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The COLORED American A NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER VOL. X, NO. 7 To Howard Graduates. The Practical Fruits of Thorough Education. Attorney W. Justin Carter, Delivered a Telling Address to the Graduates of the English and College Departments of Howard University—"Cast Down Your Buckets Where You Are." Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, Class of 1903:—It has been about thirteen years ago since I sat upon the platform of yonder old college chapel, feeling no doubt as you feel now, stirred by the same doubts and fears, looking out to the future with the same hopefulness and anxiety, which, with all, are yours to-night. This is, indeed, a serious moment to you. It is the hour which calls forth the past, and from which you look toward the future with sensations new to your minds and hearts. What will the future be? To this query it is yours to reply. The superstructure which you will rear to-morrow will bear some proportion to the foundation here laid. What word of mine can add anything to the weight of those admonitions, chidings, or possible rebukes, which you have received from the strict and loving care of your preceptors? I doubt that you have always considered their chidings or their rebukes in the real and beautiful spirit in which I know they were given. You will learn in the world which you will meet and face, that those who would gain some point of vantage over you will sometimes flatter you. Those who would court your favor will sometimes flatter you. Those who would lull you to inactivity and listlessness, that their own ambitions might be forwarded, will sometimes flatter you. But those who love you best, who entertain for you the kindliest solicitude, who would seek your real advantage, will tell you the truth, will criticise you, will admonish you, possibly rebuke you. Take such things in kindness and remember them as given here from your preceptors with gratitude. Many of things most helpful to me now, things which guide me and steer me in daily life, I received, sir, when I sat at your feet. They came, I confess, too often possibly in the form of admonition or in the dark color of rebuke. You will recall that occasion on which you gave me a zero in an examination in algebra, because I forgot to write my name at the top of the paper in accordance with your notice to do so. That rebuke has kept me from forgetting to put my name on many another paper where serious results to the in- WASHINGTON, D.C., JUNE 27, 1903. Men of the Hour. MR. W. JUS A Successful Attorney At L MR. W. JUSTIN CARTER, successful Attorney At Law, at Harrisburg, Pe [Name not visible in the image] MR. W. JUSTIN CARTER, A Successful Attorney At Law, at Harrisburg, Penn. terest of others might have followed so slight an omission. Discipline is as important as instruction, as those of us who came up through the joint regime of yourself and that great good angel of mental and moral benefaction can well attest. I mean Miss Martha M. Briggs. She sleeps to-night beneath that New England sky she loved so well; she was a daughter of Massachusetts, a sister of those great Brain Plutocrats, those oppression killing barons; those man-loving and manlifting warriors, who, Jove-like, a few decades ago, moved among the very clouds of intellectual greatness, and who, from their height of vantage, peltered with storms and shivered with lightnings --- --- TIN CARTER, law, at Harrisburg, Penn. the structures which man-thieves reared to corral slaves and imprison souls. I bless that fate which brought me at her feet. I still mourn the day she left us to live with those up yonder. Our Monitor, our guide, our preceptress, our queen. Let us not say that she is dead, who liveth still in so many hearts, and speaketh yet through so many lives. But till we meet her again, to account for the use of her instruction, great, good, virtuous soul, we tell thee again, good-by. But this, class, is your night; sacred to your hope and future. The tide of your joy is to-night at its flood, the cup of your satisfaction is full now Continued on page 2. PRICE, FIVE CENTS Pupils Given Diplomas Mrs. J. R. Francis Delivered a Splendid Address to the Graduating Class Selections Rendered by the Glee and Mandoline Clubs—President Packard, of School Board, Attended Exercises. The Academy of Music was crowded last night with patrons and friends of the Colored High and Training School, to witness the fifteenth annual commencement of that institution. The diplomas were delivered to the graduates by Mayor McLane, who also made a short speech. The graduating class was the largest in the history of the school. Annual prizes were awarded as follows: First, Minnie T. B. Jackson; second, Warner W. Neal, and third, Prentiss R. Johnson. The address to the graduates was delivered by Mrs. John R. Francis, of Washington. Her allusions to Booker T. Washington, and Tuskegee Institute were received with hearty applause. Rev. J. L. Thomas, of Sharp St. Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, made the opening and closing prayers. The music of the evening was furnished by Prof. John itzel's orchestra and the Colored High and Training Schools' Chorus and Glee and Mandolin Club. Miss Helen M. Place, superintendent of music in the public schools, was in charge. She was assisted on the piano by Miss Baker. Prof. J. N. Waring is principal of the school. In the boxes were President J. N. Packard, of the School Board; Assistant Superintendent H. M. Wise, Rabbi William Rosenau, President Evan H. Morgan, of the First Branch City Council, and others. MRS. FRANCIS THE SPEAKER. The address of the evening was delivered by Mrs. J. R. Francis, of the District of Columbia: Upon the young men and women who graduate to-night, I wish to impress the fact that your appearance on the scene of active life is at an opportune time, when the attention of the foremost governments of the world is engaged upon the great project of bettering the condition or the upbuilding of the least fortunate and backward masses of mankind. What a glorious privilege awaits you to begin at the outset of your career as a helping factor in this great work in your own country! If the long unrest of Ireland is about to end in quiet and prosperity, if the peasantry of Russia be lifted even a little and some gleam of religious and personal liberty shine in on their long oppressed life, if the reconstruction of the British colonies in South Africa Continued on page 4. 10 A OUR TRADE MARK. K TO QUALITY KEEP SAMMONIA FREE. 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The St. Joseph, Mo., Spectator tarin its guns on the common enemy and cease attacks on members of our race. Less truckling and temporizing on the part of our race newspapers in connection with the access of hatred and prejudice now being poured out on our heads all over the country. More patronage given to the Capital Shoe Store of this city, the only one owned and run by colored men. More confidence reposed in and recognition given to our professional men, especially of the law. Fewer race papers and more encouragement given to those which stand the test of "the survival of the fittest." Closer proof reading and more typographical excellence in race papers. An early conference of our best citizens in the District to provide for an orderly and dignified method of selecting delegates to the next National Republican convention. More of our young men actively interested in churches, benevolent societies, and other organizations for mutual help, which after all is self help. Some representatives of the race appointed to honorable positions in the Rural Free Delivery office, now that their arch enemy, Machen, has come to grief. More colored men like Alfred H. T. Walker, who recognizes the dignity of labor, even in the humblest of occupations. Our business men patronized all around as well as our physicians are. More Department clerks with professional or technical education exhibit the nerve to resign and enter practice where the race needs them. More certifications of colored eligibles from the Civil Service Commission and more appointments of those certified. More good-salaried Government employees investing in real estate. The S. Coleridge Taylor Society kept intact and more brilliant work done next season. The Orpheus Club brought to life and activity, or the absorption of its talented members into the ranks of the Amphions. The opera of Fro Diavolo, or The Bohemian Girl presented here about Christmas by our own well-known wealth of talent and no imported soloists. A hearty reception given to the new minister of the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. WHAT IS BLACK-NO MORE? About four years ago a clever chemist, trained in the New York College of Pharmacy, while experimenting in his laboratory, made the astonishing discovery that he had at last found a combination of substances that would decolorize the pigment of the skin and make it a pure white. His discovery acts on the black cells of pigment by breaking them up. Nature immediately rebuilds them and the action of Black-No-More causes the cells to become constantly lighter and finally pure white, thus making the skin white. This is done without any possibility of injury. Black-No-More will solve the "Race Problem" by turning black skin white. it is not necessary to wait a hundred years. It can be done here and now. 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SANTAL-MIDY Standard remedy for Gleet, Gonorrhoea and Runnings IN 48 HOURS. Cures Kid- ney and Bladder Troubles. LOAN COUPON 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. WANTED. WANTED. A young lady for Real Estate Office; must be good penman and understand stenography and typewriting. Apply in own hand writing. E. C. BROWN, 647 24th street. Newport News, Va. EDUCATION IN TENNESSEE. Commencement Exercises at Walden University—Many Colored Members of the Faculty, an ex-Confederate and an ex-Slave Meet in a New Role Nashville News Notes. Nashville, Tenn., Special.—We are in the midst of commencement season and many visitors are in the city. Walden University has just closed a successful years' work. There were 105 graduates, as follows: Teachers, preparatory, 51; Teachers' course, 12; Normal, 2; College, 3; Theology, 12; Law, 12; Business, 10; Music, 1; Post graduates, 2. There were 58 from the Medical, Dental, etc., in March, making a total from all departments of 163. Bishop Walden and Secretary Thirkeald, trustees, were present during commencement week. The various departments had their separate graduating exercises, over which the dean of that department president. Of the five deans four are colored. The white dean, Dr. G. W. Hubbard, is at the head of the Medical department. Prof D. W. Byrd is dean of the Liberal Arts department, which includes all but the professional schools. Dr. E. W. S. Hammond is dean of the school of Theology. Capt. George T. Robinson is dean of the Law department, with a faculty composed of some of the first members of the Nashville bar, of both races, one of whom is an ex-confederate soldier. This ex-confederate, W. D. Covington, delivered the address to the class this year. He takes great interest in the department throughout the year, without pay. As a lawyer, he takes first rank and is one of Nashville's first citizens. He is generous to a fault, and is perfectly at home with his Negro disciples. In introducing him, the Dean said: "Let us turn back forty years, when the next speaker looked upon a different scene from this. Then he was a rebel, carrying a musket, shooting the life out of somebody. I myself was a rebel. He represented the master class and I the slave class." The dean then paid Mr. Covington a high tribute, calling attention to the great service he had rendered. The speaker delivered a most eloquent, learned address on "The Lawyer." At the close of the programme President Hamilton was introduced and extended congratulations. In referring to the introduction of Mr. Covington, President Hamilton said: "It reveals one of the most remarkable facts of history. A representative of the master class and one of the slave class, representing radically different ideas, meet to-day and clasp hands, both teaching, side by side, the science of law and respect for the law." Sunday previous, in the forenoon, President Hamilton preached the Baccalaureate sermon; at night Bishop C. H. Phillips, an alumnus, preached the annual sermon. The commencement address was delivered on Thursday by Rev. M. C. B. Mason D. O. Miss M. E. Braden, daughter of the late President Jno. Braden, furnished good music for all the exercises. The four colored deans have been reappointed for next year. Among the law graduates is a Japanese, Tokuyiro Shimada. The superintendent is Mr. John C. Dimond, of Hampton. President Hamilton favors the employment of colored men and women, and the trustees endorsed his administration at their recent meeting. During the past session more than 1,100 students, of all departments, were in attendance. The Thanksgiving sermon of the G. N O. O. F. is over and the members are happy, not that the speaker made a long address, for he preached only five minutes; but because the collection, $270.50, has enabled them to buy a loving building, a spacious two-story brick, centrally located, with plenty of space to enlarge if need be. Preston Taylor, President of the Hall association, has bought the property for the order. The property is well worth $10,000, but was bought for much less. Prof. W. H. Councill has been in the city for treatment during the past THE COLORED AMERICAN week. His nerves are in a bad way and his mind is affected. Hon J. C. Napier is on the sick list, having gotten a bone in a foot broken. He is improving. Mrs. Boker T. Washington, en route home from Oberlin, stopped over 24 hours last week, on account of illness. A Negro bank for Nashville has been assured. The building is being fitted up and the bank will be opened in the near future. R. H. Boyd, W. B. Chappelle and J. C. Napier are behind the enterprise. Dean Geo. T. Robinson has returned from St. Louis, whither he went to witness the dedication exercises of the World's Fair. E. C. M. A NOTED LECTURER DEAD. Mrs. William Scott, a noted lecturer and missionary and special agent of the American Baptist Home Missionary Society for Negro Education, died at her home in Lathrop, Mo., June 10, of this year. She was one of the best known colored women in America and a most eloquent platform speaker, and traveled all through the western, central and eastern states, working for the Home Mission Society. In her last tour to the East, she went as far as Maine, and wherever she went, she was greeted with large and enthusiastic audiences, who cheerfully and willingly responded to her appeals. She leaves a husband and a number of grandchildren to mourn her demise. THE YOUNG MEN'S PROTECTIVE LEAGUE EXCURSION. The River Queen was crowded to its utmost capacity, Friday, June 18. The occasion was a special excursion of the Young Men's Protective League. This is one of the strongest and most popular organizations in the District, and whenever it gives an excursion or an entertainment of any kind, a large attendance is the result. Three trips were made to Notley Hall on the River Queen, and everybody had a good time and the event passed off without incident. The officers of this League are to be congratulated on the great success achieved. Mr. James E. Walker, principal of the Syphax School, and who has held the office of president for the past four years, is surrounded by a genial, energetic set of officers. Through the courtesy of President Walker, Major Arthur Brooks, Dr. F. J. Cardozo, Dr. S. M. Pierre, Mr. W. J. Abrams and Mr. A. F. Boston, The Colored American's representative was given a most delightful reception. THE CLEANEST, NEATEST AND NEWSIEST. Great Bend, Kans., June 9, 1903. Dear Editor:—I am here to say that The Colored American is the neatest, cleanest and newsiest paper that makes its weekly visit to our humble home, and do sincerely hope it will ever receive the proper endorsement and support. So, just as a reminder of my appreciation of its worth, I voice the sentiment of many by saying long live The Colored American and its fruits. Thanking you for past favors in the way f a No.1 race paper, I hope to be one of its happy host another year, for which please find enclosed draft for $2. Yours very cheerfully, A. J. 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You will find there in attendance, Messrs. Welsh, Harris, Pearson, and Mr. R. A. Nelson, the city's renowned tonsorialist. FOR RENT. CHEA FOR RENT. A very complete 8-room house has been listed with me to sell or rent. The price is $5,500, precludes a sale at this time. House is complete in every respect; bath, furnace, very large rooms, finished in grained oak and Georgia pine, screens fitted to every window. One block from Third street N.W. car line. Now occupied by owner, who will give immediate possession. Rent, $30 per month. A better figure might be made for a permanent tenant. --- Transportation, Land and Impro (Incorporated.) All amount of the stock is now on the market for dollars per share, payable in small monthly payout. It has recently been overhauled and thoroughly the document Inspectors, chartered and equipped with improvements and is licensed to carry 1,300 passers. OFFICERS: Arison, President, Jos. N. Mayne, Vice P. All Secretary, F. M. 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Trained nurses and experience physician in attendance. Private home for infant if necessary. City office hours from 9 a. m., to 6 p. m. 1233 Pa. avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C. 1233 PA. AVE. N W. Washington, D. C. OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG MEN. The demands in all parts of this country, and in several foreign countries, for well trained men of our race in the direction of scientific and practical agriculture are so great that this institution is willing to offer exceptional advantages to young men who wish to come here and take either a regular or post graduate course in agriculture. We cannot begin to supply the demands that come to us for trained men in the direction of agriculture. The positions for which these trained men are wanted are those in most every case which pay high salaries. hold of men who have received as far as possible, a good education before coming here, and are ready to enter upon a thorough course of agricultural training. For further information address, BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Prin. Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama. Cuts and Illustrations The Maurice Joyce Engraving Co. Evening Star Building Washington, D.C. THE COLORED AMERICAN. DRESSMAKERS GRADUATE. Mrs. L. R. Clark, Principal of the Livingston Dressmaking System, Turns Out the Largest Class in the History of the School. The graduating exercises of Mrs. L. R. Clark's training school for Dressmaking, was held Thursday evening, June 18th at Asbury M. E. church. The class numbered thirty-four young women, who were attired in beautiful white dresses made by themselves. The exercises were open by a march played by Miss Etta Johnson. The invocation was made by Rev. W. M. Clair, pastor of the church. A most interesting program was rendered and was as follows: Prof. J. E. Rattley, vocal solo; Miss Addie L. Newman, essay, "Educate the Hand as well as the Mind;" Mrs. Thomasine F. Norris, address, "In the School Room:" Mrs. J. Greene, vocal solo; Miss Estelle Jackson, Valedictorian; Miss Blanche Gibson, vocal solo; Prof. J. B. Chavis, address; Dr. I. L. Thomas, presentation of Diplomas; Miss Ella Boston and Mrs. Rosetta Lawson, remarks; Rev. Griffin, benediction. The principle address of the evening was delivired by Prof. J. D. Chavis, President of Bennett College, Greensboro, N. C. It was full of practical sense and ideas along the lines of race development. "Hew to the Line" was the burden of his address, and he advised the young graduates to stick to their profession and make a success of it. He discouraged the idea of the jack of all trades, and added in most eloquent terms, that the man or woman who masters a single profession masters a world. He deplored the fact that such a vast number of young men and yong women were being turned out from the schools and colleges every year with their hands and minds untrained and with nothing to do. Stick to your trade was his motto and strive to do whatever you do better than anyone else can do it. His address was highly appreciated by the large audience present. Too much cannot be said in commendation of Mrs. Clark's school and the work it is doing. Race proscription has closed nearly all if not all of the occupations for young colored women and outside of school teaching and service work, our young women find little to do. A first class dressmaker is always in demand and the young women, who master it, can make a larger salary than she can in any other profession. The doors of opportunity may be closed, but there is always work and always a position for a first class dressmaker. To this end Mrs. Clark is devoting her energies and her talents. Asbury church was comfortably filled with a most representative audience. Among the special guests were: Rev. I. L. Thomas, of Baltimore, Prof. J. D. Chavis, of Greensboro, N. C., and many others. The graduating class was as follows: Annie M. Barnes, Washington, D. C., Martha P. Biggs, Hartford, Conn., Lillian B. Cooper, Roanoke, Va., Landonia S. Childs, Newark, N. J., Alicia Chaise, Boston, Mass., Mary M. Campbell, Charles County Md., Ethel Clarke, Washington, D. C., Mary E. Davis, Alexandria, Va., Sophia Dennt, Fredericksburg, Va., Mamie T. B. Fosque, Buenna, Va., Lucy E. Freeman, Baltimore, Md., Gabrella Grady, Washington, D. C., Matilda A. Jackson, Alexandria, Va., Estelle V. Jackson, Harrisburg, Pa., Emma E. Linsey, Washington, D. C., Mary E. Minor, Harrisburg, Pa., Thomesine F. Norris, Baltimore, Md., Rachell E. Newman, Washington, D. C., Addie L. Newman, Washington, D. C., Violet V. Porter, Cliftonford, Va., Daisy Preston, Washington, D. C., Alice M. Painter, Hagerstown, Md., Martha J. Richardson, King William County, Va., Mamie A. Steven, Washington, D. C., Annie M. Steward, Hartford, Conn., Carrie Smith, Washington, D. C., Lucy W. Washington, Culpepper, Va., Lula A. White, Lynchburg, Va., Sadie Wormley, Washington, D. C. Estelle V. Jackson, Harrisburg, Pa., Addie L. Newman, Washington, D. C., Susie B. Frye, Buena, Va. EMBROIDERY. Susie B. Frye. A. R. Clarke, Principle. The Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers Is the leading Colored Fraternal Society of the United States. It was organized January, 1881, by William W. Browne, and chartered in April, 1883, under the laws of the State of Virginia, with headquarters at Richmond, Va. Its membership is both male and female, and consists of all persons of good health from 14 to 60 years of age. Its membership of 60,000 is divided into Fountains and Circles. It pays sick benefits from $1.50 to $2.50 per week, and pays death benefits from $24.56 to $1000. BENEFITS PAID—Total benefits paid to date: Sick dues, $r,500,000; death benefits, $714,378.75. SENIOR FOUNTAINS—A Fountain may be organized consisting of 20 or more persons not over 50 years of age paying a joining fee of from $4.60 to $5.10 each. The monthly dues are not less than 35 cents in rural districts and not less than 50 cents per month in towns and cities, and a semi-annual tax of 40 cents paid in January and July of each year. Sick benefits paid are from $1.50 to $2.50 per week, while death benefits range from $75 to $125. A Fountain may be organized in any locality on application to Rev. W. L. Taylor, G. W. Master, or to any of his authorized deputies. ROSEBUDS—For the proper training of the young and their development in thrift, industry and brotherly love, there has been formed a Children's Department known as the Rosebuds. Twenty or more children not less than three not more than fourteen years of age may form a Rosebud, upon the payment of $ each. This department, like the Senior Fountain, pays sick benefits from $1 to twenty-five cents per week, and death benefits from $24.50 to $37. The monthly dues are fifteen cents per month. CLASSES—Persons desiring to leave their beneficiaries at death a larger amount than is paid from Fountain Department, take out policies in one or more of the Classes of the Mutual Benefit Degree. The members of this degree are divided into Circles, and pay joining fees and dues according to the following tables: Class "B" Joining fee. Value of Certificate after one year. Value of Certificate before one year. Annual Dues. Quarterly Dues Age 14 to 25 $2 50 $200 00 $100 00 $4 75 $1 20 25 to 30 5 25 500 00 $250 00 $9 50 25 to 30 3 25 200 00 100 00 4 75 1 20 30 to 35 3 25 200 00 100 00 4 75 1 20 35 to 40 3 50 140 00 100 00 5 70 1 43 35 to 40 3 50 140 00 100 00 5 70 1 43 40 to 45 3 75 115 00 70 00 5 79 1 43 40 to 45 3 75 115 00 70 00 5 79 1 43 45 to 50 4 00 70 00 45 00 6 65 1 66 45 to 50 4 00 70 00 45 00 6 65 1 66 50 to 60 4 25 65 00 33 00 7 60 1 90 50 to 60 4 10 350 00 175 00 11 40 2 35 Class "E" Joining fee. Value of Certificate after one year. Value of Certificate before one year Annual dues Quarterly Dues Age 14 to 25 $5 00 $500 00 $250 00 $9 50 25 to 30 5 25 500 00 250 00 9 50 50 to 35 5 50 500 00 250 00 10 40 40 to 45 5 75 500 00 250 00 10 40 40 to 45 6 00 450 00 225 00 10 40 40 to 45 6 00 450 00 225 00 10 40 40 to 45 6 00 450 00 225 00 10 40 2 35 of the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers, capital stock $100,000. The bank commenced business April 3, 1889, and from that time down to the present has steadily increased in volume of business. It now has a paid up capital stock of $100,000. From the humble sum of $1,268.69, deposited the first day the bank opened for business in 1889 the deposits have grown to $350,058, and the volume of business transacted amounts to $6,190,141.47. During the financial panic of 1893, the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain was the only bank in the city of Richmond that did not cease to pay cash on all checks presented, while the majority of other banks were using script and clearing house checks. This bank had its origin in the brain of William W. Browne, an ex-slave of Hersham, Ga. The banking house is located at 604 North Second Street, Richmond, Va., Rev. W. L. Taylor, President; R. T. Hill, Cashier. REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT—The Real Estate Department has charge of all the real property to the amount of $220,221.65, situated in various States, consisting of 13 magnificent buildings used as halls, 8 dwellings, 1 hotel. 5 stores and three arms. It also has under its control 16 large buildings leased by it. This department is under the management of Lawyer J. C. Robertson, chief of real estate and attorney for the association, office at 608 N. 2nd Street, Richmond, Va. REFORMERS MERCANTILE AND INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION—Was chartered under the laws of the State of Virginia on the 14th day of December, 1899, with principal office in the city of Richmond, Va. The purpose of this association is to conduct stores (wholesale and retail), buy and sell real property, manage and control hotels, manufacturing establishments, and do general business. The association has in operation Hotel Reformer, 900 N. Sixth Street, Richmond, Va. It is a modern up-to-date structure, heated by steam, cold and hot water baths, also electric cars passing the door. This hotel has accommodations for 150 guests. Mr. A W. Holmes is manager, and Mr. T. W. Taylor is clerk. It has in operation a system of five stores, located as follows: Richmond, Va.; Washington, D. C.; Manchester, Va.; Portsmouth, Va.; and Roanoke, Va. The first of these stores, at Richmond, Va., was opened April 3d, 1900. It employs a force of 18 men, runs three delivery wagons, and during the first year did $50,000 worth of business. The other stores have been established since, and have been equally prosperous. The general manager of the system of stores is Mr. B L. Jordan, headquarters at 608 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. This Association was formed on the plans and recommendations made by Rev. W. L. Taylor, its President. THE REFORMER PRINTING DEPARTMENT—Issues a weekly journal. THE REFORMER which has a circulation of 12,000. This paper is published in the interest of the race, and discusses the leading questions of the day. The subscription price is $1 per year, or 5c. per single copy. The office is equipped with modern up-to-date machinery, run by electricity. It can print anything from a visiting card to a poster 42 by 62 inches. Fine job work of every class and description is made a specialty at lowest prices. Mr. E. W. Brown is editor and business manager, office 608 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. Correspondence solicited and agents wanted. OLD FOLKS' HOME—In September, 1893, Rev William W. Brown recommended the formation and establishment of Old Folks' Homes for the benefit of old and decrepid members of the race. Since that time the valuable farm known as Westham, consisting of 634¼ acres, located six miles from Richmond, Va., on the historic "James," has been purchased, at a cost of $14,400. The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad runs through the farm, and Westham Station is located on it. Adjoining this farm is Westhampton Park, one of the most pleasant resorts in the South in summer. It is reached in a few minutes from Richmond by the Westhampton Electric Railway and the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. As this home is for the benefit of the whole race, the operation of all charitable friends is prayerfully solicited. All contributions, donations and requests of every character will be very thankfully received. Mr. T. W. Taylor is chief in charge of the Old Folks' Home, offices at 608 North Second Street, Richmond, Va. For further information address— Rev. W. L. Taylor, G. W. M. W. P. Burrell, G. W. S. 601-6-8 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. Class "M" Joining fee. Value of Certificate Annual dues Quarterly dues Age 14 to 80 $11 00 $1000 00 $21 90 $5 25 " 30 to 35 12 00 1000 00 22 00 5 50 " 35 to 40 12 00 905 00 23 00 5 75 " 40 to 45 13 00 700 00 24 00 6 00 " 45 to 50 13 00 700 00 25 00 6 25 REGALIA—The members of the Fountains and Rosebuds of the organization wear no expensive regalia. The regalia of the organization is simple and its cost will be in the easy reach of all, costing from 10 cents to $3. The same is made by the organization in what is known as the Regalia Department. THE SAVINGS BANK—In March, 1888, there was granted by the Legislature of Virginia a charter to the Savings Bank THE COLORED AMERICAN. ON TO GLYMONT The Old Reliable SUMMER RESORT, With The OF GALBRAITH CHURCH, 6th between L and M StreetsN. W. A Grand Old Time Family Excursion to GLYIIONT, MD. TUESDAY, JUNE 30th, 1903. On the Palace Steamer JANE MOSELEY. Rev. S. L. Corrothers, Pastor Ed Greenleaf, Pres. Trustee Bd. MUSIC BY MONUMENTAL ORCHESTRA. Beat leaves wharf 9th & K Sw, 9.30 a. m. and 5.30 p. m. returning in time for cars Fare Round Trip 35c. Childrea 15c. FINANCIAL eee D0 YOU NEED Financial Assistance ? If so, come to us. We are always ready to loan you any amount you may ‘need. You can repay it in small ‘monthly Payments to suit your conve- nience. | We make loans on Furniture, Pi- anos, &c., without removal or any pub- licity in any way. All business is pri- vate. WASHINGTON MORTGAGE LOAN | COMPANY, 610—F Street—610. Some Men Pay $10.000 For an expert to manage their ad- vertising. There are others who pay $5.00 for an annual subscription to printer’s ink and learn what all ad- vertisers are thinking about. But even these are not the extremes reach- ed. There are men who lose over $100,000 a year by: doing neither one. For sample copy send 10c to Printer’s Ink, No. 10 Spruce Street, New York ‘City. MASONIC AALL, for the months of JUNE, JULY AND AUGUST. Will This Help Your Church or Society. Vhe New Masonic Temple Hall, 1111 19th Street, N. W. This new and handsome Hall with modern improvements, electric lights and fans—cool and airy—will accommodate Churches, Sabbath Schools or Socicties during the summer months at reduced rates. RENT OF HALL: From 8 P. M. until 12.30 A. M.—$7.25. Privatr rarties, Suppers, Wedding Banquets or Dances can make spe- cial contracis by applying to— 1111 19th Street, Northwest. ? apa upwards made 0ans 0 on FURNITURE PIANOS. EORSES a Wagons, etc., at lowest rates and n the day you apply. We are loaning on th Buwiding and Loan Association plan, which? ‘ages the ost of carrying loans much less that you pay elsewhere, and allows you to pay it oxf in any sized notes you desire, running from one to twelve months. You only pay for tne use of ‘the money tor the length of time you carry it. If you have a loan with some other company we will pay it off and advance you more money if desired. Rates cheertully given, and no cost to you unless the loan 1s made. Loans made any. where in the District. Cail and get rates. F-ont room, first floor, Scien- tifle Americap Building, Natior .1 Mortgage Loan Co. 625 F St.. N. W. yO MER She Se oo tee METRE DTS OS aT . : 7 HERE IS A CHANCE. | q Te get the money you want We 7, havemore than weneed. We will | 4 make loans to every bodywi out delay. If you want money 1 ¢ us Z to-day. You will not be aisap- | y pointed, Loans made on Furni- | “. ture,Pianos, Organs, Kic., without 1 4, removal, Loans io salaried em A ployes Without endorsement, i 7602 F \Steet . Cor. 6th St., . Capital Loaux Guaran- x‘ 4 f tee Company. ; , 2 PRE RES EBERT SP smn BSnas 2282S 244800 ee ee NAAN KR EEESL EUVECMAY. STEAME MER RIVER QUEEN, 1903FQR CHARTER SEASON903 To Notley Hall, Upper Glymont, Lower Cedar Point, Rock Point, Other Points on the Potomac. F i ph. a ee Be el aed at) fe WAG a1 Rett lethal aadeel © 8 8 6 6 6 aves gut = RSTRBBSRESEEE™ oo ae (Sars tt | ae. See The Swift Commodious Steamer RIVER QUEEN, with Elec- tric Lights and fitted up with all Modern Improvements and licensed by the U. S. Inspector to carry 1,000 Pas- sengers has just been thoroughly overhauled and refitted for the Excursion season 1903. . Can be chartered to run Excursions to Notley Hall, Upper Glymont, Lower Point and Rock Point. Books are now open for charters. For terms apply to GENERAL L. J. (GEN, ia coee Office: N Street Wharf, Clyde Line, Telephone 605-2 Main. LL RTE HAVE A BAR’L of money to lend on furniture, pianos, &c. No delay. Goods are not disturbed. You return the money in small payments. If you have a loan and need more mon_ ey, we can fix you up. Business con- fidential. *Phone, M, 3042. SURETY LOAN COMPANY. Suite 1, Warden Building, cor. 9th and F, 523. 9th. The National Safe Deposit Savings and Trust Company Cor. 1th St. and New York Ave. Capital One Million Dollars. | Pays interest on deposits. Rents Safes inside Burglar-Proof Vaults. Acts as administrator execu- tor, trustee, etc. Subscribe for thelmerican 13 EDUCATIONAL. Here i 2 Opportunity]! —_— TO ——— A large picture of Pror. BOOKER T.. WASHINGTON, pee in four colors which has all the appearance of an oil painting, will be sent ele- gantly framed by express to any subscriber who will send $3.00 to Tue 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, All orders should be addressed to The Colored American WASHINGTON, D.C, eet This picture should be in every Parlor, Library, Reading Room, School Room, and every Public Hall used by intelligent colored people. e We ee, aN is ‘ ae ae ry- AO ees) Beis ; Patel Ee abe RIAN: ‘ Sp oesame Po ian ten ie tte Sed pete chs YT seeoa ae ets ee ei tee A eee Paap So a ote te TR em BRE eS rates HOWARD UNIVERSITY, Washington, D. C. ‘EN distinct departments, under one hundred , competent professors and instructors—Theo gical, Medical, Legal, College, Pedagogical freparatory, English, Agriculture, Industrial, am Musical. Forinformation address— @ Rev. J, E. RANKIN. D. D., LL. D., Presidemt. Gzo H. Sarroxp. 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Ripans Tabules have become their standard family remedy. They are a dependable, honest remedy, with a long and successful record, to cure indigestion, dyspepsia, habitual and stubborn constipation, offensive breath, heartburn, dizziness, palpitation of the heart, sleeplessness, musculoheumatism, sour stomach, bowel and liver complaints. They strengthen weak stomachs, build up run down systems, restore pure blood, good appetite and sound, natural sleep. Everybody derives constant benefit from a regular use of Ripans Tabules. Your druggist sells them. The five cent packet is enough for an ordinary occasion. The family bottle, 60 cents, contains a supply for a year. A VALUABLE BOOK. This book is filled with inspiration 314 NINTH STREET, NORTHWEST. ESTABLISHED 1870. 14 Marvelous Growth of the Hair. Marvelous Growth of the Hair. A Famons Doctor-Chemist Has Discovered a Compound that grows Hair on a Bald Head in a Single Night. Startling Announcement Causes Doctors to Marvel and Stand Dum-founded at the Wonderful Cures. The Discoverer Sends Free Trial Packages to All Who Write. After a half century spent in the laboratory crowned with high honors for his many world-famous discoveries the celebrated physician. A Miss Clarissa Kerby and her Marvelous Growth of Hair. chemist at the head of the great Altenheim Medical Dispensary, has just made the startling announcement that he has produced a compound that grows hair on any bald head. The doctor makes the claim that after experiments, taking years to complete, he has at last reached the goal of his ambition. To the doctor all heads are alike. There are none which cannot be cured by this 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 here can be no doubt of the doctor's earnestes s 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 eight 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 full of those you have or will marry; causes happy marriage to those you desire; unites those separated (neverfalls). 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. Letters of inquiry answered on receipt of two 2c. stamps, MRS. G. CARY 1406 W. YORK ST. PHILADELA., PA. THE COLORED AMERICAN A Good Showing for Colored Students Dr. Lyons Sails for the Dark Continent—Literary, Religious and Social News from Gotham. New York City, N. Y., Special.—The sending forth their yearly quota of graduates. Following close upon the commencement exercises of Columbia University, when Prof. Charles Winter Wood, of Tuskegee, received the degree of B. A. from the Teachers' College, came the closing exercises of the Normal College of the City of New York, held at Carnegie Hall, on the 17th instant. This college is exclusively for women, from whom the teachers of the various schools of New York are principally selected. There were about six hundred graduates, but only two of them were colored. This was indeed a small showing for the race, out of such a large number of whites. Miss Wiliana Jones, one of the successful ones, formerly completed a course at Public School No 48, from which she graduated as valedictorian of the Senior Class in 1898. She then took the Normal College entrance examination and passed with the highest average of any girl either white or colored. Miss Mabel Scott shares the honors with Miss Jones. Miss Scott is very studious by disposition, and is a musician of no mean ability. It is to be hoped that the colored girls of this city and elsewhere will take advantage of the rare opportunity Normal College affords as a free institution, and that the race will soon be better represented as to numbers than it has been. The Rev. Ernest Lyon, D. D., of Baltimore, the recently appointed United States Minister to Liberia, sailed for his post on the Cunard line steamship Etruria, on Saturday, the 20th inst. Dr. Lyon was accompanied by his son and two daughters. Next Thursday evening the closing exercises of St. Mark's Lyceum will be held. A special program has been prepared under the direction of President Arthur W. Handy. Lyceum will reopen about the 17th of September. At St. James Presbyterian Church the pastor, Rev. C. Le Roy Butler, has been delivering a series of sermons on the Psalms, which he followed up on Sunday at 11 a. m. by delivering an instructive discourse from the 2nd Psalms. At 8 p. m. his subject was "A Call to Immediate Preparation." He showed in a particular manner why we should be on the alert to grasp each opportunity as it is presented. The Christian Endeavor met at 4 p. m. and was led by James Drake and Miss Carrie L. Dent. The subject was "How we may learn to use the sword." Next Sabbath, which will be the last meeting until September, will be Missionary Day, as well as consecration. Dr. Booker T. Washington, principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial institute, is booked at the Manhattan Hotel. Mrs. Elizabeth Dent, of Washington, D. C., is visiting her daughters, Mrs. John R. Hillery and Miss Carrie L. Dent. For the first time in the history of New York, there was filed in the office of the county clerk a certificate showing the organization of a company of colored men as co-partners, with ample capital, engaged in the business of leasing tenement houses and flats, under the name and style of the Afro-American Realty Company. The President of the company, Mr. James C. Thomas, is well worth $100,000. The secretary and treasurer, Mr. James E. Garner, represents more than $20,000, and the business manager, Mr. Phillip A. Payton, jr., is said to be operating on $50,000. M. McADOO. Perhaps the most agreeable trips of the season are those delightful outings on Saturday evening, which are planned by the Amphions. The crowd is always select, the music unusually attractive, and all return home with an appetite to go again. RIPANS. The Authentic History of the Douglass Monument. Biographical Facts and Interesting Incidents in the Life of Frederick Douglass. His Death at Washington, D. C., and Funeral. His Funeral at Rochester, New York. from beginning to end with important events in the Life of the Great Leader together with the struggle to raise a monument to his memory at Rochester, N. Y. It is handsomely illustrated, cloth bound and will be sent to any address for $1.50. Address the author. P. 0. Box 493, Rochester. N. Y. MONEY LOANED ON Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware, Etc. Unredeemed Watches, Diamonds and Jewelry for Tale. Old GOLD and SILVER Bought. THE COLORED AMERICAN BE NOT D TO THE COLORED PE King of all BE NOT DECEIVED TO THE COLORED PEOPLE OF AMERICA. King of all Hair Tonics, " OZONO. " BEFORE. CHRISTOPHER ENGLE BILMORE, VA. AFTER BEFORE. AFTER. TRADE-MARK. Recognizing the fact that there are many SO CALLED hair-growers and hair-straighteners now on the market, and knowing to a certainty that many of these are frauds pure and simple, we wish to make a straight-forward, honest statement to the colored race through this great paper. In the year 1871 our late secretary, Mrs. S. M. Moore, through a fortunate circumstance, acquired the receipt for OZONO. It was not offered for sale or purchase to any extent until 1875, when it was put upon the market and met with marked success. After a thorough test by the colored people of that time it was pronounced an honest, legitimate remedy, true to all that was claimed for it, and worthy in every respect of the confidence of every member of the colored race, because they found it to cause the hair to grow long and straight, soft and fine, and as beautiful as an April morning. Now, whenever a genuine article appears upon the market there are always a number of people who imitate and make capital out of the merits of other people's goods. Seeing our marked success, numerous firms have entered the market, offering hair-growers and hair-straighteners, many of which are worthless, causing the hair to fall out and doing great damage to the hair and scalp, and the colored people are buying these spurious compounds, which are filled with animal fats, and do the hair more harm than good. To these let us sound a warning—be careful what you use on your hair. Do not be deceived by flaring advertisements and big words. Buy the King of all Hair Tonics. be used on the scalp. And, lastly, to prove our liberality, we will put in a pint package of Anti-Odor, a positive cure for Sore Throat or Mouth, all forms of Womb Diseases, Chilblains, Sore and Frosted Feet; also removes all smells and odors arising from the human body, such as feet, arm pits, etc. The actual value of this Grand Aggregation is $4.00, but we let you have it for $1.00, simply to introduce honest goods. In order to protect the public in general from imitations of our goods, and to avoid mistakes, we have placed upon our coupon our Trade-Mark, one head showing Short Hair and the other head Long Hair. The U. S. Government has granted us this trade-mark, and it is registered in the Patent Office at Washington; so if the coupon has this trade-mark on it, you will make no mistake. Use only the coupon having the two heads on it. As to our responsibility, we refer you to the Editor of this paper or to the Metropolitan Bank of Richmond, Va. We have thousands of testimonials we have not space to publish. Here is a sample of one: Boston Chemical Company : Dear Sirs,—You are at liberty to state in any newspaper that I have used OZONO, and give it my most hearty recommendation. I have been fooled so often, it does me good to recommend honest goods. MAGGIE B. PROCTOR, Here is another: Box 114, Fairfield, Texas. Gentlemen,—After using OZONO a short while only, I am glad to say that my hair is already straight and growing finely. which is sold with an iron-clad guarantee to do all that is claimed for it, or we will forfeit $50.00. Now, we ask you a plain question—would we absolutely agree to forfeit $50.00 if you are dissatisfied with our preparations, if they were not true to all we claim for them? We have advertised for several years under this guarantee, and we are glad to say that every one who has used Ozono has been satisfied in every respect. A last word. OZONO is absolutely guaranteed to straighten hair and cause a beautiful and luxurious growth. If your hair is already straight, you can use it to secure a glossy long growth. Buy only the genuine "OZONO." Send us $1.00 at once, and the goods will be sent the same day we receive your order. 20,000 people are to-day using our preparations, and every purchaser recommends Ozono as the King of all Hair Tonics. Ozono will positively take the Kinks out of Knotty, Kinky, Harsh, Curly, Refractory, Troublesome Hair. It will make short, harsh hair long and straight. It will cure your head of all itching, worrying scalp diseases. Itch, Eczema, Dandruff, and Scurf can not live after Ozono has been applied. It will stop your hair from falling out. It will restore gray hair to its natural color, making the hair long and soft. PRADA MARR BEARAR AFTER Now, right here, let us make a statement. 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But, since I come to greet you not only at the closing of your instruction here, but in the beginning of the real battle of life, you will permit me to talk of those practical things which the world so seriously demands. I told you in the beginning that the super-structure which you will rear in the future will bear some proportion of the foundation here laid. I do not mean by that that the greatness which you may may possibly achieve in the future will be measured by the number of studies you have had, the books you have read or the curriculum you have pursued. Nay, I dare say that your instruction here will be void of much real worth unless you have acquired something more than memorized facts, or supposed facts; something more than the knowledge of rules and exceptions, of historical incidents and dates, of words and definitions, of places and names, of divisions and sub-divisions, of epochs and battles, of the earth and its formation, of the universe and its worlds. These things are good and it is well that you know them; but merely to know them is not culture, it may pass for learning, but it is not education. You perhaps know better than I do that the word education derives its meaning from two words which when compounded means the drawing out of or from. To be educated, then, by the means of acquiring facts and principles; facts and principles must draw out the mind; not only draw out the mind but, out from the mind its latent potentialities and possibilities. Your dormant faculties, weak no doubt in some ways when you came here, should be stronger now by reason of the contact and vigorous exercise to which you have been made to subject them. Your mind's capacity, let me assume, is broader by the constant stretching, and the intricate machine for thinking responds to the will with a deftness, a precision and constancy not yet heretofore experienced. This thinking apparatus is not you, it is yours and you must master it. You supply it with facts, principles and data; order its motion and it must supply you with ideas, arguments, judgments, resolves and purposes; it must unmix the real from the fanciful, the false from the true, and you should take your place in the world an effective living potentiality, an educated man. I will not venture out of my limits. I know I am safe in saying that the greatest lawyer is not always the one who knows the greatest number of cases or who can repeat the most legal dicta; it is the lawyer whose mind has been trained to accurate, concentrated thinking, who becomes the leader at the bar, who dictates legal opinions from his brief, and chains jurors to his point of view. You live in an age when men speak in vain, who speak to no purpose, and delve in facts and not in reason. It is better that you have acquired here only a few facts and learned to reason well upon them, than that you have stored in your mind a whole College curriculum, yet lacking the faculty to make them your aids in the practical affairs of life. Mighty as truth is, one man and one truth is worth a thousand truths without a man. Mere knowledge has given no man a passport to the higher realm of thought and action. Those who have trod the highest peaks of human accomplishment and died like Moses upon Mt. Nebo, close to the radiant splendor of God, alone and solitary upon some high peak of unrivalled excellence, leaving the world and mankind debtor forever for what they did and spoke, were those who added to the knowledge of things the keenest understanding of man. History has only stooped to notice great minds, where great minds have been linked inseparably to great epochs and great deeds. Though these minds differ in the firmament as the stars in their THE COLORED AMERICAN brightness, yet unlike the stars they have not been too numerous to be counted. The whole volume of human history reveals but one Socrates, roaming among the very clouds of diadactic philosophy, confounding the oracles of wisdom themselves and touching the beginning of things, whose end is hidden behind the skies. But one Demosthemes close wrapt in the subtle alembic of his brain the secret powers of expression, and that invisible talisman, which penetrates and moves men's souls. But one Saul of Tarsus to defy a world of idolaters in the very plentitude of their power, scorn them in their very temple, and in an age of persecution to plant the seeds of his holy church deep in the hearts of men, to defy all succeeding storms, pierce all rocks, flourish in all climes and to the remotest end of mortal being. But one Martin Luther to scourge the money changers from the church of the Middle Ages, unchain the Bible, purify the faith and almost create the Age of the Renaissance. But one Voltaire standing boldly out in full relief midst that maelstrom called the French Revolution, revealing by his strong searchlight of truth the rocks and breakers of infamy and oppression, which were dashing the aristocracy to pieces; and pointing the way where equality of right, justice and equity offered harbor for the safety of all. But one Oliver Cromwell, who hurled at absolutism a King's head as his guage of battle, and at the forefront of a triumphant rebellion, the last refuge of the oppressed, proclaimed an era of light and liberty. But one Kepler, who loved to walk along the milky way, to revel among strange worlds, and who died leaving the priceless legacy of the Three Laws. But one Milton, who thought the cumberous, ponderous thoughts and spoke the stately language of the gods, who made words sound like stroke and clash when immortals war; and measure beat like the tramp of unearthly legions, echoing from the dull cold distance of unrecorded time. But one Shakespeare, brother of the Muses, the intellectual prince of the realm of thought. But one Abraham Lincoln, seer, prophet, statesman, in all save name and station, King, the means and end of an era, the commencement of epoch. One Garrison; one Phillips; one Douglass, measured from the depths whence he came to the heights he reached, the greatest man of his age; one Moss; one Fulton; one Stevenson; one Edison. By the work and thought of these, and such as these, has the genius of progress pushed the task of civilization, unburied from venerable ruins, preserved from decay and despoliation, and kept in human ken and within the view of human hope, the jewels of wisdom, virtue, and law, on which, as upon a triple arch, the finished structure of liberty, equality, and justice shall be reared. Out of what did they build their fame and do their work? Out of the same men whom you shall meet tomorrow on yonder street; out of the same boys who may hereafter sit in your school room for your instruction; out of the same sentiments of love and affection which stir your own breast; out of the same mind around you always and every day; out of the same skies above your head; out of the same air which you breathe; out of the same water and elements which are now; out of the same earth upon which you live; with the same natural laws with which you have been acquainted. They wrought no miracles, performed no witchcraft, and did all with human strength and thought. Their star of destiny was ambition; their wand was labor; their magic brain. With these same instruments and among these common things your alma mater sends you out into the world to-night. She expects of each of you the accomplishment of some worthy object, worthy of your attainments. I grant you that steam has already been applied to machinery; that the telegraph already ticks; the locomotive already flies; invention has laid its wierd hand of magic upon every craft and made device the hand man of production; the lightning is already chained; the sea is already harnessed; the very rivers enslaved, and human servitude seems to threaten every arm of nature; yet is there enough to be done to tax a generation of workers and an age of philosophers. The inexorable and irrevocable law of civilization is, DO, SERVE, or DIE. Do something; do your best; help the world to solve great problems which now confront our destiny; people literature with the creations of your fancy; enrich philosophy or science with the fruits of your investigation. Make art richer by your skill. Make a flowers bloom where a thistle grew, or a garden smile where weeds were rank. Build a mansion where a hut stood. Make forests habitable, barren lands inviting, and small things great. Train the young; lead them to high conceptions and direct them to paths of usefulness and honor; inspire them by your own examples of usefulness. Assuage the fever of the sick; help the weak to bear their burdens; help the fledgling to fly; bandage the broken wings and help it again to the skies. Cultivate, if it be so, and water the flowers which bloom in your own nursery at your own secluded hiding place, by your own hearthstone, close brooding to your mother's heart. Send them trained, fashioned, pruned, healthful, with their fresh offering of love, beauty and fragrance to civilization and man. Delve into the secrets of Nature; call men, like Him who came crying in the wilderness, unto repentance and to the fear of God. But do something; do it well and civilization will accept your offering with pious reverence, your alma mater will thrill with a gratitude strong as that which filled the heart of a Roman Matron, who was prouder to be called the mother of the Gracchi than the daughter of Scipio. But fail, dare to fail, and civilization will pass over you in its onward sweep. Fail, and civilization will place her burdens upon you and make you bear them or fall under them. The times know no excuse for failure. The alphabet is yours, the printing press is within your reach, the Bible is open. Liberty, fair flower, budding from the blood of martyrs surrounds you with its fragrance. Men, women and children are waiting upon you anxious for your guiding hand, your fostering care. There they are; look at them; hungry, athirst, pleading for all the good which God has given you power to make and do. Wheat means, what implements, what materials are spread before you for the work of your thoughts, your invention, your pen, your imagination, your reverence, your love. Above you the sun shines, around you the winds blow, beneath your feet THE WORLD, on which rivers flow, valleys smile, hills and mountains rise, and the seas foam and dash; on which flower, tree and vine make their yearly offering of flower, fruit and wine; rock brilliant enough to decorate a coronet or hard enough to construct a temple. Soil, rich enough to fill the graineries of the world, to feed the cattle, which might graze upon a thousand hills, and wide enough for the untamed venisons of the woods to persue their prey and multiply their kind. Water, cool enough to quench the thirst of every moving or creeping thing, and copious enough to water all the valleys and fill all the rivers and lakes. On this round world of ours, you have brothers, sisters, friends, neighbors, society, state and nation. Of all these things are poems written and philosophies made; from these things does science gather its dicta; for these things and the use of these are laws ordained; of these are cities reared and empires founded and sustained. In this rank field waiting for the workers and ripening for the reapers go and gather your harvest. And now you, parents, relatives and friends, to whom the University hands to-night these jewels, which they have polished, carved and brightened. Where will you place them? Their strength is your strength; their virtue is your virtue; their industry is your indus- Continued on page 3. HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS HOTEL CLYDE, 475 MISSOURI AVE, N.W. First-Class Accomodations For Ladies and Gentlemen. 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The Amphions have issued a handsome card announcing their first of a series of this seasons Saturday evening outings, July 18th. Mr. Thomas G. Cunningham, of Danville, Va., was married to Miss Turula May, of this city, June 18th. They will make their future home here. The Masonic excursion to Glymont last Wednesday was well attended and quite a handsome sum was realized for the different lodges. Dr. John P. Turner, a special agent of the Pension office, whose headquarters are at Pine Bluff, Ark., is in the city on official business and incidentally meeting his many friends. The early closing of the departments and other public places will afford you ample time to get dinner, and to be at the landing in time to accompany the Amphions, July 18th. The Amphions! the Amphions! Saturday evening, July 18th; 6 o'clock sharp. Round trip 25 cents. 20 miles down the river. Monumental orchestra. Notley Hall. A very attractive boquet. Rev. E. W. Lampton, financial secretary of the A. M. E. Churhc, who has been on an extended trip to Mississippi and other southwestern States, has returned to the city. He reports a prosperous outlook for the church and for his department. Mr. David M. Turner, youngest son of Bishop H. M. Turner, senior Bishop of the A. M. E. Church, passed through the city this week, from Reading, Pa., to Philadelphia. Dave is looking well and met many old friends while in the city. Mr. Paris Livers and attache, of the city post-office, located at Station G, was arrested last Saturday by the post-office inspectors for violation of the postal laws. He is out on bail and J. W. Patterson is his attorney. Mr. J. W. Cusberd ,of Jersey City, N. J., is spending a few days in the city, the guest of his friends and relatives, and incidentally looking after some real estate, of which he is the administrator. Mrs. H. C. Bruce, the widow of Mr. H. C. Bruce, late of the Pension office, and brother of the late Senator B. K. Bruce is now located in Kansas City, Kansas. She writes a most interesting letter from that point and says that while she was in the flooded district, she did not suffer from the flood. She is in the best of health and wants to be remembered to her many friends in Washington. Prof. A. U. Craig, who has been connected with the Armstrong Manual Training School of this city, has been appointed the superintendent of the Industrial Department of Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City, Mo. Mr. A. Alphonso Allen, who left this city several weeks ago for his post of duty with the Vice Consul, at Antwerp, Belgium, writes us that he has reached that point safely and is enjoying the freedom of that country, so free from race prejudice. He deplores the item which appeared in the Washington Times, and other papers, saying that he claimed to be the Vice Consul, etc. He had first class passage and papers from the Vice Consul and did not feel called upon to explain to the cheap "white trash," who he was or what his business was. His wife will join him in Belgium at an early date. THE COLORED AMERICAN To Howard Graduates try; their ambition is your ambition; their intellectuality is your intellectuality. If they build for themselves a goodly mansion on the highest mountain top of achievement and fame, the feat and genius are yours; if they fail their failure is your failure. We are charged with incapacity for the higher things of thought and action. They are our answer. We have boasted that ignorance shall be banished from our class and our fellowship linked with the highest destinies of this republic. They are our pledge. We have said that, to the declaration that human freedom and human equality are the right and portion of every man, woman and child, there shall never be found an exception by the failures or short comings, by the incapacity of the black race in this republic. They are our guarantee. We have challenged those who declaim against our fond hope, who curse our strivings, who sneer at our efforts, who would curtail our privileges, who would cut short our rights. They are our gage of battle. With them and the thousands of others, such as they are, we are armed with invincibility. Our defense is impregnable, and when the bugle shall sound the charge down the whole line of these young resolute, educated, determined, ambitious, trained, disciplined young men, look then to see the shining genius of liberty rise glorious and immaculate from the ruins of two discordant and warring centuries; look then to see the clouds dispelled and the bow of hope arch our skies, radiant with a destiny for a thousand years obscured. Do you ask for a floral wreath fit to decorate the graves of all who fell fighting the battle of freedom? Behold them. Do you ask for an offering holy enough to place upon the altars of the republic? Look at it. Do you ask for fruits worthy of the blood, which has watered the tree of our liberty; of the dew of tears, which has refreshed its leaves? Look upon these and smile. Have you doubts as to what the future will bring forth by the hands of those who shall come after you? Look upon these young men and be consoled. Do you ask for God's answer to our humble, patient father's prayer? Behold them and lift your voices in Thanksgiving. History with its record of daring tales of valorous sacrifice, immortal struggles for justice and right, throws before them its beaconlight. Two thousand years of thought, investigation and discovery support and reinforce their simple human strength. Three centuries of trials and suffering, harsher than anything which the spirit of human kind ever endured before and lived, have hardened their inheritance of endurance to withstand and fight against any mortal fate. Justice with its infinite heavenly hosts and avenging purpose does not always fight beneath the teeming banners of the strong, nor are her judgments decreed or her mercies meeted out in measure and quality suited to the pleasure and caprice of numbers or majorities. Wealth, proud and vain, nor power, selfish and unrelenting, are the only sources of human strength. A Pagan once observed that the Gods were sometimes propitious with those whom they wished to destroy. We shall not despair, because they who be against us are more numerous than those who be for us. The anointing hand which was once laid in consecration upon the heads of holy men, setting them apart from ordinary mortals, as the ministering servants of God, does not now fall upon the dilated foreheads of our Southern opposers, ordaining their acts with the power and dignity, which belongs to things which flow from the fulfillment of destiny, nor investing their immaculate persons with the virtues surpassing ours. Their prejudices are born of ignorance; their hatreds war against the benign mercies and the infinite justice of God. Nothing but love links men with heaven. Nothing but justice summons angels to its cause. Nothing but truth is mighty. While it is ours to strive, let us strive manfully; while it is ours to fight let us fight bravely; while it is ours to endure, let us endure in the spirit of charity, which suffereth long and is kind, enviieth not, vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not easily mocked, thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity, beareth all things, endureth all things. The prejudices which now confront us, which darkens our sky, which dulls our energies, which almost makes us despair, shall pass away and be remembered only as some horrible dream. Gibbon tells us that, when the soldiers entered Alexandria they beheld there a statue erected to Seraappis, the tradition among the Alexandrians was that if anyone should lay their unhallowed hand upon this statute, fearful and direful convulsions would come; storms, earthquakes and awful disasters would follow the profanation of this piece of sacred rock. But one soldier was undeterred by this superstition and imposture. He climbed up to the very pedestal upon which the Goddess stood and with his mighty battle axe struck it full and fair. The head fell to the ground. Swaying his mighty axe he struck again and the broken and shattered arms fell away. With another swing of this mighty axe he struck again, and the great statute fell demolished to the earth, and when the disillusioned people who had beheld the dead with fear and horror, saw that the lightnings did not flash, the storms did not come; that the earthquakes did not swallow them; that there were no convulsions or lightnings; that the sun still shone; that the skies were still bright and the earth still beautiful disillusioned, maddened and frenzied they dragged the statute through the streets with jeers and derision, with cursings and mockings and trampled it in the dust. Some day this God of race prejudice will be knocked from its pedestal and the scene at Alexandria will be re-enacted, not in far-off Pagan Egypt, but in enlightened, civilized America. THE ALBANY NEWS. Albany, N. Y., Special.—The Home Social Club held a meeting at the residence of Mr. Edward Thompson, Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Adams, of Lafayette street, entertained a few friends last Thursday evening. Whist was the pleasing feature, after which a very enjoyable collation was served. There was a strawberry festival given at Hamilton street A. M. E. Church, Thursday evening, the proceeds going toward the fund for conference expenses. The conference convenes June 10th. The organ will be opened after having been silent for several months. But it has been overhauled and put in fine condition. The choir sings very well at present, but will render some fine music as soon as they resume their proper place by the organ; also about six new voices will be added. Wm. H. Johnson gave a series of lantern views at St. Agnes Hall, Monday evening. Mr. Commeraw left for Syracuse last week. Tony Freeland was in town over Sunday. Mr. Benny McIntyre has just returnned from Pittsburg, where he graduated, having taken a collegiate course at the college there. 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Pupils Given Diplomas go on smoothly, if the enthusiasm of the Southern educational leaders continue to substitute education for ignorance and thrift for idleness in the backward masses of the South as it has been doing, an incalculable value in economic progress will have been made. For they will bring into productive activity a large population that has not as yet contributed its share to economic civilization. To these great movements also may be added the advancement of the population of our insular possessions in the Philippines and Porto Rico. The leading governments and the foremost minds of our times are taking the stand that economic efficiency is more desirable and more necessary than military glory. The industrial age is making this change in the world's thought, and this thought in time will be considered its chief contribution to civilization. It is worth observing, too, that it is not a movement of theorists, not a plan of dreamers, but the work of thoughtful practical men. Enough, however, of the condition of the world in which you find yourself and in which you are to work out life's problem. EDUCATION BUT BEGUN. The education for which you have been striving is a relative term. No man or woman has ever been completely educated. No education has ever been finished. You who appear before us tonight have completed special courses of training in special departments, and have learned everything which the High and Training School was able to teach you, both in knowledge and skill, but your education in the end is an individual matter. All that the school can do for the best student is to teach him where to find the source of information, how to utilize the materials at hand, and how to use the tools of his craft or of his profession. You who are to do any original work COL AM—A THREE .hey;..Ca in the world must go on from this point to educate yourselves in the light of what has already been taught. Two of the great elements of education have been given you; that is discipline and instruction, the third element, or development of original power, the most thorough education cannot give, that must be developed or exercised by your own individual efforts. A realization of the limits of education has brought us to the age of speculation. Never before has it assumed such importance. The time is past for us to place confidence in the ability of a man or woman who claims a monopoly on the whole gamut of knowledge. If there is a crying need among the young men and women of our race it is that of special training. If teachers of the foremost race on earth feel the need of such preparation for the teaching of any one subject, how much more preparation, my young friends, do the teachers of the more backward race need? NOBLESSE OBLIGE. You who have chosen special work in the manual training department, I would have you remember the fact that the result of your training should be to teach you not how to abolish labor, but how to imbue it with the knightly spirit of service in performing all labor. The sounding of that keynote is the problem of modern times, the problem of education, the problem of social reform, the problem of poetry and art, and all that is uplifting and ennobling to the race. The capacity in which one serves matters little, but it is the state of mind of the server as regards his service that counts. For of service the truth can be stated, if compulsory it is degrading, if voluntary it is ennobling. As you have been taught the dignity of honorable service, so, in turn, must you hand down this precept or royal prerogative of noblesse oblige, and so exemplify this, your living faith, for THE COLORED AMERICAN. the benefit of those who hold labor a curse and are in consequence accursed in doing it. I wish to impress this fact upon those who graduate tonight and expect to become teachers, that sincere effort is never lost even when it fails of its ends. It is the contagion of the educational spirit. It is only the students who can make students. It is only the aspiring being of noble ideas who can awaken the highest ethical life in others. The great teachers of the world, beginning with Socrates and coming down to the present were always men and women who were ever going on morally and intellectually, growing always toward the highest and best, thus awakening and leading their students. THESE MAKE SUCCESS. Remember, my young friends, that to have a high regard for truth and duty and a fidelity in small as well as large things is an attribute of greatness. Every neglected obligation, however small, means a lessening of moral force and stamina, and every duty done, however trivial, or disagreeable, means new moral strength and force. Let your word be your bond, let it be a sufficient security for whatever obligations you may undertake. For the individual as well as the race, who desires success, must reach it by climbing a ladder, the round of which shall be made of industry, truth, patience and honesty. After ascending such a ladder, no race or individual can fail. A great deal is said in this world about the down-trodden, honest man, looking for work and not being able to find it, but I wish to-night to state the other side to you. The world daily cries for loyal honest men and women, who will do their work better than any one else.—Baltimore American. DOWN IN TENNESSEE. A Remarkable Family—Emancipation Celebration—News Notes. MEMPHIS, TENN., Special.—Mrs. Lymus Wallace has been seriously ill for three weeks, but is now convalescing. The Wallace family is one of the most prominent, highly respected and well-to-do families in Memphis. For several years Mr. Wallace was an honored member of the City Council, and later was a member of the school board. He has now retired from politics and is looking after his private business and giving his children the best school advantages. Mr. Wallace has many head of stock and does a considerable amount of hauling for cotton and wholesale merchants on Front street. Mrs. Wallace has seven interesting children, her superior home training is shown in their manners and deportment, wherever seen. There are no children in Memphis better behaved and better lover than all her's. Her many friends are rejoicing with the family that in a few days Mrs. Wallace will be able to receive calls, at her comfortable home, which she always does with so much hospitality. Miss Lula Wallace is a graduate of the Carchect High School, of '01, since which time she has been teaching in the city schools. There is no teacher in the city who stands higher in the esteem of both parents and pupils than she. Miss Ella Wallace, the older daughter, who is taking a college course, as well as a special course in music, at Fiske University, Nashville, Tenn., has just returned home, much to the delight of her many friends. The most prominent citizens of the city met at Church's Auditorium, Friday night, June 19th. They organized temporarily to celebrate the Emmancipation Proclamation." Dr. Jno N. Abby was elected President and Dr. W. J. Yerby and Mr. I. H. Holloway were elected secretary and assistant secretaries respectively. After some discussion as to when was the proper time to celebrate, it was voted on motion of Rev. T. J. Searcy, that Sept., the 22d be the proper day. The Mock Legislature, June 29th, at Church's Auditorium, under the auspices of the Crispus Attucks Lodge, No. 13, K. of P., promises to be the grandest demonstration ever witnessed here. Senator Jno. H. Grant, Republican. will introduce a bill to jut a check on lynching. Senator Hill, Democratic, will introduce a bill to repeal the 15th amendment. Each side will make a strong fight. There will be a large crowd in attendance. BROWN BONES Booker T. Washington recently received a handsomely framed certificate of membership in the Union Club, a leading beneficial organization in Bluefields, Nicaragua, Central America. SUMMER RESORTS. Madre's Park, situated on the Eckington and Surburban Line, at the corner of 7th and Albany Streets, has been refitted and is now for rent for picnics, garden parties, etc. This park has a beautiful pavilion 50 by 50, swings, excellent water and everything necessary to make it a desirable pleasure resort. For further information call or address M. A. D. Madre, Madre's Park, 7th and Albany Sts., Eckington, D. C. SCHOLARSHIPS FOR TUSKEGEE. Tuskegee, Ala., May 18th, 1903. Mr. Fred R.. Moore, Western National Bank, New York. My Dear Mr. Moore:— I beg to hand you herewith our treasurer's receipt for $100.00, the amount sent by you for the two scholarships pledged at the recent banquet tendered me in New York by the colored citizens of Greater New York. I wish you would convey to them my hearty appreciation of their interest and generous gift. It will help us in the most satisfactory manner. Yours truly, BOOKER T. WASHINGTON 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. E. WILLIAMS, Grand Secretary, No. 106 F St. N. W. FOR RENT.—A 7-room house, excellently located, with modern improvements, in Hillsdale, already furnished, will be rented to the proper parties, man and wife without children, for the summer, from June until October. The premises are large and the surroundings are pleasant, and it can be used for the accommodation of summen guests. It is located on the Columbia Heights, where a full view of Washington, looking down upon it, as it were, can be had, where there is plenty of breeze and fresh water; only a few squares from the Anacostia car line, on Grant Avenue, bet. Nicholas and Pomeroy streets. For particulars address Mrs. J., care of The Colored American office. References required FOR SALE One acre of ground on A st., Hillsdale, on reasonable terms. It is one square from the car lines, has one thousand fruit trees of different kinds, splendid water and location, and a view of Washington city from the Long Bridge to Bennings. For particulars call at Caywood's, Ninth and F streets N. W. A good bargain for a first-class colored family. FOR RENT Large light-furnished room with board for two. Apply at 941 T street N.W. FOR RENT A nice large room; furnished or unfurnished; fine neighborhood; 1527 Madison St., N. W. Cures Weak Men FREE. Insures Love and a Happy Home for All, A. B. How any man may quickly cure himself after years of suffering from sexual weakness, lost vitality, night losses varicocelle, etc., and enlarged small, weak organs to full size and vigor. Simply send your name and address to Dr. Knapp Medical Co. 867 Hull Bldg. Detroit Mich., and they will gladly send the free receipt with full directions so any man may easily cure himself at home. This is certainly a most generous offer and the following extracts taken from their daily mail, show what men hink of their generosity. "Dear Sirs:—Please accept my sincere thanks for yours of recent date, I have given your treatment a thorough test and the benefit has been extraordinary. It has completely braced me up. I am just as vigorous as when a boy and you cannot realize how happy I am." "Dear Sirs:—Your method worked beautifully & results were exactly what I needed. Strength and vigor have completely returned and enlargement is entirely satisfactory." "Dear Sirs:—Yours was received and I had no trouble in making use of the receipt as directed, and can truthfully say it is a bron to weak men. I am greatly improved in size, strength and vigor." All correspondence is strictly confidential mailed in plain sealed envelope. The receipt in free for the asking and they want every man to have it. TELEPHONE, 317 B COLUMBUS. WILEY G. OVERTOM. — W. DAVID BROWN OVERTON AND 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. MASONIC TEMPLE Skirtock 1111 19th St., N. W., Between L and M. 1111 19th St., N. W., Between L and M. An Exceptional Feature: Your wedding reception at this Hall with palms, flowers, draperies, electric lights, fans and all conveniences. N. B. SAVED: Wear on carpet, broken furniture, loss of wraps, labor of cleaning and straightening after. COST: $10.00 AND UP. Apply for terms and special rates. A JUNE WEDDING. A pretty nuptial knot was tied last Wednesday evening, at 5 p. m., at the parsonage of St. Augustine Church, rather Bisschoff officiating. The inter- «ied parties were Miss Julia V. grooks, & Marylander by birth, but who has lived the greater part of her time in Washington, and Mr. J. B. Edelin, one of our best known young business men. The wedding was a quiet affair, only the immediate rela- tives and friends of the high contract- ing parties, being present. After the ceremony, the happy couple took the 4 . i Sa { 3 pagan: | | , & Pea. ee ee acu) Se ee Z any Pee gk Fe + 4 “ i Ar CRBS OE Me : ; z eo F ii ae. . MR. J. B. EDELIN. ORAGNGE BLOSSOMS. Mr. Edward H. Hunter, a high sal- aried and most efficient clerk in the General Land Office, was married to Miss Jennie M. Spears, principal of Mott School, Thursday evening, June Isth, at the residence of the bride’s sister, Mrs. Amelia Bennett, 1513 17th street, N. W. Rev D. G. Hill, D. D., pastor of the Metropolitan A. M. E. church, officiated. Only a few friends were present, no invitations having been issued; and the marriage being eutirely quiet and devoid of formal so- cal function. In addition to Mr. Hunter’s duties in the government ser- vice, it is his purpose and that of his bride to do some social settlement work, in a quiet way, as soon as they can find suitable location and when the fall season begins. They have the con- sratulations of their many friends. They are at present the guest of the es Patterson, at 1532 15th street., N.W. Mrs. Charles W. Chesnutt, Miss Hel- en, the baby Dorothy, and Mr. Edwin Chesnutt, all of Clevelfnd Ohio, are spending the summer at Aundel on the Bay, with Mrs. H. C. Tyson. Mr. J. C. Robertson, chief of the Real Estate Department of the G. N. order of True Reformers, of Richmond, Va, is in the city on business. Capt. Edward L. Webster, of the Pension Bureau, and Jennie M. Ander- son, were married at Philadelphia on Tuesday, the 23d. Wednesday they left for a month’s sojourn at Ply- mouth, Mass., the native home of Mr. Webster, Boston and other Northern cities. They will be at home after July 20th, at 323 Elm street, Le Droit Park. Editor T. Thomas Fortune, of the New York Age, who has just returned from the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines, as a special commissioner of the Government, was given a ban- quet at Gary’s and Costley’s last night. The representative men of the city, including lawyers, doctors, editors business men were out in large num- bers. Mr. Fortune was elated at the Ovation given him. THE COLORED AMERICAN. 6.30 train for Philadelphia and Ger- mantown, where they will spend a few weeks, the guest of the bride’s sister, Mrs, Charles Miller and other relatives. During their honeymoon trip they will visit Atlantic City, Cape May and oth- er resorts on the Atlantic coast. They will be at home to their friends at 1144 19th street, N. W., from July 4th Miss Brooks is an active member of the Metropolitan A. M. E. church and has many friends without as well as within the church. The presents were numerous and costly, among them a purse of $100 in gold. : g | \ & es 4 f= |) - if es MISS JULIA V. BROOKS. PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS. The fact that a Negro was brutally tortured, burned, and the lifeless body hacked and dismembered by the ruth- less hands of an infuriated mob out in Illinois teaches us no new lesson. It is simply an additional instance of the fact that , whether in the North or in the South, man’s brutish instincts need but an indication of an incentive and they are given full play. It mat- tered not that the Negro had simply shot without killing a white man. The mob had not the excuse of “a life for a life,” nor did they require it. The red gorge of murderous and inhuman barbarity is not bounded by the Mason and Dixon line. e At Springfield, Illinois, the recep- tion to President Roosevelt included exercises at the tomb of Lincoln. Among the soldiers at the tomb were a part of the Eighth Regiment (col- ored) of the Ilinois national guards. No utterance made by the President on hfs western tour was more worthy of him, or rang with truer sincerity, than his greeting to these colored sol- diers. Said President Roosevelt: “It seems to me eminently fitting that the guard around the tomb of Lincoln should be composed of colored sol- diers. It was my own good fortune at Santiago to serve beside colored troops. A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.” I see from the Associated Press dis- patches sent out from Atlanta, Ga., that Congressman Hardwick, of the Tenth district (Georgia), has prepared a bill to repeal the franchise amend- ments to the Constitution. Mr. Hard- wick is a new Congressman and feels that it is absolutely necessary for him to do something to get his name in the papers, thereby keeping his prom- ise to his constituents. He succeeds the Hon. Wm. H. Fleming, a courtly gentleman and a true man, and one of the arguments us@d by Hardwick in SS his campaign was that Mr. Fleming ‘Was not vigorous in his waving of the bloody flag. Hardwick was a member of the Georgia state legislature for several terms, and presented at each session a bill to disfranchise the Ne- gro, but the solons of that stat~ sat down on his bill as regularly as it appeared, and with heft and vigor. In fact he could never muster as many as a half dozen votes to his support. He is nothing if rot a notoriety seek- er, however, and he sees no better way to jump into sudden notoriety than by springing this bill in the halls of the National Congress, Benjamin B. Herbert, editor of the National Printer-Journalist, published at Chicago, says in the June number of that periodical that “Both Negroes and Caucasians in the South need less of partisan politics in the newspapers and everywhere else and more of agri- culture, commercial and industrial de- velopment generally, and of manual and industrial training especially, and all the means and methods there- of.” Mr. Herbert says truly, but he should have said also that as a general thing the partisan attitude of southern newspapers is confined to the Caucas- ians. The Negro papers of the South in nearly every instance are constant- ly calling upon their white neighbors to cooper’ ie in the development of the South siong commercial and indus- trial lines. It strikes me that one of the reasons operating in the South against its development is the secret fear of the Caucasians that the ability of the Negro, if given free scope, would place them far ahead of their white neighbors. Mr. Herbert says in another place in the same editorial, that “if the whites fool away their time in fighting over offices and _poli- tics and the Negroes keep steadily at the work of improvement in the trades and agriculture, and the practice of the same, * * * ina hundred years the Negroes will be the possessors of the land, of the wealth, of the shops, factories and railroads in the South, and in the end, will become the ruling class.” Mr. Herbert sounds this note as a warning to the white man of the South, and it is no less of value to the Negro as a spurring-on cry to continue his work and march toward the goal of commercial and industrial inde- pendence, which carries with it, as a matter of course, financial accretion. Rey. N. C. Cleaves, pastor of Israel Cc. M. E. Church, is doing acceptable work among the people of that congre- gation. He has preache’ some special sermons that have attracted attention, and that have been the means of arousing serious thought. One of his sermons covered the subject of “Chris- tianity in the solution of the race problem.” He handled the subject in a masterly manner, and whether agreeing with his conclusions or not, one was obliged to the able and ex- haustive treatment accorded the sub- ject. We are able o state that the pub- lished interviews in the New York Sun by Dr. C. H. Parkhurst have been repudiated by that gentleman and by his closest friends. Dr. Parkhurst sincerely regrets that any question as to his loyalty to the colored people should have been aroused in any quar- ter. He has no views that are defama- tory of the Negro or that would cross the opinions held by the high-minded members of both races. BISHOP SMITH’S DAUGHTER, A MUSICIAN. Miss Susie Smith, daughter of Bish- op Smith of the African M. E. church, a piano pupil of Director Alberto Jo- nas, and Mrs. Ezra von Grave-Jonas, of the Michigan Conservatory of Music, gave a graduation recital in the hall of that institution, Wednesday afternoon. Miss Smith is a very talented young woman, playing exceptionally well, and in the theory and harmony class stand- ing at the head of her fellow students. Her graduation program embraced Chopin, Raff, Rubinstein, Moskowski, and Glinka-Balakirew —News Tribune. parental ae oo | DRESS MAKING ACADEMY. The de Lam Orton Famous French Perfection Tailor System, Mme. J. A. Smallwood, sole agent, 1513 Madison street, northwest. Morning class from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. Afternoon class 2 to 5 p. m. daily. Evenings from 7:30 to 10 o'clock. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, dressmakers and ladies who wish to do their own dress-making: WANTED.—To learn the wonderful De Lam Orton French Perfection Tailor System. Seamless Basques without one inch of visible seam, in lining or goods, not eeven on the shoulder, Successful dressmaking re- quires as much earnest progressive study as successful work in any pro- fession. No detail is too small to be looked after. We teach you to make dresses with or without seam and guarantee perfect fits, and complete your course with a diploma. If you have a spare room that you would like ¢ rent to desirable parties, advertise them in The Colored American, SUMMER RES8ORTS- —_———_—_—_—_—_—_—_ FOR RENT--Summer of 1003 Lincoln Hall Harper's Ferry, W. Va. For particulars ad dress N.C. Brackett. ee ee ee eee Please Help Me Find My Brother Saunk Joyce was sold in Mecklenburg, Virginia several y ears before the civil war. to Cunnigan a Negro trader. His mother. Willie, was a slave on the Joyce plantation. He had One sister Betty. who is very anxious to find him. Any in formation will be gladly received. Mrs Berry Reynotps. 44 Parker street. Atlanta. Ga. For the FamousTroubadours | Company, Three Chorus Girls, with strong Soprano voices. Must be good looking, good dressers on and off the Stage. State salary expected; we pay rail- road and Hotel expenses. The s€ason of 1903-04, beginning Sept., 15th. Ad- ‘dress all communications to E. W. Dale, Cape May City, N. J. THE DUDLEY INN. A natural garden spot, high with constant breeze from the Blue Ridge mountains, frequent drives, good board TERMS:—$3.00 and $3.50 per week. Apply to, MISS T. FLETCHER, Lincoln, Loudoun Co., Va., Box 22. THE LIVINGSTON DRESSMAKING SCHOOL. The Livingston Dress cutting and Dress making school is offering a new attraction. A class has been formed in which embroidery as applied to per- sonal adorment is taught. Miss Char- lotte E. Hunter, has been placed in charge of this work. Persons desiring to learn decorative embroidery should apply at once to Mrs. L. R. Clarke, principal of the school as only a limit- ed number can be taken. Terms, ete., cheerfully furnished at the school, 1439 W St. N. W. BOARDING ae ee ee ee) ee eee Apply to— ’ MRS. M. J. BUNDY, 941 T St. N. W. THE TURNER HOUSE. Everything in the season that’s fit to eat. A delightful ride to Chesa- peake, Junction, and a visit to The Turner House. DANIEL TURNER, Prop. IS IT A SCHOOL YOU WANT ? For particulars address J. H. Wil- son, No. 53 Sherman avenue, Spring- field, Ohio. N. B.—The headquarters of the Na- ticnal Teachers’ Agency have hereto- fore been at 459 C street N. W., but they are now loca‘ed at the above ad- aress, where all correspondence should be sent. Prompt attention will be giv- en to all business entrusted to it. 6 THE SOCIAL WORLD. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Brown Set the Pace—Mrs. E. E. Conick, Jr., and others Agreeably Surprised—A Birthday Surprise Long to be Remembered—Tributes to a Marylander—Notes from Yonkers. Yonkers, N. Y., Special.—One of the most delightful surprise parties I think I ever attended, was one gotten up here by Mrs. H. R. Brown, of 258 New Main street, in honor of the S'teenth birthday of her bosom friend and classmate, Mrs. C. E. Conick, Jr., who was formerly a teacher at Hampton, but who has recently married and is at present residing here. About twenty ladies were in the secret. They kept it faithfully and on the night of the surprise, the heavens wept slightly, in acknowledgment of this wonderful female feat of preserving silence until bidden to speak. How they did it is a mystery. But they "done it" nevertheless and notwithstanding. It happened on last Wednesday night, May 27th. The gay company assembled at the residence of Mrs. Brown, in New Main street, and marched in a body to the residence of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Moultrie, on Warburton avenue, (i. e.,) all who didn't ride, and from thence proceeded on foot to the Conick residence, in Harmartine avenue, reaching there shortly after ten o'clock; the time all good people in fashionable neighborhoods, think of retiring to the arms of Morpheus. The elder Conick had locked the hen house, and unchained the rat terrier, Conick fils was quietly extracting smoke from the cool end of a Henry Clay, on the front piazza. Madam Conick, Jr., in evening wrapper and kimona, was just in the act of saying the evening prayer, "now I lay me down to sleep, etc.," when a goodly array of friends, headed by Rev. H. A. Booker, of the Messiah Baptist Church, and the ladies of the party and their escorts, marched into the front yard and up the piazza into the spacious parlor in ten minutes less than no time. Each wore a smile of ample proportions and the usual evening attire. Conickpere thinking they were burglars, set the terrier on the company; the terrier got frightened away. The excitement of the moment took away the breath of the entire Conick family. They could not speak, but just looked astonished; surprised; when the gas was lighted in the parlors, it revealed among the conspirators, Rev. J. T. Gaskill and wife, Rev. H. A. Booker and wife, Rev. F. J. Montrie and wife, Miss Conway, Mr. and Mrs. S. Giddings, Mr. and Mrs. A. Q. Thornton, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mason, Mrs. John H. Adams, Miss Agness Bowman, Miss Lillian Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Williams, Henry Howard, Miss Ethel Madison, of Stanford, Conn., Miss Hattie Conway, Mr. Eugene Conway, Mr. and Mrs. A. Brown, of Brooklyn, N. Y., Mr. O. Bundick, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Scott, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Spenine, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kelly, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Brown, Mr. W. H. Daggs, of Hampton, Va., brother of Mrs. Conick, Jr. It was amusing to study the faces of Mrs. Conick and her husband. They couldn't understand what it all meant, until some one said, "Why this is your birthday, isn't it?" Then it dawned upon the dear lady that it was, and she flitted upstairs and re-arranged her toilet, after having excused herself, and came down in a jiffy, her face suffused with smiles and her heart overflowing with grateful emotions. Mrs. R. H. Brown, the chief conspirator, explained it all, and in a few minutes a big freezer of cream was tapped and many home-made cakes, including a birthday cake were cut, passed around by the committee of ladies and everybody enjoyed themselves immensely. Mrs. Conick received several handsome presents, among them a beautiful table cover and the congratulations of all her Yonkers' friends, who each and all wished her many happy returns of the day, which was then ending so happily and enjoyably. At a late hour the company broke up, well pleased with the success of their effort in putting a little sunshine into the lives and hearts of two such amiable and agreeable THE COLORED AMERICAN. All people as Mr. and Mrs. Jr. Conick pere, who being resemblance to Sir in the matter of girth, a host as could well be the put his modesty in the capital stories he will how to tell he could that would not suffer by with many books of travel since now on the market. In a globe-trotter—a coshas visited nearly every world and every State SPARKS FROM THE ANVIL. If the race must imitate white men let us copy their virtues only. The man who feels himself above criticism is usually most vulnerable. Too often does the ten-cent argument end in a ten-dollar quarrel. No man can live alone. All men are interdependent. Let us each "act well his part." If we knew at forty what we thought we knew at twenty this would be a wise generation. "Business enterprise" is the key note to the new song of our people intent upon advancement. Let us first learn to obey the Ten Commandments in English before we learn to read them in Hebrew. Every unselfish act performed by us is a large deposit to our credit in the bank of character. Prolificness of promise and poverty of performance are the characteristics of too many of our colored debtors. Race possibilities may only be measured by past achievements. Here is the bow of promise to the Negro. We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of awakening from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death. Industry is the basic economic virtue, and the education which makes industry intelligent is the foundation of civilization. The standard of Negro morality in any community is never higher than that of the neighboring whites and is often far below it. No sincere Christian ever commits suicide. The Negro race is a sincerely Christian people. Hence suicide is rare among them. No people's rights were ever conserved by supineness. Persistent protest and agitation must be kept up against aggression and injustice. The education afforded to our youth to-day, it is sad to observe, is developing materialistic ideas among them rather than the faith of our fathers. Some power or influence other than our churches or Christian ministry which have been ineffective must be brought to bear upon our young people to make them seek the higher life. The capable colored physicians were unquestionably the first of the new generation Negroes to excite the white man's ire. He literally took the bread out of the white doctor's mouth. Religious pessimism finds its antidote in the verified report that nearly $40,000,000 are annually expended in this country in the erection of new church buildings. A Western clergyman has discovered that the Saturday half holiday is conducive to Sabbath church going. Employers interested in the souls of their employees will please take notice. The closing of our public schools leaves a veritable army of young people idle for three months. It is sad to reflect how few opportunities there are for the older ones of them to earn an honest dollar during vacation. The Colored American could pay handsome salaries to each of its attaches and furnish employment to a number of other capable members of the race if its delinquent subscribers would see their duty to it and perform it. 4 young married people as Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Conick, Jr. Conick pere, who bears a striking resemblance to Sir John Fallstaff in the matter of girth, was as jolly a host as could well be imagined; if he put his modesty in per some of the capital stories he knows so well how to tell he could make a book that would not suffer by comparison with many books of travel and reminiscence now on the market. Mr. Conick is a globe-trotter—a cosmopolite. He has visited nearly every country in the world and every State in the Union. What? Certainly he's a Marylander! So am I. If anybody imagined that this surprise party would conclude the social events of the week they were disappointed, for it was a week of surprises, it seems. Miss Lillian Jackson, formerly of Yonkers and a cousin of Mrs Henry Howard (a charming little lady), was given a surprise on Friday night. There were gathered together Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Conick, sr., Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Spannis, Mr. and Mrs. S. Giddings, Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Jones, of New York; Mr and Mrs. E. Conick, jr., Rev. Booker and family, Mrs. Thomas Mason,Mrs. A. Q. Thornton, Miss C. Flora Patterson, Mrs. W. H. Helmsley, Mrs. Kate Jones, Mrs. J. T. Gaskill, Miss Mattie Griffin, Miss Hattie Conway, Eugene Conway, Mrs. J. E. Bruce, Mrs. Robt. H. Brown, Mrs. L. A. Jackson, Miss E. Brown, Mrs. John Adams, Mrs. C. E. Scott, Rev. and Mrs. Conway, Mr. and Mrs Peterson. Miss Jackson is quite a favorite here, where she resided some years ago, and made many friends by her amiable disposition and her unselfish work in the church. As an expression of the high regard in which she is held by her former friends she was presented with a beautifully chased solid silver bracelet. The gift was a genuine surprise to the young lady, as she had expressed her admiration of it in New York, where it was purchased, when her opinion of it had been sought and had not the slightest idea that it would be presented to her. After the usual "How good of you! Isn't it lovely?" etc., etc., the company chewed cream and cake and other good things and voted Mr. and Mrs Howard a charming host and hostess. Miss Jackson awoke the following morning, conscious of the truth of the old saw that "true friends are the medicine of life." She is a most estimable young woman and deserves all the courtesies shown her by admiring friends. Dr. W. H. Johnson, of Albany, addressed the Men's Sunday Club at Zion Church on Sunday last, and on Monday night exhibited his wonderful collection of steriopticon views, under the auspices of Zion Lyceum. While in town he was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Scott, of Woodworth avenue. BRUCE GRIT. A GOOD SHOWING. The Board of Directors of the Mutual Aid Department of the U. B. F. & S. M. T. of Texas met at the office of the Grand Treasurer. The full Board consists of W. F. Bledsoe, Marshall, President; F. W. Gross, Victoria, Secretary, and Joseph Nichols, Huston, Treasurer. The Secretary made the following report for the quarter ending May 31ts, 1903: For widows and orphans, $3,567.60; Grand Lodge Texas, 518.60; National Grand Lodge Texas, $14.42; sales of supplies, $184.05; interest on U. S. bonds, $25.00; home and business fund, $553.80. Total receipts for the quarter,]4,863.47. Total receipts for nine months ending May 31st, $13,741.89. The Board ordered that $2,500 be paid widows and orphans. The total amount paid these dependents to date is $84,701.13. Col. W. A. Pledger, editor of The Atlanta Age, and a veteran Georgia leader was in this city a few days last week, a guest at the Southern Hotel. Mrs. Judson W. Lyons and children, are spending their summer vacation at their home in Augusta, Georgia. Look at These Elm street, near Third, two 6-room bricks, bath cellar, etc., in good condition, at a close price, on $100 cash and $20 per month for balance. These will not last for a second offering 2141 Virginia avenue N. W., corner, 6 good rooms, bath, etc., rents for $18.50, at $2,750; $200 cash and $25 per month for balance. A good investment or a neat, attractive home. Seldom happens that you can get a home in central Northwest and in localities with an immediate prospect of enhancing for $ 3,050. T street between 14th and 15th; 6 rooms and bath; lot 16 by 100, cellar under entire house; newly papered throughout. Plenty of room to build two rooms on in front; present parking about 25 feet and the building line only requires 10 feet. $300 cash and $20 per month. Worth investigating. John C. Keelan, Brokers' Representative REAL ESTATE, LOANS, LIFE INSURANCE 245 Elm Street N.W. WANTED:—A few boarders in private family, 30 miles in Va. High and healthy. $3.00 per week. No children. Address, E. N., this office. 20-27 Every Convenience Is afforded ladies traveling alone on the Compartment Cars of the "Great Western Limited," 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) With the latest frabricks and Fashions in Spring Goods at reasonable rates. Every fit Guaranteed. THE PENN. PRESSING CLUB A new wrinkle will keep your clothes pressed and repaired and in good order for the small sum of $2.00 per month. Cleaning, Altering and Repairing. Goods Called for anw Delivered. James S. Rawlings Manager and Proprietor. 493 Missouri Avenue, Northwest. (Opposite Pa. Station.) RACE GLEANINGS. Out in Grayson, Ind. Ter., the Government had a recent sale of lots. Negroes bought all that were offered. There are 40,000 Negroes who are members of labor unions in the mining districts of this country. Brooklyn, Ill., has an almost exclusively colored population, and all the officers from the mayor down are of that race. A new hotel for the exclusive use of colored people is to be opened this summer at Newport, R. I. It will be known as The Maceo and will be managed by Mr. Edward Davis. Prof. Inman E. Page, of Langston University, is now under attack and it seems likely he will have to go in answer to the demand for new blood and greater progress. Dr. W. W. Purnell, formerly of this city, but now in active practice at Oakland, Cal., has been selected as examining surgeon of the Knights of Pythias. Rev. Henry T. Lassiter, a most promising young clergyman, of the Presbyterian church, a graduate of Lincoln University, has lately died at his home at Whiteville, N. C. Editor M. W. Lewey, of the Florida Sentinel, continues to improve in health. We see his vigorous mind once more again in the columns of his paper. There is no abatement in the emigration of Southern families to California. The latest statistics show a total of 15,000 since February of this year. The General Board of the C. M. E. church, met last week, at Jackson, Tenn., and reported having raised nearly $100,000 for general church purposes. Dr. H. N. Payne, President of Mary Holmes Seminary for colored girls at West Point, Miss., has had to relinquish his educational work owing to critical illness. Dr. Payne has been a noted educator. Miss Callie Washington, colored, of this city, has been notified, it is said, that the sum of $5,000 has been left to her through the will of her uncle, who died in Bakersfield, Cal., two years ago. The Georgia Baptist, of Augusta, Ga., is conducting a vigorous crusade against the practice of opening the caskets of the dead at funeral services. It claims the custom satisfies only a morbid curiosity of people who are otherwise without interest in the dead. Within thirty miles of Tampa, Fla., on the 20th instant, two colored men were lynched for murdering a white man. The most noteworthy fact connected with their summary punishment is that a white man, Amos Randall, said to have instigated the deed, was lynched at the same time. Mr. John B. Keys, of Okamulgee, Ind. Ter., is a race man who deserves mention. Though only in the Territory a short time, he has built and paid for a $10,000 store structure in which he carries on his business as a merchant, and he is rated as worth $50,000, all the result of his thrift and business sense. At McKeesport, Pa., one of the largest classes in its history was graduated a few day ago and at the head of the class was John Coles Derry, a colored youth of 19, who in addition to this has been for years the sole support of his aged mother. The President, while in Topeka, Kansas, on his present trip, was made an honorary member of the Stone Masons union. His certificate of membership was signed by the Secretary, Mr. W. T. McKnight, who is a colored man. When will the promenading collection cease, and be supplanted by a more progressive and substantial plan? We long to see that day dawn upon the Negro churches that they will put their contributions in the basket and discard the old practice of raising collection. It is time-worn, and should be abandoned.—The Christian Index. At the recent commencement of Wiley University, Marshall, Texas, the degree of Master of Arts—A. M., was conferred upon Mr.Emmett J.Scott, private secretary to Dr. Booker T. Washington. This is Mr. Scott's old school, and those who know him are proud of the record he has made in the important and delicate position he holds. Out in California is an up-to-date woman's club, located at Oakland. During the President's visit to San Francisco, they presented a magnificently worded and decorated set of resolutions to him, thanking him for his attitude towards the race. The Club is named for Mrs. Fanny Jackson Coppin, for years an educator of renown in Philadelphia and now with her husband, Bishop Coppin, in South Africa. GET TO THE MASSES The educated classes of the South greatly deplore lynching and its effects upon the people, and they would rejoice to see it die out forever; these can be easily touched by the press and pulpit. But the great difficulty in creating a public sentiment by that means is found in reaching the 'poor whites.' These, the intensest despisers of the Negroes, and the ones that form the body of the lynching crowd, read but little, see but few newspapers, hardly know what magazines are, and are scarcely touched by the church? How can these be reached? Only through general education and the public schools. As long as the proportion of illiterates remains as high as statistics show, there can be but little hope of entirely suppressing such social phenomena as lynching. Rev. Robt. G. Sprague, D. D., in Boston Transcript. There is a strong sentiment developing in Mississippi in favor of the elevation of Dr. E. W. Lampton to the Episcopacy. Dr. Lampton is at present the Financial Secretary of the A. M. E. Church and his great worth and work are known throughout the country. The Preacher-safeguard, of Kosciusko, Miss., has recently paid a handsome tribute to Rev. G. W. Gayles, D. D., of Greenville, in that State, who is popular as a minister and at the same time successful as a planter. Dr. Gayles was one of the only two colored members of the convention which framed the present constitution of Mississippi. GOING TO NASHVILLE The Negro Business Men, of Boston, are planning to attend the next session of the National Negro Business League, to be held at Nashville, Tenn., in August, in special Pullman cars. In this way not only comfort and privacy is secured, but more cheaply are they able to travel. Arrangements are similarly being perfected in Chicago by the local Negro Business League. It will pass through Indianapolis and other cities and be joined by representative business men. Arrangements are also being perfected in Richmond. Other cities planning to have representatives present are urged to follow the suggestion outlined by these several cities. It is noticed recently that in several instances Southern white newspapers in reporting lynchings of Negroes do not think it necessary to state the names of the unfortunate victims, though the full details of the alleged antecedent crime are given. Is the purpose to make a complete record impossible? NE ST PR CO VA IM CO Pr der yo he cin Hours, 10 a. m. to 12 ; 2 to 6 p. m., Tuesdays and Saturdays, till 8 p. m.; Sundays, 10 a. m., to 12. Knoxville College Summer School. Knoxville College Summer School. The second annual session of the Knoxville College Summer School will begin June 24th, and continue six weeks. Unparalleled opportunities are offered on account of the favorable location in the mountainous district of East Tennessee—high elevation, abundant shade, commanding view and great healthfulness; on account of its proximity to the Summer School of the South at the University of Tennessee, through which many of the most eminent lecturers of the country have been secured and which makes possible the remarkably low railroad rate, and on account of the well-equipped college plant at the disposal of the summer school. Among the list of 27 lecturers and teachers already secured are the following: Dr. Lewis B. Moore of Howard University, Washington, D. C.; Hon. S. A. Mynders, state superintendent of Tennessee; Hon. H. R. Sanford, state institute conductor of New York state; Dr. W. E. B. BuBols of Atlanta University; Prof. Kelly Miller of Howard University, Washington, D. C.; Prof. P. P. Claxton, editor of Atlantic Educational Journal and conductor of the summer school of the South; Dr. L. H. Bailey, professor of horticulture, Cornell University; Prof. J. H. Phillips, superintendent of schools, Birmingham, Ala.; Prof. W. H. Singleton, principal of schools, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Dr. E. G Murphy of the southern educational board and Hon. L. D. Harvey, state superintendent of Wisconsin. Expenses very low. Railroad fare from all points in the South, one fare plus 25 cents. For full particulars write the President of Knoxville College. R. W. McGRANAHAN, D. D., Knoxville, Tenn. A profound inquiry into the origin of all races and a strong argument to prove that Adam was a Negro. Supported by proof both biblical and scientific. 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We solicit news, contributions, opinions and in fact all matters affecting the race. We will not pay for matter, however, unless it is ordered by us. All matter intended for publication should reach this office by Wednesday of each week to insure insertion in the current issue. ADVERTISING RATES. Reading notices 50 cents per line. Display advertisements, $2 per square inch, per insertion. Discounts made on large contracts. Entered at the Post Office as second class matter. All letters, communications, and business matters should be addressed to THE COLORED AMERICAN. EDWARD E. COOPER, Manager, 459 C St., Northwest, Washington, D. C. Sold by all News Dealers. SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1903. Our leading newspapers, both black and white, have been hammering away and wasting tons of rhetoric in elucidating the so-called race problem and offering each its peculiar nostrum for cure or alleviation. There are many grave facts, however, which do not seem to have reached the apprehension of these learned doctors. Conditions in the South are well understood, and touching them all are agreed. Simmons, of North Carolina, the unspeakable Tillman of the adjoining State, Money of Mississippi, and a host of lesser lights are the exponents of the Southern idea of violence, peonage and of the denial of even industrial education to the end that the Negro there shall continue the ignorant, unskilled farm laborer of that section, the victim of store orders and of the wicked capricious will of the brutal white planter, incapable of accumulating a foot of land or of saving a penny of his earnings. But the conditions in the North and West excite our greatest and gravest concern. Excepting the honorable conduct of the Mine Workers' Union and the Federation of Musicians, every labor organization sets its face sternly against the admission of a Negro, and of course against his employment in the ranks of skilled labor. Tuskegee is right and we support and defend its mission and purposes. Industrial schools are sending forth year after year colored youth with cunning hands equipped for the struggle of life, and yet in spite of their skill they stand practically manacled and idle while the great procession of the material industries of the country marches on past their post of enforced idleness to the consummation of its aims and to the incalculable financial benefit of all its factors. Does not the ever-increasing tide of foreign immigration, aggregating 100,000 in one month, furnish forth the real explanation of the attitude of the North and West toward our people? Is not this immigration a menace to our whole country, speaking THE COLORED AMERICAN. of it as a mere possitive proposition? There is undoubtedly a strong determination among the whites that the Negro shall not become a rival to these unkempt and often vicious foreigners in the labor market. We know that it takes just five years to make them full-fledged American citizens and then, though ignorant of the language of the country and utterly unacquainted with the genius of its institutions, they are promptly absorbed into the labor unions, married to American women and caressed and placated by American politicians. When are the white American-born citizens going to do justice to that other American-born citizen, the AfroAmerican, with his record of peacefulness and loyalty to God and country? If this vexed question of the place which the Negro is to hold in the economy of this land is ever to cease being agitated, the first step must be taken by the American-born white man in according justice to the black man, in giving him an opportunity to earn an honest living in every walk of life for which he is fitted. Otherwise it will not down. Every fair white man will concede that the black man has not had a fair chance in any section of the country since emancipation, and every Negro has felt the disheartening effect of his exclusion from remunerative industries. When will the discrimination cease? Undoubtedly a larger measure of justice to our race will deplete our police courts and our jails of their too numerous colored prisoners, will reduce the number of idle black tatterdemalions who parade our streets in the wake of every band of music and give a healthier tone and renewed hope to our really earnest, conscientious ministers of the gospel who are honestly striving to lift up the mass of vice and viciousness which so greatly afflicts us. THE SITUATION. he Southwestern Christian Advocate, always one of our most welcome exchanges, in a thoughtful cogent editorial in a recent issue gives its views on the causes back of the persistent agitation of the Negro question these days. It maintains with singular force that the object is to mollify the great Northern sentiment now favorable to our people and to induce it to consent to the repeal of the suffrage amendments to the constitution and thus forever destroy the votnig influence of the Northern Negro who holds the balance of power in several Northern States. It wants the colored voters to use their ballots judiciously and to be everlastingly on guard that our enemies do not secure political office where they may imperil the few rights that remain to us. The advice, is seems to us, is most timely. So far as the political liberty of the Southern colored man is concerned it has become merely a thing of shreds and patches, the plaything of a few densely ignorant and prejudiced white election officers. Northren colored men, watch your candidates! Preserve your privileges, and above all else live up to your highest possibilities and the ingenious schemes of your enemies will prove abortive. GET TOGETHER Bishop H. M. Turner, of the A. M. E. Church, may not be sound on the emigration to Africa question, but his head must be conceded to be exceedingly level in his advocacy of the consolidation of the two colleges Morris Brown and Edward Waters, which are supported by that great connection. It has long been a just criticism upon our people that we can inaugurate and maintain more churches and educational institutions than any race of people on earth, while our ventures in business circles are doomed to early decay and death. Latterly, however, the criticism is not applicable to our educational efforts. With a few brilliant exceptions like the Tuskegee Institute, Hampton and Howard, they fail to meet their projectors good if mistaken intentions. They have become too numerous and the incessant demand upon Northern philanthropy has caused a marked reaction against, not their purposes, but their multiplication, which has proved a source of weakness and a detriment rather than a benefit to our people. One good, strong college (and spare us from the term "university" if you please), ably officered and soundly administered, will prove of greater value to the race and will excite the generous interest of liberal friends throughout the country in larger degree than a half dozen of our alleged Universities with their perennial harvest of half-educated students and a constantly increasing crop of honorary doctors of divinity and of the law who are the laughing stock of all thoroughly educated men. Some wise man, with imprudence, perhaps, said not long since that it was fast coming to be a distinction among colored men to be a plain "Mister," and to have never been invested with the pomp and splendor which attends the Rev. Ignoramus Muttonhead, D. D., LL. D., A. S. S., the announcement of whose presence in any community other than his own must be deferred until the arrival on the next succeeding freight train of the ponderous degrees with which he afflicts his visiting cards and the colored press. THE TIDE OF EMIGRATION New England papers, and notably the Boston Journal, are reporting as a result of the profound unrest of the race in the South a marked migration of our people to the New England States. We have heretofore noted the tide of emigration to the Pacific coast and to the larger opportunities of the Western States in general from the exasperating conditions of country life in the South, and this new direction of departure but points the moral with greater exactitude. There is trouble in the South and its appreciation by our people is profound and far-reaching. We give it, however, the counsel of our best thought and of our most deliberate judgment when we say that the wholesale abandonment of their Southern vantage ground by the colored people is an error—an egregious error—pregnant with far-reaching results. It seems to us that down there the friction, the violence, the rasp of contact are economic rather than political. It is admitted that the Negro is pushing himself forward on all lines, that he is possessing the land, that he is acquiring its betterments, that as a matter of fact he is getting better and more serviceable education than the whites, that the great impulse of the generations North is strengthening him to the disadvantage of the Southern white youth and that the thoughtful white men of the South are recognizing the fact. Every body knows that our Civil Service Commission finds the Negro easily the leader in any competitive examination they hold in any Southern city. Every man who reads knows of the phenominal strides the race has made since emancipation in the acquisition of all sorts of property What a travesty upon the boasted supreiority of the white race is the spectacle of the son of a slave holder waiting, hat in hand, in the outer room of his father's former chattel, and patiently, for the chance to borrow or beg a $5 bill. Yet how numerously has this occurred within the experience of every colored man of affairs. The tide of foreign immigration rejects the importunities of Southern solicitation. To them the Southland is a "pent-up Utica." The influences which direct and stimulate this grave menace to our Government are unworthy because they are commercial purely and in no sense patriotic. The steamship companies and the railroads know that the Negro is the master of the labor situation of the South and the Negro should realize the great possibilities of his mastery. Wealth and education and the consideration both always bring will be his if he preserve his patience and remain at home working out his destiny there. SUFFRAGE LAWS UNJUST. I do not believe that any State should make a law that permits an ignorant and poverty-stricken white man to vote and prevents a black man in the same condition from voting. Such a law is not only unjust, but it will react, as all unjust laws do, in time; for the effect of such a law is to encourage the Negro to secure education and property, and at the same time it encourages the white man to remain in ignorance and poverty. I believe that in time, through the operation of intelligence and friendly race relations, all cheating at the ballot-box in the South will cease It will become apparent that the white man, who begins by cheating a Negro out of his ballot soon learns to cheat a white man out of his, and that the man who does this ends his career of dishonesty by the theft of property or by some equally serious crime. In my opinion, the time will come when the South will encourage all of its citizens to vote. It will see that it pays better, from every standpoint, to have healthy, vigorous life than to have that political stagnation which always results when one-half the population has no share and no interest in the government. As a rule, I believe in universal, free suffrage, but I believe that in the South we are confronted with peculiar conditions that justify the protection of the ballot in many of the States, for a while at least, either by an educational test, a property test, or by both combined; but whatever tests are required they should be made to apply with equal and exact justice to both races.—B. T. Washington in The North American, Philadelphia, June 7, 1903. A WHITE AUSTRALIA IMPOSSIBLE. We are just in receipt of a series of pamphlets on the above subject, sent by our good friend, Mr. A. Goldsmith, of Victoria, Port Melbourne, Australia. These pamphlets treat on The Same Cause of Colour in Mankind, The Whole Race is Mixing. and The Negro, the Third Great Colored Race in the World. The author, Mr. E. W. Cole, treats these subjects in a most exhaustive and comprehensive way, with specimen pictures of the dark races, with pictures of white men, who have gone to the Torrid Zones, and with faces of the American Negroes, Africans, West Indians, Malays, and all of the dark races. It is needless to say that the types of the American Negroes, which he gives, outstrip all of the other dark races in the physical size of the heads and in the strength and character of the faces. We are glad to note that the Conference of the A. M. E. Zion Church lately in session at Washington, D. C., took strong ground against the scoundrels who are swarming especially in the country districts of the South, collecting money from our poor deluded people to support the agitation in favor of the ex-slave pension bill. Action by such a dignified and representative body cannot fail to have potential influence in counteracting the villainous schemes of these rascals and confidence operators who know how utterly impossible is the passage of such a law. We hope to see them in the clutches of the law officers and condign and exemplary punishment meted out to them for obtaining money under false pretenses. Every race journal should expose them and every minister of the gospel should hurl his anathemas upon their sinful souls. Especially should our country itinerant clergy give them a warm shaking up in the heart to heart talks which are held with the laity of their churches.