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The COLORED American Library of Congress A-NATIONAL REGRO NEWSPAPER VOL. X, NO. 12 The Business League Holds its Fourth Annual Session in Nashville. The Largest Attendance of Delegates in the History of the League—Nearly Every State and Territory Represented—Eloquent Speeches in Which Practical Common Sense Abounded Dr. Washington's Address—Tennessee's Hospitality—Notes of the League. NASHVILLE, TENN., Special.—The 4th annual session of the National Negro Business Men's League assembled at 11|30 o'clock Wednesday August 21, in the Hall of Representatives at the Capitol. Long before the convention was called to order every available seat on the floor and in the galleries was taken, and the aisles were packed with people who could not find seats It was estimated that there was 1,5000 persons in the hall, of which about 300 were delegates. There was loud and prolonged applause when J. C. Napier and Dr. Booker T. Washington entered the hall. The convention was called to order by Rev. Preston Taylor. Rev. J. E. Purdy, pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist Church in behalf of the committee on arrangements, turned the building and the city over to the convention. The chairman thanked the committee for their plans and expense. Dr. R. F. Bloyd was introduced and handed the gavel over to Mr. Washington, president of the League. The invocation was offered by Bishop C. H. Phillips, of Nashville. Mr. A. S. Williams the Democratic nominee for Mayor on behalf of the city of Nashville, and in the absence of Mayor Head, welcomed the delegates He said that the city welcomed any organization which had as its object the moral, mental and business elevation of persons, whether white or black. "The time has come in the history of the world," he said "when the business communities are severing itself from all bitter partisanship which has had the tendency to promote only selfish interests. The plowman is as essential as the monarch who sits upon his self-constituted throne of authority. We have forever thrown off the foreign and domestic yoke of oppression. Nashville stand to-day with outstretched arms to every interest that has for its purpose the bettering of mankind, more so than any other city in the country." He said that the president of the League had not only the opportunity, but the mental endowment to do a great work in behalf of the Negro. WASHINGTON, D.C., AUGUST 29, 1903. [Name not visible in the image] He was a man of intelligence and a man of moral character. All of the wisdom of Solomon and the opportunity of a king would be worthless where there is a lack of disposition to make the proper use of it for good. He welcomed the visitors to all the friendship and hospitality that has ever characterized the people of the South and Tennessee and more especially Nashville. said that he was please the members of the Lea our people, both white and mingle more together, a know one another better that you, many of who been this far South before so that you may have hearsay the way we tro but may know. We will hands so long as you Hon. J. C. Napier read a letter from Mayor James M. Head expressing regret that his business necessitated his being absent from Nashville, thus making it impossible for him to deliver his address. He offered the League warm words of encouragement. On behalf of the Chamber of Com- On behalf of the Chamber of Commerce Mr. W. C. Collier, president. said that he was pleased to welcome the members of the League. "I want our people, both white and black, to mingle more together, and to come to know one another better. I am glad that you, many of whom have never been this far South before came here, so that you may have to accept by hearsay the way we treat the Negro, but may know. We will hold up your hands so long as you are in the right line and in the right path." Mr. Washington said that there was perhaps no other class of people who affect the retail business of the country so actively as the Negro. He said that he therefore was pleased to have one of its representatives present. He Continued on page 4. PRICE, FIVE CENTS A Bright Barrister. The Career of Hon. J. T. Suttle, the Leading Attorney of Memphis Tenn. His Early Struggles—His Victory Over Difficulties—A Learned Lawyer A Gifted Orator and Profopnd Thinker, He Has Been Many Times Honored. MEMPHIS, TENN., Special.—The legal business of the seventy-five thousand Negroes in Memphis is attended to by twelve lawyers of the race. The wealthiest and most eloquent orator of the entire number is the Hon. Josiah T. Settle. During his visit to Memphis just after his victory in the Spanish-American war Admiral George Dewey was received and entertained by the most prominent and well-to-do members of the race, at the Main street auditorium. In a speech of welcome in which he named the admiral, the Sailor Statesman, Mr. Settle proved himself to be entitled to a place among the famous orators of his country. To say that his address was a masterpiese in point of literary production as well as oratory, would be describing it in a very mild degree. Mr. Settle was born in East Tennessee, September 30, 1850. He prepared for, entered college and completed his Freshman year at Oberlin College. He was one of the four Negro boys of a class numbering fifty, yet he was chosen as one of the eight orators to represent his class when they entered the college, an honor much desired by all students. After graduating from Howard University Mr. Settle graduated from the law department of Howard University also. He was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, but having decided to make his chosen profession his life's work, and believing he could best serve his people where resided the greatest number, he left the District of Columbia in the spring of 1875 and located in North Mississippi, where he at once engaged in the practice of law. In 1876 he was a delegate to the National Republican convention and was the only delegate from Mississippi who voted for the nomination of Roscoe Conkling for President, and continued to vote for him as long as his name was before the convention. Mr. Settle was elector for the State at large on the Hayes and Wheeler ticket, and in 1880 he was presidential elector on the Garfield and Arthur ticket. When a resident of Mississippi, there was no man that stood higher in the estimation of all classes than he. He was as popular with one race as he was with the other. 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Drugs, Toilet Stationery, Articles, Cigars Carl W. Shaffer, Prop. & Druggist. 922 Frederick St. Joseph, Avenue - - Missouri - THE COLORED AMERICAN. LOCALS. Miss Gussie Savoy has returned from a fortnight's stay at the "Ridge." Moonlight and with the Amphions, Sept. 5th! My! what a treat. 'This is your last chance this season with the Amphions. Sept 5. Maj. Arthur Brooks and Mr. Russell Boyd have gone abroad, in attendance on the Alaskan commission. Dr. J. Frank Allen, formerly of the local high school teaching force, is now practicing in Alleghany, Pa. Miss Simmons, of Atlanta, Ga., has been the guest for two weeks of Mr. and Mrs. Zeph Moore, of R street. Mr. George Vauter was in Leesburg, Va., last Monday, as the guest of „the queen“ of that town and her folks. Many of our dear girls will return in time to accompany the Amphions, Sept. 5th. The Amphions! The Amphions!! The Amphions!!! Sept. 5! Sept 5!! Six o'clock sharp!!! The Amphions are out with a handsome card announcing their closing outing for this season. Mrs. Lillian Wade, of Hughosville, Md., is spending a vacation with her mother, Mrs. Schurman, and her sisters. Mr. Samuel H. Lucas, the florist of Anacostia, has opened a very beautiful stand in Centre Market, No. 310-12, and begs the patronage of the readers of The Colored American. Mr. R. W. Thompson and wife, formerly of this city and who have been sojourning in Tuskegee, Ala., for the past three months, are now located in Jeffersonville, Ind., just across the river from Louisville, Ky. Miss Lucy Moten, of 12th street, has returned to the city from Detroit, Mich. after spending a pleasant time as guest of her sister, Mrs. Holland Powell. A letter from J. B. Parker, who was present at the assissination of President McKinley, at Buffalo, indicates that he is out in Colorado and has ascended Pikes Peak. The Douglas Express Co., has opened a branch office at 1144 Conn., ave., with Mr. Manning C. Jones, as Manager. This company though a new one is very popular as well as enterprising an is already doing a large business. Mr. Robt. T. Douglas, the Manager, is one of our most successful business men. The Choral Social Club will give a Picnic and Lawn Fete, at the residence of Frederick W. Brooks, Kenilworth D. C., Thursday, September 3rd from 4 to 12 p. m. Get transfer at 15th and H. N. E., take Kenilworth car, one fare. Graphophone concert from 5 to 7 p. m. Admission free. Mrs. Jennie A. Brown, of Sixteenth street northwest, accompanied by her daughters, Misses Allie and Jennie, and Miss Helen Moore, are spending their vacation at Williamsport, Pa. Their many friends wish them a pleasant sojourn. Mrs. Cotton, wife of Dr. Cotton, Mrs. Jos. Conway, and daughter, Miss Josie Conway, of Peoria, Ill., are guests of Mrs. Joiner and Miss Joiner, 716 S street northwest, while "seeing Washington for a few days. Mrs. Maria Brown and Mr. Edw. Smith, of the Porters Exchange, have returned from a ten days' jaunt in the South. They visited principal cities in Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia and attended the fourth annual meeting of the National Negro Business League at Nashville, Tenn. They returned home last Monday morning greatly pleased with their trip. H. K. FU 314 NINTH STREET ESTABLISH MONEY LOANED ON elry, Silverware, Etc. Unre and Jewelry for Sale. Old G The Most Reliable Place In MONEY LOANED ON Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware, Etc. Unredeemed Watches, Diamonds and Jewelry for Sale. Old GOLD and SILVER Bought. AMONG THE COLLEGES. We have received from Prof. Frank Trigg, Principal of the Princess Anne Academy, Somerset County, Maryland, the printed circular, giving the course of study at that institution, which is devoted to academic and industrial training. These schools, wherever located are doing immense service to our people. The Norris Brown College, at Atlanta, Ga., has forwarded to this office their bulletin for July, 1903. This college is under the control of the A. M. E. church, and is doing great work among the lowly down in Georgia. Mr. Edward H. Carry, a graduate of Tuskegee, has been made Superintendent of all the colored schools in Blynn County, Ga. This is one of the few instances where a colored man has been given such responsibility in the South. During the past few months the Tuskegee Institute has received over 1,600 towards its annual expenses from colored people in the country. We have received and read with pleasure the reports of the officers of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, at Greenboro, N. C., for the year just closed, and its catalogue for the next scholastic period. The institution exhibits vigor and great usefulness and its benefactions should be more widely extended both by legislature and private benevolence. As its catalogue aptly says "Agriculture and Mechanics are the handmaids of progress and prosperity." President James B. Dudley and his able corps of assistants are to be congratulated on this admirable showing. The Ladies' Literary Home Circle of Anacostia held its first review meeting at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Brown, Morris road, Anacostia, D. C. The program was a very interesting one, being composed of essays, poems, and music. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Andrews, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. McKinney, Mr. and Mrs. George Tossitt, Mr. and rs. Samuel H. Lucas, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. John Slade, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Scott, Mr. Solomon G. Brown, Mrs. W. K. Scott, Mrs. M. E. Hoffmann, Mrs. M. White, Mrs. Francis B. Shipley, Miss Mamie Hite, Miss Rice of West Virginia, and Mrs. White of Washington D. C. --- LOAN OFFICE ET, NORTHWES HED 1870. Watches, Diamonds, Jew- leemed Watches, Diamonds OLD and SILVER Bought. the City to Borrow Money. TEACHERS' COLLEGE. HOWARD UNIVRRSITY. Scholastic, Professional, Industrial. Prepares Teachers for Kindergartens, Elementary, Industrial and High Schools. Well trained Teachers Always in Demand. Two years' course leads to Teachers' diploma. Three or four years' course leads to degree in Philosophy or Pedagogy, (Ph. B., or, Pd. B.) Thorough training in Psychology, edagogy, Philosophy, History, Social Science, English Language and Literature, Elocution, Bilogical nature study, Physical study, Physical Science and Mathematics, Kindergarten theory and practice, Child study, Ethics, Logic, Manual training and methods of school organization and management. All departments of the University open to study of Teachers' College. Graduates assisted in securing positions. Tuition free. Expenses small. Fall term opens Sept. 23,'03. Catalogue free. Address L. B. MOORE, PH. D. Dean Howard University, Washington, D. C. A. Indian Hair Tonic It is a positive guarantee when given a fair trial to remove Dandruff, Tetter, Soald Head and all Scalp Diseases; prevents hair from falling out, removes itching, restores gray hair to its original color and makes it soft and glossy. Price 50c per bottle. This coupon accompanied with $2.25 to my office, is good in return for twelve bottles at the above price. White and colored agents wanted on commission or salary throughout the world. J. S. WEBB 1419-1421 West Fifteenth Street LITTLE ROCK, ARK. WEBB'S GREAT MRN MUST LEAD. The Growth and Development of the A. M. E. Church. The Career of Rev. G. W. Allen—Alabama's Choice for Recognition in the Official Family of the Church—A Leader True and Tried Who Has Won His Way to Eminence—Incidents of His Life. When the great general conference of the A. M. E. Church finally meets in 104 how many aspirations will be dissipated, how many fondly cherished booms for the Episcopacy will be shattered and brought to naught! Yet it is not reflective of criticism to aspire, nor should any worthy clergyman of the faith lose his heart of grace because "his merits have not been disclosed." The ethics of the situation do not permit affirmative candidacy; but those whose suffrages will elect are constantly alive to the qualifications of the eligibles and solicitous that their intelligent judgment be informed. The Colored American has endeavored to keep in touch with the restless thought of the connection on the subject of the election of bishops. It realizes how difficult it is growing to be to select a man for this high honor who measures up to the high standard, which the laity exacts with their A. B. REV. G. W. ALLEN, Girard, Ala. advance on all intellectual lines, and it perceives that unless the general conference of next year act with peculiar discretion and avoid the erros of former selections, something—perhaps a schism—will occur in the ranks of those from whom after all these men, set apart for the service of God, derive their sustenance. But their aspirations are not vain. There are many worthy possibilities in the church who can sustain the shock of apostolic lightning without a quiver or a doubt. In the great South, from which after all, the great Negro has to come and will continue to come, there are magnificent possibilities. One, for example, is Rev. G. W. Allen, D. D., of Girard, Ala., the presiding elder of the Montgomery district of hic church, a scholar, a newspaper man an organizer and an orator. Dr. Allen's early life was not dissimilar to the experience of many other Negroes who have won distinction. There is in all these superior Negroes the fact of oppression and suppression, the determination to rise beyond the narrowness and homeliness of their early connections and entourage and the constantly inspiring example of some superbly successful Negro who had blazed his way through a forest of sneers and detraction to the heights of commercial, political, or financial success. School teaching, the inevitable experience with the iniquitous ballot system of the South, and terms of service in the State Legislature ran their gamut in the life of Dr. Allen as they did in the lives of many other Southern colored men who were perhaps less worthy, but the Scriptural injunction to him who has once "put his hand to the plough" finally found appreciation in Dr. Allen's zone of thought and he has lived to bless and adorn the A. M. E. connection. THE COLORED AMERICAN. The recital of his accomplishments since he adjusted himself to the work of the Christian ministry is most entertaining. He has built up four distinct, effective churches in places where the seed of Methodism had previously refused to take root. With a lively sense of the best means of influencing others he did not fail to cherish his personal fortunes, so that when the fate of any of his tentative efforts to create a Methodist entity in any community was trembling in the balance, it was in his power as it was to make himself acceptably and generously responsible for his flock's financial excursions. Nor did they always respond to his generosity. In at least one instance his whole landed estate was swept away by too much confidence in the plighted word of his congregation. This, however, did not dampen his ardor, for, like all other altruistic acts, his argosies of unselfishness have returned to him freighted with the wealth of iridescence. He is one of the solid financial factors of the church and his eloquence and Godly life added to his personal popularity in the connection make him a formidable candidate for the highest gifts of the church. Alabama puts him forward as her favorite son, and her loyalty to the church and devotion to its highest impulses and aims will give her voice the potency to achieve her wish for her chosen clergyman, who is the product of her soil and the unselfish laborer in her vineyard. THE AMERICAN BLACK MAN. Hon. W. Allison Sweeney, of Chicago, Ill., will, during the coming fall establish a National race journal in that city. It will be known as "The American Black Man." Mr. Sweeney is an orator of graceful presence and captivating eloquence, but he is a seasoned writer of force and pungency. This is by no means his first venture in the journalistic field. He served most brilliantly as associate editor of The Indianapolis Freeman, in colla- J. C. boration with our Mr. E. E. Cooper, who founded that newspaper. Chicago is not too well served in regard of dignified and influential journalism, and there is no doubt that with the prestige of his former brilliant experience in that field, Mr. Sweeney's new candidate for favor will receive and deserve prompt appreciation. The Colored American tenders the race its warm felicitations upon the prospect and like all other decent journals cordialw welcomes Mr. Sweeney to their ranks. ATTENTION. AGENTS! Agents for The Colored American who have not already sent in their report for July, are hereby notified to do so at once. Bills have been sent to each and every agent and to insure the prompt and early delivery of the paper each week, it is necessary that each agent make his settlement promptly. Papers will bediscontinued to agents who are in arrears after the 10th of August. LINCOLN WITH MAJOR OWARDING WITH CHARITIES 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. 1903. FOR CHARTER SEASON. 1903. TO UPPER GLYMONT, LOWER CEDAR POINT, ROCK POINT, OTHER POINTS ON THE POTOMAC RIVER. Freedman's Transportation, Land and Improvement Co (Incorporated.) A limited amount of the stock is now on the market for sale to the public at Ten Dollars per share, payable in small monthly payments. This boat has recently been overhauled and thoroughly inspected by the U. S. Government Inspectors, chartered and equipped with electric lights and late improvements and is licensed to carry 1,300 passengers. Jas. Morrison, President, Jos. N. Mayne, Vice President, J. L. Neill Secretary, F. M. Sims, Assistant Secretary, H. Hood, Treasurer, Lewis Jefferson, General Manager, James Dabney, General Agent. BOCKS ARE NOW OPEN FOR CHARTERS. For terms apply to J. L. NEILL, Secretary, LEWIS JEFFERSON, General Manager, Room A, 1st Floor, 629 F Street, Northwest. AGENTS II JUSTICE VESTS PREJUDICE . PRESIDENT RECOVERY - Lies about you, the person you identify and I protect your identity. Agents wanted to sell "Roosevelt Open-Door of Hope to The Negro." This fine fish in three colors, 14 by 21 inches, 25c, or $1.00 framed. Send orders to S. Day, P. O. Box 29, Yonkers, N. Y. It granted by Keppler & Schwarzman THE SAFEST, SWIFTEST AND MOST COMMON STEAMER ON THE RIVER NE MOSELEY, FOR CHARTER SEASON. 1903. GLYMONT, LOWER CEDAR POINT, ROCK POINTS ON THE POTOMAC RIVER. transportation, Land and Improvement (Incorporated.) OFFICERS : 12 Marvelous Discovery. Dr. Yonkerman Has Mys= terious Remedy For Consumptives. A Large Trial Package Sent Free by Return Mail to All Who Send Their Name and Address. I have made the most marvelous discovery in the realms of medicine. I have produced a mysterious compound unknown to other chemists or to medical science and it has proven the most wonderful cure for consumption coughs, throat and lung troubles ever discovered. I have taken consumptives who were gasping upon their death-beds, given up by their own home physicians to die in a day or two, and I have cured them completely. Time and again I have restored health to consumptives who were in the very jaws of death. My marvelous and mysterious compound, of which I alone hold the secret will cure any case of consumption, coughs, throat and lung troubles, no matter how far advanced. Where there is life there is hope, for my marvelous compound will cure consumption in every stage. I furnish proof in thousands of instances. The leading men in nearly every civilized community have carefully investigated my wonderful discovery and all have been compelled by the stories of those I have cured of the deadly consumption to acknowledge that work is little short of mariculous and that I positively do cure consumption, no matter how many remedies or doctors have failed. My famous discovery* for the cure THE COLORED AMERICAN. of consumption is emphatically endorsed by the following noted men: The Rev. Edward Collins, of Detroit, Mich., one of the most noted pulpit ornehtiso tar etetaoirdluhrfwygwygkqjy ators in the west. Hon. E. A. Moriarity, Secretary of the Division of Health, Department of Safety, Columbus, O. Hon. A. T. Park, Duluth Minnesota, County Superintendent of Schools and one of the foremost educators in the U. S. Senator Henry J. Gjertsen of Minneapolis, Inspector General of the State of Minnesota, and member of Governor Van Sant's Staff Hon. Harry L. Fisher of Greater New York, one of the best known business men in New York, and a famous political leader. Hon. W. B. Hennessy, managing editor of the St. Paul, (Minn.,) Globe, and prominent member of the Minnesota Legislature. Hon. J. M. Brenton mayor of Des Moines, the capital of Iowa, and one of the noted orators in the west. Hon. W. H. Hinrichsen, former Secretary of State of Illinois, and ex-member of Congress. Hon. L. P. McCormack, State Labor Commissioner of Indiana, and one of the most popular men in his state. Hon. S. M. Fries, Lincoln, Neb., member of the Nebraska State Legislature. Hon. Richard E. Burke, Chicago Democratic leader in the Illinois House of Representatives and noted lawyer. Hon. Ralph S. Gregory of Muncie, Ind., one of the most noted lawyers in the United States. Judge W. O. Cardwell, Kansas City, one of the best known jurists and public men of the State of Missouri. Sheriff John Powers of Omaha, one of the best known criminal hunters in the west. Hon. D. J. O'Brien, Omaha, who is popularly known as "the Delmonico of Omaha," and the west. I do not ask any consumptive to take my word for this, I want every person sick and suffering from consumption to write me. Address me personally Dr. Derk P. Yonkerman, 2950 Shakespeare Bldg., Kalamazoo, Mich., and I will gladly send them, by return mail, a large trial package absolutely free, all charges prepaid, and I guarantee that no matter how sick or discouraged you are this trial treatment will convince you and do you more good than all changes of climate of other remedies. TWO SCENES A pretty girl, a summer night, A moon that's growing mellow; A little kiss, a solemn vow, A most impassioned fellow! Same girl, but on another night, Another moon, still mellow; Another kiss, another vow, And still another fellow! —La Touche Hancock. Mr. Edward T. Johnson, principal of the Harmony High School, Blackstone, Va., is in the city in the interest of his school. He is meeting with success. Mr. L. P. Costley has returned from a four weeks' jaunt in San Francisco and other points west of the Rockies. He was greatly benefitted by the trip and spoke in glowing terms of the great West. The National Safe Deposit Savings and Trust Company Pays interest on deposits. Rents Safes inside Burglar-Proof Vaults. Acts as administrator executor, trustee, etc. Is the leading Colored Fraternal Society of the United States. It was organized January, 1881, by William W. Browne, and chartered in April, 1883, under the laws of the State of Virginia, with headquarters at Richmond, Va. Its membership is both male and female, and consists of all persons of good health from 14 to 60 years of age. Its membership of 60,000 is divided into Fountains and Circles. It pays sick benefits from $1.50 to $2.50 per week, and pays death benefits from $24.56 to $1000. BENEFITS PAID—Total benefits paid to date: Sick dues, $r,500,000; death benefits, $714,378.75. SENIOR FOUNTAINS—A Fountain may be organized consisting of 20 or more persons not over 50 years of age paying a joining fee of from $4.60 to $5.10 each. The monthly dues are not less than 35 cents in rural districts and not less than 50 cents per month in towns and cities, and a semi-annual tax of 40 cents paid in January and July of each year. Sick benefits paid are from $1.50 to $2.50 per week, while death benefits range from $75 to $125. A Fountain may be organized in any locality on application to Rev. W. L. Taylor, G. W. Master, or to any of his authorized deputies. ROSEBUDS—For the proper training of the young and their development in thrift, industry and brotherly love, there has been formed a Children's Department known as the Rosebuds. Twenty or more children not less than three nor more than fourteen years of age may form a Rosebud, upon the payment of $1 each. This department, like the Senior Fountain, pays sick benefits from $1 to twenty-five cents per week, and death benefits from $24.50 to $37. The monthly dues are fifteen cents per month. CLASSES—Persons desiring to leave their beneficiaries at death a larger amount than is paid from Fountain Department, take out policies in one or more of the Classes of the Mutual Benefit Degree. The members of this degree are divided into Circles, and pay joining fees and dues according to the following tables: Class "B" Joining fee. Value of Certificate after one year. Value of Certificate before one year Annual Dues Quarterly Dues Age 14 to 25 $2 50 $200 00 $100 00 $4 75 $1 20 Age 14 to 25 $5 00 $500 00 $250 00 $9 50 $2 50 2 75 200 00 100 00 4 75 1 20 “ 25 to 30 5 25 500 00 250 00 9 50 $2 50 3 00 200 00 100 00 4 75 1 20 “ 30 to 35 5 50 200 00 100 00 4 75 1 20 “ 35 to 40 5 75 500 00 250 00 9 50 $2 50 3 25 200 00 100 00 4 75 1 20 “ 35 to 40 5 75 500 00 250 00 10 40 “ 40 to 45 5 79 5 79 1 43 “ 40 to 45 6 00 450 00 225 00 10 40 “ 45 to 50 5 80 58 00 6 65 1 66 “ 45 to 50 6 25 400 00 200 00 11 40 “ 50 to 55 6 35 1 66 “ 50 to 60 6 50 350 00 175 00 11 40 $2 50 4 00 70 00 45 00 6 35 1 66 “ 50 to 60 6 50 175 00 11 40 $2 50 4 25 65 00 33 00 7 60 1 90 Quarterly Dues of the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers, capital stock $100,000. The bank commenced business April 3, 1889, and from that time down to the present has steadily increased in volume of business. It now has a paid up capital stock of $100,000. From the humble sum of $1,268.69, deposited the first day the bank opened for business in 1889 the deposits have grown to $350,958, and the volume of business transacted amounts to $6,190,141.47. During the financial panic of 1893, the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain was the only bank in the city of Richmond that did not cease to pay cash on all checks presented, while the majority of other banks were using script and clearing house checks. This bank had its origin in the brain of William W. Browne, an ex-slave of Habersham, Ga. The banking house is located at 604 North Second Street, Richmond, Va., Rev. W. L. Taylor, President; R. T. Hill, Cashier. REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT—The Real Estate Department has charge of all the real property to the amount of $220,221.65, situated in various States, consisting of 13 magnificent buildings used as halls, 8 dwellings, 1 hotel. 5 stores and three farms. It also has under its control 16 large buildings leased by it. This department is under the management of Lawyer J. C. Robertson, chief of real estate and attorney for the association, office at 608 N. 2nd Street, Richmond, Va REFORMERS MERCANTILE AND INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION—Was chartered under the laws of the State of Virginia on the 14th day of December, 1899, with principal office in the city of Richmond, Va. The purpose of this association is to conduct stores (wholesale and retail), buy and sell real property, manage and control hotels, manufacturing establishments, and do general business. The association has in operation Hotel Reformer, 900 N. Sixth Street, Richmond, Va. It is a modern up-to-date structure, heated by steam, cold and hot water baths, also electric cars passing the door. This hotel has accommodations for 150 guests. Mr. A. W. Holmes is manager, and Mr. T. W. Taylor is clerk. It has in operation a system of five stores, located as follows: Richmond, Va.; Washington, D. C.; Manchester, Va.; Portsmouth, Va.; and Roanoke, Va. The first of these stores, at Richmond, Va., was opened April 3d, 1900. It employs a force of 18 men, runs three delivery wagons, and during the first year did $50,000 worth of business. The other stores have been established since, and have been equally as prosperous. The general manager of the system of stores is Mr. B. L. Jordan, headquarters at 608 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. This Association was formed on the plans and recommendations made by Rev. W. L. Taylor, its President. THE REFORMER PRINTING DEPARTMENT—Issues a weekly journal, THE REFORMER, which has a circulation of 12,000. This paper is published in the interest of the race, and discusses the leading questions of the day. The subscription price is $1 per year, or 5c. per single copy. The office is equipped with modern up-to-date machinery, run by electricity. It can print any thing from a visiting card to a poster 42 by £2 inches. Fine job work of every class and description is made a specialty at lowest prices. Mr. E. W. Brown is editor and business manager, office 608 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. Correspondence solicited and agents wanted. OLD FOLKS' HOME—In September, 1893, Rev. William W. Brown recommended the formation and establishment of Old Folks' Homes for the benefit of old and decrepid members of the race. Since that time the valuable farm known as Westham, consisting of 63414 acres, located six miles from Richmond, Va., on the historic "James," has been purchased, at a cost of $14,490. 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. Rev. W. L Taylor, G. W. M. W. P. Burrell, G. W. S. 601-6-8 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. 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 80 2 75 200 00 100 00 4 75 1 20 30 to 35 3 00 200 00 100 00 4 75 1 20 35 to 40 3 25 200 00 100 00 5 70 1 43 40 to 45 3 50 140 00 70 00 5 79 1 43 45 to 50 3 75 115 00 58 00 6 65 1 66 50 to 55 4 00 70 00 45 00 6 35 1 66 55 to 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 $1006 00 $21 90 $5 25 30 to 35 12 00 1006 00 22 00 5 50 35 to 40 12 00 905 00 23 00 5 75 40 to 45 13 00 800 00 24 00 6 00 45 to 50 13 00 700 00 25 00 6 25 REGALIA—The members of the Fountains and Rosebuds of the organization wear no expensive regalia. The regalia of the organization is simple and its cost will be in the easy reach of all, costing from 10 cents to $3. The same is made by the organization in what is known as the Regalia Department. THE SAVINGS BANK—In March, 1888, there was granted by the Legislature of Virginia a charter to the Savings Bank HIS OLD TRICK. Cupid, wicked little rascal, One day cast aside his dart; Crept up when I wasn't looking, And he deftly stole my heart. Told him that he was a sneak thief, But he simply turned and fled, And instead of rightful owner Gave it to a girl instead. —McLaughlin Wilson. Read The Colored American. LINCOLN INCOLN INSTITUTE THE MUSEUM OF THE WESTERN WESTERN WESTERN LINCOLN INSTITUTE Missouri State School for Colored Youth One of the Best Equipped Sch 389 Students last year DEPARTMENTS— in the Best Equipped Schools in the Country for New year Twelve States represented RTMENTS— Machinery, Shoe-making, Farming and Gardenin Printing, Typewriting, Sewing, Cooking, URSES— Laundering, One of the Best Equipped Schools in the Country for Negroes. 389 Students last year Twelve States represented in Student Body DEPARTMENTS— Machinery. Classical, College Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Model Training School, Music—Instrumental, Vocal, Drawing, Fine Arts and Mechanical, Carpentry, Wood-working, Blacksmithing, Opens Mondays For Catalogues and fun Pres. Benjamin Franklin Opens Monday, September 7 For Catalogues and further information write to enjamin Franklin Allen, Jefferson C Opens Monday, September 7 For Catalogues and further information write to Pres. Benjamin Franklin Allen, Jefferson City, Mo. FULL SIZE beautifully decor either brown, b is genuine CHI one on it; all w how you got it. addressed to you worth, and you $1,000 REWAR beautifully decorated 112-piece CHINA dinner set, exactly as per cut, with either brown, blue or gold decorations, FULL size for family use. This set is genuine CHINA, and has absolutely no trade-mark or advertisement of ours on it; all we ask you to do is to show it to your friends and tell them how you got it. Absolutely no other conditions. Dishes packed and shipped addressed to you free of charge. Our No. 2 box of remedies contains $10 worth, and you can also secure many other valuable premiums therefor. $1,000 REWARD to any one who will prove we do not do exactly as we say. NEW YORK MEDICAL ASSOCIAT MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Dept. AP 111 Broadway Boys' Hall. Stone Hall. Girls' Hall. ANTA UNIVERSITY, Atlanta, Christian Institution, devoted especially to advanced education and English High School courses, with Industrial and Printing. Athletics for boys. Physical culture driven to needy and deserving students. Term begins THE HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS. Knowles Building. Boys' Hall. Stone Hall. Girls' Hall. Model Home. ATLANTA UNIVERSITY, Atlanta, Ga. An unsectarian Christian Institution, devoted especially to advanced education. College, Normal, College Preparatory and English High School courses, with Industrial Training. Superior advantages in Music and Printing. Athletics for boys. Physical culture for girls. Home life and training. Aid given to needy and deserving students. Term begins the first Wednesday in October. For catalogue and information, address President HORACE BUMSTEAD, D.D. College, Normal, Preparatory, Industrial, Agricultural Domestic, THE COLORED AMERICAN. Chiefs and Agents Wanted Do you want to be a member of a Society from which you can obtain a loan if you need money? Then communicate with us; we will assist you, whatever be your need. Chiefs and Agents wanted in every locality. Splendid compensation for desirable persons. Position permanent. Pay guaranteed. Address: MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY, 407 Seventh street northwest, Washington, D. C. 'Phone E 322. INSTITUTE Schools in the Country for Negroes. Twelve States represented in Student Body Machinery, Shoe-making, Farming and Gardening, Printing, Typewriting, Sewing, Cooking, Laundering. ADVANTAGES— Competent Teachers, Good Location, Free Tuition, New Dormitories, with Modern Improvements, Local, Buildings Heated by Steam, Diplomas are State School Certificates, Board only $8.50 a Month. Monday, September 7 and further information write to Klin Allen, Jefferson City, Mo. We are anxious to introduce our household remedies in every home throughout the Americas, and are doing some sensational advertising to do this quickly and thoroughly. Will you order home remedies from us, either for yourself and relatives, or to sell among friends, and get a beautiful dinner set FREE? Send us your name and address and we will send you eight boxes of remedies, sell each box for 20c. and return the money. When we have received the money for the medicine, which we will send you immediately upon receipt of your order, without the payment of a single cent more than for eight boxes, after you have sold the $160 worth and returned the money, we will without any further work on your part or payment of any kind whatsoever send you a Ocorated 112-piece CHINA dinner set, exactly as per cut, with value or gold decorations, FULL size for family use. This set CHINA, and has absolutely no trade-mark or advertisement of value ask you to do is to show it to your friends and tell them. Absolutely no other conditions. Dishes packed and shipped you free of charge. Our No. 2 box of remedies contains $10 you can also secure many other valuable premiums therefore. O to any one who will prove we do not do exactly as we say. EMIATION, Dept. AP 111 Broadway, New York. Stone Hall. Girls' Hall. Model Home. UVERSITY, Atlanta, Ga. Ocorated especially to advanced education. College, North High School courses, with Industrial Training. Superioretics for boys. Physical culture for girls. Home life preserving students. Term begins the first Wednesday. President HORACE BUMSTEAD, D.D. KNOXVILLE COLLEGE Offers the following COURSES: Classical, Scientific, Normal, 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 Central 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 30th, 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. EDUCATIONAL. HOWARD UNIVERSITY, Washington, D. C. TEN distinct departments, under one hundred competent professors and instructors—Theo dical, Medical, Legal, College, Pedagogical, Preparatory, English, Agriculture, Industrial, and musical. For information address— Rev. J. E. RANKIN. D. D., LL. D., President. GEO H. SAFFORD Secretary. Offers the following COURSAL, Theological, Music, Common and Various Industrial Departments Faculty, foreman, and officers students for the last year was 407, tral America. THE LOCATION is one of healthful, convenient of access. BUILDINGS ARE STEAM SELF HELD offered through FALL TERM opens Septem EXPENSES for board, fuel, a month. For further information, cata R. W. McGranahan, D. D., Knox IS IT A SCHOOL YOU WANT ? For particulars address J. H. Wilson, No. 53 Sherman avenue, Springfield, Ohio. N. B.—The headquarters of the National Teachers' Agency have heretofore been at 459 C street N. W., but they are now located at the above address, where all correspondence should be sent. Prompt attention will be given to all business entrusted to it. Avery College Trade School. Reopens Monday, Sept. 7. An ideal trade school for young colored women who desire expert mechanical knowledge as a means of increasing their earning capacity. Dressmaking, Millinery, Tailoring, Music and an English course from primary to normal. Boarding, laundry, furnished room, steam heated, electric light, $11 per month covers all expenses. In appointments, cuisine service and provisions for the comfort of our students, this school is excelled by no institution in America. Catalogue now ready; address all communications to Jos. D. Mahoney, Supt. Allegheny, Pa. FOR RENT.—Two or three furnished or unfurnished rooms, centrally located 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. 13 EDUCATIOAL. Howard University, MediCal Dept. Including Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutic Colleges. THIRTY-SIXTH SESSION (19031904) will begin October 1st, 1903, and continue seven (7) months. Day School for New Matriculants. Tuition fee in Medical and Dental Colleges, each, $80.00; Pharmaceutic College, $70.00. Four years' graduate course in Medicine and Dental Surgery. Well-equipped laboratories in all departments. Unexcelled hospital facilities. All students must register before October 12th, 1903. For catalogue or further Information, apply to 901 R St. N. W., Washington, D. C. SES:— Classical, Scientific, Nor- n School, Mechanical, Agricultural artments. is number thirty. Enrollment of coming from 18 States and Cen- the most desirable in the South, and beautiful. HEATED and electric lighted. in the Inductrial Departments. November 30th, 1903. light, furnished room only $6.85 alogue, etc., write the president, xville, Tenn. OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG MEN. The demands in all parts of this country, and in several foreign countries, for well trained men of our race in the direction of scientific and practical agriculture are so great that this institution is willing to offer exceptional advantages to young men who wish to come here and take either a regular or post graduate course in agriculture. We cannot begin to supply the demands that come to us for trained men in the direction of agriculture. The positions for which these trained men are wanted are those in most every case which pay high salaries. hold of men who have received as far as possible, a good education before coming here, and are ready to enter upon a thorough course of agricultural training. For further information address, BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Prin. Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama. Agricultural and Mechanical College Four-year courses in Agricultural and Mechanical pursuits, leading to the degree of B. S. or of B. Agr. Excellent equipment. Graduates earning from $30 to $150 per month. Fall term begins Sept. 1, 1903. Send for catalogue. JAS. B. DUDLEY, Pres., A. M. College, Greensboro, N. C. "WE MOVE EVERYTHING" Douglas Baggage and Furniture Express 1533 14th Street N. W. R. T. DOUGLAS, Manager. --- THE COLORED AMERICAN 14 Marvelous Growth of the Hair: Marvelous Growth of the Hair: A Famons Doctor-Chemist Has Dis covered a Compound that grows Hair on a Bald Head in a Single Night. Startling Announcement Causes Doctors to Marvel and Stand Dum-founded at the Wonderful Cures. The Discoverer Sends Free-Trial Packages to All Who Write. After a half century spent in the laboratory crowned with high honors for his many world famous discoveries the celebrated physician A. Miss Clarissa Kerby and her Marvelous Growth of Hair. chemist at the head of the great Altenheim Medical Dispensary, has just made the startling an nouncment that he has produced a compound that grows hair on any bald head. The doctor makes the claim that after experiments, taking years to complete, he has at last reached the goal of his ambition. To the doctor all heads are alike. There are none which cannot be cured by this remarkable remedy The record of the cures already made is truly marvelous and were it not for the high standing of the great physician and the convincing testimony of thousands of citizens all over the country it would seem too miraculous to be true. T there can be no doubt of the doctor's earnestness in making his claims nor can his cures be disputed. He does not ask any man. woman or child to take his or anyone else's word for it, but he stands ready to send free trial packages of this great hair restorative to anyone who writes to him for it, enclosing a 2-cent stamp to prepay postage. In a single night it has started hair to growing on heads bald for years. It has stopped falling hair in one hour. It never fails no matter what the condition, age or sex. Old men and young men, women and children all have profited by the free use of this great new discovery. If you are bald, if your hair is falling out or if your hair eyebrows or eyelashes are thin or short write to the Altenheim Medical Dispensary 2 cent 8296Foso Building, Cincinnati, Ohio. enclosing a stamp to prepay postage for a free package and in a short time you will be entirely restored. 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 special notice, without charge, in the SPARKS FROM THE ANVIL. Alabama juries are not quite ready to destroy peonage. White men give us a deluge of advice but their justice is diluted. Do not our increasing troubles appeal for greater race unity? In many sections of the country the rule is "in case of doubt, kill a few Negroes." An educated, polished colored woman fills every race loving man with pride. Every lynching adds argument in favor of Bishop Turner's Emigration scheme. It is blasphemy to charge God with deliberately making an inferior race. The Black South and the Black North are no longer apart. Their misfortunes are now identical. Two hundred and fifty years of unrequited labor makes the Negro a very proper "White man's burden." The "Napier flagellation" as it has aptly come to be called, still leaves a sore spot on the epidermis of the Boston delegation. Atlanta, Ga., appears to be a very inviting newspaper field. Its journalistic graveyard is kept well out of sight. Argument fail the Boston contingent, they are now trying cayenne paper on the Wizard of Tuskegee. Cayenne pepper is a flower from the same garden which propagated the firebrand of the lyncher. Every other State Legislature should follow Ohio's example and make each county liable in exemplary damages to the family of a man who has been lynched. Will the Boston Guardian apologize in its next issue for the dastardly conduct of its representatives, at Zion Church, on the 30th ultimo? The motorist was visibly dejected. "I went out for a lark," said he. "Yes?" said I. "And all I ran over was a hen," said he.—Detroit Free Press. A CAMP OF INSTRUCTION. (The "Indianapolis News" offers a prize for the most popular officer in the national guard's encampment. The men are to vote on the matter.) Officer (with mind on the prize)—Gentlemen of the company, kindly give me your "shun." If sufficiently prepared, may I ask you to "guide right?" Now, may I trouble you to comply with the request, "front?" Pardon me if I ask you; provided you have no objection, to pay attention to the wish, "Fours right; guide right; march!" Gentlemen, if you have walked far enough, might I desire you to "halt?" "Thank you, gentlemen, for your attention, and remember that I am anxious to have your vote for the 'News' prize."—Portland Oregonian. Read The Colored American. NO LARK. Scene: The camp. The Colored American Coal and Wood Co. Flour, Feed, Etc. CURTIS WINSTON. Mgr. --- ```markdown ``` sold from 25c. to $1 00. That you may see for yourself show remarkable this offer is we will send $1 WORTH OF MUSIC FREE, vocal or instrumental, for only 10c. to cover postage, packing, etc., and also our complete catalogue and list of all the late popular hits. Order to-day sending 10c. to CONSOLIDATED MUSIC CO. Box 439 Williamsbridge, New York, N. Y. SECURELY FASTENED. "What prevents the ocean from overflowing the land?" asked the teacher. "It's tide," came a shrill voice from the tail of the class. Philadelphia Record. THE PLACE FOR HIM. "I see you didn't bring your husband along. The last time he came he rocked the boat." "Well, he's safe enough now. I left him home rocking the cradle."—Cleveland Plaindealer. The Negro asks not for charity, but for the square protection of the law and a chance to earn an honest goilar in any vocation for which he is fitted. SANTAL-MIDY Standard remedy for Gleet, Gonorrhoea and Runnings IN 48 HOURS. Cures Kidney and Bladder Troubles. MIDY 2250 9th Street 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. Washington, D. C. Phone 364-m. United States Medical Institute CURES Diseases of Men and Women. NERVOUS DEBILITY, STRICTURE, PROSTATIC TROUBLES, CONTRACTED DISEASE VARICOCELE, IMPOTENCY CURES. NERVOUS DEBILITY, BLOOD POISON, STRICTURE, RHEUMATISM. PROSTATIC TROUBLES, UTERINE AND CONTRACTED DISEASE OVARIAN TROUBLES, VARICOCELE, BLADDER AND IMPOTENCY CURES. KIDNEY TROUBLES, VITALITY RESTORED. CONSULTATION FREE. MEDICINES FURNISHED Private Waiting Rooms for Ladies and Gentlemen. 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. 2 to 6 p. m., Tuesdays and Sundays. 10 a. m. to 12. 1233 Pa. Ave. N. W FREE 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, Biert, Mozart, Chopin, 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 cents per copy—formerly Here is an Opportunity! A large picture of PROF. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, printed in four colors which has all the appearance of an oil painting, will be sent elegantly framed by express to any subscriber who will send $3.00 to THE COLORED AMERICAN. To persons who desire the picture without subscribing for the paper, it will be sent by express for $1.50. To parties who desire to sell them, they will be sent in quantities of ten or more for $1.00 each. All orders should be addressed to The Colored American WASHINGTON, D.C. This picture should be in every Parlor Library, Reading Room, School Room, and every Public Hall used by intelligent colored people. 3 my teeth." Mr. Floyd Oliver, the leading tailor of the Pier, has been busy for the past nine days, enlarging the clothes of the second waiter of the Mathewson. Mr. Ed. Blackfield, who is head janitor of Marble Hall, has posted a notice that all rooms in this historic place are taken; so many old guests who have always roomed there will have to seek accomodations elsewhere. Mrs. James Payne, reached here last Saturday ond is very comfortably located at The Brown Cottage. Mr. Payne was successful in retaining for his wife, the beautiful pale blue suite they occupied last season. Misses Gertrude Miller, Hattie Mitchell, Bessie Carter, and Mrs. Lu Niles Lynch formed quite a bevy of the Pier's most attractive young ladies. Mr. Johnson Collins, Jr. is expecting his wife about the middle of this month. A little later on, a straw ride is proposed which will take in all of the elite. Rev. Sampson, Presiding Elder of the A. M. E for this section, is in charge of the church. He is laboring among all classes to secure enought money to liquidate the present debt, which all told amounts to some thirteen hundred dollars. Messrs. James Embry, Bert Walker, Mm. Jones Ernest Kellar and Francis L. Stevens, are among the most popular of those who have recently made the Pier their summer home. The many friends here of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Dabney, read with much satisfaction the article in "The American," pertaining to their marriage. Joseph Hatton gives in "The People" this story of J. M. Barrie about the way in which his early ambitions were frowned upon by friends: "the malignity of publishers," says an author of "Sentimental Tommy," "could not turn me back; from the day on which I first tasted blood in the garret my mind was made up; there could be no humdrum, dreadful profession for me; literature was my game. I was not highly thought of by those who wished me well. I remember being asked by two maiden ladies, about the time I left the university, what was I to be, and when I replied brazenly, 'An author,' they flung up their hands, and one exclaimed reproachfully, 'Ah, you an M. A.!'" NOT THE DUTY OF SIGN POSTS. Bishop Frederick Burgess, of the diocese of Long Island, who was nearly drowned last month while sailing on Peconic Bay, has a ready wit that he uses well in argument. A man argued recently with Bishop Burgess about clergymen. This man asserted they did not practice what they preached. "Oh, well," said the bishop, "maybe you expect too much of them. Did you ever hear of a sign post that followed its own directions?" NARAGANSET NEWS. The Gay and Festive Life of the Sea Shore—News—Social, Athletic and Religious. With the Polo Tournament comes the excitement and the height of the season. Heretofore dinners in the Grecian Gardens, automobile parties, fishing, horseback riding, tennis and such have been the go, but with the beginning of August every face is turned toward the polo grounds at 3.30. August 1st, a swell party of New Yorkers, including Messrs. Chas Jackson, A. L. Polk, Chas. Smith, Albert McIntyre, Geo Bowser, and their ladies attended in a royal four-in-hand. Though much of the interest is in the game mentioned, there still is shown much enthusiasm in the literary. At the last meeting, Messrs Priestly Mullen and Chester Turley, affirmative, census W. H. Witherspoon and Roscoe Orme, discussed, "Resolved, That inventions help improve the condition of the working class." After these four able speakers had exhausted themselves, the members expressed their views. The judges, after weighing well the arguments advanced, were unanimous in awarding the debate to the affirmative side. Last Saturday a ball game between the Mathewsons and Imperials was the order of the afternoon. The ladies wearing their favorite colors were in evidence from the bleachers to the grand stand and as vociferous in their appreciation of a good play, as any old "fan." The Mathewsons played with vim but were outclassed. Turley, Ford and White doing some excellent work. The Imperials won by the decisive score of 22 to 2. Mr. Fred Freeman has been complaining lately, though he has improved at this writing. Mr. Chester Turley, who recently arrived from Atlantic City, is to remain with us until the latter part of this month. Mr. Joseph Coghill, who is to take a course in engineering at the North Western University, is to remain until theclose of the season. J. W. Brawley, a teacher on James Island, off Charleston, S. C., is spending the summer with his friends J. P. Seabrooks and J. F. Green, of the same place. Messrs. Robert and Joseph Ford and John Robinson, students at Howard, are to be seen on the beach any afternoon, with one of their medical books, as light reading material. A headwaiter of one of the hotels, allows none of his waiters to eat during the hours the guests are being served. Last Tuesday, at lunch, he passed Pop S—, who was mincing on a tooth pick. "Look here, Pop, what are you doing with that tooth pick?" "Oh, I am just pickin' the water out of THE COLORED AMERICAN THE DIGNITY OF LETTERS Madam McNan Madam McNairdee=Moore ! THE QUEEN OF KENYA The gifted clairvoyant, the great female wonder, born with the double (caul) veil, she is of the old ancient Southern clairvoyants of New Orleans. She's a living Phrenologist and Physiogomist. She tells plainly what you are best adapted for in life by reading your brain and mind. With a grasp of her hand she gives you a coil of influence to enable you to overcome all bad luck. She has made thousands of homes happy. Read the fifth chapter, ix verse of St. Matt.; "Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God." She reunites the separated, makes peace where there is confusion. Your husband or wife will never become angry or your sweetheart forsake you, but will love you better and marry you sooner if you will heed this lady's consultation. Read what several ladies of your city say, "Yes, we believe her a Godsend to our city; mv husband and I had been separated over a year and just think since I called on this lady, he returned to-day; we are together and happy." This young lady says: "The one loved refused to call or write me; I called on this lady and we are now engaged." You can't afford to miss consulting this gifted lady; she is gifted to read characters. She challenges the world to excel her advice on love, losses, business, family and financial troubles. Reunites the separated, causes speedy marriage with the one of your choice. No cards allowed in her place of business; no one's ill wishes filled; strictly a Christian lady and depends entirely on her heavenly gift. If you are painful or ailing, think you have been witchcrafted, go to see her. She spent eight years in the jungles of Africa and has traveled through 34 States doing good wherever she went. Read St. John, 9th chap., 33d verse: "If this man is not God he could do nothing." Three parlors so arranged that you meet no friends nor strangers; everything confidential. Owing to such crowds you may call day or night. Permanently located. Send money by postal order or registered letter. I, for one, as one in the midst. My heart ached from the cruel treatment of my husband and the way he would throw away his time and money, until I consulted this wonderful lady. It will soon bea wear. Through her he has become a loving husband; and today he presents me with a lovely lot on which he will in the spring erect a home. Tongue can't praise her too highly. A LADY, of New Iberia, La. Write her at once for all information. 15 Chicago, Ill., Nov. 17, 1902. Madame McNairdee, Indianapolis, Ind. Dear Madame:—Your letter like a ray of sunshine, came duly to hand and I am very pleased with it, for every word of it were true; I am sorry that I did not write to you months ago. I enclose $6.00 for your service hoping that you may be successful in bringing about desired results. I feel quite sure that you can. I am very sorry to hear of your being ill, and sincerely hope your speedy recovery. Molino, Fla., Nov. 14, 1902. Madame:—You are the proper person in the proper place. All that you say is true, and all that you do is good. May God bless you. F. J. There is no doubt of this lady's prophetic power. She is a living phrenologist, palmist and a natural born clairvoyant to which thousands will testify. She is a God send to our country—born with a gift that no one can dictate. Tell you every incident of your past and present life and put you on the road to success both financially and physically if you will only heed her instruction. I called on her when the one I love had gone, I knew not where, and he returned at once, and to-day I am his dear wife. A LADY of Fort Gibson, Ind. T. Madam—I feel it my duty to do this for you are all you advertise. Just think, my husband and I had been separated two years; I called on you in September and in a week's time he returned and married me, and I can't praise you too much. Ladies that are broken-hearted by family troubles, love affairs and bad luck, until it seems that life is a blank, call or write to this dear lady; she will do you good; she will tell you to trust God and she will do the balance, and she will. A LADY of Rossland. B. C. Dear Sisters and Brothers—Call on her when you can, she will be pleased to meet you when ever you wish to. She devotes her entire time for the welfare of the people, believing God will reward her. She will make your very soul glad to hear her talk of Heaven, for she writes such searching letters, tells you how to make home happy. Please always enclose stamp for answer. Here she is as she looks to-day and a bride three weeks. N. B.—Send lock of hair accompanied by one dollar, ($1.00,) and receive full life reading. Clip this ad. MADAME McNA!RDEE-MOORE. 1527 English Avenue. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 16 PYRAMID BUILDERS. (A tribute to the worth of Prof. Booker T. Washington.) Amid Sahara's desert sands, The "Wonder of the Ages" stands; Nor yields these many years to storms Of wind or storms whate'er their form These Pyramids saw ages pass. Heard their "Matin and their death mass." Viewed many a more ambitious pile, Float by, inert, upon "Time's Nile." Massive and strong, they hold their place place, Looking the "Ages" in the face Unmoved. For their foundation, deep, With nature, long hath lain in sleep. And so with all things that e'er last, Which 'mid time's changes, would stand fast: stand fast; Deep, the foundation must be made, As in these mammoth structures laid. Be it monument, stately, tall, Capitol or ancestral hall, Race or nation or fame of man— Each must follow this proven plan. If this the plan on which they're reared, Though oft assailed, their frontage seared. The fiercest rage of cold or heat Must break and cower at their feet. Each builder, the foundation, lays, Before the mansion he doth raise; How inane then to chide the man, Who shows a race, this simple plan! Build ye the house! With every art Enhance it—and new charms impart; Yet all must yield, in measure due, To foundations laid deep and true. Thus built, the house will ever stand For present need and long demand: Steadfast, for ages, it will rise, A tribute to the builders, wise. rock; Then neither storm nor sudden shock Can rend thy work. It e'er will stand, To lift thy kind and bless the land. O, builder, let thy work proceed, Supplying well, thy people's need: Unmoved, (though hot winds sough and whine) First Lieutenant late Eighth Regiment U. S. V. Infantry. SEVEN AGES OF GRAFT. All the world is graft, And all the men and women merely grafters, They have their sure things and their bunco games, And one man in his time works many grafts, His bluff being seven ages. 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Coast points and return, $50. and the COLUMBIA RIVER, breezes and scenery, and VISIT Northern Pacific trains run diffrom Seattle, Tacoma and Port send six cents for "WONDER- ture, to S. FEE, Gen'l Pass. Agt., St. Paul, Minn. 2 A Bright Barrister. was never invited to make a public address that he did not give his people good sound advice. The Colored Bar Association, which met at Greenville, Miss. some years ago, invited him to deliver an address, from which the following is taken: "Gentlemen of the Colored Bar Association of Mississippi: I have listened with pleasure and profit to your excellent addresses on different legal topics and I can pay you no higher compliment than to say you are an honor to the profession. I look upon this meeting as the dawn of a new era in the history of our race. It is no new thing for us to meet and participate in the assemblages of men, in fact, one of the misfortunes of our people has been too great love for meetings and conventions of every kind, out of which little if any permanent good has ever accrued to us. The emotional side of our nature has ever been too often used as instruments in the hands of others. Some persons unwisely think that all that is necessary to constitute a successful lawyer is an oily tongue, a vivid imagination and a great capacity to lie. In fact, some people profess to think that lawyer and liar are synonymous terms. Such persons it is needless for me to say, know but little of the law, and still less of the lawyer. They forget, or do not know, that the contests of lawyers are not "exparte." They confront each other beforelearned and astute courts and in the presence of the world, where lies and frauds have the least chance of success and where exposure will usually prove fatal to a cause. No lawyer can build a splendid professional career upon an insufficient education any more than he can build a monument of stone upon a foundation of sand. We are citizens of this country by nativity, not by choice or adoption, and here, under God's providence, we mean to stay and strike glad hands with all lovers of justice work out our own destinies, and vie with every other nationality in developing the material resources of our beloved country. We should prepare ourselves by every energy of mind and soul to solve the problem put to us by those by whom we are surrounded and with whom we live, viz, 'The survival of the fittest.' Citizens by nativity, we have no other land to love. To this we have given our labor for more than one hundred years. In defense of her flag we have given our lives; to sustain her integrity we have contributed whatever was demanded of us. At all times we have been faithful and reliable. We have never been numbered among our country's enemies. We have never been found in the ranks of socialists and anarchists in their attack upon social order and our free institutions. Yet we have lived under a condition of things at times unequalled in the history of civilized government." From beginning to end this was one of the grandest addresses ever delivered. He not only tells the aspiring young Negro lawyer to first acquire a college education, thusly fitting himself to compete with the best lawyers of his time, but almost in the same breath he tells this nation that in as much as it has forced our men to keep the flag from trailing in the dust in every war in which it has engaged, it should be discontented until every citizen is protected at home as well as abroad. About seventeen years ago Mr. Settle became a resident of Memphis. Immediately on his arrival, he was appointed assistant Attorney General of Shelby County, Tenn. which includes the city of Memphis, the largest and most flourishing city in the State. Those were warm days in politics with Gen. G. P. M. Turner, one of the greatest orators and lawyers in the South, as Attorney General and the Hon. J. T. Settle assistant Attorney General. The court house was always crowded to hear their speeches. The papers could not understand why a white Democrat could appoint a Negro Republican assistant Attor- THE COLORED AMERICAN ney General in a Democratic city, but General Turner recognized ability and and stood by his appointee throughout his term. During his term of office Mr. Settle covered himself with glory more than once. He served with honor to himself and race, since which time he has been recognized by everybody in Memphis, from the highest judge to the lowest citizen, as being one of the best lawyers, irrespective of race practicing in the courts of Tennessee. A few months ago, while in Washington, Mr. Settle was admitted to practice law before the United States Supreme Court. It was in the capacity of Assistant Attorney General that your correspondent first heard Mr. Settle speak. After making a great speech for the prosecution, Mr. Settle took his seat and was followed by one of the most prominent lawyers in the city, and who is now one of the judges. This lawyer commenced his speech in the fllowing manner: "May it please the court, the Attorney General has not referred to any law in the case. he comes here relying on his eloquence to win." This brought forth a quick retort from Mr. Settle, which caused the attorney for the defense to make an apology. The case was continued and finally decided in Mr. Settle's favor. Since his residence in Memphis his career as a lawyer has been in direct keeping with his Greenville speech. There is no more high-toned lawyer in the city than he. Not long ago a big lot of stolen goods were found in the possession of a citizen who said he brought them from a peddler, who could not be found. The goods was the property of a leading furnishing store. Mr. Settle was called upon to take the case. Being prompted by a desire to benefit his client and not to grasp after the fee he advised a compromise, giving as his reason, to fight such a case would be expense for nothing and a probable sentence. Following his advice, the store was visited, a compromise was arranged and the public were none the wiser. Innumerable instances of this kind, showing the greatness of the man, could be cited. He invariably advises his client to engage in lawsuits when they cannot do otherwise. The old adage, that in "raising men up we also lift ourselves," is certainly shown in the life of Mr. Settle. In showing that he is not so much interested in fees as he is in benefitting his fellow man he has amassed a comfortable fortune. This is a plain case of the "office looking for the man." Mr. Settle has a law practice of five thousand dollars a year. His income from rents on his property, all of which is located in the most aristocratic portion of the city, is twelve hundred dollars. Thirty or forty thousand dollars would be a moderate estimate of his wealth. When asked about the prospects of the race, Mr. Settle said, "If every man would do his duty in deeds and not in so much talk, the time would come when our race would be respected equal to any in the land." Continuing, he said: "I see a problem within the race as serious as the one between the black and white men—it is the bad feeling that seems to exist between the blacks and the mulattoes. God made us all and He loves us all, and we should love each other and work together to the advantage of our national cause. The enemy is too great for members of the race to stop on the wayside and quarrel. The conditions in this country are such that every person known to have Negro blood in his veins, even though he may be as white as the whitest Anglo-Saxon is treated in the same manner as the blackest African. The interests of the blacks and mulattoes are inseparably one. Their sympathies should be for each other." It is safe to say if the race was represented by such men as the subject of this sketch, in a few years the race problem would take the wings of a dove. One of the greatest troubles in the South is a lack of manhood on the part of our able men to even speak in a manly way for their rights. To illustrate what I mean, let me invite Continued on page 3. 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Continued from first page. your attention to the following facts: Several months ago, during the discussion of the Jim-Crow street car law for Memphis, a meeting of Negroes was called at the Howe Institute to take action. A few wanted to issue a proclamation to the Negroes of Memphis to discontinue the practice of riding for pleasure, and in no case ride unless in cases of absolute necessity. The meeting was controlled by a majority of "Expediency Policy" men, who argued that such actions may be right, but it was not expedient to do so. After wasting a lot of gas and big speeches for several nights doing nothing, they adjourned sine die. There never was a time when the race needed men to speak out for its rights more than now. That you may know the kind of man the subject of this sketch is let me recall an incident that happened in his office a few months ago. While sitting there listening to pleasant reminiscences of his school days, the interesting and instructive conversation was interrupted by the incoming of a representative of the "Memphis Morning News," who was soliciting advertisements for his paper. It will be remembered that at that time the "News" was the most bitter Negro hating journal in the South. Just a few days prior to this representative's visit to Mr. Settle's office, its columns contained caricatured Negroes, under which was written, Gwine ter de White House Dinner." In addition to this it contained editorials condemnatory of President Roosevelt in a manner that should cause all true Americans to blush with shame. Notwithstanding these things and its leaning toward the lynching of "niggers," it had the unblushing audacity to send its representative to the office of one of the wealthiest Negro lawyers in the South in search of business. It is safe to say he left feeling different than when he called, as the following conversation will show: News Man—"Mr. Settle, I am soliciting ads for our paper. We are preparing a new directory which will contain all the prominent lawyers of the city. I have come to see if I could get yours." Mr. Settle—"What paper do you represent?" News Man—The Memphis Morning News." Placing his large meerschaum pipe on the desk, Mr. Settle answered in the following manner—"No, sir; I don't want any ad. in your directory." News Man—"Why not?" Mr. Settle—"Why not? Yours is the most extreme journal in this section. You are as cowardly as you are extreme. You are unfair, too; you strike at a poor, defenseless people who can not strike back at you. You do not voice the sentifents of your best people, and unless you change your course your paper can not possibly live." News Man (color changing and advancing toward the door)—"Our business is better now than ever before; we will live." Mr. Settle—"You cannot live; but I notice in your editorial of a few days ago, you are advising the country to let up on the Negro question. You seem to be getting sick of your own game. You started it and now you have discovered that the North is figuring on cutting down your representation in Congress; you are among the first to hollow 'let up!' let up on the Negro question!'" News Man (showing signs of agitation)—"We will live." Mr. Settle—"You started this agitation, and now you see that the North is tired of a white man in the South having five times the voting power that white men in the North have. You are willing enough now to let up. Your representation in Congress is just as sure to be cut down as we are here to-day." At this point the News man left without saying a word except that his paper would live. This was the most interesting colloquy and the grandest defense for the race your correspond has ever heard. THE COLORED AMERICAN Mr. Settle is a devout member of the Episcopal church, being treasurer of his church. His natural disposition is that of a polished and cultured gentleman. Unlike most men he believes that men should be refined in their manners and deeds, even though they be to themselves at a stag party. The young men aspiring to the profession of law could find no better character to emulate than the subject of this sketch. Indeed his professional life as outlined in his Greenville speech in which he advised his hearers to first secure a thorough college education and then be truthful and honest. You may say all you choose about self-made men and women, but unless our struggling young women and men secure substantial aid from our strong men, the chances for their success in life are very discouraging. In this respect Mr. Settle has few equals and no superiors. The worthy young men holding positions of honor who received help and inspiration from this great man in their early days are many. Letters full of thanks from United States Consul Ruffin to him, bespeak in no uncertain way of a few of the great favors he has shown the young men of the race. Mr. Settle's home life is as faultless as is his public life. No man could be more devoted to his family than he. He has a wife and two promising sons, Masters Josiah, jr., and McCullough. Mrs. Settle is a south Carolinian, but was reared in Memphis. For a number of years she was a music teacher in Lemoyne Institute. Her strong force of character bespeaks fitness for any place of honor in the gift of any female seminary. In resigning her position as teacher, Lemoyne lost one of the greatest teachers for girls in our land. If I had a billion mouths and each mouth as many tongues, I would use them all in exclaiming to our women teachers of the entire country to take inspiration from this noble woman remembering if your neighbors can say no more of you than hers say of her, millions and millions of babies yet unborn will cluster around your graves and say, "Well done." Next to her strong christian character is her love of music. Mrs. Settle is very fond of music. Every morning, as promptly as it comes, strains of music, as sweet as the breath of Divinity, may be heard bursting forth from her parlor windows, arresting the attention of passers by. Mrs. Settle at the piano and her two sons, Josiah, jr. and McCullough, with violins make music that adds so much to their comfortable home. In their dotage the Settle boys may recall their childhood days and with no little degree of feelings sing there is no place like home. Being a close student and lover of books, Mrs. Settle is a great help to her husband in a literary way. She is not at all easily approached, but those who know her best say she has nothing too good for her friends. The entire Settle family are preparing to take their usual summer trip to points East and North. A greater portion of the time will be spent at Atlantic City, N. J. Afro-Americans throughout the city of Memphis are wishing them apleasant trip and a safe return home. Should you ask me how to reach the unreached Negro, I would tell you to let us all strive to emulate the life and character of this family. Let us have the civic pride and the love of home that are so characteristic of these people. Let us beautify our homes; when we shall have done this and all that in our power lies to secure the proper recognition as American citizens, we will receive that welcome approbation: "Thou hast been faithful over a few things, enter into the Heaven of rest and be ruler over many. 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He said that the local business League stood ready to do all in its power to make the stay of the visitors as pleasant as possible. T. THOMAS FORTUNE. Chairman. Other addresses of welcome were delivered by Rev. S. E. Griggs, Dr. R. F. Boyd, Prof. Jno. Tracy, J. W. Grant Prof. Richard Hill, Mr. John L. Barbour, J. T. Turner, Dr. W. D. Chappelle, Prof. F. G. Smith and Mr. H. G. Scales, and by Hon. J. C. Napier, who spoke on behalf of the "Nashville Citizens." Editor T. Thos. Fortune Mr. Charles Banks, R. L. Page, and Hon. J. C. Bush, receiver of Public Money, Little Rock, Ark., responded to the addresses of welcome. The meeting then adjourned until 8 p. m. It would be a conservative estimate to say that 2,000 people crowded the gallery, lower floor and lobby of the House of Representatives to-night. Long before the hour of opening the people crowded in the hall. Dr. Booker T. Washington entered a few minutes past 8 o'clock, accompanied by J. C. Napier and Dr. Courtney of Boston. S. E. COURT He called the assembly to order and "Italia" was sung by the choir. Rev. R. H. Boyd, First Vice President, presided. Hon. J. C. Napier, of Nashville, presented the president with a gavel which he said was brought from Hayti by the late John M. Langston some years ago and given to Mrs. Napier, who is the daughter of the great statesman. After the acceptance of the gavel, Mr. Washington delivered his annual address. He was given an ovation by the large audience. "If you would succeed in the South, in the North or anywhere you should begin right where you are in the right direction," said the speaker. President Washington said in part. BOOKER WASHINGTON'S ADDRESS. "The National Negro Business League assembled here constitutes, I think I am safe in saying, the highest THE COLORED AMERICAN. and perhaps the most representative secular organization among our people in this country. Its growth during the five years since its first organization at Boston, has been at a very rapid rate. "More and more, I am glad to see, the black man is beginning to appreciate and take advantage of the opportunities for commercial and business development in this country. It is much wiser for us to emphasize opportunities than grievances. The world soon gets tired of the man or the race with a grievance. We must learn to be bigger than those who insult us. We must learn to hold up our heads, and march loyally forward, in spite of obstacles and discouragements. "The mere facts that there can assemble in this beautiful state capitol building, in a Southern State, hundreds of colored men and women, from all parts of the country, representing as you do, nearly every line of business in which the white man is en- O gaged, is an indication of growth which is more potent and helpful than much abstract argument. The race that can produce such an assembly of men and women after only forty years of freedom is one to be proud of. THE WAY TO CONFIDENCE. . . "We shall succeed in winning our way into the confidence and esteem of the American people just in proportion as we show ourselves valuable to J.C.NAPIER. the community in which we live, in all the common industries, in commerce, in the welfare of the state, and in the manifestation of the highest character. The community does not fear as a rule the vote of the man, no matter what his color, who is a large taxpayer. It is not the Negro who owns a successful business or works at a trade, who is charged with crime. "While we are in many cases surrounded with disadvantages when we compare our condition and opportunities with those of the Jew in many parts of Europe, it is easy to see that almost every opportunity denied the Jew is open to us. overcome the more strength we shall overcome the more strength we shall gain by succeeding. Every house owned, every farm well cultivated, every bank account, every store operated, every tax receipt, is one influence which will operate tremendously in our favor. "The Negro is not ungrateful for all the benefits he has received at the N.T.VELAR. N.T.VELAR. hands of the white people of this country, and should on every proper occasion never fail to express this gratitude in no uncertain language. But the mere fact that we are not easily satisfied, and seek still further opportunities of advancement, is an indication of advancement is an indication of the value of the race. People who are easily satisfied are people of few wants. Wherever you find a race that is easily satisfied and one that has few wants, there you will find arace that is of little value to its country, industrially, commercially or in any other direction. INSURANCE BUSINESS DISCUSSED. E. J. Young, of Charlotte, N. C., discussed the "Insurance Business Among the Negroes." He said that all property should be insured, whether owned by a white man or black man, as a safeguard. C. F. Johnson, of Moblie also spoke on the insurance business. M.M. LEWEY. Dr. E. C. Morris, of Helena, called attention to Booker T. Washington as the greatest man of his race, and he desired that the people of the League show their appreciation by suspending the rule and re-electing Prof. Washington president by acclamation. Hon. J. C. Napier seconded the motion with a few remarks, and S. Lang Williams, of Chicago, said: "I come from the North and I want to say to my people down here that they owe it to themselves to show to the world that we do not in the least indorse the action of a few pigmies who represent nothing but are always ready to criticise." Continued on page 5. Phone East 347. ARTORNEY and COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW Collections Real Estate and Insurance. A Matters given prompt Attention in the District of Columbia. 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The motion went through unanimously. Prof. Washington assured the organization that whether in the ranks as a member or as the President, he stood ready to do anything in his power for the uplifting and development of his race. "The Negro Business Men of Philadelphia," were discussed by G. E. Dickerson a young colored lawyer from the city of "Brotherly Love." He said that the Negroes of that city were learning how to unite their efforts and were organizing themselves into joint stock companies and fully intended to find out the existence of the wind. His address was practical and full of common sense. W. H. Johnson of Baynesville, Va., who conducts a large export walnut log business between this country and Germany, spoke. J.C.JACKSON. The discussion of the real estate business was opened by Philip A. Payton, New York City. He was followed by Prof. R. D. Littlejohn, of Columbus, Miss., and J. T. Newsome, of Newport News Va. THURSDAY MORNING. The interest in the convention of the League showed increased animation when J. E. Bush, of Littl Rock, Ark., called the convention order at 10.15 o'clock this morning. While there were a few vacant seats in the section set apart for the delegates, these were soon filled, and before the proceedings had gone very far, the aduitorium was again packed almost to capacity. After music by the choir, invocation was offered by Rev. I. G. Bailey, of Arkansas. GILES B JACKSON There was an intermission of a few minues, during which the choir rendered another selection. ADDRESS BY R. L. SMITH. The convention not being ready to resume the regular program, Chairman Bush called upon R. L. Bush to address the members. Mr. Smith is Deputy United States Marshall of Paris, Tex. After a few introductory remarks, he read a paper prepared gy President Wiley, of the Twentieth Century Cotton Mill, of Dallas, Tex. The paper showed that the colored people of that section have made wonderful strides in the industrial avenues. The mill is one of the largest in the country. Every detail of the concern is run by Negro operators. It began op- eration Jan. 5, 1903, superintended by trained officers from the mills of New England. The operators were selected from the colored youth of Dallas, none of whom had ever been in a cotton mill before. T. G. Ewing, a local lawyer, and manager of the Nashville Shirt Factory spoke concerning his factory. Mr. Wynn, of Clarksville, made a few remarks about the business men of his city. "Blacksmithing and Wagon Making" was discussed by E. E. Gibson, of Nashville. chants are rated on commercial books. This, he said, is one reason why the Negroes have business in so many instant big wholesale houses, he says, have confidence in the Negro chants who are not rated in commercial agencies. Dr. Ballard only Negro member of the Association of Kentucky. He means to follow the white men business as far as possible it is right, and to eschew him it is wrong. J. FRED W. MOORE, Organizer, Brooklyn, N. Y. Z. T. Evans, of New Orleans, spoke as a representative of the local League of the Crescent City. He is one of the men who have built for themselves a successful business by close application and the adoption of the business methods as are instilled in the race these days by Mr. Washington. A short talk was made by J. Gray Lucas, a rising attorney of Chicago. D. H. Weir, a Chicago caterer, discussed "Catering—Its Possibilities for Colored People, and How to Succeed." J. Thomas Newsome, of Newport News a bright young attorney, made a vigorous speech full of facts of interest to the race. He said that the Ne- A. DR. S. A. FURNISS, Indianapolis, Ind. gro population of Newport News is 45 1-2 of the entire population. He is an enterprising man, and represents all the colored corporations in that city. WINTER'S. THE PRODUCE MAN. J. L. Winters, a local produce dealer, recounted his experience on the rugged road to success. His remarks, which were made in his characteristically honest style, provoked much applause. He said that his firm had done a business during the last six mnths which aggregated $50,000. He spoke of the number of fowls he had bought and sold. He told of the obstacles and difficulties he and his wife met in the establishment of their business. One of the delegates asked the speaker how he got his chickens. F. N. SNEED, DRUGGIST. F. N. Sneed, of Clarion, Ark. made a short talk, and he was followed by Dr. W. H. Ballard, of Lexington. He is a druggist. His speech teemed with practical business suggestions. He said that he could purchase large bills of drugs from any wholesale drug house in the world because of his substantial rating in Dun's. He said that only 5 per cent. of the colored mer- chants are rated on commercial agency books. This, he said, is one of the reasons why the Negroes have failed in business in so many instances. The big wholesale houses, he said, do not have confidence in the Negro merchants who are not rated with commercial agencies. Dr. Ballard is the only Negro member of the Druggists' Association of Kentucky. He said he means to follow the white man in his business as far as possible in all that is right, and to eschew him in all that is wrong. The program being completed, reports were heard from several of the local Leagues. Dr. R. H. Boyd presided at 8 o'clock Thursday night and Rev. Thomas H. Jackson, president of Charter University, North Little Rock, made the opening prayer. The first speaker was Rev. J. M. Conner, D. D., of Little Rock, who is prominently mentioned as one of the bishops of the church. He discussed banking among the colored people. His address showed that the colored people were finding a profitable field in the banking industry, and that banks were being established in all parts of the country. The most unique experience of the session was related by Miss Caledonia Smith, of this city, who told of her ups and downs successes and failures in the grocery business. BIG TOBACCO BUSINESS. Dr. J. M. Peters, of Owensboro, Ky., told about the success of the Negroes M. in that part of the country. He presented a large twist of tobacco which he said represented a firm that employed 2,000 Negroes. He also spoke of a Negro brick yard in that city and said that the people were so well pleased with the bricks that they purchased them and hauled them away while hot and burned their wagons. "We cannot make it by getting away from each other, but we must stand together." "The Negro Farmer" was discussed by Hon. John H. Smith, of Virginia, who is at the head of a reformatory for Negro boys. His address was practical and full of good advice to his people. F. D. Patterson, Greenfield, O., manufacturer of carriages buggies, and wagons, told of his accomplishments. Wm. E. Mollison President of the Negro bank in Vicksburg, and Dr. U. G. Mason, of Birmingham, Ala., also spoke. The closing address was made by F. R. Moore, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who discussed building and loan associations among the colored people. Mr. Moore was a prime favorite among the delegates and members of the League and made a most timely and practical address. The preachers did not give him a vote of thanks. Continued on page 9. DRESS MAKING ACADEMY. The de Lam Orton Famous French Perfection Tailor System, Mme. J. A. Smallwood, sole agent, 1513 Madison street, northwest. Morning class from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. Afternoon class 2 to 5 p. m. daily. Evenings from 7:30 to 10 o'clock. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, dressmakers and ladies who wish to do their own dress-making. WANTED.—To learn the wonderful De Lam Orton French Perfection Tailor System. Seamless Basques without one inch of visible seam, in lining or goods, not eeven on the shoulder. Successful dressmaking requires as much earnest progressive study as successful work in any profession. No detail is too small to be looked after. We teach you to make dresses with or without seam and guarantee perfect fits, and complete your course with a diploma. If you have a spare room that you would like to rent to desirable parties, advertise them in The Colored American. SUMMER RESORTS FOR RENT--Summer of 1903 Lincoln Hall Harper's Ferry, W. Va. For particulars address N. C. Brackett. Please Help Me Find My Brother Saunk Joyce was sold in Mecklenburg, Virginia several years before the civil war. to Cunnigan a Negro trader. His mother. Willie, was a slave on the Joyce plantation. He had one sister Betty, who is very anxious to find him. Any in formation will be gladly received. MRS BETTY REYNOLDS. 44 Parker street, Atlanta, Ga. WANTED 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 railroad and Hotel expenses. The season of 1903-04, beginning Sept., 15th. Address 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. Theoretical and Practical AGRICULTURE The call for Educated Negro Men who have made a special study of Theoretical and Practical Agriculture is more pressing than the supply. The demand for such men comes from all parts of the U. S. and from several foreign countries. The Agricultural Department of The Tuskegee Institute Is now prepared to give instruction of a high grade to persons who have finished either common school or college courses We hope that a large number o such persons will enter this department of Tuskegee this fal For information as to expense, etc.; apply to BOOKER T. WAHSINGTON, Tuskegee, Ala. Money to Loan! Money to loan at lowest rate of interest on Real and Personal Property, also on Notes. Apply at office of Mutual Improvement Society 407 Seventh Street, N. W., 3rd floor, room WASHINGTON, D. C. ```markdown ``` 6 ECHOES FROM THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE. The daily press of Nashville Tenn., received a vote of thanks for its generous treatment of the delegates and visitors of the National Negro Business League. Nashville is a great, hospitable city and demonstrated its ability to take care of visitors by the reception given the League delegates while in that city. Mr. Francis H. Gilbert of Brooklyn, N. Y., was an active and enthusiastic delegate. He attended every session of the meeting encouraged it by his presence and activity and very generously became a life member. Some of the old gaurds like Judge M. W. Gibbs, of Ark., Jno. C. Dancy, of N. Carolina, Rev. J. W. E. Bowen of Georgia, Dr. W. D. Crum, of South Carolina and Dr. Pettiford, of Alabama were conspicuous by their absence. No better evidence of the usefulness and popularity of the League is needed than the fact that in less than a half hour $8.70 was taken in through the life membership and by delegates paying their dues. The Chicago delegation was weakened by the absence of quite a number who were in attendance at Richmond last year. It was a strong delegation, however, headed by Messrs. T. W. Jones, A. C. Howard, S. Lang Williams and wife, J. Gray Lucas and wife and many others. There was a flow of eloquence when a motion was made to elect Dr. Booker T. Washington, President of the League in open meeting by acclamation. It was only equaled when he was made a life member by the same body. "Turn off the switches; telegram ahead for the monkey is on the main line," was the utterance of Mr. C. H. Winfield, of Jonestown, Miss. the Merchant, Timber and Stove Dealer, when he was called upon to address the meeting. Lawyer J. Thomas Newsome, of Newport News, Va., made one of the best five minute talks of the meeting. He is a successful and brilliant young lawyer who is winning his spurs and making money. Newport News made no mistake in sending him as a delegate. "Confine your speech to five minutes," was the injunction of Mr. Washington when a speaker came to the platform with a voluminous manuscript. He very wittily said that the best of most of the written speeches was the last part of them and he urged many speakers to read the last part first. The local committee, of Nashville, headed by Messrs. J. C. Napier R. H. Boyd and others was magnificently organized and worked to perfection. The Nashville Railway and Light Co., tendered the delegates and their friends a free trolley ride to all parts of the city and gave them as many special cars as were needed. The delegates took on Edgefield, (East Nashville,) the Universities in West Nashville and South Nashville. The writer did not attend the banquet at Jubilee Hall, but learned from those who did that it was a magnificent affair well attended by Nashville's elite and was a success. The Boston, New York, Washington, Richmond delegation which reached Nashville on a special train of Pullman cars attracted attention in going to and coming from Nashville. These delegations were royally treated by the Seaboard Air Line Officials and baring the delay at Atlanta, Ga., both ways gave the best of services. Will the Eastern delegates ever forget those breakfasts and dinners at Norlina. N. C. and at Hamlet, same state. The dinning rooms at these places were thrown open to the delegates and most elaborate meals were served. The breakfast at Chattanooga as well as the supper at Dalton, Ga., were good enough but they were handouts, as it were. Rev. Preston Tavlor and his amiable wife gave a grand barbecue at Greenwood Cemetery and Park to the delegates and visitors Thursday afternoon. Carriages and wagons and buggies were used to convey the 200 men and women to the park. The menu contained barbecued lamb, shoat, po THE COLORED AMERICAN. tato salad, pickles, corn on the cob, tomatoes, cucumbers onions, bread, butter, cheese, crackers, ice cream, assorted cakes, watermellons, lemonade and coffee. Dr. Taylor and his wife came in for a large share of praise. HIGHLAND BEACH NOTES. The amusements for the past week, consisted of fishing, crabbing, boating and euchre whist and other games. Bowen House. Among the visitors we noticed Mrs. Merrill, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Gray, Misses Gertie Ryan, Susie Crump, Eva and Vergie Ross, Hilyer Madge and Jennie Williamson, Ada and Annie Brown, Messrs. Robinson, H. Campbell, Dr. Ralph Stewart Albertus Brown, Jas. A. Cobb and Winfield Duffield, of Washington, D. C., Joseph Walker and W. W. Lewis, of Baltimore, Md. Douglass Cottage. Rev. and Mrs. Bennett, Misses Helen Adams and Jennie Kelly, of the London Troupe Mrs. Dr. Bishop and daughter, Lottie and Miss Berard, of Annapolis, Md. Maj. Chas. R. Douglass who has spent several days in San Francisco, Cal., will return home next Tuesday. Colbert Cottage. Misses Maude and Charlotte Stewart, and Messrs. Robt. Pelham and children, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. S. Allen, of Washington, D. C., and Fred Barrier, of Detroit, Mich., Mrs. Jno. Cragwill and daughter, and Mrs. Stokes and daughters, Dr. J. R. Wild and son, and Mr. Charles C. Lane were also visitors of the Beach. GAY ATLANTIC CITY. A Reception to the Guests and Friends of Keen Cottage. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Special.—Friday evening, Aug. 21, Mrs. S. A. Keen gave an evening social in honor of her guests. Among those present were the Misses Martin, Mr Arthur Lynch, Miss Isabel Carter, of Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Foster, Mrs. George H. Cambridge and daughter, Mr. Andrew J. Manley, Miss Flora Lewis, Miss Florence Wilson, Mrs. H. T. Ringgold, Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Mintess Miss M. Governs, Mr. J. J. Duckett, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Mrs. William M. Jones, Mr. E. E. Willis, Mrs. Cora V. Washington, Mrs. Robert E. Lee, Mrs. Minnie E. Brooks, Mr. Harvey Arnett, Miss and Mrs. Rinna G. Dorkins, of Pittsburg Pa.; Mme. Thomas, Orange, N. J.; Lawyer and Mrs. E. E. Brown, of Boston, Mass.; Mrs. Mollie M. Smith, Alleghaney, Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Rutledge, New York, N. Y.; Mr. W. A. McClurg, Mr. Edward V. Leams Mr. Hermann H. Brown, Miss Lena McClurg, Miss Rebecca Brown, Miss Emma Washington, of Parkersburg, W. Va.; Miss Mollie V. Jones, Wheeling, W. Va.; Mr. James H. Neal, of Chicago, Ill.; Mr. J. E. Lansey Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Pratt, of Baltimore Md.; Miss Adah Captain, Miss Anna Corsley, Mr. Thos. H. Johnson, Mr. O. S. Jones, Mrs. Wm. Jones. Miss Edna Jackson, Geo. Wilson, of Pittsburg Pa.; Miss Irene Riley Philadelphia Pa. THE POWELL RESIDENCE. Hon. W. F. Powell has purchased No. 1507 Fifteenth street, N. W., the residence of his mother, the late Mrs. Julia A. C. Powell, paying the sum of $6,000 therefor. It is possible, therefore, that our present most efficient minister to the Hatian government may some day become a resident of the National Capitol. Minister Powell, accompanied by his wife, sailed from New York Tuesday the 25th instant, for his post of duty at Port au Prince, Haiti. ARUNDEL-ON-THE-BAY NOTES Hon. J. C. Dancey and family, of Washington. Miss Nana Lee, of Flushing, N. Y., Miss Bessie Spence, of West Chester, Pa., Miss Grace Griyer, of New York City and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Joiner, of Washington, are spending the month of August at Arundelas the guests of Silver Crest Cottage. Mr. W. D. Montague, assistant assessor of the District Building, is taking his annual vacation. AN OUTING AT TWINING CITY. Last Sunday, a party of twelve young men met at the residence of Mr. Frank Gaines, on Capitol Hill, and spent the day at Twining City, not far from Bennings, as his guest during the day. A special wagon was chartered by Mr. Gaines and in addition to his eleven guests, sumptuous baskets of delicacies of all kinds with liquid refreshments and plenty of ice abounded. The wagon fairly groaned under the weight of good things. The drive was a long and delightful one and the day was most pleasantly spent. The young men indulged in all kinds of out door sports among them the feature beings a mock trial in which the members of the party acted as the judge, court officials, attorneys, policemen, etc. Col. J. Madison Jackson acted as judge and in his wrath sentenced one culpit to one hundred years in durance vile. Mr. Washington Woods, acted as chef and the boys are still talking about how he cooked the roasting ears in the shuck. Those present were: Messrs. Frank Gaines, J. M. Jackson Washington Woods, Gus Syphax, Johnnie Cooper, James Frazier Wm. W. Walker, Sid Reese, John Evans, Nathaniel Sidnor, James Whitlow, Tom Sayers, and Mr. Lee. The party voted Mr. Gaines a generous host. Lawyer L. Melendez King is spending his summer vacation at Berkeley Springs, W. Va., stopping at the Howard Cottage. THE NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE. The session of the Negro Business League in this city should be full of help and hope to the Negroes attending. The testimony of these men who by energy, industry and attention to business principles, have established themseives in commercial and industrial lines cannot fail to impress all hearers with what may be accomplished by the race in the matters most important to its best interests. The League was forunate in having Booker T. Washington to address it and emphasize in his own forcible style the considerations which should be sought first by the Negro. Most of the addresses have been full of common sense and practical suggestion. Anw city with a large Negro population should be glad to have this League to choose it for a meeting place and Nashville hopes that the good effects of this session among us will be seen in the future. No city in the South can boast more harmonious relations between the races than Nashville and the white people of this city take a genuine pleasure in whatever of prosperity and improvement come to its Negro population. Such a spirit as pervaded the meeting of the Negro Business League fosters the self-respect and industrious habits which enable the Negroes in Nashville to live among us peaceably and pleasantly.—Nashville Daily News. LIEUTENANT BAKER IN THE PHILIPPINES. Word has just reached us that Lient. E. L. Baker, jr., is reudering most honorable service to Uncle Sam in the Philippine Islands. He is first lieutenant of one of the Scout Regiments and acting in the capacity of captain and governor of Legaspi Albay, P. I. He has been on the go for the past six months in San Juan de Boc Boc. In charging the enemy in a recent engagement the lighter was lost and all transports, guns and ammunition destroyed. He seems not to be suffering from inactivity and he is one of the most efficient officers in the Philippine Islands. Lieut David J. Gilmer, who was recently appointed to the Philippine Scouts Regiment, has been assigned to the Twenty-seventh company at Cagayaris and is now in active harness. Mr. Fred R. Moore, a solid citizen of New York City, N. Y., is spending a few days in this city the guest of friends. He attended the Fourth Annual meeting of the National Negro Business League at Nashville and was elected General Organizer. LEGAL ANNOUNCEMENT. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, holding a Probate Court. No. 11622, Administration. THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE: That the subscriber, of the State of New Jersey, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters Testamentary on the estate of Julia A. C. Powell, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 28th day of July, A. D. 1904; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 28th day of July, 1903. WM. F. POWELL Port-au-Prince Haiti Attest: JOHN N. NOUZER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. R. S. SMITH, Attorney. 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. FER Gen. Pass. A.t., St. Paul. Mnn. 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 outfit, $3 for one head, $5 for 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 IN A NEW ROLE. Mr. Pat Chappelle a Successful Theatrical Manager-A Few Points in His Career-A Rabbits Foot a Roaring Farce Comedy. The colored man is entering every field of honest endeavor. He is not content to be merely a hewer of wood and a drawer of water. He means to be all that any other race can be on this continent. His career on the stage illustrates the point. We have had brilliant actors of our own for many years, but they were meteoric, they were exceptional and almost phenomenal. But this condition has long since passed. The stage is now a fully recognized profession for the Negro and he is occupying it with ability and financial success. It is easy to recall the many colored organizations which have found favor with the theatre going public during the last decade. The character of their entertainments has been of superior degree their mirth-producing sketches have been clean and elevating, and their musical ability of course was beyond all possible comparison. Such an organization as that called "A Rabbit Foot Company," composed of thirty-five artists, all colored, and presid- MR. PAT Proprietor and Manager of "A ed over by Mr. Pat Chappelle, which is now touring the principal cities of the South. This company has been unusually successful and popular in the four years of its existence. In all the cities it has visited it has caught the public's favor among both white and colored people, and has reaped abundant financial reward. Much if not all of its success has been due to the splendid sense and keen business judgment of Mr. Chapelle himself. This gentleman is an exceedingly busy man, as indeed are all successful men. He has extensive commercial interests in the city of Tampa, Fla. including the management of a large hotel, and while he keeps a strong directing hand upon them all, he finds time to conceive and put into operation his ideas of a company of superior colored actors and to make his idea take root and pay. His company travels in state. No jimcrow cars for him! He royally charters special trains for his artists and has purchased a special Pullman sleeper for their comfort. His advance agents are all colored and his every employee is of our race. White people flock to his entertainments, and in June last at Eufaula, Ala., the Daughters of the Confederacy then in session adjourned their meeting and attended his performance in a body. This would be a great record for the Negro in any section of the country, but it is exceptional and altogether remarkable when it is remembered that all this is occurring in the heart of the South. FINANCE DO YOU NEED If so, come to us. Mr. Chappelle is doing his race infinite service. It is not difficult to figure how many persons are dependent upon each of the thirty-five members of his company and how many persons there are, therefore to whose support and maintenance Mr. Chappelle's business enterprise and successful venture into untried fields are contributing. Then, too, he is winning golden opinions from the whites who observe his capacity and thrift. It is to be hoped that Mr. Chapelle will favor some of the Northern cities with an opportunity to witness the finished performances of his company, and that he will continue to bask in the smiles of Dame Fortune. Mrs. Babe Mahoney, after a lengthy stay with her family in this city, during which she lost by death her revered mother, Mrs. Maria Jackson, has returned to her home in Pittsburg, Pa. Dr. W. S. Lofton is listening to the wild waves at Atlantic City. CHAPPELLE. A Rabbit Foot Co.," Tampa, Florida. MRS. SCOTT'S JAUNT. Mrs. E. D. Scott, of 903 Ninth street northeast, accompanied by her daughter, Miss Marion T. Scott, arrived home last Sunday morning after a most delightful visit to Massachusetts. As it is a number of years since Mrs. Scott has visited Cambridge, her home, her welcome by old friends was indeed a happy one. The first two weeks she was the guest of Miss Eva Lewis, of Grant street after which she joined a party on a cruise of two weeks in the yacht, Scotia, belonging to Mr. and Mrs. William Z. Bean, of West Medford. After a most delightful cruise, Mrs. Scott returned to Cambridge, remaining two weeks longer to complete engagements. Miss Marion Scott was the guest of Mrs. William Z. Bean. By the many and varied courtesies shown her in West Medford, Boston, and Cambridge her visit was a very happy one. Master Paul D. Scott is in the city and will return to Cambridge to resume school duties early in September. Mr. E. E. Cooper has just returned from Nashville, Tenn. where he spent eight days as a delegate to the National Negro Business League. --- 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. WASHINGTON MORTGAGE LOAN 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. 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ADVERTISING RATES. Reading notices 50 cents per line. Display advertisements, $2 per square inch, per insertion. Discounts made on large contracts. Entered at the Post Office as second class matter. All letters, communications, and business matters should be addressed to THE COLORED AMERICAN. EDWARD E. COOPER, Manager, 459 C St., Northwest, Washington, D. C. Sold by all News Dealers. SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1903. LESSONS OF LABOR UNIONS. If ever an institution founded for worthy purposes showed a more humiliating prostitution of its forces than the labor unions of the country do, we fail to recall it. We have often marvelled at their lack of tact and at their unusual and foolish facility for striking and getting knocked out regularly in one, two, three order. We know there are many wise and conservative men among them to whose counsels attention should have been accorded, but they persist in antagonizing the public sentiment of the country which is naturally disposed to sympathiez with them by all kinds of indefensible conduct. The latest exhibition is made by the Bookbinders' Union of this city, dominated by the craftsmen employed on the Government Printing Office, in their treatment of Mr. William A. Miller, a foreman of the bindery in that office. After their abortive effort to separate him from his job, there were loud threats of a strike if he were retained, but the Public Printer developed some backbone and reminded the union that they were running only a part of the universe and the Government Printing Office was outside their reservation. "Let me get at him!" said Mr. Wouldbe fighter, and added prudentially, "Two of you hold him; one of you can hold me." There was no strike. There were ten men outside ready to take the place of each striker. So they are now "conferring," as they say, but really chewing the end of bitter defeat and mortification. The fact is, and the cooler heads among them should realize it, that THE COLORED AMERICAN. like all similar combinations of labor they are cursed by the walking delegate incubus. They are hard at work, providing for their families, with no time for conspiracies or unlawful schemes, while Mr. Walking Delegate, clothed in purple and fine linen, who toileth not, neither doth he spin, foments trouble, stirs up strife, all to show his "value" to the union and the "vigilant care" he gives to its "interests." With him something must be doing all the time. Under his malevolent influence the Labor Unions are fast losing public sympathy and we predict that ere long the best men in them will withdraw their membership. We speak with only proper warmth when we say the earlier they cease to curse labor the greater will be our pleasure. They, and they alone, keep the Negro from remunerative employment in any of the higher mechanical or industrial pursuits by excluding him from membership in their organization. They, and they alone, are without any doubt at the bottom of the wide-spread wave of active persecution and hate of the Negro now spreading over the North and West and we will shed no tears when conservative laboring men come to see as a grave measure against free institutions the duress they apply to their own members in right or wrong and in their unreasoning and bitter antagonism against all forms of invested or accumulated capital. The Eighth Regiment of the Illinois National Guards has recently had its annual encampment at Camp Lincoln, near the city of Springfield in that State. This organization is composed exclusively of colored men. Its officers from the colonel down are also colored. It has won golden opinions from the press and the authorities for its exceptionally good conduct and its esprit de corps during its stay in camp. Col. John R. Marshall, its in camp. Col. John R. Marshall, its commander, has had experience in actual warfare, having participated in the Spanish-American war with great honor as a commissioned officer. The command, which is the only full regiment of colored militia in the country had 768 enlisted men in camp and 53 commissioned officers. So excellent was the conduct of this regiment while at Camp Lincoln this year that the Governor of the State, Hon. Richard Yates, felt it incumbent upon him to indicate in a marked manner his appreciation of its soldierly qualities. This he did by extending to the field, staff and line officers a reception at the Executive mansion at Springfield. The function was brilliant and successful. It was attended by many representative citizens and State officials. Subsequently the officers reciprocated the Governor's courtesy by a grand dinner in camp which the Governor attended with his wife, he escorting to the table the wife of Col. Marshall, while the latter did the honors for Mrs. Yates. The dinner was also attended by a number of prominent white officials and citizens, among whom we note the name of General John C. Black, that sturdy old Democrat well known as a former Commissioner of Pensions. General Black made a felicitous speech on the occasion. The rabid Negro-hating Southern white man will probably go into convulsions when they read the details of these two brilliant functions, but the bird of freedom will probably not moult a feather over them. The Eighth Regiment is, in respect of all excellent qualities akin to our own First Separate Batalion, which easily takes the lead at annual encampments for obedience to orders and close application to duty. MISSISSIPPI'S OPPORTUNITY. Before this issue reaches our patrons the second primary to determine who shall be the Democratic nominee for Governor of Mississippi will have been held. The unspeakable Vardaman running on a platform not of progress or broad statesmanlike principles but simply of antagonism to the Negro, is again a candidate, and the fervent prayers of our whole people should go up for his defeat. The division of school funds between the two races based upon the amounts respectively contributed by each in taxation is one of the planks in his platform. It seems inevitable that the proposition should be sincerely entertained by any intelligent community. It is distinctly reactionary. Illiteracy is a menace to any form of government, and in every well adjusted State the amelioration of the condition of the submerged is recognized as the primal duty of the authorities and of philanthropy. It is the intelligent farmer alone who can make two blades of grass grow where but one was formerly found. Education conserves law. It is an excellent investment. It reduces the cost to the people of administering the law. It extends the peace, the safety, and the happiness of all. Will Mississippi take a backward step, or will she follow the noble example of her sister State, Georgia and continue in the procession of progressive commonwealths, alert to maintain a position in the forefront? Would she attract Northern capital to develop her hidden resources and to build up her waste places? Then "forward!" should be her watchword, and her messbacks and hidebound Negro beaters should be assigned to seats in the front row of spectators watching her steady march onward and upward. "THE CURSE OF CASTE." The Walker-Ellison Publishing Company, of New York City announce that they are about to publish a work to be called "The Curse of Caste," written by a Southern gentleman of broad views and high culture. This publication is to take high ground on the Negro question and to fortify his resolution in his present condition. It will endeavor to furnish the antidote for the bane supplied by Rev. Thomas Dixon, jr.'s "The Leopard's Spots." It will be a valuable addition to the literature of the epoch if its prospectus makes good. The aftermath of Negro lynching is beginning. A white man was lynched out in the State of Washington last week for outraging a mere child. Perhaps one or two more lynchings of white men will stop the whole practice. The Negro is recognized as an American in time of war. He asks the same recognition in time of peace. The Gate City Messenger, a new candidate for place in the journalistic world, published in the city of Atlanta, Ga., closes a recent article on race business enterprises with some marvellous mathematical gymnastics, as follows: "If four thousand wear three suits a year at $8 1-3 a suit, it will amount to $1,000,000, and three pairs of shoes at $1.66 2-3 a pair, would be $120,000, and three hats at 66 2-3 apiece, will be $80,000, which will make a total of $1,200,000 that is spent for dry goods in one year. We will always be subordinate." Verily the schoolmaster is abroad. The figures produce no such results. Here they are, properly run out: $8 1-3 x 3 x 4,000..... $1,000 $1.66 2-3 x 3 x 4,000. 20,000 $0.66 2-3 x 3 x 4,000. 8,000 Editor Holmes, while away off on his mathematics, writes luminously and may therefore take comfort and refuge in the old "saw"—"there may be variety without inequality." The panacea for lynching is, arm the prisoner. NOT HELD BY THE ENEMY Mr. Fred L. Barnett, of the Chicago Conservator, has within the past week entered suit against our Mr. E. E. Cooper for criminal libel, the alleged offense being the publication in our columns in the issue of July 25th last of a communication headed "A Chicago Pettifogger," in which Mr. Noah D. Smith, of his city, severely arraigns Mr. Barnett for certain practices and conduct of which Mr. Smith distinctly disapproved. The case will be heard some time during the coming fall, and meanwhile The Colored American will continue to scintillate for the benefit of its numerous patrons and well wishers. The Colored American will be mailed promptly hereafter so that each and every subscriber will get their paper early Saturday morning. Some little irregularities have occurred in the business department which has interfered with the prompt delivery of the paper for the past two weeks. We beg the indulgence of our friends and promise not to commit the offence again. DR. WALDRON'S WORK IN THE NORTH IN BEHALF OF SOUTHERN EDUCATION Rev. J. Milton Waldron, of Jacksonville, Fla., who will be remembered in this city as having been the pastor a number of years ago of the Berean Baptist Church, is now visiting in the North for the two-fold purpose of lecturing on the real condition of our race in the South and soliciting aid in the rehabilitation of his church in the former city which was destroyed in the terrible fire which visited it some time ago. Mr. Waldron is both cultivated and eloquent. His lectures bristle with facts and statistics, while his language is temperate and convincing. He speaks from his extended experience among his people resulting from a ten years' service in Florida, and he will serve as a very few other of our Southern men can, to awaken the conscience of the North to our race's needs and to quicken the impulses of Northern generosity to meet them. One of the most gratifying features of his public utterances is that he has not descended to abuse of his own people, but has told the plain, unvarnished truth. On Sunday, the 26th instant, he preached a most telling and effective sermon on the points interested at the Westminster Presbyterian Church, Syracuse, N. Y. APPARENTLY NOT. We've wireless wires and horseless cabs, But will we ever own A cussless, waitless, out-of-orderless. Birlless telephone? THE ONLY WAY. Dank—Witticus is a clever after-dinner speaker. Blash—Yes; he always polishes up his impromptu speeches a week ahead.—Milwukee Sentinel. Mr. W. L. Board was unexpectedly called to Newark, N. J., this week, on account of the death of his cousin, Dr. Geo. W. Rolerport, a prominent physician and well known Republican political leader of that state, who died late Thursday evening, from the effects of a stroke of apoplexy. THOUSANDS OF FAIR WOMEN HERALD PRAISES FOR PE=RU=NA. [Catarrhal Dyspepsia and Nervous Prostration Makes Invalids of More Women Than All Other Diseases Combined.] Miss Anna Prescott Florence Allan I Miss Marie Coats The Business League. THE LAST SESSION. When the third and last day's session of the National Negro Business League was called to order at 10 o'clock this morning by Third Vice President Charles Banks, of Clarksdale Miss., the number of vacant seats in the auditorium of the Hall of Representatives was noticeable. However, many of the delegates were in conference with the executive committee, considering the place for holding the next annual convention. The meeting was opened with prayer by the Rev. A. O. Kinney, of Nashville. G. W. Franklin, an undertaker, of Chatanooga, rendered, "Calvary," a cornet solo. The chairman called on several representatives from local Leagues in the various cities. Those who responded were: Jerry Taylor, of Robinsonville, Miss.; J. S. Townsend of Illinois; L. H. Williams, a grocer, of Marshall, Tex.; I. W. Walker, of Birmingham, Ala.; "Banking and Insurance," T. W. Jones, of Chicago; "Business Being Done by the Colored People of Chicago," J. E. Henderson, of Little Rock, Ark. jeweler. T. W. Jones, of Chicago, spoke on business conditions generally among the race in Chicago. His remarks were interesting as showing the factor the Negro body has made of its by honorable living. He said, during his remarks, that he believed the so-called Negro problem was largely a business problem, and that it was more the part of the Negro to solve it than of the white man. TWENTY-FOUR LIFE MEMBERS. Quite an interesting discussion was held on the subject of life membership. The fee is $25, and there were but six life members when the convention met in Nashville. In quite a burst of enthusiasm the number was increased to twenty-four. The following delegates handed in their names as life members: J. T. Peterson, Mobile; J. R. Ham, Boston; M. A. Alexander, Louisiana; J. C. Napier, Nashville; W. H. Johnson Virginia; Ed. C. Berry, Athens, O.; W. H. Keys, Nashville; Dr. U. G. Mason, Birmingham; Dr. R. H. Boyd, Nashville; Warren Logan, Tuskegee, Ala.; J. E. Meadows, Keystone W. Va.; J. C. Jackson, Lexington; P. A. Payton, Jr., New York; S. E. Keatts, Little Rock; Fred R. Moore, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Gilbert C. Harris, Boston; Dr. W. H. Ballard, Lexington; F. H. Gilbert New York. Speeches were them resumed, and an address was delivered by W. T. Barnett, of Louisville. The following officers were elected unanimously by the League after being recommended by a committee, of which Rev. Dr. I. B. Scott, was chairman. Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Ala., President; G. L. Knox, First Vice President, Indianapolis Ind.; J. E. Bush, Second Vice President, Little Rock, Ark.; Chas. Banks, Third Vice President, Clarksdale, Miss.,; Emmett J. Scott, Corresponding Secretary Tuskegee, Ala.; Fred R. Moore, Recording Secretary and Organizer, New York City; G. C. Harris, Treasurer, Boston, Mass.; S. L. Williams Compiler, Chicago, Ill.; P. J. Smith, Register, Boston, Mass.; C. F. Adams, Transportation Agent, Washington, D. C. The following Executive Committee was chosen: T. Thomas Fortune, Chairman Red Bank, N. J.; S. E. Courtney, Boston, Mass.; T. W. Jones, Chicago, Ill.; W. A. Beasley, Macon, Ga.; S. A. Furniss, Indianapolis Ind.; J. C. Napier, Nashville, Tenn.; W. L. Taylor, Richmond, Va.; M. M. Lewey, Pensacola, Fla., J. C. Jackson, Lexington, Ky. CLOSING OF SESSION. Rev. E. J. Saunders, President of the Biddle University of Charlotte, N.C., made a few remarks and the closing address was made by Dr. I. B. Scott, editor of the Southwestern Christian Advocate, of New Orleans. He spoke in words of praise of Nashville and Nashville people. "We have never been as well entertained," he said. "And it seems that all of the people THE COLORED AMERICAN. Systemic catarrh causes nervousness, poor appetite, tired feelings. Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. LETTERS FROM WOMEN. Miss Anna Prescott's Letter. Miss Anna Prescott, in a letter from 216 South Seventh street, Minneapolis, Minn., writes: "I was completely used up last fall, my appetite had failed and I felt weak and tired all the time. My druggist advised me to try Peruna and the relief I experienced after taking one bottle was truly wonderful. "I continued its use for five weeks, and am glad to say that my complete restoration to health was a happy surprise to myself as well as to my friends."—Anna Prescott. have united to entertain us." "I have traveled all over the country, and have never seen a more friendly relation existing between the races. There is no cause for friction in Nashville, because the people understand each other." The choir led the League in singing "God Be With You 'Till We Meet Again," and the closing prayer was made by Rev. James Bond, pastor of the Howard Congregation Church. Booker T. Washington then declared the League adjourned until next year at Indianapolis, Ind. The Nashville Street Railway gave the delegates of the National Negro Business League a trolley ride Friday afternoon, and at night they were entertained at Fisk University with a banquet. About 600 were in attendance. Pe-ru-na a True Friend to Women, Miss Florence Allan, a beautiful Chicago girl, writes the following from 75 Walton Place: "As a tonic for a worn out system, Peruna stands at the head in my estimation. Its effects are truly wonderful in rejuvenating the entire system. I keep it on hand all the time, and never have that 'tired feeling,' as a few doses always makes me feel like a different woman."—Florence Allan. Peruna will be found to effect an immediate and lasting cure in all cases of systemic catarrh. It acts quickly and beneficially on the diseased mucous membranes, and with healthy mucous membranes the catarrh can no longer exist. THE JANE MOSELEY'S BOON. The Jane Moseley, the magnificent steamer owned by the Freedman's Land and Transportation Co., is doing the biggest business in the history of the company. From two to three trips are made down the river each day crowded with jolly excursionists. The president and general manager, Mr. Lewis Jefferson, is leaving no stone unturned to make this season a most successful one, and if possible to pay the company out of debt. All of the officers are active and energetic and are working in harmony with the president. Mr. John D. Fossett, the traffic manager and solicitor, has nearly completed all of his dates of the season and is loud in his praise of the boat and its management. 9 Peruna Makes You Feel Like a New Person. Miss Marie Coats, a popular young woman of Appleton, Wis., and President of the Appleton Young Ladies' Club, writes: "When that languid, tired feeling comes over you, and your food no longer tastes good, and small annoyances irritate you, Peruna will make you feel like another person inside of a week. "I have now used it for three seasons, and find it very valuable and efficacious."—Miss Marie Coats; If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case, and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O. NOTICE TO AGENTS. Our agents are hereby notified that this is the last issue of the paper this month and are requested to send in their settlements and orders by the first of the month. Agents who are in arrears and who do not remit by the 5th. inst. will be dropped. 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