous in urging his fellow-players to equip themselves mentally and to keep up artistically with the very best of the Caucasians, in order to establish a high reputation for themselves, for the race and for the profession generally. Mr. Hunn is a native of Kansas, and was born in 1865. He went upon the stage in 1882, opening with the original Richards and Pringle's Minstrels. Since then alone or with his well-known brother Charles, he has filled engagements with A. D. Sawyer's Minstrels, Whalen and Martell, Sam T. Jack, Primrose and West, McCabe and Young, Hicks and Kersands. He has been the star of Hunn Brothers' Minstrels and has played frequently through the Kohl and Castle Circuit. He is now filling a successful engagement at Tampa, Fla., at the Buckingham Theater, owned and operated by one of the shrewest managers and best-hearted gentlemen in the theatrical business, Mr. Pat Chappelle. Mr. Chappelle is an Afro-American who is doing wonders for the colored performers, and Mr. Hunn is loud in his urgency that his duplicate may be created in many parts of the country. TOPICS OF THE TIMES to the steamboats of Virginia. It is said the company will fight the law until the case reaches the United States Supreme Court, if necessary, to test its constitutionality. The separate system is not a paying investment and the company objects to a restriction that causes monetary loss. The Nergo's rights are thus bound up in the white man's self-interests. It should be seen that no white business enterprise is allowed to make discrimination profitable. THE SPIRIT OF DIANE. (Continued from 1st rage.) was always able to conceal more than he revealed in any conversation with a foreigner. He was a shrewed, cunning, calculating personage, who believed in using the sword of the Lord of Gideon on his enemies, or in sending them to kingdom come at the point of the bayonet. He was a remarkable man in many ways and he never broke a prom- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. ise to friend or foe. His memory was excellent and he used it to good purpose, though he could conveniently forget disa greeable things, when he was so minded. The picture given answers the description of General Hyppolite, sometime President of Haiti. Diane is a strong story, and full justice cannot be done to it by a review which must be limited in a newspaper. It is sufficient to say that no better story has appeared in any of the current magazines, and that those who will take the trouble to read it will be repaid and will derive not a little pleasue and profit in doing so. I commend it most heartily to all lovers of literature. It is perhaps the most ambitious effort ever made by a J. R. Mr. John E. Bruce. man of color in the realm of fiction, though it is clearly manifest to students of contemporaneous history that a great deal of this story is founded upon facts which come within the range of vision of the writer. The characters he has created are all of them fictitious, but the story he has woven about them is not altogether so. Diane will not suffer by comparison with novels of kindred character and Mr. Durham has placed his readers under obligations to him by his masterly and skillful treatment of a subject which has added so much to the sum of human knowledge concerning the Haitian on his native heath, as seen through the spectacles of his Afro-American halfbrother. If you have not read Diane by all means order at once of your newsdealer, or from the publishers. BRUCE GRIT. What They Say Of Us TALKING GOOD SENSE. The editorial in THE COLORED AMERICAN of Washington, D. C., under the caption of "Appeals to Race Prejudices" was copied, in full by Editor Bryson in the daily press in the issue of the 13th inst., commending in the highest terms its logic and good sense. It was certainly one of the most sensible editorials that it has ben our good fortune to read. It ought to have been reproduced in many of the colored papers.—Louisiana, Mo., correspondent of Omaha Enterprise. HAVING FUN AT OUR EXPENSE THE COLORED AMERICAN is one of the 10 silos on the pennsylvanian prairie of the First Baptist Church, Asheville, N.C. Here he found a discouraged and much-scattered people. Bringing them together in harmony and good fellowship, in his first year, 1901, he raised over $3,000, the greater part of which was put into the erection of a church building. This he hopes to complete by next winter, the total cost footing up to $7,000 or $8,000. Through his efforts earnestly co-operating with other divines, spiritual life in the western section of North Carolina has been immeasurably quickened, and actuated to a zealous, aggressive and uplifting work, unprecedented by the Baptist denomination of the locality. A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION. Rev. L. G. Jordan, secretary of the Baptist Foreign Mission Board, whose admirable labors for the race are yielding rich fruit, writes a letter full of encouragement. Among other things he says: My Dear Brother:—We have just read your latest issue with great interest and noted especially what you ably said, touching the "Texas Steer." It is to be hoped that the future Negro will get out of turning his guns on his fellow helper instead of those who seek to annihilate us. It seems the effort of the other people, the world over is, to keep the Negro at war with himself; and we have done that so long that many of us are out of our elements at anything else. * * * Sorry to learn through your columns that you had a fall on the ice. I hope you are still as sober and steady as when I knew you in Indianapolis, for you have, indeed been a source of inspiration to the Negro journals in this and other countries. Charleston, W. Va., March 14, 1902. EDITOR COLORED AMERICAN: Your paper is the sweetest scented rose that has bloomed in the garden of journalism during the past and present century. Hope you will keep it up. Your critics may mourn, howl and bark but they disturb you less than the whisper of winds stir the leaves of the protesting forests and the murmur of waves that break on the complaining shores. Must stop for I find myself uncorking the rusty-hooped barrels of "hot-air." The Negroes of brain are with you. Faithfully yours. PHIL WATERS. FREE PACKAGE OF THE ONLY SUCCESSFUL CURE KNOWN FOR DRUNKNESS SENT TO ALL WHO Send NAME and ADDRESS. It Can be Put Secretly into Food or Coffee and Quickly Cures the Drink Habit. Few men become drunkards from choice or inclination--all welcome release from the awful haoit. Golden Specific will cure the worst habitual drunkard. This wonderful remedy can be administered by wife or daughter, in food, tea, coffee or milk, without causing the slightest sus- MR. and MRS. HARRY BURNSIDE. picion. Its cure is sure, without harmful results to the system. Many a home is now happy by the use of Golden Specific. 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Dr Shepard will address the Second Baptist Lyceum tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock on "Problems." He is an instructive and entertaining speaker and all should hear him. The Need of a Chaperon. One of the most important demands of social life is that young girls should be properly chaperoned. Mothers cannot be too careful of their duties in the guardianship of their young daughters. This does not imply any doubt as to their trustworthiness, but the world is neither a lenient nor kind judge; society demands that certain laws for conduct be observed, and if they are disregarded the parents must get the P. BISHOP B. W. ARNETT. Chairman of Financial Board of A.M.E Connection, Now in Session Here. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. credit of being ignorant or sadly indifferent, or the daughters of being reckless, forward or rebellious. There are few things so precious and sacred at the reputation of a young girl. A mother is a girl's natural chaperon. If she cannot a company her always, she can, at least, be sure that her daughter is under proper and dignified protection. The Delineator for May, in its department of social observances, discusses very closely this phase of family obligations and calls attention to the fact that lack of care on the part of parents results too often in the foolish engagements and imprudent early marriages of young people. The S. uhern Workman The April issue of the Southern Workman, published by the Hampton Institute Press, is a noteworthy one. 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Two samples of Indian songs accompany the article Professor Kelly Miller, whose paper in the February Forum on "The Expansion of the Negro Population" has aroused considerable interest. begins in this issue of the Southern Workman a series of studies of "The City Negro," which will be of great interest to sociologists. The number contains also valuable editorials on educational subjects, and an account of a trip among Hampton graduates which illustrates the value of industrial education. ```markdown ``` --- girls in every locality have several which they could use to good advan- t money. for us a little while every week N at 5 cents each-selling the ace paper published-full of relihortative opinion on race topics. ble risk, We send a bundle of them like hot cakes at 5 cents OLORED AMERICAN as soon as and read a copy of it. sible party will send us the name THE COLORED AMERICAN every extra copy in the agent's bundle to the party appointing the agent COLORED AMERICAN. Send us the once. 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Business is business and every man has a right to attend to his business after his own fashion—provided he does no public harm or refrains from interfering with the natural rights of another fellow citizen. But, when one Charles F. La Fon, places before the people a certain circular, full of miscellaneous names and nonsense, calling for a mass meeting under the auspices of an alleged organization, described as "The Colored American National and Congressional Republican League of the United States," he does the intelligent Negro citizen a gross injury. One must see the circular in order to appreciate its folly. The whole thing is more than ridiculous, and indicates to what extremes a rattlebrained idiot will go if left unchecked by popular indignation. The organization has no existence. The publication of the names of prominent men as its officers, when they knew nothing of their election, is an imposition. The appointing as subordinate committeemen the most distinguished white and colored people of the country, without their knowledge or consent, is a rank insult to their intelligence, political standing. Mr. La Fon may meet well by his effort to organize the race for mutual protection, but a hysterical handbill, bordering on incendiarism, and using people's names without permission, is not the way to bring good results. The most charitable construction that Mr. La Fon's friends place upon his extraordinary document is that he has gone crazy upon the subject of national organizations, until he imagines that through this stupendous idea of centering all the wisdom and power around himself, all political and social problems may be solved. A man's mind must surely be unbalanced when he will appoint the President of the United States upon an executive committee under him, and assume charge of a machine in person, naming as his aids a hundred or more leading members of both Houses of Congress, and all the members of the Cabinet. A list of general officers is given, with impossible duties, and a lot of committees are assigned without regard to rhyme or reason, locating men in States some of them never saw. On these committees are Negroes of all kinds and conditions, white statesmen, generals and admirals. This insanity, however, is on par with two other ridiculous anties on the part of La Fon. In 1900 he sent a hurried telegram to Senator Dolliver during the Philadelphia convention, stating that $10,000 would be needed by him to insure Dolliver's nomination for vicepresident. Again, after the Buffalo tragedy, he telegraphed the Chicago authorities to hold Emma Goldman; that he had proof of her complicity in the murder of the President. We do not know whether there is a law against the display of these brilliant ideas, but it does excite wonder that the table of the foolish house across the Eastern branch of the Potomac has not been graced ere this by the presence of "Prof. Charles F. La Fon, Grand President, Interpreter and Instructor in Political Science and Diplomacy, etc., etc., etc. While it may not be well to attach too much seriousness to what would ordinarily to be a "joke," this La Fon idiocy ought not to be dismissed with a laugh. The laugh is on the race for permitting things of this kind to exist without rebuke. Every white man who believes us to be an aggregation of incapables will chuckle in his sleeve over this remarkable propaganda inaugurated by an active and energetic, but misguided Negro. La Fon's scheme is nothing more than an extravagant outbreak of the race organizing and mass meeting THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. fever that has been allowed to go on and on to the point of nauseation. The country over is infested with a lot of "wise guys" who won't work, but make it a business to stir up strife and play upon the credulity of Negroes, using a bogus "influence" with the people to terrify white politicians into giving them money or position. It is queer how a white politician, shrewd in so many respects, attach any credence to the representations of these fellows and give them either countenance or cash. They rarely have anything to commend them save a pocketful of resolutions written by themselves, good clothes, an assured air, and a glib tongue. They tell tales to Senators that would make Baron Munchausen look like thirty cents and put the Arabian Nights on a "heavy track." They pose us "leaders, and with solemn faces, promise national and State committeeen that they can turn over so many Negro votes for a stipulated price and guarantee nominations and elections to the Senate, governorship or to other offices. They are tendered big places by the President and get themselves "mentioned" for commissioner to St. Louis Exposition, minister to somewhere or register of anything. The apparent success of these adventurers, due to the carelessness and tolerance of the people, as led to a terrible abuse of the high- unding organization traffic and reduced mass meetings to the realm of the fakir. Now that the campaign is about to come on, the Capitol is besieged with peripatetic frauds showing circulars of great leagues (on paper), or lobbying for some wild scheme, of which the exslave pension measure is a fair sample. We are losing confidence and respect by the tricks of these cormorant clubs and political mendicants, and allowing the foxes of the race to fasten itself into the vitals of the industrious Negro, who is trying to do right and gets his money by working for it. As was said at the outset, the La Fon episode would ordinarily be a joke, but it can be easily seen what disastrous and humiliating consequences may grow out of this organization madness, when we content ourselves with a laugh. Some weak-kneed brethren in Congress—some who have large Negro constituencies—continue to argue that the questions of suffrage, elections and Southern representation had best be let alone. That is all stuff. The matter should be settled by a firm insistence upon the enforcement of all laws, and that every man shall stand upon an equal footing politically. Suppose the American patriots had accepted the "let well enough alone" policy when this country was groaning under the tyranny of Great Britain? Would the United States have been a world power had we been too cowardly to fight wrong doing to the last ditch? The Negro asks justice because he, in common with all citizens, is guaranteed certain rights by the Constitution and he should be protected by adequate laws. Do our white friends stop to think that but for the faithful Negro, this country would be two govoyernments, and both would have been footballs to be kicked at the will of the great nations of the earth—instead of the most highly respected? The worst enemy of the South is the ignorant white man. This class is wholly responsible for the suffrage restrictions that militate against racial harmony. For instance: Dr. W. E. Sterrs, a graduate of the University of Michigan, and H. V. Cashin, receiver of public moneys at Birmingham, were refused registration under the new constitution of Alabama. They are among the most intelligent colored men of the State. With others they have decided to test the matter in the United States Court. This sort of thing destroys the argument of the black friends of the South and puts to shame the best white people. (Continued f.om 7.h page ) 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS &c. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable. Communications strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any scientific journal. Terms, $3 a year; four months, $. Sold by all newdealers. MUNN & Co. 361 Broadway, New York Branch Office, 525 F. St., Washington, D.C. NOT ONE CENT TO PAY: GLOSSINE THE WONDER QUEEN OF ALL HAIR TONICS FOR DIRECTIONS BEFORE AFTER SEE INSIDE STRAIGHTENS CURLY KINKY KNAPPY HAIR CONTINENTAL CHEMICAL CO ST. LOUIS, MO. 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Paradoxical as it may seem, the man goes down fastest who "elips up" oftentest. why certainly, The Colored American is sound on the encampment problem. It is not necessary to effect ponderosity to make sensible people thank you are wise. We would have more time if we used our time systematically and therefore economically. It is amusing to see a chap with a $10 head ramming into it $500 worth of alleged "law." And Booker Washington has not been demolished by the putty bails of puerile opponents. Verbosity is the death trap into which some of our most promising correspondents fall. The dissemination of an idea should be worth more to a writer or speaker than individual glory. Thousands of good men love excellent lady friends by being foolish enough to fall in love with them. Many a preacher occupies a pulpit by reason of bishopric indulgence and congregational tolerance. Half of our most useful factors waste a heavy per cent of their time and energy acknowledging applause. Be ye not deceived. The gold brick would never land even a sucker, if it did not look like the real thing. The "hot air spieler" is a back number. His measure has been taken. He is not "there with the goods." Show us an individual who has made no mistakes, and we will show you an individual who has done nothing. The artificial Negro who tries to ape millionaires by opening many bottles of champagne at $4 per quart to impress a gang of fellows as silly as himself, is cutting across lots toward the poo-house. Men in themselves, are littletle. The results achieved by them fix their value to the generation in which they live. Don't let a Negro church, school, household, barber shop or saloon be THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. known by the noise emanating therefrom. Every Negro that performs a praise worthy service helps every other Negro to rise in the scale of popular approval. The genius who works earnestly in the dark is on the high road to the center of the stage, where the calcium shines. Have you ever considered that the meanest thief is he who wastes your valuable time by tardiness in keeping an engagement? The races real benefactors are constructive statesmen, through whose wisdom, foresight and labors cause two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before. Don't try to live on your wits. A moderate salary per month the year round will do more actual good than twice the amount acquired through intermittent "snaps." A note says that St Louis is being cleared of its tough characters. This insures a city in which J. Milton Turner can live without annoyance. We assure all colored friends who complain about the undesirability of St. Louis as an exposition town, that it is at least better than Baltimore. When the dilatoriness of certain northern Congressmen in handling measures for the relief of the Negro is compared with the venom of southern opposition, this question arises: Which is more to be condemned, a hypocrite or a villain? POLITICAL HOROSCOPE. (Continued from sixth page) who stand ready to recognize Negro worth and capacity. Senator Depew has taken a hand in the suffrage question by way of pointing out the necessity for an honest ballot everywhere, if United States Senators are to be chosen by the popular vote. Senator Money, touched to the quick by a stinging reference to the "Mississippi plan," joins in the howl of his Southern colleagues against any plan that makes a Southern white man cease to be three men, as compared with the Northerner, who, like Senator Depew, is but a, fraction of a man. Keep your weather eye on one Grover Cleveland, of New Jersey. There is no use trying to stir up strife between such close friends and such useful men as Booker Washington, Col. Pledger and T. Thomas Fortune. The Negro loves the South too well to permit it to remain in the wrong on the question of human rights. Let the wisest of us co-operate for the good of both races. The freedmen's inquiry commission should be provided for at once. It can do wonders in three years toward the betterment of industrial conditions, for broader education and will help to solve America's insular problems. If the Crumpacker resolution is certain to defeat the Republican party next fall, why don't the Democrats let their opponents go ahead and break their necks? That is easier than stuffing ballot boxes and lynching inoffensive Negroes. Senator Deboe has received assurance from the State Department that Mr. James Robert Spurgeon, of Maysville, Ky., at present United States secretary of Legation at Monrovia, Liberia, will be retained at that post. This report will settle an agitation that To Notley Hall, Upper Glymont, Lower Cedar Point, Rock Point Other Points On The Potomac. 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Private Messenger service. Rates made for monthly service. Stands: At Cosmopolitan Hotel 458 Louisiana Avenue and 9th and K street. THE COLORED AMEPICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. 8 The Colored American Published by THE COLORED AMERICAN Publ ishing Company. A NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER Published every Saturday at 459 C St. N. W Washington, D. C. SUBSORPTION RATES. One year - - $2.00 Six months - - 1.10 Three months - - .60 INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. Subscriptions may be sent by postoffice money order, express or by registered letter. All communications for publication should be accompanied with the name of the writer—not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. We solicit news, contributions, opinions and in fact, all matters affecting the race. We will not pay for matter, however, unless it is ordered by us. All matter intended for publication must reach this office by Wednesday of each week to insure insertion in the current issue. Agents are wanted everywere, Send or instructions. ADVERTISING BATES. Reading notices 50 cents per line. Display advertisements, $2 per square inch per insertion. Discounts made on large contracts. Entered at the Post-office as second-class matter. All letters, communications, and business matters should be addressed to THE COLORED AMERICAN, EDWARD E. COOPER, MANAGER 459 C Street Northwest. WASHINGTON, D. C. Sold by all all News Dealers. SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1902 THE NEGRO IN THE PHILIPPINES. The Negro is entitled to fair play in the Philippines, and our rights should be insisted upon. In the judicial service we are a cipher, and the promise of representation, like hope deferred, maketh the heart sick. In the ordinary civil service we are as scarce as snakes in Ireland—"there aren't any"—and the outlook offers little. The most discouraging aspect is furnished by the discrimination in army circles. There were two regiments of colored volunteers, the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth, having an aggregate of 75 officers and during all the time of the service, very few, if any of these officers were put upon any special duty or given any civil appointment, while from the white volunteer regiments, such appointments were quite numerous. The colored officers, without notable exception, were shut out of the opportunity to take the examinations for appointment to the regular army. Colored men were given to understand that it was the policy of the government not to appoint colored men in these islands. Colored men were flatly told that they would not be appointed on the police force in Manila, a force made up of discharged soldiers. In fact, it was generally hinted from official sources that colored soldiers were not wanted in the islands after they were discharged. Coiored school teachers were treated to the same dose of ostracism, and if any have been appointed recently, we have yet to hear the glad tidings. The Negro soldier is especially adapted to the conditions existing in the Philippines, for the natives like men of their own racial admixture, and they would more readily weld together the warring factions that make peace a far-away problem. The colored judge would make American rule more acceptable than the majority of Caucasians, and the colored teacher would be received with open arms. We don't think President Roosevelt is to blame, as he is not an autocrat and cannot control minor affairs We lay this acute colorphobia at the door of a narrow minded adjutant general and the codfish aristocrats who pretend to believe that the military and naval academies at West Point and Annapolis are social institutions for the propagation and development of American snobbery. We should like to see the responsibility fixed and a remedy found. There is an opening for the Negro in the Philippines, if only fair play can be obtained. The Crumpacker resolution is a measure to make the honest white man of the North equal in political power to the dishonest white man of the South. That's all. NATLONAL AFRO-AMERICAN COUNCIL. The plan of the National AfroAmerican Council and Press Association to meet in St. Paul, Minn, simultaneously with the gathering of the National Educational Association, is an exceedingly happy one More people can be gotten together by virtue of cheap rates, and the diversification of exercises will add to the enjoyment, while not militating against the primary purp se of the trip. Tickets may be had at one fare for the round trip, plus membership in the National Educational Association. Bishop Walters is confident that this session of the Council will be the largest and most important in its history, and urges everybody to lend a hand. There is much to be done, and the Northwest, especially, should be there in force. Mr. Bryan's Commoner is now upon our exchange list May we hope to wax strong in wisdom. MORE PROTECTION NEEDED The Negro is drifting into the cities. It may be to his detriment, in view of the increased temptations and heavier living expenses. But, the reason is plain. Lynchings are successful only in rural districts, and robbery, direct or by contract, can best be accomplished far from courts and juries. If a Negro can save nothing, he can at least live and that counts for a good deal. We do not counsel this migration to the cities, unless necessary, for the permanent growth of the race must inevitably depend upon our footing in the soil. Agriculture is our bed rock. It would be wise for the leaders of southern thought to take steps to insure adequate protection to Negroes on farms, both as to person and to wages. The black man's muscle is sorely needed by the whites when the crops become ripe. The river parishes of Louisiana have lost more than 5,000 colored laborers in the last ten years. Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina have suffered in similar degree. Recorder Dancy's business like methods have already brought about marked improvement in the character and capacity of the work turned out by his office force. In speed and accuracy, in discipline and in what the French call esprit du corps, the advance is apparent to all who see with their eyes. --- Colored soldiers should be sent in large numbers to the Philippines. The natives have confidence in them, and a splendid evidence of their ass milability, also, is found in the preference of the Filipino women for them as husbands At the risk of being ungallant to our fair Afro-American maidens. the negro soldier-bachelor wishes to cast his marital fortunes across the sea, let him have the opportunity to do so. The race too much given to getting excited over a mere tempest in a teapot. Mr. Bryan's Commoner is now upon our exchange list, May we hope to wax strong in wisdom. A lynching at Lynchburg kept the Virginia city true to its name, and perhaps up to its moral standard. How it does worry some short-sighted white people for a Negro to occupy a house in a decent neighborhood! It costs more to convict a white man in Virginia than it does to convict a Negro—because it takes longer to send up a man who is allowed a fair show. A new citizenry must begin at the bottom and build up. The Negro's first duty is toget the primary elements of progress—education, morals and land. A large portion of Virginia's electorate under the new constitution can understand almost any clause, but they may have trouble making the officials understand that they understand. The District Commissioners will have a fine chance to show during the coming encampment that the veterans did not fight in vain. Open the town to all, white and black, and see how the civil rights law will work. Without "tooting our own horn" to the point of immodesty, we wish to call your attention to the many new and improved features of The Colored Amer ican. Now, honor bright, aren't you getting the worth of your money? It is now Pension Commissioner Ware. He comes from Kansas and is said to be a warm sympathizer of the boys in blue. He has the approval of the G. A. R. Another victory for the people with the single-syllable name. The Negro who really does something for the race is he who opens a door for the employment of Negro talent. Fully 2,500 colored persons are employed in this country by Negro journals, to say nothing of other lines of industry Preachers and teachers in districts where lynchings take place should report the exact truth to the papers of the North, white and colored Names will be protected, if the persons are known to be reliably. The Carnegie Library at Atlanta will be a colorless affair The great Scotch benefactor deserved better treatment than his mismanagers are giving him. To fully accomplish his purpose, Mr. Carnegie had better now give Atlanta's 3 600 Negroes a library. Massachusetts club women are to be congratulated upon their brave and unequivocal stand for fair play toward their colored sisters. Women who pretend to be Christians, working for the uplift of humanity, and then draw away their silken skirts at the approach of a black face, are hypocrites, pure and simple. The federation is not a social affair,andought to be too broad for recognition of differences in race or color Our fellow townsman, Mr. A. F. Hillyer, has patented an evaporating fan for 'hot air registers.' Good! Why not give them a trial at some of our numerous mass meetings and literaries, when the individual with more voice than disretion insists upon taking up the time? Church organs are essential to the prosperity of a denomination. A cause is helped by letting people know what is going on. The Church News is a new, neat and sprightly weekly, just launched at Philadelphia by Rev. G. L. Blackwell. It is undenominational, but we presume it will not neglect the interests of the A. M. E. Zion connection in the Quaker City. Atlanta's Library 'Lockout." The president of the Carnegie Library at Atlanta, Ga, has informed the public through Prof. W. E. B. DuBois, of four decisions: 1. Negroes will not be permitted to use the Carnegie library in Atlanta. 2. That some library facilities will be provided for them in the future. 3. That to this end the city council will be asked to appropriate a sum proportionate to the amount of taxes paid by Negroes in the city. 4. That an effort will be made, and had been made to induce northern philanthropists to aid such a library, concluding with the assurance that in this way the Negroes might eventually have a better eibrary than the whites. And thus is the Negro barred from the door of knowledge and persecuted because he hath not education. SYMPATHY FOR COMRADE'S LOSS. Whereas, in the beneficent Providence of Almighty God, the late R v. Gaither, father of our comrade and brother Lieut. E R. Gaither, has been called to the great beyond, and Whereas the affliction and bereavement of our brother elicits our smpathy and condolence. Therefore be it resolved, that we tender to our comrade Lieutenant E R. Gaither our heartfelt sympathy, to the end that his wounded affections may find some consolation and alleviation in the consciousness that the hearts of the members of the Charles Young Command, 112 of Spanish War Veterans, are bowed with him in his grief. Resolved, further, that our expressions of sympathy be engrossed in the record and copies of the same transmitted to our brother and to The Colored American. In bonds of F H and P Samuel B. Wallace, captain; Richard E Toomey, adjutant; Charles Young Command 112. S W. V Good News From Darien Darien, Ga., Special.—This is to let you know that I am still in the field, and at work. Colored people down here are "rising." In Savannah they are worth over $250 000. Some of them hold good positions at salaries from $900 and upwards. In Darien the race is advancing rapidly along the lines of wealth and education. Your humble servant was well received in both places and had the privilege of conducting a ten days meeting at this place; next stop will be at Brunswick, Ga. Yours for the race, A. W. SHIELDS.