The Colored American

The COLORED American NATIONAL REGRO NEWSPAPER VOL.1X, NO.26. A TYPICAL NEW NEGRO A TYPICAL NEW NEGRO HON. J E BUSH. OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS. Receiver of Public Moneys Under Two Administrations-Silent of Complaint Against Hardships-An Acquisitive Temperament Yielding $40,000 in Material Substance. We have always maintained that in spite of its vicissitudes, its persecutions, and the dead weight of ignorance it has had to carry, the race in the great Southlang is our highest hope. We hear of times that try men's souls, we are taught the immense cleansing and purifying power of the fires of adversity, and it does indeed seem that we are already beginning to demonstrate the truth of both adages. The struggle for education and for material advancement is keen enough in the Nortn, but no such sacrifice of manhood, no such profound humiliation is required of the Northern Negro as is and has been the fortune and the fate of the Southern brother. A beneficent Providence has, however, given the race an indomitable will and an insatiable appetite for the higher things of life, and we are just simply going to have them, come weal or come woe. How many admirable examples have we already of the race's determination to elevate itself? There is hardly a city in the South in which there is not an embarrassment of riches in this regard. And they are not all preachers or teachers or politicians, even; please remember! In every industrial pursuit, in every economic cause they are numerous, and is it not true that whenever their work is compared with that of the white man in similar situation, the Southern Negro is holding his own with his white brother and is feeling no sense whatever of mechanical or intellectual inferiority. Where can we find a brighter example than that of Hon. J. E. Bush, of Little Rock, Arkansas? Here is a gentleman, still comparatively young, but who is an unqualified success. Born in Tennessee in 1856 and brought up in the State of Arkansas during the dark days of the war of 1851, he soon saw, "Who would be free, himself must strike the blow." With energy and self-reliance he acquired an excellent education, paying for his tuition by molding brick. His tongue has, however, always been silent of complaint against the hardships which attended his struggles upward and onward, and his true manliness soon won its reward. Almost immediately after completing his course, he was selected as principal of a school at Little Rock, Arkansas, and after a service of two years there, accepted a position of principal of the school at Hot Springs, in the same State. In 1875 he was induced to enter the U. S. railway mail service, and soon be- WASHINGTON, D.C., OCTOBER 18, 1902. came one of the most accurate and reliable clerks there, winning high commendation from the authorities and being fully indorsed for the position of chief clerk of the division in which he was serving by the entire Republican State Central Committee of Arkansas. Mr. Bush is now receiver of public moneys at Little Rock, Ark., having been appointed to that position by the late President McKinley in 1898 and re-appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt. But the service which Mr. Bush has rendered which has reflected the greatest credit on himself and been of greatest benefit to his people was the creation and thorough and successful organization of the Mosaic Templars of America," a beneficial organization whose ramifications now include ten States and two Territries, a membership in excess of 25,000, and which, since its organization in 1882 has paid out in death benefits more than $100,000. Mr. Bush is the Grand Scribe. Mr. Bush has also what we (to use an euphemism) may call the "acquisitive temperament," for we are reliably informed that he is a holder of real estate to the handsome tune of $40,000. Mr. Bush stands in our highest class as a convincing and magnetic orator, a forceful writer, a faithful and capable public servant, a man of affairs, and of the highest integrity. He represents the highest type of the new Negro, keeping pace with the progress and achievements of this restless age, and he stands as a splendid example for the emulation of aspiring youth. From the moment you engage in any business, says a writer in The Delineator for November, you must realize your responsibility. During business hours your time belongs to your employer. Every girl who enters business may as well understand that the ranks are crowded, the supply is greater than the demand, and that incompetent, inefficient, negligent workers are not wanted. Be interested in your work. Avoid complaining to yourself or to others about your work, or talking as if it were painsa grievance. Take pride in doing your work well whatever it may be. Remember that advancement comes to the painstaking, cheerful young woman who takes an interest in the business. Cultivate a cheerful alacrity, instead of a bored, languid, or, possibly, an antagonistic manner. A neat personal appearance and an appropriate style of dress are likewise important. PRICE, FIVE CENTS A KING OF COMMERCE COL. CHURCH RECIPIENT OF GRACIOUS HOMAGE. Representatives of Every Line of Racial Endeavor Testify Appreciation of a Man Whose Capital is Industry and Whose Character is an Inspiration that Uplifts-Judge Terell's Hospitality. A festal occasion that shall linger long in the memory of all who were present was the complimentary "stag" given in honor of Col. Robert R. Church, of Memphis, Tenn., by Judge Robert H. Terrell at the beautiful home of the latter, 326 T street northwest, on Friday evening of last week. Not a more representative assemblage of gentlemen of the negro race has ever been gathered together under any one roof in this land, the company typifying in its broadest sense the education, the wealth, the moral culture, and solid worth of our progressive people. That such a splendid aggregation of men who are engaged in a daily conflict with the stern activities of this age of keen competition to pause and bow in homage to one of their brethren who has wrung success from the vineyard is the highest of compliments to him who occupied the "center of the stage," and indicated as no other sign could so empatically have done the lofty esteem and deep regard in which Col. Church is held by the leaders of thought throughout the land. In that brilliant throng the statesman, jurist, lawyer, doctor, educator, journalist, author, banker, and general business man touched shoulders, and when their voices were lifted up in mellifluous speech the chord of praise for the masterly achievements and proud record of Col. Church as a man and citizen rang with perfect timfre. It was a fitting tribute to one who has pointed out in his own way, and proven by mathematical exactness, that energy is sufficient capital to make a business pay, and that unceasing industry is a motor that moves only upward. Just as other leaders are succeeding along lines worked out by their peculiar genius, Col. Church chose the business arena, and is among the first to understand that the prime requisite in the work of race building was to secure large holdings in the material things of life, that character and cash are "running mates," and that culture is the goddess that awaits them at the goal. Col. Church has done his full duty, and in the city of Memphis her people, irrespective of race, look to him for wise counsel, for substantial aid, and for inspiring example. His business enterprise there, his mammoth auditorium, his beautiful home, and his open purse for public benefit all stand as monuments to his high conception of the trust that has come to his hands. At the door on this auspicious evening each guest was greeted by Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, the gifted and gracious daughter of Col. Church. Her winning Continued on fourth page THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. SHREDS AND PATCHES 10 Mound Bayou, Miss., is a Negro town. Hon. A. P. Hood, its mayor, is the only Negro official of the kind in the country. He is about 30 years old, and succeeded Isaiah T. Montgomery, who founded the town and resigned the mayoralty after serving several terms, to become receiver of public moneys at Jackson. Mound Bayou is an object lesson of the Negro's capacity for self-government, and has 30 places of business in operation. The population is entirely colored. Loafers who drop in are shipped away, and as no liquor is sold, there is little need for the services of policemen. Bishop Arnett is in California. The rag carpet is coming back again. Colored men in the United States own 230 drug stores. Alexandria, Va., now has an Episcopalian mission church. A Baptist university has been established in Indianapolis, Ind. Booker T. Washington, Jr., aged 16 years, is a practical brick mason. Mrs. E. Lewis, of Chicago, has saved $25,000 in the hair-dressing business. Indianapolis does not bar married female teachers from its public schools. The Home Shoe Company, a colored enterprise, has opened for business in Baltimore. The Excelsior Grocery and Provision Company is a new enterprise inaugurated by Boston colored men. Zion pastors are endeavoring to raise funds to erect a monument to the late Bishop Singleton T. Jones. There are 200 Episcopal churches among the colored people, with about 13,000 regular communicants. Wilmot, Ark., is the home of the Walters Institute, a school named in honor of the distinguished Zion prelate. Brother Samuel W. Starks, of Charleston, W. Va., was married on the 27th ult. to Miss Lillian Madre, of Athens, Ohio. Rev. C. S. Brown was unanimously reelected president of the Lott Carey Foreign Missionary Society, at the meeting in Washington. Mr. R. J. Kyles, private secretary to Rev. W. L. Taylor, W. GM. of the Truly Reformers, has opened a school for instruction in typewriting and stenography in Richmond, Va. Washington's glutted market of teachers is being relieved by helping to supply talent for the schools of our sister city, Baltimore, and, surprising to relate, she doesn't like the invasion. Dr. W. M. Alexander has been made a life member of the Lott Carey Missionary Convention, as a reward for money raised for the support of the cause and faithful service to the convention. Rev. E. D. W. Jones, one of the ablest divines of the A. M. E. Zion church, has been transferred from Allegheny, Pa., after a long service, and placed in charge of Washington Chapel, St. Louis. Baltimore's "old cits" are up in arms over the aggressions of new arrivals, who threaten the social supremacy of these "unto the manor born." The interloper problem worries some folks in Washington, too. The Colored High and Training School at Baltimore has the largest enrollment in its history, there being over 250 now entered, with a prospect of an increase. Prof. Waring will be a busy man for awhile. The Negro linemen employed by the street car companies at Richmond, Va. have been discharged because the white linemen refused to continue if the Negros were permitted to work. To avoid a strike, the companies weakly yielded. Dr. D. J. Phillips is the first Negro physician in America to hold diplomas and degrees from the Royal College of Physicians of London and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He is a native of Jamaica, British West Indies, and practices in Philadelphia. Mr. J. E. Overton says that Rev. B. J. Bolding, pastor of the John Wesley A. M. E. Zion church, preached at the last conference of the Baltimore and Philadelphia conferences held at Harrisburg, and that it was the most scholarly sermon ever delivered before that august body. "Big Jim Parker" is telling the story of the McKinley assassination and the part he played in the tragedy to the people of New England, and is drawing large audiences. His appearance in Providence was especially noteworthy, the meeting being given a column in the Providence Journal. Miss Mary E. Brown wants to become an elder in the A. M. E. Zion church, but objection being raised to her at the recent Bishop's Council on several grounds, her application goes over until the next General Conference. It is doubtful if the churches care to increase the number of women elders. Prof. P. E. Robinson, of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, of Greensboro, N. C., is taking a course at the National Summer School of Agriculture in Columbus, Ohio. Only two Negro schools are represented at this graduate school, which is under the auspices of the Department of Agriculture and the Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges. THE FIERY SAGE ANSWERED Not In Superheated Language But Amply and Fully. At least one oleaginous rapscallion has his notice that he can not run amuck with the easy confidence of a "soldier of fortune," besmirching and attempting to besmirch the honorable characters of those who pay no attention to his fool's plaint and who thoroughly understand his clever (?) devices to secure recognition! The would-be sage and savant knows well that he can not hoodwink the deplised "youngster" whom he affects to stigmatize, no matter how hard he may try the game. He may "walk the boards" and, strutting with exaggerated notions of his puny importance, declaim, "I ne'er recant," yet recanting in a hurry, a la Cresceus hurry, when confronted with his bombastic literary progeny! That's the end of it. He knows it, and he knows full well that the aforesaid "youngster" knows it, too. This lightning-change artist would pose as a man of principle, changing his convictions after mature consideration. But he will not befog the issue. He is a lightning-change artist for pelf, an! mighty small pelf at that. It's this kind of thing that makes honorable men despise cheap, posturing, professing creatures like this one. He may beguile some with his "aseptic speech" and oily gentility, but his "youngster" knows him well and marks him as a fakir—one of the kind, like everyone of similar brand in the country—who lustily yells, "attend to your knitting," when his dark, mysterous, heathen Chinese tricks are uncovered! Ye youngster then has recourse to his own cheap artillery, and dismisses the manly (?) but peripatetic mud slinger with "an humble sneer." Selah! X. Y. Z. Weak Men Cured Free. 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A convention was the first National Convention of color-ss men ever held in this or any other country. Every business was represented: the farmer, the banker, the 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 one of business was represented: the farmer, the banker, the equator, the doctor, the lawyer, the manufacturer, the author, the merchant and rulers of municipalities. The addresses delivered and papers read are all in this book besides over fifty cuts of delegates and others, which makes it a valuable souvenir of the convention. BOUND IN CLOTH ONLY. PRICE, $1.00. 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The enactment of repressive laws in the South has been the cause of an almost ceaseless immigration in the last ten years. The states that con- tribute mostly to Chicago population are Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee. This dark stream from the south western states has reached the high water mark dur- ing the past summer. During the month of August thousands of colored people took advantage of the almost daily excursions from ditferent points in the South. It is estimated that between 3,000 and 5,000 colored strangers came to this city, and a large percentage of them sold their return tickets and decided to remain among us. The presence of a largely increased population is evidenced in a great many ways. In the first place, every- thing in the form of a home or shelter has been rented, and scores of people are now begging and praying for ke Br /, = = \ Sears S SS oe =} \ En SS SS a = ISON on . = U pee a ge Fie ’ Bi FZ ff NX 1 LZ i l@\ NX j ZB X\\ \ a FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS, places to live in. All the churches are crowded to suffocation and the police court attorneys are doing a thriving business in defending their clients against the charge of an exces- sive use of their newly found privil- eses of “life liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” especially the last named. One thing that is gratifying is that the problem of employment seems to settle itself more easily than any other question. These new comers seem to find work in the stock yards and in many other places where every day plain work is in need of plain workers. The sociologist and the politician are especially interested in this constant increase of “raw material” from the Southern States. It will not be long before the colored population will be larger than any other nationality, ex- cept the German and Irisk, in the city, and must be reckoned with. In the recent conference, held at the Institutional Church, to inquire into the condition of the colored people of Chicago, Prof. DuBois called attention to the growing importance of Chicago as the center of a very large Negro Population. Probably no city in this ‘ountry are the conditions so favor- able to the absorption of a Negro col- ony. The prejudices here are less fixed than in the Eastern cities, and polit- ical power of the people seems to be Tecognized in a way that is most help- ful. What have the colored people “one in Chicago to meet the conditions rowing out of this constantly increas- ing population of colored people? In the first place their spiritual welfare will be cared for by nine Methodist nd six Baptist churches, with numer- ous missions, one Presbyterian, one Episcopal, and one Catholic church. Their physical wants will. be attended ‘o by the best equipped hospital and training school in the country, one Old-Folks Home. For the encourage- ment of young professional men who Want a good chance to start in ‘life, it tay be stated that there are about 20 Dhysicians located here, a half dozen dentists and over 50 lawyers. The only insurance association man- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. 6. aged and controlled exclusively by col- ored people is The United Brotherhood, a fraternal insurance association orga- nized on the plan of ‘tne Royal Aréa- nuf and The Foresters. It is the only fraternal insurance having a charter based on the Massachusetts law gov- erning fraternal orders. On the direc- tory are found such names as J. C. Na- pier, of Nashville, Tenn.; John Davis, of Louisiana; Dr. Daniel H. Williams, S. Laing Williams, David C. Weir, J. S. Madden, J. R. Taylor, J. D. Smith and A. P. Perry, of Chicago, Il. The com- pany has been organized for three years and has earned the confidence of the community by the honesty and ef- ficiency of its management. It has promptly paid all its Mortuary and other liabilities, and has been highly commended by the insurance commis- sioner of the State for the business- like way in which its affairs have been conducted. This insurance association affords an excellent opportunity for young men and women of energy and ability to make of themselves some- thing in the business world. The charter of the order is national and the management is making ar- rangements to extend its benefits into other States beside Illinois. That the colored people are interested in insur- ance is shown by the interesting fact that in Richmond, Va., over 25,000 of the 40,000 Negro population are in- sured. With this ever enlarging Negro population in the Lake City, it will be possible to develop many kinds of Ne- gro enterprises. The number of smail merchants and shopkeepers is increas- ing. What is still of greater importance is the fine advantages offered by the mixed schools of Chicago . There are about 6,000 colored children now en- rolled in our city. schools, besides the opportunities for higher education af- forded by two of the greatest univer- sities in the northwest—the Chicago and the Northwestern. Notwith stand- ing all these advantages of large popu- lation, schools and culture, there is a pressing need of the co-operative spirit among the people. If the peo- ple of Chicago could use their larger liberties and civic privileges in a co- operative way, to the same extent that the people of Richmond and other | Southern cities have used their re- strictions, Chicago would soon become an example of the highest progress. FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS. Contemporary Views Dae CoLorep AMERICAN is independ- cut, fresh and fearless. It rings true upon the questions of the hour.—Baptist Reporter, Helena, Ark. DESERVES CREDIT. Tue Cororep American of the Dis- trict of Columbia deserves much credit tor the excellent picture of Prof. B. T Washington.—Western World. WHY, CERTAINLY! ‘2 2 Watchman thankfully accepts the com, .ments of Tue Co.orep AMERICAN for the portrait of Booker T. Washing- ton, which no doubt will be highly ap- preciated by all the American’s readers. —Travis Watchman. Austin, Texax. NEVERTHELESS AND NOTWITH- STANDING. The Negro press may criticise Editor Cooper of Tue Cotoren American. but he publishes the news and edits one otf the best papers that comes out of thr Capital City—Kentwcky Reporter, ANOTHER PROGRESSIVE MOVE. The supplement to THe Coxorep AMERICAN in the way of a beautiful en- graving of the distinguished Booker T. Washington is another progressive move in Negro journalism—Arkansas Appre- ciator. INTERNATIONAL IN SCOPE. Tue Cororep American, Washington, is the only Negro journal of its kind published. 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United Order of True Reformers An order devoted to the interests of its members, both in their home and business relations. We offer you an opportunity for gilt edged business investment, in enterprises owned and controlled by the Order and managed by colored men, who are members of the Order. If you are sound in health and mind, of good moral character, not younger than three (8) years nor older than sixty (60) you are eligible to membership. There are two Mountains, the Subordinate and the Rosebud. SUBORDINATE FOUNTAINS. To join the Subordinate Fountain you must be between 14 and 50 years of age. You pay $4.60 to $6.60 (according to age.) as joining fee. If you live in the country you pay 35 cents per month as dues; if in the city, 50 cents per months. You pay as taxes 80 cents per year. As Sick Benefits you receive from $6.00 to $9.00 per month, in weekly payments. As Death Benefit, your family receives $75 if you die within a year. After one year the Death Benefit is $125.00. In Class B, the age limit is 14 to 60 years. Fee, $2.50 to $4.25. Annual dues, $4.75 to $7.60. The certificate is valued first year at from $100 to $33 After one year, its value is $200 to $65. In Class E, the limit is 14 to 55 years. Fee, $5 to $6.50. Annual dues, $9.50 to 11.40. The certificate is valued first year at from $250 to $175. After one year its value is $500 to $300. In Class M, the age limit is 14 to 50 years. Fee $11 to $13.50. Annual dues $21 to $25. The certificate is valued from date of issue at from $1,000 to $700. You are entitled to a Life Membership in either of the Fountains or in Classe B and upon purchase of the required amount of Bank stock, which pays a dividend annually of 20 per cent. The Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers has paid up to July 29, 1900, a total of 3782 Death Benefits, with a grand total of $521,264.75, over a HALE MILLION DOLLARS. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts ..... $8,272 80 Other stock, bonds and mortgages ..... 164,423 83 Due from National Banks ..... 48,383 22 Banking House ..... 14,000 00 Other real estates ..... 99,588 00 Furniture and Fixtures ..... 6,850 00 Current expenses and taxes paid ..... 1,388 99 Specie, nickels and cents ..... 12,399 80 Paper currency ..... 85,820 00 Total ..... 391,120 84 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in ..... 88,125 00 Surplus fund ..... 80,957 81 Undivided profits ..... 6,826 80 Demand certificate of deposit ..... 96,786 29 Time certificates of deposit ..... 118,424 74 Total ..... 391,120 12 A MILD PROTEST. A Subscriber Commends The Editorial Stand of The Races Great st Newspaper. EDITOR COLORED AMERICAN: MY DEAR SIR: I wish to congratulate you upon your very able editorial of the 4th instant. You ask that all important question that should interest ten millions of this much persecuted race of ours, "Where does the President stand?" Then you went on to say, "At no time since the enfranchisement of the Negro has the race occupied so anomalous a position in the political equation as that in which we find ourselves in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and two," etc. etc. We notice, also, that the editor of The Star of Zion, Rev. J. W. Smith, D. D., is asking pointed questions along the same line. These are questions, gentlemen, that ten millions of souls, who are being persecuted seemingly because God saw fit to make their skin dark, would like very much to have answered. But there is another question, Mr. Editor, that you didn't ask, and it is just as much important to the race with which we are identified as the others, and that is, Where do the leading Negro politicians stand? Why are they so silent during this hour of trials and tribulations? Can it be possible that the love of big positions have caused them to forget their people, who are struggling for their rights as American citizens? But perhaps they, like the god of Baal, are asleep or gone off on a long journey. If there ever was a time when this race of ours stood in need of true leaders, it is to-day. Being driven about as we are to-day, God grant that the time be not far when the Republican party will find it necessary to ask the question, Where do the Negroes stand? The leading politicians of our race are largely responsible for a great deal of the abuse we are getting at the hands of our so-called Republican friends. Leaders who are too coward to lead in the hours of adversity, as well as when all is going well, should be relegated to the rear. "They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak. They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three." Your editorial, Mr. Editor, should be repeated in the next issue of your newsy journal. It should be echoed on the editorial page of every Negro newspaper in this country. You are right. It is time for the Negro editors to cease waiting around for "hush money" and begin telling the readers of their papers the true condition of things. And the editor or editors who would keep their people in the dark for the sake of a few dollars and cents deserve to be perished out of the business. We believe President Roosevelt is all right on the Negro question. Since the leading colored politicians who are holding big Federal jobs have not put themselves on record as being bitterly against disfranchisement and turning their brothers out of conventions, and since the said colored politicians are looked upon, by virtue of the aforesaid big Federal jobs, to be the special saviors of the entire Negro race, perhaps our good President has come to the conclusion that the race is satisfied, perfectly satisfied. These men have kept silent long enough, and they owe it to their people to let them know how they stand. Some of the colored newspapers are in the habit of telling everything about what this leading Negro or that leading Negro has done in the past. But they fail to turn on the light and say what they are doing to-day. It is not what they have done. We are not bothered about that. But the all-important question is, What are they doing to-day? Where do the colored politicians stand? J. C. CUNNINGHAM. Washington, D. C. Dongs at Danbury Danbury, Conn. (Special).—The longtalked-of Danbury fair has come and gone, and the city that has been excitement all the week has resumed its usual quiet. The Agricultural Society, the fakirs and exhibitors of fancy goods and bonded stock did not make all the money, for our people got a good share. Almost THE COLORED AMERICAN. everybody took roomers and lodgers. A great many tents were opened to entertain the strangers. Mrs. Gentry Butler, of North street, had fourteen at her house. Mr. Darnell, of White Plains, N. J., the only Negro shovel-maker in the United States, knows the trade from A to Z. Mr. Darnell, it will be remembered, is the man whose daughter was kidnapped some three years ago. He has been following the fairs in this county for a number of years, exhibiting and selling his shovels. He has devoted the last three years, however, in trying to find his child. He is a widower, his wife dying six yearsr ago. Mr. W. H. Green and family entertained Mrs. Frederick Thompson and Miss Bertha Brown, of Hartford, Conn., last week. Mrs. Thompson was en route from New Haven, where she had attended the B. M. C. Mrs. Thompson and Miss Brown made quite a trip to the different towns in the State and were royally entertained. They left for the capital city at 11 a. m. Monday. The Jenkins Concert Company played a week's engagement at the fair last week. They made a hit and quite a sum of money. Rev. Jenkins left the city in nigh spirits and says he will devote his attention exclusively to the fairs in all parts of the country. Since our last letter many things have transpired, but we have not had the space to note them. Miss Catherine M. Butler, who has been a cripple from her childhood, is to be congratulated for her pluck in finishing her education and securing her diploma. Although a cripple, she walked two miles to and from school each day, through summer and winter until her education was complete. Her perseverance has been rewarded by the citizens having Dr. H. F. Brownley, a leading physician and surgeon of Danbury, to make her an artificial limb at a cost of $100. Everything was done free of charge for Miss Butler. Judge Scott will see to it that she gets a position as teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Richard White and daughter, of Bridgeport, Conn., attended the fair. They were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, of Beaver street. Mr. and Mrs. Peterson, of Redding, Conn. Mr. Wilbur Wheeler, of New Haven; Mrs. Lulu Freeman, of New Milford, and Walter Jones and Frank Steadwell, of Bridgeport, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robinson, of Beaver street, during fair week. Mrs. B. Bolding, of Redding, Conn., and Mrs. Mary Steel, of Ridgefield, Conn., attended the fair. Mrs. Nannie Marshall, of Bridgeport, Conn., was the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. Miss Mary Johnson is in the city, the guest of her parents. Miss Lulu Smith, of White Plains, is the guest of Mrs. Fort. Mr. Eddie Riley, of Bridgeport, was the guest of Mrs. Gibson, his mother. Revival will commence in the A. M. E. Zion church next Sunday. Mrs. Nannie . . Taylor, of Hartford, Conn., will assist the pastor in the services. HIS ROYAL HIGBNESS. The Crown Prince Will Hold Three Receptions for The Colored People of Washington. His Royal Highness, Prince Herrman, Crown Prince of the Realm of Secret Science, present Emperor of the Kingdom of Mystery, and his entire court, including His Eminence, Duke Burnam, Prime Minister of Universal Ventriloquism, will receive at Third Baptist Church, Rev, James Less, pastor, the night of Wednesday, October 22; Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, Rev. George W. Lee, D. D., pastor, the night of Friday, October 24; and Mount Zion M. E. Church, Georgetown, Rev. W. H. Gains, pastor, the night of Monday, October 20. Menu: Elocution, ventriloquism, impersonations, magic, mental telegraphy, fun and happiness. Your name has been pressed with the royal signet; you are invited. Passport, 15 cents United States currency; children under 12 years, one American dime. Come, sit on the bright side of life and bask in the blazing sunlight of joy, for a smile is better than a tear, and one good laugh much better than a thousand groans or a barrell of frowns. Mr. L. C. Moore has been elected president of the Lyceum of the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, Fourth and L streets northwest. Meetings are held every Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock To join the Rosebud Fountain you must be between 8 and 14 year of age. You pay $1.00, either cash or by installments. The monthly dues are either 15 or 25 cent, as Fountains may decide. The annual tax is 10 cents. You receive as Sick Benefit from $1.50 to $4.00 per month in weekly payments. As Death Benefit, your family will be paid $24.50 you die with a year. After one year the Death Benefit is $37. In INSURANCE DEPARTMENT, there are Three Class B, Class E, and Class M. All dues pay annually or quarterly. In Class B, the age limit is 14 to 60 years, $4.75 to $7.60. T Certificate is valid After one year, its value $200 to $65. In Class E, the limit is 14 to 55 years $9.50 to 11.40. The certificate is valued first one year its value $500 to $300. In Class M, age limit is 14 to 50 years $21 to $25. T Certificate is valued from day You are entitled to a Life Membership Classe B and E upon purchase of the requis pays a dividend annually of 20 per cent. The Grand Fountain United Order of T 29, 1900, a total of 3782 Death Benefits, with HALF MILLION DOLLARS. THE BANK.—In our Savings Bank the Order has a sound and flourishing institution that is a credit not only to the Order but the race as well. It began business April 3, 1889. The capital stock is $100,000. The business is the same as that of any other regularly constituted bank, and is surrounded by the same safeguards. The stock sells for $5.00 a share to RESOURCES. Loans and discounts ..... $8,272 80 Other stock, bonds and mortgages ..... 164,423 83 Due from National Banks ..... 48,383 22 Banking House ..... 14,000 00 Other real estates ..... 99,588 00 Furniture and Fixtures ..... 6,850 00 Current expenses and taxes paid ..... 1,388 99 Specie, nickels and cents ..... 12,399 80 Paper currency ..... 35,820 00 Total ..... 391,120 84 The Reformer's Grocery and Feed Store in Richmond, Va., and members of the Order, 20 per cent. on the cost of food products. The Reformer is the newspaper public office in Richmond, Va. It stands for the vo operation and combination of the race and the General Messenger and the General Agent per year. A well-equipped job office bids turned out in first class style and at low price. Six miles from Richmond, in Henrico O 634 acres of land, and established thereon are exampled liberality and broad-minded genrance to this home to its members alone, no doors are opened to the aged and decrepid or residence or connections. The Order makes charity, and calls upon the whole people, be and West to assist by their contribution the idea. April 3rd of each year is set apart as a Contributive is can be forwarded to the casin who will send receipt for same and account. Members of the Order and the public, we invited to stop at The Hotel Reformer, 900 N and desirable location. Service is of the best. The Real Estate Department manages the Ordeer. The Order now owns 13 buildings with a fee simple value of $122,500. Ir adde buildings. members, and pays 20 per cent. dividends. Both time and demand deposits are received and 4 per cent. interest is paid on time deposits. The following is a copy of the Cashier's report to Auditor of Public Accounts of Virginia at close of business Sept.. 5. 1900 and shows its flourishing condition;— The Reformer's Grocery and Feed Store is located at 501 North Sixth St. Richmond, Va., and members of the Order and the public generally are saved 20 per cent. on the cost of food products. THE REFORMER is the newspaper published by the order from its own office in Richmond, Va. It stands for the voice of the people, representing cooperation and combination of the race and is the Beacon Light, the Headlight, the General Messenger and the General Agent of the Brotherhood. It is $1.00 per year. A well-equipped job office bids for the work of the people, which is turned out in first class style and at low prices. Six miles from Richmond, in Henrico County, Va., the Order has purchased 634 acres of land, and established thereon an "Old Folk's Home." With unexampled liberality and broad-minded generosity, the Order does not limit entrance to this home to its members alone, nor even to members families, but the doors are opened to the aged and decrepid of the whole race, regardless of their residence or connections. The Order makes itself the trustee for this glorious charity, and calls upon the whole people, black and white, North, East, South and West to assist by their contribution the carrying out of this praiseworthy idea. April 3rd of each year is set apart as a Grend Rally Day for the Home Contributive is can be forwarded to the casnier of the Reformer's Savings Bank who will send receipt for same and account for it to The Grand Fountain. Members of the Order and the public, when visiting Richmond, Va., are invited to stop at The Hotel Reformer, 900 North Sixth St. It is in a pleasant and desirable location. Service is of the best and rates are reasonable. The Real Estate Department manages and controls all property interests of the Ordeer. The Order now owns 13 buildings, 4 farms, 4 dwellings, 1 ho with a fee simple value of $122,500. In addition to these the Order leases buildings. For any further information, address. --- Saint Thomas MORRIS TOWNS 4m. LTAYLCB.W. M. MASTER ROSEBUD FOUNTAINS. Rosebud Fountain your age. You pay $1.00, one monthly dues are either pay decide. The annual trick Benefit from $1.50 to grants. Benefit, your family will pay year. After one year. GRANCE DEPARTMENT, the B, Class E, and Class A may or quarterly. 60 years. Fee, $2.50 its valued first year at 5 years. Fee, $5 to $6.00 first year at from $2 5 years. Fee $11 to $13 from date of issue at from membership in either of the two required amounts of B. of True Reformers have with a grand total of 0. Your Savings Bank the institution that is a credit institution. It began business AOOC. The business is the constituted bank, and AOO. The stock sells for funds. Both time and paid on time despository auditor of Public Accounts its flourishing condition. LIABILITIES Capital stock paid in Surplus fund ..... Undivided profits..... Demand certificate posit..... Time certificates of ..... Total..... Fountain you must be between you pay $1.00, either cash or by easily dues are either 15 or 25 cent. The annual tax is 10 cents, dit from $1.50 to $4.00 per month. Your family will be paid $24.50 after one year the Death Benefit. DEPARTMENT, there are Three E. and Class M. All dues laterly. Fee, $2.50 to $4.25. Annual first year at from $100 to $33. Fee, $5 to $6.50. Annual dues, at from $250 to $175. After Fee $11 to $13.50. Annual dues of issue at from $1,000 to $700. either of the Fountains or in amount of Bank stock, which Reformers has paid up to July grand total of $521,264.75, over a Bags Bank the Order has a sound that is a credit not only to the Orgian business April 3, 1889. The business is the same as that of old bank, and is surrounded by stock sells for $5.00 a share to both time and demand deposits time desposits. The following are Public Accounts of Virginia as nourishing condition;— LIABILITIES. Stock paid in ..... 88,125 00 Fund ..... 80,957 81 Deded profits ..... 6,826 80 Certificate of de- certificates of deposit 118,424 74 Total ..... 391,120 Located at 501 North Sixth St. the public generally are saved by the order from its own of the people, representing coe Beacon Light, the Headlight, of the Brotherhood. It is $1.00 the work of the people, which is city, Va., the Order has purchased Old Folk's Home.' With uny, the Order does not limit enmen to members families, but the whole race, regardless of their self the trustee for this glorious white, North, East, South, crying out of this praiseworthy Rally Day for the Home of the Reformer's Savings Bank, to The Grand Fountain. Visiting Richmond, Va., and Sixth St. It is in a pleasant and rates are reasonable. Controls all property interests of 4 farms, 4 dwellings, 1 hoo in to these the Order leases WP BURKELL, G. W. Secreta --- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. Consumption Now Curable. By the Famous Doctor Yonkerman's Marvellous Discovery—State Officials and Great Medical Men Pronounce it the only Cure for Consumption, Throat and Lung Troubles. A free trial package will be sent by Mail to all who write. Consumption can at last be cured. Marvelous it may seem after the many failures, a sure J. DR: DERK P. YONKERMAN positive and certain cure for the deadly consumption has at last been discovered. Cases given up to die and sent back from 'alifornia hopeless and helpless, are now alive and well through this wonderful cure for consumption Free trial packages of the remedv and letterts from grateful people—former consumptives recued from the very jaws of death are sent free to all who write to Dr Derk P. Yonkerman, 638 Shakespeare Building, Kalamazoo, Mich Don't dey—there is not an hour to lose when you have consumption, throat or lung trouble. Send to-day for Free package. LIEUT; B. O. DAVIS HERE. First Colored Man to Win a Commission in Regular Army. L eut. Benjamin O. Davis, 10th Cavalry, who has the distinction of being the first colored man to rise from the ranks to a commission in the UNV LIEUT, BENJ. O. DAVIS. regular army, is now on a visit to his parents in this city after prolonged and efficient service in Cuba and the Philippines. Lieut. Davis was born in this city and received his education in the public schools. He was a member of the Colored High School cadet battalion, and served as first lieutenant of the 8th United States Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish war. He afterward enlisted as a private in the 9th Cavalry, and in February, 1901, he was appointed second lieutenant of the 10.h Cavalry. Prof. J. Herman Moore will give one of his masterly entertainments at Metropolitan A. M. E. church, M street, between 15th and 16th streets, Thursday night, October 23rd, Rev. D. G. Hill, the pastor, invites the pub ie and friends to come out. Regret Over Birmingham Disaster Expressed to Mrs. Lawson - Some Corrections Editor Colored Americah: Dear Sir— In your issue of October 4, 1902, under heading "Baptists of the World," is stated the following: The recommendations of Mrs. Julia Mason Layton were of a most practical nature and will go far towards strengthening the work so recently undertaken by the Baptist women. The writer had reference to Mrs. S. Willie Layten, of Philadelphia, president of the Woman's Convention, and not to Mrs. Julia Mason Layton, of this city. Mrs. Julia Mason Layton did not attend the Birmingham Convention, nor were any recommendations from her presented to the convention. Mrs. Layten, of Philadelphia, writes her name Layten not Layton. Please make these corrections in your next is sue in justice to all parties concerned. Very respectfully, BERTHA L. LAWSON, President Baptist Women's Missionary and Educational Society. To the President of the United States: To the President of the United States: Dear Sir:I have been appointed by Mrs. S. W. Layten, President of the Baptist Women's Convention, Auxiliary to the National Baptist Convention, and which holds its sessions annually at the M. B. same time and place, to convey to you the following expression of appreciation by the unanimous vote of that body in convention assembled at Birmingham, Ala., Sunday, Sept. 21, 1002, for the kind and friendly interest manifested through your telegram concerning the awful calamity which befell our meeting at Birmingham, on the 19th inst. immediately following the address before the joint body, by Prof. Booker T. Washington: "Having been touched by the brotherly interest expressed by the Chief Magistrate of this Nation in his message of sympathy concerning the awful calamity which happened at this meeting a few evenings ago. Be it resolved that a letter expressive of our thanks and appreciation be sent by this convention to Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, through a committee appointed by the President of this Woman's Convention." Respectfully submitted, MRS. JESSE LAWSON, Committee. The reply. Dear Madam:—I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 24th inst., and to thank you in the President's behalf for writing. The expression of the convention which so kindly bring to the President's attention is gratifying to and thoroughly appreciated by him. Very sincerely yours. Very sincerely yours. GEO. B. CORTELYOU, Sec. to the President. Mrs. Jesse Lawson, 2011 Vermont avenue, Washington D. C. Wilmot, Arkansas, is the home of the Walters Institute, a school named in honor of the distinguished Zion pre- Bright BOYS AND GIRLS Wanted ell The Colored American. Big Pay for Little Work. COLORED AMERICAN has had so many appplication from girls throughout the country to sell it by the week, 's by subscription for the year, we have decided to establish like young agents in every town in the country, wherever and warrants it. THE COLORED AMERICAN has had so many appplication from boys and girls throughout the country to sell it by the week, as well as by subscription for the year, we have decided to establish wide awake young agents in every town in the country, wherever the demand warrants it. We want an Active worker us of smart boys and girls in every locality have 'several are time each week, which they could use to good advan easily earn their pocket money: Hundreds of smart boys and girls in every locality have 'several hours' spare time each week, which they could use to good advantage and easily earn their pocket money; just such ones to work for us a little] while every week THE COLORED AMERICAN at 5 cents each—selling the table, original and best race paper published—full of rela tions, illustrations, and authoritative opinion on race topics, We want just such ones to work for us a little] while every week selling THE COLORED AMERICAN at 5 cents each—selling the old, reliable, original and best race paper published—full of reliable news, illustrations, and authoritative opinion on race topics. Agents take no possible risk, We send a bundle every week, and they sell them like hot cakes at 5 cents every one wants THE COLORED AMERICAN as soon as opportunity to examine and read a copy of it. Our young Agents take no possible risk, We send a bundle of papers every week, and they sell them like hot cakes at 5 cents each. Every one wants THE COLORED AMERICAN as soon as given an opportunity to examine and read a copy of it. The Colored American Free. final pastor or any responsible party will send us the name of boy or girl to sell THE COLORED AMERICAN even in this town, we will put an extra copy in the agent's bundles, to be delivered free to the party appointing the agent, as the agent sells THE COLORED AMERICAN. Send us the smart girl or boy at once. Have them fill out the form and send it at once: 19 We agree to act from date as agent for The Colored American and the same to as many customer as can be secured, at 5 cents a copy every day and that I will report not later than the Monday after each package is delivered, and remit 3 cents for each copy I sell or deliver to subscribers, and all unsold copies. Name... If the local pastor or any responsible party will send us the name of a smart boy or girl to sell THE COLORED AMERICAN every week in his town, we will put an extra copy in the agent's bundle each week, to be delivered free to the party appointing the agent so long as the agent sells THE COLORED AMERICAN. Send us the name of a smart girl or boy at once. 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[bis preparauion Cau be vbtalucd at Siug etoa's Poarmacy Vor 20th and E sireets, Nurcnwesi, W asmiigtou D. \ “ee Recognizing the fact that there are many SO-CALLED hair-growers and hair-straighteners now on the market, and knowing to a certainty that ey of these are frauds pure and simple, we wish to make a straight-forward, honest statement to the colored race through this great paper. In the year 1871 our late secretary, Mrs. S. M. Moore, through a fortunate circumstance, acquired the receipt for OZONO. It was not offered for sale or purchase to any extent until 1875, when it was put upon the market and met with marked success.Q After a thorough test by the colored ere of that time it was pronounced an honest, legitimate remedy, true-to all that was claimed for it, and worthy in every respect of the confidence of every member of the colored race, because they found it to cause the hair to grow long and straight, soft and fine, and as beautiful as an April morning. Now, whenever a genuine article appears upon the mar:.et there are always a number of people who imit- and make capital out of the merits of oiber people’s goods. Seeing ot .tked success, nv~erous firms have entered the market, offering hair-g._ ors and hair-straizgiteners, many of which are worthless, causing the hair to fall out and doing great damage to the hair and scalp, and the colored people are pian , these spurious compounds, which are filled with animal fats, and do the hair more harm than good. To these let us sound a warring—be careful what you useon yourhair. Do not be deceived by flaring advertisements and big words. Buy the King of all Hair Tonics, | OZONOD. WS which is sold with an iron-clad guarantee to do all that is claimed for it, or we will forfeit $50.00. Now, we ask youa plain question—-would we abso- a. lutely agree to forfeit $50.00if -ou are dissatisfied with our preparations, GN if they were not true to all we claim for them? We have advertised for several years under this guarantee, and we are glad to say that every one “ who has used Ozono has been satisfied in every respect. res 20,000 people are to-day using our preparations, and every purchaser recommends Ozono as the King of all Hair Tonics. Ozono will positively a take the Kinks out of Knotty, Einky, Harsh, Curly, Refractory, Trouble- kyssome Hair. It will make short, harsh hair long and straight. It will cure your head of all itching, worrying scalp diseases. Itch, Eczema, Dandruff, 4. and Scurf can not live after Ozono has been applied. It will stop your hair f§S from falling out. It will restore gray hair to its natural color, making the hair long and soft. an Now, right here, let us make a statement. Many firms are advertising fg remedies to straighten hair, but when okey, send the preparation they tell aS to use hot irons. Friends, do not use hot irons; they will burn up the 4 life of the hair, and se it to drop out. Ozono straightens without any f§N outside assistance. Roce bat Ozono is necessary, and the hair stays straight forever. You can stop the use at any time. The good effects on 4, the hair are seen in a day or two after the first application. nes The price of Ozono is 50c. a bottle—4 boxés do the work. We make this liberal offer, which is good at any time: Cut out this coupon and send gy, to us, enclosing with it the sum of Ono Dollar, and we will forward to you f§*four large boxes of Ozono and one large bottle of Electrical Skin Refiner, which makes black skin bright, rough skin soft and pliant, and cures all . skin diseases. Also sempoves all facial imperfections, and actually removes F§% smail-pox pits. We will also include one fancy jar of our Electrical Skin Food—Nature’s great beautifier—removes wrinkles, moth patches, freckles, gi aud all facial blemishes; makes the old look young and the young look .98 younger. ‘ © We will also include one package of our celebrated Scalp Soap, which is ab xlutely CHEMICALLY PURE, and no soap but a pure soap should ever 2% Se WW W.-W W.-W... -e.-e-e -ee e-eee e e, | It is remarkable that the coarsest ex- pressions bordering on nrofanity, to be found in any ot our exchanges, are in the church organs.—Haltimore Lancet. “The Man-on the-Corner,” in the Col- ored American, is being discussed all over the city. His pertinent paragraphs, spicy shots and humorous hits have endeared him to literary Washington and his criticisms are caustic and search- ing—W. T. Menard in New York Age. “LADY OF THE TIGKR” AGAIN. is i4 DISCORD IN CHURCH ORGANS. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. o- Director Merriam says ae is not re- sponsible for the dismissal of Negro clerks, as the clerks for permanent re- tention were named ov the Senators and Congressmen. Now, are the Negroes in the North, East and West going to voie for Congressmen, this fall ?—St. Lake’s Herald. | LE’S FICHT THE COMMON FENEWY | Harry Smith of the Cleveland Ga- zette has declared a never-ending war on E. E. Cooper, of the Washington Colored American. Smith has made out against Mr. Cooper a case of crooked- be used onthe scalp. And, lastly, to prove our liberality, we will put in a pint #\ package of Anti-Odor, a positive cure for Sore Throat or Mouth, all forms of J Womb Diseases, Ch,!blains, Sore and Frosted Feet; also removes all @MN smells and odors arising from the human body, such as feet, arm pits, etc. The actnal value of this Grand Aggregation is $4.00, but we let you 4h have it for $1.00, simply to introduce honest goods. 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For grace and ease of diction, bearing the reader right on as glides the canoe on smooth waters, neither halting nor hesitating when they become troubled or boisterous. Unflagging interest attends each page. First, the writer has something to tell that people want to hear. It deals with a period of most vital interest in the history of our country and people. It is told in a courageous and masterful manner, never obtrusive, for although strong, classical without the thought or study of the author. It is more concise and laconic than plain, ordinary language ever is, containing much in little. Running all through the pages are bits of instruction, which, although addressed to the colored race, may be of benefit to all. There are here and there bits of philosophy that not only vie with, but outstrip Hugo's best efforts. Simply as history, truthful, fair and unprejudiced, the work is worth many times its price. Containing all these and many more praiseworthy qualities, the work must meet with a large sale.—Little Rock Advertiser. As a globe trotter—almost the Ulysses of the Negro race. The book is unpretentious, relating personal experiences in Philadelphia British Columbia, Florida, California, England, Paris, Arabia, Arkansas and Madagascar. Narrated with a fidelity and picturesqueness which makes it interesting from start to finish. Valuable in an educational sense, eminent men with whom the author has been associated, and historical events in which he has taken part. A creditable contribution to current literature.—Pine Bluff Daily Commercial. The book will strongly appeal to all interested in the history and welfare of the race in America.—Washington Post Washington, D. C. We are particularly glad to welcome this most entertaining volume of history, travel and observation, for Judge Gibbs has written it in a delightfully refreshing vein that will attract the attention and hold it to the end. It is an entrancing as any book of travel ever written.—Ark. Democrat. I am a little pessimistic as to Negro authors and books. But the way you treat an old subject is fascinating. I have spoken of it to my congregation. Rev. Dr. L. S. Flagg, Washington, D. C. Judge Gibbs, the leading colored citizen, is an entertaining writer, and a man of varied experience. The volume is embellished with many portraits of distinguished individuals who are subjects of the author's fruitful pen. There is not a dull page in the book. Arkansas Gazette. A story ostensibly of himself, but that involves a large number of the leading men and events of the nation for many years past. It is history and biography entertwined and reads like a romance. 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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. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. 16 The rag carpet is coming back again. From Jacksonville, Fla., Lawyer J. Douglass Wetmore. From Boston, Messrs. Charles Richardson and William Hare. Miss Beatrice Duncan is the guest of Miss Love, on 17th street. Mrs. Kemp, of New York, is stopping with Miss Nina Pinchback. Miss Eva Cheek, of Detroit, is with Mrs. Douglass on 14th street. Miss Haddie Jackson, of Pittsburg, is with Miss Shepperd, on Connecticut avenue. Miss Gussie Hawley, of Bridgeport, Conn., is with Mrs. Wilkinson on P street. Miss Lulu Forester, of Richmond, is in the city, the guest of her cousin, Miss Alice Forester. From New York are Messrs. Howard Braxton, Erskine Bell, Jack Nail, Robert Willis, and Charles Day. Mrs. Maggie G. Eagles, of Wilmington, N. C., is in the city for a few days. She is stopping on I street N. W. Mr. W. H. Reeves, of Atlanta, Ga., who is connected with the Railway Mail Service, was in the city last week. Miss Maud Trotter, of Boston, is a delegate from Boston with the Daughters of the Veterans at the headquarters on 9th street. The visitors of the recent encampment are returning to their respective homes and the city is getting back to its normal condition again. Bishop R. S. Williams, of the C. M. E. Church, spent a few days in the city this week. The bishop is not only scholarly and eloquent but a very handsome man. Mrs. Jennie Watson, of Cincinnati, O., is the guest of Mrs. Syphax, on 10th St. N. W. Mrs. Watson has many friends in this city who are making her stay a most pleasant one. Col. James Lewis, Surveyor of Port, New Orleans, accompanied by his wife, was a visitor in this city during the encampment. He was royally entertained by his legion of friends. A delegation consisting of Mrs. Carrie Banister, Messrs. Richard Allen and Wm. Pogue and Miss Maggie Pogue, a teacher of Finecastle, Va., were pleasant visitors to our sanctum this week. Col. J. H. Deveaux, collector of customs at Savannah, Ga., is a guest at The Southern Hotel. Col. Deveaux is one of Georgia's Big Four and is always a welcome visitor to the nation's capital. Miss Mittie Hankinns, one of the progressive women of Cleveland, Ohio, is in the city and is receiving a large measure of attention under the wing of her friend, Mrs. P. Lovett, of Seventeenth street. The Southern Hotel, at 311 Pennsylvania avenue N. W., did a lion's share of the business during the recent encampment. It is said that more than 500 meals were served each day for three days during the encampment. Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay-Davis, of Chicago, who has spent her vacation in the Last, is in the city, the guest of Miss Laura Joiner. She is the national organizer of the National Association of Colored Women, and is adding great strength to the work. She leaves to-day for her nome in Chicago. The S. Coleridge-Taylor Choral Society will hold its first rehearsal for the season next Tuesday evening at Lincoln Memorial Church, Eleventh and R streets. The Chorus will resume work upon "Hiawatha," Mr. Coleridge-Taylor's masterpiece, under the able leadership of Prof. John T. Layton and a corps of able assistants. Among the encampment visitors to the city were Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Stewart, Lansing, Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. George Johnson and Mrs. Brown, Coatesville, Pa.; Mrs. Themie Jones and Miss Tena Butler, Washington, Pa.; Mr. Geo. L. 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We prepay all freight charges. Illustrated CO. Chesman Bl0'g, St Louis, Mo. We can personally assure our readers that the S worthy—Editor) ments of all kinds and many other premiums for selling SALVONA SOAP 15 days to deliver goods and collect for them. We give cash commission if desired No money re- quired. We prepay all freight charges Illustrated catalogue free. Write to-day, SALVONA SOAP O. Chowgou BLQG, St. Louis, Mo. CO, Cheesman BLDg, St L061s, Mt We can personally assure our readers that the Salvona Soap Co., is thoroughly reliable and trusted (Better). Contemporary Views Contemporary Views THE COLORED AMERICAN is independent, fresh and fearless. It rings true upon the questions of the hour.—Baptist Reporter, Helena, Ark. THE COLORED AMERICAN of the District of Columbia deserves much credit for the excellent picture of Prof. B. T Washington.—Western World. WHY. CERTAINLY! Watchman thankfully accepts the comments of THE COLORED AMERICAN for the portrait of Booker T. Washington, which no doubt will be highly appreciated by all the AMERICAN's readers Travis Watchman. Austin, Texax. NEVERTHELESS AND NOTWITH STANDING. The Negro press may criticise Editor Cooper of THE COLORED AMERICAN, but he publishes the news and edits one of the best papers that comes out of the Capital City.—Kentucky Reporter. A Paragraph or Two. Mrs. Ida P. Belcher, of 1316 $ _{4} $ 4th street, northwest, after having spent nearly month in Atlanta and Augusta, Ga. and other parts of the state visiting relatives and friends has returned to the city much improved by her trlp. Mr. W. W. Taylor, who has been associated with Mr. C. L. Marshall of the True Reformers' Grocery in this city for the past year or two has been promoted to the superintendency of the Mercantile Department of the G. U. O. of True Reformers. He will have charge of the various stores scattered over the United States controlled by this great institution. Mr. Taylor is the protege of Mr. C. 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When you go the color you wish, stop using the preparation. THE HAIR STRAIGHTENER that goes in every one dollar box is enough to make anyone's hair grow long and straight, and keeps it from falling out. Highly perfumed and makes the hair soft and easy to comb. Many of our customers say one of our dollar boxes worth ten dollars, yet we sell it for one dollar a box. THE NO-SMELL thrown in free. Any person sending us one dollar in a letter or Post-Office money order, express money order or registered letter, we will send it through the mail postage prepaid; or if you want it sent C. O. D., it will come by express, 25c. extra. In any case where it fails to do what we claim we will return the money or send a box free of charge. Packed so that no one will know contents except receiver. CRANE AND CO., 122 west Broad Street, RICHMOND, Va. Gasoline and Oil Stoves. Mr. Peter Grogan, the veteran furniture dealer at 89823 7th street, n. w., carries a full line of the latest patterns in house furnishings. What attracted the writer's attention most, however, was the great number and variety of oil and gasoline stoves. These stoves come in all patterns and range in prices from $4 up. Mr. Grogan can supply all Washington with the best and cheapest stoves. The first who comes gets the first pick 2 A LEADER OF MEN. The Career of Hon. George A. Pearre Who Represents a Populous District—The Friend and Champion of The Negro. The date in November set for the Congressional elections is fast approaching, and, while The Colored American is watching with the warmest sympathy the outcome throughout the country, its keenest interest is centered in the Sixth Maryland District which immediately adjoins the District of Columbia and where the Republicans have exhibited the best political sense by renominating Hon. George Alexander Pearre. This district and the District of Columbia have many things in common, political, domestic, and economic. This would alone be sufficient to account for our interest in the present contest, but it is livelier, and indeed enthusiastic, when we consider the many high qualities which fit Mr. Pearre for the office, and justify his selection for the suffrage of its voters. Mr. Pearre was born in Maryland and descends from good old Republican stock. After a thorough university training he took up the study of law, in which he has been a conspicuous success. He has been in political life, though intermittently since 1890 when he was elected to the State senate. He served in this body until 1894 with much brilliancy and industry. In 1895 he made a most phenominal and successful canvass on the Republican ticket for prosecuting attorney of his native country, and continued in that office until his election in 1898 to Congress. Such was his personal popularity and the confidence reposed in him by the voters of the Sixth District that in this contest, for the first time in its history, Mr. Pearre carried every single county in the district and "won out" by the handsome plurality of 4,506. He carried the district a second time, upon his renomination to the Fifty-seventh Congress, this time by a handsome majority. He is again his party's nominee, and The Colored American tenders to him and to the district its earnest wish for his success. His candidacy appeals with peculiar force to the Negro vote in the Sixth District. We are at the seat of government and, as it were, on the watch tower looking for our race's enemies Mr. Pearre is not among them. He is our tried and true friend. He has stood by us loyally and faithfully, and it is always a pleasure to command the faithful servant. There may be a few disgruntled would-be Negro politicians living in Washington who have no vote in Maryland or anywhere else and who have not been able to use Mr. Pearre for their selfish and unworthy purposes, but they have produced no effect upon the canvass except to rally to his support every truth loving and self respecting Negro Mr. Pearre is superbly equipped as a profound lawyer and as an experienced legislator. He is a high toned, high principled gentleman, and when we add his fine character and his esay accessibility he is the ideal candidate. He will win, hands down. The most influential and representative men in the Sixth Maryland District, among them Senator McComas, Mr. Thomas C. Noyes, and Hon. Ashley M. Gould, United States District Attorney, are Mr. Pearre's enthusiastic supporters Every worthy colored man from his district who has sought Mr. Pearre's political influence and has come to him with the proper credentials showing character and capacity has found in him an immediate and a zealous friend, and he is for a man only because of capacity and character. NEWMAN ITHDRAWS. Declines to Continue Canvass Against Pearre in The Sixth District Rev. Henry Newman, who for some time has figured as the candidate for Congress of a certain Negro faction in the Sixth Maryland Congressional District in opposition to Representative THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. J. F. Towne HON. GEORGE A. PEARRE Republican nominee for Congress from the 6th Maryland District. Pearre, has withdrawn from the contest. His letter of withdrawal, made public yesterday, is as follows: "LINDEN, Md., Oct. 9, 1902. "To the Voters of the Sixth Congressional District of Maryland: "Some weeks ago several colored men of Washington came to me and requested that I allow the use of my name as an independent candidate for Congress in the Sixth District. They stated to me that a party had been formed in Washington which had for its object the betterment of the colored people, and that I should run on that platform. While I had always been a loyal Republican, I was and am anxious to do anything I can to better my race, and with that desire I listened to the statements of these men. After several weeks of traveling around and canvassing the sentiment of the colored voters of the Sixth District, and particularly of Montgomery County, I have become convinced that it would be a great wrong to the colored people to run an independent colored candidate for Congress from this district. I have found that the colored people are, almost to a man, in favor of the re-election of Mr. George A. Pearre, the nominee of the Republican party. They believe him to be their friend, as his father was before him, and they will not support any movement which might imperil his chances of success. "I therefore feel it my duty to announce that I am not a candidate and will not be a candidate against Colonel Pearre in the Sixth District, but that I shall do all I can to secure his election by an increased majority. "Very respectfully, HENRY NEWMAN. IS CIVILIZATION DECADENT? The Lagos Weekly Record, published at Lagos, South Africa, discusses "Western Civilization" in its international aspect, and inspired, first by a remark uttered by Kaid Abderraahman Ben Abder Sadek, governor of Fez, the Bey designated by the Emperor of Morocco to attend the coronation of King Edward VII, who is said to have claimed upon the eve of his departure from London: "England is a great country, but I am glad to be going back to civilization again." Back to civilization again. And from London, the greatest city upon the face of the globe, presumed to be the sum of all the ages of moral and physical evolution. This disciple of the Eastern civilization was not influenced in his judgment of the occidental variety in the light of its activity and force—its "moil and toil"—its ceaseless struggle for the material at the expense of the softer attributes of culture and the higher soul. He belonged to that class of sober thinkers who see in the pure intelligence and benign altruism of Egyptian, Greek and Roman civilization stronger demonstration of the law of love that is the basic principle of the true social organization, than in the barbarianism of this age of cupidity and commerce. The comparison is worthy of serious reflection, the new philosophy may be called upon by the thinkers of the century to defend itself. The second thought adduced by the Lagos Record is drawn out by a recent article in The Colored American entitled, "Civilization's Peril," in which the atrocities of certain conquerors in the Philippines were pointed out as evidences of an ebullition of the savage instinct in modern life, together with the vandalism of the European soldiery in China, the butchery in South Africa, and the general disposition of the mighty, after the years of Christian teaching, to crush the weaker peoples under the iron heel. The rough and tumble struggle for existence in the crowded cities of Europe and America furnished us with a text to illustrate the reactionary tendency of the times. While we are not unmindful of the wonderful advances in mechanical invention, the swifter modes of travel and transportation, the immense strides in literary development and the vast accumulation of treasure, all of which should bring the average of human happiness up to high-water mark, the conclusion reached by this Negro sheet, printed on the faraway coast of Africa, must give us pause, and warrant us in asking ourselves, in all candor, whither we are drifting. Says the Lagos Record, anent "Civilization's Peril": "It is easy to see what will be the fate of a social organization so full of untoward and disintregating elements. That fate is disclosed in the general tendency to precariousness and decay in everything produced. In everything now down to the minutest article of manufacture, strength and durability have given place to frailness and precariousness. And while there is this marked decadence as regards things material, there is equally a marked tendency to degeneracy, in things moral and spiritual, and a striking wail for which is raised in The Colored American's article headed 'Civilization's Peril.'" Who knows but that we may yet return to the wise men of the East for the higher culture, such as was taught by the ancients upon the forum at Athens? HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS --- THE M'KINLEY HOUSE, 489 Missouri Ave. Near 6 St. First-class accommodations for all. An up-to-date Hotel for colored people. Rooms neatly furnished, linens clean, and prices within reach of all. Meals and Lunches served at all hours. The PORTER : HOUSE ; CAFE 103 6th St., N. W. Wines, Liquors and Cigars.—A full line of the choicest liquors, the best brand of cigars and the coolest beer in Washington. BROWN & SMITH, Proprietors. HOTEL CLYDE, 475 MISSOUR1 AVE, N.W. First-Class Accomodations For Ladies and Gentlemen. Hot and Cold Baths. MRS. ALICE E. 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It is no small achievement in this day of strenuous competition and intense rivalries for a young man to reach the plane of national party leadership with- in a service of but three terms in Con- gress. The baton of political power and prestige is usually awarded only after many years of faithful labor in the ranks, and even then Tiberal commissions can be won by only a chosen few. But defy- ing precedents and -casting aside tradi- tions, the Hon. Jesse Overstreet, through superior talent as an organizer and economist, to-day occupies 4 Most con- spicuous place at the table whenever the commanding geniuses of republicanism are called into council. It is the Tegiti- mate outcome of opportunities grasped and duty conscientiously performed, and ee. ag Ze DS e, ENN pe : aa WN NLA lle Tae oy ae a 4 WN gt LE ; al ae SE NM V, HON. JESSE OVBRSTREET. these are unfailing agencies in neutral- izing all possible objections that fre- quently arise front the youth of the aspirant. Jesse Overstreet is from In- oe — diana, and represents in Congress th famous Seventh District, the seat of the wealth, commercial development, and the Progressive spirit of the State. “Marion County sets the pace, and the man who essays to be the trustee for her inter- ets in the national legislature must -be possessed of a masterful equipment in mtellect’ and measure up to the most profound statesmanship of the times. In the decisive struggle this fall, where the foes of our beneficent protective sys- tem, business prosperity, and the rights of wage carners are drawn up, armed to the teeth, all eyes instinctively turn to Indiana, and especially to. the brillia.3t chieftain whose own candidacy for re- clection is made an additional subject of mterest because he is secretary of the Republican National Congressional Cam- paign Committee. To the efforts of Mr. Overstreet and his able colleagues very largely depends the salvation of the next House of Representatives to the Repud- lican party and with it the continuation ' our matchless era of “good times' built up by a wise and confidence-inspir- mg tariff law. Now that the once- «bsorbing money issue has heen prac- heally settled, the preservation of our sound economic system is shifted to the ‘coatable States of the great North- “est, and Indiana logically becomes the ;{¥ to a momentous situation. Since the ; Uric campaign of 1876, when _the hosts of Democracy reached their high- ‘ster mark under the leadership of such “tute political generals as Thomas A. liendricks, Joseph E. McDonald, and ,’smel W. Voorhees, the old Hosier- wd bas divided honors with New York the most significant of the pivotal Hates, and in every contest on national ines her soil has been conceded to be the battle ground. AES Oe ae ae eae virus and the madness of fiat coinage by a hypodermic injection of Bryanism, an issue was presented which, to com- bat successfully, called for the highest quality of statescraft, as the promoters of the new policy were alert, adroit, and persistent. Most active among the younger men who thrust their lives and budding fortunes into the breach at this | critical juncture was Jesse Overstreet, then a promising attorney in the city of Franklin, Johnson County. He was valiant, ambitious, and capable, and had imbibed the true essence of Republican- ism from the teachings of such sterling advocates as Henry S. Lane, Oliver P. Morton, Richard W. Thompson, Thomas M. Brown, Benjamin Hasrison, and showed rare executive possibilities in the political trenches with the later forces of Hosierdom’s forensic giants like James N. Huston, L. T. Michener, John C. New, Albert J. Beveridge, and Charles Warren Fairbanks. Nothing daunted by the superior ex- perience and apparently unlimited re- sources of the enemy, Mr. Overstreet joined with a galaxy of enthusiasts, and by a dash and brilliance peculiarly his own, coupled with a natural genius for handling large questions, he became the natural leader of the sound money move- ment in the Siate. He accepted the Con- gressional nomination, and overriding the most exasperating obstacle, achieved a glorious triumph in the struggle for the defense of the nation’s integrity in 1895. Mr. Overstreet’s career in detail is of interest to every American youth as an object Rsson in diligence and manly courage. He is “unto the manor born,” as relates to Hoosierdom, having been ushered into existence in 1859 in Frank- lin, which, until his removal six years ago to Indianapolis, was his home and the scene of his early endeavors. He received a common school and collegiate education, and was admitted to the bar in 1886. He was elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress in 1894, and has been re-elected to each subsequent Congress, increased majorities evidencing his firm hold upon the confidence and respect of the people who were proud to be his constituents. Mr. Overstreet’s career in Congress has been a source of gratification to his friends, and his wider field for action has developed a grade of abilities not pre- viously understood, even by his intimate acquaintances. Nothing was too difficult for him to attempt a solution, and his inherent sagacity and unceasing industry soon indicated to the observing ones that a “new Richmond” had entered the field to stay. He is a close student of political economy, and there is no mem- ber of the House who is in command of a readier fund of information upon finan- cial problems than he. This made him the established champion of the goid standard principle, and pushed to a suc- cessful passage the monetary reform bill | which is now the legal safeguard of the nation against all encroachments of the free coinage fallacy. It is a law upon which the Republicans can go to the people and set it forth as a_ sufficient guarantee that our credit is “gilt-edged” in any quarter of the globe. The versa- tile Indianian has made a number of speeches upon this and kindred subjects, and upon each occasion he has added to the favorable impression created in his first term, holding the attention and evoking the applause of the ablest veter- ans in congressional debate. On the tariff issue he is of a conserya’'ve adjust- ment of schedules that will afford the neccessary protection to American manu- facturers and at the same time prevent a dangerous competition of foreign cheap labor which would lead to a reduction in the present generous rewards of honest toil. He is opposed to an agitation that would unsettle prosperous business con- ditions and drive capital into hiding. He is against unlawful combinations that squeeze the people, but believes that due encouragement should be granted to cor- porations that benefit the country and by large investments lessen the cost of pro- juction, bringing commodities within the is a safe conuselor. jcsse Overstreet’s record as a friend and champion of the Negro is as sound, clean, and conspicuous as his record on the money and tariff questions. Coming, az he does, from the Seventh District of indiana, where liberality of thought and respect for the constitutional sights of all citizens is a cardinal princple, he hes been thoroughly impregnated with a feel- iag of brotherhood and sympathy for a black man who is persecuted or ostra- cized merely because of the accident of color. He has carefully studied the race question in its various phases, and by a commendable breadth of judgment has found that the Negro people, like all others, have good and bad within their ranks. He has been brought into con- tact with all classes of us, and is too manly to measure the race's status by its lower elements, granting to each indi- vidual that degree of credit which his intellect and character gives wu warram to claim. While a member of the committee on elections in the Fifty-Fourth Congress Mr. Overstreet had charge of the case of Hon. G. W. Murray, the colored con- testant for a seat from South Carolina. He managed the matter with the skill of a trained diplomat and succeeded in placing Mr. Murray into the place, the lawful majority of the people of his dis- rtict had chosen him to fill. He has been ever mindful of the interests of his own constituents in Indiana. His splendid work in the campaign of 1896 and 1900 won for him a vast intluence with the administration of the late President Mc- Kinley. One of the first notable ap- pointments made after McKinley's ac- cession was that of Dr. S. A. Elbert, who was at the instance of Mr. Overstreet, tendered the very desirable consulship at Bahia, Brazil. The doctor did not take the place, but the plucky Congress- man held to his appointment, and secured the assignment for one of the brightest and youngest scholars in Indiana, Dr. Henry W. Furniss, wno is still serving it this post with credit and distinction. The victory was all the more significant from the fact that at the time Kentucky, ‘Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, West Vir- ginia and the other battle grounds of the populous Ohio Valley had not been able to reach the patronage table. To- day no man in the country stands on a better footing with President Roosevelt than does Jesse Overstreet. As a secre- tary of the Congressional Campaign Committee a heavy responsibility rests ‘upon his shoulders, and the President looks to him and his assistants to see that the voters are informed as to his real policies and purposes to the end that the administration may be properly sustained at the polls in November. He is a splendid officer, and past services have demonstrated that he is equal to all emergencies. He is infusing a much- needed vim and vigor into the contest just opened, and there is no doubt that a triumphant victory will crown his well- directed efforts. pei At home he is having easy sailing. The voters, white and black, are a unit for him, and he is especially popular with the laboring masses, who recog- nize in him staunch friend—one who has exerted a great influence in cultivating more pleasing relations between the op- posing forces in the mining regions. His constituents, one and all, understand the value of keeping good men in Congress, and realize that this is the only way to make themselves felt in the affairs of the nation. The electors of Marion County are alive to their own interests, and will take care that Mr. Overstreet’s brilliant record is endorsed by rolling up for him the biggest majority that he has ever received. EXAMPLE SHOULD BE FOL- LOWED. . = I purchased a copy of Cotorep Amert- CAN this week with B. T. Washington’s picture as supplement. I consider this step an advancement in Negro journal- ism and one which our better Negro pa- pers would do: well to follow. I consider your paper confined to no class or sect. but a paer of the people. 1 congratulate your eminent success in journalism and trust the future holds out to you greater success than now imaginable. Nery truly yours, W. 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The largest wholesale stock in town of the most exquisite, faultless wines and distiliates (in 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 tree from fusel poison, (No branch houses.) Phone 1425 S7ENEIIN W: M. DRURY’S RESTAURANT 1100 20th St. corner L. N, W, Weshington, D, O, GEORGIA LEADERS DINED Register Lyons and a Royal Company Do Honors to Colonels J. H. Deveaux and W A. Pledger—Records Reviewed At the residence of Hon. Judson W. Lyons, 1320 T street, northwest, Tues day evening there was indeed with the stately and cordial Register of the Treasury as master of the feast, and illustrious conductor of the flow of good spirits. The event was given primarily in honor of two of Georgia's most patriotic sons, and was designed as a mark of respect to Col. John H. Deveaux and Col. William A. Pledger, for their long and arduous services in behalf of the negro race which they so well and truly honor and because of their loyalty to the republican party which they are now stirring to hold fast to the old moorings of liberty, equality and fraternity. Y. C. While Georgia was greatly in evidence, the gathering was national, and the sentiments expressed were cosmopolitan. An inspiration for unity was sent out, and whether a brother came from the sunny South or the hardy North, the one drop of Negro blood was as potential in bringing earnest and continuous co-operation as that "one touch of nature" which the immortal bard declares "makes the whole world kin." What promised at first to be a mere convivial assemblage, as a farewell to the G. A. R. festivities, and a pleasant parting of the friends who had helped to revive the memories "A tenting on the old camp ground," turned out to be a serious interchange of thought among the race's best thinkers as to how the race could extricate itself from the perils of the present political situation and redeem the promises held out to us these many years by our labors in the field, our valor in the wars, and our fidelity in civil life. The gentlemen who spoke put their souls into their oratory, and the welkin rang with speches that savored much of an old-time republican class-meeting, each pointing out the how they had traveled thus far and prayed for a faith that would "carry them home." If there were a difference here and there in method, the goal of race elevation was the desire of all. Those who spoke were: Cols. W. A. Pledger, J. H. Deaveaux and James Lewis, Hon. John P. Green, Judge R. H. Terrell, T. M. Dent, Recorder J. C. Dancy, Mr. Wm. Henry Smith, and Register Lyons, L. M. Hershaw, acted as toastmaster. Others present were Messrs. Cyrus F. Adams, T. H. R. Clarke, B. M. Shook, D. H. Mason, Dr. W. E. Mask, G. H. Hollins., Major Arthur Brooks, W. H. Fielding. R. W. 'Ampson, E. E. Cooper, Robert J. Harlan and J. B. Deveaux. A King of Commerce. A King of Commerce. smile and gracious personality, coupled with an intellectual force and exquisite tact equalled by few of her sex of any society under the sun, have placed her permanently at the head of the race's noblest band of women, whose motto is, THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. "Lifting as we climb." The early hours of the evening were spent in social intercourse and games, after which a delightful repast was spread in the dining room. Eloquent speeches, short and highly eulogistic of Col. Church, by Former Governor P. B. S. Pinchback, Register of the Treasury J. W. Lyons, Recorder of Deeds John C. Dancy, Justice E. M. Hewlett; Attorneys H. S. Cummings, of Baltimore, and W. M. Randolph, of Pittsburg; Mr. T. A. Green, of Mississippi; Charles R. Douglass, U. S. Stamp Agent John P. Green, Attorney J. Douglass Wetmore, of Jacksonville, Fla., and Mr. R. W. Thompson, J. COL. ROBERT R. CHURCH. representing the National Press. Mr. W. T. Menard, of the New York Age, made a witty toastmaster, and Mr. Roscoe C. Simmons, of the Charleston, W. Va., Advocate, rendered the affable host, Justice Terrell, frequent and timely assistance at the salad commissary and punch bowl. The other gentlemen who did not participate in the speech making, but whose distinguished reputation and effervescent humor jointly lent eclat to the merry coterie were. Col. James Lewis, Louisiana; Hon. John S. Durham, Philadelphia, Pa.; Lewis H. Douglass, New York; Robert J. Harlan, Cincinnati, Ohio; Dr. A. M. Curtis, Illinois; W. H. A. Wormley, Dr. C. Dimmer Wormley, Wyatt Archer, Dr. John R. Francis, District of Columbia; Dr. W. A. Warfield, Freedman's Hospital, District of Columbia; Robert Willis, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Hon. Hiram Watty, Baltimore; D. B. McCary, Mississippi; James T. Bradford, Maryland; Maj. C. A. Fleetwood; R. T. Douglass, District of Columbia; H. C. Tyson, Whitfield McKinley, and T. L. Grant, South Carolina; Howard H. Williams, George W. Scott; Job Johnson, Boston; Editor E. Cooper of Washington Colored American; Deputy Collector John E. Taylor, Wilmington, N. C.; F. W. Hoffman, Somerville, S. C.; Dr. Berkeley C. W. Waller; ex-Librarian William Henry Smith, Mr. A. L. Brown, John B. Hyman, and Mr. W. H. Fielding, of Indianapolis, Ind. Col. Church made a feeling response to the many kind things said of him, and pledged a continuation of his best efforts to the uplift of the race along practical and substantial lines, with concluding remarks by the ever ready Justice Terrell, and a characteristic story by Col. Harlan, the happy congregation adjourned to the tender strains— "Should auld acquaintance be forgot?" THE MIRROR OF SOCIETY. One of the most brilliant local functions during G. A. R. week was the reception given by Gov. and Mrs. P. B. L. Pinchback, of Bacon street, in honor of their guests, Miss Lulu Kepard, of New Orleans and Mrs. H. L. Kemp, of Brooklyn. The magnificent parlors were elaborately decorated, which formed a pleasing background for the elegantly gowned ladies. At 11 o'clock all enjoyed a delightful collation. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Murrav Mr. and Mrs. Col. Lewis, of New Orleans, Register and Mrs. J. W. Lyons, Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Franks, Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Douglass, Mr. and Mrs. John P. Green, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Douglass, Rev. and Mrs. Owen M. Waller, Mr. and Mrs. W. McKinley, Mrs. Wilson, of Boston, Mrs. Godell, of Boston, Mr. and Mrs. Lawson, Mrs. Robert Terrell, Miss Imogene Wormlev, Miss Mamie Sheperd, Miss Cheek, Detroit, Miss Lee, Boston; Messrs. Watt Archer, Bismark Pinchback, Walter Pinchback, Stanton Wormley, Douglass Wetmore, Robert Harlan Dr. Hanison, and about forty others. Miss Kepland will remain in our city for about two weeks. Among the many entertainments given for the strangers during G. A. R. week none was more elaborate than the luncheon given by the Misses Imogen and Josephine Wormley, of 8th street, in honor of Mrs. H. L. Kemp, of Brooklyn. The luncheon consisted of eleven courses. All of the knives, forks and spoons used were of solid gold, and the parlor and dining-room were profusely decorated with fragrant flowers and palms. Among others present were Miss Mabel Grant of Boston, Miss Morrison of eniladelphia, Miss Griffin, Mr. and Mrs. James Wormley and son, Miss L. Wormley R. R. Willis of New York, W. Thomas of Newark, J. Demick of New York. Mr. and Mrs. James R. Bell, 409 O street N. W., entertained at dinner on Thursday, 9th, at 6 p. m., in honor of Mrs. Allen, of New York City, who has been a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Sprague, of 15th street N. W., for the past three weeks, those invited to dinner being Mr. and Mrs. H. Lassiter, Mr. and Mrs. N. Sprague, Mr. J. F. Bundy, Mr. J. A. Davis and Mrs. Allen, of New York, and the hostess being Mrs. James R. Bell and Mr. Bell. Mrs. Sarah Saunders Monroe, of Cincinnati, Ohio, well known in Washington as an accomplished elocutionist, is visiting her parents at 1124 Twenty-second street northwest. Mr. T. J. Monroe, her husband, is now touring New England with Mr. George Wilde, the fraternal delegatae of the British Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows. He will join Mrs. Monroe here in a few days. Miss Annie Vawter is at home again after an extended western trip. Mrs. Jennie Watson, of Cincinnati, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Syphax, 1737 Tenth street northwest. Miss Estelle V. Hedgeman, of Brentsville, Va., was in the city last week. She took a civil service examination while here. Mrs. Phil Jackson, of Fargo, N. Dakota spent Encampment week with Mrs. Fred Freeman, of 1118 18th street, northwest. Miss Louise Robinson has been visiting Mrs. E. S. Lucas, in Brooklyn, N. Y., and was accompanied home by the latter who greatly enjoyed the Encampment. Mr. Thomas Gargas and his wife (nee "Bert" Hardy), of Philadelphia, spent a few days in the city last week, the guests of Mrs. Susie I. Fisher and Miss Helen Johnson. Miss Adina Hance, who has been teaching in Pittsburg, Pa., pass-d through the city Monday, en route to her home in Virginia. She is called to the bedside of a sick mother. Prof. Robert E. Jones, D. D., wife and baby, of New Orleans, La., and Rev. F. O'Connell, D. D., and wife, of Wilmington, Del., spent a few days with the G. A. R. Encampment, as the guests of Capt. and Mrs. Davis I. Gilmer. Among the younger men of prominence who visited Washington during the Grand Army Encampment was Mr. Sidney H. Jones, of Detroit, Mich. Mr. Jones holds the responsible position of inspector in the service of the Detroit Gas Company, and stands high in the social and business circles of the Wolverine Metropolis. The reception to Bishop G. W. Clinton. Recorder J. C. Dancv. and Rev. S. L. Corrathers, given Monday evening by the ladies of Galbraith Chapel was a magnificent affair. Judge Robert H. Terrell made an imposing presiding officer. Great credit is due Mrs. Manie Tapscott and Misses Liggons and Janifer for the superb management. A character who has earned a foremost place in the country's esteem is Mr. S. Douglass Wetmore, a shining light at the bar of Jacksonville, Fla. 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Let me know what you want and we will try and help you. There are all sorts of places and kinds of land in the Northwestern states through which the Northern Pacific runs. Don't wish until it is too late to go. Low settlers rates are in effect during Sept. and Oct. Write to me where you want to gee and I will tell what it cost. CHARLES L FEE. Gen'l Pass. Agent, N. P. Ry St. Paul, Mann. ones. He handles a large and lucrative real estate business and has placed some neat bits of capital to advantage for a number of local and foreign syndicates. Mr. Edward Darr, of Cleveland, O, is the guest of Mr. Louis Carroll. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. WAITERS IN SESSION. Dignifi d. Handsome and Pros prous Men M et to Devise Means for El vating Their Us ful Call- ing. At Odd Fellows Hall on M street northwest, on Tuesday last there assembled a body of gentlemen whose three days' session has been unique in this city of many conventions and diversified functions. The organization is described as the Head and Second Waiters' Benefit Association, and it is composed of gentlemen who have served in either capacity in the different cities of the country. It is a truly representative body, and includes in its membership head and second waiters from all sections of the United States. Its personnel is at once dignified, handsome, and prosperous looking. Its purposes are to elevate the character of dining-room work, and the association draws its inspiration from the grand work now being performed by the great Booker T. Washington at MR, R, S. LOCKE, The Shoreham. Tuskegee, Ala., in that it seeks to conserve and, if possible, increase the dignity of labor. The society has no beneficial features as the term is generally employed, but its intent is to improve the character of all public and private waiters, to cultivate in them the higher self respect which teaches us all that that which is to be done should be well done, and to broaden and develop the mental activities not only of its members, but also of those over whom its members are set in authority, those affording benefits in the highest sense. These aims are in the highest degree commendable. The society was organized in the city of Chicago in 1899, and it has had a prosperous existence there. Its first president was Mr. W. Forest Cozart, now of San Antonio, Texas, who is a born leader of men, at whose foresight and warm interest the association is largely indebted for its present high condition of prosperity. Its second convention was held at Pittsburg, Pa., in M. CAPT. A. BARNARD. The Howard. 1000, and there Mr. Cozart was reelected its president with substantial unanimity. Its third convention was held at Buffalo, N. Y., in 1901, and here Mr. W. Alonzo Locke, of Cairo, Ill., was elected president. Mr. Locke is, and he has been for several years, the head waiter of the Holliday House, at Cairo, Ill., and he makes a graceful, capable, level-headed presiding officer. The other officers elected in 1901 and now serving are Mr. E. W. Harper, Vice-President; Mr. E. C. Holland, Secretary, and Mr. W. B. Keyes, Treasurer, all of whom are deeply interested in the success of the association and devote much of their time to its interests. The proceedings of the convention, which are of the highest character, are devoted to essays and discussions how best to utilize the opportunities and possibilities of the Negro waiter. The local committee, consisting of eight gentlemen, with Mr. T. J. Johnson, of the National Hotel as chairman, deserve special mention for the efforts they have made for the comfort and entertainment of the association at this their fourth annual convention. JUDGE DAVIS SPEAKS. Stirring Events of Civil War Recited in Eloquent Period—Rev. Dr Snowdin Obs rves G. A. R. Weck. The series of entertainments given under the management of Rev. W. Snowden and Mr. J. Newman at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Z. Church, southwest, during Grand Army week was a success. The beginning of these entertainments was masked by an enthusiastic reception to the Bell Post 134, of Boston, Mass., which was well represented. The speakers of the evening were Hon. J. C. Dancy and Judge S. G. Davis. Mr. Dancy made an able speech on the conditions of the Negro prior to and after the Civil War. It was received with hearty applause. Judge S. G. Davis made the opening address. He spoke on the Spanish-American War, and the people showed their approbation by their vigorous and repeated applause. He spoke to them as he would have done to any intelligent Caucasian audience, which is out of the usual way of the white man when addressing a colored audience. But it is characteristic of the man himself, as he was born in the State of Maine, of parents who were strong abolitionists and operated an underground railroad. Judge Davis spoke in part as follows: "As our minds revert to the terrible and bloody campaigns of the civil war, fought nearly one-half a century ago; as we call to remembrance the hardships and privations of the soldiers during that eventful and momentous epoch in our country's history; as we bring in review his patriotic and heroic conduct during those dark days that tried men's souls, and their willingness to do and die for the preservation of the Union, our admiration for them is truly great; but when we realize, as we do at this day, the importance of their work, and consider the grandeur of their achievements as seen in the light of the course of events that have followed the termination of that conflict, and that have resulted from the perpetuity of the unity of the Union in its full extent, our admiration for them far surpasses that we had for their brave deeds during the struggle itself, and becomes unbounded. "The colored race have great reason to have their hearts filled with gratitude towards the soldiers of the civil war for the benefits that have accrued to them from the success of the Union Army in that conflict, for as an incident of that conflict, the accursed institution of slavery, then justly denominated as one of the twin relics of barbarism, was eliminated from every section of our country and swept from the land. It was indeed a sickening stench and a shameful disgrace to our boasted civilization. The numberless streams of varied opinions that flow from the fountains of thought that exist in the minds of different men make up the ocean of universal thought. The surface of this ocean is at times as calm and placid as the face of a mirror. At other times it is a tumultuous mass of seething, turbulent billows, giving evidence that the elements of good and evil within it are disturbed and in agitation. These conditions exhibit the different states of society as seen in peace and war. The individual, in a civilized community, can be restrained in his propensity to evil, and punished by operation of law—and no community is civilized whose obedience to law ceases to prevail and mob violence holds sway. But the history of mankind is an almost uninterrupted narration of a state of war, for princes and states acknowledge no superior power on earth, and in case of differences put themselves upon the justice of God by an appeal to arms." From this he enumerated some of the general causes that beget war; gave a somewhat detailed account of the events that led up to the late war with Spain, with a history of the most important battles, and the treaty of peace, and closed his remarks as follows: "The war has ended, and we are now in a state of peace, and let us hope that we shall not soon be again involved in war, and that the present era of peace may long continue. Let us hope that all nations may forget the arts of war and cultivate the arts of peace. When the hearts of men shall be bent upon upholding justice; when they shall do as they would be done by; when they shall regard the rights of others as being as sacred as their own; when they shall hate wrong and love right, then indeed will come about the reign of peace on earth and good will to men. "Roll on, O car of peace! until wars and rumors of wars shall cease throughout the whole world." "Roll on, O car of industry! until every hand shall be diligent and every household supplied with abundance. "Roll on, O car of science! until sickness shall be reduced to the minimum and health increased to the maximum. "Roll on, O car of righteousness! until every countenance shall be resplendent with happiness; until every heart shall be purified as with fire; and until all the inhabitants of the whole earth shall be shouting acclamations of contentment and joy. "Roll on, O car of destiny! until our country shall have fulfilled the mission allotted to it by the God of nations; until the spirit of love shall pervade the heart of every individual; until universal justice shall be the motto inscribed in letters of living light upon the folds of every banner that floats to the breeze; until the dark and dismal cloud of oppression and bondage shall cease to cast its blighting, deadly shadow over any section, and until the entire people of every land under the broad canopy of heaven shall be redeemed, regenerated, disenthralled by the irresistable genius of universal emancipation." The musical program, under the direction of Prof. Henry Lewis and Miss Blennie Bruce, organist, was especially fine. Everyone seemed highly pleased with the choir's rendition of "Gloria" and the "Star Spangled Banner." City in Brief. City in Brief. Mrs. Thaddeus Grymes Johnston is spending the fall and winter in New York. Dr. W. C. Smalls, of Jacksonville, Florida, was here during the Encampment. Mr. John H. Saunders, of 1124 22nd street, who has been seriously ill, is slowly improving. Gen. Robert Smalls, "the hero of the Fianter," collector of the port at Beaufort, S. C., is in the city. Mrs. Martha Trammell, of 2236 12th street, northwest, entertained a party of friends Tuesday evening. Ex-Governor P. B. S. Pinchback has been invited by Major Dick to speak with Senator Hanna in the Ohio campaign. The lyceum at Shiloh Baptist Church may be discontinued, as Prof S. M. Hershaw finds it impossible to continue as president. We are pleased to announce the promotion of Mr. John H. Poynter to a $1,000 grade clerkship in the Treasury Department. The press committee of the Episcopal Conference was made up of Hon. John P. Green, Rev. Franklin J. A. Bennett, and Mr. R. W. Thompson. Social Lodge No. 18 United Odd Fellows will hold their anniversary service at Galbraith Church, Sunday evening, Oct. 19th, at 8 o'clock, Sermon preached by Rev. S. L. Carrothers. President J. B. Dudley, of the A. and M. College, Greensboro, N. C., has tendered a chair in mathematics in his school to Mr. Francis De Sales Smith, of the Armstrong Manual Training School. It is thought that Mr. Smith is so well situated here that the offer will not be accepted. The emancipation exercises on the 8th, at Galbraith Church, were timely, and added materially to the sacred character of the Encampment week. Commissioner H. B. F. Macfarlane tribute to Abraham Lincoln was touching, and the short speeches by Bishop walters, Recorder Dancy, and Col. Perry Carson were in appropriate vein. DRESS MAKING ACADEMY. The de Lam Orton Famous French Perfection Tailor System Mme J. A. Smallwood, le Agent 1513 Madison street, northwest, Morning class from 9 a.m. to 1 p. m. Afternoon class 2 to 5 p. m. daily. 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A number of families in Massachusetts would like to secure one or two colored girls to do general housework, cooking and laundry work. The pay runs from $3.50 to $4.50 per week according to the ability of the girl to give satisfaction. Strong healthy girl's who would like to take these positions can get particulars by addressing C. care of The Colored American office. Transportation will be paid WANTED—Reliable colored help for general house work &c in good homes in New England Good Wages. App y with references as to ability and character to Susie White, 1747 Oregon Ave. N, W. FOR RENT—One large front room in good locality with all modern improvements, convenient to cars and herdicks, 1625 Corcoran St. N. W. apply to Mr. J. B Patterson. FURNISHED ROOMS—With board convenient to car lines, call after 4 P. M. 1642 10th St. Northwest or inquire at Colored American Office 459 C. St. N, W. To gentleman only, house a m. i. furnished rooms. 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Party must have $2,000 00 to invest for half interest. Seventeen medals and diplomas. Address, HARRY SHEPHERD, London Photo Co., ST. PAUL, MINN. --- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. DR, VAUGHN HERE A Champion of His Race-New New Honors Conferred Upon Him. One of the most magnificent specimens of physical manhood who visited this city during the recent encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic was Rev. C. C. Vaughn, a distinguished Baptist clergyman, of Russellville, Ky., who was a brave soldier during the war of 1861 and who was a delegate to the encampment from the Department of Kentucky. Mr. Vaughn deserves more than passing notice, and truly proud may he be of the high position he has attained as well in the religious and political world as in the Grand Army circles. He was born a slave in the State of Virginia in 1846, and was unfortunate enough to lose his mother a year or two prior to the war of 1861. Severe as was this blow to the devoted son, he never faltered, but struggled manfully to support and to uplift himself. He enlisted in the United States Army at the early age of 16, and won during his service the highest encomiums from his superior officers for his faithfulness [Name] REV. C. O. VAUGHN. and unremitting attention to duty. At the close of the war, recognizing the new impulses which were stirring the hearts of our race, he determined that he too would be a factor in the Negro's higher life, and with persistence, aided of course by superior capacity, and unassisted save first by the labor of his hands and later by teaching he achieved a sound college education. Upon his graduation he at once began teaching, and some ten years later was called to the ministry of the Baptist Church. For twenty-eight years Mr. Vaughn has lived in the city of Russellville, Ky., pursuing his career as a teacher and as a minister of God, winning the respect and affection of all classes of its citizens, filling many local offices and acquiring valuable property, and thus demonstrating as in many similar* cases the inflexible and unchangeable character and capacity are sure to win. He has always had warm interest in the prosperity and popularity of the Grand Army of the Republic, and has been highly honored in the counsels of that organization. In 1888, when there were but nine colored delegates to the Encampment of the Department of Kentucky, including himself, he was unanimously elected chaplain of that body. He has also served as chief mustering officer of that department, vice commander, and for two terms member of the Department Council of Administration. He has been a delegate to the Grand Encampments held at Boston, Cincinnati, and recently in this city, and in 1890 was appointed as aide-de-camp on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief. At the encampment just concluded in this city Mr. Vaughn was one of the leading delegates, and in the parade of Wednesday last, with the colored G. A. R. boys from Kentucky, headed by a colored drum corps from Louisville, Ky., made a most favorable impression. At this point it may be well to state that largely through the influence of Mr. Vaughn the ladies societies auxiliary to the different organizations of veterans in Kentucky elected one colored lady to represent the Department of Kentucky in each of the conventions held by the ladies recently in this city incident to the Grand Encampment of the G. A. R. Mr. Vaughn during the recent encampment was selected as a member of the National Council of Administration, and he has the honor of being the first colored man elected to that office. To illustrate Mr. Vaughn's wonderful resources of mind, his readiness and his singular power over the minds of others, it may now be told, we think, that during the recent encampment a proposition was submitted to change the present status of the Department of Mississippi and Louisiana, now composed of both white and colored veterans, by creating a new "Department of the Gulf," covering exactly the same territory as the former, but permitting the latter to be organized and controlled absolutely by white veterans. This was a palpable effort to draw the color line, and whether the suggestion was made to Mr. Vaugh or was his own inspiration, he promptly took the floor and in an eloquent and unanswerable speech put the proposition to sleep to wake no more. Mr. Vaughn is a giant in stature. He is a most gifted orator, whether in the pulpit or in the rostrum, he is morally unexceptionable, and he is intellectually superior. We tender to him the sentiments of our highest consideration and we pray him godspeed in the life of virtue and usefulness which he is leading. FRIEND, THIS MEANS YOU. A great many friends in this paper have an idea that they help it by sending news and elaborate accounts of entertainments, weddings, etc. They were never so mistaken. The way to help The Colored American is to pay your subscription bill, if you are a subscriber, and if you are not a subscriber send in your subscription with a nice cut. The paper contains a great amount of live and interesting news each week. Any practical newspaper man can tell you that it takes money and a great deal of it to run a paper like The Colored American. Do not flatter yourself that you are helping the paper by sending it news. Send the cash—a money order, an express order, a draft or a check. When these little evidences of appreciation come along there is no doubt about the matter being printed. The above suggestion will not only apply to the people who send in long news letters, but will apply equally as well to the many intelligent, well-to-do subscribers who get the paper each week and who receive occasional notices, but who pay absolutely no attention to our bills for subscription money. THIS AP- The Lagos Weekly Record, West Africa, is of the opinion that the only permanent solution of the race problem lies in a repatriation of the Negro to the land of his fathers. We think that is out of the question, on any large scale. At present we are maintaining a dual and parallel system of citizenship, with more or less friction where the edges overlap by accident or design. The question for the future is whether the Negro shall remain separate and grow from his own internal resources, or will he be absorbed by the more numerous and more powerful whites? What has been the fate of other races when living for centuries upon the same soil with a mightier people? There's a nut for the sociologists to take another crack at. Rev. W. J. White, editor of the Georgia Baptist, Augusta, has called a conference of the thoughtful, conservative and God-fearing Baptists of the State of Georgia to meet at Madison, on the 27th of November, to endeavor to reconcile some differences that have greatly militated against the denominational work of the church for some time. A white man named Merrill was baptized recently at Newport News, Va., and became a member of the colored Baptist church at that place. He was a saloon-keeper but was converted under the ministrations of Rev. W. S. Midgett, at a revival, sold out his bar-room and joined the church as described. It seems that anything can happen in the South. The Colored American is the leading illustrated journal published by Negroes, in the world. O-RI-NO-CO, Guaranteed not to cause stricture. Cures Gonorrhoea, Gleet or R in two to five days. 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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. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. BRUCE GRIT ON THE STRIKE SITUATION. The strike in the coal regions of Pennsylvania which is at this writing in progress, is a battle royal between capital and labor. Organized labor is seeking to establish a precedent which I fear it will not succeed in establishing if the coal operators understand their business, and it begins to look as if they had a pretty thorough understanding, not only of their own rights but of the rights of those who have brawn and skill and muscle to exchange for cash. The crafty labor leaders and some of their followers, most of whom are of foreign birth, have gotten the idea into their heads that they have the undoubted right to dictate to these operaors not only what they shall pay for their labor, but who shall perform that labor. And herein is the kernel of the strike. Very naturally the operators demur to this arbitrary action of these dependents upon their bounty, who, while opposing them and preventing them from operating their plants, are being supported, aided, and abetted in their desperate efforts to drive capital to their terms by labor organizations of one sort or another all over this country and in some parts of Europe. A good deal of maudlin sentiment is just now abroad about the oppressed and underpaid workingman, and the sensational journals that are helping to make sentiment inimical to those whose capital is invested in the coal mines and other industries are sowing discord and creating a spirit of restlessness among these alien peoples which will sooner or later break out in the bloodiest revolution that this country ever witnessed. These strikers are clearly within their rights when they refuse to work for wages that to them seem inadequate for service rendered, but they trench upon the rights of employers when they attempt to not only fix the scale of wages they should pay, but to indicate who shall receive those wages. In opposing this unwarranted and unjustifiable attitude of the labor unions the operators are clearly right. The principle involved is worth fighting for, and it will be a sorry day for employing capital all over this country when a handful of ignorant foreigners, some of whom are not even citizens of the United States, can, by concentrating their forces and appealing to public sentiment, compel the men whose money is used to develop the industries of the country to yield to some of the unreasonable demands or to suspend operations until some compromise has been reached satisfactory to these autocrats of labor I don't believe that these coal miners and their leaders are smart enough or crafty enough to carry their point in the present strike, and I have absolutely no sympathy with them in their onslaught against the coal operators for the very good reason that they have no right in law or in fact to inhibit any non-union worker from making his living on his own terms. There are thousands of men, white and black, who would gladly take the places of these strikers, but they are prevented by the threats and forceful opposition of those who will not work themselves unless they can force the operators to yield to their demands for increased pay. If Negro miners were set to work in these coal fields to-morrow it is not unlikely that every labor organization in this country would go out on strike. I believe they call this a sympathetic strike. The meaning of it is plain. It is a bold and desperate scheme of white skilled artisans and mechanics to coerce capital and make it subservient to the whims of the most tyrannical trust in America—the labor trust. It has locked horns with capital in this coal strike, and it is my sincere wish that its horns may be broken and that every man of whatever race he may be may have the unquestioned right to sell his labor wherever he can find a purchaser without the aid or consent of any organization arrogating to itself the right to exclude him from the ranks of the bread winners because he does not happen to be one of them. John Mitchell, president of the Miners' Union is playing for great stakes. It may be that he'll only get a chop. If the men who control the capital with which these great industries are operated are ready to surrender to the men who are dependent upon capital for their daily bread, and do surrender, then, as I have previously stated, it will be a sorry day for America. These labor organizations, and I except none, are a gigantic close corporation—a greedy, grasping, restless, intolerant, overbearing, dictatorial combination of half educated white men, native and foreign born, who imagine that they will some day be able to dictate terms on a rail, not only to capitalists but to government itself. They are the severest critics of the Government and its institutions. They do not permit their members to join the National Guard. They have secret meetings and foment trouble, and occasionally raise the devil, as they are now doing. They will not permit Negroes to join their organizations. They will not permit their members to work alongside of Negro mechanics unless they are employed by the Government, when they swallow their infernal prejudice and pocket the big wages which the Government always pays. They will not permit Negro youth to become apprentices, and any employer who does, does so at his peril. These organizations are doing as much to make the road rocky for the Negro as the Democratic party at the South. I am against them because they are against my race. I have no sympathy with them in this strike and will be glad to see them routed horse, foot and dragon. They are a menace to the peace and good order of society, an animated threat, which, sooner or later, will have to be silenced by the sword. BRUCE GRIT. COLORED BANK OPENS. Compeny Begins Business at 11 C dar Strat With $10,000 Capital. The Capital Trust and Investment Company, S. H. Hart, president; E. W. Robinson, secretary; George H. Mays, treasurer, and C. C. Davis, H. H. Green, of Jacksonville, and J. N. Clinton, of Gainesville, directors, will open up business at No. 11 Cedar street next Monday. This company has been regularly chartered under the laws of Florida, authorizing them to do a regular banking business, depositing and buying and selling real estate, to act as guardian and administrator, to collect, etc. The officers and directors are colored men, who are known for their sound business standing, their enterprise and adherence to business principles. Their office has been neatly fitted up, and all necessary books and stationery for an institution of that kind has been secured. This is the only bank that is owned and controlled by coiled men in the State of Florida. Such a commendable show of real business enterprise should serve to win the patronage and support of thrifty colored people. The company begins business on a capital of $10,000, and at all times the officers will seek to conduct their business in a perfectly legitimate way. All clerical work at this bank will be correctly done by competent persons, and an invitation is extended to the public to come and see the beginning of a business enterprise that seeks to attain respectable proportions. In Jacksonville worthy colored men have always had the friendly consideration and good wishes of their white friends, who encourage them in any honorable business undertaking. This new and creditable step taken by the men of this race will be watched with a friendly interest, and all wish them success.—The Metropolis, Jacksonville, Fla. 1. NOTICE TO AGENTS. Agents are requested to write their name and address on the outside of returned papers, so that proper credit can be given for them. You cannot afford to miss a single issue of The Colored American. THE HOTEL THE PHELPS HALL BIBLE TRAINING SCHOOL. Connected with the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute at Tuskegee Alabama. 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A special course of lectures is given each year in the Bible School by Dr. C. O. Boothe, of Selma, Ala., Rev. George W. Clinton of North Carolina, and Dr. H. T. Johnson of Philadelphia. Other notables also lecture from time to time. The teaching is free. The cost of board, including furnished rooms, light, fuel and laundering, is Eight Dollars per month. Students are afforded an opportunity to work out from Two to Three Dollars of this amount per month. In some cases, arrangements can be made to work out the entire sum. Lack of means need debar none. Further information, if desired, can be secured by addressing BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Principal Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. Q. Published by THE COLORED AMERICAN Publ ishing Company. Published every Saturday at 459 C St. N. W. Washington, D. C. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year — — — $2.00 Sixth Months — — — 1.10 Two Months — — — .60 INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. 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This issue of The Colored American is a fair sample of the issues that are gotten out from week to week. It is newsy, enterprising and expensive. The friends of the paper as well as subscribers who are in arrears will do the management a great favor by sending in the amount which they kwon to be due at once. It will be appreciated and will help along with the work. ALABAMA'S NEW DISTRICT ATTORNEY. It will be a matter of interest to our readers to know that the lily white movement recently started in Alabama has run up against a severe jolt in its incipiency. Vaughan, the leader of the movement, was summarily removed from office by President Roosevelt just on the eve of his lily white State convention, from which legally elected colored delegates were debarred by guards placed at all the doors and from the deliberations of which they were excluded. The whole lily white aggregation, composed of Wellman, the new lily white chairman, Dimmick, the national committeeman, and Bingham, one of the leaders in the movement, moved on Washington a few days ago clamoring for recognition of their organization and for the appointment of one of their number to succeed Vaughan. Largely at the request of the colored delegates who were excluded by the lily white convention, and with the endorsement of the most influential colored people of Alabama, the President has appointed Judge Thomas R. Roulhac to succeed Vaughan. There was no Republican of character and prominence in the State not tainted with the lily white meanness, and to show his disapproval of the whole scheme, the President refused to take up with any of them, but instead appointed Roulhac, who is a distinguished citizen of Alabama and one who has always been an outspoken friend of the race. He is of the same type as Judge Thomas G. Jones, recently appointed United States Judge by President Roosevelt, who opposed the disfranchising features of the recently adopted Alabama constitution; has stood up always for justice to our people, and is worth more to the Negroes of Alabama than all the lily white Republicans in the State. The President has at the very beginning of this movement made --- it distinctly understood that he is in favor of character and respectability as a bases for citizenship rather than color, the test applied by the lily whites. As a talented, dignified, and broad-gauged man of affairs, Register J. W. Lyons is growing upon the country as he grew upon his own State of Georgia. FOR A NEW EXPANSION Particularly in behalf of our industry and commerce it is to be hoped that our ingenious and eloquent President and the American press will please advocate the annexation of all Central and South American Republics. The great majority of our people, and the inhabitants of those befriended republics would highly appreciate the energetic endeavors to be made by our generally esteemed President and the American press in order to establish by mutual consent the American Republic, which could be satisfactorily governed by our enlightened Administration. Emperor William II, our reliable friend, who greatly rejoiced at comrade-like conversing with our distinguished generals—Corbin, Young and Wood, and their dashing adjutants—would likely be the foremost congratulator on day of proclaiming the American republic. The G. A. R. Encampment is over. Everybody had a good time, the public comfort committee and its foes are smoking the pipe of peace, and when the coal strike is declared off we may lay the flatteringunction to our souls that the country is safe. THE NEGRO IN THE CAMPAIGN We hear a great deal of talk nowadays about the colored citizens dividing their votes between the two great parties in American politics. Indeed, many persons who are supposed to be leaders advise this course, maintaining that the Negro's devotion to the Republican party has been the means of his undoing. We will admit that the Republican party of to-day is not the Republican party of a quarter of a century ago, and that the present organization is indifferent to the interests of our race, but it must be remembered that political parties are not benevolent societies, and to be successful must be operated on business principles. Whatever is necessary to their success, that they no; nothing more, nothing less. Party managers do not make campaign issues. They meet the issues that are made, and any class of people who do not understand these facts are not prepared to act intelligently in political matters. There is no mistaking the fact that there is no political party in the United States to-day that is willing to risk anything in defense of the rights of colored citizens. That is because it is not necessary to do so. The Democratic party has always been opposed to the political advancement of the colored people, while the Republican party has generally manifested a friendly disposition toward them, and it is reasonable to conclude that the friends of the race are in that party. Any division of our vote, or even talk of division of our vote, at the present time is of doubtful expediency. The managers of the Democratic party have not offered any reasonable inducement for us to join forces with that party, and the advice of certain would-be race leaders, who blow hot and cold in the same breath, that we go over to the Democratic party, out of spite, has caused the Republican party to grow lukewarm towards us without our gaining any friends among the Democrats. The threat of certain would-be race leaders to take the colored voters out of the Republican party has done untold mischief to our cause in this country. It has turned the party machine and the party organizers against us, and left us almost friendless in the political world. Every threat of the Negro to leave the Republican party has caused that party to seek for allies from other sources, and the result is the Negro is losing political standing all the time. In order to be successful in politics it is necessary to exercise political sense. The Democratic party is essentially a white man's party. The Republican party is the party of the people irrespective of race or color. It will remain so unless the unwisdom of the Negro makes it a white man's party. Stop advising and stop threatening to leave the party, and go to work for the success of the whole ticket at the elections in November. Whatever measure you want Congress to enact make them issues in the present campaign. Let them be discussed upon the rostrum, and vote for them at the polls. Stand by the Republican party. It is your old friend, a friend that stood by you in the hour of need. Stand by Theodore Roosevelt, the peerless leader, who always stands up for the rights of the people. Vote the Republican ticket and see to it that your neighbor does the same. Vote, vote. Recorder John C. Dancy had as much as any other man to do with bringing out President Roosevelt's ringing denunciation of the anti-Negro Republicans of the South. He never fails to do the right thing at the right time, and is a race champion to the core. OMMISSIONER HENRY L. WEST. The appointment of Mr. Henry Litchfield West as Commissioner of the District of Columbia, to succeed the late John W. Ross, gives eminent satisfaction to our citizens. The contest was a long and earnest one, and the merits of dozens of able men were carefully canvassed in order that no good material should be overlooked. The friends of each candidate were conspicuous for loyalty to their favorites, thus delaying the selection for months. All things considered, however, Mr. West has led from the outset, and his selection is the very best that could have been made. He is a journalist of ripe experience, and his wide acquaintance with public men, together with a thorough knowledge of the needs of the District, will render him valuable officially. We congratulate Mr. West and bespeak for him a successful administration of his most trying responsibilities. A first-class Southern Democrat like Judge Roulhac is ten times better than a "lily-white" Republican. Hon. John P. Green is one of those officeholders who do not mince their words when speaking in defense of the race's manhood rights. Recent events in the political world have developed a new mission for the Afro-American Council. Don't let the situation cool on your hands, gentlemen. Prof. Jesse Lawson gave new evidence of shrewd and patriotic leadership in his masterly management of the convention of Negro voters in Union County, N. J. He achieved a signal victory for the Negro's friend, Senator John Kean. The General Educational Board, with headquarters in New York, has made a generous contribution to the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute for the purpose of having a large summer institute held at Tuskegee during the coming summer. Mrs. A. M. Curtis is lending valuable assistance in the Maryland campaign as the colored representative of the Woman's National Reupublican Association. She is largely responsible for the quietus that has been put upon the popgun opposition to Col. George A. Pearre in the Sixth District. At the 35th annual communication of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Kentucky, held in Georgetown August 5th to 8th, Prof. Peter P. Cabbell, of Madisonville, was re-elected Most Worthy Grand Master. W. H. Steward, of the American Baptist, is Grand Treasurer. At the grand sitting of the True Reformers at Richmond a few days ago, Rev. W. L. Taylor was re-elected Grand Worthy Master for a second full term. Over 700 delegates were present. It was shown that the order has done $9,000,000 worth of business since its foundation. The General Conference Commission of the A. M. E. Church is composed of Bishop A. Grant, chairman; C. T. Shaffer, J. M. Turner, W. A. Anderson, C. S. Smith, A. J. Carey, J. S. Flipper, R. E. Moore and D. P. Roberts, secretary. The next general conference will be held in Chicago in 1904. Eugene Plummer, graduate from the mechanical department of the A. & M. College for the colored race at Greensboro, N. C., in 1900. To-day he has charge of the machinery in a large sewing machine factory at $5 a day. The story points its own moral. The litigation growing out of the will of the late colored millionaire, Col. John McKee, of Philadelphia, has been compromised. The Catholic beneficiaries, through Archbishop Ryan, have transferred to McKee's daughter property to the value of nearly $75,000, in consideration of which all suits of the heirs-at-law have been abandoned. It is likely that the headquarters of the Foreign Missionary Board will be removed from Louisville, Ky., to Philadelphia or Washington. The question will be decided by the National Baptist Convention at Birmingham, which meets on the 17th. The Kentucky Baptists are satisfied with the proposed change and will offer no opposition. Out in Evansville, Ind., all the pupils of a ward school withdrew until it could be determined whether one Mabel Smith, of swarthy complexion, had Negro blood in her veins. After nine physicians had examined the girl and sworn testimony was adduced that she was of French extraction and clear of Negro contamination, the school was permitted to go on in peace. Those who are inclined to ask by what warrant Bishop Walters, Bishop Clinton, and Dr. Corrathers journeyed to the White House to find out where the President stood on the race question are answered by the splendid result accomplished. Any American citizen, white or black, has a right to know what Mr. Roosevelt thinks upon issues which vitally concern his peace and happiness. ST. LUKE'S CHURCH LEADS. The choir of St. Luke's P. E. Church achieved a positive triumph at its initial song service last Sunday, at 5 p. m. The experiment of holding a regular early service proved a gratifying success, the great auditorium being well filled as the processional made its entry. The rendition of "Te Deum Landamus," and "Consider the Lilies," by the full strength of the choir was especially effective, while the octette came in for a full measure of praise, all the voices showing to advantage. The solo numbers were ably taken by Miss Murray, Miss James and Mr. Walker, with a fine piano solo by Miss Lucy J. Moten. The strength and sweetness of the piano and organ accompaniment was noted. The organist is Mr. C. C. McKinney, St. Luke's choir is easily the city's leading church musical organization, and both Director Walker and Rector Waller are to be congratulated. METHODISTS TO UNITE At the recent meeting of the joint committee appointed to discuss the possibility of organic union between the A. M. E. Zion and the A. M. E. Churches the thirty conferees agreed to recommend amalgamation to the next general conferences of the denominations in 1904. There was but one dissenting vote. Among the conferees were Bishops Watters, Clinton Williams, Rev. S. L. Corrathers, Hon. John C. Dancy, and others. It is understood that the proposed move will very nearly increase the membership of the united bodies to the strength of the A. M. E. corporation, and enhance the effectiveness of the work while reducing current expenses. A DELEGATE FROM KENTUCKY. Last week the city was graced by the presence of Mrs. Aaron H. Cabbell, delegate from Henderson, Ky., to the meeting of the Ladies of the G. A. R. She was royally entertained while here, by her sisters regardless of color. The convention was held at the Luther Memorial Church, Fourteenth street and Vermont avenue. She was presented with a souvenir badge by the committee, and participated in an elegant luncheon at the Corcoran Art Gallery. She was shown many courtesies by Mr. and Mrs. Richard Morris, of Pierce Place northwest. The husband of Mrs. Cabbell is a prominent grocer in Henderson, THE METROPOLE CLUB, Washington's Fashionable Resort for Men of Social Inclinations—The Genesis of its Success The social element is largely developed in every well-regulated man. The individual of healthy mind and easy conscience loves to meet his brethren when the duties of the day are done and over a pleasant game or "a drop of the crayture" exchange a little harmless gossip, spin a few yarns or focus sentiment on the issues nearest to the public heart. It may not always be convenient to make a formal call at the home of a friend at the fashionable hour—so some kindly spirit evolved the "club idea"—a large and benevolent family tree. For a long time Washington suffered for the want of such an institution here—a really first-class club, with fittings cheerful to the eye and surroundings at once restful and exhilarating. The J. E. demand was finally answered by those enterprising young men, Messrs. Robert T. Douglas and A. Lincoln Brown. Despite the misgivings of friends our serious prediction of failure, they got together a coterie of the capital's brightest and best young men, and secured a commodious house in an accessible portion of the city, 1633 11th street northwest, and opened the Metropole Club. The venture has been a flattering success from the first month. Why? The official list headed at the organization by Governor P. B. S. Pinchback, was made up of clean, honest, straightforward men, and those who were admitted to membership represented the oldest and most influential family connections, as well as the highest culture and intelligence of the community. The library, stocked abundantly with excellent literature, is a leading feature supplemented by a table full of maga- J. C. zines and newspapers, the latter from all sections of the country. The walls are decked with choice pictures. while the windows are ornamented with fine lace curtains, protected by shades and awnings. The social room is admirably located, and a select party of friends is free from intrusion from any one. The buffet service is unsurpassed by the Metropolitan or Army and Navy Clubs here, nothing but the best liquors and cigars being permitted to cross the bar. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. The gentlemanly mixologist, Mr. Robert Warner is always attention and keeps a supply of cheering stories on tap, if you have a touch of the blues. The billiard and pool parlors have the most perfect tables made, and they are kept in prime condition for the patrons. The private rooms upstairs, for social games, luncheon, etc., are popular, and priest or politician, professional men or students, can call and spend an hour in quiet enjoyment, without let or hindrance. The best evidence of the careful management of the Metropole Club lies in the reputation it has abroad, as well as at home. No stranger is satisfied to leave the city without paying a visit to this fashionable resort, as the register will show. Men of the highest station are frequent sharers in the hospitality of this club, and its popularity shows no signs of waning with its large clientele of "regulars." At a recent business meeting, Mr. Lewis Douglass, one of our best known citizens, was elected president of the organization, succeeding former Gov. P. B. S. Pinchback. Other officers were chosen as follows: Wallace W. McCary, vice-president; B. C. Waller, secretary; A. Lincoln Brown, treasurer; Robert J. Harlan, chairman of the board of governors. The Metropole is here to stay. BEFORE SUPREME COURT. Judge Terrell and Attorney Wetmore Admitted to Practice on Motion of Judge Hewlett-Negro's Step Forward. The Supreme Court of the United States opened last Monday, and it is doubtful if there has ever been such a ditinguished gathering of legal minds to greet that august body on the opening day. The court room was crowded, and there were many prominent persons who failed to get admittance. All the justices, owing to the death of Justice Horace Gray, changed seats except Justice Harlan, who retains the seat of honor, being the oldest member of the court in point of service. The seat to the extreme left, which will be occupied by Justice Holmes, was vacant. There were seventeen admitted to practice before the court, and two of these were colored men. Judge Robert H. Terrell, who occupied a seat beside ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed, and J. Douglas Wetmore, of Jacksonville, Fla., are the Afro-Americans admitted, and they were admitted on motion of Judge E. M. Hewlett. Such has never occurred before. No colored man has ever moved that a member of the race be admitted to practice in the supreme court. That was really a memorable and encouraging occurrence. Judge Robert H. Terrell is judge of a sub-district court in this city, a graduate of Harvard University, and withall the most prominent Afro-American citizen of the District of Columbia, and has a splendid national reputation as representing the highest attainments of the race. J. Douglass Wetmore is a successful lawyer of Jacksonville, a member of the city council, and member of a trust and bar company in that city. Mr. Wetmore is quite a prominent young man, and has been quite a success as a lawyer. Among the spectators at the opening of court and occupying prominent seats were Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, who came to witness the admission of her husband, Judge Terrell, to a membership of the highest tribunal in the world, and Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Hoffman, of Sumnerville, S. C. TOWN TOPICS Dr. J. G. Clayton has been on the sick list this week. Mrs. Lucy Smoot, of Indianapolis, Ind., is in the city, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Cooper. The biennial meeting of the N. A. C. W. will be held in St. Louis, Mo., in the summer of 1903. The postponed election of officers for the Second Baptist Church Lyceum will take place to-morrow afternoon. Miss Lucile Harris, a charming and accomplished young lady of Chicago, Ill., is visiting relatives in 1637 Tenth street northwest. Mrs. David D. Kenney and son have returned from Chattanooga, Tenn., and PE-RU-NA CURES CATARRH OF KIDNEYS EVERY TIME. Major T. H. Mars. PERUNA CURES CATARRH OF THE KIDNEYS DRUG STORE DRUG STORE Pe-ru-na Creating a National Sensation in the Cure of Chronic Ailments of the Kidneys. Major T. H. Mars, of the First Wisconsin Cavalry regiment, writes from 1425 Dunning street, Chicago, Ill., the following letter: "For years I suffered with catarrh of the kidneys contracted in the army. Medicine did not help me any until a comrade who had been helped by Peruna advised me to try it. I bought some at once, and soon found blessed relief. I kept taking it four months, and am now well and strong and feel better than I have done for the past twenty years, thanks to Peruna."----T. H. Mars. Mr. John Vance, of Hartford City, Ind., says: "My kidney trouble is much better. I have improved so much that everybody wants to know what medicine I am using. I recommend Peruna to everybody and some have commenced to use it. The folks all say that if Dr. Hartman's medicine cures me it must be great."—John Vance. Mr. J. Brake, of Petrolea, Ontario, Canada, writes: "Fouryears ago I had a severe attack of Bright's disease, which brought me so low the doctor said nothing more could be done for me. I began to take Peruna and Manallin, and in three months I was a well man, and have continued so ever since."---J. Brake. At the appearance of the first symptom of kidney trouble. Peruna should be are now pleasantly located at 1219 W street northwest. Mrs. Gilbert C. Harris (Roxburv), Moston, Mass., is visiting the city, the guest of her uncle, J. H. Camper, 1215 Linden street northeast. Miss Mary Ellen Coleman, a prominent educator, of Fredericksburg, Va., is the guest of Mrs. H. A. Davis, of No. 1531 O street northwest. St. Luke's Church is to be equipped with gas burners so that in case of failure to secure an adequate supply of coal there will be no interruption of the regular services. Mrs. Emma F. Douglass, of Providence, R. I., is paying her first visit to this city, and is stopping with Mr. and Mrs. Peters, of Eleventh street northwest. Dr. E. D. Williston, the popular T street physician, has purchased another blooded horse—and he is a regular "globe trotter." Like all of the doctor's steeds, the new one is named "Horse." Mrs. Mary E. Tavlor died at her home in Anacostia Monday at the age of fifty-eight years. Funeral services were held Wednesday at Metropolitan Baptist Church. She leaves a sister, Mrs. Minnie Roberts. Mr. J. H. Moss, a prominent citizen from Peru, Ind., is a visitor in this city, the guest of Mr. George W. Jackson, of the Post Office Department. Mr. taken. This remedy strikes at once the very root of the disease. It at once relieves the catarral kidneys of the stagnant blood, pre- venting the escape of serum from the blood. Peruna stimulates the kidneys to excrete from the blood the accumulating poison, and thus prevents the convulsions which are sure to follow if the poisons are allowed to remain. It gives great vigor to the heart's action and digestive system, both of which are apt to fail rapidly in this disease. Peruna cures catarrh of the kidneys simply because it cures catarrh wherever located. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. Moss made many new friends while in the city. Mrs. Emily A. Freeman, of No. 1118 Eighteenth street northwest, after a pleasant sojourn at Atlantic City and Baltimore, has returned to her pleasant home in this city and will be glad to see her friends. The song service last Sunday at St. Luke's was unusually good. The soio work was creditably done. The pianosolo and accompaniments by Miss Lucy Morten deserves special mention. Her work was very artistic. Rev. W. Bishop Johnson, of the Second Baptist Church, will begin a series of sermons on the Christian Sabbath, beginning next Sunday evening at 8 p. m. Dr. Johnson is one of the big men in the Baptist denomination, and is a biblical scholar and pulpit orator. He has few equals. The public is invited. HON. JOHN P. GREEN ON "SUCCESS." To-morrow will be a gala day at the Second Baptist Lyceum. Hon. John P. Green, of Ohio, will deliver an address on "The Higher and Industrial Education as Related to Success in Life." The Monumental Orchestra will be on hand, led by Prof. Charles Hamilton. President Lacy announces that the exercises will begin promptly at 3:30 p. m.