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The COLORED American NATIONAL REGRO NEWSPAPER VOL. IX, NO. 42 PROGRESS OF A RACE. PROGRESS OF A RACE. DR. THOMAS DESCANTS ON RACE ACHIEVEMENTS In a Public Letter he Tells The North Carolinians what The Negro has Done in Thirty Five Years of Freedom-He Favors Both Industrial and Higher Education Dr. C. O. H. Thomas, D. D., L. L. B., of Kinston, N. C., is a thoughtful race leader, courageous and competent to express his views in vigorous English. A recent expression from him in The Post, of Raleigh, N. C., is a conclusive argument against subordinating all higher education to industrial training. Dr. Thomas' article fairly bristles with statistics on race achievements. Here are a few of his nuggets:— "When he was emancipated, 2,000,500 of that race, out of 4,000,000 were unable to read. Now, since we number 10,000,000, out of that number we have 6,500,000 that can read and write. He has reduced his illiteracy to forty-five per cent in thirty-five years. We number 40,000 that are attending the higher institutions of learning; 20,000 learning trades; 1,200 in classical courses; 2,200 in scientific and business courses; of graduates 17,000; books written, 400; attorney-at-law, 35; doctors, 450; value libraries, $500,000; school property, $12,000,000; of church property, $37,000,000; farms, numbering 130,000, are valued at $400,000,000; homes, 150,-000, are valued at $325,000,000; and pays taxes annually to the amount of $365,000,000. All this has been accomplished since his emancipation. Has the Negro come up to the expectation of his friends and to the "idea" of educational progress? All must admit that he has done well; and his friends should not be ashamed of this portion of his record; and if he has any enemies, they too must admit that he has "fought a good fight," and won for himself and for his southern home a record of which he needeth not be ashamed. "To give a race only a hand education would be to reduce it to a beast of burden. To deprive it of a mental and intellectual training, is to put such a race on a level, with the brute; and to rob it of religious and christian education, is to transform it into a black and malignant devil. This is the logical sequence of what would become of the Negro, were he to be only educated as the above excerpt outlines. Such a state of affairs would cause men to lose reason and fly to brutish haunts. It would degrade our American civilization, especially in these southlands." He has pronounced views on the subject of the kind of education the race needs and yet it will be noticed he does not antagonize industrial education. That has its proper place in the economy of our life and destiny. The race is certainly WASHINGTON, D.C., FEBRUARY 14. 1903. [Name not visible in the image] to be congratulated that it has such forceful, keen and ready leaders on guard and equipped to fight the common enemy. Dr. Thomas, while a minister of God, and a man of affairs, both religious and secular, has found time to do homage to the muses. One of the most soulful of his poems is described as the Afro-American hymn or prayer from oppression. It was composed to be read at an emancipation celebration on January 1st last. Its concluding stanza is: With Christian love Loving Thee more A Church clerk or the judged by his talk at ing" or at his fervent revival Ask how his at the grocery, at the or how he lives, up to tions. While the colored e ing among themselves white press is molding "May Thy rich grace abound, Where'er our race is found, The wide world o'er. Then may our love to Thee, Warm and continuous be, With Christian loyalty, Loving Thee more." A Church clerk or trustee cannot be judged by his talk at the "class-meeting" or at his fervent prayers at the revival Ask how his account stands at the grocery, at the newspaper office or how he lives, up to his honest obligations. While the colored editors are fighting among themselves, the Southern white press is molding sentiment; and enacting laws against the colored people. The Liberian government has just given $25,000 to foster commerce with this country. PRICE, FIVE CENTS HUMOROUS INCIDENTS HUMOROUS INCIDENTS LAWYER WETMORE AND THE WIZARD AT GAINESVILLE. An Overflow Meeting Greeted Dr. Washington in The Florida Town Where he was Enthusiastically Received-Both Races Well Represented Notes of The Meetin. Jacksonville, Fla., Special.—The County Superintendents of Public Instruction of the State of Florida, held a Convention at Gainesville, Florida, from the 3rd to the 6th of this month, and W. N. Sheats, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, was President of said Convention. Mr. Sheats invited Booker T. Washington to visit Gainesville during the week of the Convention and deliver an address on Negro education, on the night of the 5th; and he also invited the leading Negro educators of the State to meet Mr. Washington, and discuss plans for improving the methods of teaching, and for prolonging the term of Negro schools throughout the state. The Gainesville newspapers announced that Mr. Washington had been invited to address the County Superintendents of Public Instruction, in the auditorium of the white public school of that city, and immediately Superintendent of Public Instruction, Holloway, of Alachua County, of which County Gainesville is the County site, published an article, in hich he declared that Mr. Washington should not speak in the auditorium of the white public school while he was County Superintendent. This letter was published on Friday, Jan. 30th and caused quite a stir throughout the State; and every big (?) white man in Alachua County and the State of Florida, who is a political opponent of Mr. Sheats took this opportunity of denouncing him, and swearing vengeance against him for the insult that had been offered the "superior race," of which they were "leaders" (?). This agitation culminated in an indignation meeting on Monday night, the 2nd inst., at which meeting resolutions were passed sustaining the action of County Superintendent Holloway, and denouncing State Superintendent Sheats. While this meeting was in progress, Mr. Sheats was being denounced in vigorous language, he arrived in the city and went immediately to the place of meeting, and surprised his critics in the midst of their deliberations; and I am reliably informed that he made the "fur fly" for a few minutes; and that some of the things that were said on that occasion would not look well in a school reading book. Mr. Washington was expected to arrive on the 4th, but after hearing of all the excitement over his proposed visit, he did not leave Tuskegee on the 3rd as he had Continued on fourth page. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. 10 9th and YOU STREETS, N. W. MARRY G. LENZ. HUGO LOSSAU LENZ & LOSSAU, Successors to CHARLES FISCHER, SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS. 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. 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No letters answer unless accompanied by stamp. A SOUTHERN VIEW A Georgia Educator Places an Estimate on Dr Washington's work-He Condemns The Critics and Fault Finders (A. P. Nella, in Atlanta Age.) We have read with interest and chagrin the report of a lecture on Booker Washington by one Mr. Ferris, a graduate of Harvard and Yale, etc., before the literary elite of the capital city of the nation. Whatever Mr. Ferris may have learned at Harvard or Yale, there are many helpful things he might have learned outside their walls since he has left them, that he has failed to learn. He certainly does not know much about the subject of his lecture, not including what the Boston Negroes think of him. We shall be glad to hear the criticism of Mr. Ferris or any other Negro on Mr. Washington when he has done one-tenth the good Mr. Washington has done. We do not claim a perfect being for Mr. Washington, for so to do would be placing him on a level with the only perfect Man. But we do not hesitate a moment in proclaiming him the greatest Negro living or dead. Douglass, Langston and Bruce were all men fit for the times in which they lived and acted, but either would seem almost a dwarf in this day in the shoes of Booker Washington. There is as much difference in the ways of men to-day as there is in our knowledge of the arts and sciences years ago. We have visited Mr. Washington's school, which has no duplicate anywhere in the South. We have heard him speak several times, and at no time did there come from him other than the most wholesome advice. There is one thing that Mr. Washington does not do and that is, play for the plaudits of his race simply for the plaudit's sake. If our critics could or should succeed half so well in raising beans and potatoes, since he has gone from Harvard and Yale to do this kind of business; we repeat, if he could succeed half so well raising beans and potatoes as Mr. Washington has in uplifting his race in this part of the South, we should be glad to hear his criticism. We would weep to know that any black boy should be influenced to think that Mr. Washington is insincere or anything than the greatest man of the race and well worthy of emulation. We have never seen nor read after a nobler man in any race. The white youth of this country may well claim and emulate the father of our country as the noblest Roman of them all. We claim that the black youth of the country have a man for emulation, that not one, no matter what his circumstances, may not emulate. There are thousands of white boys who were never born in as good circumstances as the "Father of their Country." But there was never a black boy whose chances were poorer than Booker Washington's. We are glad to know that thousands of black boys all over this country are reading and being inspired to nobler manhood by the life of Booker Washington. We still hold that black boys can be inspired truly, only by the lives of noble black men. There is entirely too much complaining and fault-finding on the part or many of our public speakers. If half of this energy was spent in helping our people to education and the getting of property and the like there would not be half so many things to complain for. The strong has always oppressed the weak. It is so in almost all nature. The weak can best preserve itself by growing strong or keening out of the way of the strong. This ought not so to be, but such has been the case ever since the world was. Our friend, Mr. Ferris, complains about the Negro fast becoming the pariah of this country. 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The addresses deliv-papers read are all in this book besides over fifty cuts and others which makes it a valuable souvenir of This convention was the first National Convention of colored business men ever held in this or any other country. Every one of business was represented: the farmer, the banker, the educator, the doctor, the lawyer, the manufacturer, the author, the merchant and rulers of municipalities. The addresses delivered and papers read are all in this book besides over fifty cuts of delegates and others, which makes it a valuable souvenir of the convention. BOUND IN CLOTH ONLY PRICE, $1.00 Send Express or Postoffice Money Order J. R. HAMM, PUBLISHER, 46 OWARD ST. BOSTON, MASS. MAN ON THE MONUMENT. Seldom has the placidity of public opinion been thrown into such violent commotion in these parts as it has by the present Booker T. Washington controversy. Where once, "The rankthistle nodded in the wind, And the wild rox dug his hole unscared," all is now a mighty, pushing, struggling mass of opposition to establish the proper status of the Washington idea in this bailiwiic. In view of the fact that the pros. have assumed the defense, the Antis appear to be off in a lone. From an impartial viewpoint, the two factions are nearer together than the acrimony of debate, recrimination, etc., would indicate. The degradation which the infamous race proscription in the South imposes is intolerable to us all. The northern Negro is confronted with this matter merely as a theory, but to the "man and brother" in the South it is a cold, uncompromising, merciless condition. However, this condition is to be met, we are a unit in the belief that some sort of an education is essential to the solution of the problem. That the Booker T. Washington idea is coincident with the line of least resistance educationally in the South, is too palpably and incontestably true to admit of argument. It is idle to compare industrial with (I will not say higher), general education. The one contributes to the needs of the individual, the other to the needs of civilization. The former performs the work but the latter controls the labor. Unfortunately for the peace of the races, the desire to be a factor in the world's civilization and to be a controlling, as well as a producing force is as deeply implanted in the Negro as in any other individual. Therefore, to assume that he can be satisfied with anything less than the very fullest opportunities is the silliest poppycock, and very justly invites the strenuous resentment of the northern Negro who is not hedged about with such restrictions as industrialism implies. The Post comes forward with its proverbial wisdom to elucidate the wherefore and the why of the trouble and bother that President Roosevelt's few Colored appointments have made, in comparison with the non-friction of the many that McKinley is said to have made. As far as we can gather, the latter seems to have had a sort of a soft, noiseless, gum shoe method of inducting the "man and the brother" into an official berth, that threw such a spell over the whites that they didn't know he was there. Possibly a better reason is that there are more white people now who want office. Bethel Literary was the scene of a fierce combat last Tuesday night between the Booker T. Washington forces and the opposition. The most surprising feature of the occasion was the intense antagonism to the industrial idea which was found to exist in this city. Prof. Jesse Lawson, who presented the paper of the evening, was considerate enough to state that the occasion was a Booker T. Washington affair. Other than his word for it there was very little reliable evidence of the fact. Prof. Lawson's paper was very good as far as it went, but the subject discussed was so utterly at variance with the Professor's scholarly attainments that it appeared to cover little ground. Certain it is that the paper conferred no benefi that could offset the harm which its discussion provoked. It was a dear young thing of a nurse just from graduation. As I lay propped up in bed with a raging fever, she informed me that the "doctor ought to see me when I had that kind of an attack." Motioning her to put her ear close to my feeble lips, I managed to gasp that that attack was not copyrighted and that I was not doing little stunts like that for recreation. She did not seem to understand. I said, "child, listen. Judd Malvern was bicycling down a steep hill out towards THE COLOR AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. Cabin John's bridge one day when all of a sudden he took a header and plowed up several rods of Maryland with his face. On getting to his feet he was accosted by an urchin in a yard with, 'do that again, Mister, ma didn't see you.' The child-like radiance which lit up her innocent face convinced me that the nurse had tumbled. The Metropole Club still maintains its high reputation as a swell resort of, not sports or sporting men, but sportsmen. You can call them "spotes," if you like, but that's another thing. In fact, it would be hard to classify "Smitty," for instance, under any other head. It's either "Chappy" or "Spote," the one class eats bird's tongues, while the other hulls out pig anckles. The casual visitor is struck with the extreme home-like air of the surroundings. There's the elegant parlor, books; papers and cosy fires with coal at 'steen dollars a ton, whose benign warmth invites the friendly rivalry of pink toes to get nearer. Strictly no gambling is allowed. The most popular game at present is played with 3 matches. And that there is a little of honor hanging on the wali. To get on this list one has to be smart. The Club is the thing but more anon. Mr. Ed. Arnold has moved to town and can now be found at the Club occasionally (?). Mr. William Fossett was heard at the Bethel Literary last Tuesday evening. Anyone who has ever come within the range of that voice of his, can appreciate this statement at its full value. He rose to a point of order. How our young men are risin'. Pres. Geo. Jackson, of the Bethel Literary, does honor to the position; but say, George, you want to touch up your side features. That music last week, for instance, was like the little girl,—where it was good it was very good, but where it was bad, it was lurid. The latest recipients of promotion favors at the Pension Office are: Mr. Wm. Mays, Wm. Robinson and Jacob Combs. All three of these gentlemen are "A No. 1" clerks and highly deserve the honors that have come to them. How would it do for the Haiwathians to first learn their chorus before putting on the trimmings and furbelorrs? * * * Bruce Grit is still having his troubles with the proof-reader. The proof-reader says its "him." If Bruce is the author of his own manuscript, we are with the proof-reader—we have seen Bruce's writin'. * * * Added to his other accomplishments Dr. Bruce Evans embraces the gift of oratory. His extempore effort at Bethel the other evening proves it. FRIEND, THIS MEANS YOU. A great many friends in this paper have an idea that they help it by sending news and elaborate accounts of entertainments, weddings, etc. They were never so mistaken. The way to help The Colored American is to pay your subscription bill, if you are a subscriber, and if you are not a subscriber send in your subscription The paper contains a great amount of live and interesting news each week. 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Mebane, the son of a gallant sire, who was his friend, the assurances of his distinguished consideration, and begs to say that there will be no con- troversy between the captain and him- self, “touchin’ upon and appertainin’ to the recent attendance at @ White House reception of a number of emin- ently respectable and influential breth- ren. The wisom or the unwisdom of that performance is not going to be deter- mined by a controversy in which the controversialists have opinions about it which they have the courage to e€x- press. I do not agree with the captain’s optimistic view of the matter, because I am not smart enough, nor old enough to see it in the same light that he sees it. I do not believe what he says he believes, will be the logical outcom of this business. I have merely ex- pressed my opinion as a “venerable” American citizen, at the same time conceding to every other American citizen the right to express his. There is always bound to be mere or less diversity of opinion on this subject among colored and white citizens, and this does not necessarily "imply that they are either cowardly or unmanly. 1 have always had the courage of my convictions and I have generally suc- ceeded in saying what I have wanted to say without reference to popular com- mendation of my utterances. I have done so in this instance, and I under- stood perfectly what I was saying. and how it would be regarded by those who would take the trouble to read it What I said on this subject was not said with the purpose of condemning the attendance of colored people at White House receptions—for ne amount of criticism or condemnation of the practice could deter our socially inclined colored citizens from attend ing these receptions when invited to do so. I merely question the wisdom of it at this particular crisis, in view of that fact that the race question is just now more acute than it has ever been before in this country. So that, when I said, quoting St. Paul’s words: “All things lawful are not expedient,” I was clearly within my rights, as were also those to whom my criticism applied, when they availed themselves of the opportunity to bask in the smiles and grasp the gocd right hand of the President. As to the ultimate effect of the presence of these dear 10 COL AMERISAN brethren at the White House, there will of course, as my learned, good-looking, youthful and able critie agree, always be differing opinions. I am not so hopeful as he seems to be on this particular point. I don’t believe that the barrier is going to be broken down as easily as he says it will be. Diplo- mas, bank accounts, education and re finement are all of them most com mendable especially when they are possessed by Negroes who are one re move from slavery and about three removes from barbarism. Those who are “outside the breastworks,” are not brilliant enough to jump into the social swim with the alacrity of the educated sons and daughters of horny-handed slave fathers and mothers. I fear that some of the elect who have pride in their mental and material assets will find before a great while that the “present pace” is a little too swift for good and lasting results. True the White House belongs to the people and the Negroes are part of the people, and they have as much right there as any other people; still I think it is a mistake in the present crisis wher there is so much more at stake, than tho mere gratification of our desire to uta annie lier mane the hie wires of Tr OOV.ORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. G Captain Mebane implies he has when he asserts that these brave venturers will ultimatey break down the social barriers between the races. I don’t believe that any considerable number of us are hankering after the flesh pots of Japheth. To me it seems that the master work of the Negro should.be the conservation of his civil and politi- cal rights, with these secure he will be abie to take care of his social rights beth inside and out, of the White House. The best white man living, whether northerner or southerner, possesses the characteristics of his race. One of its characteristics is the feeling that a white man is a little better than a Negro, and that therefore they cannot be equal socially or otherwise. Then they do not forget to recall to memory that the Negro is a more recent de- scendant of slaves than themselves, and the fact that a race once subjuga- ted and enslaved cannot be given rela- tive position socially or politically with its enslavers. Perhaps some scholars of the race with a “diploma and bank account,” will be able to cite an in- stance in history in which the con- trary is true. Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of War, in his speech before the Union League Club at its recent anniversary, frankly admitted that the work of the great men of that organization, covering a period of almost forty years, to secure che right of suffrage to the Negro, had been a failure, and he pleaded eloquent- iy for a revival of interest in this work begun by these old-time republi- cams to make universal freedom and ‘itizenship a fact, because of the pledge. given by the nation to the Negroes who gave so much to it in the hour of .ts peril. To paraphrase Lincoln's famous words, “If the problemp can be solved by all the scholars and rie men of the race attending White House re- -eptions, while their rights and the ‘ights of millions are bemg taken iway, then do it. If it is to be solved in some other way, do it.” That's all. BRUCE GRIT. Yonkers, N. Y., Feb. 7, 03. The ffyrand fountain of the {ited f)raer of {ru Reformers Is the leading Colored Fraternal Society of the United States. It was organizeq fensary: 1881, by William W. Browne, and chartered in April, 1883, under the laws of the State of Virginia, with headquarters at Richmond, Va. iis mmeciber. ship 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 Cit cles. It pays sick benefits from $1.50 to $2.50 per week, and pays death benefits from $24.56 to $1000. BENEFITS PAlD—Total benefits paid to date: Sick dues, $r,500,000; death ben. efits, $714,378-75- SEVIOR FOUNTAINS—A Fountain may be organized consisting of 20 or more sons not over 50 years of age paying a joining fee of from $4.60 to $5.10 eacu, Bre monthly dues are not less than 35 cents In rural districts and not less thay 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 berefits range from #75 to ae A Fountain may be organ. ized 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 youre and their developme:t in thrift, industry and brotherly love, there has been formed a Children’s Depart. ment known as the Rosevede Twenty or more children not less than three not more than fourteen years of age may form a Rosebud, upon the payment of fi each. This department, like the Senior Fountain, pays sick benefits from $1 tg twenty-five cents per week, and death benefits from $24.50 to $37. The month dues are fifteen cents per month. CLASSES ~-Persons desiring to leave their beneficiaries at death a larger amoun, than is paid from Fountain Department, take out policies in one or more of the €lasses 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: eS Oe ee a ee Ee ee into Circles, and pay joining fees and dues according to the following tables: ~~ gat fel 2 lel es 1 (BE ? ss S ¢ |ss |5s = $ spl 2 1855 (27°81 8 | sf | sep] & |SHu | SS] S | 28 Glass B'} = | 222] $22| 2 |e GlsS E"| = | 222/322] 212 3 |82|222| 2 (3 || a | 225/22: |: |! | | 3 jss8lese| 2 |e || B |ss2|£s3| 2 | 8 eee PAL) SSs | S| || | ee i call Agelito 2 $2 50 |$200 00 eee \gt 75 ($1 20 |\|Age 14 to 25 'g5 00 $500 00 elie 50 “25 L088 , 278 | 0 00 | 100 00 | 4 75 | 120 || * 25 030) 5 2B 500 00 [250 00 | 90! 240 © 30 tod Bae 100 00 | 4 75 | 126 || “+ 801035 | 5 5C | 500 00 | 250 00 | 950) 20 * 35104 | 3 25 | 200 00 | 100 00 | 5 70 | 1 43 | * 85 £240 | 5 75 | 500 00 | 250 00 10 40/ 2 60 «© 461045 | 3 50 | 140 00| 7000 | 579 | 143 || * 40 to45 | 6 00 | 450 00 | 225 00 10 40/ 20 “ 45 tobe |3m 115 00| 58 00 | 6 65 | 166 |) “ 451050 | 6 25 | 400 00 | 208 0 1140) 255 “ BO to5S | 400 | 7000) 4500 | 655/166 || “ BO to6O 6 50 | 350 00 | 175 0 11 40) 285 © 55 to Sd | 4.25 6 0) | 83 00 = | | | | i | | Pes ents 3 = 3 = g mS REGALIA—The members of the Foun- = re | sé | z =% | tains and Rosebuds of the organization | t 2 pss 2 = wear no expensive regalia. The rega- | los 2s = | § | lia of the organization is simple and its . Si vies =? |_ <= _|© | cost will be in the easy reach of all, | Age 14 to 30 |$11 00 {$1000 00 [$21 90 $5 25 | cose from Io cents to $5. ‘The same 20 to$B | 12.00 } 10:0 00 | ze = | 550 | is made by th: organization in what is BE raped pnt \ 205 OO | ee | 8 bo | Known as the Regalia Department. — * 45to50 | 13.00 | 70000 | 2590 | 6 25 THE SAVINGS BANK—\n March, 188, et Ls there was granted by the Legislature of 3 3 Virginia a charter to the Savings Bank «f the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers, capital stock $100,000. | Phe bank commenced business April 3, 1889, and from_that time down to the resent has steadily increased in volume of business. It now has 2 paid up cap- ‘tal 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.~58, and the volume of business transacted amounts to $6,190.141.47. During the finan- «ial panic of 1843, 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 pre sented, whilt; the majorizy of other banks were using script and clearing house checks. vhis bank had its origin in the brain of William W. Browne, an ex-slave of Ha- berstiam, Ga. The banking house is located at 604 North Second Street, Rich- moncl, Va., Rev. W. L. Taylor, President; R. T. Hill, Cashier. RELL ESTATE DEPARTMENT—The Real Estate Department has charge ofall the real p-roperty to the amount of $220,221.65, eaceted tal various States, consisting «ft ee eo buildings used as halls, 8 dwellings, 1 es ore and three turms.. It also las under its control 16 large pane leased by it. This de- partmient is under the management of Lawyer J. C. Robertson, chief of real es- tate a.nd attorney for the association, office at 608 N. and Street, Richmond, V2 RE¥ORMERS MERCANTILE AND INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION—Was chartered un der the laws of the State of Bie on the 14th day of December, 1899. with principal office in the city of Richmond, Va. The purpose of this association if +o conduct stores (wholesale and retail), buy and sell real property, manage ane sontrol hotels, oe establishments, and do general business. The association has in operation Hotel Reformer, goo 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 oper® tion a system of five stores, located as follows: Richmond, Va.; Washington, D. >.; Manchester, Va ; Portsmouth, Va.; and Roanoke, Va. The first or thess stores, at Richmcnd, Va., was opened April 3d, 1900. It employs a force of _ nen, runs three delivery wagons, and during the frst year did $50,000 worth of | usiness. The other stores have been established since, and have been equally |. 48 prosperous. The general manager of the system of stores is Mr. B LL, Jordan, veadquarters at 608 'N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. This Association was -ormed on’ the plans and recommendations made by Rev. W. L. Taylor, its *resident. THE REFORMER PRINTING DEPARTMENT—1esu0s_ a weekly tournal, ‘Tne RRroEN th snica has a circulation of 12,000. This paper is published in che interest of the race, ant t', + -usses the leading questions of the day. Pas subscription price is $1 per year, or 5c. per ee : Opy. The office is equipped with modern up-to-date machinery, run by electricity. 1° 04 orint anything from a visiting card to a poster 42 by €2 inches. Fine job work of every —_— '~ leg-ription is made a specialty at lowest prices. Mr. E. W. Brown is editor and business aie | ger, office 608 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. Correspondence solicited and agents wan © OLD FOLKS’ HOME—t1n september. 1398, Rev. William W. Brown recommended the [oii | ion and establishment of O11 Folks" Homes for the benefit of old and decrepid members - as | ace. Since that time the valuable farm known as Westham, consisting of U4i4 Beret) 2110, 4x miles from Richmor.d, Va , on the historic “James,” has been purchased. «0 at ated a :* fhe Chesapeake and Oh‘o Kailroad runs through the tarm. and Vestham Station is ee v4 jt Adjoining this farm is Westhampton Vark, one of the most pleasant resorts in — Railway }.summer. It is reached in_a f-w minutes from Zichmond by the Westhampton Elects in. ‘tbe | and the Chesapeake and Ohio Ratlway. As this home is for the benefit of the whole Tint jag He co-operation of all charitable friends is prayerfully solicited. |All contribution’ donein chars bequests of every character will be very thankfully received. Mr. T. W. Taylor is chie! of the Old Folks’ Home. offices at 608 North Second Street, Richmond, Va. Poems With a Point. There Was a big Indian Sioux, Who courted asquaw named Lioux, They got worried one daigh In the month of Maigh, So now they have a papoux- Said Chlorin® Gas to Hydrogen “Will you unite with we?"’ Miss HYdrogen made quick reply: “I cannot, don’t you see "” Miss Hydrogen a pu:pose had Her lover hope to thwart er, But she eloped wich Oxygen— Her hameis Mrs, Water. There was a young girl in Dubuque Whose name was Mary O’Roque; She gave up her mash After couuting *hecash *~ She Wanted to buy hef a Douque- & There's beauty to be seen in hee form, in her ere Ad there’s regal splendor too in her walk: “he can play. she can sing. she an Cry if she try, ‘ut the wonder of the girl is her talks There was a young boy at Duquesne Wh» got caught in a bie raquesne He frightened his kin For he grew weak and thin And now they do say he’s insaquesne- He gave her bracelets, necklace, fam Some handkerchiefs and rings, Because he loved her soyou see, He sent some other things. While all the time she loved a man- Whose cognomen was Jack: ~ Arms and the man” have coo’ed his love, So he wants his presents back By W- F- Fowielle, 3 Goldsboro, N. C. See A Pointer for Critics. One of the colored farmers writes “>a he hss jus: killed a ‘Conference log,’’ that weighed 590 Pounds when ‘ressed, and that his wif got 23 gal- 'sne of lard from it. He would like to hear of a larger one.—Tuskegée Stu. dent. $4.00 "800 a day guaranteed every person sending name and ddress to the 8c tt Remed Co. ‘ouisville, Ky. Write at once Rev. W.L Taylor, G. W. M. w. P. Burrell, G. W. ¥ 604-6-8 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. 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Hes re-opened for scholars and the ublic. pee wr terms of ten lessons in paint- ing $5 50; for free hand drawing $2.50 AMERICAN PATE DE FOIS GRAS Settlement of Bohemians in ‘Wiscon- sin Town Where the Goose Liv~- ers Are Produced. Persons who read of the tortures in- flicted upon geese in France and Ger- many, where the celebrated pate de fois gras is made, are seldom aware that in one place in our own country the same methods are used to fatten geese for the Hebraic population in New York. In Watertown, Wis., says the New York Herald, there is a set- | tlement of Bohemians where the wom- en pursue this work as the chief in- dustry of the place. The geese are nailed by their web feet to the floors of wooden cages set in dark, warm rooms. a They are then fed with all they can possibly eat and when appetite fails they are crammed with noodles made of a dough of corn and buckwheat and forced down their throats with a stick. Every two hours this forced feeding is applied and in a few weeks the bodies of the tortured fowls are distended like pumpkins, the liver alone frequently weighing from one and a half to two pounds, and the geese from 20 to 25 pounds. They are then killed and plucked by the women, the latter operation being completed before they are really dead, and are shipped to New York city. Arriving there, they are put in cold storage, where they may remain for months or years. They are esteemed a great delicacy by many persons, and quantities of them are used. AN AMERICAN DESERT. There Is No Cultivated Place on the State Line Between Utah and Arizona. H. B. Carpenter, a civil engineer who has just completed the survey of the southern line of Utah, says the bound- ary between that state and Arizona does not cross a foot of cultivated land. It traverses a desert which is cut up by great canyons that are al- most impassable. The length of the line is 277 miles. Landmarks along the line will make it possible for the boundary to be lo- cated without any difficulty in the fu- ture. Just east of the Colorado river a sandstone butte rises 1,000 feet above the plain, and the very peak of this butte is exactly on the boundary. Mr. Carpenter named the peak State Line butte. Not far from this butte is another, which stands 1,300 feet above the plain, and was named Tow- er peak. These two gigantic stones, says the Philadelphia Record, will al- ways be a guide to persons who have enough curiosity to penetrate the des- ert in search of the state line. Drugging Flowers. Ever since the days of that floral abomination, the green carnation, we have known that flowers are sus- ceptible to influence of drugs and can be made to change their colors by proper, or, rather, improper, treatment. This,branch of floricul- ture has been pursued further by in- quiring people, and it seems that plants are as liable to the effects of poisons as are human beings. If you give a flower too much chloroform, it will not agree with it. In the words of the operator, “it droops and dies.” it is dimicult te see whats is the advantage of this particular study. Everyone knows that flowers can be killed far too easily. If some scientific person would find a way of causing them to bloom all the year round in our climate, that would be something of a discovery—less sciens ‘tific, perhaps, but much more accept- gpble—London Truth. qi Livew in a Trunk. , Miss Celeste J. Miller, a Chicago wvoman who has done more traveling han any other woman who ever dived, has just started off on hes Giurth trip oroups the wathin_bataw Holmes’ Hotel 333 Va Ave., 8. W., for the Best Afro-American Accommodation in the District European and American Pian. Bar Stocked with Fine Wines, Imported Brandies and PURE OLD RYE WHISKEY. Best Line Cigars,5 & 10c Good room and Lodging 60 75 & $1 00 s@F-Comfortably heated by steam. Giv® Use Call James Otoway Holmes, Proprietor. WASHINGTON, D c, Gils Uffustrattons aM MAM (Ae opie seen aa ee) 2 a.a Stier ; Luilding foe CLT A TELEPHONE, 317B COLUMBUS. Wirey G. Overtox. — W. Davin Brown OVERTO Nawnv BROWN, Undertakers and Embalmers, 146 West 58rd Street. Between 6th & 7th Aves, New York City Brooklyn Branch, 315 Bridge Street. Gamp @4sirs and Coaches to let for all Purposes reaches the masses. The only Ne- gro newspaper in Bermuda. It is the voice of the people. Free and inde pendent sheet devoted to the interest of the island. FOR¢IGN SUBSCRIPTION. lyear - 82 25 6 months = 1.15 3 months - 69 Chas. V. 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CARY PHILADA., PA. $400 to $800 a day guaanteed to every person sending name and address to the Scott Remedy Co.,, Louisville, Ky. Write at once. 13 ; SAALA SALA AR ARAB : J PETRER GROGAN, 3 . i 3 5 Credit for all Washington. 3 5 pocictiseas See! 5 % : No other a 5 Furniture % 3 “ House has % : Ever Offered - : Such liberal : % Terms of % 5 3% 5 3% 5 3% 5 % 5 % 5 % 5 % 5 % : : 5 ‘ 5 % : And right = : Ip the midst ; = Of the Greatest - : Discount Sale : 5 Of the Season, : 5 5 It you bave a furniture need & & of avy description you can & % supply it now at a great sav- & , ing. Our Janusry clesrance & % includes Parlor, Bedroom, % ard Dining-room Faoriture bo 7 of svery description, also fine % % Haviland Ch na, Pictures, Bric- 4 2% brae, &c. There’sa pleasant & % surprise awaiting you in the & % arraugement of payments No & notes, no interest. Carpets & mode, Isid, and lined free: z 5 “ s Peter Grogan, s = Tae * 5 17-819 821-823 7th Street. & : Between H aud I Sts, & ee es os oo os oe ot % LIFE IN THE NORTHWEST. If you have sny idea of changing your jocation—go into the northwest woere life is worth living ; it is the coming empire of this coun- try. Climate and elevation are found in great variety and will never be a8 Jow priced sgain 88 it is now. For farming, fruit raising and grazing no | portion of ovr country equals it. Irri- gation makes the farmrr independent where irrigation {s practiced and the finest irmgable part of our lands are in Montana and Wasbingtop. The towns and cities are growing rapidly in the Northwest. Let me know what you want and we willtry and help you There are all sorte of places and kinds of land im the Northwestern states through which the Northern Pacific rans. Don’t wait until it is too late to go. Low set- vera rates ere in effect during S ptem- ber and October. Writeto me where you want to go and I will tell you what costs, CHARLES L. FEE Gen’l. Pass. Agent, N. P. Ry., Bt. Paul, Minn. tf. Not a Stockholder. I hereby warn the public that I am not a etock-ho!der in the Capital Sav- ings Bank, and any pers 0 who con- nects my name with the ffairs of that institution will be prosec ted for crim- inal libel, f J. R. WILDER, Pa eee 412 B 8t., 8, E- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. 4 Marvelous Growth of the Hair. Marvelous Growth of the Hair. A Famons Doctor-Chemist Has Dis covered a Compound that grows Hair on a Bald Head in a Single Night. Startling Announcement Causes Doctors to Marvel and Stand Dum-founded at the Wonderful Cures. The Discoverer Sends Free Trial Packages to All Who Write. After a half century spent in the laboratory crowned with high honors for his many world famous discoveries the celebrated physician A Miss Clarissa Kerby and her Marvelous Growth of Hair. chemist at the head of the great Altenheim Medical Dispensary, has just made the startling announcement that he has produced a compound that grows hair on any bald head. The doctor makes the claim that after experiments, taking years to complete, he has at last reached the goal of his ambition. To the doctor all heads are alike. There are none which cannot be cured by this remaakable remedy. The record of the cures already made is truly marvelous and were it not for the high standing of the great physician and the convincing testimony of thousands of citizens all over the country it would seem too miraculous to be true. T here can be no doubt of the doctor's earnestes in making his claims nor can his cures be disputed. He does not ask any man, woman or child to take his or anyone else's word for it, but he stands ready to send free trial packages of this great hair restorativo to anyone who writes to him for it, enclosing a 2-cent stamp to prepay postage. In a single night it has started hair to growing on heads bald for years. It has stopped falling hair in one hour. It never fails no matter what the condition, age or sex. Old men and young men, women and children all have profited by the free use of this great new discovery. If you are bald, if your hair is falling out or if your hair eyebrows or eyebrows or eye lashes are thin or short write to the Altenheim Midical Dispensary, 8074 Foso Building, Cincinnati, Ohio, enclosing a 2-cent stamp to prepay postage for a free package and in a short time you will be fully restored. GRAND Opening Society Paraphernaalia, Lodge Supplies, Badges, Class Pins, College Flags, Committee Badges, Flags and Banners. ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. C. E. GUNLACH, 813 7th St., N.W., Washington D. C. Telephone 342-Y. $400 to $800 a day guaranteed to every person sending name and address to the Scott Remedy Co, Louisville, Ky. Write at once, rant to get my lunch and across the table from me sat two middle-aged, prosperous-looking men. They weren't talking about business or money."—Chicago Record-Herald. Profuse Apologies. "See here!" said the hotel clerk, "you'll have to move on. We can't have any loitering around the hall." "Well," replied the offender, "the head-waiter told me to stay here till he came. I'm after a job as waiter." "O! I beg your pardon. I thought you were only a guest."—Philadelphia Press. Benefactor of Mankind. "Hobbs is weak, financially, isn't he?" "Well, he hasn't much to boast of, but he gives employment to a great many men." "Who are they?" "Other fellows' bill collectors."— N. Y. Times. He Wouldn't Do. Barber—Mein cracious! You von't do. New Man—You schoost dold me to go to vork. Barber—You von't do. Now you haf your hat off I see you are bald. How you zell my hair restorer, eh?"—N. Y. Weekly. A Day for Bad Luck. "No; John never seemed superstitious until we were married. Isn't that so. John? And why did you change?" "I suppose it was because my wedding day came on Friday."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Tough Parishioners. Deacon Blunt—So your congregation gave you no vacation this year? Dominy Dull—Not a week; not a day. Deacon Blunt—Well! well! They are the hardest people to tire out I ever heard of.—N. Y. Weekly. An Incurable Case. "When a man's unconscious he doesn't know anything, does he, pop?" "No, my son." "Well, pop, are you unconscious? I heard ma say you didn't know anything."—Yonkers Statesman. Once, long ago, 'twas her delight, To dress up in a handsome gown; But now, when he's out late at night She likes to dress her hubby down. -Chicago Daily News. A "Have you heard—Frau von Specht is dead. "Indeed? It's hard to believe it! Why, she owed me a call."—Unsere Gesellschaft. True Philosophers. The true philosophers are those Who treat all men as brothers, And while they smile at their own woes Believe the woes of others. —Philadelphia Press. "How did he ever get the title of 'Hon.?' " "He declined a nomination for alderman once."—Chicago Tribune. And Alimony. Mrs. Dearborn—And what has she [Portrait of a young man in formal attire]. James E. McGirt, The New Negro Poet of the Race. Are declared by both English and American critics to be the greatest written in this age, regardless of race or color, and make a great mark for his race in literature that will last. Can be bought for half price for a few days. The com- which consists of two cloth bound silk finish volumes, will one sending $1.00. Are two beautiful poems on the life of W. W. BROWN. Order of the True Reformers. Every one should have the homes, that our children may know of the GREAT MAN, by him. The books are indorsed by the leading authors. Persons wishing to become agents will ask for agents order. Send $1.00 for the complete $2.00 edition. McGrit. Perot St., King's Bridge, N. Y., R. GOOD HEALTH His poems are declared by among the greatest written that he has made a great merit for ages. The books can be bought inplete work, which consists of be sent to any one sending to. In the book are two beauties the Great Father of the True books in their homes, that of and be inspired by him. The of both races. Persons wish terms with their order. See Write J. E McGrit. Perot. His poems are declared by both English and American critics to be among the greatest written in this age, regardless of race or color, and that he has made a great mark for his race in literature that will last for ages. The books can be bought for half price for a few days. The complete work, which consists of two cloth bound silk finish volumes, will be sent to any one sending $1.00. In the book are two beautiful poems on the life of W. W. 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Johnson says it is a cold day when no suit is filed against some one of the Directors of the Capital Savings Bank. The Sunday night concert is given by the colored troups which are held forth at the Empire Theater, furnished enough merriment to tide the city for a week. Mr. Paul L. Jefferson was recently held for the action of the Grand Jury in connection with that little misunderstanding with Mr. Chris. McKinney. Some of the members of the Hod Carriers' Union, No 2. are alleged to be 'wabbling' in the matter of the Union's funds. This is a dangerous pastime. The ex slave pension agents are still in the city working like beavers; and the introduction of the bill by Senator M A Hanna has given them much encouragement. Miss Carrie V. Sewell, a well known and attractive lady, died on Saturday, January 31. The funeral on the Monday following brought out a large contingent of citizens. Mr P. D Williams of the oldest and best chefs on the Southern railways spent a few days off in the city last week. Mr Williams stands at the head of his profession. Mr. T. J. Clark who is connected with the dining service of the Southern railway is now a full fl edged reader of The Colored American. Mr. Clark is a race man and is a valued attachee of the Southern railway. Mr. Lafayette Jefferson, better known as "Faggie," is conducting his great poultry, butter and vegetable stand in the Center Market, in a way to please everybody. Mr. Jefferson is a veteran in the business and is holding his own. Mrs. Jennie M. Crummell, widow of the late Dr. Alexander Crummell, died at her home, 1215 Seventeenth Street, Northwest, Friday of last week, at 12:10 p.m., aged fifty-eight years. She was buried at Cypress Hill Cemetery, Brooklyn. Mrs. Annie L. Hamer Dillard, formerly of this city, now of Goldsboro North Carolina, in the city visiting relatives to the delight of her many friends, who will be pleased to find her with her sister, Mrs. Mary J. Adams, 519 2nd Street, S. W. A very quiet wedding took place at St. Augustine church, January 21st at 8 o'clock a. m. The high contracting parties being Mr. W. J. Thomas and Miss E. Wheeler, a popular society belle. The happy couple is keeping house at 631 A street southeast where they will be pleased ta see their many friends. Cols, J. H. Muse and Aldrich M. Lewis are "warm" members in the Odd Fellows Fraternity. This was clearly demonstrated in a meeting held Friday evening, February 6th at W. A. Freemen Lodge. The popularity of these young men were demonstrated to the satisfaction of all. Ex-Grand Master W. C. Martin, and D. B. Whitehurst, of the Clarendon House, New York City, N. Y., were among the prominent visitors present. 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Mrs. Mary Church Terrell delivered a lecture, last Sunday evening, at Lancaster, Pa.' Marriages are to take place in the Drawing and Sewing Departments during Easter week. Mr. J B Clark, Supervising Principal of the Eleventh Division, was out sick a few days last week. Rev. T. M Nixon, formerly of the People's Congregational Church, has left for his new field of labor. Mr. J. Frank Blagburn is stationed at the Coast and Geodetic Survey, a bureau of the Treasury Department. Mrs. R. W. Thompson, of Pierce Place, leaves in a few days for Indianapolis, Indiana, to visit her relatives. Dr A. M. Cartis late Surgeon of the Freedman's Hospital has returned from an extended visit to California. Mr. W. H. H. Smith, for many years a valued clerk in the Pension Bureau, died suddenly on Saturday morning last Rev R. S. Reeves, of Union Wesley church, 23rd street has just sustained a sad loss in the death of his estimable wife. Mfes Geneva Campbell, an instructor in the Public School Sewing Department, has just recovered from a severe attack of the Grip. Mr. Louis E. Pennington of Phila delphia, was in the city this week, and is a valued attache of the "Iris" as starred by Virginia Harned. A branch Carnegie library in Lincoln Park must not eventuate in the removal of Abraham Lincoln's statue there. It is the mecca of the race. Miss Gertrude Curtis of Washington, D. C., spent Sunday, Feb. I, 1903, in Baltimore, Md., the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Jennison and Dr. A. M. Mitehell. Elder Lewis C. Sheafe, the seven day Adventist, will address the Odd Fellows Lyceum, Sunday, February 15th, at three o'clock p.m. Subject—"The Power of One Man." Judge Robert H. Terrell addressed --- the Epworth League of Mount Zion M. E. Church, last Sunday on "Abrabam Lincoln." The address was an able analysis of the life and character of the great Emancipator. Prof. L. D. Moore's Pedagogical Course at the Howard University is growing in popularity. Prof. Geery of the McKinley Manual Training School, lectures at the University Monday evenings from 8 to 9. His subject is "English." Mr. Thomas W. Allan, an orator of eloquence, will address the Epworth League of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, 29th Street, Sunday, February 22nd, on "George Washington," the day being given over to an observance of his birthday. Exercises begin at 4:30 p. m. Dr. A. M. Curtis and wife have returned from their long and lead jour to San Francisco, Cal., to attend the sick bed and later the funeral of Mrs. Hargro, an aunt of Mrs. Curtis. Mrs. Curtis was her beneficiary, to whom almost everything was left Mr. W. F. Fonvielle. a graduate of Livingstone College, Salisbury, N. C.. and now serving in the U. S. Railway Mail Service, was in the city Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Mr. Fonvielle is best known as a contributor to the Star of Zion and the A. M.E Zion Quarterly. Rev. and Mrs. P. A. Scott of Oil City, Pa., celebrated their twelfth anniversary, February 12th, at Brown's Chapel in that city. Rev. Scott is one of the coming young divines of his church and has made a high place for himself in the esteem of the best people of Oil City. He has the congratulations and best wishes of this paper. Mr. Wm. Ward, Gunner's Mate of the U. S Navy, has presented Messrs. Gaekins and Gains a unique silk handmade flag. It is termed, "the growth of our flag, and shows the six different flags of the United States, beginning from the first flag and coming down to our present stars and stripes. It was made in Nagasackie, Japan. It is a most unique and valuable present. The Board of Education saw fit to drop a fourth grade teacher in our public schools last week. The lady in question has been in the service for a number of years and gave excellent satisfaction up to the time of her dismissal. The cause grew out of a controversy over salary, which resulted in bitter exchange of words. Iusubordination was the charge put at her door. A L. Lucas who has been at the Capitol for twenty four years and is valuable as a veteran in the service is full of reminiscences and counts his friends by the score. He is popular alike with both republicans and democrats and has attended every Congressional funeral excepting possible four for some twenty years. He is a prime favorite with those who have the honor of his acquaintance. Mr. R. W. Thompson, for some time connected with The Colored American and the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, goes to Tuskegee, Ala., today, to become Assistant Private Secretary to Dr. Booker T. Washington. It is a position for which he is eminently fitted, and congenial to his tastes Dr. Washington and Mr. Scott will find Mr. Thompson a valuable man from every point of view. The students of the several Departments of Howard University have united in a Special Memorial Service to the late Frederick Douglass under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A., to be held in the Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel, Sunday, Feb. 15th, at 3:32 P. M. Dr. Stanford Refuses English Pastorate. The Wilberforce Memorial Church, Birmingham, England. over which Rev. P. Thomas Stanord, vice-president of Christ's Medical and Theological College. presided for eight years, has called him to the pastorate again The doctor in his reply urged them to take a white pastor, because he said J. REV. P. THOMAS STANFORD. Baltimore. Md. the man who could do the pastoral work of that church among white people in England would be of greater services among his own race here in America. It is said the doctor was offered 220 pounds and manes, which means in American money, about $1, 100 a year, house and servants. The doctor is now in Boston attending to his Institutional Work for Friendless Girls and Children and doing a piece of racial work which will be made public in a few days.—Afro-American Ledger. LATE LOCALS, Miss Helen Bell, one of the city's most accomplished vocalists entertained a few of her friends at her 10th St. residence on Thursday evening last. The money sharks received another solar plexus blow recently. Employees of the District government may no longer hypothecate their monthly salaries. Lindsey Brooks is another aspirant for fame of the Dorsey Foultz variety. He has been playing hid-and-seek with the local courts and police since New Year's eve. Some of the city's up to date ministers should have made the effort to have General Booth, leader of the Salvation Army, address a great Negro meeting during his visit to Washington. 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I 2 Gotham NOTES COLORED AMERICAN DIONYSIUS III The South keeps some of its thugs and bullies at home, and sends its trained phrase-makers North, to condone and defend the iniquities which make its name a byword and a hissing among the civilized and christianized people of the world. Like the Jesuits of the Roman Catholic Church, these representatives of the South are everywhere present; in the North and whenever their peculiar civilization is attacked they are ready with plausible (?) explanations and excuses for white deviltry) at the South. One of these missionaries recently took Dr. Parkhurst to task for referring to the southern people as barbarians. The reference was not misapplied, but this defender of southern customs and methods of dealing with Negroes, thought it was and said so, offering in explanation of the acts of barbarism complained of by Dr. Parkhurst, that "they were inevitable in certain atrocious crimes, because of the emotions of human nature." "He admitted that the grandfather clause in some of the new constitutions is aimed at the blacks and asserted that this policy was due to political conditions and afforded no warrant for Dr. Parkhurst's sweeping declaration that a condition of barbarism exists in the South." The conspiracy against the Negro seems to be systematically organized. The Governor of Georgia, in an eloquent address before the Georgia society, at their banquet in New York City, recently, declared with satanic assurance, "that withholding nothing from any inferior race that may be, or that may hereafter come among our people, in the way of all the essentials of life, liberty and prosperity, and a full meed of justice in all matters relating to their well-being, we should educate our children in the great central thought that the best and most enduring Americanism is founded upon the unyielding rock of Caucasianism. The best way to add to our country's strength is to inculcate lofty ideas of superiority; just as the surest way to encompass our land in doubt, and strife, and gloom, is to encourage low ideas of equality." This brazen utterance was for the benefit of President Roosevelt, whose lofty ideals of constitutional liberty do not find favor at the South just now. This eloquent and highly enlightened missionary from Georgia has thus in a single paragraph told New Yorkers what Georgia and the ten other rebel states think of the Man in the White House at Washington, who in his famous estimate of the worth and value of men to the state has adopted the well-known words of the great Sir Francis Baily who said: "To genius, moral worth, and public service, I render due honor, and I care not whether the claimant to that honor be the son of a President or the son of a peasant, whether he obtained his education at a district school or a university." The Governor of Georgia, it would seem is anxious to organize a superior ity Trust. But he seems to have forgot that in the republic of brains, no one race can have a monopoly of that article. The student of American politics cannot fail to see the motive in the South's insistence upon the suppression of the Negro as a political integer. The continuous and persistent howl for the elimination of the Negro is a THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. part of the Democratic scheme to solidify their party, and to find a northern Democrat—preferably a New Yorker—around whom a solid Democratic party will rally in 1904. If Negroes are permitted any more political right in the South than they now enjoy this will mean a large addition to the majority of the Republican candidate for President, whoever he may be, and the support of more than 449,000 Negro voters in twenty-one states in the North who have seen enough of the South's methods within the past four years to convince them of the wisdom of standing by the Republican party. That there is method in the madness of these "outraged southern gentlemen," who journey to the great northern centres of commerce and business to advise northern Democrats of the needs of the South, and jolly Republican officials with lefthanded compliment and covert suggestions as to their political future, is made clear by the recent eloquent, able but not altogether tactful speech of the Governor of Georgia who seemed to have been laboring under the impression that this world was made for Caesar and his queens. The Governor labored strenuously to lay down the proposition that there is a superior race in this country and that its superiority will be best demonstrated by its ability to suppress weaker or inferior races, as he was pleased to denominate them, and this in the face of a declaration as old as the BRAVE JOHN MITCHELL, JR. Richmond Va Republic itself, viz.: "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America." Either this sentiment does not square with the Governor of Georgia's ideas or his ideas do not square with it. If the honorable and exclusive executive of Georgia is familiar with the history of our constitution, he must have known when he uttered the remarks which, to say the least, do not indicate broad statesmanship, that the Negro had something to do with the making of that instrument and that the "We the people" of the framers of it comprehended the black citizens of the Republic who voted for the delegates in at least five states of the union, who helped to ratify and adopt it. The constitution of the United States is therefore as sacred and dear to the hearts of its Negro citizens, as it is to white citizens of the North and South, who labor under the impression that the Negro has no lot or part in it, and had nothing to do with the making of it. The destiny of the Negro is indissolubly linked to the destiny of the Republic. He has been in evidence as citizen, soldier and sailor—from the revolution to San Juan, and all the Governors of the South, no matter how adroit or elo- quent they may be, cannot now dislodge him from his place in the constitution, though they may succeed temporarily in depriving him of the benefits and privileges which it guarantees to him in common with other citizens. It does not recognize a privileged class it is the exponent of that pure democracy which finds expression in the preamble to the Declaration of Independence, and in the heartsbeats of every honest American who loves justice and equality. If this is to be a government of the people by the people and for the people, then Gov. Terrell's interpretation of constitutional liberty is as narrow as the confines of his state of Georgia, and he manifestly needs a new baptism in true Americanism. Such eloquence as the Georgia Governor indulged in is wasted, when it does not ring true on questions of right, justice, and humanity. It was an eloquent and guardedly worded appeal to the passions of the white race, in which he forgot to remember the constitution of the Negro to the glory and greatness of the white race. Mr. James H. Hayes of Virginia, whose recent utterances before the Afro-American Council meeting held in Washington a short time ago, is coming in for a good deal of denunciation and abuse from Negroes who seem to be frightened to death because what he did not say has excited unfavorable comment in the South. Negroes are like a barometer, and a good many of us are like Judas Iscariot in all except we do not go out and hang ourselves after we have made asses of ourselves. It is a great pity we haven't the courage to take poison or cut our throats after our cowardly attempts to throw down a brave man like Hayes who has the manliness and the daring to look the devil of prejudice and oppression in the face and tell him he's a devil. Mr. Hayes did not say the things he is reported to have, and by the lying press agents, who are in the conspiracy against us. He did say and I endorse every word of it: "I am not an anarchist, I do not believe in killing anybody, yet if necessary stand up for your rights and be killed for standing up. But the oppressing, shooting, murdering, burning, lynching, jim crowing, and disfranchising of the Negro will breed a race of Nat. Turners, and the sword and torch will devastate and dissolve the South." There isn't a manly Negro from Maine to Texas who will not endorse this utterance, and there isn't one of us who has had the iron in our hearts who does not feel that he was justified in making that declaration. It con- contains no threat, it is at once a warning and an appeal for justice and fairness. It is no more incendiary or revolutionary than was Patrick Henry's impassioned "Give me liberty or give me death." The Negro who is not willing to die for liberty, to defend his home and his honor from the assaults of irresponsible mobs is not worthy to have liberty, and he deserves all the bad treatment of which he complains under his breath. White men the world over admire a fighter, they admire courage and have respect for manhood that insists on being respected, but they hate cravens and bootlicks and cringing, crawling creatures, who turn the other cheek and apologise for being Negroes. John Mitchell's bravery in Virginia has done more to inspire respect for Negroes in that state than all the apologetic and conservative utterances of the Negroes in that state on the race question. The white thugs of Virginia have been brought to a realization of the fact that John Mitchell will endeavor to take company with him into the other world whenever he is attacked. We need not be bullies or braggarts anywhere or at any time, but we can always be men if we try. I refuse to join in the denunciation of Mr. Hayes, who has said what many Negroes who fight our battles at long range, have not had the courage to say. He has said what any white man North or South under like conditions would have said, and what his race Continued on third page. HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS THE M'KINLEY HOUSE, 489 Missouri Ave. Near 6 St. First-class accommodations for all. An up-to-date Hotel for colored people. Rooms neatly furnished, linens clean, and prices within reach of all. Meals and Lunches served at all hours. The PORTER : HOUSE ; CAFE 103 6th St., N. W. Wines, liquors and Cigars.—A full line of the choicest liquors, the best brands of cigars and the coolest beer in Washington. BROWN & SMITH, Proprietors. HOTEL CLYDE, 475 MISSOURI AVE, N.W. First-Class Accomodations For Ladies and Gentlemen. Hot and Cold Baths. MRS. ALICE E. HALL, Proprietress. THE SOUTHERN HOTEL, Good board steam heat and electric bells. Home comforts, moderate prices. 311 Pa. 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SIMMS, Prop. 331W.37th St. New York $4.00 •8.00 a day guaranteed to every person sending name and address to the Scott Remed Co Louisville, Ky. Write at once --- aA NOTED WEST VIRGINIAN Kev Wntistoprer 2 soy = Power in the Religious Politi cal and Social Life of the Mining States—His Early Struggles and Triumbhs “Some men are born great, Some achieve it, and Some have greatness thrust upon them.” —Shakespeare. Christopher H. Payne, the son of Thomas and Bathshaba E. Payne was born near the Red Sulphur Springs, in Monroe County, Va., now West Vir- ginia Sept., 7th, 1848. His father died when he was a small child leav- ing the widow and son to fight the battle of life alone. The mother, being a woman of strong character and splendid intellectual endowments, de- voted her energies to rearing and training her son, who was the only child. The boy being brought up on a farm learned much of agriculture and at the same time developed a strong physique, such conditions are always conducive to the best intellectual growth. In Young Payne’s case this was conspicuously true; his early edu- cation was locked after by his mother, who had received some educational advantages herself in early life, being cea: ee = ae J of ae | - Dy _ ge ee" 5S . qa : ; te REV. CHRISTOPHER H. PAYNE. Hubtineton. W- Va. unusually apt in learning he was fitted for teaching school. When the first schools were established after the Civil War in the section where he lived, he was one of the first teachers among his people, and taught success- fully in the counties of Monroe, Mer- cer and Summers, W. Va. In 1876 C. H. Payne entered the ministry and has since that time been constantly engaged in that work, in which he has been very successful. Many church- es and Sunday Schools have been or- ganized by him, both in his own state and in Virginia; several splendid meeting houses have been built under his supervision and leadership. He has also, since 1870, taken active part in every pohtical campaign, sometimes making more than a hun- dred speeches during one campaign, speaking in Kentucky, Missouri, Ohic, W. Virginia, and Virginia. He has represented the 3rd and 4th Congres- sional districts in his state as dele- gate or alternate in four national con- ventions and was the first man of his race to be elected to the legislature of his state, a position which he filled with marked distinction and ability. He spent four years in the Richmond Institute, now the Theological Semin- ary, of Richmond, Virginia, graduating from that school in 1883 with honors; he studied law, and after a rigid ex- amination was admitted to the prac- ‘ice of tht profession, which he did Ter several years very successfully in many of the counties in his state, and in the Federal Courts. Mr. Payne has been for a number of years President of the West Virginia Baptist State Convention, having been reelected each year by acclamation. Several years ago the State University ot Kentucky conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. He has AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D.6 HE COLORED 2 W. ~DO) oe eee AN | been twice married.. From the first] union there were born to = = FLOWS ONLY IN NOVEMB' a {children—four sons and two daugh- iti |ters; from the second marriage there] ©'t Well 1m Kentucky That Sp. ing |S no offspring. Only Once Each Year Is a Puzzi C. H. Payne is a man of real ability, to Oil Men. les strong, both intellectually and morally, 2 —— open and frank, loyal to those who There is an old oil well near Ps support him, and courteous to those] creek, six miles from Barbours\ who oppose him. His work here in| Ky., which is a puzzle to the oil : pon | Huntington, W. Va., has probaly been of the country. The well, which is the most successful of all. Coming] in the middle of thgereek, flows r are. | here less than four years ago, he larly every November, but never found an empty church treasury and any other time of the year. Du wok |Z fistressinly divided church. than | this month it flows at intervals, as succeede 2 A 8 , in} ten thcusand dollars with a church charging: great streams of oil, gas Vir- } membership of less than two hundred salt water, and suddenly stops to ther J and fifty, has led the effort that erec-| 0 more until November comes arc eav-| ted one of the best brick and stone | again. : the | meeting houses in the state, and finish- This strange well was drilled in: sing }ed and occupied the basement of it} on the bank near Payne Creek, by and | Dec. 2. 1902. 7 séttlers. who were after calt w: BIS 1OP SMITH LECTURE. Dr Fie'ch r Writs of the Negroes of Aniquity and Otrer Dark Races—The Eminen: Chur h- man in Error. Editor The Colored American: I notice an article, clipped from the New Orleans Times-Democrat, under the caption: “Hayes Answered— Bishop Smith replies to the Incendiary Speech.” I regret that such words should come from a Bishop, whose forefathers less than fifty years ago, in his own state were not allowed to hold a public meeting, wathout some white man attending to keep the Negroes in slavery. The Bishop re- member, out of one blood, God created all nations of the earth, one heaven— one hell. Should the Bishop make heaven he will find all nations; should he make the other place, ditto. No white man can be president of the United States without the black man’s votes. He has as much rmght in the White House as any other voter, regardless of race or previous condi- tions. There was a time when the golden rule prevailed; now we have the silver rule—do others before they do you. The Bishop claims that when the Negroes came to this country they had no_ religion. Shame, shame, shame! Bishop consult Psalm 87th chapter, 3rd and 4th verses. The Ne- groes were the first civilized nations of the earth over five thousand years before they came to this county the Black Knight’s daughter educated Moses, the leader of the Jews. Jethro- the Black Princess of Media gave Moses his black daughter for a wife. He also arranged the laws and courts, judges, etc., that Blackstone the Eng- lish law giver, was founded upon. When Christ came to earth, Simon, a black man was the first to greet him. When Christ fainted under the weight of cross the black man came to his rescue. King Solomon, who built the house of the Lord, and organized the Free Mason Society was a colored man. The Queen cf Sheba, who donated four million dollars to build the first house of the Lord was a colored woman. Still he, Bishop Smith, would have the southern white black man-eaters, be- lieve we are the offsprings of heathens. If anything we have too much religion. What are we to do, vote for the white man‘ and stay home until the next election. The Chinese, the Japanese, the Indians, the Italians, the Irish and everybody who fought against the flag is welcome. The black man never did, he is not welcome; “but must go way back and sit down.” No not for mine nor the black voters of New Jersey. Our votes count and we endorse any- thing for the good of the race. G. HOWARD FLETCHER. A voter and Tax Payer. 1910 Artic Avenue, Atlantic City, N. J. | Another and probably the last of the Old Guard who battled for the righis of the Negro and for the passage of the constitutional amendments, has gone to his reward, in the person of ex-Senator Henry L. Dawes, of Massa- chusetts. A Negro daily paper will shortiy be started in Memphis, Tennessee. FLOWS ONLY IN NOVEMBI O11 Well in Kentucky That Spouts Only Once Each Year Is a Puzzle te Oil Men. There is an old oil well near Payne creek, six miles from Barboursville, Ky., which is a puzzle to the oil mep of the country. The well, which is now in the middle of thgereek, flows regu- larly every November, but never at any other time of the year. During this month it flows at intervals, dis- charging great streams of oil, gas and salt water, and suddenly stops to flow no more until November comes around again. * This strange well was drilled in 1840 on the bank near Payne Creek, by old settlers, who were after salt water. from which to obtain their salt. The machinery used at that date was of the erudest nature, yet the drillers suc ceeded in getting down 450 feet when te their astonishment and dismay, they struck an immense stream of oil which fiowed for days and weeks. In the course of time the bed of the ereek changed, until, at this day, it flows over the top of the old well Since then during every Novemer the water over and around the hole boils up through the force of escaping gas As far back as the people in the neighborhood can recollect the well has made these annual eruptions. This | year the disturbance came somewhat earlier than usual, attracting more than ordinary attention, owing, doubt less, to the fact that oil men are oper- ating in that section of the country. At times during the recent eruption wa ter and oil have been thrown up fully 50 feet. GROWTH OF OUR IRON TRADE. The Output of This Country Now Ex. ceeds That of Germany and England Together. The development of the iron industry of the United States has been marked with surprises. From complete de- pendence upon the old werld the coun. try has leaped to a preeminence sc complete that even its rivais believe and tremble. In the great railroad building period of 1870-2 England furnished the rails and other materials at prices two o1 three times above those which are now deemed abnormally high. Then Eng land produced three times as much iron and steel as the United States Since then Germany has challenged the supremacy of Great Britain and passed her in a decade of remarkable growth And yet in the current year 1902 the United States of America will produce more iron than Engiand and Germany combined. Indeed, there is a margip of excess to spare about equal to the product of France. If we add to this statement another fact, says the Engineering Magazine that even this vast product is not suf- ficient for home requirements and that the United States is to-day, in spite of a stiff tariff, the best customer in iron and steel that Europe has, credulity is taxed to the limit. CIGARS FORCED UPON HIM. One Reason Why General Grant Be- came Sach an Incessant Smoker. A reason can generally be found for everything. 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The play, which is melodramatic, abounds in startling attractions and maintains interest throughout. The opening scene, the slave auction, is one of the strongest and most realistic in the play. The scenes from camp life during the war and the closing scene gave an excellent opportunity for individual talent to be displayed. Clothilde is a great contrast to previous efforts at plays in Denver, being serious and having a plot dealing with the sterner side of life. The reception which the play received was entirely complimentary and much applause given. The star parts played by Miss Davis and Mr. Young were all that could be expected. The other characters, while creditable as a whole were in some cases of a high order, in others amateurish. Clothilde is deserving of a place in the history of Denver's entertainment because of its being the most successful melo-drama given here thus far. The cast is as follows: Cast of Characters. Clothilde, Tricky Jim, Henrietta Davis; Basil Knott, a slave, Mr. Albert Young; Gen. Martindale, an officer in the Union army, Mr. W. H. Houston; Courtney Knott, the young master, Mr. Emmett Webster; Col. Knott, the old master, Mr. H. B. Moore; Gen. Hardy, an officer in the Confederate army, Mr. E. S. Andrews; Uncle Billy " slave, Mr. Frank King; Rastus Johnson, a slave Mr. David Gray; Sam Mason, a slave, Mr. J. Berni Barbour; Jacques Teson, auctioneer, Mr. Albert Young; Jesse Lafon, Mr. Robt. Beatty; Sergeant in the Union army, Mr. H. Reed; Guard at the Confederate fort, Mr. A. E. Pullam; Aunt Mandy, s slave, "one of the Knotts," Mrs. M. Clementine Travick; Mrs. Knott, wife of Col. Knott, Mrs. J. R. Contee; Miss Ruth Lamar, afflianced of Courtney Knott, Miss Mattie Overton; Aunt Caroline, friend of Aunt Mandy, Mrs. H. V. Ray; Clorinda, a slave, Mrs. L. . A. Peach; Ma'am Pordee, a creole coffee seller, Miss Ida Young; Ma'am Brisson, a creoele coffee seller, Mrs. S. C. Rogers; Miss Angie, the afflianced of Rastus Johnson, Miss Ida Young; Citizens, slaves and soldiers. Mrs. Ida Hines. Mr. J. Berni Bar. bour, and Miss Jessie Nickens in duett, Miss Buchanan in solo, and others will appear in special numbers in the reception scene in the last act. Executive Staff.—Business manager, Mrs. H. V. Ray; Musical director, Mrs. L. A. Peach; Stage manager, Mr. Albert Young; Harris Orchestra, J. C. Harris, Leader. Prologue.—French Market scene in New Orleans. Time 1859. Auction sale of Clothilde and other slaves. Act I.—The Knott plantation in Kentucky. Clothilde given as a present to Mrs. Knott. Clothilde resents the advances of Courtney Knott the young master. Basil's vow. Act II.—Three years later. The Kentucky Home a military headquarters. Col. Knott made a prisoner in his own house. "You may be in command, but I am mistress here, sir!" The midnight attack. Clothilde disguised as Tricky Jim aids Basil to escape. Act III.—Park in Washington, D. C. Time 1865. Meeting of Basil and Clothilde. Act IV.—Return to Our Old Kentucky Home of Basil and Clothilde. Reception tendered them by Aunt Mandy and Uncle Billy. It will be surprising news to the legions of friends of Bruce Grit (John E. Bruce), that he is the author of Clothilde, and that he wrote it for Miss Davis some years ago. Bruce is a versatile genius, and as a scholar and thinker he is well near the top. He is an encyclopedia of information, a veritable store-house of knowledge, and grinds out copy like a machine. He is a practical journalist, a political seer, and a master in his judgment of men and measures. The race is proud to claim a man of Mr. Bruce's calibre and wisdom. INTERNATIONAL IN SCOPE THE COLORED AMERICAN, Washington, is the only Negro journal of its kind published. It is not only national, with a touch of the local, but is international in scope. 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"The operation mentioned above had been suggested some time ago, and at the conclusion of the lecture Dr. Boyd was prevailed upon to remain and take charge of it he, however, returning to his Nashville home to-day, since the operation resulted successfully." GOTHAM'S COLORED LAWYERS. New York, N. Y., Special.—Counsellor Alfred C. Cowan, of 206 Broadway, obtained a reversal of the conviction of his client, General G. Staton, upon the charge of secreting and otherwise disposing of certain household furniture upon which there was a lien, in violation of Section 571 of the Penal Code. The case was tried before the Special Session Court of the Second Department, on December 17th, 1902, and Staton was found guilty and sentenced to a term of three months in the Kings' County Jail. The evidence showed that Staton bought $62.50 worth of goods from one Isaac Mason, in May 1902, on the installment plan. He had paid $5.00 on the delivery of goods, and agreed to pay $1.00 per week afterwards. He was ahead in his payments. He made a payment of $2.00 on the 6th day of December, and notified the said Mason that he had sent the goods to his wife in Gildsboro, North Carolina, and on the 8th of December Mason secured a warrant for his, Staton's arrest, and he was held for the Special Session. Mr. Cowan obtained a Writ of Habeas Corpus returnable on the 18th, and it was brought on before His Honor, Mr. Justice Maddox, and was dismissed. Mr. Cowan proceeded with his appeal and the Appellate Division handed down its opinion on January 30th, 1903, in which it held that there was no criminal intent on the part of defendant, and Mr. Cowan secured his client's discharge on the 4th inst., by the Special Sessions Court. The important feature of the case is that the Statute does not provide or make it a misdemeanor to remove the property unless there is other elements which show an intent to defraud and cheat the mortgagee out of the value of the property. The appeal was taken upon the word "removed." * * * In the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, William Jordan, obtained $2,000 damage for personal injuries renewed on the 29th of July 1902. Counsellor Alfred C. Cowan, 206 Broadway, N. Y. City, was the proctor for Jordan in admiralty. SHREDS AND PATCHES. A Negro daily paper will shortly be started in Memphis, Tennessee. Over seven thousand colored children attend the public schools of Oklahoma. The Liberian government has just given $25,000 to foster commerce with this country. Negroes are now employed for the first time as ticket-takers on the Manhattan Elevated Railroad in New York City. In 1892 there were 235 lynchings throughout the country. In 1902 there were but 96, of which the Negro race furnished 86 victims. John S. Nobles, said to have been a law graduate of Howard University, died recently at Honolulu, Hawaiin Islands leaving no estate and no known relatives. Georgia Negroes own $15,188,069 of property, real, personal and mixed, and it is claimed that in no other state does the race make such a magnificent showing. Hon. James M. Moody, one of the few southern Republican members of the present house, died at his home in Waynesville, North Carolina, on Thursday of last week. Banks continue to be established by colored men. Two recent enterprises of this character—one at Vicksburg, Miss., and the other at Little Rock, Arkansas. In the issue of The Progress, a live race journal of Omaha, Nebraska, for the 31st ult., there are nineteen advertisements on a single page, of colored industrial enterprises. A colored minister Rev. W. M. McGill is an applicant for appointment as few Southern Republican members, of the present house, died at his home in Chaplain of the United States Senate. Gainesville, Florida, received Prof. Washington with a most cordial greeting and an immense audience of both blacks and whites gave him respectful attention. 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The enemies of Dr. Washington while few in number, have been indulging in such vociferous declamation and flamboyant oratory as to cause some of the uninformed to believe that a terrible storm was brewing against the man and his work. The meetings held here recently have served a useful purpose despite the fact that an opportunity has been given for "hot air" specialists to further misrepresent the cause of industrial education and to vent their spleen upon one who has been successful along the lines essential to solid race progress. These meetings have aroused the passive friends of Dr. Washington, and shown them that an insidious falsehood unchallenged and uncorrected may pass for the truth, and confuse the popular mind as to the value of a work that should really need no defense. Almost invariably, the supporters of Dr. Washington are men of character and substance. They embody the cream of the business, professional and social classes of every community. Frequently these people are too deeply engrossed in their personal affairs to attend gatherings where Dr. Washington's philosophy is called into question, while the misguided opposition is sure to be on hand, armed cap-a-pie, eager and ready for an affray into which public-spirited men and women shrink from entrance. It is no less a fact that the friends of Dr. Washington have little time for the cultivation of the gifts of oratory or disputation and the voluble doothings, after frothing at the mouth throughout the evening, go off and write up the occasion in a prejudiced newspaper as a victory over the teachings of the Tuskegee educator. The two meetings, one at the Second Baptist Lyceum, and before Bethel Literary and Historical Association, were instructive in correcting several erroneous impressions concerning Dr. Wash- --- ington, and pointed out the true worth of his propaganda and its beneficial effect upon the future of the race. Petty charges relative to his position on jim crow cars and southern constitutions were riddled, and from his own language and tangible results, the value of his work in developing character, material holdings, practical qualification for the duties of life, and his sympathy with the highest aspirations of his people were faithfully brought out. Beyond the little coterie of fanatics, dreamers and illusionists in and about Boston, we do not take it that there is any considerable antagonism to Dr. Washington. The venom behind the Boston Guardian's opposition is entirely neutralized by the brutality of the assaults upon him and his family, and now that the cloven-hoof has been shown to the country, the puerile charges of William Monroe Trotter, George Washington Forbes, William H. Ferris and the rest of the crowd, are taken as a matter of course and with a whole handful of salt. There is no principle underlying the Guardian's attitude and the natural instinct of our people for fair play, revolts against such a display of crass meanness. The Guardian will go the way of all the earth when Trotter spends as much money as he can afford to throw away on a fool's errand, and realizes that the sober, common-sense of the country is against him and his confederates. The paper is printed in a white office, and is in no sense a Negro enterprise, beyond supplying a new channel for our accumulations of money to flow into a white man's pocket, while performing the disreputable work of trying to pull down a powerful man of our own. As for "Prof." Ferris, who has raised something of a stir here for a season, his personality does not enter the equation. He is only putty in the hands of his masters, and has failed to impress our city with aught else save his incompetency to deal broadly with a question of logic and philosophy, and has simply wearied the patience of friendly-disposed persons who regret to see a young man of some promise, frittering away in useless strife, talent that should be more worthily employed. The Colored American is not content to have it reported to the world by irresponsible "organs" and less responsible "orators" that the capital city of the nation, with its wealth, culture and education, is opposed to the necessary and fundamental principles advocated by Dr. Booker T. Washington. The real people are with him. Dr. Crum should be confirmed by the republican majority in the United States Senate. He is all right. SHALL WE HAVE ANOTHER BANK? The failure of one colored bank does not mean that we should not have others. Because one pair of shoes hurts a man's feet, he should not go barefooted the rest of his life. We are reliably informed that since the failure of the Capital Savings Bank, a number of our people are withdrawing their patronage from colored men in business, especially along the line of the legal profession. Such a course is neither wise nor right. If a white bank fail the banking business is not boycotted by white people among themselves nor white men in the business; they simply get rid of the wreck, while the business goes on, under new auspices and in new hands, it may be. This is just what our people ought to do. The stockholders in the deficient institution should get together, and instead of transferring their property, they should mortgage it, and raise a certain percentage of the depositors' money and thereby effect a settlement with them by compromise. This will enable some other competent and worthy gentlemen of the race to found one or two banks here among, and for the benefit of colored people. Nothing would do more to regain public confidence among ourselves than such steps; it would also tend to relieve the innocent sufferers from a most deplorable result with which they had nothing to do with bringing about. There are some causes in which it is better to attempt to stand even though we may be weighted down, than to attempt to run away only to be shot down through the back. A hint to the wise is sufficient. "The prayers of the righteous availeth much." LET US REASON. Our able contemporary, The Southwestern Christian Advocate, New Orleans, in its last issue, contains a timely and pertinent editorial under the caption, "Incendiary Utterances Should Not Be Made By Either Race." After quoting certain utterances alleged to have been made by Lawyer Hayes, of Richmond, at a public meeting in Washington recently; the Advocate in the course of its remarks says: "These utterances by Mr. Hayes have called forth some extremely fierce denunciations from certain Southern papers. They condemn what he is accredited with, saying saying, which is to be expected; but their replies are for the most part as wild and bitter as are his words. It all reminds us of an incident which occurred in the bitterest of the respectable southern dailies published in this city. It not only lets no opportunity pass to belabor the Negro and present him to its readers as a despised and hopeless being, but seems to make opportunities for such. "As for Mr. Hayes' remarks, we do not approve them. We do not approve them coming from him any more than we do when statements of a similar character are made by white men. We do not sympathize with his view, but we do sympathize with the man." So say we all. While Mr. Hayes is being abused by white people and press, and black people and press, it is nevertheless true that he has not said one-tenth of what the white editors and orators say in the South every day, which does twenty-fold as much to stir up friction and bad blood between the races. It is time the white papers in the South advise moderation among southerners, in order that they may cease to furnish so many examples of hot blooded utterances for colored men like Mr. Hayes to initiate. It is in emergencies that we find out where our friends are. A Negro can be praised by white men and still be loyal to his race. Nothing succeeds like success—and nothing is half so bitterly assailed. Those in the right may be staggered at times, but they cannot be "downed." Booker T. Washington is the friend of every aspiring young man in the country. Noise is no satisfactory substitute for argument when facing an intelligent audience. The best friend of a man is he who is not afraid to stand up and be counted when an attack is made. Who of us would be too proud to proud to visit the White House, if invited there to counsel with the President? It is half the battle to know the line of attack pursued by the enemy. We learn by knowing the resources of the opposition. A lie well-stuck-to and a false report unchallenged, frequently pass for the truth, and yet its a big job to nail all the small lies. No greater mistake has been made by our people than to attempt to array against each other the two essential educational systems—trained heads and trained hands. The estimate placed upon a cause by Theodore Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie and William H Badwin, can be relied upon as safely as that set forth by the Trotters, Ferrises, and Forbeses. Booker T. Washington is not a politician. He is a statesman of the high- est type, and is correct in saying that the duty of the educator is not done when it falls short of instructing the race in the loftiest ideals of citizenship. No sensible property-holder will tear a house down because there is upon it a defective shingle. He repairs the leaky place and uses his other material to build up another house. A man who has a single fault should be counselled with—not destroyed. THE NEW CONSTITUTION BUSINESS Unthinking Negroes have indulged in much twaddle lately over the remarksof Prof. Washington anent the effect of the New Constitutions of the South upon the Negro race. Yet the Proffessor enunciates no new proposition. All friends of the race know that its first duty is to eliminate the overpowering mass of ignorance which is at once our most prominent fault and the cause of so many of our woes. Tus keegeeis the exponent of our dire needs. Every institution for the uplifting of our race, whether upon industrial lines or in the higher paths of polite learning suggests the insistent demands of the race for the requirements with which to fight the real battle of life. The Negro is a thinker. He was taken into himself the important truth that he is handicapped in "life's broad field of battle" by his unfamiliarity with our non possession of the instruments with which the white man has compelled his own destiny. These new constitutions do put a premium upon intelligence and thrift. There is no gainsaying the proposition. Our leaders should recognize the fact. They should not sit down supinely and nurse imaginary wrongs. That is the coward's act. The enemy must be fought with his own weapon. The Colored American has called repeated attention to the failure of the new constitution of Maryland to eliminate the Negro as a political factor. Yet we know how the Negro and his friends in Maryland made the enemy's scheme abortive. Every hamlet was made a school, every cross road a college for the instruction of the race. This course should be repeated throughout the South and the enemies of the race should be taught the terror of the ballot wielded by the an intelligent constituency. The Colored American is a newspaper and not the organ of a cique or the mouthpiece of an individual. It looks as if Dr. Crum is to be slaughtered in the house of his friends. Republicans should not be recreant to their duty. It looks like Jim Tillman will get his just deserts for killing Editor Gonzales The New York World is soliciting subscriptions thought the newspaper world with which to prosecute him. The Negro is holding his own in the proffessions In the practice of medicine he is breaking the record Physicians like Dr, D. W. Williams of Illinois, R F Boyd of Tennessee and others of their ilk are setting the pace. Mr. Addicks makes the latest move in the Delaware Senatorial situation. There are nearly ten thousand Negro votes, in this little pocket borough and throughout this controversy, exending over fourteen years, the race has not been heard from. THE COLOR AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. A MISSIONARY TALK ustom of Japan e and Ohr R Race of the Far East Df cu sed Bfoae h Sud n's of Princess Anne Acad my Princess Anne, Md., Special.—The faculty and students of the Academy were most highly and pleasantly entertained Saturday evening, the 7th inst., by President J. O. Spencer, of Morgan College, who gave one of his most interesting lectures, along with the stereoptical views of the Island of Ceylon, India, and Japan. While the scenes were most pleasing and interesting, he also gave a most beautiful and glowing description of the customs and habits and living of the Japanese. Among the many things he spoke of them as being the greatest agriculturists and floriculturists in the world. The writer was much interested with the description he gave of the naval vessel all rigged with her men at their station and everything ready for action the entire thing being made of flowers which shows the artistic skill of the gardner of Japan. He says this is not a recent skill given those people, but it has been handed down from generation to generation, in fact it is hereditary. He cited an incident where he became an invited guest of one of the Japanese families, how, before entering the door, he had toleave his shoes on the outside and enter in his bare feet, and then was most courteously invited to rest on the soles of his feet, which is their custom of sitting, but as he said, is very tiresome to an American, should he be able to get himself in such position at all. Next came the dinner, which lasted some four or five hours with him still in this position; he says he became very uncomfortable, but we congratulate the doctor upon being able to walk at all after being in such shape. About twelve courses were served during dinner, one being a live raw fish being brought in and sliced and served, which is a very favored dish with the Japanese, but the Dr. says he will always take his broiled hereafter. We sat for about thirty minutes and drank down the rich food as it flowed from the doctor's lips like sweet honey from COL. AMERICAN hours we could have listened with ease and wished for the time to have been longer. It is a grand treat as well as an education to have such men, who have spent so many years in the foreign mission lands as Dr. Spencer. The Academy was the recipient of a visit from three distinguished gentlemen who were lecturers at the Farmers Institute, near this place. They gave stirring and instructive speeches which the students and all the faculty enjoyed. They told how their fathers were interested in the delivery of the slaves and of their delight at seeing the old slaves' off-spring striving to fit themselves for usefulness in the development of their race. The Academy is frequented by distinguished visitors every week. The body of Mr. James Morris was brought home from Wilmington, Del., the 3rd inst., for interment. Rev. M. H. Horsey officiated. Next week is quarterly conference at the A. M. E. Zion Church. Mrs. Cyrus Sinclair was the guest of her mother and sister, Mrs. Mary F. Gale, and Mrs. Addie Jones, this week. Mrs. Sinclair is a resident of Cambridge, Md., where her husband does a big butchering business. Miss Hulette E. Morris, second assistant in the public school is a lover of children and a master of her situation. The principal is much pleased with her work. NO ES FRO... YONK' R. Dr. H. W. Armistead, of Henderson, Ky., ex-president of the Kentucky Medical Society of Colored Physicians and Surgeons, and one of the most prominent as well as successful practitioners in that state, will deliver the address on February 26th, in Nashville, Tenn., at the Meharry commencement. Dr. Armistead is a graduate of that institution and with his career has increased the fame of his alma mater. Yonkers, N. Y., Special.—The revival the Messiah Baptist Church. They will have baptism on February 8th, at 3:30 o'clock p. m. On Thursday, February 5th, Prof. Wm. Lindsay, of Newark, N. J., gave a musical entertainment at the A. M. E. Zion Church, which was greatly enjoyed by the audience. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, of Mount Vernon, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Bundick, of ones Place. Mrs. F. J. Moultrie, of Warburton Avenue, is quite sick with the grippe. Mrs. A. Q. Thornton and Mrs. Thos. Mason, visited friends in Brooklyn on Friday last. Mrs. S. Thomas, of North Broadway, whose hand was very severey burned several weeks ago is now much improved. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Conick, Jr., attended a private dance in New York city on Tuesday evening of last week. Mr. C. E. Conick, Sr., left for California to-day to be gone for several weeks. Mr. M. J. Chesum the well-known elocationist, of New York City spent Sunday in Yonkers, the guest of the Hon. JJohn E. Bruce, of New Main Street. BROWN GRIT, JR. PROF. COUNCIL DID NOT CALL MEETING. The news sent out by the Birmingham papers connecting Prof. W. H. Councill with some meeting which is PROT. W. L. COUNCIL to take place in May in reference to affairs in the South is erroneous. Prof. Councill has not been able to attend to any business for many weeks and is now in the Seventh Day Adventist Sanitarium, at Nashville, Tenn., for treatment. He knows nothing about this meeting, and has never authorized anybody to use his name in connection therewith and has never been consulted about it. I am quite sure that he is interested in everything for the unification of the races in the South, and the common interest of all, but he knows nothing of this meeting. S. L. MABIN, Secretary D. Book r Washington and His Critics For the Colored American. Wou'd the moon extinguish the sun? The trial ends soon! Of the twain in the conflict, there's left but one. Ah, foolish moo ! Would the barn-fowl strive with the eagle to vie? Envious bird! I's weak puerile flutterings brings tears to the eve. They're so absurd. Would pigmies presume 'gainst giants to prevail? Banish the thought! Let them rather seek strength from whom they assail; By them be taught! RICHARD E. S. TOOMEY. LITTLE COLORED AMERICANS. Paul Lawrence Dunbar has lately been visiting in Kansas City, Missouri. J. Milton Turner looms up a most formidable candidate for Chief Commissioner of the race's exhibit at St. Louis. SAVED BY PE-RU-NA REV. H. STUBENVOLL Rev. H. Stubenvoll, of Elkhorn, Wis., is pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran St. John's Church of that place. Rev. Stubenvoll is the possessor of two bibles presented to him by Emperor William of Germany. Upon the fly leaf of one of the bibles the Emperor has written in his own handwriting a text. This honored pastor, in a recent letter to The Peruna Medicine Co., of Columbus, Ohio, says concerning their famous catarrh remedy, Peruna: The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio. Gentlemen: "I had hemorrhages of the lungs for a long time, and all despaired of me. I took Peruna and was cured. It gave me strength and courage, and made healthy, pure blood. It increased my weight, gave me a healthy color, and I feel well. It is the best medicine in the world. If everyone kept Peruna in the house it would save many from death every year."---H. STUBENVOLL. Gentlemen: "I had hemorrhages of the lungs for a long time, and all despaired of me. I took Peruna and was cured. It gave me strength and courage, and made healthy, pure blood. It increased my weight, gave me a healthy color, and I feel well. It is the best medicine in the world. If everyone kept Peruna in the house it would save many from death every year."---H. STUBENVOLL. Thousands of people have catarrh who would be surprised to know it, because it has been called some other name than catarrh. The fact is catarrh is catarrh wherever located; and another fact which is of equally great importance, is that 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, O. into the educational and economic facilities of the race. The Senate Committee on Education and Labor has ordered a favorable report on the bill. DELIGHTED WITH OUR STORY. 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 rovally 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., Over seven thousand colored children attend the public schools of Oklahoma. --- Thousands of people have catarrh who would be surprised to know it, because it has been called some other name than catarrh. The fact is catarrh is catarrh wherever located; and another fact which is of equally great importance, is that Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. Andrew Carnegie does not confine his benefactions to his own race. Not long since he made a substantial gift to Tuskegee. The Colored Young Men's Christian Association which died a much regretted death here a few years ago, should be resurrected. Alabama Lily-Whites have at length seen the handwriting on the wall and are now preparing their own dish of Crow. Roosevelt is inevitable. The Cincinnati Enquirer has recently published a highly complimentary article on Howard University, and its esteemed President, Dr. Rankin. Judge Emory Speer, of Georgia, is one southern white man who recognizes the wrongs of the Negro and his position gives him opportunity for practical sympathy. Senator McLaurin, of South Carolina, makes a plausible excuse for postponing consideration of the Crum case. He, however, evades the main and only questions as to the doctor's capacity and honesty. One more step forward is reported in the matter of the proposed inquiry P. D. R.