The Colored American

The COLORED American A-NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER REV. CHAUNCEY I. WITHROW, D. D., Pastor of the Augusta St., Church, Staunton, Va. VOL. X, NO. 33 REV. CHAUNCEY I. Pastor of the Augusta St., A POPULAR DIVINE. Rev. C. I. Withrow, a Highly Cultured and Popular Minister. In Great Demand as a Public Lecturer and Speaker—Urged by His Members and Friends as Delegate to the General Conference—The Pride of Staunton. The Methodist Episcopal Church South is noted for the large number of educated, intelligent, eloquent men of the race who are a part of its membership. To name the bright par can be alloted to this article. Without mentioning those who have passed away, we name a few of them: there is Dr. J. W. E. Bowen, Dr. C. B. Mason, Editor I. B. Scott, Rev. A. D.; P. Alberts, Rev. E. W. S. Hammond, Rev. I. Garland Penn, and numbers of others. To this class of leaders belongs the Rev. Chauncy I Withrow, Pastor of the Augusta St. M. E. Church, Staunton, Va. --- Dr. Withrow, though a young man, has made himself felt not only in his pulpit but in the high councils of his church. He is what is known in church parlance as a successful pastor, one who has the power and magnetism and the eloquence to organize a church, bring its forces together, and keep peace and harmony in its congregation. He has been prominently mentioned and urged by his friends to become a candidate for delegate to the next General Conference, and while he is not taking a very active part in behalf of his candidacy, his friends (and their name is legion) are determined that he shall go. There is an old saw to the effect that "a prophet is not without honor save in his own country." This does not seem to be true in the case of Dr. Withrow as the following article taken from his home paper, The Valley Index, Staunton, Va., will show. This has been a very busy week for Dr. Withrow, as well as very brilliant, so far as happy hits in public speak- ing is concerned. His lecture at his own church Tuesday evening on the "Past Achievements, present attainments, and future prospects of the Negro," was a masterpiece, and the town was out to hear him. We learn that he addressed the students at the Virginia Theological Seminary and College, the Baptist school at Lynchburg, Thursday morning with great effect for more than an hour, and later in the day spoke at Morgan College, the Methodist school, in that city with equal success. The Index reporter interviewed Dr. Withrow on his trip, but he had but little to say of himself, but spoke very enthusiastically of the work of the two schools. He said he was cordially received by Prof. Hayes and spent the night in his home. He regards Pres. Hayes as being one of the most royal entertainers in hospitable Virginia. He tells us that Virginia Theological Seminary is crowded with students and that he was very favorably impressed with their ability to grasp the vital points of his address—puncturing his speech with vociferous applause from time to time. He says the colored colleges there are doing a splendid work. He spoke at the Public school in Charlottsville on his return and hastened M. J. C. THE LATE HON. FREDERICK DOUGLASS, The Sage of Anacostia. home to get a few hours rest before speaking at the Ebenezer Baptist church in this city, Friday evening where he had been booked to deliver the principle address at the Celebration of Lincoln birthday. The enthusiasm over his address shows that Staunton is justly proud of him. We learn that some of his ministerial brethren are urging him to become a candidate for the General Conference. He informs the Index Reporter that while he would naturally like to be a delegate but did not care much to enter the race as there are so many aspirants, and would not unless he had plausible ground for believing that his friends would elect him without resorting to questionable methods. The Index has no axe to grind in the matter other than this: The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church is a great organization composed largely of the best white brain and heart in the M.E. Church, masters who rank with the best and most gifted of this earth. They are there to legislate for a great branch of the universal Christian church which is a great factor in the uplifting of our race. Denominationally we have nothing Continued on page 5. City Paragraphs. ```markdown ``` 10 Mr. Ellis Brown, one of thee assistant supervisors of the public schools, is confined to his room by an attack of the grip. Mr. W. F. A. Vranken, a successful business man of Albany, N. Y., was in the city last week and paid this office a pleasant visit. Lincon Day was appropriately observed in the public schools in this city. In the colored schools elaborate programs were arranged and a speaker and presiding officer was assigned to each school. Howard University continues to grow in usefulness and in the esteem of the people. The scope of its work is being enlarged in every direction and Dr. Gordon is on the alert in making every improvement. Rev. I. Tolover, of Liberty Baptist Church, this city, has been preaching a series of evangelistic sermons in Charlotte, N. C. Dr. Toliver is originally from Texas and is an able pulpit orator. Mr. Frank Edwards the son of Jas. H. Edwards, who was charged with housebreaking in Criminal Court No. 2, Justice Wright presiding, was acquitted, Wednesday the 17th inst. Messrs. H. A. Carke and J. A. Collins were the attorneys. Mr. Henry Harrison Wayman, the agent and correspondent for The Colored American in Philadelphia, died, after six days' illness( in the Philadelphia Hospital, February 10th, of typhoid fever. He was a native of Riceville, Pa., and a young man of superior tact and ability. Mr. E. B. Thompson, now of Orangeburg, S. C., but formerly a compositor in this office is candidate from the 7th District of South Carolina, as an Alternate Delegate to the National Republican Convention. Thompson was known among the printers as "Old Possibilities." It is not generally known that at the recent Baltimore conflagration a number of the colored firemen from Washington went to that city and rendered Herculean services. The white journals of Baltimore praised them but neglected to intimate that they were colored. And so it it. Hon John C. Dancy has just returnd from Atlanta, Ga., where he attended the Conference of Bishops. He is dated to lecture at Trinity A. M. E. Church, Baltimre, Md., Monday evening, February 29, and will take for his subject, "Things which make to Greatness." Candidates for delegate to the next National Republican Convention are springing up like mushrooms. Among those prominently mentioned are Mr. Jno. F. Coo,k Gov. P. B. S., Pinchback, Maj. Chas. R. Douglass, Lawyer J. W. Patterson and Mr. W. C. Chase. ragraphs. Mrs. M. O. Hoffler gave a whist party at her home, 2125 Twelfth street, N.W. Quite a number of friends were present. Refreshments and delicacies of the season were in evidence on a large table in the dining room. Instrumental music enlivened the occasion. The Grand Fountain Is the leading Colored H January, 1881, by William laws of the State of Virg ship is both male and fe to 60 years of age. Its cles. It pays sick bene from $24.56 to $1000. BENEFITS PAID—Total efits, $714,378.75. SENIOR FOUNTAINS—A persons not over 50 year The night schools have opened with a full corps of teachers and every one who will, has the opportunity of polishing up and of improving his mind. It is to be regretted that the colored night schools are not as well attended as they should be. The class for whose purpose these schools are really established seem to ignore them altogether. Our ministers could help along the work by speaking from their pulpits and calling the attention of their congregations to the advantages of the night schools. AN EXPERT PENMAN. It is not generally known that in and around the Departments in Washington, some of the finest penmen are found among the colored clerks. Among some of the best known are Col. Robert J. Harlan, Jr., and Mr. R. W. Thomkins, both of the Auditor's Office, Treasury Department. The latest achievement, however, is the honor conferred upon Prof. Wm. Jennifer, an expert penman of the [Name] MR. RALPH W. TYLER, Columbus, Ohio. Census Bureau. Mr. Jenifer hails from Texas and is one of the most efficient clerks in that Bureau. Two years ago he held the record in his section for the high and superior quality of his work. The recent honor thrust upon him was the other day when he was chosen to write the card that went on the floral tribute to the late Senator M. A. Hanna, by the "Ohio Boys." Mr. Jenifer has an interesting family and is one of our best known young men. Mrs. A. A. Webster of 1750 10th St., has gone to Pittsburg, Pa., to visit her mother-in-law She expects to be away until spring. Wilberforce University is soon to have a $15,000 library through the munificence of Mr. Andrew Carnegie. This gift is said to have come through the kind offices of Dr. Booker T. Washington. --- The Grand Fountain of the City Is the leading Colored Fraternal Society January, 1881, by William W. Browne, laws of the State of Virginia, with headship is both male and female, and consist of 60 years of age. Its membership of cles. It pays sick benefits from $1.50 to from $24.56 to $1000. BENEFITS PAID—Total benefits paid toefits, $714,378.75. SENIOR FOUNTAINS—A Fountain may persons not over 50 years of age paying. The monthly dues are not less than 35 or 50 cents per month in towns and cities, in January and July of each year. Sick week, while death benefits range fromized in any locality on application to any of his authorized deputies. ROSEBUDS—For the proper training of thrift, industry and brotherly love, there ment known as the Rosebuds. Twenty more than fourteen years of age may for each. This department, like the Senior twenty-five cents per week, and death dues are fifteen cents per month. CLASSES—Persons desiring to leave the than is paid from Fountain Department Classes of the Mutual Benefit Degree, into Circles, and pay joining fees and d Class "B" Joining fee. Value of Certificate after one year. Value of Certificate before one year. Annual Dues. Quarterly Dues Age 14 to 25 $2.50 $200.00 $100.00 $4.75 $1.20 25 to 30 2.75 200.00 100.00 4.75 1.20 30 to 35 3.00 200.00 100.00 4.75 1.20 35 to 40 3.25 200.00 100.00 5.70 1.43 40 to 45 3.50 140.00 70.00 5.79 1.43 45 to 50 3.75 115.00 58.00 6.65 1.66 50 to 55 4.00 70.00 45.00 6.35 1.66 55 to 60 4.25 65.00 33.00 7.60 1.90 The Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers Is the leading Colored Fraternal Society of the United States. It was organized January, 1881, by William W. Browne, and chartered in April, 1883, under the laws of the State of Virginia, with headquarters at Richmond, Va. Its membership is both male and female, and consists of all persons of good health from 14 to 60 years of age. Its membership of 60,000 is divided into Fountains and Circles. It pays sick benefits from $1.50 to $2.50 per week, and pays death benefits from $24.56 to $1000. BENEFITS PAID—Total benefits paid to date: Sick dues, $r,500,000; death benefits, $714,378.75. SENIOR FOUNTAINS—A Fountain may be organized consisting of 20 or more persons not over 50 years of age paying a joining fee of from $4.60 to $5.10 each. The monthly dues are not less than 35 cents in rural districts and not less than 50 cents per month in towns and cities, and a semi-annual tax of 40 cents paid in January and July of each year. Sick benefits paid are from $1.50 to $2.50 per week, while death benefits range from $75 to $125. A Fountain may be organized in any locality on application to Rev. W. L. Taylor, G. W. Master, or to any of his authorized deputies. ROSEBUDS-For the proper training of the young ar 1 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 54 " 25 to 30 2 75 200 00 100 00 4 75 1 20 " 25 to 30 5 25 500 00 250 00 9 10 2 40 " 30 to 35 3 00 200 00 100 00 4 75 1 26 " 30 to 35 5 50 500 00 250 00 9 50 2 40 " 35 to 40 3 25 200 00 100 00 4 75 1 43 " 35 to 40 5 75 500 00 250 00 10 40 2 66 " 40 to 45 3 50 140 00 70 00 5 79 1 43 " 40 to 45 6 00 450 00 225 00 10 40 2 66 " 45 to 50 3 75 115 00 58 00 6 65 1 66 " 40 to 45 6 00 450 00 225 00 10 40 2 66 " 45 to 50 3 75 115 00 58 00 6 65 1 66 " 45 to 50 6 25 400 00 200 00 11 40 2 66 " 50 to 55 4 00 70 00 45 00 6 35 1 66 " 50 to 60 9 50 350 00 175 00 11 40 2 85 " 55 to 60 4 25 65 00 33 00 7 60 1 90 Glass "M" Joining tee. Value of Certificate Annual dues Quarterly dues Age 14 to 30 $11 00 $1006 00 $21 90 $5 25 " 30 to 35 12 00 100 00 22 00 5 50 " 35 to 40 12 00 905 00 23 00 5 75 " 40 to 45 13 00 800 00 24 00 6 00 " 45 to 50 13 00 700 00 25 00 6 25 of the Grand Fountain United Order of The bank commenced business April 3 present has steadily increased in volume stock of $100,000. From the humble the bank opened for business in 1889 to the volume of business transacted amoical panic of 1893, the Savings Bank or in the city of Richmond that did not ce of the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers, capital stock $100,000. The bank commenced business April 3, 1889, and from that time down to the present has steadily increased in volume of business. It now has a paid up capital stock of $100,000. From the humble sum of $1,268.69, deposited the first day the bank opened for business in 1889 the deposits have grown to $350,058, and the volume of business transacted amounts to $6,190,141.47. During the financial panic of 1893, the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain was the only bank in the city of Richmond that did not cease to pay cash on all checks presented, while the majority of other banks were using script and clearing house checks. This bank had its origin in the brain of William W. Browne, an ex-slave of 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 bathes, 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 hinge from a visiting card to a poster 42 by 12 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 6344 acres, located six miles from Richmond, Va., on the historic "James," has been purchased, at a cost of $14,900. The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad runs through the farm, and Westham Station is located on it. Adjoining this farm is Westhampton Park, one of the most pleasant resorts in the South in summer. It is reached in a few minutes from Richmond by the Westhampton Electric Railway and the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. As this home is for the benefit of the whole race, the co-operation of all charitable friends is prayerfully solicited. All contributions, donations and bequests of every character will be very thankfully received. Mr. T. W. Taylor is chief in charge of the Old Folks' Home, offices at 608 North Second Street, Richmond, Va. for further information address— Rev W. L. Taylor, G. W. M. W. P. Burrell, G. W. S. 601-6-8 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. 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 ANNAPOLIS AS A LIDLESS FERNO. LEADERS ARE EVIL SPIRITS Reverend Gentleman, (Colored) Says the Senatorial Candidates' Workers Serve Mr. Mephistopheles. "There is a hell at Annapolis," said the Right Rev. Prof. Dr. P. Thomas Stanford, M. D., D. D., colored, as he began a sermon last night in the auditorium of the Christ's Medical and Theological Institute, at 704 Ensor Street. "There has been hell and plenty of it there for two weeks," he continued "and the devil is at the bottom of it. The devil is at work good and hard in the legislative chambers of this State and later on there is, and always will be the devil to pay!" "Professor" Stanford, D. D. M. D., said that he was "raised" by the late J. Henry Ward Beecher, studied theology in London and received his doctor's degree. I believe in the good, old-fashioned devil," and I know he is in Annapolis for I can see his hand in every move on thepol itical chess board. The devil is a great politician—he is a Prince of the Power of the Air according to St. Paul—and he has many agents always at work to worry and torment the people. THE PROFESSOR IS SEVERE. "My text is as follows: "And again there was a day when the sons of God—being true American citizens—came to Annapolis to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them.' History is repeating itself and the first and second verses of the second chapter of Job apply as well to the situation at Annapolis as they did to the afflictions of Job. The members of the Legislation have gone to Annapolis, but the devil's spirits have gone also and the devil's work has been done, while the work of the people of this State has lain idle." Here the "professor," proceeded to liken Mr. Harry Goldman, who is aiding Mr. Raynor in his fight; Mr. Murray Vandiver, who is helping someone else, and the other leaders and workers of gladsome spirits, carrying out the behests of the political powers of evil in charge of the situation. The sermon wound up with a phophecy of trouble ahead for the evil spirits. "The day is coming," said the 'professor,' "when the sons of God (mean- THE COLORED AMERICAN. ing the people of Maryland) will weary of serving these men, and will cast them out and get agents of God to Annapolis, who will not do the devil's work but give the people good legislation and act honestly for the welfare of the State. Then like the devil of revelations, the evil ones in Annapolis will be cast into outer darkness amid the gnashing of teeth."—The Reformer. GONZALES The Greatest Clairvoyant and Fortune Teller THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN. Unites separated, brings back the one you love, helps quickly all in trouble. Removes Evil Influences. Cures Mysterious Diseases. Gives luck and success. Send lock of hair, Date of birth and 12 cents. Ask 3 questions and receive Horoscope and lucky Birthstone by mail IN MEMORIAM OF HANNA BEAUFORT, S. C. Special. At the Republican County Convention, of Beaufort Co., S. C., held in the town of Beaufort, S. C., Tuesday, February 16, 1904, a committee was appointed to draft suitable resolutions on the death of the Hon. Marcus A. Hanna. Following are the resolutions which were unanimously adopted: GONZALES—236 Bergen St. Brooklyn New York. MME. DAVIS F. WHEREAS, We, the Republicans of Beaufort County are in convention assembled, the sad news of the death of Hon. Marcus A. Hanna, Chairman of the National Executive Committee and United States Senator from the great State of Ohio, has reached us, And WHEREAS, His death has taken from us a true friend of the Republican party and the Country and a patriotic statesman who knew no man on account of the color of his skin; Therefore be it Resolved, That we do mourn his loss and extend to his bereaved family, relatives, friends and the country, our heartfelt sympathy and regret. Born Clairvoyant and Card Reader Be it resolved further, That we commerate his translation from this to a holier and happier sphere. Tells about business, Removes Spells and Evil Influences, Reunites the Separated and Gives Luck to all. 1228 25th st. n. w. Washington. D. C. Resolved further, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to his bereaved family and be published in the newspapers of the State and Country. 1228 25th st. n. w., Washington, D. C. No letters answered unless accompanied by stamp. Drugs, Toilet Stationery Articles. Cigars Chairman. GEO. A. REED, Secretary. Finest of Soda Water in Season. EUREKA DRUG STORE. EUREKA DRUG STORE, Carl W. Shaffer, Prop. & Druggist. 922 Frederick St. Joseph Avenue - - Missouri - WHEREAS, The Republicans of Beaufort County, S. C., now in convention assembled desire to put ourselves on record. SANTAL-MIDY Standard remedy for Gleet, Gonorrhoea and Runnings IN 48 HOURS. Cures Kid- ney and Bladder Troubles. 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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. 12 A Wife's Stratagem. A London journal tells an admirable story of beauteous Kesa, who loved her husband, but who was herself sought by her wicked and powerful cousin, Molito. Knowing that Molito would take her husband's life unless circumvented by guile, she laid a terrible plot. Summoning Molito, she told him that on a certain night her husband would be sleeping in a certain room and that she intended to unloosen his hair so that under no circumstances could he be mistaken for another man. On the night in question Molito entered the room, severed the sleeper's head with his sword and, holding it up to the moon by the hair—beheld the face of Kesa herself. Customs of Colliers' Wives. The wives of north country colliers observe a very touching and pathetic custom when an accident occurs in the pit. Directly it is known to the wife of a collier that an accident has happened in the pit where her husband works and that his fate is uncertain she throws open the house door, and, however inclement the weather may be, she keeps the door open and a candle burning in the window, night and day, till the man is brought home, dead or alive. In some cases the door has remained open and the candle alight during several weeks.—London Chronicle. Dogs as Collectors. Dogs with collecting boxes attached to their collars are comparatively common in Europe. It may not, however, be generally known what large sums they earn for the charities they represent. It is stated in the Animal World that one which used to beg for a hospital in Ireland collected in five years nearly $15,000. He had a special banking account, which was submitted periodically to a chartered accountant. Philosophy. If we would realize the fact that life is pain, not pleasure, our quarrel with it would be gone, and we would accept thankfully a little scrap of dripping on our daily bread, but we go on expecting happiness, stand, empty plate in hand, beggars to an invisible cook, and we grow old standing there, but we won't budge.—Helen Mathers. Macbeth as a Comedian. She-I suppose you attended the amateur theatricals last night? He-Yes, and there wasn't a dry eye in the house. She-The idea! I never heard of "Macbeth" affecting an audience that way before. He-No. You see, we simply laughed till we cried.-Philadelphia Ledger. A Reminder. Singleton—I say, old chap, what have you that string around your finger for? Wedderly—To remind me of something I am to get for my wife. Singleton—What are you to get? Wedderly—Why—er—I've forgotten what it was.—New Yorker. They Were Not There. "Are these men the future husbands of our daughters?" said a matron at the afternoon swell wedding reception. "No," said a knowing mother. "They are downtown, making a living."—Cleveland Leader. Too Much Chln. Gasaway—My razor's in pretty poor condition. I believe it's tired. You know, they say razors get that way. Sharply (wearily)—Ah, yes; tired of your chin.—Pittsburg Post. "Lots of men," said Uncle Eben, "kin look wise an' lots kin talk wise, but de men dat kin act wise is mighty scarce." —Washington Star. THE COLORED AMERICAN. A PROMINENT JOURNALIST MAKES A CHANGE. Columbus, Ohio, Special.—Ralph W. Tyler, who for the past 16 years has been secretary to the manager of The Columbus Evening Dispatch, tendered his resignation last Saturday to [Name] MR. RALPH W. TYLER, Columbus, Ohio. accept the position of secretary to the Vice President and General Man- ager of The Ohio State Journal, the leading Republican organ of Central Ohio. After Long Illness. "The plates on the table looked strange to me, though I have used them forty years. The pictures on the walls seemed to hang in new places. The very carpets had a novel coloring, as if they had been at some magic cleansing and dyeing establishment." Dear Aunt Mary was telling her favorite niece her "queer" feelings after long illness. She was unconscious that she was repeating the story that has been told by convalescents from the time of Hazlitt till the present day. Familiar things take on a disguise to the recovering eye. Even the face of a friend bears a new depth of meaning. "Did she use to look at me with such intensity of gaze? Did she clasp my hand so warmly? Was her voice so gentle and her word so full of hope and courage before I was sick?" To the human creature just returning to life after lingering for days at the gates of death the whole world assumes a new aspect. Even inanimate objects seem to say: "You came near leaving us forever. No wonder you forgot our shapes and colors." And the warm, conscious, loving friend bends over us and with eye and voice says, "See, I love you more truly than before I knew how I should miss you!" So after long sickness, as after a hard, cold winter, the world breaks into a new and blossoming spring.—Youth's Companion. Gun Barrels From Nails. Horseshoe nails kicked about the roads of the world by horses innumerable are far from the useless fragments we might think them. Gunmakers tell us there is no iron so well fitted for their purpose as that derived from horseshoe nails and similar worn fragments. The nails, made originally of the best stuff obtainable, receive from the constant pounding of the horse's feet on hard surfaces a peculiar annealing and toughening, making them a most perfect substance for the manufacture of the finest gun barrels. --- Benjamin Franklin Was Noted for His Common Sense. FRANKLIN Franklin The FRANKLIN STANDARD TYPEWRITER was named in honor of Franklin for its own Common Sense characteristic. SPEAKING OF TYPEWRITERS It isn't Common Sense to write upside down. It isn't Common Sense to write in the dark. to waste time. pay $100 for a writing machine, when you can for $75. perfect typewriter; VISIBLE WRITING, SIMPEED and DURABILITY are embodied in the It isn't Common Sense to waste time. It isn't Common Sense to pay $100 for a writing machine, we get one just as good and better for $75. The four essentials of a perfect typewriter; VISIBLE WRITINGILITY OF MECHANISM, SPEED and DURABILITY are essential to BRANKLIN. It isn't Common Sense to pay $100 for a writing machine, when you can get one just as good and better for $75. The four essentials of a perfect typewriter; VISIBLE WRITING, SIMPLICITY OF MECHANISM, SPEED and DURABILITY are embodied in the FRANKLIN. Mention The Colored American. BLACK'S HOT Walnut St Bet 4th and 5th, Evansville K'S HOTEL 4th and 5th, Evansville, Ind Give the FRANKLIN a trial and be convinced. BLACKS HOTEL Rates $1 to $1.25 per day. Special rates by week H. BLACK, ay. Special rates by week or month Prop. Rates $1 to $1.25 per day. Special rates by week or month H. BLACK. Prop. Call us up we will treat you right. White Ash Stove, Shamokin Stove, Red Ash Stove, Lyken Valley Stove, Chestnut, Egg, Furnace, Oak and Pine Wood. Wholesale and Retail Dealers 'Phone Main 1779. Lewis Jefferson & Co., Canal and N, S.W. --- Has been repaired,newly fitted up and is better able to accommodate the traveling public than ever before. Every room has been overhauled. The dining room is neat and clean and it is the only firstclass place in the city for colored people Coal and Wood Delivered Promptly streets, S. W. THE COLORED AMERICAN. Brilliant Editor of the New York Age. AMERICA'S BEST RIFLE SHOT bergt. Emmet Hawkins, Co. K, 24th Infantry, Fort. Missoula, Montana. The Colored American. Per Copv 5c BENISTON IN RESTYLING OFFICE U.S. BEFORE AFTER A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH ...AND HAIR TONIC... both in a box for $1.00, or three boxes for $2.00. Guaranteed to be used in the world." One box is all that is required if used as an advertisement. A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH. A PEACH-LIKE complexion obtained if used as directed. Will turn the skin of a black or brown person four a five shades lighter, and a mulatto person perfectly white. In forty-eight hours a shade or two lighter will be noticeable. It does not turn the skin in spots, but bleaches out white, the skin remaining beautiful without continual use. Will remove wrinkles, freckles, dark spots, pimples or bumps or blackheads, making the skin very soft and smooth. Smallpox pits, tan, liver spots removed without harm to the skin. When you get the color you wish, stop using the preparation. CRANE'S!HAIR TONIC that goes in every one'dollar box is enough to make anyone's hair grow long and straight, and keeps it from falling out. Highly perfumed and makes the hair soft and to comb. Any person sending us one dollar in a letter or Post-Office money order, express money order or registered letter, we will send you a $100 bill. If you want it sent C. O. D., it will come by express, 35 cents extra. In any case where it falls to do what we claim, we will return the money or send a book free of charge. Packed so that no one will know the contents except receiver.** CRANE & CO., 11 W. Jackson St., RICHMOND, VA. $6.00 FREE $6.00 FREE to every person who will send their address we will give particulars how you can secure the above sum. Write to-day. Address: Scott Remedy Co., P. O. Box 570, Louisville, Ky. Lucky "Old Shoe" Stick Pin. R Two Shoes on a pin. Two pair by mail for 10 cents in stamps or coin, or 1 dozen by mail for 45 cents, with wholesale price. The swiftest seller out. Magic Bill Book. Latest Novelty. One by mail. 15 cents, or 2 for 25c. Sea Shells. 25 shells, each a different variety. By mail, 25 cents. My big catalogue of fast selling novelties with order. J. F. Powell, 942 Sheridan Road, Waukegan, Ill. Cuts and Illustrations The Maurice Joyce Engraving Co. Evening Star Building Washington, D.C. 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., third floor, Established January, 1897. Telephone, 803 Columbus. HOTEL MACEO, 213 West 53rd Street, N. Y. First Class Accomodations ONLY. Handsomely Furnished Rooms for Permanent or Transient Guests Headquarters for Clergy and Business Men. First Class Restaurant. Regular Dinner, including Wine, 35c. 6 p. m. to 8. Sundays, 1 to 4.30 p. m., 45c. B. F. THOMAS, Proprietor. We can invest $2.00 per month for you for the next five months, where you are practically certain to draw out $100 perhaps $500. Hundreds are investing, will you also trust us? If prepared to do business send 4c. stamp for references and particulars,otherwise don't answer. FRANK H. WRAY & CO., Brokers, 533 Broadway, New York. 13 UNHAPPY HOMES Caused By A Michigan Specialist Finds an Easy Way to Cure Any Case of Sexual Weakness Even in the Oldest Men. This Wonderful Cure Has a Most Marvelous Record of Successes. SENT FREE TO ALL WHO APPLY IN WRITING Thousands of cheerless homes are filled with discontent and unhappiness, lacking in love and companionship through the sexual weakness and physical impairment of a man whose years do not justify such a condition. Indiscretions, abuses and recklessness often cause a temporary cessation of vital power that intantly yields to the wonderful treatment discovered by the great specialist, Dr. H. C. Raynor, of Detroit, Michigan. It has remained for this physician to discover that sexual weakness and similar troubles can be cured in remarkable short spaces of time. This treatment does not ruin the stomach, adding the miseries such injury entails, but it is a new treatment that easily and quickly restores youthful vigor to men of mature years. The discovery is beyond doubt the most scientific and comprehensive that our attention has ever been called to. From all sides come private reports of cures in stubborn cases of sexual weakness, enlargement of the prostate, varicocele, spermatorrhoea, lost manhood, impotency, emissions, prematurity, shrunken organs, lack of virile power, bashfulness and timidity and like unnatural conditions. It does this without appliances, vacuum pumps, electric belts or anything of that kind. Simply write Dr. H. C. Raynor, 421 Luck Building, Detroit, Mich., and immediately on receipt of your name and address it is his agreement with this paper to send you a free receipt or formula of this modern treatment by which you can cure yourself at home: Livingstone College Closed!! FULL TO OVERFLOWING! Livingstone College (Salisbury,N.C.) has now four hundred and forty (440) students. Every available space is filled. Dodge Hall is full; Stanford Seminary is crowded; the dry rooms over the laundry have been brought into requisition to accommodate students. We have refused a number of applications, and we take this means to notify all that no others can be received this year. Room is very much needed, and in all probability the Trustees will make suitable accommodations for larger numbers by the next opening. W. H. GOLER, President. WANTED—SEVERAL INDUSTRIOUS persons in each state to travel for house established eleven years and with a large capital, to call upon merchants and agents for successful and profitable line. Permanent engagement. Weekly cash salary of $24 and all traveling expenses and hotel bills advanced in cash each week. Experience not essential. Mention reference and enclose self-addressed envelope. THE NATIONAL, 332 Dearborn St., Chicago. has stood the test 25 years. Average Annual Sales over One and a Half Million bottles. Does this record of merit appeal to you? No Cure, No Pay. 50c. Enclosed with every bottle is a Ten Cent, package of Grove's Plack Root, Liver Pills. THE MONARCH OF NEGRO NEWSPAPERS. The ideal race newspaper, and published at the Capital of the Nation, is THE COLORED AMERICAN. It is clean, newsy, and ably and fearlessly edited. It is the organ of no clique or faction, but a fearless champion of the colored people everywhere. Its columns teem with news of the day, reflecting the best sentiments as well as the doings and achievements of the race everywhere. Read what the Negro press says: THE COLCRED AMERICAN is already a great newspaper, printing forty-eight columns each issue. It aims to print seventy-two columns. May its friends aid it to its realization.—The Wilmington Record. Mr. Edward Cooper, manager of THE COLORED AMERICAN, Washington, D. C., is unquestionably the ablest all-round newspaper manager of our race, if results are to settle the question.—The New South. THE COLORED AMERICAN .s. without question, the greatest newspaper published by colored men; every colored editor should take off his hat to Mr. Cooper.—The Leavenworth Herald. THE COLORED AMERICAN, of Washington, D. C., comes every week, brim full and running over with good things; Brother Cooper is one of the best newspaper men of the country.—The Huntsville Journal. THE COLORED AMERICAN, in a short space of three years, has gone to the front at the Nation's Capital. Its manager, E. E. Cooper, holds a unique position in colored journalism, being the pioneer of illustrated journalism. -Ex. Editor Cooper, of THE COLORED AMERICAN, has so many good things for his readers that he seriously contemplates making his a twelve-page, instead of an eight-page paper. This shows that THE COLORED AMERICAN is not only holding its own, but is doing more. The Star of Zion. THE COLORED AMERICAN, of Washington, D. C., will shortly issue a twelve-page paper weekly—seventy-two columns of reading matter. Under the able management of Editor Cooper it has forged ahead till it earned the name of "Monarch of the Weeklies." The Western Outlook. THE COLORED AMERICAN, a local hebdomadal, published in the interest of the colored people, came out in a new dress and with a beautiful heading Saturday. It is one of the best newspapers in the country edited by colored men; has a good circulation, and carries a large line of live advertising.—The Washington Post. THE COLORED AMERICAN is without doubt one of the ablest journals published by Afro-Americans. It is a Republican paper, very free in its expressions, which makes it more popular even among those who deny the "equality of man." This paper is published at Washington, where the doings of the lawmakers of the great Republic may be had pure and fresh, and submitted to the people for their disposal.—The Rock Hill Messenger. THECOLORED AMERICAN A VOICE FROM TEXAS. The Greatest of all Colored Newspapers. MARLIN, TEXAS, Special.—I am glad to say that The Colored American is the greatest Negro paper I have ever read. I have no complaint whatever to make; I have never before seen any paper meet the approval of the masses, as does The Colored American.. Hurrah! for Cooper, the great news gatherer. Here are a few dots that will be an incentive for a wider sale. On last Thursday evening at about 5.30 o'clock, the grim monster, death, visited the home of our friend and brother, T. S. Watson, and summoned his wife, Mrs. Nora Watson, to the throne above. Mrs. Watson was a loyal and true wife, a devoted and loving mother, and an ideal neighbor. She was a member of Davis chapel M. E. Church, and was a loyal supporter of the blood-stained banner of our blessed Savior. She was also a member of the Court of Caldnthe of this place, who funeralized her with credit to themselves and order. Mrs. Watson leaves a host of friends who mourn her loss, but we feel that our loss is heaven's gain. Moore & Johnson are still hammering away at their post. These young men are courteous and poilte to all and ask a share of your patronage. They speak in glowing terms of Rev. R. L. Williams and Dr. J. R. Melontree, as being ideal race men and criticisms and advice. These young men are ours, and they will do with our aid. Let us rally to them. Dr. C. Sumner Wormley, the Surgeon Dentist, at 1533 14th St. N. W. has recently had installed a complete electrical equipment so that he is now in a position to do the finest dental work either night or day. Included in the outfit is a most powerful sunburst electric light, an electric mouth mirror and baking oven for the finest kind of porcleain work. His parlors are conveniently situated and his patronage so large that this move in having the latest electrical appliances put in in order to enable him to do satisfactory night work, was absolutely necessary. Mr. Ed. Allen, the King Liquid Dispenser, of the Southern Hotel, has just returned from a few days' stay in Gotham. Miss Bessie Miller, of Hanover St., who has been employed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for some time, has been appointed to the cooking force in our public schools. SUPERIOR TO ALL. The Colored American is superior to any paper in the world because of its most efficient staff in publishing details and pleasantries of banquets. The Portland. Makes Old Men Boys Again Free Receipt that Restores Youthful Vitality to Men of All Ages Can Now Be Had of the Discoverer Without Cost. Cures Nervous Debility, Prostatic Trouble, Emissions, Etc., and Restores Normal Nerve-Power Almost Instantly. FULL DIRECTIONS FOR HOME CURE Now that they have found a new ingredient that makes cures 50 per cent quicker than formerly and practically gives A man lifts a child in his hands while a woman holds him steady. the desired effect over night the Dr. Knapp Medical Co. of Detroit, the world's greatest authority on the cure of vital weaknesses, want every man to write to them for the free receipt that does this wonderful good, and full directions how to cure yourself privately at home. There is no man so old that this receipt will not make him feel like a youngster again; and middle-aged men who think their best days are gone will have a happy surprise in store for them. It is a blessing indeed to any man who is not as good as he used to be, and whether you are in the 20's or the 60's the effect will be equally satisfactory and quick. From what those who have used it say, a man can expect the change in less than 24 hours and a permanent cure in a short time. It cures nervous debility, premature discharge, undeveloped organs, emissions, varicocele, stricture, lack of power, exhaustion, etc., and cures it permanently to stay cured. It acts directly on the muscular tissues, mucous membranes, nerves and glands, and the effect is a comforting one indeed. If you can make use of a receipt that brings about such happy results send your name and address to-day to the Dr. Knapp Medical Co., 867 Hull Building, Detroit, Mich., and it will be sent you by return mail together with directions for a private home cure and a descriptive booklet on your disease, all in an unmarked package. "WE MOVE EVERYTHING" Douglas Baggage and Furniture Express 1533 14th Street N. W. R. T. DOUGLAS, Manager $6.00 FREE to every person who will send their address we will give particulars how you can secure the above sum. Write to-day. Address: Scott Remedy Co., P. O. Box 570, Louisville. Ky." J. A. WILLIAMSON, PRINTER 505 E ST., N. W. ELECTRIC POWER. s Tasteless Chil rs. Average Annual Sales o of merit appeal to you? bottle is a Ten Cent package of Grove's PETER GROGAN Your credit is as good as gold. We are Not in a Hurry for the Money. Help Yourself on CREDIT We want you to make this store your headquarters for Furniture, Carpets, and Housefurnishings. Get as much, or as little as you please, whenever a want presents itself. You will always find our credit prices as low as the lowest prices in the cash stores, and we will arrange payments to suit your convenience, weekly or monthly. We have no notes for you to sign, and there will be no interest on deferred payments. Parlor, Bedroom, and Dining-Room Furniture is here in great variety, and every quality is guaranteed for durability. All Carpets are made, laid, and lined entirely free of cost, which is a saving to you of from 20 to 25 cents on every yard. Open an account and help yourself. Peter Grogan 817-819-821-82; 7th St. Between H and I Sts. TO OUR DELINQUENT SUBSCRIBERS. We have on our mailing books, a large number of names of persons who are considerably behind in their subscription to this paper, and who have been notified a great number of times, but who seem to pay no attention to these mild duns. Beginning with the New Year we hope that every subscriber will make an effort to pay up what New Year we can get out a better paper improved in every way. This dosen't mean the other fellow, but it means you. Who will be the first to start the ball rolling. I Tonic ver One and a Half Million No Cure, No Pay. 50c. Black Root Liver Pills. THE COLORED AMERICAN the numerous quack nostrums now on the market, simply put up by a lot of quacks, charlatans, and cash and give you nothing in return for your hand cause it to fall out, we have placed our every box of OZONO, King of all Hair-Growers and advertisement—one head showing short, curly hair, one hair done up in a coil, or showing features discerned success with the true hair-straightener, OZONO compounds, and trading on the reputation that are all promises. Buy the genuine and only one people bought OZONO in the last twelve months in America, also in Cuba and the West Indies straightens without any outside assistance. No longer a long, silky, beautiful, luxurious growth of its beauty by a few applications of OZONO. We. The price of OZONO is 50c. a box, sent to and produce this great Hair Tonic, we will send to you one bottle of ELECTRICAL SKIN REFINER, worth 50c.; also one bottle of ELECTRICAL Scalm, and Boils. It also removes Wrinkles, and ODOR, which removes all smells and odors arising from SCALP SOAP, made expressly for the human coupon and mail to us, with $1.00, and we will send you four lots; if you send $2.00, we will send them pin their name to this coupon, and this newspaper, they can get the goods by similarement. Parties who desire one of our MAGICme by sending 50c. extra. Remember, OZONO. Broad St., Richmond, Va. send me the following goods, as by your offer: Straightens Kinky, Curly Hair OZONO TRADE MARK KING OF ALL HAIR TONICS. 50£ BEFORE. AFTER. BE WARNED IN order to protect the public from the numerous quack nostrums now on the market, which claim to straighten and cause the hair to grow long, and which are simply put up by a lot of quacks, charlatans, and fakirs, who have no chemical skill, with the sole idea to get your hard-earned cash and give you nothing in return for your money but a dirty, sticky mass of worthless greases, which injure the hair and cause it to fall out, we have placed our trade-mark, granted to us by the Government of the United States of America, on every box of OZONO, King of all Hair-Growers and Hair-Straighteners. This trade-mark consists of two heads, as shown in this advertisement—one head showing short, curly hair, the other showing long, flowing hair. Any preparation showing the heads with the hair done up in a coil, or showing features different from the faces shown in this advertisement, is not OZONO. Seeing our marked success with the true hair-straightener, OZONO, King of all Hair-Growers, numerous firms are now widely advertising spurious compounds, and trading on the reputation that we have made for OZONO. Do not be fooled by these flaring advertisements, which are all promises. Buy the genuine and only original King of all Hair Tonics, OZONO. Two hundred and fifty thousand colored people bought OZONO in the last twelve months. OZONO is sold in every State in the Union, all over Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America, also in Cuba and the West Indies. Its fame has travelled around the world, because it is a true Hair Tonic, that straightens without any outside assistance. No hot irons are used; nothing but OZONO. It not only straightens the hair, but produces a long, silky, beautiful, luxurious growth of soft, fine hair. To neglect your hair is more than foolish, when you can increase its beauty by a few applications of OZONO. We can send OZONO to any place that you may live in, no matter where you may live. The price of OZONO is 50c. a box, sent to any point on receipt of price. Four boxes is a complete treatment. In order to introduce this great Hair Tonic, we will send to you, on receipt of only $1.00, the following grand aggregation: Four boxes of OZONO; one bottle of ELECTRICAL SKIN REFINER, which softens rough skin and brightens black skin, making it several shades lighter, worth 50c.; also one bottle of ELECTRICAL SKIN FOOD, Nature's cure for all skin diseases, such as Pimples, Tan, Acne, Itch, Eczema, and Boils. It also removes Wrinkles, and makes the skin soft and pliant. We will also include a one-pint package of ANTI-ODOR, which removes all smells and odors arising from the human body, such as feet, arm-pits, &c.; also one bar of our PURITY SCALP SOAP, made expressly for the human scalp. This grand aggregation offer is made to introduce honest goods. Cut out this coupon and mail to us, with $1.00, and we will send the goods the same day we receive the money. If you send $3.00, we will send you four lots; if you send $2.00, we will send you three lots. If you have a friend who wishes to take advantage of this lot, let them pin their name to this coupon, and the goods will be sent promptly. If this offer is read by some one who does not own this newspaper, they can get the goods by simply sending $1.00 and mentioning the name of the paper in which they saw our advertisement. Parties who desire one of our MAGNETIC COMBS, which aids materially in the straightening process, can obtain same by sending 50c. extra. Remember, OZONO is guaranteed to straighten the hair—to Four large boxes of Ozono, worth.....$2 00 One large bottle of Electrical Skin Refiner.....50 One large bottle of Electrical Skin Food.....50 One large pint package Anti-Odor, worth.....25 One large package Purity Scalp Soap, worth.....25 Total.....$3.50 Name___ House No.___ Post-Office___ Nearest Express Office___ County___ State___ House No._____ Street. nearest Express Office_____ State_____ ```markdown ``` Here is an opportunity for students and persons who have spare time to make a little money for themselves. The Colored American is the newsiest and brightest race journal published, and it is an easy matter for an energetic person to secure subscriptions for it, and to secure advertising for it. You only have to show a copy of it to your friends and neighbors and to the business men of your acquaintance and they will readily subscribe for it, or advertise in it. The work is light and pleasant, and as a good commission is offered an energetic person can make a few dollars every day without much effort. Send at once for sample copies and full instructions. Address The Colored American, 459 C street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Attention Young Men & Young Women --- --- 15 OZONO is guaranteed to straighten the hair—to make it grow long, soft, and glossy; also to cure all itching, burning, humiliating scalp diseases. To make the hair grow out again on bald spots, especially around the temples, there is no Hair Tonic on earth one-half so good. The Boston Chemical Company holds a charter granted by the State of Virginia. We also refer to the Metropolitan Bank of Richmond, Va., and to the Southern Express Company. Register your letters; it protects you. Address your letters plainly to— BOSTON CHEMICAL COMPANY, 310 East Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. 16 "Colored People." Is the title of a book I am preparing to publish. It will be made up almost entirely of cuts and biographies of colored people of both sexes. When proper, and desirable, the cut of the wife may appear along with that of her husband. Those who do not feel able to publish their cuts can have their names, address and occupation registered in alphabetical order. If the people make adequate returns, the set of books will be arranged somewhat as follows: VOLUME I. Will be made up of the discussions of "The Status of Colored People," by presidents, ex-presidents, congressmen, governors, cardinals, ministers, educators, bishops, editors, and scientists among white people; and of people of like standing among our own people, when obtainable. VOLUME II. Bank officials, judges, lawyers, physicians, chiropodists, massagers nurses, druggists dentists and others. VOLUME III Congressmen, all Federal office holders, all State, County and City officials, army, navy and militia officials, store office and other clerks, bookkeepers, stenographers, typewriters and others. VOLUME IV. Bishops, missionaries, ministers, authors, poets, artists, publishers, job printers, engravers, photographers, typesetters, electricians, electrical and other engineers, noted singers, musicians, actresses, actors, elocutionists, pantomimists, inventors, music teachers and traveling salesmen. VOLUME V. All merchants and manufacturers, all first class mechanics, plasterers, carpenters, masons, plumbers, all proprietors of first class barber shops, hack an- transfer lines, hotels and restaurants, stone cutters, moulders, firemen, owners and tillers of farms, planters, gardners, fruit raisers, dairymen and others; first class sign and house painters and decorators; cuts of colleges, publishing houses, hospitals, sanitariums, city and farm homes and other buildings. VOLUME VL Officians of and educators in colleges and educational institutions, including all school teachers, college graduates and perhaps, high school graduates. The above classification is subject to change and the number of volumes published will depend upon the amount of material sent in. We want to get as many volumes of these books as possible into the waiting rooms of offices and hotel lobbies in order that white people may know what we are doing. And there can be no doubt that we, ourselves, would be greatly benefitted by having placed before us a pictorial representation of the progress of others of our people. The object of this publication is to benefit our people; and we hope you all will do your part by sending us immediately the name and address of as many people as you can think of. Liberal terms to reliable agents everywhere. Our history and literature should be preserved. Write to-day to WESLEY ROBBINS, M.D. Flint., Mich., Rooms 100-101 Paterson Block. THE COLORED AMERICAN. Mozart's Musical Memory. Mozart had a wonderful memory of musical sounds. When only fourteen years of age he went to Rome to assist in the solemnities of holy week. Immediately after his arrival he went to the Sistine chapel to hear the famous "Miserere" of Allegri. Being aw that it was forbidden to take or copy of this renowned piece of music, Mozart placed himself in a corner and gave the strictest attention to the music and on leaving the church noted down the entire piece. A few days afterward he heard it a second time and, following the music with his own copy in his hand, satisfied himself of the fidelity of his memory. The next day he sang the "Miserere" at a concert, accompanying himself on the harpsichord, and the performance produced such a sensation in Rome that Pope Clement XIV. requested that this musical prodigy should be presented to him at once. A Story of Whistler. One day Whistler entered the ateller of his class in Paris and found that a red background had been arranged behind the model. At once he directed something of a duller tone to be substituted, and he scraped the red paint off the canvas of one of the pupils, putting in its place another background. But the red would show through. He scraped, studied and worked laboriously to get something that pleased him. The rest of the class surrounded the easel and eagerly watched the master. He looked up finally and said, "I suppose you know what I am trying to do?" "Oh, yes, sir!" they all chorused. "Well, it's more than I do," he replied grimly and left the place. What Puzzled Him. A well known clubman entered a police station and said to the sergeant, "I would like to have an interview with that burglar you arrested for breaking into my house last night." Sergeant—I don't know that I can allow you unless you first tell me what you want to see him about. Mr. Clubman—Oh, there's nothing secret about it. I just wanted to find out how he got into my house so easily; it's more than I can do at night.—Kansas City Independent. Cheerful and Hopeful. The men whom I have seen succeed best in life, says Charles Kingsley, have always been cheerful and hopeful men, who went about their business with a smile on their faces and took the changes and chances of their normal life like men, facing rough and smooth alike as it came, and so found the truth of the old proverb that "good times and bad times and all times pass over." Legal Eloquence. A young lawyer concluded his argument in a case with the following sublime burst of eloquence: "If, gentlemen of the jury, the defendant's hogs are permitted to roam at large over the fair fields of my client with impunity, then—yes, then, indeed, have our forefathers fought and bled and died in vain!" Logic. Teddie—Pa, where do we get our milk from? Father—From cows, my son. Teddie—And where do cows get their milk from? Father—Why, Teddie, where do you get your tears? Teddie (after a long, thoughtful pause)—Do they have to spank cows, papa?—Judge. A Man to Be Avoided. Briggs—Here comes Gidson. Let's cross over. Griggs—Why, I thought he was a friend of yours. Briggs—He used to be, but now he's my deadly enemy. He's the unspeakable villain who recommended a place for me to spend my vacation.—Brooklyn Life. PHELPS HALL BIBLE TRAINING SCHOOL OF THE TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Tuskegee, Alabama. ESTABLISHMENT.—The Tuskegee Institute, realizing that the demand for an educated ministry is growing throughout the South, opened the Phelps Hall Bible Training School in 1893. To enter the Bible School it is not necessary to have a special call to the ministry. Those who desire to do missionary work only, or to become intelligent Sunday school teachers, as well as those who intend to preach, will be greatly helped by taking the course. OBJECT.—The chief aims of the Bible Training School are to give to young colored men and women a comprehensive knowledge of the entire English Bible, and to implant in their hearts a noble ambition to dedicate their lives to the elevation and Christianization of their people. The students are required to do missionary work in the various churches and Sunday-schools near the institution. In this way they have been very helpful to the neighboring communities. The teaching in the Bible School is wholly undenominational, the intention being not to oppose or antagonize any theological work now being done, but rather to assist all denominations. THE BUILDING.—Phelps Hall, the building in which the School is taught, was given by a generous New York friend. It is a frame structure, three stories high. On the first floor are the Chapel, Library, Reading Room, Office of the Dean, and three Recitation Rooms. The two upper floors, containing forty rooms, are used for sleeping apartments. TEACHERS AND LECTURES.—Rev. Edgar J. Penney is the Dean. He is assisted by Rev. B. H. Peterson and Rev. J. H. Gadson, Rev. C. O. Boothe, D. D., of Selma University, Selma, Ala.; Rt. Rev. George W. Clinton, of Charlotte, N. C., and Rev. H. T. Johnson, Ph.D., of Philadelphia, Pa., deliver a regular course of lectures during the term. Dr. Frank K. Sanaders, Dean of the Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Conn., delivered a special course of lectures during the current year. EXPENSES.—The teaching is free. The cost of board, including furnished room, light, fuel, washing, etc., is $8 per month. Students will be given an opportunity to work out from $2.00 to $3.00 of this amount, thus leaving only $5.00 to $6.00 to be paid in cash. In some cases arrangements may be made so that a few may work out the whole amount. Lack of means need debar none. STUDENTS AND GRADUATES.—There have been twenty-six graduates from the Bible School. 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Come and profit by our..... * Special Sales Every Friday. * 733 Seventh Street, N. W. Phone Main 1048m THE SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION. Secretary Chappelle Makes a Report of the Work Before the Bishops Semi-Annual Council.—Figures to Show the Great Growth of the Department. We call attention to the report which we read to the Bishops in Semi-Annual Council, which speaks for itself, we have only to say that our work has been a success, which the report will show. And upon which we are willing to rest our cause: To the Bishops now assembled in Semi-Annual Council, Mobile, Ala., February, 1904. Dear Fathers in God:— I count it more than a pleasure to me—yea, an honored privilege, vouchsaed by the great African Methodist [Name] [Picture of a man in a suit with a bow tie, looking directly at the camera. The background is plain and light-colored. The man's hair is short and neatly styled, and he has a mustache.] DR. W. D. CHAPPELLEE. D. D. Secretary of the Sunday School Union Tenne Episcopal Church to the Secretary of the Sunday School union, in the person of him who now reads to you the following report: The success of the Sunday School Union which was committed to our trust at the General Conference in Columbus, O., has been made possible by hard work, deep research, and untiring zeal. I say we have been successful, not without drawbacks and hindrances, however, coming from sources in themselves, being mighty factors by virtue of the peculiar positions which they occupied in the Church. The moneys of this department, in many instances have been withheld presumably for no other reason than to cripple its success; but by the help of Al- --- mighty God, and those fathers among you it has been made possible for us to use the word "success" in connection with our work at the Sunday School Union of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. For further information we herewith give an epitome of the figures covering the three years closed. Our receipts are: Business ..... $74,237.48 Children's Day money ..... 13,893.14 Total.....$98,130.62 These figures by comparison with the last quadrennium shows an access of business in our favor of $20,- 971.16; to be added to this excess, the receipts of business for one year, which in all probability, will be thirty thousand dollars; this added to $20,- 971.16 will round us up to $50,971.16 1910 of the A. M. E. Church, Nashville, see. in excess of last quadrennium. Our Children's Day Money, despite the drawbacks mentioned above, has steadily increased. For June, 1900 receipts were $2,860.77 For June 1903 receipts were 4,023.00 Total Children's Day money 13,894.14 Excess in our favor 1,498.43 Thus you will see that the business has steadily increased in all of its resources, showing that the entire church ,or at least some sections of it, has done more work. Since June last we have put in a new 40 horse power boiler and a 35 horse power engine at a cost of $1,500. To further enlighten you as to our plant and printing outfit, we append the following list of items: One engine and boiler.....$1,500.00 --- THE COLORED AMERICAN A dpnamo, 70 lts, (16c p.)..... 550.00 Seybold Automatic Trimmer.. 400.00 Monitor Stitcher ..... 400.00 Sample Book Trimmer ..... 50.00 Monitor Stitcher (sec. hand).. 50.00 Blade Grinder ..... 100.00 Ameri. Rithmometer ..... 250.00 Optimus press (No. 8).....3,000.00 Scott Press (No. 3)..... 800.00 Bindery necessaries ..... 114.00 Typewriter ..... 110.00 Show Case ..... 25.00 Desk and chairs ..... 60.00 Type, furni., fixt., for C. R.... 2,500.00 Aside from the items named above, we found in the Union when we went there, two small Golden Presses which had been through the fire, the larger has since shattered, which we have had fixed at a cost of $10.00. We found also, an old-fashioned paper cutter worth about $50.00, a book wringer worth about $50.00 also. With the citation above it is needless for us to say to you that we are doing our own work. Those who are dubious as to this fact, need only to come and see. All of the machinery bought is in daily use, operated by colored men and women to whom we are paying monthly $593.00 and a weekly pay roll on an average of $45 in our busy season. Thus you will see that the Sunday School Union for the closing quadrennium at least, has been, and is a powerful factor in the business uplift of our people. The material sustenance coming from the Union, going back into the hands and pockets of your people, has kept in circulation the phenomenal amount, which under God, we have been able to handle. God be praised for the place we have made and sustained for the A. M. E. Church in the business world. We deem the difficulties we have encountered as propellers in the mighty work accomplished, for one has said, "No kite can ascend unless the winds are against it." Appended then by the great principle upon which the "Sainted Allen" built the Church, we have contended with the contrary winds, and because of which our kite is highest in the heabens, from a business point of view. Asking only to be judged upon a basis of merit, as a public servant of the great A. M. E. Church, and as a minister of cur Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, I am. Fraternally, UNION REVIVAL SERVICES. The Union Revival services that have been conducted at the Metropolitan Baptist church, by the great pulpit orator and evangelist, Rev. Simon P. W. Drew of Boston, are still being held with renewed interest. These services have been going on for four weeks and more than four hundred souls have come to the Master. 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Prof. Moten Corrects an Error and Tells of the Great Educational Work in Missouri.—A School on Holy Ground, Dedicated to Freedom and Patriotism. DEAR SIR:—Please allow me to correct an erroneous impression which youseem to have from some source. An impression which we should not like to see current. I know your tendency to help, rather than hurt or hinder; to build up rather than destroy, so well that I know you need but to know the right and you are a promoter of it. In your latest issue of The Colcred Americal you say editorially: "The controversy between the colored teachers in Missouri continues with unabating interest. Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City, seems to be the battle ground, although the war is waged all over the State. The colored newspapers of the State contribute in keeping up the warfare." The "controversy between the teachers" is something of which the "teachers" are ignorant. The editor of some one of the newspapers to which you refer may have paid his respect in unholy language, to some teacher who had not make a congenial subscriber to the editor's paper, plans or pot. But this does not justify the statement that there continues a "controversy between the colored teachers." As it stands, this means all the teachers. The fact is that in a certain town where a "colored newspaper" is published, there is a "controversy" of a quadrilateral shape going on. A minister of the gospel forms one point of the figure, a physician forms another, the editor forms the third and a teacher forms the fourth. The problem for solution is: Is this a controversy between preachers, physicians, editors, or teachers? Evidently, neither, as a class; but each as an individual. The teachers of Missouri are as elevated in their make-up and manner as the most elevated peak of the Ozarks. They are too busy gathering materials for mental growth and assimilating them for mental development, to contribute anything to a controversy of useless continuity. You say "Lincoln Institute seems to be the battle ground, etc." It is not altogether improbable for one, so far away as you are, to be "lying—under the misapprehension of the facts.—I write this directly from the "battle ground." Here I have camped under two winter's snow and panted during the one summer which came between them. I have heard no bugle sound "to arms!" nor have I heard the roar of hostile cannon. Lincoln Institute has been the pride of an increasing number of Negroes for thirty years or more. The Negro soldiers who paid the first money for the founding of this institution, the money earned in perilous times, are training their children to look at Lincoln Institute as a monument erected to Freedom, a statue to Patriotism. A large percentage of the teachers in the public schools of the State are graduates or undergradu THE COLORED AMERICAN ates of Lincoln Institute and to them this is all but "Holy ground," too sacred upon which to wage such a fraticidal war as a war among teach ers. When you hear of war you naturally seek the causus belli.—What is it in the war referred to in the editorial? The teachers have expressed their satisfaction with the administration of President B. F. Allen not only in words but in their actions when from their schools they sent students to Lincoln Institute till the enrollment is far beyond that any previous year. The legislature has shown its satisfaction by appropriating twenty-five thousand dollars more for maintenance than at any time previous. The Board of Regents have exhibited their confidence by unprecedentedly electing the president for two years, making the re-election of the old teachers a matter of course and adding six more teachers than were ever employed before. Where, O, where! is the casus belli? No, Lincoln Institute is not the "battleground," except whereon the artillery of intelligence are storming the fort of ignorance and the catapults of morality are hurling deadly missles into the camps of vice. THE WESTERN ELDORADO. A Pen Picture of a Land of Eternal Sunshine and Flowers—Los Angeles and Pasadena Thriving Cities. I have fully intended writing you for the past three months and tell you of this beautiful country. The people in this beautiful city awoke this morning after a refreshing rain, the first water that has fallen in 114 days—nearly four months. A drought of this kind in the District of Columbia or Pennsylvania during the growing season would mean an almost total crop failure. But here along the coast of California it is somewhat different. Irrigation cuts an important part. The January temperatures here average from 55 degrees at 7 a.m. up to 75 and 80 degrees during the day. The weather here is simply delightful. I have not seen a load of coal since I have been here, about three months. Most people use a small gas stove to take the chill off in the evening. I imagine the coal barons in Washington, and Philadelphia, would suffer here. Gas is cheap, 95c per 1000 feet. Rents and living are comparatively high, depending a good deal on location, quality and the size and fullness of one's wallet. This is the opening of the orange season, and this and next month the big shipments are made East. Good navels can be bought on the street for 5 cents a dozen. Los Angeles has a population of about 150,000 and is growing rapidly. The streets are clean and the buildings modern and of steel construction. To give the reader an idea of the building that is going on, a score of hotels are going up in different parts of the city and as many modern business houses nearing completion. Hundreds and hundreds of dwellings ranging in price from $2,000 up are under construction. The beautiful Parks are filled with tropical trees and flowers which are now at their zenith of perfection. In many of the parks are artificial lakes for fishing and boating; also zoos, which compare favorably with the Parks in Washington and Philadelphia and are seen in most any part of the city. The roses are exquisite and of rare tints and colors. The magnolia tree is at home here and is just coming out with its beautiful cream colored buds. One thoroughfare here named Magnolia avenue is lined on both sides with these trees as far as the eye can reach. The winter tourists travel to Southern California is unprecedented. Not in the history of trans-continental travel has business between Chicago and California been as heavy as it is this season. The bulk of the business is to Southern California. Every train out of Chicago is loaded to its capacity. There was not an unreserved berth in the limited train I came on last October, and I learn not one until February 5th. Los Angeles and vicinity is gridironed with electric railways, solid roadbeds and modern equipments. A ride to the ocean beaches can be made in forty or fifty minutes at a moderate price where fishing, boating and bathing comprise only a few of the pastimes. Pasadena, the home of a hundred millionaires, it is said, is but half an hour's ride distant. At Pasadena the Tournament of Roses takes Place on January 1st, and this has been the custom for several years in the past, and this year outclassed them all r crowds and miles of decorations in natural flowers and bedecked equipages. I counted over sixty automobiles in line. Bands of music, fire departments, carriages gaily decked, helped to swell the long procession. Pasadena is proud of this annual event and makes it a New Year's holiday greeting. Los Angeles has five daily newspapers—three morning and two evening. The Express is the leading evening paper. The Examiner owned by W. R. Hearst, has one of the finest equipped newspaper plants in the United States. The Beaches are the great attractions for tourists and for the home people. Some of the descriptions are flowery and apparently overdrawn, but when one visits them the attractiveness of the ocean side is truly appreciated. MRS. C. C. Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 16, 1903. ORANGE BLOSSOMS. Mr. Edward L. Kenny was married to Miss Carrie L. Jackson the fifth daughter of Mrs. Emily Jackson and a sister to Col. J. M. Jackson of Gaskins & Gaines, last Thursday evening, February 1th, at the 19th Street, Baptist Church. Rev. Walter H. Brooks, the pastor officiated and a representative gathering of the friends of the young people assembled to witness the ceremony. Persons sending articles to The Colored n' for criticism, inspection c cation should always send ostage or we can not be respor r the return of manuscript tf. NOTICE! SALOONS. Chris. Xander's QUALITY HOUSE, To the enormous stock of truly good wines and distillates (free from all fusel poison) there has just been added by request: Beri Medicinal Niza Olive Oil the thinnest pressing easily assimilated by delicate stomachs. To preserve its freshness and curative virtues imported only in small (4 ounce) bottles and sold at 25 cents by the sole distributor, Chris. Xander, 909 Seventh Street. Jas. F. Keenan. RECTIFIER AND WHOLESALE LIQUOR DEALER. Elegant Club Whiskey a Specialty Importer of Fine Wines, Brandies, Gins, Etc. 462 Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest Fritz Reuter'< Washington, D. C. 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GREENER, U. S. Consul at Vladivostock, Russia. be generally known that the representatives of the United States in these places, are colored men. Hon. W. J. Powell is the U. S. Minister and Pleni- J. HON. WM. F. POWELL, U. S. Minister to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. potentiary to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Prof. Richard T. Greener, the first colored graduate of Harvard College, is M. REV. CHRISTOPHER H. PAYNE, U. S. Consul, Danish B. W. I. United States Consul at Vladivostak, Russia. It looks very much as if the battle between Japan and Russia would THE COLORED AMERICAN be fought very near Vladivosstock and all of the important news of the Consular service will be attended to by Prof. Greener. The race has reason to be proud of its corps of able men who are representing Uncle Sam in many parts of the civilized world. We have them in France, in Madagascar, in Germany, in Africa, in Paraguay, in Brazil, in Cuba in the Philippines, in Hawaii, West Indies and other countries and Rev. C. H. Payne U. S. Consul at St. Thomas, D.W.I. A POPULAR DIVINE. Continued from page 1. so do with who attends the Conference but from a racial standpoint we have much to do with it so far as creating a wholsesome public sentiment in favor of sending the very best of the race to sit with those great intellectual giants of the white race in their deliberations. A Negro pigmi among them would pain any race loving man be he saint or sinner. Virginia Negroes, regardless of denomination, would be delighted to see the brethren of the Washington Conference send Dr. Withrow to the General Conference. He is young, vigorous, gifted with a brilliant intellect, eloquent, a clean Christian gentleman, cultured and refined. The race would feel safe to have him represent it in any religious gathering in the world. There is not a more capable man for the honor in the Methodist Episcopal Church. The anniversary of the death of the great Frederick Douglass, the matchless orator and prominent statesman, was honored by the race; society, in its churches, its schools, and in its literary and debating societies. The race is not ungrateful to its great leaders. Dr. I. B. Scott, Editor of the Southwestern Christian Advocate, is not only an eloquent, but a very witty speaker. The pages of the Advocate fairly sparkle with the wit and wisdom of his pen and brain. He pays the following tribute to the waste basket: "After all, the waste basket of an editorial office is a great institution. It is not only the friend of the editor but of many of his correspondents. If many of them realized how often it saves them from exposure they would think better of it." ATTENTION. SUBSCRIBERS! We are sending out a large number of bills each day to delinquent subscribers as well as to subscribers whose subscriptions are just expiring. We are striving to give the race a clean, strong, newsy newspaper and we hope every person who receives a bill or who know themselves to be in arrears will send in their subscriptions at once. tf. OUTSTRIPS ALL. The Colored American of Washington, D. C., Ed. Cooper, proprietor, still outstrips all of his competitors with 64 columns of original reading matter and good, live advertiseing makes The Colored American the national journal of the colored people of the country. We admire push, energy and good common sense and wish him success. Illinois Idea. I hope this will awaken in the colored people a just pride for the Order of Knights of Pythias. Its past faults have been corrected. For the Negro it has had no equal since Syracuse gave to the world, that which will live to the end of time. A Society representing the three links of F. C. B., that bind us so closely together in every sense of the word. The order was re-incorporated in the District of Columbia, December 14th, 1903, with such honorable men at its head as S. W. Starks, of West Virginia, Supreme Chancellor, S. A. T. Watkins of Chicago, Ills., Supreme Attorney and several others, some of the leading men of the race. All Lodges in the District of Columbia have been placed under the Supreme Lodge with a death benefit for each member of from $50 to $3.50. It is easy to sail on the smooth waters of life, but when the winds of adversity blow, and the billows of troble and sorrow are sweeping over us, is the time for the demonstration of the three letters, that bind us together in this grand order. Some very good men have gone out, but will come back. There are others who can't get back; our strength has been greatly increased by the new order of things, and we hope to continue increasing by taking in young blood. Activity and vigor will be effused into the Order in the District of Columbia. We care for the members of the Order, the widows and orphans of those deceased. We pay from $3 to $5 sick benefits per week. Joining fee in clubs of not less than twenty persons, not over 45 years, $4.50 each. I will organize a new Lodge giving you all the benefits of the Order. The four departments are as follows. (1st) The Subordinate Lodge. In this members are united to care for and protect each other in health, as well as in sickness and distress. (2nd) Uniform Rank. In this departments our young men are receiving a military education, which makes them better and more useful citizens. (3rd) Ladies Court. In this the wives, mothers, daughters, widows, and sisters of Knights are united for the common purposes of life. (4ht). Endowments. In this department we are paying out thousands of dollars annually to the widows and heirs of deceased Knights. Each member receives from this department $300 at death. It comes from the Supreme Lodge. It is not a local affair. 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It is simply magnificent; so original, so thoughtful, so suggestive. Japan has shown what it is possible for a nation to become without European Christianity. The high ethical value of Christianity no one denies. "Its ennobling influence in the history of civilization" even Haeckel admits. But the Christianity of the churches is as far removed from the Christianity of Christ as night is from day, and this salient point Dr. Agbebi has explained in his able sermon. Lagos, as well as Sierra Leone, ought to be proud of him. The worth of a state in the long run is, as Mill has taught us, the worth of the individuals composing it." From J. Edestone Barnes, Esq., C. E., Newgate, London, England. "I have read the sermon with great admiration and delight. I observe that Dr. Agbebi is an Ethiopian Christian—a pioneer of the 20th Century, a scholar and messenger of the Gospel truth "as it is in Jesus." His sermon will always be read and appreciated as a foretaste of the good things the Deity has reserved for Africa, when he shall shortly arise to stand in his lot." I shall be glad to furnish copies of the American edition of this sermon to any person desiring them on receipt of 20 cents in cash or postage. It is a sermon every thoughtful Negro should read. BRUCE GRIT. IGNORANCE DEPLORABLE. "Now, the wise policy seems obvious. We should agree that the keeping down of millions of people, even if successful, would be destructive to civilized society, and a menace to the State. To treat them as if they had already risen would be equally so; therefore, an educational test for the suffrage should be adopted and strictly applied, applicable to whites and blacks alike for ignorance in the whites is deplorable. There is only one way to make satisfactory members of society, whether white or blacks, and that is, through education in the widest sense."—Mr. Andrew Carnegie, addressing the meeting in the interest of Hampton Institute, held in the Madison Square Garden Concert Hall, February 12, 1904. YOU MAY SEARCH US. To save our dying days we can not keep pace with the Washington Bee. It was only a few weeks ago that it was laying the Hon. Judson W. Lyons and the Georgia delegation out THE COLORED AMERICAN. to the dogs. Last week it was a complete change about, Mr. Lyons was fairly lauded to the skies in a long, extended editorial. Just how Brother Chase can blow hot and cold, both hot and cold, at the same time we fail to see. We read the editorial closely but not one word in explanation of Mr. Chase's change of attitude toward the Georgia contingent did we see. Will Brother Chase kindly inform the Hornet why this sudden flop? Did the Bee err in its tirade against the Georgia contingent? If so its change was right, but not manly without acknowledging its mistake. FREDERICK M. HORNET. DOINGS AT NORMAL, ALA. NORMAL, ALA., Special.—Bishop L. J. Coppins, who has been doing work in South Africa since the general Conference, spent a few hours with us at Normal. He came to see President Councill and the work at Normal. He delivered a very able and strong lecture. Hon. H. V. Cashin, of the U. S. Land Office of Huntsville, Col. Pettibone, ex-Member of Congress, Col. John Boyd, of the Daily Mercury, and many others were present to hear the good, distinguished Bishop. The school has been full all the year, many students however, are now returning to their farms to make ready their crops. There will be 136 graduates from Normal this year, representing a dozen or more trades in the Industrial Department, English, Normal and College Courses in the Literary Department. Rev. I. C. Dawes, who for 10 years was a missionary in Africa, is now at Normal taking a course in Printing and giving instructions n the Tailoring Department. A SOCIAL GATHERING. Reception tendered by Mrs. N. Smith at the residence of Miss L. Parnell, 212 Arthur Place, last Wednesday, in honor of Miss L. Payne of Atlantic City, Messrs. Blakey of Indianapolis, Rice of Florida, Remos of Portugal and Pratt of Ohio. Elaborate spread and games, musical selections and dancing the order of the evening. Among those present were Mrs. M. Dorsey, Misses M. E. Chase and M. King, Messrs. H. Parnell, R. J. Pollard, Boler and L. Pleasant and a host of others. The feature of the evening was Mr. Blaky's renditions on the guitar. Mrs. C. Blanch Drew, the wife of Rev. Simon P. W. Drew, who is conducting the great revival at the Metropolitan Baptist Church is in the city. She was born near New Canton, Va., and was reared and educated in Richmond. 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Once tried always called for. Large size bottles sent on receipt of 50 cents in stamps or money order. Send 10 cents in stamps for generous sample to S. T. WORCESTER, 65 Thomas St., Agent Kin-Killa Co. Portland, Me. Please mention paper when ordering. Mr. William Moten, the steward at that popular hostelry, Gaskins & Gaines, is a favorite among the patrons of that place. Mr. Moten's bill of fare is always toothsome and inviting and he is never so happy as when he is busy catering to the public. PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR. For The Colored American. . . . Out of the dust, which envelopes In western world, the colored man, Paul Laurence rose above the smoke, A genius rare, in this good land. Of Afric blood—a noble soul, Our bard that makes the lyre so sweet; His melodies our lives have mould'd With admiration him we greet. The prejudice against the race, Is mitigated by the man; From springs of song, he drank with grace, And mounted high the poets stand. He opens wide the innate life, And urges on the upward speed; What tho' great struggles come with strife, Meet prejudice with noble deeds. He touches the chords of living lyre And souls illumed with muses flame, Soon brought the whole world to admire, The man who clothed himself with fame. Great singer of sweet lays, well done! The world crowns thee with richest praise; Tiny lines inspire, with wholesome fun, Our hearts from deep dispair upraise. JOSEPH G. BRYANT. THE NEW SOUTH. Everett Horton, a colored man, living in Mullins Flat, Madison Co., has bought and paid for 180 acres of land, paying for it about $1,500 in five years. Last year he raised 17 bales of cotton which he sold at an average of 12 1-2 cents a pound, 100 bushels of corn, worth 50 cents a bushel, 2,500 pounds of fodder, 2 twohorse wagon loads of hay, 2 twohorsewagon loads of sorghum fodder, put up 1,000 pounds of pork, besides raising his chickens, vegetables and having several good cows for milk and butter. His example is worthy of emulation. This is the kind of education, which will make good citizens of the Negro.—Huntsville Democrat. We are glad to see the above notice of our friend "T," all the Democrat says of him is true and more besides, and there are hundreds of others like him in this county, such men as J. S. and S. D. Bailey, Jackson Clemens, M. B. Williams, Silas Turner, W. A. Love, W. L. Lacy, Andy Cowan, Ed. Nance, W. P. Williams, S. M. Jones, Y. L. Horton and hundreds of others, we have plenty of such men and yet they were not allowed to register last year. Huntsville Journal. MR. ALEXANDER GOES TO BOSTON. Mr. Chas. Alexander, a printer of considerable experience, and formerly editor of the Philadelphia Review and a well known literary man, has gone to Boston, Mass., to accept the management of the Colored Citizen, heretofore run by Mr. Peter Smith. Mr. Alexander is a practical printer, and is well equipped for the full management of the Citizen. He is backed by plenty of capital and ought to make old Boston howl. THE COLORED AMERICAN THE JUANITA PLEASURE CLUB. The Juanita Pleasure Club gave its initial Terpsichorian - Whist - Euchre Reception in Room 5 at True Reformers' Hall last Monday night, and it was attended by nearly 100 friends of the Club. The hall was beautifully decorated with colored electric lights and American flags, and two thoroughly competent pianists furnished music right up-to-date. Creams, ices, fruits, jellies, and punch de-rigeur were the refreshments. Mr. David Vawter is the President of the Club, Miss Lida Weaver, Vice.-Pres., Miss Jennie Brown, Fin. Sec., Miss Mabel Weaver, Rec. Sec., Mr. Thomas Johnson, Treas., Mr. Richard Watson, Sergeant at Arms, Mr. Walter Blount, Bus. Mgr., Misses Sara Lemos, Sara Ferguson, Sara Weaver, and Messrs. David Cooper and Alphonso Cooper. It is rumored that Mr. Will Ferguson, who has been on a furlough from the Census Office, has been appointed to a position, paying the same salary as his former one, in New York City. Already the fair ones are talking of their Easter togs and hubbies are wearing that worried look. Mrs. Mary Reese, of 402 N st. N. W., is able to be up and around after a severe illness from a threatened attack of tonsilitis. Mr. James, brother of Messrs. Alfred and Will Lewis of this city, and a resident of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., is visiting his mother and brothers. Mr. Welington Taylor, of N. Y. City, son of Mrs. Taylor of R street, N. W. and a nephew of Mr. Milton Simms was in town during the past week on a visit. Washingtonians are still running over to Baltimore to view the fire ruins, which are still smoldering in some sections. OBITUARY. Mr. Henry L. Hyman, a letter-carrier, died Wednesday, February 17th. His funeral took place 2:00 o'clock Saturday, the 20tth at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, of which he was a member. He was one of the best known young men around Washington and by his thrift, energy and industry had accumulated considerable of this world's goods. He was the son of the late Congressman Hyman, of North Carolina and leaves two brothers, a sister and a mother to mourn his lost. Insurance in all its branches, F. M. Sims, Insurance broker, 609 F street, N. W. For Fire, Health and Accident Insurance write to F. M. Sims for rates and particulars, 609 F Street, N. W. Mr. Paul Laurence Dunbar is doing the West and appearing to large houses in Missouri and Kansas. PROMINENT COLORED MEN DEAD. A very able contributor to The Colored American is anxious for some reader of this paper to give as near as possible the date of the death of the Hons. Fred. Douglass, B. K. Bruce, Jno. M. Langston, N. Wright Cuney, Jas. Hill and C. H. J. Taylor. We will be pleased to receive this information from any of our subscribers. A Real Chance for Enterprising Canvassers The demand for PROFESSOR W.E.B. DuBois' great book The Souls of Black Folk has been so remarkable, especially among those who do not buy many books, that we have just issued a Special Subscription Edition This powerful study of the Negro Question stands ahead of all others. Every one who has the future of the colored race at heart will want to buy it and read it. Is one of the easiest books to interest people in that has ever been published, and we are anxious to secure live, intelligent canvassers everywhere. Send to us for information, terms, etc. A. C. McCLURG & CO., Publishers 215-221 Wabash Avenue, Chicago HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS. The Albany Hotel. has been enlarged and newly refitted with mod ern improvements for the accommodation of Guests so as to furnish first class services with Bar, Dining Room, Private Parlors and first class Sleeping Apartments. Arthur Webster, steward; William Leonard and William Hall, mixologists; Henry Johnson, manager, and Auto Scott, clerk. CALEB A, SIMMS, Prop. 331 W.37th St.New York The Porters Exchange Hotel BROWN & SMITH, Proprietors, Newly rebuilt and elegantly furnished. Meals at all Hours. Electric lights, bells, steam heat, hot and cold baths. High grade Wines, Liquors and Cigars. The coldest Beer in the city. 103 and 105 Sixth Street, N. W. Handsome rooms, $1,00 & up. Phone 1733 Y. Every Con- venience Is afforded ladiestravel- eling alone on the Compartment Cars of the "Great Western Limited," Leaving Chicago every even- ing at 6.30 via the CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. J. P. ELMER, G. P. A. 113 Adams St., Chicago --- EDUCATIONAL. THE COLORED BUSINESS Preparatory and Elementary . . . Night School OLD TRUE REFORMERS HALL. Cor. Fourth and N Sts., N. W. AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL. Special courses—Business, Preparatory, Elementary, and Lecture. Shorthand and Typewriting. Free Information given from 4 to 5 p. m. Subjects—Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry. J. W. BOTTS, A. B., Ph. B., Manager. THE HOTEL HOWARD UNIVERSITY Washington, D. C. TEN distinct departments, under one hundred competent professors and instructors—Theological, Medical, Legal, College, Pedagogical, Preparatory, English, Agriculture, Industrial, and Musical. For information address— Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D. D., LL. D., President. GEO H SAFFORD Secretary. THE MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE, LAUREL, HOWARD Co., MD. Situation beautiful; climate unsurpassed; work thorough and efficient. Courses: English, Normal, Agriculture Practical and Scientific, Stockraising, Dairying, Sewing, Cooking, Laundering, Domestic Science, Carpentry, Mechanical Drawing, Dressmaking and Millinery. $7.00 per month covers tuition, furnished rom, heating, lighting, washing and board. Fall term opens October 1, 1903. Winter term opens December 28, 1903. Further information, address M. J. NAYLOR, A. B., Acting President, Box 190 Baltimore, Md. 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 8 Agents are wanted everywhere. Send for instructions. ADVERTISING RATES. Reading notices 50 cents per line. Display advertisements, $2 per square inch, per insertion. Discounts made on large contracts. Entered at the Post Office as second class matter. All letters, communications, and business matters should be addressed to THE COLORED AMERICAN. EDWARD E. COOPER, Manager, 459 C St., Northwest, Washington, D. C. Sold by all News Dealers. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1904. EDITORIAL BREVITIES. --- The Charleston Advocate confesses that it does not understand a short editorial squib which appeared in The Colored American recently. We had reference to a matter which has appeared in the Advocate's news letters several times lately. Some of this matter has come up pretty close to the "live wire," and should it manage to get on the "wire," The Advocate will be wiser. The Guardian pretends not to know where Washington City is. For the benefit of our effete contemporary, we will state that Washington City is the place where an honored father made his money to send his son to an Eastern college to become an educated fool. It is also the place where the money was made to purchase an estate that is now being tied up to print a boiler-plate newspaper. If this will not suffice, we can give some more information as to the location of Washington. D. C. Mr. Walter H. Cohen, a leading young republican of New Orleans, wrote a very timely article to the Daily Picayune of that city, on the 7th inst., defining his position in regard to Senator Hanna and President Roosevelt. The letter was very much to the point, made his position clear, and put an end to the matter. Mr. Cohen can always be relied upon to act at the right time. If the Boston Colored Citizen will keep its eyes open and it ears close to the ground, it may understand to whom the reference was made in The Colored American which seems to interest it so much. THE COLORED AMERICAN. One of the best edited race journals in the country is the Odd Fellows Journal, whose opinion page is contributed by Mr. J. C. Asbury. In the parlance of the street, there is always "something doing" on the editorial page of the Odd Fellows Journal. The publishers of The Boston Guardian and the Chicago Conservator are now known as the "Jim Crow" editors of the colored Press. The colored politicians in Des Moines, Iowa, are said to be more actively engaged in selling policy tickets than they are in looking after the interest of the race. The American Eagle, published in St. Louis, Mo., ululates as follows: "The white politicians all over the city are meeting every evening shaping affairs for the coming campaign. The Negro spending his time in good time seeking or staying at home. When the campaign is on and all preliminary arrangements have been made, he will begin to cry for recognition in the organization. The colored editors of Virginia have organized a Press Association; have elected their officers and start out under bright auspices. There used to be a National Negro Press Association, but it dwindled down to nothing through its self-elected officers. A number of Spanish American veterans are talking about raising a squadron and offering their services to Japan. As a soldier the Negro is without a peer. Hon. John H. Smyth, President of the Virginia Manual Labor School, Broad Neck Farm, Hanover, Va., spent a few hours in this city last Saturday, where he has many friends. Mr. Smyth has built up his work in the past three years in a way that has touched the pride of the State of Virginia. He is an enthusiastic admirer of Prof. Booker T. Washington, and was for four years U. S. Minister to Monrovia, Liberia. The Colored American will have more to say of Mr. Smyth and his work at a later date. The National Baptist Publishing House, of Nashville, Tenn., is one of the few colored printing establishments in the United States which use the linotype machines. We print in another part of The Colored American today the semi-annual report of the Sunday School Union made at the Bishops Council, held in Mobile, Ala., last week. In this report, Dr. Wm. D. Chappelle, the secretary, makes a fine showing of the work he has done for the Union during his encumbency in office. When he took hold of the work, he found an empty building, and the work nearly demoralized. A careful reading of his report will show that the affairs of the Union are in good shape and the condition is healthy and normal. The Sunday School Union has grown to be one of the strongest departments of the African Methodist Church, and it is too important to have its head changed every few years to accommodate some office seeking minister or layman. Dr. Chappelle has given perfect satisfaction to the church and should remain at the head of the Sunday School Union to complete the work so auspiciously begun. THE MEDLER. Our boiler-plate contemporary, The Guardian, reminds us very much of the peripatetic campaign sheets that spring up just before election times. Their "ready print" is usually supplied by newspaper unions conducted in the interest of the democratic party, while the "home print" is made up in the office as it were. On the front pages of these sheets are usually large headlines with long articles commending the policies and principles of the democratic party, while the "home print," in its weak way, struggles to defend the principles of the party of Lincoln. A careful scrutiny of the columns of the Guardian will show that the "boiler-plate" matter has a trifle the better of the "home print." Brother Trotter seems too busy meddling after other people's affairs to watch his make up. The storm center of humor is located somewhere in Chicago, and the generator is one Rev. (?) Wilkins, better known as "Whiskers." Wilkins is really so dumb that he is funny at times, and while he may be a judge of "soda water," he certainly has no intelligent idea of the ethics of journalism. Under the caption of "Amenities of the Press" The Colored American quoted from an editorial in the St. Joseph Spectator. It quoted also an editorial from the Omaha Enterprise, commenting on the Spectator's article. Brother Wilkins swallowed the whole thing and comes out in the defense of the Spectator. Instead of being at war with the Spectator, The Colored American is on the most friendly terms with it, and regards it as one of the sprightliest newspapers published in its section of the country. We advised the Spectator at one time to quit "knocking," and the Spectator could just as consistently give us the same advice. Brother Wilkins you are too funny. LOOK FORWARD AND NOT BACK WARD. The Advocate, published at Portland, Oregon, is a spicy little sheet and is always interesting. The editorial writer has evidently had some experience in politics for he writes like a veteran. Under the caption "You Boys," he describes the glad hand to a "T." He says: "The glad mit" is always out and each expression is begun with "you boys." "You boys" are in line right! "You boys' have your present positions by the grace of the present administration, you know." Yes, and we know some other things. Senator Mitchell is not the issue, and well do we know it. In the city and county administration what positions do we hold? What do we owe the city and county administrations? We have had the worst of it from start to finish. The silk stocking gang has handed the whole community a warm bunch, and rely upon a grin, a strong grip and the howl of "you boys." It is not the question of what the republican party did after the close of the war, it is not the question of what the so-called Mitchell forces did 20 years ago, but it is the question of what this regime of "boys" have done and what they are going to do. In this present campaign we must al- ways remember that the national Negro problem is but the problem of each various community. If we are mistreated by one set, remedy the treatment, or as far as we can do our best to oust them. It is certain, so far as the affairs of the country are concerned, that no machine or clique could mistreat us, could misrepresent us any more than the present one, together with their allied interests. We must fight predjudice and civil discrimination. There is more of it here today than there ever was, and yet there are more respectable people in the town than there ever was. Use your ballots to further principle, right and justice. If we are not correct in this mater, tell us so. We "boys" we want you all to understand are not dummies, and when various gentlemen of the democracy assure you that they have the vote vest pocketed they make false statements of material facts for which we are sorry there are no satutes under which they can be punished. FIRM AS GIBRALTER. Idle hands always find something to do. The man without visible means of support is usually the man who sooner or later gets into trouble. The men who are actually doing something have no time nor inclination to meddle with other people's affairs, nor to breed strife. At this stage of the race's history, there are many rivalries and jealousies for promotion along the lines of business. There is no objection to honest competition, but honesty and fair play is always the best policy. An idle rumor has crept out that would mean much mischief to the Grand Order of True Reformers with headquarters at Richmond, va., but for the fact that this greatest of all race institutions is too well known. It is built on a solid rock, and it is the natural outgrowth of the conditions that gave it birth. It has increased in momentum, in influence, and in usefulness since its very beginning, and today stands without a parallel in showing what the race can do in the sience of finances. Its membership and its influence extend to nearly every State and Territory in the Union. It owns valuable buildings and properties in many States. From it sprung the first actual colored insurance company and the first Negro bank. During the panic sometime in the 90's, the True Reformers' Bank at Richmond was the only financial institution that could lend the city officials of Richmond money enough to meet their pay rolls and to tide them over. This great institution has continued to grow from that time and has met every obligation. It is an institution of which the race should be proud, and it is as firm as the Rock of Gibralter. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. All fish are deaf mutes. Korea is a mountainous country. Every town in Mexico has a public bathhouse. Port Arthur and Cincinnati are in the same latitude. Japan has a written history extending over 2,500 years. There are seventeen metals which are more valuable than gold. The Grip Leaves Thousands in its Path Weak, Nervous, Dyspeptic, Catarrh Wrecks. THE GRIP LEAVES THOUSANDS IN ITS PATH WEAK, NERVOUS, DYSPEPTIC, CATARRH WRECKS From New York Journal. "During the recent Grip epidemic, claiming a million victims or more, the efficiency of Peruna in quickly relieving this malady and its after-effects has been the talk of the continent." Tobacco Smoke and the Blood. Tobacco Smoke and the Blood. Two or three mouthfuls of tobacco smoke from a cigarette were shaken up with a few drops of blood diluted with water in a bottle. Almost immediately the blood assumed the pink color characteristic of blood containing monoxide gas, and further observations with the spectroscope confirmed the presence in the blood of carbon monoxide. Similarly a few mouthfuls of smoke from a pipe and a cigar were tried, and the results were even more marked. In this experiment we have some explanation in particular of the evil effects of cigarette smoking, for it is chiefly cigarette smoke that is inhaled, an indulgence by which the poisonous carbon monoxide is introduced directly into the blood. This effect of tobacco smoke upon the blood appears to us to be of considerable significance.—London Lancet. Christmas Tree Legend. There is a legend in Germany that when Eve plucked the fatal apple immediately the leaves of the tree shriveled into needle points and its bright green turned dark. It changed its nature and became the evergreen, in all seasons preaching the story of man's fall. Only on Christmas does it bloom brightly with lights and become beautiful with love gifts—the curse is turned into a blessing at the coming of the Christ Child, and we have our Christmas tree. Groves In the Clouds. So far as is known, the highest elevation at which flowers are found growing is 17,000 feet above sea level. The homely little plant which has the distinction of being the loftiest grower in the world is found on the upper slopes of the Himalayan mountains, near the line of perpetual snow. The season during which vegetation may appear above the surface in this region is less than four months in length. Testing Swords. A very picturesque and effective test is applied to all the swords made for the English army before they are allowed to go into commission. A powerful man takes each in turn, swings it above his head and strikes it with all his might upon a huge round stone. If the sword shows any sign of weakness it is at once discarded. Sarcastic. They had been discussing the baby's ears, eyes and nose. "And I think it's got its father's hair," said the joyful young mother. "Oh, is that who's got it? I noticed it was missing." And as the tall girl with the suave manner said this the mother looked dubiously at her.— Judge. In His Interest. Jack—You know when Mabel rejected me last week I told you my troubles, and you promised to help me. Well, she accepted me last night. Am I to thank you for interceding for me? Cousin Belle—Not exactly, dear boy. I simply intimated to Mabel that I was after you myself. Barred. "There's one thing the women can't get into!" said the anti woman suffragist. "What's that?" cried a chorus of feminine voices. "The secret service!"—Detroit Free Press. His Chance. "That boy never will be worth anything." "I wouldn't be so sure of that. He may marry well."—Chicago Post. Suspicions are weeds of the mind which grow of themselves, and most rapidly when least want lace. THE COLORED AMERICAN. LIKE A DEMON grip has crossed our country, leaving behind scores of physical wrecks. Victims of catarrh of the head, catarrh of the throat, catarrh of the lungs, catarrh of the stomach, catarrh of the kidneys, catarrh of the pelvic organs, are to be counted by hundreds of thousands. Grip is epidemic catarrh, and sows the seed of chronic catarrh within the system. This is so true that few grip sufferers are able to make a complete recovery until they have used Peruna. Never in the history of medicine has a remedy received such unqualified and universal eulogies as Peruna. A New York Alderman's Experience. Hon. Joseph A. Flinn, alderman Fifth District, writes from 104 Christopher street, New York City, as follows: "When a pestilence overtakes our people we take precaution as a nation to preserve the citizens against the dread disease. "La grippe has entered thousands of our homes this fall, and I noticed that the people who used Peruna were quickly restored, while those who depended on doctor's prescriptions, spent weeks in recovering, leaving them weak and emaciated. "I had a slight attack of la grippe and at once took Peruna, which drove the JUBILEE SINGERS WANTED. Miss Belle Gibbons of the Jubilee Singers who are now doing Australia writes for 2 sopranos, 1 tenor and 2 basses who are willing to go to Melbourne, Australia, for service with the Jubilee Troupe. Expenses are paid from starting point to destination. Leave America about April 1, 1904. All other expenses paid while in the employ of the Company. Contract guaranteed for one year or more to suitable person. Good salary. For further particulars, call or address: J. Henry Lewis, 1450 Q Street N.W. disease out of my system in a few days and did not hinder me from pursuing my daily work. "I should like to see our Board of Health give it official recognition and have it used generally among our poor sick people in Greater New York."—Joseph A. Flinn. D. L. Wallace, a charter member of the International Barber's Union, writes from 15 Western avenue, Minneapolis, Minn. : "Following a severe attack of la gripe I seemed to be affected badly all over. I suffered with a severe backache, indigestion and numerous ills, so I could neither eat nor sleep, and I thought I would give up my work, which I could not afford to do. "One of my customers who was greatly helped by Peruna advised me to try it, and I procured a bottle the same day. I used it faithfully and felt a marked improvement. During the next two months I took five bottles, and then felt splendid. Now my head is clear, my nerves steady. I enjoy food, and rest well. Peruna has been worth a dollar a dose to me."—D. L. Wallace. Mr. O. H. 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But, through the use of Peruna, it got gradually weaker in its severity, until it dwindled down to a mere stupor for two or three days. Now the stupor does not trouble me any more."—O. H. Perry. A Congressman's Experience. Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio. Gentlemen—"I am more than satisfied with Peruna, and find it to be an excellent remedy for the grip and catarrh. I have used it in my family and they all join me in recommending it as an excellent remedy." Very respectfully, George H. White. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. THIS PAPER FOR SALE AT: Plummer's, 732 2d St., S. W. Chapman's, 14th and P Sts., N. W. Leatherwood's, 1501 M St., N. W. Brinkman's, 4th and Pa. Ave., N.W. Morcoe's 421 12th St., N. W. Newsdealer, 1807 7th St., N. W. 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