The Colored American

The COLORED American Library of Congress A NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER VOL. X, NO. 9 Southern Politics The Moody Waters in South Carolina are Clearing Up. The Controversy Between Captain Capers and Duke Deas Explained—Old Line Republicans Turned Down to Make Places for New Recruits—A History of the Conversion of McLaurin and Capers—Why Chairman Deas is Soon. July 13, 1903. Editor of The Colored American. Sir: I desire to avail myself of the opportunity of replying to the article in you most valuable paper of the 4th instant, headed "South Carolina Politics," in a writeup of one John G. Capers, late of Maryland and your city. If what you said of John G. Capers in said article be true, then you ought to get down upon your knees, apologize to him and seek forgiveness for what you have said of him and the other criminal office holding Democrats that were being foisted upon us in the issues of your paper during December, 1901, and subsequently in January, February and March, 1902. You properly criticised them, and their conduct since justified everything you said at the time stated. I shall take it for granted, then, that this last writeup of John G. Capers is as advertisement, and at advertisement rates. "Oh, consistency, thou art a jewel." Yes, during that time there was nothing too good for you to say of Hon. E. H. Deas in commending his course as wise and great, etc. Well, what has caused this "presto, changs?" As to Caper's Revolutionary ancestors and historical matter, we care nothing and admit all; but in passing I will say that frequently there is a "shabby or black sheep in nearly every flock, and my experience is that scions of great sires are not what their fathers were. Most of them are beats, deadheads, and are all things to all men. Capers now saddles all of these appointments upon McLaurin. That is, you do so for him (Capers) and he makes the fearful admission that they are Democrats. Always heretofore they were denominated Republicans, while we know that they are Democrats. Well, I suppose it is of easy proof that McLaurin and Capers were and are one, and the same person in point of agreement and recommendation of persons for office. Capers did secretary work for McLaurin, even to the extent of writing his newspaper articles. McLaurin championed his cause for District attorney and again for member of the Republican National Committee. Mr. Webster, collector of internal revenue and member of the Republican National Committee, died September 17th or 18th, 1901, about 12 HON. EDMOND H. DEAS. o'clock. The information was wired Mr. Capers, then at Washington, and he and Senator McLaurin started a merry chase running Senator Hanna down to get him to appoint Capers member of the Republican National Committee. They took dinner togetherCOL AM—EIGHT uT-aSNmilebd'nner and the Ohio Senator's Democratic South Carolina Senator and his protege caged the latter's appointment. It was promised, but Capers was required to get a majority of the Republican State executive committee's endorsement. If he could not do that he was to get as many as possible, and if he could not get very many of them to get as many other prominent Republicans as he could; but whether he (Capers) got any or not he would be appointed. Webster wasn't cold in death, but Capers started the wires and also left himself on the next train for South Carolina. He did not get more than three members of the committee, if that much; still he was appointed. This is of easy proof, and the first witness I'd call would be Mr. Capers himself. This occurred, too, while Senator Hanna and other prominent officials were busy attending the funeral ceremonies of his dead friend and President (Wm. McKinley), whose remains were lying in state at the Capitol at Washington, D. C. This was the respect paid the voiceless dead—the head of a great nation and the leader of South Carolina Republican politics. not quite cold in death. McLaurin was running the politics of both parties at that time in South Carolina. Mr. Cooper, we would like for you to sepa rate these Democratic appointments in Continued on page 2. PRICE, FIVE CENTS True Reformers Here The Great Washington Hall Dedicated with Eclat The Great Washington Hall Dedicated with Eclat The True Reformers' New Hall a Large, Commodious Building and a Handsome Structure—White People Had No Hand in Its Erection President Roosevelt's Approval The Banquet and Other Features Notes Washington Hall was dedicated yesterday by the Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers. The building is at Twelfth and U streets northwest, and has been erected as headquarters of the True Reformers of the District of Columbia. The cost was $60,000. Rev. W. L. Taylor, president of the National order, of Richmond, Va., presided at the dedicatory services in the afternoon. Hon. J. C. Dancy, recorder of deeds, and Commissioner H. B. F. Macfarland made addresses and a letter of congratulation was read from President Roosevelt. President Roosevelt was on the programme for an address, but a letter dated June 18, at the White House, informed the committee on arrangements that he could not be present. Another letter from the President was read at the same time when he was to have spoken. It was addressed to Rev. W. L. Taylor, and read: THE PRESIDENT'S LETTER. "My Dear Sir: I wish I could be present at the dedication of the hall. I most earnestly believe in all industrial and beneficial organizations of this character whose purpose is to teach the lessons of thrift, economy, industry, self-dependence, and self-reliance. I am particularly pleased to learn that your institution is entirely out of debt. No one can watch with more zealous interest than I do the progress of the colored race; and with the colored man, as with the white man, the first step must be for him to show his ability to take care of himself and those dependent upon him. With all good wishes, sincerely yours. The dedicatory exercises began at 10:30 o'clock. F. W. Dixon, secretary of the executive committee on dedication, called the assembly to order. A choir rendered "Solomon's Prayer," by Root, and Rev. A. C. Garner invoked divine blessings. Mozart's "Gloria" was sung by the choir, and Mr. E. W. Turner, chairman of the local executive committee, was introduced as master of ceremonies. A number of letters of regret at their inability to attend was read by Miss Minnie A. Lucas. Then, with impressive ceremonies, J. A. Lankford, the architect, surrendered the keys of the building to Rev. W. L. Taylor, president of the District organization. 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Cigars Carl W. Shaffer, Prop. & Druggist. 922 Frederick St. Joseph, Avenue - - Missouri - Two lots on Howard avenue. Splendid ground for building. Apply to Mr. Samuel P. Edmondson, private entrance, National Hstel. THE COLORED AMERICAN UNITED STATES CONSUL J. N. Ruffin Expected to Visit the States Soon—Demoralizing Effects of Church Picnics as Conducted in Memphis. MEMPHIS, TENN., Special.—United States Consul Jno. N. Ruffin is expected to visit this land of his birth before many months. Through his untiring efforts the Paraguarian government will make quite a large exhibit at the St. Louis fair. The next time his many friends see him it will be in the capacity of commissioner at the fair. In case time will permit, Mr. Ruffin will visit his home city as the guest of the Congo League. It is needless to say the reception tendered him will surpass anything ever witnessed in Memphis. This will no doubt be the first reception and banquet under the auspices of the League. Mr. Ruffin was born about thirty miles from Memphis, and if there is any such thing as a self-made man it should certainly be applied to him. He received his early education in Memphis, after which he graduated from Roger Williams University at Nashville, Tenn. Immediately after graduating from college he returned to Memphis and taught in the city schools, reading law under two of the best lawyers in the city until he was sufficiently proficient to practice in any of the courts in Tennessee. Not being satisfied with A. HON. JOHN N. RUFFIN, U. S. Consul, Asuncion, Paraguay. the humble position of teaching school, Mr. Ruffin resigned his position to enter politics. In the beginning of his term as President, President McKinley appointed him consul to Assuncion, Paraguay, S. A. His record in this capacity is known to the reading public. It is enough to say that he has been reappointed by President Roosevelt. This itself is an endorsement of his official career. Mr. Ruffin is in good health and is highly pleased with South America and sends best wishes to all inquiring friends. There was a time when the Negro preachers in Memphis were almost a unit in fighting excursions and picnics. They have succeeded in driving nearly everybody from the business. Having accomplished their desire they almost have the business to themselves. Nearly every day in the week some Negro church is giving a picnic. There would not be so much to criticise if they did not draw such "hoodlum gangs." There is no crap dive in Memphis that could draw any tougher crowds than some of our churches. The Negro says "right is so interwoven with wrong you can't separate the two." "The wheat and tares must grow together." His inference from this misinterpreted passage of Scripture is that the harlots must mingle socially with our best people. Our people have been trained from infancy to worship white faces to such an extent until it shows itself in every walk in life. A Negro woman may throw away her best days with white men; in fact these are the women who cut the biggest swell at a majority of our picnics. But I see a healthy sign. Negro women dressed in the latest style in clothes bought by white men, as well as the Negro men who too often marry such degenerates, will be forced to take a back seat. The young progressive Negro sees the importance of cutting loose from this hoodlum "Jim Crow" Negro. Brother 'Giveadam" Jones, a prominent member of the Congo League, when seen thusly expressed himself: "We shall devote as much time to the elimination of the 'hoodlum' element from our best society as we devote to our commercial development. The old saying that we cannot afford to stop these people from mixing with our families is as ridiculous as it is damaging. We have as representative a people in Memphis as any city in the union. Fine clothes will cut no figure at the Ruffin banquet. At this banquet table will be assembled women and men who are really trying to improve their condition in this country." The many friends of Mr. and Mrs J. R. Wright are congratulating them on the erection of a fine brick $3,500 residence. When completed this will be the prettiest home on the entire street. Mr. Wright is a brother to Mrs. Robert R. Church and is one of the oldest and most popular letter carriers in the city. There is no woman in the city more devoted to her children than Mrs. Wright. She is truly living for her children and is doing all in her power to make them love home. A SUCCESSFUL RALLY. Ebenezer M. E. Church, corner Fourth and D street S. E., Washington, D. C., held a bee-hive rally the first and second Sundays in July. Thus far they have realized $1,413.43. Other remnants will come in next Sunday, when the amount will reach our aim, viz, $1,500. We need only $86.57 to reach the amount. John H. Griffith is pastor. This is his seventh year. 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We do not place the proper estimate upon our women. Education does not seem to increase our race cohesion. We condemn lynchings but not the antecedent crimes. Our best men and women are not known to the whites. We are spies on our own race for the white man's purposes. We do not consider what we are entitled to and demand it. There are too many seventy dollar suits on five dollar men. We have too many parlor organs and too few instructive books. We have not learned that self-denial, like mercy, is twice blessed. We yield control of our sons and daughters at too early an age. The so-called big Negro is not much in supporting race enterprises. Waywardness and wilfulness in our youths are not effectually rebuked. We cannot enforce discipline at home on account of our own conduct. When one man seeks a position all his fellows rush in for the same place. We wait until the high tide is past before we realize its having been present. We are too bent on destroying rather than building up the fortunes of the race. We are too easy victims of insurance grafters and smooth installment solicitors. We are blind to the virtues of the race while we loudly condemn their vices. We have too much police court business and not enough bank transactions. We too frequently use the livery of heaven to advance the purposes of the devil. Every half-educated upstart feels he has a mission to preach or edit a newspaper. Our new patent leathers and silk hats are too often projected before our creditors' eyes. We are always ready to fight one another, but we are all afraid of the common enemy. We claim we have too many churches, newspapers and leaders, and yet we give none the proper support. Many superior cotton pickers and wood choppers are flattered into taking up the legal or medical profession. HIGHLAND BEACH NOTES. This resort has afforded more pleasure this summer than usual. In addition to the regular families, the vicinity guests have assisted in keeping up the rank of gayeties. The families of Messrs. Chas. R. Douglass, Nathaniel Guy, H. C. Tyson, Geo. T. Bowen, R. R. Colbert and Drs. Francis and Curtis are occupying their cottages. Bathing, boating, crabbing, fishing, sailing form the principal sports by day, and dances and parties are the are the enjoyments for the evening. Miss Irene Richardson and Mr. A. H. Cooper are guests at the Douglass cottage. Miss Zita is spending the summer with Misses Guy. Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt and family are guests of Mrs. H. C. Tyson. Mr. Tatem and family of Washington, Mr. Roy and daughter, Mr. E. B. Taylor of Baltimore, and Miss Moore of West Chester, Pa., are at the Bowen cottage. The mother and sister of Dr. Curtis are summering at Camp Menile with Mrs. Curtis. Dr. Will Ridgely and sister, Beatrice, the Misses Bishop and Misses Adams, Ridgley and Butler, of Annapolis, are frequent visitors to the beach. THE! COLORED AMERICAN. Among those who have visited here this summer are Judge and Mrs. Terrell and Miss Church, of Tennessee, Dr. Jas. Warring and family, of Baltimore, Mrs. Dr. Hall and daughter, Willard, Mrs. Tyson, Mrs. Keelan, Rev. Smith and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Lee, Mrs. Cheet and daughter, of Detroit, Mich., Mrs. Mamie Shepard, Lula Love, Lou Smallwood, Kitty Cromwell, MissEmily Jenifer, Julia Allen, Sally Johnson, Clara Green, Rosa Stokes, Lottie Griffin, Alice Wormley, Julia Brooks, Edith Fleetwood, Augusta and Lydia Savoy, Mattie Brown and Messrs. R. T. Douglass, Joseph H. Douglass, Joiner, Walter, Stewart, Green (Dode), Cobb, Bert Brown, D. Wormley, Dr. Ridgeley, and Campbell of Washington. SPARKS FROM THE ANVIL. Mob violence is the parent of anarchy. The women of our race have its future in their keeping. Color prejudice is not important if it does not hinder justice. The confidence of a people is always given to the unselfish leader. To him who sits down and waits, nothing comes but old age or death. The tongue of the black slanderer is a blood relation of the white lyncher. Negroes should remember that out of suffering have emerged the strength of souls. Like the "poor white trash" of the South, our woes are of condition and not of race. The power of an honest dollar is more effective than the eloquence of fifty race agitators. Peonage of the body will be best removed by the education of the Negro's head and hand. Race papers are no longer experiments. They haev demonstrated that they are necessities. Judge Lynch is the highest legal officer in too many States. He is impartial only that he knows no section. Is Kentucky our "enemy's country?" All the National Negro Conferences have invaded her territory this year. THE FOOD PROBLEM. Although the study of domestic economy is more diligently pursued by housekeepers than ever before, there is still a great majority who have not rightly considered the food problem or taken the means to solve it. Many who are adepts in the culinary art do not understand the right proportions of the various kinds of food necessary to the well-being of the human family. Then, on the other hand, many solve the problem to their own satisfaction, and their fads and fancies in regard to food are often the cause of the stomach trouble which they aim to prevent. In an article in the August Delineator Dr. Grace Peckham Murray discusses the food problem, and her observations should bring light to many who do not rightly understand the subject. NEW OIL FIELDS Mr. Joseph F. Amos recently signed a contract with the Maryland Petroleum Company for the lease of his farm in Maryland. This company has bought and leased 5,000 acres in Prince George County in the confident belief taht there is an abundance of oil in the region. Mr. Adams is well known by old Washingtonians as a veteran member of the Metropolitan police force and wears with pride on the sleeve of his uniform the six stripes which indicate thirty years of honorable service. His eldest daughter is Mrs. Robert L. Pendleton; another daughter, Miss Olive Amos, is a well-known hairdresser and manicure; teacher in the public schools of Baltimore. 1 LINCOLN WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE 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 COMMODI OUS STEAMER ON THE RIVER JANE MOSELEY. 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 VERSUS PREJUDICE . PRESIDENT ROOSEvelt . - Lincoln answered you, the people gave you citizenship and I protect your rights . Agents wanted to sell "Roosevelt Open-Door of Hope to The Negro." This fine finish 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. ansportation, Land and Improvement (Incorporated.) OFFICERS : 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, $1,500,000; 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. WORTH OF MUSIC EDEE CLASSES—Persons desiring to than is paid from Fountain Dep Classes of the Mutual Benefit D into Circles, and pay joining fee 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 | Class "E" | 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 | 5 70 | 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 85 | | " 50 to 55 | 4 00 | 70 00 | 45 00 | 6 65 | 1 66 | " 50 to 60 | 6 50 | 350 00 | 175 00 | 11 40 | 2 85 | | " 55 to 60 | 4 25 | 65 00 | 33 00 | 7 60 | 1 90 | | | | | | | | CONSOLIDATED MUSIC CO., Box 439 Williamsbridge, New York, N. Y. Age 14 to 25 $2 50 $200 00 $100 00 $4 " 25 to 30 2 75 200 00 100 00 4 " 30 to 35 3 00 200 00 100 00 4 " 35 to 40 3 25 200 00 100 00 5 " 40 to 45 3 50 140 00 70 00 5 " 45 to 50 3 75 115 00 58 00 6 " 50 to 55 4 00 70 00 45 00 6 " 55 to 60 4 25 65 00 33 00 7 United States Medical Institute CONTRACTED DISEASE VARICOCELE. IMPOTENCY CURES. OVARIAN TROUBLES, BLADDER AND KIDNEY TROUBLES, VITALITY RESTORED. of the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers, capital stock $100,000. The bank commenced business April 3, 1889, and from that time down to the present has steadily increased in volume of business. It now has a paid up capital stock of $100,000. From the humble sum of $1,268.69, deposited the first day the bank opened for business in 1889 the deposits have grown to $350,058, and the volume of business transacted amounts to $6,190,141.47. During the financial panic of 1893, the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain was the only bank in the city of Richmond that did not cease to pay cash on all checks presented, while the majority of other banks were using script and clearing house checks. This bank had its origin in the brain of William W. Browne, an ex-slave of Hersham, Ga. The banking house is located at 604 North Second Street, Richmond, Va., Rev. W. L. Taylor, President; R. T. Hill, Cashier. REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT—The Real Estate Department has charge of all the real property to the amount of $220,221.65, situated in various States, consisting of 13 magnificent buildings used as halls, 8 dwellings, 1 hotel, 5 stores and three 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, N. 1233 Pa. Ave. N. W Colored American and Wood Co. 2250 9th Street N. W REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT of 13 magnificent buildings use farms. It also has under its department is under the managerate and attorney for the association. REFORMERS MERCANTILE ANDDER the laws of the State of VA principal office in the city of RI to conduct stores (wholesale and control hotels, manufacturing association has in operation HI. It is a modern up-to-date struct also electric cars passing the door. Mr. A. W. Holmes is management a system of five stores, loc C.; Manchester, Va; Portsmouth stores, at Richmond, Va., was men, runs three delivery wagons. 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 or 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 62 inches. Fine job work of every class and description is made a specialty at lowest prices. Mr. E. W. Brown is editor and business manager, office 608 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. Correspondence solicited and agents wanted. WINSTON, Mgr. Washington, D. C. Phone 364-m. Wanted Everywhere to Sell the Colored and Get Subscriptions. OLD FOLKS' HOME—In September and establishment of Old Folks' race. Since that time the valuable six miles from Richmond, Va., on the The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad it. Adjoining this farm is Westham summer. It is reached in a few min and the Chesapeake and Ohio Railw co-operation of all charitable friend bequests of every character will be of the Old Folks' Home, offices at 608 For further information address- Rev. W. L. Taylor, G OLD FOLKS' HOME—In September, 1893, Rev. William W. Brown recommended the formation and establishment of Old Folks' Homes for the benefit of old and decrepid members of the race. Since that time the valuable farm known as Westham, consisting of 634¼ acres, located six miles from Richmond, Va., on the historic "James," has been purchased, at a cost of $14,400 The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad runs through the farm, and Westham Station is located on it. Adjoining this farm is Westhampton Park, one of the most pleasant resorts in the South in summer. It is reached in a few minutes from Richmond by the Westhampton Electric Railway and the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. As this home is for the benefit of the whole race, the 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. For further information address— Rev. W. L. Taylor, G. W. M. W. P. Burrell, G. W. S. 601-6-8 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. "Do you know what precautions the proprietor of this hotel has taken against fire?" asked the nervous old lady as the bellboy escorted her to a room on the fifth floor. "Sure I do," replied the knowing youth. "De boss has got de joint insooored fer two times de worth uv it. See?"—Chicago News. Hifkins—"Oatley says that people should eat less meat and more cereal food. Now what do you think of that?" Biffins—"I think that fellow Oatley is engaged in the manufacture of some new-fangled breakfast mystery."—Chicago News. We have purchased from the receiver of a bankrupt music publisher over ONE MILLION sheets of standard Vocal and Instrumental Music which includes such well known composers as Wagner, Beethoven, Verdi, Bist, Mozart, Mozart, Rubinstein, etc. Also popular songs, marches, ballads, coon songs, choruses and sacred music, all of which we offer at the remarkably low price of 5 ceats per copy—formerly sold from 25c. to $1 0c. That you may see for yourself show remar- or instrumental, for only 10c. to cover postage, packing, etc., and Order to-day sending 10c. to CONSOLIDATED MUSIC CLARIMA VIGOR AND VITALTY RESTORER NERVOUS D STRICTURE PROSTATIC CONTRACT VARICOCE IMPOTENCY CONSULTATION FREE. MEDICINES FURNISHED We make no charge for friendly talk or correspondence—everything strictly confidential. We will use you honestly; treat you skillfully, and restore you to health in the shortest space of time, with the least medicine, discomfort, and expense practicable. Hours, 10 a. m. to 12; 2 to 6 p. m., Tue Saturdays, till 8 p. m.; Sundays, 10 a. Hours, 10 a. m. to 12; 2 to 6 p. m., Tuesdays and Saturdays, till 8 p. m.; Sundays, 10 a. m., to 12. 1233 Pa. Ave. N. W We are prepared to supply all customers with coal and wood on short notice at popular prices. We keep a full supply on hand and guarantee to give satisfaction. We solicit your early patronage and only ask for a trial order. Agents Wanted Everywhere to Sell the Colored American and Get Substriptions. 12. THE COLORED AMERICAN. The Grand Fountain of the World Is the leading Colored Fraternal Society January, 1881, by William W. Browne, and laws of the State of Virginia, with headship is both male and female, and consist to 60 years of age. Its membership of 6 classes. It pays sick benefits from $1.50 to from $24.56 to $1000. BENEFITS PAID—Total benefits paid toefits, $714,378.75. SENIOR FOUNTAINS—A Fountain may persons not over 50 years of age paying. The monthly dues are not less than 35 or 50 cents per month in towns and cities, in January and July of each year. Sick week, while death benefits range from $ized in any locality on application to any of his authorized deputies. ROSEBUDS—For the proper training on thrift, industry and brotherly love, there is more than fourteen years of age may for each. This department, like the Senior twenty-five cents per week, and death dues are fifteen cents per month. CLASSES—Persons desiring to leave the than is paid from Fountain Department, Classes of the Mutual Benefit Degree. Into Circles, and pay joining fees and du 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 65 1 66 55 to 60 4 25 65 00 33 00 7 60 1 90 Class "M" Joining tee. Value of Certificate Annual dues Quarterly dues Age 14 to 80 $11 00 $1000 00 $21 90 $5 25 " 30 to 35 12 00 1000 00 22 00 5 50 " 35 to 40 12 00 905 00 23 00 5 75 " 40 to 45 13 00 800 00 24 00 6 00 " 45 to 50 13 00 700 00 25 00 6 25 of the Grand Fountain United Order of The bank commenced business April 3 present has steadily increased in volume stock of $100,000. From the humbli the bank opened for business in 1889 th the volume of business transacted amoical panic of 1893, the Savings Bank o in the city of Richmond that did not ce "And this," said the tourist, lost in wonder, "is a slumbering volcano! How peaceful it is now! Observe those vineyards clinging to its side and this cornfield at its very foot. Yet I fancy I can hear it moaning as if in pain!" "Yes," said the guide. "That's caused by the corn." Whereat the slumbering volcano seemed to groan.—Chicago Tribune. She—"I noticed every time they cheered or yelled, the speaker took a long drink of water." He—"Yes, he was trying to help them drown his voice." Yonkers Statesman. FREE 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 A PROFESSIONAL VICTORY. pr M. F. Wheatland Wins a High Place in Medical Science and Num- bers Among His Paticnts Some of the Wealthiest Cultured People in Newport, R. l1—A Howard Graduate. Fi av eae : 2 oa | ao ea cs se - “4 a & 3 - a ; BE A TOeNneee er. Oog | a. tp oaere arse (ee Pose oe \oageveey Var. ee | Sesame a oe a : ae: Kg. Soe & “Ss h a Oe ai — fe Ze) & Se . oe r <a ‘ - S Ss « he Pe ae ees — Sa DR. M. J. WHEATLAND, Newport, R. I. In an article publised several weeks ago The Colored American called at- tention to the thoroughness of the in- struction imparted at our great How- ard University, and especially in her profesional departments. So that when the distinetion recently achieved by Dr. Marcus F. Wheatland, of New- port, R. lL. came to public notice it excited no surprise to learn that he was a product of Howard University and one of her “messengers of hope.” Dr. Wheatland is not an accident. He is soundly educated, both academ- ically and professionally. Beginning with the high aspiration to be the mas- ter of his profession and no mere di- letamnti, or loiter in the halls of learning, he has foregone the allure- ments of social indulgence and _ politi- cal activity and has devoted his life to keeping abreast with the best thought and the most advanced scientific achievement of the times. His professional career may be said to have begun in 1895, when upon his graduation from Howard he took up the practice of medicine at Newport, R I. His scholarly attainments soon won recognition, and his reputation as a skillful physician already of steady TONSORIAL PARLOR. There is a certain charm in having your work done at the B. and P. Ton- sorial Shaving Parlors, at the corner of Sixth and Missouri avenue, oppo- site the Pennsylvania depot. The vi- cinity 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 attend- ance, Messrs. Welsh, Harris, Pearson, and Mr. R. A. Nelson, the city’s re nown tongorialist. George A. Robin- son, Brop. 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 visit- ing brothers are respectfully requested to call upon Eureka. Grand Master Col. R. D. Goodman, No. 917 4th street northwest. For information about the cratt, please bring financial car@ of your lodge. DR. J. E. WiLLIAMS, Grand Secretary, Ma ; No. 106 F St. N. W. THE COLORED AMERICAN. ‘growth was further enhanced by his thoughtful contributions to leading medical journals on the X-ray and electro therapeutics, of both of which he has made a specialty. His compre- hensive knowledge of his subjects and the broad culture exhibited in their treatment attracted the attention of leading members of the medical pro- fession and achieved for him admis- sion to the Newport Medical Society, the Rhode Island Medical Society, the American Medical Association, the American Electro Therapeutic Associ- ation, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Anthropological Association, of all of which he is an honored and beloved member. His successful treatment of Mr. Gor- don McKay and Mr. George W. Weld has been related in the daily press, and the fact that both are millionaires and able therefore to employ the high- est medical skill in this country, or any other for that matter, is a high tribute to Dr. Wheatland’s standing as a physician and a further illustra- tion of the fact that the door of hope is not shut in the face of a capable high-souled Negro who elec’g to pass his life in professional pursuits. Opportunity! —————_— A large picture of Pror. BooKER ‘T. WASHINGTON, printed in four colors which has all the appearance of an oil painting, will be sent ele- gantly framed by express to any subscriber who will send $3.00 to THE COLORED AMERICAN. . @ To persons who desire the picture without subscribing for the paper, it will be sent by express for $1.50. To parties who desire to sell them, they will be sent in quantities of ten or more for $1.00 each, All orders should be addressed to The Colored American WASHINGTON, D.c. as This picture should be tn every Parlor, Library, Reading Room, School Room, and every Public Hall used by intelligent colores people. °. ie ee MSE 5 Dees. ees wae eh ae eee siete areas see: pete = er ae: ee eae es HRA SS, be : Pike Se cage b ep eS fe eee eee Rest hae aoe ee pa = ee vi Ree a he es EDUCATIONAL. | EDUCATIOAL. ' os KNOWXNIELE COLLEGE Offers the following COURSES :— Classical, Scientific, Nor- mal, Theological, Music, Common School, Mechanical, Agricultural and Various Industrial Departments. Faculty, foreman, and officers number thirty. Enrollment of students for the last year was 407, coming from 18 States and Cen- tral America. THE LOCATION is one of the most desirable in the South, —healthful, convenient of access, and: beautiful. BUILDINGS ARE STEAM HEATED and electric lighted. SELF HELD offered through the Inductrial Departments. FALL TERM opens September 3oth, 1903. EXPENSES for board, fuel, light, furnished room only $6.85 a month. For further information, catalogue, etc., write the president, R. W. McGranahan, D. D., Knoxville, Tenn. rae vy AO ee Saat Mitel ER Ces Petal Sees be F {i Fit hea the tee tiers ts ft va eH or sth: at pies amas |! enue S ELE tS o B aeee peers cae sca eae ee eee TT ER gn! Recs ages. HOWARD UNIVERSITY, Washington, D. C-. r= distinct departments, under one hundreé competent professors and instructors—Theo gical. Medical Legal, College, Pedagogical teaparatory, English, Agriculture, rodeo ned “asical. Foriuformation address— @ Rev ]. FE. RanE:N. D. D., LL. D., President. Geo H SarPrurD Secretary. IS IT A SCHOOL YOU WANT ? For particulars address J. H. Wil- son, No. 53 Sherman avenue, Spring- field, Ohio. N. B.—The headquarters of the Na- ticnal Teachers’ Agency have hereto- fore been at 459 C street N. W., but they are now located at the above ad- aress, wkere all correspondence should be sent. Prompt attention will be giv- en to all business entrusted to it. School. Reopens Monday, Sept. 7. An ideal trade school for young col- ored women who desire expert mechan- ical knowledge as a means of increas- ing their earning capacity. Dressmak- ing, Millinery, Tailoring, Music and an English course from primary to nor- mal. 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 Se Jos. D. M ahoney, Supt. Allegheny, Pa. For Rext.—Two or three furnished or unfurnished rooms, centrally locat- ed in the northwest and within a short walk of two street car lines. All a. m. i. Man and wife preferred, or two young men. Reference required. Call or address C, care this office. a a a 13. Howard University, Medical Dept. Including Medical, Dental and Phar- maceutic Colleges. THIRTY-SIXTH SESSION (1903- 1904) will begin October ist, 1903, and continue seven (7) months. - Day Schoct for New Matriculants. Tuition fee in Medical and Dental Colleges, each, $80.00; Pharmaceutic College, $70.00. Four years’ graduate course in Med- icine and Dental Surgery. Well-equipped laboratories in all departments. Unexceiled hospital fa- cilities. All students must register before October 12th, 1903. For catalogue or further informa- tion, apply to F. J. SHADD, A. M., M. D., Secretary. 901 R St. N. W., Washington, D. C. OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG MEN. The demands in all parts of this country, and in several foreign @un- tries, for well trained men of our race In the direction of scientifie and prac- tical agriculture are so great that this institution is willing to offer excep- tional advantages to young men who wish to come here and take either a regular or post graduate courre in agriculture. We cannot begin to sup- ply the demands that come to us for trained men in the direction of agri- culture. The positions for which these trained men are wanted ara 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 @. WASHING@ON, Prin. Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama. Agricultural and Mechanical Coltege 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. “WE MOVE EVERYTHING” Douglas Baggage and Furniture Express 1533 14th Street N. W. Roe DOUGLAS, Manag er. a a gaa TO A VALUABLE BOOK. This book is filled with inspiration ```markdown ``` 314 NINTH STREET, NORTHWEST. ESTABLISHED 1870. 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 Maveous Growth of Hair. chemist at the head of the great Altenheim Medical Dispensary, has just made the startling announcement that he has produced a compound that grows hair on any bald head. The doctor makes the claim that after experiments, taking years to complete, he has at last reached the goal of his ambition. To the doctor all heads are alike. There are none which cannot be cured by this remarkable remedy. The record of the cures already made is truly marvelous and were it not for the high standing of the great physician and the convincing testimony of thousands of citizens all over the country it would seem too miraculous to be true. There can be no doubt of the doctor's earnestness in making his claims ncr can i 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 ngle eight i 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 8205Foso Building. Cincinnati, Ohio. enclosing a stamp to prepas 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 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. THE COLORED AMERICAN A VALUABLE The Authentic History Monument. Biographical interesting Incidents in erick Douglass. His ton, D. C., and Funeral Rochester, New York This book is filled from beginning to end with of the Great Leader together monument to his memory at somely illustrated, cloth bound address for $1.50. Address JOHN W. T. P. O. Box 493, H. K. FU LOAN 314 NINTH STREET ESTABLISHED MONEY LOANED ON elry, Silverware, Etc. Unre and Jewelry for Sale. Old G The Most Reliable Place in ```markdown ``` Black-No-More Chem Read the OBITUARY. Prof. Frances L. Cardoza, Sr., one of the best known educators in the United States and a man whose whole life work was given to the education and to the advancement of his race, died at his residence, 2236 6th street, N. W., Wednesday, July 22nd, at 9.10 p. m. He was a native of South Carolina and was one of the best known men in the State during the days of reconstruction and up to some fifteen or eighteen years ago, when he came to this city. He held many important places in the schools of the District, being Superivsor-Principal at one time and Principal of the M street High School. Hiss loss is deeply regretted in this community. A large and sympathetic congregation turned out Sunday at the Vermont Ave. Baptist church, to wisness the last sad rites over the body of Mr. Solomon Lucas, whose funeral took place from the above named church Sunday, July 19, 1903. That Mr. Lucas was a man well beloved and respected by all in the community in which he resided was demonstrated by the many beautiful floral tributes that covered his casket. He leaves surviving him, five children, Robert, Thomas, Minnie A., Louise A., and Lottie Lucas. Msses Julia and Sarah Gray entertained a party of friends, at their home in Arlington, Va., Friday evening last. Croquet and music were features of interest. Miss Julia Brooks recited the famous "When de Co'n fon's Hat." A party composed of Misses Lizzie Syphar, Helen Moore, Leona Shaw, Louise Evans, Essie Gray, Julia Brooks and Messrs. Harry Lynch, Thornton Gray, Robt. Syphar, A. S. and H. J. Pinkett and H. King, met at the South end of the Aqueduct bridge, from whence they proceeded to the beautiful country home of the Misses Gray. 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. Keen's College, Atlantic City. The following guests registered at Keen's College: Mr. E. Hackley, Madam Hackley, Miss Clara Scudder, Philadelphia; Mr. Thomas Long, Danville, Va.; Mr. John C. Parker, Harrisburg, Pa.; Thos. B. Lillard, Savannah, Ga.; Mrs. Silas Gamble, Pittsburg, Pa.; Mrs. J. Burrows and daughters, Germantown, Pa.; Mr. J. H. Finley, Dayton, Ohio. Respectfully. MRS. S. A. Keen. The Authentic History of the Douglass Monument. Biographical Facts and Interesting Incidents in the Life of Frederick Douglass. His Death at Washington, D. C., and Funeral. His Funeral at Rochester, New York. from beginning to end with important events in the Life of the Great Leader together with the struggle to raise a monument to his memory at Rochester, N. Y. It is handsomely illustrated, cloth bound and will be sent to any address for $1.50. Address the author. MONEY LOANED ON Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware, Etc. Unredeemed Watches, Diamonds and Jewelry for Sale. Old GOLD and SILVER Bought. Black-No-More The scientific discovery for changing the dark skin of the Negro to a clear white. Absolutely harmless. No grease. The scientific wonder. Sent anywhere on receipt of $2. Agents wanted. Send stamp for booklet. R-I-P-A-N-S Tabules DOCTORS FIND A GOOD PRESCRIPTION FOR MANKIND. The 5-cent packet is enough for usual occasions. The family bottle (60 cents) contains a supply for a year. 16 FINANCIAL DO YOU NEED Financial Assistance? If so, come to us. We are always ready to loan you any amount you may need. You can repay it in small monthly payments to suit your convenience. We make loans on Furniture, Pianos, &c., without removal or any publicity in any way. All business is private. 610—F Street—610. Some Men Pay $10,000 For an expert to manage their advertising. There are others who pay $5.00 for an annual subscription to printer's ink and learn what all advertisers are thinking about. But even these are not the extremes reached. There are men who lose over $100,000 a year by doing neither one. For sample copy send 10c to Printer's Ink, No. 10 Spruce Street, New York City. Loans of $10 and upwards made on FURNITURE PIANOS HORSES Wagong, etc., at lowest rates and in the day you apply. We are loaning on the Building and Loan Association plan, which takes the cost of carrying loans much less than, you pay elsewhere, and allows you to pay it off in any sized notes you desire, running from one to twelve months. You only pay for the use of the money for the length of time you carry it. If you have a loan with some other company we will pay it off and advance you more money if desired. Rates cheetely given, and no cost to you unless the loan is made. Loans made any where in the District. Call and get rates. Front room, first floor, Scientific American Building. National Mortgage Loan Co. 625 F St., N. W. HERE IS A CHANCE. To get the money you want We have more than we need. We will make loans to every body without delay. If you want money we us to-day. You will not be disappointed. Loans made on Furniture, Pianos, Organs, Etc., without removal. Loans to salaried employees Without endorsement. Capital Loan Guarantee Company. E HAVE A BAR'L W of money to lend on furniture, pianos, &c. No delay. Goods are not disturbed. You return the money in small payments. If you have a loan and need more money, we can fix you up. Business confidential. SURETY LOAN COMPANY. Suite 1, Warden Building, cor. 9th and F, 523 9th. The National Safe Deposit Savings and Trust Company Cor. 15th St. and New York Ave. Capital One Million Dollars. Pays interest on deposits. Rents Safes inside Burglar-Proof Vaults. Acts as administrator executor, trustee, etc. THE COLORED AMERICAN. L. J. Hayden, Manufacturer of Pure Herb Medicine. is one of the Greatest Healers of the Sick on Earth. Cures all Diseases or no Charge. I cure all diseases that are known to the human race or no charge, no matter what your disease, sickness, or affliction may be, and restore you to perfect health. I cure the following diseases: Heart Disease, Consumption, Blood, Kidney, Liver, Bladder, Piles in any form, Vertigo, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Lungs, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Constipation, Rheumatism in any form, Pains and Aches of BENNETT any kind, Colds, Bronchial Troubles, Sores, Skin Diseaess, all Itching Sensations, La Grippe, or Pneumonia; Ulcers, Carbuncles, Boils, Cancer, the worst forms, without the use of knife or instruments; Eczema, Pimples on face and body; Diabetes of Kidneys; or Bright's Disease of the Kidneys. I cure any disease, no matter of what nature. Medicine sent to any address by express. For full particulars send a 2-cent stamp for answer. 607 Pennsylvania Avenue southeast, Washington, D. C. Branch store, 404 West Broad Street, Richmond, Va. REGISTERED IN PATENT OFFICE U.S. BEFORE AFTER A Wonderful Face Bleach. AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER. both in a box for $1, or three boxes for $2. Guaranteed to do what we say and to be the "best in the world." One box is all that is required if used as directed. A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH A PEACH-LIKE complexion obtained if used as directed. Will turn the skin of a black or brown person four or five shades lighter, and a mulatto person perfectly white. In forty-sight hours a shade or two lighter will be noticeable. It does not turn the skin in spots but bleaches out white, the skin remaining beautiful without continual use. Will remove wrinkles, freckles, dark spot's, pimples or bumps or black heads, making the skin very soft and smooth. Small pox pits, tan, liver spots removed without harm to the skin. When you get the color you wish, stop using the preparation. THE HAIR STRAIGHTENER that goes in every one dollar box is enough to make anyone's hair grow long and straight, and keeps it from falling out. Highly perfumed and makes the hair soft and easy to comb. Many of our customers say one of our dollar boxes is worth ten dollars, yet we sell it for one dollar a box. Any person sending us one dollar in a letter or Post-Office money order, express money order or registered letter, we will send it through the mail postage prepaid; or if you want it sent C. O. D., it will come by express, 35c. extra. In any case where it fails to do what we claim, we will return the money or send a box free of charge. Packed so that no one will know contents except receiver. CRANE, 122 West Broad St., RICHMOND, VA. SANTAL-MIDY Standard remedy for Gleet, Gonorrhoea and Runnings IN 48 HOURS. Cures Kidney and Bladder Troubles. SUMMER RESORTS. Mrs. Charles A. Smith WISHES TO ANNOUNCE THAT THE WOODLAND TER DLAND TERR WOODLAND TERRACE. Lawnside, N. J., Will be re-opened for the reception 13. Terms $5, $6 and $7 per week from Saturday 6:30 dinner to Monday fast, $2.50. Phone 3-x, Magnolia, N. J. Write for booklets, P. O. from Chestnut or South Street F pre-opened for the reception of guest forms $5, $6 and $7 per week. Specia rdursday 6:30 dinner to Monday morning 50. OLia, N. J. Write for booklets, P. O. Snow Hill from Chestnut or South Street Ferries. Will be re-opened for the reception of guests June 13. Terms $5, $6 and $7 per week. Special rates from Saturday 6:30 dinner to Monday morning breakfast, $2.50. Phone 3-x, Magnolia, N. J. Write for booklets, P. O. Snow Hill, Fare 31c return from Chestnut or South Street Ferries. THE HOME OF THE MASTER OF THE MASTER THE TURNER HOUSE Everything in the season that's fit to eat. A delightful ride to Chesapeake Junction, and a visit to The Turner House. DANIEL TURNER. Prop. THE DUDLEY INN. 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FEE. --- SUMMER RESORTS DUNCE THAT THE TERRACE, reception of guests June per week. Special rates to Monday morning break- booklets, P. O. Snow Hill, Fare 31c return South Street Ferries. THE HOTEL HENDERSON Atlantic City, New Jersey. 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.J. and California THE REPUBLIC and the MERCIAL CONGRESS very low COAST make it cheaper to go to ncisco or Los Angelos, going or re- irection,) via the n Pacific and, Chicago to North Pacific and Northern Pacific, $50.00. Coast points and return, $50. and the COLUMBIA RIVER, breezes and scenery, and VISIT Northern Pacific trains run di- from Seattle, Tacoma and Port- send six cents for "WONDER- ture, to S. FEE, Gen'l Pass. Agt., St. Paul, Minn. Southern Politics Continued from page 1. South Carolina—the McLaurin Democrats from the Capers Democrats. They all look alike to us. They have been voting the Democratic ticket all of their lives, and never voted the Republican ticket. I don't know of a single instance of a Presidential post-office being given to an old liner nor to a well-known Republican. There are a few instances of reappointment of Republicans when they were fell in with the McLaurin-Capers combination, or when the fight against these gentlemen became so fierce by their friends. Besides they made good records, were efficient postmasters, and the President had to interpose himself, as the villainy was too patent. These are exceedingly few, too. The only instance where a new man has been appointed over the Capers-McLaurin combination was at Bamburge, S. C., when the incumbent was recommended by the late National Committeeman Webster and his friends. Messrs. McLaurin and Capers wanted a Mr. A. Wilkes Knight appointed then, as is shown by a communication he had sent Mr. Deas asking for his recommendation for this man, and also that the patronage of the State be assigned him. Mr. Deas spurned it, under date of May 16, 1901. Now, let us see about the other Republicans Mr. Capers had appointed to office. The late Mr. Cunningham's appointment was due to the urgent solicitation of judges and other citizens of South Carolina. After his death Mr. Capers urged and had appointed a Mr. Adams as his successor. He was made a deputy collector upon Mr. Micah Jenkin's induction into office as collector of internal revenue. This is the first I had heard of Mr. Adams, notwithstanding I had been in politics in this State upward of thirty years. I understood that Mr. Capers used the argument that he (Mr. Adams) made speeches somewhere in West Virginia, but I learned more definitely that he had sold patent medicine or introduced some kind of patents in that State. He didn't make any speeches here. Investigate and you will find nearly every one of the prominent places under him are filled by Democrats. The postmaster at Charleston had one new office created and a Democrat "pal" of Capers was put into it—an ex-postmaster who was removed from office upon the report of Inspector McGinnis during the administration of Postmaster-Generay Gary. Mr. Capers says he has "resisted all pressure which has been brought to bear upon him, to exercise his influence in having competent colored men removed from the service; and in the internal revenue service one of the deputy collectors of internal revenue, one of the most important clerkships in the office of the collector, the chief distiller at the large Richmond distillery, and a number of similar appointments of colored men have been made, or the appointees retained directly upon his recommendation." Why! Mr. Capers, be truthful and admit that this important clerkship and chief distiller above referred to are covered by the civil service and cannot be removed except for cause, and cause sufficient would have been found to get rid of them but one of them is a member of the State committee and the other is secretary of the committee. The deputy collector referred to is also a member of the State committee and chairman of the most important Congressional district in the State. When Collector Jenkins took charge of his office there were two colored deputies, and the deputy that was not a member of the State committee is gone. The white man who succeeded him is also a member of the State committee. This man used to be strongly anti-Capers and anti-McLaurin and nothing but a straight out old liner. Now he is the most blatant apostles of Capers and his crew. And I have the proof of how the capture was made. This is the manner in which our organization has been forced and bribed, the same being referred to in Mr. Deas' article in the News and Courier of June 29th, 1903, which will show the villainy of Capers and Company. All of the colored men THE COLORED AMERICAN referred to were appointed by Republican predecessors of Jenkins. The number of colored men in that service is gradually growing beautifully less, and notwithstanding there are seven or eight coolred men employed as storekeepers and gaugers, there are only three at work, while Democrats are given preference. As to the appointment of Dr. Crum, that was made by the President at the instance of all of our people throughout the country. That he has not been confirmed as yet is due largely to Capers' secret connivance. Capers is trying to make cheap capital out of the appointment of two colored doctors at Spartanburg and Greenville. The only way he could get a Republican doctor for either place was to appoint a colored man and then the colored man would not have been appointed if the office paid anything or consequence I defy Mr. Capers to show in one single instance where a prominent white or colored old liner has been appointed on his recommendation to office in this State who was not in office when Mr. Capers took charge. The very few remaining were reappointments that Mr. Capers had no control over. Last fall the term of Col. Pioneer as postmaster at Spartanburg—among the last President McKinley appointed in this State—expired. Immediately Capers started a warfare against his reappointment and worked for a straight Democrat by the name of Dillingham, a livery man. All South Carolina Republicans rallied for Col. Pioneer. The appointment for said office hasn't been made as yet, but it seemed settled that Dillingham was to be left. So straightway Capers and his crew went to Washin with the false representation another deputy was needed, or that high officials winked at it and deemed it expedient to provide another hankering Democrat and he was nicely ensconced in that sinecure. Mr. Dillingham has been a candidate for the postmastership for the past two years. That being the case it was thought probable that he had made up his mind to vote the Republican ticket, so the Republican candidate for Congress from that district, Maj. L. W. C. Blalock, sent him his ticket, etc., and it is alleged that he (Mr. Dillingham), with an oath, threw them into the street. This is the allegation against Mr. D. by the leaders of the party up there. Major Blalock is not only a Republican, but part, if not sole, owner of a cotton mill and oil mill, and is one among the largest cotton farmers of the State, a native and to the manor born. Thus you see how the Republicans in the South are treated, and the offices nearly all are given to the Democrats; and yet you tell me that the President does not know of these doings. I have unending links of such colossal rascalities that I can not enumerate them in one or two letters, but will give them to the press occasionally. It will not be long before the whole bottom will fall out. Then the world will see the disgraceful disaster. Mr. Deas has heretofore and at some length reviewed the political career of Mr. Capers antecedent to his reappearance in SouthCarolina as the immediate representative of the Administration's demand for the renomination of the President. Under date of November 6, 1902, in a lengthy communication to the Charleston News and Courier, and again under date of June 29th last in the same paper, Mr. Deas has revealed the facts. He has shown clearly that at the time of Mr. Capers' appointment to Federal office in South Carolina he was not even a citizen of the State; that he was claiming legal residence in the State of Maryland. In both communications Mr. Deas quoted the indisputable testimony of Mr. Thomas Vinson, member of the board of supervisors of Montgomery county, Md., showing clearly that the allegation of Mr. Capers that he had voted for McKinley was false. Mr. Deas also quotes the record showing Capers' indictment for pension frauds in the U. S. Circuit Court for South Carolina in November, 1893, and the fact that the case was never brought to trial owing to some mysterious influence yet unexplained. I prophesy that both the President and the National Committee will soon grow heartily sick of this young turncoat, for, false to one party, how can he be expected to be true to anybody. May that consummation be hastened, for when it eventuates the eyes of all will be opened to the loyalty, sterling worth and deserts of Mr. E. H. Deas, the true and tried chairman of the State Republican committee, whose friends are legion and whose subordination to a convert of yesterday has aroused their righteous indignation, both on his personal account and on account of the marked detriment to the party's interest in the State. This communication is somewhat lengthy, but in justice to Mr. Deas and the thousands of friends he has, not only in South Carolina, but throughout the country, I ask its publication in full. Very respectfully, A SOUTH CAROLINIAN. A CHICAGO PETTIFOGGER. Chicago, Ill., July 19, 1903. Editor of The Colored American. Dear Sir: I have been a subscriber to your paper for nearly six years and I cannot help admiring the manly stand it takes on all questions and its advanced ground on all public measures. The Colored American is a beacon light to the race and I am pleased to state that through my humble efforts a large number of the best people of Chicago are reading it. I write this letter, however, to call your attention to the antics of Fred Barnett and his wife. I see frequent mention of you in their paper published in this city, and to one who does not know you it would appear that you had horns and were the old "scratch" himself. I remember you when quite a young man, as the founder of the first illustrated colored newspaper, The Indianapolis Freeman, and when I heard that you had established The Colored American in Washington I sent in my subscription promptly. The Barnetts draw very little water in this town, and Fred Barnett has a reputation for truth and veracity that is most unsavory. Not long ago he sued the eloquent young Jim Porter for libel. Mr. Porter called Mr. Barnett a "pettifogger" in an article in one of the local newspapers, and when Mr. Barnett sued him Mr. Porter did not do a thing but get our great lawyer, Hon. E. H. Morris, who went into court with the case and proved to the judge and jury that Mr. Barnett was not only a "pettifogger" but a scoundrel as well. The case was dismissed and it was a great victory for Mr. Porter. Mr. Barnett has robbed more poor laboring men and women out of their homes and valuables entrusted to him than any other lawyer in Chicago. Railroad porters who purchased lots through him and who sent him money from distances to make payments on their lots found when they returned to Chicago that their lots had been sold for taxes and that Barnett had not paid one penny on them. I can furnish you a list of names of these parties if you wish them; one (Henry Forrest) lives in your city now. As for Mrs. Barnett, she has been in every red record and agitation movement that has existed during the past fifteen years. She has always managed to get on the payroll and in a position where she could handle and spend all of the money. She did this in the Afro-Ameican Council and would have done this in the Woman's League but they would have nothing whatever to do with her. Unless she can run an affair she will try to ruin it, as she and her husband are now trying to do against the Afro-American Council, against Dr. Booker T. Washington, the greatest man the race has produced, against Dr. W. D. Crum, and many aspiring young men. They are despised in Chicago, and but for their scavenger of a newspaper which they use to throw dirt on respectable people they would not be heard of in this city. In my next letter I will tell you more about the Barnetts, and especially of Mrs. Barnett and some of the disrespectable dealings in which she has been engaged in this city. 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A bright boy 12 or 14 years old to do errands at this office. 459 C street N. W. --- True Reformers Here Continued from page 1: COL AM—FOUR pniroi Gm |u;at; ter the choir had rendered a selection, the flag was raised over the building by four representatives of the Rosebud department as the band played "The Star Spangled Banner;" and "America." A general inspection of the building concluded the morning programme. Mr. W. S. Woodson, chief of the Washington division, called the session to order in the afternoon. Rev. J. A. Taylor offered the invocation, and the Monumental orchestra rendered "Star of the Sea," by Kennedy. Rev. W. L. Taylor, president of the national organization, was introduced as master of ceremonies, and Commissioner Macfarland made a short address. After congratulating the order upon the beautiful building, he dwelt upon the fact that its erection showed that the race can organize. "Here in a concrete form," said he, "is a contradiction of the charge that so many different ideas among you prevent you from effecting a permanent organization." He ventured to advise those before him by recommending that they learn to organize. He said the reason of the success of the white race is its ability to sink personal differences, opinions, and even pride, and work together for a common end: The letter from President Roosevelt was then read, and the orchestra rendered a selection. Hon. J. C. Dancy, recorder of deeds, made the dedicatory address. He called attention to the fact that the architect of the hall was a colored man; that the contractor was colored, and that all the work had been done by colored men. The building has been paid for in full. He dwelt at length upon the history of the national organization. The grand worthy master introduced the deputy general of the northern di- REV. WM. L. TAYLOR, President of the True Reformers Bank, Richmond, Va. vision, Mr. C. A. Puryear, who responded with a brief address. Then followed the introduction of Chief Thompson, of the Philadelphia division; Chief Holmes, of the Richmond division; Mrs. James, chief of the Baltimore division; Chief Allen, of the Manchester division; Chief Bailey, of the St. Louis division; Mrs. Lane, chief of the Wilmington, N. C., division; Chief Truehart, of the Portsmouth division; Chief Holmes, of the Alexandria division, and Dr. Brockett, chief of the Atlanta division. Each of these chiefs made a brief speech. Mr. Bailey, of St. Louis, reported that the order in the Southwest is making flattering progress in members and influence. The St. Louis headquarters, he said, would compare favorably with the building here, which had just been dedicated. The division of the order of which he is chief has 10,000 members. Rev. James H. Lee pronounced the benediction. CONCERT AND BANQUET. A concert was given in the hall at 7:30 o'clock, under the auspices of Dr. D.A. Lane and Prof. R. J. Daniels. A banquet in honor of Rev. W. L. Taylor, the national president, and other THE COLORED AMERICAN guests, was given at 9:30 o'clock in the basement of the hall. Hon. George White was toastmaster. Those to respond to toasts were Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, on "Progress of the Institution as Viewed by the Outsider;" Dr. R. L. Gaines, "The Grand Fountain in the District;" Grand Secretary W. P. Burrell, "The Grand Fountain—Its National Effects; Mrs. Julia Mason Layton, "Woman's Part in the Accomplishments of the Institution;" R. T. Hill, cashier, "The Grand Fountain—Does It Deserve the Confidence and Support of the Race?" Editor E. E. Cooper, "The Negro Press of the Country," and Prof. James Storum, "High Education." Among those out of town in attendance were Rev. W. L. Taylor, Edward Ellas, jr., R. T. Hill, W. R. Burrell, E. W. Brown, R. J. Kyles, Hon. J. C. Robertson, T. W. Taylor, W. L. Talor, jr., C. A. Puryear, A. W. Holmes, all of Richmond, Va.; Mrs. F. H. James, of Baltimore, and Lewis Thompson, of Philadelphia: J. H. PROF. J. A. LANKFORD, Architect for the True Reformers, Washington, D. C. There is no building in the country which the Negro should feel more proud of than the one dedicated yesterday. It can be said without any exaggeration that it is the best office, store, hall, and lodge room building that the Negro owns in the United States. J. A. Lankford, a Negro, who is a product of Dr. Booker T. Washington's school, was the designer and supervising architect. The building stands on the southwest corner of Twelfth and U streets northwest and consists of four stories and a basement. The front elevations on Twelfth and U streets are built of the best quality gray pressed brick and trimmed with Indiana limestone. The building is an imposing structure, being 60 by 100 feet and over 85 feet high. Its style of architecture is Ionic. Every foot of space within its walls is well utilized. The basement will accommodate a banquet of over 1,000 guests. The first floor has a plate glass show window surface of over 650 square feet. The stone arch collondae with granite stone base is an object lesson to all who claim that the Negro is not competent along this line. The building has every modern improvement. It is heated by steam, lighted by gas and electricity, has toilet and dressing rooms on every floor, and the latest system of fire alarm and call bells for the janitor. Washington Post, July 16, 1903. HO. FOR THE BUFFALOES. The Buffalo Club will give their first grand excursion on the steamer Jane Moesly to Clifton Beach, Sunday, July 26th, and will land at Glymont on the return trip. The boat will leave the wharf at 1:30 p. m. Fare for the round trip, 35c. The officers of this club are: President, James M. Jackson; vicepresident, A. W. Laws; treasurer, A. J. Gaskins; secretary, Jas. W. Gray; financial secretary, Chas. Freeman; sergeant-at-arms, Geo. W. Morgan. In addition to a grand concert, many other attractions will be offered on the grounds and on the boat. Dr. Hamilton S. Smith, of the Pension Bureau, is visiting his parents in Boston, Mass. LOCALS. LOCALS. Mr. Daniel Murray and family are visiting at Harpers Ferry, W. Va. Mr. Cyrus F. Adams has returned to the city from his trip South and West. Be ready for the collector when he calls. Washington's elite are basking in the sunlight and drinking the ozone at Arundel-on-the-Bay just now. Mr. H. P. Slaughter is up and about again, to the delight of his many friends. Mrs. Whitfield McKinley and children are spending a few weeks in the hills around and about Harper's Ferry. Hon. John C. Dancy, recorder of deeds, was in Hampton and other points in Virginia during last week. Dr. Jas. M. Fraction and some eNw York friends expect to sail next week for London, where they will remain for four weeks. Mr. Dan Turner's high-class resort at Chesapeake Junction is becoming quite popular with the "can't get aways" of our local population. Mr. Stanton Wormley and sisters are enjoying their vacation at Mr. Wormley's recently purchased estate at Ardmore, Md. Mr. Clarence C. White, of this city, scored a brilliant success at his musical recital at Legion of Honor hall in Boston on the 15th instant. A number of our Washington school marms have been guests of honor at the social functions in Boston incident to the meeting of the N. E. A. Mrs. M. E. Gray, the wife of Col. W. P. Gray, is now spending the summer in Richmond, Va., with her mother, Mrs. Martha Allison, who has been so ill, both here and there. Rev. S. L. Carrothers has been elected president of the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association, whose mission will be explained later on. Mr. J. R. Brown, an attache of the Sunset Limited, which runs from this city to San Francisco, Cal., was in the city a few days. He left last Tuesday evening on his trip to the Golden State. Mr. A. J. Gaskins will leave for California on the 9th proximo, to attend the meeting of the G. A. R. He will also visit points in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia before he returns. Dr. Wm. A. Warfield, surgeon-in-chief of the Freedman's hospital, is not only maintaining the high reputation of that institution but is in every way justifying the judgment of those who selected him for the position. Mrs. Mollie Bush has successfully shown title to the insurance placed on the life of her husband, the late Joseph C. Bush, against the adcerse contention of the company as to the cause of death. Mr. Edgar Furbish, late secretary of legation to Hon. Wm. F. Powell at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, was in the city a fe wdays last week. He is now interested in copper mining in Haiti and is meeting with great success. Mrs. C. W. Chesnutt, Miss Helen and Miss May F. Tyson have returned, after having spent a very pleasant visit to Hampton, Va. The Chesnutts are very much pleased with their visit East this summer. Mr. E. J. Crane, a prominent business man of Richmond, Va., accompanied by his wife and young son, passed through the city last Thursday en route for Philadelphia, Niagara Falls, Buffalo and other leading Northern points. 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, Brands, Gins, Etc. 462 Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest. Fritz Reuter's Washington, D. C. Hotel and Restaurant, 451, 453, 455, 457 Pennsylvania Avenue. 202, 208 and 210 41-2 St Northwest. W. M. DRURY'S Restaurant, 1100 20th St., Corner L. N. W. MOORE & PRIOLEAU, 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 Wines. Harper & Wilson a speciality. 1926 Fourteenth Street, Northwest, Bellmens Musical Reception. The Great Social Event at Atlantic City—Fitzgerald's Auditorium in a Blaze of Glory—The Gay World, Literary and Social—News Notes and Personal Mention. Atlantic City, N. J., Special When we arose one week ago last Thursday morning, the 16th, and saw the sun rising beyond the mighty ocean towards its western horizon, and spreading its beautiful rays over our fair city, our hearts were joyous, for we felt our hopes were realized and we were to be the humble recipients of a beautiful day, so that about eight o'clock in the evening when the night was calm and perfect and the air full of perfume we could see the colored population beginning to wend their way toward our beloved rendezvous of all social funtions, Fitzgerald Auditorium, to participate in the first and leading social event of the season, the Bellmen Musical and Reception. The scene might be likened to the annual festival given at modern "Athens," where beauty and grace vie for the masterly among the elite and the open carriages, busses and automobiles filled with fashionable ladies adorned with diamonds, necklaces and rubies and elegant dressed gentlemen wending their way to the auditorium lent enchantment to the scene. All arrangements had been made and the distinguished host was met at the canopied entrance and escorted through the long corridor and up the stately stairway, by MMessrs. Ross and Reeves, while an appropriate march was being played with accuracy and harmoniously; wehere on one side of the fastoned gateway were Messrs. S. Bowen and R. H. Brown, and on the other side Messrs C. Bernard and C. Thomas, in charge of the ticket boxes, worked in designs of the stars and stripes, where their tickets were obtained, and a little in advance were Messrs. Boyd and Frisby, who received the tickets and the ushers, Messrs. Jefferson, Hicks, Nothingham, Bouden and Peterson, with the grace and dignity of ancient chivalry, conveyed the host to the dance hall. The hall recalls the simple dignity of its Greek style, and its uniqueness and attractiveness was made more so by elaborate and tasteful decorations. The Corinthian columns on the sides were adorned and trimmed artistically with bunting and flowers; overhanging were semicircles in the designs of the stars and stripes THE COLORED AMERICAN. forming boxes filled with handsome ladies, and any ordinary mortal would gasp at its impressive magnificence. In the centre of the ceiling was a large floral bell, emblematic of the association, and in the further end of the hall elevated a few feet above the phalaux of humanity, the orchestra was situated, amid stately and lofty palms, pointed heavenward and the sound of the sweet strains of music as it wafted through the foliage, only added to its impressiveness; while the other end of the hall was encircled by a gallery filled with visiting guests. The floor was especially prepared by waxinf and polishing and with more than five thousand dollars worth of jewels, flashing from ivory necks, snow white arms and gorgeous toilets, the auditorium, in which more than eight hundred presons attended, the Bellman Musical and Reception, presented a spectacle of rare brillance and beauty. The musical program was interpreted with such superb execution by Prof. Forman's full orchestra, as to call forth the wildest applause and was as follows: Overture, "Poet and Pheasant;" Song, "In the Eternal City;" Overture, "Orpheus;" Solo, "L Elegante Polka." The dance program and the Grand March, at twelve o'clock, were the main features of the evening, giving the vast concorse of society belles their long desired enjoyment of receiving the arms of their lords and with grace and dignity keeping time to the strains of sweet music. The order of dance was announced by an electric bell and when the twelfth hour arrived, three hundred or more couples were summoned to the floor by the floor manager, and the Grand March was inaugurated, led by Mr. Hammond and Miss Helen Scott. Imagine a broad and vast waxened floor, glittering like ivory, the orchestra elevated a little above and to the end of the hall, enveloped in foliage of palms and flowers, rendering a melodious march; adding the glowing faces and handsome costumes, plus their adornment of diamonds, emeralds and pearls, and last, but not least by any means, the young men dressed in their evening dress and tuxedoes and you have the Grand March of the Bellman Musical and Reception. The program of the dance was as follows: Waltz, Thespiaro; two-step, When Sousa Comes to Coon Town; altz, Dolores; two-step, Dixie Land; Quadrille, plain, Roy; schottische, Who's Your Friend; waltz. We all Grow Old in time; two-step, Chocolate Drops. Intermission. Waltz, Symphia; two-step, In Dahomey; lanciers, Aroma, waltz, Soldier's Sweetheart; schottische, Bloom- Continued on page 5. The German female specialist. Treats woman's ills, complaints and irregularities. 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Sweet Home. lithere has ever been anything in the polite circle of our city by the sca, to rival the sensation created by the musical and recep- ton, it is NOt apparent to any ob- server Of social functions. It is to be seriously doubted whether there has ever been anything like it in our city. In point of num- bers, aS a representative gathering calling out the most exclusive set of society, the fioral decorations, the courtesies shown the devotees and the superb music surpassed any similar function held in our city. The president and the exec- utive committee are to be espec- ially commended and all who at- tended extend to them their ap- preciation, through the columns oi this paper, for such an enjoy- able evening. The president, Mr. Adolph Robinson, is one of our most popular young men and if any proof were needed save his position at the head of such an august association, it was furnish- ed by his popularity at the recep- tion by his intimate relationship with the most exclusive set of our city. Mr. Hammond, who was chairman of the executive com- mittee, is another one of our pop- ular young men, and is deserving of much praise and honor for the success attained by the Associa- tion. Among those present were: Mr. and Miss Edwards, of Riple Villa; Mrs. Adolph Robinson, Mr. Willie Vincent, Mr. Walter E. Jones, Miss Lulu C. Blair, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce, Miss Ada Harris, Miss Susie Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. John Harris, Miss Alice Strand, Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, Mr. Small- wood and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Stalford, Miss Eva Thomas, Miss Pinkey, Mr. C. Pinkett, Mr. Ed- ward Jones, of Washington, D. C.; M. C. Martin, New York City; Miss Mary Simmons, Mrs. Addie Kerrin, Mrs. Emma Pen- dleton, Miss Jennie Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd, Mr. and Mrs. Bowen, Mr. and Mrs, Henry Scott and Miss Lizzie Scott, of Philadel+ phia; Mrs. R. L. Lipcomb, Miss Julia MeKenzie, Miss S. L. Smith, Mrs, A. E. Hall, of New York; Miss E, P. Earles, Mr. C. Thom-| as, Mr. ?W. E.. Reeves, Mr..H. CG. Ross, Miss Johnson, Miss Anna Smith and Mr. Joseph Miller, of Phitadelphia; Mr. Walter Cork, Miss S. Smith, of Washington, D. C.; Mr. H. Robinson, of New York; Miss Ida Neil, Miss Cole, Mrs. Truitt, Miss Blanche Ma- lone, Miss Susie Ellis. Mrs. W. B. THE*COLORED AMERICAN. ‘the Bellman musical and recep- tion was a wonderful and attrac- tive exhibition of fine costumes and the gay and delicate colors o£ gowns and millinery presented a colored panarama of society eaders and buds. Mrs. Adolph Robinson, of our city, and wife of the president of the association, was among the most noticeable of the fair women who wore real black lace over white taffeta silk. ‘Mrs. Isabella Robinson, wore a modest gown of black silk, trim- med with black lace and Persian applique. Mrs. Theodore Fran- cis, was the recipient of much fa- vorable comment and wore dotted Swiss, trimmed with valencines. Miss Etta Gey made a stunning appearance and wore blue nun- sueiling. Mrs. W. F. Jones was gowned in black satin and appli- qued in white roses. Miss Wins- ton wore a very elaborate gown of pink pongee and made a beautiful appearance. Miss Shields and Miss Roberts were attired in soft white costumes, with becoming roses in their hair Miss Bronza and Miss M. Roberts, wore a gown of chocolate brown bongee, trimmed with lace of the same shade, with knots of blue. Miss Lurillo Green, of Washington, D. C., wore blue comas, trimmed in antique lace and was made ef- fective by the shadowing of a blue plume on her hat. Miss Zerelda Hollingworth, of Ohio avenue, an esteemed and admirable young lady, was attired in light green and lace, with flowers. Miss Hel- en Scott was all in white with a little toque of ivory cloth to match her costume. Miss L. Scott and Miss G. Byers, wore cream white, trimmed with lace and flowers. Mrs. Lee Terry’s blue foulard was elaborately fagotted and she wore flowers in her hair. Mrs. F. Douglass wore black silk trimmed with lace. Miss Pollard wore a white cloth and antique lace gown and a corn flower hat. Miss Eff- ela wore an exquisite costume of cream pohgee, with Arabian lace and Persian applique trimmings and by many considered the belle of the ball. Miss Eliza, Eva and Mary Baxley, three admirable young ladies, were attired in pink silk adorned with lace and flow- ers. Mrs. Edward Frisby, of New York Ave., the wife of the popular Mr. Edward Frisby, wore a fawn crepe dechine piped with white. Miss Alker, of Baltimore, was attired in blue pastal silk, trimmed with lace and flowers. Miss Anna Edwards, was gowned IN THE BLACK BELT. Our Traveller Tells of the Prog- ress of the Race in Arkansaw —Professional and Business Men Succeeding—Cases in Point—Two Negro Banks. eed Se ge Re eee ee ee interprising business and profes- sional men. There are ten doc- tors, about the same number of lawyers, two first class contrac- tors and any number of teachers and ministers of high class. Dr. F. B. Coffin, is doing the only drug business in the city among the colored people. His custo- mers are about equally divided among the white and colored. It deserves to be mentioned that Little Rock has two authors of some reputation, Judge M. W. Gibbs, author of “Shadow and Light,” and Dr. F. B. Coffin, au- thor of a book of excellent poems. Little Rock is the pride of Ar- kansas in point of educational institutions. Philander Smith College, Dr. Cox, president; Ar- kansas Baptist College, Dr. J. A. Booker, president. The Williams Industrial College, now being founded, under the management of Dr. Stout and Shorter College, Dr. T. S. Jackson, president, are some of the best schools of the South. Three of these schools publish papers. There a number of good tailor shops, two undertaking establish- ments, one photograph _ gallery, probably a half dozen good mer- cantile establishments. A few weeks ago the Arkansas Legislature passed a separate St. car law, which is now in opera- tion in all the cities of that State. But to the credit of the good peo- ple of these cities they are simply refusing to ride on the cars. At Pine Bluff we found more Negro business men and estab- lishments owned and controlled by our people than any other town of its size. In this town are found a good hotel, a first class dry goods and grocery store, known as the Southern Mercantile Store under a corporation of which Hon. Ferd Havis, is president. There is also a bank, the president of which is Hon. J. W. Donohoo, who is one of Uncle Sam’s em- ployees. The saloon and barber husiness are about equally divided between the whites and colored. Mr. J. C. Dukes, is proprietor of the Pine Bluff Herald, a weekly newspaper, but the entire business of editing and managing this pa- per is done by his 14 year old son. We came near forgetting to mention that “The Capitol City Savings Bank,” of Little Rock, of which Mr. King is cashier, and Tudge Gibbs is president and the Hon. J. E. Bush, the receiver of public money, is a director, is do- ino a creat business and telling 5 ——————=—=—=—=—=—=—=—====—X—SS——_— DRESS MAKING ACADEMY. The de Lam Orton Famous French ?erfection Tailor System, Mme. J. A. Smallwood, sole agent, 1513 Madison treet, northwest. 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B. ackett- Perse Ee eacemetye 2 Manapete sl eoe Please Heip Me Find My Brother Saunk Joyce was sold in Mecklenburg, Virginia several y ears before the civil war. to Cunnigan a Negro trader. His mother Willie. was a slave ra the Joyce plantation. He had One sister Setty. who is very anxious to find him. Any in tormation will be gladly received Mrs Berry Reynotps, 44 “arker street, Atlanta Ga beadilapiescerspewanaies oir date eS a For the FamousTroubadours Company, Three Chorus Girls, with strong Soprano voices. Must be good looking, good dressers on and off the Stage. State salary expected; we pay rail- road and Hotel expenses. The scason of 1903-04, beginning Sept., 16th. Ad- dress all communications to E. W. Dale, Cape May City, N. J. BOARDING By The Week or Month. Apply to— MRS. M. J. BUNDY, 941 T St.. N. W. wonderfully in behalf of the race, not only in that city and State, but throughout the country. It is said that there are more Negro letter carriers, in proportion to the whole number employed, than in any other city in the United States. In both of the cities we found some of the most ardent friends of The Colored American we have seen anywhere for any paper. No- body who is well acquainted with this great paper, hesitates to say it is the greatest thing of the age in the journalistic field. It did us good to sit and listen to the en- thusiastic speeches in behalf of The Colored American, made be- fore the State Business Men’s League, of Arkansas, held at Pine Bluff, om the 2nd and 3rd inst., by Dr. A. M. Middlerooks,who owns 40 rented houses at Pine Bluff, Hon. J. E. Bush, of Little Rock, Judge M. W. Gibbs, of Little Rock, Hon. Cates, who is Grand Chancellor of the K. of P., of Ar- kansas, and Hon. J. W. Donohoo, of Helena. The League voted to pay The Colored American to publish some of the work done at the Con- vention. “TRAVELLER,” THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE. We have high hopes of the good which will be accomplished by the meeting of the National Negro Business League at Nashville, Tenn., beginning August 19th next. Our exchanges and personal letters indicate the warm interest which the prospective conference is exciting in all parts of the country and the attendance promises to be truly representative and extensive. The Afro-American Council's meet- [Name] MR. RALPH W. TYLER. Secretary of the Wilgera Gas and Oil Co., Columbus, Ohio. ings may be held by some to be purely sentimental, but all will agree that the Business League is an eminently practical idea. Its approaching meeting will disclose the advance, if any, which the race is making in business enterprises and in the accumulation of capital. On every side we see progress substantial and continuous if not brilliant. We are getting together. The gospel of race unity and mutual help has not been preached in vain. One of the gratifying and significant signs of the times is the interest developed by our larger business ventures in the coming [Name] MR. WILBER B. JONES. Treasurer of the Wilgera Gas and Oil Co., Columbus, Ohio. gathering. Notable among them is the Wilgera Oil and Gas Company of Ohio and West Virginia, an organization formed and officered entirely by colored men exclusively and controlling hundreds of acres of coal, oil and gas lands, the stock of which has rapidly appreciated and which promises to make the fortune of every one connected with it. We have heretofore published an exhaustive account of this company. Its officers are George A. Weaver, president; Ralph W. Tyler, secretary, and Wilber B. Jones, treasurer, who, with Prof, J. McHenry Jones and George A. Myers, constitute the board of directors. These gentlemen are enthusiastic over the League THE COLORED AMERICAN. and will all attend its sessions next month. Preparations are going steadily forward for special railroad facilities to bring those interested, both delegates and others, from all parts of the coun- [Name] MR. GEO. A. WEAVER. President of the Wilgera Gas and Oil Co., Columbus, Ohio. try, to Nashville with comfort and a minimum of expense. We also hope to see a large contingent of our local business men on hand to give to the League the weight of their countenance and support. THE DOUGLASS-MILLAR EXCURSION. One of the largest excursions of the seacon went down the Potomae last Saturday evening on the ane Mosely. The management was under the auspices of Hon. Jno. C. Dancy, recorder of deeds, and Miss Mattie R. Bowen. The entertainment was furnished by Mr. Jos. H. Douglass, violinist, Jrof. Gerard Millar, basso vocalist, and Mme. Anna Lee Slade and Prof. Braxton. The success of the entertainment is due very largely to the efforts of Miss Mattie Bowen and Mr. John D. Fossett, the general agent of the Jane Mosely. The program was of the very highest musical order. The stars, Messrs. Jos. H. Douglass, Gerard Millar and Mme. Anna Lee Slade, sang and played in the best possible voice and to the amusement of the large and select crowd. The concert as well as the excursion was a grand success. GRATEFUL TO HIS FRIENDS. Mr. Al Jackson, the popular railroader, who was in the recent wreck on the Southern Railway near Charlottesville, Va., has received so many letters and inquiries from his friends that he desires to make an announcement through these columns, that while he was in the wreck he escaped without injuries and is back on his old run again. He takes this method of announcing this fact to his many friends whom he has not been able personally to see and to thank them for their consideration and kindly interest. The latest project for translating Booker T. Washington's autobiography, "Up from Slavery," has been undertaken by Cleopas Kunene, in Natal, South Africa. He has applied to the American publishers for the right to translate it into the Zulu language for the benefit of those who read the language and are trying to better the condition of the masses of their countrymen, who, the author says, "are still lolling and weltering in darkness and ignorance and poverty." Rev. T. B. Lilliard, pastor of the leading colored church at Savannah, Ga., left this country for Berlin, Germany, sailing on the steamer Bleucher, on the 23d inst. He will take up a special course in church history and the New Testament exegesis at Berlin University and will be gone about three or four months. Prof. W. E. B. DuBois was in the city one day this week enroute to Boston, Mass. SPANISH WAR VETERANS CELEBRATE. The Grand Army of the Republic, the Soldiers' and Sailors' Union, the Spanish War Veterans, with the relief corps and other auxiliary bodies, and the soldiers and sailors in general will be present Sunday afternoon, July 26, at 4.30 o'clock, at Israel C. M. E. Church, corner 1st and B sts., southwest, at a service of song and speech rendered by the choir of that church in their honor. An elaborate program of music has been prepared by Lieut. L. H. Whitte, of the Chas. Young Command, S. W. V., director of the choir. Solos will be rendered by Prof. J. T. Layton, Dr. J. E. Rattley and Mr. A. K. Brodie. Ten-minute addresses will be delivered by Hon. J. C. Dancy, Recorder of Deeds, and by Lieut. T. H. R. Clarke, of the Chas. Young Command, S. W. V., and an original poem, will be read by Lieut. R. E. Toomey. The general public are invited to be present. THE SARATOGA NEWS. The City Filling Up With Strangers—News Notes. Saratoga, N. Y., Special.—Sunday last, Rev. P. H. Williams preached to a small congregation from the 51st Psalm, 14th verse; the sermon was interesting and instructive, and marked attention was given him throughout the discourse. In the evening, we heard a very able sermon from Mrs. Bishop J. B. Small, who is eloquent and explicit. Her text, St. Mark. The seating capacity of the A. M. E. Zion is over six hundred and the church was filled to overflowing. After the services, A. H. Chase, Gibson, Ill., gave notice that he would lecture in the A. M. E. Zion church on Thursday evening, of this week. Subject, "The Boer War in Africa." Mrs. Francis A. Riley, president of the Young Woman's Friendly Institute and School of Domestic Science, Titusville, Pa., will lecture this week in behalf of the Institution, in trying to get young women to join this school and fit themselves for the Domestic Science. Rev. E. G. Clifton, of St. David's church, N. Y., opened the services with prayer, Sunday evening. The arrivals at the Thompson Cottage, last week, were Rev. E. G. Clifton and wife, of New York City, Mrs. G. T. Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Harris, of New York Mrs. Francis A. Riley, Titusville, Pa., and Dr. A. H. Chase, of Ill. Among the Washingtonians, who are spending the season here, are Mr. Geo. Williams, Mr. Rosco Brown, Wm. T. Sprague, Mr. Alford Jackson, Mr. Publes, Mr. W. A. Fair, James Thomas and B. D. Boyd. The Literary is re-organized, with Mr. Joseph Williams, the head waiter at the Grand Union Hotel, at its head. Mr. Ruddock, vice president, S. D. Brown, second vice president, Mr. Maxwill, secretary, Rev. Williams, chaplain, R. B. Fields, sergeant-atarms, Prof. Jerry Fugans, musical director and Miss Blanch Evans, accompanist. AGENTS CAN MAKE MONEY WANTED. — Good, live, energetic agents to sell the Seventh Wonder of the World, a book which tells of the problem of the Negro in all ages of the world. For terms and particulars address B. N. Boyd, Greencastle, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. Jones, of the Hotel Brunswick, are considering plans for the erection of a first-class hotel as a summer resort in the vicinity of Bennings, D. C. GOOD HOMES FOR LITTLE MONEY. 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. Use your vacation in making an inspection of this land and pick out a nice home. Great variety of climate, soil and elevation is found and everybody can be satisfied. Irrigated or non-irrigated lands, timber, mineral, and pasture lands are obtainable. Write us what you want and for particulars as to rates, etc., and we will try and help you. CHAS. S. FEE, Gen. Pass. Agt., St. Paul, Minn. CHEVELINE Is wonderful; you have only to wash your hair every four or six months and it will straighten, lengthen and give you a glossy head of hair. No hot irons used. Send a piece of your hair for proof of work. Price per outfit, $3 fcr one head, $5 for two heads. MME. M. C. TURNER, 1511 Dryades St.. New Orleans, La. Every Convenience Is afforded ladies traveling alone on the Compartment Cars of the "Great Western Limited," leaving Chicago every evening at 6.30 via the CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. J. P. ELMER, G. P. A. 113 Adams St., Chicago THE BLACK REPUBLIC. Minister Powell Tells of the Greatness and Possibilities of This Rich and Resourceful Country—The Haytian Always Friendly to Americans and Have Never Repudiated Their Debts Bruce Grit Complimented. Port Au Prince, Haiti, May 22, 1903. Mr. J. E. Bruce, Yonkers, N. Y. My Dear Mr. Bruce: I have read with great interest your article in The Colored American in answer to the statements made by the young man who recently received the first prize in an oratorical contest at Yale and who chose for his subject the government of Haiti. Certain American newspapers are bestowing great praise upon this young orator, who endeavored to show in his address that this country is grossly misgoverned and indirectly states that it will not be improved unless it is dominated or governed by the other race. His address has been published in several of the Haytien papers and has created a bad impression, not so much toward the other race as toward ourselves, as it is considered an unmerited attack from one who knew absolutely nothing of the country or its people, and who is identified with a class in America which suffers under the blight of color and has a problem of its own. I have endeavored to counteract this feeling by stating that the words of this young man do not express the sentiments of our people in the States; that we all desire to see this Republic retain autonomy and independence. H. HON. W. F. POWELL, U. S. Minister, Port-au-Prince, Hayti. and that we look with pride toward the centenary 1904 of the independence; further, I have given your article to the editor of Le Soir with the request that it be published, stating that it will show the true feeling of our people toward their brothers of this Republic. This young man did not know, possibly when he prepared his oration, that this government before the beginning of the late civil war in America, as early as 1845 invited the people of African ancestry in the United States to come here, and again at the close of the war renewed this offer and further stated that it would pay the passage of such persons as might desire to take up residence in Haiti and give to e ach head of a family a certain quantity of land. Many persons availed themselves of this offer, the first coming from New Orleans and later from Charleston, Savannah and certain Northern States. The descendants of these people are to be found in many sections of this Republic. Many of the statements made by this young man in his oration are devoid of truth simply because he did not search for it and preferred to accept the prejudiced statements of white writers who can never see any good that the race or any of its members can do or have done, as the basis for his address. I do not intend to have you understand that these people have no faults: THE COLORED AMERICAN they have many, but they are not greater than one would find among the people of other countries, not excepting our own land. One should not forget that these people stand alone in the family of nations, with none to give either advice or assistance, but all stand ready to pluck them at every opportunity. Yet with all these discouragements they have been able to maintain their independence for a period of ninety-nine years during which time they have not faltered. They have paid all their obligations, and this without any outside aid, and to maintain their present autonomy they have been made to pay by nations much stronger than they, many millions of dollars that they had no right to pay. I will not say that this was done cheerfully, but it was done as a matter of preserving their independence. The debt of this Republic today amounts to about $30,000,000, of which sum $18,000,000 is held in France for a period of 45 years. They have defaulted twice in paying the interest when it was due, and each of these times the cause of non payment was due to serious political troubles involving a change of presidents. These contests were severe, many times devastating whole sections of the country, but upon the return of peace the successful party immediately proceeded to the payment of the same. It can further be said that during the whole period of the Republic's existence they have never repudiated their debts. Can many of the older and stronger countries say the same? The statements made that these people are idle, vicious, superstitious and given to eating human flesh are absolutely untrue. In this city—Port au Prince—reputed to have a population of 70,000, of which number about 60,000 are Haitians, the rest foreigners—you scarcely hear of a crime being committed. One can walk the streets at any hour of the night and will not be molested. Could the same be truthfully said of a city of similar size in the States? You may send or intrust in their care large sums of money inclosed in simple canvass bags to be sent in many instances 80 or 90 miles across mountains and rivers, with simply a donkey on whose back the money is placed, and two attendants. These men will travel all night without rest, stopping but for a few moments for refreshments, and the next day they will deliver their money to the party or parties to whom it was consigned without a seal broken or a cord cut. Can one point to a similar case in the States or in any country? Again, I know of no place where the people are more loyal to one another than one will find them here. It is true they have their political eruptions similar to those we have in the States. There we endeavor to convince by argument, here by the sword, and many of them are quite sanguinary, but when their chief magistrate is elected all endeavor to render to him their loyal support. I have stated that they are loyal to each other. As an example of this, there is one place (Jeremi) in this Republic in which no foreigner is allowed to establish business. He may come, but no one will rent to him a house, and if he happens to secure a house or a store they will not buy his goods nor sell to him their products. In this way they compel him to leave. The more one mingles with them and learns of their pride in their race the more one is forced to admire them. I only wish we could say the same of our race in the States. I am not a believer in miscegenation, which is one of the crimes the other race charges against us. You will find in this Republic not more than 500 white women in a foreign population of about 20,000. Two-thirds of the male members of this number are married to Haitian women. They make loyal wives and these white men make good husbands and are not ashamed to take their wives and children to Europe and to introduce them to their families and friends. In this number are to be found Germans, Frenchmen, Englishmen and a few Americans. On the other hand few Haitian men take white women for their wives. I mention this fact to you to refer to the statement so prevalent in the States that the majority of the male members of our race are eager to marry women of the other race. Allow me, in conclusion, to say to you that I admire the fearless manner and the incisive way you have in defending on all occasions our people from unjust attacks. Would that we had among us more fearless men like Bruce Grit. Yours respectfully. ON TO NASHVILLE, TENN. The National Negro Business League which holds its fourth annual meeting in Nashville, Tenn., August 19, 20 and 21, is attracting the attention of Negro business men and women in almost every state of the union: Delegations are preparing to go from every Southern State, and from nearly every State east of the Mississippi river, as well as from the Western States. Many of these delegations will go in special cars. Massachusetts, Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia are among the delegations that are making these special arrangements. Other States, we hear, are also planning to do likewise. Hon. J. C. Napier, of Nashville, chairman of the committee of arrangements, writes that many delegates have already written to his committee for accommodations. Some of these States will likely arrange "State headquarters," as did the Illinois delegation at Richmond last year. The exhibit of photographs of Negro business men and women and of their places of business will be larger than ever before. Those who have not done so should send photographs both of themselves and their places of business to President Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee, Ala., not later than August 10th. They should not be carried to the meeting, but instead sent to Tuskegee. The photographs should be as large as possible and not framed. Those who had exhibits at Richmond last year should add to this collection so as to fill the large space which will be set aside for each state. As our readers know, the Tennessee General Assembly has granted the use of the legislative halls for the meeting, and every prospect is that the coming meeting of this splendid organization will be the most successful of its series. ECHOES FROM CAPE MAY. CAPE MAY, N. J., Special.—In the various hotels and cottages in Cape May may be found students from all sections of the country. Last Thursday night an ex-officio meeting was held at Allen's A. M. E. Church for the purpose of reorganizing the Allen Literary and Historical Association. Among those present were many students from Lincoln University, who spoke in behalf of the organization and its importance along educational and social lines. A president, vice-president and secretary were elected pro tem, after which a short volunteer program was rendered. The society convenes every Thursday night, and will, in course of a few weeks, be a place of much interest for all literary hotel waiters and bellmen. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lucas are summering at one of the "up-town" cottages, also Mrs. William Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lynch are spending a few weeks here during the heated season. Mrs. Lynch was once a student in the Washington High School and is very popular among her friends. Dining room humor: (Guest)—"Waiter, the mosquitoes are very bad here, aren't they?" (Waiter)—"Yes'm; we can never get any rest." get any (Guest)—"Why, do they bother you during the day?" (Waiter)—"No'm; they don't bother us during the day, but as soon as the flies go off duty in the evening at 7:30 the mosquitoes come on and take up where the flies left off." Miss Louise Bradley, of 1820 Eleventh street, left the city last week for Chicago, where she is to be the guest of her sister, Mrs. Stella Bradley Poole, for the entire season. 7 GLEANING. Our Mr. Edward E. Cooper has been made an honorary National representative of the Negro Equal Rights and Suffrage State Convention to be held at Saratoga, N. Y., Aug. 3d. He will be the honorary guest of the convention and will deliver an address. Our valued representative and occasional correspondent at Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Mr. A. Goldsmith, who is a leader in our antipodes, has written to The Colored American recently in most entertaining style of the enormous conditions of that far-off continent. He finds marked analogy between the social and economic conditions of the natives there and those which afflict our people in this country. His communication shows with what interest the shifting phases of life among our lowly, their perils and wrongs are being watched and sympathized with by those who are suffering in kind if not degree both in Australia and South Africa. PETER GROGAN Credit for all Washington. During July and August our store closes at 5 p. m.; Saturdays at 1 p. m. Everything for Summer Comfort on CREDIT No Notes No Interest. A comparison of prices will prove that it is real economy to buy furniture and housefurnishings here on credit. No cash house in Washington sells guaranteed qualities for less than we ask. We offer you a choice from a bran-new stock of Chinese and Japanese Mattings, on credit, and we tack them down free. Refrigerators and Ice Chests are here in all sizes and at lowest department store prices. Dangler Blue-flame and Gasoline Stoves will do your summer cooking quickly and help materially in keeping the home cool. Folding Beds, both single and double, also Brass and Enameled Iron Bedsteads at all prices. Parlor and Dining-room Furniture in great variety-all on credit. PETER GROGAN, 817-819-821-823 7TH ST. Between H and I Sts. 99 The only true way to find it is from the stars—the same astold by the ancient astrologers thousands of years ago. Send 25c with name and date of birth to THE ZODIAC CO., 122 W 36th Street, New York City. Know Your Own Future --- 8 The Colored American Published by The Colored American Publishing Company. A National Negro Newspaper Published every Saturday, at 459 C st. N. W., Washington, D. C. Subscription may be sent by post office money order, express or registered letter. All communications for publication should be accompanied with the name of the writer, not necessarily for publication but as a guarantee of good faith. We solicit news, contributions, opinions and in fact all matters affecting the race. We will not pay for matter, however, unless it is ordered by us. All matter intended for publication should reach this office by Wednesday of each week to insure insertion in the current issue. Agents are wanted everywhere. Send for instructions. ADVERTISING RATES. Reading notices 50 cents per line. Display advertisements, $2 per square inch, per insertion. Discounts made on large contracts. Entered at the Post Office as second class matter. All letters, communications, and business matters should be addressed to THE COLORED AMERICAN. Sold by all News Dealers. SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1903. THE TRUE REFORMERS. The dedication, on Wednesday, the 15th instant, in this city of Washington Hall, the ornate and commodious temple of the Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers, was an event of more than ordinary significance. Elsewhere we give space to a full account of the ceremonies and a description of the building. Entering a field of business activity in the District but a few years ago in a tentative and modest manner, it has found such encouragement as has justified it in laying this magnificent foundation for what promise to be an unexampled and brilliant success. Already the beneficial features of the order have attracted a large membership here, though that field had apparently been covered by other worthy organizations. The success of the order, now soundly entrenched in the social and business life of our community, speaks volumes for the business sense and conservative judgment of the officers. But it means much more to the community itself. Other race institutions with equally praiseworthy objects have arisen heretofore, and though prospering for a time have met the inexorable fate of imprudent management or rash speculation. The faith, the confidence of our people in race enterprises have been rudely and repeatedly shocked at the revelation that many of our alleged business and financial giants were but men of clay. But here enter the True Reformers! Do they come, hat in hand, with a subscription paper in one hand and a declaration of race platitudes in the other? Not so! They come as business men come, with a perfect knowledge of what they want and, best of all, with the money in hand to pay for it. Where has there ever been before a race enterprise of such magnitude with such a record? They ask no favors. They invest their money. They build a sturdy monument to Negro thrift and business acumen. They exhibit to the District Negro the object lesson he needs. "Here," they say to THE COLORED AMERICAN. him, "is your opportunity to make good your oft-repeated promise to patronize and sustain a really worthy business venture of your own people. We are financially sound. We have the prestige of complete success achieved already in more than one community. Come up to the altar of duty and make your willing sacrifice." And we believe the response will be hearty and generous. We think this movement will reawaken the confidence of our people and we predict emphatic and substantial success to this grand company of earnest race-loving souls, who have our warmest wishes and felicitations over this auspicious undertaking. Elsewhere will be found an article from "A South Carolinian" setting forth with much detail the political situation in South Carolina from the standpoint of Hon. E. H. Deas, the chairman of the Republican State Central Committee. The warm friendship for Mr. Deas which ourcorrespondent evinces is commendable, but his strictures upon the course pursued by The Colored American indicates a want of proper appreciation of this journal's attitude upon all questions affecting our race. We have no bias on this or any other question. The Colored American is an open forum. It seeks the truth. It endeavors to be fair. The situation as viewed from Mr. John G. Capers' side was accorded a generous hearing in these columns and now equally courteous treatment is extended to the friend of Mr. Deas to respond. We express the hope that the party in South Carolina will get together and achieve the results which are possible only from the maintenance of peace, harmony and combined aggressiveness. THE A. M. E. CHURCH REVIEW The A. M. E. Church Review, the quarterly organ of that great body, published during the present month, has reached us. It is a number of unusual excellence and covers an extensive territory. It is rightly described as "a patriotic number," which designation takes its keynote from a singularly cogent and well-balanced article on disfranchisement from the pen of Bishop Alexander Walters. There are two articles, one on "Hell" by Bishop B. T. Tanner and the other on "Hell Fire" by G. W. Brent, both of which in this epoch of latitudinarianism are brave if inconsequent. Hardly a question which is occupying modern thought fails to receive attention. Editor Kealing's description of a day with Coleridge Taylor is a delightful bit and the contributions of Miss Frazellia Campbell on "The Sixteenth Century in the Education of Modern Thought," and of Mr. Wm. C. Bolivar on "Two great Women" are altogether and entirely the gems of the issue. The magazine is ably edited and justly takes rank with all periodicals of high literary merit. MR. HAYES ALL RIGHT. The Odd Fellows Journal, of Philadelphia, the organ of the Odd Fellows of the United States, takes issue with The Colored American's estimate of James H. Hayes, of Richmond, Va., in his relation to the Afro-American Council, and proceeds to throw some boquets to Mr. Hayes' honesty and ability as if they settled the question. They most certainly do not. The proposition of his fitness for the cause of general organizer rises above these considerations, though they have a place in the equation. The Council must proceed to the accomplishment of its mission by conservative methods and agencies. It must win the confidence of the white people of this country by its respect for the law and its adherence to principle. No firebrand can advance its cause. No Bombastic Furioso will avail in the struggle for the right. The only reputation Mr. Hayes has acquired is an unenviable one. Bishop Walters could not share it with him. Cyrus F. Adams would spurn it. Mr. Hayes is able and earnest without a doubt. If the Council was dominated as alleged by the administrative forces it was error on the part of the Nation- al Negro Suffrage Association to coalesce with it. They should have maintained their separate organization and then, unembarrassed by the restrictions of party or administration loyalty, they might have elected Mr. Hayes their president and sent him forth, not into the Southland for his inevitably tragic finale, but into the North, East and West, where our votes are cast and honestly counted, to make propaganda against the iniquities of Southern legislation and the brutality of Northern indifference. Mr. Hayes has his utility and he is the very man for this latter quest, but as for the Afro-American Council, "nay, nay, Pauline!" CLOGGING THE WHEELS OF PROGRESS. The Brunswick, Ga., Herald has lately been playing the usual role of the envious and malicious Negro who is very, very numerous indeed in this country and who is a curse to the race. With sweeping generalities and disdain to state a single specific occurrence or fact upon which to base his statements he attacks the editor of The Colored American in his capacity as recording secretary of the National Negro Business League and makes the most undefensible charges against him. It is probably as well, and no doubt entered into the Herald man's consideration before this publication was made, that he lived nearly a thousand miles away from Washington and could not therefore be held to a direct personal responsibility for his scurrility. Yet when our just indignation responds to the rudder of reflection we perceive that violence is no less reprehensible than vulgarity. And so we say to this gangrened, this animated outrage upon the newspaper profession, that if he have valid charges or causes of complaint against the recording secretary of the National Negro Business League, the correct, the manly thing to do will be to put them in coherent shape and present them to the League for consideration at its meeting at Nashville, Tenn., next month. The fact is, the Herald's man has no cause of complaint and no charges which can be sustained against the recording secretary of the League. He is the flippant echo of a few irresponsible, disappointed and envenomed barnacles upon the journalistic profession. Why have we so many negative men among us who do nothing but sit and sneer at the activities of positive characters? The recording secretary, like all the other officers of the League, is strongly convinced of its great beneficial features and he has for three years worked with enthusiasm towards the accomplishment of its purposes. He has done this in a distinctly altruistic spirit, at an appreciable cost of time, thought and money, and it is gratifying to know that his efforts have the appreciation of the really influential people of the country. Of the course of The Colored American nothing need be said. It speaks for itself. Testimony accumulates from all parts of the country and indeed the civilized world, that as a race paper it is easily the leader and essentially inapproachable. To abuse it is to confess its superiority and we are content with the situation and its reputation. The Herald man would better copy The Colored American's features of conceded excellence and profit by them than exhibit himself, as he does, as the very antithesis of that high race character which we assume he, in common with all other Negro newspaper men, is essaying to develop among our people. ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT. DISTRICT MILITIA. LEESBURG. VA. Sunday, July 26, 1903, will be the banner day at Leesburg (Camp Ordway) during the annual encampment of the District Militia, July 23-August 1, and the SOUTHERN RAILWAY will furnish ample accommodations for all those wishing to visit their friends in camp. A fast limited train will leave Pennsylvania station Sunday at 9:01 a.m. There will be room for all, and the rate for the ROUND TRIP will be AT NARRAGANSETT PIER The Gay Season Now in Full Bloom A Busy Throng. Narragansett Pier, R. I., Special. The season is well on, with the prospect of an exceptional summer. Hotel guests and cottage owners are arriving daily in large numbers. Entertainments, dances, lawn parties, straw rides and railing parties are being arranged for the pleasure of those here and those who are to come later. Picture parties is the fad this season. A party of about twelve, six ladies and six gentlemen, each supplied with a camera or kodak, go out to secure pictures of a few of the many beautiful scenes hereabout. Each develops his plate or film, prints and mounts his own pictures. The prettiest view and finest piece of technical workmanship is awarded a prize. Last week Messrs. James J. Brown and Roscoe Orme were the successful contestants. Messrs. James and Jos. Johnson are making quite a success as dancing masters at Prince Mitchell's largely patronized dancing academy. Up to date the weekly dance of this class has eclipsed all others. There were so many of the Pier's representative folks present it would be too much of a task to read or mention them. Last Thursday evening Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin entertained a few of their friends. Their cottage is one of the most beautifully situated on "The Rocks." The feature of the evening was a game of progressive whist. Messrs. John White and Clarence Alexander carried off the prizes. Among those nresent were Misses Lucy Cottrell, B. B. Kennedy, Eva Moore, Messrs. Bennett Dean, Thomas Smith, Lewis Murray and Cornelius King. Quite a few of the many Washingtonians who went to Boston are booked for the different cottages during the month of August. Mrs. James Payne, Who has been in demand as chaperon during past seasons, is missed quite a deal, but it is pleasant news to know that she will be with us again about the first of August. The literary which has heretofore been such a treat to the summer dwellers has been organized, and already have the subjects and speakers for the season been announced. Mr. Fred Freeman, the genial head waiter of the Mathewson, ahs in Mr. Johnson Collins an able assistant. Messrs J. F. Green, Fred Brown and James E. Peyton are his officers in the dining room. In all, a more gentlemanly and intelligent set of men have never before served. Mr. Freeman sets the example by taking active part in all literary and musical efforts. His skill on the 'cello has called forth the loudest praise by the music loving members of the community. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fadle have engaged apartments for the season at one of the finest cottages. Messrs. eLon Turner, Alex Coleman, Turner Bates and Aubrey Carpenter have ocean front rooms at the St. Charles. Saturday nights are their at home nights, and to be one of those fortunate enough to be invited insures one of an evening of fun long to be remembered. Mr. Roger Watts spends most of his time on "The Rocks" or in some picturesque place looking up matter to be used in his next story or novel. Though the game is a little out of date, there is quite a revival of casino playing. So much indeed that a grand tournament has been arranged between Messrs, James Payne, Wm. Wilson, John Pollard, Johnson Collins, Fred Brown and Lawrence Bradley. The evening promenade on the board walk is worth seeing, and each day is adding new faces and pretty figures. Mr. Forbes, of New York, who has been summering at the Pier for many years, is again on hand with his fine horses and unexcelled turnouts. Mr. W. L. Houston, "our Will," was a busy man at the reception last Tuesday evening, given in honor of Attorney General of Liberia, Richardson. Some of Mr. Houston's introductory speeches were gems, being both humorous and witty. Mr. Robert W. Calloway, head waiter at the Bingham House, Philadelphia, Pa., is in the city this week visiting his family and friends. He leaves for Baltimore today to visit friends there before returning to his post of duty. Dr. W. S. Montgomery, who has just returned from Boston, where he attended an educational convention, is sojourning with his family at Harpers Ferry, W. Va. It is said that the Professor is an expert disciple of Sir Isaac Walton. The subject of temperance will be discussed at the Tenth street Baptist church at 8 p. m. Sunday. Among those who woll speak are Mrs. Rosetta E. Lawson and the District organizer, Mr. A. N. Canfield. Special music. Rev. S. G. Lamkins is pastor. The stay-at-homes are arranging a testimonial for Mr. J. Henry Lewis. The affair will probably be an "evening outing"by water, and will occur before he takes his usual summer vacation. Our citizens generally will be interested in this event, for Mr. Lewis is entitled to a generous recognition. Miss Eunice Brooks, in company with Miss Florence Sprague, left Washington last Friday for Niagara Falls and will spend their vacation in western New York. They will return about September 1st. Miss Sprague will resume her work at Tuskegee. In addition to his own duties, Justice Terrell is now holding court for Justice Mills of the District during the latter's absence. Judge Terrell has been repeatedly selected to act in the absence of other justices of the peace and has always served most acceptably. Prof. T. J. Calloway, ex commissioner to the World's Fair Exposition at Paris and now holding an important position in the Treasury Department, was a welcome guest at the reception given to Hon. Robt. B. Richardson at 1706 Tenth street last Tuesday evening. . The colored business men of the District have planned for a special train for Nashville, Tenn., to attend the meeting of the Negro Business League on the 19th proximo. They will be joined at Columbus, Ohio, by the officers of the Wilgera Oil and Gas Co., and at Cincinnati by a delegation of the leading business men of that city. Among the delegation for Richmond who attended the dedicatory exercises of the True Reformers Hall in this city wer: Mr. W. P. Burrell, secretary; Mr. R. T. Hill, cashier of the True Reformers Bank; Mr. R. J. Kyles, private secretary to President Taylor; Mr. A. W. Holmes, manager Hotel Reformer; Mr. Jas. Allen, of Petersburg, and President Mrs. W. L. Taylor. THE AMPHIONS SCORE THEIR USUAL SUCCESS!! Notwithstanding the appearance of uncertain weather and counter attractions Saturday evening, the Amphions had a very large attendance to accompany them on their outing twenty miles down the river, Saturday, July 18th. The club was attired in their natty summer uniforms and presented a fine appearance. The Monumental orchestra furnished excellent music, as usual, and the refreshments were served by Mr. James Foster. The party returned to the city before midnight thoroughly pleased, and whenever the Amphions go again it is safe to predict that they will be well patronized. FOR RENT. Large light-furnished room with board for two. Apply at 941 T street N. W. THE COLORED AMERICAN. ZIONITES AT RIVER VIEW. Editor Chrisum Visits Bruce Grit—In the Social Whirl. YONKERS, N. Y., Special.—The A. M. E. Zion and Messiah Sunday Schools, last Thursday, spent a very pleasant day at River View Park. The young folks, also the grown up ones enjoyed themselves very much. The occasion being their Annual Outing. Rev. Winder, of St. Marks church, of New York City, preached at Messiah Baptist Church, on last Sunday evening. Mrs. Forrester and Mrs. Quarley, of Manhattan, were the guests of Mrs. C. E. Conick; also Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Hill, of Jersey City. Prof. Scottrow, and Mrs. Frederick Moore, also Mrs. Bilburt, of Brooklyn, addressed the Men's Business Club, of the A. M. E. Zion Church, last Sunday afternoon. Mrs. C. E. Conick, Jr., is spending a few weeks at Virginia, as the guest of Mrs. Wm. H. Daggs. Mrs. Perry and Mrs. Hall are the guests of Mrs. Albert Bowman. Captain MeMbane, of Elizabeth, N. J., and Mr. Melvin Chisune, of Manhattan, were the guests of Mr. J. E. Bruce. Miss Randolph, of Brooklyn, and Miss Lee, of Boston, are the guests of Mrs. C. Bundick. Mrs. Gogan and her little daughter, Edith, were the guests of Mrs. Thomas Mason, during the past week. Mrs. John Miller and Miss L. Miller, of Cambridge, Mass., were the guests of Mrs. Jordan Crudup, during the past week. Mrs. J. T. Gaskill, who has been quite ill at her home, is now able to be out again much to the delight of her many friends. Miss Freda Potter, of Poughkeepsie, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Chas. Scott, of Woodworth ave. Little Miss Clarissa Howard, and Masters Harry Winfield Howard, Morningside ave., are spending the summer with their grandmother, at Virginia. Mr. William Skinner, is still very ill at the residence of his parents, 11 Brook street. Mrs. Luther Bush, who has been very much indisposed, owing to a needle being broken off in her hand, is quite herself again, the needle having been removed under the skillful treatment of Dr. Morgan, who has office hours in Yonkers, and who is doing nicely in his profession here. Miss J. Outlaw, sister of Miss Elizabeth Outlaw, of this city, left lasa week for her home, in North Carolina. Little Wiley Cook was buried last Wednesday, from his home, in Baldwin Place. Mrs. Samuel Young, of New York City, formerly of Yonkers. FOR SYSTEMIC CATARRH Peculiar to Summer Pe-ru-na Gives Prompt and Permanent Relief. "For the past two years I have hardly known what it was to have a sweet, restful night's sleep. Cares and overwork seemed to weigh me down more than it should or would had I been able to get my proper rest. My doctor was unable to help me and ordered me South for a complete rest and change. As this was simply out of the question, and as I had heard several of the men under me speak of how much Peruna had helped them, I decided to try it and am glad indeed that I did. Six bottles made a new man of me. I eat well, sleep well and get up feeling refreshed and rested. "My official duties are not half so hard and I certainly have good reasons to heartily endorse Peruna."—C. S. Rhoads. C. S. Rhoads, Indianapolis, Ind., writes: "For the past two years I have hardly restful night's sleep. Cares and overwork it should or would had I been able to get my to help me and ordered me South for a co simply out of the question, and as I had hear of how much Peruna had helped them, I deed I did. Six bottles made a new man of me. ing refreshed and rested. "My official duties are not half so hard heartily endorse Peruna."—C. S. Rhoads. C·S·Rhoads Judge Wm. T. Zenor, of Washington, D.C., writes from 213 N. Capital street, Washington, D.C.: "I take pleasure in saying that I can cheerfully recommend the use of Peruna as a remedy for catarrhal trouble and a most excellent tonic for general conditions."—Wm. T. Zenor Mrs. Amanda Morrill, 130 Reid street, Elizabeth, N. J., writes: "I have been sick over two years with nervous prostration and general debility, and heart trouble. Have had four doctors; all said that I could not get well. I had not walked a step in nine months, suffering with partial paralysis and palpitation of the heart every other day, and had become so reduced in flesh as to be a mere skeleton, weighing only 85 pounds. "Up to this date I have taken Peruna for seven months. It has saved my life visited friends here on Sunday last. Miss E. R. Dungey, of Staten Island, is now the guest of her sister, Mrs. Thomas Mason. BROWN GRIT, JR. SEWING GIRLS WANTED. A millinery establishment not many miles from Washington desires to secure the services of four first-class sewing girls to go to that city to accept permanent positions. She will want them to be ready to leave this city about the 15TH OF SEPTEMBER, but will be pleased to have them call at The Colored American office and leave their addresses so that she can meet them in this city Aug. 15. The pay runs from $4 TO $5 PER WEEK, with first-class accommodations and given room and board in the same building. Young ladies desiring such positions will please call at THIS OFFICE, 459 C STREET N. W., any day between now and the 5th OF AUGUST for further information. --- 9 A A Prominent Business Man of Indianapolls Restored to Health and Vigor by Pe-rn-na. He says: "Pe-ru-na made a New Man of Me." as I can safely testify. I have not felt so well in five years, having walked over one mile without ill result, and have also gained thirty pounds since commencing to take Peruna. In fact, I cannot praise it too highly."—Mrs. Amanda Morrill. Peruna never fails to prevent systemic catarrh or nervous prostration if taken in time. Peruna is the most prompt and permanent cure for all cases of nervous prostration caused by systemic catarrh known to the medical profession. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. ALWAYS WANTS THE BEST. An old German couple, said to be living in Germantown, had recently met slight financial reverses, which caused the wife considerable worriment, while her better half was inclined to take the matter philosophically and make the best of the situation. In the course of her complaints she one day said: "Ach! I vish I vos dead." "I don't," said her husband. "I vish I vos in a beer saloon." "Dot's it! Dot's it!" replied the spouse. "Dat's just like you; you always vants de best."—New York Times