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The COLORED Library of Congress American A NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER VOL. XI, NO.16. SCIENTIFIC FARMING. SCIENTIFIC FARMING. AGRICULTURAL WORK AT TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE. Practical Instruction Given in Darying Orchard Growing, Chemistry of Soils and Export Gardening-Constant Demand for Graduates, and Good Salaries Offered, Tuskegee, Ala., Special.—None of the work of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute has proven more successful than the work done in the Agricultural Department and that under the supervision of the Agricultural Experiment Station, established by the Legislature of the State of Alabama in connection with the school. The chief aim of this department is to make the instruction practical as well as scientific. From the beginning of the school, special prominence has been given to all forms of work connected with the cultivation of the soil. About 85 per cent. of the colored peo f the South live in the country They are farmers, and in products, to become in and successful farmers. In tendid modern building, the armstrong Memorial Agriculturing, it is named, costing about was built and equipped for both practical and scientific About the same time, the State of Alabama esd an agricultural experiment in connection with the school. the past year two wings were the building at a cost of $5,000. dequate laboratory and mu provided. Under the head of this department carried in the laboratory and field. The laboratory work is and easily understood by the consists, in the main, of the various soils, for the pur learning what elements need be in order to make them more live. This enables the students to proper selection of fertilizers. are also tested to find their seeds are tested to find adapted to fat, to milk or to there is also practical analysis products—milk, butter and a comprehensive study of native forage plants. All knowledge is carried daily and into the practical various divisions of the dethis way the technical the laboratory is worked and in the products of den and orchard. From five cows are milked airy division. The milk WASHINGTON, D.C., AUGUST 2, 1902. The Peerless Afro-American Comedian, Song-Writer, Vocalist and Dramatist. To Star in "My Friend From Georgia" from these cows is used to prove the experiments of the laboratory, and also supplied to teachers and students as milk and butter in the students' and teachers' home departments. Tuskegee butter has been called, by competent judges, excellent, both in appearance and quality. The orchard and truck garden are also used for practical results. Budding, grafting, trimming, and the care of plants and trees are taught always with a view of supplying fruit and vegetables for the school. Some splendid results have come from the agricultural department, and are set forth in bulletins issued by the experiment station. The institution owns twenty-five hundred acres of land, of which fifteen hundred acres are divided into two farms, known as the "Home Farm" and "Marshall Farm." The Home Farm is used to raise vegetables, fruit, poultry, cows, hogs and horses. The Marshall Farm is three miles from the school and contains eight hundred acres of land. Upon it are raised, mainly, heavv grain, potatoes, sugar cane, peas etc., to supply the boarding department of the school. Vegetables are also raised in great abundance upon it. This farm is cul- tivated entirely by students. A night school is carried on at the Marshall Farm eleven months in the year. There has been added to the agricultural department work in dairying, poultry raising, horticulture and floriculture for girls. The experiment has been tried the past two years with excellent results. A large majority of the young women who come to Tuskegee are the daughters of colored farmers, living on small plantations. How little benefit the people of that class get from gardens, one has only to travel through the country districts of the Southern States to see. If they have a garden at all it is apt to be choked with weeds and other noxious growths. With every advantage of soil and climate, and with a steady market, if they live near the city or large town, few of the colored farmers get any benefit from this, one of the most profitable of all industries. The girls in the various agricultural divisions have as careful training as do those in any of the other industries, sciences and arts taught here. This work is carried on in connection with the Continued on fourth page. PRICE, FIVE CENTS ELEVATING THE STAGE. ELEVATING THE STAGE. AIM OF ERNEST HOGAN PREMIERPLAYWRIGHT His Brilliant Past and Some Plans for Even Higher Results-Negro Actors Can Rise by Superior Ability and Character-Originality and Ver satility P.y Dividends. Our readers will readily recognize in the accompanying feature the familiar teacher that prince of entertainers, Mr. Ernest Hogan. While classified as a comedian and fun-maker he has exhibited a remarkable dramatic talent, and many and varied have been the favorable comments tendered his high conception and artistic portrait of legitimate roles. His natural adaptability, in conjunction with his fervency, zealousness and remarkable versatility, stamps him as an artist of the front rank in his chosen profession. He is a natural-born leader, and his powers of organization and executive ability cannot be gainsaid. By a strict adherence to details—a due regard for the attainment of perfection—and his personal magnetism; Mr. Hogan has conceived and produced some remarkably clever performances with companies composed mainly of amateurs, who had given no previous signs of talent. Indeed, not a few of our recognized performers of to-day owe their present success to the intelligent and painstaking efforts of Ernest Hogan. He has achieved some distinction as an author and playwright, several of the best acts in Vaudevine having emanated from his facile pen, and one play, "Old Tennessee," which, while financially a failure, was an artistic success, and is likely to be included in Mr. Hogan's repertoire next season. His possession of the happy faculty of giving the public what they want and when they want it, has stood him well, and has been instrumental in popularizing his every vocal publication. Prominent among his productions may be mentioned: "Keep Dem Golden Gates Wide Open," "What are You Gwine to Tell Massa Peter?" "Two Little Eyes of Blue," "Sweet Little Kate McCoy," "All Coons Look Alike to Me," "Sit Down Brophy," "Honey, You Made a Hit With Me," "Come Back and I'll Be Good." "The Pas Ma La," "I Don't Like That Face You Wear," "De Congregation Will Please Keep Their Seats," and "The Phrenologist Coon." A brief sketch of Mr. Hogan's personal history will prove interesting to all who have enjoyed his effervescent humor, or who have hummed his catchy airs. He was born at Bowling Green, Ky., June 24. 1865. His mother, Mrs. Louisa Crowdus, is hale and hearty and lives at Bowling Green to-day in a beautiful home, the gift of her favorite son, Ernest who no matter how urgent the THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. Washington Under the Calcium. 10 TO E. E. COOPER. Colored American wizard Oh what a fog you can raise, Only a bustler, that's all you are, Plodding 'mid censure and praise Ever alert for news and biz Really, old man, "you is a wiz ". Gee Whizz! New York July 22nd 1902. [Found on top of Mt. Ararat in one of Mr. Bry, an's old beavers and translated from the original 'Seen' act by Bruce Grit—Note: This pome' probably appeared in The Commoner during the free silver campaign of the year 'or. and was doubtless inspired by Editor Cooper's agility in chasing the silver cart wheel. Express charges prepaid.] Read the next issue for special features of the Amphion outing August 16. Miss Mary Thomas has been the guest of Mrs. Charles Dosey in Brooklyn. Miss Clodra Butler is in Baltimore, the guest of her friend, Miss Hattle Lucas. Mrs. Maggie L Brooks, of Concord streets, is in Philadelphia, spending the summer with her cousin, Col. W. H. Lester. The trip of the Amphions, August 16th, will afford the stay-at-homes a charming outing. Governor P. B. S. Pinchback is at Saratoga Springs, where he will spend the heated term. Miss Belle M. Scott, of Baltimore, is spending a portion of her outing with Anacostia friends. Mr. A. J. Gaskins, of Gaskins and Gains, was a visitor at Highland Beach, Md., last Saturday. Mrs. Brown and daughter, of 1146 6th street, left last week for Asbury Park for the rest of the summer. Mrs. M. E. Grimshaw was pleasantly entertained in Philadelphia by Miss Pauline Williams, 908 S 19th street. Saturday evening, August 16th, the friends of the Amphions, and they are legion, will accompany them on another trip by moonlight. Mrs. T. J. Houston, accompanied by her daughter, Miss Clotille and son Theophilus, left last week to spend the summer in Marion, Mass. Mrs. Blackwell, the mother of Mrs. Alice Hall of the Hotel Clyde, left last week for Warrenton, Va., where she will spend two or three weeks. The new machines for book typewriting just placed in the Recorder's office are models of beauty and convenience. Mr. Pinchback gets the first one. The Amphions will have just another one of those delightful outings before their tour through Virginia, concerting. August 16, is the date for the outing. Mrs Dr. E. D. Scott is visiting relations in Flushing, New York. B fore leaving the city, Mrs. Scott had been ill for a few weeks, and her physician ordered that she expenence a change of climate, Mr. J. H. Holmes is at Ocean City, where he will spend the summer. Mrs. Holmes was his guest for ten days during the month of July, and visited Annapolis and other points in Mary land, before she returned to the city. Miss Aurena McNeill, of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, is spending her vacation near Hagen. Md., with Mrs. Stewart Barnon. will, no doubt, return to her official duties much refreshed after rusticating hirfy days A big Washington delegation will attend the Young People's Christian and Educational Congress which convenes at Atlanta, August 6th to 11th. Those who have not yet made arrangements for entertainment etc., should communicate with Rev. A. C. Garner, 1921 17th'sreet northwest. Miss Annie C. Jacobs, of Sumter, S. C, a teacher at Claflin University, Orangeburg, S, C., has been spending the summer in the city, the guest of Mrs. C. Peters, 1916 11th street northwest. Miss Jacobs will leave this week, favorbly impressed with Washington's society, Mr. J. J. Dickerson, of the National Congressional Library, in company with his wife, visited his old home near Frederickburg, Va, this week. Mr. Dickerson owns a valuable farm, consisting of some 165 acres, all under cultivation. After a brief stay at his farm, he and his wife will visit Atlantic City, where they will remain until August 7th. Dr. and Mrs. William H. Johnson, of Albany, N. Y, celebrated their fortieth marriage anniversary, Friday, evening August 1st, at their cozy home, 319 Orange street. The invitations sent out are very unique and recherche, containing as they do, handsome half tone engravings of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson and, printed in gold Dr. Johnson has lived a most active and useful life, and is one of the solid citizens of Albany. Master Lincoln S. Payne, the sprightly little son of W. C. Payne, who is summering at his father's cottage, Thoroughfare, Va., celebrated his eighth birthday Sunday last. It is hard to tell which was proudest, father or son, when the little fellow adorned himself with a beautiful little watch and chain which had been brought from Washington for him as a present. There were some thirty or more children present, and plenty of good things, which they enjoyed. Master Lincoln is receiving special lessons during vacation from Miss Maria V. Butler, a recent graduate from the Business High School, this city. The Negro in Business. Emmett J. Scott, of Tuskegee, Ala., chairman of the business bureau of the Afro-American Council, stated recently that during the year 1902, he had by correspondence and personal visits come in touch with $326 co'ored business men, representing 89 different lines of business, in 37 different states. They were prosperous and contented as a rule. Some of them were doing from $40 000 to $75,000 per year, but the general average was much lower. He recommended that the council encourage colored men to engage in all lines of business and to cultivate all classes of trade, rather than to confine themselves to the trade of their own race. In the South, the prosperous colored merchants derived a large revenue from the patronage of the whites, who supported them liberally. The National Negro Business League he said, was doing very effective work in the encouragement of colored men to engage in business for themselves. H.K.FULTON'S Loan Office 314 9th (EST MON Watches, Diamonds, Diamonds Unredeemed Watches, Diamonds GOLD and The most Reliable Places PHONE MAIN 2113. A F Imported Entrances These Suits we Ranging These coats are m Orders by mail A. H. 925 18TH READ T 314 9th Street Northwest. (ESTABLISHED 1870) MONEY LOANED ON Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware Etc. Named Watches, Diamonds and Jewelry For Sale. Old GOLD and SILVER Bought. 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"THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE" Which held its first convention in Boston, Mass., August 23-24, 19 BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, President and Founder. This convention was the first National Convention ed business men ever held in this or any other countrie e of business was represented: the farmer, the ba eulator, the doctor, the lawyer, the manufacturer, t the merchant and rulers of municipalities. The address ered and papers read are all in this book besides over of delegates and others, which makes it a valuable s the convention. which held its first convention in Boston, Mass., August 23-24, 1900. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, President and Founder. A convention was the first National Convention of color-ess men ever held in this or any other country. Every business was represented: the farmer, the banker, the doctor, the lawyer, the manufacturer, the author, mant and rulers of municipalities. The addresses deliv- papers read are all in this book besides over fifty cuts ties and others, which makes it a valuable souvenir ofention. Which held its first convention in Boston, Mass., August 23-24, 1900 BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, President and Founder. This convention was the first National Convention of colored business men ever held in this or any other country. Every piece of business was represented: the farmer, the banker, the educator, 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. BOUND IN CLOTH ONLY PRICE, $1.00 Send Express or Postoffice Money Order to J. R. HAMM, PUBLISHER, 46 HOWARD ST., BOSTON, MASS. MM, PUBLISHER, 46 HOWARD ST., BOSTON, MASS. J R. HAMM, PUBLISHER, 46 HOWARD ST., BOSTON, MASS. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON The Greatest Negro's Greatest Book. Booker T. 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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. ADDRESS, THE COLORED AMERICAN, 489 C St. N. W., Washington, D. C. --- --- ADDRESS, Nearly 50,000 Copies Sold Mr. Washington, more than any other writer or lecturer, has solved the "race problem." The historical value of the book, and its uplifting influence give "THE STORY OF MY LIFE AND WORK" a prominent place in modern literature. It is a volume for the family library along with the Life of Franklin, Emerson's Essays and the great autobiographies. There is no greater stimulus for self-help, for Mr. Was 'tingtoforged his way to the front by his own efforts. Sent by Mail Postpaid for Only $ The book contains about 450 pages, handsomely bound in cloth, and beautifully illustrated with 58 full page half-tone engravings. No student of the race can afford to be without this great work. Order it to day. If you are not satisfied after receiving the book we will prompt refund the money. The manufacturers have WHE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. OO ? " 12 —_—_— =——— ANIDEAL TREASURER Friends of Mr David Warner Point to Him as Ghe Logical Choice of G4e B M C for Grand Treasurer of G+e Odd Fellows of GSe Nation. Asthe time for the meeting of the Bien: ial Movsble Committee of the G@ U ©. of O, F. draws near the friends ofthe various candidates for official stations are becoming mere and m¢re active in behalf oftheir favorites. A» itse-ms to b+ genersily understood that Grand Treasurer Reed is to be ca'led higher, sreculation is rife ss to ® bo sball be bis succeesor ja this very important avd responsible office. A men «f upimpeachable intesr'ty is re quired. but it equally desirable avd ac osssary thatthe iocambent of-uch place be an expert sccountant and ¢x* perienced in the management of large financial affsirs. To choose one who je lacking in these rssect'als w:u'd be- nnjnst to the man selected but would be liatle ta iny.lve th® Order in ro end ofc nfusion and emberras ment, ; re oe = bee - “% ¢ Xs & F | a Ss ss ' es Ee re e . Beasts % ; | ee | =< ES. Mr. David Warner Fitness as wel as personsi po, ularity must govern the Commitiece in making their choice Ia the Detrict of Columb!a, which ie alwayes potent factor in the coun- clls of the Odd Fsilows of the nation, the name of Mr. Dayid Warner i- beard on every side as the man whoi & pre eminent degree weasures up to all the requirements j it _enumerat-d to mske asnucce sful and satisfactory Grand Tressurer The order here com- Set twenty seven ljodges, eighteen ousebolds of Ruths, and two patri- archieS—em bracing 8 membership of over 2.000 These are!practicaily a unit for Mr. Warner, aud their c'sima wl have great weight at the October meet “§, No Afro American in the District ie better or more favorably known i: business, fraternal ard social e:rcie than David Wrrner Foc mauy year he has been 8 tracted and reliable at- tacne of the Tax Collector's Office, and Mr. E G. Davie, the genilema: ly col- lector o taxes, takes pride im compli menting io all who may i: quire the splendid record Mr Warrec nas mad: &@s ‘onsele: toas and paias aking a- sistant. He knows:cvery deis | of the work of tbe cffi-e. sod bis duwescor | the han: ! og of bile, and settlements conceming street pavements and al Binds of pudlic improvemerts, esllivs for a Keeo comprehensiva of detail anc executive ability of the as" ; ositiv. order. Frequently, during a sipgk year, a million doilars jm sctual caat pass through bis hands—and thst, too, without the clightest error A. ma: who has showa grat capacity in th management of ns own private sf faizs ie the on wao shou!¢ b - called & the management of the business o ohes, Jadged by thie s*andard, Mr, Waine sboeld be cho-en treasurer o the G U O of O F. by acclamation for his tbrifty dispesition, rensit} ecopamy acd fleancia) shrewdness ji. weil evidenced by the very generoc share of this world’s gro ts that he h~« deen able to place to his credit—esti mated to reach five figures, with a re erectable initeal, digit. Confidence i always inspired smcng large bodie whea the custodian of tneir funds is ; man of pothintegrity and means. In Washington. Mr. Warner’s liberal pub lic spirit, bi: deep interest in al! the movements that make for civic right: ecrsnees, bis digsified, yet genial bear: mg, heve combined to win for him a populary that is as widespread as it is deserved. Tbe B MC wii honor it- self and the tr fluntia] order it repre’ sents by electing Mr Warmer Grand Treasurer by acclamation at New Haven in October. —+ + THE GLASS OF FASHION. santa, Ga., opeciai-—Une oF tie most delightful social events of the sea- son in this city was an “At Home” giv- en recently by Messrs. G. M. Howell and Clarence Hammord in compliment te Miss Gertrude Rvan, of Washington. In brilliance and loveliness it eclipsed anything of the kind given here in years. The following costumes were worn by the ladies present: Miss Gertrude Ryan, of Washington, was indeed charming in a cream embroidered crepe de chine, trimmed in turquoise blue velvet and steel buckles. Miss Louise Davis, of Augusta, Ga. looked sweet in yellow chiffon over white taffeta, the skirt made with ruffles, the corsage trimmed in rib- bons and lace. Miss Estelle Hall wore an elaborate gown of black organdie over taffeta, which was indeed becoming to her. Miss Daisy Hayes was quite at- tractive in white chiffon over white silk. Miss Mabel Jackson was very pretty in a gown of white mull and rich cream lace. Miss Daisy Fambre wore a lovely white Paris muslin. with French bows cof cream ribbon. Miss Zella Schell looked beautiful in a gown of blue chif- fon over blue taffeta. with cream lace and blue ribbon. Miss Allie Clithrall was at her best in ruffles and tucks of finest white French muslin. Miss Pearl Henry's girlish beauty“was enhanced by a beautiful gown of dainty blue muslin and white lace. Miss Mame Harrison never looked fairer than on this occas- ion. She wore a lovely gown of white mull over taffeta, with elegant lace trim- mings and whité satin ribbons. Miss Rosa Waters was unusually handsome in an elegant gown of cream lace and rib- bons with chiffoncand La France roses and trimmings. Miss Edwina Taylor was very much admired in a dainty gown with roses. Miss Mabel White, always attractive looked charming in a gown of white mull with black lace. Miss Addie Lee appeared to geod ad- vantage in a becoming white muslin dress. Miss Lena Jones was beautiful in white embroidered_batiste. Miss Eva Westmoreland was as fresh as a rose in a white dress of chiffon. Miss Georgia Coleman was most becoming in white chiffon with pale blue and maze rib- bons. Mrs. John Thomas appeared to advantage in white organdie. Mrs. Airie Cook Hill wore a creation of crepe de chine and chiffon with orange blossoms, she being a new bride. Mrs. Kate Ham- ilton was attired in-white with pale blue Fleredora sash. Miss Euchee Hutch- ins looked charming in white mull>- Mrs. Mark Thomas wore a becoming gown of white swiss trimmed with lace, The following gentlemen in evening dress were present: Messrs. Clarence Hammond. G. M. Howell. Will George. uke Hill, Will Westmoreland. Thomas Holmes, Henry Martin. George Ammon- etti, Edgar Parks. Mark Thomas. Will Moseley, Joseph Hamilton. Engene Wright. Dr. L. B. Palmer. Col. T. H. Malone, Flashlight pictures were made of the guests at table while no expense was spared to make it one of the most heautiful occasions of the season. Messrs. Howell and Hammond have Ssoken all records. ' CAROLS FROM CAPE MAY. Cape May, Special—Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Rogers are seen quite frequently on the Boardwalk and Sea Breeze Ca- sino. This is Mr. Roger's second term as head waiter at the famous Stockton Mr. W. R. Gatewood of Charfottesville. has been selected as the second mar. They are getting alone nicely. Hello! T see Mr. L. G. Whité has charge of the Devon Hotel. Seems to he making a “hit.” He has chosen Mr. Wm. N_ Elis. of Orange Court House, Va.as his assistant. We hope him mentee as = is == season in of such 2 large as thi: The Rollers Pleasure Club will give their first annual ball on the seventh of ee ee D.C, is manager. THE GRAND FOUNTAIN. United Order of —>True Relorme ORGANIZED January 1, 188] Offices 604, 606 and 608 N. 2nd St, = - Richmo An order devoted to the interests of ite members, both in their business relations. We offer you an opportunity for gilt edged busin ment, in enterprises owned and controlled by the Order and manag ored men, who are members of the Order. if you are sound in Lealth and mind, of good moral character. 1: than three (3) years nor older than sixty (60) you are eligible to me There are two Fountains, the Subordinate and the Rosebud. SUBORDINATE FOUNTAINS. = the Subordiuate Foratai you must be between 14 and | age. You pay $4.60 to $6 60 (according to age,) as joining fee. If 5 the come pay 35 cents per month as dues; if im the city, 5( months. ‘ou pay as taxes 80 cents per month. As Sick Benefits you receive from $6 00 to $9 00 per month, in w ments. As Death Benefit, your family receives $75 0 if you die with’ After one year the Death Benofit is $125.00 To join the Rosebud Fountain you must | 8 and 14 year of age. You pay $1.00, either; instaliments. The monthly dues are elther 15 as Fountains may decide. The anuual tax i You receive as Sick Benefit from $1.50 to $4.00 in weekly payments. As Death Benefit, your family will be pai ane within ayear. After one year the De: is $37. In the FNSURANOR DEPARTMENT, there ar Clasees:—Class B, Class E, and Ulass M. A payable anneally or quarterly. Tn Clase B, the age limit ie 14 to OU y dues, $4 75 to $7.40. The Certifica'e is va After ope year, its value is $200 to 865. In Class E, the age limit is 14 to 55 yea 8950 to 11.40. The Certificate is valued fin one a its value is $500 to $300. Class M, the age limit is 14 to 50 year $21 to $25. The certificatei valued from di You are entitled to a Life Memberehi Cissse 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, wit! HALF MILLION DOLLABS. members, abd pays 20 per cent. divicepcs. Hoth time and dese Gee are received and 4 per cent. interest is psid on time despusite The following js a copy of ibe Cashier’s report to Auditor of Public Accounts of Virgins a close of business Sept., 5, 1900 and shows its flourishing condition ;— RESOURCES, LIABILITIES Loans and discounts ........... $8,272 80 | Capital stock paid in .......... 88,125 Ocher stock, bonds and Surplus fund .................+.. 80.957 61 MOFtERBES .............--------. 164.423 83 | Undivided profite................ 6,82 0 Due from National Banks... 48.383 22) Demand certificate of de- Banking House —...... 22.0... 14.000 00) — POSSt.cc...-- eneacee cece se = 96,786 4 Other real estates ............... 99588 00/ Time certificates of deposit 1184274 Forniture and Fixtures ...... 6,850 00 taal Current expenses and taxes TO cs cannes caeeoeese 301,128 BOE .202.0200 svvccesesecsseceeeeene 1 988 99 Specie, nickels and cents .... 12,399 80 Paper currency ................... 85,830 00 Tame =... —..45s eee The Reformer’s Grocery and Feed Store is located st 501 North Sixth 3 Richmond, \s., and members of the Urder and the public genersily sre #8" 30 per cent. on the cost of food products. nl Tse REFORMER is the newspsper published by the order from [ts own - fice in Richmond, Va. _ It stands for the voice of the peuple, representing. of operation and combination of the race and is the Bescon Light, the He i 0 the General Messenger and the General Agent of the Brotberhood | a = per year. A well-equipped job office bids for the work of the people, whic! warned out in first class style and at low prices. hase Six miles from Richmond, in Henrico County, Va., the Order bas “vis ae 584 scres of land, and established thereon an “Old Folks Home.’, With of exampled liberality and brosd-minded generosity, the Order does not eee the wrance to this home to its members alone, nor even to members fsmilie=, * thet doors are opened to the aged and decrepid of the whole race, recardices cicioit residut>e or connections. The Order makes itself the trustee for this & oe charity, aud cails upon the whole people, biack and white, North, Ess worthy and West to sserst by their contribution ths carrying out of this praise Hace idea April Srd of each Year ie set apart as a Gren Rally Day. eae Contributic = can be forwarded to the casnier of the —O who will send receipt for same and seeount for tt to The Grand F' ot va, we Members of the Order and the public, when visiting Richmond, Vio, imvited to stop at The Hotel Reformer, 90 North Sixth St. It i: in # P and desirable location. Service is of the bent and rates one, sesnoney‘ rei ¢ Real Estate Department mansges controls - bo the Ordeer. The Order now owns 13 buildings, 4 farms, 4 Qwellings, Ie with a fee simple value of $133.50 Lr addition to these the Order ‘or information, ¥ any further eddrem — @, W. Secreta Wm L TAYLOR, W. M. M-ster, i ae Oa oS ee SS Be ‘ ek ee + heen, |e SSS > ese & ae Cpr > ROSEBUD FOUNTAINS Capital stock paid in .......... 88,125 00 Sorplus fund -................:. 80 957 61 Undivided profits................ 6,826 8 Demand certificate of de- POSSE ac. 2-- erswenees voseeeees tm 96,786 2 Time certificates of deposit 118,424 74 cee aconeenss 008,18 THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. WHOSE POLICY IS THIS? Unfair Trentment of Lieut E L Baker Opens a Vast Area of Inquiry into The Rights of Gallant Negro Soldiers—Presidential Attention Desired. Second Lieutenant E L. Baker Jr., a member of the Philippine Scouts has received through military channel from the Secretary of War, the gold medal recently awarded him for his gallant conduct under fire at Santiago Cuba July 1, 1898. Lieutenant Baker is the only man who received a gold medal for bravery in the Spanish war in Cuba in 1898. In the latter part of 1898, Lieutenant Baker was commissioned First Lieutenant 10th United States Volunteer Infantry. In 1899 he was commissioned by President McKinley as Captain 49th Infantry. He served about two years in the Philippine with the gallant 49th regiment, which was mustered out at San Francisco. June 30th, 1901. With excellent endorsements from superior army officers, such as General Wheeler, Inspector General Wygant, Colonel Hood, 16th U.S. Infantry, and regular majors and captains, Captain Baker came on to Washington and appealed for a commission in the regular army. He remained here about three months, until he was finally given to understand that there was no place for colored men in the regular army as commissioned officers. Leaving Washington in disgust, he was later given a commission as second Lieutenant, native Philippine scouts, for a period of four years. It is a striking shame on the part of the American government the way worthy colored soldiers and ex-volunteer of officers have been treated in the reorganization of our present regular army. When war was on in 1898, and men were needed to "stop bullets," Negro volunteer officers and soldiers could be seen in large quantities. When the Filipinos were fighting the American flag in the Philippines, Mr. McKinley sent two colored regiments to the Philippines to crush the insurrectionists, offered by colored captains and lieutenants. But when peace was declared with all the world, and the United States Congress authorized the reorganization of the United States Army to the maximum strength of one hundred men no Negroes were then needed, and every colored applicant was told by General Corbin that "it was not the policy of the administration to commission colored men for officers in the regular army." Feeing this fate staring them in the face, these humiliated applicants applied for commissions in the Porto Rico native regiment as lieutenants to meet refusal there. Then as a last resort, some applied for commissions as lieutenants in the native Philippine scouts for four years, to then be told that the President of the United States could not appoint any one as lieutenant of scouts except upon General Chaffee's recommendation Many of the colored officers who served in the Philippines as volunteer officers and who made the applications mentioned are graduates from such colleges as Harvard and Wilberforce, and universities like Lincoln, Howard, Boston and Atlanta, to say nothing of the high schools and academies. Another shame and outrage in this connection is how some of these worthy men were kept out of the regular service. We hear that after the 48th Infantry of colored troops arrived at San Francisco on its return from the Philippines to be mustered out, the Adjutant General of the United State Army at Washington, D.C, sent a telegram to Col Duval, to wit: "Col Duval, 48th Infantry, San Francisco, California." "In your efficiency report on your regimental officers, you flatter Captain Denison of your regiment very highly. Great pressure is being brought to bear by the people of Chicago to have Captain Denison placed in the regular army. As it is not the policy of the administration to commission colored men as officers in the regular army, except as they might come through West Point, you will please change your report on Captain Denison so as to bear us out in this policy." If true, shame on the Republic of the United States! Shame on its president, and shame on all who countenance such a conspiracy perpetrated upon a man who offered his life for the honor of the United States of America in war, and who gallantly fought the Filipinos for two years in tropical warfare to be subjected to such perfidous treatment at the hands of the chief rulers of the United States government, because God saw fl to make him a colored man! Some of the white officers from every volunteer regiment that served in the Philippines were commissioned as lieutenants in the new army. Many of such officers were intellectually inferior to some of the colored volunteer officers who were so shamefully denied this right—and no body knows it better than General Corbin. Why should a country use colored men as officers during the time of war and then deny them the desire on their part in times of peace when there is provision? Oh, our white countrymen, will you tell us for what purpose are the bones of the Negro soldiers bleaching in Cuba and the Philippines? Is it true, our white countrymen, that Negro soldiers made it possible for Mr. Roosevelt to be living today? Will you tell us if it is true that General Corbin was tried by a court martial for cowardice in the face of the enemy in the battle of Knoxville while commanding Negro troops, and the Negro witnesses before that court saved General Corbin from shame and conviction? If so, what is the man who stabs his savior in the back? What shall become of the nation that caused the blood of the confederate soldiers to flow out in streams for the equal rights of all men, and now stoops to keep down the men for whom they fought to liberate? Where is the president of the United States, who said all laws should apply to all men alike and that "words not be caused by deeds amount to nothing?" 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 of business can do no better service than to have them sell The Colored American each week. It is a good seller and it will take a boy but a short while to work up a good route. If the boy goes to school he can take the after 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. Grand Vacation Tour TO RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. (In Special Train With Pullman Cars.) THE Business Men's League Cheapeake & Ohio Route for the National Business Men's League 26.h and 27.th. Return, leaving the Grand Fountain U. O. of T, R. to their convention, which also meet Prof. Booker T. Washington, Pres and is expected to join our party be The object of this excursion are ness men and women of the Negro The cost of the round trip from thirty-five cents ($25.35). Tickets at 234 Clark st., under Grand Pa- cation in the Seeper can get sam Mr A. C. Howard of the A. C. Hof facturers of Shoe Polish, or Mr. Ale Hotel and Cafe, who will have per- rate from Chicago, five dollars ($5 ($4.00) and from Cincinnati, three modate two. Business Men's League of Chicago will leave via Big Four-apeake & Ohio Route for Richmond. Va., August 3d, to attend Real Business Men's League Third Annual Convention, August 25th. 27th. Return, leaving Richmond August 30th. Members of Old Fountain U. O. of T, R., who desire to start early in advance convention, which also meets in Richmond are invited to join us. Ken T. Washington, President, will deliver his annual address elected to join our party before our arrival at Richmond. Object of this excursion and meeting is to bring together the busi- and women of the Negro race. Cost of the round trip from Chicago will be twenty five dollars and cents ($25.35). Tickets can be purchased from Big Four Agent Park at. under Grand Pacific Hotel. Those who desire accom- in the Seeper can get same by applying as early as possible to Howard of the A. C. Howard Manufacturing Company, manu- of Shoe Polish, or Mr. Alex Stephens, proprietor of the Stephens' Cafe, who will have personal charge of the excursion. Sleeper Chicago, five dollars ($5.00), from Indianapolis, four dollars and from Cincinnati, three dollars ($3.00). One berth will accom- THE Business Men's League of Chicago will leave via Big Four-Cheapeake & Ohio Route for Richmond. Va., August 3d. to attend the National Business Men's League Third Annual Convention, August 25th 26th and 27th. Return, leaving Richmond August 30th. Members of the Grand Fountain U. O. of T, R. who desire to start early in advance to their convention, which also meets in Richmond are invited to join us. Prof. Booker T. Washington, President, will deliver his annual address and is expected to join our party before our arrival at Richmond. The object of this excursion and meeting is to bring together the business men and women of the Negro race The cost of the round trip from Chicago will be twenty five dollars and thirty-five cents ($25.35). Tickets can be purchased from Big Four Agent at 234 Clark st., under Grand Pacific Hotel. Those who desire accommodation in the Seeper can get same by applying as early as possible to Mr A. C. Howard of the A. C. Howard Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of Shoe Polish, or Mr. Alex Stephens, proprietor of the Stephens' Hotel and Cafe, who will have personal charge of the excursion. Sleeper rate from Chicago, five dollars ($5.00), from Indianapolis, four dollars ($4.00) and from Cincinnati, three dollars ($3.00). One berth will accommodate two. ME SRS. HOWARD & STEPHENS. Care The A. G. Howa or Stephens' House BUY STORES Freedman's Transportation, (INCORPORATION OF THE SWIFT AND CO Proprietors of the Swift and Co Care The A. C Howard Mf g Co., 90 Washington Street Room 57 or Stephens' Hotel and Cafe, 2832 State Street, CHICAGO, ILL. BUY STOCK IN THE Man's Transportation, Land and Improvement Co. (INCORPORATED) proprietors of the Swift and Commodious Steamer Jane Moseley. Care The A. C Howard Mf & Co, 99 Washington Street Room 7 or Stephens' Hotel and Gafe, 2832 State Street, CHICAGO, LL. --- Proprietors of the Swift and Commodious Steamer Jane Moseley. This boat has recently been overhauled and thoroughly inspect the United States Government Inspectors, chartered and equipped electric lights and late improvements, and is licensed to carry one and three hundred passengers, has thirty-one state-rooms, three large dining room and saloon lighted by electricity. This company has also purchased Glymont, (Maryland) Exc Grounds of twenty acres with its wharves, cottage and large hotel, which is being constantly improved so as to make an ideal river for excursion parties. this boat has recently been overhauled and thoroughly inspected by United States Government Inspectors, chartered and equipped with lights and late improvements, and is licensed to carry one thousand passengers, has thirty-one state-rooms, three decks, dining room and saloon lighted by electricity. This company has also purchased Glymont, (Maryland) Excursion of twenty acres with its wharves, cottage and large hotel, all of being constantly improved so as to make an ideal river resort diversion parties. This boat has recently been overhauled and thoroughly inspected by the United States Government Inspectors, chartered and equipped with electric lights and late improvements, and is licensed to carry one thousand three hundred passengers, has thirty-one state-rooms, three decks, large dining room and saloon lighted by electricity. This company has also purchased Glymont, (Maryland) Excursion Grounds of twenty acres with its wharves, cottage and large hotel, all of which is being constantly improved so as to make an ideal river resort for excursion parties. Excursions Chartered for Glymont, Rock Peint, Norfolk, Newport News and Hampton, Virginia. A limited amount of the stock is now on the market for sale to the public at TEN DOLLARS per share. Buy quickly if you want a first-class investment. Honest Management, Open Accounts, and Prompt Returns. Books are always open to stock 609 F Street Northwest, (Capital S DIREC F. M. SIMMS, U. S. Navy Department. Wm. L. POLLARD, Law, Real Est. & Loans. F. D. LEE, U. S. Pension Office. LOUIS JEFFERSON, Gen'l Contr'r & Capital JOSEPH N. MAYNE, U. Wm. L. POLLARD, Attorney at Law. LOUIS JEFFERSON S are always open to stockholders at the office of the Secretary Street Northwest, (Capital Savings Bank Building). DIRECTORS: M. S. Navy Department. JAMES L. NEILL, U. S. Pension Office. POLLARD, Law, Real Est. & Loans. JOSEPH MORRISON, U. S. Land Office. U. S. Pension Office. H. W. WHITE, U. S. Pension Office. PERSON, Gen'l Contr'r & Capitalist. C. B. BRAXTON, Contractor & Builder. JOSEPH N. MAYNE, U. S Navy Department V. M. L. POLLARD, Attorney at Law and Secretary for the Company. LOUIS JEFFERSON, General Manager. Books are always open to stockholders at the office of the Secretary 609 F Street Northwest, (Capital Savings Bank Building). DIRECTORS: F. M. SIMMS, U. S. Navy Department. JAMES L. NEILL, U. S. Pension Office. WM. L. POLLARD, Law, Real Est. & Loans. JOSEPH MORRISON, U. S. Land Office. F. D. LEE, U. S. Pension Office. H. W. WHITE, U. S. Pension Office. LOUIS JEFFERSON, Gen'l Contr'r & Capitalist. C. B. BRAXTON, Contractor & Builder. JOSEPH N. MAYNE, U. S Navy Department WM. L. POLLARD, Attorney at Law and Secretary for the Company. LOUIS JEFFERSON, General Manager. Ninth Street Wharf (Ninth and Water Streets S.W.) --- --- Buy Your Shoes From ...The... Capital Shoe Store, 733 7TH STREET, N. W. 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. ```markdown ``` --- 18 DIRECTORS: Life from cradle to grave, Give names in full of those you have or will marry; causes happy marriage to those you desire; unites those separated (never fails) If you are in doubt as to the outcome of any undertaking in business, social or domestic life; sickness, divorces, separations, law-suits, lost or absent friends interes Life from cradle to grave, Give names in full of those you have or will marry; causes happy marriage to those you desire; unites those separated (never fails) If you are in doubt as to the outcome of any undertaking in business, social or domestic life; sickness, divorces, separations, law-suits, lost or absent friends interes you; if you desire to have your domestic troubles removed, your lost love returned, consult or write me. You will be advised the best way to succeed, Patrons attended to in all parts of the world. Letters of inquiry answered on receipt of two 2 cent stamps. MBS, C. CARY 1406 WEST YORK ST. PHILADELPHIA PA. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. GLOSSINE The True Hair Grower and Hair Straightener IS FOUND AT LAST. Acts Quicker. Smells Sweeter, and Easier Applied than Any Other Preparation. IT WILL TAKE THE PLACE OF ALL OTHER HAIR TONICS. WHAT GLOSSINE WILL DO. HERE IS A TRUE AND GENEROUS OFFER-Not a Bluff to get your money, but a chance we offer you to secure a beautiful head of hair, besides putting money in your pocket. JUST READ THIS. Now, here is the glorious opportunity we offer you. Remember, GLOSSINE sells at 50c. for an extra large box Now you must send to us only $2.00 and the very moment we receive the money we will at once send to you 12 extra large boxes of GLOSSINE which will sell at retail for 50c. each or $6.00. We exact of you only the following easy conditions, which are easily complied with: 1st. You agree to use it on your own Hair: 2d. Just as soon as you see the improvement in your own Hair (which will be in a few days only after you have commenced to use it) you must talk it up to your friends, showing your own Hair to prove its merits, and, as they will see what it has done for you, they will eagerly buy it. 3d. You are to sell it for no less than 50c. per box, and you are to keep all of the money that you receive for same, to compensate you for your kind efforts in introducing the great remedy in your locality. All we ask is that you act fair with us, and do us all the good you can, by showing the people, white and colored, what GLOSSINE has done for you. REMEMBER, we send you actually $6.00 worth of goods for only $2.00. Why? Because we know it will give you a beautiful head of Hair, and, when the people have seen your Hair, they will buy thousands of boxes. Every one whom you sell a box, white or colored will be a walking advertisement for GLOSSINE. PLEASE DONOT WAIT A MINUTE, but fill out the Coupon and mail to us at once, and after you have received the $6.00 worth of GLOSSINE and seen its good effects you will certainly become our Agent. Remember that GLOSSINE is now recognized as the standard and acme of all Hair Tonics by the best people of the country, who are sending us hundreds of testimonials daily. To Continental Chemical Co., 1700 Lucas Ave., St. Louis, Mo.: Enclosed please find the sum of $2.00, for which please send me at once twelve (12) of your regular extra large boxes of GLOSSINE HAIR TONIC, worth 50c. each, or $6.00 in all. In return for this favor, I hereby bind myself to use GLOSSINE on my own Hair, and to sell all that I do not use at no less than 50c. per package. I also agree not to cut the price under any consideration. And for and in consideration of you allowing me to keep the money that I receive for same, I agree to act as your Agent in the future. But if all that you have told me is not true, you are to return the $2.00 that I hereby send to you. If from sickness or any other good reason, I cannot act as your Agent in the future, I will endeavor to find some one who will take the Agency in my place. To all these agreements I hereby bind myself for the privileges as specified above. If you send only $1.00, 6 boxes, worth $3.00, will be sent to you. Cures Dandruff, Tetter, Itch, and all Scalp Diseases at once and forever. Straightens curly troublesome Hair in from 7 to 30 days, without the use of hot irons or any other mediums. When the Hair has become straight, which it surely will if you use GLOSSINE, it will stay straight forever. It will stop the Hair from falling out in 2 to 4 days. It will restore Gray Hair to its natural color in 30 to 60 days. It will grow Hair on the baldest head in from 10 to 40 days. It will improve the hair at once. You do not have to wait. Just as soon as it is applied the Hair will become soft, lustrous, pliant, and wavy, so that you can dress it in any style you wish. It has never failed to straighten and beautify the most obstinate, curly, refractory, troublesome Hair, and will be sure to give you supreme satisfaction. It is good for all kinds of Hair for white or colored, for ladies and gentlemen, children or grown-up people, babies, and boys and girls. Good for the Hair, the Mustache, and the Eye-Brows. It is made from roots and herbs and leaves, and is HERE IS A TRUE AND GENEROUS OFFER-Not a Bluff to get JUST READ THIS. Now, here is the gloss Now you must send to us only $2.00 and the very which will sell at retail for 50c. each or $6.00. You agree to use it on your own Hair: 2d. Just as so have commenced to use it) you must talk it up to done for you, they will eagerly buy it. 3d. You receive for same, to compensate you for your kind with us, and do us all the good you can, by showing you actually $6.00 worth of goods for only $2.00. have seen your Hair, they will buy thousands of GLOSSINE. PLEASE DONOT WAIT A MINUTE of GLOSSINE and seen its good effects you will and acme of all Hair Tonics by the best people o $4.00—This Special Tr To Continental Chemical Co. Enclosed please find the sum of $2.00, for HAIR TONIC, worth 50c. each, or $6.00 in sell all that I do not use at no less than 50c. per ation of you allowing me to keep the money that me is not true, you are to return the $2.00 that I the future, I will endeavor to find some one who privileges as specified above. If you send Name Street State FER-Not a Bluff to get your money, but a chance we now, here is the glorious opportunity we offer $2.00 and the very moment we receive the each or $6.00. We exact of you only the air: 2d. Just as soon as you see the improv- me must talk it up to your friends, showing you to buy it. 3d. You are to sell it for no less than you for your kind efforts in introducing the you can, by showing the people, white and co- oods for only $2.00. Why? Because we know buy thousands of boxes. Every one whom NOT WAIT A MINUTE, but fill out the Coupon good effects you will certainly become our A- dult the best people of the country, who are se 4.00—This Coupon is worth Special Trial-Order Chemical Co., 1700 Lucas A num of $2.00, for which please send me at each, or $6.00 in all. In return for this fa- less than 50c. per package. I also agree me keep the money that I receive for same, I ag- ern the $2.00 that I hereby send to you. If find some one who will take the Agency in- If you send only $1.00, 6 boxes, wo Name Street (If any) State Nearest Express Office 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. 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. --- --- 14 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 publican 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. 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. your money, but a chance we offer you to secure a various opportunity we offer you. Remember, moment we receive the money we will at once. We exact of you only the following easy con- tion as you see the improvement in your own your friends, showing your own Hair to prince to sell it for no less than 50c. per box, and efforts in introducing the great remedy in the people, white and colored, what GLOSSE. Why? Because we know it will give you boxes. Every one whom you sell a box, will TE, but fill out the Coupon and mail to us and certainly become our Agent. Remember of the country, who are sending us hundreds. Coupon is worth $4.00 to Special-Order Agent 1700 Lucas Ave., St. Louis, which please send me at once twelve (12) o'clock. In return for this favor, I hereby bind package. I also agree not to cut the price up. I receive for same, I agree to act as your Agent hereby send to you. If from sickness or any will take the Agency in my place. To all, only $1.00, 6 boxes, worth $3.00, will be sent P. O. House No. (if any) Press Office --- offer you to secure a beautiful head of hair, besides after you. Remember, GLOSSINE sells at money we will at once send to you 12 extra following easy conditions, which are easy payment in your own Hair (which will be in your own Hair to prove its merits, and, as less than 50c. per box, and you are to keep the great remedy in your locality. All we colored, what GLOSSINE has done for you, now it will give you a beautiful head of Hair you sell a box, white or colored will be bon and mail to us at once, and after you have agent. Remember that GLOSSINE is now funding us hundreds of testimonials daily. Birth $4.00 to You—$4.00. Agents' Control Ave., St. Louis, Mo.: Once twelve (12) of your regular extra la- vor, I hereby bind myself to use GLOSSINE not to cut the price under any consideration free to act as your Agent in the future. Be from sickness or any other good reason, my place. To all these agreements I birth $3.00, will be sent to you. P. O. Use No. (if any) The Capital City may well be proud of this grand race advocate.—Home News, Alexandria, Va. 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 NOTWITH-STANDING. The Negro press may criticise Editor Cooper of THE COLORED AMERICAN, but --- so harmless that it can do no injury—not even to a three y. Three boxes are sure to comp' ent, and in most instances one bient, It is very cheap—50c. for an e box, or $1.00 for three extra s, guaranteed a full and complete tr You will never have to use more tha boxes. After you have used that quant our Hair will be in a perfect condition, and you will never have to use any Hair Tonic of any kind again. It is the greatest wonder of the century, and will take the place of all other Hair Tonics now on the market. No one after once using GLOSSINE, will use any other Hair Tonic, because there is nothing to equal it in the whole wide world. Everybody be they white or colored, old or young, who will only use it, cannot fail to have a beautiful head of long, fine Hair. It is a wonder and as sure as sunrise. Who is it that will let a $1.00 bill prevent them from having a beautiful head of Hair? beautiful head of hair, besides putting money in your pocket. Hair, GLOSSINE sells at 50c. for an extra large box once send to you 12 extra large boxes of GLOSSINE additions, which are easily complied with: 1st. You Hair (which will be in a few days only after you love its merits, and, as they will see what it has and you are to keep all of the money that you in your locality. All we ask is that you act fair GLOSSINE has done for you. REMEMBER, we send a beautiful head of Hair, and, when the people white or colored will be a walking advertisement for at once, and after you have received the $6.00 worth that GLOSSINE is now recognized as the standard of testimonials daily. To You—$4.00. Is' Contract. Uis, Mo.: If your regular extra large boxes of GLOSSINE myself to use GLOSSINE on my own Hair, and to under any consideration. And for and in consider- agent in the future. But if all that you have told my other good reason, I cannot act as your Agent in these agreements I hereby bind myself for the agent to you. --- --- AFTER BEFORE AFTER 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, Texas. The Colored American is a newspaper, a magazine and a staunch advocate, TERMS REASONABLE Lottie E. Wilson, Fine Art Studio, 806 M Street Northwest. Pastel and Oil Paintings—Lessons in Free Hand Drawing and Painting—Portrait Work in Miniature and Life Size a Specialty. Studio open all summer. A BACE MAGAZINE. Do you realize that there is published in Boston, Mass., a high grade illustrated magazine, devoted exclusively to the interests of the Negro race, and which is edited, published and controlled by members of the race? If you would like tc see a sample copy of this magazine same will be sent you on receipt of 8 cents in stamps, or one year for $1.50 address, THE COLORED AMERICAN MAGAZINE Dept. 4. Part Square. Boston Mass. Some Men Pay $10,000 For an expert to manage their advertising. There are others who pay $5.00 for an annual subscription to printers' ink and learn what all advertisers are thinking about. But even these are not the extremes reached. There are men who lose over $100,000 a year by doing neither one. For sample copy send 10c to Printers' Ink. No. 10 Spruce Street, New York City. 100,000,00 To Loan In any amount on furniture, pianos etc., at lowest rates without del removal or publicity. You can pay it back in small monthly payments to suit your income. If you have a loan elsewhere and need more money, come to us. We can accommodate you. Call and talk it over before borrowing elsewhere. Private rooms. Business confidential. SURETY LOAN COMPANY, Room 1 Warder Building, 2nd floor 9th and F Sts, N. W. The Hotel Brunswick, 235 PENNSYLVANIA AVE., AND 220 B. ST., N W On European Plan. First Class in Every Particular. J. G. VAN BRACKLE, PROPRIETOR, WASHINGTON, D. C. ILLUSTRATIONS CUTS MADE OF ANY THING. BY ANY PROCESS. FINE WORK AT LOW PRICES. THE Maurice Joyce Engraving Company. EVENING STAR BUILDING WASHINGTON, I. 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 a.m. to 2 p.m. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. To The Negro Young People's Christian and Educational Congress, Atlanta, Ga., August 6-11, 1902. For the especial accomodation of delegates and visitors to the above congress the Southern Railway will operate a special train, Washington, D. C., to Atlanta, Ga., leaving Washington August 4th, at 8 30 p. m., arriving Atlanta, Ga., 3,50 p. m. the following day. This train will be composed of Pull man buffet sleepers and first-class day coaches and every facility will be furnished for the comfort and pleasure of the party en route. Tickets will be placed on sale August 2ne to 4 h inclusive, and valid for return fifteen days from date of sale. Round trip rate $19 00. Pullman double berth,$4 00 in each direction. Board in Atlanta will be $1 00 per day. The six great institutions of learning have all opened their doors for entertainment, so that there will be no question about comfortable lodgings and board. Persons desiring to avail themselves of these low rates and special train facilities, should make known this fact in advance to any one of the undersigned so that Pullman bertha, if desired, may be reserved, and sufficient number of coaches arranged for the accommodation of the party on this special train. For any additional information, please address:— Rev. G. L. P. Tallaferro, 1842 Lombard street, Philadelphia, Pa., Rev. W. M. Alexander, 525 McMechen street, Baltimore, Md., Rev C. T. Walker, D. D., 161 West 53rd street, New York; Rev. W. Bishop Johnson, D. D., Washington, D. C. L. S. Brown, General Agt, 705 15:h street, n. w., Washington, D. C. Recorder Dancy Abroad. Hon. John C. Dancy, the eloquent Recorder of Deeds, had a continuous ovation during his trip to the great West. His address at the corner stone laying of Walters' Chapel in Chicago on the 6th, was pronounced by the best authorities to be the finest effort of the kind ever heard in the city by the lake. At the Council meeting in St. Paul, he was the life of the gathering and by his watchfulness, the work of the organization was greatly simplified and extreme measures avoided. On the 13th, he delivered a stirring address at Pittsburg, in which he spoke optimistically of the Negro's future, illustrating the possibilities of of the race by eulogistic references to the struggles and triumphs of such gallant leaders as Bishop S. T. Jones, J. C. Price, W. W. Browne, and the influence of the institutions they built up for education, business and spiritual development. He cited Edison, Toussaint L, Overture, Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison and Charles Sumner as men who had risen from the ranks to power and place, not with standing the discouragements encountered. Mr. Dancy is now back in the harness at the Recorder's office, and is planning some extensive improvements that will be inaugurated about the opening of the fall season. Big Jim Parker in Town. Mr. James B. Parker, the hero of the Buffalo tragedy, is in the city, where he will spend a few weeks resting up from a long tour in the South and West. All letters and correspondence can be sent to him in this city in care of The Colored American, tf. Theological Seminary For the training of men for larger usefulness in preparing an advanced Three Years' Course of English Courses. Four Professors giving entire Library with 12,000 VOLUMES. Free Tuition. Board, Fuel and Rights at Low Rates. All energy need be deprived of the advantages needed Seminary. For catalogue address the DKINSON, D. D., South Atlanta, Georgia. Stone Hall. Girls' Hall. Model Home. NIVERSITY, Atlanta, Ga. In devoted especially to advanced education. College, North High School courses, with Industrial Training. Superior Athletics for boys. Physical culture for girls. Home life and deserving students. Term begins the first Wednesday formation, address To teachers and candidates for the ministry, Gammon Theological A First class Institution for the training of the Christian Mini-try; offering an advanced Study with Shorter English Courses, timeto this work. ELEGANT LIBRARY WITH Free Rooms. Free Tuition. Lights at Low No man of gifts, grace and energy need of this thoroughly equipped Seminary. President, L. G. ADKINSON, I Knowles Building. Boys' Hall. Stone Hall ATLANTA UNIVERSITY An unsectarian Christian Institution, devoted especially to College Preparatory and English High School courses, advantages in Music and Printing. Athletics for boys and training. Aid given to needy and deserving students in October. For catalogue and information, address $45 STUDY MEDICINE Louisville Nat Gammon Theological Seminary A First class Institution for the training of men for larger usefulness in the Christian Mini-try; offering an advanced Three Years' Course of Study with Shorter English Courses. Four Professors giving entire timeto this work. ELEGANT LIBRARY WITH 12 000 VOLUMES. Free Rooms. Free Tuition. Board, Fuel and Lights at Low Rates. No man of gifts, grace and energy need be deprived of the advantages of this thoroughly equipped Seminary. For catalogue address the President, L. G. ADKINSON, D. D., South Atlanta, Georgia. Knowles Building. Boys' Hall. Stone Hall. Girls' Hall. Model Home. An unsectarian Christian Institution, devoted especially to advanced education. College, Normal, College Preparatory and English High School courses, with Industrial Training. Superior advantages in Music and Printing. Athletics for boys. Physical culture for girls. Home life and training. Aid given to needy and deserving students. Term begins the first Wednesday in October. For catalogue and information, address BODY MEDICINE AND PHARMACY AT THE Goville National Medical College FIFTEENTH YEAR. Organized by all State Boards. All buildings are the property of and have been entirely remodeled with fully equipped ties and Hospital. 100 Graduates in various parts of the country, every one of giving a lucrative practice. School of Medicine. Four years of six months each. Session throughout the year. Each session is divided into four three months each. Attendance upon any two terms entitles credit for one year's attendance. Uses: January, April, July and October. Examinations at end dum. Students may enter at beginning of any term. Department of Pharmacy. Two years, six months each divided into two terms of three months each. Further information and Catalogue address STUDY MEDICINE AND PHARMACY AT THE Louisville National Medical College FIFTEENTH YEAR. STUDY MEDICINE AND PHARMACY AT THE Louisville National Medical College FIFTEENTH YEAR. Recognized by all State Boards. All buildings are the property of the School, and have been entirely remodeled with fully equipped Laboratories and Hospital. Nearly 100 Graduates in various parts of the country, every one of them enjoying a lucrative practice. School of Medicine, Four years of six months each. Session continues throughout the year. Each session is divided into four terms of three months each. Attendance upon any two terms entitles student to credit for one year's attendance. Terms: January, April, July and October. Examinations at end of each term. Students may enter at beginning of any term. Department of Pharmacy. Two years, six months each session is divided into two terms of three months each. For further information and Catalogue address W. A. BURNEY, M. D., Dean, Louisville, Ky. AVERY COLLEGE TRADE SCHOOL ALLEGHENY, PA. THE NATIONAL COLORED Teachers Bureau 459 C St., N. W. MEDICAL DEPATMENT Including and Pharmacist College, An and the most regular before October 1800. Re. G. Moggs or further information apply to W. CABDO A. M., M. D., Buc. 401 Bath, N. W. Wash. Pays for professional lectures, board and room rent for one term. By the Quarterly System is offered unrivaled opportunities for those who must retain teaching positions as a means of livelihood, and yet desire to study Medicine. A Practical, Literary and Industrial Trade School for Colored Boys and Girls, Carpentry, Bricklaying, Plastering, Painting and Interior Decorations. Tailoring, Dress-making, Millinery, Voice Culture and Piano Forte. Literary Department from Primary to Normal Course. Job Work Solicited and Profits given to the Students. Catalogues now ready. Unusual advantages for Girls and a separate building. Fall terms begins Sept. 9th, 1901. Address JOSEPH D. MAHONEY, Allegheny, Pa. Principal. 16 EDUCATIONAL. President HORACE BUMSTEAD, D.D. THE HOTEL HOWARD UNIVERSITY, Washington, D. C. FEN distinct departments, under one hundred competent professors and instructors—Theological, Medical, Legal, College, Pedagogical, Preparatory, English, Agriculture, Industrial, and Musical. For information address—Rev. J. E. RANKIN D. D., LL. D., President, GEO H. SAFORD Secretary. HOWARD UNIVERSITY Medical, Dental & Pharmaceutical Colleges. Thirty-fifth session [1902-1902] will begin October 1st, and continue seven [7] months. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. "THE HAYNES' RAZOR STROP" MR. H. C. HAYNE Chicago's Famous Negro Man His Razor Strops have Gain Considerable Fame in America a THE MIKADO FINE JAPANESE ST Address all orders to THE COLORED AMERICAN 16 Everybody is going to Atlanta on the evening of August 5 h. Everybody will go over the Southern Railway, because it is the quickest and because it has the cheapest rates. Their service is first class, and meals will be served going and coming. Hon J. W. Lyons, Register of the Treasury, Hon J. C. Duncy, Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia, Judg R H Terrell, Editor E. E Cooper and a host of others will go to Atlanta over the Southern Railway, offering the cheapest rate, the quickest route and the best service. The Jane Moseley will leave for Norfolk and Old Point, Va., Saturday August 2nd 6 p.m. Return Monday, August 4th 7 a.m. sharp. Arrangements have been made with the Bay Shore Hotel at Old Point, Va., for the accommodation of the guests. Sale of tickets and state rooms are in demand. Mrs. John H. Seabrooks, of 2118 11th street northwest, returned this week from the state of New York where she spent the past two months. The later part of her stay was spent in New York City, visiting friends who were loath to have her leave. Mrs. Seabrooks has a host of friends in New York, and spent the time most pleasantly while away. Men, Women, Boys and Girls. Who want to make $200 a month or increase their salary to $2400 a year, will please send their name and address to Scott Remedy Co., P. O. Box 570 Louisville, Ky. GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN. The Autocrat Club Pays a High Tr.bute to Mr. Hawkins, one of its Cl ractored and Active Members. The death of Mr. Richard A. Hawkins removes from our midst a most prominent young man. As a testimony to his esteem the Autocrat Club, of which he was a memb r, pays the following tribute to him which is published below. Washington, D.C., July 17th, 1902 To Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins: Above there is thanksgiving that a son has come home after a faithful pilgrimage in a far off land, where he made only less happiness than he is making now in his own home waiting for his fellow-pilgrims to share it with him The reflection that his short life was so splendidly lived must be a great consolation to you. His character was such that none could know him without loving him, and feeling for him the deep respect, born only of a supreme confidance that he would do nothing he did not know to be absolutely unquestionable. It seems indeed, a strange Providence which took from the loving hearts of parents such a son, one who had so much to live for, and one whose noble qualities of heart and mind fitted him for so much usefulness and happiness in life. Our tears mingle with yours, dear parents, for the fair young life gone out. His twenty two beauiful years were not in vain He was, indied, a beautiful character, and we shall always count ourselves fortunate in having had his friendship. He sprang up a noble youth, bade fair to make his good name known in life, and gave his life a martyr to his parents. It is to you an unspeakable joy to be the parents of such a noble boy. God loaned him to you, that you might train and develop such qualities on him as would educate him for Heaven. You did your work well. Your prayers were answered. God had need of him in the higher walks of his Celestial Kingdom. It was the greatest honor which the King of Glory could have conferred on you by selecting you to train one of his Princes. His spiritual influence over those nearest him, was the that of Pleiades in you. The Strop that has created a sensation in the "Barber's World" on two continents. The Strop that has been enthusiastically endorsed by some of the world's greatest Tortorial Artists, to be the most practical ever manufactured. The Strop that was so highly commended at the late 'Paris Exposition" by some of the most noted barbers in France. The Strop that was invented, and is now being made by a colored man; the Strop that is now in use in shops in the world. The "Colored American" takes this Strop to its patrons, as a Strop worthy of your attention. Do You Know that a Razor and a Sensable Article, and Every Man's Home, No society or business man should be without secured an option on two thousand (2,000) complete Mr. Haynes' Famous New One German Hollow Grouse The Badger Hair Shaving The Razor alone would cost $2.50 in any cut. The Strop" would cost you $1.50 at any barber's shaving brush" would cost $1.25. The "Colored American" will mail prepaid to complete shaving outfit on receipt of $3.00 or a pair. This offer only lasts for thirty days, THE COLOUR The Strop that was invented, and is now being manufactured and sold exclusively by a colored man; the Strop that is now in use in some of the most popular barber shops in the world. The "Colored American" takes great pleasure in introducing this Strop to its patrons, as a Strop worthy of your attention and support. Do You Know that a Razor and a Razor Strop is a Sensable Article, and a Necessity in Every Man's Home,Who Shaves? Every Man's Home,Who Shaves? No society or business man should be without a shaving outfit. We have just secured an option on two thousand (2,000) complete outfits, consisting of one pair of Mr. Haynes' Famous New Idea Razor Strops, One Germ anHollow Ground Razor and The Badger Hair Shaving Brush. The Razor alone would cost $2.50 in any cutlery store. "The Haynes' Razor Strop" would cost you $1.50 at any barber's supply dealer. A "Badger Hair-Shaving Brush" would cost $1.25. The "Colored American" will mail prepaid to any part of the United States; this complete shaving outfit on receipt of $3.00 or a pair "New Ideer Razor Strops" $1.00. This offer only lasts for thirty days, --- RAZOR STROP mourn with you over his loss, which an all wise Providence has seen fl. to bring upon you. Richard Augustine Hawkins, our beloved friend and associate of a year's standing, passed quietly from us on Sunday evening, July 13th, 1902, and we desire to pay tribute to his lovable character and brilliant career. Those whom he honored with friendship, both loved him for his kindness, and admired him for his great intellectual ability. He did justly, and walked uprightly with his associates Whereas, it has pleased God to remove from eaith our fellow, associate, Richard A. Hawkins: Resolved that we, officers and members of the Autocat Club, in special meeting assembled, do bear testimony to the morl worth and intellectual power of our deceased friend. We believe that, had it pleased Almighty God to spare his life, his career would have been marked by sterling integrity, mental vigor and high achievement. That we assure his paren s of our profound sympathy. That a copy of these resolutions be placed in the archive of the club, and also be sent to his dear parents, Mr, and Mrs. Henry Hawkins. Signed: Richard Smoot, president; Charles Anderson, vice-president; Raymond Jones, secretary; John W. Williams, tr asurer; Eugene James, egt. at arme; George Scott, custodian. embers; Murray Baker, Henry el, Moses Leftwich, William Cur Luddington Chambers, George y, Fred Jones, Henry S.encer, n Spriggs. THE MILITARY BRAND Obi uary. Mr. Daniel Cusbeid, a well known citizen of this city, died at his residence this week, and leaves a wife and four children to murn his demise. He died at the ripe old age of sixty six years, about thirty eight of which he lived in this city, where he reared a most interesting family, and was a good his and father. He was born in Beaufort. S. O., where he spent his early life. He leaves a wife and three daughters, Emma (Mrs. Lewis), Amelia and kila and a son, Mr. J W. Cusberd, well known in this city and a popular railroad man. Though born in slavery and without an education, he possessed all of those fine qualities of head and heart which go to make a true man. He was a kind, loving husband and a most indulgent father. He gave all of his children a liberal education, and imparted to them such home training and instruction that like their father, they are loved and respected by all who know them. While not a rich man, at his death he left a good home to his wife and children. The funeral took place last Thursday afternoon, and was dressed by Undertaker Wise, of G. orgetown. Mr. Roscoe Conkling Bruce, who recently graduated from Harvard College, passed through the city this week enroute to Tuskegee, Ala., where he takes charge of the Academic Department of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School. He was given an elegant breakfast at Gray and Costley's last Friday morning by Messrs. Frank Nelson, T. Brooks and others. M. MR. H. C. HAYNES Chicago's Famous Negro Manufacturer. His Razor Strops have Gained for him Considerable Fame in America and Europe ERICAN, BLACK SKIN REMOVER. REGISTERED IN PATENT OFFICE U.S. BEFORE AFTER A.Wonderful Face Bleach. 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Many of our customers say one of our dollar boxes worth ten dollars, yet we sell it for one dollar a day. THE SMALL, thrown in free. box. THE NO-SMELL throw in free Any person sending us one dollar in a letter o. Post-Office money order, express money order or registered letter, we will send it through the mail postage prepaid; or if you want it sent C. O. D. it will come by express, 25c. extra. it will come by express. 25c. extra. In any case where it falls to do what we claim we will return the money or send a box free of charge. Packed so that no one will know contents except receiver. CRANE AND CO., 122 west Broad Street Richmond, Va. THE-MAN-ON-THE-CORNER. Topics of The Times Tersely Treated by One Who Mingles laid the Passing Throng. but "spoon." They hang together as if glued and he whispers sweet things into her ear as she absorbs the ice cream that the "hot air" has failed to melt. "They'll get bravely over it after a while," some unsympathetic brute will say. People whose paths haven't crossed for years hold reunions and renew old friendships—that's nice. The married man whose wife was too indisposed to come, but insisted that he should go out for a little recreation—he's there in large quantities, as is also the married woman whose husband is on night watch at his place of business, but who thought the ride would do her good. These persons never engage in flirtations—of course not! The "old vet" who knows every foot of the river and who reminiscently recalls the history associated with every spot or building passed is a delightful individual to meet. He invariably smokes a pine, but it will pay you to keep a few cigars on hand to loosen up his memory and linguistic organs. Coming back you find the sleepy element in full swing. People who ordinarily don't go to bed until 12 p.m., suddenly get sleepy as soon as the boat starts for Washington, and their poses on sofas, stools or deck rail are often more picturesque than graceful. The steamer makes fast at landing—everybody finds his or her "company"—a nightly rush for the cars—a Babel of tongues—home—and it's all over—until next time. 2 ' The o's a U...iel among ye taki.' notes. Going down the river this summer is a pleasant alternative for those who haven't the time or money to go off and enjoy the discomforts of the average country retreat. A nice sail or evening car-ride to a nearby sylvan dell, returning in time to snooze snugly in your own downy bed, is to many preferable to tramping dusty roads, catching more "chiggers" than fish beside a sluggish stream, roasting at night under a tin roof, 220 Fahrenheit, and absorbing gallons of water that hadn't been cold since last winter. Ahyhow, it is fashionable to "go somewhere" during the "heated term." whether you want to or not, but I'll warrant that nine out of every ten are glad to get home when they can do so without being accused of being short. The stay-in-town crowd give them the "ha-ha," and buy coal with the coin they have saved by being out of style. The Potonaac has a fascination for those who refuse to be "finicky," and have learned that if you wish to avoid "mixed gatherings" you will have to quit this earth. On the excursion given by select organizations there is excellent order, and while everybody is bent on having a good time, no one troubles you if you don't trouble him. While all do not converse in piazzissimo tones, no harm is meant, and a little geniality makes things pleasant all around. The junction across the river is dying out for it has no basis for existence, when the same people go that you meet at your own church or social "to-do." The companies understand that orderly conduct of passengers is the salvation of their business and now the slightest seiblance of unruliness means an evening in the lock-up. A river crowd is a faithful type of true democracy. Artificial standards are smashed by common consent, and nature is allowed to take its course untrammeled by conventionalities. Equality of opportunity for enjoyment is the banner under which all classes endeavor to march. As is true of most assemblies there are more women than men aboard — I suppose it is because they have more time to spare and fewer chances for diversion than the sterner sex. You will find in the aggregation plenty of those who take lunch with them and begin to eat the minute the boat is clear of the wharf. Others are waiting at the portal of the bar to quench a consuming thirst. The "lady with the nerves" is there and she begins to fidget and find fault, first, her chair isn't comfortable, the jabber of voices makes her headache, she can't get a clear view of the scenery, somebody triumphs upon her foot or jostles her elbow, and finally gets sore because the boat doesn't start back at the moment she evolves the idea it should. There is the gang who keep up a continuous parade from the lower deck to the pilot house, for no particular reason — just want to be anywhere but where they are. The girl who is always losing sight of her beau or female companion is always in evidence, inquiring for "Will" or "Mavune." The preacher likes to go too—presumably to study the fobles of humanity and to gather material for next Sunday's sermon. He never goes near the dancing pavilion, for it isn't his cue to take chances on catching some of his best-paying members violating the church discipline by indulging in the "light fantastic." The dancers are soi genaris—they have a personality peculiarly their own, and when Charlie Hamilton gets well under way they become oblivious to all surroundings. If you wish to see staid Christians and merry epicureans bridge THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. Yes, a trip down the river is a joyous event, if you are in the proper spirit for it. If any of our ladies want to be "it" sure enough, just don one of those elegant grass linen outfits. Roscoe Conkling Murray Simmons, she breezy and versatile Washington correspondent of the Charleston Advocate, announces that henceforth he is a citizen of West Virginia. Dr. W. T. Blackshear intimates that the blandishments of fame and fortune in that unpronounceable place in the Philippines will scarcely tempt him from the sacred precincts of the Sixth Auditor's office. When I see T. A. Johnson speeding toward the tennis court early in the morning and Francis De S. Smith meandering toward the golf links, it is easy to realize that "we are getting more like white folks every day." Pierce Place is a modern cosmopolis. In its two blocks you can find preachers, teachers, editors, lawyers, department clerks, musicians, dressmakers, laundresses, dentists, doctors, caterers, chefs, and last, but not least, lots of people who bask in the sunshine of elegant leisure. Mr. James F. Alston, of the Treasury Department, was in a happy mood when I saw him the other day. Col. McKay's will announced a bequest of $25,000 to his brother-in-law, Sam'l E. Fatum, and official notice had come to him that his salary had been increased from $1,200 to $1,400 per annum. Why shouldn't he smile? If a change is to be made in the head of the choir at St. Luke's P. E. Church I nominate Mr. R. W. Tompkins for the place. He is a skilled musician and an indefatigable worker. He would be in his element with the excellent material found at St. Luke's, and Rector Wailler would please everybody by securing Mr. Tompkins' service as choirmaster. It is sincerely regretted hereabouts that for the time being our bustling friend "Phil" Waters, of Charleston, W. Va., who has broken all records as charter clerk in the Secretary of State's office, is temporarily "outside the breastworks." No doubt a place equally as good will soon be found for him, as he is too useful a young man to be allowed to remain away from the pie under In Pierce Place, not far from Fourteenth street, is a persistent piano performer who "plunkity-plunks" on that instrument all day and far into the night. All pieces sound alike to the neighbors, and the composer is or ought to be at St. Elizabeth's. A lady told me that no one would mind how long the party entertained herself on the piano, if she would just learn to play something recognizable. And now Samuel E. Lacy has blossomed out into a "washee washee" man, having opened a laundry business at 1700 Twelfth street northwest, in connection with Mr. C. P. Goines. These young men are eminently correct in their endeavor to hold this important branch of industry within the race, and they should be liberally supported. "Sam" was a milkman once upon a time and has learned the advantage of getting up ahead of other people when public needs are to be served. OBSERVATIONS. A rose of red is not necessarily fatal. Rev. W. Bishop Johnson is riding a wheel. These are days of appointments and disappointments. The Panama hat craze shows distinct evidences of retrogression. Recorder Dancy is an official who has the courage to say "no" when he doesn't mean 'yes.' Matrimony has made a big dent in the teaching corps of the Washington schools this year. The Potomac would not seem the same without Col. Bob Key, Major Cox and the ever-ready "Hop" Coates. Perhaps Prof. L. M. Hershaw will be called upon to draft the next bill to create a Freedmen's Inquiry Commission. The rumor that Eddie Matthews, the expert mixologist of the Philadelphia House, is to be married soon, lacks confirmation. It will be a big mistake if the new municipal building is planned to extend north of the plat formerly occupied by the street railway power house. It is noticeable that when preachers take a notion that their weight should be reduced they forget that "cutting out" chicken from their diet is the surrest route to the desired emaciation. One Joshua Anderson met with a summary death in Mississippi the other day. It was not the genial manager of the Tuskegee lunch room and the Jane Moseley during service, I am proud to say. It is probable that Rev. W. Bishop Johnson will decline to stand for the office of educational secretary of the Baptist connection, and remain as pastor of the Second Baptist Church, where he has won so many laurels as a minister and financier. Although there is a conspicuous sign on a door of the City Hall restaurant reading "for members of the bar only," I fail to notice any Negro members of the bar taking their midday luncheon there. They seem to prefer to roost upon a stool at the public counter. Why? The editor of the Travis (Tex.) Watchman says he lacks only $999,000 of being a millionaire, and yet complains of his poverty. He is $999 ahead of the Man-on-the-Corner, and should feel "chesty" enough over his wad to consume porterhouse steak every morning and crown his headpiece with a real Panama hat. So bleached has the Negro become that colored girls are working in big stores, men and women attend the prejudiced theaters and clerks serve in the departments year in and year out with their Negro origin unsuspected. Is it a wonder that "black-skin removers" and "straightines" are doing a land office business? The contest for the to-be-vacant supervisorship is growing warmer. At present it seems to be a three-cornered battle with Messrs. F. L. Cardozo, Jr., W. Bruce Evans and John C. Nalle at the cardinal points. All are so popular and have rendered so much valuable service in the schools that the friends of each are in a quinary which to pick for a winner. By the last of the month the situation promises to crystallize into definitive form. HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS HOTEL CLYDE 475 MISSOURI AVE. N.W. First-Class Accomodations For Ladies and Gentlemen. Hot and Cold Baths. MRd. ALICE E. HALL, Proprietress. B CORBY'S "MOTHER'S BREAD." It is easily the best bread in the world. It is pure and wholesome and is the greatest strength ing food you can eat. Mothers Bread is gold in over a thousand grocers in this city. Try it. THE SOUTHERN HOTEL, Good board, steam heat and electric bells. Home comforts, moderate prices. 811 Pa. Av., n. w., Washington, D. G. Fine wines, liquors, cigars and Tobacco. SATTERWHITE & CO., PROIS. 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 brands of cigars and the beer in Washington. BROWN & SMITH, Proprietors. MRS. D. T. GIBBONS WHOLESALE MANUFACTURING RETAIL CONFECTIONER THE POLITICAL HOROSCOPE Dull seasons come to every industry save that of politics. In the business of setting up governments and knocking them down there is always "something doing." If it happens that one portion of the country is comparatively at rest the popular attention is called to another section of the national vineyard where the wine-press needs some energetic treading. Eyes are now turned toward the fall campaign with a view of determining the "paramount issue" upon which the next House is to be won or lost, and the attitude of the many classes of voters who are needed to insure success. With continued prosperity as an argument and the Negro vote as an asset the advantage would seem to be with the Republicans. The Negro is more indifferent politically than he once was, and here and there it is likely that some defections from the "grand old party" will be felt, but as between the existing parties the Negro masses will prefer to cast their lot with the promoters of national unity and emancipation. Our voters are studying economic questions closely nowadays, and before the colored "spelbinders" attempt to hold anybody spellbound by their eloquence are tracing out the possible effect Cuban reciprocity would have upon the Negro cane-grower; also our relation to tariffs and trusts. There are all kinds of trusts which handle commodities used by us every day, but the trust that menaces most and brings home to us all of the evils of "hog combines" that "corner" the necessities of life, is the beef and other food trusts. President Roosevelt's strong stand for Cuba and his outspoken denunciation of unlawful "mergers" is robbing the Democrats of their best thunder. Likewise his severity in dealing with violators of decency in the American army in the Philippines, has thrown cold water into the magazine of th anti-imperialists. While rivalry abounds in many districts there is no deep-seated bitterness anywhere, and under the generalship of Messrs. Babcock and Overstreet, the Republicans stand to win by a very safe margin. Apropos of the Congressional fight, the Negro student of political economy is quietly investigating a phase of political science on lines somewhat new to this generation. The Negroes are not happy because the present Congress shows no disposition to reduce Southern representation, to move against disfranchisement at the South, refusal to enact a law against jim crow cars, failure to suppress lynching and the general air of listlessness toward any and all measures looking to the betterment of the colored people. The latter resent the plain discriminations against them by Census Director Merriam, and they are not any the more satisfied when he tells them that the members of Congress are to blame for the "cutting out" of nearly every colored employee in the bureau. In any event the director cannot shove upon the poor Congressmen the burden of unfair record ratings nor the practice of keeping efficient eolored clerks at $1,000 per year when white clerks in the same section and doing the same work are getting $1,200. These things may be aired on the "stump" unless Mr. Babcock can find a way to relieve the tension by distributing a few chunks of "recognition" and promising more consideration in Congress next winter. These are a few of the grievances and the new departure referred to means that many who have lost faith in promises, believe that the Negro should turn away from Congress as sunlicants for what they are told is the impossible, and endeavor to influence State governments. The several States are free, to treat the lynching evil, the franchise question and the matter of transportation and other civil privileges. This can be done by swinging the churches, lodges, political clubs and labor organizations into line THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. for candidates who are known to be friendly to the Negro's advancement. It is held that if the black voters would pick from the tickets of the various parties the names of the best men and stand by them as a unit, there would soon spring up a rivalry for this balancing vote, and valuable concessions would be made in the favor of desirable legislation and official patronage. There are now enough laws to protect American citizens but there is no powerful sentiment demanding their enforcement when the injured person is a Negro. Scientific manipulation of the suffrage in support of pro-Negro candidates, it is argued, would hasten the development of a sentiment for the enforcement of the laws impartially. Without leaving the Republication organization, the black voters could thus reward their friends, punish the derelict and while helping themselves, confer a benefit upon the party and the Nation. This phase is worthy of examination. The congressional contest is not causing the greater struggle of 1904 to be forgotten. States are declaring for Roosevelt's renomination, and he has gained materially in favor of the people every time he has spoken or taken ground upon any vital issue. He is an especial favorite in the Western States, where the Republican stronghold is, and the rank and file practically admit that he will head the ticket year after next. The Hanna boom has jogged along, but with no encouragement from the shrewd Ohioan. Comes now the rumor of a revival of the Fairbanks sentiment, which had quite a vogue before the death of President McKinley; in fact, he was then regarded very generally as the administration candidate for the succession. Rumor has it that the friends of Senator Fairbanks are doing some effective "early-birding" among the colored leaders who will appear at the convention as delegates. It is hinted that an anti-Roosevelt alliance is being formed in the South, headed by Colonel Pledger, of Georgia; Hill, of Mississippi; Deas, of South Carolina; Vance, of Louisiana, and Ferguson of Texas. It is understood that Senator Fairbanks is not averse to spending a few years at the White House but he is giving no countenance to this canvass, as he has his mind occupied with the details of insuring his return to the Senate. They further say that there may be a Hanna-Fairbanks combination—to play the field against Roosevelt, with the view of finally landing the most available of the two men, Hanna or Fairbanks, at the head of the ticket. This may be taken for what it is worth. For authentic information, interested persons might open up a correspondence with Colonel Pledger, Atlanta, Ga., or Editor C. J. Perry, Philadelphia. We think it very likely that Messrs. Roosevelt and Hanna understand each other. The New York Age endorses the wisdom of all that was done at the St. Paul conventions. John C. Leftwich is stirring the animals up out in the wilds of Oklahoma. Keep it up. Only 10,000 Negroes, out of a possible 160,000 can now vote in the State of South Carolina. The knuckle-close party organ is out of date. This is an age of newspapers. We give the people the facts. Now is the time to get together and put your best men forward. There's no sense in being "a dog in a manger." Unless all signs fail, the Democratic nominee for President in 1904 was David Bennett Hill, of New York. Lyncher Koester, whose nomination for collector of internal revenue for South Carolina, failed of confirmation, is considerate enough not to ask a renomination at the hands of the President. Any attempt to "unhorse" Register J. W. Lyons will result in a dismal failure. The race hasn't a man of better standing with "the powers" than the stalwart Georgia committeeman. If there are racial discriminations in the Washington departments as to appointments and promotions, the aggrieved ones should have the courage to report the same to the civil service commission. Comptroller Robert J. Tracewell, Indiana's courageous leader, believes in a civil service policy that will allow official rewards to go to the most competent of those who make party victories possible. So do we. If some of our leaders would put more honest work on the legislation they claim to favor and less in hunting for a job for themselves our white friends would not be so quick to drop our cause when opposition develops. Our white fellow-citizens must not labor under the delusion that the Negro's training should be industrial and nothing more. The bent and opportunities of the individual alone should determine the character of education for all races. With Senators Pritchard and Simmons a-scowling and a-jawing at one another, and several Negro factions studying how to get in on the ground floor, there seems prospects of something doing in North Carolina politics. Mrs. Ida B. Wells Barnett is not pleased with the surrepitious manner in which the officers of the Afro-American Council were declared elected. In fact in a letter to the Chicago Conservator her extensive vocabulary of scathing rebuke seems to have been exhausted long before half justice was done to the subject. Negroes who have pledged themselves to "the faith" are being admitted to the Democratic primaries in Travis county, Texas. To cap the climax last week S. J. Jenkins, a Negro lawyer of ability and superintendent of the Colored Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Austin, and a lifelong Democrat, was chosen a full-fledged delegate to the Democratic State Convention which met at Galveston. In 1883 a great convention of earnest Negroes met in the city of Louisville. The immortal Frederick Douglass presided, and the whole Nation was electrified by the keynote sounded by the "old man eloquent." Twenty years later (1903) another convention will assemble in Kentucky's metropolis, and it is doubtful if the Associated Press will dignify it by sending out so much as a pitiful paragraph. How times have changed! Indiana Negroes are a cipher in National politics. The enterprising Indianapolis Recorder explains the unfortunate situation in this wise: "THE COLORED AMERICAN of Washington, D. C., and by the way one of the best newspapers in the country, chides the Negroes of Indiana, on their slowness in the matter of political recognition. As much as we regeret it, the verdict must be guilty. The cause is plainly one of internal dissension. Not that we do not deliver the votes, nor an absence of leaders, but, because we are not "together." Instead of one race, and one set of leaders, we are confronted with dozens of cliques and clans with as many leaders. There is no strength." It is announced that the leading colored men of Mississippi have organized into a taxpayers' association for the purpose of inducing our men to pay their taxes. The resolutions adopted declare that it is a public injustice that any class of people should seek to escape fulfillment of any obligation justly due from them; that the poll tax requirement is sonable and just, and all male Negroes stop the habit of evading the tax, thereby bringing reproach upon the race and intellectual poverty upon their children. This organization is commended and it is hoped that much good will be the result. Fritz Reuter's WASHINGTON, D. C. HOTEL AND RESTAURANT 451, 453, 455, 457 Penn. Ave. 202, 208 and 210 4 St. Northwest MOORE & PRIOLEAU, Sparta - Bullet and Cafe 1216 Pa. Av. Wash., D. C. Fine wines, liquors and cigars, Hot Free Lunch Every Day. Ladies will receive special attention in Dining Room upstairs. Jas. F. Keenan, Rectifier and Wholesale Liquor Dealer, Elegant Club Whiskey a Specialty Importer of Fine Wines, Brands, Gins, Etc. 462 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. ...C. H. NAUGHTON... LIQUORS AND SEGARS FINE WINFS. Harper & Wilson a specialty: 1926 Fourteenth St., Northwest. Gray & Costley WINES, LIQUORS & CIGARS Ladies and Gentlemen's Dining Room on stairs. The best of service guaranteed 1313 E Street N.' W. WASHINGTON, D. O. SANTAL-MIDY Standard remedy for Gloet, Gonorrhoea and Runnings IN 48 HOURS Cures Kid- ney and Bladder Troubles. MIDY Chris. Xander's QUALITY HOUSE, 909 7th st. NW Established 88 years ago. The largest wholesale stock in town of the most exquisite, faultless wines and distillates (a all 240 kinds,) at Chris Xander's modern prices no others can compete quality and purity with any of his goods. His liquors are absolutely free from fusel poison. {Nobranch houses,) Phone 1425 W: M. DRURY'S RESTAURANT 1100 20th St., corner L. N. W, Washington, D. U. P. A. M. REV J M CONNER D.D. S T.D. Pastor of Bethel A. M. E. Church. Little Rock. Arkansas. MATERIAL FOR BISHOP. Found in The Person of Rey. J. M. Conner-A Sketch of His Life and Eminent Services to Church and Race. In the State of Mississippi, Winston county, in the year 1801, when the Union was rife with dissensions and the war god bestrode the land, an humble child was born. He was not the progeny of the aristocracy, nor was his dwelling place a castle where luxury streamed, but a lowly cabin where poverty and want crouched. This child grew to be a man, and to-day easily ranks in the forefront of the leaders of his day. The name of Rev. J. M. Conner is known in America wherever the Gospel has penetrated and found acceptance. The early boyhood days of Dr. Conner were spent on a farm, and during a time when the public schools and educational facilities for Negrões had scarcely made their way into the South. Being possessed of an inquisitive turn readily seized upon the meager advantages at hand, and bent all toward intellectual development. Mississippi and Alabama were the early scenes of his intellectual struggles. Through perseverance, indomitable, great personal sacrifice and hardships he pushed his way to success. Not satisfied with mediocrity, he matriculated in the National University of Chicago for the purpose of doing college and theological work. After studying some years he received from this institution the degree of S. T. B. and later this was supplemented by another, S. T. D. He took a course in sacred literature in the American Institute of Chicago University under the learned Dr. W. H. Harper. His accuracy in studying and aptitude for books were characteristic of both his college days and early primary training. He thus laid his early foundation deep and broad and has built an invincible superstructure thereupon. Dr. Conner's reputation as a minister in the A. M. E. Church is too well known by the public to require extended comment. It speaks for itself more forcibly than would be possible for the pen of the most versatile writer. He was licensed to preach in 1882; ordained THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. deacon and elder in 1884, by Bishop Ward, and since the day of his ordination he has been a busy man. He has held some of the best charges in the gift of his church, success has followed whereever he has gone, and he is beloved by all of the people to whom he has ministered. He is a broad-hearted man and does not limit his services to the members of his church and denomination, but wherever the cry of the needy and helpless is heard, he has been ready and willing to assist. Though loyal to his church, he is broader than religious dogmas, recognizing that it is his duty to raise the fallen, arrest the apostate, and lift up Christ to all. He has pastored successfully and built churches at the following places: Aberdeen and Stormsville, Miss.; Forest City, Oceola, Newport, Hot Springs and Little Rock, Ark. He is now the popular pastor of the Bethel A. M. E. church at Little Rock, Ark. During his wideawake pastorate of Bethel church it has improved numerically, financially and spiritually and many of the best people of Little Rock worship at his services. He founded a college at Hot Springs and was presiding elder for four years over the Forest City District. On the platform, Dr. Conner is earnest, eloquent, persuasive and convincing. Many of his utterances have made him famous as an orator, chief among which is the memorial address he delivered on Dr. O. P. Ross at the last general conference; also the commencement address he delivered at Morris Brown College in 1898. He has spoken to many celebrated audiences and reputable institutions, such as Straight University, Wilberforce University, Roger Williams University, Walden University, Jackson College, Campbell College, Alcorn, A. and M. College, Ark., Baptist College, Philander Smith College, etc. He is a trustee of Wilberforce University, and received the doctorate degree from Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Ga. Dr. Conner has undergone some trying financial ordeals. At Hot Springs and Little Rock he found the churches literally groaning under the burden of heavy mortgages, but organizing and cheering the people he relieved them of their distress in a reasonably short time. It is said that he always doubles his predecessors in finance. His church has bought and paid for a beautiful lot in the city of Little Rock, upon which he THE NEGRO MUSIC JOURNAL Monthly Magazine devoted to the educational interests of the Negro in Music, will make its initial appearance September 15th, 1902. The object for launching this journal upon the sea of musical activities, is: To furnish the Negro at once with a medium through which he can express his thoughts, theories and experiences bearing upon the delightful art of music. To bring a means of culture in the Negro home that will inspire, enlighten and educate him along all branches of the art. To bring before our teachers, students and music lovers, the best thoughts, discoveries, theories and discussions, the ablest writers of the day can give; hence communications or contributions which will help the Negro towards a better knowledge and appreciation of the Musical Art are solicited from all sources. The Editors especially desire to hear from all Negro music teachers interested in the advancement of the art and self-improvement. AGENTS are wanted all over the country to represent The Negro Music Journal. Those desiring to become agents can write for information. Now is the time for our young folks to obtain employment. Ladies make fine agents as well as gentlemen. We are going to pay our agents liberal sums. Write for information. Those desiring to begin with the first number can forward the subscription price and the Journal will be mailed to your address on coming from the press. Single copies, 10 cents. Yearly subscription, $1.00. J. HILLARY TAYLOR EDITOR AGNES CARROLL ASST. EDITOR Address all communications to— The Negro Music Journal. J. HILLARY TAYLOR, Editor. 111 D Street, Southeast, Washington, D. C. intends to build a parsonage. Every department of a church is given attention at his hands. AN AUTHOR OF PROMINENCE. Dr. Conner has published several books which proved to be an honor to himself, church and race. They are not the "trashy" kind that are so prevalent among us, but are first-class, up to date, and instructive. They show him to be a man of profound thought, and a philosopher of no mean ability. "Iron Wheels," a pamphlet of sermons, "Classical Lore," "Outlines of Christian Theology and Doctrines of Christ," written by him, have stood the test of some of the best critics and elicited from them much favorable criticism. Flattering editorial notices of his works were given by such papers as the Arkansas Gazette, Arkansas Democrat, Hot Springs Daily News, Christian Index, Star of Union and Christian Recorder. Dr. Conner is conceded to be fit timber for the bishopric. He has broad culture, general information, executive ability, foresight, a robust body and is young, strong and vigorous. As a marked respect for these qualities his constituents have always placed him at the head of affairs. He is the president of the Young Men's Business League of Little Rock, and the Ministers' Alliance of Little Rock, which is composed of all the denominations of the city (among our people). This shows that he is loved and honored outside of his church. He was elected commissioner for the State of Arkansas, to represent the colored people at the World's Fair, to be held at St. Louis, Mo. At the general conference of his church in 1900 he made an excellent race for bishop and polled a good vote. Should there be a vacancy on the Bench of Bishops in the next general conference, the mantle could not fall upon a man more worthy than Dr. J. M. Conner. He has passed through all of the stages of his church, and possesses information and experience that will make him a highly useful factor on the great governing board of the A. M. E. convention. It is of such men as Rev. J. M. Conner that the true leaders of thought and morals are made. They point us to the heights and inculcate ideals that inspire and uplift. As Bishop Conner he would bring to the national organization the rich harvest of character and energy that he has sown in the humbler arenas of State, district and county. A MUSIC LOVER'S PRAISE. Editor Colored American: I must congratulate you upon the excellency of your journal; it is like good wine, it improves with age. I take great pleasure always in handing it to my white friends here as a sample of what the Negro is capable. Truly yours, J. Henry Lewis, Washington, D. C. AMUSEMENTS Watson's Park. 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 Excelsior Pleasure Park. Formerly known as MADRE'S PARK. Is open for engagements for picnies and out-door entertainments by Sunday Schools, Churches, Societies and reputable Clubs and individuals for the sea on 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 S.reet, N. W., City Will see callers from 4 to 7 o'clock p.m. Jones' Park. Canduit Park, near Rock Spring Club, Take Car at 36th and Prospect Avenue. Meals Served at all Hours Open all Night. Everything strictly first class. Take F street care to Georgetown, ask to be put off at Jones'. R. E. Lewis, W. H Belt, Proprietors. MUSIC JOURNAL educational interests of the Negro in Music. October 15th, 1902. The object for launching activities, is— medium through which he can express his gup upon the delightful art of music. to home that will inspire, enlighten and and music lovers, the best thoughts, discover- ers of the gay can give hence commu THE COUNCIL AT ST. PAUL. As Seen by Mrs. Fannie Barrier williams A Notable Gathering and a Test of Inherent Strength- The Future. Chicago, Ill., Special.—The National Afro-American Council has come and gone. It went to the city of St. Paul, Minn., and received an open-hearted welcome and such generous attention and deference as would have done honor to the most distinguished body of people in the country. The men and women of the Council could not resist a sense of pride and self-importance as they listened to the eloquent expressions of welcome and hospitality from the State and municipal officials who greeted them in the name and spirit of progress. The colored people of St. Paul gave to the Council and to the country a fine example of the art of entertainment. Every detail of the arrangements the success of the Council and the entertainment and comfort of visitors, was car- A. FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS. ried out with the utmost grace and intelligent consideration. The Council this year was somewhat of a surprise as to the size of the attendance. St. Paul being so far outside the sphere of our activities, interest in the plans and purposes of the convention was fairly tested on account of the increase of the cost and extent of travel required to attend its sessions in this far corner of the Northwest. Every section of the country was represented, from Boston to Texas, and from Georgia to Minnesota. Those who have been with the Council since its organization say that the personelle of this meeting was quite up to the average. Some of the most distinguished men in the church, in the profession of the law, in the field of education and journalism, in official life, in politics and some of the most noted women of the race were a part of the Council this year, and by their influence and high standing gave to the convention a character of importance and distinction. It was a many-voiced convention. The hopes, the anxieties, the fears and courage of the Negro race were heard in the speeches and reports of those who had been chosen to act as spokesmen for the race. Louisiana spoke out boldly and eloquently for a determined fight in the courts against oppressive legislation. Massachusetts voiced the sentiments of a colored woman on the "color line" in the club movement. Missouri, with a great woman's prophetic vision, voiced the hopes and aspirations of the Twentieth Century Negro. Illinois reviewed the rising power of the scholar and the despair of "lynch law." The matchles sscholar from Atlanta University and the great leader of Tuskegee whose very presence would lift any emblage into dignity and honor, ought a benign message from "St.ork." and the final note of inspiran and courage. In fact, from every section there came brave words of be and evidences of progress in every e of human endeavor. There was aicing spirit in all that was said and need for and planned for by the Afro-american representatives of race pross. There appeared to be a growing pride the Council as an organization of theure, if not of the present. In spite of the shortcomings that are peculiar to our own kind of human nature, many of the sanest, the most unselfish, and the most distinguished and capable men and women of the Negro race traveled long THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. 47. distances in each year to attend the sessions of the Council. It is true they hear many things that are painful to hear, see much that is utterly mean and small, and find some high and noble purpose again and again defeated, by underhanded methods. Yet they persevere, faithfully pledging themselves anew to the central idea of race unity and the hope of establishing an organization that shall someday be the embodiment of the best ideals and highest aspirations of the race. I believe that it is the hope that the Council idea shall persist in spite of occasional wranglings and the sordid ambitions of a few members. Organization is our greatest need, but our attempts at organization have been among our worst failures. In the present Council, there seems to be enough conscience, enough ability and good sense to save the race from the demoralization of failure in this, the latest attempt to give to the race a great parliament of harmonious interests in behalf of progress and unity. There were some dramatic incidents in the St. Paul convention. There were some defeated ambitions, and unpleasant allusions to "gag law" and "sharp practices." There were some knots in parliamentary ruling that have not yet been unravelled, yet the integrity of the Council is still unimpeached. There has been an undue exaggeration of the evils, and it has been made to appear that the Council cannot survive the heartaches of the election. But we are told that the Council has passed through and survived greater shocks than this. All organizations must pass through these tests of its inherent strength, in order to reach a status of permanency as a hopeful force in race development. The social features of the St. Paul convention were especially notable. Numerous receptions, dinners, luncheons, drives, etc., were provided, but the crowning event was the reception given on Friday night at the new Armory Hall of the Minnesota State University. The artistic decoration of the hall, the music and general magnificence of all the appointments could scarcely have been surpassed. The presence of such distinguished guests as Archbishop Ireland, whose benign and generous optimism struck the high note of the convention, together with other prominent citizens of city and State, gave the affair all the appearance of a truly cosmopolitan assemblage where together mingled the best of all races. FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS. Scientific Farming. Scientific Farming. (Continued from First page ) regular school work. The special object in view is to fit girls for earning a pleasant and profitable living in lines offering rich rewards to the industrious. It is hoped that this experiment, in its ultimate development, will prove one of the most successful features of the work of the school. When satisfactorily completed, certificates will be issued from these divisions. The agricultural courses for young women are arranged so as to afford instruction in dairying, poultry-raising, horticulture, floriculture, landscape gardening, market gardening and the study of live stock. This latter is limited wholly to ordinary farm animals, the number and kind needed, when, how and where to feed, characteristics, utility, etc. The same courses are given young men, except that the instruction is on a more elaborate basis. The course of study for young women extends over two years, and young women who complete it have a satisfactory knowledge of how to conduct a small dairy, how best to care for poultry, and how to care for a small orchard. They are also taught how to lay out and beautify dooryards, how to care for shrubbery and flowers, how to manage a home garden and how to raise upon it products which will prove most easily marketable. A large, well-appointed poultry house is well equipped with brooders and incubators. There is no reason why Southern colored women should not take advantage of the splendid opportunities to be found along these various lines. They are out-door occupations and offer rich rewards. For young men the course is more extended, and includes a complete and satisfactory course in all the divisions of agriculture. The division of dairying has proved especially successful. Requests have reached the principal of the school for more than 200 persons during the past year for graduates of this division. One of the largest southern creameries recently dairy division to take charge of all of its departments. If, instead of the fifty young men and seventeen young women who were in the agricultural department made a request for five graduates of the during the past year three times as many were receiving instruction, employment could easily be secured for all of them. The graduates of the agricultural department each year are offered remunerative employment long before the close of the school term. The effort at Tuskegee is made to awaken among the students an interest in agricultural life, so that it may not come to be regarded as a drudgery, as something to be shirked. No visitor to the school can fail to be impressed with the great work which is being done along agricultural lines; absolutely nothing is overlooked that will afford the student the best opportunity to make himself most helpful, if he only devote himself earnestly. The instructors come from the best agricultural schools in the country. The director of the department is a graduate of the Iowa State College of Ames, Iowa, with which the present secretary of agriculture was connected before accepting the place in the President's cabinet. Three of the graduates of the school are now in Africa working under the auspices of the German government. Another is profitably employed by the Forest City Creamery Company at Rockford, Ill., and has been ever since his graduation. He is entrusted with all the secrets of this firm and is in charge of one of its most important departments. Others are employed by the various schools of the country which are now giving attention to agricultural development, and many others are at work in country districts where they have wrought but little short of a revolution in established agricultural methods. An application for a young man to fill a $2,500 place came to the school some time ago, and the demand for men thoroughly equipped is far greater than the supply. Young men and women who have already completed their literary education can find at Tuskegee the opportunity for advanced training along agricultural lines. No graduate of the agricultural department is without employment. A number of young men who have completed advanced courses of academic study at other institutions have taken advantage of the opportunities offered at Tuskegee. Others who decide to do likewise will be fitting themselves for lives of real usefulness without any suggestion of parasitic employment and with assured opportunity of profitable service to the race and the country. The expenses are merely nominal Persons interested may address Principal Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Alabama, for such information as is not set forth herein. Elevating the Stage, Elevating the Stage, the educated and talented young ladies and gentlemen of the race, Mr. Hogan has devised a plan whereby such talent may be profitably utilized and appreciated. He therefore intends, by surrounding himself with young people of respectability and merit, to create a demand for talent hitherto unemployed, thereby benefiting the race, elevating the present standard of the Negro professional, and establishing a new era in theatricals. In conjunction with Mr. Billy McClain, Mr. Hogan will star in "My Friend From Georgia," a play that is admirably adapted to his ever-peculiar, yet always pleasing versatilities. In this venture he is assured in advance of the support of the amusement-loving public, and the leaders of thought can be relied upon to give their hearty support to one who so bravely antagonizes traditions and blazes the pathway to the heights of a worthy profession only whose portals have thus far been touched by the bulk of Negro artists. The future of the race in the Thespian world is safe in the hands of that talented, high-purposed industrious, fearless and resourceful, master-dramatist, Ernest Hogan. DRESS MAKING ACADEMY. The de Lam Orton Famous French Perfection Fallor System Mme J. A. Smallwood, Sole Agent 1513 Madison street, northwest, Morning class from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Afternoon class 2 to 5 p.m. daily Evenings from 7.30 to 10 o'clock. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, dress makers and ladies who wish to do their ow dressmaking. WANTED—To learn the wonderful De Lam Orton French Perfection Tailor System. Seamless Basques without one inch of visible seam, in living or goods, not even on the shoulder. Successful dressmaking requires as much earnest progressive study as successful work in any of the professions. No detail is too small to be looked after. We teach you to make dresses with or without seam and guarantee perfect fits, and complete your course with a diploma. Pupil can enter at any time. SUMMER RESORTS. Summer boarding in the mountains. Magnolia Cottage. 'ismont, Virginia. Healthy! Cool!! Shady!!! Excellent opportunity for rest or study Good bicycling cheap driving. Tele phone and post office within 300 yards. Dallvail Terms $3.50 per week in advance. Mrs manda Miller-Coleman, 'ismont, Va. First-class country board for colored people at lowest rates. Inty shade, fruit, milk fresh vegetables. Good home cooking. Free transportation to from ForestGlen cars. For particulars and to have some one meet you at cars. Address Mrs Mary G. Mitchett, Cloverly P. O. Montgomery o. Md. THE KEYSTONE PARK The Keystone Park, Suitland, Md., will be open and ready for business June 1st. A commodious house with large and improved premises, plenty of fresh water with garden and chickens where a number of select couples or people can be accommodated. Everything is strictly first class. The Route Cars run to the new Pennsylvania ave. bridge and for those who drive, follow the straight road and watch the signs. Private parties will be met at the bridg conveyances. For those who desire to spend the heated term arrangements will be made for trips morning and evening. For further information apply at 443 1st st., s w WANTED-A POSITION An intelligent young man who is taking a college course desires a position as bookkeeper, copyist or any kind of office work. Salary no object. Address "W" care this office. If you have a spare room that you would like to rent to desirable parties, advertise them in The Colored American. Improve The Hair and Complexion Singleton's Pharmacy 20th and E carries a full line of Ozono preparations with his toilet articles and sundri.s. A furnished room for rent to a gentleman with all modern improvements. Call at 1316% 4th St. northwest, at 5:30 o'clock p.m. COTTAGES FOR SALE Four desirable Cottages on Jefferson Street, between Washington and La Fayette Streets. In the very best locality, new'y, painted and paneered all the atest improvements on easy terms. For further particulars address J·Harry Hughes Cape May, N I "Crimp = Less" An Electric Hair Straightener-takes the Crimp out without fall. Half an hour once a week with this Straightener keeps the Hair Smooth and Glossy. You can make money if you own one-Colored People wild over it. Price $5.00. We want reliable agents in every town. La Hoehne Twenty-five. Write for Panoramic Matters. CRIMPLESS" MFG. CO., 1111 Missouri Trust Blvd. St. Louis, Mo. Here is an Opportunity! A large picture of PROF. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, printed in four colors which has all the appearance of an oil painting, will be sent elegantly framed by express to any subscriber who will send $3.00 to THE COLORED AMERICAN. To persons who desire the picture without subscribing for the paper, it will be sent by express for $1.50. 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 The Colored American WASHINGTON, D.C. This picture should be in every Parlor, Library, Reading Room, School Room, and every Public Hall used by intelligent colored people. SHREDS AND PATCHES Arkansas has a colored bar association. The A. M. E. General Conference in 1904 goes to Chicago. The labor unions in Danbury, Conn., have opened their doors to colored men. A good move. Gautemala has an American Negro millionaire in the person of John Knight formerly a slave in Alabama. Rev. J. Harvey Anderson suggests Rev. O. O. W. Smith, ex-minister to Liberia, as Zion's Bishop of Africa. Two million dollars has been set aside by the Louisiana Legislature to establish a colored asylum at Alexandria. In the colored public schools of Atlanta, out of 54 teachers, 39 received their education in Atlanta University. The strikes in various parts of the Nation should redound to the colored man's benefit provided he act wisely and industriously. The next meeting of our Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention to be held in Washington, D. C., from September 3 to 7, at Liberty Baptist Church, Dr. I. Toliver, pastor, will will be the most important meeting in the history of the organization. General O. O. Howard. Federal general in the Civil War, is deeply interested in the establishment of a school for the mountain whites of Tennessee. He was the founder of Howard University, Washington, D. C., which has done so much good for our people. Mr. Thomas L. Martin, an industrious colored man of Lewisburg, Ky., has invented an ingenious educational device for the teaching of writing, grammar and arithmetic, which is meeting with general favor. He is planning to have them manufactured upon a large scale. At the first of the "Composers' Nights" in the Harrogate Spa Concert room, Leeds, England, Mr. Coleridge-Taylor appeared to conduct a program, consisting chiefly of his own compositions. It was a severe ordeal for any composer, but the young man sustained himself with marked credit. Ferry Chesney, the oldest man in Tennessee, is dead at his home on the summit of Cooper Ridge at the age of 126 years. Chesney was born in Virginia on July 4, 1776, and, as a slave, belonged to Jonathan Jackson at Clarksville on the Roanoke river. When twelve years old he saw George Washington. Miss Louise Van Horne, daughter of Consul Van Horn, of St. Thomas, D. W. I., has the distinction of being the first colored teacher to be appointed in the public schools of Newport, R. I. She has had several years' experience and was appointed to the first vacancy after her application was field. Mrs. J. Silone-Yates has been elected teacher of English at the Lincoln Institute, of Jefferson City, Mo., instead of Miss Anna Jones, who declined the appointment. Mrs. Yates is thoroughly qualified to fill the station. She has had much experience along educational lines and her worth and learning adds dignity to her position. Bishop J. B. Small, A. M., D. D. bishop of the A. M. E. Zion church, set sail for Africa on Saturday, June 21, on the steamer Rhynland of the International Navigation Line going out of Philadelphia to Liverpool. Bishop Small took with him Mr. William Hockman, a native of Cape Coast, West Africa, who has been in training for the African work at Livingstone College for the past four years. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. Philadelphia, will be closed for the ensuing year. In the meantime the plans for reorganization will be perfected and new buildings erected. Prof. H. M. Brown, the new principal, will go abroad to study the educational methods and systems of the best technical schools, and will retain for a season the directorship of the High and Training School at Baltimore. Mme. Helene Noble, of New York, has opened a summer school for the instruction of the French system of corset making and dress-cutting and fitting. She is a graduate of L'Ecole Professionale de Madame A. Gene, de Paris, and served two years in the dress making establishment of Mme. Prince, in Paris. She was also with Mme. Leotry, whose corset establishment is one of the largest and best in the French capital. The Teachers' College (pedagogical department) of Howard University was organized in 1900 with Prof. L. B. Moore as dean. The definite aim of the courses is to prepare young women to take charge of kindergartens and to conduct them in accord with the highest educational standards. The department has been doing an excellent work along this line and is preparing for more elaborate efforts next year. William Still, a noted Afro-American died a few days ago at him home in Philadelphia. Before the war he assisted thousands of slaves to secure their freedom by escaping to the free States. He published a book called "The Underground Railroad." and it had a tremendous sale. The book told of the means used to help his race to escape from the South. Deceased was eighty years of age and was worth nearly a million dollars at his death. City Brevities. Garnett Wilkinson is in California. Mrs. R. S. Rives is ill in North Carolina. This is Norfolk night among the "real people." The Grand Army Encampment comes on apace. Mrs. T. M. Nixon is visiting in Cleveland, Ohio. Miss Julia R. Bush is rusticating at Boyd's Tavern, Md. Miss Nettie Langston is to visit friends in Pittsburg. Mrs. R. B. Peters and daughter Ruth are at Fortress Monroe. Miss Mattie R. Bowen will be a delegate to the Atlanta Congress. Mr. Waverly D. Green has the agency for a new style of fountain pen. Mr. W. T. Menard is the guest of Editor Fortune at Red Bank, N. J. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell lectured to a large audience this week in Illinois. Mr. W. H. Conn has been appointed superintendent of the "Marborough" apartment house. Prof. Booker T. Washington spent a few hours in the city Tuesday of last week. Miss Rosa B. Childs has been visiting in Baltimore, where she was the recipient of much social attention. Ground has been broken for the new building of the True Reformers at corner of twelfth and U streets. Mrs. T. J. Calloway and children are at home from a lengthy visit to Tuskegee and other southern points. Mrs. L. R. Clarke leaves on another southern tour shortly, which will include a visit to the Atlanta Congress. It is definitely decided that Prof. John T. Layton will remain as director of the choir of Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. Every available inch of space in the Capital Savings Bank building is taken up by enterprising business men of our race. Mr. W. A. Hunton was in town last week in the interest of the Atlanta Con- gress, and received much encouragement. Company B, First Separate Battalion, is booked for a grand excursion to Norfolk August 16th, on the palatial Jane Moseley. Dr. W. Bruce Evans came up from Hampton a few days ago to attend the annual encampment of the District National Guard. Dr. S. Roger Watts goes to Switzerland this fall as the representative of the Grand Lodge of Masons of this jurisdiction. He is a splendid man. Lieut. Toomey's friends are planning to "star" him in an entertainment this fall, in which he will give a number of readings from his own poems. Get ready for the meeting of the National Negro Business League at Richmond August 25, 26 and 27. A local business league has been finally organized and delegates were chosen. Mrs. Lottie E. Wilson, the accomplished artist, gave an exhibition of her paintings in Baltimore last Saturday and Monday for the benefit of the Provident Hospital. She will organize a class there for instruction on Saturdays. Mrs. Edna McNabb has abandoned her suit for divorce from Harry McNabb and will ask to have the marriage set aside on the score of being under age at the time of the ceremony, and duress, by reason of threats against her life. Mrs. Mary Chuch Terrell, our peerless platform orator, has returned from a sojourn of several weeks in Massachusetts, whither she went for the benefit of the health of little Miss Phyllis. Mrs. Terrell is preparing a new lecture for the fall and winter season, and has already contracted for a number of very desirable engagements in the Y. M. C. A. circuits. 'Native Washingtonians.' The "Native Washingtonians," a new social organization, has issued invitations to the public to be present at their first annual outing, which will take place Monday, August 4. at Lake View Park. The organization is made up of a hundred or more of the city's representative people, and is designed to cement into closer social relationship those who are "unto the manor born," so to speak. The Board of Governors includes: Dr. Jas. T. Walker, president; Miss Amelia Barnes, vice-president; Miss Amelia Cusberd, second vice-president; Miss Lulu Pollen, recording secretary; Miss Eleanor Robinson, corresponding secretary; Dr. Clarence Gray, financial secretary; Mrs. Bertie Lewis, treasurer, together with Dr. J. H. Johnson, as chairman Entertainment Committee; Prof. J. D. Baltimore, as chairman Reception Committee; Mrs. Katie Harris, as chairman Membership Committee, and Mr. Jerome A. Johnson, as chairman Invitation Committee. Treasury Department Promotion In the drawing of promotion prizes for the new fiscal year, the colored employees in the Treasury Department fared quite well. The list as far as we could ascertain, includes the following "raises:" James F. Alston, Pennsylvania, $1,200 to $1,400; J. C. Norwood, North Carolina, $1,400 to $1,600; Miss Wilhelmina B. Tate, Indiana, $840 to $900; Misses Emma R. Tolliver, Fannie E. Tolliver, Hallie B. Williams, $470 to $500. Appointment—Miss Mary Sewall, District of Columbia. Promotion—Thomas H. R. Clarke, $720 to $900, detailed as private secretary to Register of Treasury. 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 FINANCIAL HERE IS A CHANCE. To get the money you want, We have more than we need. We will make loans to every body without delay. If you want money see us to-day. You will not be disap pointed. Loans made on Furniture, Pianos, Organs, E'c, without removal, Loans to salaried em ployes Without endorsement. 502 F Street N. W Ccr. 6th St. Capital Loan Guarantee Company. Loans of $10 and upwards made on FURNITURE PIANOS. HORSES. Wagons, etc., at lowest rates and n the day you apply. We are loaning on th. Building and Loan Association plan, which iakes the cost of carrying loans much less than you pay elsewhere, and allows you to pay it off in any sized notes you desire, running from one to twelve months. You only pay for the use of the money for the length of time you carry it. If you have a loan with some other company we will pay it off and advance you more money if desired. Rates cheerfully given, and no cost to you unless the loan is made. Loans made any where in the District. Call and get rates. Floor room, first floor, Scientific American building. National Mortgage Loan Co. 625 F St., N. W. The National Safe Deposit Savings and Trust Company Corner 15th St. & New York Ave. Capital: One Million Dollars. Pays interest on deposits. Rents Safeest sides Burglar-proof Vanits. Acts as administrator executor, trustee, ac, DO YOU NEED Financial Assistance? If so, come to us. We are always ready to loan you any amount you may need. You can repay it in small monthly payments to suit your convenience. We make loans on Furniture, Pianos, &c., without removal or any publicity in any way. All business is private. Washington Mortgage Loan Co., 610—F Street—610 CAPITAL SAVINGS BANK 609 F St. N. W., Washington,D.C. Capital $50,000. Hon. Jno, R. Lynch, President. L. C. Bailey, Treasurer. J. A. Johnson, Secretary. D. R. McGorman Jno. R. Lynch, Dr. W. S. Lofton, Whitefield McKinlay, L. C. Bailey, Robt. H. Terrell, W. S, Montgomery, Wyatt Archer, John A. Pierre, HenryE. Baker, Robt. Williams J. T. Bradford. Dr. W. A. Warfield, J. A. Johnson, Dr. A. W. Tancil, Howard H. Williams. 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. news of the death of my old friend and comrade, Capt. Thos. S. Kelly. Hoping this may find your family and friends, as well as yourself, in the best of health and spirits, I am. Very truly yours, THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. Education without character availeth little. Words to be effective, must be backed by deeds. The wise Negro rejoices in a brother's prosperity. Soap and water are very helpful adjuncts to Christianity. Home-buying is a fad that Negroes could adopt with profit. Let The Colored American follow you to the seaside or mountain retreat It is easy to be an optimist where you are in the regular receipt of a bus salary. The Chicago Conservator is in "a frame of mind" over the St. Paul convention. Politics is a mighty bad business when you are caught on the short end of the deal. Artificial distinctions in churches and society are responsible for our religious decadence. Industrial education is a protection to the virtue of our young women, for they then have the equipment to earn an honest living. It appears that when Mr. G. W. Ellis, of Kansas, went to Africa, he left his rabbit foot behind. The national eye is turned toward young Governor La Follette and Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin. The statesman who is addicted to the letterwriting habit is laying up a solid foundation for trouble. Colored citizens of Washington should keep a sharp eye on every movement of the school authorities. Give preference to white merchants who invite your trade through race journals, when placing your money. Now that the Boers in South Africa have been whipped, why not give the Boers of this country some much-needed attention. Some transfers of public servants from Washington to Baltimore—like that of Prof. Waring, for instance,—is Baltimore's gain. Show us the representative Negro newspaper of a community and we will take the measure of the Negro people of that community. The title of the new code should have been "A bill to encourage mis understandings and litigation in the District of Columbia" Whitewash is a bad thing to use at church conferences, but very wholesome on the barns, fences and henhouses of the farmer. Use it. Colored workingmen should organize labor unions of their own where the whites refuse to admit them. Organize for mutual protection. Booker T. Washington's open door at Tuskegee is a practical demonstration tion that there can be a market for Negro bralus when an enterprising Negro creates it. No doubt Captain E. L. Baker is of the impression that gold medals are very nice as far as they go, but that a commission in the army contains more of the substantial. A permanent protective bureau at Washington, with reliable correspondents all over the land is the solution of the problem how to manage legislation needed by the race at the hands of Congress. Quite a number of southwestern delegates to the Atlanta Congress are also delegates to the National Negro Business League at Richmond on the 25th, and will continue their journey to that city. General Corbin's telegram: "It is not the policy of the administration to commission Negroes as officers in the regular army," has an ugly sound. Has this sentiment the approval of President Roosevelt? Whatever may be the outcome of the squabble over the District justice ship, it may be put down as certain that Messrs Robert H. Terrell and E M. Hewlett will continue to do business at the old stand. Educational meetings are being held throughout the South. We note them with pleasure. Every school house erected is a step toward the culture and liberality necessary to more hormonious relations between the races, When the sea of civil life had to be dragged for material to make second heutenants of, why was such seasoned timber as Harvey A. Thompson, D. J. Gilmmer, F. A. Deunison, T. H. R. Clarke, E R. Galther and R. S. Toomey lost sight of? The new Negro must cultivate the pioneer spirit. Those who have a little working capital can find untold opportunities in the Philippines, Porto Rico, Hawaii and Alaska, if they put aside the gew-gaws of an artificial society, and strike out with a determination to make their mark in the world. Brother James P. Duncan, of Long Branch, N.J., is wearing out some very valuable nervous energy trying to chase down the author of a scandalous rumor concerning himself. Professional liars and purveyors of gossip invariably cover their tracks too shrewdly for an honest man to trace them to their lair The Negroes of New Orleans, have done wisely to institute a bus line of their own, rather than permit the separate seat law for street cars to be a success. Opposition is driving us to manly independence. The Negroes of this vicinity who are compelled to go to Alexandria, should travel by the ferry, instead of patronizing the discriminat ing electric railway, The Home News, oursprightly Alexandria contemporary, has been enlarged. The publishers, Mosers. Murray and H.1', a a pair of bright young men, and we are pleased to note that their efforts to present a clean paper is being so substantially appreciated by our neighbors across the river, BE SURE TO GET THE SAFEST, SWIFTEST AND COMODIOUS STEAMER RIVER QUEEN. 1 To Notley Hall, Upper Glymont, Lower Cedar Point, Rock Point Other Points On The Potomsc. RIVER QUEEN The Swift ommodious Steamer RIVER QUEEN, with Electric Lights and fitted up with all Modern Improvements and licensed by U. S. Inspector to carry 1,000 Passengers has just been thoroughly over hauled and refitted for the Excursion season 1902 Can be chartered to run Excursions to Notley Hall, Upper Glymont, Lower Point and Rock Point. BOOKS ARE NOW OPEN FOR CHAR TERS. FOR TERMS APPLY TO Office: N Street Wharf, Clyde Line, Telephone 605-2. Main Residence: 154 E Capitol St. Telephone 88 Y 2. DINNER SET FREE for sell ng 24 boxes Salvona Soaps or bottles Salvona Perfumes. To introduce our soaps and perfumes, we give free to every purchaser of a box or bottle, a beautiful cut glass pattern 10-inch fruit bowl, or choice of many other valuable articles. To the agent who sells 24 boxes soap we give our so-piece Dinner Set full size, handsomely decorated and gold-lined. We also give Curtains, Couches, Rockers, Parlor Tables Sewing Machines, Parlor Lamps, MusicalInstru ments of all kinds and many other premiums for sel 15 days to deliver goods and collect for them We required. We prepay all freight charges. Illustrated CO, Cheman Bldg, St Louis, Mo. We can personally assure our readers that the S worthy—Editor ) premiums for selling Salvona Soaps and Perfumes. We allow you for them We give cash commission if desired No money re- ges. Illustrated catalogue free. Write to-day, SALVONA SOAPaders that the Salvona Soap Co., is thoroughly reliable and trusted ments of all kinds and many other premiums for selling Salvona Soaps and Perfumes. 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THE HOTEL HENDERSON. 90 90 New Jersey Atlantic City, A strictly up to date hotel for the accommodation of first-class cloaked people. It has all modern improvement; large and airy rooms newly u bolstered renovated and repapered. Its location is the very best in a quiet neighborhood and within sight of the Board Walk and the Ocean. The cuisine is the best-Mr Henderson being a profession caterer. Rates reasonable For particulars address. STACY I. HENDERSON 120 N Mississippi Av, Atlantic City N J KEEN COTTAGE. 17'3 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 plaza, it has been thoroughly renovated and put in first-class condition, with all modern conveniences. No pains will be spared to make everything comfortable for our patrons. MR. S. A. KEEN, Upperville, Virginia. Mrs. Virginia Pinkett, Upperville Va., Farquar County, desires to take a number of first class summer boarders. Upperville is located in a beautiful part of Virginia and arrangements have been already made to give first class service to a limited number of persons who desire to spend a few weeks in the summer. Rates are reasonable and the Villa is located close to the Blue Ridge Mountains with splendid water, etc. For further information address Mrs. Virginia Pinkett, Upperville, Farquar County, Va. THE COLORED AMEPICAN, WASHINGTON, D. O. 00 The Colored American Published by THE COLORED AMERICAN Pub- lishing Company. A NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER Published every Saturday at 459 C St. N, W Washington, D. C. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One year - - $2.00 Fix 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 guardian of good faith. We solicit news, contributions, opinion and in fact, all matters affecting the race. We will not pay for matter, however, unless it is ordered by us. All matter intended for publication must reach this office by Wednesday of each week to insure insertion in the current issue. Agents are wanted everywhere. Send or instructions. ADVERTISING RATES. Reading notices 50 cents per line. Display advertisements, $2 per squareinon 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, AUGUST 2, 1902 NEGRO MORTA'ITY EXCESSIVE. The death rate among colored people of the District of Columbia is causing no little uneasiness in medical circles, and among business men who recognize the fact that desirable people will not locate here if Washington is reported as an unhealthy city. It is charged that the Negroes are responsible for the death rate being as high as it is, and that, while they represent but one third of the population, their mortality is about 80 per cent above the average shown by the white residents. This is a crying shame, and improvement cannot come until the white citizens themselves exercise more liberality toward the Negro in the matter of renting them decent houses, relieving the unsanitary condition of the alley tenements, and granting openings for lucrative employment that will allow better medical attention and proper food and raiment for families. Disease is no respeter of persons, and if in their greed for gain and susceptibility to narrow prejudices the white property owners being a scourge upon the whole community, they will have no one but themselves to b'ame. The dirty alleys should be made into clean minor streets, tenements at reasonable rental, with modern improvements, should be erected thereon, and a close system of sanitary inspection should be inaugurated. People are seldom better than the neighborhood in which they live. See that the environment is improved, and encourage the people to live up to it. Our physicians should stir things up in this connection. Let us look to "Character Building" for inspiration. PN UNWARRANTED CRITIC SM. The American Eagle, published at St. Louis, is making faces at Mr. George L. Kuox the enterprising proprietor of The Indianapolis Freeman. The latter owns two of the finest barber shops in the West, and has thousands of dollars invested in the business—aside from his newspaper holdings. The Eagle charges that he draws the black line in his establishmen s. while denouncing jim crow carism and Negro disfranchisement in The Freeman We know that numbers of shrewd colored men are running businesses of various kinds, in which, for reasons very generally understood, they cater exclusively to white patronage. There is no sentiment in commerce, and men who render certain species of service that seem to encourage "social equality," are frequently compelled to suit the tastes of their customers or "shut up shop." However excusable or inexcusable such a policy might be, we have never known Mr Knox to draw the color line in his places of business and we have known him well for many years. His shops are located in two of the leading hotels of Indianapolis, and are primarily for the accommodation of the guests of those houses. We are satisfied that if the editor of The Eagle should register at the Penison or the Bates he would have no difficulty in having his flowing locks cared for in queens taste. Mr. Knox employs, all told, upwards of fifty colored men, and is doing solid good for the race. Thin-skinned critics should not go out of their way to cast opprobium upon a worthy man who has succeeded in life by exercising horse sense and business sagaciy. Live within your means; borrowing between pay days is a demoralizing habit. "PHYSIC AN. HEAL THYSELF." The race needs more minister who will tell the whole truth, and newspapers which will stand up for Negro advancement, independent of partisan or personal impulses. The Red Bank Mail and Express hits the bull's eye when it says: "Let our ministers 'go into all the world and preach the gospel' teach their brothers in black how to be men of letters and character; how to compete with all the civilized races of the world in all industrial pursuits; to beautify and put brains into everythi g they do; that they must educate their hearts and their hearts and hands as well; that soap and water are made expressly for free use on the skin and that we must have clean bodies as well as clean hearts. When all our ministers do this and get the right idea about the race problem, we shall get rid of the Jim Crow Negro, the dirty, vile Negro and all their kind; and we shall be a race not looked down upon in contempt, but loved and respected by all the civilized world." This is sound doctrine, and the pulpit, the press and the schoolmaster are not fulfilling their mission if they fail to expound it at every opportunity. Race leaders are not expected to indulge eternally in lofty platitudes and fulsome flattery about what the Negro has done, and stop there. A recital of our achievements as a means of encouragement is all right in its place, but our faults must not be overlooked if we hope for their correction. The needs of the present and preparation for a brighter future should concern the race most at this time, and the situation should be faced by all in a spirit of candor. We cannot deceive the world by gilding our vices or produce permanent prosperity by a veneering of artificial show. If the jim crow car is to go, if distraughtement is to be checked, and our poverty is to be ameliorated, the Negro thinkers and workers must begin a stern campaign against the weaknesses and follies that reside within the race. Agitation for civil rights must be predicated upon moral and intellectual worth, sobriety, industry and personal acceptability. L cal organizations logically precede national federations. NEW ORLEANS N*VAL OFFICE LOST. The announcement of the Louisiana appointments, with the name of Dr. I. B Scott left out, fell like a wet blanket upon the col red people all over the land, who confidently expected that the brilliant editor of the Southwestern Christian Advocate would be chosen as naval officer at the port of New Orleans. The place goes to one Elmer Woods, white. A sop is thrown to the Negro by naming R. B. Kennedy as receiver of public moneys, but that hardly suffices to remove the gloom caused by the loss of a lucrative and responsible post that has been held by the race for more than a quarter of a century. It is not encouraging to see our few political resources slipping away from us, one by one, especially when an administratin of our creation is in power in every branch of the government. The naval office at New O l ans should have been spared to the loyal Negro republicans. Office holding does not preclude the right of the incumbent to speak his honest convictions. EDUCATION AS A SOLVENT. Governor Montague, of Virginia, is sound on the subject of education. He believes in it as a panacea for many of the evils that affect our body politic, and he thinks it will be potential in adjusting the strained relationship between the races. At a recent conference of county and city superintendents, the Governor said: "We should try education as a factor to determine the Negro problem. We have not absolved ourselves of the responsibility until we have tried education." He had urged strenuously that we should have a system that will put within the use of the colored man that which will make him a usetul and practical citizen. Said he further: 'If we wish to keep pace with our sister commonwealths, we should engraft upon our public free school system some sort of technical, industrial manual training.' In this Governor Montague is eminently correct. Training of head and hand must go together-one will aid the other in bringing out the fullest powers of the individual. The schools must be better too, even if fewer in number, and the terms be long enough to yield a substantial education within a reasonable period of years. In Virginia there are now 6,620 white school's and 2,658 colored. With such a staunch friend of education as Mr. Montague in the governor's chair, the prospects of the Virginia Negro are taking an upward trend. The colored man should stand by his friends, wherever he can find them. AGAINST SUNDAY FUNERALS We have always been opposed to Sunday funerals, for many well known reasons. Sunday should be given over to the regular worship, and to the carrying out of the plans the pastor has matured for the benefit of the church. The majority of Sunday funerals are not held from necessity, but to gratify a foolish desire for display on the part of lodges or unthinking relatives. This sort of thing should be discouraged by an agreement among all the ministers to hold no funerals on the Lord's day. It will be approved after a fair trial. We are pleased to note that the authorities of Crown Hill Cemetery at Indianapolis, Ind., have refused to allow any more funerals on Sunday, and the people are satisfied. Harmony and Woodlawn could render a great service to Christianity by following the example of the Indianians. We always feel "kinder safe like" when General James S, Clarkson is in the saddle. THE SCHOOL SUPERVISORSHIP The main question now at issue among those interested in the welfare of our public schools is, who shall succeed Prof. J. H N. Waring as supervising principal. The position which is to be made vacant by the departure of Prof. Waring to Baltimore, is one of vast importance, and care should be taken by the Board of Education that the man chosen shall not fall below the exalted standard that has been maintained for years by previous incumbents. Above and beyond the personal ambitions of any individuals is the well-being of the schools that are to be supervised. The children are first in the equation, and the desires of parents must come in for due consideration. To this end, the place should go to one who has character, executive ability, intellectual breadth, natural capacity for handling large concerns and the tact to organize men and women after a fashion to secure the happiest results. His life should be clean and his influence wholesome, his exprie ce should be sufficiently demonstrated by firmly established labors, to command the respect and confidence of the public. It is hoped and expected that the Board, in making its selection, will be guided by nothing but the absolute fitness of the applicant, and choose him whose elevation will best preserve the symmetrical outlines and nicely balanced proportions of the District's unrivalled school system. There is no "National" Afro-American Press Association, within the meaning of the statute. President Roosevelt leaves no doubt as to his position upon any public question. The true leader takes the people into his confidence. It may be of interest to Adjutant General Corbin to know that we have no sympathy with his ambition to succeed Miles as the commanding general of the army. We would be pleased if President Roosevelt would appoint a few republicans to federal places in the South—not forgetting, also, to mix a little color into the deal. The canteen is a promoter of temperance in the army. It should be restored, notwithstanding the protests of a few reformers whose idea of personal liberty is for everybody to accept their notions as the highest wisdom. Senator McLaurin showed his strong belief in the old-time aphorism that "discretion is the better part of valor" by declining the court of claims judgship. He relieved himself and the President of an embaraseing conflict in the Senate and before the people. The Negro press was after McLaurin with a sharp stick, and threatened to make his "lily-white" soul very unhappy. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. AT NARRAGANSETT PIER Freezy Budget of a Week's Ro ing at the Beautiful City by the Sea - Views and Reviews. Narraganeett Pier, R. I., Special—The overcast skies and heavy fogs have alternated with each other in spreading bloom over the Pier for the entire past week. To awaken each morning and find the same heavy moisture overhanging the bay has so imbued the summer residents, that they show it in their half and expressions. The water reflects it, even the ships and birds sail along at a rate of speed which seems never to suggest hurry. Withal, there is a melancholic sublimity in this weather which appeals to all lovers of nature. To those sentimentally inclined, there is an abundance of just such scenery, and weather, as will put them at their best. A fair example of the weather's work which was picked up on the beach runs follows: "Sitting on the beach about ten yards from the water's edge just as that soft, stealing darkness tells one night is approaching, there is heard a dull thud, caused by the breakers, which are enveloped in an evanescent fog backed by an unsteady wind from the east. A pier which extends hundreds of feet in the ocean is seen in its entirety, at a second glance only the docking place is visible and that appears only as a spectre. The pier at the land end is wrapped in such a cloud as to entirely cut it off from view, giving the exposed part the appearance of an unfinished bridge the erection of which was commenced outwardly, rather than from the land end." An old structure which was once the counterpart of some old castle, now in ruins, is located by a few pale lights which flicker beyond it. Standing pillars which were strong enough to resist the inattainable desire of Vulcan appear as a line of soldiers, so erect are they—the flitting forms of mist, once making them invisible, again delicately exposing them to view only for an instant. This alternating scene producing such an illusion as to cause the pillars to appear as a company marching by fours. The horizon, seemingly within band reach now; then miles away, ships anchored in the harbor, alternately obscured and exposed by the heavy and lighter fog, seem to be speeding along at record-breaking time; breakers which to all appearance should crash upon the shore are lost to view, and blends off into the mist which hides them. Though this is a fair description of an evening here, better weather is promised by the forecaster. Within doors, especially at the various clubs, has there been many nights of pleasure. The literary last Wednesday night was largely attended. The program was entertaining from beginning to end. The question under debate elicited many opinions from the numerous speakers. "Resolv d, that the opportunity for business enterprise is greater in the South than in the North" was the subject, which was opened by Mr. White, who in an impressive stated many facts to support the which he selected to defend. ment among other speakers pro n were Messrs William Lee, of ard University; S Duke, of Har University; W. O Taylor, of Lin. University and Mr. C. I. Dorsey, Philadelphia College of Phar- rand concert was given by the pay its indebtedness. The program though good and lengthy was interesting at all times. Miss Ethel Thompson the only colored female student at Brown University recited in such a manner as would have done credit to a graduate elocutionist. 'Dick' Stovall and "Bill" Orme sarg tenor solos which brought the house down. Mrs. C. Keene and Mr. G. V dery with mandolin and guitar were heartily received as were Mrs. Keene and Mr. Chester Turley Mrs. Howard J. White of New York, won the favor of the audience by artistically rendering, 'Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder.' She was accompanied by Miss C. C. Saunders, of Baltimore. The professor at way in which Prof J W Mitchell accompanied the other singers bad much to do with the successful way in which the pieces were sung. To him much credit is due. Among others who added to the pleasure of the evening were Misses S. Williams, B. Brown, M. Boardley, A. Young, Kennedy, Bertha Taylor, Scott, Johnson, Messre, L. H Murray, W. Jefferson, R. Ford and Lucius Armstead. Mr. George Parker one of Balsam more's popular young men is here for the summer, after which he proposes to visit Boston. Mr. Parker has summered at the Pier since 1893 and is so well pleased that he intends coming again next season should nothing interfere. After a short trip northward and a stay of a few months at his home he intends to spend the winter at Palm Beach. Mr. Jere Juman, the popular tobaccoist at the corner of Rodman and Boon streets is always willing to do the right thing. On his counter is a little contrivance or receiving money for cigars, etc., Each nickel dropped in the slot causes the wheel to turn, and should the number up be a nine of five, the purchaser receives double his money's worth. This attractive feature so pleases all, that almost all the men frequent there to buy their good cigars and tobacco. Mothers William Fenderson and Charles Johnson of New Haven, are again here, being located at the Williams Cottage. Mr. Joseph Fischer who has heretofore been along with them on this trip, is now more happy, and we hope more bushy engaged. Since last here, he has taken unto himself a better half. Our best wishes Mr. J. E. Payne, of Washington, D. C., stopped over for a day last week as he was on his way to Providence, R. I., Roscoe C. Brown, who has been here some few weeks left Tuesday night to spend about a month with his uncle, Clinton C. Johnson, who is headwriter of the cafe at the Grand Union, Saratoga, N. Y. It is Mr. Brown's intention to visit a few of the places of interest about the surrounding country and stop in Pine adelphia for a short etsy before returning to Washington. Mr. Philip Daniels, the dean of Jackson Hotel, is one of the most popular men on the Pier. For ten years he has been in the famous Riggs family of Washington, and after his vacation here is to again resume his former position with them. Mr. and Mrs. William Recklin who are residents of the Pier, are still occupying the Recklin Cottage. Their beautiful family of bright eyed boys and girls is known and loved by all. Mr. Recklin has for years been the trusted man of the proprietor of the New Mathewson, the finest hotel here. Mr. Whittemore Certain is another well known club man who artfully knows how to tell a funny story. Since his stag here he has been offered a lucrative position in Iowa, and is now considering the advisability of accepting. New York and its many charms are dear to him, and it is certain that the inducements must be great to make him forego his winter there. Mr. Joseph R. Ellot, son of the famous advocate of the civil rights bill, Robert Brown Ellot, is at the Pier very often during the summer season, but only for a few days at a time. He is polished and thoroughly thorough. When he enters the Mathewson dining room each waiter is anxious to serve him, as it is a well known fact, that aee from Mr. Ellot is always forthcoming. Mr. Richard E. Washington, who left Washington on the 18th of June, surprised many of his old friends when he quietly married in New York Miss Mary P. S. evenson, formerly a Washington girl. It is their plan to remain in New York for the winter for the present only. Mr. Washington is at the Pier. It is hoped that his wife will help well the throng of young matrons who are so numerous as to form a secluded little circle of their own. Mrs. Archie Ray, accompanied by Miss Hattle Brown, arrived last week, and are enjoying life in a beautiful suite of rooms at the Pawnee Co tage overlooking the bay. Mr. Frank Matthews, whom the fellows considered a horse out of the race, has become very friendly with Mr. Ray since both ladies have arrived and is any amount of help, as he relieves Mr. Ray of having to escort both ladies, and then when we stop and consider, why shouldn't Frank be the fortunate fellow? Mr. Harry Pinner, who so horribly mangled his fingers between two cog wheels, is to have the bandages removed in a few days. It was at first thought he would lose two nails, but there is now a chance of him saving both of them. Nothing would so please the member of the Whist Club as a match play at duplicate whist between Messrs. L. F. Forbes and partner of New York and James Payne and partner of Washington. This season finds the Pier with a fairly well stocked library of its own. There is no charge for the use of books, and all are welcome. The playing of quoits has become quite a vogue within the last few weeks. There exists much rivalry between clubs as to where the best players are to be found. This of course will result in matches, which are sure to prove interesting. A favorite past time is to take a trip on a huckleberry hunt. These berries grow in abundance, so that after plucking berries for about an hour all pails are filled. Formerly the young ladies accompanied the gentlemen, but since two snakes have been killed on as many expeditions the young man have had to be satisfied with eating the rolly bolly the young ladies make with the berries collected. Mr. William Simms is a famous berry hunter, but since the ladies have been frightened off by snakes, he prefers to lounge around in a hammock or with a cigar in his mouth and a book in his hand to be propped up in a settee and there await the return of the hunters and berries. X. B. X. Highland Beach, Md., Notes. Mr. Roscoe Conkling Bruce, of Tuskegee, Ala., and Dr. Burrell of Cambridge, Mass., were guests at dinner, of Mr. Haley G. Douglas, last Sunday. As usual all the cottages were visited Sunday by large numbers from Baltimore. Washington, Annapolis, and Philadelphia. Water melon season is now on, and there are none better than Anne-Arun del County's melons. MEDICAL EXAMINER MEDICAL EXAMINER Of the U. S. Treasury Recommends Peruna. Dr. Llewellyn Jordan. Dr. Llewellyn Jordan, Medical Examiner of U. S. 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A free book written by Dr. Hartman, on the subject of catarrh in its different phases and stages, will be sent free to any address by The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio. The hop at the Tyson Cottage was the feature of the week. Mr. Nathaniel Guy and his charming sister are a host within themselves in furnishing high class literary entertainment at the beach this summer. They have taken a cottage for the season. The demand is for larger accommodations at this popular resort. A hotel of large dimensions is much needed. An electric railway is now under construction from Washington to Annapolis, to connect from these direct to the Beach. The bathing was never finer than now, and no sea-nettles so far this season. Major C. R. Donglass is reaping a rich harvest from his peach orchard. There is no "Jim Crow" system between Washington and Bay Ridge or Highland Beach. That statement was a mistake. The Colored American desires to secure the service of some man who has had experience in business especially that of collecting, to take charge of the circulation department of The Colored American. A commission or salary will be given to the right kind of man. One who can give bond preferred. Call and bring or send reference to 459 C street northwest, Washington, D.C. tf.