The Colored American

The COLORED American A NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER VOL. X, NO. 8 A Mississippi Leader Hon. W. E. Mollison, a Lawyer and Bank President. A Pioneer Anti-Bellum Leader and a Son of the State of Jefferson Davis, Who has Won a High Place in the Confidence of His People—A Safe and Conservative Leader and a Counsellor for His Race—His Early Career and Educational Advantages —A Prize Winner at College. Our people in this country must not despair. Various criticisms are heard from our enemies. Higher education, they say, is a failure. Our efforts to elevate ourselves have been wrong in theory. We have retrograded and so on until the very din has bewildered our own better judgment. Let us take heart of grace. These adverse criticisms are false and unjust, and the most cursory examination will demonstrate the fact. In every State, village and hamlet, especially throughout the South, there are numbers of manly Negroes with high aims and untiring industry. These men are fitting themselves for leadership by their acquisitiveness and culture. They are settling this so-called race question by their lives and fine example, and in most cases with rare modesty, which is ever the handmaid of merit. One fine example of this type of worthy men is Hon. W. E. Mollison, of Vicksburg, Miss., whose picture we produce in this issue. He is a lawyer, a financier, a bank president, a man of rare culture and fine balance, and a true leader. His career is full of hope and eloquent of possibility to his people. Mr. Mollison was born just two years before the opening of the great civil war, at Mayersville, in Issaquena county, where afterward he filled almost evry station in the gift of his people. After completing what the common schools of the time called a course, he went to Fisk University at Nashville, where he took rank as a student and scholar. He entered Oberlin College with the class of 1883, rankink second in Latin and third in Greek in a class of 85 men from all over the earth. In his literary work he had the unusual distinction of having had an article published in the Oberlin College Review while he was in the preparatory department. He took high rank as a debater and speaker and was popular with his fellow students of all races and creeds. He was prevented from completing the college course at Oberlin by what he considered the call of duty, and took up the battle of life at his home in 1880, when he took up the study of law and entered the business and public career which has made him a power in his state and section. He was admitted to the bar in 1881 in the town in which he was reared and within a few hundred yards of the site of the WASHINGTON, D.C., JULY 11, 1903. cabin in which he was born. In 1880 he took a prominent part in matters political, representing his county in the state and district conventions of that year. He has frequently since that time represented Mississippi in National Republican Conventions. From that time to the time when he was elected president of the first bank to be organized by colored men in the state he has been prominent in the political and business worlds. He was appointed by a Democratic state administration to be Superintendent of Public Education for his county, and while holding that place was elected to the offices of clerk of the circuit and chancery courts, a place that he filled for eight years, having been elected the second time without opposition. He voluntarilyg gave up the office, dewhile holding that place was elected clining to be a candidate to enter the practice of law, for which he has always had a fondness. He moved with his family to Vicksburg, Miss., in 1892, and since that time has en- Vicksburg, Miss. joyed one of the most important practices in the state. He has appeared in a number of the most important civil and criminal cases that have been tried at the bar of which he is a member. In the vast number of cases in which he has appeared he has met COL. AM—FOURTEEN with a success that would surprise those who do not understand conditions that surround him. He is frequently engaged by white clients in all sorts of cases, civil and criminal, and it is the frequent remark that without making the great efforts before the juries, occasions frequently arise in which the effort is necessary, and it is on these occasions that he shows up to such advantage. His white fellow lawyers are the first to congratulate him upon any great piece of work, and juries give him verdicts without any apparent effect of race prejudice, about which so much is heard. Mr. Mollison has a splendid Continued on page 4. PRICE, FIVE CENTS Afro-American Council. Meet at Louisville and Holds a Rousing Convention. Delegates from All Sections of the Country in Attendance—Dr. Washington's Great Speech—Editor Fortune re-Elected President—A Strong Address to the Country—Recalcitrants Placated—Notes and Incidents of the Meeting—Election of Officers. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Special.—Representative colored men and women from all parts of the United States, met at Odd Fellows' Hall, 13th and Walnut streets, Wednesday morning, July 1st, to attend the fifth annual meeting of the National Afro-American Council. It was an intelligent body of men and women bent on a close scrutiny and study of the problems which are affecting the race to-day. Editor T. Thomas Fortune, who has just returned from the Philippine Islands, as a Special Commissioner of the United States, and who is President of the Council, presided. It was seen at the very beginning, that some of the delegates from New York and Massachussets, had come to the meeting bent on trouble, to carry the day or to rule or ruin. President Fortune was equal to the emergency, and kept the machinery of the Council in good running order and everything passed off smoothly. A most interesting program was carried ont. Among COL AM—EIGHTEEN bfslieePhat the speakers being Dr. Booker T. Washington, whose address is printed elsewhere; editor T. Thos. Fortune; lawyer Wm. M. Farmer, of St. Louis, Mo., Mr. Wm. H. Lewis, of Boston, Mass., and many others. Trouble began when the New York delegation took advantage of the technicality to object to the membership fee of $5. They refused to enter then, but adjourned to the True Reformers' Hall, and organized a National Afro-American Suffrage Convention by electing Geo. E. Wibecan, of Brooklyn, N. Y., president; Fred A. Chew, Troy, secretary. The whole of the afternoon was spent in adopting a constitution, and in the session the next morning officers were elected. Among those who took part in the organization were: J. E. Bruce, A. C. Cowan, Luttie Cowan, J. W. Thompson, William Abbott, F. H. Gilbert, E. E. Guy, C. S. Morris, F. E. Smith, New York; A. B. Jefferson, M. E. Walker, H. W. Barnet, J. E. Churchman, Wm. Jones, A. B. Cosey, New Jersey; Jordan Thompson, J. C. Carter, J. C. Hayes, J. J. Smallwood, Silas Jones, B. J. Johnson, T. W. Hill, F. M. Moses, Frank Pullman, W. L. Norvell, P. W. Harris, James H. Hayes, L. L. Marshall, J. L. Harris, Virginia. The Council went right along with Continued on page 5. A SPASM OF ABBREVIATIONS. In the State of Mass. There lives a lass I love to go N. C.; No other Miss. Can e'er, I Wis., Be half so dear to Me. R. I. is blue, And her cheeks the hue Of shells where waters swash; On her pink-white phiz There Nev. Ariz. The least complexion Wash. La! could I win The heart of Minn., I'd ask for nothing more. But I onlydream Upon the theme, And Conn, it o'er and Ore. Why it is, pray, I can't Ala. This love that makes me Ill.? N. Y., O., Wy. Kan. Nev. Ver. I. Propose to her my will? I shun the task 'Twould be to ask This gentle maid to wed; And so, to press My suit, I guess, Alaska Pa. instead. —Brooklyn Eagle. RACE GLEANINGS. Mr. J. C. Grove, a colored farmer of Edwardsville, Kan., is rated as worth $190,000. A Florida colored man made the first shipment of canteloupes from that State a short while since, and realized $1.200 for them. Memorial University, at Mason City, Iowa, closed its first year's term recently. Its first graduate was James Leggett, a colored man. The American Newspaper Directory catalogues 154 publications by Afro-Americans, 49 of which are weeklies, 21 monthly, 12 semi-weekly, 1 bi-weekly and 1 quarterly. Rev. George F. Bragg, of Baltimore, has recently published a most interesting monograph on the cordial relations subsisting between the Negro and "the true Virginia gentleman." Mr. Ernest G. Tidrington, a bright young colored man, has just been appointed deputy sheriff at Evansville, Ind. He is but 24 years of age, but has already made his mark as an orator and race leader. The Normal and Industrial School at Charlotte Hall, Md., has just closed for the summer. Rev. Joseph Bryant, its principal, is gratified at the progress made by the students during the school year last past. Prof. W. Bruce Evans, principal of the Armstrong Normal Training School in this city, is in great demand as orator at commencements elsewhere. He made a favorable impression by his address at Avery College, Pittsburg, Pa., a short time since. Booker, Tex., is the name of a thriving little town in Texas, whose population and the surrounding country is composed entirely of colored people. The postmaster and all of the town officers are colored. The town was named for Dr. Booker T. Washington. WANTED A young lady for Real Estate Office: must be good penman and understand stenography and typewriting. Apply in own hand writing. Mr. J. Frank Allen, formerly of our local High School teaching force, and an M. D. of Howard University, finished a post-graduate course at the University of Pennsylvania last week. THE: COLORED AMERICAN. SAD BERFEAVEMENT. In the Home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. M. Turner. Monday, June 29th, little Vivian Fanette, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. M. Turner, departed this life. For three days this little angel seemed to have suffered the most intense pain, which she bore without a murmur. There is no family in our city more devoted to their children than Mr. and Mrs. Turner. Mrs. Turner was born in the country, and except for the time spent in attending Lemoyne Institute, all of her days were spent here. Unlike most young wives, she found her greatest pleasure at home, training her children in the way they should go. It was remarkable to see how lovingly this child gazed its mother in the face and seemingly tried to speak during her few days illness. It is safe to say if all parents taught their children the fireside lessons these children receive, in a few years our condition as a race would be much improved. Mr. Turner is one of our most progressive young men, who has original ideas as to how children should be raised to honor their parents. He says as long as we teach our children to worship white faces, just so long will we be a "Jim Crow Race." The humble, though comfortable home of the Turners' is decorated with Negro pictures and statues, his daughters play with Negro dolls and are not only taught that George Washington was the Father of his country and never told a lie, that Napoleon Boneparte was the greatest soldier that ever lived, but they are taught all about Negro statesmen, soldiers and authors. Should you ask Willie Minter Turner, Jr., who is ten years of age, he will tell you Touissant L'Overture; ask him why, and he will tell you because he was conquered in the same manner as was Antonio Maceo, except that he was starved to death in prison. Mr. Turner, who is a close student himself, argues if parents read more Negro newspapers and history, from which they will learn important facts about the Negro—they will not be ashamed of their original color. This is surely an interesting family, in this sad hour of their bereavement, Memphis weeps with them. It seems a pity that a quartet of such interesting children should be broken. Yet we can only say, "Thy will, O God, not mine, Thy will be done." The services which were private, were held at the residence, on Polk Street, and were conducted by Dr. Jno. N. Abby. MRS. BETTY FRANKLIN. Memphis. Tenn. REMEMBERED BY HIS PUPILS. On the evening of Wednesday, June 24th ult., Mr. Henry Lewis, of 521 Third street S. W., a teacher of the Manual Training Class of the Ninth Division, public schools of this city, was tendered a most enjoyable surprise by some of the pupils of the Wormley School, in recognition and appreciation of their high regard of him and the valuable instruction given them in carpentry during the past school year. A response to Mr. Lewis and his charming wife's cordial address of welcome, was given by Miss P. Woodson, a teacher of Wormley School, who had been especially invited by the pupils to share with them in their surprise. Cream, cake, fruit, and candies were bountifully served, accompanied with music and singing. A march composed and played by Mr. Lewis was most enthusiastically received. The success of the surprise was due to Masters Kenny, Gray, Shelton, Johnson, Dixon, Dabney, Martin, Burless and O'Brien. Among the guests present were the Misses Dabney, Sedgwick and Mr. Robt. S. Woodson, jr. Dr. Summer C. Wormley, who is making friends and patrons rapidly is also a member of the faculty of the Medical Department of the Howard University. LINCOLN WITH MALIOL TOWARD NONG WITH CHARITY FOR ALL Hustling Agents wanted to sell "Roosevelt Opening the Door of Hope to The Negro." This fine lithograph in three colors, 14 by 21 inches, 25c, postpaid, or $1.00 framed. Send orders to S. Boyd Gray, P. O. Box 29, Yonkers, N. Y. (Permit granted by Keppler & Schwarzman Puck.) BE SURE TO GET THE SAFEST, SWIFTEST AND MOST COMMODIOUS STEAMER ON THE RIVER JANE MOSELEY. 1903. FOR CHARTER SEASON. 1903. TO UPPER GLYMONT, LOWER CEDAR POINT, ROCK POINT, OTHER POINTS ON THE POTOMAC RIVER. Freedman's Transportation, Land and Improvement Co (Incorporated.) A limited amount of the stock is now on the market for sale to the public at Ten Dollars per share, payable in small monthly payments. This boat has recently been overhauled and thoroughly inspected by the U. S. Government Inspectors, chartered and equipped with electric lights and late improvements and is licensed to carry 1,300 passengers. Jas. Morrison, President, Jos. N. Mayne, Vice President, J. L. Neill Secretary, F. M. Sims, Assistant Secretary, H. Hood, Treasurer, Lewis Jefferson, General Manager, James Dabney, General Agent. BOCKS ARE NOW OPEN FOR CHARTERS. For terms apply to J. L. NEILL, Secretary, LEWIS JEFFERSON, General Manager, Room A, 1st Floor, 629 F Street, Northwest. AGENTS 11 JUSTICE FEES PREFJUDICE PRESIDENT ROBERT L. Lincoln acknowledges you, the people give you citizenship and I protect your rights. Agents wanted to sell "Roosevelt Open-Door of Hope to The Negro." This fine fish in three colors, 14 by 21 inches, 25c, or $1.00 framed. Send orders to S. May, P. O. Box 29, Yonkers, N. Y. It granted by Keppler & Schwarzman THE SAFEST, SWIFTEST AND MOST COMMON STEAMER ON THE RIVER NE MOSELEY, FOR CHARTER SEASON. 1903. GLYMONT, LOWER CEDAR POINT, ROCK POINTS ON THE POTOMAC RIVER. transportation, Land and Improvement (Incorporated.) OFFICERS : THE COLORED AMERICAN. violation uttered not long since by the venerable Archbishop Ireland, which electrified the country, while our ineffective Protestant clergy were sitting down in luxurious ease, typifying the "Rev. Morphine Velvet," the great creation of Dr. Warren, in "Ten Thousand a Year." The Mobile Weekly Press, is one of our most welcome exchanges. It is easy to see that a master mind and a strong personality directs its course. Whenever we find such a combination among our people it is ourpleasure to call attention to it. The controlling force of this publication is Mr. A. N. Johnson, a race leader in the truest sense. He is a strong man and a brave one. He does not hesitate to point out his people's errors while he asks for their patronage. Mr. Johnson is a public spirited citizen of the great Southern metropolis. He has at his command a competence. If the colored people of his community search for innocent amusement, he finds and provides a place where they may enjoy themselves to their hearts content, without molestation or question. If they want an ice cream saloon or a drug store where their money may purchase goods instead of humiliation, presto! and there they have it. Mr. Johnson frankly says he needs the "increment" and he is entitled to it if he provides the people's wants. We trust he will retain his well earned reputation, that the "increment" will not desert him until his shadow does and that he will receive the appreciation of his fellow townsmen in the same degree as is now apparent in the perspective afforded by a seat in the editorial rooms of the Colored American, at Washington. Note the Word, New-Blood. Harris' New - Blood Tonic Is marvelous in its effects on the stomach, enabling it to obtain from the food taken the elements necessary to create flesh and muscle tissue, bone structure, and pure, rich, red blood. It contains no mercury, or other mineral substances, which are injurious to the system. To be sure of get- ting the GENUINE, notice the trade mark. 12 POPE LEO.. As we write, His Holiness, Pope Leo, XIII, is reported as in extremis and there is little doubt that ere we go to press he will have paid the debt of nature. It is too early to sum up the history of his life or the effect of his grand character and profound learning upon twentieh century civilization. It is sufficient to say that they have been comprehensive and that they have not been circumscribed by mere Catholic dogma. In spite of the general admiration of its power and discipline there has for many years been growing an energetic protest against the narrowness and the assumption of the Roman hierarchy, but the example of one such life as that of the present pontiff is worth a plenitude of doctrine. AN ALABAMA LEADER By us American Negroes his death is to be especially deplored. Observant race leaders among us have felt the contsant impulse of the Roman church reaching out to us and attracting us to her communion and to her beneficences. At the risk of offending some of our protestant clergy, we cannot fail to express the opinion that had we gone numerously into the church of Rome, the whole political status of our people would have been altered for the better. Nor do we believe such a consumption is yet impracticable. In no other church is there such unity and such cordiality among its votaries. No function in the Roman church is complete without adequate provision for its colored adherents. The suggestion of alliance with this great organization, with its centuries of brilliant history and its contributions to the worlds literature and enlightenment, is well worthy of our best thought. Let us not forget that the great Cardinal Richeleau, of France, when all else failed him, brought terror to the hearts of his enemies by invoking the sanctions of his church. Let us recall the brave stand taken for our rights and the indignant protest against their If you can not obtain it at your druggist's, telephone or write the Harris Drug Store, 3rd and F Sts., Southwest. Delivered to any address upon the receipt of price, 50c. per bottle. The Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers 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 nor more than fourteen years of age may form a Rosebud, upon the payment of $1 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 Age 14 to 25 $5 00 $500 00 $250 00 $9 50 $2 50 25 to 30 2 75 200 00 100 00 4 75 1 20 25 to 30 5 25 500 00 250 00 9 50 2 40 30 to 35 3 00 200 00 100 00 4 75 1 20 30 to 35 5 50 500 00 250 00 9 50 2 40 35 to 40 3 25 200 00 100 00 4 75 1 43 35 to 40 5 75 500 00 250 00 10 40 2 60 40 to 45 3 50 140 00 70 00 5 79 1 43 40 to 45 6 00 450 00 225 00 10 40 2 60 45 to 50 3 75 115 00 58 00 6 65 1 66 45 to 50 6 25 400 00 200 00 11 40 2 65 50 to 55 4 00 70 00 45 00 6 35 1 66 45 to 50 6 25 400 00 200 00 11 40 2 65 55 to 50 4 25 65 00 33 00 7 60 1 90 50 to 60 6 50 350 00 175 00 11 40 2 65 Class "B" Joining fee. Value of Certificate after one year. Value of Certificate before one year Annual Dues Quarterly Dues Age 14 to 25 $2 50 $200 00 $100 00 $4 75 $1 20 25 to 30 2 75 200 00 100 00 4 75 1 20 30 to 35 3 00 200 00 100 00 4 75 1 20 35 to 40 3 25 200 00 100 00 5 70 1 43 40 to 45 3 50 140 00 70 00 5 79 1 43 45 to 50 3 75 115 00 58 00 6 65 1 66 50 to 55 4 00 70 00 45 00 6 35 1 66 55 to 50 4 25 65 00 33 00 7 60 1 90 Class "M" Joining fee. Value of Certificate Annual dues Quarterly dues Age 14 to 30 $11 00 $1000 00 $21 90 $5 25 30 to 35 12 00 1000 00 22 00 5 50 35 to 40 12 00 905 00 23 00 5 75 40 to 45 13 00 800 00 24 00 6 00 45 to 50 13 00 700 00 25 00 6 25 REGALIA—The members of the Fountains and Rosebuds of the organization wear no expensive regalia. The regalia of the organization is simple and its cost will be in the easy reach of all, costing from 10 cents to $3. 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 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 $350,958, and the volume of business transacted amounts to $6,190,141.47. During the financial panic of 1893, the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain was the only bank in the city of Richmond that did not cease to pay cash on all checks presented, while the majority of other banks were using script and clearing house checks. This bank had its origin in the brain of William W. Browne, an ex-slave of Habersham, Ga. The banking house is located at 604 North Second Street, Richmond, Va., Rev. W. L. Taylor, President; R. T. Hill, Cashier. REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT—The Real Estate Department has charge of all the real property to the amount of $220,221.65, situated in various States, consisting of 13 magnificent buildings used as halls, 8 dwellings, 1 hotel. 5 stores and three farms. It also has under its control 16 large buildings leased by it. This department is under the management of Lawyer J. C. Robertson, chief of real estate and attorney for the association, office at 608 N. 2nd Street, Richmond, Va REFORMERS MERCANTILE AND INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION—Was chartered under the laws of the State of Virginia on the 14th day of December, 1899, with principal office in the city of Richmond, Va. The purpose of this association is to conduct stores (wholesale and retail), buy and sell real property, manage and control hotels, manufacturing establishments, and do general business. The association has in operation Hotel Reformer, 900 N. Sixth Street, Richmond, Va. It is a modern up-to-date structure, heated by steam, cold and hot water baths, also electric cars passing the door. This hotel has accommodations for 150 guests. Mr. A. W. Holmes is manager, and Mr. T. W. Taylor is clerk. It has in operation a system of five stores, located as follows: Richmond, Va.; Washington, D. C.; Manchester, Va.; Portsmouth, Va.; and Roanoke, Va. The first of these stores, at Richmond, Va., was opened April 3d, 1900. It employs a force of 18 men, runs three delivery wagons, and during the first year did $50,000 worth of business. The other stores have been established since, and have been equally as prosperous. The general manager of the system of stores is Mr. B L. Jordan, headquarters at 608 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. This Association was formed on the plans and recommendations made by Rev. W. L. Taylor, its President. THE REFORMER PRINTING DEPARTMENT—Issues a weekly journal, THE REFORMER, which has a circulation of 12,000. This paper is published in the interest of the race, and discusses the leading questions of the day. The subscription price is $1 per year, or 5c. per single copy. The office is equipped with modern up-to-date machinery, run by electricity. It can print anything from a visiting card to a poster 42 by 2 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 Cheesapeake and Ohio Railroad runs through the farm, and Westham Station is located on it. Adjoining this farm is Westampton Park, one of the most pleasant resorts in the South in summer. It is reached in a few minutes from Richmond by the Westampton Electric Railway and the Cheesapeake and Ohio Railway. As this home is for the benefit of the whole race, the co-operation of all charitable friends is prayerfully solicited. All contributions, donations and bequests 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. Rev. W. L. Taylor, G. W. M. W. P. Burrell, G. W. S. 601-6-8 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. MR. SCHAWB'S GENEROSITY. School Girls Have an Outing at His Expense—Doings at Gay Atlantic City—Breezes at the Seashore... ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Special.—The many recent outbreaks in various parts of our country, causes many to tremble as to the future of our race. We must not lose hope or become discouraged. We have never had more sincere and substantial friends, who believe that there is a bright and glorious future before us. A most striking instance was exemplified last week, when Mr. Schawb, the great steel magnate and millionaire, gave twenty white young ladies and one colored lady, Miss Posey, of the Homestead Industrial school, a week outing, chaperoned as they were by a native of Virginia, Mr. Joseph R. Ray. Mr. Ray is an earnest, honest active and progressive young man and well merited the confidence and duty imposed upon him. It was inspiring to our race to see twenty fair white faces promenading our lovely boardwalk, visiting our places of amusements, under the direct charge of a black son of Ham. They have taken up their abode at the Seaside Hotel and Mr. Albert D. Christain, the popular and congenial headbellman, with his assistants, Mr. Robinson, a third year medical stu- MR. JOS. L. RAY, Pittsburg, Pa. dent at Shaw, and Mr. A. Fisher, a pharmaceutical student and others contributed greatly in making their outing a pleasant one and faithfully and well discharged the duty imposed upon them as bellmen. Mr. Ray, therefore, is to be greatly commended for so just a recognition of his manhood and it is to be confidently hoped that other Schawbs will rise up and recognize the fact that the color of the skin, or the texture of the hair are not true trade marks of a gentleman. Elaborate preparations have been made for the Bellman's musical and reception, and everything is nearlyconsumated to make it a glorious affair, on the 16th of July. The Price Memorial Literary, of the A. M. E. Zion church, met last Tuesday evening and the audience was treated to a rare literary treat. Mr. Joseph James, of Lincoln University, recited one of Dunbar's famous poems and one to be especially commended. The gem of the occasion was the speaker of the evening, in the person of Rev. Wm. F. Ireland, D. D., of Philadelphia, whose wide and various experiences of life enabled him to see clearly the evils and adngers confronting our young people. His subject was From stage to Pulpit, prefacing his remarks, however, on the recent lynching in Delaware. We have no right to take life, no matter what crime one has committed; we have no right to take life which God has given, he said. His lecture was very instructive and scholarly and Dr. Hazel is to be congratulated in securing so able an orator. THE COLORED AMERICAN. The literary society of the St. James A. M. E. Church met last Monday evening and gave the large and representative audience a rare literary treat in a manner befitting the society and its distinguished president, Mr. Stuart. The first number on the program was an improved graphaphone selection by Mr. Henry, followed by a solo by Mr. Davis. Dr. Cook then in his usual effective manner and a few choice words introduced Mr. James Sharp, of the west coast of Africa, who for twenty years has been laboring zealously across the deep in behalf of her people. Her address was a plain, unvarnished tale of the condition of our race in Africa and our real development along intellectual lines, showing to the most dubious mind among many tribes great intellects existed and their standard of morality among the women would compare most favorable, if not above, the average woman. Her appeal in behalf of struggling Africa was full of scholarly grace, dignity and pathos, and on the whole productive of many lasting blessings. The next rare rich treat of the evening, was the address of a native-born African, descending from a distinguished tribe, holding a position unlike that of any other colored man in this country, namely an assistante of the Supreme Court Judge of his country, in the person of Dr. Richardson, president of Liberia College. The address of Dr. Richardson acknowledging his appreciation of the honors showered upon him by being invited to re-affirm the words of Mrs. Sharp, was a masterpiece of modest statements and frank utterances, and he proved himself not only a gifted orator but as full of wit as of logic, and his final plea to the A. M. E. Church to arise to a sense of duty in West Africa as well as in South Africa, was timely and in splendid taste. The music for the society, furnished by Mt. Nebro choir, under the direction of Mr. De Malgus, was exceedingly well rendered and greatly enjoyed by all and especially to be commended. Mr. Adolph Robinson, another one of our very popular, progressive, active, head bellman, has had charge of of the Grand Atlantic hotel for the past six years. Mr. Robinson is a very young man and early in boyhood his soul, ardent, generous and aspiring, dreaming of the noble opportunities awaiting the worthy young man, passed victoriously the obstacles which laid in his pathway until to-day he has charge of two cigar stands and one pool room, at the Grand Atlantic and one stand at the Jackson Hotel. His six years are full of honor and usefulness. A rare, good head-bellman, a high-minded young man and a good citizen and one who has faithfully and well discharged the trust imposed upon him. He possesses the rare tact of choosing men with well directed abilities as bellmen and has virtually at the head of the Grand Atlantic a young man who is ably representing him in the person of Nathaniel Williams. The names of the bellmen, are: J. M. Jesse Brown, Mr. William Tyree, Mr. James Tyree, Mr Samuel Kennedy, Mr. William Terry, Mr. W. A. Harris, Mr. Earnest Boston, Mr. George Gates, Mr. John Byers and Mr. M. H. Miller. Miss Susie Lewis, an esteemed and admirable young lady, of Burling ton's High School, is visiting our city, for the summer and winning many friends by her pleasing and unassuming ways 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. 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 or 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. BuBois 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. EDUCATIONAL. HOWARD UNIVERSITY, Washington, D. C. EN distinct departments, under one hundred competent professors and instructors—Theological, Medical, Legal, College, Pedagogical, Preparatory, English, Agriculture, Industrial, and Musical. For information address—Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D. D., LL. D., President. GEO H. SAFFORD Secretary. Knoxville College The second annual session of the will begin June 24th, and continue so. Unparalleled opportunities are offered in the mountainous district of Hant shade, commanding view and great proximity to the Summer School of the see, through which many of the most been secured and which makes possible and on account of the well-equipped mer school. Among the list of 27 lecturers and allowing: Dr. Lewis B. Moore of Howe Hon. S. A. Mynders, state superintendent, state institute conductor of New Atlanta University; Prof. Kelly Milk D. C.; Prof. P. P. Claxton, editor of A doctor of the summer school of the horticulture, Cornell University; Pr schools, Birmingham, Ala.; Prof. W. Chattanooga, Tenn.; Dr. E. G Murp and Hon. L. D. Harvey, state superintendent. Expenses very low. Railroad fare plus 25 cents. For full particulars write the Pr R. W. McC Teachers' College. HOWARD UNIVERSITY. WASHINGTON, D. C. Scholastic, Professional, Industrial Prepares Teachers for Kindergartens,Elementary, Industrial & High Schools. WELL TRAINED TEACHERS ALWAYS IN DEMAND. Two years' course leads to Teachers' diploma. Three or four years' course leads to degree in Philosophy or Pedagogy (Ph. B. or Pd. B.) Thorough training in Psychology, Pedagogy, Philosophy, History, Social Science, English Language and Literature. Elocution, Biological nature study, Physical Science and Mathematics, Kindergarten theory and practice, Child study, Ethics, Logic, Manual training and methods of school organization and management. All departments of the University open to students of Teachers' College. Graduates assisted in securing positions. Tuition Free, Expenses small. Fail te m opens Sept. 23, 1903. Catalogue free. ADDRESS. L, B. MOORE Ph. D., Dean Howard University Washington. D. C. Agricultural and Mechanical College Four-year courses in Agricultural and Mechanical pursuits, leading to the degree of B. S. or of B. Agr. Excellent equipment. Graduates earning from $30 to $150 per month. Fall term begins Sept. 1, 1903. Send for catalogue. JAS. B. DUDLEY, Pres., A. M. College, Greensboro, N. C. 13 EDUCATIOAL Howard University, Medical Dept. Including Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutic Colleges. THIRTY-SIXTH SESSION (19031904) will begin October 1st, 1903, and continue seven (7) months. Day School for New Matriculants. Tuition fee in Medical and Dental Colleges, each, $80.00; Pharmaceutic College, $70.00. Four years' graduate course in Medicine and Dental Surgery. Well-equipped laboratories in all departments. Unexcelled hospital facilities. All students must register before October 12th, 1903. For catalogue or further information, apply to 901 R St. N. W., Washington, D. C. Summer School. The Knoxville College Summer School six weeks. ffered on account of the favorable local-East Tennessee—high elevation, abundant healthfulness; on account of its the South at the University or Tennesse-ment lecturers of the country have able the remarkably low railroad rate, college plant at the disposal of the sum- and teachers already secured are the follard University, Washington, D. C.; student of Tennessee; Hon. H. R. San-ny York state; Dr. W. E. B. BuBois of eller of Howard University, Washington, Atlantic Educational Journal and con-South; Dr. L. H. Bailey, professor of of. J. H. Phillips, superintendent of H. Singleton, principal of schools, why of the southern educational board intendent of Wisconsin. are from all points in the South, one president of Knoxville College. GRANAHAN, D. D., Knoxville, Tenn. 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. IS IT A SCHOOL YOU WANT ? For particulars address J. H. Wilson, No. 53 Sherman avenue, Springfield, Ohio. N. B.—The headquarters of the National Teachers' Agency have heretofore been at 459 C street N. W., but they are now located at the above address, where all correspondence should be sent. Prompt attention will be given to all business entrusted to it. "WE MOVE EVERYTHING" Douglas Baggage and 1533 14th Street N. W. R. T. DOUGLAS, Manager, 14 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 Marve ons Growth of Hair. chemist at the head of the great Altenheim Medical Dispensary, has just made the startling an nouncement 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 earnestness in making his claims nor can his cures be Disputed He does not ask any man woman or child to take his or anyone else's word for it, but he stands ready to send free trial packages of this great hair restorative to anyone who writes to him for it. enclosing a 2 cent stamp to prepay postage. In a single eight it has starred 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's falling out or if your hair eyebrows or eyelashes are thin or short write to the Altenheim Medical Dispensary 2 cent 8296 Foosb Building. Cincinnati. Ohio enclosing a stamp to prepay postage for a free package and in a short time you will be entirely restored. 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable. Communications strictly confidential. HANDBOOK on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive without charge in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any scientific journal. Terms, $3 a year; four months, $1. Sold by all newsdealers. MUNN & Co. 361 Broadway, New York Branch Office, 625 F St., Washington, D. C. WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE. Gus Stewart don his "War paint." Like the tides, race prejudice must ebb some day. A bank operated in the city by the True Reformers. More fine buildings like the True Reformers Hall owned by the race. Recorder Dancey given a rest from office seekers. Our police force increased and more colored men appointed thereon. "Big Jack," of Gaskins & Gaines, on the avenue squad of bluecoats. John H. Wills write some "Reminiscences of Washington City." Our public school teachers receive half pay during the vacation season. A few more colored business men of the Whitfield McKinley stripe. Our colored dentists continue to succeed and wax wealthy. Prof. A. U. Craig remain with the Armstrong Manual Training school. Gov. P. B. S. Pinchback given an important District appointment. A few more young orators like Lieut. Thos. H. R. Clarke. Dr. Edward D. Scott repeat his famous Fortune banquet speech. Some of our ministers curtail their sermons during the summer months Commissioner Fortune's report on the Philippines and Hawaii in print. The Hampton summer school a flattering success. Dr. L. H. Harris sell 20,000 bottles of his new blood tonic. Dr. Phil Broome Brooks in an automobile. Scandal mongers strike a place that is hotter than this. Robert T. Douglas, and A. Lincoln Brown in that favorite duet, "Never Touched Me." Some of last year's panama hats cleaned up before the board of health takes action. Our representative citizens gather around the banquet table oftener to discuss live topics. Jas. R. Moore, of the firm of Moore & Prioleau, restored to health once more. Delinquent and elusive subscribers to "The Colored American" quit dodging and pay for their favorite home paper. The Metropole Club continue to maintain its present high standing among similar organizations of the country. Everybody read and subscribe for "The Colored American," the favorite home paper of our literary business and society people. H. D. Pryor, Edward G. Nalle, and R. F. Chisholm receive lifetime appointments at the Government Printing Office. The friends of S. Coleridge Taylor withdraw their efforts to induce the noted composer to visit this city until they can secure a suitable theatre to present a recital. A VALUABLE The Authentic Historical Monument. Biographical interesting Incidents in erick Douglass. His Iton, D. C., and Funeral Rochester, New York. This book is filled from beginning to end with images of the Great Leader together with monument to his memory at Rochester, somely illustrated, cloth bound address for $1.50. Address JOHN W. TH 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. This book is filled with inspiration 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. JOHN W. THOMPSON, H. K. FU LOAN O 314 NINTH STREET ESTABLISH MONEY LOANED ON elry, Silverware, Etc. Unrede- and Jewelry for Tale. Old GO The Most Reliable Place in ```markdown ``` 314 NINTH STREET, NORTHWEST. ESTABLISHED 1870. MONEY LOANED ON Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware, Etc. Unredeemed Watches, Diamonds and Jewelry for Tale. Old GOLD and SILVER Bought. A Black-No-More Chem. Read the Colored American ```markdown ``` P. O. Box 493, Rochester, N. Y. K. FULTON LOAN OFFICE NINTH STREET, NORTH ESTABLISHED 1870. NEY LOANED ON Watches, Diamonds, Silverware, Etc. Unredeemed Watches, Diam- jewelry for Tale. Old GOLD and SILVER H ost Reliable Place in the City to Borrow o-More Chem. Co. 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He said that recent regrettable events ‘in connection with the race question )went to show that lynch law is not confined to amy one section of the country. These events, he said, tend to simplify the race problem by mak- ing it national. Among the other speakers was W. H. Lewis, Assistant District Attorney of Massachusetts, who was appointed sev- eral months ago by President Roose- velt. Booker Washington said in part: “In the present season of anxiety, and almost of despair, which possesses an element of the race, there are two can: ' “First, let no man of the race be- come discouraged or hopeless. There are in this country, North and South, men who mean to see that justice is meted out to the race. Such a man is Judge Jones, of Alabama, to whom more credit should be given for blot- ting out the infamous system of peon- axe than any other person. “Second, let us keep before us the fact that, almost without exception, every race or nation that has ever go! upon its feet has done so through struggle and trial and persecution. “No one should seek to close his eyes to the fact that the race is passing through a very serious and trying pe- riod of its development—a period that calls for the use of our ripest thought and sober judgment. AERES y ae al NAB — . Wa x lt ceed SS , SE Ss aS le SS LN | WEIS aN (aia WISN EA * Nog Y 7 DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Tuskegee, Ala. “Lét nothing lead us into extremes of utterance or action. It is, in the long run, the race or individual that exercises the most patience, forbear- ance and <clf-control in the midst of trying conditions that wins its cause. Let nothing induce us to descend to the level of the mob. In advocating this policy in not asking that the Negro “‘SPLVMO0I JOU 21D aM fpsDMOD 9Y2 49D The part we have played in defending the flag of our country is sufficient evi- dence of our courage. “The recent outbreaks of the mob emphasize two lessons—one for our race and one for the other citizens of our country, South and North; for it is to be noted that the work of the lyneher is not confined to one section of the country. The lesson for us is that we should see to it that, so far as the influences ef the parent, school or vovipit. is concerned, no effort be spared to impress on our own people that idleness and crime should cease. We should let the world know on all occasions that we consider no legal punishment to severe for the wretch of any race who attempts to attack a woman. “The lesson for the other portion of the nation to learn is that both in the making and in the execution the same law should be made to apply to the Negro as to the white man. There should be meted out equal justice to the black man and the white man.” pINGENT PARAGRAPHS. ucien H. White, 1123 22nd street, N. \. Mrs. Shaw is a daughter of that yeweran newspaper man, Rey. Ww. J. white, D. D., editor of the Georgia paptist, Augusta, Ga., and her husband, yr, Charles A. Shaw, is one of the prominent colored men of the Empire state. Mr. Shaw has for a number of years been at the head of the Knights of Prihias, in Georgia, is a prominent yeson, and one of the largest. proper- ty owners in his section of the state. vrs. Shaw will spend a part of the qummer, {2 company with her niece, Mrs. W. H. Butler, of New York City, at Bayshore, Long Island, and will also pay a visit to relatives of Mr. Shaw at New Haven, Conn. The choir of Israel C. M. E. church, Mr. L. H. White, choirmaster, is pre paring for a patriotic service of song and speech in honor of the veteran or- ganizations of the District of Colum- bia and their auxiliaries. The service will be held on Sunday, July 26th at 430 o'clock p. m., at, the church, cor- ner ist and B streets, S. W. All the Grand Army Posts and auxiliaries, and other veteran unions and organiza- tions have been invited. This choir is one of the best in Washington, and the choister has. arranged an excel- lent program of music for this service. Two 10 minute addresses will be made, one by Hon. J. C. Dancy. recorder of deeds, and one by Lt. T. H. R. Clarke, a prominent member of the Spanish War Veterans. The public generally is extended a cordial invitation to be present and enjoy this service. Some of the men who work for the street railway companies in Washing- ton, have the proper conception of their duty and treat the patrons of the street cars with courtesy regardless of color. But there are a large number of the conductors who come from the southern states and bring with them all the infernal prejudices that satur- ate southern conditions. The result of this is that quite frequently color- ed people riding on the cars are insult- ed by these paid servants of the peo- ple, and it ig not am uncommon thing, by any means, for colored passengers who ask information as to routes, etc., over the. various lines, to receive the most curt and abrupt replies, and re plies that carry no increase of knowl- edge, whatever. The badge number of the conducor in such cases should al. vays be taken and a short note setting forth the facts in the case should with- cut delay be sent to the office of the sret railway company, addressed to te general manager. If this is done baptly and with regularity when- ‘ a lack of courtesy is shown by tse street car men, we will soon no- tte a change in their actions. The ©rporations conducting the street car business will not° allow prejudices to ‘nterfere with dividends. Rey. N. C. Cleaves, pastotr of Is Tel Cc. M. E. church, has been quite ll. He oceupied his pulpit last Sun- ‘ay but was very weak and barely able to preach. His mémbership are giving him loyal and hearty support and the ngregation steadily increases. His “mons are eloquent and exhibit a Profound knowledge of the Scriptures, nd are always listened to with profit ind edification. fpr ne Fourth of July ®exercises on “e White House Grounds were inter- ead and attracted a large crowd. wes entirely befiitting the occasion "an & representative of the French na- ‘oa should oceupy a conspicuous posi- “en on the program. The French Feral, Lafayette, and his compa- ice were notable factors in the strug- © for independence. But the Negro 15 a __—_-—«—_—_———_—_—_—_—_—— ee Fy 4 co 1 T 4 i THE BELLMEN’S SOCIAL ASSOCIATION j OF ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. ¥ ?..... WILL GIVE ITS THIRD ANNUAL...... + Musical and Reception’ ob at Fitzgerald’s Auditorium, ‘ 5 Kentucky Avenue, between Atlantic and Artic. ob . + Thursday, Evening, July 16th. t Music by Prof. Fred. Forman’s Orchestra. és CARDS OF ADTIIISSION, 50 Cts. Doors Open at 8. Musical Begins at 8.30. & ote 5 OFFICERS. of Adolph Robinson, President. Edward Jefferson, ist Vice-President. ob Clarence Ross, 2nd Vice-President. Charles G. Thomas, Secretary. - John Harris, Assistant Secretary. Thomas G. Hammond, Treas. e ¥ Edward Frisby, Sergeant-at-Arms. William Nottingham, Chap, ee Floor Committee. “x Thomas G. Hammond, Chair. Edward Bouden °° Edward Jones Louis Brown J. W. Rawlett obs General Committee. ef Adolph Robinson, Chairman William Winchester el Joseph Green ‘ Walter Jones }, Richard H. Brown Walter E. Reeves 4 William Terry W. L. Fenney 4 “e Robert Wood Charles E. Allen ef Charles Bernard James A. Kelly ele James Tyree @harles Hicks ~ ol Executive Committee, 42 Thomas G. Hammond, Chair. Samuel Bowen x David Wilson Edward Frisby , Charles G. Thomas Frank Peterson % Harry Jones Butler Boyd Boson berber ha aheabeafanhebecbenhentestechantanentnsbentantntistie SealneSaa leche 4 ' & blished wht ives eTHE ONLY BOOK sets rus Sn for the important part they have taken in building up and maintaining the honor of this Great American Republic. a i & of |= \- the ; A handsome new book of over 700 large pages, profusely illustrated with beautiful pictures; comprising a complete and authentic history of the Colored Race in America tis from the first landing of slaves at q i Lea naan Jamestown, Va., in the year 1620 a Se to the present time. 2 Sas It gives @ full account of their 5 [Tic sellant deeds in all the wars of the Bg iin United States, eet the Great oa bs Witin| Civil War of 1861-65, and the Span- esa py ae | Sy vag) ish-American War of 1898. e ae, i f Ihe) It is filled with thrilling tales of fet AN i Sai) individual beroism in battles on sea rs a (at Z x and land, in patriotic uprisings, and os i i in prison’ pens; tells of all the Col- E OF THE Bai ored heroes trom brave Crispus® en ee Py Attucks to the invincible Colored ' wi@ii'| Regulars of the U. S. Army who ed = ieee || stormed San Juan Hill July 8, 1898, bd “8 me saved the Rough Hiders led by . a the gallant Roosevelt, and vir- “ t SMe tually ended the Spanish War. i fl ee t This book will be used as a text- ee ea book of history in every Colored \\ it) «school. [t will be treasureé in Wii) every Colored home—for no other ye , i work in existence gives the Afro- ; American people their proper place ult Sa in the history of our country. os ci ean With every copy of the first edition, TER OALARLORNE | 20% Deine fold, the publishers wil f ot AO AN give ass FERE PREMIUM, 8 ST RR ERR FRA ee A of Mr. James E. Taylor's great ii ; een felting i. _ “ CHARGE OF THE COLORED REGULARS AT SAN JUAN HILL” @ This free picture, in brilliant colors, is 18x24 inches in size, on heayy plate T ready for framing. It sells regularly AT #5.00, BUT WiLL BE GIVFN ' Pri to every buyer of this edition of “G@amp-Fires of the Afro-American.” j STYLES, PRICES AND HOW TO ORDER { “Camp-Fires of the Afro-American,” in cloth binding, $2 00 : handsome emblematic design in colors, (see cut above) over i 7100 pages, with free premium picture. oo... cccccesceeceeeceeseeenenee papa 16 Avery College Trade School. Reopens Monday, Sept. 7. An ideal trade school for young colored women who desire expert mechanical knowledge as a means of increasing their earning capacity. Dressmaking, Millinery, Tailoring, Music and an English course from primary to normal. Boarding, laundry, furnished room, steam heated, electric light, $11 per month covers all expenses. In appointments, cuisine service, and provisions for the comfort of our students, this school is excelled by no institution in America. Catalogue now ready; address all communications to Jos. D. Mahoney, Supt. Allegheny, Pa. Phone East 347. Rooms 5, & 6 WM. L. 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MASONIC SPECIAL R for the m JUNE, JULY A Will This Help You The New Masonic Temple This new and handsome Hall will lights and fans—cool and airy—will a or Societies during the summer month RENT OF HALL: From 8 P Private Parties, Suppers, Wedd cial contracts by applying to— ALFRED H. SONIC HA SPECIAL REDUCTION MASONIC HALL SPECIAL REDUCTION for the months of JUNE, JULY AND AUGUST This Help Your Church or Sect Masonic Temple Hall, 1111 19th St y and handsome Hall with modern improve- ments—cool and airy—will accommodate Churches, bring the summer months at reduced rates. F HALL: From 8 P. M. until 12.30 A. M. Parties, Suppers, Wedding Banquets or Dances by applying to— ALFRED H. T. WALKER JUNE, JULY AND AUGUST. Will This Help Your Church or Society. The 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 Societies during the summer months at reduced rates. RENT OF HALL: From 8 P. M. until 12.30 A. M.—$7.25. Private Parties, Suppers, Wedding Banquets or Dances can make special contracts by applying to— 1111 19th Street, Northwest. Subscribe for cribe for the Am Subscribe for the American SUMMER RESORTS UNCE THAT THE TERRACE, THE HOTEL HENDERSON A strictly up-to-date hotel for the accommodation of first-class colored people. It has all modern improvements; large and airy rooms newly upholstered, renovated and repapered. Its location is the very best in a quiet neighborhood and within sight of the Board Walk and the Ocean. The cuisine is the best—Mr. Henderson being a professional caterer. Rates reasonable. For particulars address. STACEY I. HENDERSON. 120 N. Mississippi Ave., Atlantic City. KEEN COTTAGE For the best accommodations Keen Cottage, 1713 Arctic avenue, Atlantic City, N. J. Will accommodate 60 guests. S. A. Keen, 1713 Arctic avenue, Atlantic City, N. C HALL, REDUCTION months of AND AUGUST. for Church or Society. Hall, 1111 19th Street, N. W. with modern improvements, electric accommodate Churches, Sabbath Schools at reduced rates. M. until 12.30 A. M.—$7.25. ing Banquets or Dances can make spe T. WALKER, the American ```markdown ``` 2 The Successful Career of Mr. John W. Langley—Through Sheer Force of Integrity, Perseverence and Brain Power He has won an Enviable Position. Not many years ago there came to the city of Washington to take a clerkship in one of the Bureaus of the Interior Department a young man hardly of age but with a most attractive personality. His excellent manners, his consideration for therights of others, his solid information and his direct and ingenuous methods soon made a most favorable impression upon all with whom he was brought into contact, and especially won for him in the estimation of his superior officers a most flattering reputation for reliability and capacity. It was not long before some of the most weighty and confidential business of the Bureau was entrusted to his intelligent consideration and he became a marked man, marked for advanced preferment and for great official usefulness. This young man was Mr. John W. Langley, who exhibited in his very lineaments his origin in the mountains of Kentucky. One of the M. B. most interesting facts brought out about him was that not only he but his honored father had had the hardihood and the bravery to be loyal to the Union and true to the principles of the Republican party and to proclaim and defend their convictions in that State where ostracism, both social and business, was the portion of such views. Fortunately his opinions were not anathema in Washington and were no deterrent to his advancement. While other Government employees were content to live the life of daily mediocrity which has meant the death or the decedence of many men of brilliant promise, Mr. Langley was both ambitious and industrious and he set himself to work to master both the law and political science. In both studies he was eminently successful, winning the highest honors. His knowledge of the law made him a still more valuable man and he was called from his duties in the Bureau where employed, to the Interior Department proper, where he again distinguished himself by his legal attainments. In the selection of the force which constituted the Census Bureau charged with the digestion and publication of returns of the census of 1900, Mr. Langley's talents were not overlooked, the Director, Governor Merriam, appointing him to one of the highest offices in his gift, that of appointment clerk. He retained the confidence of Governor Merriam and now holds a position as expert chief of division, created by Congress for his benefit, and the salary of which has lately been increased. THE COLORED AMERICAN During his career Mr. Langley has found time to serve as a member at the Kentucky legislature, where he was leader of his party, and to run once for Congress from the Tenth Kentucky district. He has also been a delegate to two different National Republican Conventions—in 1896 and 1900. In the latter convention he created stirring interest both in himself and his father by presenting to the chairman, Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, a gavel from his father's farm cut from the tree near which Gen. Garfield stood during the battle of Middle Creek, Kentucky. His speech on this occasion is preserved in the proceedings of the Convention and was enthusiastically received both by the Convention and throughout the country. Mr. Langley is still a young man and he will no doubt be heard from in still larger political life when the party makes its call upon him. It is a pleasure to note that in all the responsible positions which Mr. Langley has held he has exhibited marked fairness in the treatment he has personally accorded to all classes of employees. Especially has this been true in his official contact with colored employees of the Census Bureau. The colored people both of that office and of the outside world are fully aware of this fact and they entertain warm appreciation for Mr. Langley. It affords The Colored American much satisfaction to place on record this merited tribute to him and to express its earnest hope for his future prosperity. HE ADVOCATES MORE SCHOOLS And Longer Sessions Each Year—The Forthcoming Report of Tuskegee's Work—The General Outlook. The forthcoming annual report of the work of the Tuskegee Normal and which we have been privileged to see, Principal Booker T. Washington makes the following practical and timely suggestions touching the educational and general welfare of the colored people in the rural districts of our country. Says Mr. Washington: "From the first it has been a part of the Mission of the Tuskegee Institute to try to reach and help the colored people in the country districts. We have sought to do this in two ways, first, by encouraging the students from the rural districts to enter the school and second by emphasizing in the in the school those branches of education that would naturally keep the student at home and in sympathy with agricultural life. In carrying out our purpose, I think we have been reasonably successful, as the number of our graduates or former students now at work in the country districts will testify. There are several influences, however, that are constantly exerting themselves against the Negro growing up on the soil at present. One of these is the lack of public school facilities in the country districts, and the frequent and unwise agitation of the question about dividing the school fund in proportion to the taxes paid by each race. In the cities and larger towns the Negro parent finds a comfortable school house and a school in session eight or nine months, taught by a competent teacher. Moreover, the Negro knows that if perchance he may be deprived of nearly all school facilities in the country, in the city the various missionary agencies will keep a school open for his children eight or nine months. In the country, as a rule, the school house is wretched, the teacher poor and the terms only three to five months. If for no other reason than these financial ones it would pay those who own the land in the South to see to it that a good school is kept open in every country district. A good school in my opinion—would soon add 50 per cent to the price of farming lands, because it would stop, in a large measure, the exodus of colored people to the cities. Another thing which sends a larger number of Negroes to the cities than many realize, is the surety of getting police protection in the city when one is charged with crime. I think I do not overstate the matter when I say that for every lynching or attempt at lynching, that takes place in the country, a score of colored people leave the country for the city. This whole question is one that should receive very serious attention. WILMINGTON NEGROES QUIETED BY SERMON BY BISHOP SALTER. Saloonkeepers Praised for Their Willingness to Close Shops at Request of Local Police—Worst Now Over. WILMINGTON, DEL., June 29.—Special Never since the days of the civil war has such a period of strife and turmoil existed in Wilmington as was realized in the week just passed, and its peaceful termination was a surprise to many. Since the murder of Helen Bishop and the subsequent burning of the Negro, White, Wilmington, has been on the verge of a volcano that threatened to burst forth at any moment, carrying with it death and destruction. Only by the constant efforts of the police and the counsel of cooler heads was a race war averted, and to these facts alone is it due that the loss of life was comparatively small under the strained conditions. That the crisis has passed is acknowledged by all, though minor disturbances may yet occur. The timely arrival of Bishop M. B. Salter, which was unexpecte, he coming solely to visit the Rev. M. T. J. BISHOP J. B. SALTERS, Charleston, S. C. Thornton, Negro minister of Bethel Methodist Episcopal church, had a salutary effect upon the Negroes. He preached moderation and urged that the law be respected. In his remarks to the congregation, which filled the church, the Bishop urged upon his hearers to bear in mind the gravity of the situation, to be cool and cautious in all actions and to avoid all unlawfulness. Many entered the church filled with the spirit of revenge, but this died out as they listened to the words of the bishop. Although there was no authority by which the police commission could require saloonkeepers to close, except in case of absolute mob rule, the proprietors complied willingly, and their action has been commended by all law-abiding citizens.. The utterances of the Rev. Robert A. Ellwood from his pulpit, have caused criticism among ministers of all denominations. In nearly all churches, Sunday, the subject of the tragedy was touched upon by ministers in moderation. The inquest into the death of William Kramer, a Negro who was shot by William Simms, Thursday night, and of Peter Smith, the young Italian, who was shot in the riot, will be held to-night. Miss E. Blanche Gibson, sister of Mrs. L. R. Clarke, and a student of Bennett College, Greensboro, N. C., is in the city. She will leave shortly to spend a few days in Philadelphia and other eastern points the remainder of her vacation. She returns to Bennett College in the fall. HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS HOTEL CLYDE, 475 MISSOURI AVE, N.W. First-Class Accomodations For Ladies and Gentlemen. Hot and Cold Baths. MRS. ALICE E. HALL, Proprietress. THE SOUTHERN HOTEL, Good board steam heat and electric bells. Home comforts, moderate prices. 311 Pa. Av., n. w., Washington, D. O. Fine wines, liquors, cigars and Tobacco. SATTERWHITE & CO., PROPS. The Albany Hotel. Has been enlarged and newly refitted with modern improvements for the accommodation of Guests, so as to furnish first class services with Bar, Dining Room, Private Parlors and first class Sleeping Apartments. Arthur Webster, steward; William Leonard and William Hall, mixologist Henry Johnson, manager and Auto Scott, clerk. CALEB A. SIMMS, Prop. 331 W.37th St. New York The Porters Exchange Hotel BROWN & SMITH, Proprietors, Newly rebuilt and elegantly furnished. Electric lights, bells, steam heat, hot and cold baths. High grade Wines, Liquors and Cigars. The coldest Beer in the city. 103 and 105 Sixth Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. Handsome rooms, $1,00 & up. Phone 1733 Y. A FLOWER BOOK OF REAL FLOWERS. The Yellowstone Park Flower Book, published by the Northern Pacific, is a beautiful creation. It contains eleven specimens of real flowers, in natural colors, from Yellowstone Park, with names and places where found. Also six full page, fine, half-tone illustrations of bears, the grand canon, geysers, hotels, etc., found in the Park, the most wonderful spot on earth, 54 by 62 miles in size, and where President Roosevelt recently spent his vacation. The Flower Book makes a beautiful souvenir. Send Chas. S. Fee, Gen'l Passing'r Agt., Northern Pacific Ry., St. Paul, Minn., fifty cents for a copy. A PERMANENT CURE. To Harris Chemical Co—Gentlemen: I take pleasure in recommending your Tonic (Harris' New-Blood Tonic) after suffering considerably with disordered liver and kidney, and after trying several different remedies without beneficial results. I find that your medicine has benefitted me and made a permanent cure of what I thought an incurable ailment. Yours very sincerely, William F. Smith. 416 6th st. N. W. ```markdown ``` Colored Dentists Meet. Colored Dentists Meet. A Rousing Session in This City.— New Officers Elected. The National Association of Colored Dentists held their third annual meeting at the Freeman's Hospital, in this city, during the past week, the initial season being on Thursday, the 2nd instant. There was present a large representation of these professional ladies and gentlemen from various parts of the country and the proceedings excited warm public and social interest. Meetings were held also on Friday and Saturday and the Association adjourned on the latter day. Probably the most interesting session was that held on Friday, at which papers were road as follows: [Name not visible] DR. A. J. GWATHNEY, President. By Dr. R. G. Baker, of Baltimore, on "Alveola Abcess;" Dr. Allie M. Waring, of Washington, on "Dental Ethics;" Dr. W. S. Loften, of Washington, on "Porcelain Inlays;" Dr. D. A. Ferguson, on "Combination of Amalgam and Cement in Fillings;" and Dr. D. W. Onley, on "Negro Dentists and the National Association of Colored Dentists." The local members of the Association were untiring in their efforts to M. DR. W. S. LOFTEN, Washington, D. C. make the meetings a success and the visiting members expressed warm appreciation of the courtesies extended them. Among the most pleasant of the social functions was a delightful sail down the river on Saturday, the fourth instant, after the conclusion of the days' business. Among the dentists present at the sessions were: Dr. D. A. Ferguson. THE COLORED AMERICAN of Richmond, Va.; R. G. Baker, of Baltimore, Md.; C. C. Fry, of West Chester Pa.; G. M. Gittens, of Kingston, Jamaica; Allie M. Waring, of Washington; U. A. Pethel, of Charlotte, N. C.; L. H. Fenderson, of Baltimore, Md.; D. C. Brown, of Baltimore, Mr.; R. G. Walker, of Kingston, Jamaica; A. J. Gwathney, D. W. Onley, C. A. Gray, C. Summer Wormley, W. S. Naylor, and W. S. Loften, all of Washington. Dr. D. A. Ferguson, of Richmond, Va., the President, presided over the Association during these meetings. At the closing session on Saturday, the following officers were elected: President, Dr. A. J. Gwathney, Washington, D. C.; first vice president, Dr. R. G. Baker, Baltimore, Md.; second vice president, Dr. A. R. Taylor, Pittsburgh, Pa.; secretary, Dr. C. C. Fry, West Chester, Pa.; treasurer, Dr. Allie M. Waring, Washington, D. C. The executive committee consists of the following members: Dr. W. S. Lofton, Dr. C. S. Wormley, Dr. D. W. Onley, of Washington; Dr. M. A. Pethel, Charlotte, N. C., and Dr. D. A. Ferguson, Richmond. Dr. Gwathney, the newly elected President, is a well known resident of this city, where he has been in the active practice of his profession for some years. He is in touch with all the progressive movements of the race, is a member of a number of organizations, among them the True Reformers and the National Benefit Association, of which he has been treasurer for a long period. He stands the front rank of his profession, reaing his position by constant study and observation. At his graduation from the Howard University Dental College in 1890 he stood at the head of his class and for some years he was a member of the Dental Faculty of the University. The other local members are also successful practitioners and some of them have managed to make tidy incomes from their professional work. The work of the association cannot be too highly commended. THREE GENERATIONS AT QBERLIN. Among those graduated from Oberlin College this month is Carroll Napier Langston, of St. Louis. His brother, John Mercer Langston, was graduated from the same college in June, 1901. Prof. Arthur D. Langston, principal of Dumas School of St. Louis, father of these two young men, was graduated from Oberlin in 1877. John M. Langston, formerly a member of Congress, father of Prof. A. D. Langston, was graduated in 1849. Thus three generations of the Langston family have been graduated from Oberlin College, and the record is said to be without precedent in the development of the African race in America. The race, it will be seen, is winning laurels in every field. The Langston family is a type of high purpose and successful endeavor. It is easy to conceive that ere long the colored people of the land will have an aristocracy of intellect and an exclusive order of educated men and women. Forward! GETTING TOGETHER. There are to be two Southern Negro Congresses to meet at the same time, but at different places, one at Memphis, Tenn., and the other at Shreveport, La., and are both to assemble July 7th. Will some one tell us about these two unknown bodies, and what do they represent? There are already two good organizations of National recognition. Why not all the Negroes connect with one of these and make them power for good. There is the National Afro-American League and there is the National Negro Business League, both with leaders with known reputations. Let all others be amenable to one of the two and we will do something for the race. Stop so much orating, resoluting, and "rising to the point" and get down to common sense business, if we would be a progressive race. The Nashville Clarion. DR. CRUM SPEAKS. Editor Colored American:—Dear Sir:—Will you permit me through your columns to deny the false reports sent out of Chicago saying that I justified lynching. I have never condoned lynching in my life. I have condemned them always. I was instrumental, with others, at the St. Louis National Republican Convention, in BROOKLYN DR. W. D. CRUM, Collector of Customs. having a plank inserted in the platform, condemning lynching in the country. I was a member of the committee on resolutions and that was my work. Thanking you in advance, Very respectfully, WM. D. CRUM. Charleston, S. C., July 7, 1903. GAEBRAITH RELIEF CLUB EXCURSION. The Galbraith Relief Club gave an old-time family excursion to Glymont last Tuesday, on the palatial steamer Jane Moseley. The excursion was well attended and a large and happy throng took the first boat for Glymont. It was accompanied by the Monumental Orchestra, which enlivened the occasion during the evening with its enchanting music. There were many interesting features connected with the program of the day, and too much credit cannot be given to Rev. S. L. Corrrothers, the pastor, and Mr. Edward Greenleaf, president of the trustee Board. A large number of distinguished visitors took advantage of this excursion to spend a pleasant day in the woods. Among them were Recorder John C. Dancy, with his wife and son, Mr. Wm. L. Houston with his wife and son, Major Arthur Brooks, of the First Separate Battalion, Editor Cooper, of The Colored American, Lawyer Hughes, Messrs. Harris, Gray and a host of others. The affair was a financial success. TWO GREAT JOURNALISTS. In the journalistic arena we mention T. Thomas Fortune, who no doubt is the best known newspaper man of his race. He has had the distinction of laboring on the editorial staff of some of the best white dallies in this country. His work on the Times Herald, of Chicago, was creditable and gave him national and favorable criticism. Mr. Fortune has been editor of the New York Age, a paper of large and popular circulation for some time. Next to Mr. Fortune in the journalistic field, is Mr. Edward E. Cooper, founder of the Indianapolis Freeman, but now publisher of The Colored American, Washington, D. C. The Colored American is considered, by many, the best colored publication in the United States. His paper is a financial success.—The Baptist Truth, Cairo, Ill. To good tenants with small families, new, up-to-date, 4-rooms and bath flats, on Fifteenth (Columbia) street, near Chapin street N. W.; rent $16.50. Henry P. Slaughter, ex-president of the Pen and Pencil Club, is convalescent. FOR RENT. 3 SALOONS. Chris. Xander's QUALITY HOUSE, 909 7th st. NW. Established 38 years ago. The largest wholesale stock in town of the most exquisite, faultless wines and distillates (in all 307 kinds), at Cris. Xander's modern prices no others can compete quality and purity with any of his goods. His liquors are absolutely free from fusel poison. (No branch houses). Phone 1425. Jas. F. Keenan. ```markdown ``` RECTIFIER AND WHOLESALE LIQUOR DEALER. Elegant Club Whiskey a Specialty Importer of Fine Wines, Brandies, Gins, Ete. 462 Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest. Fritz Reuter's Washington, D. C. Hotel and Restaurant, 451, 453, 455, 457 Pennsylvania Avenue. 202, 208 and 210 4 1-2 St Northwest. W. M. DRURY'S Restaurant, 1100 20th St., Corner L. N. W. MOORE & PRIOLEAU, Sparta, Buffet, and Cafe, 1216 Pa. Ave. Washington, D.C FINE WINES, LIQUORS and CIGARS Hot Free Lunch every Day. Ladies will receive special attention in Dining Room upstairs. J. M. RYAN'S CAFE Pool and Billiard Parlors, 619 B StreetNorthwest. (Op. B. & P. Depot.) A full line of the choicest wines, liquors, and beers. All brands of domestic and imported cigars. J. M. RYAN, Proprietor. C. H. NAUGHTON LIQUORS and SEGARS Fine Harper & W 1926 Fourteenth ```markdown ``` 4 A Mississippi Leader A Mississippi Leader Continued from page 1. up-to-the-very-hour library, and keeps in touch with the great doings of the profession. He is a member of the bar association of Vicksburg, and whenever any concert of action is wanted his name appears among the members of a bar that has boasted its Prentiss, Foote, Guion, Yerger, Marshall and a host of others of note. As an evidence of the esteem in which he is held by the courts and bar, he was appointed by a Democratic judge to be district attorney pro tem to hold a term of court in one of the counties of the district in the absence of the regular prosecuting attorney. He frequently conducts prosecutions alone, and always make a good showing. He makes friends of courts, lawyers and juries and carries his point in cases where he himself is surprised at his own success. He has owned and edited two newspapers. He was the editor of the Spectator, then the county paper, and it was during this time that he had the distinction of attending a banquet of the state press at Natchez, when no less a personage than Jefferson Davis was the guest of honor. His presence at that banquet was widely commented upon by the state press and no word of criticism or unfriendliness appeared anywhere. He is a frequent contributor to local as well as foreign papers, and it is a common thing for him to be called upon by the press of the city to give his views upon public matters. He is a wide reader in other fields than law, acquiring information on many subjects that he claims to find useful in his chosen profession. He has kept in touch with the subjects which delight the scholar. He reads the classic with interest and pleasure. He has made himself familiar enough with German and Spanish to read and speak the former, and read the latter with some facility. He speaks entertainingly on a vast number of subjects, showing wide reading and study. He ranks as one of the orators of this state and section, both on the rostrum and at the bar. He was elected to be president of the Lincoln Savings Bank of Vicksburg, Miss., and under his management the institution has grown beyond the expectations of the most sanguine. He has the confidence and respect of the banking community, and the banks of the city have afforded him every facility in the conduct of the affairs of his bank, and every facility to acquaint himself with the running and inner workings of these important institutions. At the present rate of growth the bank will be employing a number of persons within the next few months. Mr. Mollison will be in attendance at the Business League at Nashville in August, and will probably read a paper or deliver an address on some subject to be assigned him. Mr. Mollison was married to Miss Ida T. Welborne, of Clinton, Miss., who has been a constant source of inspiration and encouragement to him. They have an interesting family of boys and girls who are being prepared for the great battle of life in which their parents play so prominent a part. Mr. Mollison was the supervisor of the Seventh District of Mississippi in the taking of the census of 1900 and har 175 employees of both races under his direction. His work was completed with celerity and accuracy and without friction of any kind. It should also be noted that at the National Republican Convention of 1892 held at Minneapolis Minn. he delivered a most eloquent speech nominating James G. Blaine for the Presidency. Prof. R. T. Coles, principal of the Garrison school, Kansas City, Mo., is ted to arrive in this city to-day v); while here he will be the Maulton Yeager, his sis- 7th street, N. W. THE COLORED AMERICAN. THE AFRO-AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION. The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Afro-American Press Association, was held at Louisville, Ky., on the 29th ultimo, almost coincidently with the gathering of the Afro-American Council. The meeting was poorly attended. No unseemly wrangle appeared to have disturbed the current of the proceedings, and after two sessions the Association adjourned. Cyrus Field Adams, of Chicago, presided and made a short address. Other addresses were made by Albert G. White, of the Kentucky Standard, and Rev. H. J. Johnson, of Christian Recorder. Emmet J. Scott, private secretary of Brooker T. Washington, and editor of the Tuskegee Student, told how to make a Negro newspaper pay. Short M. adresses were made by the Rev. John H. Frank, D. D., editor of the Moderator; M. M. Lewey, editor of the Florida Sentinel, Pensacola, Fla., and William H. Steward, editor of the American Baptist, Louisville. The report of the Executive Committee was read by John Q. Adams, editor of the Appeal, St. Paul, recommending that in the future the association meet in convention biennially, which was approved, and the following officers were elected: Cyrus Field Adams, Chicago, president; William A. Pledger, Atlanta Age, Atlanta, Ga., vice president; William H. Steward, the American Baptist, Louisville, treasurer; Emmet J. Scott, Tuskegee Student, Tuskegee, Ala., secretary. Executive Committee—T. Thomas Fortune, New York Age, New York City, chairman; J. Q. Adams, St. Paul, secretary; M. M. Lewey, Florida Sentinel, Pensacola, Fla.; John R. Clifford, Pioneer Press, Martinsburg, W. Va.; H. T. Johnson, Christian Recorder, Philadelphia; Charles Stewart, Afro-American, Baltimore, Md. 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 personal adorment is taught. Miss Charlotte 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 limited number can be taken. Terms, etc., cheerfully furnished at the school, 1439 W St. N. W. 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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. ```markdown ``` Continued from page 1. Pratt Ennis, one of the teachers of the Eastern school, and Albert S. White. Frederick L. McGhee and W. A. Pledger, of Atlanta, Ga., responded to the addresses. Bishop A. Walters, founder of the Afro-American Council, told how it was organized five years ago, and said that it was the burning of Sam Hose, which led him to appeal to T. T. Fortune, to call the meeting in Rochester. The Council took a recess dinner. The afternoon session opened with a prayer by Rev. John H. Frank, D. D., of the Fifth street Baptist church, which was followed by the report of the Committee on Credentials. SAID CONSTITUTION WAS FIXED. A slight breeze was caused by Frederick L. McGhee, of St. Paul, who claimed that the Constitution had been tampered with, and the election which should be held at once, was fixed for Thursday afternoon. He demand an explanation. J. EDITOR T. THOS. FORTUNE, President of the National Afro-American Council. "The secretary will read the Constitution provision on the question raised." Secretary Cyrus Field Adams read, but the delegate from the far West was not yet satisfied, and he was ruled off the floor by President Fortune, who at once proceeded to read his annual address to the Council, which was the feature of the afternoon. T. Thos. Fortune, in discussing the work of the Council, said, in part: "The report of the financial secretary, Frederick L. McGhee, was read. [Name] MR. WILLIAM H. LEWIS. Several complaints were made on the management of the affairs of the Council by the secretary, which will, perhaps, mean a fight in the Council, today, when it comes to electing officers for the next twelve months. President Fortune announced as the committee to draft resolutions and address to the country, the Rev. I. B. Scott, D. D., of Louisiana; W. H. Steward, Kentucky; Bishop C. H. Phillips, Tennessee; M. M. Lewey, H. T. Johnson, New Jersey; R. H. Jefferson, Maryland; A. D. Griffin, Oregon; Jas. H. Guy, Virginia and W. H. Lewis, Massachusetts. Auditing Committee—Emmett J. Scott, Alabama; Cecelia V. Rodney, Missouri; Dr. E. B. Jefferson, Texas; Mary Detheridge, Kentucky; W. L. Cohen, Louisiana. Fully 1,500 persons attended the meeting of the Council Wednesday night, at Quinn Chapel, during which addresses were made by representative colored men on the race question. T. Thomas Fortune presided. try, and the place we occup were not of our own choice in possession of this the result of an unusually ably strange chain of circ As we now look back over Dr. Booker T. Washington, the apostle of industrial education, was the center of attraction at Macauley's Theater Thursday night and over 3,000 colored and white citizens were present. Mr. Washington made a characteristically sensible speech. Others who spoke were T. T. Fortune, Dr. H. T. Johnson, Bishop Walters and W. H. Lewis, whose appointment as District Attorney of Massachusetts attracted so much attention recently. The full list of officers is as follows: T. Thomas Fortune, New York, president; W. A. Pledger, Georgia, William H. Steward, Kentucky, J. Q. Adams, Minnesota, J. H. Guy, Kansas, G. Hunt, New York, Col. James Lewis, Louisiana, R. J. Griffin, Oregon, Mrs. R. J. Jeffrey, New York, W. H. Lewis, Massachusetts, vice presidents; Cyrus Field Adams, secretary; F. L. McGhee, Minnesota, financial secretary; Mrs. M. MR. EMMETT J. SCOTT, Tuskegee, Ala. Fannie Barrier Williams, Illinois, corresponding secretary; L. G. Jordan, Kentucky, chaplain; John W. Thompson, New York, treasurer; executive board, E. J. Scott, Alabama; Mary Dethridge, Ky.; C. F. Adams, Illinois; A. E. Manning, Indiana; James H.Guy, Kansas; W. H. Steward, Kentucky; W. L. Cohen, Louisiana; W. M. Trotter, Massachusetts; Mary E. McCoy, Michigan; W. T. Francis, Minnesota; Cecil Rodney, Missouri; H. T. Johnson, New Jersey; J. J. Adams, New York; Bishop J. W. Hood, North Carolina; M. C. B. Mason, D. D., Ohio; L. G. Jordan, Pennsylvania; J.C. Napier, Tennessee; Chas. Stewart, Maryland; M.M. Lewey, Florida. ADDRESS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. Believing confidently as we do that a vast majority of the people of this country favor that spirit of freedom and exact justice to all which not only gave birth to the nation, but has led it more than once to espouse the cause of the oppressed, and insist that every man shall be permitted to adjust the standard of his own worth, and thus settle for himself the place he will occupy in life, we, the representatives of 10,000,000 American citizens of African descent, do thus the more readily present our case before the great bar of public opinion, as hereinbefore set forth: First-That we would call attention to the readiness with which we have at all times responded to our country's call, and fought patriotically and bravely to sustain the nation's honor and the country's flag. Second-Our presence in this coun- try, and the place we occupy therein, were not of our own choosing; we came in possession of this heritage as the result of an unusually and remarkably strange chain of circumstances. As we now look back over the past, it A. appears that our interests were guided by a divine hand, and that the outcome is the culmination of the divine purpose. This being true, our future is secure, and this country will in the years to come, as in the years that are past, profit by our presence. We recognize with pleasure the friendly relation that has all along existed between the best people of the white race and our own, and we sincerely desire that nothing may be permitted to intervene to mar this relation. Still we are confident that no one who notes carefully the signs of the times can fail to discover that there are influences at work in nearly every part of the land to accomplish this very end. Who can fail to see that just at this time, and more so than for a number of years past, the Negro is being held up to public gaze as the most objectionable and undesirable citizen that treads American soil? The ignorant, vicious criminal classes are pointed to as the types and products of the race, rather than those who are the output of the Negro's best endeavors for race development and uplift. We declare this standard of measurement to be un fair to any people, and believe that fair-minded citizens of the entire country will agree with us in this view. These do not indicate our capacity, either for present or future citizenship. It B. MR. JOHN W. THOMPSON, Treasurer, Rochester, N. Y. would be as fair to judge the white race of this country by those of their number who have a ssassinated Presidents or been guilty of treason or have betrayed and murdered innocent women. Judge us as you judge the mechanic; judge us as you judge the scholar; judge us as you judge yourselves, not by the worst, but by the GAL.19 best products time and opportunity have enabled us to send forth to take their place among their fellows. It is manifestly unjust to seek to impress the country that because the Negro was once a slave he is not and never 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 requires as much earnest progressive study as successful work in any profession. 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Address all communications to E. W. Dale. Cape May City, N. J. BOARDING can be a man; because there are Negroes who commit crimes, therefore, the Negro is a criminal race. As to mob violence it is gratifying to note that for the past year or two the number of victims show a decided decrease, and while all these were not members of our race the vast majority were. But notwithstanding this fact, we should not feel called upon to discuss the matter at all at this time were it not that though the number of victims is decreasing the variety of provocations which lead up to this act of violence is growing more and more numerous. It is not an unusual thing to read these days of Negroes being lynched for impudence, refusing to obey, striking a white man, etc. Now, we submit that lynching for any cause is destructive of law., is demoralizing. But to subject persons accused of or even guilty of such trivial offenses as we have indicated to unlawful punishment and death is to make the Negro the marked man of the nation; for him to suffer violence for such causes will eventually involve many of our best people. Even as it is in some sections of the country it means death for a Negro to attempt to protect the females of his family. We ask in all sincerity, is this American? Is it right? Such conditions indicate clearly a tendency to anarchy, and anarchy for the Negro will terminate for anarchy for all men. Law sustains our splendid civilization, and the absence of it means its destruction. Lawlessness begets its kind and its increase can bring no good to any one. But again, the number of those of our race who are now accused of the nameless crime against women is so small as compared with the whole number lynched that it is scarcely nec. Continued on page 9. GOTHAM NOTES COLORED AMERICAN DIONYSIUS III LOUISVILLE, Ky., Special.—The Nagro Suffrage Association, an outgrowth of the agitation begun some months ago by Counsellor James H. Hayes, of Richmond, Va., to oppose by legal means and by appeal to the manhood of the disfranchised Negroes of Virginia, the iniquitious disfranchisement laws of the State of Virginia, has crystalized in to a formidable organization, with which Congressmen in the doubtful States of the North and New England, will have to reckon in the coming elections. And they may as well be advised now that they will be expected to do their whole duty toward keeping the jewel of liberty,—the dearest right of a free man, in the diadem of the nation, by standing by the Constitutional amendments, which secure to the Negroes of America the blessings of freedom and of citizenship of both of which they are now denied in several States of the South, by the arbitray action of Southern legislatures,—the agitation of Southern newspapers politicians, and orators, and the sympathy and encouragement of Northern editors, who seem to have forgotten or to be indifferent to the fact that the Negroes of America have contributed as much to the growth and greatness of the Republic in proportion to their numbers, as any other race, and that the nation cannot much longer evade or avoid its plain duty to one of the most loyal and faithful elements in the body politic. The question of the recognition of the Negro as a man, from the Rocky mountains to the gulf of Mexico, reduces itself to this plain proposition, "Is he a citizen of the United States? The question can only be answered effectively and satisfactorily by the Congress, which through its representatives—more than thirty years ago—voluntarily conferred upon him the right of citizenship. The statesmanship of that period saw with clear vision the duty of the nation to a race, which in the most patracidal war ever waged on this continent, became the bulwark of the nation and saved it from dishonor and defeat. The student of history is not ignorant of the fact that to the cheerful response of 200,000 Negro soldiers and sailors, to Lincoln's call for troops to put down the rebellion, is largely due the successful outcome of that war, the crowning battle of which was fought on the bloody field of Gettysburg. The faith of the nation in the success of the Federal army in that great struggle for supremacy was waning and when the black legions poured into the field by thousands to defend the flag and to help save the nation it changed the current of public thought and strengthened the faith of the indomitable and unconquerable Yankee in the ability of the Federal troops to conquer the adversary. Without the gallant black re-inforcement, the battle of Gettysburg would not now be the proudest boast of the veterans, who on that bloody field of death and carnage, faced the leaden hail of hell and saved the day for the nation whose fate hung in the balance. The Negro troops were elsewhere standing guard and defending with their lives the liberties and rights of the people. The pride of the American armies were contesting nobly and THE COLORED AMERICAN. bravely every inch of ground at Gettysburg and there rebaptized the flag and Constitution in the richest and reddest blood of the nation. The North triumphed, gloriously triumphed, and after the victory the men whose prayers and hopes were on the side of universal liberty, who had looked through the dim vista of the smoke of battle and seen with clear vision the terrible consequences of the war, then waging, in which it was attempted to exclude the Negro, hailed with joy Lincolnns proclamation, calling for 200,000 volunteers to put down the rebellion and when that call was answered their fears gave place to the faith which the courage and heroism of the Negro has always inspired in the white man and they knew then, as they know now, that the Negroes would fight like demons to save this nation from the enemies who sought its ruin. Everybody knows the story, so why repeat it.—The nation was saved, the flag floats proudly over every American citizen. But it doe not protect the black men whose forefathers helped to place it upon the citadel of liberty and keep it here. The sons of white men now seek to rob the sons of black men, whose fathers fought for universal liberty, the boon of freedom and citizenship. They can never do this—without a revolution without anarchy and bloodshed and of these there is now no danger. There are other and better ways by which the Negro can secure his right of citizenship and the protection of that right. The ballot is a more potent force than the sword or the bullet. The law making branch of the government under which we live, gave us citizenship and that branch must protect us in the enjoyment of the right of citizenshihp. Negro voters in the States must organize for their salvation from the course of disfranchisement and they must prepare to hold to a strict accountability at the polls every Congressman, who is opposed to universal suffrage, or who is in sympathy with the infamous scheme to denude the Negroes of the South of political rights. The liberty of a race is of more importance than the election to office of any man or set of men, who would use their power and influence and votes to aid another set of men to rob black men of political liberty and freedom. The National Negro Suffrage Convention called to meet at Louisville, Ky., July 1st, is a strong organization. The delegates, 38 in number, representing three States, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, represented constituencies which gentlemen aspiring to seats in Congress will have to consult, touching their wishes in ceratin matters of legislation and of paramount importance to them. The Convention for the sake of harmony, and that good fellowship which ought to attain among all Negroes who are struggling to life up the race and for the further reason that the Afro-American Council then in session is also engaged in an effort to make disfranchisement unpopular, after several conferences with men in authority in both organizations, decided to merge with the Afro-American Council and make common cause against the damnable suffrage legislation of the South. This was the wisest thing done at Louisville, the best thing ever done by the Council. Our leader, Mr. Jas. H. Hayes, was made National organizer as the result of the agreement entered into between the representatives of the National Suffrage Association and the Council. Mr. Hayes is an organizer and an orator and he will carry out to the letter his part of the agreement so happily and harmoniously entered into and ratified by the two organizations. The Council will, of course, stand by its agreements and pledges to help the National organizer to accomplish the work which he will soon take up and prosecute to a finish. In this he will have the hearty co-operation of the legions of men and women in his own organization in Virginia, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. He is a man with a purpose and a system, with ability and courage and with a hold upon the affections of the Negroes in the States where he is best known, which is marked by its earnest ness and strength. In electing him National organizer, the Council has builded better than it knew. Hayes is a strong man, a useful man, a resourceful man, and he is loyal to the interests of the Negroes, not only of his own State, but of every State where they are oppressed. The marriage of these two organizations will result beneficially to all and it is sincerely to be hoped that the sticklers and kickers and fault finders will make way for the MAN of action, who has been selected to recruit the mass of the race into an effective and potent organization which shall represent the Negroes highest ideals and conceptions of good and useful citizenship. The Louisville Convention was a success; its deliberations have already been published and I will not now refer to its work—or to its personnel. BRUCE GRIT. OUR TRAVELER. We present herewith a picture of Mr. E. W. Grubbs, of Texas, the traveling representative of The Colored American. Mr. Grubbs in adition to visiting all of the principal towns in Texas, will visit many of the larger ones in the States of Arkansas and Tennessee. He is a teacher by profession, but has J. always had a penchant for newspaper work. He is meeting with flattering success at all of the towns he is visiting, and the management of The Colored American hopes that not only the friends of the paper, but that the public generally will give him a cordial reception. He has full power and authority to represent The Colored American in any capacity. 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. 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. JOHN C. KEELAN, 245 Elm street N. W. GOOD HOMES FOR LITTLE MONEY. The low round-trip homeseekers rates in the northwest, via the Northern Pacific Railway, have attracted many thousands. These rates will be continued, on thefirst and third Tuesdays of July, August and September, so that other thousands may yet take advantage of them and enjoy a trip through the Northwest. The Northern Pacific runs through the heart of this region and reaches nearly every important city and town, and almost every valley of consequence in that territory. 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The Amphions go on time; so be at the wharf before 6 o'clock, Saturday evening, July 18. Misses Ida and Hattie Gibbs, left for Boston, last Sunday, to spend ten days visiting friends and sightseeing. W. T. Menard, he Washington correspondent of the New York Age, is enjoying hes annual vacation. Very few Fourth of July casualties occurred among our colored population. Miss Maud E. Young, of Raleigh, N. C., is the guest of Mrs. J. C. Dancy on L street for a few days. Miss Lillian G. Dancy is in New York, the guest of Mrs. Dr. E. P. Roberts on W. Fifty-third street. Misses Elfrida and Estelle Kennedy, of Madison avenue, will spend the summer at Hampton. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Maloy of 463 Missouri avenue, July 3d last, and two fonder parents cannot be found in the city. Mr. C. H. Beason is doing a thriving business as book and job printer at 2462 P street, N. W., where he will be pleased to see his many friends. The Amphions! The Amphions! The Amphions! Saturday, July 18th, 6 o'clock p. m. Monumental Orchestra! Notley Hall! 25 cents. Take a trip with the Amphions, 20 miles down the Potomac River, Saturday, July 18th, at 6 o'clock p. m. Just the thing. The outing of he Amphions will be the mid-Summer Social event. We can always bespeak the character of their attendance. Saturday evening, July 18th, 6 o'clock with the Amphions. Twenty miles down the river and return. A delightful trip. 25 cents. Miss Daisy Pierce, of 664 Acker street N. E., will leave for Atlanta, Ga., Augusta, Talledega, Ala., and other points south next Monday. The many friends of Joseph C. Bush, the well known proprietor of the Mount Vernon Hotel Barber shop, regret to learn of his death by drowning last Sunday, at Bay Ridge, Md. Mr. John T. Taylor, one of the officials of the Richmond Beneficial Insurance Co., was in town recently on business. He was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Fred D. Henry, of Elm street. The colored druggists of Richmond have organized. What is the matter with the nine or ten colored druggists in this city doing likewise. Don't all speak at once. Mr. J. F. Jackson, one of the mounted police of the 8th precinct, has been assigned as bicycle policeman doing service on the river front. He is spoken of as one of the most efficient officers. Mr. H. T. Morris, late of the Hotel Brunswick, left last Wednesday for Rockbridge, Alum Springs, Va., where he will take charge of the leading hotel during the summer. He took five men with him. Bishop J. B. Salters, of Charleston, S. C., accompanied by his secretary, were visitors in this city this week, and were guests at the financial headquarters. They paid our sanctum a pleasant visit. Miss Annette Elaine Church, daughter of Hon. R. R. Church, of Memphis, Tenn., returned to her home last Wednesday, after a pleasant and enjoyable visit to her sister, Mrs Mary Church Terrell; of 326 T street, N. W. A severe loss has come to Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cunningham, of 26 Defrees street N. W., in the loss of their twin babies. One of them died the 27th of June and just one week later, July 4, the other one died. They were bright, healthy little children, but succumbed to the ravages of the whooping cough. Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham have the sympathy of their friends. ORANGE BLOSSOMS. The marriage of Miss Letitia Ferguson and Mr. John Wright took place Wednesday evennig, July 1st, at 8 o'clock, at the bride's residence, 1134 Twenty-second street N. W., in the presence of a large company of invited guests. The bridal party entered the parlors to the strains of Mendelsohn's Wedding March, played by Miss Lillian Dancy, who also rendered very effectively "The Flower Song" during the evening. The ceremony was performed by Rev. W. J. Howard, pastor of the Second Baptist Church. Miss Elizabeth Yates, the bridesmaid, wore a beautiful gown of French muslin, trimmed with Mexican drawn work and carried a boquet of pink roses and sweet peas. Mr. M. Harris was the groom's best man. The bride was becomingly robed in white Aeolian silk trimmed in pearl passamenterie and fine lace. Her veil of tulle was caught here and there with white sweet peas and she carried a boquet of bride's roses. The happy couple were the recipients of many elegant presents, notably a silver set from the office of the Recorder of Deeds, where the bride was employed as a clerk. Mr. and Mrs. Wright left at midnight for New York, to be gone two weeks, after which they will take up their residence at 1134 Twenty-second street. THE WILMINGTON HORROR That the terrible crime which seems to exist only in this the "Land of the free and the home of he brave'(?) has at last reached the crisis, cannot be disputed. It has been customary, heretofore, when our gaze was confronted with the heading "Negro burned at the stake" to look for the name of some southern city or town, but no more can the North point the finger of shame at her southern sister—no, it has been demonstrated to the satisfaction of all minds that the lynch law pervades every section, or very nearly so, of this country. No man, be he black or white, should suffer the barbarous death penalty of the stake and torch. While in favor of the death penalty for this offense when there is absolutely no doubt as to guilt, I as a colored man protest vehemently against this outrage and join all good members of my race in the hope that there may be enacted a satute which will make the practice of lynching so disastrous to the county in which it is perpetrated, that this offense will be wiped from the annals of the United States history, of which she should be heartily ashamed. GEORGE LAWRENCE, 2007 11th st. N. W. Washington, D. C. Dr. S. A. 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One of his most interesting letters is written on the 29th ultimo, from Hampton, Va., and he presents the views on this great question of Dr. H. B. Frizzell, now and for many years at the head of the great Hampton Institute. Dr. Frizzell, speaking with the knowledge acquired by a round dozen years' contact with the race at that institution, disposes effectually of the false assumption of our enemies that social equality is our chief aim, that higher education makes us more insistent for it and unhappy in its denial. The learned doctor has gone still more deeply into the whole question. He points out that the claim of Negro mental inferiority is untrue and absurd, and that we are fully responding to the expectations of our friends. His testimony is of great value to us. We know that the bugbear of social equality has always been unreal, that the greater our education and the broader our cultivation the higher the development of our self-respect and the more insistent our desire for contact with people of our own race. The words of this eminent scholar and educator springing from a practical experience with our youth in the formative period of their lives must have their effect among fair-minded people. Dr. Frizzell is very frank on another THE COLORED AMERICAN. question. He defends the methods of Tuskegee, even to its employment of colored teachers exclusively, while he contends that Hampton is also right in providing white instructors, that there may be a constant stream of the best white culture of the land to serve as an object lesson to those of our people whom Hampton rescues from our "submerged tenth." This argument is, of course, unanswerable and has our unqualified support, for the graduates with the results of this contact and their wholesome education are fully prepared to take up the work of teaching at Tuskegee or any other educational institution and serve themselves as object lessons to their pupils. The Southern Workman for July has reached this office. It is an unusually interesting unmber. In addition to well-written and entertaining accounts of life at Hampton Institute, of which it is the official mouthpiece, it contains a scholarly resume of the life and place in literature of Alexander Dumas, the elder, written by Prof. Scarborough, of Wilberforce University, an original poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar, quaintly called "Wadin' in de Creek," which is both beautiful and redolent of forest and stream and interesting notes of travel in parts of the Philippines and among domestic Indian schools. The magazine is easily maintaining its literary excellence. A METHODIST UNION. The approaching John Wesley bi-centennial celebration, in which we are glad to see that the different branches of Methodism among our race have been cordially invited to participate, renews attention to the virility of the denomination and its high instrumentality in the development and civilization of our people. In such a celebration the whites could not afford to ignor such a potent factor in the christianization of the world and the fact must suggest many fruitful thoughts to us. Other forms of worship have their votaries and their measures of utility and success, but the Methodist church is incomparable. We have seen it led by foolish and unlettered, if God fearing, ministers, probably all sufficient then for the capacity or receptivity of its laity, and as our people gradually rose in the scale of intelligence and education with their enlightened demand for superior teachers and leaders, we have seen these ministers rise nobly to the occasion until in vigor, intellect, aggressiveness, power and influence, they stand usurpassed while their christain character and the humanity taught them by the example of the great Master have not been violated. The whole Methodist connection and especially the A. M| E. church, is the race's great achievement. The latter is undoubtedly the most powerful and far reaching organization dominated by our people. We yield to it the tribute it deserves and yet we cannot forgo the thought that if such wonderful success has attended the church divided as it is into so many Communions, the seminal differences between which no outsider presumes to comprehend, what illimitable possibilities exist both at home and abroad for a united church. The A. M. E. Zion church and the C. M. E. church have been indulging in a prolonged courtship and the well wishers of both are predicting and hoping for a happy consummation in 1904. Why should not the principle have a more extensive application? DENTISTS IN OUR MIDST. Elsewhere we publish an account of the National Association of Colored Dentists and it affords us pleasure to do so. The principle involved in this organization is correct. Aside from the undeniable benefit which each individual member has derived from this contract with kindred minds, the Association is a conspicuous object lesson to the country of the solid progress the race is making on all the higher lines of endeavor. Their example might well be imitated by our other professional men and women. The colored lawyers, physician's, musicians and our tradesmen, also, should each organize for mutual help and protection, for the elevation of the ethics of their respective callings and for the maintenance of high standards of professional conduct. To be admitted to a society officered and principally composed of whites may be flattering to individual pride, but it can hardly offer an opportunity to show that our own professional people have risen beyond a respectable mediocrity. Then, too, commendation must not be withheld from Howard University, for the wonderful impetus it has given and continues to give to higher education and especially for the thoroughness it gives to is students while equipping them for the duties of their chosen professions. Nowhere is this more plainly to be seen than in its Dental graduates, all of whom have their distinctive, mark, whether in Washington, or elsewhere. Shall reduction in Southern Congressional representation be advocated. We think not. It could only be accomplished by Republican votes and the success of such a measure would be practically an approval by the Republican party of the iniquity of disfranchisement. Let us fight the Southern constitutions. We believe they will be distroyed as was Carthage of old, and then our destiny will take on new heart and new impulse. Can any explain the reign of terror throughout this country this summer? Is it the hot weather? No section of the land is free from it. Is the Negro safe in any place? Lynchings of Negroes are not the result of crimes against white womanhood only. Every species of crime is visited with this appalling punishment and often a mere reputation for worthlessness, without the commission of a single overt act is a Negro's death warrant. The national government confesses it powerless and State and county authorities are unequal to the enforcement of law and order. We shudder to think of this aftermath. Lynching clearly does not prevent crime. Does it not rather develope a spirit of revenge which serves to increase it? JUDGE JONES OF ALABAMA The attitude of Hon. Thomas G. Jones, U. S. Judge for Alabama, touching that blot on Southern civilization the peonage system, is admirable. It demonstrates anew the wisdom of Dr. Washington upon whose recommendation he is said to have been selected for the office and the sound sense of the President in making the recommendation effective. Judge Jones' active condemnation of the system is all the more remarkable when it is remembered that he is a Southern born white man, allied to all their traditions. He and John J. Caspers, of South Carolina, and a few other brave Southern white men, from whose ranks Judge Emory Speer, of Georgia, must not be excluded, belong to the advance guard of the forces from whose conscience and influences we may expect that just consideration of the rights of our people for which we have been clamoring. The reports of the proceedings of the Afro-American Council, show that James A. Hayes, of Richmond, Va., has been appointed their General organizer for the purposes the Council has at heart. We doubt the wisdom of his selection. The best thought of our people is that our rights must be secured through peaceful and lawful methods and Mr. Hayes has made a most unenviable reputation as an illbalanced agitator. He cannot be an available factor in the great work of the Council. Rev. Monroe W. Thornton, the pastor of the First A. M. E. Church, Wilmington, Del., preached a most sensational sermon on Sunday, the 28th ultimo, on the subject of the lynching of the colored man White. Conservative men deprecate such lan- guage as he used. If, on the following morning, or the same night, some overwraught Negroes should have attacked innocent white men in Wilmington, he would have been promptly held responsible for their violence and probably have suffered in life or limb, for ably temerity. In all events he will be pilloried in company with that other notoriety seeker, Rev. Mr. Ellwood, a white preacher of the same city, whose intemperate language precipitated the riot which led to White's death. If we protest against violence in others, let us not counsel it among ourselves. The personal conduct and deportment of colored people have much to do with the good or bad sentiment they make in the community in which they live. Rev. James M. Townsend, pastor of the Bethel A. M. E. Church, the largest church of that denomination in Indiana very wisely says that unless the Negroes of Indianapolis mend their ways there will not only be bungaloes and riots but there will be jim crow street cars in Indianapolis within the next ten or fifteen years. The fight of the pot-metal, patent back Negro newspaper on Booker T. Washington does not even possess the bay of the sounding brass and tinkling cymbals. At a Fourth of July celebration in this city, in the course of a speech, in harmony with the history of the day, the Secretary of the Navy, Hon. Wm. H. Moody, used these eloquent words: "Mob violence puts every man's rights to a doubtful determination of men inflamed by a passionate resentment and maddened by thirst for revenge, renders our voice feeble when raised against oppression elsewhere and displays a barbarity which shames the nation in the face of the world. Let this people whose government has been called the government of laws and not of men fix upon those who hold themselves above the law and wiser than the law a seal of their condemnation." That hits the nail squarely on the head and the language is doubly significant as coming from a member of the Cabinet, supposed to represent the views of the President. What will the harvest be? We spell "Negro" with a capital "N" because the term refers to a distinct race, or class of people. That we are not operating a government is not material.—The Jews were in captivity a number of times and for long periods, but who has ever heard them described with a lower case "j?" In the last issue of The Conservator, Mrs. Ida Wells-Barnet seems to go into a double case of spasms by reason of the action of the recent Afro-American Council. There is one consolation, however, regarding Mr. and Mrs. Barnet's cases of extreme nervousness and that is, usually, just before the opening of each national political campaign they sober down and become very gentle and conservative, with the end in view of Mr. Barnet holding down his usual position. We very much fear that in this case, however, they have waited too long for the sobering process. This editorial is not meant, however, to suggest another sale of the Conservator. In connection with the above statements, we note that Mrs. Barnet, in the same issue of the Conservator, takes occasion to denounce Dr. Crum, in the bitterest terms, because she has heard that he has done or said something of which she does not approve. If there is one Negro who, on account of the united and persistent opposition of the white press, has suffered innocently for his race, this one is Dr. Crum; and the fact that she is willing to assail him at this time, shows how unreasonable and impractical she is, and how impossible it is to satisfy her. Afro-American Council Continued from page 5. essary to discuss this as a distinct crime. Yet we desire to say that we make no plea for any man who may be proven to be guilty of this crime our plea is for law and for the protection of the innocent. It cannot be denied that again and again it has come out that innocent men have been put to death by impassioned mobs. If such persons had opportunity they could, no doubt, prove their innocence, butthis is denied them. Does it weaken our case to plead on behalf of such for a stay of execution? Whatever the crime, the accused is in your hands and must be tried by your law, and surely he could not be more completely at your mercy. NEED NOT BE SO HUMBLE. We are not unmindful of the fact that fault is found with the Negro, the educated Negro, because he is not as humble and self-forgetful in all things as were his fathers or what is called "the old Negro." This we admit, and yet we feel it unfair to expect it of us; we were born under different circumstances from those under which our fathers were born, and breathe an entirely different atmosphere. Nevertheless, we allow no man to be more polite, more considerate of the rights of others than we. We make this a leading principle of our daily life and teach it to our children as well. It is now clearly evident that the purpose of those who first started in ostensibly to disfranchise the ignorant Negro has been broadened and strengthened. Their purpose now includes almost all Negores. In certain of the States this result has already been achieved, and thousands of qualified men are denied positively and absolutely the right to vote. In such States taxation without representation prevails as truly as ever it did when England held control over the colonies. As to this matter, we cannot afford it, and do not wish to be misunderstood. We make no objection to the disfranchisement of the ignorant Negroes, provided proper provision be made for their education and provided also the same class of the other races are similarly dealt with. Our contention is not for special but equal privileges. We have no desire to dominate, but we believe the ballot a protection to the citizen. Let those who question this note the result in those States where the Negro has no influence in the selection of the officials of his local community study the effect on the assessment rolls and the public schools! in the local courts and the press of the community. Under such circumstances the disfranchised citizen is at the mercy of a class of officials who themselves do not always represent the best thought and blood of the community. Such a condition of affairs has given birth to the unjust legislation now so common in the South. To such unjust discriminations we cannot be expected to submit without a struggle, and in our effort to secure and enjoy our rights as American citizens we invoke the sympathy and assistance of all good people. IN HANDS OF JUSTICE LOVING PEOPLE. But those who are in the lead in the disfranchisement of the Negro do not stop here. Their plan, now so distinctly seen that he who runs may read, is to decitizenize him entirely by the repeal of the war amendments to the United States Constitution. The logic of their argument seems to be that the better qualified the black man is, the less he is prepared for citizenship. That is to say, since he now owns about $500,000,000 worth of property and every other man of the race can read and write, he should be deprived of citizenship. However, we are willing to leave our interests on this line in the hands of the justice loving people of this country. We have reason to fear there is some danger from this source. Nevertheless this will serve to place the friends of the race on their guard and to remind them that "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." Finally we exhort our people to faithfulnesss and greater diligence along all lines. Let them cultivate the THE COLORED AMERICAN. virtues while they frown down and discourage recklessness and criminality among all with whom they come in contact. The crusade for education, both higher and industrial, should be religiously continued, while there should not be the least relaxation of their efforts to accumulate property, stimulate greater activity on commercial lines and cultivate the most friendly relations with the best people of all races by whose side their lot in life may be cast. But in this final word we would also exhort them to be a firmer reliance upon God and a determination always to seek His guidance and follow His leading. The assurances of His word as well as what He has done for them in the past ought to convince them that they can hope to secure no good except from His hand, to achieve no victory but by His strong right arm. J. C. Napier, of Nashville, in speaking on the address, said that the thing most needed in this country was for the white people and colored people to become friendly. "You cannot make GAL. 20. gkqj people do what they have made up their minds not to do. I would rather have the good will and friendship of my neighbors when absent from home to protect my family than a whole army a thousand miles distant to fight for them. Shotgun advice is not the thing needed. I admire the gospel of peace, and that is what is going to settle these great questions." The resolutions adopted were as follows: Resolved, That the great evil and outrage of Negro disfranchisement is not without remedy, and as we believe that redress is in the power of Congress, we memorialize the President to recommend that Congress enact such laws as will secure to Afro-American citizens their constitutional rights and protect them in the exercise of the same in all cases where the State is derelict in its duty, touching the same. Resolved, That the sovereignity of the life of the citizen and his enjoyment of liberty and pursuit of happiness are conceded by the Constitution, and as these sacred rights are ignored as the prerogative of certain States may elect, we hereby invoke the President to recommend that Congress pass such laws as will make secure the n and constitutional rights of the citizens of color, along with other American citizens. Resolved, That the lofty and patriotic attitude and expressions of President Roosevelt with reference to the rights,achievevements and loyalty of Afro-Americans deserves our gratitude and indorsement, and we hereby commend the same and assure the President of our unshaken confidence in his principles and policy of an open door to all American citizens. THE AFRO-AMERICAN COUNCIL. The resolutions adopted at Louisville, by the Afro-American Council, are worthy of the respectful consideration of the whole country. They deal in temperate terms with topics that concern the white man quite as much as the black, and the views presented are sound and praiseworthy. It is not too much to say, indeed, that to the extent that they enter into the solution of the problems discussed will those problems be solved to the public advantage. (1) Mob law, directed in so many instances against the Negro, is absolutely impartial in its demoralizing consequences. Respect for order and authority is blunted on every hand. The greater the fury of the mob the greater the injury to the community where that fury is exhibited. To familiarize any people with fiendish forms of punishment and revenge is to do them infinite harm. The mob spirit grows with toleration of it. (2) No race should be judged by its criminal class. The Negro race is too often so judged, and as so judged condemned. For the Negro criminal, not because he is a Negro, but because he is a criminal, punishment is, and should be, certain. But for the Negro who is orderly and industrious and law-abiding, there should be respect and justice before the law. There are many such. They may be found in every southern community and in many northern communities. The number, too, is everywhere increasing. The assertion that the Negro as a rule is going backward is incorrect. Statistics disprove it. He is going forward, and at gratifying speed when his antecedents and opportunities are duly weighed. (3) An ignorant suffrage is a dangerous suffrage. But this is true of the white man as of the black man. There should therefore b no discrimination on that score against the black man. Moreover, the Constitution of the United States forbids such a thing. The criticism of those southern states which have recently adopted new constitutions is that they have sought mainly Democratic majorities and not an educated suffrage. They have left unmolested a large number of ignorant white men, who, indeed, were called in at the polls to help disfranchise ignorant black men. Booker T. Washington attended this council and addressed it in advocacy of his well-known opinions on the subject of the black man's duty and his opportunity. It is to him and such as he that we are probably indebted for the council's wise and conservative deliverance on questions of much difficulty and moment.—Washington Evening Star. TONSORIAL PARLOR. There is a certain charm in having your work done at the B. and P. Tonsorial Shaving Parlors, at the corner of Sixth and Missouri avenue, opposite the Pennsylvania depot. The vicinity is always alive with excitement of an amusing kind, where, while you are being waited on by an excellent workman, you are also fanned cool by the delightful breezes from electric fans. You will find there in attendance, Messrs. Welsh, Harris, Pearson, and Mr. R. A. Nelson, the city's renown tonsorialist. George A. Robinson, Prop. Mr. H. W. Williams, the enterprising restauranteur, at 603 C street, N. W., gave a toothsome clam dinner to Kann's porter's last Saturday evening. The young men enjoyed the refreshments very much. Editor T. Thos. Fortune was a guest at the Southern hotel, a few days this week. He was enroute home from the Louisville Convention and stopped over on business at the Treasury Department. Mrs. Felix H. Ryan, and children, who have been sojourning in Florida, returned to the city last Wednesday, where they were joined by the husband and father.. Much excitement was created when it was learned that Mrs. Ryan and her children were in the train which followed the big wreck near Charlottesville, Va. 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. DR. ROBERT MALOY'S HOPE. Dr. Robert Maloy, a well-known South Carolinian and an active Republican party of that state, is now located in the city, where he has been making an effort to secure a position under the Federal Government. He is backed up by leading Republicans of his state and has received many letters from the President in which he states that assurance has been given him of a position at an early date. Dr. Maloy is an enthusiastic Roosevelt man and predicts his reelection and nomination in 1904. 9 FOR FREE ADVICE FOR FREE ADVICE Every Woman Should Write Dr. S. B. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium. MRS. JOSEPH LACELLE. Mrs. Joseph Lacelle, Ottawa, East, Ont. Canada, writes: "Peruna is better by far than any other medicine sold in the Dominion for the troubles peculiar to the sex. I suffered with backache, headache and dragging down pains for over nine months, and nothing relieved me a particle until I took Peruna. A few bottles relieved me of my miserable half-dead, half-alive condition. I am now in good health and have neither ache or pain, nor have I had any for the past year. If every suffering woman would take Peruna they would soon know its value and never be without it."—Mrs. Joseph Lacelle. Free Home Advice. In view of the great multitude of women suffering from some form of female disease and yet unable to find any cure, Dr. Hartman, the renowned specialist on female catarrhal diseases, has announced his willingness to direct the treatment of as many cases as make application to him during the summer months without charge. Those wishing to become patients should address The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio. OUR CAPITAL Washington City, the Capital of the Nation, the Capital of the greatest republic in the world, is noted for many things. General Grant said it was the most beautiful city in the world, and yet Jim Crow railway cars and street railways run into the city within a stone's throw of the Capitol and of the White House. Newspaper syndicate articles say that there is more culture and intelligence among the colored people in Washington than there is in any city in America, and yet the colored people, one hundred thousand strong, have no bank, no clothing stores, are not engaged in business in any way to any perceptible extent. The Washington school system takes high ranks in the galaxy of the schools of the States, and yet the colored girls and boys who graduate are without employment. Great business concerns, the dry goods, the clothing stores, the millinery stores, the shoe stores, the hat stores, and all stores as to that matter will not employ the best looking nor the brightest young man or woman except in the most menial capacity. What are the black people of Washington doing? We would like to know the whereabouts of Rev. I. S. Person, the missionary secretary of the C. M. E. Church. A three months' subscription will be given to the person who will furnish us his address.