The Colored American

Saturday, January 17, 1903

Washington, D.C.

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The COLORED American A NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER [Illustration of a man in a suit with a bow tie and a mustache.] REV CHAUNCEY I. WITHROW Pastor of Augusta Street A. M. E. Church, Sta ton, Va.-Sixteen Years of Usefulness in the Christian nistry A PASTORS MILESTONE A PASTORS MILESTONE REV C.I WITHROW MAKES A FINE SHOWING. The Remarkable Record he has Made in his Conference Stands Without a Parallel and Meets The Unqualified Approval of The Bishops and his Congregation The members and friends of Augusta Street M. E. Church, Staunton, Va., celebrated the 16th anniversary of their Pastor, Rev. C. I. Withrow's work in the ministry, December 28-29, 1902. A large congregation assembled Sunday afternoon at 3 p. m., to enjoy the special music rendered by the Ebenezer and Augusta Street Choirs, also a solo by Miss Willie A. Anderson, and to hear the splendid anniversary sermon preached by Rv. R. C. Pannell, of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. Rev. Pannell preached from Rom. 12:18, and selected for his subject, "Self Control." In the course of his remarks, Rev. Pannel said: "Paul in all of his reasoning never forgets that we are creatures who have to deal with common life. The individuality of a man is determined by his social relations. Domestic, social, and civil relations are true tests of one's courage, honor and humanity. But for these relations the nobler qualities could hardly find expression—the finer qualities of morey sympathy and benevolence mercy, sympathy and benevolence did not exist. After all we find that it he man who has had a trust commit- VOL. IX, NO. 38. ted to him that has an opportunity to prove his honesty." After referring to his years of hard study in College, followed by ten years work as teacher and lecturer, as a preparation for that greatest of all works, the work of the Christian Ministry, Rev. Pannel said he doubted not the sixteen years of experience in the Ministry had been fraught with many crosses, trials, and temptations, but without these things, we cannot attain unto what we call virtue. "If there were no sickness or accidents, the science of medicine and skill in surgery would be unknown. If there was no such thing as cold, hunger, and ignorance, we should have no need of clothes, shelter, food, fuel, and books. His concluding thought was that the homes, cities, the pulpits, the church of God, the world, want just such men. By far the greatest feature of the anniversary was the Literary Celebration on Monday, Dec. 29, at 7.30 p. m. Mr. W. J. Pryor was master of ceremonies. The Augusta Street choir furnished music. After prayer by Rev. S. M. Tates, Mrs. S. Virginia Bolden sang a solo entitled "Sing Sweet Bird," which was well received. Miss L. M. Anderson then read an excellent essay, subject, "An Aim in Life," Miss Anderson among other good things said: "The three great keys to success are, "Aim, Energy, and Honesty; without these all efforts are in vain. Every day we see men and women of great talent but little energy, sitting on the stoop of "do-nothing," because they have no aim in life. They will not exert themselves enough to push away the obstacle that crosses their pathway on the road to success. The world's cry today is for mobile-hearted, energetic men and women. Standing on the threshold Continued on second page. Continued on ninth page. REV. E. W. LAMBTON, D. D. of the 20 Century, the signs of the times are calling for the best that is in the Negro race. Let us not be satisfied with present conditions or surroundings—but be forever aiming after higher and better things." Mrs. R. C. Pannel read a very fine paper on the birth, life, and work of Rev. Withrow. Said she: "In the Pine Tree State was born the subject of this scroll, the same month, the same date twelve months from the date that Gen. Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox C. H. Virginia, setting 4,000,000 slaves at liberty. She very fittingly compared his life and work of many years in College, 10 years as teacher, and 16 years in the Ministry to a river, because "the business of a river is to flow. Its banks may be beautiful or pleasant—its current strong or sluggish—its skies blue or clouded. Its waters may mirror flowers in spring and ferns in summer, may float the dead leaves in fall or be hemmed in and pressed by the ice in winter—but it must flow on. So he has moved unfalteringly onward; neither beguiled by pleasure or daunted by perils." Miss Olive Crawford read a very good paper on "What Shall We Read?" As happiness is the highest aim in life, she Continued on second page. PRICE, FIVE CENTS AN OVATION IN TEXAS DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON THE CYNOSURE OF ALL EYES. Enthusiastic Reception Tendered by The Leading Business Men of Houston-Greeted With an Acclaim Rivalled Only by The Welcome Extended to Former President McKinley. Houston, Texas-In this all but southernmost of southern cities, Dr. Booker T. Washington, the great "apostle of industrialism," the proudest product of the Negro people, was, together with his secretary, Mr. Emmett J. Scott, royally received by black and white citizens yesterday in a way that must have cheer their hearts. This is Mr. Scott's form home, and his friends and neighbor have vied to make the visit a pleasurable one in every possible way. An or- Continued on fifth page. --- ```markdown ``` 1 Send Name and Address To-Day-You Can Have It Free and Be strong and Vigorous for Li Insures Love and A HAPPY HOME HEALTH, STRENGTH AND VIGOR FOR MEN. How any man may quickly cure himself after years of suffering from sexual weakness, lost vitality, nigh losses varicocele, etc., and enlarge small, weak organs to full size and vigor. Simply send your name and address to Dr. Knapp Medical Co. 867 Hull Bldg. Detroit Mich., and they will gladly send the free receipt with full directions so any man may easily cure himself at home. This is certainly a most generous offer and the following extracts taken from their daily mail, show what men think of their generosity. "Dear Sirs; — Please accept my sincere thanks for yours of recent date, I have given your treatment a thorough test and the benefit has been extraordinary. It has completely braced me up. I am just as vigorous as when a boy and you cannot realize how happy I am." "Dear Sirs; — Your method worked beautifully Results were exactly what I needed. Strength and vigor have completely returned and enlargement is entirely satisfactory." "Dear Sirs:—Yours was received and I had no trouble in making use of the receipt as directed, and can truthfully say it is a boon to week men. I am greatly improved in size, strength and vigor," All correspondence is strictly confidential, mailed in plain sealed envelope. The receipt is free for the asking and they want every man to have it. MME, DAVIS KING Born Clairvoyant & Card Reader Tells about business, Removes Spells and Evil Influences, Reunites the Separated and Gives Luck to all. 1228 25th st. n, w. Washington D. C No letters answered unless accompanied by stamp. James H. Hudnell Representing the Castleberg Damone Importers, 965 Penn. Ave., Washington, D. C. Residence- 2009 9 h st, n. w. Orders delivered by card. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. Editorial Etchings. Real men are not spoiled by prosperity, or cast down by adversity. Young man, have you a purpose? Senator Tillman has decided that there is no sense in being a fool all of the time. Unless he can find a more tangible objection to Dr. Crum than that of color it is said he will not oppose the latter's confirmation as collector of the port at Charleston, S. C. William Hannibal Thomas, the author of the most scurrilous screed against the Negro ever sent out from a press, is undoubtedly a fool; but we do not believe he is fool enough to poke his head up as a candidate for Minister to Liberia. The Negro people would not leave a grease spot of his erratic toppiece. Kentucky Negroes have a hard time politically. W. A. Gains missed the Registorship of the Treasury by a hair's breadth and the recall of James Robert Spurgeon takes away the only presidential appointment the state has ever had. But wait until editor W. D. Johnson "gets his blood up"—there will be "something doing." Louisiana Caucasians complain that the President is discriminating against them on account of their color because he has appointed a negro to a minor place held by a white man. They seem to forget that they have gained the naval office, which we had previously controlled Some people are so greedy! The best place for the Negro or the white man is where he can do the best. There is no sentiment in business. No race should expect favors on the score of sympathy. We want simple justice under the laws, and fair play under the instinct of true manhood. We want to "pull our weight," and have the machine register for us as it does for other peoples of like caliber. For the benefit of the Washington Post we would say that when the Negro represents the bone and sinew of the republican party of Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio as he does in the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida, we may justly expect to be collectors at the ports of Boston. New York City, Philadelphia and Cleveland as well as at Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah and Jacksonville. The Boston Herald made an egregious blunder in announcing the death of Hon. George T. Downing, one of the race's best-known patriarchs. Mr. Downing though eighty-three years old, is alive and enjoying good health at his home in Newport, Rhode Island. Mr. Downing may at least congratulate himself on the laudatory character of the obituary notices that the premature report of his demise called forth. That belligerent spokesman of southern sentiment the New Orleans State has announced that a bitter war is to be inaugurated against all Negro federal appointees whom the President may name for service in Dixie land, even to the point of murdering them. However, unless we miss our guess Mr. Roosevelt will continue to appoint whomsoever he pleases, and those who indulge in the homicidal habit will stand an excellent chance of stretching hemp. Personal comeliness may be regarded as a commercial asset. Joseph Z. Brown, a colored man, was until recently a waiter at the Mansion House, Reading, Pa., but the proprietor, not liking the homely face Brown wore, gave him his "passports." The discharged waiter thought his "frontispiece" wasn't so bad, and isuing for the wages for the eight months that he would have been employed. An interesting discussion as to how ugly a man may be and yet "get by." Those who would restrict Dr. Washington's operations to Tuskegee, must remember that men grow with time, demand and obedience to the natural law of expansion. It may be that the "Wizard" has out-grown the narrow limits of the state of Alabama, and become by virtue of recognized merit a factor in all the activities of American life. Education is a broad field and comprehends everything that adds to the power of mind and the utility of forces. ```markdown ``` 01 Bright BOYS AND GIRLS Wanted Sell The Colored American. Big Pay for Little Work. COLORED AMERICAN has had so many appplication from and girls throughout the country to sell it by the week, as by subscription for the year, we have decided to establish awake young agents in every town in the country, wherever demand warrants it. THE COLORED AMERICAN has had so many appplication from boys and girls throughout the country to sell it by the week, as well as by subscription for the year, we have decided to establish wide awake young agents in every town in the country, wherever the demand warrants it. We want an Active worker eds of smart boys and girls in every locality have several spare time each week, which they could use to good advan- d easily earn their pocket money: Hundreds of smart boys and girls in every locality have several hours' spare time each week, which they could use to good advantage and easily earn their pocket money: Read Our Plans. ant just such ones to work for us a little while every week THE COLORED AMERICAN at 5 cents each—selling the liable, original and best race paper published—full of reli- news, illustrations, and authoritative opinion on race topics. We want just such ones to work for us a little while every week selling THE COLORED AMERICAN at 5 cents each—selling the old, reliable, original and best race paper published—full of reliable news, illustrations, and authoritative opinion on race topics. No Possible Risk. Young Agents take no possible risk. We send a bundle of every week, and they sell them like hot cakes at 5 cents Every one wants THE COLORED AMERICAN as soon as an opportunity to examine and read a copy of it. Our young Agents take no possible risk. We send a bundle of papers every week, and they sell them like hot cakes at 5 cents each. Every one wants THE COLORED AMERICAN as soon as given an opportunity to examine and read a copy of it. The Colored American Free. local pastor or any responsible party will send us the name smart boy or girl to sell THE COLORED AMERICAN every on his town, we will put an extra copy in the agent's bundle week, to be delivered free to the party appointing the agent as the agent sells THE COLORED AMERICAN. Send us the of a smart girl or boy at once. Have them fill out this and send it at once; 19 by agree to act from date as agent for The Colored American and tell the same to as many customer as can be secured, at 5 cents a copy every and that I will report not later than the Monday after each package is served, and remit 3 cents for each copy I sell or deliver to subscribers, and in all unsold copies. Name..... Address..... Town..... State..... how many first week..... appointed by..... The Colored American, 459 C Street, Northwest. Washington, D. C. If the local pastor or any responsible party will send us the name of a smart boy or girl to sell THE COLORED AMERICAN every week in his town, we will put an extra copy in the agent's bundle each week, to be delivered free to the party appointing the agent so long as the agent sells THE COLORED AMERICAN. Send us the name of a smart girl or boy at once. Have them fill out this coupon and send it at once: I hereby agree to act from date as agent for The Colored American and to sell the same to as many customer as can be secured, at 5 cents a copy every week, and that I will report not later than the Monday after each package is received, and remit 5 cents for each copy I sell or deliver to subscribers, and return all unsold copies. "THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE Which held its first convention in Boston Mass., August 23-24 BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. President and Founder. The convention was the first National Convention of or-ess men ever held in this or any other country. Every business was represented: the farmer, the farmer, the doctor, the lawyer, the manufacturer, the man and rulers of municipalities. The ad- papers read are all in this book besides o- tres and others, which makes it a valuable intention. This convention was the first National Convention business men ever held in this or any other county of business was represented: the farmer, the equator, the doctor, the lawyer, the manufacturer, the merchant and culers of municipalities. The adored and papers read are all in this book besides o of delegates and others, which makes it a valuable the convention. THE COLOR AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. GOTHAM NOTES COLORED AMERICAN DIONYSIUS III Six weeks ago perhaps not ten persons in ten thousand ever heard of or knew that there was such a mud hole on the map as Indianola, about which the rabid secesh journals of the south have had the rabies and hysteria because it appears that the President exercised his prerogative on learning that an officer of the government there abiding had been threatened and intimidated by a mob more or less respectable—ordered it closed pending an investigation. The rebel yell followed the prompt action of the President, and there was loud talk of killing all his future Negro appointees in the south, etc., etc., eac. The poor little colored woman who was Postmistress at this little obscure Mississippi village sent in her resignation because as she stated she had been warned and invited to step down and out. The sensational and lying newspapers north and south-made a mountain out of a very small mole hill, and have repeatedly asseverated that she had stated that no one had threatened her. And yet she positively refuses to permit the Postmaster-General to re-establish her in her former office. Is there any colored woman or man in Washington, where the relations between the races are as harmoniously harmonious and happy as they are said to be in Indianola, who would need to be urged to support the constitution and sign the pay roll as this young woman has been to resume her duties as Postmistress? Even with the moral support of the President behind her she refuses this office. The white folks say she has been treated with the utmost kindness by the white people; that she is a "likely Negress," etc., etc. But they nowhere say that they are in accord with the effort of the administration to reopen that office with its former Postmistress, in charge. Where is Indianola, anyhow? It is somewhere in Sunflower county, which is only about 48 linear miles from the Heated Hence. It has a population of 630 (see census of 1900). Sunflower county has 4,006 white population, and 12,070 Negroes, 1,112 white and 1,703 colored males of voting age who can read and write. If this isn't a case of the tail trying to wag the canine what is it? The blackguards of the rebel press of the south have filled the air with the tumult of their discontent," and for what? For the purpose of frightening the young gentleman in the White House, and diverting him from the line of duty he has marked out for himself. They haven't succeeded and they will not succeed. The scheme they are playing is too transparent. It looks too much like a sympathetic strike of the laboring people. The south is determined if bulldozing language and bloodthirsty threats can accomplish it to keep Negroes out of public office in that section. But these cowardly and murderous mobs that threaten and intimidate defenseless black women will find out that there are some young and middle aged Negro men in the South who can shoot pretty straight, and who will shoot when crowded. Any Negro appointed to a Federal office and refusing it, because of the objection of a mob of Negro voting ex-rebels—who tried to shot the stars of freedom out of old glory, will deserve all the bad treatment he receives. The white man of the South pretends to believe that the Negro is a moral coward. This is why he always goes after him in mobs of from 20 to 100. The Negro magnifies the physical skill of these white men, who are the biggest cowards and the biggest liars on earth, and hesitates to go at them, when they come forward down south. Up north the white man does not have such a low estimate of the Negro. He knows he will strike back when struck and strike hard. Is this the way Mississippi's new constitution encourages thrift and industry? The premium which the dear white people of that blood-stained state offers to ambitious and thrifty Negroes is murder. No new thing for Mississippi, as Copiah, Carrollton and Kemper county will testify. The last time I saw old Jim Chalmers (who personally while in command of a rebel brigade snatched a Negro babe from its mother's arms and dashed its brains out on the ground, he looked like an Egyptian mummy. The Negroes of Mississippi sent this thing to Congress and now they are getting paid for it. But just think of a minority, 630 crackers, clay eaters, human devils and Democrats, raising all this row over one poor little colored woman, who with her husband are now so frightened that they scarcely know their name or where they are at. The rebel press has put words into her mouth exonerating the devils who drove her out of office, which I fear she dare not for obvious reasons deny. Somebody is doing some tall lying in this case and it isn't the President nor Mrs. Cox. This is clear. BRUCE GRIT. Yonkers, January 12, 1903. PROF. JAMES E McGIRT The new Poet and Playwrite, at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, Jan. 20, 1903. The eyes of literary Washington will be focused on the entertainment given under the auspices of Bethel Society, at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, ```markdown ``` MR JAMES E M'G RT Jan 20, 1903, when Prof. McGirt will make a step in advance of anything that the race has done in his line. Besides giving his regular recital, he will star his own great drama, "The Power of Love,"—the changing of an infidel. This is the first time any poet of the race has written a drama and placed it. The play is short and interesting. It consists of four characters: "Horace," an infidel, who at last becomes a Christian and hero of the play. "Madge" the heroine, at last an angel Part of leading woman, "The Devil," who is at last banished by the angel. Prof. McGirt comes highly endorsed by the leading critics and papers. This is a religious play and destined to do much good. Prof. J. T. Layton will direct a musical program for the occasion. ATTENTION AGENTS. Agents who have not made their reports and settlements in this office for some time are hereby warned that unless a settlement comes this week no more papers will be set them. This will also apply to a number of delinquent subscribers who are considerably in ar- Last week the Washington (D. C.) COLORED AMERICAN issued as a supplement 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 issue these supplements at frequent intervals and that the series will include only those leaders of the race whose merits and services entitle them to prominence. Score another for THE COLORED AMERICAN Marton Blade DESKS, ROCKERS, BOOK CASES, CHIFFONIERS, SIDEBOARDS, BRASS BEDS, PARLOR LAMPS, MORRIS CHAIRS. CHINA CLOSETS, MUSIC CABINETS, PARLOR CABINETS, RECEPTION CHAIRS. These are a few of the many suitable gifts offered for your selection on easy weekly payments—without notes or interest. If you are looking for a beautiful dinner or tea set, you'll find it here, in the newest decorations of Havilland China. Also Fish Game, and Soup Sets in the latest patterns. Make your selections TO DAY—and we will deliver the goods promptly at the time and place specified. Peter Grogan, 817,819,821,823 7th St., N.W. Between H and I Sts. H. K. FULTON'S Loan Office 514 9th St (ESTABLISHED MONEY I Watches, Diamonds, Jewels Unredeemed Watches, Diamonds GOLD and SILVER The most Reliable Place in 314 9th Street Northwest. (ESTABLISHED 1870.) MONEY LOANED ON Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware, Etc. Owned Watches, Diamonds and Jewelry For Sale. Old GOLD and SILVER Bought. Almost Reliable Place in the City to Borrow Money. Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware, Etc. Unredeemed Watches, Diamonds and Jewelry For Sale. Old GOLD and SILVER Bought. The most Reliable Place in the City to Borrow Money. CLAIRVOYANT AND ASTROLOGIST Life from cradle to grave. Gives names in full of those you have or will marry; causes happy marriage to those you desire; unites those separated (never fails). If you are in doubt as to the outcome of any undertaking in business, social or domestic life; sickness divorces separations, lawsuits, lost or absent friends interest you; if you desire to have your domestic troubles removed, your lost love returned, consult or write me. You will be advissd the best way to succeed. Fee, $1.00. Patrons attended to in all parts of the world. Letters of inquiry answered on receipt of two 2c. stamps. MRS. C. CARY 1406 W. YORK ST. PHILADA., PA LAW, REAL ESTATE, & PENSIONS. JOHN W. PATTERSON ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. 407 SEVENTH STREET, N W Room No. 3, Washington, D. C., 'Phone East 352. CONSTAN'S CONSULT Mrs. Renner. The German female specialists. Treats woman's all complaints and irregularities. Private Sanitarum, 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. Privide home for infant if necessary. City office hours from 9 a.m., to 6 p.m. 494 Louisiana Avenue Northwest, Washington, D. C. FEMALE PILLS 100 SAFE AND SURE GESSFORD, 9th and YOU STREETS, N. W. CONSTAN'S 11 MARRY G. LENZ. HUGO LOSSAU LENZ & LOSSAU, Successors to CHARLES FISCHER, Trusses, Crutches, Syringes, Cutlery Artificial Human Eyes. Elastic Ho. siery. Abdominal Supporters. Rubber Goods of Every Description. 623 Soventh St. Northwest. Opposite Patent Office. WASHINGTON, D. C. Competent Lady Attendant. Ladies Needing Advice and Treatment The German female specialists. Treats woman's ills complaints and irregularities. Private Sanitarium, 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. 494 Louisiana Avenue Northwest, Washington, D.C. LOW PRICES. On Beautiful gold crowns and all other work. We positively extract teeth without pain. ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ...12th and Penn. Ave... Vero Dentists. Hours 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. Sunday a. m. to 10 m. 12 METHODIST FINANCES. Remarkable Showing by The Advance Sheets of Secretary Lampton's Report-His Election Amply Vindicated by Marvulous Results Achieved-Entire Race Pleased Beyond Measure. The financial board of the A. M. E. Church is happy over the splendid showing foreshadowed by the advance sheets of the report of Dr. E. W. Lampton, the energetic and resourceful financial secretary of the connection. The report, as it stands, covers a period of eight months of the present fiscal year, and the figures amply vindicate the wisdom of the board in selecting the painstaking Mississippian for this very important position. Every indication points to a banner year for the A. M. E. connection, and it is expected that the full statement for the current twelve months will outstrip all previous endeavors in the matter of moneys collected and general healthful condition of each of the executive departmets of the race's greatest and most substantial religious corporation. At no time in the history of Allen Methodism has the outlook been more favorable, nor has there been in charge of the business interests a firmer or a stronger intellect than those possessed by that Napoleon of theology, Dr. E. W. Lampton. As an evidence of the abiding confidence reposed in him by the Bishops, and as a proof of the high esteem in which he is held by all the forces of the church. Dr. Lampton has been dubbed by popular acclaim "the J. Pierpont Morgan of the A. M. E. connection."—aud results demonstrate that the title is well reserved. The books footed up for the last eight months, show a total of "dollar money collected," one hundred eighteen thousand, eight hundred forty-nine dollars and sixty-nine cents ($118,849.69) a total increase over the corresponding eight months of last year of eleven thousand three hundred ninety-four dollars and twenty-seven cents $11,394.27.). This is indeed a remarkable achievement, and one in which the entire race, regardless of denomination, will take immense pride. It is an indisputable argument that the Negro has bound up in his brain and heart the capacity for managing large affairs, personal honesty in financial dealings, and the mastery of the art of organization. The million of Methodists in America, Africa and the islands of the sea, will take renewed courage because of Dr. Lampton's hopeful report, and the race as a religious and commercial factor, will be strengthened everywhere within the civilized world. The Colored American congratulates Dr. Lampton and the church upon the substantial progress indicated by the financial statement of the year that is about to close. DR PHIL BROOME BROOKS, An Incident Illustrative of His Gnrosity and Public Spirit An incident showing the real character of Dr. Phillip Broome Brooks, of South Washington, took place a few days ago, when a littte colored news boy, the son of a washer-woman, was arrested by policeman Sharkey, for selling a newspaper to a passenger on the street car. Dr. Brooks was a passenger on the car and witnessed the arrest. He accompanied the officer and the boy to the patrol box, and rode with the boy in the patrol to the station house, where he put up a cash bond for his freedom. Dr. Brooks did not know the boy, but it is evident that by this time, on account of his generosity and kindness, he is well acquainted with the parents. Speaking of Dr. Brooks, brings to mind the fact that he is not only one of the most successful physicians in Washington and deservedly popular, but that he is self-made in the truest sense of the word. As a young man he worked his way through the district schools and after completing them desired to take a course in medicine at the Howard Medical School then under Dr. C. B. Purvis. Although poorly equipped to enter the Medical Department, he was encouraged in more ways than one by Dr. Purvis, the then great head of the school, to enter and complete his course. The relationship existing between Dr. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. Purvis and Dr. Brooks to-day is that of father and son. Dr. Brooks is a connoisseur of books and race literature. He has one of the most complete medical libraries in Washington and his books on all phases of the race problem, clippings, magazines, etc., can not be equalled or duplicated. He is well off in this world's goods, but takes more pride C. in his great library, in his large growing practice, and in his broad acquaintance than in the possession of this world's good. He is a young man and a single man, but may, some say, become a benedict. DEATH OF MRS. MARY E. HARGRO. After an illness of but a few weeks Mrs. Mary E. Hargro, one of our best known and most highly respected women, died on last Monday morning at half-past four o'clock. While she had not been feeling well for some time it was only about two weeks ago that her most intimate friends were informed that her condition was so critical. She retained her consciousness up to the very last and her passing away was most peaceful. Her only relative, a neice, Mrs. Nama Curtis of Washington, was at her bedside and remained faithful to the end. Although Mrs. Hargro was a native of Philadelphia she came to this city, where she was reared and educated, at such an early age that she was looked upon as an old Californian. She was cut off just in her prime, not being quite fifty-four years of age, and being possessed of a fair share of this world's goods she was in a position to have enjoyed a long and useful career, but a higher power ordained that it should be otherwise. Owing to the non-arrival of Dr. Curtis, who was due here last Saturday and who is snowbound in New Mexico at this writing, the funeral will not take place until Sunday, January 4th. It will be held from the First Baptist church, Eddy street, between Jones and Leavenworth, at three (3) o'clock p. m. Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend.-Western Outlook. LA:E LOCALS. Mr. John R. Auter, Attorney at Law, Chicago, Ill., is in the city on legal business before the Department. Dr. G. T. Whitson, a well known physician of Uniontown, Pa., spent a week at the Nation's Capitol on business. Mr. Charles E. Nelson and Mr. Truss, both famous whistlers, entertained an interesting party at Gaskins & Gains, last Tuesday evening. They are not only experts in whistling popular airs, but are masters of the classics. Mr. A. J. Smith, Jr., of Richmond, Va., formerly connected with the Richmond Planet, is now in this city where he has been called to accept a position with the Metropolitan Benevolent Investment Co. He is an experienced insurance man and was one of the early attaches of the above named Company. The 71st anniversary of the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, located in South Washington, will be celebrated in a befitting manner. It begins to-morrow and will continue until Jan. 23rd. Rev.: W. H. Snowden, the enterprising pastor, proposes to raise one thousand dollars ($1,000), and all indications point that way. The public and all friends of the church are cordially invited. 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 more than fourteen years of age may form a Rosebud, upon the payment of $ each. This department, like the Senior Fountain, pays sick benefits from $ 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: Class "B" Joining fee. Value of Certificate after one year. Value of Certificate before one year Annual Dues Quarterly Dues Class "E" 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 Age 14 to 25 $5 00 $500 00 $250 00 $9 50 $2 50 " 25 to 30 2 75 200 00 100 00 4 75 1 20 " 25 to 30 5 25 500 00 250 00 9 10 2 40 " 30 to 35 3 00 200 00 100 00 4 75 1 20 " 30 to 35 5 50 500 00 250 00 9 50 2 40 " 35 to 40 3 25 200 00 100 00 4 75 1 43 " 35 to 40 5 75 500 00 250 00 10 40 2 40 " 40 to 45 3 50 140 00 70 00 5 79 1 43 " 40 to 45 6 00 450 00 225 00 10 40 2 40 " 45 to 50 3 75 115 00 58 00 6 65 1 66 " 45 to 50 6 25 400 00 200 00 11 40 2 45 " 50 to 55 4 00 70 00 45 00 6 45 1 66 " 50 to 60 6 10 350 00 175 00 11 40 2 45 " 55 to 60 4 25 65 00 33 00 7 60 1 90 ``` 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 $350,058, 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 of 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 description is made a specialty at lowest prices. Mr. R. W. Brown is editor and ager, office 608 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. Correspondence solicited and t OLD FOLKS' HOME—In September, 1893, Rev. William W. Brown recommence and establishment of Old Folks' Homes for the benefit of old and decrepid race. Since that time the valuable farm known as Westham, consisting of 634 six acres from Richmond, Va., on the historic "James," has been purchased, a The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad runs through the farm, and Westham St. It Adjoining this farm is Westhampton Park, one of the most pleasant resort summer. It is reached in a few minutes from Richmond by the Westhampton and the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. As this home is for the benefit of co-operation of all charitable friends is prayerfully solicited. All contribute bequests of every character will be very thankfully received. Mr. T. W. Tay of the Old Folks' Home, offices at 608 North Second Street, Richmond, Va. Rev. W. L Taylor, G. W. M. W. P. Burr 601-6-8 N. Second Street. Richmond 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 6 65 1 66 " 50 to 55 4 00 70 00 45 00 6 45 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 80 $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 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. 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I have noticed the several improvements which you have made in THE COLORED AMERICAN, and desire to congratulate you on same. Wishing for your paper the success which it justly merits, I desire to remain Yours very truly. ADORNMENT FOR HOME Catchall, S. C., July 8.—I congratulate you, Mr. Editor, upon the addition of new life to The Colored American. Every family should have their homes adorned with the portrait of the two great men who figured in your supplement,—Booker T. Washington and Rev. W. L. Taylor J. A. ROACH. WENT LIKE HOT CAKES. Memphis, Tenn.—Please send to me ten copies of last week's issue. Fold so Prof. Washington's picture will not bend, or rather, tear. Can sell that many as soon as received. May order more. W. M. T. Baltimore, Md.—The current issue of THE COLORED AMERICAN is a great one, which certainly adds to your fame as a leader in Afro-American journalism. In this and the annual of the Florida Sentinel, we truly see the race's brains in journalism. F. F. J. THE PLEASURE IS OURS. St. Paul, Minn.—I enclose herewith THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. subscription for one year. It is a small matter compared with the good that I get out of your paper. Taking into consideration the enclosed and other matters I have sent you respecting the council, can you tell me if you ever saw more smoke as you go down the pike than we are making for the council? Kindly give us notice. Please send us a list of persons to whom we might send copies of the enclosed matter. Also please send me four portraits of Prof. Washington. See that they are evenly folded and wrapped in a horn so that they will not break, and send half a dozen copies of paper under separate cover. I wish to present them to white friends of mine. Let me congratulate you on your push. Lexington, Ky.—I have to hand your paper of 17th inst., accompanied by a most excellent likeness of the Great Booker Washington, and simply write this to express my thanks and appreciation of the same. We have Mr. Washington at the Lexington Opera House June 6th, and are making preparation for a big time for him. Both races are much interested. Will write the matter up and send account to you. Enclosed please find clipping from the most popular daily in Lexington, which was called forth from the pen of Editor Moore, of the Blue Grass Blade, because of an invitation by one Gen. Gentry, an ex-Confederate, to entertain Mr. Washington to a rabbit chase. Glad to see you so loyally and royally wield your pen in defense of Mr. Washington. Surely you have done much for the cause he so manfully advocates. The AMERICAN is all right. With best wishes I am, Yours etc., P. D. R. DELIGHTED WITH OUR STORY. New Orleans, La.—I was so well pleased after reading your issue of the 18th with your article on the life history of Prof. Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee Institute, that I wired you for copies. Our schools and universities are just about having their commencement exercises, and I thought it would be a good idea for each young go forth into the battle of life. I think Professor Washington's life will be a man to have a copy of this issue as they beautiful story for them, as no man of our race is doing more for the welfare and upbuilding of his people. His life's good work should be read in our schools, as none is more worthy of emulation. I have just received the sad news of the death of my old friend and comrade, Capt. Thos. S. Kelly. Hoping this may find your family and friends, as well as yourself, in the best of health and spirits. I am. A GRAND RACE ADVOCATE. Editor Colored American: I have read a great number of Negro papers, but the Colored American is the best Negro journal that I have ever seen. It is just what every Negro family should have in their home. I speak proudly of this paper and I wish that I had the opportunity of reading it oftener than I do. I have been reading your paper for several years and am compelled to tell you it is one of the grandest papers that has been published by a Negro journalist. Your paper has been sent to me for several years by my cousin, Prof. W. H. Richards, and I appreciate the favor very highly. I would feel proud if the Negroes in the State of Tennessee could publish a journal on the same broad lines. I trust the Colored American will never die. N. J. L. WHY. CERTAINLY! THE COLORED AMERICAN is independent, fresh and fearless. It rings true upon the questions of the hour.—Baptist Reporter, Helena, Ark. DESERVES CREDIT. THE COLORED AMERICAN of the District of Columbia deserves much credit for the excellent picture of Prof. B. T. Washington.—Western World. Those who would be leaders of the race could do nothing better than to read and take inspiration from what can be found in "Shadow and Light."—Hon. James Lewis, New Orleans, La. Editor E. E. Cooper, of the Washington (District of Columbia) Colored 18 American, whose cut appears in this issue of the Times-Speaker, is a man that the Speaker delights to do honor He is one of the race's most true leaders, and as a newspaper man and all around hustler, perhaps he stands without a peer among Afro-American journalists. He is a man whose name is bound to live in after years as a land mark in Negro journalism.—Times Speaker, Denver, Colo. The editorial in THE COLORED AMERICAN of Washington, D. C., under the caption of "Appeals to Race Prejudice was copied in full by Editor Bryson in the daily press in the issue of the real inst., commending in the highest terms its logic and good sense. It was certainly one of the most sensible editor that it has ben our good fortune to read. It ought to have been reproduced in many of the colored papers.—Louisiana Mo., correspondent of Omaha Enterprise. Harry Smith of the Cleveland Gazette has declared a never-ending win on E. E. 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Though absent in body, her sweet and lovable influence can never be lost. That is immortal, and shall be preserved in the archives of time. That characters pass away, but do not die. They illumine the circle in which they move with an imperishable glory, and are hen translated to the rewards that await the good, the pure, the noble. Adele Belcher was born in 1880, in Augusta, Ga. She was the eldest child of Lucius and Maggie Belcher. After the death of her mother, which occurred six years ago, Adele was sent by her father, with her two brothers, to Washington, to make their home with their grand mother, Mrs. Tolbert, where they could receive educational advantages superior to those offred in the South. About two years ago, her father died, and Adele spent some time in Vermont, but returned upon finding the climate to be too severe for her somewhat frail constitution. It was in a large measure due to the rigors of the New England atmosphere that the germs of pulmonary disease reached a dangerous development, leading eventually to her dissolution. Adele early embraced religion, and was a faithful and devoted member of Lincoln Memorial Temple, having united with the Park Temple congregation, under the ministrations of Rev. Sterling N. Brown, and continuing her allegiance upon the consolidation with the Lolcoln organization. She was patient throughout her long illness, and approached death without fear. She expressed herself as being ready for the change, and often said she did not care to live. Her last moments this side of eternity were made as comfortable as possible by a large number of tender and loving hands. Surrounded by relatives, companions and attending physicians, she passed away on Saturday night, January 3rd at nine o'clock. The funeral exercises, beautiful and impressive in their solemnity, were held Tuesday, January 6th, from Lincoln Temple. Touching tributes of respect were delivered by Rev. Sterling N. Brown, in charge, and Rev. F. J. Grimke, of the 15th Street Presbyterian Church. An immense concourse of friends witnessed the last sad rites, and the deepest sorrow was manifested by all who had known of her worth and pleasing personality in life. She leaves to mourn her loss a grandmoher, two brothers and an aunt and cousin in Washington, and many kinspeople in the State of Georgia. Adele Belcher's most enduring monu- ment is built within the hearts of those who knew her best, and in the splendid example she has set for true womanhood of her day and generation. SUMNER P. BELCHER Obituary. Impressive services were held over the remains of Mrs. A. M. Cusberd at the 19th Street Baptist Church, Sunday January 11th at 2 p.m. Beautiful and appropriate music was rendered by the choir of the church, assisted by Dr. James Walker and Miss H. E. Bell both of whom sang with deep feeling. Rev. Brooks chose his text from the first chapter of Samuel 20th and 18th verses: "And thou shalt be missed for thy seat will be empty." Resolutions from St. Philip's Baptist Church were read by Rev. Ricks. The remains were interred in the Baptist Cemetery. The deceased who had been a resident of Washington for more than 40 years passed away after a long and painful illness which she bore with marked patience and Christian fortitude. Her life was a cheerful and exemplary one and her tenderness and consideration for others made her beloved by all who knew her. An earnest, devout Christian, she expended her time and energy in establishing a church and trying to uplift the moral standard of the community in which she lived. She leaves four loving children, one son and three daughters to mourn her loss. Judge J. B. Raymond, of Altoona, Pa., was in the city a few days this week visiting relatives and friends. He has just returned from a meeting of the Pennsylvania State Magistrate Association held in Philadelphia. The sessions began January 12th and lasted until the 15th. More than three hundred delegates were in attendance and they were the recipients of that hospitality for which the City of Brotherly Love is so famous. Judge Raymo d was the only colored delegate and represented the city of Altoona, the liveliest section of the state. He was an active participant in the entire proceedings and made a number of telling speeches. The papers of Philadelphia as well as the associated press gave flattering notices of the different sessions and paid high tributes to the sterling qualities of Mr. Raymond. 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Continued from first page. written by those men and women whose mames are cherished because of the real soul quality which they possessed, and who presented the brightest side of life. Rey. W. T. H. Addison made some very fitting remarks in which he characterized Re~ Withrow’s work as eminently Suc- cessful, and said he had always known him as a Christian gentleman of the highest tPpe. Miss Effie A. Johnson ren- dered the Hymn and Recitation “Jesus Lever of My Soul.” Miss Johnson dis- played remarkable talent as an ‘“elocu- tionist and her recitation was attended with almost breathless attention. Mr. H. R. Jackson read an interesting Anniversary paper. He said: “We have assembled to-night for the love and es- teem we have for him whose Anniver- sary we celebrate. We have assembled to do honor to one of our own noble sons, who by his Christian walk, pure and chaste conversation, manly bearing, and education and perseverance, has won for himself a place in our hegrts which can never be eradicated. We come not mere- ly to celebrate, but we come because duty demands it. We come not to flatt- er the dear brother, but to give honor to whom honor is due. How easy it is to tell the atmosphere in which a pérson is brought up! Let the best born lad in the i ed be reared in the worst environments and what would be his fate? We are the creatures of our environment. Man is made and developed by environment, and all that influences him, conscious or un- conscious, is environment.” Mr. Jack- son closed with the hope that the success which had attained Rev. Withrow through life, and ecch day grow brighter until he should reach that ‘‘Haven of Rest.” | Mrs. M. F. Dawsey then treated the audience to an original poem which we give entire: “A CHRISTMAS CAROL.” “On Bethlehem’s plain abiding, The shepherds vigil keep, But angels break the silence With strains of music sweet. In joyous rapture bringing, The news desired long, The birth of Christ revealing, They sing their Christmas song. Prophetic writings tell us, A Christ child should be born, They see, through distant ages, How He, to living fountains Our thirsty souls, would lead. A Prince of Peace, He'd be to us A Friend in time of need. Blest Savior, we adore Thee, Our Prophet, Priest and King. The song that woke the shepherds, ~ Let all the nations sing. ‘The angels in their chariot, Prociaim “Good will to men.” May all who know the Savior, Take up the sweet refrain.” Mary E. Dawsey. The last address of the evening was that by Rev. W. H. Moses, pastor Zion Baptist Church, and was withal a mas- terly effort, replete with forceful logic and at times thrilling with brilliant out- bursts of oratory. He said in part: “Let “us pause here and note briefly the things for which Rev. Withrow has been struggling these sixteen years in the Christian pulpit. im the first place, he has been endeavoring to present to the world a man of the highest type in the person of himself. In the second place, he has been laboring to have others con- form to the type of Him, who is chiefest among ten thousand and One altogether lovely. An aduous task indeed; too sublime and great to be undertaken by small souls; too long and tedious to be successfully worked out by impatent gself-seekers of the world. Many have been the struggles and sacrifices to that THE VOLOREy AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. GC ee ee On oe ne a. stations. : i am satisfied that he has softened many a hard.heart; that he has resiored peace, as well as prevented discord in many a home; that many a boy and girl h&s been induced to ogtain an edu- cation through his influence, an- that many a soul has died shouting because of the gospel he preached. And I believe that the endless chain of goodness start- ed by him will reach far cut into the fu- ture for the good of the world and the glery of God.” Rey. Moses asked permission to read the following communication from Dr. W. P. Thirkield, Corresponding Secre- tary of the F. A. and S. F. S. He did so for two reasons: First, because the communication illustrated the fact that Rey. Withrow stood in. close personal relation with the leading men of his church, and that meant with the lead- ing men of the world, and second, be- cause it was a forcible reminder that the eyes of the world are constantly upon us and eagerly following our ca- reer with deepest interest. - Cincinatti, Ohio, Dec. 24, 1902. Rey. Chauncey I. Withrow, Staunton, Virginia. ‘Dear Brother Withrow :— . Accept my thanks for your Kindness in sending to me the program of your Sixteenth Anniversary. I am ‘sure that the program will not only celebrate a great anniversary of a very faithful and efficient pastor, but will also ‘prove a blessing to the people. | Accept my most hearty congratulations my dear brother, and may your ecgreer, which I have followed with deep inter- est for many years, be one that shall never cease in usefulness and strength ‘through all the years. Yours Faithfully, W. P. Thirkield.” Dr. W. P. Pannei, our enterprising and most efficient druggist, and a prince of bass soloists, closed the exercises with the song, “A Hundred Fathoms Deep.” We seriously hope the report that the mulatoes of Charleston, S. C., have re- solved to segregate themselves from their darker-hued brethren, has no foun- dation. In fact, be we-fair as the lilly or black as the crow, the Negro has'a cause in common, and the fates will not per- mit us to eseape our destiny by artificial makeshifts. United we must stand or justice for all mankind if permanent re- sults are achieved. This will be cheering news for that class of critics who are eternally crying out that the “wave of industrialism” is “starving out” the schools for the higher education. Atlanta University, Fisk Uni- versity, Nashville and Lincoln Memorial University, Cumberiand,.Tenn., are the southern educational institutions sched- uled for donations from the surp)us mil- lion which the executors of the famous Robert C. Billings estate, of Boston have left. \Holly Billings died in 1599. The hexecit ee have disbursed, according to the specified charities, the provisions of the will, but still have one million dollars left. That sum is to be given to a list of colleges selected by the executors. It does not look as if the “hoodoo” of the vice-Presidential succession is to follow Roostvelt. As a record-breaker, he has no equal in American history.. “When certain pre-reazisites are set up as a qualification fer the suffrage, a “premium” is thereby placed on the same. Whether laws are administered according to their letter or whether white men are passed as qualified and Negroes barred, does not alter the fact that the written constitution places a premium upon the virtues enumerated as requisites: Whatever may be said of the methods of administration—and noth- ing is too bad to say—every southern constitution, in letter, has placed a pre- mium upon education, property-owning and character. Let us strive to cet them NEGRO JOURNALS. Why Should They Be Supported. Whatever hope there was that the color line could be wiped out, so that there would be no need of colored churches, colored fraternal organiza- faded away. There is a visible and tangible line based upon color and previous conditions, which separates the two races in this country. This is seen and felt along every avenue of effort. There are certain features of news concerning coloréd people, which any white journal will publish in their choice columns, under flaring head lines. Has a colored man been charged with the commission of some heinous offense? Has he done something which places him or those with whom he is identified at a disadvantage? All such matters are sought and welcomed to the showy columns of white journals. But, on the contrary, if a colered per- son has performed an act which en- titles him to credit, or rebounds to the glory of his race, this would find conspicuous place in but precious few white journals; some would consign it to their obscure columhs, while the large majority would reject it alto- gether. The remarkable progress made by the colored race since emancipation is largely due to its journals. They have sought and published the creditable things said and done by the race of its representatives. In this way the noble dead which otherwise would have “blushed unseen and wasted thejr sweetness on the desert air,” have found prominent plece in the columns of the newspapers, owned, edited and aublished by colored men, thereby en- vbling us to see ourselves in the most favorable light, and relatively off-set- ting the ill effects of the white journais that lose no opportunity, real or im- iginary, to present us to the reading public in a most ignoble ‘light. Decent, loyal Negro journals are a necessity. They are beacon-lights in ‘he tower of progress, warning of ap- nroaching danger, encouraging to laudable effort, blessing and upliftir he race. “Why should Negro Journals be sup- yorted?” is sufficiently answered in the foregoing. But, ““Why are they not sup- ported?” is past finding out. Many a colored editor to-day is feeding on the husks of life, simply hat he may serve to his race from veek to week a decent, enlightening, ‘levating newspaper. We prefers thus 0 be of real service to his race, rather han to resort to the sensational pub- ication of matters of doubtful pro- riety, for his personal gain, but te the ineffable loss of the race. It there- fore behooves every colored man and woman to support decent colored journalism by cash subscriptions. This leae a colored daily would soon be 20rn to live; and then the daily out- “ages against the race would cease. As humiliating as it may be, it. is levertheless absolutely true, that the Negro press is not supported by the people in whose interest it is pub- lished. The so-called intelligent read- ing element among us will not sup- port their race journals by subscrib- ing or paying fcr them. The illiterate class among us take no practical in- terest in newspapers, not being able o read them. The middle classgs of our people, therefore, furnish tHe bone and sinew “f support to our journals. Hence. hose who should be the followers of he se-ealled intelligent element are really its unfollowed leaders. " "SHE NEGRO CONFERENCE. The Southwestern Passenger Associa- tion, comprising all the railway lines south of the Ohio and Potomac and cast of the Mississippi rivers, has granted a rate ef one and one-third fare for the Tuskegee Negro Conference to be held at Tuskegee, Ala., February 18-19. This Tus- Kkegee Negro Conference has grown year by year increasingly in interest and in- fluence. Those who would study the prob- lem of the crop lien system and the con- ditions under which most of the Negro farmers of the South lve, can find a val- uable opportunity for such study at Tus- &Kegee. A cordial invitation is extended to the geheral public to attend the con- ference session next month. Persons de- siring further information can address Principal Booker T. Washington, Tuske- gee, Inst., Tuskegee, Ala. AMERICAN IS ALL RIGHT. The Colored American is the leading race paper in the United States. It is always full of news.—Southwestern Herald, Victory, Texas. 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 Lunche= served at all hours. ‘he PORTER : HOUSE ; CAFE 103 6th St, N. 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On Europesr Plan. First Olass ia Every Particular. URS, D. A. C JONES, PROPRIETOR. WASHINGTON, D. C. The Albany Hotel, Has been enlarged and newly refitted with mod- ern improvements for the accomodation °° Guests. so as to furnish firsi class services with Bar, Dining Room, Private Par lors and frst cias¢ Sleepicg Apartments. — Arthur Webster, steward; William —— and William Hall.mixologist; evry Johnson, manager and Auto Seott, clerk. CALEB A, SIMMS, Prop: 331 W.37th St. New York Men of the Hour. . 38 fa «fF : ee Ses : gigi Saas ee: eg ea ES | ete Asa ae fe ees ee ie Bee oes ce | j Ef a ~ ae i 1 ek eS ‘. ae sh ee A: 2 - eget = MR: WI! CLAM H. LEWIS, —s 'Who was recently .ominated for Assistant U. S Districe rnay of Boston, Mass * Sa) fr WL i SS (a, sD (oe BY | Pw \ /fgar a Ne? gs ‘ YR iP. SF Ufo DR.W D. CRUM, Nominated for Collector of Customs, Charles ton 8. C MES ka ae SN l 4 ect Aes am J Fi e “3 Bower N ts 5 Saris ape Ry ae eee (ae wil SS | ae ye tes “ So Sea oe | nih mmmal 5 Ce ens N Pi : ¥ ens Wes fad SN ” Bee : x z =a? — MR W.H. FERRI , Of Boston, Mass.,« ho is opposed to Dr. Wash ington’s idea Industri © uca on f ee - ~*< ee ce hi, SY : ( ia See! (fas 2 eee get | igs UA iss yp Ss \ Be \ YEW cy \ 7A = Sy NESW AN ZZ \ WEA yy, \ REV- ERNEsT LYON, a2d for Minister to Liberi THE CXCORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, o. C. POPULATION THE BASIS Rumor That Presid ni Roose velt Will Appoint NSgroes Ac- cording- to Their Numerical Strength North and South—Mr Lewis to be Honorably Recog nizedin Aristocratic Boston President Roosevelt has decided to ap- point a colored man as assistant United States atterney at Boston. The man who has been selected is William H. Lewis, a graduate of Harvard and a celebrated center rush of the football tegm of that institution. Lewis will be assistant to Henry P. Moulton, the Unitea States attorney of the Boston district. The po- sition 4s not one Kterally within the pow- er of the President to fill, but he can di- rect the United States attorney to make the appointment, and it will be done. Lewis, in addition to being a well edu- cated man, is said to be so light in color that his Negro ancestry is selaom known eutside of his intimate friends. He went through Harvard without any particular manifestation of hostility on the part of white students. Since the Negro question has been so prominently discussed recently, on ac- count if several appointments made by the President in the south, and on ac- count of the Indianola incident, many suggestions have been. made that the President show his friendship for the Ne- sro by making some appointmentsof men of that color in the north. This is the first step in that direction, and Boston, the heart of the country where the Presi- dent's official acts in connection with the Negro are approved, is selected because of an opening there. The intimation is conveyed that the President will make similar appointments elsewhere in the north, bestowing upon the Negro posi- tions somewhat in proportion numerical- ly to his population in a state. In discussing this matter recently the ‘President mentioned the fact that the Negro population of Massachusetts is comparatively small, and because of that the proportion of offices going to the race in that state would be exceedingly small should the question of appointments be looked at solely from the standpoint of a division of appointments according to relative population. In South Carolina the President suggested that he had ap- pointed the Negro to a good position, yet more than half the. population of the state was composed of Negroes. It is not understood that the President proposes to establish a rule, or think of doing so, giving to the Negro appoint- ments according to his population in a. state, but he does propose to be as fair with the Negro in the south as in the south, it is said. Negroes all over the country have been pressing at the White House for greater recognition of their race. Not long ago the President was waited upon by a delegation from Vir- ginia which asked that a number of minor places in the federal service in that state be given the race. The position of deputy collector at Norfolk was one of the positions sought. The President has taken this matter under consideration, as he has similar appeals from different states of the country.—Evening Star. CHRISTMAS ECHOES. Yonkers, N. Y., Jan. 1, 1903.—The re- vival meetings are now in progress at the A. M. E. Zion church. Rev. Mr. Grayson and Rev. Mr. Reed, both from out of town, spoke during the week. Rev. James T. Gaskill, who has been ill for several days, is very much better, and able to be out again. Mrs. Moore, wife of Prof. Moore, of Salisbury, N. C., who has been sick for several weeks at the home of Rev. Gas- kill, is mow very much improved. Mr. E. Potter of Poughkeepsie-on-the- liudson, spent a few days during the past week with his daughter, Mrs. C. E. Scott, of Woodworth avenue. Mrs. J. W. Adams of New Main street, who has been quite sick, is now conva- lescent. Miss E. P. Outlaw, having spent the holidays at Lakewood, N. J., is now home again. ‘The sad news has come ‘to us from Vir- ginia of the death of Miss M. Thompson, formerly of Yonkers. Miss Thompson was the leading soprano of the Messiah ps plies Oe a Mr. 7%. G. Conick spent Sunday in Brooklyn with friends. Master Walter Giddings, who has been on the sick list, is out again. Yonkers, N. Y.—Special.—Christmas ex- ercises were observed in both of the churches. On Monday evening Dec. 28th, the Mes- siah Baptist Sunday school had its an- nual Christmas tree. Although it was a very stormy night quite a number were out and the little folks were made very happy by their many gifts from Santa Claus. At the A. M. E. Zion church the Christ- mas exercises were held on Tuesday evening, December 30. The novelty of a Christmas house instead of a tree was greatly enjoyed by the children, who were out in goodly number. Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Conick Jr., who were recently married at Hampton, ‘Va., have arrived in Yonkers, where they will make their future home. Mrs. J. T. Gaskell, who has been ill, is now very much improved and able to be out again. Mrs. Dogans and Miss Dungey of Stat- en Island are visiting their sister, Mrs. Thomas Mason of Keflienger street. Mrs. Samuel Giddings entertained at dinner on New Year's day quite a num- ber of out-cf-town guests. The usual custom of cailing and receiv= ing was indulged in by the ladies and gentlemen of our town on January 1 “BROWN GRIT JR.” NEW POLITICAL PARTY, Friends of Lincoln Republican Nsm and Jefferson D mocracy to M c:tat Cincinnati in May The attempt te federate or merge the three wings of the ex-slave pension or- ganization and the National Industrial Council did not succeed at the various conferences last week, but out of the spirited discussion of race interests de- veloped a feeling that the place to se- cure redress was at the ballot box. The ‘outcome of the debate was the issuance of a call for a national convention, to ‘be held in Cincinnati next May, for the Jurpose of organizing a new political ‘party, to be known as the civil liberty party. The object of the new political |movement is déclared to be “the second /emancipation of the colored race, and ad- vocacy of the true principles of républic- anism as fostered by Lincoln and the principles of democracy as advocated by Thomas Jefferson.” | The call is signed by S. P. Mitchell, chairman of the executive committee of the civil liberty party, and by Richard Beasley, secretary. It is addressed to “the friends of civil liberty, true free- _dom of all the people, and American citi- {zens who oppose political partisan slav- ery,” and is in effect that a convention } will be held the “24th day of May, 1903, at Cincinnati, Ohio, to organize a new po- {isticat party and shall take up the true iprinciples of republicanism as fostered by Lincoin and the principles of democ- racy as advocated by Thomas Jefferson. ! -"Phis party shall now no color, creed or previous condition other than good citizenship. There shall be a representa- tion in proportion to congressional dis- tricts in each state. Until the convention the committee in charge shall be ad- dressed as the executive committee of the ‘eivil liberty party.’ ” Some of the leading men who delivered ‘addresses most of them encouraging ne- gro emigration were I. L. Walton, of Ar- tkansas, Smith Frampton, Rev. D. C. Powell of Iowa, and Rev. C. B. Bartley _of Florida. A SUCCESSFUL COLORED MAN. Mr. W. H. Tucker of this city has re- turned from Williamsburg, his old home, and other points in Virginia, and states that he was very agreeably surprised to find the biggest merchant in that town to be a colored man. Mr. Tucker states that Mr. Samuel Harris, the merchant in question, is a wholesale and retail gener- al merchant and gives employment to quite a number of young educated men and women as clerks. He also has a large number of houses that he rents and sells to both white and colored people. Aside from enjoying a lucrative income from his farms, he is the recipient of the respect and-confidence of the entire people of Williamsburg, Va., on account of his generosity and ‘honesty of pur- jose. Fae OD et a Pe OL a sin Teac 3 SALOONS. iz a FrifzReutfer’s Wa4SHINGTON, D. C, ‘HOTEL AND RESTAURANT Jeo 451, 453, 455, 457 Penn. Ave. 202, 208 and 210 4% St, Northwest | MOORE & PRI OLEAD, | Bperta - Bullet and Cate ta: Pa.Avy, Wash., D.C. Fine wine, liquora snd cigers, Hot Free Lanco Every Day, s@- Ladies Will receive special attention in Dining Boom upstsira. 2231 = Cee coe eee Jas. F. Keenan, BO02O228874-202078 Rectifier and Wholesale Liquor Dealer, . Elegant Club Whiskey a Specialty Importer of Fine Wines, Brand- ies, Gins, Etc. 462 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. .& H. NAUGHTON. FINE W INFS, Harper & Wilson a specialty; 1926 Fourteenth St., Northwest. 3 4 Gray &© B WINS, LI cca a and eas . B ae ore = = ae: ears Dining, Rooms ; we street, N Ee AINGTON, 1 W SDs On Ch X d QUALITY HOUSE, © j S09 7thst NW, Established 36 years ago. The largest wholesale stock in town of the most exquisite, faultless wines and distillates (im all 240 kinds,) at Chiis. Xander’s modern prices no others can compete quailty and purity with any of bia goods. His liquors are absolutely tree froma fasel poison, (No branch houses,) Phone 1425 Se L-MIDY. - Standard remedy for Giect, Sf cis ea 4 ney and Bladder Troubles. W: M. DRURY’S RESTAURANT 1100 20th &t., corner L. N. W THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. G THE MAN-ON-THE-CORNER =2——- _ Extends New Year Greetings aid Sentences Certain Nu'sances to the Social Guillotine—Needs of the Recorder’s Oitice—Evil of Alley Hoazes—Innovations 4 “There's a chiel among ye takin’ notes.”” anew, and wishes the readers of the Colored American, one and all, a happy new year. There are abundant reasons why every one should felicitate himself upon the returns of the day, even if his coal bin is not as full as it might be or his bank ‘book as suggestive of “Easy street’ as was true of some other years; 198 is pregnant with possibilities, and since our careers are what we make them, it behooves us to approach the blossoming year with cheerful heart, per- fect mental equipoise and clean hands— yet full-armed to do battle with the trials and tribulations that must be met and overcome to give proper zest to the vic- tory over the devil and his works. _ Let us revert to the ‘devil and his works,” so to speak, for a moment. With no intention of opening our new chapter with maledictions or being mean, the big- gest devil modern mankind is called upon to face is the chronic “‘knocker’’—the in- dividual who has no kind word for any- body, whose gangrened soul looks out upon the world through darkened glasses and who gloats with ghoulish glee over the downfall of his brother. He sneers at the purity of womanhood; he denounces the high-purposed minister as a consum- mate hypocrite; he rails at society be- cause it bars him; he discredits every form of Negro enterprise from the bank to the paripatetic huckster; he says there is nothing in Negro newspapers and has no confidence in race leaders; he pronoun- ces educational systemsmonumental fail- ures and political parties the breeding centre of fakirs. In a wrod the “knock- er’ is out of joint with the times, and he miligates against the happiness of his contemporaries by belng constantly and forever in evidence. He is. at the altar rail taking communion, at the banquet ta- ble, at the bar,in the school house,in the at the bar, in the school house, in the editorial chair, in the conference, on the cars, in the family circle, and even in the chamber of death, when the last sad of- fices are being performed by loving and tender hands the malevolent presence of the “‘knocker’ does not fail to obtrude itself. Cannot something be done during the year of grace 193 to ‘cut the claws” of this monster? Next to the aforesaid species of the genus homo suppose we place the “‘tat- tler.” This pestiferous character comes in both genders—male and female, and it is only a matter of taste or experience which may be denominated the greater evil. Their mischievous repetition of the most casual conversation carries evil where no evil is intended. They leer sig- nificantly when describing to the hus- band some trivial action of the wife, or act as if “more and worse” could be told when they sneak around and pour insid- ious poison into the ears of the gullible and confiding wife. Though particeps criminis in some clandestine affair, the tattler gives the secret away, but places himself in the attitude of being the vir- tuous one of the party, deploring the dis- graceful lapse of his comrades, either as to locse morals or inebriety. The tat- tler’s sphere of influence is wide and his results are deep and far reaching because of the universal tendency to believe the unfavorable side of a story, the scaven- ger like taste for’ prurient scandal, and the fact that this unspeakable leper is always sure of his statements, while the friend who ought to rally bravely to the defense is doubtful of his ground and shrinks like a craven before the simoom ef an adverse public sentiment. During 1903 let honest men and women refrain from entering the ranks of the tattlers, and refuse countenance to the pesky lot whether they smile as engagingly as Mephistopheles upon the street corner, or hob-nob in the effete purlieus of Quality Row. ~ A few other fiends who need to be gib- beted upen the forum of popular con- tempt durirg the New Year are the an- onymous letter writing assassins,the seil- out politician, the lick-spittles of official tie seecorcuers wiice—LVi ob Ta life, the journalistic sharks, the minister- ial montebank, the Negro weman who accepts concubinage with whitemen, the antedeluvian fossils who retard race progress with their fogyism, and the professional flim-flammers who turn a dishonest penny by maligning the race in querters where irreparable injury can be done to the whole people. Keep your eye upon the gentry here delineated, friends; smite them hip and thigh at ev- ery opportunity and a better world to live in will be the reward of your labors. As Bishop Abram Grant passed the New Willard last Monday on his way to the White House, his massive form at- tracted the attention oT two Caucasian gentlemen standing in front of the cafe entrance. “Who is that fine-looking colored man?” asked one. “Why, don't you know him? That's Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee, the industrial educator.” “How do you ‘get next’ so readily?” asked the first speaker incredulously. “Dead easy. That's the biggest Negro I ever saw, and it is a sure thing he must be Booker Washington.” One word more about the office of the Recorder of Deeds. Public-spirited Wash- ingtonians should také a deeper personal interest in looking after the needs of this important iffice. It should be the vital concern of every property owner and of ‘every individual who finds it necessary to place a paper of any kind on a permanent file. The land records, bills of sale and incorporations touch the business life of this community at every point. There are old books dating back perhaps one hundred years that have become worn- out’ and the writing is scarcely legible under the strongest glass. These should by all means be recopied in up-to-date style. Complications of the direst kind may result should these records be neg- lected until absolutely unfit for use and large interests may be affected. New shelving is required for the ledgers now on hand, and constantly increasing. Modern furniture should be supplied from the front office to the copyists’ quarters. The Recorder should be granted a pri- vate secretary, and the general force should be reorganized and placed on a salary,/or given continuous employment by the piece. If this is inexpedient the inequality might be adjusted by accord- ing the copyists one-half the price of the ‘papers they transcribe, instead of the one-third they now receive. Mr. Dancy can and will make his office the model government establishment of the capital if Congress will only come to his rescue with a suitable appropriation and amend- ments to the present law. The Record- er's office is entitled to as decent treat- ment as its companion-piece, the office of the Register of Wills, and the citizens of the District, through the newspapers and organizations, should take the mat- ter up and push vigorously for better things. : President Roosevelt's message gave a forcible and proper jab at the alley President Roosevelt's message gave a forcible and proper jab at the alley houses of Washington. They are a dis- grace to the official headquarters of a wealthy government like ours. They are a shameful monument to the selfishness and cupidity of a set of property-owners who can realize larger profits from ex- orbitant rents for tumble-down shanties and rookeries off from the main high- ways. than from the costlier modern flat. ‘These houses, hidden back in noisome al- leys. crowded with human ‘beings of ev- ery age and condition, are unsanitary and are a standing menace to the health, moral and physical, of the entire city. They breed both disease and vice. The mortality among children is something awful and the demoralizing habits of life ameng the adults are calculated to dis- hearten the most optimistic missionary. Mr. Weller, secretary of the Associated Charities of the District, is doing a grand work in calling attention to these dens, and since most of them are occu- pied by Negroes our people should bestir themselves to have these neighborhoods cleaned out and sanitary tenements pro- vided for the poor at moderate rentals. The commissioners should rise in their might and remove these pestholes by condemnation proceedings. I call upon the splendid colored women of the Dis- trict to take this work in hand even more energetically than they have done in the past, and spread 2mong these backward elements the beneficent influence of the “social settlement” idea so admirably ex- emplified by ‘Hull House,” Chicago, and on a more modern scale by our own “Neighborhood House” in South Wash- ington. The start among us on M street, southwest, is a step in the right direc- tion, and should be sustained by those of means and influence. Who will be the Jane Addams of the District of Colum- bia? She should by all means come from the race which more strongly than any other needs the love, sympathy and sub- stantial aid that the “Lady of Hull House” gives in such generous measure to the unYortunates within her reach. INNOVATIONS. “The man on the Corner” is ‘‘wid you” again. . Prof. L. M. Hershaw looks nice in his “long suit.” Dr. E. D. Williston’s new horse sets a ively’ pace. Dr. C. Sumner Wormley has an elegant new laboratory. Capt. D. J. Gilmer has apeared in a brand-new suit. Dr. Paul J. Mischeaux is succeeding in the practice of medicine. “Dr.” Berkeley C. W. Waller will hang out his shingle here next year. Mr. Albert J. Farley, or the court house is ‘out of politics” for gold. J. Cubert Campbell may be induced to repeat his famous Charleston speech. James W. Muse is still kicking and Col. W. L. Houston smiles complacently. Mr. L. C. Moore's lyceum which met at Mt. Carmel Baptist church, is no more. The clerks at the Pension office have commenced to earn their monthly sti- pend. | New official material continues to come like young Lochivar “up from the west.” W. T. Menard is pouring some “hot shot’? into the columns of the Trades Unionist. Lawyer Reuben S. Smith would not de- cline an appointment as judge of the po- lice court. | Col. Robert Harlan has loaded up with a stock of fresh jokes to meet the new year’s demand. Mr. J. William Cole is wielding a trenchant pen upon the staff of the Col- ired American. Bishop Walters is minus his character- istic Vandyke, and his friends say he looks fifteen years younger. Pieree Place now has but one editor to the block, thus relieving the journalistic eongestion previously existing. The myriad of fellows “whose money is tied up in tie suspended bank” are still “standing off” their creditors. The initiation fee of the Pen and Pen- il Club will be reduced if L. M. Her- ‘shaw’s amendment goes through. F. D. McCracken’s “whirlwind oratory” will be a feature in the coming discus- sions at the Second Baptist Lyceum. Dr. L. H. Harris shipped another big ‘consignmént of his fameus Blood Tontc to an Atlanta pharmacist this week. Lawyer J. W. Patterson is wearing the Same sized hat, notwithstanding his great victory in the Cole-Dennis case. | Since assuming the office of Recorder of Deeds, Hon. John C. Daney has devel- oped more than a dozen new gray hairs. There is room upon the farms in Mary- land and Virginia for those who cannot find places in the government service. William T. Smith (Smitty) our popular undertaker, has a new overcoat that Would do your heart good to gaze upon. | Dr. Albert Ridgeley’s handsome coun- tenance is a8 radiant as a morning glory because of a healthy increase in his | Practice. _ And so the M. E. Church is to have an inning—that is if Rev. Ernest Lyon is to land the Liberian Mission, as has ‘been given out. Lawyer W. C. Martin is an 7. authority. on biblical history, and can give our ‘ablest orthodox theologians a sharp “run for their money.” ‘ < ee Be Nan A gk is eee iY ate ts SE me a | Quite a number of our Progressiva young men are solving the prohiem o: ne to make a living outside of the .. ecutive departments. * | ‘There are some Howard University »p. who do not air their learning in ..1 ‘tones in public places, with the view on paralyzing the groundlings. i Several new names have been Dosted lately at the Metropole Club for ge, quency—and each and every mother's .,, of them draws a good salary. ra | The fact that Lieut. Frank Cheek goog on “guard duty” three nights a week now instead of two has set his friends ty wondering ‘when it will happen.’ A striking resemblance has been go. tected between Judge Robert H. Terre) and the Rev. Hutchens C. Bishop, recto: of St. Phitips’,P. E. church, New York There is probably no truth in the ry. mor that Recorder Dancy may tnd i necessary to advertise for applicants whenever a vacancy happens upon his clerical staff. $ a ‘The lady who mistook Mr. “Mon;" Bruce for Col. Daniel Lawson Brooks jn Judiciary Square the other day will please send her address to the office of the Re. corder of Deeds. The sunny presence of John H. Wills was missed by his comrades during Youle. tide. It is hoped that his Adonis.1%: form will soon adorn the classic pm cinets of “the literary shop,"’ as of yore. When you hear a disturbarce some evening in your travels don’t worry. It may be a revival, a Masonic election, a business meeting of the Pen and Pencil Club or an executive session of the stock- holders and deyfositors of the Capital Sav ings Bank. © Rev. Geo. W. Lee’s impartial! services in the chair at the meetings of the stock- holders and depositors of the Capital Savings Bank stamps him as a presiding officer of the first water. Had he started out as a Methodist he would have been a Bishop long ago. “It's an i wind that blows nobody good,” is an old adage that is aptly ex- emplified by the harvest that is being reaped by the lawyers, each of whom has found one or more clients emong the de positors of the Capital Savings Bank Whatever the outcome they will “set theirs.” When you see a young fellow thes? days looking careworn about the eyes and a trifle emaciated don't make it @ “bet” that he is one of the boarders who has been experimented upon by Prof. Wiley’s boracic foods. He is pr »bably one of those folks who “swore off” on New Year's and is wearing out his solid flesh trying to live up to his vow. THE MAN IN THE CORNER. THE THIRD WEEK REP‘ ORT. The report of the Third National Con- vention of the National Negro Business League, which was held in Richmond, Va., last. August, is just from the press ‘It was arranged by Mr. S. Laning Wil- liams, the compiler of Chicago, I'l. of the three reports made this last one the most complete. The table of co™ tents are: Photograph of Brooker T Washinatin, pictures of the offices of th League, officers of the Executive Com mittee and Life Members, The Conve tion, annual address by Booker Le Washing<on, the official prostam, ™* utes of the proceedings, addresses. ports from business centres, summary of reports, resolutions and communica: tions, list of delegates. It should be in the ahnds of not only every member of the League, but «ver Negro in the United States, whe is en- gaged in business. It is replete with zoo “thangs, and contains one hundred rae thirty pages. Send 25 cents t? Mr. S. Laning Williams, 113 Acams st, Chi- cago, Ill., and procure a copy. _ THE PE-RU-NA ALMANAC The druggists have already been SUP" plied with Peruna almanacs. Thre sure to be a great demand for these # manacs on account of the articles °F as- trology which they contain. Tse subir of astrology is-a very attractive n° to most people. The articles on astrolosy 19 the Peruna almanac have been furnish’! by a very competent astrologist. an¢ ‘i mental characteristics of each Sis. © given, constituting almost = © pmplete horoscope. A lst of questions and 4° swers on astrology sent free upo 7 quest. There will be a sreat rush for these books. Ask your drussist for © early before they are all gone. GREGSON LEY HY MR S. P. MITCHELL THE EX-SLAVE PENSION LEADER BEFORE THE CHAIRMAN OF THE PENSION COMMITTEE. Mr. S. P. Mitchell, of Kentucky, President of the National Industrial Council of America and Chairman of the Civil Liberty Party, which has for its object the second Emancipation of the Negro, held a conference with Congressman Loudenslager, Chairman of the Pension Cimmittee, last Tuesday. The object of Mr. Mitchell's conference was to impress the Chairman of the Committee with the importance of having the House Bill 1'404 reported to the House for favorable consideration. It is reported that at the beginning of the interview, Mr. Laudenslager was inclined to treat the matter lightly and seemed to regard the matter as political rather than racial, but when Mr. Mitchell had presented his case in a vigorous and comprehensive way, showing that the Pension Bill was calculated to divide the suffrage of the Negro in New Jersey and Ohio and other states at the next election, Mr. Loudenslager became serious and paid a tribute to Mr. Mitchell's manly stand and advised him to have the Bill presented to the Committee on appropriations. The white papers in Washington, as well as the rest of the entire country, have given wide publicity of the proceedings of the Council from day to day, so that the public generally as well as every member of Congress, is well posted as to its objects and purposes. A new political party seems to be the result of the Council's session in this city and from all indications, the National Convention, which meets in Cincinatti, O., will be largely attended. Mr. Mitchell desires that all persons who seek information of the Ex-Slave Pension Bill or the Civil Liberty Party, whose Convention will be held in Cincinnati, May 24th, should address S. P. Mitchell, Box 81. Washington, D. C. Literature sent free.—Send stamps for postage. An Ovation in Texas. An Ovation in Texas. was perfected several weeks committees on arrangement and appointed. The most reprecolored citizens of the state ont'nued from first page. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON. D. C. have found their way here and have paid the full meed of praise and honor to the great and unselfish leader. The day was crowded with incidents. Dr. Washington and Mr. Scott were met at the Grand Central depot by a reception committee of more than one hundred persons, while a vast horde of blacks and whites gathered to catch one glimpse of the distinguished leader. No such crowd has gathered to welcome a public man since former President McKinley was here two years ago. A banquet was tendered, a drive around the city arranged, a meeting held with leading white citizens out of which will grow a larger interest in the Negro and his welfare. In the afternoon an informal conference was held in the Auditorium of Trinity M. E. church, one of the most beautiful churches in the South, at which addresses were made by the visitors and also by a number of the most prominent and representative educators, business men, and public spirited citizens of the State. Here free interchange of opinion was had and out of it will grow larger enthusiasm, and more substantial service for the race on the part of these leaders of their people in this great State. But more significant than all was the cordial and warm reception tendered Dr. Washington by the Houston Cotton Exchange, and Houston Commercial Club, the city's two representative business organizations on the floor of the Cotton Exchange, at which place Dr. Washington spoke by special invitation to the business men of Houston. The men who control the great business interests of this richest of Texas cities were proud to do honor to the honored representative of our people. It was an inspiring sight to see the man of dark visage surrounded on the floor of the mart of trade by the representatives of Commercial Houston. To say that Mr. Washington charmed and delighted his hearers is to feebly express the demonstrations of approval that were in evidence during and after his address. The appeal for his people, for mutual help, and sympathy and forbearance, was eloquent and will do good indeed has already done good as was testified by the Houston Daily Post, the strongest newspaper in this section in reference to the occasion, the man and the event. Four and one-half columns space were devoted to chronicling the events of the day and Dr. Washington movements while in the city. At Auditorium, the largest hall in the so perhaps, where he spoke at night, a mighty concourse of people gathered to listen to the formal address announced for delivery. Principal E. L. Blackshear, of the State Normal School for Negro Youth, welcomed the guest of the evening to the state; a representative of the city government delivered an address of welcome to the city, after which Dr. Washington was introduced by Mr. Scott from the very same platform upon which they met for the first time five and one-half years ago, and from which he performed a similar service at that time. Dr. Washington looked out upon a veritable sea of upturned faces and spoke for nearly two hours to his audience, composed of both races in nearly equal proportions. At the conclusion an ovation of surpassing magnitude was given him. The cause of the race has been helped forward immeasurably by the presence of Dr. Washington, and his departure at night after so short a stay was regretted by blacks and whites alike—all of whom would have heard him longer and honored him more. He proceeded to California, where he is to spend fifteen days in speaking at various centers of the State, notably at Los Angeles before the California State Teachers' Association, Leland Stanford Junior University and the University of California. It has been a great week for all Texans, and Dr. Washington's optimistic, sympathetic helpfulness, his good cheer and all, have put new life and spirit in those seeking to help forward the cause of the race in the State. CITY IN BRIEF. The weather bureau has not been kind to the various literaries this year. Mrs. Harry Parker, of 1412 Pierce Place, is out after quite a siege of sickness. Mrs. Mary Wiems, of 69 Defrees St., northwest, has returned after a pleasant visit with her parents in Compton, Md. Mrs. James H Washington, of 1526 Pierce Place, northwest, has been indisposed for several days. Wm. A Cornish, on a charge of violating section 391, United States Statues, was sentenced to jail for one year Detective Henry Lacy fell from a railing at police headquarters last Sunday evening and injured his neck seversely. Two gentlemen can secure large furnished, front room, southern exposure, half block of car line, with board by addressing B. M. J. in care Colored American office, 459 C street, n. w. The Union Dramatic Club of Washington, D. C., will present their drama entitled Dr. Jekyle and Mr. Hyde at the Auditorium(Old Odd Fellow's Hall,) on H St., S. E. Februaay 3, 1903. A single gentleman desiring a bright furnished room with board in nice neighborhood and only half a block from Ninth street car line should inquire at 941 T street northwest. Hon. George H. White was called to North Carolina this week and was consequently unable to fill his appointment to speak Tuesday evening before Beth- el Literary and Historical Association. Mr. Chas. W. Anderson, New York's premier orator and supervisor of races is in the city for a few days the guest of Hon. P. B. S. Pinchback. He has just returned from a trip in the Virginia's from a hunting expedition and where he visited friends and relatives. The inclement weather again played havoc with the memorial meeting planned by President Scott fn honor of Thomas B. Reed at the Second Baptist Lyceum. The only speaker who appeared as Register J. W. Lyons, and he was indefinitely postponed It appears that "Prof." Ferris will be answered. His unwarranted as- DRESS MAKING ACADEMY. The de Lam Orton Famous French Perfection Failor System Mme J. A. Smallwood Sole Agent 1513 Madison street, northwest, Morning class from 9 a.m. to 1 p. m. Afternoon class 2 to 5 p. m. daily. Evenings from 7.30 to 10 o'clock. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, dressmakers and ladies who wish to do their ow dressmaking. WANTED—To learn the wonderful De Lam Orton French Perfection Tailor System. Seamless Basques without one inch of visible seam, in lining or goods, not even on the shoulder. Successful dressmaking requires as much earnest progressive study as successful work in any of the professions. No detail is too small to be looked after. We teach you to make dresses with or without seam and guarantee perfect fits, and complete your course with a diploma. Pupils can enter at any time. The Livingston Dressmaking School. The Livingston Dress cutting and Dressmaking school is offering a new attraction. A class has been formed in which embroidery as applied to personal adornment t is taught. Miss Charlott E. Hunter has been placed in charge of this work. Persons desiring to learn decorative embroider should apply at once to Mrs. L R Clarke, principal of the school as only a limited number can be taken. Terms etc., cheerfully furnished at the school, 1439 W Street Northwest. If you have a spare room that you would like to rent to desirable parties, advertise them in The Colored American. WANTED—Reliable colored help for general house work in good b. in New England. Good Wages eApply wit references to admi- ty and character to Susie N. W. FOR RENT—One large cality with all modern improvements, convenient to cars and herdicks, 1625 Corcoran St. N. W. apply to Mr. J. B. Patterson. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms, front and rear, all modern improvements. Gentlemen preferred. 540 Elm street, n. w., Le Droit Park. FOR RENT—Two neatly furnished rooms with plenty of heat, gas bath and good table board, laundry and mending all for $5 per week. Can furnish good reference Gentlemen preferred. 3 L Street Northwest. FOR RENT—Bright, furnished rooms with board half block of car line. Meals served also to persons not lodging in the house. N. J. Buudy. 941 T street northwest. tf Please Help Me Find My Other Saunk Joyce was sold in Mecklenburg, Virginia several years before the civil war, to Cunnigan a Negro trader. His mother, Willie, was a slave on the Joyce plantation. He had one sister Betty, who is very anxious to find hlm. Any information will be gladly received. MRS BETTY REYNOLDS. 44 Parker street, Atlanta, Ga. LEGAL AEVERTISEMENT. SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, OLDING A PROBATE COURT No. 11,218. Administration. THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That the subscriber of the District of Columbia has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters of Administration on the estate of Catherine Jordan late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated to the subscriber, on or before the 9th day of January A. D. 1904, otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 9 day of January, 1903. DANIEL MURRAY, 934 S Street, Northwest LOUIS A. DENT, ATTEST: Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court M. T. CLINKSCALES, Attorney. WM. L. POLLARD. ATTORNEY and COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW Collections, Real Estate and Insurance. All Matters given prompt Attention in the District of Columbia Member of the Washington Real Estate Exchange. 609 F STREET, NORTHWEST. Washington, D. C. sult upon Dr. Booker T. Washington is to be the subject of an address on Sunday January 25 before Second Baptist Lyceum by Mr. R. W. Thompson and on the first Tuesday evening in February before Bethel Literary by Prof. Jesse Lawson, "The True Position of Dr Washington on Education, Politics and Business" will be set forth in a strong, clear light by gentlemen well acquainted with his philosophy and methods. THE COLOREY AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. GQ 6 “7 ee é... RENEWED ACTIVITY Christmas Vacation Followed by Unbounded Enthusiasm at Princess Anne Academy - Prof Trigg Determined to Egquel Tuskegee. Princess Anne, Md.—Mrs. H. M. Horsey and other ladies are preparing to give an old maid’s concert for the benefit of the Metropolitan M. E. church about the first of February. Miss Mary B. Jones of Hab-Nab, Md., is visiting Miss Hattie E. Nutter. Rev. Mr. Trigg of the Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga., writes his par- ents, Prof. and Mrs. Trigg, that he is well and succeeding nicely in school. His average was over 90 per cent in his last examination. He graduates in the spring. We wish him much success. Rey. C. W. Waters, pastor of the A. M. E. Zion church, is using his efforts to make his church work a success. He has done more to bring his people to the front than any pastor they have ever had. Mr. Thomas W. Dennis, our proficient tailor and barber, keeps crowded with wotk from some of the best people in town. It makes us feel proud to see our young men do well. Our Academy resumed its work the 5th inst. after a vacation of a few days for Christmas holidays, with new inspir- ation, every department being opened in full under control of one of the most cor petent corgs of instructors that could be had, all graduates from the leading *cheols in the country. There is nothing doty about them; each one is a master of his or her position, not any of them | have passé the age of thirty with the exception of the principal, but are wel: experienced. The principal has gained the highest esteem of both the white and colored people of the town and com- munity and is regarded as the map to carry his people to success and his pa clates or co-workers are imbued with the same spirit. Capt. Jno. L. Richardson, in charge of the mechanical building has a class of seven young mén, studying mechanical drawing and house carpentry. Mr. W. Privott, The blacksmith, wheelwright and painting instructor, has a cinss of seven. Mr. Parker Moore, direetcr in the print- ing office, has a-class or five yourg men. The pfinting outfit is surprisingly com- plete. Fer the present Prof. Trigg has charge of the agricultural department. He has 2 class of thirty boys. The neighbors re- gard him a great agriculturalist practi- cally. The girts receive a thorough train- ing in dressmaking and domestic science. Registered stock are being largely re- ceived on the farm. The colored people of this county have never taken such interest in the school as now. They say their ideas have never | been so keenly awakened to its good be- | fore. It ts their determination to make it equat to Tuskegee or any other school of the kind. Students continue to come. About seventeen new ones entered dur- ing the past week, making an enroll- ment of one hundred and thirty-five or forty, with prospects of increasing to one hundred and 4fty in a few days. Most of the students spent their holi- days heme with their parents and on thelr return entered their studies with aew vigor and determination. Two com- panies of cadets have been organized, the first incident of the kind that has been done in any colored school in the state of Maryland and they also have the hon- or of being tke first in the state to have a brass band. Mr. Jesse Newbry, one of the students preached et Bloomingtown, Maryland, Sunday, the Mth inst., at Il o'clock a. m. There are five young men taking an ac- ademic course preparatory to entering some first-cless theological seminary. The principal is still in want of a band Imstracter in the person of some young man, who wants to go to school, his band services paying ali his bills. LATE LOCALS, Mr. Wm. C. Ross, headwaiter at the Burnett hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio, spent ten @ays in this city visiting his family and his hast of friends. He is a Washnston product but has been atthe Burnett house for the\past two years, where he has giv- en the Been satisfaction. Rev. E. W. Lampton, the financial sec- quet of the J. Pierpont Morgan of the A. M. E, church, from the Bishops, spent a few busy weeks in this city. He left last Monday on one of his tours of the conferences. The trouble in the Baptist Church, at Hyattsville, Md.. in,which an attack was made upon Rev. W. P. Gibbons, has been adjusted, Jennie Key being fined for tech- nical assault. Dr. Gibbons has secured Peace warrants against two discharged deacons, who are objecting to his serv- ing as pastor of the church. The lead- ing members are perfectly satisfied and the unpleasant affair of a few days ago, is at an end. After a long ilmess which she bore with Christian fortitude, Mrs. Ann Ma- ria Cusberd, departed this life Thursday morning of last week, at her residence, G28 S street, northwest. She was the wife of the late Daniel Cushberd and mother bred and Emma Cushbred-Lewis. A bred and Emma Cushbred-Lewis. A large concorse of friends assembled Sunday, 2.30 p. m. at 19th street Baptist church, to pay a last tribute of respect to her memory. The Epworth League of Mt. Zion M. E. church, Géorgetown, will hold a special meeting at 430 p. m. February 2, in commemoration of Washington's birth- day. The feature of the occasion will’be an address on “Character, as Washing- ton Built It,” by Mr. R. W. Thompson. A special musical program is being ar- ranged by Mrs. Charies E. W. Brown and her committee. The church is locat- ed at-the corner of 2sth street and Dun- barton avenue. FRIEND, THIS MEANS YOU. A great many friends in this paper have an idea that they help it by send- ing news and elaborate accounts of en- tertainments, weddings. etc. They were never so mistaken. The way to help The Colored American is to pay your subscription bill, if you are a subscribér, and if you are not a subscriber send in your subscription The paper contains a great amount of live and interesting news each week. Any practical newspaper man can tell you that it takes money and a great d f it to run a paper like The Col- «amer- ican. Do not flatter yourse.: that yon are helping the paper by sending it news. Send the cash—a money ord-r, an ex- press order, a draft or a che-<. When these little evidences of a preciation come along there is no dou!r about the matter being printed. The above suggestion will not only ap- oly to the people who send in long news letters, but will apply equally as well to the many intelligent, well-to-do subscrib- ets who get the paper each week and who receive occasional notices, but who yay absalutely no attention to our bills for subscription money. ‘UST A LITTLE PRACTICE WORK Tue Cotoreo Awerican unbottles the pent-up vitrol of ‘its wrath upon the much abused head of the Cleveland Ge- sette, last weck. If you call that a calm and dignified summary. Bro. Cooper, we should hate to read your pages when you had decided to display your wrath. —Charleston (W. Va.) Advocate. Your paper is the swectest scented rose that has bloomed in the garden of journalism during the past and present century. Hope you will keep it up. 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When the army was re-organized, no provision was made for the utilization of the experience and talents of the officers who had rendered such signal service in Cuba and in the Philippines, and they were debarred from the examinations for commissions in the regular establishments. White officers of inferior attainments were given every opportunity to find profitable billets for life, and even over the colored regiments that had distinguished themselves in the field, there were placed white captains and other officers, when colored men of acknowledged competence were available and anxious to be adequately recognized. It was declared by those high in authority that "it was not the policy of the administration to give commissioned offices to Negroes," no matter what their worth might be. That was under the administration that is no more, and the generous attitude of the New President as regards the lily-white movement in the South has caused the friends of the aspiring Negro military men to pluck up fresh courage, in the belief that if there are influences at work against the appointment of capable Negroes solely on the account of their color, that he will interfere, in the interest of abstract justice. If the fault lies at the door of the Adjutant-General of the Army, as some allege, a way should be found to bring him to a proper discharge of his duty. The social complications set up as a bug-bear, should have no weight among right-thinking Americans. A sensible course of conduct on the part of the officers of both races will solve all problems likely to arise in the matter of social contact at the mess or elsewhere. The army is a business concern not a social institution, and the flubdub of the drawingroom should be subordinated to the serious purpose of protecting life and property, for which the military establishment is created and maintained at so great an expense. The underhand methods employed by --- Negro cadets out of West Point and Annapolis is a scandal upon the American government, and its boasted principles of "fair play." The only opportunity that can come to the black man to win his spurs in the army or navy is found in such unexpected emergencies as the Spanish-American War, where volunteers from every element are needed to fill out the legal quota. It was only after a bitter struggle that we were allowed commissions in the late war, and as soon as the brunt of battle was over, we were remanded to the rear, and raw material from civil life, was brought in to do the work which should have fallen to the lot of the most experienced among our soldiery. Itis not too late for the present administration to right the wrongs inherited from a previous regime. The country may need these men again in her moment of peril, and they should be treated in accord with the broad and liberal provisions of the constitution of the republic. We are pleased to see a renewal of effort to open the eyes of those in places of power, to the unjust conditions under which our soldiers are laboring, to the end that a correction may be brought about. We believe President Roosevelt to be unaware of the true state of affairs. We suggest that the persons directly concerned take immediate steps to call the facts to his attention, and urge the appointment of one or more deserving men to honorable places in the regular army. It should not be difficult to organize a delegation, embracing our best men, to lay our case before the big-hearted man at the White House. It is a matter for serious regret that the lynching law in Indiana has proven a failure. Governor Durbin offered the dismissal of a sheriff who permitted a prisoner to be taken by a mob and murdered. The sheriff obeys the Governor and surrenders the office, but he is then re-elected by the Board of County Commissioners who have the power to fill vacancies—thus placing him beyond the authority of the State Executive. Wherever the sentiment of the Commissioners in favorable to a sheriff in such cases, he is immune from the effects of the act of the legislature. It is said that an effort is to be made by the law-makers to amend the statute in some way that will prove a potent deterrent to the lynchers. States like Indiana should not fail to record themselves on the side of law and order. Dr. William Demos Crum should be confirmed as collector of the port at Charleston, S. C., without difficulty. The "professional Negro" is still doing battle for the uplift of the race, despite the attempt of the Caucasian press to belittle his honest efforts. President Roosevelt's heart is in the right place. Let us appeal to his sense of fair play to provide suitably for our brave boys in the United States Army. Why pass miscegenation laws, if the races are naturally antagonistic? No white woman can be made to marry a Negro against he will. Are the restrictive laws necessary to keep her from mixing up with our despised people? "The Crackers" mistake their guess if they think the President is a man that can be "bluffed." They thought he was "good and easy," and that his nerve would not last through a declaration of bitter war on his Negro policy, but the Rough Rider will be found doing business at the old stand until the sun goes down upon their wrath. The Washington Post is unduly worked up over the mission of General Clarkson, and is greatly worried over the fear that President Roosevelt is being badly advised in matters pertaining to the South. Every time the hustling New Yorker visits Washington the Post indulges in a duck-fit and grinds out a new editorial on "Negro domination." Mrs. Minnie M. Coxe should stand her ground in the Indiana'a post-office matter, until the local authorities can guarantee ample protection to her in the discharge of her duties. If the business people think more of their absurd prejudices than they do of their financial interests, they can do without mail facilities until they experience a change of heart. Postmaster-General Payne is giving the Indianola "crackers" a fine exhibition of how an administration can "stand pat" It is given out that Rev. Ernest Lyon, of Baltimore, is slated for the Liberian mission, as an agreement has been reached that the place shall go to the State of Maryland. Dr. Lyon is a worthy man, and did some effective campaigning for the republican ticket in 1896 and 1900, having charge of the New York end of the Negro Bureau in the first-mentioned year. He is a minister of high standnig in the Methodist Episcopal connection, and is a scholar of parts The South isn't half as fearful of "Negro domination" as its tricky leaders pretend. The illiterate whites, "crackers," and clay-eaters are not aware of the fact that the scarce is kept up only to hold them in line for the democratic party. The Tillmans' Morgans, Carmacks, Hardwickes and that ilk are feathering their own nests by shrewdly making their ignorant followers howl to the tune of a fancied ambition of social equality on the part of the black people. And the trick never fails to work, showing that the southern whites are sadly in need of some elementary education. ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE. Tour of Dr. Booker T. Washington a Continuous Ovation.—Cordial Reception by the Women of Cultured Los Angeles—Itinerary In and About San Francisco Successfully Conducted. Booker T. Washington has captured the Pacific slope. His appearance, speeches and daily movements have been the signal for honors second to those accorded no visitor who has yet made his way through the beautiful valley of the Yosemite. The great crowds that follow him, and the enthusiasm engendered in every community find no parallel save in the famous tour of the State by the late President McKinley, and in some cases even greater interest is shown by the admirers of the world's most eminent Negro educator. The following extract from the Los Angeles Record, of January 2, will give an idea of the scenes occurring in that celebrated center of wealth and culture during Dr. Washington's sojourn. The comparisons insituated by the paper are highly significant, and offer quite an extensive field for study. Said the Record: "Booker T. Washington received an ovation to-day when he delivered his first address in this city, at the Women's club house, greater than that accorded the immortal President McKinley in 1900. Los Angeles club women evidently made a decided distinction between the colored people as individuals and colored people as a race. They demonstrated conclusively today that they will follow fashion, be the fad even to the extent of courting the favor of a colored man. Who would have thought that the women, who so generously applauded every look and act of Booker T. Washington to-day were the same wrathful debaters who would willingly have gathered all the powers of heaven and earth to keep Mrs. Ruffin, a well-educated refined colored woman, out of their General Federation of Women's clubs here recently? The Woman's club house was crowded with men and women at 10:30 this morning, and before Mr. Washington's arrival, aisles, spaces and platforms had been crowded with expectant women. The assemblage would have done credit to a king in his realm, and the rising salutation given when Washington entered, must have seemed a strange welcoming to a man, born a slave. Mr. Washington was due at 10:30 o'clock, and from that time until 11 o'clock the ever increasing crowd, amused itself by relating in a semi-undertone, hurriedly gleaned anecdotes of the early life of Booker Washington, his parentage, birthplace and accomplishments. This entertaining conversation was interrupted at intervals by those in the front of the hall, scrambling to their feet, followed by the rest of the crowd. This demonstration was influenced by a belief that Washington was approaching. After this unusual feat had been accomplished several times, with the necessary number of feet trodden on, and a large number of hats knocked further askew, the Friday Morning club women, and as many of their friends as they could by any means pack into the building, were repaid by the appearance of Booker T. Washington. He was greeted with a deafening clapping of hands and a chatauqua salute. Booker Washingon won his hearers at the outset by appealing, not to reason, vanity or knowledge, but to a woman's sympathy. He briefly related the story of his pathetic birth in a cabin as a slave, his release and subsequent struggle to support an aged mother. Thence he continued on autobiography until the year 1881, when he founded the Tuskegee Industrial Institute in Alabama. His address was a plea to the white race to aid the colored people in making themselves useful American citizens. In the course of his remarks he said: "Freedom meant to the slaves, rest; and when one urged the need of industrial education in the Tuskegee Institute, the negroes rose up and said: 'We have worked for 250 years, now we are free, let us learn from books.' "It is with infinite praise that instructors of the school are now teaching that being worked is a degradation; but working means civilization. "My friends, if you are to uplift my race and protect your own, make the colored man self-respecting, eminently useful. "The solution of any race problem is to teach men to do a common thing in an uncommon manner." Everytime that Booker Washington paused to get his breath there was deafening applause and when he concluded the applause lasted several minutes. The Friday Morning club women are discussing the feasibility of arranging a social event in compliment to Booker Washington. After his address Mr. Washington received the congratulations and handshakes of many of the most prominent women in the city." After addressing the State Teachers' Association at Los Angeles on Thursday, January 8, Dr. Washington spoke at Stanford University, and in the evening he was the guest of the Ladies' Club of San Francisco. Friday evening he spoke before the Pacific Seminary. Saturday he was in Stockton. Sunday morning he delivered an address before the First Congregational Church, in San Francisco, and in the afternoon he spoke to a packed house before the Afro-American Co-operative Association, and at night he was given a cordial greeting by the citizens of Oakland. Dr. Washington returns East during the last week of the present month. Mr. Jno. F. Magruder, an old and respected citizen of this city, died Jan lst, of this year, at the age of sixty-six years. He was the beloved husband of Mrs. Annie E. Magruder and uncle of Dr. Phillip Broome Brooks. He was a life-time resident of Washington, made many friends and was well and popularly known. His funeral took place from his late residence, 306 Third street, S. W., Sunday, Jan. 4th. They were conducted by Revs. Snowden, W. J. Howard and Daniels. The floral offerings were numerous and the attendance was very large. 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 $ . With best wishes for your success, I beg to remain your devoted friend. H. G. B. PROF. W. H FERRIS Interesting Career of a Practical Agriculturist and Experienced Sociologist. Prof. William H. Ferris received the bachelor of arts degree from Yale University in 1895, taking two year special honors in philosophy, one year special honors in English literature and being among the first twelve in a class of 200 in sociology. Then he spent two years in the Yale Graduate school, taking advanced courses in psychology, practical sociology and English literature. In the spring of 1897, he received one of the Hopkins scholarships in the Harvard Divinity school. Over one hundred students applied and Prof. Ferris was one of the fortunate six who won the Hopkins scholarships, which netted $325 a year. He spent two years in the Harvard Divinity school and received the Master of Arts Degree from Yale in 1899. Feeling that the calling of the teacher offered a wider scope, he spent the third year at Harvard in the Harvard Graduate school and received the Master of Arts Degree from Harvard in 1900. In the fall of 1898 Prof. Ferris was admitted to the Boston Browning Society, being the only Negro to be received in that exclusive circle. The Browning Society is composed of the literateurs of Boston and its environs. Most of its members are wealthy. And it is the most aristocratic literary society in New England. The circumstances of his admission are somewhat unusual. Prof. Ferris had written a long and exhaustive essay upon Browning. He sent it to Col. T. W. Higginson, who in turn sent it to Josiah Kendall, the former President of the Browning society. One Saturday evening Prof. Ferris met the editor of the Poet Lore at Mr. Kendall's home and before a cultured audience read passages from his essay. It was also sent to the late C. C. Everett, Dean of the Harvard Divinity School. Upon the recommendation of these ladies and gentlemen, Prof. Ferris was admitted to the society. In the winter and spring of 1891-92 Prof. Ferris lectured in some of the most aristocratic churches of the North upon the environment as a factor in the life of the colored youth, discussing the problem of the unemployed city Negro, and tracing the evolution of the Negro criminal, his genesis, development and methods for his soeedy elimination. The United Congregational church of New Haven, Conn., the Second Congregational church in New London and the Channing Memorial church of Newport, R. I., were a few 51 the wealthy and exclusive churches in which he had the honor of appearing. The Sunday night lecture course held under the auspices of the Men's Club of the United Congregational church of New Haven, Conn., has a world-wide fame. The most celebrated preachers, writers, scholars and educators on both side of the Atlantic have already appeared in it. And it sustains a very close relation to Yale University. And with the exception of Dr. Booker Washington, Prof. William H. H. Hart and Prof. William H. Ferris are the only colored men who have addressed the intellectual audience that assembled within that historic church. There have been two or three other colored men who have accompanied the Hampton and Tuskegee quartette and have had a few words to say, the quartettes being the main attractions; but these three are the only ones who have given lectures per se in that church before The Men's Club. Last July, Prof. Ferris visited the Tower Hill Institute, Wakefield, R. I., and for two months was utilized as advance agent. Then he assisted in repairing the buildings. Property valued by the New York papers at $40,000 had been given. Nearly $5,000 had been raised to repair and equip the buildings, a $2,000 heater had been secured and there was money in the bank for 100 tons of coal, when in the first week in October, the local coal dealer informed Reb. Joseph W. Holley, the principal, that he could not fill his order for fifty tons of coal on account of the coal strike. But this set back only opened a wider field of usefulness for Prof. Ferris. Nothing daunted, he went to work on the farm of a millionaire, who is interested in the Institute. He dug potatoes, husked corn, mowed weeds and cut brush, etc. Then he ran down to Connecticut and took a dip in the politicis of the Nutmeg State. Upon his return he was advised THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. by this wealthy gentleman to take the special six weeks' course in farm practice in the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in Kingston, R. I. While there he took a course in soils and fertilizers under Prof. H. I. Wheeler, the acting President of the college, and a PhD. from the University of Gottingen. Dr. Wheeler is the man who in 1890 began a series of valuable agricultural experiments. He found out by his experiments that an injurious degree of soil acidity existed in many parts of Rhode Island and in some parts of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and other Eastern States; that this acidity is injurious to lettuces, spinage, beets of all kinds, cabbages, rutabages, cauliflowers, barley, buckwheat, rye, oats, red raspberries, muskmelons, timothy grass, clover and other plants and that this acidity can be corrected by judiciously liming the soil. Prof. Ferris is now taking a six weeks' course in poultry keeping in Kingston, R. I., after which he will take special courses in agricultural geology and agricultural experimentation under the guidance of Dr. Wheeler, engage in poultry raising and conduct, agricultural experiments on a few of the farms in the neighborhood. Poultry raising and intensive farming are very productive industries in Rhode Island, as one farmer has been known to raise $8,000 worth of crops in one year on ten acres of land. While at Yale Profs. Ferris studied sociology under the famous Prof. William Graham Sumner and political economy under President Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale. He has studied practical sociology in its bearing upon the problem of the submerged tenth, and is now mastering rural sociology, that is, sociology as applied to the industrial and economic problems which the farmer must necessarily face. In addition, Prof. Ferris has been invited by a few of the wealthy farmers of Rhode Island to visit their farms and write accounts of them for the press. Any desiring to consult him upon any matter may address him at the Agricultural Experiment Station, Kingston, R. I. THE FERRIS WHEEL. Revolves in Important Fashion in Opposition to the Philosophy of Booker T. Washington.—Don Quixote's Wind Mills Cutdone.—A Screen Beneath Bethel's Exalted Standard of Discussion. The "Ferris Wheel" revolved to no purpose at the meeting of Bethel Literary and Historical Association on Tuesday evening of last week. It had been announced by the management that one, "Prof." W. H. Ferris, who claims to be a graduate of Harvard, Yale and perhaps several institutions of profound learning, would deliver an address upon "Booker T. Washington and His Boston Critics"—or something of the sort. Anyhow, it was given out that he would endeavor to impart to a local audience a recital of the Boston idea of the distinguished educator. A good-sized crowd was in attendance, and listened with no little amusement, some amazement and a modicum of toleration to the harrangue put forward by the young man from New England. "Prof." Ferris' remarks were wholly without system, coherence or logic, being a series of mental jerks from one subject to another, beginning nowhere and ending in the same place—in fact, an exhibition of cerebral gymnastics, the like of which had never before in all its history been witnessed by the brilliant clientele of the cultured and stately Bethel Literary. The entire harrangue was a brutal assault upon the philosophy, purpose, integrity and labors of Dr. Washington, of Tuskegee. Not even the personal appearance of the "Wizard" escaped ridicule at the hands of the speaker. At no point during the time "Prof." Ferris held the stage did he rise to the dignity of the organization he essayed to enlighten, and the comment was general that the tone of Bethel had suffered deterioration by the low pitch of object, which in the hands of a fair dragonist might have been of real interest and benefit. Among the thoughtful forces of both races the reative value and effect of the various systems of education and a study of the needs of the masses and the classes are burning issues, and offer a legitimate field for discussion and investigation. But how PRESBYTERIAN PASTOR PRAISES PE=RU=NA. Chronic Catarrhal Ailments Cured. REV. E. G. SMITH PASTOR M. J. ROSSMAN ELDER THE day was when men of prominence hesitated to give their testimonials to proprietary medicines for publication. This remains true today of most proprietary medicines. But Peruna has become so justly famous, its merits are known to so many people of high and low stations, that no one hesitates to see his name in print recommending Peruna. The highest men in our nation have given Peruna a strong endorsement. Men representing all classes and stations are equally represented. malady I consider it well nigh a specific "As a tonic for weak and worn out people it has few or no equals."—Rev. E. G. Smith. Mr. M. J. Rossman, a prominent menchant of Greensboro, Ga., and an elder in the Presbyterian church of that place, has used Peruna, and in a recent letter to The Peruna Medicine Co., of Columbus, Ohio, writes as follows: "For a long time I was troubled with catarrh of the kidneys and tried many remedies, all of which gave me no relief. Peruna was recommended to me A dignified representative of the Presbyterian church in the person of Rev. E. G. Smith does not hesitate to state publicly that he has used Peruna in his family and found it cured when other remedies failed. In this statement the Rev. Smith is supported by an elder in his church. Rev. E. G. Smith, pastor of the Presbyterian church of Greensboro, Ga., writes: "Having used Peruna in my family for some time it gives me pleasure to testify to its true worth. "My little boy seven years of age had been suffering for some time with catarrh of the lower bowels. Other remedies had failed, but after taking two bottles of Peruna the trouble almost entirely disappeared. For this special ever, there is absolutely nothing in the problem of higher or industrial training to afford the slightest excuse for abuse, misrepresentation or the use of "billingsgate" scarcely short of villification, as was hurled before the scholarly audience at Bethel by the visitor from Tower Hill. While the friends of Dr. Washington were justly indignant, the courtesy instinct in persons of refinement, forestalled anything bordering upon a reply in kind, and every semblance of a rebuttal suggestive of retaliation was frowned upon by the staunchest supporters of the "Wizard," some refraining from taking part in the acrimonious debate which followed the speech of the evening. The "Professor" was not regarded by his hearers as being a foeman worthy of the steel of Dr. Washington, the feeling being quite prevalent that before he could claim serious attention as a critic of the race's most conspicuous representative, he should acquire a "reputation" for solid achievements that would give him warrant to assume the role of Warrior in the Tuskegeeian's eralied class. Those who have perused the columns of the Boston Guardian, for which paper "Prof." Ferris appeared as agent and attorney, will get a fair idea of the character of the speaker's address and its clearly-demonstrated unfitness for delivery before an audience of the caliber that fre- 9 malady I consider it well nigh a specific. "As a tonic for weak and worn out people it has few or no equals." Rev. E. G. Smith. Mr. M. J. Rossman, a prominent merchant of Greensboro, Ga., and an elder in the Presbyterian church of that place, has used Peruna, and in a recent letter to The Peruna Medicine Co., of Columbus, Ohio, writes as follows: "For a long time I was troubled with catarrh of the kidneys and tried many remedies, all of which gave me no relief. Peruna was recommended to me by several friends, and after using a few bottles I am pleased to say that the long looked for relief was found and I am now enjoying better health than I have for years, and can heartily recommend Peruna to all similarly afflicted. It is certainly a grand medicine."—M. J. Rossman. Catarrh is essentially the same wherever located. Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. quents the Metropolitan Church on Tuesday evenings. President George W. Jackson, whose experience, taste and judgment combined to make him an excellent presiding officer, is exonerated from all blame in this connection, as when the invitation was extended, he had no knowledge of the nature of the deliverance, and felt that the gentleman's sense of the eternal fitness of things would be sufficient to guide him in the preparation of his matter. The occasion did not insure to the good of either "Prof." Ferris or the Society, and greater care will be exercised in the future when a personal subject is brought before the body. Dr. Washington lost no ground however, from the attack, and as a result his friends are arranging to hold a meeting in the near future, when his real position on public questions will be set forth particularly at large, in the interest of popular information. Among those who participated in the discussion of "Prof." Ferris' theme, were Dr. Lucy E. Moten, who vigorously defended Dr. Washington's views, and who advised everyone to read "Up From Slavery," and learn the true greatness of the man and his work; Prof. Jesse Lawson, Prof. A. U. Craig, W. T. Menard, Dr. G. H. Richardson, Mrs. Ida D. Bailey, Mr. Thomas W. Allen, Charles E. W. Brown, S. J. Davidson, T. J. Calloway and Mr. Armond W. Scott contributed brief remarks.