The Colored American

The COLORED American LIBRARY OF CONGRESS A NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER VOL. IX, NO. 33. NOT AS A POLITICIAN NOT AS A POLITICIAN BOOKER T. WASHINGTON ADVISES AS AN EDUCATOR. The Tuskegee Wizard Clings to His Life Work-Explains His Relationship to Public Men and Measures in The Light of Fundamental Principles Advises Only When Asked. Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 26.—The following letter has been received by The Age-Herald from Booker T. Washington: "Editor The Age-Herald: "I notice that recent newspaper articles have connected my name with political matters in such a manner as to show that my position is not understood. I desire therefore to make the following statement: "My life work is the promotion of the education of my race. It is well known that I have always advised my people that it is of supreme importance, at this period of their development, that they should concentrate their thought and energy on the securing of homes, the cultivation of habits of thrift, economy, skill, intelligence, high moral character and the gaining of the respect and confidence of their neighbors white and black, both in the South and North. From such teaching and counsel no influence can ever divert me. NOT A POLITICAN. "Whatever conferences I have had with the President or with any public official have grown out of my position, not as a politician, but as an educator. It should be borne in mind that there are about nine millions of Negroes in the United States who are liable under the law for taxes and military service and who are punishable for infraction of the law. These people at present have no member of their race in the national law-making body and it is right that those charged with making and executing the laws of the land should at times seek information directly from members of the Negro race when their interests and their relations with the whites among whom they live are concerned. "Under no circumstances could I seek to promote political candidacies or volunteer information regarding men or measures, nor have I done so in the past; but because of the importance I have always sought to place upon education and industry among my people as the basis of friendly relations between the races there may be occasions in the future, as there have been in the past, when, if I am so requested, I can give information about men and measures which would tend to puch friendly relations between places. Such information it is to give when it is asked for. ADVICE TO HIS I "At every opportunity WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER, 6 1902. MEN OF THE HOUR PRESIDENT THEO Representative of the Highest Type of American Color Line in Politics Has Made RESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT, The Highest Type of American Statesmanship—His Vigorous or Line in Politics Has Made Him the Idol of the Negro Race LIBRARY OF COUNTRY RECEIVED DEC 8 1902 PERIODICAL DIV PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Representative of the Highest Type of American Statesmanship—His Vigorous Oppositinn to the Color Line in Politics Has Made Him the Idol of the Negro Race youth of our people that they will make a mistake if they seek success in life by mere political activity or the hope of holding political office. Now and then, however, public questions affecting our interests arise which are so fundamental and far-reaching that they transcend the domain of politics. When such questions present themselves, in justice to my race, I make my position known and stand for what I see to be the right. THANKSGIVING RECEPTION. The cosy residence of Mrs. Belt, No. 933 New Hampshire Ave., was the scene of a brilliant reception, Thursday evening, Nov. 27th. The Ladies Auxiliary Club of the Monogram Social Club entertained the members and friends. Mr. William Wrack was the caterer and the sumptuous repast was enjoyed by the large company. Excellent music enlivened the occasion. "We cannot elevate and make useful a race of people until there is held out to them the hope of reward for right living. Every revised constitution throughout the Southern States has put a premium upon intelligence, ownership of property, thrift and character. "As an educator, and not as a politician, I strive in every honorable and rational way to encourage the wise and enduring progress of my people; for if all inspiration and hope of reward is to be denied them, they will be deprived of one of the greatest incentives to intelligence, industry and righteousness. On the other hand, if they are encouraged in sensible and conservative directions they will grow year by year into contentedness and added usefulness. "BOOKER T. WASHINGTON." --- --- DOORE ROOSEVELT, Statesmanship—His Vigorous Oppositinn to the Him the Idol of the Negro Race THANKSGIVING RECEPTION The cosy residence of Mrs. Belt, No. 933 New Hampshire Ave., was the scene of a brilliant reception, Thursday evening, Nov. 27th. The Ladies Auxiliary Club of the Monogram Social Club entertained the members and friends. Mr. William Wrack was the caterer and the sumptecus repast was enjoyed by the large company. Excellent music enlivened the occasion. Officers of Auxiliary: Mrs. Rosa Duffy, Vice President; Miss Olia Jones, Secretary; Miss Lena Jackson, Treasurer; Miss Mable Fletcher, Sergeant-at-Arms. The officers of the Monogram Club are: Mr. Charles Harris, President; Wm. Mason, Vice President; Fred Smith, Secretary; Fred Watts, Treasurer; J. Clark, Corresponding Secretary; Wm. Mahoney, Sergeant-at-Arms. The Manhattan Dancing Club had a most beautiful and brilliant entertainment at the New Masonic Hall, 19th street, northwest, on Thanksgiving night, with a matinee from 2 to 7 p. m., and a continuance from 8 p. m. to 2 a. m. This is one of the most popular organizations in the city. The names of its officers were given out in our last issue. --- PRICE, FIVE CENTS SHOULD BE RETAINED. POSTMASTER VICK A FAITH FUL PUBLIC OFFICIAL Endorsed by Republicans and Democrats Allike and His Course Approved by The Masses-His Retention Would be an Executive Blow to Lily Whitism-Opinions of The Press. Recognition tor colored men in public life in the South is still the question of the hour. President Roosevelt has defined his position when it comes to character, merit and fitness for office. North Carolina is not only attracting attention from utterances of Senator Pritchard, but also from the fact that the question of re-appointing a colored man as Postmaster at Wilson, N. C. is under discussion. Mr. Vick, the present Postmaster, represents the highest type of the educated Southern Negro. Like Dr. Booker T. Washington he has lived with and among the white people of the South and has always had and retains their respect and confidence. The white newspapers of North Carolina, democratic as well as republican, have been loud in their praise of his management of the Postoffice. The reappointment of Mr. Vick as Postmaster, at Wilson, by the Postmaster General, will be a re-assurance to the colored people not only of North Carolina but of the entire South, that the President's policy as outlined by him a few days ago, will be carried out in full in letter and in spirit. Mr. Samuel H. Vick, M. V. P., was born in Nash county in 1863. Immediately after the civil war his parents moved to Wilson, N. C. He studied in the common schools of that town under Dr. J. C. Price. He entered Lincoln University in 1889 and graduated from that college with the degree of A. B., in 1884. Upon his return home he was elected a teacher in the graded school. After one year's service in that capacity he was elected to the principalship of the graded school and remained its principal four years. During these four years he prepared many young men and women to enter the various colleges of our land. Most of these have now graduated and are now holding places of honor and trust. In the fall of 1889 he was appointed by President Harrison to the position of postmaster of Wilson. He held this position until 1894, when his successor, was appointed by President Cleveland. In April of 1894 the Presbytery of Cape Fear elected him the Sabbath School missionary for the Presbytery. He labored zealously in that cause organizing Sabbath Schools and teaching his people higher ideas of life. He had been appointed twice by the Governor of North Carolina to the position of Notary Public of Wilson county. In that capacity he served under both democrats and re- Continued on fifth page. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. 10 AMERICAN PATE DE FOIS GRAS Settlement of Bohemians in Wisconsin Town Where the Goose Livers Are Produced. Persons who read of the tortures inflicted upon geese in France and Germany, where the celebrated pate de fois gras is made, are seldom aware that in one place in our own country the same methods are used to fatten geese for the Hebraic population in New York. In Watertown, Wis., says the New York Herald, there is a settlement of Bohemians where the women pursue this work as the chief industry of the place. The geese are nailed by their web feet to the floors of wooden cages set in dark, warm rooms. They are then fed with all they can possibly eat and when appetite fails they are crammed with noodles made of a dough of corn and buckwheat and forced down their throats with a stick. Every two hours this forced feeding is applied and in a few weeks the bodies of the tortured fowls are distended like pumpkins, the liver alohe frequently weighing from one and a half to two pounds, and the geese from 20 to 25 pounds. They are then killed and plucked by the women, the latter operation being completed before they are really dead, and are shipped to New York city. Arriving there, they are put in cold storage, where they may remain for months or years. They are esteemed a great delicacy by many persons, and quantities of them are used. AN AMERICAN DESERT. There Is No Cultivated Place on the State Line Between Utah and Arizona. H. B. Carpenter, a civil engineer who has just completed the survey of the southern line of Utah, says the boundary between that state and Arizona does not cross a foot of cultivated land. It traverses a desert which is cut up by great canyons that are almost impassable. The length of the line is 277 miles. Landmarks along the line will make it possible for the boundary to be located without any difficulty in the future. Just east of the Colorado river a sandstone butte rises 1,000 feet above the plain, and the very peak of this butte is exactly on the boundary. Mr. Carpenter named the peak State Line butte. Not far from this butte is another, which stands 1,300 feet above the plain, and was named Tower peak. These two gigantic stones, says the Philadelphia Record, will always be a guide to persons who have enough curiosity to penetrate the desert in search of the state line. Drugging Flowers. Ever since the days of that floral abomination, the green carnation, we have known that flowers are susceptible to influence of drugs and can be made to change their colors by proper, or, rather, improper, treatment. This branch of floriculture has been pursued further by inquiring people, and it seems that plants are as liable to the effects of poisons as are human beings. If you give a flower too much chloroform, it will not agree with it. In the words of the operator, "it droops and dies." It is difficult to see what is the advantage of this particular study. Everyone knows that flowers can be killed far too easily. If some scientific person would find a way of causing them to bloom all the year round in our climate, that would be something of a discovery—less scientific, perhaps, but much more acceptable—London Truth. Lives in a Trunk. Miss Celeste J. Miller, a Chicago woman who has done more traveling than any other woman who ever lived, has just started off on her fourth trip around the world, being the first American woman to make the tour of the great Siberian railway route alone. Miss Miller has penetrated to every nook and corner of the known world except Siberia and the Boer country, which she is now planning to visit. She always travels alone; she invariably carries two trunks full of dainty feminine apparel with her, and she has never missed a train or boat connection, never met with any serious misfortune and never failed to enjoy every moment in all her many journeys. Also, in spite of the 300 proposals now placed to her credit, she has never said "yes" to any man. Value of a Mummy. Some time ago the owner of a Peruvian mummy which had been injured on the railway claimed $2,000 damages from the company, and a serious question arose as to the market value of a Peruvian mummy. The question should have been settled by the recent sale at auction in London of six Peruvian mummies. The catalogue contained practical and almost unfeeling directions. For example: "Mummy, found in the ruins of the Chimus of Trugella, wrapped up as found; to open put upright and unscrew the front."—Chicago Daily News. Lasted Too Long. Many a man at a protracted public dinner must have wished to make the same exchange once suggested by Theodore Hook. That noted English wit, being a guest at a London lord mayor's banquet, quietly endured the ordeal until the fifth course appeared, when he threw down his knife and fork and exclaimed: "If you please, I'll take the rest out in money." A Model Town. Berkley, near San Francisco, a town of 20,000 inhabitants, which is the seat of the University of California, contains no public houses and has no policemen. Her Idea. "Charley, dear," said young Mrs. Torkins, "I hope you will promise me never to gamble." "What is your idea of gambling?" "Betting your money and losing it," was the prompt reply.—Washington Star. How It Goes. "When you send your poetical effusions to the magazines do you call them 'poems' or 'verses?'" "Well, when I'm sending them I call them my 'poems,' but when they come back I call them my 'reverses.'"—Philadelphia Press. Most Unusual. Subbubs - The new couple who have moved in next door to us are people of most extraordinary mind. Citiman-You don't say? Subbubs-Yes; mind their own business.—Philadelphia Press. Smoothing His Path. Gus—You never had spunk enough to make a proposal in your life. Why did you tell Miss Prettie that you were engaged to two girls? George—So she'd want to get me away from them.—N. Y. Weekly. Some Comfort. Bigg—Yes, sir. Sad case! Man who built this house of mine just got it finished, when he died. Wigg—Well, it might have been worse. He might have had to live in it.—Brooklyn Life. Not Fully Prepared. Student (reading Virgil)—Three times I strove to cast my arms around her neck—that's as far as I got, professor. Professor—Well, sir, that's quite far enough.—Yale Record. Dr. Pilz—Did you ever lose a patient? Weak Men Cured Free. H JOHN. LET'S SEND FOR IT TO-DAY. 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Be what you are—but be as much as you can be. The man who does nothing makes just one mistake. The good business man is necssarily a temperate n. The mean man borrows his neighbor's Colored American. The wise Negro is not saying much but is thinking a plenty. Extravagant pretensions deceive no one except the pretender. "Bill Bailey" Pritchard "will please go home" after the 4th of March. Horace Greeley's advice: "Go West young man," is still as good as gold. No newspaper ever gains a substantial advantage by being unfair on any proposition. Compulsory education would be a good thing in the District of Columbia—and everywhere else. The colored brother was conspicuous at every stage of the President's great bear hunt in Mississippi. There are people who waste your time and their own in useless and unprofitable conversation. The Caucasian believers in racial separation do not apply their exclusive processes to Negro women. Unload the lily-white Republicans! They are excess baggage and not worth the freight charges. Ingratitude, which is, to our mind, worse than a crime, is the principle stock in trade of the lily-whites. Pulpit cratory does not save souls nor pay church debts more rapidly than quiet piety and steady conscientious industry on the part of the pastor. Women who are driven into an immoral life did not need many applications of the lash before acquiring speed. The Baltimore Afro-American Ledger should possess its soul in patience. We shall get around to it after a while. Negroes should refrain from riding any more than is absolutely necessary in localities where Jim Crow cars are operated. Is the American white man grand enough, strong enough to do right by his colored fellow-citizens? That is the whole question. Twenty thousand votes for the lily-white ticket out of a registration of 200,000, is a poor showing for the cause of "respectability." Live a clear upright life. Evil doing will rise up when least expected and dash the cup of success from the lips of the most talented. Governor Pinchback thinks the Middle West is "God's own country," since the royal welcome he received at Cleveland, Ohio. He is right. Too many churches ask their bishops for pulpit orators, without insisting that the Christianity of said orator be up to the par standard. We shall begin to pacify the Filipino natives when colored men are placed in responsible places under the civil government in the archipelago. The Case of Richard Cole is further illustrated by the fact that when a scape-goat must be found in an emer- gency, the police "land" on the Negro who happens to come handiest. People who say "Mrs. Bishop" and "Mrs. Doctor" still live and have their being in our midst. "Mrs. Clerk," Mrs. Messenger," and "Mrs. Janitor" should have a turn at the bat. Ministerial 'orators and scholars' frequently think too much of demonstrating an abstruce theory by a proposition in Euclid to do very much old-fashioned feeding of hungry souls. The Evening Star could not be a stronger advocate of the measures pleasing to the Negro if it were edited by a colored man of the purest racial type. It is sound upon every moral issue. It may be argued that the Negro should be permitted to enjoy anything that he has the money to pay for, but what colored man in the land is really able to indulge in the luxury of champagne at $4 per quart? Young colored men of means and enterprise can find splendid opportunities now in the Philippines. Why fritter away golden moments in the dry-rot grind of our great cities? why not take on the pioneer spirit and reap the harvest that waiteth? New Life to Weak Men Old Men Made Young Again—Weak Men Find Old-Time Strength and Power of Youth. 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On Beautiful gold crowns and all other work e positively extract teeth without pain. ...12th and Penn. Ave.. Vero Dentists. Violin Instruction, Quickest method Instruments furri ished 630 Pa. Ave., N. W. 12 ENTERTAINED IN BALTIMORE. Miss Bertie Mason, of this city, was entertained by Miss Alice Wilson, of 1229 Carey street, Baltimore, Md., Friday evening, Nov. 28th. A representative gathering of young people was present, among whom were Misses Alice Wilson, Bertie Mason, Murphy, Brown, Janifer, and Chambers; Mesdames Wilson, Mason, Collins, Prather, Nickerson and Payne; Messrs. Wilson, Melville Lee, Ralph Stewart, Alphonso Harris, Cnester Turley, and Daniel Brooks, of Washington, D. C., Payne, Mason, Hawkins, McCard, Robert Colman, Clarence Chambers and Howard Smith; Drs. McCard, Wright, Whetley, Baker, Prather, and others. The giver and participants of this entertainment are young elite of Baltimore, among whom Miss Alice Wilson is a bright member star. OBITUARY. The death of Mr. Percy Y. Clark in this city November 29th, was a surprise to his many Washington friends. He was a young man of unusual promise, and after graduating from theHigh School in this city and taking a two year course in the Howard University, he devoted his time to music. He was a pianist of ability and a writer of instrumental and vocal music, being the author of ten or fifteen well-known pieces. He was born in Detroit, Mich., some twenty-six years ago and was the son of Mr. Walter Y. and Nellie E. Clark, of this city. His death came as a surprise to his many friends here and those who knew him expected much of him as a musical writer and author. He was unmarried. Mass Meeting of Temperance Workers will be held at 19th Street Baptist Church, 19th and I Streets, northwest, on Friday, Dec. 12, 1902, the occasion being the installation of Miss Ella M. Boston as Superintendent of W. C. T. U. work among the colored people. All W. C. T. U; workers and temperance societies are invited. A fine musical and literary programme has been arranged. Mrs. Lawson, National Organizer, will preside. THE WOMAN'S LEAGUE. The Woman's League day nursery will be re-opened Friday night, Dec. 12th, in their own Home, 1931 12th Street, at 8 o'clock. The Home of the league has been thoroughly fitted up, a new kitchen has been added while the exterior and interior have all been done over. New cribs and everything necessary for the comfort of the children have been supplied. A cordial invitation is extended to all who are interested in this worthy charity. Admission free. A GRAND CHRISTENING An appropriate christening ceremony took place at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hudnell, 2009 9th street, northwest, Thanksgiving Day. Mr. Hudnell's grandson was christened by the Rev. Garner, of Plymouth Congregational Church. Mr. Romulus Hudnell was in Cumberland at the time and was unable to be present. Mrs. Romulus Hudnell, who is here, expects to join her husband the latter part of the week. The entire family was present, including Mrs. Ada Hudnell, the great grandmother. Many valuable gifts were received. 10TH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH The derdicatory exercises at the Tenth Street Baptist Church, which extended through the month of November, closed last Sunday, with a splendid sermon by Rev. W. P. Gibbons, Pn. D., pastor of Mt. Carmel Baptist Church. It has been arranged to conduct a series of revival meetings this month at the Tenth Street Church. To lead these meetings the services of Rev. B. W. Farris, of St. Paul Baptist Church, Boston, have been secured. Tomorrow will be a big day at Dr. Lamikin's tabernacle. MR. WHITE AT THE BAR The speech of Hon. George H. White in defence of Forrest Pendleton, who was on trial for the killing of Grafton Brown, is pronounced the finest of THE COLORED AMERICAN. WASHINGTON, D. C. fort of the kind heard for years in a local court room. It saved the life of the defendant. Mr. White's law practice has grown to immense proportions, and his civil cases involve large sums of money, and his success in criminal course has been phenomenal. SOCIAL LIFE IN BOSTON. Very recently a social of breadth and prominence was given at the lovely home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bailey, 9 Windsor St., Boston, in honor of foreign friends, who are at present in this city. Those present were: The Misses Tarah, of Damascus, Miss Gillilla Nahase, of Constantinople, Miss Slopl, of New York city, Mrs. Olivia Ward Bush, the poetess, and Professor Thomas Adams, the brilliant young leader, and a leading musician, of Boston. During the evening of Thursday last, a more enjoyable social was ever given in the South end section of this city Miss Nahs rendered several beautiful solos, and Prof. Adams rendered "The Pilgrim's Chorus," Tannhauser, Mrs. Bush recited one of her beautiful poems. A brilliant repast was served late in the evening, consisting of several courses. City in Brief. Hons. Judson W. Lyons and Jno. C. Dancy were in New York last week, where they made a number of eloquent speeches. Mrs. H. C. Bruce, widow of the late H. C. Bruce, of the Pension Office, this city, is now pleasantly located in Leavenworth, Kan. Mrs. Martha Allison, mother of Mrs. Capt. W. P. Gray, of Richmond, Va., is very sick in this city, at the residence of her daughter, No. 1117 15th, northwest. Mrs. M. L. Davis, her daughter, of Richmond is also ere with her. Mr. Jno. J. Lewis the well-known boniface at the McKinley House, was united in marriage to Mrs. Proctor Wallace, Tuesday of last week, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Proctor, 1212 25th street northwest. A large number of friends witnessed the ceremony. Capt. Harry L. West, formerly of this city, but who has spent the past few years in Cleveland, Ohio, has returned to the city. He is in the employ of Congressman Burton, of Cleveland, and will spend the winter in this city. His many friends are glad to see him. The Asbury M. E. Church choir will sing in Baltimore on the third Sunday in December, at Sharp Street Memorial Church, of which Rev. I. L. Thomas is pastor. Director J. Henry Lewis and his splendid aggregation of vocalists will be accompanied by quite a number of prominent citizens. A hearing of the case wherein Richard Cole asks his release on a writ of habeas corpus, was had yesterday. Attorney J. W. Patterson represents Mr. Cole and the delay has been caused by the desire of the astute lawyer to secure the necessary witnesses and take no chances on a "slip-up." The Metropolitan Club organized in 1900. for social purposes, had a most enjoyable dance at Odd Fellows Hall on Thanksgiving night. Its officers are Andrew J. Payne, President; Wm. P. Thomas, Vice-President; James W. Lee, Recording Secretary; Joseph J. Brayant, Financial Secretary; Jno. W. Matthews, Treasurer, and Charles Dogans, Sergt.-at-Arms. Fine music and a bountiful supper were provided. The National Relief Association one of the many useful organizations gave a swell matinee at Odd Fellows Hall on Thanksgiving afternoon. Every one was a fine fellow and the entertainment was voted a perfect success. The National Relief Association, one of the many useful organizations gave a swell matinee at Odd Fellows Hall, on Thanksgiving afternoon. Everyone was in fine fettle and the entertainment was voted a perfect success. The officers are Henry Taylor, President, Wm. H. Brown, Secretary, and George Smith, Treasurer, with same officers and Andrew Allen, Wm. A. Walker and W. B. Jackson, as Board of Directors. The Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers The Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers Is the leading Colored Fraternal Society of the United States. It was organized January, 1881, by William W. Browne, and chartered in April, 1883, under the laws of the State of Virginia, with headquarters at Richmond, Va. Its membership is both male and female, and consists of all persons of good health from 14 to 60 years of age. Its membership of 60,000 is divided into Fountains and Circles. It pays sick benefits from $1.50 to $2.50 per week, and pays death benefits from $24.56 to $1000. BENEFITS PAID—Total benefits paid to date: Sick dues, $r,500,000; death benefits, $714,378.75. SENIOR FOUNTAINS—A Fountain may be organized consisting of 20 or more persons not over 50 years of age paying a joining fee of from $4.60 to $5.10 each. The monthly dues are not less than 35 cents in rural districts and not less than 50 cents per month in towns and cities, and a semi-annual tax of 40 cents paid in January and July of each year. Sick benefits paid are from $1.50 to $2.50 per week, while death benefits range from $75 to $125. A Fountain may be organized in any locality on application to Rev. W. L. Taylor, G. W. Master, or to any of his authorized deputies. ROSEBUDS-For the proper training of the young and their development in thrift, industry and brotherly love, there has been formed a Children's Department known as the Rosebuds. Twenty or more children not less than three nor more than fourteen years of age may form a Rosebud, upon the payment of $1 each. This department, like the Senior Fountain, pays sick benefits from $1 to twenty-five cents per week; and death benefits from $24.50 to $37. The monthly dues are fifteen cents per month. CLASSES-Persons desiring to leave their beneficiaries at death a larger amount than is paid from Fountain Department, take out policies in one or more of the Classes of the Mutual Benefit Degree. The members of this degree are divided into Circles, and pay joining fees and dues according to the following tables: of the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers, capital stock $100,000. The bank commenced business April 3, 1889, and from that time down to the present has steadily increased in volume of business. It now has a paid-up capital stock of $100,000. From the humble sum of $1,268.69, deposited the first day the bank opened for business in 1889, the deposits have grown to $350,958, and the volume of business transacted amounts to $6,190,141.47. During the financial panic of 1893, the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain was the only bank in the city of Richmond that did not cease to pay cash on all checks presented, while the majority of other banks were using script and clearing house checks. This bank had its origin in the brain of William W. Browne, an ex-slave of Habersham, Ga. The banking house is located at 604 North Second Street, Richmond, Va., Rev. W. L. Taylor, President; R. T. Hill, Cashier. REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT—The Real Estate Department has charge of all the real property to the amount of $220,221.65, situated in various States, consisting of 13 magnificent buildings used as halls, 8 dwellings, 1 hotel. 5 stores and three farms. It also has under its control 16 large buildings leased by it. This department is under the management of Lawyer J. C. Robertson, chief of real estate and attorney for the association, office at 608 N. 2nd Street, Richmond. Va REFORMERS MERCANTILE AND INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION—Was chartered under the laws of the State of Virginia on the 14th day of December, 1899, with principal office in the city of Richmond, Va. The purpose of this association is to conduct stores (wholesale and retail), buy and sell real property, manage and control hotels, manufacturing establishments, and do general business. The association has in operation Hotel Reformer, 900 N. Sixth Street, Richmond, Va. It is a modern up-to-date structure, heated by steam, cold and hot water baths, also electric cars passing the door. This hotel has accommodations for 150 guests. Mr. A. W. Holmes is manager, and Mr. T. W. Taylor is clerk. It has in operation a system of five stores, located as follows: Richmond, Va.; Washington, D. C.; Manchester, Va.; Portsmouth, Va.; and Roanoke, Va. The first or these stores, at Richmond, Va., was opened April 3d, 1900. It employs a force of 18 men, runs three delivery wagons, and during the first year did $50,000 worth of business. The other stores have been established since, and have been equally as prosperous. The general manager of the system of stores is Mr. B L. Jordan, headquarters at 608 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. This Association was formed on the plans and recommendations made by Rev. W. L. Taylor, its President. THE REFORMER PRINTING DEPARTMENT—Issues a weekly journal, THE REFORMER, which has a circulation of 12,000. This paper is published in the interest of the race, and discusses the leading questions of the day. The subscription price is $1 per year, or 5c. per single copy. The office is equipped with modern up-to-date machinery, run by electricity. It can print anything from a visiting card to a poster 42 by 62 inches. Fine job work of every class and description is made a specialty at lowest prices. Mr. E. W. Brown is editor and business manager, office 608 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. Correspondence solicited and agents wanted. OLD FOLKS' HOME—In September, 1893, Rev. William W. Brown recommended the formation and establishment of Old Folks' Homes for the benefit of old and decrepid members of the race. Since that time the valuable farm known as Westham, consisting of 6344 acres, located six miles from Richmond, Va., on the historic "James," has been purchased, at a cost of $14,400. The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad runs through the farm, and Westham Station is located on it. Adjoining this farm is Westampton Park, one of the most pleasant resorts in the South in summer. It is reached in a few minutes from Richmond by the Westampton Electric Railway and the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. As this home is for the benefit of the whole race, the co-operation of all charitable friends is prayerfully solicited. All contributions, donations and bequests of every character will be very thankfully received. Mr. T. W. Taylor is chief in charge of the Old Folks' Home, offices at 608 North Second Street, Richmond, Va. Rev. W. L. Taylor, G. W. M. W. P. Burrell, G. W. S. 601-6-8 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. Class "B" Joining fee. Value of Certificate after one year. Value of Certificate before one year Annual Dues Quarterly Dues Age 14 to 25 $2 50 $200 00 $100 00 $4 75 $1 20 " 25 to 30 2 75 200 00 100 00 4 75 1 20 " 30 to 35 3 00 200 00 100 00 4 75 1 20 " 35 to 40 3 25 200 00 100 00 5 70 1 43 " 40 to 45 3 50 140 00 70 00 5 79 1 43 " 45 to 50 3 75 115 00 58 00 5 65 1 66 " 50 to 55 4 00 70 00 45 00 6 65 1 66 " 55 to 60 4 25 65 00 33 00 7 60 1 90 Class "M" Joining fee. Value of Certificate Annual dues Quarterly dues Age 14 to 20 $11 00 $1000 00 $21 90 $5 25 " 30 to 35 12 00 1000 00 22 00 5 50 " 35 to 40 12 00 905 00 23 00 5 75 " 40 to 45 13 00 800 00 24 00 6 00 " 45 to 50 13 00 700 00 25 00 6 25 of the Grand Fountain United Order of The bank commenced business April 30, present has steadily increased in volume ital stock of $100,000. From the humble the bank opened for business in 1889, th the volume of business transacted amo cial panic of 1893, the Savings Bank o in the city of Richmond that did not ce while the majority of other banks were. This bank had its origin in the brain off bersham, Ga. The banking house is lo mond, Va., Rev. W. L. Taylor, Preside REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT—The Real real property to the amount of $220,221, of 13 magnificent buildings used as hall farms. It also has under its control 16 partment is under the management of I state and attorney for the association, off REFORMERS MERCANTILE AND INDUSTR der the laws of the State of Virginia or principal office in the city of Richmond to conduct stores (wholesale and retail) control hotels, manufacturing establish association has in operation Hotel Refo. It is a modern up-to-date structure, hea also electric cars passing the door. This Mr. A. W. Holmes is manager, and Mr. tion a system of five stores, located as f C.; Manchester, Va.; Portsmouth, Va.; stores, at Richmond, Va., was opened A men, runs three delivery wagons, and d business. The other stores have been o as prosperous. The general manager of headquarters at 608 N. Second Street, formed on the plans and recommends President. THE REFORMER PRINTING DEPARTMENT which has a circulation of 12,000. This paper is pursues the leading questions of the day. The su copy. The office is equipped with modern up print anything from a visiting card to a poster 4 description is made a specialty at lowest prices. ager, office 608 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. OLD FOLKS' HOME—In September, 1893, Re ction and establishment of Old Folks' Homes for race. Since that time the valuable farm known six miles from Richmond, Va., on the historic The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad runs through Adjoining this farm is Westhampton Park. Summer. It is reached in a few minutes from H and the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. As this co-operation of all charitable friends is prayer requests of every character will be very thankful of the Old Folks' Home, offices at 608 North Seco For further information address Rev. W. L. Taylor, G. W. M. 601-6-8 N. Second S Class "E" Joining fee. Value of Certificate after one year. Value of Certificate before one year Annual dues Quarterly dues Age 14 to 25 $5 00 $500 00 $250 00 $9 50 $2 50 " 25 to 30 5 25 500 00 250 00 9 50 2 40 " 30 to 35 5 50 500 00 250 00 9 50 2 40 " 35 to 40 5 75 500 00 250 00 10 40 2 60 " 40 to 45 6 00 450 00 225 00 10 40 2 60 " 45 to 50 6 25 400 00 206 00 11 40 2 85 " 50 to 60 6 10 850 00 175 00 11 40 2 85 REGALIA—The members of the Fountains and Rosebuds of the organization wear no expensive regalia. The regalia of the organization is simple and its cost will be in the easy reach of all, costing from 10 cents to $3. The same is made by the organization in what is known as the Regalia Department. THE SAVINGS BANK—In March, 1888, there was granted by the Legislature of Virginia a charter to the Savings Bank THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. ©. (3 SSeS > ses — Fs eo a The New Negro Poet a-<< i $56.00 PER DAY ) ee : 2/€ Agents are Making $6.00 Per Day Z © ae SELLING THE GREAT POETICAL “4 + es. 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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 pi without subscribing for the p it will be sent by express for $ To parties who desire to sell t they will be sent in quantiti ten or more for $1.00 each. All orders should be address 15 HOWARD UNIVERSITY Washington, D. C. Rev. J. E. RANKIN. D. D., LL. D., President. Here is an Opportunity! The Colored Ameri WASHINGTON, D.C. This picture should be in every Pa Library, Reading Room, School Re and every Public Hall used by intelli colored people. 16 A City Paragraphs. The holiday season is nigh. Rev. L. C. Sheafe has a handsome home on Spruce Street, Le Droit Park. Mr. Walter H. Hayes was the guest of Miss Nellie Davis, in Baltimore, last week. Mrs. George T. Brent and Mrs. Annie Durand of Baltimore, visited the city last week. Rev. E. H. Hunter is making commendable progress with his charge at Danby Spring, Md. A memorial service in honor of the late Joseph H. Lucas is being planned by the teachers of the city. Rev. A. W. Shields, the well-known evangelist, is conducting successful revivals at points in Virginia. Mrs. Mason, accompanied by her daughter, Miss Bertina Mason, were in Baltimore several days last week. Master Willie, the bright little boy of Mr. and Mrs. Will. H. Lacey, of 1514 Pierce Place, has been seriously ill. Prof. and Mrs. Charles C. Cook, Mr. Robert Harlan and Mr. and Mrs. John Howe have been visiting in Philadelphia. A great revival is being held at Bridge Street A. M. E. Church, led by the noted revivalist, Mrs. Ella Brown of this city. Mr. Thomas A. Scott, of North Carolina, stopped over en route to Philadelphia to visit his brother, Lawyer A. W. Scott. Miss Helen E. Bell and Mr. Morrison Goodrich made their Baltimore debut last night in a concert at St. John's A. M. E. Church. There is no doubt in the minds of well informed people here that the Capital Savings Bank will pay depositors dollar for dollar. Rev. C. C. Dunlop, of Providence, R. I., passed through the city this week on his way to visit relatives and friends in South Carolina. The police are hot on the trail of the highwayman who assaulted and robbed Mrs. Harvey A. Thompson on U street one evening last week. The two weeks' fair at the Second Baptist Church, closed Monday evening, with happy financial results. The annual revival opens at once. A fair opens on the 15th at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. A notable feature of the occasion will be an art exhibit by Mrs. Lottie E. Wilson. Ex-Recorder H. P. Cheatham was in the city last week on business. He was in his customary good health, and looked with hopeful eye upon the situation in North Carolina. ```markdown ``` THE COLORADO AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. MARCUS RUBEN MANUFACTURER OF WAITERS' & COOKS' OUTFITS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION ALSO ALSO Barbers' Coats, Barkeepers' Coats, Vest and Aprons. St. Chicago, Illinois. BLACK SKIN REMOVER. REGISTERED IN PATENT OFFICE U.S. BEFORE AFTER A.Wonderful Face Bleach both in a box for $1, or three boxes for $2. Guaranteed to do what we say and to be the "best in the world." One box is all that is required if used as directed. A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH. A PEACH-LIKE complexion obtained if used a directed. Will turn the skin of a black or brown person four or five shades lighter, and a mulatto person perfectly white. In forty-eight hours a shade or two will be noticeable.® It does not turn the skin in spots but pleaches out white, the skin remains beautiful without continual use. Will remove wrinkles, freckles, dark spots, pimples or bumps or black heads, making the skin very soft and smooth. Small pox pits, tan, liver spots are moved without harm to the skin. 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, Post-Office money order, express money order, 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. Returned from a jaunt to Baltimore. Dr. and Mrs. John R. Francis, Dr. L. H. Singleton, Miss Mamie Harris, Messrs. Ralph Stewart, James Walker and William Baltimore. Mr. Frank A. Byron, clerk to Congressman Foss, of Illinois, has resumed his duties at the Capitol. His summer's sojourn in the Windy City has added to his avoirdupois. A deed has been placed on record transferring a lot in Effingham Place from the trustees of Park Temple Congregational Church to the trustees of Lincoln Temple Congregational Church. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Chivis, of Philadelphia, have been in the city for several days, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Bundy, 1642 10th street northwest. They expect to spend the winter in California. Hon. John S. Durham was in the city last Saturday, but left for New York, from which point he will sail for Havana, Cuba, to enter upon his duties as assistant attorney to the Spanish claims commission. Mr. Henry H. Jackson died Thursday of last week at the residence of his sister, Mrs. E. Downer, 1516 Pierce Place, northwest. The funeral took place Sunday at Shiloh Baptist Church, Rey. J. 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YOUNG MEN, MIDDLE AGED MEN OR OLD MEN. services and errors of youth, and troubles mory, bashfulness, confusion of ideas of the heart, weak back, dark circles face, loss of sleep tired feeling morn' rapid, aversion to society, no ambition, and night losses, deposits in urine fre- th slight burning, Kidney troubles. or organs, weak back, bone pains, ulcers, want of confidence, impotency, lack URE YOU, not come to see us, write and we shall sealed cover, that will put you on the I Institute. 2 & 3d Floors AMERICAN SHREDS AND PATCHES 8 TO THOSE MAIDS WHO— For the "Colored American." Thou hast within thy grasp, oh, maid: The destiny of a race. With thee our virtues rise or fade, Judgment of man to face. We pray thee, rise; cast off that weak, Defenseless, grinning mood; Increase thy worth, force man to seek Thy hand, true womanhood. When virtue shines from out thine eyes In true light, deep and bold, Naught in the heart of man there lies To ask that it be sold. Man ever loves true virtue found In maiden, black or white. And in response gives most profound Honor; nor her name to blight. But then, perchance, thou'd smile, he'd beck, Thou'st lured him, cruel flirt; The mortals of thy race thou'd wreck To roll thee in thy dirt. Out from among those who repel Thy doings base and bold! Hie thee to a white man's hell, To where thy virtue's sold! Father, brother, cast her out! (Unless thou art to blame) If so, oh, race! with one voice shout: For shame! For shame!! For shame!!! Major Taylor is to ride in Australia. Miss Dora Cole, of New York, is a promising elocutionist. A new bank has been opened by colored men at Pine Bluff, Ark., with J. N. Donoho as the leading spirit. Tuskegee's endowment fund at present amounts to $299,759. The number of students enrolled is 1384. Dr. Brooker T. Washington will be a guest at the banquet of the Business Men's League, of Philadelphia, December 11. A fountain of the True Reformers was recently organized at Littleton, N. C., with Hon. H. P. Cheatham as presiding officer. J. Milton Turner is said to be a candidate for Commissioner-General of a proposed Negro Exhibit at the St. Louis World's Fair. A grand jubilee is in progress at the St John A. M. E. church, Topeka, Kansas, of which Rev. F. G. Snelson, F. R. G. S., is pastor. Mr. W. R. Lover, of Philadelphia, Pa., is the first colored man to be appointed to the department of city treasurer of Philadelphia. Fraternal delegate, George Wilde, has returned to his home in England much pleased with his reception by his American Odd Fellow brethren. Hon. Edward H. Morris, grand master of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, was elected to the Illinois State Senate by a majority of 15,000 votes. The "Jim Crow" street car law was declared unconstitutional by Judge Aucoin of the Second City Criminal Court for the Parish of New Orleans, November 19th, 1902. Brooklyn, N. Y., has just had appointed a colored fireman in the person of Jacob Fulcher, who is the second man of his race ever to serve in this capacity in that city. The Colored Odd Fellows of Norfolk, Va., have lost their $10,000 hall on account of being unable to keep up their payments. It was sold under the hammer and is now a sub-police station. Lawyer Wm. M. Randolph, of Pittsburg secured a verdict of over $ THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. O. for his client, Dr. Anna B. Rollins, of Chicago, who sued three detectives of that city for damages for false imprisonment, The Industrial School, at Laurel, Md., created largely through the efforts of Rev. Ernest Lyon, has been formally opened under flattering auspices. Dr. Lyon will be president of the intsituation. A hundred Negro families will move from Decatur, Ala., to Liberia. They say they will not remain in Alabama, because the new constitution disfranchises them and the Republican party kicked them out. Hon. H. P. Cheatham is a very successful farmer. He has just raised 100 bushels of potatoes on less than an acre of land. He will also make between six and seven hundred busnels of the best quality peanuts. Whitesboro, N. J., near Cape May, founded by ex-Congressman George H. White, is growing rapidly. Families are building houses on the lots, and the wooded land is being cleared up. During October over $1200 worth of cordwood was disposed of. Curry and McDaniel, of South McAllister, Ind. Ter., a firm of railroad contractors, both colored men, have laid one hundred and fifty miles of rails for the Choctaw railroad within the last eighteen months, working on an average 200 men both white and colored. Charles Carr, colored, twenty-one years of age, of Philadelphia, died at the Chester County Hospital from injuries received during a foot ball game at West Chester, November 27. Carr's neck was injured in a mass play, and he was rendered unconscious. Foot ball is a dangerous pastime. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Waddell Chesnutt have announced the marriage of their daughter Ethel Perry to Mr. Edward Christopher Williams, on Wednesday, November 26th, -1902, at Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. and Mr. Williams will be at home after January 1, at 71 Elberon avenue, in the Forest City. The Union American M. E. church, colored, which operates mainly in the North and East, at its General Conference a few days ago, elected to the bishopric to fill the vacancy of the late Bishop James H. Cook the Rev. Jacob C. Ramsey, D. D., of Woodtown, N. J. His district embraces New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island. Henry F. Downing, who will be remembered as Consul to San Paulo de Loando under Cleveland's first administration, has become the manager of a cotton-growing enterprise in West Africa, the movement being backed by an English syndicate, desirous of lessening their dependence upon the American market for raw cotton for the Lancashire in ills. It should be borne in mind that the Southern Federation of Women's Clubs, which embraces all clubs composed of colored women, will hold its annual gathering in New Orleans Dec. 29 and 30 next. Mrs. Booker T. Washington, the President, has sent out a circular letter urging upon the ladies throughout the South a large and enthusiastic attendance, and it is to be hoped it may be so. At Titusville, Pa., a "Women's Friendly Institute and Domestic School of Science," has been established with Miss Francis A. Riley as principal, and Miss Amy Cordelia Rossin as secretary. The object is to promote the education and employment of colored women for domestic service. The opening exercises of the fall season were held October 24th, program of rare excellence. A NEW MONUMENT. The Institute of Domestic Science of Pennsylvania-Rev. L. G. Jordan at its Head. We have just read the announcement of the opening of the Pennsylvania Institute of Domestic Science, located at 17 S. 56, Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 11th. The object is given as follows: The Institute was founded by Rev. L. G. Jordan, D. D., secretary of the National Baptist Foreign Mission Board. Dr. Jordan is known the country over, as one of the race's greatest hustlers. We knew him as a Pennsylvania Institute of Domestic Science: friend since 1889, always ready to push anything good for the race, and a great reformer. The need of an Institute of this kind in all our cities, needs no debate—so many openings for equiping the girls of other races, and so few for our women, and yet they are expected to do what others do. The Pennsylvania Institute will fill a long-felt want, and immortalize the founders. We predict a great future for the A. E. Institute. Young women going North in search of work would do themselves a great favor and save much time, worry, and money, by writing to the management or on reaching Philadelphia go direct to the Institute. They have connected with the Institute a large number of women who are in sympathy with its objects and each other, known as the Daughters of Hope. Miss N. H. Burroughs, who is known as a writer on household economics, is the corresponding secretary of the Institute. OMEGA OF ATTAINMENT Scaife, Ark.—I have received your peerless paper THE COLORED AMERICAN, very regularly, and always enjoy its timely contents. Wish every Negro alive to-day could read, and that they would read it each week. It is so rich and good until I hate to have it alone, though rarely part with a copy—in fact never do unless I know the favored party is going to appreciate the treat and read it, and that any sane human being will do. Really your paper is the Omega of high attainment and perfection in the journalistic way. Enclosed find check for $3. With best wishes for your success, I beg to remain your devoted friend. H. G. B. Jacksonville, Fla.—Please find enclosed my check for five dollars to cover my subscription. Wishing you continued success, I am, Truly yours, J. E. L. 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 liquore, the best brand of cigars and the coolest beer in Washington. BROWN & SMITH, Proprietors. HOTEL CLYDE, 475 MISSOURI AVE, N.W. First-Class Accomodations For Ladies and Gentlemen. Hot and Cold Baths. MRS. ALICE E. HALL, Proprietress. THE SOUTHERN HOTEL, Good board, steam heat and electric bells. Home comforts, moderate prices. 311 Pa. Av., n. w., Washington, D. O. Fine wines, liquors, cigars and Tobacco. SATTERWHITE & CO., PROPS. The Woodson House First-Class, newly Furnished and decorated. unsurpassed cuisine. conveient to all cars. Only half square from Pennsylvania Depot..... 467 MISSOURI AVE. HENRY WOODSON, PROPRIETOR. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Groves signature is on each box. 250 Ladies Needing Advice and Treatment CONSULT CONSULT Mrs. Renner. The German female specialists. Treats woman's ills, complaints and irregularities. Private Sanitaritum, not a public hospital, but a private home, separate rooms, and home comforts for cases before and during confinement. Trained nurse and experience physician in attendance. Privilege home for infant if necessary. City office hours from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. 1233 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, P. C. BERNARD H BAGGETT UNDERTAKER & EMBALMER 1823 L Street Northwest. Carriages for Hire. First-Class Services at Moderate Rates. 'Phone, main, 2776 M Open Day and Night. The first king to buy a cast steel gun was a colored gentleman, the Bey of Tunis. He bought it from Krupp, maker. THE GICORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, v. ©. “HANG TOGETHER OR HANG SEPARATELY” | Zz f ry bs LS { ae ene Y LH Ay we aT WY Atl PA eee! Mitt TEA EL eaaiaie, <E /, TE ie “Oia UR TF : A Wh LIAS NGA" Hy TEL Hae WA ie OAS | TL ON Ye pebiatds OW. VW il ee it) Sai Khe VME Ss =a '™W/7i 7 RN SAA. ee VM ee ey, ce 3M, Rel Nr JA OF i Ht 7? ae Ry Hi Ay ty. | Bee Aa NP Liye (20 ae oo KUO te Nee MM NRE ee Rate Ae hu BLE AF TAA ig an ety = eA. 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It is not only national, with a touch of the local, but is international in scope. It combines in a well bal- anced degree, the newspaper, the advo- cate and the magusines The American Star. QUICK TO NOTE IMPROVE- MENTS It was not due to lack of appreciation, that we failed to acknowledge our great indebtedness to that splendid Paper, Tue Covorep AMERICAN of Washington; D C. fr placing us on its exchange list. The Capital C ty max well [e proud of os grand race advocate—Home News, Alexandria, Va. PUT DOWN ANOTHER “TALLY.” Last week the Washington (D. C.) CoLogeD AMERICAN issued as a supple- ment a four-colored engraving of Prof. Pooker T. Washington. The engraving is a triumph of mechanical art and skill. The American announces that it will is- ste these supplements at frequent in- ‘tervals and that the series will include only those leaders of the race whose ‘merits and services entitle them to prominence. Score another for Tue Cororep Amertcan.—Marxton Blade. NEVERTHELESS AND NOTWITH- . STANDING. The Negro press may criticise Editor Cooner of THE Cotoeen Awrercan, but he publishes the news and edits one of the best papers that comes out of thr Capital City—Kentucky Reporter. MAGNIFICENT WORK OF ART. Tue Cororzep AMERICAN issued a dow- ble edition of that admirable periodical last week, which is very creditable to the management. Besides the enormous amount of news matter and feature work contained in the paper, the likeness of Booker T. Washington was issued as a ‘supplement, which was a magnificent piece of artistic work. Mr. Cooper gave thepublicanexample of the possibility of Afro-American journalism, of which his paper is one of the leading spirits—R. C. M. Simmons in Charleston (W. Va.) Advocate. EXAMPLE SHOULD BE FOL- TOWRD. I purchased a copy of Cocorep AMERI- 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 Newrs =7- pers would do well to follow. I consider your paper confined to no class or sect but a paer of the people. I congratulate your eminent success in journalism and trust the future holds out to you greater success ten ree soaaeeiataes . Very tru!» your; Very res 8 SALOONS ——— Fritz Reufer’s WasHInaTon, D.C. HOTEL AND RESTAURANT 451, 453, 455, 457 Penn. Ave. 202, 208 and 210 4% St. Northwest MOORE & PRIOLEAD, Sparta - Buffet and Cate 1216 Pa.Av. Wash,, D.C, Fine wines, liquors and cigers, Hot Free Lunch Every Day, *@” Ladies Will receive special attention in Dining Boom upstairs. Jas. F. Keenan, DOTS AGA | Rectifier and Wholesale Liquor (Healer, Elegant Club Whiskey a Specialty Importer of Fine Wines, Brand- ies, Ging, Etc 462 Pennsylvanian Avenue, NW. Cc. BH. NAUGHTON... LIQUORS FINE W INES, Harper & Wilson a specialty; 1926 Fourteenth St., Northwest. = & Costley BINES, LIQUORS & CIGARS aq Ladies and Gentleraen’s Dining Room a; stairs. The best of service gueranteed Bi3i3 E street N. W. a Wasarneton, D. O. it os ; Ch X d QUALITY HOUSE, 909 7thst NW, Established 86 years ago. The largest wholesale Stock in town of the most exquisite, faultless wines and distiliates (im ail 240 kinds,) at Chris. Xander’s modern prices no others can compete quality and purity with any ot his goods. His liquors are absolutely free from fusel poison. (No branch houses.) Phone 1425 Se MIDY Standard remedy for Gleet, iN 48 HOURS. Cures Kid- ney and Bladder Troubles. Se Se ee W: M. DRURY’S RESTAURANT 1100 2th Bt, corner L. N. W, [Portrait of a man in formal attire with a bow tie, surrounded by decorative elements such as hearts and floral patterns. In the background, there is a smaller portrait of a woman with a similar decorative style. The image is framed with ornate decorative borders.] [Portrait of a woman in formal attire with a bow tie, surrounded by decorative elements such as hearts and floral patterns. In the background, there is a smaller portrait of a woman with similar decorative style. The image is framed with ornate decorative borders.] HAS BUILDED WISELY. Mr. Charles F. Thompson Acquires a Comfortable Fortune Through Industry and Economy.—To Take Unto Himself a Helpmeet. Mr. Chas. F. Thompson, of this city, will be united in marriage to Mary Antoinette Robertson, Wednesday evening, Dec. 10th, at Lone Cedar, Arrington, Va. Both Mr. Thompson and his bride-elect are natives of this place but have not made their homes here for a number of years. in her calling and by thrill my has purchased a comfort for herself in Virginia traveled extensively but home for her partner in The wedding will take Mount Baptist Church, in Arlington, Va. The Lone Cedar Cottage from The happy couple will be their friends in this city street, N. W., after December. Mr. Thompson is a strik of what a young man with pluck can do. By his s Mr. Thompson is a young man of extraordinary ability and equipment. He is self-made in the fullest sense of the term. His early training and education was about such as boys in that place received twenty-five years ago. There was plenty of hard work on the farm, while the facilities for education were very meager. Young Thompson left home at the age of seventeen with a determination to buy a home for his mother and father who then had a large family of small children, he being the oldest. The times were so hard that his father moved from farm to farm almost every year renting from tyrant land owners who frequently requested him to move on account of his insistence upon what was due him and his unfinching and determined political aggressiveness during the election time. Young Thompson came to Graham Bell, the great inventor, in '87 as a man of all work and at very small wages on trial. His services gave such satisfaction that the Bell family had him accompany them to Eastern Canada and the Provinces. In '89 he made a tour with them to Southern Italy via Gibralter, in '91 to France for six months, in '95 to the Hawaiian Islands Japan and the East. As the inventor of the Bell telephone and other inventions, Mr. Bell in '98 traveled through Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Holland Berlin and to the Paris Exposition in 1900 and in Sicily in 1901. During this time Mr. Thompson was the valet and looked after the personal comforts of Mr. Bell and his family. At this time he has entire charge of the household. During these years of travel Mr. Thompson practiced every plan of economy and succeeded in buying a comfortable home, with large premises for the old folks. He is still in Mr. Bell's service and is now planning for a home for himself and bride. Miss Mary Antoinette Robertson, his fiancee, has been equally successful THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. in her calling and by thrift and economy has purchased a comfortable home for herself in Virginia. She has traveled extensively but has returned home for her partner in life. The wedding will take place in New Mount Baptist Church, at 7 o'clock, in Arlington, Va. The reception at Lone Cedar Cottage from 9 to 12. The happy couple will be at home to their friends in this city at 1139 19th street, N. W., after December 20th. Mr. Thompson is a striking example of what a young man with energy and pluck can do. By his sterling qualities, his attention to business, his honesty and sobriety, he has won the entire confidence of not only his employers but all with whom he has come in contact during his many years of travel. THE COLORED AMERICAN extends congratulations and wishes them many years of a happy and useful life. SHREDS AND PATCHES. The Liberian Construction and Improvement Company is a corporation by colored men, formed to do business Liberia, Africa, the Negro Republic. It was incorporated under the laws of New Jersey for $200,000, with main office in Philadelphia and foreign office in Monrovia. J. R. Faulkner, one of several Faulkner brothers, is superintendent of the Liberian Company. He is in Africa, where he has underway the construction of a railroad of twenty-five miles, for which his company was granted a franchise and a subsidy of $1,000 per mile by the Liberian government. In the Chesterfield Circuit Court, Richmond, Va., in the case of Hawkes, colored, against the Atlantic Coast Line, for not being permitted to go into the car for colored perple, under the "Jim Crow" law a verdict has been rendered in favor of the railroad, it being shown that Hawkes is in appearance a full-blooded white man and that he did not inform the conductor that he his colored. So, expert testimony has become necessary to distinguish the races! Hon. John P. Green entertained a cultured audience on the evening of November 25, at Bethel Literary and Historical Association. He ably discussed the subject: "The Social Evolution of the Negro Through Higher and Industrial Education." WHERE THE CALCIUM SHINES. The Afro-American lovers of theatrical entertainments in this city have been giving the colored company a warm reception all the week at the Empire. The aggregation embraces forty people, all excellent singers, dancers and comedians. "The Sons of Ham," a farce-comedy, originated by Williams and Walker, is the vehicle used for a long series of laughter-provoking specialties and up-to-date dialogue, introducing a pair of talented artists, Messrs. Avery and Hart, in the stellar roles. They adhere very closely to the lines laid down by Williams and Walker, Charles Hart being a fac-simile of the former and Dan. Avery as dainty and dopper as the latter. Prominent members of the company are Allie Brown, slack-wire performer, Estella Pugsley Hart, Annie Ross, Clara Freeman, Sam Cousins, Norris Smith, Pete Washington and Miss Cook. The performance is well worthy of large patronage. Paul Laurence Dunbar is reading in the West and Southwest. Henrietta Vinton Davis is doing well in the great Northwest, with Albert Young as chief supporter. Billy Kersands is at the head of the Rucco and Holland minstrel party, and is drawing as well as ever. He is dubbed "the grand old man of minstrelsy." Miss Clara L. Scudder, an accomplished pianiste and contralto vocalist, of Philadelphia, has recently returned from a successful professional tour of Europe. Miss Susanne Belle Anderson, soprano, will make her first appearance in New York at a musicale and reception to be given by the Woman's Loyal Union, Tuesday, Dec. 30. The dearth of play-houses in Washington and the South, where colored actors are welcome, offers a fine opening for colored capitalists to invest in a chain of theatres or adequate halls. Harry A. Brown, lightning crayon artist, was married to Miss May Harris, a charming young lady in Omaha, Neb., Nov. 10. He has returned East, playing in the Keith circuit. Johnson and Dean "made good" during their engagement at Chase's. A great many did not know the clever duo were actually colored people. Their work was clean, tuneful and abounded in fresh material. Theodore Drury is arranging to present the grand opera, "Aida" in New York, next May, at the Lexington Avenue Opera House. Mme. Estella Clough, prima donna soprano, and Mr. George L. Ruffin, the Boston baritone, will take leading roles. In Philadelphia, on Christmas night, Miss M. L. Delasparre will appear as "Mercy Merrick," in "The New Magdalene," a strong emotional drama. Mr. A. H. Jackson, Miss Lela Walker, Mrs. E. T. Ellen Terry and Oliver C. Warren are cast for leading parts. Richard Mansfield, who has acquired the reputation of being the worst snub and bully on the American stage, has now turned on the Negro "supers" usually employed by him in the production of "Julius Caesar," declaring that henceforth only whites shall be employed. Mansfield's nauseating conduct has driven away all of the sympathy of his white friends. Negroes who do not wish to encourage the narrow meanness of Mansfield should stay away from his performances. Talent is no excuse for tyranny or tomfoolery. BEAR IN MIND. News of the current issue of The Colored American should be in our office not later than Tuesday noon, as we are obliged to go to press early to reach our distant patrons on time. AMUSEMENT. LOOK OUT FOR THE Sexton's Relief Club! LOOK OUT FOR THE Sexton's Relief Club! THE FIRST GRAND Entertainment Of the season will be given by the members of the Sexon's Relief Club at GREEN'S HALL, 1721 Penn., Avenue, N. W., Wednesday December 17th 1900 Wednesday, December 17th, 1902 at eight o'clock. We hope our many friends will patronize us on this occasion. The committee will spare no pains in making it pleasant for all who attend. Refreshments will be served at moderate prices. PROF. CHAS. HAMILTON, The Leading Orchestra of Washington, D. C. ADMISSIGN. 25 CTS. Committee—Resson Prather, Arthur Rone, Volley Quisenberry, Edward Bowie, Smith Quisenbury, Lemuel Boose, James Chase, George Campbell, George Hewett and James Johnson. Bennett B. Slade & Co. Merchant Tailors, Our Fall and Winter Styles are now ready. Suits to order a special- ty; cleaning, altering and repairing. 1202 E STREET, NORTHWEST. And J. S. Rawlings, Mgr. at 6th and Missouri even SKILLED WORKMEN PROMPT DELIVERY ESTABLISHED 1876. J. H. Polkinhorn Book & Job Printer, 616 Louisiana Avenue, WASHINGTON, D. C. Books and Pamphlets a Specialty. Engraving, Color Work. Commercial Printing. Complete Facilities. Consistent Charges. Sypecial Desi ns for all Societies. FREE MUSIC At Gray's Cafe and Banquet Hall 1606 M Street, N. W. SATURDAY NIGHT, DEC. 6TH (From 8 to 11.) ALL ARE WELCOME. Special dinners every Sunday from 1 to 4 p. m. 25 cents. Special suppers every Sunday from 6 to 10 p. m. 25 cents. 1. OTICE 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. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON DIG == FC} «5 cece ccc crassa < iC Hf - = = ~~ Consumption By the Famous Doctor Yonkerman — ‘Marvellous Discovery—State Offi- cials 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, ——— « Fonsumption can at last be cured. Marvelous sit may seem after the many failures, a sure wae | 4 ee ae (es hs Be A Nee: = RAS eee we aN a Boa Ay a Boy DR- DERK P. YONKERMAN positive and certain cure for the deadly consump- lion 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 won- derful cure for ccnsumption. 4 Free trial packages of the remedy and letters trom grateful people—former consumptives ree- cued from the very jaws of death are sent free lo all who write to Dr. Derk P. Yonkerman, 635 Shakespeare Building, Kalamazoo, Mich. Doni de'ay—there is not an hour to lose wh€n you have consumption, throator lung trouble, Send to-day for Free package. A for an Industrial Col- ored Man With Some Capital. WANTED-by January Ist an in- telligent, ceiiacle, and sober colored musa to enter in Co-parinership in man: ufacturing and mail order business. Must be a good teiker, and competant ot going om the ruad as a salesman Territory New York, Peonsyivania, Ohio, and Michigan, old route, goods bas been introduced for 8 succes:fa: Seasons, ‘Lraveling season from Blay istto December Ist. Will guarantee $100 per month as salary, possibilities of 9126. Busiaess eatavlisned 1897 Booxs of past business open for in- spection. Lavestigation invited See G Dunn, mercantile directory for our commercial standing. Applicant lust have some capital, and qualitied win the avove quatifications, or do uot apply. **Buoze Grafters’” ana “Mashers’? not wanted, For further joformaton addres THE H. C HaxyNES RAZOR STROP CO, 8537 Dearbora etrees, Chicago, Lil. Ba Kelerence required. WE GIVE ANY LADY & splendid chance te earn spending Money very easily working for us in their leisure time; the work is nothard: and any Womau or girl who has a little Spare Lime will do well to avail them telves of this great opporturity to earn money. Send us 25 cents (silver) and We will at once send you the Cloth wil) full directions, prepaid by us any where inthe U..8 so they can commence Work at once, Address BRILLIANT I- NA CO (J 3) Roxbury Mass. The Hotel Branswick, *35Peun Ave., and 220 B at. n. w. On European Plan. First Class ia Every Particular. SCOGGGINS & PLUMMER, PROPRIETORS. WASHINGTON, D. 0. Should be Retained publicans. He represented his pres- bytery twice in General Assembly of the Presbyterian church. In the year 1897 he was elected by the Board of Commissioners the Re- gister of Deeds and Clerk of the Court of Wilson County, to the honorable position of member of the Board of Education of Wilson county. He was elected by one Republican and the remainder Democrats. The Board of Education consisted of Vick and two white men. On the 4th day of May, 1898, he was again appointed Dy President McKinley to the position of postmaster of Wilson, the Senate of the United States confirming the same a few days later. From newspaper comments and from testimony of pat- rons of his office, he has given general satisfaction. The business men and public generally are anxious that he be retained. If the basis of the ap- pointment be leadership, character and intelligence, then Mr. Vick will be retained as postmaster. Below will Ra (x SSeS Yfy Eee MS “WG {> SS bie aS NY ME OE IU EH GIR KR roe a yay 7 | Wj, HON. 8- H_ VICK. be found a few of the thousands of newspaper clippings touching the Wilson Post Office. ‘We learn from our daily exchanges that leading colored men all over the country, including Dr. Washington, will interest themselves in Mr. Vick’s favor. We hope Mr. Vick will be retained—True Eeformer, Nov. 19. The Wilson “Advance” candidly ad- mits that the colored postmaster of the town, Samuel H. Vick, is a most excellent officer, and says a lot of good things about him. Good. This proves that a colored man is not so objection- able as an officer of the Government, as some white people would have the world to believe. The colored men now holding office are a very intelli- gent, honorable class, and seek to oblige and give entire satisfaction to the entire business public—From the Raleigh Gazette. | We venture the assertion that no | Postoffice in the State has a more efficient service than Wilson. Affable, accommodating, courteous and respect- ful, Sam Vick, and his assistant, Brat- well Winstead, are giving, we think, universal satisfaction, and are win- ning the respect and confidence of all with whom they have any dealings.— From the Wilson Mirror. | Sam Vick, our accommodating and affable postmaster, graduated at Lin- coln University with highest honor, and has led ever since an upright and honorable career, and won for himself the esteem of our whole community. —From Wilson Mirror, An official in the Postoffice depart- ment at Washington says that Sam Vick, the postmaster in this place, is one of the best and most accurate postmasters in the state, and that his accounts have always shown up in first rate light, being perfectly correct and entirely free from blemish. It gives us pleasure to print this ac- knowledgment of fitness and capacity, for he is not only a man of merit and education, but is polite and affable and accommodating, and is entitled to the respect of our whele eemmunity. ~“Frem Wilsen Mirrer, si isis ‘We have some nice people among the eolored race. Our postmaster at Wil- son is a colored man, and so are all his clerks. They are polite, accom- modating and capable, and [| think their official acts are clean. This I am glad to state. Let honor be given where it is due—P. D. Gold in Wilson Times, June 8, 1900. At the burial cf the mother of Wil- son’s efficient postmaster, Sam Vick, last week the whole family of the Jate Mr. George W. Blount attended in a body, the deceased having been for a long time, their devoted family servant.—Wilson Times, Jan. 10. 1902. It seems that Sam Vick has sudder- ly become a national figure. If he remains, the Negroes may hope for recognition; if he is kicked out, the lily-white is to flourish. Vick is the best Negro official in the South.—News and Observer, Nov. 27. It is hoped that Prof. S. H. Vick, postmaster at Wilson, N. C., will be retained. Mr. Vick is the most promi. nent colored postmaster in the State— there being several others holding small cffices. He has conducted the business of the office with honor to himself~and credit to the race. GALBRAITH GREAT RALLY. The closing effort to raise five thou- sand dollars ($5,000), at Galbraith A. M. E. Zion Church, tith street, between L and M streets, northwest, will be held Sunday evening, Dec. 7th, at 8 o'clock. There will be special ser- vices all day. The pastor, Dr. S. L. Carrothers, will preach the annual sermon to the Sens and Daughters of Moses, at 8 o’clock p. m. The Christian Endeavor services, at EEE —— ee) os H(A tee” << i Dre SY Grr W Re Cay 7 | Gy if ( if y Jy YZ y { iS NY ‘ Wh Sey (7 ia \ —<—ee Vi A ANGE ae f Wi] fe / REV: 8. L, CORROTHERS. 7 o'clock, will be conducted by Mrs. J. €. Dancy. All are invited to attend. Dr. Corrothers is truly a great preach- er, and those who fail to attend the Sunday night services will miss quite a treat. ‘The address delivered by him before. the Colored Conference of the state of Virginia, has been commented upon by many of the lead- ing white newspapers throughout the country. Dr. Corrothers is regarded as one of toe most progressive and intelligent colored ministers in the United States. In him the race has a true friend—one who is loved by all with whom .e comes in contact. By appointment he and the Hon. J. C. Dancy, will hold a conference with President Roosevelt next week. JEWEL PRESENTATION. November 20th, the Hall Associatioa of the G. U. O. of O. F., of the District of Columbia, offered a prize to the best drillea Patriarchie of the two in the Distriet of Columbia, viz., Wash- ington, No. 18, Capt. W. P. Gray, and Georgetown, No. x4, Capt. Beckett. The prize consisting of a Past Most Ven- erable Patriarchie Jewel, valued at $25.00, These two patriarchies were to compete for the jewel and cham- pionship of the District of Columbia. ino. 42 failed to put in its appearance. Patriarchie No. 18 put up an excellent drill, and was awarded the jewel as the champions. The jewel was pre- sented to Capt. W. P. Gray by Mrs. M. L. Parker, The Most Noble Gov- ernor of the Grand Household of Ruth of South Carolina, in a neat speech, which was responded to by Capt. W. P. Gray on behalf of the Patriarchie in another. Those present enjoyed the DRESS MAKING ACADEMY. The de Lam Orton Famous French Pertect tion Tailor System Mme J. A. Smaliwoog Sole Agent 1513 Madison street, northwest, Morning class from 9 a.m. to 1 p. m. Afternoon class 2 to 5p. m. daily, Mondays, Wednesdays and Svideys, Grex a ‘s makers and ladies ‘who wish to do thelr ow dressmaking. 'ea-WaNTS>—To Jearn the wonderful De Lam Orton French Perfection Tailor System. Seamless Basques without one inch of = Seam, in lining or goods, not even on mesa ons font : stady as Deniers much earn ive as iu] work in any of ihe professions, No detail 1s too small to be looked after. Weteack you to make dresses with or without seam and guarantee perfect fits, and complete your course with a diploma. Pupils can enter at any time. $e The Livingston Dressmaking School. The Livirgston Dress cutting and Drees. making Schoo! is offering a new attraction. A class hae been tormed in which im. broidery a8 applied to personal adornmert is taught, Miss Charlott E, Hunter has been placed in charge cf this work. Persons de- siring to learn decorative embroidery shoula apply at once to Mre. LR, Clarke, principai ot rte asOuly limited number can be taken 4#a-Terms etc-, cheerfuily turnished at; the svhool, 1439 W Street Nerthwest, ee WANTED -Old pictures of George Wash- ‘ngton; 4Jso American bisiortcal Pictures; nighest prices paid, Yend name cf en- graverand pub.isker appearing on picture to Untied Publishing Heuze, P, O, Box 751, New York, ———— $$ AN HONEST MAN OR WOMAN willing to work. can make big money the ear sround, handliog our line of standerd housshoid Preparations. It you mean busi. ness, waut good agency. write at once SYKES MFG. CO,, D8, 173) Federal Street Philadelphia, Pa, u, = WANTED-A POSITION. An Intelligent young man who is taking a col- lege course desires a position as bookkeeper, copyist or any kind of office work. Salary no ob- ject. Address “*W” care this office. a Ifyou have a spare room that you would like to rent to desirable parties, advertise them in The Colored American, WANTBD—Reliable colored help for genars! house work. &c in good homes in Ne Good Wages. Apply with references ty and character to Susie White, 1747 N,W. FOR RENT—One large front room = cality with all modern improvements, convenien- to cars and herdicks, 1625 Corcoran St. N. W- ap ply to Mr. J, B. Pattersons ens a ROOMS FOR RENT—In northwest near car line. Large bay windoW front room with board for man and wife or two gentlemen. also front room with board for single gentleman. Address JM. in care Colored American Office 459 O Street northwest. eee FOR RENT—Furnished rooms, front and rear. all modem improvements. Gsntlemen preferred, ss0 Elm strest, n. w., Le Droit — ee Improve Ge Hair and Complexion: Singleton's Pharmacy oth and E carries a fall — of Ozono preparations with his toilet articles sundrics, ss Please Help Me Find My Breather Saunk Joyce was sold in Mecklenburg, Virginia several y ears before the civil war, to Cunnigan a Negro trader. His mother. Willie, was a slav on the Joyce plantation. He had One sister Betty, who is very anxious to find hlm. Any in formation will be gladly received. Mas Berry Reynoups, 44 Parker street, Atlanta, Ga. WANTED A MAN OR WOMAN notover thirty years of age, capable of taking care of office in the largest photo studio operated by any colored man in the world. Twenty two years in busmess in St, Paul, Minn. Studio alsoin Sault Ste Marie, Ont. Party must have $2,000 00 to invest for half interest. Seventeen medals and di- plomas. Address,— HARRY SHEPHERD, London Photo Co., Sr. PauL’ Minn. AT OLD POST AGAIN. James H. Hudnell Representing the Castleberg D amond Importers, 9:5 Penn. Ave., Washington, D. C. Residence— 2008 9.h et, n. w. p@ Orders delivered by card, LONG TROLLEY RIDES. Trip of a New York Man from His City to Chicago Almost Altogether by the Electric Lines. A glimpse of trolley car travel of the future is given in the recent experience of a New Yorker. He journeyed from New York to Chicago by trolley routes wherever it was available, and that means nearly the whole distance. He sums up a delightful experience by saying: "Steam for speed; trolley for a good time." The cost of his journey was considerably greater, and much more time was required than would have been involved in a trip by steam railway. He was bent on pleasure, however, and he found the novelty most enjoyable. The journey alluded to is of general interest as an indication of the amazing rate of expansion of trolley car service in the east. From New York to Buffalo the traveler found the trolley is available most of the distance, with gaps in process of rapid filling by lines under construction. He went clear across the state of Ohio, with the exception of one break of a few miles, by his favorite conveyance. The breaks in Michigan and northwestern Indiana were also few and short, and he notes that, generally speaking, the farther west he went the better service. The best stretch of electric railway in the whole distance, according to his report, was the 76 miles from Detroit to Jackson. DUCK HUNTERS TANTALIZED. Spot in Massachusetts Where the Fowl Swarm, Yet May Not Be Molested by Gunners. Spot Pond, in the Middlesex Fells district, which lies between the towns of Melrose, Malden, Stoneham, Medford and Winchester, has become the Mecca of thousands of wild ducks, most of them of the black variety. For the past five or six years, since the Metropolitan park commission has taken possession of the pond, no gunning has been allowed, says the Boston Journal. This the ducks quickly learned, and every year since they have been greatly augmented in numbers, until this year there is the largest number of ducks ever seen on the pond at one time. Theys sit out in the middle of the pond in several bunches extending from the Stoneham to the Medford shores. There are two islands in the vicinity on which they roost each evening. It is estimated there are over 3,000 ducks at the present time in the pond, and they are increasing daily, as the migration to the south takes place. There were a large number of well-known gunners on the shores of the pond the other day with hungry eyes, watching the ducks for hours. The ducks seem to know they are safe from all danger and come quite near the shore and play with each other, and seem to have no fear. A COLOMBIAN EXACTION. One Item of Extortion Which Alone Surpasses Anything in "Gall" the World Over. A significant story of the conditions prevailing in the part of South America where revolutions are periodical is told by Peter MacQueen, the Boston traveler, whose wanderings are as wide as the hemisphere, says the New York Tribune. "I was getting ready to leave a small town in Colombia," said MacQueen, "when a very much uniformed official waited on me. "‘Senor,’ said he, politely, 'I understand that you have decided to leave us to-morrow. "I admitted that my intention was such. "Sen' he continued, deferen- mally, we called to remind your ex- at ther charge of THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. & dollars gold made for the privilege of leaving. "I looked at the man in utter amazement for a moment; then I inquired what reason was alleged for this piece of robbery. "Ah, senor, there is no reason. "As I was anxious to catch the boat I paid the ten dollars, but I own I was disturbed when I got back to New York to hear the New York police called 'The Finest.'" THE CHANGED GRIZZLY. Formerly Dreaded Animals Are No Longer as Fierce and Combative as They Once Were. There are numerous reliable statements of grizzly bears having attacked men, but nowadays, says the "Grizzly Bear Lore," in Outing, the grizzly does not seek out his human victims, as there are credible statements that his forefathers used to do. Neither does he lie in wait, and, pouncing upon a hunter, tear him into bloody shreds in delighted fiendishness, as the old-time stories used to tell. The change in the grizzly's disposition is likened by veteran hunters to the change in the character of the white cousin of the grizzly, the polar bear of the arcties. When the stations for the Hudson Bay company were established the diaries of the men there often referred to the fright of attacks by polar bears. Many a navigator in the arctic seas has been clawed and chewed to death by polar bears. But for nearly a century the polar bear has not been regarded as so very fierce, and nowadays it is looked upon as a cowardly beast. Association with armed men has modified the polar bear's disposition. Not a Kicker. "What did you do when the horrid man called you a donkey?" "Nothing." "Well, if it had been me I would have kicked him with both feet." "Just so! Any donkey would have kicked."—Chicago American. Cordelia—It worries me to buy clothes. Cornelia—Why? Cordelia—Oh, I can't decide whether to look stylish and be uncomfortable, or to be comfortable and look dowdy.—Detroit Free Press. Had Done His Best. "What do you think ought to be done with the trusts?" "I don't know," answered Senator Sorghum. "Heaven knows, I've done my best to make 'em give up some of their money."—Washington Star. Elderly Adorer—I am 69 and have $300,000. Fair Young Thing—I'll give you an answer the day after to-morrow. I will have to figure it out in the mortuary tables.—N. Y. Times. Human Nature. Jaggles—I never saw anyone work so hard at anything. Is that his regular business? Waggles—No, man; that's his hobby. —N. Y. Times. The Kind She Wants. Yeast—You say your wife wants one of those fetching bonnets Crimsonbeak—Yes, one of those that's fetching about $17.—Yonkers Statesman. By No Means. "Some of those jockeys have princely incomes." "Yes; but some of those princes haven't jockeys' incomes."—Puck. A Text by the wayside. Don't need no wings ter fly wid w'en dey callin' er you higher— No railroad on de rocky road en rough; Don't want ter go ter glory in a cherryoot er fire Kaze you sho' ter hit de fire soon enough. -Atlanta Constitution. Corner 15th St. & New York Ave. Capital; One Million Dollars. Pays interest on deposits. Rents Satisfies sides Burglar-proof Vaults. Acts as administrator executor, trustee, &c. CAPITAL SAVINGS BANK. 609 F St. N. W., Washington, D.C. Capital $50,000 Hon. Jno. R. Lynch, President. L. C. Bailey, Treasurer. J. A. Johnson, Secretary. D. B. McCary, Cashier. Directors: Jno. R. Lynch, Dr. W. S. Lofton, Whitefield McKinlay, L. C. Bailey, Robt. H. Terrell, W. S, Montgomery, Wyatt Archer, John A. Pierre, Henry E. Baker, Robt. Williams J. T. Bradford, Dr. W. A. Warfield, J. A. Johnson, Dr. A. W. Tancil, Howard H. Williams. Deposits received from 10 cents up-ward. Interest allowed on $5.00 and above. Collections meet with prompt attention. A general exchange and banking business done. Bank open from 9 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. DO YOU NEED If so, come to us. We are always ready to loan you any amount you may need. You can repay it in small monthly payments to suit your convenience. We make loans on Furniture, Pianos, &c., without removal or any publicity in any way. All business is private Washington Mortgage Loan Co., 610—F Street—610 Loans of $10 and upwards made on FURNITURE PIANOS HORSES Wagons, etc., at lowest rates and in the day you apply. We are loaning on the Building and Loan Association plan, which ages the cost of carrying loans much less than, you pay elsewhere, and allows you to pay it off in any sized notes you desire, running from one to twelve months. You only pay for the use of the money for the length of time you carry it. If you have a loan with some other company we will pay it off and advance you more money if desired. Rates cheerfully given, and no cost to you unless the loan is made. Loans made any where in the District. Call and get rates. Front room, first floor, Scientific American building. National Mortgage Loan Co. 625 F St., N. W. HERE IS A CHANCE. To get the money you want, We have more than we need. We will make loans to every body without delay. If you want money see us to-day. You will not be disappointed. Loans made on Furniture, Pianos, Organs, Ec., without removal. Loans to salaried employes Without endorsement. 602 F Street N. W Cor. 6th St., Capital Loan Guarantee Company. 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LIFE IN THE NORTHWEST. If you have any idea of changing your location—go into the northwest, where life is worth living. It is the coming empire of this country. Climate and elevation are found in great variety and will never be as low priced again as it is now. For farming, fruit raising and grazing no portion of our country equals it irrigation makes the farmer independent where irrigation is practiced and the finest irrigable part of our lands are in Montana and Washington. The towns and cities are growing rapidly in the Northwest. 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 wait until it is too late to go. Low settlers rates are in effect during Sept. and Oct. Write to me where you want to go and I will tell what it cost. CHARLES L FEE. Gen'l Pass. Agent, N. P Ry St. Paul, Minn. tf. 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There are restrictions in abundance, but for an inflexible line of demarkation between whites and blacks, there is nothing but failure, for the white man himself will not be governed by its limitations. A permanent solution of the problem on a scientific basis has not yet been reached—and probably will not be, in this generation. Here and there a rabid organ will advise colonization in a given territory on the American continent; another will urge deportation to Africa or to our insular possessions; but the bulk of sociologists admit the impracticability of any scheme looking to the removal of the Negro from the warp and woof of the American body politic, and can see no way to acquire for the blacks any territory which the whites can be kept out of. The illogical aspect of the Caucasian arguments from Dan to Beersheba is the refusal of the white man to abide by the laws of natural selection, which we cannot evade without producing an anomalous or abnormal condition. The race question is one that should be permitted to solve itself through the survival of the fittest, in an open field. Society, let alone, can be trusted to distribute itself. Color, creed, race, the language are all swallowed up in the eternal force of personal and individual affinity. Legislation or custom can build, at best, only an artificial wall, that will totter at every breath of reason. Racial separation is impossible. The natural law is supreme. Obedience to its mandates will do away with the friction and worries that make American lives unhappy, and o- paper but serve no good purpose. shatter philosophies that fill columns A writer in a local daily makes it appear that the shortsighted and ill-informed action of President Roosevelt places 313 Negroes in a stronger THE COLORED AMEPICAN, WASHINGTON, D. O. position than 23,000 patriotic white voters. If these 23,000 would admit the 313 into a respectable combination, they would be entitled to all the power their sagacity could exert. The President is simply opposed to any political monopoly based on color. The way out is plain. SUFFRAGE IN VIRGINIA The decision of Chief Justice Fuller and Judge Waddill that the United States Court, sitting at Richmond, is without jurisdiction in the the action brought by Negroes to upset the disfranchising constitution of the state of Virginia, is a backset to our enterprising and resourceful friends across the Potomac. A plucky fight was made against the canvassing of the vote for Congressmen and the issuance of certinates to those declared elected under the alleged law. Capt. John S. Wise presented an able argument, and Lawyer James H. Hayes delivered an address that has not been surpassed in the state on a constitutional question. The Virginians are by no means discouraged, and Capt Wise and Mr. Hayes are determined to carry the case to the Supreme Court of the United States, besides instituting supplementary suits in the several counties of the state. In the Court of last resort such eminent counsel as Ex-Secretary John G. Carlisle and Ex-Senator John M. Thurston will represent the Negroes. Let this fight against injustice be pushed to the end with the same vigor that it has started, and ultimate success will be achieved. This is no time for halting effort or despair. Right is right, and in its face error must eventually stand humiliated and abashed. Let the Negroes of North Carolina and Aiabama and Louisiana take heart from the courage displayed by these sturdy Virginians. The election of Mr. Cannon to the Speakership of the 58th Congress, makes a vacancy in the Chairmanship of the Committee on Appropriations, which is interpreted by many to mean an opening for Hon. James A. Hemenway, of Indiana. ALTRUISM NOT DEAD The people of Washington have shown a commendable spirit of liberality and race unity in the support they have given the various entertainments designed to aid Richard Cole in retaining competent counsel to defend him against the charge of murdering Mrs. Ada Gilbert Dennis. In every quarter the boy is regarded as the victim of a conspiracy, and the questionable methods employed to hold him for grand jury action has aroused deep sympathy in his behalf. Contributions are still coming in, and there is a universal hope that his release can come through habeas corpus proceedings, or by the grand jury's failure to find sufficient evidence to warrant a trial. In any event, the good people of Washington have shown that they know when to make common cause in behalf of a Negro whom they believe is being outraged, and that they regard an injury to one as a blow to all. A splendid lesson in humanity has here been shown, and it revives the drooping faith of those of us who have been growing pessimistic. Altruism is not dead in the hearts of the Afro-Americans of the nation's capital. Hon. Jesse Overstreet, the popuar representative from Indiana's seventh district, may leave Congress at the end of the term to which he has just been elected. This may mean the rise of Albert W. Wishard or Joseph B. Kealing. LABOR IN THE SOUTH Labor conditions among the colored people in the South are undergoing a pronounced and steady evolution. The Negro is making a distinct place for himself, and investigators are able to institute comparisons between the proficiency and adaptability of the two races that offer valuable contributions to industrial history. The increase in the number and scope of technical and agricultural school is having an appreciable effect in enlarging the number of skilled artisans, and inroads are being made upon the callings previously confined to the whites, where special education is required. While our a. tles have been chiefly in the field, the blacksmith shop, the mines, forests and lumber mills, we are spreading out and are finding higher-grade work in the textile industries, cabinet making, as architects, setting up intricate machinery, handling electrical devices, watchmaking and as superintendents of construction. We are learning to guide and initiate as well as to follow and imitate. The reports of every scientist who has investigated the labor conditions show gratifying progress on the part of the Negroes of the South toward a higher degree of skill in the liberal arts, a keener ambition to become land-owners and masters of their business, and a corresponding desire to secure an education that will fit them for stations of honor and profit. The situation, while deplorable from a political standpoint, shows a silver lining when we turn to the industrial aspect presented by experts, and we should not be slow to seize the opportunities here offered to ultimately ameliorate the shadows that beset our path to full citizenship. The appointment of Mr. Morgan H Beach as United Attorney for the District of Columbia, is eminently satis factory. DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Dr. Booker T. Washington never opens his mouth that he does not deliver a message that commands the attention and sympathetic consideration of the right-minded people of two continents. In his latest utterance, this illustrious example of Negro possibilities has adressed himself to the subject of his life-work, and his relations to public affairs. For some time there has been a disposition in some quarters to "nag" him for alleged interference in politics, and to question the advisability of conceding his position as the recognized leader of the colored citizens of the nation. There has been a clearly-defined jealousy of his strength at the White House, and the undisguised admiration of his worth on the part of the President has been the causes of a series of onslaughts and vicious attacks little short of savage. Dr. Washington rarely accords the flings of petty adversaries the dignity of a reply, but so widespread did the misrepresentations become, and so venomous in their nature, that he was persuaded to make a detailed statement of his attitude toward the workings of the government and his relations thereto, as a means of setting himself right in the eyes of many influential friends who might otherwise remain deceived by the plausible falsehoods of enemies. Dr. Washington describes himself as an educator—not a politician, and he strongly proves it to be his duty and his right as a patriotic American and loyal race man to give such information and to make such suggestions as will tend to promote the educational interests and general welfare of his people. His statement is able, straightforward and convincing. It is entitled to the credence of the country, and ought to serve as an estoppel of the mean and envious assaults of persons whose intelligence give reason to hope for better things. Below the Colored American presents the salient features of Dr. Washington's broc hure, used in connection with some significant comments from the Washington Post, the whole being worthy of the closest scrutiny and most studious contemplation. We shall miss Mr. Irwin, of Kentucky, who "fathered" the Freedmen's Inquiry Commission measure. Jeter C. Pritchard is not entitled to a Federal Judgship—or anything else—at the hands of the President. The lily-whitees are making a desperate, but unavailing, effort to pose as martys to the cause of "decency." Rev. J. H. Davis, of Nashville, Tenn., is gaining favor as candidate for Secretary of the Sunday School Union of the A. M. E. chureh. Mr. Hanna will continue indefinitely in the Senate and as Chairman of the Republican National Committee. It is evident that the Ohio leader is not a "quitter." There is said to be little likelihood of the election of any additional Bishops by the A. M. E. General Conference in 1904, unless vacancies should be created by the death or retirement of one or more of the present bench. One Negro vote in New York, Ohio and Indiana is worth a hundred lily-white ballots in North Carolina and Alabama. The party leaders are too shrewd to forfeit good square electoral votes in the North in a "rainbow chase" for impossible republican victories in the South. The twenty-fourth U. S. Infantry, colored, one of the most valiant regiment that did service in the Philippines has returned to the United States and is stationed at Fort Harrison, montana. This regiment aside from distinguishing itself in service at arms, claims the honor of one of the best bands ever on the islands. The defeat of Congressman D. H. Mercer occasioned no regret on the part of the Negro citizens in Nebraska. He wouldn't "warm up" to them and refused to aid young G. W. Parker to retain his berth in the Census Office, or to do anything for the other bright colored men from his state who deserve promotions. Such men should always be elected—to stay at home. Rev. George L. Davis, a recent graduate of Lincoln University, now stationed at a prosperous church in Philadelphia, is taking on a formidable assortment of titles that few young men can hope to duplicate. He is already an "S. T. B," and an "A. M." At the coming term he enters the University of Pennsylvania to earn the right to affix "Ph. D." to the list, with a "D. D." and "LL. D." in futurity. The Washington Star "hits the bull's eye" in fearless style when it says: "The President, with every reason, flouts the stupid old cry of Negro domination. He knows, as every other intelligent man does that the Negro will never dominate any section of the country, and that to withhold from the worthy of the race an encouraging recognition of their advancement would be to committ an act of shortsightedness and injustice. Willing as some republicans are to commit that act, he refuses. Representative Spencer Blackburn, of North Carolina, is what we call a man. He went down in defeat at the recent election on account of the disfranchisement of the Negroes by the democrats, and the freeze-out given them by the republicans. He is not discouraged, however, and believes that success will come when his party returns to loyal leadership and stands up for its early principles. Mr. Blackburn wisely declares that he wants no new-fangled politics in his, and that he will remain an old-line republican and await the turn of political events to rehabilitate his party. The decision of Commissioner West that whenever a colored policeman shall, for any reason, become separated from the District service, his place shall be taken by another colored man, is cheering intelligence to the few Negroes on the list of eligibles, and will be an encouragement to reputable men to take the required examinations. Heretofore the chances for appointment were so slim that when vacancies occurred there was a dearth of capable colored men on the roster, and frequently the colored menrdfdlup and frequently the race was passed over for the want of suitable material. We do not relish the idea of being made the special wards of the government for discriminations in our favor but the boot has been on the other leg so long that the change is positively refreshing, and we shall not split hairs over any technical phase of Mr. West's very liberal ruling.