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The COLORED American NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER VOL. X, NO. 5 Bishop Clinton's Address. HE PLEADS IN THE NAME OF CHRISTIANITY. The Seventy-Sixth Session of the Philadelphia and Baltimore Conference Held in This City.—Bishop Hood.—Smalls and Walters present.—A Showing From Zion.—New Plans for the Future and for the Quadrennial Conference. The seventy-sixth session of the Philadelphia and Baltimore conference of the A. M. E. Zion Church convened at Union Wesley Church, 23rd St. bet. L and M, northwest, at 10 o'clock a. m., Wednesday, with Bishop Geo. W. Clinton, D. D., of Charlotte, N. C., presiding. The following other well known prelates, viz: Bishop J. W. Hood, D. D., L. L. D., Alex. Walters, D. D., and J. B. Small, D. D., attended. These are some of the general officers present: Revs. Geo. L. Blackwell, D. D., Gen Sec.; J. S. Caldwell, D. D., Gen. Treasurer; W. H. Coffee, D. D., Church Extension Sec.; J. W. Smith, D. D., Editor Star of Zion, Charlotte, N. C., and Hon. J. C. Dancy, Editor Quarterly Review. The conference is composed of about one hundred and twenty-five ministerial and lay delegates and has among its members some of the ablest preachers and most progressive laymen of the race. It will continue the sessions daily until Monday Evening, at which time Bishop Clinton will announce the appointments. The chief features of the first day were the preliminary opening, the annual sermon by Rev. L. W. Kyle, A. B., the communion of the Lord's Supper and the annual address of Bishop Geo. W. Clinton, D. D. Below is given liberal extracts bearing upon the salient points of the address. After greeting the ministers and delegates in fitting language, the bishop spoke of the Condition of the General Church. "At the last session of the Board of Bishops, general officers and heads of departments showed that the A. M. E. Zion Church is in the most healthy and prosperous condition at any time during the 107 years of its history. The Church, as a factor for race elevation enjoys a prestige before unknown. Our ministers, as a rule, are proving them- selves men worthy of their high calling and are doing much for the moral and spiritual betterment of the people of our laity, both in the work of the church and as citizens add much to the influence and upbuilding of our Zion. if there has ever been a time when any man or woman needed to be ashamed of the A. M. E. Zion Church that time is past. I think I can safely say that the reports at the next general conference will show that the present quadrennium will be rightly styled the debt paying and new church building quadrennium. While it is a matter of regret that the spiritual development and revival fervor have not been as great as we could wish for, we may rejoice in the fact that there is much of the old-time fire still remaining and that there have been encouraging revivals at several points in the conference one of the most noted being the one conducted by Dr. S. L. Corrothers at Galbraith in this city. I must say there is room for improvement in this important and indispensible feature of our work. This should cause us to resolve here and now that we must Continued on Page 4. PRICE, FIVE CENTS At Higher Court. ATTORNEY SMITH APPEARS BEFORE SUPREME COURT. A New York Divine Takes a Stand for The Civil and Political Rights Not Only of the Negro, But of all Races and Classes Which Come Under the Bon.-A Woman Commissioner of Deeds.-Notes. New York, N. Y., Special.—The attitude of Ex-President Cleveland on Negro suffrage, and his sympathy for the southern whites, which was shown by his address delivered a few weeks ago at a meeting held in the interest of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, was severely criticised by Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, pastor of the late Henry Ward Beecher's Church in Brooklyn, last Sunday. Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbot, the predecessor of Dr. Hillis was also arraigned for closing the door of hope in the Negro's face," by his recent utterances both North and South. Dr. Hillis said in part: "If the Negro is to be disfranchised in the South, do these two men understand that they must also disfranchise him in the North? If they affirm that they disfranchise the Negro, not because of his color, but because he is illiterate, will they also disfranchise 1,000,000 white men who are also illiterate? If the Negro is to be disfranchised, then the Declaration of Independence is wrong. If the white man because of his illiteracy, and the black man, because of his ignorance are to lose the ballot, then foreign races—Italian, Bohemian, Pole and Greek—and the mountain whites must lose it also." Dr. Hillis is to be commended for the position he has taken, and such sentiments at a time when the Negro must needs make friends, should be appreciated by our people. Miss Maybelle McAdoo, stenographer for Hon. Welfred H. Smith, of 150 Nassau street, was appointed, and qualified as Commissioner of Deeds of the City of New York, on Tuesday, the 19th inst. At St. James Presbyterian Church, 359 West 51st Street last Sunday was observed as "Endeavor Day." Com- Continued on Page 5. 10 MME. DAVIS A Born Clairvoyant and Card Reader Tells about business, Removes Spells and Evil Influences, Reunites the Separated and Gives Luck to all. 1228 25th st. n. w., Washington, D. C. No letters answered unless accompanied by stamp. LENZ & LOSSAU Successors to CHARLES FISCHER. 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Hot-air fiends and rumologists take a vacation. George H. Jackson re-elected president of Bethel Literary. hTe Washington Post takes a broad and liberal view of the race problem. A successful colored steamboat company organized this summer. The Amphion Glee Club continue a popular favorite. More pulpit orators and less wind-jammers. Andrew Carnegie visit Hart's Farm School on the Potomac. Some of our preachers resign and go to work at the trades. The Miner School painted and remodeled. Our social and literary lights "bury the hatchet." Less race prejudice exhibited at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Colored letter carriers given a square deal at all times. More public-spirited men like John F. Cook. Grafters and professional deadbeats given the marble heart. Dr. Charles Sumner Wormley a benedict. Mr. Zeph Moore resume his life and fire insurance business. Major Arthur Brooks given a commission in the regular army. More colored men embarking into business enterprises and fewer of them seeking offices. More school teachers saving their money and fewer of them investing it in fineries. Editors fighting for a common purpose and less bickering and jealousy among them. Colored churches out of debt and the salaries of their ministers paid promptly. More union among the ninety thousand oclored people of the District and less jealousy and friction. One colored dry goods store with colored clerks, managers, and the united support of the colored people. The True Reformers open up a bank in their new building in this city after the dedication in June. Fewer of our people at the police and criminal courts and more of them in the banks and real estate offices. The Jane Moseley do the banner business of the season down the Pofomac. Colored people patronize their own enterprisec, everything else being equal. Armond W. Scott continued at the head of Second Baptist Churhe lyeum. Some of our would-be singers get their voices scraped and cracks mended. Delinquent subscribers to The Colored American pay up and bring in new names. A suitable theatre provided for the graduating exercises of the M street High School. The colored Bar Association of this city accomplish something for the good of the race. Our literary women say pleasant things of each other and stop "hairpulling." The Man on the Monument and the Washington correspondent of the Indianapolis Freeman call it a "draw." Senator Ben Tillman and Dr. W. D. Crum alone in the woods, unaccompa- nied by friends and without guns. More of our people engaged in regular employment and fewer of them leafing in the streets, following processions, and sitting in the parks. Colored men put up a solid front when it comes to insisting upon the rights for the race asguaranteed by the Constitution. Our race papers lay aside petty jealousies and personal controversies and bend every energy toward the uplifting of our people. Some of our eligible bachelors save their money, enter into matrimony, and check tendencies toward "race suicide." The Pen and Pencil Club accomplish something along literary lines and put a quietus on members who relish soapbubble notoriety as parliamentarians. The critics and non-depositors of the defunct Capital Savings Bank get together and start a similar institution. J. Ottoway Holmes, Dr. Phil H. Brooks, and Robert Keys appointed "sub-District Commissioners" with jurisdiction over south Washington. The proper support given to such papers as The Colored American, The Philadelphia Tribune, The Indianapolis Freeman, and he South-Western Christian Advocate. More race journals and books circulating in the homes of intelligent colored people and fewer of the big one dollar white journals which only tell of the crimes, criminalities and short comings of the colored people. Prof. Miller Declares He Needs Higher Industrial Training. Prof. Kelly Miller, of the Howard University, delivered an address last Tuesday night before the Bethel Literary Society on "The Drift of Southern Education." The attendance was large and the remarks were freely discussed by the members of the society after the speaker had concluded. In speaking of the education of the colored race in the South he said that the South had concluded years ago that the higher education of the colored man was a failure, and with eyes shut to the facts, deaf to the advancement of colored men and women, she was still repeating that education was a failure. He said the North had taken up the refrain and was joining with the Southern people in its repetition. He went on to enumerate several professions in which colored men had risen as proof that it was not a failure. He would have a larger sum devoted to the education of the Negro. "If it takes $25 per year to educate a white boy, with civilized predecessors, it takes more than 75 cents to educate a colored boy in South Carolina, a boy with uncivilized ancestors and barbaric environments," said he. While he approved of industrial education for the Negro, he said that most of the so-called industrial education was far from being what it is claimed to be. By industrial education he said Southerners meant to teach the Negro to estimate the distance between two rows of cotton and how to feed a horse. He would have the industrial education as it is taught at Hampton and Tuskegee, together with the higher education. BUSINESS MENS' EXCURSION. The Jane Moseley will make her first trip down the Potomac tomorrow under the auspices of the Business Mens' League. It will be a delightful ride down the river for two hundred miles and the price for the round trip is only $ .50. This palatial steamer, The Jane Moseley is owned by a colored company, the Freedman's Transportation Land and Improvement Company, officered and backed entirely by colored men. It is one of the largest steamers floating on the Potomac River and has been equipped in a most up-to-date manner. There will be music and refreshments in abundance. The steamer will leave the Seventh Street Wharf at 10:30 a. m. Sunday morning May 24th. Don't miss it. LOAN COUPON Cut out this ad and bring it to our office to secure a special low rate for a loan on your piano, furniture, etc. The security remains in your possession. No publicity and no delay No Charge for Preparing Papers, &c Our rates are the lowest in the city, and we offer this special reduce rate to test the value of advertising in this paper. National Loan and Investment Co. NEW BUILDING. Northeast Cor. 15th and G Sts. Nw. Entrance on G St, Fourth Floor Front SANTAL-MIDY Standard remedy for Gleet, Gonorrhoea and Runnings IN 48 HOURS. 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All sizes are here-all prices. We have the largest and best selected stock of Baby Carriages to be found in Washington, and prices were never so low before. Your summer cooking should be done on a Dangler Vapor Stove or Gasoline Cooker. We have them in all sizes. Everything for complete housekeeping. All PETER GROCAN, 817-819-821-823 7th Street N. W Between H and I Streets. THE COLORED AMERICAN. Race Gleanings. There are fifteen colored students at Yale University this year. There are ten colored justices of the peace in office in Blaine county, Oklahoma. Mr. Joseph Park, who died a few days ago at White Plains, N. Y., left [30,000 to his colored coachman. A weekly paper in Trinidad, West Indies, is publishing Booker T. Washington's book, "Up From Slavery," as a serial. It is expected that Mr. T. Thomas Fortune will start on his return trip from the Philippine Islands early during the present month. If the Carnagie-Washington episode don't paralyse the Boston Guradian man he is the toughest piece of white-leather in the country.—The Pine Bluff Weekly Herald. The Bluff City News, of Memphis, Tenn., made its first appearance on Sunday, the 3d inst. It is devoted to race interests and shows vigor and capacity in its treatment of them. Of the desired $2,000,000 endowment fund for the Tuskegee Institute, Dr. Washington reports that $1,010,000 have already been given. The amount includes Mr. Carnagie's princely gift. Mr. Floyd Dunston, of Los Angeles, Cal., an unusually promising young colored man and a musical composer of some note, has just died at Berlin, Germany, where he was prosecuting his musical studies. Rev. Dr. W. A. Credit, of Philadelphia, Pa., formerly pastor of the Berean Baptist Church, is winning high praises from New England audiences for his oratorical abilities and ripe scholarship. The editor of The Colored American is indebted to the Western World of Oklahoma City, for the publication of his cut and some flattering comments on his career as the father of the illustrated colored press. Evidence accumulates that organized union between the C. M. E. Church and the A. M. E. Zion Church will be consummated in 1904. The Central Georgia Conference of the former church has just declared for it. The salary of Hon. Charles N. Robinson, superintendent of public documents State of New Jersey, has been increased, largely through the efforts of Governor Murphy. The thirty-second annual commencement of Alcorn A. & M. College, at Westside, Miss., was held May 17, 1903, and an attractive program was carried out. This is one of the many fine institutions in the South which devote special attention to industrial education. The State Agricultural and Mechanical College at Greensboro, N. C., is a race institution doing excellent service. Among its students is a young man named E. Logan, who is making a name as an inventor of practical devices. His latest is an ingenious biscuit cutter. In Rochester, N. Y., a few nights ago a largely attended mass meeting was held to protest against race disfranchisement in the South. The mayor of the city and the venerable and much-loved Susan B. Anthony participated and spoke vigorously in denunciation of the wrong done our people. Within the last twelve months colored people in different parts of the country have contributed $1,169.14 towards the expenses of the Tuskegee Institute. This is the largest contribution made by colored people in any one year of the history of the institution. The pulpit of Plymouth Congregational Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., long and ably occupied by the great Henry Ward Beecher, has returned to its first love. Too much can not be said in commendation of Rev. Dr. Hillis, pastor of old Plymouth, on Sunday last, in the stand taken by him for the maintenance of manhood rights in all parts of the United States. Plymouth kept the anti-slavery fires burning until its mighty conflagration swept slavery from the land. But political serfdom has taken the place of chattel slavery, and Dr. Hills has kindled the fires of freedom anew. May they spread from ocean to ocean. A LADY LEADS BAND In the Social Swim.—Notes of the Gaieties.—Personals. Albany, N. Y., Special.—Divine services were well attended at both Methodist and Baptist Churches Sunday. Madame Delia Hunter, of Troy, the favorite singer, visited Hamilton Street Church. Mrs. Hammond addressed the congregation in behalf of the True Reformers, and urged the parents to send their children to the Junior branch, called the Rosebuds. It is a worthy effort and should be embraced. The Baptist Sunday afternoon meetings seem to be progressing. A feature will be added in the way of solos, etc., hereafter. We regret to announce the death of Howard Fermen, after a short illness. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon at the residence of his sister, Mrs. George Bruce. 172 Third Street. The Albany Household of Ruth held their May Reception Wednesday evening. A short program was rendered, and a pleasant evening was enjoyed by all. Cards are out announcing the Tenth Anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Thomas, 42 Lafayette, on the 25th of this month. The Ball given by the Dining Car Association, at Bleeker Hall, last Thursday evening, was a decided success in every particular. The orchestra was the best we have had in this city for a long time—in fact the music surpasses our home bands, and what makes us feel so proud, it was led by Miss H. L. Anderson, an accomplished violinist, of New York City. This orchestra is well known in that city as Miss Hallie Anderson's Orchestra, and its perfectness and harmony cause it to be in constant demand. M. G. Anderson is President of the Association, and deserves great credit for his successful management. George Lyttle acted as floor manager, assisted by Prof. J. Milton Anderson, of Brooklyn, who has also a class in that city. The grand march was a very pretty affair led by the Prof. and a charming young dame from Troy, as that city was well represented, also Schenectady and Gloversville. The costumes of the ladies were just fine, and there were so many attractive ones that you would just inquire where do they come from? The hall was entirely too small, and we suggest to this association if they repeat their affair, a larger hall will be necessary. Mr. F. D. Freeman, a very influential and energetic member in the capacity of financial secretary, and Mr. Edwin Bird, treasurer. The catering was served very creditably by Hyson and Thompson. Mrs. Lillian F. Shaw of Gloversville was the guest of Miss Mamie Holmes last week. Our little favorite Willie Freeman, spent three days visiting relatives in Coxsackie. Walter Briggs was in town Saturday on his way to New York. Mr. Wm. Gainner, of 90 Orange st. St. Albany, N. Y., would like to know the address of Mr. Will Freeman, of this city. The competitive drill between the M Street High School and the Armstrong Manual Training School takes place at Athletic Park, 13th and Florida Ave., May 23rd. Everybody will be there. A Dr. James A. Herlihy CHEMIST, Chillicothe, O. E SURE TO GET THE SAFEST, SWIFTEST AND MOST COMMODI- OUS STEAMER ON THE RIVER JANE MOSELEY, 1903. FOR CHARTER SEASON. 1903. TO UPPER GLYMONT, LOWER CEDAR POINT, ROCK POINT, OTHER POINTS ON THE POTOMAC RIVER. BE SURE TO GET THE SAFEST, SWIFTEST AND MOST COMMODIO OUS STEAMER ON THE RIVER JANE MOSELEY. 1903. FOR CHARTER SEASON. 1903. TO UPPER GLYMONT, LOWER CEDAR POINT, ROCK POINT, OTHER POINTS ON THE POTOMAC RIVER. Freedman's Transportation, Land and Improvement Co. (Incorporated.) 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Welch, of the Shaw Re- giment, Union Veterans Union, leaves ```markdown ``` Read the Colored American. --- --- State ..... DOWN IN VIRGINIA. Col. F. M. Welch, of the Shaw Regiment, Union Veterans Union, leaves Washington this morning for Lynchburg, Va., to be present at the Virginia Institute graduating exercises, Monday May 25th. Miss Eva S. Tinney, his step-daughter, will graduate at the head of the Normal class. The Col. and his esteemed wife are very proud of their daughter, as is also her many friends. Rev. J. G. Bryant, principal of the Industrial School at Charlotte Hall, Md., was a visitor in the city this week. 13 EDUCATIONAL Here is an Opportunity! A large picture of PROF. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, printed in four colors which has all the appearance of an oil painting, will be sent elegantly framed by express to any subscriber who will send $3.00 to THE COLORED AMERICAN. To persons who desire the picture without subscribing for the paper, it will be sent by express for $1.50. To parties who desire to sell them, they will be sent in quantities of ten or more for $1.00 each. The Colored American WASHINGTON, D.C. This picture should be in every Parlor Library, Reading Room, School Room, and every Public Hall used by intelligent colored people. 1 HOWARD UNIVERSITY, Washington, D. C. EN distinct departments, under one hundred competent professors and instructors—Theological, Medical, Legal, College, Pedagogical, reparatory, English, Agriculture, Industrial, and musical. For information address $ \textcircled{3} $ Rev. J, E. RANKIN, D. D., LL. D., President. GEO H. SAFFORD Secretary. HVERY 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. Catalogues now ready. 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The doctor makes the claim that after experiments, taking years to complete, he has at last reached the goal of his ambition. To the doctor all heads are alike. There are none which cannot be cured by this remarkable remedy. The record of the cures already made is truly marvelous and were it not for the high standing of the great physician and the convincing testimony of thousands of citizens all over the country it would seem too miraculous to be true. T there can be no doubt of the doctor's earnestness in making his claims nor can his cures be disputed. He does not ask any man, woman or child to take his or anyone else's word for it, but he stands ready to send free trial packages of this great hair restorative to anyone who writes to him for it, enclosing a 2-cent stamp to prepay postage. In a single night it has started hair to growing on heads bald for years. It has stopped falling hair in one hour. It never fails no matter what the condition, age or sex. Old men and young men, women and children all have profited by the free use of this great new discovery. If you are bald, if your hair is falling out or if your hair eyebrows or eyelashes are thin or short write to the Altenheim Medical Dispensary 2 cent 8296Foso Building, Cincinnati, Ohio, enclosing a stamp to prepay postage for a free package and in a short time you will be entirely restored. CLAIRVOYANT AND ASTROLOGIST Life from cradle to grave. Gives names in fun of those you have or will marry; causes happy marriage to those you desire; unites those separated (never fails) If you are in doubt as to the outcome of any undertaking in business, social or domestic life; sickness divorces separations, lawsuits, lost or absent friends interest you; if you desire to have your domestic troubles removed, your lost love returned, consult or write me. You will be advised the best way to succeed. Fee, $1.00. Patrons attended to in all parts of the world. 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Mr. J. Henry Lewis has been receiving praise from all sides for the excellent work of the Amphions at their recent reception. The Sacred Song Service of Sir Arthur Sullivan's music at Lincoln Temple last Sunday evening was greatly enjoyed by a large audience. The La Toscas have accepted the Manhattan's challenge for a competitive square dance to take place Friday, May 29, at the auditorium, Sixth and C N.W., for a prize of $25. Don't forget the competitive drill of High School and Armstrong Manual Training School, this Saturday afternoon, at 3:30, American League Baseball Park, 13th and H, N. E. Mr. N. L. Wyche, of Howard Medical School and formerly an employee of this office has left the city for the summer, expecting to spend the heated term in the vicinity of New York city. The three services at Nineteenth Street Baptist Church were largely attended, and Thoman's Rally Day was a success in every way. The capacity of the edifice was tested at the morning service. The Mysterious Twelve gave a dance and banquet at Masonic Temple Hall last Friday night, May 15th. The repast was a rich one and dancing was indulged in until a late hour. Mr. J. F. Roberts, principal of the colored public school of Princess Anne, Md., is in the city for a few days. He is interested in the Mutual Relief Society of Washington, D. C., with headquarters at 430 4th St. N. E. The Tuxedo Pleasure Club will give its first Grand Opening Picnic and Summer Outing at Coliseum Park, Monday evening, June first. A most interesting program has been prepared and a general good time is expected by the members. The exercises of the graduating class of the College Department of Howard University will take place in the Andrew Rankin Chapel, Thursday evening, May 28. The class this year is an unusually bright one and considerably larger than the class that was heretofore graduating. Hon. John C. 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Miss Bertha Clements, formerly of this city, is now located at University Heights, N. Y. Mr. Geo. Dickson, the broker and money lender, is doing a rushing business. Mr. C. J. Pickett, of the Capitol, will leave for Chicago in a few days, where he will spend his vacation. Mr. Fred Dyson, "one of the finest," has donned his panama and negligee shirt. Fred is still one of the "boys." The 5th Annual Crab Feast and Reception was given by "Bill Bailey" at his hotel, 229 New Jersey Ave. northwest, last Thursday evening. Lawyer Wilfred H. Smith, of New York City, who has a case before the Supreme Court in this city, was here Thursday and Friday of this week. The Capital City Pleasure Club elected a new corps of officers at a recent meeting. Mr. John W. Williams was elected President and Mr. Clinton C. Johnson, Vice President. Mrs. Laura Lucy, better known as Mrs. Dr. Lucy, died at the home of her mother, Monday May 4th, and was buried on the following Wednesday, at Harmony Cemetery. She had many friends and a large circle of acquaintances. Undertaker Winslow had charge of the obsequies. The Florodora Social Club No. 1, will give its first grand excursion to Notley Hall, Saturday, May 30th, Decoration Day. The Columbian and invincible Orchestras will furnish music. Washington is furnishing a great many speakers at the various Commencement Exercises in the different parts of the country. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell and Prof. Kelly Miller will speak at the Atlanta University May 26th. A number of our educators have been invited to other points. The Men's Relief Club, of Plymouth Congregational Church, gave a grand May entertainment at Masonic Temple on 19th street, last Friday evening. An interesting musical and literary program was rendered. The officers are C. W. Mason, President; A. A. Syphax, Secretary, and Geo. H. Horton, Treasurer. Don't fail to make the first trip on the Jane Moseley to-morrow to Glymont and other points down the Potomac. The excursion is given under the auspices of the Colored Business Men of this city, and you will have an opportunity to meet them, in addition to a delightful ride down the river. The boat will leave the wharf at 10:30 a.m. Mr. Samuel Jones, the expert dog fancier, and who is in great demand among the wealthier dog lovers of the city, is the recipient of new honors. Mrs. Roosevelt has, had occasion to send for him a number of times to look after the blooded canines in the White House. Sam has the wit and is very popular in his large circle of friends. Prof. Kelly Miller, of Howard University, delivered an able address, taking for his subject, "The Drift of evening, before the Bethel Literary and Historical Association. The attendance was quite large and the musical features consisted of a vocal solo by Mrs. Lula Joy Brooks, with Miss Mary L. Europe as accompanist. President Geo. W. 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This new and handsome Hall with modern improvements, electric lights and fans—cool and airy—will accommodate Churcher, Sabbath Schools or Societies during the summer months at reduced rates. We feel it our duty to continue our advertisement in order to more thoroughly inform the public of the most up-to-date and ideal shaving parlor in the city. Where every ingredient used in connection thereto is purely antiseptic. Where the towels which are used in drying your face are not only laundered by superior hands, but are rinsed in sterelized water before they are dried. As we wish to allow no possible room for lurking germs, which are too often left on a towel and are subsequently transferred from one face to another face or faces. We guarantee first class workmanship. We have four chairs with Messrs. Welsh, Harris, Pearson, and also Mr. R. A. Nelson, the cities renowned tonsorial artist, who was for years at the corner of 41-2 and Penn. Ave., N. 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CRANE AND CO. 122 west Broad Street RIOHONOR our duty to continue our advertisement in order to more form the public of the most up-to-date and ideal shaving parlor here every ingredient used in connection thereto is purely here the towels which are used in drying your face are not by superior hands, but are rinsed in sterelized water before. As we wish to allow no possible room for lurking germs, often left on a towel and are subsequently transferred from other face or faces. We guarantee first class workmanship. Chairs with Messrs. Welsh, Harris, Pearson, and also Mr. R. cities renowned tonsorial artist, who was for years at the and Penn. Ave., N. W., has been with us now for some time, remain permanently and of curse invites his many friends to continue their patronage of him. GEO. A. ROBINSON. Prop. B-M B-M B-M B-M B-M B-M ETERNITY STOPS THE CLOCK! 'Twill Pay You THE MORTGAGE BURNED. Rev. Corrothers Makes a clean Sweep at Galbraith. The first anniversary of Rev. S. L. Corrothers' pastorate at Galbraith A. M. E. Zion Church was celebrated May 11th in a manner befitting the church, the work, and the man. Dr. Corrothers came here with a magnificent record from one of the New England conferences, and much was expected of him. He therefore entered into his work under great difficulties. His year's work, however, has proven him to be everything that was claimed for him and he has fairly surpassed himself at record breaking. He is a man of unusual pulpit eloquence, a deep thinker and scholar, and a natural leader, with the happy faculty of making friends with everyone with whom he comes in contact. A "bon fire" was made at Galbraith J. REV. S. L. CORROTHERS, Pastor of Galbraith A. M. E. Zion Ch Addition to the Scholarly Min Auspicious Beginning of a Great Pastor of Galbraith A. M. E. Zion Church, Washington, D. C., a Powerful Addition to the Scholarly Ministerial Corps of the National Capital—Auspicious Beginning of a Great Work. THE COLORED YOUNG MAN OF TO-DAY. One step and then another, and the longest walk is ended; One stitch and then another, and the widest rent is mended; One flake and then another, and the deepest snow is laid; One brick and then another, and the highest wall is made. A problem that seems to be agitating the people the most is,"What is the young man of to-day going to make of himself in future years?" We can take no one man for anexample, but we can take them as a body, line them up, and find the average amount of work that they do. After you have solved the problem, what have you found? In my section of the country you wouldn't have found much. Nineteenths of the colored young men of the city of Yonkers are, more or less, common laborers. But we can not always condemn a young man for being a common laborer; probably his opportunity in life has not turned up; probably he hasn't --- on the 11th of May for the purpose of burning the mortgage which for years had hung on the church. He raised during the first year $8,671, and brought 96 additions to the church and secured 109 conversions. It is needless to say that peace and harmony prevail in the church, and that all the discordant elements have been harmonized. As a testimonial of his first year's work, and of the general satisfaction he has given, the clubs and members of the church made the following contributions to him: The Wilberforce Club, of which Mrs. Mary Shaw is president, made a donation of $10; the Daughters of the Conference, of which Mrs. Mary Barton is president, a purse of $15; Miss Anna D. Bell presented $10; the Mispah Club, of which Miss Sarah Janifer is president, gave $25; the Phillis Wheatley Club, of which Miss Elizabeth Addison is president, $5; and the Stewardness of the church, of which Mrs. Mamie Tapsco is president, gave 20. Rev. Corrothers was greatly pleased at this substantial evidence of the appreciation of his first year's work at Galbraith. M. urch, Washington, D. C., a Powerful listerial Corps of the National Capital— Work. had a chance to better himself, and may be his education has been neglected; if these are the causes, young man, "you still have a chance." It is neither what you are to-day nor what you expect to be to-morrow, but it is what you prepare yourselves to be that determines your future success or failure. How many young men who have been so poor during their early stage of life that they could not even afford a lamp to read and study by at night, but got their education by the fluttering glow of the fire on the hearth. How many young men have begun at the very bottom and risen to the very zenith while all the world, as it were, seemed working against his aim. Therefore, young man, don't give up while there is still a spark of hope left. There are numerous coachmen in Yonkers, also drivers for the different coal companies, and there is also a lot that get their living, it seems, without working for it, by lounging on the corners, in the doorways of saloons, and in other low places. But if you put the question to them, "Why don't you work?" they will tell you --- THE COLORED AMERICAN the can't get work—but that's not so; they don't half try. Some are too high toned to be a coachman or a laborer, and they haven't the energy to try to become a proficient lawyer, a merchant, or in simple words, a man among men. Have you ever thought that the reason you have not been advanced to a more lucrative position was because you lacked courage and pluck? If you will devote your time and talent to just one thing, and determine to do it, you will surely succeed. Still others are even too lazy to work, but generally they are few and far between. Just think of it. There are 50,000 people in Yonkers. Among them are many hundreds of our race, and not one in all that throng is able to call himself a man of profession, unless he professes to be a Christian (barring the clergymen). If you have a talent push it to its extreme; if you have a gift become absorbed in it. The young man will never become anything unless he tries. The young man generally likes a good time, but half the time he doesn't know what a good time is. He works hard all the week for about nine dollars, comes home Saturday evening at 6 o'clock, pays his board of a few dollars, dresses himself for the night and is off for what he calls "a good time." It may be at the lounging bar he sips the foaming bowl, or may be at the gamblers' bench he wins or loses in turn. Late in the night or early Sunday morning he tramps along the street, without a cent, or may be, as luck would have it, he is a winner. A few hours sleep and he arises, weary of the night before. Monday morning finds him with what they call a big head; he is down-hearted and life seems hardly worth living. Young man, turn! before it is too late. If you keep on trudging that rocky track you'll see your mistake, but you'll see it too late. Throw down those bad habits and let the good times go, for if you only will to do it you can do it, with just a little spunk and courage. Perseverence and courage will accomplish wonders, and if our race will only have courage and persevere, what more can be asked? HARTFORD, CONN., NEWS. The subscribers of The Colored American magazine are sorry to hear of its failure. There is a good field here for a first-class grocery. The dance given by the Octogonians at City Mission Hall, May 14th, was very well attended. The Sunday school of Shiloh Baptist Church is preparing a very interesting program for May 26. Don't miss this entertainment. Jug Breaking was Thursday 21. Two Nights in the Wilderness, at Union Baptist Church, May 27 and 28. Mrs. Nellie Carey Reynolds, New England's best contralto, will appear the first night. Rev. A. A. Cooke and family were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Daniels, of 14 Martin street, last Sunday. Rev. Streeter, after receiving his appointment at North Hampton, Mass., returned to prepare for moving his family to the site of his charge, was relieved of moving his beloved wife for God had seen fit to send the messenger Death to heal her wounds and received the soul to himself. The funeral was from Zion A. M. E. Church, Sunday 2 o'clock. Will Mr. E. E. Ricks, of Washington, D. C., send his address to J. A. Upsher, 209 Pearl, or 17 Martin streets, Hartford, Conn., and kindly oblige a friend. A young lady reader of ours who is in love has requested us to print the following: "Your kiss, beloved, was to me As if all flowers of Araby, And every fresh and fragrant rose That ever blew, shall blow, or blows, Had all her sweetness taken up And poured into one perfect cup for me to drain Kiss me again! "Gouverneur Morris in McClure's" HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS THE M'KINLEY HOUSE, 489 Missouri Ave. Near 6 St. First-class accommodations for all An up-to-date Hotel Roo ms neatly furnished, linens clean, and prices within reach of all. Meals and Lunches served at all hours. The PORTER : HOUSE ; CAFE 103 6th St., N. W. Wines, liquors and Cigars.—A full line of the choicest liquors, the best brands of cigars and the coolest beer in Washington. BROWN & SMITH, Proprietors. HOTEL CLYDE, 475 MISSOURI AVE, N.W. First-Class Accomodations For Ladies and Gentlemen. Hot and Cold Baths. MRS. ALICE E. HALL, Proprietress. THE SOUTHERN HOTEL, Good board steam heat and electric bells. 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SIMMS, Prop: 331 W.37th St. New York ```markdown ``` Honors at Home. Great Ovation tendered Dr. Washington on his Triumphal Return to Tuskegee-Citizens, Teachers and Students turn out enmasse-Speeches and other exercises. Tuskegee, Ala., May 13.—The homecoming of Dr. Booker T. Washington to-day was made an occasion of great rejoicing. The principal had been absent from the school for upwards of three months, and aside from the pleasure of welcoming him to his own heath, there was a universal desire to record an especial mark of distinction because of the magnificent gift of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, which was conferred during the recent tour of Dr. Washington, rendering the latter's itinerary the most successful yet undertaken, from a financial point of view. When it was announced positively that Dr. Washington would arrive on the 13th, the teachers, officers and students began at once to prepare to make the event a gala affair. Work was suspended at 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon, and at 3 the entire population of the institute was congregated at the Cassady Hall "big gate" to greet the returning chieftain. While the band played "See the Conquering Hero Comes," Dr. Washington was driven into the grounds between long lines of cheering men, women and children. He was escorted immediately to the Chapel, where the exercises of the day were held. The Chapel was profusely decorated with palms, verdant branches and wild flowers. Portraits of Principal Washington and Mr. Carnegie were conspicuously displayed, and the American flag and the school added the finishing touches to a most attractive picture. The audience which gathered to do honor to Principal Washington's remarkable achievement filled every nook and crany of the great auditorium. The personnel of the company included many visitors who had extended their trip from the convention of the Charities and Corrections, which had just adjourned at Atlanta. The program embraced addresses, a choice collection of jubilee melodies by the choir and student-body, interspersed by original features prepared by the various classes. Mr. Emmett J. Scott, the Principal's energetic private secretary, presided in his usual effective manner, and introduced the speakers, besides reading the letter of Mr. Carnegie and officially announcing the gift of $600,000. Mr. William Arthur Macintyre, who is taking a special course in scientific agriculture, of Port-au-Spain, Trinidad, B. W. I., paid an eloquent tribute to the work of Dr. Washington, speaking for the post-graduates. Mr. Lewis Adams, the pioneer trustee of the school and the man who has held up the hands of Dr. Washington from the first days of Tuskegee, spoke for the teachers. Mr. Sumner George, of Camden, S. C., testified in fitting terms the gratitude and appreciation of the students. Mr. C. W. Hare, editor of the Tuskegee News and a leading attorney of Macon county, told of the pride he felt in Dr. Washington and his work, as a member of the board of trustees, and said that the confidence in the methods in vogue at the school as evidenced by the cordial support of such thinkers, business men and leaders in government as Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, the Huntingtons, Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt, weighed so heavily in the scale that the criticism of mere theorists became infinitetismal atoms. The specially composed songs of the Cuban contingent, the interpolation of the Class of 1904 Glee Club, and the improvised topical allusions in the THE COLORED AMERICAN State of Virginia, and there are fully eight thousand persons of color in and about the city of Newark, and about half that number in Jersey City and the towns of Hudson county. Union county has also a large colored population. To some extent colored men obtain employment in the factories. The Singer Sewing Machine Company, at Elizabethport, and the Pontoon Works at Plainfield, employ a large number of colored people. The Paterson Handle Works, established by Uncle Harry Hopper in 1840, are now successfully managed by his grandson, Mr. William E Hopper. There is also a blackbelt of considerable extent in Monmouth county, taking in the municipalities of Red Bank, Matawan, Fair Haven, Eatontown, Asbury Park, and Freehold. This is largely a farming district. Whitesboro, in Cape May county, is the newest thing on the map of the State, but it is a thriving community made up almost entirely of colored people from North Carolina. Disfranchised and betrayed in the "Old North" State, these pilgrims are taking refuge under the benign influences which they obtain in New Jersey. Here they find plenty of work and are fully protected in the exercise of their rights as American citizens. If the pace is kept that is now set it will not be long before the entire voting population of colored people in North Carolina will be settled in the lower counties of New Jersey. Things political are rather slow at present, but the clans are lining up for the fight in 1904. The sentiment in the State is decidedly for the nomination of President Roosevelt. It is thought that Seantor John Kean will head the Jersey delegation to the national convention, he being the party leader since the deaoth of General Sewell. The John M. Langston Afro-American Council was organized in this city on Monday evening last by Prof. Jesse Lawson. Mr. David Thompson, the leader of the old First ward, is president of the council, and Capt. E. J. Jordan, formerly of Jersey City, is chairman of its executive committee. The sentiment here is strongly in favor of Hon. John J. Gardner for Governor. Whatever may be the issue elsewhere, the colored voters of this State will insist on the passage of the Kean Inquiry Commission bill and the Crumpacker resolution cutting down representation in those states disfranchising the Negro in violation of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Federal Constitution. Mr. William A. Kline is the most active Republican politician in these parts. He represents the colored people on the county committee. A MUSICAL TREAT. Prof. R. J. Daniels, the veteran teacher of music, and the life of Zion Baptist Church, in South Washington, will give his Third Annual Musicale, at the Zion Baptist Church, Monday evening, June 1st. Those who have attended his previous musicales know what to expect. A glance at his program indicates that he has secured all of the best things in the way of music for this occasion. Among the stars, which will shine in the coming feast are Miss Lola Johnson, Miss Marie A. D. Madre, Miss Mattie R. Bowen, Mrs. Mary F. Scott, the Amphion Glee Club, and last, but not least, the Zion Baptist Choir. Prof. Daniels has been tireless in his efforts to advance and to get the best results from his musical teachings. A large attendance is sure to greet him, and those who expect good seats, should be on hand early. Dr. R. T. Hamilton, for many years an efficient clerk in the Pension Office in this city, and who resigned his position to enter into the practice of his profession, is now located in Dallas, Tex. He writes that he finds the people and his practice very congenial to him, and that he does not regret having left the Government service to embark in the practice of his profession. choir's verses, contributed in no small measure to the enjoyment of the hour. The floral offerings to Dr. Washington were beautiful and elaborate, the choir in which he sat being garlanded with roses, and about him were many very artistic pieces. The Chautauqua salute greeted the Principal as he arose to speak. The address of Dr. Washington acknowledging his appreciation of the honors showered upon him by the departments of the school and the citizens generally, was a masterpiece of modest statement, and his plea to the students for a continuance of orderly and unobtrusive conduct at home and abroad, notwithstanding the good fortune that had come to the institution, was timely and in splendid taste. His point that individuals, institutions and races often had more to fear from successes that bred arrogance than from failures that begat humility and consciencious effort. Dr. Washington thanked his friends for the ovation tendered him and found great satisfaction in the spirit that prompted them to so signalize his home-coming, but his keenest anxiety was that the true significance of the broad generosity of Mr. Carnegie be finally grasped, and that the multiplied opportunities it afforded should be fully appreciated. Dr. Washington is in perfect health, and looks as if the assurance of a "Greater Tuskgee" has given him a new lease on life and a sturdier determination to go on in the grand cause for which he seems divinely appointed. R. W. THOMPSON. THE COLORED JERSEYMEN Are Holding Their Own and Solving The Problem—Some Thriving Colored Communities in New Jersey News Notes. Plainfield, N. J., May 19.—Your correspondent has made a tour of the State in order to inform himself of the condition of the colored people in this commonwealth, and to obtain the views of prominent men respecting public questions affecting the interests of Jerseymen. During the past four years a large number of colored people from the South have taken up homes in New Jersey. They are very largely from the States of Virginia and North Carolina, and the recent disfranchisement laws at the South have given a new impetus to the migration northward. In south Jersey J.M. PROF. JESSE LAWSON, Washington, D. C. there are several colonies of colored people managing their own communities in an acceptable manner, and thereby demonstrating to the world that under favorable conditions the colored brother is capable of self government. The favorable conditions herein referred to mean simply the ordinary protection afforded by any northern commonwealth, wherein the rights of the people are respected. The counties of Cape May, Cumberland, Salem, Atlantic, Camden and Burlington swarm with colored people, and these are to a certain extent the sure Republican counties of the State. The Orange valley in Essex county, north Jersey, has a large colony of colored people principally from the 3 SALOONS. Chris. Xander's QUALITY HOUSE, 909 7th st NW. Established 86 years ago. The largest wholesale stock in town of the most exquisite, faultless wines and distillates (in all 240 kinds), at Cris. Xander's modern prices no others can compete quality and purity with any of his goods. His liquors are absolutely free from fusel poison. (No branch houses). Phone 1425. Jas. F. Keenan. RECTIFIER AND WHOLESALE LIQUOR DEALER. Elegant Club Whiskey a Specialty Importer of Fine Wines, Brandies, Gins, Etc. 462 Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest. Fritz Reuter's Washington, D. C. Hotel and Restaurant, 451, 453, 455, 457 Pennsylvania Avenue. 202, 208 and 210 4 1-2 St Northwest. W. M. DRURY'S Restaurant, 1100 20th St., Corner L. N. W. Sparta, Buffet, and Cafe, 1216 Pa. Ave. Washington, D.C. FINE WINES, LIQUORS and CIGARS Hot Free Lunch every Day. Ladies will receive special attention in Dining Room upstairs. J. M. RYAN'S CAFE Pool and Billiard Parlors. 619 B StreetNorthwest. (Op. B. & P. Depot.) A full line of the choicest wines, liquors, and beers. All brands of domestic and imported cigars. J.M.RYAN, Proprietor. C. H. NAUGHTON LIQUORS and SEGARS C. H. NAUGHTON LIQUORS and SEGARS Harper & Wilson a specialty. 1926 Fourteenth Street, Northwest GRAY & COSTLEY, WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS, Ladies' and gentleman's Dining Room upstairs. The best of service guar- anteed. 1313 E Street Northwest, WASHINGTON, D. C. ```markdown ``` << — SS e = / ill fm 3 esayl [ese Sa Hf NA oe SPB \ h\ WN epee sae * Bl \ i ae aw es GR \ \\ “aff heat OF |) My vy \ \ \ aap) Hii h A WET fy \ \, 1M if iH PN Wat 2isnop J.W.00?" RT REV, J: W. HOOD, Senior Bishop, A. M. E. Zion church, Fayetteville. North Carolina. 4 Bishop Clinton's Address. launch out into thedeep on this all important line. > Improvements in this Confererice: Nothing has given me more satisfac- tion than the good work whick several of our ministers have been doing in this conference. The cancelling of a $6,000 debt at Philadelphia, by Dr. G. L. Blackwell, the hquidation of a long standing debt and the purchase of a rew and better located lot at Media by Elder L. W. Kyle, the starting of new churches at Salisburya nd St. Michaels, Md., by Elders Tolbert and Swan, and the good work done by all of the pastors, with but one exception, in the Philadelphia district deserve special nitice. The remodelling cf Union Wesiey, where our session 1s now being held, by Dr. Rives, and his loyal members, the sale of old John Wesley and the purchase of the new John Wesley, and the wiping out of the debt of $17.000 by Dr. Bolding and the good peuple of that church, the great work of Dr. S. L. Corrothers and the noble people who have worked so heartily with him in bringing Galbraith to a place of safety and prominence never before enjoyed; and the splendid re- ports which will be made by Dr. Snow- den. Rev. Hannum and the other brethren of the Washington Disirici ertitle these faithf2l pastors to the commendation of all who know of their work. The Harrisburg district with such able and faithful pastors as Drs. Fisher and Hill, Elders Bell, Blalock, Marshall, Mitchell, R. F. Fisher and others has had a steady and substan- tial growth during the present confer- ence year. Drs, Dickson, Daniels and Curry have done faithful work as Pre- siding Elders. I think the reports will show marked inerease along all lines. The Approaching General Conference And Some Needed Legislafion. At this session of our conference we are to chose delegates to represent this conference in the General Conference, whiche will convehe at St. Louis. Mo., before we meet in another annual ses- sion. The importance of the work to be done and the influence it will have on the future of our great church ought to admonish us that we should chose men as delegates who will do credit to the conference and look well to the ‘best interest of the whole church. I think it well to mention som2 matters which we shal] need to consider at our THE COLORED AMERICAN. next General Conference. 1. We should devise a plan by which our Church Extension department shal] be strengthened and have a larger income to this very important depart- ment. 2. We must plan for well supperied School of Theology at Livingstone Col- lege, Salisbury, N. C. 3. I think the time ripe for an in- crease of the lay representation in our General Conference. 4. The law governing the Min- isterial Brotherhood should be 50 amended that its provisions will be made to give some aid to any members thereof who may Become disabled for a certain length of time even though they are not superanuated, also to meet the burial expenses of any minister who dies a member in good standirg in the Hrotherhood. 5. I think the Varick Christian En- deavor work ought to be put under the ‘supervision of an officer to be known ‘as secretary of the Varick Christian Endeavor Union and that officer should have charge of “The Varick Endeavor” as Editor. It is my opinion that these matters wisely considered and proper- ee arranged will redound to the good of the whole church. If the represen- irate of this confereace think as I do concerning these matters we shall ee up to the General Conference to ad- vocate action thereon. The State of the Country as it Affects The Negro. Hitherto, it has been the custom to consider the Stafe of the country from the broad standpoint of American citi- zens, having an interest in everything that pertains to the well being of our common country. While I would not have any man of the race become less interested in the whole country than he has been in the past, it seems to me that the present crisis in the history of the American Negro makes the con- dition of the country as it affects the race the paramount question of the hour. The disfranchisement amend- ments to the constitutions of several Southern States, some of which con- tain the iniquitous grandfather clause, and all of which were enacted solely to rob the Negro of his right to vote seemed to be a step in the direction of unfair treatment to the Negro that ought to have satisfied the most un- compromising foe of Negro Suffrage. But the opposers of the equal rights and the highes: development of the Negro have not been satisfied at this bold step toward nullifying the Federal Constitution and depriving the Negro of his well earned right to enjoy full citizen privileges. Some have gone further and asserted that they will not be ceatisfied until the Negro has been barred of all citizen privileges as a voter and office holder, regardless of educational qualification or abroesy holdings. Not content with th ne the Negro’s right to vote and partici- pate in the civil-affairs of the state and nation, a campaign has been started and is being vigorously prose- cuted to efface the amendments from the constitution and put the Negro in such a bad light that he will have no standing in any part of the country. ‘The fact that this new and bold move- : MG y Aull gem 9 «( Cee A NNW ie zl ANA {it i Riad Ww. ad if fant SEs \\\ NW TW | Q RT. REV. J. B. SMALL, A. M., D. D., York, Pennsylvania. ment has gained some favor in the North and is becoming more intense in the South is cause for serious reflec- tion. The recent decision of the su- preme court concerning the case brought from Alabama, the utterances of men who once were regarded as friends of the Negro and advocates of fair play backed up by the support of newspapers like the New York “Sun” and the indifferent attitude of other papers seem to indicate that the future of he Negro as a citizen and a free- man is any thing but encouraging. Where we read of Negroes being terrorized, beaten and killed in large numbers because of the misdoings of a few, whether those few are protecting themselves against oppression and in- justice or wilfully violating law, we are made to think that we are making progress backwards. This, however, is the darker side of the question. Thank God there is a brighter side to this question. The brighter side shows tHat the Negro was never more earnestly active in making substantial progress along the lines of higher moral, mental, material and spiritual development than he is to-day. The deception and unfairness of the fight against the Ne- gro is being shown up in its true light as never before. The crisis now on is a crucial one, ‘tis true, but the past experiences and the outcome of suck experiences convince the thoughtful and observant that the Negro will pars through this new crisis and be the er i 2) ne LZ 2 PMAll| \" NY Sal DBE \\ , ay SO mi, WEL IS } i} ty Oz ZH y Ya RT. REV. ALEX. WALTERS, A. M., Jersey w.ty,. N. J. stronger after it is over. God is not dead, justice is not asleep, and the American conscience though dormant will yet become aroused. Just so true as Haman’s wickedness and treachery were discovered and finally punished in a manner that terminated disas- trously to him and his tribe, just so true as Mordecai’s good deeds, loyalty to the government and fidelity to the King were remembered after a long Cures Weak Men FREE. 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Strength and vigor have complete'y returned and enlarye- ment is entirely satisfactory." “Dear Sirs :—Yours was received and! had no trouble in making use of the receipt as directed, and can truthfully say it isa beon to weak men, I am @reatly improved in size, strength and vigor,”" All correspondence is strictly confidential mailed in plain sealed envelope. The receipt in fee for the asking and they want every man to have it. House | Hunting? Our tntending house buyers are frequently, very trequently-- mei itn “Cannot sell to colored,” if de«irabie er 4s being con- sidered, If tooking for a heme let metalk the matter over with you, Have oo my list Some of the most desirable houses in Cleve- land Park, Columbia Heights, washington Heiebts, etc., ranging’in prices from $6, !0 215,000 Desirable homes throughout the Nortswest trom $3 00 to $12 000 !l dollars look alike to the peop’e through whom | carry ou negotiations. 1 obtain tha closest possibie figure; my Fe-vices are free to you --the other fellow pays the fre'gbt. Six cf the neat pressed-brick houses, 6 rooms and hath in the 2490 block, Seventh “t,N W., $2500, Abort $.(0 cash. balance, #20 per mon h, Trust bears 434 per cen: int- erest, , Three very desirable brick houses, modern improvements, ete.. in LeDroit Park at $3,009, £3 508, and $1,209, Well built 6-:00m brick, modern improve- ments, Twelfth St. 8-E. ore and one-half blocks from Lincoin Park ; £2,800, easy terms. 1181 Sixth St NE, near propored Union Sta ton ana Covernment Priuting Office. £2 50 $100 cash, balance §29 per month, Very preity 8 room cottage.in the exclutive suberb of Petworth. Has furnace. all modern improvements. ete.. at the low figure of #0. $300 cash, balance, $25 per month. 1317 Twenty-secona St. N W , 8-room brick, oe improvemeuts, in A I condition, 2 . = Fiveroom cottage, lot 50x 150. in Tacoma Park: hydrant in yard. street sewered. Verv pleasant home tor couple without children; there are no colored schools in Tacoma If Uhaven't what you wish I can get it for you, John C. Keelan. Brokers’ representative. 245 Elm St, NW, ee TELEPHONE, 317 B COLUMBUS. Wirey G, Oyerron. - W. Davip Brows OVERTON anv BROWN Undertakers and Embalmers, 146 West 53rd Street Bet 6th & 7th Aves New York City. Brooklyn Branch, 315 Bridge Street. Camp Chairs and Coaches to let for all purposes, bishop Clinton's Adress every foe of right dealing and every high-handed oppressor of the Negro, and reward the faithful Negro. The Negro must be patient but hopeful; prudent, but persevering; sagacious, but unyielding m his contention for his manhood rights and his citizen privileges. He must ever be mindful that a gracious Providence has been manifest in all his past history, and if his future is to be a bright and hopeful one it must be through the guiding and protecting hand of God; hence the necessity of his exercising more faith in God and being more dutiful in his loyalty to Christianity. If the white man refuses to mingle with the Negro as a social equal he exercises a right to which no manly Negro will object. The Negro has no desire for social equality. In fact there is no social equality. When the white man says that the ignorant and shiftless Negro has no right to partici- pate in the affairs of government as an elector and office holder the only thing, the Negro should ask is that tlie white man should apply the same rule to white men of like calibre and *insist that when he does not he not only does the Negro an injustice, but the white man an injury. The threadfare cry of Negro domina- tion simply betrays a fear that should not carry the least weight among the thoughtful people and indicates an un- willingness to give the Negro a man’s chance. When the white man says by implication, if not by direct statement, that regardless of what the Negro may do in the way of improving his morals, developing his intellect, by his indus- try and economy, by striving to be- come, and finally by winning out in his endeavor to be a good citizen wor- th of every right and privilege decreed by God and guaranteed by equitable law, he shall not enjoy such rights and privileges, the white man puts himself in the way of a Cause that will have at its back the eternal God and all fair- minded men, regardless of race or creed. Such efforts may cause delays; they may, by subterfuge, misrepresen- tation and appeals to prejudice, pas- sion and race antipathy, win sympathy and gain others to that way of think- ing, but none of these things can stop ‘he march of justice and the triumph of right. In the face of all that is be- ing said and Gone against the Negro, what shall he do? Permit me to re- mark just here that the Negro must not lose hope or become discouraged. lle must study the situation in the light of history and in full recognition of all the facts bearing on it. No race or individual has come up from the depths without a sfruggle or without opposition, There is no royal path for the Negro any more than for others. Great opposition must_be met by great- er resistance. If one should say there is nothing to encourage the race to make greater effort to rise and be honorable and competent citizens, to such a one I say you are wrong. The Negro may have had more half-hearted sympathizers and his friends may have been more noisy m their efforts to as- sist him and in the advocacy of fair play, in the past but I think I speak advisedly when I say I don’t believe he ever had more sincere and substan- lial friends who believe that there is a bright and glorious future before iim. Negro merit is being acknowl- edge in every walk of life. Negro char- acter is being recognized everywhere. Negro progress is steady and substan- tion in every section of our great country. Despite the South’s opposi- tion, and the syecophancy of patronizing hortherners who are prompted either by commercial greed or other un- ‘orthy motives, every fair minded man will concede that the Roosevelt: policy a We ee Be en, i ee ee ee eee THE COLOREnN AMERICAN. and by the people, is the only true standard and the one that is bound to win # the national fabric remains in- tact. The Negro should not misunder- stand this policy or fail to rightly in- terpret it. It is a policy which has been the theoretical policy of the gov- ernment from its inception, but which has been disregarded till the great and good man, the sagacious and unbiased statesman, the most fearless and broad minded chief magistrate} President Roosevelt was-forced to give a new enunciation. It does not mean that the Negro shall be recognized and cause he rs a partisan in politics, but it does mean that if the Negro will make himself a competent citizen, one possessed of character and the other substantial elements that make him an important factor in the community, he shall have a man’s chance, all things being equal, the same as other men. It now remains for the Negro to meet the test. The task is before us. AT HIGHER COURT. Continued From Page 1. mencement exercises were held in connection with the Young People’s Society, and the Junior Christian En- deavor Society, which was. celebrated with all the eclat incident to such an occasion. ‘The Baccalaureate sermon was delivered at 11 a. m., by Rev. Dr. Stark, of Elizabeth, N. J. His test was, “There is no new thing under the sun.” The sermon was eloquent, prac- tical and scholarly. At 2:30 p. m., the commencement exercises were held, at which time the graduating class was presented with their diplomas by the Pastor, Rey. C. LeRoy Butler. ‘The special music for this occasion_ was well rendered. The class song, the words of which was composed by Miss Dora Cole, and the music by Miss Blanche Evans, deserves special men- tion. Five minute addresses on va- > > Gea 7 Hi Se - 3 4 iy Yop ab ee Yj a "g Yj; “fj S Yi y YY LY Beyyyp}yv WY): YY ZY 4 YY I GZ.QZ270 6 £0 H; Ge? < Ypttj]]- FZ; |-.F$tUYY 0 eZ Wt I ALI Jyw@v_0= yy ZZ Yi “LLY Zi pecclgeae CGE LVI REV. T. W. HENDERSON. Pastor A. M.. E. Zion Church, New York City. rious phases of Endeavor work by the; Thoughts Suggested by Obs representatives of the various socie-|Miss Maybelle McAdoo; Sop ties of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and} Miss Arabella Berry; Quar New York were delivered. These were} Union League Musical | all interesting and timely, and each | Violin Selection, Mr. Wiggir contained some new and_ helpful|tion, Mme. Knight; Piano thought. At 7:45 a popular meeting| Prof’ Knight; Soprano Solo was held, consisting of a continuation| B. Henderson. Next Sunde of addresses by representatives of] will be Temperance exercis other societies, interspersed with| will be in charge of Mr. J. choruses, solos, etc. By request the] ron. graduating class repeated their class Miss Maude KGriffin, of song, after whiche they were presented] 134th Street, entertained a to the Senior Society of Christian En-| friends on Wednesday eve deavor by Mrs. Grace E. Tompkins,] visited New York for the | followed by an address of welcome] of Drury’s Opera. They wer from the President of the Senior Soci-|}y entertamed by music a ety, Miss Carrie T. King. Five honor-! Among those present wer ary members were also presented with | ee eS diplomas. The meeting closed with Continued on Page Let each man do his part toward mak- ing our future better and our place in this country an honorable and substan- tial one. In making this contribution the Negro pulpit, and the Christian Church under the control of the Negro ministry must take the lead and heart- ily co-operate with every other agency and every other individual engaged in the good work. Good men and true men, safe counsellors and wise lead- ers in the pulpit who are beacon lights and deeply interested in the welfare of the race; and who are willing to make sacrifices to serve and elevate the race, such men we need and must have, to fill our pulpits. Such men can do more toward the uplift of the race than any other single agency. The duty has been pointed out to us. Taking God for our guide and constantly invoking His help let us address ourselves to the task before. us believing with all our hearts that victory is sure. what is known as “the quiet hour” among Christian Endeavorers. The initial entertainment and recep- tion of the Union League Musical Association was held at West Side Ly- ceum, on Wednesday evening. The audience was treated to @ musical treat, in listening to the numbers rendered by the Union League Orches- tra. Mr. Charles~ Burroughs, the dramatic reciter, of Shakesperian plays, as usual appeared to excellent advantage, and his numbers are es- pecially to be commended. ‘There was a large and appreciative audience at St. Mark’s Lyceum, on Sunday afternoon, who listened to an excellent program under the super- vision of Mr. William D. Moore. It was as follows: Piano Solo, Miss Lulu Fields; Paper, “Some Practical Thoughts Suggested by Observation,” Miss Maybelle MeAdoo; Soprano Solo, Miss Arabella Berry; Quartette, The Union League Musical Orchestra; Violin Selection, Mr. Wiggins; Recita- tion, Mme. Knight; Piano Selection, Prof’ Knight; Soprano Solo, Mme. A. B. Henderson. Next Sunday there will be Temperance exercises, which will be in charge of Mr. J. E. Robin- ron. Miss Maude K@Griffin, of 127 West 134th Street, entertained a party of friends on Wednesday evening, who visited New York for the production of Drury’s Opera. They were pleasant- ly entertamed by music and games. Among those present were: Miss Continued on Page 9. === 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 Pp. m. daily. Evenings from 7:30 to 10 o'clock. 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W. 6 GOTHAM NOTES COLORED AMERICAN DIONYSIUS III The persecution and slaughter of the Jews in Russia is exciting not a little ocmment in the press and among the Jews in this country, and the latter are raising funds for the relief of their brethren in the land of the Bear When the Jews became carnal and crucified Jesus Christ they fell under the denunciation and execution of his wrath. Moses, their prophet, had long before warned them of the judgments to come if they should ever become of the character which they did. The Messiah uttered against them, in consequence of their rejecting him, a new addition of these fatal denunciations. See Matt. XIV; Mark XIII; Luke XIX, 41, 44, Chap. XXI-XIII, 27, 30. These were to have a primary fulfillment in the desolation of Jerusalem and the Jewish commonwealth. This fulfillment Christ assured them would take place in that generation. It did. The Jews have for more than 1800 years believed the lie told them by the soldiers who guarded the tomb of Jesus, and some of them to this day still refuse to believe that He has risen, and are still looking for the coming of the Messiah. That lie of the Roman soldiers is perhaps one of the oldest and best stuck-to lies in the world. For their belief in it the Jews have suffered more persecution than any other race on earth. Little did they dream that when they cried out "Crucify Him! Crucify Him!!" they were pronouncing their own doom. Christ's apostrophe to Jerusalem showed the tenderness of His soul for His people—"O, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee. How often would I have gathered thy children together as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings; and ye would not. Behold your house is left unto you desolate. For I say unto you, ye shall not see me henceforth till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord." The Christian Jews, both in Europe and in America, are prosperous Jews and are not persecuted. For centuries the nations of earth have been slaughtering the Jews, driving them from country to country, subjecting them to all kinds of indignities. Arabia opened the bloody scene after a short season of peace. In Selencia the Greeks and Syrians rose against the Jews who fled to that place from the pestilence of Babylon, and fifty thousand of them were slain. Five years later thousands more were slain in Persia. Four years after this the Romans slaughtered ten thousand of them. At Damascus ten thousand were slain in one hour. In Caeserea twenty thousand were slain, and in five other cities the carnage among the Jews was dreadful. In Alexandria the Jews rose upon the Romans and fifty thousand of their peple were killed without any regard to infancy, age or sex. At Scythopolis thirteen thousand were slain in one night. At Totapata forty thousand Jews perished and these contentions the historian of the times tells us rose and increased till the whole Jewish nation took up arms against the Romans, and brought on themselves their final destruction. And still they doubted and scouted the idea that Jesus Christ was the Son of God or that He had risen from the dead as He said He would, THE COLORED AMERICAN. or that He was the one true Messiah who was to draw all nations to Him. These Russian Jews who have been slaughtered recently, were doubters, scoffers. The Jewish nation were familiar with all the predictions made by Christ concerning the nation. But they paid no attention to His warnings yet every prediction He made came true, as for instance, this: "And great earthquakes shall be in divers places." Two of these are recorded byTacitus—one at Rome in the region of Claudius, another at Apamea, in Syria, where were many Jews. So destructive was the one at the latter place, we are told, that the tribute due to the Romans was for five years remitted. One at Crete, one at Smyrna, one at Milletus, one at Chios, and one at Samos; in all which places Jews resided. The famines predicted by Christ were likewise fulfilled. The one foretold by Agabus, noted in the Acts of Apostles, was dreadful and of long continuance. It extended through Greece and Italy and was most severely felt at Judea, and especially at Jerusalem. The Russian horrors about rusalem. "Pestilences too," the Saviour adds. Two instances of this signal Judgment before the last Jewish war are worthy of note. The one took place at Babylon where many jews resided, the other at Rome which destroyed thousands of them. Never were a people scourged, scattered, and peeled as the once chosen people of God, in all the centuries from Golgotha to the morning of the xxth century. So that this new Russian horror is not to be marvelled at. It is simply in fulfillment of the prophecy concerning the fate of this people, stiff-necked and obdurate in spite of the intangible evidence that the Messiah for whom they look is already come and has been here since the third day when he burst forth from the prison house of death, and showed himself to his disciples and Mary and to others at different times before his ascent into heaven. Some Jews the world over are coming to think differently of Christ the rejected one; many of them believe in His Divinity and would acknowledge His as the true Messiah if he should again reveal himself to mankind. An Ohio Rabbi, whose name I cannot now recall, a few weeks ago declared that if Christ should come to earth the Jews would receive and acknowledge him as the true Messiah. The Russian horrors about which we have been reading are mild in comparison with some of which Josephus tells us, though the probability is that history (which is constantly repeating itself in one form or another) will repeat itself in the case of the Jews who after 1800 years of suffering and persecution and slaughter are—some of them—just as firmly wedded as were their fathers in olden time to the ingenious falsehood of the Roman soldiers, who, to save themselves, declared that they had been overpowered while they watched at the tomb, and that the body of Jesus had been stolen. There are none so blind as those who will not see. Every prediction made by Christ concerning the Jews will be fulfilled, and they will be scourged and punished until they shall say, "Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord." For He is their king and their Lord. "For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth." Jerusalem will yet become the chief city of the world—the city of God—and peace and prosperity will again bless it, and the chosen seed of Israel who shall be as the sands of the sea and the Ethiopians and the Tibyans who are of the same stock shall be at his steps. When Robert Toombs of Georgia, some time ago declared that he would yet call the roll of his slaves at the foot of Bunker Hill Monument, he uttered a prophecy which few believed would ever be fulfilled. What seems to be its fulfillment is the ready acquiescence of a majority of the members of the U. S. Supreme Court in the demands of the South for the wiping out of every vestige of the Negroes' right and title to citizenship and the uncon- ditional surrender of those members of the court to southern prejudices and hatred of the Negro. The signifcance of the recent decisions by that court is heightened by the fact that the first slave to answer to roll call is a son of the autocrat of the breakfast table, a Massachusetts man—a product of the soil on which the slave driver and slave dealer received the hardest blows ever administered to his "Divine Institution" in the days when Massachusetts women bred MEN who weer not ashamed to look the devil in the face and tell him he was a devil. What would Phillips and Garrison and Lovejoy and Livermore and all the great army of anti-slavery champions say if they could revisit the earth and read Mr. Justice Holmes' companion piece to the Taney delivery in the Dred Scott case? It is about time for the Negro to wake up, for the American people are certainly doing things to him, and they will succeed in doing him if he don't watch out. WOMAN'S DAY RALLY. A Gala Day at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church—The Rally a Success. Woman's Day Rally at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church was carried out to a successful issue last Sunday, May 17. A most interesting program was rendered and $221.64 was realized. The success of this work is due very largely to Mrs. Bertha Watson, who was the moving spirit in the conception and in carrying out the ideas to a successful issue. The services were as follows: 11 a. m., 3 p. m., and 7:30 p. m. The following program was rendered: Morning service—Organ prelude, Miss Lena Holmes; prayer, Rev. W. H. Brooks; hymn, the choir; lesson; hymn, the choir; solo; chorus, the choir; reading notices, Miss Eva Dean; sermon, Rev. W. H. Brooks; prayer; selections, the choir; collection, Mrs. Julia Mason Layton, Mrs. Ella Sewell. Afternoon service—Organ prelude, Mrs. E. V. Jarvis; hymn,Mrs. Martha Freeman; lesson, Miss Louise Peebles; hymn, Mrs. C. Scotot; solo, "Redemption," Miss Bessie Hamilton; chorus, "Christ our Passover," Asbury choir; prayer, Mrs. Maria Bush; solo, "Three Visions," Miss Bertie Mason; chorus, female voices; sermon, "Missionary Workers and Helpers," Rev. J. T. Clark; prayer, Mrs. Ella Simmons; chorus and collection, Mrs. Rosetta Lawson and Mrs. Ella Sewell; doxology. Music furnished by Asbury choir, Prof. J. Henry Lewis, director. Evening service—Hymn, Mrs. Lizzie Green; prayer, Miss Ida Boswell; scripture lesson, Miss L. Toler; chorus, the choir; solo, Miss Elma Brewer; reading notices, Miss Eva Dean; duet, "Character Building," Lottie Stevens and Katie Steptoe; sermon, "Mother's Duty to Children," Rev. F. J. Grimke, Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church; collection, Mrs. Laura Queen and Mrs. Ella Sewell; choruses and closing hymn, the choir. Music furnished by the church choir, Mr. B. H. Baker, director; Miss Lena Holmes, organist; Mrs. Bertha Watson, chairman. The friends of teh church congratulate Mrs. Watson for her untiring efforts in behalf of the rally, and extend thanks to the Asbury Church choir for its kindly assistance. THE COLORED AMERICAN. The issue of this paper for April 18th is surely the acme of colored journalism. "Bruce Grit's" article compares favorably with the articles sent to the Cincinnati Enquirer in past years by "Gath" Geo. Alfred Townsend. The entire paper is history that stimulates and a copy should be placed in the archives of every newspaper office. The Columbian, Louisville, Ky. BRUCE GRIT. Is afforded ladiestraveling alone on the Compartment Cars of the "Great Western Limited," 9 Leaving Chicago every evening at 6.30 via the CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. J. P. ELMER, G. P. A. 113 Adams St., Chicago Merchant Tailor. (JAMES S. RAWLINS) Now Open and ready With the latest frabricks and Fashions in Spring Goods at reasonable rates. Every fit Guaranteed. THE PENN. 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Undertakers Embalmers And Funeral Director 1315 14 st nw Washington, D.C. POSITION FOR A LADY. I would like to secure the services of a colored lady between 20 and 35 for special work in placing orders. She must be fairly educated, a fair talker and able to go about to various places in the city. A fair salary will be paid to the right person. Address, "Business, care The Colored American, Washington, D. C. ```markdown ``` THE COLORED AMERICAN. SS Col. Roosevelt and his Rough Riders, ! and of the 7ist New York Regiment. BEAUTIFUL PAC The President cannot be accused of A SOME HEAD 0 eee {fl tertinzes, resuscitarck oe adjuncts, and roots of The chambermaid out in Indiana- polis who lost her position in the Hotel Imperial because she refused to make a up the bed occupied by Booker Wash- AEN ington has been made a ward of the dies southern people, and they are taking Pes) up all sorts of collections and sending 2 all sorts of purses to swell her bank pip SE account. It does not follow, however, f Yi) that any other chambermaids will fare peas. so well. The southern people soon tire is - of “fire works philanthropy.” Cees Sa Zp Mae THE ZION CONFERENCE. QUES. Ga _ The Seventy-Sixth Session of the ‘Philadeiphia and Baltimore Conference of the A. M. E. Zion Church was open- ed in this city at Union ‘Wesley Church, Wednesday, May 20th, and will con- tinue to the 26th. This is. one of the largest and most influential confer- ences of the church. The denomina- tion is very strong and many large and prosperous churches of the denomina- thon are located in this city. Bishop Geo. W. Clinton who presided over this conference was in the city early this week assisting the local ministers in arranging and preparing for the work of the conference. The associated bishops present are Bishops J. W. Hood D. D. L. L. D., J, B. Small, A. M:, D. D., Alexander Walters, A. M., D. D. All of the ministers in this conference were present with a few exceptions, among them many noted divines. The address of Bishop Clinton at the open- ing session was a scholarly and learned effort. We take a few excerpts from the address, which are as follows: . Lynchburg, Va.—Special.—The com- mencement exercises of the Virginia Collegiate and Industrial Institute will be held from May 24th to 28th. The annual sermon will be preached Sunday, May 24, at 11 a. m., at Jack- son Street M. E. Church, by the pas- ior, Rev. W. A. C. Hughes, Ph. B. The address to the Benjamin Bannekcr Literary Society will be delivered Tuesday, May 26, at 3 p. m., by Rev. J. W. Taylor, of Bedford Springs, in Chapel of the Institute. The address to the graduating class will be deliv- ared Thursday evening the 28th, by Rev. W. C. Thompson, B. D., of Lex- ington, Va., at Jackson Street M. E. Church, This institute takes this year the first prize for oration and the first for hymn among academies, on Stew- art Missionary Foundation for Africa. BLAINE INVINCIBLES ELECT OF- FICERS. At the meeting of the Blaine Invin- sible Republican Club held Friday aight, May 15th, at its club rooms, 609 F street, northwest, the following offi- cers were elected and installed for the ensuing year: President, Col. H. P. Carson; 1st Vice President, J. W. Jack- son; Secretary, J. I. Thomas, Assistant Secretary, F. Wells; Recording Secre- tary; C. W. Scott; Corresponding Sec- retary, R. S. Smith; Treasurer, H. M. Armstead; Medical Examiner, Dr. R. L. Gains; Attorney, J. W. Bell; Assict- ant Attorney, J. T. Ayres; Sergeant-at- Arms, I. Payne. The annual sermon to the club was preached at the Mount Jezreel Baptist Chureh, Sunday even- ing, May 17th, at 7:30 p. m., by Rey. R. Peyton, former pastor ofeJasper Me- morial Baptist Church, Richmond, Va. The past year has been most success- ful for the club, which is the oldest tolored organization of its character in the District, or perhaps in the country. Its membership numbers in the hund- dreds. It is liberal in its charity to the poor of its race throughout the country. The membership comprises men of all walks of life. President Carson is the founder and has been at the head since its organization in 1876, and is now honored with the position for life. The club will observe Decora- tion Day by giving an excursion to Glymont. PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS. Mr. J. Albert Adams, of Annapolis, Md., was in the city last Senday. Mr. Adams is a representative of that class of young colored men who are pro- gressive and energetic and who are sieadily making their way to a position of commanding prominence in the af- fairs of the people. Mr. Adams is the proprietor of a large department shop, doing everything in the way of horse- shoeing, blacksmithing, carriage build- ing and painting, and besides has a large undertaking establishment. Not finding, in all this multiplicity of busi- ness interests, a complete outlet to his store of energy, he has also one of the finest saloons in Annapolis, being the only colored man in that town engaged in the business. The Colored American is always glad to say a good word for men of the stamp of Mr. Adams, and the glad hand is always ready for him in Washington. In writing up the song service at Israel Av M. E. Cra a: Sunday even- ing, May 10, mention waS made of those who participated in the program. The compositor evidently. had his own ideas about it, however, for he left out the name of Dr. S, A. Ward, of the Berean Baptist Church Choir, who sang the “Resurrection Song,” by Wood, in a most acceptable manner, Mr. John M. Brown, of Macon, Ga., but latterly of New York, has been in the past few days looking up some patents in connection with the broom- making industry. Mr. Brown is the proprietor of a large broom-making plant in Macon, and is busy now with plans that will lead to its enlargement, and the embodying of new inventions in broom-making machinery. He is preparing particularly to put in a new outfit of machinery which will enable him to manufacture brooms under a new patent, and which will enable him to put a broom on the market that, while outwearing two of the ordinary brooms, can be sold at a lower rate. Mr. Brown is a hustling product of the southland, and is a sample of the young generation of colored men in the South who are giving their thoughts and ideas to the development of business enterprises among our people. While in the city he was the guest of Mr. Lucien H. White. ae ee ee ee eee medical department of Howard Univer- sity was Miss Annesley W. Smalley, who graduated in pharmacy. Miss Smalley is a daughter of Rev.” William Smalley, a prominent minister of the C. M. E. Church, living at Macon,*Ga., and is a sister of Mrs. Lucien H. White of Washington, D. C. Miss Smalley, during the two years of her course, has made many friends who were charmed alike by the attractiveness of her per- sonality and by her mental graces. She sraduated with high honor, and will probably establish a drug store at her home in the southland. She is spend- ing a week or ten days with her broth- er, Mr, James H. Smalley, in New York City, prior to returning home, and is being shown much attention by friends in that eity. The choir of Israel C. M. E. Church, under the direction of Mr. Lucien H. White, their chorister, is busy prepar{ ing to render Mendelssohn-Bartholay’s very attractive cantata, “The Hymn! of Praise,” whiche they hope to present to the public in the mext five or six weeks. The choir will be augmented with some of the most capable singers. ‘n the city, and the rendition promises ‘o be as interesting im its scope as was the recent singing of “Hiawatha.” ‘The work of the choir is very good, and is attracting considerable attention, with the music-loving people of the city, and has aroused the enthusiastic support of the congregation of Israel Church. _ f Notwithstanding the hue that is be- ing raised because the Negro regulars cut in California marched at the head of the parade in honor of President Roosevelt, it will not be doubted that the President was glad to see them. They were the same troops who strove so valiantly on the steeps of San Juan in behalf of the Stars and Stripes, of COMMENCEMENT DAY. 7 1 ITs WITH A _HAND- AUTY WHEN UNADORNED | Bl SORE AASE Roses SrOmaINeS ert halt fou ain cones eae ands, oil sacs, follicles, uently a true hair tonic, ates the baie sean = fortitines Temuscltatel, to tame nee ee the plant is withered, sicxly. droo op- adjuncts, and roots of the hum: there dying, worgive wats - ri < IN » the harsh, ‘Co Oy Sagtn dragnet hal he $ y \, Ge rinciple of comm. a PW | wes con” formulated aS |Pae — f e , ‘ ma n d, mercury, bis- 7 PS ‘ cists—not from lead, m j i> WS © } mots nineral poisons, but | é ie? 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It makes tl a anti fo apt they wii chit takesits hame).and bald spots; gives to it that . ait ae aaa teen can eased with case atid as Ir to grow so long ai soft, wavy, straig! nd gives You Dicuss, GL OasINE pilabis as tie sortest siik. Eric for pitrze bbe BOO. § to it a texture as De ee eee res —— “else, on which they price for the complete : icicasinenentacdiee: en they NO’TE.—Many druggists may try to sell you son ENE in Stock. your make more profit, or because they may not have CL OSGINE: | druggist cannot supply you, send Omg eeneae, of dealer, and we will send same } ieee hi CONTINENTAL CHEMICAL CO., Sole Owners, 9 over . I DR.. L. H. SINGLETON, Cor 20th and E St. N. W. Agent for Washington, D. C. FFA AKAS FH LHA RAHA KAA HK RM MR FSM, ; ‘ ; PL IeS 2 t , . s - 7 : Dal] Cuice , ‘ a 1 ; 5M 9th Street Northwest. q (ESTABLISHED 1870 ) ; SSMxty Loaxen O83 3 * | Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry. Silverware, Ftc. + Uaredeemed Watches, Diamonds and Jewelry For Sale. 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C. Sold by all News Dealers. SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1903. DANGEROUS FORCES. The frequency of strikes in all sections of the country, inaugurated and kept up almost entirely by foreigners, in organizations ostensibly for the protection of labor, but too often made cloaks for red-handed lawlessness, is becoming alarming. The anarchists and cranks who kill our Presidents' are generally members of such so-called labor organizations. These blood-thirsty foreigners come to our shores to get rid of monarchial tyranny in their own governments, and the liberty of our American institutions is misused as license to conspire against the life and safety of the republic. The efforts of certain Italians to blow up our ships with dynamite show that it is high time for the government to devise and adopt measures to restrict immigration against these murderers, with such zeal as characterize it in keeping out the industrious, law-abiding Chinese. The constant conspiracies to attack our public men also constitute elements of the dangerous forces running wild in this country, which need to be checked at once by the strong arm of the government. The hellish work of planting infernal machines like the one left on the Cunard pier in New York, for the wholesale destruction of thousands of innocent human beings and millions of dollars worth of property, is the exclusive calling of the anarchistic devil who gain strength and means by the protection afforded them by the government, only that they may strike more deadly blows at its life and the lives and property of its citizens. It is pleasing to note that black Americans do not engage in any of these nefarious past-times. The leaders and participants in this dangerous and un-American work are foreigners, who have no inherited rights on our shares. The first thing they do after landing and getting rid of their sea-legs, is to organize to keep colored men out of the mines, out of the factories, out of --- THE COLORED AMERICAN. the trades' unions and out of all kinds of industries of the country. They thus easily get their feet on the necks of colored man, and, assisted by the unnatural American prejudice against our people, they effectually hold us down. The opposition to colored men holding Federal appointments comes from a source though different in kind, yet the same in character, and it is the duty of the government to put its foot on this species of lawlessness with the same promptness and positiveness that should be used in extirpating anarchy, for the one gives encouragement to the other. The mailing books of The Colored American show a large number of names of persons, who have been receiving the paper for years, who have been notified many times of their indebtedness to it, who are still reading the paper, but who refuse point blank to pay for it, or even to answer letters sent them. Many of these people are personal friends of the editor, and he would like to have a line from them. The race problem goes on with unabated interest in the South. If you read The Colored American and like it, pay for it. "LET DOWN YOUR BUCKETS WHERE ARE YOU?" In our boyhood on our native southern heath, we heard a lady to the manor born relate the following to a male friend of her who had gallantly worn the "gray" in the unpleasantness that had ended about four years before. "As I was ascending the Dickens' Hill on my way home from Marietta, I looked back and saw another buggy in which sat a man dressed in the uniform of a United States Army Officer. My sister informed me that he was the captain of a company of Yankees stationed in Marietta for heaven knows what. Not desiring to be near such a man, I spoke sharply to my horse, he made a sudden leap which broke the hamestring. This accident caused my horse to become detached from my buggy which was running back down the hill at a rapid rate, when this Yankee officer leaped out of his buggy and caught hold of mine and stopped it. I ordered him to let go my buggy or I would shoot him. He insisted that if he did so I would get hurt. I told him I would rather be hurt than to be helped by a Yankee. He let go, and sure enough my buggy ran back into a ravine, I fell out, thereby receiving this cut on the head which I regard as an honorable wound sustained in the defense of the dignity of the South," and I have returned to town to get the doctor to put a few stitches in it." "Well, too bad, Kate," said her male friend. The degree of civic rights the Negro will be allowed to exercise will be decided by others. But his intellectual, financial and moral development rests with him alone.—Exchange. The lily-whites, the blacks and tans and the old liners have a way of keeping themselves before the public. Echoes are still reverberating from the Hiawatha Chorus. An old saying to the effect that the Democratic party never learns anything and never forgets anything can be truthfully applied to the solid South. It has not learned anything for the past forty years. The word Yankee is as much hated to-day as it was when Lincoln issued his famous Emancipation Proclamation. The sending of northern capital and northern enterprise to the South and overtures for peace and good will through the churches and educational bodies to the South and recognition in large part by giving army positions to officers in the Spanish-American War to the South and through the other agencies of civilization have failed to reach the solid South and to get it out of the old channels and into the new ways of thinking. A spinster chambermaid who refused to make up the bed of a prominent colored man in Indianapolis, Ind., is being lionized by a certain class of southern whites. They spend more money to perpetuate that ghost of slavery-prejudice, than to eradicate it. The doctrine of peace and progress and the optimism and dignity of labor as preached and practised by Dr. Washington is not accepted by Editor Barnett of The Conservavtor. He much prefers "red records" agitation and strife among the races for the purpose of preaching anti-lynching. Whose doctrine is right and best for the 20th century civilization? The High School Editor of The Boston Guardian admits that, that sheet is a patent back, and says pleadingly that his paper must be printed somewhere. We knew that sonny, but in scoring The Chicago Monitor, why, does the "pot call the kettle black?" The aforesaid editor has also discovered that his paper contains more original matter than two of the best colored newspapers printed. Ah ha, indeed! The fact of the matter is, The Guardian contains more "gush," and social vaporings than any of the five best colored newspapers printed. See! The commencement season is on, and thousands of our young men and young women are being launched out into the world. A good motto for all would be "Our bark is launched, but where is the shore?" There are still some colored men and white ones too, as to that matter, who are opposed to work and to the men who advocate honest toil. The Louisiana Purchase Exposition management has its doors still closed in the face of colored men. What are our leaders in Missouri doing? OUR NEW POSSESSIONS. With the acquisition of new territory, and a population differing in language and civilization from the greater portion of the American people, a new problem is presented to the United States. Up to the present time only two races of people have taken part in American politics, the white man and black man. The red man has been in the Government, but never a part of it. The majority of the people in our new possessions very largely belong to the browns, the status of whom has not as yet been defined, but as they constitute the inhabitants of our possessions in the orient, and will necessitate a recasting of international law, and probably a modification of the Monroe doctrine, it behooves us to give some earnest study to this problem. In dealing with this question it should be borne in mind that the Spanish government never made any distinction on account of color, and the United tSates government will commit an unpardonable error by permitting any color-caste to be tolerated in the Philippines, or any other part of our new possessions. The Republican party is in power in the United States, and has been in power ever since the acquisition of our possessions in the islands of the sea, and will be held responsible for the race tone and sentiment in the territory above referred to. President Roosevelt was not at the head of the American Government when this new territory was acquired, and the policy adopted at that time cannot be said to be his policy, but his administration will be held to accountability for things done in these islands at the present time. The President appreciates this fact, and is taking the steps necessary to inform himself of the true situation in our new possessions. The colored soldiers stationed in the Philippines know a great deal about those islands, and could give valuable information respecting them. Chaplain T. G. Steward, and other colored officers of our regiments could give volumes of useful information to the Government at Washington relative to the condition of the people of the Philippines, and their adaptability to our civilization, but they are Doubtless, special commissioner T. Thomas Fortune, during his brief tour of the islands, has gathered some data that will be of service to the President in dealing with conditions in this new territory. This information should be supplemented by a further investigation on the part of the Government by a commission of white and colored Americans, and natives of the foreign possessions. Their findings would undoubtedly be of in calculable value in dealing with the Philippine problem. The Government should not allow color prejudice to enter into the question. No great world-power can afford to allow its usefulness to be circumscribed by color-prejudice, and the United States Government is now a world-power, and President Roosevelt is just the kind of man that is needed at the helm in such a crisis as this. The Carnegie gift to Tuskegee, ought to hold the anti B. T. Washington editors for a while. Advertisement of summer resorts are gentle reminders that the summer time has come again. BEREAN BAPTIST CHURCH The annual picnic of the Berean Baptist Sunday School and congregation will be held this year on Friday, June 19th, at the new Green Willow Park, on Sumner Avenue, Anacostia. This beautiful park is but two blocks from the electric street car line, and can be easily reached by one fare from all parts of the city. This new resort is fitted with a large pavilion, plenty of swings, bicycle track, ample shade trees and everything necessary to the comfort and enjoyment of the patrons. This is welcome news to those who shrink from the inconveniences of hill-climbing and inadequate street car facilities, while to those charitably inclined this picnic will afford a fine opportunity to contribute in a small degree at least to the completion of the new church, which the Bereans hope to dedicate about July 5th. SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF MOSES The Most Right Worthy National Gand Lodge, No. 1, of the Ancient Independent Order of Sons and Daughters, Brothers and Sisters of Moses, celebrated their 26th anniversary on Wednesday night last, the 20th inst., by a grand reception and banquet at Odd Fellows' Hall, M street, northwest. The affair was under the management of chairman G. W. H. Ferguson and was a successive every respect. The music was under the direction of Prof. Ambler, Grand Master J. H. Jones, and Vice Grand Miss Laura West, graced the occasion with their presence, and added greatly to its pleasure. This is one of the powerful orders of the District, and our readers may expect to hear more from it. THE EUREKA GRAND LODGE. F. and A. A. Y. Masons, Prince Hall compact, has just closed a long and important session, and starts out very favorably for the new year. All visiting brothers are respectfully requested to call upon Eureka. Grand Master Col. R. D. Goodman, No. 917 4th street northwest. For information about the craft, please bring financial card of your lodge. DR. J. F. WILLIAMS, Grand Secretary. No. 106 F St. N. W. Mr. B. F. Wyche, a substantial business man of New Brunswick, N. J., passel through the city Thursday of last week, en route to his home from Richmond, Va. He had been to Richmond to attend the obsequies of his brother, Lieut. Lee Jackson Wyche, who was a prominent officer in the State Militia of the Virginia Volunteers and first lieutenant in the Spanish American war. HOW A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN ESCAPED SPRING CATARRH BY USE OF PE-RU-NA. Nothing Robs One of Strength Like Spring Catarrh-- Spring Fever is Spring Catarrh. AT HIGHER COURT. Continued From Page 5. Jessie C. Sleet, Miss Fannie J. Murray, Mrs. Seymour, Miss Arnold, Miss M. McAdoo, Miss Emily Fletcher, Prof. H. Hall, and others. The beautiful weather Sunday morning brought out a large audience at St. Mark's M. E. Church, who listened to a forceful and eloquent sermon on "Divine Love" by the pastor, Rev. W. H. Brooks, D. D. In the evening Rev. A. J. Mitchell spoke on "Race Unity." On Monday evening the Epworth League of the Church observed its 14th Anniversary. The program which deserves special commendation, was in charge of the president, Mr. J. E. Robinson. It was as follows: Opening Chorus, "Onward Christian Soldiers;" "Devotional Exercises, Rev. C. L. Brown; Short Addresses, "All Welcome," Mr. J. E. Robinson; Duet selected, Madam M. C. Copeland and and Mr. N. Arrington; Reading, selected, Mr. G. Winton Marshall; Anniversary Address, Rev. T. Wellington Henderson, D. D., pastor of Bethel A. M. E. Church; Solo, selected, Miss Mabel Johnson; Violin Solo, Miss Ella H. Thomas; Recitation, selected, Miss Josephine DeMund, of the People's Forum, Newark, N. J.; Solo, selected, Miss Artemesia F. Adams; Reading, "The Legend of the Organ Builder," Miss Maybelle McAdoo; Baritone Solo, Mr. M. E. Dabney. The music for the occasion was furnished by Prof. Penalver's Orchestra. On Thursday, the 21st, Coun. Wilford H. Smith, left for Washington, D.C., where he goes for the purpose of appearing in the United States Supreme Court to make application for writes of error in two cases appealed from the Alabama Supreme Court. THE SEA ISLAND NEWS. Colored Charlestonians Aggressive In The Business World. Charleston, S. C., Special.—In our last letter we unintentionally omitted the name of Dr. J. W. Thompson among our physicians. He is prominent in the profession, and popular among our people, especially the ladies. The name of Mr. Harleston, as an undertaker, should have been noticed; also as tailor, Mr. John Green, of Hasel street. He has quite a trade, and as a young man bids fair to excel. Our tonsorial artists are numerous, and all running a fine business. Here they are, Messrs. Wm. Ingliss & Sons, Geo. Goodwin, Horace Holmes, Wm. Cling, Geo. Spencer, W. G. Fridie, Rufus, Felder, and a host of minor lights. Those who "stick" to the last and repair soles, are, Messrs. J. B. Dacoster, W. N. Houston, Joiner, Williams, and many others too numerous to mention. In the strictly mechanical business we have the Nells Bros., as wheelwrights and blacksmiths, Blanchard horse shoer, Harrison, Izard, Sanford, and many others as carpenters and joiners. We can look with pride upon our police and fire departments. On the former we have some of the most efficient and reliable officers of color; one whole company of picked men has charge of a hook and ladder apparatus; all of the drivers and help are colored, and have proved themselves worthy of their calling. In the custom house and post office we are fairly represented. In the former one of the most campetent clerks is Mr. Seymour Smith. We also have in the fish business Mr. C. C. Leslie, who does a large city and import trade. Mrs. Maria Wall, one of our most aged and respected ladies died last week. Doubtless many have heard of, or knew her. She saw her fourth generation, and died in the faith. NESTOR The Congressional Club, at 430 17th Street, N. W., is doing a lively business these days and is growing in popularity. Mr. Sam Spering and Savoy are up to date business men. The Gaskins White Hat Club, consisting of fifty members, will be a feature of the Business Men's Excursion down the Potomac, tomorrow. THE COLORED AMERICAN. MISS HELEN WHITMAN. MISS HELEN WHITMAN. Miss Helen Whitman, 308 1/2 Grand awa "There is nothing like Peruna you no ambition for work or play a year ago I felt unable to regain runa made a wonderful change As long as you keep your blood in and Peruna seems to fill the ve thoroughly endorse it." Miss Helen Whitman, 3081/4 Grand avenue, Milwaukee, Wis., writes: "There is nothing like Peruna for that tired feeling, which gives you no ambition for work or play. After a prolonged illness, about a year ago I felt unable to regain my health, but four bottles of Peruna made a wonderful change and restored me to perfect health. As long as you keep your blood in good condition you are all right, and Peruna seems to fill the veins with pure, healthful blood. I thoroughly endorse it." MISS HELEN WHITMAN. Have you got nerves? Well, you ought to have nerves. But they ought to be strong nerves, good nerves. Does your hand tremble? You are living too fast. Does your heart flutter at times? You had better call a halt. Americans live too fast. They crowd too much into a single day. They have too little leisure. The hospitals and insane asylums are filling up. The quiet, pastoral scenes of yore are becoming rare. It's time that we quit this sort of business. First, repair the injury already done to your nerves. The way to do this is to DOINGS IN YONKERS Yonkers, N. Y.—Special.—At the A. M. E. Zion Church on last Sunday evening a sermon was preached to the G. U. O. of Odd Fellows by Rev. I. R. Aldrige of Alabama. The church was packed to overflowing and the sermon was listened to with marked interest. A large collection was lifted. Dr. W. B. Weaver, of Baltimore, spoke at the First Presbyterian Church, both morning and afternoon on Sunday of last week o large and appreciative audiences The Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the Messiah How to Get Strong Nerves. venue, Milwaukee, Wis., writes: a for that tired feeling, which gives After a prolonged illness, about my health, but four bottles of Pe and restored me to perfect health. In good condition you are all right, ins with pure, healthful blood. I MISS HELEN WHITMAN. do exactly as did Mattie B. Curtis, Secretary of Legion of Loyal Women, Hotel Salem, Boston, Mass. She said in a recent letter: "I suffered for over a year with general weakness and debility manifested in severe headache and backache. I took four bottles of Peruna, and for two months have been entirely free from these maladies." Nervous Prostration. Thousands of cases might be quoted in which Peruna has been used to rescue people from the perdition of deranged nerves, and put them on the good, solid foundation of health. The County Aud- Baptist Church will have their first annual sermon preached to them on Sunday evening by the pastor, Rev. H. A. Booker. The Hon. John L. Waller, ex-consul to Madagascar, will lecture at the Messiah Baptist Church on June 3d, 1903. Mrs. Williams is visiting her niece, Mrs. James, of Kellinger street. Rev. J. W. Smith, of Charlotte, N. C., editor of the Star of Zion, was the guest of Mr. John E. Bruce. Mrs. Davis, of West Point, is visiting her brother and sister. Mr. and Mrs. H. Rux, of Willow street. Mrs. L. Perkins, with her two children and little niece, accompanied by Mrs. Steward, of Jersey City, spent Saturday with friends in Yonkers. 9 itor of Erie county, New York, Hon. John W. Neff, in a recent letter written at Buffalo, New York, stated: "I was persuaded by a friend to try a bottle of your great nerve tonic, Peruna, and the results were so gratifying that I am more than pleased to recommend it." A Spring Tonic. Almost everybody needs a tonic in the spring. Something to brace the nerves, invigorate the brain and cleanse the blood. That Peruna will do this is beyond all question. Everyone who has tried it has had the same experience as Mrs. D. W. Timberlake, of Lynchburg, Va., who, in a recent letter, made use of the following words: "I always take a dose of Peruna after business hours, as it is a great thing for the nerves. There is no better spring tonic, and I have used about all of them." Catarrh in Spring. The spring is the best time to treat catarrh. Nature renews herself every spring. The system is rejuvenated by spring weather. This renders medicines more effective. A short course of Peruna, assisted by the balmy air of spring, will cure old, stubborn cases of catarrh that have resisted treatment for years. Everybody should have a copy of Dr. Hartman's latest book on catarrh. Address The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio. Mrs. Lulu Larmer, Stoughton, Wis., says: "For two years I suffered with nerv- ous trouble and stomach disorders until it seemed that there was nothing to me but a bundle of nerves. I was very irritable, could not sleep, rest or compose myself, and was certainly unfit to take care of a MARY BURTON Mrs. Lulu Larmer. certainly unfit to take care of a household. I took nerve tonics and pills without benefit. When I began taking Peruna I grew steadily better, my nerves grew stronger, my rest was no longer fitful, and to-day I consider myself in perfect health and strength. My recovery was slow but sure, but I persevered and was rewarded by perfect health."—Mrs. Lulu Larmer. 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. Misses Cornelia and Frances Dungey, of Staten Island, are visiting their sister, Mrs. Thomas Mason. Miss J. Boston, Mrs. Dr. Morgan, and Miss Hembrick, of Manhattan, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Jas. H. Scott, of Main street, also Mr. Manlove, of New Rochelle, N. Y. Mrs. Minnie French, the sweet soloist of New York City, visited friends in Yonkers during the past week. Miss Elizabeth Outlaw has returned to Yonkers after having been home to attend the funeral of her mother. Miss Outlaw has had the deep sympathy of her many friends here in her sad and recent bereavement. Miss L. Jackcon, who has been traveling south all winter, is now visiting friends in Yonkers. BROWN GRIT JR.