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The COLORED American Library of Congress A NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER VOL. IX. NO. 44 BRUCE GRITS MELANGE BRUCE GRITS MELANGE SOME BIBLICAL RESEARCHES ON THE SANITY OF CAIN. The Career of Wm D. Crum and Som Antecedents-Methods of S ern Editors-The Antiquity of The gro and The Faith of Living Chris s- Notes It is not purpose to start a discussion on the question I am about to ask, still I am going to ask it nevertheless notwithstanding, religiously disclaiming any intention (even if it were possible), to destroy existing theology or to shake the foundations of human faith, in the inspired word. In chapter IV of the Book of Genesis, 14th verse occur these words: Behold thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass that everyone that findeth me shall slay me." The passage is familiar to Bible students, the language is that of Cain, uttered after he had murdered his brother Abel, whose offering had been more acceptable to God than his own. What did Cain mean by saying "Everyone that findeth me shall lay me?" Was that the language of a man in his senses? Can a man be slain in the sense in which we understand the word more than once? Does not the expression indicate that Cain was insane when he uttered it? and if we admit that he was, was he guilty of murder? If Cain was not sane at the moment of killing Abel the stain of murder must be wiped from his brow. His declaration that: "Everyone that findeth me shall slay me," seems to be conclusive evidence that the man was as crazy as a "loon," and therefore was not morally responsible for his act, according to the ethics of the law and the verdict of modern juries. The New York Herald of Friday last, in an article of more than a half column tells some interesting news about the family of Dr. Crum, who has been made famous by his appointment of Collector of the Port of Charleston, South Carolina. His brother, Henry D. Crum, who is carriage man for Thorley, the famous New York florist, says: Our father owned a plantation in Orangeburg, S. C., there the children were born, five sons and two daughters, all living except Julius. The family owned forty-three Negro slaves all of whom scattered when the war broke out. The Crum boys were too young to fight, so they staid on the old plantation till the war closed, Henry D., came North, and found work in the hotels, all the brothers made an agreement to help William get an education, and they worked and sent him to school, and stood by him WASHINGTON, D.C., FEBRUARY 28. 1903. MEN OF THE HOUR [Image of a man seated in an ornate chair, wearing a suit and a hat, with a serious expression on his face. The background is dark and indistinct.] A. MR THEODORE DRURY, New York's Premier Thespian and Barytone. till he had finished his education. Henry D., doesn't think much of politics and says he has advised his brother William to drop politics and stick to his profession. Of course he's proud of him, who wouldn't be of such a brother? The Herald didn't make much of its interview, with Henry D. Crum. Of course he said he wasn't in favor of his brother being in politics, and the Herald put that line in tolerably good sized letters. Still Dr. Crum is in politics up to his ears and he couldn't get out now if he tried. I don't think politics will hurt him. He knows a few things about the game, and he will ultimately be confirmed by a republican Senate. It takes a little time to beat the devil of prejudice. A little patience and sweet oil generally does the trick. The Herald is the organ of the enemies of the Negro, North and South, before the War, and during the War of the Rebellion it was on the side of the secret enemies of the Union—the Knights of the Golden Circle. It gave THE BEST OF THE WORLD aid and comfort editorially to the men who were spewing out treason against the Federal government. It was just as busy then as it is now in its efforts to stir up bad feeling between the forces of evil and error, and the forces of right and justice. The Herald is sensational, crafty, and cunning. Some months ago it placed at the head of its editorial column the names of Theodore Roosevelt and George Dewey, as its candidates for President and Vice-President in 1904. When the President wrote his famous letter to Ex-Congressman Hemphill, and others in S. C., giving his reasons for nominating Dr. Crum, the Herald took down the name of the distinguished American, and opened fire on the administration openly and covertly, and permitted others North and South to air their views on the President's Negro Policy. This journalistic shuttlecock is still yawping—others are yawping about Continued on third page. PRICE, FIVE CENTS ' NEGROES LEFT OU ' ' NEGROES LEFT OU ' THEY ARE NOT TO BE REP RESENTED AT ST LOUIS Protests and Petitions From Leading Colored Men in The South and Great Southwest Against The Action of the Commissioners of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition An open letter to Afro-Americans relative to the ignoring of 17,000,000 Negroes under the American flag, by the Commissioners of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, to take place in St. Louis, Mo., in 1904... To you, the question is, "To be or not to be." Since it has become a patent fact that the forthcoming Exposition to be held in St. Louis, Mo., in 1904, to which the managers are inviting every nationality—except the Afro-American—the sentiment seems to be, on the part of the Commissioners, to debar, ignore, and humiliate the Negroes in the privilege of his participation in that event, and as the Negro was, at the time of said purchase an important factor in the industries whereby the finances for said purchase was made feasible and as he has by his answerving devotion to every principle, of right, whether in time of peace or war, prosperity or adversity, ever stood ready to offer himself as a sacrifice, that the fundamentalism and sovereignty of this American government might be maintained; and too, he has made such phenomenal progress and the achievements in the Republic of Letters within a few years; and too, against great opposition as to merit for him an enviable place in the realm of unprejudiced progressive thought. He has, beyond question, proven his fitness as a man, citizen, soldier, statesman, patriot, to be entitled, and permitted to enjoy the full measure of American citizenship. However: we regard this thrust at our manhood—ungrateful and unrighteous as it seems—to be a providential act of legislation; for no nation can expect to ascend the top round of moral, religious, intellectual, and industrial development and civilization without self reliant struggle and endeavor. "He who would wear the spurs must win them." The Afro-American must pay the price for his place in the galaxy of nations that others contributed. Then to the front! Men, Patriots, Americans. We, the undersigned Afro-Americans, have formulated plans, for the successful meeting of the demands of the hour, and respectfully invite the unqualified and united cooperation of every member of the race, that we may prove to the world our fitness and ability in every walk of life to father, foster, manage, and control and successfully perform our Continued on fifth page. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. 9th and YOU STREETS, N. W. MARRY G. LENZ. HUGO LOSSAU LENZ & LOSSAU, Successors to CHARLES FISCHER, Trusses, Crutches, Syringes, Cutlery Artificial Human Eyes Elastic Hosiery. Abdominal Supporters. Rubber Goods of Every Description 623 Soventh St. Northwest. Opposite Patent Office. WASHINGTON, D. C. Competent Lady Attendant. Ladies Needing Advice and Treatment CONSULT Mrs. Renner. The German female specialists. Treats woman'sills, complaints and irregularities. Private Sanitarium, not a public hospital, but a private home, separate rooms, and home comforts for cases before a d during confinement. Trained nurse and experience physician in attendance. Privide home for infant if necessary. City office hours from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. 494 Louisiana Avenue Northwest, Washington, D. C. LOW PRICES. On Beautiful gold crowns and all other work we positively extract teeth without pain. 12th and Penn. Ave... Vero Dentists. Hours 8 a.m. to 5 o.m. Sunday 9 a.m. to 12 m Telephone, Main 1768 Established 1873 S. H. Hines & Co. Undertakers. Embalmers And Funeral Directors 1315 14 st. nw. Washington, D.C MME. DAVIS STAR Born Clairvoyant & Card Reader Tells about business, Removes Spells and Evil Influences, Reunites the Separated and Gives Luck to all. 1228 25th st. n, w. Washington D. C. No letters answered unless as compaired by stamp. A GOLD HUNTER. An Enterprising Southerner who is Making a Fortune Digging for The Yellow Metal in Colorado The unceasing attention which The Colored American pays to the efforts of our people towards the higher life, never fails to be rewarded. There is always some new character in the forefront to whose struggles and success we can be pointed out with pride and from which can be deduced a moral. The man, whose career should be most widely known as of distinct honor to his race is Mr. M. C. Johnson, of Cripple Creek, Colorado. But a decade ago he was a poor, friendless Negro, among the submerged millions of the race in the South, but discontent with his surroundings was in his very blood. He absorbed it with every breath. Fate or fortune, ambition or advice, whatever the moving cause led him up out of the Southland and Westward to the land of greatest possibilities. He settled in Colorado and at once gave his entire attention to the various kinds of mining. His active and retentive memory, his unflagging industry and his consuming thirst for knowledge soon made him an expert both in the valuable mines and in systematic methods of operating them when located. With his partner, Mr. W. A. Smith, Mr. Johnson has acquired some of the most desirable mining properties in Colorado and is fortunate enough to have gained a competence as the result of his expert knowledge and thrift. This is also true of Mr. Smith. The partners own jointly large properties within a mile and a half of the town of Cripple Creek, Colorado, and they are seriously considering whether they will not afford others of their race the opportunity to share with them the golden promises of their ventures. It is, however, Mr. Johnson's personal success to which attention is directed, and no less to the moral which it teaches. Here is one Negro who did not see fit to remain within the iron chains of environment, who struck out manfully and faced his fate in an untried field, sustained only by a conscious mental and moral rectitude and a strong right arm. Why he just compelled success, and so can each and all of the Negro race with the same conscience and the same application to the duties, which face them. Mr. Johnson's financial possibilities are only circumscribed by the probable duration of his life, and should his present mental and physical vigor continue to attend his life, he will in a few short years doubtless be described as Colorado's great millionaire Negro. Baltimore, Md.—The current issue of THE COLORED AMERICAN is a great one, which certainly adds to your fame as a leader in Afro-American journalism. In this and the annual of the Florida Sentinel, we truly see the race's brains in journalism. F. F. J. A man whose "social standing" can be lowered by the employment at which he makes a livelihood, never had much solid ground to stand upon in the first place. The District Negro stands high in the estimation of our judiciary as a conscientious and intelligent juryman. One more argument for better treatment. The passage of the Jim Crow bill will be a great advertisement for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. One of the most enjoyable social events of the last week was a dance, last Friday night, at 903 9th street, northeast, given by Miss Marion T. Scott, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. E. D. Scott. Mrs. Scott being sick, her friend Mrs. Paul Bray chaperoned the young people. $4.00 8.00 a day guaranteed to every person sending name and address to the Scott Remed Co. Louisville, Ky. Write at once 图 Bright BOYS AND GIRLS Wanted Sell The Colored American. Big Pay for Little Work. 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Have them fill out this coupon and send it at once; I hereby agree to act from date as agent for The Colored American and to sell the same to as many customer as can be secured, at 5 cents a copy every week, and that I will report not later than the Monday after each package is received, and remit 3 cents for each copy I sell or deliver to subscribers, and return all unsold copies. Addreses...... Town..... State how many first week appointed by The Colored American, 459 C Street, Northwest. Washington, D.C. The Colored American, 459 C Street, Northwest. Washington, D. C. THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE Which held its first convention in Boston, Mass., August 22-26, 1900. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. President and Founder The convention was the first National Convention of colorless men ever held in this or any other country. Every business was represented: the farmer, the banker, the doctor, the lawyer, the manufacturer, the author, plant and rulers of municipalities. The addresses deliver papers read are all in this book besides over fifty cuts and others, which makes it a valuable convention. This convention was the first National Convention of colored business men ever held in this or any other country. Every 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 convention. BOUND IN CLOTH ONLY Send Express or Postoffice Money Order J R HAMM, PUBLISHER, 4F, EDWARD ST, BOSTON, MASS. YOUR LIFE AN OPEN BOOK LIGHT LIGHT MRS. DR. WHITE, 25c. The Greatest Planet Reader on Earth, 25c. Friends, this is the GREATEST OFFER ever made to the public. Mrs. Dr. White will, for a short time only, give every reader of this paper, a full writing of their life for only 25c. Just think of it. 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THE COMING RACE Dr J E Shepard a Type of The new School of Young Men who are Forging to The Front His Sunday School and Indu trial Work Thoughtful men have always maintained that our most useful Negroes would be the product of the South, where our great race problem is most acute, and where our limitations are sure to bring out all that is highest and best in our people. The prediction is being daily verified. There is coming constantly to the front a formidable array of well equipped, ambitions young race men with earnest purpose to uplift their people. A bright example of this promising army of progress is Dr. James E. Shepard, of North Carolina, who is al- A. ready well known throughout the country as a solidly educated young man, of unexceptionable character and talents, who is devoting his life to good works. He is a favored son of North Carolina, and he has had as eventful and varied career, at every point of which success has attended his efforts. His gift for organizations was a valuable adjunct to Prof. Booker Washington in the creation and the flattering results of the Colored Mens' Business League, in whose deliberations he has always taken an active and influential part. In the many eleemosynary institutions, which have been established for the race's benefit, by the liberality of the rich or from the hard earnings of our people themselves, as he has always manifested warm interest, contributing freely from his own means to their maintenance. In every field which his talents have been employed he has invariably forced his way to the front. Lately by reason of his prominence as first vice president of The Baptist Sunday School Convention, of the State of North Carolina, he has been appointed Field Secretary of The International Sunday School Association for colored people, and is now industriously engaged in the duties incident to the position, which covers a wide territory in the country; and to which he brings the ripest experience. He is a trustee of Lincoln Hospital, an institution given by the Messrs. Dukes of Durham, North Carolina, for the benefit of Negroes, as a recognition of the devotion and fidelity of our people while in bondage. Dr. Shepard's life is fully and freel given to his race and he anticipates no reward, other than their highest practicable development. No race has ever lifted itself from penury and dependence to the higher plains of self dependence and economic independence, except by individual and persistent endeavor, supplemented by the sacrifice and self-affacement of true leaders. "The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church." Dr. Shepard's sacrifice and single hearted struggles for his people are akin to the labors of the fathers of the early church. May equal success attend them and may oGd raise up other noble souls to follow in his footsteps and carry the standard of race elevation to still higher peaks. Cures Weak Men Free SEND NAME AND ADDRESS TO-DAY-YOU CAN HAVE IT FREE AND BE STRONG AND VIGOROUS FOR LIFE. Insures Love and a Happy Home. Insures Love and a Happy Home. STRENGTH AND VIGOR FOR MEN. How any man may quickly cure himself after years of suffering from sexual weakness, lost vitality, night losses varicoccele, etc., and enlarge small, weak organs to full size and vigor. Simply send your name and address to Dr. Knapp Medical Co., 867 Hull Bldg. Detroit Mich., and they will gladly send the free receipt with full directions so any man may easily cure himself at home. 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"Dear Sirs:—Yours was received and I had no trouble in making use of the receipt as directed, and can truthful say it is a bron to weak men. I am greatly improved in size, strength and vigor." All correspondence is strictly confidential, mailed in plain sealed envelope. The receipt is free for the asking and they want every man to have it. 11 12 —————————— THE PASSING SHOW. confectionary parlors, in which three school teachers were snubbed, heavily overcharged and publicly humiliated. Attracted by the delightful flavor of the drip coffee, rolls, etc., they de- cided to enter and to sample those splendid evidences of taste. Many minutes elapsed before anyone came to wait on them; finally they were served. The ladies, anticipating un- necessary trouble, consulted the menu, secured the prices and ordered ac- cordingly. The aggregate amount of the bill was forty-five cents. The checks called for ninety-five. They remonstrated with the cashier, but she referred them to the manager. After a prolonged discussion, seeing that the case was hopeless, they paid the bill, and left the cafe in a mood very much after the fashion of a “Gaston and Alphonse” type. We have no comment to make. It is too un- fortunate. A law should be enacted tu cover such occurrences. The hack- man, cabman and express man are grossly fined fo r excessive extortions in their line of business, why not fine the cafe man, who offence is even graver? Any price stipulated and demanded you must pay. There is no redress. Boycott such second-class hoodlums, and you will be free from these prejudicial encounters. As long as we are denied the rights of equal- ity, whether at the lunch counter, in the dining room, or at the play house, entanglements of this description are sure to follow. Mrs. Robert Pelham is acting tem- porary organist of the 15th Street Presbyterian Church, in the absence of Miss Imogene Wormley, who is suf- fering from nervous prostrations. Mr. Benjamin Franklin Morrison, an employee of the Bureau of Education, has just returned from Tuscalooca, Ala., where he went to attend the funeral of a sister. Miss Fannette Walker, the talented neice of Lawyer Thomas Walker, is a close student of the master music- ians. Her piano renditions are diffi- cult and would do credit to any high- class artist. Miss Lucy Wilhoite, of Culpeper, Va., will reside with her cousin, Mrs. George Davis, 1435 W = street, north- west, for the winter. Miss Wilhoite is quite winning, and has a personal- ity that it catching. The model lessons by the second grade Model teachers last week, were the finest in years. Several new me- thods were introduced which were kindly received and regarded as sis- nificant to success in a school room. The teachers assigned the particular work deported themselves with es- pecial coolness, showing that every point had been thoughtfully planned. The teachers who took part were: Miss Nellie Dyson, Magruder, Build- ing Ninth Division; Miss Imogene Wormley, Garnet Building, Tenth Di- vision, and Mr. Benjiman, Lovejoy Building, Eleventh Division. Bach lesson was well attended. Miss Fredericka D. Sprague, Matron of the Avery College Trade School, Allegheny,. Pa., is in this city, the guest of her sister, Miss Rossebelle Sprague, 1528 Fifteenth Street, north- west. : Tom Harris, the rich colored citizen who is running for the nomination of Tax Receiver of Larchmont, @ small superb adjoining New York, gave a swell dinner at the Park View Hotel, Wednesday night week, to a party of sixty, all of whom _ were white. Mr. Harris came to Larch- mont about twenty years ago as a bell pov in one of the locai hotels. He afterward embarked in the livery and 49IB COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. O pace the Senior Senator from South Carolina, stood for nearly an hour and maligned the name and char- _ acter of the colcred people in a ‘manner so disgraceful, that his women ‘auditors became disgusted and fied ,from his words like a shadow before | the sun. This was only a part of the rehearsal. Murmurs of disapproval were heard throughout the entire as- ,Semblage, and the speaker was ener- getically reminded that his sentiments , Were not receiving the least favorable sanctioning. ‘Tillman advocated the |wholesale massacre of “the niggers,” jand averred that the Southern whites j would break every trace to bring , about the accomplishment of this, if the Negro continued to clamor for political distinction. Upon what ground the distinguished Senator j bases such an idea, we are unable to babe The Negro has never desired this, and never will. He merely wants what the constitution guaran- | tees him, the freedom of individual ‘suffrage, nothing more, nothing less. ‘Mr. Tillman is sick. He needs the care of some eminent nerve specialist, whcse business it is to quiet the nerves and advise the patient to seek rest and comfort. He is undergoing a violent shock from chronic racial disturbances. Mr. Dave S. Stewart, the enterpris- ing young funeral director, has just recently purchased an embalming buggy. It is a magnificent concern, and is causing quite a stir among his prother associates. The wealthiest colored man in the West is John Flannagan, now ninety years of age. His estate is valued in the millions, and occupies a portion of the site known as Omoha, Nab. It is rumored that this vast wealth will go to the son of his former master. Mrs. John Van Vorst’s book, “The Woman Who Toils” is producing wide- spread consternation among the American girls. Fresh onslaughts come in daily, condemning what is claimed the vilest attack ever made upon dignified womanhood. To what extent the author has our endorse- ment must remain a floating question. While Mrs. Van Vorst is not wholly right, she is not wholly wrong. Amer- iean women are growing intensely misanthropic toward marriage and prefer the hopeless suicide of a celi- pate. The charges placed at the moral door of the American_girl by Mrs. Van Vorst, are that she Tevels in luxury and discourages the sacred duty which involves the painful experience of motherhood. To this solemn accusal “The Woman Who Toils,” turns away and buries her face in a vale of in- nocently wept tears. The fyrand Fountain of the {ited {)raer of [rue Reformer Is the leading Colored Fraternal Society of the United States. It was organ} jones 1881, by William W. Browne, and chartered in April, 188 Rac aws of the State of Virginia, with headquarters at Richmond, Va. tis m ae ship is both male and female, and consists of all persons of good health fr to 60 years of age. Its membership of 60,000 is divided into Fountains anita. cles. It pays sick benefits from $1.50 to $2.50 per week, and pays death bene hts from $24.56 to $1000. its BENEFITS PAlD—Total benefits paid to date: Sick dues, $r,500,000; death = efits, $714,378.75. a SENIOR FOUNTAINS—A Fountain may be organized consisting of 20 or mo-~ rsons not over 50 years of age paying a joining fee of from $4.60 to $5.10 mae Bhe monthly dues are not less than 35 cents in rural districts and not Nese thas 50 cents per month in towns and cities, and a semi-annual tax of 4o-cents p, a in January and July of each year. Sick benefits paid are from $1.50 to $2.5 as ; week, while sent benefits range from $75 to $125. A Fountain may be S - ized in any locality on application to Rev. W. a Taylor, G. W. Master. or t, any of his authorized deputies. teone ROSEBUOS—For the proper training of the young and their develc it i thrift, industry and brotherly love, there has been gecnen a Cilildren's Dense ment known as the Rosebuds. Twenty or more children not jess than Geran 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 th twenty-five cents per week, and death benefits from $24.50 to $37. The moar dues are fifteen cents per month. sg 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 Classes of the Mutual Benefit Megree. The members of this degree are divided into Circles, and pay joining fees and dues acccrding to the following tables: each. This department, like the Senior Fountain, pays sick benefits from § tg twenty-five cents per week, and death benefits from $24.50 to $37. The momiir 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 Classes of the Mutual Benefit Degree. The members of this degree are divided into Circles, and pay joining fees and dues accerding to the following tables: TET LEE LL” 1 2 ¢ [22 (228| 2 | 3 || g (82 |542/ 272 tn! © (S¥u/2 5) @ | EA “6ro!] S [Se@5/2 &] o | 2s we 1 Sel Se8/ ais fi tw 1Sa21Seo8/ 5] = a ge") 225) 2 E 8 jess] see! § | 2 8 /28e/252e}/ 818 8 |gee¢|/222] 212 3 | 238 ete S 8 258 | S58] 2/3 |] | FF - Agel4to25 a 50 |$200 00 |$100 00 ‘$4 75 |$1 20 i 14 to 25 |$5 00 $500 00 c 09 ae 250 “ "25 to 80 | 2 75 | 200 00 | 100 00 | 4 75 | 1.20 || * 2 to 80 | & 25 | 500 00 | 250 00 [9 80 | 2 30 . * 30 t0 35 | 3 00 | 200 00 | 100 00 | 475 | 1 2G ||. 30 to 35 | 5 50 | 500 00 | 250 00/950) 2 w “ 85040 | 3 25 | 200 00| 100 00/5 70/143 )| * 35%340/ 5 75 | 500 00 | 250 00 0 40 2 +0 s+ 40 10 45 | 3 50 | 140 00| 70.00 | 5 79 | 148 || & 40045 | 6 00 | 450 00 | 225.00 1040 2 0 451050 |3 7% | 11500] 58 00/6 65/166 |) “ 45 to50 | 6 25 | 400 00 | 2090) 1140 2s as Bo $0.88 | 4 oo 70 00| 45 00/635} 166 || “ BNtoGO $ £0 | 35000 | 1750 1140) 255 ee ae 65 0) | 33 00 any \ | ese a ae 3 3 2 2 we | REGALIA—The members of the Foun- pe ss s > | tains and Rosebuds of the organization 18s £= s a wear no expensive regalia. The rega | 2 as 3 5 lia of the organization is simple and its 2 fe cast await Desin, the easy reach of all Age 14 to 80 $1100 $1006 00 $21 90 $5 25 | Costing from Io cents to $3. The same * 80 to 85 | 12 00 | 1000 00 = = = is made by th. organization in what is = oeaeee lan oe | 05 08 | 330 | 3 a0 | known as the Regalia Department. “ 45 to 50 | 13 00 | 700 00 | 2590 | 6 25 THE SAVINGS BANK—In March, 1888, there was granted by the Legislature of Rice Virginia a charter to the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers, capital stock $100,000. The bank commenced business April 3, 1889, and from that time down to the present has steadily increased in volume of business. It now has a paid up cap- ttal stock of $100,000. From the humble sum of $1,268.69, deposited the first day the bank opened for business in 1889 the deposits have grown to $350.058, and the volume of business transacted amounts to $6,190.141.47. During the finan- cial panic cf 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 presented, while the majority of other bauks were using script and clearing house checks. This bank had its origin in the brain of William W. Browne, an ex-slave of Ha- bersham, Ga. The banking house is located at 604 North Second Street, Rich- mond, Va., Rev. W. L. Taylor, President; R. T. Hill, Cashier. REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT—The Real Estate Department has charge of all the real PEOPELY to the amount of $220,221.65, Breasted in various States, consisting of 13 monet cent buildings used as halls, 8 dwellings, 1 hotel. § stores and three farms. It also has under its control 16 large buildings leased by it. This de- partment is under the management of Lawyer J. C. Robertson, chief of real es- tate and attorney for the association, office at 608 N. 2nd Street, Richmond, V? REFORMERS MERCANTILE AND INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION—Was chartered us der the laws of the State of, vee on the 14th day of December, 1599, with principal office in the city of Richmond, Va. The purpose of this association F to conduct stores (wholesale and retail), buy and sell real property, manage 2% control hotels, manufacturing establishmerts, and do general business. The association has in operation Hotel Reformer, goo N. Sixth Street, Richmond, Va. {t 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 opet® tion a system of five stores, located as follows: Richmond, Va.; Washington, D. C.; Manchester, Va ; Portsmouth, Va.; and Roanoke, Va. The first o! these stores, at Richmond, Va., was opened April 3d, 1900. It employs a force of - men, runs three delivery wagons, and during the test year did $50,000 worth oF business. The other stores have been cseblished since, and have been equally as prosperous. The general manager of the system of stores is Mr. B L. Jordan, headquarters at 608 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. This Association “25 ormed on tbe plans and recommendations made by Rev. W. L. Taylor, President. THE REFORMER PRINTING DEPARTMENT—1csues a weekly journal, THE Herons! vhica has « circulation of 12,000. This paper is published in the interest of the race and 4i* ousses tire leading questions of the day. Tne subscription price is $1 per year, or Se. per int” opy. | The office is equipped with modern up-to-date machinery, run by electricity. It cna print anything from a visiting card to a poster 42 by 62 Inches. Fine job work of every class a lescription is made a specialty at lowest prices. Mr E. W. Brown is editor and business a \ger, OMice 608 N. Second Street, kichmond, Va. Correspondence solicited and agents wante® OLD FCLKS’ HOME—tp september. 1893, Rev. Wil ded the form . fs e ni: W. Brown recommen t aa jon and establishment of O14 Folks’ Homes for the Penelit of old and decrepid mem! ors of the ‘ace. Since that time the valuable farm known as Westham. consisting of #44 acres) 100) six miles trom Kichmond, Va.,on the bistoric “James,” has been purchased, at a cost 0! Ty fhe Chesapeake and Onio Railroad runs through the farm, and Westham Station is loca in t Adjoining this farm is Westhampton Yark. one of the most pleasant resorts in the Diy summer. It is reached in a few minutes from aichmond by the Westhampton Elowtily 0's). and the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. As this home ts for the benefit of the whole th00 04 20-operation of all charitable friends is prayerfully solicited. All contribations. doer’! rg equests of every character will be very thankfully received. Mr. T. W. Taylor is chict 8 © of the Old Folks’ Home. offices at 608 North Second Street, Richmond, Va4 For further information address— iss Semel pens olen ee w= Burrell GW. S. THE MISTAKES OF TILLMAN. Prof. William H. Ferris and A. M. of Yale and Harvard, will deliver an address in the John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church, on 18th street, between L and M, on Sunday afternoon, Mar. ist, at 3 p. m., subject: “The Mis- takes ofv Ben. Tillman, and the at- tempt of the South to re-enslave the Negro.” Rev. J. H. Bolding is the pastor. As Prof. Ferris expects soon to return to The Agricultural Experiment Sta- tion in Kingston, R. 1. this, will pro- pahly be the last tme he will be heard in public in Washington for some time to come. THE PRESIDENT’S POPULARITY. _ It you seek the reasons for the pro- found personal popularity of President Roosevelt, you have not far to go, in any direction. They are many and easily to be seen. But if you wish to determine which social group has just a little the warmest feeling toward the shade more of proprietp(,tofiasenfli| President, and which feels just a shade more of proprietorship in him than any other can, why, you will have to turn to the fightine men. Polite society likes suave men. Scholars ‘prefer the company of scholars. Poli- ticians flock together, and tolerate, if they do not greatly love, their kind. The President has much in common with all these types; but pre-eminent- ly he is of the Berserker breed—a fichting man; and this fact commends him to the soldiers with very es- pecial urgency—From “Affairs at Washington” in March National. 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(& y GB sr = = 4 =e ~The Popular Studio_ ae em tree Lottie E. Wilson, 806 M Street, Northwest. : Hes re-opened for scholars and the unite. t@For terms of ten lessons in psint- ing $5.50;tor free hand drawing £2.50. If the South Carolina Courts give Jim Tillman, the murderer of Gon- zales, the full extent of the law, the southern white man may not be quite so ready with his gun hereafter. It is all very well to advise the Ne- gro to get rich, but with all his superior advantages, only about one white man in a thousand gets by. Cut and come again for the black man. Even a church debt is said te be a church blessing. Mr. Laban Morgan, editor of The Piedmont Indicator, is in the city, and paid our sanctum a pleasant visit. Miss E. Meta Pelham, of Detroit. Mich., is the guest of her brother, Mr. Robert Pelham, Jr., 2230 6th street northwest. Prof. J. A. Lankford, supervising architect and builder for the Grand United Order of True Reformers, left the city this week for a visit to At- tanta, Georgia. He is related to Bishop Turner by marriage, and will be the guest of the learned prelate during his sojourn in the Gate City. Minister W. F. Powell, of Port-Au Prince, Hayti, through his matchless handling of diplomatic cases, that have been coming before him of late, is winning new laurels. The enemies of the movers of the ex-slave pension scheme are having their inning, and are delivering some telling blows against the bill intro- duced by Senator Hanna. The hayseeds of the Missouri leg- islature, who want to pass the Jim Crow car bill, evrdently forget that The Louisiana Purchase Exposition is to come off next year in St. Louis. The Hon. C. H. Payne, whose por- trait and sketch appeared in the last issue of The Colored American, has been appointed U. S. Consul to St. Thomas, West Indies, to succeed the Rev. M. Van Horne. If you are not a subscriber to The Col. ored American, but desire to obtain a copy of it, go to your nearest news dealer and ask for it; if the dealer does not handle it have him to get it for you and insist on his gettng it. You will help The Colored American in this way. President Roosevelt has decided to stand by Dr. Crum, though his con- firmation for Collector of Customs at Charleston, S. C. was defeated. Dr. Crum will be made a recess appointee and will retain his office and draw the salary. Hip, Hip, Hurrah! fer Presi- dent Roosevelt. ? see ee cee LIFE IN THE NORTHWEST. If you have any idea of changing your location—go into the northwest where life is worth living. it is the coming empire of this coun- try. Climate and elevation are found in great variety and will never be as low priced again as it is now. For farming, fruit raising and grazing no portion of our country equals it. Irri- gation makes the farmer independent where irrigation is practiced and the finest irrigable part of eur lands are in Montana and Washington: 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 sorts of places and kinds of land ‘in the Northwestern states through which the Northern Pacific runs, Don’t wait until it is too late to go. Low set- slers rates are in effect during Septem. 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., St. Paul, Minn. th 5 NP UING De Ue 1 eee MFSLAASAALAKAAAAAAALAARAARALAAAAAAABA MINES AND MINING, corn ee ee NOTICE. We wish to correspend with some eapilists who would like te patent about 60 acres of valuabie miming land for an interest in the property. We have slready done about $4,000 worth of work and improvements, This 60 acres is sbout 1} miles from the city of Ori pple Creek, Colorado. For terms please write us, P. O. Box 86, Cripple Creek, Colorado. M.C JOHNEON, W. A. SMIrH, eens oe ogetin oaenn ceetearanee eater eee : BE SURE TO GET THE SAFEST, SWIFTEST AND 1 , MOST COMMODIOUS STEAMER ON THE RIVER | . JANE M 1 G 4 11903 Hor Cheaxter Season {903 | a Ln d TO UPPER GLYMONT, LOWER CEDAR POINT, ROCK , POINT, OTHER POINTS ON THE POTOMAC RIVER. 5 4 a g sx > AN ZoSDAN 2 4 : ee Q . es — 9 i BUY STOCK IN THE , ‘ ’ . : Freedman’s Transportation, Land & Improvement Co. 3 ; (Incorporated. )* z ; Proprietors of the Swift and Commodious Steamer JANE MOSELEY. g A limited amount of the stock is now on the market for sale to the pub- ¥ , lic at Ten Dollars per share, payable in small monthly payments. — Ar- y ‘ rangements made tosuit purchaser. Buy quickly if youwanta firstclass % ; investment. Z , This boat has recently been overhauled and thoroughly eee bythe U. S.Gov J ; ernment Inspectors, chartered and equipped with eleciric lights and late improve 7% , ments and is licensed to carry 1,300 passengers. has 3! state rooms, 3 decks, on y ( dining room and saloon lighted by electricity. 4 Honest Management, Open Accounts and Prompt Returns. Z i Books are always open to stockholders at the office of the see- y : retary, 609 F Street Norihwest. 2 , DIRECTORS. 7 Joseph Morrison, F. M. Sims, Frank Johnson, y i Cc. D. Braxton, W. M. Tyler, A. Walker, 4 Joseph N. Mayne, James Dabney, J. L. Neill, > Lewis Jefferson, Mrs. M. S. Brown, Henry Hood, y J. S. Coage, B. Booker, J. C. Scott, : OFFICERS. z | Joseph Morrison—President. Jos. N. Mayne—Vice President. g J. L. Neill—Secretary. F. M. Sims—Assistant Secretary. & . H. Hood—Treasurer. Lewis Jefferson—General Mgr. James Dabney—General Agent. 3 . Books are now open for Charters, for terms apply to J. L. Neill, 2 Sec’y or LEWIS JEFFERSON, Gen. Manager, 2 : Reom A} Ist Floor, 609 F St. N. W. y Subscribe for the American LHE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. & 1 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 Annouscement Causes Doc- tors to Marvel and Stand Dum- founded at the Wonderful Crres. The Discoverer Sends Free Trial Pack- ages to All Who Write. After a half century spent in ihe labratory crowned with high honors for his many world- famous discoveries the celebrated physician. oe ee ot ee : ae = 2 ome tas) CRS ee. = i 24 AS Ss oh Sa ES SS et en Miss Clarissa Kerby and her Mar- velous Growth of Hair. chemist at the head of the great Altenheim Med- ical Dispensary, has just made the startling an” mouncement that he has produced a cOmpound that grows hair on any bald head. The doctor makes the claim that after experimeats, taking years to co™piete, he has at last reached the goal ofthis a™bition. To the doctor all he&ds are alike. There are none which cannot be cured by this remaakable remedy The record of the cures already made is truly marvelous ard were it not for the high standing of the great vhysician aud the convincing testimony ot thousands of citizens allover the country it would seem too miracu- lous to Ge true. T here can be no doubt of the doctor's earnest- es sin makinghis claims nor can bis cures be Gisputed Hedoes notask any man. woman or child to take his or anyone elS8e's word for it, but he stands ready to send free trial pack®ges of this great h*ir Testorativo to anyone who writes to him for it. enclosing a 2cent stamp to prepay postage. Inasingle night it ha# started hair to growing on heads bald for years. It has stopped falling hair in one hour. I! never fails no matter what the condition. age or sex- Old Men and oats m€n, women and children all have profited y the free use of this great new discovery, If you are bald, if your hair 's falling out or if yOur hair eyebrows or eyebrows or eye lashes are thin or short write to the Alrenheim Widical Dispensary, 8074 Foso Building. Cincinnati. Ohio. enc'osing a 2-cent stamp to prepay postage for a free psck- age and ina shcrt time yeu will be fully restored. / GRAND 0 Scciety Paraphernaalia, Lodge SuppKes, Badges, Clase Pins, College Flags, Committee Badges, Flags and Banners. ALLORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED To Cc. E. GUNLACH, 813 7th St., N. W., Washington D, C. Tele phone 34¢2-¥- $400to $800 a day guaranteed to every person sending name and address to the Scott Remedy Co Louisville, Ky. Write at once, Is It A School Want? NATIONAL - COLORED Teachers Bureau, - 459 CSt., N. W. : WASHINGTON, D. ©, FOR GOOD HEALTH To preserve or restore it, thereisno better prescription for men, women and children than Ripans} Tabules. They are easy to take, They are made of a combination of medicines approved and used by every physician, Ripans Tabules are widely used by all sorts of people—but to the plain, every. day folks*they are'a veritable friend in need. Ripans Tabules have become their standard family remedy. They are a de~ pendable, honest remedy, with a long and successful record, to eure indisgestion, dyspepsia, habitual and stubborn constipa- tion, offensive breath, heartburn, dizziness, palpitation of the beart, sleeplessness, musculo rheumatism, sour stomach, bowel and liver complaints. They strengthen weak stomachs, build up run-down systems, restore pure blood, good appetite and sound, natural sleep Everybody derives constant*benefit from a regular use of Kipans Tabules. Yourzdruggist sells them. The five-cent} packet is en°ugh for an ordinary occasion. The family bettle, 60 cents, contains a supply for a year. EEK KK KK KKK KK KKK KL KKK Sar K KL S: Opportuniy fer Young Men. - The demands in: all parts of this country, and in several foreign coun- tries, for well trained men of our race in the direction of scientific and prao- tical agriculture sre so great that this institution is willing to offer excep tional advantages to young men who wieh to come here and take either a regular or post graduate course in agriculture. We cannot begin to sup* ply the demands that come to us for trained men in the direction of agricul: ture. The positions for which these trained men are wanted are those in most every case which pay high sal- aries. - We are especially anxious to get hold of men who have received as far as ‘possible, a good education before com: ing here, and are ready to enter upon 8 thorough course of agricultural train: ine. For further information address, : Booker T. WAftHINGTON, Principal, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee Alsbam THE NEW ERA 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. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTION. i year - $225 6 months — 1.15 3 months - 60 — Chas. V.Monk, Editor and Manager Hamilton, Bermuda, Te ee ee an $1.00 to $8 00 a day’ guaranteed to every” person sending name and address .to the Scott Remedy Co. Lovisville, Ky. Writegt once. : 1 ae, Mr. M. J. Frawley, SUCCESSOR TO BERNARD Conroy, 233 Virginia Avenue Southwest, Fine Wines and Whiskeys. 8@>-Frech Beer ulwaye on tsp. | TO CORN SUFFERERS, Corns, bunions, and callouses perm anently cured without pain or sorenes? by using Troy Corn Salve 15 cents by mail. Circulars free. Troy Chemis Company, Station G, Washingt 2 D. C. 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A fine Line of Men's Women's and Children's Shoes and Rubbers at lowest prices. The Only Shoe Store in the city conducted by colored Men. DR. LEATHERMAN. Washington's Leading Specialist On Kidney, Bladder, Skin and Private diseases, Syphilis (any stage) cured for life. Both sexes. Consultation free. 602FST.N.W. Some Men Pay $10,000 For an expert to manage their advertising. There are others who pay $5.00 for an annual' subscription to printers' ink and learn what all advertisers are thinking about But even these are not the extremes reached. There are men who lose over $100,000 a year by doing neither one. For sample copy send 10c to Printers' Ink. No.10 Spruce Street, New York City. SKILLED WORKMEN PROMPT DELIVERY ESTABLISHED 1876. J. H. Polkinhorn Book & Job Printer, 616 Louisiana Avenue, WASHINGTON, D. C Books and Pamphlets a Specialty. Engraving, Color Work. Commercial Printing. Complete Facilities. Consistent Charges. Sypecial Designs for all Societies. WE GIVE ANY LADY splendid chance to earn spending money very easily working for us in their leisure time; the work is not hard, and any Woman or girl who has a little spare time will do well to avail them selves of this great opportunity to earn money Send us 25 cents (solver) and we will at once send you the Cloth will full directions, prepaid by us anywhere in the U. S so they can commence work at once. Address BRILLIANTI NA CO (J 3)Roxbury Mass. AT OLD POST AGIAN James H. Hudnell Representing the Castleberg Diamond Importers, 55 Penn. Ave., Washington, D. C. Residence—2009 9 h st., n. w. Orders delivered by card. $401 to $800 a day guaranteed to every person sending name and address to the Scott Remedy Co. Louisville, Ky. Write at once. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. If you want big crowds at your excursions or picnics. If you are anything at all—let the public know who you are by Advertising in The Colored American* Even a church debt is said to be a church blessing. Mr. Laban Morgan, editor of The Piedmont Indicator, is in the city, and paid our sanctum a pleasant visit. Miss E. Meta Pelham, of Detroit, Mich., is the guest of her brother, Mr. Robert Pelham, Jr., 2230 6th street northwest. Minister W. F. Powell, of Port-Au Prince, Hayti, through his matchless handling of diplomatic cases, that have been coming before him of late, is winning new laurels. The enemies of the movers of the ex-slave pension scheme are having their inning, and are delivering some telling blows against the bill introduced by Senator Hanna. The hayseeds of the Missouri legislature, who want to pass the Jim Crow car bill, evidently forget that The Louisiana Purchase Exposition is to come off next year in St. Louis. The Hon. C. H. Payne, whose portrait and sketch appeared in the last issue of The Colored American, has been appointed U. S. Consul to St. Thomas, West Indies, to succeed the Rev. M. Van Horne. If you are not a subscriber to The Colored American, but desire to obtain a copy of it, go to your nearest news dealer and ask for it; if the dealer does not handle it have him to get it for you and insist on his gettng it. You will help The Colored American in this way. President Roosevelt has decided to stand by Dr. Crum, though his confirmation for Collector of Customs at Charleston, S. C. was defeated. Dr. Crum will be made a recess appointee and will retain his office and draw the salary. Hip, Hip, Hurrah! for President Roosevelt. Prof. J. A. Lankford, supervising architect and builder for the Grand United Order of True Reformers, left the city this week for a visit to Attanta, Georgia. He is related to Bishop Turner by marriage, and will be the guest of the learned prelate during his sojourn in the Gate City. The old man eloquent, Rt. Rev. H. M. Turner, Senior Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, writes a letter, which appears in this issue of The Colored American. He is an enthusiastic emigrationist, and believes that Africa is designed to be the future home of the American Negro. The Bishop is as vigorous and as sound mentally and physically as he was twenty-five years ago; and has the happy faculty of going directly to the heart of any subject he takes up. His letter is a strong presentation of his case. ATTENTION AGENTS. Agents who have not made their reports and settlements in this office for some time are hereby warned that unless a settlement comes this week no more papers will be set them. This will also apply to a number of delinquent subscribers who are considerably in ar- AVERY COLLEGE TRADES SCHOOL A Practical, Literary and Industrial Trade School for Colored Boys and Girls, Carpentry, Bricklaying, Plastering, Painting and Interior Decorations. Tailoring, Dress-making, Millinery, Voice Culture and Piano Forte. Literary Department from Primary to Normal Course. Job Work Solicited and Profits given to the Students. 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We recognize that this stock would make the fortunes of hundreds. And we resolved to make the price of this stock so that a lack of money should not cause deserving colored men to lose their one chance to gain a competence—that we would place it at a price that men and women of moderate means might become stockholders and stand shoulder to shoulder with those more fortunate financially. The stock is non non-assessable, thus making it impossible for the wealthier to force the man of small means out of a good thing. Subscribe at once The only way to earn riches is in good investments, such as FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS. WRITE US 16 Lieutenant Henderson, of Pittsburg, Pa., is in the city, a guest at the Southern Hotel. Dr. C. C. West and life are all smiles. Two bouncing girls have blessed their union. Miss Katie Johnson, of Baltimore, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, 1825 Vermont avenue, northwest. The staff of the Freedmen's Hospital are exhibiting quite a little pride over some of their recent achievements. Armond W. Scott, the President of the 2nd Baptist Church Lyceum is an ideal presiding officer, courteous but firm. Mr. Daniel Murray, assistant librarian, will entertain the Pen and Pencil Club, at his residence on S street, Tuesday night. Mr. Rudolf Scott, of Spokane, Washington, one of our government's most efficient Chinese Inspectors, is in town on a brief visit. "Hands Across the Sea" is a popular melody, but Hands Across Mason and THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. Capital Stock, $50,000. (INCORPORATED) WHEN YOU CAN GET IN ON THE GROUND FLOOR. Dollars per share) in full payment for..... THE WILGERA OIL AND GAS COMPANY. Witness my signature this..... day of ..... 1903 Street or P. O. Box ..... 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Mr. Howard Johnson, of the Quartermaster General's office, has been in an extremely critical condition at his home on 14th street, but is now on the mend. dining-room accommodations while on a business trip from Richmond, Va., to this city. His suit was for $10,000 and was brought in the U. S. Court at Trenton, N. J. Mr. Charles F. Murray, one of our most estimable citizens, for years employed at the Capitol, and long a high official at St. Luke's Church, died on Saturday evening last. Dr. W. A. Croffut went away from the 2nd Baptist Church Lyceum on Sunday last convinced that the Negro --- ought them riches. Some hesitated because they could not spare the money to buy their one chance of success—an perpetual grind of poverty. This is said Gas Co offered to place the sale of its resolved so make the price of this stock so that we would place it at a price that no fortunate financially. The stock is non , such as and GAS COM does not subscribe to his anti-imperialistic propaganda. Mr. Howard H. Williams, who has been confined to his residence for some time past is rapidly recovering. His friends have been unremitting in their attentions to him. Mrs. Daniel Mahoney, nee Miss Babe Jackson, of Pittsburg, has just returned home for a short stay with her venerable father, Mr. James F. Jackson, of 17th street northwest. Messrs. John W. Rosemond, and George A. Neale, representative young men from Pittsburg, Pa., were in the city a few days last week. They met and made many friends while here. The Aeolian Mandolin, Guitar, and Banjo Club, scored another brilliant success on the evening of the 23rd instant. The club is both artistically and socially the pride of this community. A number of members of Eureka Lodge of Masons have petitioned Grand Master Malvin for a dispensation to enable them to establish a new Masonic Lodge, to be known as Brightwood Lodge. Bishop Alexander Walters, of New Jersey, and Dr. H. T. Johnson, editor of The Christian Recorder, Philadel- OLUMBUS, OHIO phia, Pa., called on Counsel Alfred C. Cowen during their recent visit to New York City. The Jane Mosely is undergoing complete repairing and will be dressed in a duck white suit of paint. The charter books are open for its work and the secretary will receive charters at 609 F street, northwest. Mr. F. M. Simms, a rising young attorney has secured the general license under the new District code, for all kind of insurance, life fire, health, and accident. He is one of the leading insurance brokers in the District. Mr. Henry Warren, a venerable race leader, and since his birth a resident of the District, celebrated his one hundred and third birthday on the 23rd instant. Mr. Warren is still hale and heartily interested in his people's progress. His friends gathered at his house in large numbers and made the occasion a notable one. Rev. Wm. H. Brown, the superintendent and travelling representative of The American Publishing House, Chicago, Ill., is now located in this city. He makes an announcement in another part of this paper for active agents, young men and women. He offers most excellent inducements. 4 CRUM'S CLAIM URGED Local Colored Men Appeal to President and Senate-Vital Precedent Involved A copy of the memorial in behalf of Dr. Crum, nominated for collector of the port of Charleston, S. C., which was sent to members of the Senate, has been furnished to the President. It is signed by P. B. S. Pinchback, Charles B. Purvis, M. D.; John F. Cook, Kelly Miller and Whitfield McKinley, all of this city, and urges Dr. Crum's confirmation "because of the exceptional interest excited in the case, and precedent an adverse decision would establish, and the great and financial principle involved in its correct settlement." The memorial continues: "After a most searching investigation of his private and public career, it is admitted that he is a man and a citizen without reproach. His intelligence and fitness for the position cannot be truthfully denied. This then reduces the issue to a question of color, and in our humble judgment the Senate of the United States is called upon to decide whether, if an American citizen who is in all other respects qualified for the discharge of civic duties, his color shall be a bar to his political preferment. The widespread agitation of this matter by the press and people of the country has carried it far beyond the personality of Dr. Crum. It now involves not only the future recognition of colored men for office, but also the very principles upon which our government is founded. Recognition of Constitution. "The Constitution and laws of our country, recognize the citizenship of the colored man. He is a large part of the productive energies and public functions of the communities in which he resides. Under all circumstances he is amendable to the law and must perform every duty incident to citizenship. On every battlefield, from Lexington to San Juan Hill, he has shed his blood and offered up his life in defense of his country. Since then, there is equality for the colored man in the requirements of obedience to the law and of sacrifice for the security of the government, should there not also be equality in the enjoyment of such civic honors as are attainable by all other citizens of our common country? Certainly this is what the war amendments to the Constitution mean." Attention is then called to the platform declarations of the two political parties concerning these amendments to the Constitution, and the petition continues: "The Democratic party has had full controll of the governments of the Southern States for more than a quarter of a century. All their legislation relative to the colored man has contradicted the solemn declaration upon which they claimed to have won a nation victory in 1876. In several of the states they have divested the colored race of the political rights conferred upon them by the Federal Constitution, which they professed to accept as a settlement of the controversies engendered by the civil war. Not content with proper and wholesome safe gaurds of the franchise applicable to all classes alike, they have by cunning devices made their restrictions operative only against the Negro. Emboldened by their apparent success, they now demand that the colored man shall not be deemed eligible to appointment to office. Other Appointments of Colcred Men. "The nomination of a colored man for collector of the port is not exceptional. President Harrison appointed. and the Senate confirmed, N. W. Cuney, as collector at Galveston, Tex., the second largest port of entry in the South; John H. Deveaux, at Brunswick, Ga.! Robert Smalls, at Beaufort, S. C.; and John C. Dancy, at Wilmington, N. C. President McKinley appointed and the Senate confirmed. John H. Deevaux, collector at Savannah, Ga.; Robert Smalls, at Beaufort, S. C.; and John C. Dancy, at Wilmington, N. C. All these men served full terms with credit to them THE OXFORD AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. selves and to the satisfaction of the government. President Roosevelt has reappointed and the Senate has confirmed John H. Deveaux, collector, at Savannah, Ga.; and Robert Smalls, at Beaufort, S. C. "There is no unusual demand on the part of colored men for reappointment to Federal office. At present there are fewer of them holding Presidential office in the South than under any other Republican administration since that of President Grant. "If your honorable body should refuse its consent to the appointment of Dr. Crum, it will not only further encourage and embolden the enemies of the colored race to degrade and humiliate it, but it will be inductive to a revival of the infamous doctrine cited in the Dred Scott decision, viz: That a Negro has no rights that a white man is bound to respect. "We hold that one-seventh of the population of the republic cannot be successfully segregated from their fellow-men, and the attempt on the part of Southern politicians to make political capital out of the crusade they have inaugurated against the colored race along this line—which is as ungenerous and un-American as it is unjust—will never be sanctioned by the liberty-loving, conscientious and fair-minded people of this great republic." BRUCE GRIT'S MELANGE Continued from first page. the President and the Negro. They are ridiculously funny, these anti-administration organs. They have more to say against the President than, the hundreds of reputable newspapers that do not carry prudent personal advertisements of lecherously inclined inclined gentlemen (?) that endorse his manly and courageous stand in the Crum case—and all other cases into which enter the elements of justice and humanity. The Herald's bark is more dangerous than its bite. It is a free lance—that's all. The Unitariions have always stood for justice and fair play for all men, regardless of color. The bravest men in any pulpit during the anti-slavery struggle in this country, with one or two exceptions were Unitarian clergymen, and they spoke like angels, trumpet-tongued, against the hellblack iniquity, human slavery. All the poets but one or two, who wrote against human slavery were men identified with the great Unitarian Church. In the New York assembly chamber, on February 19th, my good friend Rev. W. M. Brundage, minister of the First Unitarian Church, Albany, opened the session with prayer, and this was his prayer: O, God, Our Heavenly Father, we rejoice in the consciousness that Thou art Our Father. Whatever our condition in life, whatever our creed, Thou art the Father of us all. And we begin all our work in the consciousness that we are Thy children; that we ought to work together as one body for the good of all. We pray that we may all regard the interests of all, seeking to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with Thee; seeking to secure justice and liberty and freedom of opportunity for every man, whatever his race, whatever his creed. Help us to be true children of Thine. Help us to work together for the good of humanity. Guide and direct us by Thy spirit. Amen. The Negro need not despaid as long as there are such men in the pulpits of the North as Dr. Brundage to plead his cause, and to cry out against the wrongs which are constantly being heaped upon him. There is a limit to all things that are not in harmony with God's Justice, and in His own way He has always humbled the haughty and self-righteous nation who have oppressed the poor and the weak and who having the strength of a giant have used it as a giant. As Sojourner Truth told Frederick Douglass, "God is not dead," says Isaiah XI. 11-12; and it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people which shall be left from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathras, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar or Chaldea, and from Harmah, and from the Islands of the Sea; and He shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah, from the four corners of the earth." And verse 13 reads: "The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim." Herodotus says that these peoples were the descendants of Ham, the Grecian Historians denominated them blacks, with frizzly or curly hair. That portion of the earth which was first peopleled after Adam and Eve had left Paradise, was the land of Ethiopia by the Ethiopians, on the river Gihon, that went out of the garden of Eden, "which compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia, 4003 B. C. The children of Ethiopia were from Adam to Nvah, through the lineage of Seth. Gen. V. The descendants of these "blameless Ethiopians," are having a pretty hard time now, but there is really no occasion for fear as to the ultimate result of the struggle through which they are now passing in this country and in Africa. The prophecy contained in Isaiah has not yet found its fulfillment. We are standing on the edge of the future—a future big with promise to all the oppressed peoples of the earth, and when that promise materializes—to be a Negro will be the proudest title any man can bear. All this noise the South, and is re-echoed in the North in one form or another is born about the Negro that comes up from of the intuitive knowledge that a day of reckoniig is coming. Might has constituted itself Right, in the social evolution of the races, and so strongly is it entrenched in power over the earth that it believes itself invincible and invulnerable at every point. These notions do not square with God's notions of right, and justice and the righteousness "which exalteth a nation." For the sake of argument we will admit that the white race is on top in this country and in Europe, just now it occupies the centre of the stage, the synosure of all eyes. The performance however will not be continuous. The dark race is the last race. It isabsorbing and assimilating and digesting the lessons which these so-called superior races are teaching, 'gainst the time when the command to Ethiopia to "stretch forth her hands unto God shall be thundered from the blue empyrean—and then all nations shall bow and confess that God is the Lord and that His mercies endure forever. To the Negro let me say in the words of the Poet: Naught without can keep you back Rise above it: Rise above it; In yourself is all the luck Rise above it; There is nothing that can mar Life for you, but what you are; If there's any inward bar Rise above it! This world doesn't belong to any nation, it belongs to God, and all of God's children are citizens of His mighty Republic. There never was, and there never will be a white man's country, or a black man's country, in all the world. In God's country there are no distinctions of class or race, and the buttonheaded white men of the South, who prate about a white man's country and white domination, could not have such a thing if they thier because in nearly all of the old slave states of the South, the white man has mingled his blood with the Negro, and there's scarcely a pure white man in that section, and they know it. BRUC GRIT EXAMPLE SHOULD BE FOLLOWED. I purchased a copy of COLORED AMERICAN this week with B. T. Washington's picture as supplement. I consider this step an advancement in Negro journalism and one which our better Negro papers would do well to follow. I consider your paper confined to no class or sect but a paer of the people. I congratulate Your paper is the sweetest scented rose that has bloomed in the garden of journalism during the past and present century. Hope you will keep it up. success than now imaginable. SALOON. FritzReuter's WASHINGTON, D. C. HOTEL AND RESTAURANT 451 453, 455, 457 Penn. 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(No branch houses,) Phone 1425 SANTAL-MIDY Standard remedy for Gleet, Gonorrhoea and Runnings IN 48 HOURS. Cures Kid- ney and Bladder Troubles. MIDY W. M. DRURY'S RESTAURANT 1100 20th St., corner L. N. W THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. @ Ge =~. Ga 2 Ge BSA we Wy] j Ce — = te] | Hi ae SS ht i | Ve Ze y | | yy} A os M 4 if WHEL TU \ Ree ABTA \\ Ni aa SAW \\\ | \} dh Kh Re OS a a yy \ MN A\\\\ \ \\ i | WU ww \\\\ WAN 27, Sie...) 33 \\Y .\ i Y kigti ys ee 2» \\ 3 , Lip Ld BEEZ ae | i= Y We a Tae ———— eZ ZEEE SSS Z — Wie zz VE“ Lh aL Yi Ea 7 = Sees ee So eR=— ____— y iZFer»~jJ»qAqv»AA~é=U0mO DDUDMDADmNTOmr ra or REV. H- T. JOHNSON, D. D. Editor Christian Recorder, Who Recently won a lew suit for $10,000 4 FARMER'S CONFER_.ENCE The Real Problem Being Solyed —News Notes Columbia, S. C., Special.—tI noticed an article in the morning state paper of this city, concerning the cclored farmers’ conference, lately organized in Beaufort county. The purpose of the organization is to promote edu- cation and independence of the colcred people of this section. In my opinion it is a good idea in all but the colored farmers in other localities don’t fol- low the example of their Beaufort brothers. But the colored farmers of this state are awakening to the fact that it is high time to abolish the mortgage system, which deprives them of the real ‘value of their” produces, and causes them tc pay low prices for their provisions. About 9 o'clock Friday morning, February 20th, a fatal accident hap- pened in the mill district of this city. Friday morning, Charles Young, Philip Alston, and Charles Washington, re- ported for.duty at the Stewart quarry, at which they had been employed for a number of vears, after putting in their repert, they ascended into the great yawning chasm in the stony breast of Mother Earth. Charles was powder man for the company; Alston was a driller, and Young, a laborer, the men had taken with them a box of dynamite, which was necessary to their work, no one knows how the ac- cident happened, but shortly after- wards a terrible sound was heard and the men were hurreled heavenwards in a volume of smoke. They fell in mangled masses of flesh and bone. A large crowd gathered to witness the scene. > MOSES F. JACKSON. FATHER TIME. A Thriving Maryland Town— Local News Fairmont. Ma.. Special—While the sun was slowly sinking behind the western hills, the angetl of death pass- ed over the abode, summoning him who has become bent with the weight of years and tired on his journey, he laid down by the wayside, taking his burden for a pillow, he fell into that dreamless sleep which kisses his eye- lids still. Such was Mr. Joshua M. Beckett, born «1830, in Accomac coun- ty, Virginia. Being a slave for twenty-nine years, he received his liberty may 30th, 1859, shortly after he moved to Fairmount. Mo., at which place he remained until he died, Sat- urday 21st, 1903. While here he mar- ried,.Mrs. Mary Bowser, having two children, Estella and Marcelena Beck- ett. His wife and youngest daughter, Marcelena Waters survive him. The bereaved family has the sympathy of the community in this, their hour of sorrow. Miss Ada Custus, a student of the Princess Anne Academy, spent two days here on a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Custus. The fourth quarterly conference of Centenial M. E. Church was held Feb. 9th, with pre- siding elder J. R. Waters, D. D. In the chair, and H. S. Wilson, Secretary. The financial records of the church amounts to $1,209.68, Rev. 5. F. Mo- lock, the pastor. Too much cannct be said of him for his energetic work, notwithstanding the fact that nearly two-thirds of the congregation has been away all the winter. Miss Lelia Carrell is visiting the Misses Annie and Martha Waters. Miss Sarah Hall is visiting Miss Lillian B. Waters. Rev. Rebert H. Boggs, left here Saturday for Rock Creeks where he is pastor. Mr. F. D. Jones has been quite alarmed over his hot-bed during would be frosted. The schooner Rosa Boggs, belonging to Robert N. Boggs, was driven upon the shore during the storm and dam- aged. ALBANY. NEW YORK ITEMS. Albany, N. Y., Special.—Mrs. Albert Anthony is very low, with general debility. Her sister-in-law is looking after her. Mrs. Wiley Wilson, of West Albany, who has been ill for some time is abcut the same. Mr. Raphael Cisnero has recovered from a slight attack of pneumonia, from which he has been suffering. Miss Christine Egbert has been con- fined to her room for a few days with a heavy cold. Mr. Wm. H. Brent is also on the sick list, being confined to his home with a cold. Dr. Wm. H. Johnson exhibited his panorama, Friday night, at 584 Broad- way. It was attended by a large audience, who expressed their appre- ciation by generous applause. Mr. Chas. Shelvyy, of North Adams, Mass., was in the city for a short stay among friends. Among these who observéd the holi- day by giving Martha Washington tea parties, were Mrs. J. W. Price, Mrs. R. M. Madison, Mrs. E, D. Thompson, Mrs. G. A. Williams, Mrs. Wm. H. Johnson, Mrs. Plato, Miss Lavinia Williams, Miss Virginia ewis and Miss Maymia Holt. The “Hcousehold” gave their annual reception last week, which was well attended, and a large amount was realized. The “Odd Fellows” enrolled five new members last Monday evening. Mr. John Erving stopped with his sister-in-law last week to straighten out a few matters before leaving for Boston. The Cooks and Waiters’ Unicn of the N. Y. C. Dining Car Service held a meeting recently which was largely at- tended, and good results were report- ed. James Raisson, of Brooklyn, receiv- ed his appointment as messenger at the Capitol last week. Fred Johnson, a candidate for another position, has ae unsuccessful as yet. | DELIGHTED WITH OUR STORY. Lexington, Ky.—I have to hané 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 apprecia- tion of the same. We have Mr. Wash- ington 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, be- cause of an invitation by one Gen. Gen- try, an ex-Confederate, to entertain . Mr. Washington to a rabbit chase. Glad to see you so loyally and royally wield your pen in defense of Mr. Washington. Surely you have done mitch for the cause he so manfully advocates. The American is all right. With best wishes I am, Yours etc., Po D-R: ANOTHER PROGRESSIVE MOVE. The supplement to THE Cororep AMERICAN in the way of a beautiful en- graving of the distinguished Booker T. Washington is another progressive move in Negro journalism—Arkansas Appre- ciator. ; ee ee 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 recogniz- es the wrong» of the Negro and his position gives him opportunity for practical sympathy. 2 SS We have been reading of a colored newspaper man in Springfield Il., who in addition to his journalistic duties, runs a restaurant, a bar room and a Pool room For versatility, where can you find a newspaper man’s peer? a a a Se While the colored editors are fight- ing among themselves, the Southern white press is molding sentiment; and enacting laws against the colored people. eh Se ats Another and probably the last of the Old Guard who battled for the rights 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. J. Milton Turner looms up a most formidable candidate for Chief Com- missioner of the race’se exhibit at St. Louis. ee eas, Mr. J. T. Tascoe, a well known at- tachee of Messrs. Parker Bridget & Co., was agreeably surprised on Thurs- day evening, of last week, at his re- sidence, 909 W Street, northwest. About thirty friends gathered to cele- brate his 14th anniversary. It was a few weeks ahead of time, but Mr. and Mrs. Tascoe entertained their friends in a royal manner, and everything passed off very pleasantly. A man- dclin club enlivened the occasion with music. Among those present were Col. James W. Jackson, J. H. Lomax, Wm. Walker, John A. Cooper, Wm. Tibbs, Howard Green, Wm. Poindex- ter, Edward Brooks and many others, ome . - ay ey THE LAGORS STANDARD A WEst AFRICAN NEGRO NEwerapeR Brrar, Baenzy & Up-to -Darr Its pages are open to the discussion ef religious and olitical questions and all mattera affecting the Progress of the race. It contains all the latest intelligenca about the movements of foreign ng tions in Africa, and an epitome o f news, local, foreign and coastwise, _ Membors of the race in America can tell from 1t what their brethren in this part of the world are doing while in tending emigrants will fiad in it 9 jot of usefal information about steamship companies, rates of passages, routes to Atrica. etc. etc. SUBSCRIPTION. One year = $3.50 Six months ae 1.85 Three months - 1,0 PAYABLE IN ADVANCE, pep Pcstage included. Address— THE LAGOS STANDARD, G. A. Wii11aMs, Editor, Lagos, West Africa. Wanted A few colored boys and girls to can. vase for a first class line of goods in the following territortes: Washington, D, ©. Virginia, Maryland, Wost Virginia North Carolina and Pennsylvania, two-thirds of our agents on straight salary from one to two dollars pt day. General agents from $12 OU to $15°00 per week and board. This compasy live up to every iota of their contracts, Good chance for idle school teachers, dressmakers and other poor people who have no work and r> money. Calla The Colored American office from 9toilla.m. Wm. H. Brown, Mgr. canst acai ea ag nea 00 peace et PD ture Star sad (eh 4/1) a TdT 41D ee 50 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE Trape MarKs DESIGNS CopyricHTs &¢- Anyone sending a sketch and description 25 quickly ascertain our opinion free wh« t a invention is probably patentable. Comes tions strictly confidential. HANDBOOK on Parente 3ent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific Americar. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Larrest culation of any scientific journal, Tete, s year: four months, $L. Sold byall newsoust MUNN & C_0,3818roadway. New York Branch 628 F St. Washing! on, D. © A NEW BOOK JUST OUT! "Negro Almanac and Statistics." Prof. E. A. Johnson, the well known author of the "History of the Negro Race," and "History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish American War," has recently given to the public another valuable work known as a "Negro Almanac and Statistics." The North Carolina edition contains a copy of the amended constitution of that State, with the grand father clause, so that the colored citizens who are required to read the constitution before being qualified to vote, may learn to do so by purchasing a copy of this book, and studying therein the new constitution; all of which makes this new book especially valuable and timely to the citizens of North Carolina. But the work is "brim full" of valuable statistics of interest to the race everywhere. The Almanac division gives J. PROF. E. A. JOHOSON. some event opposite nearly each day in the year, such as birth, death, or achievement of Negroes. Then follows the headings of Education, Religion, Military, Music, Art, Literature, Politics and Business, under each of which are compiled the leading events and achievements of the race for the last two years. Especially interesting is the list of Negro authors and their publications, names of Negro inventors and their patents, names of prominent Negro office holders in most of the Southern states. Also the latest statistics of wealth, schools, and population, with per centage of increase according to the last census, in fact an excellent compilation of the doings of the race for the last two years. There is nothing like it now on the market, and the work is valuable to speakers and those who desire ready and handy information about race progress. The race is greatly indebted to Prof. Johnson for thus compiling and giving its best doings to the public. MR. THOMPSON IN TUSKEGEE. Mr. R. W. Thompson who has been associated with The Colored American for the past seven or eight years has accepted a position under Dr. Washington, at Tuskegee, Ala. Mr. Thompson is one of the best all around newspaper men the race has produced. He is a bright star in that brilliant galaxy of writers such as T. Thomas Fortune, John E. Bruce, H. T. Kealing, John C. Dancy and John S. Durham. The Colored American's loss will be Tuskegee's gain. Speaking of Tuskegee he writes under date of the 14th: "I am nicely situated here, and I am sure the quiet life will be a welcome change from the hurly-burly of an unsatisfactory city existence. The society is congenial, the work is to my liking, and I am treated with the utmost cordiality and respect. Dr. Washington is a "Wizard," and Tuskegee is the eight wonder of the world—a modern Utopia—a community sufficient unto itself. NEGROES LEFT OUT Continu d from first page part in the Negro Department, of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, at St. Louis, Mo., in 1904, and thereby frustrate what now seems to us, to be, on the part of the said Commissioners, an effort to place the American Negro in an unsavory and f position be- THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. A. H. REV J. E. RANKIN· D. D. Who Recently Resigned from the Presidency of Howard University. the visitors representing the various nations of the earth. Thus, this is a matter most intimately important, which concerns us alone, but the future destiny Don't forget to exchange your ticket for the Hackley Recital. Diagram of seats at the office of the Record, after 3 o'clock Friday, the 20th. Come early and pick out a choice seat. AMERICAN IS ALL RIGHT. The Colored American is the leading race paper in the United States. It is always full of news.—Southwestern Herald, Victory, Texas. 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. We believe in giving credit to whom credit is due, and for this reason we say three cheers for THE COLORED AMERICAN of Washington, D. C., for its get-up and get in journalism. It deserves the patronage of the people all over the country.—The Rock Hill Messenger. . . 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. 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. The old man eloquent, Rt. Rev. H. M. Turner, Senior Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, writes a letter, which appears in this issue of The Colored American. He is an enthusiastic emigrationist, and believes that Africa is designed to be the future home of the American Negro. The Bishop is as vigorous and as sound mentally and physically as he was twenty-five years ago; and has the happy faculty of going directly to the heart of any subject he takes up. His letter is a strong presentation of his case. Agents who have not made their reports and settlements in this office for some time are hereby warned that unless a settlement comes this week no more papers will be set them. This will also apply to a number of delinquent subscribers who are considerably in ar- fore the visitors representing the various nations of the earth. To us, this is a matter most imperatively important, whichc concerns not us alone, but the future destiny of our people in America, and our influence and respect with foreign nations for centuries to come. "To be, or not to be," that's the question. We can, if united, present a creditable exhibi We shall be pled to co-operate with every Afro-American representative upon this most important and vital issue. Can we hear from you? If so; write us at Hearne, Robertson Co., Texas; Headquarters Afro-American Louisiana Purchase Exposition. REV. J. HARVEY JONES, M. D., Comm. Genl. Comm. Genl. or RT. REV. A. GRANT, D. D., Indianapolis, Indiana. Yours for the Rights of Man, J. Harvey Jones, Hearne, Texas; J. S. Tibbitt, Houston, Texas; A. D. Miller, Calvert, Texas; W. Hartley Jackson, Navasota, Texas; S. J. Walker, Marlin, Texas; W. M. Hill, Centreville, Texas; C. F. Simmons, Washington, Texas; H. R. Sweet, Hearne, Texas; T. H. Love, Hearne, Texas; A. B. Pepkins, Hearne, Texas; B. W. Roberts, Waco, Texas, and hundreds of others. The published reports of the result of the suit for damages against Mr. John Mitchell, Jr., of the Richmond Planet brought by Mr. Nelson Williams, Jr., of the Virginia Baptist State S. S. Convention, were not accurate in the statement that the costs of the suit were assessed upon Mr. Williams. The decree of the Court, a copy of which has reached The Colored American, finds that the grievance was wilful on the part of Mr. Mitchell, and while Mr. Williams was accorded damages in the sum of one cent only, the costs were specifically ordered to be paid by the defendant Mitchell. Hon. C. H. Payne, of Huntington, West Virginia, recently appointed as U. S. Counsel to the Danish West Indies is in the city. He will leave to take up his new post of duty at an early date. Mr. Wm. H. H. Terrell, Jr., formerly with The Colored American, is visiting his father and relatives in this city. He has been successfully engaged in business in Falls Rver, Mass. The colored press of Texas is almost a unit in favor of the teachings of Dr. Booker T. Washington; and are landing heavily on his critics. The Washington Assemble gave a banquet at Gray's Cafe, on M. Street, last Wednesday evening. It was a most pleasant affair. Mr. Lewis Meyer is President. HIP, HIP, HURRAH! ATTENTION AGENTS. DRESS MAKING ACADEMY. The de Lam Orton Famous French Perfection Tailor System Mme J. A. Smallwood, Sole Agent 1513 Madison street, northwest. Morning class from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. Afternoon class 2 to 5 p. m. daily. Evenings from 7.30 to 10 o'clock. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, dress makers and ladies who wish to do their ow dressmaking. WANTED-To learn the wonderful De Lam Orton French Perfection Tailor System. Seamless Basques without one inch of visible seam, in lining or goods, not even on the shoulder. Successful dressmaking requires as much earnest progressive study as successful work in any of the professions. No detail is o small to be looked after. We teach you to ke dresses with or without seam and guarantee perfect fits, and complete your course with a diploma. Pupils can enter at any time. The Livingston Dressmaking School. The Livingston Dress cutting and Dress making School is offering a new attraction A class has been formed in which im broidery as applied to personal adornme t is taught. Miss Charlott E. Hunter has been placed in charge of this work. Persons desiring to learn decorative embroider should apply at once to Mrs. L R. Clarke, principal of the school as only a limited number can be taken Terms etc., cheerfully furnished at the school, 1439 W Street Northwest. Dressmaking. Mrs. L. R. Clark's School of Dress Cutting, Making, Ladies Tailoring, Designing. Embroidery and Millinery, 1439 W st. n. w., Branch Schools, Y. M. C. A. No. 12, Druid Hill, Ave., Baltimore, Md. and Lynchburg, Va. If you have a spare room that you would like to rent to desirable parties, advertise them in The Colored American. 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Rates cheerfully given, and no cost to you unless the loan is made. Loans made any where in the District. Call and get rates. Front room, first floor, Scientific American building. Nation al Mortgage Loan Co. 625 F St., N. W. HERE IS A CHANCE. Tc get the money you want We have more than we need. We will make loans to every body without delay. If you want money we us to-day. You will not be disappointed. Loans made on Furniture, Pianos, Organs, Etc., without removal. Loans to salaried employees Without endorsement. Capital Loan Guaran- tee Company. WE Have a Bar'l of 3 to lend on furniture pianos, &c. No delay. Goods are not disturbed. You return the money in small payments. If you have a loan and need more money we can fix you up Business confidential. Phone M 3042. SURETY LOAN COMPANY, Suite 1 Warder Building, cor. 9th and F, 523 9th. THE COLORED AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. COLLEGE DU LATTE DR. C. E. BENTLEY. DR. BENTLEY'S TRIUMPH. Chicago's Leading Dentist Scores a Point and Proves Himself a Master Organizer—Genius Covers Color Prejudice and a Multitude of Sins It is a well-known fact that Dr. C. E. Bentley is the leading dentist of his race in the United States; an important public event this week has accented the fact that he takes a prominent and honored place in the general profession, without regard to race or condition. Last Monday and Tuesday the Odontographic Society, of Chicago, the largest local dental association in the world, celebrated its fifteenth anniversary. The event took the form of clinics, exhibits and essays by leading specialists, and called out the largest gathering of dentists ever held in the history of the profession. Between fifteen hundred and twenty-five hunred were expected. As a matter of fact, the attendance by actual register count was more than three thousand, and the interest and enthusiasm slown was unprecedented. Dr. Bentley was chairman of the program committee for this event, and when he was introduced to that large audience last Monday morning the presiding officer presented him as "the man to whom the unparalleled success of this meeting is largely due—the man to whose energy, whose extended acquaintance, and whose rare professional perception made it possible to bring together so many men from different sections, and to place before them a program of such value and importance." The vigorous applause which followed these remarks showed that they were the sentiments of the crowd which filled the auditorium of the Northwestern Dental College. The Odontographic Society, which has grown to such size that it is only second to the National Association, was formed fifteen years ago by a small group of dentists, whose object was to further the scientific advancement of their profession. The meeting was held in Dr. Bentley's office, and he was elected its first president. Since then he has held various offices in the association and his name is prominently linked with all the important actions of that body. It was Dr. Bentley who recently brought the subject of dentistry in the public schools before this society, receiving their hearty approval and support. He was chairman of a committee which made an exhaustive international inquiry into this matter, three- adding some important data to the general subject. Dr. Bentley took up this matter of the schools with his accustomed energy, and has spoken on it in public on several occasions, notably for the last two years in the Record-Herald courses of free public lectures. He has also carried the gospel into all the adjacent States, having been invited to speak before several State and local societies, and the interest in this matter, spreading slowly but surely, is largely the outcome of his personal efforts. The anniversary of the Odontographic Society ended in a brilliant banquet at the Auditorium Hotel, to which about 800 guests sat down. The committee in charge of the affair selected as speakers the most prominent dentists representing different sections of the country. Dr. Bentley was one of the Chicago representatives, making a telling and much applauded speech. It gives the Conservator much satisfaction to mention one of our men who, in spite of the drawbacks of existing conditions, has pushed his way to the front in his chosen line of work by the force of individual fitness and merit alone.—Chicago Conservator. Too often the Negro is his own worst enemy. Archbishop Ireland, the well known Catholic prelate spoke out in ringing sentences for the just rights of the Negro race at the Lincoln Memorial Banquet, in Chicago, on the night of the 12th inst. Down n Arkansas the legislature is trying to pass a bill fining severely any jailer or guard who hand-cuffs black and white prisoners together. A lynching bee might be interfered with, you know. Twenty-eight white men have been indicted in Mississippi for lynching two Negroes, and eleven of the fiends are actually in jail; stranger still, public sentiment demands their punishment. There must be some way devised to reach the lying Associated Press agents throughout the country, who are constantly telegraphing false news touching the Negro. The Bishops of the A. M. E. Church lately in session at Wilberforce, Ohio sent a dignified manly and graceful letter to the President, thanking him for his attitude towards the race. It has been suggested that some of the enterprising "literary" presidents, arrange with the Pen and Pencil Club, or Messrs. 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The southern Negro is away ahead of his northern brother in enterprise, in spite of his unfavorable conditions. The injunction to fear God and love your fellow-men of course includes women. But one at a time, please. A young man can best develop self-denial and thrift by assuming some financial obligation, and living up to his promises. The New England Negroes are agitating the propriety of holding a suffrage convention at Cleveland, Ohio in June next. Fathers and mothers, where do your boys spend their evenings? Look them up and perhaps save yourselves years of regret and grief. The United States has been patient with Santo Domingo. Minister Powell is untying the diplomatic hard knots without the aid of a gunboat. Secretary Root's statement that Negro suffrage was a failure though misunderstood, has probably done the race more harm than the vaporings of Hayes. The preservation of the morals of the next generation of fathers and mothers depends first upon our making their home life happy and attractive now. Agriculture is after all the noblest pursuit. Tuskegee will educate the hand that holds the plough not less than the head that plans the succession of crops. Pulpit and college alike grow more servile to rich men as the years go by. Both, cap in hand, cringe before the almighty dollar "that thrift may follow fawning." The prospect that all fortunes in excess of $10,000,000 will be forfeited to the government has up to date brought no single protest from any of our subscribers. The New Orleans police do not tackle the Negro directly now. They first smoke him out and then kill him. Afterwards they inquire what he is charged with. If the South Carolina Courts give Jim Tillman, the murderer of Gonzales, the full extent of the law, the southern white man may not be quite so ready with his gun hereafter. It is all very well to advise the Negro to get rich, but with all his superior advantages, only about or white man in a thousand gets by. Cut and come again for the black man. The railroad and traction companies are enemies more deadly to the Jim Crow car than the Negro himself. To supply separate accommodations for the two races is expensive, and the companies are not in the business for their health only. EX-CONGRESSMAN SMALLS. Endorses A Race Enterprise Substantially. R. W. Tyler, Esq., Sec'y Wilgera Oil & Gas Co., Columbus, Ohio. Sir:—Enclosed find P. O. Money Order for twenty-five (25) shares in the Wilgera Oil & Gas company. I will probably increase the number of shares. Please send me a few blank applications, as there are other gentlemen here ready to subscribe as soon as they receive the necessary blanks. GENERAL ROBERT O'MALLEY GENERAL ROBERT SMALLS. I have received your letter of Jan. 26th, and read it with a great deal of care and interest. I assure you I feel very proud of your organization and shall do all I can to encourage my people to take hold of it. It is only one of the enterprises that our people need to stimulate to greater efforts. As you say, so say I, let the company be exclusively in the hands of our own people. Let us own every dollar of the stock, and thus demonstrate our capacity to own and control, and properly manage such a corporation. I am with you; I congratulate you; I am at your services to do what I can to help you win success, and winning success give the lie to the oft repeated assertion "the Negro is a failure in business. Yours for success, ROBERT SMALLS. A COLORED OPERA HOUSE Prof Theodore Drury The Brilliant Actor Singer at The Head of The Movement Mr. Theodore Drury wishes to announce that he has at last gained possession of the ground in New York City upon which he intends to build an opera house for colored people. He is going to organize a stock company, and all those wishing to take stock will please write him at 217 East 59th St. New York. The stock will be sold at $100 per share. The opera house will be built to accommodate principally our local entertainments, and will have all the latest improvements in stage arrangements, etc. There will be a dance hall attached, bar, dining room, and everything to make it comfortable and elegant. The prospects of the production of Aida this season on May 11th, point to an overwhelming artistic success. The engagement of Mrs. Estelle Clough, of Worcester, Mr. Drury is very gratified to announce, as he considers her one of the greatest prima donnas of the race, both musically and vocally; also Mr. Geo. G. Ruffin, of Boston. In the second set will appear a ballet which he hopes will be an improvement on last season as rehearsals have begun. The usual reception and dance will follow the opera. 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All letters, communications, and business matters should be addressed to THE COLORED AMERICAN, EDWARD E. COOPER, MANAGER 459 C Street Northwest. WASHINGTON, D. C. Sold by all all News Dealers. SATURDAY. FEBURARY 28 1908. THE EX-SLAVE PENSION. We cannot too strongly urge our people throughout the South to beware of the agitation now progressing over the proposition to pension the aged ex-slaves of their section. We have heretofore spoken plainly on this subject, but now life has apparently been given to the project by the introduction in the United States Senate, by Senator Hnana, of a bill looking to that end. Of course, these dear old sufferers, discrepit and well nigh helpless, excite our profound sympathy and if it were within the bounds of probability, that such a measure would succeed, we would lend our utmost aid to the cause. The bill cannot pass. Senator Hanna explains that he has introduced it by request, and declines to state that he favors it. The leaders of the Republican party take no stock in it. It is at war with every principle, which underlies our present pension system. Its passage would at once derange our financial system and its only apparent excuse for serious discussion is the hope of its proposers that some of the hard earned dollars of the race, and especially those whose parents would be benefitted by favorable action on the bill, will be paid for agitation and publicity. We do not think there is anything in the charge, that the introduction of the measure is a subtle bid for Negro votes in the next Republican National Convention. It is unnecessary, for it is as certain as the everlasting hills, that President Roosevelt will be nominated to succeed himself. Not one dollar should be subscribed for this hopeless enterprise. Colored editors are not fighting each other at present. The enemy is too formidable to waste ammunition. United effort will aid to settle the vexed problems. A GRAND MAN Archbishop Ireland's remarks in Chicago a few months ago on the Negro question have produced a profound impression. His individual attitude towards the race has long been known and his utterances were to have been expected of him. He is as true as THE COLORED AMEPICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. steel, and consistent with his prior magnificent deliverances. He is the very apostle of the humanities. But there is a deeper significance in his Chicago speech. It has a more authoritative ring, and we cannot resist the impression that t the pronouncement was inspired by the Catholic Hierarchy. The Catholic Church has always been the Negroes' friend. She has sought his conversion, she has sent her priestly messengers—not to stand upon a holy hill and talk to the people far below—but to go down among them, and lead them to the higher spiritual life by daily contact, and by the powerful force of visible daily example. Her destinies are guided by the world's greatest minds. Her polity reflects their consummate ability. Her ambition is to gather the world into the ranks of her devotees. Perhaps she sees in the present great wave of depreciation and denunciation of the Negro, her opportunity to proselyte him, to bring him to her cummounion, and then to turn upon his destructors and enemies, and threaten them with the terrors of her sanctions. Does the Negro himself see this, and will he respond to her overtures? Who knows whether the race, dispirited, hopeless, staggering on in life's bitter journey, with no ray of light illuminating his pathway, may not in sheer despair, cast himself and his burdens into the arms of the Mother Church, and plead for her sacraments and her protection? Suppose, for example, the great African Methodist Episcopal Church, with her proud history and her magnificent achievements, accomplished within the compass of a single century, should conclude that the Nero's truest and best buckler and shield against his present inhuman treatment is the Roman Catholic Church, and should lead the mighty forces of Methodism into the Church of Rome? Would not the political, not less the religious world, stand aghast? Yet this may come to pass. It may be the Negros necessity, perhaps his earthly salvation. He looks in vain for active sympathy or protest from the Protestant Churches, North or South, and the ministers and the leaders of his own race are impotent to right his wrongs. Will the protestant churches permit this great field to be invaded and the harvest gathered by the Catholic churh? The danger is imminent. The South seems willing to surrender her excessive representation, repeal of the 15th Amendment. She provided the North will consent to the will not be accommodated. The present session of Congress is fast coming to a close, and what with the trust legislation and the conflict in the Senate over the omnibus statehood bill, there appears to be great danger that the fourth of March will arrive without action on that t measure of such grave import to the race—the bill creating the Freedman's Inquiry Comission. The race by every means and every appliance within its control or influence should promptly bring to the knowledge of Senators and Representatives how widespread, urgent and unanimous is the sentiment,—yes, the demand among us for the enactment of the measure. This is a period of great unrest among the Negroes. He sees his enemies rampant and unblushing in their attacks upon his dearest rights, and his quandam friends if not hostile at least temporizing. We have marvelled greatly at the extent and simultaneousness of this crusade on the Negro question, and have been at a loss to account for it. There is surely a motive behind it. It has been suggested that it is an elaborate, cooly-devised scheme to divide the Republican party in the North and incidently defeat the President for re-nomination in the next Republican National Convention. Again conjecture points out as the probable cause, a desire to stimulate emigration to Africa and the islands of the Pacific ocean. Whatever the reason, the magnificent showing along every line of industry, and in the acquisition of every form of property, which we are confident the report of such a commission as proposed will present, will renew our own strength for continuing our upward march, will re-awaken the consciences of our white friends, and will put forever to rest the agitation looking to depriving the race of his dearly bought civil and political rights. The mass meeting of Negroes in Cooper Union, in New York City, on the 19th inst., was a notable gathering. Its protest against the Southern suffrage iniquities was dignified and convincing. No intemperance of speech like the Hayes' outbreak marred the occasion and the influence of such a meeting will be wide spread without doubt. The resignation of Rev. J. E. Rankin as President of Howard University, just announced, will be received with profound regret. His thirteen years service to this institution has left upon it the impress of his scholarship, his high christian character, and his devotion to the development of the race. His place will be difficult to fill, but there is no doubt that his logical successor, indeed perhaps the best equipped man for the succession is Prof. Kelly Miller, whose brilliant career is well known to the country. Of ripe scholarship, of broad culture, a thinker and a forceful writer, not only on race topics but upon every subject which touches the economic condition of the United States, Professor Miller adds to these elements of fitness a personal character above reproach or suspicion, and the factor of constant daily contact with Dr. Rankin for a period of years in the educational work of Howard. Then too, what an object lesson and inspiration to earnest, aspiring young coloured men would his elevation to this office offer. The Board of Trustees have a magnificent opportunity, and they should not hesitate to demonstrate their belief that the rewards of manhood and of scholarship are the heritage of the black man no less than of his white brother. A cogent, manly and unanswerable document is the appeal of John F. Cook, Dr. C. B. Purvis, Gov. Pinchback, Kelly Miller and others to the U. S. Senate for the confirmation of Dr. Crum. They state the case with exactness. TO THE CRITICS Our exchanges are much given to adverse criticism of our public men, and especially of those who have done or are doing things. Out in California the enthusiasm created by the recent visit of the recognized apostle of industrial education was most marked among the whites. Their newspapers teemed with praises of the man and his work. He was compared with the great men of America, and with Toussaint L'Ouverture, Frederick Douglass, and other giants of the race, and it was even asserted that he was greater than them all. Mr. Washington, unlike these small negative souls, who do not approve of his work—he has done things. No other American has ever started so low and reached so high. Conservative universities lavish their honorary degrees upon him, scientific and educational bodies throughout the land welcome him to their deliberations, the president of the United States counsels with him and is proud to call him a personal friend, and the great Tuskegee School is doing its masterly and Heavenly inspired work under the guidance of his matchless skill and untiring energy. But the average Negro we regret to say is a knocker. Toussaint made a nation—Havti is his monument. Yet this race betrayed him to the brutality of Napoleon, the scourge of Europe. Frederick Douglass consecrated his life to his race and his imperishable fame is written in the Emancipation Proclamation. Yet he died a victim of the malevolence and ingratitude of his own people. Among the many lessons we have vet to learn as a people, not the least important is that we should cease our puerile strictures upon our great men,—the men who have done and are doing things. These strictures but react upon us in the estimation of our proven leaders in the work which it seems clear God has commissioned them to perform. Recorder John C. Dancy had a very busy week lately in responding to calls for addresses. He began by delivering an address on Abraham Lincoln, with Hon. Judson W. Lyons, at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, on the night of Lincoln's birthday anniversary; on Friday he eulogized "Frederick Douglass," at one of the city schools; on Sunday afternoon, in the absence of all the other speakers, he delivered the eulogy on the late "Hon. Thos. B. Reed;" at night he spoke at Big Bethel Church on "Richard Allen," in Baltimore, and on Friday spoke to the students of Minor Normal School, of this city, on "The Qualities Which Made George Washington." Large audiences greeted him at each point, and those who heard him say he did not use so much as a note in either address. He always prefers extemporaneous speaking. That was really a busy week. The Negroes have a number of powerful writers in the District and so'twas a mooted question, who wrote the Crum appeal to the Senate. Prof. Kelly Miller was the first favorite of conjecture, but we believe it is now agreed that honors are easy between Judge Terrell and Prof. L. M. Hershaw both of whom are artists with the pen. In every field of activity, the Negro is progressive and invariably becomes a man of mark. He has not but just now begun to aspire to excellence in the mimic Art, but he has a long and honorable record of success on the stage. The great tragedian, Ira Aldridge led the van and brilliant names succeed his on the roll of honor. The race has assayed tragedy, comedy, opera, burlesque and vaudeville and always with gratifying financial and artistic results. At the present time the popular taste demands the vaudeville. Patrons of theatres insist that their attendance is for relaxation from the grinding cares of daily lives, and they will not respond to the enticements of high tragedy or lurid melodrama, each with its harrowing details and fatiguing and frequently impossible situation. They must be entertained, pleased and made to laugh. Vaudeville is their outlet and our race is supplying its full share in answer to this demand. There are a number of reputable colored companies, now on the road doing high-class business to first-class audiences, and The Colored American notes the fact with pleasure. In every part of the country they have proved popular attractions. Among the very best of them are the combinations known as "Williams and Walker," "Cole and Johnson," and the "Smart Set." They all present refined and superior attainments. To show the popularity of these companies it may be noted that two of them—"Williams and Walker," and the "Smart Set," with Ernest Hogan in the lead, and Gus Hill as manager, will open in New York City simultaneously, each for a week's run, on the evening of the twenty-third instant, the former at the New York Theatre, cn Broadway, and the latter at the 14th Street Theatre. It would surely have been sufficient source of pride if one such company had secured dates in the great metropolis and at such high-class theatres, but to have two of them thus invade the sacred precincts of the very elect, and at the same time speaks volumes for them, and for the whole race. Good luck to them. Give the Negro a fair chance and he will hold his own. The Washington Post of the 20th says that the only true test of an office holder is his fitness to perform the required duties, and in the very same article, says that tht South Carolina people object to Dr. Crum, and that must settle that question. Mr. Beriah Wilkins does not seem to be getting his money's worth in the editorial department of The Post. Dr. Booker T. Washington, who spoke at the Mammoth Meeting in commemoration of George Washington, in New York City last Sunday night, passed through the city Monday morning en route to Tuskegee. SOME OF THE THINGS WHICH HINDER THE PROGRESS OF THE PROGRESS OF THE RACE. Princess Anne, Special.—The race should always feel proud to have identified with them such men as that most learned and cultured gentleman, the Rev. Dr. Dickson, presiding elder of the A. M. E. Zion Conference, whose lecture was mentioned in last week's issue, on the following subject: "Some of the things that hinder the progress of the race." Thinking it would be interesting to some of our readers we will give the synopsis of his discourse. First, he says slavery entailed a train of evils, which were clearly shown; second, he showed that seven and a half generations the Negro had been subjected to degradation, ignorance, vice and immorality, being substantiated by history; he proved that it takes the same number of generations to fully eradicate from any people as a whole, the vices, ignorances, superstitions and illiteracy that have benn its fate. The Negro being no exception to the rule. He spoke of the Briton, who was once little above the brute kind, living in hovels, holes in the ground and hollows like the four-footed animal, and how it took generations and generations of education and refinement to make him what he is today, standing as a peer in civilization, culture and genius, to all races or peoples on the globe. He truly says, no sane mind could expect the highest type of manhood and womanhood evolved within the radius of forty years of freedom, even if every condition of encouragement, education, culture, refinement, religion and wealth had been his or her (Negro) legacy. While we have thousands of men and women of our race who have received the highest attainments in education, culture and refinement, and many have become possessors of immense stores of wealth, in a little over one generation, we readily agree with the Dr. that it will take years for the masses to reach the required standard, but when we search the statistical record we find with all the long years of advancement with which the dominant race has enjoyed taking them on an average, the masses, they do not exceed the Negro over one and a half generation. The writer has been an eye witness to this fact in part, on several occasions. The Dr. further states the only true curative remedy for this almost sanguine misfortune, which are love, education, the religion of our Lord Jesus Christ, culture, refinement and wealth. These he says, will solve the Negro problem, and will put to death prejudice, deep-seated hate, and the poison of the Negro-phobia, that now exists with the dominant race against us. No sane person will revert these assertions who is familiar with history. No people who are true to their God will ever retrograde, though their march to success may seem slowly, and at times almost at a standstill but they are sure to reach the highest stage of progression, their Maker being the guiding star. The last, but by no means the least, he says: Keep out of politics, I mean politics that lower our standard with the dominant race, as well as the best thinkers among our own race and secure homes, save your money, cultivate the soil, take up the various industries, require education, lift our moral standard higher, thus God the eternal arbiter between mar and man, nation and nation, will decide in our favor, if righteousness be found in us as a race and people. Rev. J. R. Waters, D. D., presiding elder of the Salisbury District, of the M. E. Church, held his fourth quarterly conference with the Metropolitan M. E. Church, Friday evening, the 20th inst. The meeting was a very pleasant one so reports the Dr. The Rev. M. H.Horsey, their most worthy pastor, has labored hard to build up his church work and people. It is conceded that he has done more in the interest of his people here than any pastor they have ever had. All the young people have the highest regard THE COLOR AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D. C. for him. They have planned to send him to conference next month in a costly new suit of clothes, which will be presented to him a few days prior to his departure to conference. They are all praying that he may be returned to them as they feel confident no one else can fill the place as he is doing. The faculty of the academy has effected an organization among the teachers, whose object shall be to study the character of the Negro as a product of the hereditary environments. The organization proposes to make a careful research of the Negro life in both Africa and America. They are at present reading a work entitled: Tillinghast's "The Negro in Africa and America," which is regarded as one of the best Negro histories. It is fair to say the club will not accept all they read before making a careful study and examination of the work, and from time to time make public their opinions. Our most esteemed and courteous agriculturist, Prof. A. L. Mebane, B. S. Agr., spent Saturday and Sunday in Salisbury, Md., looking up matters pertaining to his work. It's a pleasure to hear the ring of the hammer, the sound of the plane, and tone of the saw in the blacksmithing and wheelwrighting department over which Prof. W. W. Privott, is director. It is surprising how readily those boys learn to shape the iron, and carve the wood in mechanical shapes. It will be but a few years before some of these young men will receive diplomas from the hands of their principal as a guarantee of their competency to do any kind of work in their profession. Principal Trigg gave an eductional lecture at Union, Sunday 22nd inst. The Prof. is a busy man, he has no idle days or minutes, he is crowded with engagements. He is to make the principal address on industrial education at the annual conference which convenes at Pocomoke City, next month, we will say more about it later. The writer had the pleasure of being the guest to the "Eliza Smith's Lyceum, on the 21st inst. This is a literary organization for the young women. Their recitations, papers, duets, and quartetts were in every respect up to the standard. One of the most attractive features was a paper which was read last. It seemed to catch every thing that was done through the past week, and often referred to things that would come to pass some time in the future. It was a known paper; it could well be called a fortune teller. We most highly compliment the young women on their most enthusiastic efforts to pleasantly entertain their audiences. Their teachers says they are imbued with a spirit to go ahead. THE AFRO-AMERICAN COUNCIL The great Afro-American Council has announced that its next annual meeting will be held at Louisville, Kentucky, July 7th, 8th and 9th, next. The meeting has been extensively advertised and our advices are that it will be largely attended. This is as it should be. In the present grave crisis in the race's history the best thought is essential to determine how we shall steer our bark in the present troubled waters. The Council is alive to its responsibilities. One of its main interests is the securng of a fund to continue the fight up to the Court of last resort, against the iniquitous suffrage amendments in Southern constitutions. This fund should not be less than ten thousand dollars, and it is hoped that the liberality of our people and of their friends will make this sum available by the time of the Council's meeting in July. The following is their plan of organization: Any person who has sufficient interest in the matter can send invitations to leading Afrc-American citizens who are interested in the amelioration of the condition of our race, to meet in some private house, church or hall, according to the number invited. If as many as ten assemble and are willing to subscribe to the objects set forth in the constitution, they can be organized by the election of the following officers: President, Vice-President, Secretary, Asst. Secretary, Treasurer, Chaplain, Sergeant at HAPPY AND HEALTHY. A Beautiful Canadian Girl Saved From Catarrh of the Lungs by Pe-ru-na. MISS FLORENCE KENAH. MISS FLORENCE KENAH. Miss Florence E. Kenah, 434 Maria st "A few months ago I caught all lungs and remained there so person took medicine without benefit, the upset, and my head and back began. "I was advised to try Peruna, felt so sick that I was ready to try relief at once, and I felt that I had three weeks I was completely r health since. "I now have the greatest faith i Miss Florence E. Kenah, 434 Maria street, Ottawa, Ont., writes: "A few months ago I caught a severe cold, which settled on my lungs and remained there so persistently that I became alarmed. I took medicine without benefit, until my digestive organs became upset, and my head and back began to ache severely and frequently. "I was advised to try Peruna, and although I had little faith I felt so sick that I was ready to try anything. It brought me blessed relief at once, and I felt that I had the right medicine at last. Within three weeks I was completely restored and have enjoyed perfect health since. "I now have the greatest faith in Peruna." F. E. KENAH. WOMEN should beware of contracting catarrh. The cold wind and rain, slush and mud of winter are especially conducive to catarrhal derangements. Few women escape. Upon the first symptoms of catching cold Peruna should be taken. It fortifies the system against colds and catarrh. The following letter gives one young woman's experience with Peruna: Miss Rose Gerbing is a popular society woman of Crown Point, Ind., and she writes the following: "Recently I took a long drive in the country, and being too thinly clad I caught a bad cold which settled on my lungs, and which I could not seem to shake off. I had heard a great deal of Peruna for colds and catarrh and I Arms and an Executive Committee of five members.—See Constitution, page 22. Membership in National Council. Religious and secular organizations, Afro-American newspapers, academic schocis and colleges which have for their aim and work the mental and moral elevation of the Afro-American race, are invited to unite with the Council. Such organizations can be identified with the Council by payment of five dollars, which must be sent to Mr. C. F. Adams, 934 O St., Washington, D. C. ST LUKE'S CHURCH. Divine services will be held in the church proper next Sunday at the following hours: 7 and 11 a. m.; 3:30 Sunday School, and 5:00 p. m. song service The Bishop of Washington will visit St. Luke's Church at administer confirmation, Friday, April 17th, 8 p. m. The classes for instruction meet in the Parish Hall of the church. Sundays 8 p. m.; Wednesdays 6:30 p. m., and Fridays, 7:30 p. m. All are welcome. Services rendered by select orchestra and chorus of thirty voices. Large congregations attend the new song at 5 p. m. each Sunday, to reet, Ottawa, Ont., writes: I severe cold, which settled on my instently that I became alarmed. I until my digestive organs became in to ache severely and frequently. and although I had little faith I anything. It brought me blessed the right medicine at last. Within restored and have enjoyed perfect in Peruna." F. E. KENAH. bought a bottle to try. I am pleased that I did, for it brought speedy relief. It only took about two bottles, and I considered this money well spent. "You have a firm friend in me, and I not only advise its use to my friends, but have purchased several bottles to give to those without the means to buy, and have noticed without exception that it has brought about a speedy cure wherever it has been used."--Miss Rose Gerbing. 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. hear the sermons entitled, "Lessons from Church History." Music by the full choir. HELPING THEMSELVES. Mr. J. J. Miles, a strong and substantial colored citizen of Milwaukee, toward the Tuskegee wypcmfwypmfw has not only contributed liberally toward the Tuskegee Institute each year, but during the past few weeks has interested others and has sent amounts aggregating $100.00 for the purpose of forwarding the work the school. More and more black men are giving out of their own bounty for their educational institutions. "BATSON'S BLIND AUNT DEAD." Mrs. Sarah Goung, of Providence, R. I., died February 24th, 1903, at her late residence 62 Cranston St., Providence, R. I. Mrs. Goung was an aunt of the noted singer, Miss Flora Batson. She has been totally blind for many years, brought on by excessive grief over loss of husband and child, and though blind, she could cook, wash, iron, sew, and kept her apartments as neat as a pin. She also had the power of distinguishing colors by feeling with the hands.