The Colored American

Saturday, June 21, 1902

Washington, D.C.

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The COLORED American NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER VOL. X1, NO. 10. IN THE NATION'S EYE. COL.C W. THOMPSON UNITES NORTH AND SOUTH. Studying Negro Problems in Candid and Intelligent Vein-Visiting Party Saw Both Sides of Race Life in Alabama's "Black Belt"-Valuable Information Gleaned at First Hand. Go into the chamber of the House of Representatives and ask any one familiar with current events to point out the Southern member who to-day fills the largest space in the National eye and his finger will be instantly turned towards Col. Charles Winston Thompson, who represents the Fifth District of Alabama. In response to your look of inquiry suggesting "Why?" he will say, "He is the gentleman who conducted that famous Congressional party on a tour through the black belt of his State and furnished more actual information to the people in a week than an encyclopedia could have given in a month." Who is Colonel Thompson, and why did he inaugurate this movement that has made him a National issue? Charles Winston Thompson is a Democrat and he lives at Tuskegee, Ala. He was born in Macon county, near Tuskegee, December 30, 1860; was educated in the common schools of the county, at the Park High School at Tuskegee, Ala., and at Bryant & Stratton's Business College at Louisville, Ky., graduating with first honor in 1878; married Miss Estelle Alley, daughter of William Alley, a prominent Republican, April 29, 1880; followed the mercantile business until 1893, when he organized the Bank of Tuskegee and was elected president, which position he now holds; in 1896 he was appointed by Governor Joseph F. Johnston as a member of his staff, as lieutenant-colonel and served in that capacity until the end of his term; is a member of the Methodist Church, a trustee of the Girls' Industrial School of Alabama, and a trustee of the Methodist District High School at Notasulga; in 1898 was unanimously chosen without opposition to represent the Twenty-sixth Ssenatorial District in the Senate of Alabama, where he made a magnificent reputation as a legislator and orator; in 1900 became a candidate against Col. Willis Brewer for the Congressional nomination from the Fifth District of Alabama, and after a most bitterly contested election was nominated by an overwhelming majority, and was elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress by a majority of 7,985 carrying all of the nine counties in the district except one, receiving 15,737 votes, to 7,782 for A. J. Millstead, Republican. TRUE INWARDNESS OF THE MOVEMENT. Able as men may be in point of energy, character and resource, frequently some single, unforeseen circumstance serves more than all else to bring them into universal prominence. It is a peculiar fact that notwithstanding his growing record in Congress and an unusually WASHINGTON, D.C., JUNE 21, 1902. JOICE ENG. CO. brilliant career as a State legislator and business factor, Col. Thompson did not catch the aroma of real fame until in a spirit of chivalry, he extended an invitation to a number of his Northern colleagues and friends to join him in a tour of social enjoyment and inspection through the State of Alabama. Generous in all things himself and entertaining only the kindliest sentiments toward the colored people with whom he had had large dealings, he felt keenly the shafts of bitterness that had been hurled at some portions of his native section. Possessed of liberal fortune, it was therefore but natural that he should seize a convenient opportunity to get together a coterie of Northern men who knew of the South only by hearsay and carry them into this interesting territory both as a means of recreation and to enable them to gain a first-hand reliable information concerning the conditions that obtain there—to study from observation and contact the actual relations that exist between the races. Though several measures of far reaching importance touching the status of the Negro and the South were pending in Congress no one who knows Col. Thompson as he is, will accredit to him any political motive in extending the invitation at the time he did. He felt that it would subserve the interests of all concerned to throw as much light as possible upon this dark subject, and that the happiest way to secure information that would be free from partisan coloring would be to personally conduct a party of thoughtful Northern men through the typical section of the Southland in a semi-social way, and wholly uninfluenced by arguments from him, permit them to see with their own eyes both sides of the picture and to hear with their own ears the story of joy or sorrow from those who lived there. Col. Thompson's sole purpose was to bring out the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, hurt whom it may. The ink was scarcely dry upon the cards, however, before throughout the North and in many circles of our people, a cry went up that the journey was simply a deep laid plot on the part of cunning Democrats to carry a car load of Republican leaders in Congress—like Mr. Littlefield and others—into the most disreputable haunts of the Negro in the black belt, point out to them the ignorance and degradation of the race and Continuedon fifth page PRICE, FIVE CENTS. SOWING AND REAPING. MAJOR DOUGLAS TELLS OF OUR HARVEST. Young Men and Women of the Negro Race Excoriated for Lack of Enterprise and Self-Respect Absurd Obsequiousness to Caucasians in Our Public Functions. "What shall the harvest be?" This is the the race as it exists in Washington, and question propounded by you in regard to then follows a recital of some of the many grievances suffered by us at the hands of our white fellow citizens. In reading this leading editorial of yours, in your issue of last week, I could but feel a sense of shame for the short-comings of my own people, for not one of the evils complained of by you, but what could be remedied by ourselves, had we the disposition to do so. It is one of the strongest arguments against our ability for self-government, that we, ninety thousand of us right here at the Nation's capital, are utterly dependent for everything we eat, drink, and wear, and for suitable places for entertainments, upon the white citizens of Washington. For our own sake I wish they would keep us out of every theatre in Washington, from pit to dome, and deny us the rental of a hall for our nightly balls, etc. All we seem to be able to do is to build churches and keep a large percentage of our people in alleys because of the heavy tax laid upon them to pay these enormous church debts, which, by the way, increase rather than diminish, notwithstanding the regular monthly "rally," which takes place every Sunday in scores of our churches. The harvest will be just what we sow: Jealousy, envy, discord, and a lack or self-respect. Take the Capital Savings Bank for instance, an institution of many years' standing, operated by men of our own race, and from the day it opened its doors, up to the present time, has been ready to meet all just demands by its depositors; and yet, though it is the only banking institution in Washington giving employment as cashiers, tellers, bookkeepers, and, in fact, every position requisite about a bank, to colored young men, still we find many of our colored school teachers, department clerks, messengers, and our moneyed men and benevolent associations, taking their funds to white banks where not one of their race could secure employment save as a scrub. In this discrimination the fault of the whites? "And why beholdest there the mote that is in thy brother's eve, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" No, Mr. Editor: turn your guns on the young Negro of to-day, who is having better opportunities for the development of responsibilities than any of us ever had heretofore. The men who organized the Washing- Continued on eighth page. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. I TT OE Washington Under the Calcium. 10 Mr. Lagemne reenvies OSS Bene to Staien I land for the summer. Don’t forget the Excelsior Pleasure Park when you plan for an outing. Misa Minnie Gaines, of 1650 lith street morthwest, is regaining her bealtb. Miss Rosa Nalie, of 1221 W street, has goue to Oawego, N. Y¥., for the summer, Mre,R D. Harris far turned to her heme in Charlotte, N. C., after a lengthy visit here. Miss Mary Fl<ming bas re.urned from a pl-ssant visit to Mrs. J. M, D. Dorsey in Bttimcre. Mrs. Lottie Wileon, the artist, will keep her studio og en all the summer at 805 M street northwest. The best resulta can be obtained at A. H Ov per’s, our up-to-date colored tailor, 925 18-h street, northwe-t Liacla Mcmorial Tem, la will bavea miliinery de, artweat in the fal, under the direction of Mra. M. O. Uaderdomwn. Mrs. A O Stafford has returned to her home in Baltimore greatly im- proved after successfully undergoing an op: ratien here. ? Mr. Eugene Silence has gone to Diluth, Minn., for the summer, ana may conclude to locate permanently in that great northwest. Mrs. Madge Dyer White, who hae been under epecial treatment for some time at Freedmen’s Hospiral, is re ported much better. Sunday evening servicas have been disco:tinued at St. Luke’s P. E. church. The Wednesday eveuing ser- vice will be held for atime yet, begin- ning at 7.30 o’clock. Miss Ali:e Wilson, Mr. J, Austin, Miss Josephine Wormley, Mrs. Julia MecAdvo and Miss Daisy Reed have been visiting in Baltimore. Mr James H. Hadnell of Castle- berg’s j3welry house,is in N w York for afew duys,the guest of Mrs H, M. Cain, 260 West 58rd street. Latters to this office indicate that Register J W. Lyens’ speeches at New Albany, Ind., Hampton, Va., and other points scored a ‘*ii .” The Second Baptiet L:ceum leade the van by electing delegates to the Nationai Negro Business League at Richmond and to the Nation.! Afro- American Courcilat St Paul. Mr. Samucl Walker, a graduate of the law depariment of Howsrd Uni- Versity, ¢xpecte to harg out his “sh nzie’’ at Cnarlottesvil.e, Va. Mr. Charles E. Brown wiil have charge of the culinary department at the summer residence of Dr. Bigelow, of Boston, at Tacksrnuck I:Jand, The Hawaiian singers attracted a large audience to Plymouth Congre- gational church Sunday evening, de- spite the hot weather. All were well paid however, by the excellence of the music. Prot, J. A, Lankford, of Shaw Unt- versity, and his charming wife, are stopping with Mrs. Matthews 1920 lith siraet northwest pending the e-ection widely complimented by tke press 0 the country, Animpromptu musicale was giver at'beh me of Mrs, Hamer of Mosher 8 reet, Baltimore, lact werk, by Mrs Lula Messer Davis in honor of Mrs McAdoo of Washington. Misses Brown Hatchett and Jackson, aidid by Mr Brooks, assisted in entertaining th guest. Dr. W 8. Lofton w:ll head a large party going to Baltimore tomorrow te attend the pontificial mass, following the ordinstion of Father J. Har ry Dorsey to the priesthood The services wiil begin at St. Francis Xavier eburcb at ll a. m. The Washington party leave the B. and O depot here at 7:30 o’clock. The ordination of Fathes Dusey has attracted national attention. Mrs. F. P, W_iliston, of Fayetteville, N. C., who has been on a two months’ visit in this vicinity, the gueat of ber son, Dr. &. D. Williston, left for ber home Tuesday of last week, accom pa- uied by ber son, Dr James T. Willis ton, & recent graduate of the Pharm:- ceuticel Department of Huward Uni- vewity, who goes to North Carolira to take the examination before the State Medical Boaad Mise Florence Matthews, theeffi-jent ch ef clerk in the office of Atuoruey W. L Pollard will be anted in marriage June 30ih to Mr. Warner Jones at the home of the bride in Brookland, D C Phe happy c.uple wiil reside at Fo:- trees Monroe where Mr Jones is en‘ gaged in the dairy business, Mr. and M:s Richard Buckner re questthe honor of the presence of friends at the marriage of thei: danghier,Emma V. Russ li to Dr Bijan H. A len, Wedoe-day evening June 25th at 8 \’clock Reception fron: 8:30 to 10, 1827 Vermont Avenue. A: ‘bome after June 25th at 1115 4:h stseet norihwest. _ Bev O M. Weller preached a stro & sermon Sunday morning at 8t. Luxe’- on ‘The Ethics of Betting and Ginb- ling.”” He condemned gam: s of chance as “getting riches not by Tight,” and pointed out that gambiers habitually viulate every commandment in th: decalogae. This clacs of sermons come elnae to the people and hsve a Practical value, Mrs. 8 M Pierre left this ciiy on lst of May for Charlottesville, Va., where she will srend the summer with heraunt, Mrs Catherine Page Mrs Pierre is being bighly extertaired by the best familes of that city, and is very much improved in teal h. She will retord the Ist of September. Dr 3. M. Pierce is keeping bachelor quar. tets at their cosy home, 2046 L stree northwest, where they have recently gone to housekeeping. Sayirgs From Summit, Summit, Miss., Special—Mrz. Laura Powellis ebsent this weck, visiting her son, Prof. J. H. Powellacd family in Edward, Miss, Mer. J. Martin, of McOomb City, was the guest of friends here Mondsy. Miss Hattie Thorpe, a young apd charming lIsdy, was the guest of frfends in the country Sandsy, Mrs M.M.Pcwell, of Magnolia, was a visitor to Summit Sunday, the guest of Rev- E Bryant and family. Young men and ladies, when you need your suits cleaned and pressed call on Mr. J. E, Mason, on Robb street at Rav. E. Bryant’s grocery store. When our citizens need a shave or bair eut, call on Mr. W. M. MePhony. He will be glad to meet you. Miss Stella Preston, spent thre days in New Ocleans, visit. ing friends. Hon. Charles H. Smiley. news sgent, spent Wedneedsy in Jackson on business. People here are —_—_———— a MY CONDITIONS ARE SO SLIGHT THAT THEY COME WITHIN THE REACH OF ALL. KM I want you to write to me and send me your name and address on a postal card. Iam in a position to put you in the way of making more money in one day than you can make in one month at the ordinary vocations of life. I don’t care how well you may be doing or how good the job is that you already hold. I know that when you get my reply to your postal card that you will give up every- thing and work for me. If you will only do as I shall tell you, and follow the instructions that I shall give you, you will be your own ‘‘Boss,’’ and sit at your own desk in your own office. This is no fake, but a true and honest chance that I offer to every man or woman, black or white. I make no discrimination as to color, race, or condition. If you are willing to work, I am willing to help you on to independence. This is the chance of your lifetime. Do not delay; send me your name and address to-day and I will send you a VALUABLE PRESENT FREE! Write to WM. T. MARTIN, 1700 Lucas Avenue, ST. LOUIS, MO. SK EE EF TF EE EE LE ES TIS, : HK. FULTONS % g » t % ; 4% % 3 Loan Olfi : Gal] Ullice ‘ ‘* % R co ‘ , 5M Oth Street Northwest. ‘ % %, (ESTABLISHED 1870.) : “ Moser Loaxep Ox — ‘ .w : a ; Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware Ete. ¢ -, Unredeemed Watches, Diamonds and Jewelry For Sale, Old : ; GOLD and SILVER Bought. ‘ ,, wa-The most Reliable Place in the City to Borrow Money ae = & a greatly intercsted in reading The -Col- ored American, the best colored paper in the country. Mrs, L. E Donaldson's Demise Mrs. Laura E. Donaldson, who for a number of years owned the largest colored retail and wholesale grocery establichment in the city of Aberdeen, Mis.,diedat her home on the 12th inst, Mrs. Donaldson was an apnt of the well known Washirg!on cortet- pondent, Roscoe S.mmonas. Judge Terrell’s Popularity Judge Robers H. Terr!i, s former revident of Maesachuseti, who is 20¥ holding a jadicis! position st Wasbing” ton, D. C., is becoming quite populate by the fairness of his leg 1 hecision®.— Boston Advocate. ) THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. THE VACATION SCHOOL. A Solution to The Problem of Finding Useful Occupation for The Idle Mind or Hand in Mid Summer. On Wednesday, June 18, the public schools of the District of Columbia close and 14,728 colored children under High School age will be without school accommodations for over three months. For few colored parents—those who can afford the rest and quiet of the country or seaside with their children—this is not a very serious question, but as poverty or the nature of their employment forces the vast majority to stay at home, this annual closing of the schools is of grave importance. Each summer brings a period of danger to the morals and health of the children of the poor, especially. Being without playthings or means of entertainment at home and with both parents frequently at work they are forced upon the hot and dirty streets, which to many become a school for crime. The vacation schools meet the evils of these conditions and overcome them. They are in no sense a continuation of the work of the regular school, and therefore will not endanger the mental or physical condition of the child by additional strain. The following is an extract of a letter received from the captain of a police station by the principal of a Chicago vacation school at the close of the session last summer: "There is no doubt but that the vacation school has had an influence for the better. The number of complaints from the residents of that locality as to the conduct of children of school-going age has grown considerably less. Probably it would be safe to say that the complaints have fallen off during the six weeks of the summer school this year, as compared to the same length of time last year, about 20 to 30 per cent. As to the number of arrests for milder misdemeanors, I should say by comparison with the same number of weeks last year, that a decrease of about 15 or 20 per cent. will show on our records, that is, of boys ranging in age from ten to fourteen." Vacation schools will be opened Monday, June 23, at Stevens and Lincoln schools, and will continue six weeks. Work for all grades of a light, but useful and interesting character, will be conducted by skilful teachers of wide experience. The parent of any child desiring admission for the same is requested to notify Mr. F. L. Cardozo, Jr., 2230 Sixth street, Northwest, before Monday, June 16, to that effect, stating name, grade, residence and school. LITERARY LORE. "Twentieth Century Literature," by D. W. Culp, is one of the notable books of the day, and reflects as no other work has attempted on so elaborate a scale, the sentiments of the race's best scholars and thinkers. The book is selling well everywhere, and arrangements are being made to place it on the Washington market. The annual catalogue of the Tuskegee Normal and Collegiate Institute has been received. It is from the press of the Institute, and its typographical attractiveness is first-hand testimony of the excellence of the printing plant there and the skill of the printers who did the work. The catalogue contains 152 pages of valuable information concerning the school—its courses, fees and resources together with numerous half-tone engravings of buildings, classes and operating rooms. The pamphlet is one that can be read with pleasure and profit by all. The June number of the Southern Workman, an illustrated magazine published by the Hampton Institute Press, contains several papers and editorials of special interest. Considerable space is devoted to a report of the recent meeting of the Southern Educational Conference held at Athens, Ga.-a report which is somewhat unique in that it contains a broadside of quotations from typical speakers at this important conference, and thus gives its readers an opportunity to form their own impressions. The cover has an excellent portrait of Robert C. Ogden, President of the Conferen Prof. Kelly Miller contributes a second paper in his study of "The City Negro," which deals with his industrial status; and Mrs. Cranston, a Southern woman who is librarian of the League for Social Service in New York, has an article on "The Housing of the Negro in New York" that is supplementary to the valuable study on the housing of the Negro in the South, contributed to this journal last winter by Dr. DuBois. An interesting account of the passing of the Indian dances is contributed by Miss Helen Bennett, Superintendent of Schools in Deadwood, S. D., and the important question of irrigation in the Southwest is treated by C. H. Cook. This number also contains two practical articles on agriculture and a number of letters showing the influence of the Nature-Study Bureau of Hampton Institute on Southern chools. "Cotton Raising in Togoland," in this issue, is an interesting story of the agricultural experiment undertaken by the Tuskegee students who were sent to Africa by the German government. AMONG THE CHURCHES. Rector O. M. Waller, of St. Luke's P. E. Church, is one of those plain-spoken preachers who refuse to gild social vice, and has the courage to call a spade a spade. Rev. S. L. Corrothers, Galbraith's new pastor, is in no way related to the author of "The Black Cat," who recently achieved unpleasant notoriety at Hackensack, N. J. Until further notice there will be a singing school session for the young people every Sunday afternoon from 5 to 6 o'clock at Shiloh Baptist church. Prof. Simmons will lead, and Miss Serena Carter will be the pianist. All are invited. Rev. I. Tolliver, pastor of the Liberty Baptist Church, of this city, preached two great sermons at the Holy Trinity Baptist Church, Philadelphia, June 11th and 12th. June 13th, Rev. Walter H. Brooks defended the faith in a brilliant discourse at the same place. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt sent a fine embroidered handkerchief last week to Mrs. Maggie Woodbridge, an active member of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Pittsburg, Pa., as a contribution to the fair in progress there under the auspices of the Christian Endeavor Society. The compliment was highly appreciated. Rev. S. L. Carrothers, the new pastor of Galbraith A. M. E. Zion Church, gave THE COLORED AMERICAN a pleasant call last week. He is a genial gentleman, and is a thoroughly-equipped theologian. He has the bearing of a man who means business, and appears to be one who can get the best results out of an organization. He comes by transfer from the West New York Conference, and from the fine record he left behind, the highest success may be predicted for him here. A party of representative Washingtonians will go to Baltimore Sunday morning, June 22, to witness the stately ceremonies attending the consecration of Rev. J. Harry Dorsey, who is to take the priesthood orders of the Roman Catholic Church. Father Dorsey is the second colored man in this country to be so ordained, Father Tolton, a third priest, being received while abroad. The Washington delegation will be headed by Dr. W. S. Lofton, a prominent figure in local Catholic circles. At Bethel A. M. E. Church, Philadelphia, the new "two pastor" system is being tried. It ought to work well, and besides, it should be adopted wherever the membership is too large to be properly served by one man. When a minister plans his financial system, visits the sick, confers with those who wish sympathy or to seek religion, conducts a revival, holds board meetings, officiates at funerals, prepares and delivers his sermons, performs marriage ceremonies, besides attending various minor meetings and aiding many public movements, it is pretty plain that the most energetic and resourceful preacher living will find little time to play. Where congregations are large, the co-pastor idea is the logical way to secure good service by a division of the work. Credit For All Washington. Eyery Article of Furniture Necessary to your Summer Comfort Can be Had Here on CREDIT And at Lowest Cash Prices. If you need a Refrigerator or Ice Chest, don't wait another day. All sizes are here for your selection. Every one warranted to give perfect satisfaction. Three hundred rolls of new mattings came in last week. Beautiful Chinese and Japanese weavings. We tack them down free. We have just added a complete line of the famous GEM ice-cream freezers. The same price on credit as you'll pay in the cash stores. Dangler vapor and blue-flame oil cooking ranges in all sizes, on credit, at lowest cash store prices. Furniture for every room in your house, on easy weekly or monthly payments. Peter Grogan, 817, 819, 821, 823 7th St., N. W. Between H and I Sts. 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. GLOSSINE is Queen of all Hair Tonics to straighten the hair and cause it to grow long and beautiful. We will send you a large sample box FREE of CHARGE, which will prove its value, if you will plainly write your name and address on a postal card and mail promptly to CONTINENTAL CHEMICAL CO., ST. LOUIS, MO. MOTHERS BREAD COWBOYS MOTHERS BREAD COWBOYS CORBY'S "MOTHER'S' BREAD. It is easily the best bread in the world. 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Your lucky birthstone and Horoscope promptly mailed free Gonzales Heals Body and Mind, Removes Evil Influences, Re Unites the separated, Causes speedy marriage. Teaches how to make the one you love, love you, Gives luck and success. Cut this out for LUCK. ADDRESS: Gonzales 236 Bergen Street, Brocklyn, New York. Spring and summer suits to order a Specialty. Cleaning, altering and repairing. Goods called for and delivered. Telephone Main 1486 3. 1202 E STREET, NORTHWEST. Branch at 6th and Missouri Ave. J, S, Rawlings, Mgr, THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. 12 THE SOUTHERN HOTEL Passes Into The Hands of a Company Headed by Messrs. Satterwhite and Allen-To be Completely Renovated and Refitted in Modern Style. One of the most popular hostelries in Washington is the Southern Hotel, located at 811 Pennsylvania avenue northwest. For several years it has been conducted with marked success by Mr. Jack M. Ryan, but this week the house, fixtures and good will passed into the hands of a new corporation known as the Southern Hotel Company, with Mr. A. L. Satter- 32 white as general manager. He is an experienced hotel man and caterer, and has a perfect knowledge of what the people want and how to give it to them. Associated with him is Mr Edward C. Allen, whose presence as head mixologist, will draw to the Southern the host of friends and admirers who find in his wit and eloquence a wellspring of joy, Mr. Ryan returns to Atlanta. It is the intention of the new proprietors to renovate and overhaul the entire building from cellar to garret The rooms will be handsomely repapered and everything will be put in first-class order The Southern has entertained some of the best people in the country, and no palms will be spared to hold the liberal patronage of the past and to attract new friends. A high-grade cuisine service will be arranged at once, and special attention will be given to the cafe and buffet features. A welcome innovation will be an elegant noon luncheon from 11:30 to 2 p.m. The Southern will be practically a new hotel, with all modern improvements and appointments, giving at moderate rates, all the comforts of home The past record of Messrs. Satterwhite and Allen is a safe guarantee that they will in their new venture satisfy the tastes of the most fastidious and offer to the citizens of Washington a complete, hostelry of which all may feel proud. We bespeak for the Southern a splendid success. Not a Pupil of Mrs. Wilson. Editor Colored American—Having noticed in the issue of this paper dated June 7th, an article concerning Mr. Samuel Collins, I think it necessary to correct two statements therein which place him in a false light before his friends, and which are liable to do him an amount of irreparable injury if allowed to go uncorrected. I have been closely, or rather inimately connected with Mr. Collins ever since he first took up the study of art, and he has never had any kind of an instructor until he entered Cooper Institute three years ago. He so informed me of all of those who helped him, and the statement that he is or was a pupil of Mrs. Lottie E. Wilson may work him a great deal of mischief with those artists who have manifested an interest in him. He never met Mrs. Wilson but twice, and that since he completed his second year at Cooper. Mr. Collins struggled along for several years entirely unaided, until his work was noticed by Mr. Messer, the prominent artist of this city. This gentleman saw great promise in the untaught young man, and it was at his suggestion that Mr. Collins applied for admission a Cooper Institute in New York. Wile at Cooper, he became acquainted with Mr. Siddons H. Mowbray, one of the most noted and best of living American artists. Mr. Mowbra was pleasantly surprised at the talent displayed by Mr. Collins, and among other substantial proofs of his good will, obtained for the latter a free scholarship in the Art Students' League, of New York. Mr. Collins has, as stated, completed in three years the four years' course at Cooper Institute. Hoping that you will publish this letter in the interest of justice, I am Yours sincerely, BENJAMAN L. GASKINS. JB. St. Luke's Pienic Friday, June 27th, 1902, Lake View Park, Cabin John Road Hamilton's Orchestra from 12 m. until 11:30 p. m. Country dinner 25 cents. Refreshments and light luncheon at city prices. Special cars provided from 8 p. m. until 11:30 p. m. Admission, 25 cents. Children 15 cents. It is the ample provision for the inner man, the comfort for the whole man and the hearty welcome extended by Rector, officers and all the people that makes St. Luke's the largest and most popular picnic of the season. The National Negro Business League. The third annual session of the Negro Business League will be held in Richmond, Va., August 25, 26, 27. The Richmond Negro Business League is bending every effort to make this meeting of the League an even greater success than either of the former sessions held at Boston and Chicago. Reduced rates have been granted by most of the great passenger associations of the country, including the Southeastern Passenger Association, from which territory most of the delegates will most likely come. The Boston and Chicago Business League are arranging to run special sleeping car trains through Richmond. Teachers' College at Howard. The Teachers' College (Pedagogical Department, of Howard University is to have next year, in addition to other courses a well equipped Kindergarten Training Department. No tuition will be charged and the incidental fee will not exceed d $20 for the year. The course is two years in length. This is a rare opportunity for our young women just graduating from the High School and for primary teachers who want to be come more proficient in their work. The dean, Dr. L. L. Moore, deserves great credit for the successful way in which he has presided over this department of our greatest university. Starting as a new department four years ago it has now grown to be the second in numbers in the whole university, the medical department alone standing first. Twenty four teachers were graduated this year from undergraduate and post graduate courses. At a recent public examination for colored kindergarteners, the only successful candidate was Miss Maurel Williamson, a graduate of the Howard University Kindergarten Training Department: Young men and young women desiring the best equipment for teaching will find it at the Pedagogical Department of Howard University. It gives us pleasure to commend such a good work and to return thanks to its able dean, Dr. L. B. Moore. THE GRAND FOUNTAIN. United Order of True Reformers. An order devoted to the interests of its members, both in their home and business relations. We offer you an opportunity for gilt edged business investment, in enterprises owned and controlled by the Order and managed by colored men, who are members of the Order. If you are sound in health and mind, of good moral character, not younger than three (3) years nor older than sixty (60) you are eligible to membership. There are two Fountains, the Subordinate and the Rosebud. SUBORDINATE FOUNTAINS. To join the Subordinate Fountain you must be between 14 and 16 years of age. You pay $4.60 to $6.60 (according to age.) as joining fee. If you live in the country you pay 35 cents per month as dues; if in the city, 50 cents per months. You pay as taxes 80 cents per month. As Sick Benefits you receive from $6.00 to $9.00 per month, in weekly payments. As Death Benefit, your family receives $75 0 if you die within a year. After one year the Death Benefit is $125.00. see Fountain you must be between 14 and 16 years of age (according to age,) as joining fee. If you live in cents per month as dues; if in the city, 50 cents per ses 80 cents per month. Receive from $6.00 to $9.00 per month, in weekly pay Our family receives $75 0 if you die within a year Benefit is $125.00. To join the Subordinate Fountain you must be between 14 and 16 years of age. You pay $4.60 to $6.60 (according to age,) as joining fee. If you live in the country you pay 35 cents per month as dues; if in the city, 50 cents per months. You pay as taxes 80 cents per month. As Sick Benefits you receive from $6.00 to $9.00 per month, in weekly payments. As Death Benefit, your family receives $75 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 ye dues, $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. 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 butthe race as well. It began business April 3, 1889. The capital stock is $100,000. The business is the same as that of any other regularly constituted bank, and is surrounded by the same safeguards. The stock sells for $5.00 a share to members, and pays 20 per cent. dividends are received and 4 per cent. interest is paid is a copy of the Cashier's report to Audito close of business Sept., 5, 1900 and shows its members, and pays 20 per cent, dividends. Both time and demand deposits are received and 4 per cent, interest is paid on time deposits. The following is a copy of the Cashier's report to Auditor of Public Accounts of Virginia at close of business Sept.. 5. 1900 and shows its flourishing condition:— 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 vo- operation and combination of the race and the General Messenger and the General Age 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 Co. 634 acres of land, and established thereon an examples liberality and broad-minded gen- trance to this home to its members alone, no doors are opened to the aged and decrepid or residence or connections. The Order makes charity, and calls upon the whole people, be and West to assist by their contribution ther idea. April 3rd of each year is set apart as a Contributive is can be forwarded to the casu- who will send receipt for same and account Members of the Order and the public, w invited to stop at The Hotel Reformer, 900 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 ado- buildings. 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 of fice in Richmond, Va. It stands for the voice of the people, representing cooperation and combination of the race and is the Beacon Light, the Headlight, the General Messenger and the General Agent of the Brotherhood. It is $1.00 per year. A well-equipped job office bids for the work of the people, which is turned out in first class style and at low prices. Six miles from Richmond, in Henrico County, Va., the Order has purchased 634 acres of land, and established thereon an "Old Folk's Home." With unexampled liberality and broad-minded generosity, the Order does not limit entrance to this home to its members alone, nor even to members families, but the doors are opened to the aged and decrepid of the whole race, regardless of their residence or connections. The Order makes itself the trustee for this glorious charity, and calls upon the whole people, black and white, North, East, South and West to assist by their contribution the carrying out of this praiseworthy idea. April 3rd of each year is set apart as a Grend Rally Day for the Home Contributic is 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. For any further information, address W P BURRELL, G. W. Secretary Wm: L TAYLOR, W. M. Master. , M. Master, --- P 1 RESOURCES. ROSEBUD FOUNTAINS. LIABILITIES W P BURRELL.G. W. Secretary REV·J. P. ROBINSON UP FROM SLAVERY. Struggles and Triumphs of an Arkansas Theologian Well-Earned Honors Won as a Pulpit Orator, Author and Church Builder. Men who have traveled the thorny paths of difficulty and have wrung from the world a success that was reluctantly yielded, tho' they do not startle the world, deserve creditable mention by their fellow-men. Arkansas in Home Mission and Educational work, is foremost in the Baptist councils of the country. No man living or dead has done more in organizing and pushing the Baptist cause of that State than the subject of this sketch—Rev. J. P. Robinson, D. D. He was born in De Soto county Miss., before the dawn of freedom, but by close application and constant toil has gained an honored place among the great Negroes who came through the slave pens of the South. His early education was begun in the free district schools conducted by Northern friends. Being forced by poverty to work, he was not able to attend these schools long—hence he continued his studies at night and thereby laid the foundation of his future usefulness. Rev Robinson served his parents until he was 22 years old. It was then that he turned and faced an unfriendly world. He stepped forth depending upon naught but his will power and well developed muscles. The more the world rebuffed the harder he struggled. Foes were overcome, opposition downed, and in 1881 he began public life as a minister of the Gospel. This was really the beginning of one of the most unique characters in Arkansas history. Shortly after he had landed in the city of Little Rock, he heard the voice of J.A. Booker pleading for an educated Baptist pulpit. Catching inspiration from the life of this great and scholarly man he entered the Arkansas Baptist College. He entered school to stay, and though pastoring a large charge, as well as experiencing many other hardships, he went to the end. For nine long years did he labor and study, and in 1902 his members and friends cheered and gave him the glad hand when he received the degree of bachelor of arts. No student has gone from the Arkansas Baptist College that is more revered and loved by his Alma Mater than J. P. Robinson. At COLLEGE LIFE THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. all times he is ready to champion its cause, and his church contributes more to its support than any church in the State. As a church worker and financier he has few equals. When he took charge of the First Baptist church in Little Rock, he found the flock scattered and a debt of $5,000 and upward hanging over the church. He was a young man and inexperienced but he went to work and in a few years the members had been brought back to the fold and the debt lifted. To-day he is standing at the head of the most flourishing church in all the State of Arkansas, a stately brick structure that will easily seat from 3,000 to 4,000 people, with all modern improvements, etc. Notwithstanding Rev. Robinson's busy career, he has had time to write and compile several books. "Sermons and Sermonettes" and "Christian Advocate" are among his best works, and they are read extensively, by all churches. In his writings he has made no pretense at literary merit or high scholarship, but has stated the simple truth as plainly and concisely as possible. In these little volumes he has not dealt with the stars, but has endeavored to put before his fellowmen the shortcomings of humanity. That he has succeeded in giving to his people a long-felt want is evidenced by the large sale of the books. Wednesday night, May 8th, a large crowd of citizens assembled at Rev. Robinson's church. Men and women of all classes were there. They had been invited, but for what no one knew. All of the distinguished men of the city were seated upon the rostrum. Anxiety was written upon every face—and when Hon. J. E. Bush arose and read a letter stating that the trustee board of the University of Kentucky, had conferred the degree of doctor of divinity upon Rev. Robinson, the applause was deafening. Thus step by step he is climbing the hill. He is made of that material that knows no defeat. Success and honor may come—yet he is the same J. P. Robinson. Though he walks in the paths of greatness the cripple dog by the high way receives a kindly stroke from his hand. All his days are spent, when out of his study, in looking after the meek and lowly. He is known to all as "Brother Robinson." Few Sundays pass that his church does not lift a collection for the poor. Dr. Robinson is yet a young man. What he has done we all know. What he may do the future will CHURCH WORK. AS AN AUTHOR. HIS LAST HONOR. tell. He is now holding the following positions: Chairman of the Home Mission board, National Baptist Convention; Vice-President of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention; trustee of the Arkansas Baptist College. NOTES OF THE MASONIC EX CURSION. The Masonic excursion on June 24th, inst., St. John's Day, gives promise of being the event of the season. The committee has been compelled to have printed three hundred additional tickets to meet the increased demand. Not even the oldest inhabitant can recall the occasion when there was so much interest and enthusiasm among our Masonic brethren over an excursion. Brother John P. Turner, the efficient chairman of the executive committee, says that the interest is mainly due to a desire on the part of the brethren to see the veteran oarsmen, Brothers Malvin and Tompkins, out in their double scull with a challenge against the field. The following letter has been received at this office: EDITOR COLORED AMERICAN. Dear Sir:How do the Masons expect to accommodate all the people who will patronize their excursion? It seems that five out of every ten people one meets with expects to attend. At this rate the attendance will be even greater than the letter carriers' excursion, which broke all previous records. MANY CONSTANT READERS. We referred this letter to Brother Malvin, chairman of the general committee, and we are authorized by him to say that arrangements have been made to secure the services of another boat should the River Queen prove unqueal to the task of accommodating the large number of people who will patronize the excursion. Rumor has it that the swift, staunch and commodious steamer Charles MacAllester, is the boat referred to. It is stated on good authority that the following expert oarsmen will contest for the prize: Social Lodge—W. H. J. Malvin, R. W. Tompkins, John W. Freeman and Arthur Simmons. Felix Lodge—J. F. N. Wilkinson and Geo. S. Newman. Hiram Lodge—Wm. Washington and I. Butler. Warren Lodge—Richard Laws and Richard H. Jones. Eureka Lodge—L. C. Bailey and Edward Watson, Sr. Meridian Lodge—Julius Warren and Charles Carter. Pythagoras Lodge—Paul H. Bray and Thornton A. Jackson. Widow's Son Lodge—George Boyd, W. A. Carter, F. Parker and George W. Jones St. John's Lodge-Ferdinand Riles and Geo. C. F. Rogers. Prince Hall Lodge—Robt. H. Terrell, Jerome A. Johnson, Jacob G. Hutchins and L. Wm. Cole. Datcher Lodge—J. D. Howard, C. H. Young, Jas. W. Thompson and Edward Chase. John F. Cook Lodge—Brooks Burr and Philip Green. Brother John P. Turner who was suddenly called to Atlanta, Ga., by the illness of his father, the venerable Bishop Turner, writes that his father is much improved in health. Brother Turner will be present at the final meeting of the general committee, which will be held at Masonic Temple, Sunday, June 22d. By invitation of Manager Woolen the members of the executive committee went to Notley Hall last Sunday to look over the grounds and suggest such alterations and improvements as will best meet the wishes of their patrons on the 24th inst. Prof. H. E. Barnett, principal of Gainsboro school. Roanoke City, with wife, and daughter from St. Paul Institute at Lawrenceville, Va., is in the city. It is learned that Mrs. Barnett and daughter have returned to remain indefinitely. It is hoped in the near future that the family in its entirety will locate permanently. Mr. Barnett is no stranger, and his friends are always pleased to meet him. He is at 1105 19th street northwest. 13 Washington's Great Pleasure Resort, located on Glen Echo Railroad, Md., now open for the season, and it is hoped that every person will pay one visit to the Park this season as there has been many improvements made for your enjoyment. All churches, social clubs and associations are invited to spend their outing this summer at Watson's Park. Special car can be charted Direct for the Park and ordered back when wanted. Cars for every day service. Take Chevy Chase for the Park. Those driving take Conduit to Turners and turn to the right. For further information apply to A. D. WATSON. 2025 L. Street, N. W. Excelsior Pleasure Park. Formerly known as MADRE'S PARK.] Is open for engagements for picnics and out-door entertainments by Sunday Schools, Churches, Societies and reputable Clubs and individuals for the season of 1902. Run under entirely new auspices, the Excelsior Business Club. Offers the best facilities to car line, as the Berwyn line of cars will let passengers off at the gate of the Park ONLY ONE FARE. Ample, covered Pavilion. Good water. Enclosed grounds with swings and other improvements. For further information or engagements address, or call at the residence of, Walter R. Franklin, President. 320 Elm Street, N. W., City Will see callers from 4 to 7 o'clock p. m Tournament. Ball Games AT Keystone Park, NEAR SUITLAND, MD. on Silver HIl Road, Prince George County, Md. FRIDAY, JULY 4, Big Prizes. Full Brass Band! Tilting Baseball! ROBERT H. KEY, Manager. ADMISSION, 25 CTS. For particulars, see large bills. is now ready for charter to outing or fishing parties. Parties not to exceed eight in number. Captain Johnson, Residence 2252 Cleveland Place. Wharf Cumberland Boat House, foot of F street northwest. tf. Rumor says that Bros. R. W. Tompkins, Dan Steward and George S. Newman will be one of the crews in the boat race June 24 at Notley Hall. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. A PROCLAMATION To the Readers of this Great THE KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS--GREAT Whereas Storms, Tornados, Droughts country, and whereas money is scarce and our appreciation for the patronage so bourge of this great paper, therefore, be it k that, until further notice, we shall send postal card a full size package of OZONO this great King of all Hair Tonics, which length, lustre, and beauty, thus enable style or fashion. And whereas we send y Hair Straighteners, to prove its superior m but a full size package free. Therefore, may receive the receive the OZONO without great chance will not last forever. Address LAMATION of this Great Paper, THE COLORED AMERICAN. THESE PRESENTS--GREETING: Ideas Storms, Tornados, Droughts, Floods, and divers evils have devastated the land whereas money is scarce and bread is dear, and whereas we desire to show appreciation for the patronage so bountifully bestowed upon us by the noble readers at paper, therefore, be it known to all who shall read this Proclamation further notice, we shall send to all who send us their name address on a full size package of OZONO, free of all charges, and not one cent to pay for King of all Hair Tonics, which removes the curl from the hair and gives it more, and beauty, thus enabling any one to arrange the hair in any desired condition. And whereas we send you this OZONO, King of all Hair Tonics and lighteners, to prove its superior merits, now be it known that we send no sample, size package free. Therefore, write your name and address plainly, so that you receive the OZONO without delay, and send your letter quickly, as this will not last forever. 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If you desire to improve your condition financially, order a copy of Mr. Washington's book from us and instruct us to refer you to this publishing concern for at this time they are prepared to "set up" in business at their own expense a limited number of honest men and women. If you cannot order the book at once write us anyway and we think we can do something for you. But please write immediately as this opportunity may not be open long. Your chances are better if you can order the book. THE COLORED AMERICAN, ADDRESS, 459 C St. N. W., Washington D. C. --- READ THIS BOOK!! This convention was the first National Convention of colored business men ever held in this or any other country. Every use of business was represented: the farmer, the banker, the equator, the doctor, the lawyer, the manufacturer, the author, the merchant and rulers of municipalities. The addresses delivered and papers read are all in this book besides over fifty cuts of delegates and others, which makes it a valuable souvenir of the convention. PRICE, $1.00. DEPT. C. A. SEND NO MONEY. No. 106½ E. Clay St., RICHMOND, VA. J. R. HAMM, PUBLISHER, 46 HOWARD ST., BOSTON, MASS. 14 SEAL BOOKER T. WASHINGTON "THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE" Which held its first convention in Boston, Mass., August 23-24, 1900 BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, President and Founder. BOUND IN CLOTH ONLY. PRICE, $1.00. Send Express or Postoffice Money Order to ya ya ya 99999 Boston Chemical Co., National Negro Business League. The last meeting of the League was held in Chicago, Ill, last August, and the Compiler has just made a report of the full proceedings. All of the great speeches are printed. The message of the late President William McKinley to Prof. Booker T. Washington and many interesting incidents are given in a most entertaining manner. Price 35c. 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Melrose ‘venue, near Armatead Ave. (West End|- Hampton, Va. corner of 30th and Washington Avenue, Newport Newss Va. GeV Aver General Agent State of Virginia: Norfolko Va, UNCOMMON INCIDENT. Graves of Two Colored Men in Confederate Ceme'ery Decorat- ed by Fhowers From Ge South land - At Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, there is a Oonfid rete cemetery, where repose the bodies of 3 000 rebels, wh» f.llinthe great covfilct for national unity vs. secession. Buried in this city of the dead are two colored men. The memories! services at the cemetery last Saturday breught to light this scrap of history that bas mot been gsnerally known, Ia response to Gen. Gordon’s appeab to all campa and commanders of Confederates, fl -wers inlarge quen 4- ules came from Sou-h Carolina, Fiorida, Georgia, V.rginis, North Carclipa and other states In addition to the fil »wers & communication was received, written by M.S Sims, who was an cfflcrr in Company D., Ferrester’s Original brigade, and wih two other cfficers was sent to Camp Cbase as prisouers. They were sucompanied by tvo N- gro servants who preferred to remain wiih their masters, Tae colored men died avd were buried at Camp Caa-e. The fact of tliwers belrg sent from the Southland to decorate their graves is | an incident uncom non, and i:lustra‘es: tue o'd theory that human nature is not, like mathematics,an exact ecieice. WEDDING BELLS. Mr. and Mrs, Wililam M. George have issued invitations to the wedding reception of their daughter, Harrietta and Mr. Wrilam Augustus 8 ewart, Tuesday evening, June 24h, 618 B siree' northeast, 8 until 9:36 o’ciock. At home, 1718 17h street ncrthweat. Mrs. R. J. Collis s request; the pros ence of friends at the marriage of ber daughter, Mamie E, to Mr. Frederick \ S@bbs, Wednesday evening, June 205h at 8 v’clock, 468 E street south: west. Kecep'ion from 8 to 10:30 We ate iud.b'ed to Mr. snd Mrs Nathan Pierce for an invitation to a’- tend the wedding of thsir daugh'er, Martha El z-beth to Mr David C, Gee, Wedne day, June 25 h, nine o’cluck at 1207 Senate Avenue North Irdiamapo- ‘is, Indiema. At home July 0h, 8 0 10 clock st the same address. For Social Puri y; Editor Colored American—1 saw an article in your last issue denouncing a weakness that too many colored vomen have had in the past. and th:t is submitting to the illegitimate em braces of men of slien races, principal- ly white meu—and I will say that this lg a practice that has done more to wreck the Negro race then anything that bas bappened since the war, and you shouhd make a relentless crusade aga nst this degrading custom. A READER oe Photos of Business Life. 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Near Atlantic City and close to R.R. station Stop Paying Rent and Buy a Home Making Landlords Richer and Yourself Poorer all the time New Electric Railroad is Now Building and Will Pass the Property. eared Lights, School House, Stores, Churches Good Roads and prosperous farms, Absecon is in~orporated as a City and secured her charter same as Atlant mie Ribs di re pane hogs, chickens, ducks and other stock and truck to get a good living. Oysters, Clams, Crabs and fishing in abundan¢ é 'w these building Jots at any time by making appointment. Maps can be seen and further particulars obtained by applying to the owne AB JONES. S New Street Atlantic Gitv. N. d. Oa aaa ac » City Paragraphs. 6 8 St ESE Ft ot ot ot ot BSS Mre, Dr. George W. Cebaniss, 1906 K street, n. w., entertained a number of her friends at luncheon Friday evening, June 13th. The aftair most recherche. The Amphions will begin their series of excursions with one of thosedelight- ful moonlight outings, Saturday even‘ ing, July 19th. Of course it will be popular, Dr. E, D. Scott has gone to Harvard University, Oambridge, Mass., to cele- brate the twentieth anniversary of his class, 1882, and to attend the com- Meneoment exercises, Mrs. John C. Dancy, of Wilming: ton, N. C., with ber interesting family, arein the city. Mr. and Mrs. Dancy will goto housekeeping and hope to be at home to their friends at an early date. Daniel Duffy, a dealer in popula: songs is in the city from Philadelphia. His unique and humcrous method of crying his wares furnished pleasing entertainment for the passing throng on our highways this week. ‘The new management of the South- ern Hotel will sell out the entire old stock of goods,as well as the furniture, carpets. ebo., in order to put in a new stock, It ts proposed not to retain any of the old effects of the Southern Hotel, but to make a complete change by putting ina new stock of every- thing. Mise Florence I. Wileon, a popular school teacher of Florence, 8. C, ir Spending a part of her vacation in this sity, the guest of her aunt, Mrs, \M, Saunders of 2008 3rd street, n w., Miss Wilson is the daughter of Dr. J, E. Wilson, tne postmaster at Florence, 8. C., She basa hoet of friende in this city who are iaaking her vacation a most enjoyable one. Flag Day was appropriately cele brated at the various schools. The pro- gram at the M Street High Schoo! was especially good. There were addresses, ete , interspersed with music and song. “The Legend of Bregenz” by Bendall, ® cantata for women’s voices was rendered with telling ¢ffect by the 8rd and 4th year girls. The solo work by Mirses Murray and Chase, soprano,and Mise Wallace, contralto was exceptional ly good and was warmly applauded. Miss Gibbs, the Director of Music, dr reoted the chorus and her mastery o' the baton was a sarprise to many o ‘the audience. Itis to be hoped tha the general public will have the pleas ure of hearing this very beautifa cantata at an early date. A Prosperous Hampton Merchant, Mr. James W. Taylor, formerly of this city, am active church worker and a member of the Y, M. C. A., is now located at Hampton, Va., where be owns and operates one of theiargest aud most successful stores in that town, It will be remembered that when Mr. Taylor closed out his two barber shops at the corner of 11th and I streets, and the Y. M.O.A. building corner ilth and Q streets, that he re- turned to his old home in Yorktown: Va., where he operated a corn mill aud engaged in farming. He went to Hamp- ton more than a year ago and opened a general store, ranning wood and coal together with a full line of dry goods, groceries and notions. The venture was @ success from the very beginning, and it wit be good news to his friends n this city to know how well he is prospering, Mr, Taylor will pay a visit to Washimgton at an early date. The Excursion Committee of the Ma- sonic excursion, of which Dr. J. P. Tur- ner is chairman, will at 2 P. M., June 15, be on board the steamer River Queen. OUR BOYS HUSTLING. Quite a number of bright boys are now handling The Colored American in many of the principal cities of the country. Many of them are doing remarkably well and are making from $2 to $4 a week. Parents who wish their boys to acquire some knowledge ot business can do no better service than tohave them sell The Colored American each week. It is a good seller and it wiil take a boy but a short while to work up a good route. If the boy goes to school he can take the af- ter hours to canvass on his route and can deliver the paper on Saturday morning. We want a few more bright boys. Bring or send in your order at once. BLACK SKIN REMOVER) by XN 3 ecsvento f i y PATENT OFFICE 3 us. 2 ge Greve (arcs = ‘A. Wonderful:Face Bleach: AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER. tat do at we ay end to ethene — One box is all that is required ifusdss A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH. A PEACH-LIKE complexion obtained 1! te ™ directed Will turn the skin ofa black or brows person four or five shades lighter, and s mulst person perfectly white. In forty-eight hoursashsd¢ ortwo will be noticeable.@1t docs not tum the akin in spots bu. oleaches out white, the skin maining besverul without continual use. 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Freeman Ernest Dickinso®, Richard. Mozce, Benjamin Herbert, John D. Howard and Beverly Youns deserve much credit for the great work they are doing in behalf of the Masonic ¢xoul gion, : rt THE POLITICAL HOROSCOPE The President's speech at Arlington is still the main topic for discussion in the journals of the land. It was, like the gospel, a two-edged sword—defending the United States army's operations in the Philippines, and scoring the Democrats of the South for their hypocrisy in pretending sympathy for the Filipinos and yet permitting lynchings and burnings of American citizens to go on, unrebuked, at their very doors. As a matter of course, the mention of lynching set the South by the ears, as the guilty are exceedingly sensitive concerning any fact connected with their crimes. The South almost forgets to further castigate our army in its frantic endeavor to hush up the talk about the atrocities committed upon its soil against the hapless Negro. ev are angry with Mr. Roosevelt because he had the courage to throw up to them the mean things they used to say of Lincoln and Grant, and they howl in agony that references to mob violence is a revival of the "bloody shirt" and a reincarnation of sectional animosities. So the President is berated by the South for violating the "proprieties" by making a political speech in a graveyard—forgetting that a defense of American soldiery should come on Soldiers' day, if at all—and is castigated for insisting that the liberty for which the martyrs at Arlington died, he guaranteed to every citizen. Who cares? The South regards itself as the nation's pet—to be humored in every caprice, to be deferred to, regardless of the fundamental principles of our Government. It insists upon the elimination of the Negro from the honorable walks of life—aside from ordinary labor. It cannot have its wav, as long as a President of Roosevelt's virile personality holds forth at the White House. In the language of the Philadelphia Press at the time of the Booker Washington dinner, "Mr. Roosevelt has learned his South early and cheaply." He has taken its measure and determined that its flattery shall not cajole him into surrender, nor shall its fury drive him from the moorings of justice where he has dropped anchor." As far as the Negro is concerned, we are very well satisfied to have the South refuse its cheers for a Northern President. As long as it is in sulks, no one will be deceived into believing that it is reconstructed on broad lines or that there is any chance to "land" a Republican electoral vote—a rock upon which many a good Northerner has been wrecked politically. The time for us to be alarmed is when the South is enthusiastic over the occupant of the White House. We hope Mr. Roosevelt will poke up the animals every now and then on the problems of humanity—just to hear them roar. If the Republicans chase after advantages in the South by making concessions of any kind, they will go upon a fool's errand. It comes like a refreshing breezs to understand that President Roosevelt has finally determined to throw the control of political matters in the Southern States into the hands of the regular party organization. This means a fair show for us in such States as North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia. Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas, where "lily-whitism" has been taking such firm root. It is evident that Lyons, Dancy, Deas, Hill, Lewis, Ferguson, Pledger and others have been exercising their fine Italian hands. We hope we understand aright. Beyond the favorable report on the Freedmen's Inquiry Commission bill by Representative Warnock, there is nothing new on what we term "our legislation" now pending in Congress. The report of Mr. Warwick was practically the statement drawn by Prof. Jesse Lawson, who is recognized by the committee as an authority on matters bearing upon race questions and racial relationships. He and Messrs. George H. White and Daniel Murray are doing some strong work toward pushing the bill to the front. Just now the situation is not the 2 THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. brightest; but, if it is "sidetracked," after all the arguments, petitions and newspaper appeals that have been presented, the plain indifference to the Negro's wishes will cause much disaffection among the race throughout the country. The Republican majority are surely too shrewd to handicap the party by declining to act upon a measure fraught with so great importance to the most loyal followers any organization ever had. The roster for the permanent census is about made up, as the law goes into effect on the first of next month. A few colored clerks will be allowed to remain, as the pressure of their "influence" has been tremendous, and to eliminate the Negro entirely would sound badly when told on the stump in the fall campaign in the doubtful States, where our vote is patent. From best information, the roster of Negro clerks retained will be about as follows: W. T. Ferguson, New York; Robert Pelham, Jr., Michigan; Charles E. Hall, Illinois; W. T. Miller, Minnesota; A. W. Hawkins, Wisconsin; V. T. Jenifer, Texas, and D. D. Moore, Wyoming. On the doubtful list an authority places E. R. Gaither, New Jersey; J. C. Campbell, West Virginia; E. V. Jennings, Kentuckv, and Mrs. Julia Hayes, Virginia. Note the States, and study out whether or not THE COLORED AMERICAN's protest has not caused a stoppage of a few leaks which threatened damage. It is strange, however, that Ohio, Indiana and Kansas are left to the bad, with a possibility of Kentucky and West Virginia going down in the wreck. The South, of course, with perhaps two exceptions—for which special reasons can be given—is left out in the cold entirely. The total number of cases handled by the ten justices of the peace here during the three months of the new code, is 3,313; total money turned over to the Government, $4,059.07; total payments to justices, $8,125—each receiving $812.50. The highest number of cases handled in any one office was 766, Lewis F. O'Neil, justice. His place was conveniently located, giving him a decided advantage in this respect. S. C. Mills followed with 566, Justice Terrell had 100, and paid in $290.25 in fees. Justice E. M. Hewlett, being out of the way in Anacostia, had but 33 cases, which netted $57.60. It is not to be expected that the officers will be self-supporting. The main thing is to accommodate the citizens without the delay a large docket would cause, and to afford sufficient time to each justice to administer the law fairly and impartially. There is no good reason why the number should be reduced. The Atlanta Age, of which the "old Roman." Col. W. A. Pledger, is editor, is taking phenomenal interest in the affairs of the nation, and is wielding an influence that is bound to tell with the people. The Age's latest sensation is the suggestion of Postmaster-General Henry C. Pavne for second place on the ticket headed by Roosevelt in 1004, with the further thought that the Wisconsin man should be the presidential nominee in 1908. Six years is a long period to cover by predictions or suggestions, but Colonel Pledger has a long head, and he may see further into a millstone than most of those who do the pecking. The Indianapolis World kindly submits to its readers this remarkable nugget of news: "The Washington Colored American says: "'Negro journals are taking on a decidedly independent air.' "Until election time, when they are all 'publicans.' Are the Democrats making any strenuous efforts to show the Negroes reasons why they should be otherwise? Is not independence—choosing at all times the lesser of two evils—the shibboleth of The World, as well as of all intelligent journals? C of strong argument for the recognition of that journalistic Ajax, T. Thomas Fortune, of the New York Age. Editor Fortune certainly did yoeman service in 1896 and 1900, to sav nothing of former years, and something good ought to come his way. It is no encouragement for a useful man to serve his party and make sacrifices for its ascendancy, only to be denied a share in the fruits of victory. The administration must not forget Mr. Fortune and the other "boys in the trenches." The Adonis of Texas politics, Charles M. Ferguson, still abideth in our midst. He is a towering figure in the Republican organization in his State, and his counsel in all matters should be and is heeded by the national leaders. He carried his point in the recent patronage assignments, but is now developing other plans looking to the party's interests. The wiseacres say that Mr. Ferguson himself is dangerously near the track of political lightning, and that his friends are imploring him not to do any side-stepping. Senator Gallinger's bill to make lynchings punishable by the general Government is in the right vein, but may not stand the scrutiny of the constitutional lawyers. A Government ought to be able to reach by some means each and every offender against its laws, for in no other way can it perpetuate its self-respect as a nation. Ex-Recorder H. P. Cheatham declines to be a candidate for Congress from the second North Carolina district this year, but is anxious to aid any other colored man who has the time to make the race." Mr. Cheatham has a host of warm friends in his district, among both races, and he could come as near being elected as any Republican who might be named. The colored men of South Carolina who have been induced to apologize for Koester, the lynching collector, have been severely excoriated in the public press by their fellow-citizens. Col. James Hill, who continues to carry a large section of Mississippi in his inside pocket, is in town. This means that the political pot will do some more boiling soon. The Virginia election will be held this fall under the new law, which practically eliminates the Negro from the politics of the Old Dominion. The selection of a naval officer for the port of New Orleans is next in order. A GENUINE CREMONA An old colored gentleman in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, has in his possession an ancient violin, in the interior of which this inscription has been found: "Antonius Stradivarius, Cremona facebat Anno 1722." It is varnished dark brown, has two pieces back and top, and is in an excellent condition. It is as light as a feather, weighing only thirteen ounces, and gives an extraordinary full, round tone. The old gentleman has been offered $100 for it, but refuses to accept. Several dealers in rare musical instruments are still negotiating with him, through Attorney E. O. Tyler, secretary of the Board of Regents at Langston University, Kingfisher, Oklahoma. Separate Street Cars New Orleans, La., Special—The lower branch of the legislature has passed a law requiring the street car companies to put on separate cars for white and colored people. It extends the Jim Crow car laws from the railroads to the street cris. There is great indignation on the part of the colored people of this city and state on the account of the passage of this act. It will be remembered that sometime ago a test case was carried to the Federal courts, where the law was upheld. This state is the first to apply the law to the whole state, street cars as well as steam cars. Past Senior Grand Warden John T. Layton has purchased ten tickets for the Masonic excursion June 24. 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 O. MRS. D. T. 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 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. C. Fine wines, liquors, cigars and Tobacco. SATTERWHITE & CO., PROFS. Tuskegee Lunch Room. At 105 6th Street, Northwest. People Say: That you can get a Larger Meal there for 10 or 15 cents, than any other place in Washington, D. C. Joshua N Anderson & Theo. Curtis, Props "TALK OF THE TOWN," Gray's special supper served every Sunday from 6 to 10 p. m. at their Cafe under Odd Fellows Hall is attracting large crowds to their establishment. Special supper with hot [home-made] Roll 8 only 25 cents N B Ice cream wholesale and retail. Phone 1597-8 Gray & Bro., THE EDITOR'S MAIL BAG The innovation offered by THE COLORED AMERICAN a few weeks ago in presenting to our many patrons a handsome illuminated supplement—the latest and best photograph of Booker T. Washington, artistically done in four colors—has set the country "by the ears," in common parlance. Not only has this unusual production attracted widespread attention, but unstinted praise has come to us because of the bright and original "features" introduced, the unique method of discussing the topics of the day in a breezy, chatty way that at once interests, amuses and instructs. Our several departments, abounding in wit and wisdom; editorials that carry both scholarship and "ginger;" our newsy local paragraphs and mirror of society—all appeal to the most cultured and refined tastes. More than that, when the pressure of advertising has been too great for our usual forms, THE COLORED AMERICAN has not hesitated to enlarge to twenty-pages, giving our subscribers their quota of reading matter, without additional charge. To give an idea of the pleasant surprise our progressive spirit and journalistic push have given our friends, and to show the wide area covered by our operations, we give below a few sample letters picked up at random from "The Editor's Mail Bag." WANTS THEM IN A HURRY. Greensboro, N. C.—Send one hundred copies last issue COLORED AMERICAN. J. B. DUDLEY, A. and M. College. WENT LIKE HOT CAKES. Memphis, Tenn.—Please send to me ten copies of last week's issue. Fold so Prof. Washington's picture will not bend, or rather, tear. Can sell that many as soon as received. May order more. W. M. T. PRACTICAL PROMOTION OF SUCCESS. Jacksonville, Fla.—Please find enclosed my check for five dollars to cover my subscription. Wishing you continued success, I am, Truly yours, J. E. L. Baltimore, Md.—The current issue of THE COLORED AMERICAN is a great one, which certainly adds to your fame as a leader in Afro-American journalism. In this and the annual of the Florida Sentinel, we truly see the race's brains in journalism. F. F. J. I am in receipt of your letter enclosing bill for my subscription to your valuable paper and cheerfully enclose the sum of two dollars for the coming year. I enjoy reading your paper very much and think I can succeed in getting at least one subscriber. M. S. J. WE SHALL BE WITH YOU. East Orange, N. J.—Please find enclosed check for my subscription. Hope to see you at our next convention at my old home in Richmond. Must congratulate you on the high excellence of the AMERICAN in both ma er and appearance. Best regards and wishes for your future attainments. I am. Very respectfully yours, J. N. V. EXAMPLE SHOULD BE FOLLOWED. Boston. Mass. I purchased a copy of COLORED AMERICAN this week with B. T. Washington's picture as supplement. I consider this step an advancement in Negro journalism and one which our better Negro papers would do well to follow. I consider your paper confined to no class or sect but a paer of the people. I congratulate your eminent success in journalism and trust the future holds out to you greater success than now imaginable. Very truly yours. W. T. A. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. QUICK TO NOTE IMPROVEMENTS Charlotte, N. C.—Your letter of May 20th, enclosing bill on account of subscription, has been received and I enclose herewith check on Charlotte for $2 covering same. I have noticed the several improvements which you have made in THE COLORED AMERICAN, and desire to congratulate you on same. Wishing for your paper the success which it justly merits, I desire to remain Yours very truly, H. J. G. OMEGA OF ATTAINMENT. Scaife, Ark.—I have received your peerless paper THE COLORED AMERICAN, very regularly, and always enjoy its timely contents. Wish every Negro alive to-day could read, and that they would read it each week. It is so rich and good until I hate to have it alone, though rarely part with a copy—in fact never do unless I know the favored party is going to appreciate the treat and read it, and that any sane human being will do. Really your paper is the Omega of high attainment and perfection in the journalistic way. Enclosed find check for $3. With best wishes for your success, I beg to remain your devoted friend, H. G. B. THE PLEASURE IS OURS St. Paul, Minne enclose herewith subscription for our ar. It is a small matter compared with the good that I get out of your paper. Taking into consideration the enclosed and other matters I have sent you respecting the council, can you tell me if you ever saw more smoke as you go down the pike than we are making for the council? Kindly give us notice. Please send us a list of persons to whom we might send copies of the enclosed matter. Also please send me four portraits of Prof. Washington. See that they are evenly folded and wrapped in a horn so that they will not break, and send half a dozen copies of paper under separate cover. I wish to present them to white friends of mine. Let me congratulate you on your push. E. L. McG AMERICAN IS ALL RIGHT. Lexington, Ky. I have to hand your paper of 17th inst., accompanied by a most excellent likeness of the Great Booker Washington, and simply write this to express my thanks and appreciation of the same. We have Mr. Washington at the Lexington Opera House June 6th, and are making preparation for a big time for him. Both races are much interested. Will write the matter up and send account to you. Enclosed please find clipping from the most popular daily in Lexington, which was called forth from the pen of Editor Moore, of the Blue Grass Blade, because of an invitation by one Gen. Gentry, an ex-Confederate, to entertain Mr. Washington to a rabbit chase. Glad to see you so loyally and royally wield your pen in defense of Mr. Washington. Surely you have done much for the cause he so manfully advocates. The AMERICAN is all right. With best wishes I am, Yours etc., DELIGHTED WITH OUR STORY. New Orleans, La.—I was so well pleased after reading your issue of the 18th with your article on the life history of Prof. Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee Institute, that I wired you for one hundred copies. Our schools and universities are just about having their commencement exercises, and I thought it would be a good idea for each young man to have a copy of this issue as they go forth into the battle of life. I think Professor Washington's life will be a beautiful story for them, as no man of our race is doing more for the welfare and upbuilding of his people. His life's good work should be read in our schools, as none is more worthy of emulation. I have just received the sad news of the death of my old friend and comrade, Capt. Thos. G. Kelly, Hoping this may find your family and friends, as well as yourself, in the best of health and spirits, I am, ALL THE REST FOLLOW. THE COLORED AMERICAN leads—all the rest follow.—Tribune Press Pueblo, Colorado. TRULY INDEPENDENT. THE COLORED AMERICAN is independent, fresh and fearless. It rings true upon the questions of the hour.—Baptist Reporter, Helena, Ark. DESERVES CREDIT THE COLORED AMERICAN of the District of Columbia deserves much credit for the excellent picture of Prof. B. T. Washington.—Western World. ANOTHER PROGRESSIVE MOVE. ANOTHER PROGRESSIVE MOVE. The supplement to THE COLORED AMERICAN in the way of a beautiful engraving of the distinguished Booker T. Washington is another progressive move in Negro journalism. Arkansas Appreciator. NEVERTHELESS AND NOTWITHSTANDING. The Negro press may criticise Editor Cooper of THE COLORED AMERICAN, but he publishes the news and edits one of the best papers that comes out of the Capital City.—Kentucky Reporter. WHY, CERTAINLY! The Watchman thankfully accepts the compliments of THE COLORED AMERICAN for the portrait of Booker T. Washington, which no doubt will be highly appreciated by all the AMERICAN's readers. Travis Watchman, Austin, Texax. INTERNATIONAL IN SCOPE THE COLORED AMERICAN, Washington, is the only Negro journal of its kind published. It is not only national, with a touch of the local, but is international in scope. It combines in a well balanced degree, the newspaper, the advocate and the magazine.—The American Star. HIP. HIP. HURRAH! We believe in giving credit to whom credit is due, and for this reason we say three cheers for THE COLORED AMERICAN of Washington, D. C., for its get-up and get in journalism. It deserves the patronage of the people all over the country.—The Rock Hill Messenger. . . . A GRAND RACE ADVOCATE. It was not due to lack of appreciation, that we failed to acknowledge our great indebtedness to that splendid paper, THE COLORED AMERICAN of Washington, D. C., for placing us on its exchange list. The Capital City may well be proud of this grand race advocate.—Home News, Alexandria, Va. JUST A LITTLE PRACTICE WORK THE COLORED AMERICAN unbottles the pent-up vitrol of its wrath upon the much abused head of the Cleveland Gazette, last week. If you call that a calm and dignified summary, Bro. Cooper, we should hate to read your pages when you had decided to display your wrath. —Charleston (W. Va.) Advocate. PUT DOWN ANOTHER "TALLY." Last week the Washington (D. C.) COLORED AMERICAN issued as a supplement a four-colored engraving of Prof. Booker T. Washington. The engraving is a triumph of mechanical art and skill. The American announces that it will issue these supplements at frequent intervals and that the series will include only those leaders of the race whose merits and services entitle them to prominence. Score another for THE COLORED AMERICAN.—Maxton Blade. MAGNIFICENT WORK OF ART. THE COLORED AMERICAN issued a double edition of that admirable periodical last week, which is very creditable to the management. Besides the enormous amount of news matter and feature work contained in the paper, the likeness of Booker T. Washington was issued as a supplement, which was a magnificent piece of artistic work. Mr. Cooper gave the public an example of the possibility of Afro-American journalism, of which his paper is one of the leading spirits.—R. C. M. Simmons in Charleston (W. Va.) Advocate. 3 451, 453, 455, 457 Penn. Ave. 202, 208 and 210 41 St. Northwest MOORE & PRIOLEAU, Sparta - Bullet and Cafe 1216 Pa. Av. Wash., D. C. Fine wines, liquors and cigars, Hot Free Lunch Every Day. 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His liquors are absolutely free from fusel poison, Nobranch houses,) Phone 1426 THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. 4 Edward A. Johnson ‘is making an ex- cellent record in the- office of the Dis- trict Attorney's office at Raleigh, N. C. ahough styled officially “clerk, to the United States Attorney,” his dities are those of an office assistant, in drawing bills of indictment, complaints’: in civil causes, etc. He is the trusted represent- ative of his chief, has*full charge in his absence. This is a place, we understand, that no other colored may in the State has had, and the assignment was made at the request of Senator Pritchard. It is denied that the district attorney moved his office to get rid of Mr. Johnson. It is said the latter worked for four years to secure additional space, so as to al- low greater privacy, and the attorney and his clerk now have each a room of his own in which clients can come for consultation without one interfering with the other. The arraneement gives mu- tual satisfaction. j Rev. W. A. Creditt is. chaplain and captain of the Philadelphia City Guards. R. Henri ‘Strange, the Philadelphia elocutionist, expects to sail for Europe soon. > Joe Gans, the champion lightweight, meets George McFadden at San Fran- cisco June 26th. The centenial services of Sharp Street Memorial church, Baltimore, netted $3,- 600 above expenses. The widow of a cp pee Jehu Holliday, of the A. M. Be Zion Church, was married in Chicago June 18, to Mr. Thomas R. Ramsay. , ; Henry O. Tanner, of Paris. the cele- brated artist, accompanied bq his charm- ing and accomplished wife, is visiting his parents. Bishop and Mrs. B. T. Tanner, in Philadelphia. “- The Mt. Zion Baptist ‘Church at In- able minister, has been in charge there dianapolis, Ind., is preparing fo erect a $10,000 edifice. Rev. Benj. Farrell, an for fourteen years. —- Mr. Charies A. Moore has been ap- pointed private secretary to Minister William F. Powell, United States Min- ister to Haiti. Mr.’ Moore sailed on May 23 for his new post of duty. Galbraith A. M. E.1 Zion.‘Church, Washington, D. C., which seemis to be entering upon an era of prosperity under the pastorate of Rev. S. L. Corrothers, has a membership of about’ 400! and its Property is estimated at nearlv $50,000. . Bishop Walters is in Chicago and will remain there until time to attend the meeting of the National Afro-American Council at St. Paul July oth. Strong Pressure is being brought to bear to have the Bishop hold on as president of the Council. Grand Master Edward H. Mortis, of the G. U. O. of O. F. in America was royally received as fraternal delegate by the English members of the order. He is being entertained by the English grand master at the latter’s home ‘in Cardiff, Wales. The colored Episcopalians - of the United States will try for a Bishop of their own race at the next National con- vention. It is believed that the exten- sion of the Church among colored peo- ple could be pushed more effectively if the work were placed in Negro hands. The scholarship honors this year at the High School, Mt. Pleasant., Iowa, were awarded to Miss Nora Harris, a colored girl. and she. will be. given the prize of a year’s free tuition in the i; W. U. Her per cent: .wasi 06.8. .There were three colored girls in a class of twenty-five. 3 ae Baltimore has launched another “swell” organization, the Weldon: Club. It was formally opened last week. The president, Dr, W, W, Frazier, Messrs, Harry S. Cummings, Cabell Calloway, E. Bernard Taylor and others made ad- dresses. The club has a membership of nearly one hundred business and pro- fessional men of the city and a few Washingtonians. A handsome collation was served also. THE MAN-ON T~E CORNER Perhaps there isn't a better known character in Washington than Mr. Jehn H. Wills. He is a native of this city and belongs to that increasing element of hustlers who feel it incumbent upon them to redeem the town from its time- honored reputation of being “slow”—in point of energy, push and power of in- itiative. He is proprietor of a book em- porium at 506 Pigeons street Northwest, Zz = x eN “] ie \ Tae Sip EN > NN a Ev Mr. John H Wibbs and is recognized by our best citizens as the foremost dealer in rare, old and cu- rious volumes. His cosy place is called “The Literary Shop,” and it is indeed, a veritable storehouse of intellectual treasures. Old and costly books, many out of print; novelties in history, travel ‘and biography; race collections and varieties in language; rare and racy works of fiction—all can be found upon his shelves. Though every inch of avail- able space is packed, the presiding ge- nius of the shop needs no catalogue to find his stock—he knows by instinct where a volume is located the moment the title is stated. One hearing of a “literary shop” of this description would expect to be met at the door by a little stoop-shouldered, dried-up, weazened old man, with a ragged beard and sleek broad-cloth clothes, away out of date, his bald head surmounted by an anti- seers skull cap, and speaking in a squeaky tone of voice. You would scarcely be prepared to see a tall, hand- oe athletic young man, attired in the latest fashion, full of fun and apparent- -y more familiar with ping-pong than musty tomes of the fifteenth century. Yet such is John H. Wills, and he is a busi- less man from the word “go.” Mr. Wills believes the Negroes of this city should devote more of their energy to commercial pursuits than to the pas- time of running after netty official posi- tions, which sap all of the vitality out of a real man. In the course of a con- versation not long ago he asked: “How many Negro business men in Washington do a buSiness of $10,000 a year?” How many Negro business men have the steady support of their people— excepting such lines where white preju- dice forces the patronage to a Negro concern? I gave it up—but thought “very few.” “But,” said he, “the trick ‘is easy enough for an amateur to reason out, and a revolution could be worked if the masses would only wake up to the very simplicity of how great results can be accomplished from little things. For in- stance, a dollar a year is a small amount. If the 90,000 Negroes of Washington would spend on an average one dollar a year each with nine colored business firms, those enterprises would receive their $10,000-no one would feel any Bigg, PHONE MAIN 2559. PHONE MAIN 2559, fe "A" H. COOPER: | FINE TALLORING. — 2 EM) Suits To Order From $15.00 Up. = Dying. Scouring and Repairing. : BS Dry and Wet Cleaning of All Kinds zese Clothing Called For And Delivered, 4 Fes Mail and Express Orders Promptly Attended To. ae 925 18TH STREET, N.W. strain—and they would blossom as th | rose. One dollar a year from each in dividual would thus erect nine monu ments to Negro enterprise—nine field of employment for the bright boys an girls now seeking a livelihood; nine ob ject lessons to which we could point witl pride: nine commercial and social force: for lasting good; nine convincing argu ments against racial incapacity—all fo: $1 a piece from a population that draw: more salary than is found among Ne groes in any other community. We have the dollar—but no business estab- lishments of note—none where an aggre- gation of capital is invested.” “What is your theory of this failure of Negroes to combine in commerce? They unite very readily in churches, se- cret societies, clubs, etc.,” said I. “There are several reasons, but all from the business man’s standpoint, hinge upon insufficiency of capital, and this carries us back to the people who refuse to invest their small savings in a corporation, perhaps through lack of confidence. We are hard to suit when served by our own color, while accepting any treatment from the other race. We get apart by trying to impress white peo- ple with our individual superiority and personal importance. We are so con- ceited and so given to truckling to flat- tery that we sell out the interests of the race for a white merchant’s hypocritical smile. Again we do not know how to buy, so as to sell to advantage, hence are not able to meet the lowest prices. Few of us understand human nature well enough to serve goods in the courteous, affable manner that draws and_ holds trade. Worst of all, too many of us are jealous of the Negro who acquires enough wealth to own a home and drive a carriage, and are not happy in observ- ing his prosperity. The bulk of the busi- ness done by Negroes who are making money, I am compelled to say;—comes from the pockets of the white people. We get the money from the Caucasians —and pay it back to them. Consequent- ly, they own the earth and the fullness thereof.” “What of the future?” “I am hopeful of an ultimate trend to- ward common sense action and a knowl- edge of the power of multiplied dollars but I am inclined to the belief that the situation will be worse before it will be better.” John Wills is not a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but he said something in this little sermon of his that furnishes food for grave reflection. Rector O. M. Waller did the correct and manly thing last Sunday morning when he took his place in the chancel and hurled confusion into the camp of the enemies who have been steathly en- deavoring to destrov his usefulness as a minister. In a clean-cut, well-temper- ed, yet firm, speech of a few minutes, he denied the foul aspersions cast unon his moral integrity by unknown persons, and suggested that the interested ones come out from behind the ambuscade of whispered villification and anonymous letters, and assume the esponsibility of definite charges, to the end that an in- vestigation may be had. For the first time in his seven years of labor here, he had felt it necessary to interject into a Service a personal matter of any kind. but he thought it best fcr all concerned to make plain his attitude upon the sub- ject. Out of 503 members, Mr. Waller estimated that the disaffected ones num- bered about 15—an element too infinites- imal to warrant attention save for the Purpose of emphasizing his strength with Ao wales the church. It was hint t if the mischief-makers could not become reconciled, the proper step for them would be to ask for their letters and worship elsewhere. Jy this he_is on solid ground. The church and the citizens at large are at Mr. Waller's back, for they believe in him, and detes trickery and slander as weapons of war. fare in a Christian institution. 1f the social guerillas, who are attemptine to despoil Mr. Waller of his good name, know anything to his discredit, they are invited into the “open.” If they are too cowardly to fight fairly, they should put a stopper in their mouths or resign their membership. Mr. Waller is receiving congratulations unon all sides for the courageous stand he has taken. Among his ardent sympathizers may be counted THe MAN-on-THE-CoRNER s Here is ant ‘ Opportunity! a A large picture of PRor, BooKER T. WASHINGTON, printed in four colors which has all the apy earance of an oil painting, will be sent ek gantly framed by express to any subscriber who will send $3.00 to THE CororED AMERICAN To persons who desire the picture without subscribing for the paper it will be sent by express for $1.5 To parties who desire to sell them, they will be sent in quantities of ten or more for $1.00 each All orders should be addressed to For an expert to manage their advertising. There are others who pay $5 00 for an annual subecrip- tion to printers’ ink and learn what all advertisers are thinking about. But even these are not the extremes reached. There are men who los over $100,000 a year by doing neither one, For sample copy #04 10¢ to Printers’ Ink. No. 10 Spruce Street, New York City. 100,000.00 To Loan In any amount on furniture, pian etc., at lowest rates without delay, removal or publicity. Lou °#? pay it back in smal! monthly psy” ments to suit your income. If you have a loan elsewhere and need more money, come to us. We cat aecommodate you. Call and talk it over before borrowing elsewhere. Private rooms. Business confiden- tial. SURETY LOAN COMPANY, Room 1 Warder Building, 20d 00 9th and FSts, N, W. —_ es CAPTAIN T S KELLY. Major Fleetwood’s Recollec *y Ghe Career of a Noted Chan acter Stirring Incidents in war and Po itics A short UMC SS) Cs ee Lk ke cath of Captain T. S. Kelly, who had en for years so well known as a resi- vat of this district. The following vief sketch is furnished by a former comrade, Major C. AY Fleetwood, who writes; My first. meeting with the late Captain, occurred at Camp Belger, Bal- more, Md., in July, 1863, when he, in company with the late Col. George M. ey (who met with such a tragic . the Old Ford’s Theatre build- ing in June, 93), came out to and en- jsted in the Fourth Regiment, U. S. colored troops, of which I was then the sergeant major. AS Jearned in our sub- sequent acquaintance, he was born in Augusta, Ga, but at the time of the war had drifted to New Orleans, La. Sin- gularly enough, his first knowledge ‘of military drill had betn picked up from vwciation with the Southern soldiery. jr appears that a military company _ha¢ been organized in New ‘Orleans, whose membership was confined to wealthy young society men, who bore all of thei wn expenses. The popular music of those days was the drum and fife, an¢ similar. military organizations in the South gencrally employed colored met js their musicians, To this particula company Kelly» was the fifter. The name of the organization has escaped my memory. After the war had gone on for a time, and men became pressingly need. ed, it appears that this company enterec the field with Kelly still one of its mu sicians, but of course not enlisted 1 <worn into the service of the C. S. A Eventually they reached. Richmond, Va. chen, at the first favorable opportunity Kelly, Arnold and Thos. R. Hawkins all of whom were warm friends in Nev Orleans, got together ~ in Richmond slipped through the rebel lines, wer¢ taken into the Union lines and reachec Baltimore city. Hawkins had relative in Philadelphia and posted on there a once. Kelly and Arnold having no rel atives or acquaintances in this sectior came out to our camp and enlisted. Botl of them were fairly well educated mer (remarkably so, coming from the Sout! at that period) and as good writers wert at a premium in my regiment, each wa given an excellent place, Arnold a regiment ‘hospital steward and Kelly a first sergeant of Co. C. ..By a singula coincidence, shortly after our arrival a Yorktown, Va. in September, 1863, w were joined by the Sixth Regiment, U S. colored troops, organized in Phila delphia. Pa. in which Hawkins turne up as its sergeant major, and the tw were reunited. Kelly remained first ser geant. of Co. C until near the end of th vear 1864, When he was put in charge o the regunectg field parsic. After th losesof the: wagy jhe joing duty i North Corlinemeiemiebtensnt colone \ S Boernstein, by name, a thoroug musician as well as soldier, organized: regimental brass band, ti which Kell dlayed first cornet, and was appointe band leader, serving in this capacit until our muster: out in Mav, 1866, < Washington, D.C. He drifted about between Baltimor and Washington, principally, I believ mtil January 26, 1867, when he re-en listed at Baltimore, Md., and was_as signed to the band of the Fortieth U. § Infantry, and apnointed principal musi cian in the same, July 1, 1867. In Marck 1869, the Thirty-ninth and Fortiet! regiments U. S$. Infantry. were consoli dsted_and became the Twenty-fifth U S. Infantry. in which he continged unti January 26, 1870, when he was dis charged by reason Of exniration of hi term of service,“and this*time at Jackso Barracks. New Orleans, La., the cit: from which he first.started his militar, experience. sate i He settled down in New Orleans an ag ah active’ paft M“politics. During the tronblous=times “there he was em me yed at the, State capitehand was door panes 2. ee ee THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. ¢. office of the Second Auditor of the Treasury, which he held efficiently until the first term of President Cleveland, very early after whose assumption of the reigns of government Kelly was sum- marily bounced, and lay outside the breastworks until the incoming Harri- son administration, when he was as im- mediately reinstated and thereafter held his place until the date of his death, leaving an“enviable record in the office for absolute reliability and efficiency. On July 7, 1879, Kelly was married to Miss Belle W. Smith, a native-born Washingtonian, who survives him. He left no children. In the flush times of military life in Washington, when all of the organiza- tions were independent, Capt. Kelly was in command of Co. A, Capital City Guards, one of the best known military organizations of the country. He re- signed therefrom at the time of his dis- charge from office and took no further active part in military matters. At the outbreak of the Spanish war he sought an appointment as colonel, for which he was highly endorsed, but like all others failed of appointment, and so there came no break in the peaceful latter years of his life, spent in the enjoyment of a happy home, and the associatior: of friends were held him in esteem. He was remarkably popular with a very much younger set of men who made his home for years a social rendezvous, and mourn his loss. By another strange co- incidence, the bones of each one of the same trio now repose at the capital of the Nation they helped to defend. Thos. R. Hawkins died February. 28, 1870, and lies buried in Harmony Cemetery. Geo. M. Arnold was killed June 9, 1893, and is also buried at Harmony, but a few feet from Hawkins. It seems almost a pity that Kelly is not also between them instead of in Arlington, or better still would it be if the three were side by side in that hallowed place, until the great assembly call is blown. IN ToE NATION S EYE Continued from Gret page. =< convince them of the injustice of forcing upon them any measure that would tend to give these Negroes political equality. The gravest apprehension was felt in some quarters and the critics feared that the especial design was to defeat the Crumpacker resolution, the anti-jim crow car bill and all legislation looking to an exposure of Southern election methods. So violently were the charges rung upon this particular point by press and Northern public that Col. Thomp- son awoke one morning to find himself the most talked-about member of the entire Congress. PERSONNEL OF THE PARTY. Undeterred, however, by the mislead- ing comment of the suspicious and en- couraged by commendatory letters from the highest authorities in the land, white and colored, Col. Thompson went on with his arrangements and at the ap- pointed time he and his guests were speeding by special train toward their scene of operations. It was regretted by all that business engagements pre- vented the attendance of several promi- nent and influential gentlemen—notably Speaker Henderson and Mr. Crumpack- er, of Indiana. The party as made up finally included: Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw and Mrs. Shaw; Representative Jas. H. Southard and Mrs. Southard, Ohio; Representative Charles E. Little- field and Mrs. Littlefield, Maine; Repre- sentative Jas. P. Conner, Iowa; Repre- sentative Walter I. Smith and Mrs. Smith, lowa; Representative Samuel S. Barney, Wisconsin; Representative H. B. Dahle, Wisconsin; Representative Webster E. Brown and Mrs. Brown, Wisconsin; Representative Archibald B. Darragh and Mrs. Darragh; Mich.; Representative F. H. Gillette and Mrs. Gillette, New York; Representative Ern- est W. Roberts, Massachusetts; Repre- sentative Charles A. Russell, Connecti- cut ; Judge Fuller and Miss Fuller, lowa; Mrs. Bryant, Washington; Judge W. L. Chambers and Mrs. Unambers. A FELICITOUS RESULT. The result of the tour is now a matter of history. It was successful and pleas- ant—far beyond Col. Thompson’s most sanguine expectations. At Col. Thomp- soh’s great plantation near Tuskegee, where five hundred Negroes are employ- ed and superintended by an intelligent Negro the visitors saw the farming class ‘and enjoyed with them the festivities of Thompson is a Democrat these colored men vote solidly for him for Congress, because they have found him to be a loyal friend. At Tuskegee Normal and industrial Institute they were greeted by Mr. Washington and his teachers and pupils and saw the other aspect of the race—the scholar and the artisan. The magnitude and work of this school were a revelation even to those who had read much of the place and its wonderful founder. At Mobile, Montgomery and other points the party inspected the pub- lic schools, visited “the churches and homes of the race, conversed with rep- resentatives of various lines of business and returned to Washington wiser and happier men for their added experience. Thev were a unit in praising the great good they saw in the progressive Negro and their hearts were stirred with sym- pathy for the less fortunate. They were profuse in their thanks to Col. Thompson for his bountiful hospitality and grate- ful that a broader understandine had been reached by men of the North and South. All of the optimistic predictions made by Col. Thompson’s friends were more than realized, and the apprehensive ones had only their fears for their pains. RACE C+1AMPION DEAD Public Services of Mr. John A. Jenkins Scholar, Soldier and Legislator Fought for Rights with G4e ‘ Old Guard” Providence, R. L, Special—John A. Jeotins, one of the be known colored citizens of Rhode Island, died Tuesday, June 3d, at the ripe old age of seventy- six years. The deceased was born in Philadelphia, Pa., but moved to Boston, Mass., when very young. He received his early education in the public schools of the latter city and when seventeen years of age came to the city of Provi- dence where he resided during the re- mainder of his life. He was a scholar of no mean merit and was especially a lover of literary pursuits. During the Civil War he enlisted in the Fourteenth Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, Co. A, and served with distinction, being recog- nized for his keen military -ability and at the close of the war was honcrably discharged. On his return home he as- sumed the leadership of the Congdon Street Baptist Church choir, which po- sition he creditably held for several years. In the years 1888-9 Mr. Jenkins represented the colored citizens in the General Assembly of the State, where he conducted himself with credit to himself and his race. On one occasion wiile serving in that body he was called upon to preside over the deliberations. of the House of Representatives when said body was acting as a committee of the whole on State property. He was a fearless advocate ‘of the rights of the race to which he belonged and was for twelve years associated with the Hon. James Jefferson and the Hon, George T. Downing in the fight for equal school privileges for colored children in the public schools of the State. He leaves no immediate relatives but a large circle of white and colored friends. . The funeral services were held at the Congdon Street Baptist Church, Satur- day, June 7. Ives Post, No. 13, G. A. R., of which the deceased was a member, bore his body to its last resting place in the beautiful lot of Prescott Post, No. 1. The bearers were Past Commander Stephen J. West; Senior Vice-Com- mander Julius A. Pona and Comrades Silvanus Greene and Edward Silvie. Rev. J. F. Davis, pastor of the church, ably officiated at the church and at the grave. Past Commander James E. John son read the beautiful G. A. Rv buriat services for the dead and then ended ail that was mortal of a great and good man. James E. Jonnson. F a IS CHARACTER THAT COUNTS —_— Booker Washington received from «ll kinds and clesscs of Louisville people a welcome more hearty, sincere ‘and en- thusiastic than was accorded to either of our late visitors—Admiral Schley, hero of the United States, or Henry, Prince of Prussia. So, after all. it isn’t so ‘much race, color or achievement, as chzracter that counts with the masses in this neck o’ the woods. And that is the lessen this ex-slave is striving so earn- estly and robly—also hopefully—to im- press on his race in America—Louisville (Ky.) Times. : 6 WHEN LEARNING LEARN THE REST Dress Me.king School, MRS, L. R. Clark. principal ef the Livingstom School of Dress Making, a No. 1439 W Street Northwest Wash ington, has @ fine school, and we advise all those who wish to learm this valuable trade to go to her school She is a fine teacher asd a credit te her race. He an, kn MB. Clark. principal ef the Livingstom School of Dress Making, a No. 1439 W Street Northwest Wash ington, has @ fine school, and we advise all those who wish to learm this valuable trade to goto herschool She is a fine teacher amd a credit to her race. He terms are reasonable, and all her scholars who have graduated from her school are making a suo- cess 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 Mathmatical 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” Tail oring, also in blending colors. Young men are taught Ladies’ Tailoring at this school. lass for young men from 2.30 to 5.30 » m. Thursday 9 30 to 1 30a m Saturdays. For information cal! at the school- Mrs. L. R. Cranks, Principal. eee b DRESS MAKING ACADEMY. The de Lam Orton Famous French Pertec- Yon Tailor System Mme J. A. Smallwood, Sole Agent 1513 Madison street, northwest, Morning class from 9a. m. to 1 p. m. Afternoon class 2 to 5p. m. daily, Monda: leant moreeee nae dress- londays, w 8 an B makers and Dagan oes. wish to aotners own dressmaking. 4% WANTED—To learn the wonderful De Lam Orton French Perfection Tailor System. Seamless Basques without one inch of Visible Seam, in lining or goods, not even on the shoulder, Successful dressmaking requires as ‘Eauch earnest progressive study as success— Jul work in any of the professions, No detail is too small to be looked afte. We teach you to make dresses with or witbout seam and guarantee perfect fits, and complete your course with a diploma. Pupils can enter at any time. — SUMMER RESORTS. treet et SE ene KEEN COTTAGE, 1743 Arctic Ave Atlantic City, N. J. This Cottage is about two squares from either railroad- it will accommodate about fifty guests. Rooms are large and airy with a beautiful piazza, it has been thoroughly renovated and put in first- class condition, with all modern conveniences: No pains will be spared to make everything com- fortable for our patrons, Address all communica- tions prior to June ist- MR: S. A. KEEN, THE KEYSTONE PARK, The Keystone Park, Suitland, Md., will be open and ready for business June rst. 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 De ac- commodated. Everythine 1s strictly first-class. The Route £9” Cars run to the new Pennsylvania ave,, bridge and for those who drive, follow the straigh: 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 wade for trips morning and evening. For further information apDly at 443 18t ét., 8. w ES i First-class counry board for colored people atloWest ra,es. Plenty shade, fruit. Wilk fresh vegetables. GOod home cooking. Free trans- portation to from ForestGlen cars. Fo! particu- lars and to have some one meet you at cars, Ad- dress Mrs- Mary U, Mitchett, Cloverly P- ©. Montgomery (0- Md. he NS Upperviile, Virginia. Mra. Virginia Pinkett, Upperville, Va., Farquar County, desires to take a number of first class summer boarders, Uppe ville is Jocated ina beautiful part of V'rginia and larrangements bave been already made to Give Orst class service to a lim.ted nomber of persons who des‘re to pend a tew weeks inthe summer, Retes are reasonab’e and the Villa is ocated ciose to the Blue Ridge ‘fountains with spleuaid wa'er, ete, For forther imformetion sddrese Mra, Virginia vinkett, Upperville, Farquar County, Va. —— FOR SALE-4 nineroom frame house storei and stable $2600 00 922 H street Northeast. Inqure at Colored > merican Office, 459 C st northwest. a FOR SALE—Two marble wash-stands and barber chair cheap. 223 D street northwest. SEE EEEUnIIEEIEEEE EE Eeeeeneeeeeeeet If you have a spare room that you would like te rent to Gealzapie bouyies, advertise them in The Colcred Ame! ——— WANTED—A ‘gentleman in the department ‘desires room and board in a first class private family. |s willing to pay first rate for a home-like place Address B; Care this office. Sr | Imprové B4e" Hair and Complexion- Singleton’s Pharmacy 20th and E carries « full line of Ozono preperations with his toilet articles and sundri.s, See display this week. COTTAGES FOR SALE. SAY ie ee a ea a as Four desirable Cottages on Jefferson Street, be~ tween Washington and La Fayette Streets In the very best locality, newly, painted and papered all the !atest improvements on easy terms. For further particulars address J- Harry Hughes Cape May, N.J, ‘The entire Masonic craft have been notified to assemble at Notley Hall on St. John’s Day, June 24, to welcome their friends. par ae 4 in BURDENS SELF IMPOSED. Bincerity a cloak is often made 'Meath which a cunning lie doth masquerade. Who bath not seen a frank straightforward lie Succeed, where truth real, blundering shy, Did fail? Alas, into the dust we blow And fill our own poor eyes. We barefoot go Where we have nettles sown and then we find The world unjust to us, and most unkind, Because the troubles that we bring upon Ourselves are hardest to be borne, WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW. Did you touch the Liberty Bell. Does C. J. Pickett really mean it. If W. M. Wilson's mind is fully made up. Why not a promotion for Hon. John P. Green. When Randolph Nelson will take the lecture field. When will work begin on St. Luke's new parish hall. Does anybody fail to read THE COLORED AMERICAN. When Mr. Murray will name his encampment committee. How many Negro department clerks are passing for white. When that testimonial to Lieutenant Toomey is to be given. Will John H. Wills explain why he doesn't wear a Panama hat. How many Bishops will the Methodist denomination elect in 1904. If the millenium will find Harvey A. Thompson in a happy frame of mind. Wouldn't Rev. B. J. Bolding make a rattling good editor of the Star of Zion. Have you ever noticed that the wedding fever is contagious and marriages run in series. What secret agency is causing this alarming increase of insanity among colored people. If the decadence of the rag-time song isn't a hopeful sign of the returning sanity of the people. Are Washington's business men too busy or too lazy to organize some kind of business league. If Director Merriam's "let up" on discharging colored employees is due to scarcity of material. Why some of our presumably first-class people are so slow about paying their subscription bills. Who holds the record for the largest number of speeches delivered this year before our literaries. Speaking of the water cure, lynching cure, etc., has anybody found a match for the landlady cure. Could Prof. Kelly Miller be prevailed upon to accept the principalship of the M Street High School. Who will Rev. S. Geriah Lamkins select as president of the proposed/Tenth Street Baptist Lyceum. Why an idiot will taks up your valuable hours talking about himself, and call it entertaining you. If our orators are using these summer days to think out some new thoughts for the fall literary season. If what Correspondent W. T. Menard does o the editor of the Indianapolis World will be "a plenty." If a certain judge here thinks it is any worse to rape a white woman than it is to assault a colored one. If any one of the District's ten justices can boast of more personal popularity than Robert H. Terrell. What Recorder Dancy has done with the surplus advice that was showered upon him some time ago. Has anybody heard from the Hon. George W. Ellis, whose present postoffice address is Monrovia, Liberia. If J. C. Campbell regards THE COLORED AMERICAN as "tame" when nothing is said about him or the Census Office. Will General Harris be able to handle the Jim-Crow car question in case the National Guard camps at Leesburg, Va. If Register Lyons isn't feeling quite comfortable over the presidential situation—Roosevelt or Hanna. He can't lose. Why the Indianapolis colored journals don't try to push some good Indiana man for a whack at the national pie-counter. By what method did the two Negro THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. supervisors of census in Mississippi, Mallison and Banks, obtain their appointments. When you see a man poring over a bunch of letters that would fill two pockets, is that a safe sign that he is an office-seeker. Why not give the present number of justices of the peace a year or two, as an experiment, before rushing into a reduction propaganda. Why shouldn't Senator William E. Mason be permitted to take a canter over the presidential course, if he feels he needs the exercise. Are there any departments where Negroes are classed as laborers, yet assigned to clerical work, for which they should receive a clerk's pay. If the removal of a few barnacles from the public service and the substitution of some new material would not be to the advantage of the Negro race. Why it did not occur to T. W. Allen that he possessed exceptional qualifications for that vacant consulship to the volcanic Island of Martinique. If it is fair to the unemployed young girls in the city for appointing powers to carry on their rolls married women whose husbands draw good salaries. If Prof. W. H. Richards' fine legal attainments would not render him a most valuable member of the Freedmen's Inquiry Commission, should it be created by Congress. Why the few leading churches that continue the absurd procession to the collection table do not take the hint frequently dropped by THE COLORED AMERICAN—and quit it. If there is any good reason why the M Street High School should have a male principal, why don't the agitators make an argument along logical lines and name the man they want. If the District Odd Fellows are not peculiarly fortunate in being able to present such able timber as W. L. Houston as their candidate for a place on the sub-committee of management. Would 90,000 members of any other race than the Negro put up quietly with the high-handed discriminations practiced against them in the District of Columbia, with the law on their side. Why don't employees who claim to be denied promotions on account of prejudice file their complaint with the Civil Service Commission, instead of retailing their grievances on curbstones. Upon what sensible ground do colored churches tolerate political meetings, when not one white church in a thousand permit anything to mar the sacred character of their places of worship. If it isn't about time for some brave reformer to turn the light upon the houses of so-called respectable people, where married women assemble by appointment, and young girls take their first lessons in vice. How certain high-salaried Government officials have the nerve to pass as race leaders, and yet refuse to subscribe for a Negro journal or patronize any institution run by the race—excepting, perhaps, a bar-room. If it wouldn't be a bright idea for clubs and restaurants to put up a big sign, "Don't Butt In!" for the benefit of a fresh class of fellows who are impolite enough to interfere with a private conversation between gentlemen. If Miss Rebecca J. Taylor forfeits her place in the War Department for writing letters in opposition to the administration's Philippine policy, will there not be some resignations from the literary bureau of the Pen and Pencil Club. Why the unexpensive cap and gown costume is not adopted by the graduates of the High School, instead of compelling hard-working parents to put up $20 to $30 for organdies, ribbons and laces, in order not to have their daughters look cheap in comparison with wealthier girls. With one authority "touting" W. Bruce Evans for assistant superintendent, another for the M Street High School principalship, and still another for the Baltimore High School, who has the correct combination on the intentions of the smiling director of the Armstrong Manual Training School. The refereeshments will be served by the ladies of the Eastern Star and Courts on the Masonic excursion. Gives Instant Vigor Weak Men Can Have It Free by Sending Name and Address—Imparts Strength and Vigor for Life. 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Deposits received from 10 cents up-ward. Interest allowed on $5,00 and above. Collections meet with prompt attention. A general exchange and banking business done. Bank open from 9 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. ADAMS HOUSE. 582-584 Broadway, Opposite New Depot. ALBANY, N. Y. EUROPEAN PLAN. T. H. Drags, Prop. Special attention paid to Private Dinners, Lun cheons, etc. Ladies' Dining Rooms up stairs. Ladies' Entrance to Cafe, 6e James St. Telephone 5849 D. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. Little COLORED AMERICANS. Pride in one's work makes a good work. Ministers must not forget to preach the gospel of work. Those who are in the right never fear investigations No right-thinking man wants charity. Give him something to do. President Roosevelt's tour through the country will be a continuous ovation. Many a "klaking" preacher is pa i fled by being placed at a well paying church. An unchaperoned daughter is frequently the forerunner to a discredited woman. People who talk to you about everybody else are pretty certain to talk to everybody else about you. Colored mechanics are laying brick in Philadelphia, is a cheering message from the newsy Tribune. Cuba will get her recolprocity. Our strenuous President has given out sentiments that will "stay put." The white man does not forbid Negroes to build theatres or operate restaurants, laundries and groceries. Rector O. M. Waller told the truth on the gamblers and bettors when he described them as the pirates of society. We want an isthmian canal, but have no disposition to dictate whether it shall be by the Panama or Nicaraguan route. Patrons of those disreputable Sunday orgies, in the South—called excursion s—are not helping to solve the race problem. If killing time were a capital offense, the mortality among Washington's colored population would be something dreadful. More Christianity and less denominationalism would work wonders towards bettering the Negro's condition in this country. Idleness, drunkenness and gambling are evils that menace the development of the race. We are in many cases, our own worst enemy. Many people raise a row over matters they know to be trivial, for fear that a dignified silence will be taken as an indication of cowardice. Jealousy is the bane of our progress It causes trouble in the church, the school, and keeps business partners from getting along in harmony. The program of the National Afro-American Council abounds in good things. It meets at St. Paul, July 9, 10 and 11 and should be largely attended. Names don't seem to effect a man's popularity in Pennsylvania. Judge Pennypacker won the governorship "hands down" at last week's state convention. Congress can widen our opportunity and can punish those who unjustly hamper our progress, but legislation alone cannot make us men and women. That is our own work. If the republican majority in Congress is desirous of responding to the wishes of their faithful Negro allies, by passing the Freedmen's Inquiry bill there is absolutely nothing in the way. Elcquent Phil Waters, the boy orator of the Kanawha, is conceded to have made the best speech of the day at the recent congressional and senatorial conventions at Charleston, W Va., that of candidate for the United States Senate not excepted. Mr. J. C Leftwich, formerly of Alabama, but now of Oklahoma, has been appointed by the Governor of that territory a delegate to the Southern Negro Congress which will convene at Galveston, Texas, July 1 As an "interloper," Brother Leftwich is a glittering success. The color line hangs over the nation like a pall. It has invaded the committee in charge of the International Sunday School Convention at Denver, and unless the discriminating arrangements are revoked, the local colored churches will advise delegates of the race not to attend. Young Mr. Patterson, of Tennessee, troubled in mind over the increase of mulattoes in the South, has evolved a new and original solution of the matter He says the mixed-breed Negro was not known there until the advent of the carpet-bagger from the North. Tut, tut! Mr. Patterson would know better if he were older, or would see with his eyes—not with his prejudices. Coleman Cotton Mill The fifth annual meeting of the stockholders of the Coleman Manufacturing Company will convene July 4th, 1902 at 12 m. in the company's of flies in Concord, Cabaniss County, N. C. The mill continues operation, daily with a large force of boys and girls who possess a very high degree of stick to tiveness and love for their work, thus enabled to produce a line of goods the equal of any made in similar mills anywhere in the country. Of the many large orders the mill has filled the managers have yet to receive a single complaint from customers. The demand and sales of their product has increased at such a rate that if the present capacity of the mill were doubled they would not be able to fill the orders. Their subscription books are open to parties desiring to invest in a good paying business. For further particulars address or call on W. C. COLEMAN, Sec. and Treas. Box 42, Concord. N. C. Editor H. T. Johnson Sues. Rev H. T. Johnson, well known as the editor of Christian Recorder, organ of the A M E. Church, has entered suit against the Pulman Palace Car Company in the District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey, for the sum of $5000 for refusing to supply him with breakfast in To Notley Hall, Upper Glymont, Lower Cedar Point, Rock Point Other Points On The Potomac. 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Between G and H Streets. A fine Line of Men's Women's and Child- ren's Shoes and Rub- bers at lowest prices. The Only Shoe Store in the city conducted by colored Men. LOW PRICES. On Beautiful gold crowns and all other work. We positively extract teeth without pain. ...12th and Penn. Ave... Vero Dentists. Hours 8 a. m to 6 p. m. Sunday 9 a. m to 12 m. 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. SUBSCRIPTION 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 guar- an- 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 RATES. Reading notices 50 cents per line, Display advertisements, $2 per square inch per insertion. Discounts made on large contracts. Entered at the Post-office as second-class matter. 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, JUNE 21, 1902. The next issue of The Colored American will contain a four colored supplement of one of the leading colored men in the United States, Dr. William L. Taylor, President of the True Reformers' Bank, Richmond, Va. This number will contain many new and interesting features among which will be a picture and sketch of the new $60,000 building in this city. The price of this issue will be ten cents per copy and the agents will be supplied with them at five cents a copy. Orders for extra copies should be sent in at once in order that they can be filled promptly. AN ODIOUS CAR LAW. "It's an ill wind that blows nobody good" is an adage that has withstood the ravages of time. The arrest in Alexandria, of Miss Mary Custis Lee, daughter of General Robert E. Lee, of Confederate army fame, furnishes us a text for a brief lay sermon. The charge against Miss was that she insisted upon occupying a seat in the portion of the electric car set apart for Negroes contrary to the new "jim crow" car law of the state of Virginia. The episode has stirred up much feeling among the better classes of the Old Dominion. They have never been in hearty sympathy with the separate street car idea, which was championed by one Mr. Caton, a representative of the poor whites of Alexandria county, and who foisted the measure upon certain roads, after being beaten by the more influential corporations. It is conceded that the effect of Miss Lee's humiliating arrest will be to make the law odious, especially so far as the Mt. Vernon line is concerned, and it is openly asserted by leading Confederate veterans of Richmond that they will make an effort to have the law repealed at the next ses- --- THE COLORED AMEPICAN, WASHINGTON, D. O. sion of the legislature. There has been criticism and discontent ever since the separate seat policy has been in vogue. The conductors and the people have been put to inconvenience in many ways, and with strange passengers on every trip, who are unfamiliar with the rules, constant friction is bound to be the result. We are glad the incident happened, although sorry for Miss Lee personally, for we understand that she, by reason of her culture and aristocratic antecedents, is liberal upon matters relating to the rights of man and has no patience with the petty racial animosities that fill the breasts of Virginians of the Caton stripe. "It's an ill wind that blows nobody good," and Miss Lee's discomfiture may be the entering wedge to an era of common sense that will sweep away this law, which is not only illogical and unjust, but will be proven unconstitutional, if ever given a square test before the courts. In the meantime, however, let the law be rigidly enforced, no matter how many arrests may be found necessary. nor how much confusion may be caused. The way to secure the repeal of a law that has no foundation in right is to enforce it, without exception, upon the high, the low, the rich and the poor—the high and rich, in particular, for they have the power and will strike back when injured The poor are compelled to submit to abuses generally. until some influential person is caught in the meshes, and then agitation for a reform is waged until relief is brought about. Miss Lee's case must not be permitted to die out of the public mind, for her arrest was made under a law that lowers her and her race in the eyes of Christian people and outrages colored American manhood everywhere. Keep the question alive. "It's an ill wind that blows nobody good." The Colored American does not bite its tongue when it has an opinion to express on any issue. RELIGION OF THE SKIN. Christianity must be at a low ebb among the white people of Frankford, Del. A Mr. Burton secured a colored boy from a children's home in New Jersey, and being a member of the Unity M. E. church, wished to have the lad attend with him. The congregation rose in arms against the innovation, and the sexton resigned. The minister tried to sustain the gospel by holding up for the boy, but was advised "to get a call to a Negro church if he preached to Negroes." Peace was restored only when Mr. Burton decided not to take the boy to church again. Have the Delaware Methodists revised their creed so as to provide for a religion of the skin, and amended Christ's divine invitation so as to read Suffer little white children to come un to me, and forbid them not, etc? True education is a foe to prejudice. MILK AND WATER POLITICS NOT WANTED We hope that General Clarkson will be powerful enough to assist President Roosevelt in piloting the politics of New York once more into the sea of stern purpose where Grant and Conkling left it A republican victory should mean reward for those who brought it about and not for democrats or for weak kneed sycophants who held aloof while the Trojans worked. Democrats do not coax republicans into their party by a surrender of either principles or loaves and fishes. The bark of some of our contemporaries is worse than their bite. There are signs of another revolt on the part of the colored republicans of Maryland. Mr. Mudd seems to be the storm center at present, but the fury of the blast threatens to spread as it goes. If Congressmen cannot keep their word with those who have placed them in power, the only sensible thing to do is to leave them at home, and give some one else a trial. The new union station should be located in South Washington. The farm is the basis of material prosperity. Intelligence fashions and utilizes it for the benefit of mankind. When the testimony of outrages in the Philippines is read, it appears to one up a tree that Denmark is not the only place where rottenness exists: Bishop Hood is right. A pulpit had better be vacant than occupied by a spiteful, incompetent, bombastic or immoral preacher. Industriat education fits a girl to earn an honest living, should she be thrown upon her own resources by the death or disability of parents. The new appropriation bill for the District of Columbia gives the Recorder's office a neat little "show for its white alley," Mr. Dancy is correspondingly happy. The responsibility for lynching is two-fold. First, upon the individual committing the crime, then, upon the community if it fails to administer adequate punishment. We would say to an inquiring correspondent that all of the "speak-easies" in Washington are not colored, as the police records would seem to show. The fact is that all those that suffer from raids happen to be colored. It appears that the Negro will be an offense to some Southern whites whether in life or in death. A few days ago a colored Fpiscopal priest of Atlanta died, and the family was tendered a grave for the body in a white cemetery. This was resisted by injunction, and the body now lies in a vault while the legal phase of the problem is being discussed. Indifference to lynching is complicity in the crime. Register Lyons in Indiana. A man who has a firm grasp upon the social and economic issues of the day as they effect the colored people of the United States is the Hon. Judson W. Lyons, our very popular and capable Register of the Treasury. His speeches and interviews never fail to reach the marrow of a situation, no matter how difficult or embarrassing, and his counsel is listened to everywhere with manifestations of approval, which are alike complimentary to his superior ability and to the increased tendency of our people to follow intelligent leadership. The subject; extract from the New Albany Daily Evening Tribune, is one of many testimonials extolling the words of wisdom delivered by Mr. Lyons at the high school commencement there. Says the Tribune: The recent address of the Hon. J. W. Lyons, Register of the Treasury. was the ablest presentation of the Negro problem ever heard in this city. He presented an array of statistical facts that made a marvelous showing for the Negro race. His advancement in literature and the mechanical arts is highly creditable. Mr. Lyone' address will be a great incentive to the Negroes of this section and his visit here has done untold good." SOWING AND REAPING (Continued from First page.) ton Loan and Trust Co., and other large moneyed institutions in this city, were once department clerks, and messengers, but when they began business their white fellow clerks and messengers rallied around them, and made their business prosperous and solid. What do our young men do? They take great delight in telling you that they take no stock in colored banks, colored stores of any kind, or other enterprises owned and operated by members of their own race. What can the harvest be from such creatures? The young Negroes, those who came into existence since the War of the Rebellion, and who are educated in the book, but are woefully lacking in race enterprise, race pride and self respect, are the ones mostly to blame for present conditions. I could cite many instances to prove this statement, but the narration would be too humiliating In reading the accounts of the High School drills, white and colored, I could but notice the fact that not a single representative colored official or citizen, was named as being in attendance upon the white drill, much less occupying boxes, while at the colored cadets' drill the choicest boxes were reserved for white officials and white guests. We scream about "Jim Crow" cars, and groan because of race discriminations in theatres, and elsewhere, yet our highest educational institutions set the example of preference for our white citizens in all their public functions. They take all the prominence we choose to give them, and in return kick us out of theatres, consign us to "Jim Crow" cars, send us up into the "coon gallery," and utterly ignore us upon all such occasions as public school drills or commencement exercises for their thanks. We advertise our lack of self respect further by annually going to the white officers of the District Militia for our judges at cadet drills, giving them plainly to understand that we have no confidence in the ability of our colored officers of the First Separate Battalion, who gain their commissions by the same tests of ability as the whites. I am often taunted with these facts by white people in discussing the race question. They point to the servant class of our people, and tell me that they prefer to serve them to us, and if I attribute it to their ignorance and degradation, they turn to our educated class, and cite just such cases as I have mentioned in our High School cadet drills—a splendid object lesson to our young men, and young women in these schools. The white race have us all along the line, from the highest to the lowest. Whenever they come among us in our churches, schools, or on public occasions of any kind, they are objects of the most obsequious attention from us. We lift our hats higher, bow lower, and give them a broad grin in return for the slightest sign of recognition. Those of us who do not practice this sort of thing are the exception. I wish it were otherwise. We have a great National organization, "The Afro-American Council," whose influence has been acknowledged in some quarters, and in the face of the fact that we have put forward for places on the Federal bench, lawyers of learnin- and experience, of our own race, yet when we have a cause to bring before our courts, we gather up our thousands of dollars and dump them into the lap of some white lawyer of only local repute, thereby at the very outset acknowledging our lack of confidence in the ability of those we press upon the President for judicial appointments. A race that cannot find ability within its own ranks to plead its own cause, is certainly in sore straits. But we have the men equal to the emergency; the small fry managers alone are to blame for not employing them. CHAS. R. DOUGLASS. Washington. D. C., June 16, 1902. MR. LITTLEFIELD'S VIEWS. The Stalwart Representative From Maine a Leading Figure in The Thompson Party—Impressions of Tuskegee—His Speech a Keynote, While each of the visiting delegation took part in the speechmaking and several conversed with many persons, perhaps the member that made the most profound impression upon the South during this tour was Representative Charles E. Litlefield, of Maine's Second Congressional District. In fact a Presidential boom was sprung for him by Col. Thompson in a witty speech. Mr. Littlefield is a native of Maine and has held many offices of responsibility in that State, having been speaker of the House of Representatives and attorney general. He succeeded Nelson Dingley in Congress in 1899, and at a bound leap- B. H. Hon. Charles E. Littlefield. ed into a position of leadership by his comprehensive grasp of large National questions. Hisaddress on Negro suffrage here not long ago attracted a great deal of attention. His statement that conferring the suffrage upon the Negro just after the war was a mistake occasioned no little criticism. This, however, was not meant as a reflection upon the black man's capacity, for in a later communication, he held that he believed in an educational qualification for the elective franchise, applied without distinction of race or color, and that had this premium been placed upon intelligence at the outset the situation would have been far happier for both races and the whole South than is at present the case. The status of the Negro is not, he explains, any proof of his lack of inherent capacity for self government, but is due to the greed and ambition for power of a race that is able by superior advantages to hold the colored people down and thus perpetuate their own disproportionate control. Had the test for fitness been impartially applied at the time of reconstruction large numbers of the illiterate whites who are making restrictive laws offensive would have been excluded and the electorate would have enlarged gradually among both races according to their growth and intelligence. He does not believe the Fifteenth amendment will be repealed. This is a true statement of Mr. Littlefield's views and it is difficult for any candid reasoner to dispute his philosophical conclusions. He is now pledged to face the present vexed problems in a generous spirit and to demand for all the rights guaranteed by the Constitution. Since visiting Tuskegee Mr. Littlefield expressed himself as more and more convinced that Booker Washington is working along the line that will more speedily and securely make for the Negro people a place in the ranks of our solid citizenry. Industrial education, integrity, force of character, and thrifty habits on the fundamentals of usefulness in the uplift of civilization and in inculcating these principles into the Negro youth. Mr. Littlefield is confident that Mr. Washington has struck the right chord for a harmonious solution of racial development. He was delighted with all he saw at Tuskegee and was particularly impressed with the strong personality of Mr. Washington himself. His address there bespeaks deep interest in the education and advancement of the race and as it is really the keynote of THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. the spirit that pervaded every action of the Thompson party, THE COLORED AMERICAN is pleased to present it in full. In introducing Hon. Charles E. Littlefield Mr. Washington spoke as follows: "No name is more prominent in Congress and no man is more closely connected with all that is wise, brave and pure than the Honorable Charles E. Littlefield of the great State of Maine, whom I have great pleasure in introducing to you." Mr. President and Fellow Citizens: I do not suppose that it is necessary for me to say that it is with great and unalloyed pleasure that I stand here, if only for a few moments, to say a few words to the magnificent audience that is here assembled before me. I have heard of this institution and of its work. I have many times heard of the man who has been mainly instrumental in bringing about the magnificent results which are here illustrated in open books before me, with intelligence beaming upon every page. I know what his reputation throughout the land is as an orator, and I well recognize his great ability in the use of the pen, but there is the tongue of no orator nor the pen of any writer, although it be considered even a reflection upon the distinguished writer who presides over the destinies of this institution, that can put upon paper a record of the magnificent work which we have seen here to-day. It afforded me great pleasure to hear this distinguished man say—and when I say distinguished I use it without intent whatever as to distinction of race, color or creed—it afforded me pleasure I say, to hear him say that my distinguished colleague, whose magnificent and princely hospitality to my colleagues and myself we have so thoroughly enjoyed, is one of the benefactors of this institution. In my colleague's address, in the characterization of your president, he said that he was one who was the peer of any colored educator in the world. I propose to go him one better in characterizing Mr. Washington and his work, and want to say that he stands upon a par with the presidents of the best institutions in this or any other land. (Applause.) I say that Booker T. Washington, beginning in 1881 upon land that had nothing upon it, the ordinary land we see in driving about this country, with no buildings, with no equipment, and presenting to us to-day this institution with its splendid results and magnificent opportunities, stands on a par with the head of any institution in the land, for he has achieved practical results, beginning at the foundation and building the superstructure strong and sound and firm and eternal, a superstructure upon which the Republic must stand. (Applause.) I think I can perhaps from a personal standpoint, in a sense, sympathize with the results which have been achieved here. I came from the far-off Eastern country, where the sun shines and the rains pour upon the just and the unjust, although it does not shine quite the length of time or quite as hot as it apparently does here. We have perhaps in our institutions and in our surroundings a different environment from that you have here, and yet in the main essentials we have the same. In the fundamental underlying idea we have practically the same. Now just one word by way of personal reference, a thing I very seldom indulge in. As I was riding about here yesterday, being driven by one of your teachers in this school who was showing me your work, he called my attention to the residence of one of your preachers. He said that this preacher not only preached, but that he worked as well. That suggested to my mind a personal recollection. My father was a Free Will Baptist minister in Maine. He died at the age of eighty-one years. He was not only a minister but a mechanic and carpenter by trade; and I do not believe that he ever took in all his life, a vacation of more than six weeks all put together. And until he was sixty-five years of age he preached the gospel to the people and worked continuously at the same time. I knew something about labor at the age of fifteen; at that time I stood quite as tall as I stand now; I was not quite as large, but nearly as large as I am now, and I had for a father a man who was a carpenter, and it came more natural for me to use a saw and plane and a hammer than it did to use a knife and fork to handle food upon the table, and while other boys enjoyed vacations, I worked at the carpenter's bench and trade from fifteen to twenty-three years of age. After I was eighteen I closed my school life in the common schools of Maine and worked continuously until I went into a law office at twenty-three. It was not eight hours work a day then—it was anywhere from ten to twelve a day. In the practice of the profession I have worked from fifteen to seventeen hours a day, and I know from experience that there is nothing worth having that can be acquired except by work, hard work, labor. (Applause.) OPPORTUNITY THE WORLD'S DEBT. The world, it is sometimes said, owes every man a living. That is not so. The world does not owe every man a living. I will tell you what the world does owe every man and woman without distinction of race and color—it owes him AN OPPORTUNITY TO WORK, an opportunity to earn a living. (Applause.) And it not only owes him an opportunity to work and earn a living, but it has a right to look to every man and woman, to every boy and girl in this and in every institution, to work and earn that living. Not only is there no royal road to learning, but there is no royal road to success, and it is for this reason that I most heartily concur and approve of the fundamental idea that I understand underlies the teaching in this institution—industrial education, industrial independence, and industrial character. There is nothing that can so advance the youth of any race as the kind of industrial education and industrial independence that I have seen illustrated to-day upon every hand. I not only would like to see this school duplicated throughout the South where our colored friends in such large numbers live, but I would like to see it duplicated in the section where I live and where I know the people for whom this kind of education, beginning at the very bottom, on the foundation, and building to the magnificent structure, would do good. Both races would be better off, much better off, with an abundance of such schools. (Applause.) I shall not take the time to indulge in any discussion of any of the questions that concern us, except that I do say, in my judgment, the distinguished man who presides over this institution, and the other distinguished men who assist him in their various capacities, your officers and teachers, a corps numbering practically one hundred and more of the best and most magnificent material that can be secured anywhere who are carrying on this work, are BEGINNING AT THE RIGHT END of the solution of one of the greatest questions that since 1865—aye, since 1871, when the Constitution of the United States, the fundamental law that exists to-day, was adopted to protect in all the land the people of one language and one law and one destiny, has disturbed the country. It is the greatest question, perhaps, that has concerned the American people, and deserves from both races the most careful consideration and wise treatment and solution in the interests of a common people with a common destiny, because, my friends, we are all here—this is our country—and here in all probability we shall for all time remain. Our futures are intimately banded together. One cannot be carried down without dragging down the other. Education, industrial, secular and religious, is the one thing that will help us to solve the great problems of the hour. This has always been true and always will be true. Without education—industrial, secular and religious, in order that we must be an intelligent, law-abiding and God-fearing people, the destinies and liberties of the Republic are not secure. I close these few suggestions with an extract from a poem by John G. Whittier, a man whose name is revered by all of the persons who are seated before me to-day—a poem, perhaps, that applies more particularly to the educational institutions in the portion of the country where I live, but has its broad catholicity of subject for the East, West, North and South— The Southland boasts its teaming cane The prairie West its heavy grain, And sunset's radiant gates unfold On rising marts and sands of gold! Rough, bleak and hard, our little State Is scant of soil, of limits straight; Her yellow sands are sands alone, 9 A. Miss Anna Carsten, Clayton, Ill. Miss Anna Carsten, Clayton, Ill., says: "Your Peruna did me so much good. I believe I should have been dead by this time had I not used it. I am feeling so well now. I have not taken any medicine for four or five months. I can cheerfully recommend Peruna to my friends." Everywhere the people, especially the women, are praising Peruna as a remedy for all forms of catarrhal difficulties. Roxa Tyler, Vice President of the Illinois Woman's Alliance, writes from 910 East Sixtieth street, Chicago, Ill., the following: "During the past year I gradually lost flesh and strength until I was unable to perform my work properly. I tried different remedies, and finally Peruna was suggested to me. It gave me new life and strength. I cannot speak too highly of it." The extreme sensitiveness of the mucous lining of every organ of a woman's body is well known to physicians. This explains why, in part at least, so few women are entirely free from catarrh. Peruna cures catarrh wherever it is located. Send for free catarrh book. Address Dr. Hartman, Columbus Ohio. Her only mines are ice and stone! From Autumn frost to April rain, Too long her winter woods complain; From budding flower to falling leaf, Her summer time is all too brief. Yet, on her rocks, and on her sands, And wintry hills, the school house stands. And what her rugged soil denies, The harvest of the mind supplies. The riches of the Commonwealth Are free—strong minds, and hearts of health; And more to her than gold or grain, The cunning hand and cultured brain. For well she keeps her ancient stock, The stubborn strength of Pilgrim Rock; And still maintain, with milder laws, The clearer light, the Good Old Clause! Nor heeds the skeptic's puny hands, While near her school the church-spire stands Nor fears the blinded bigot's rule. While near her church-spire stands the school. Get a Copy. The second annual report of the National Negro Business League is out. It is newey, interesting and gives a most accurate account of the last meeting of the League in August of last year in Chicago. These books are selling for the very small sum of thirty-five cents. Every member of the League should order one or more copies. Orders may be sent to Mr. S. Leing Williams, 119 Adams st., Chicago, Ill.