The Colored American

The COLORED American A-NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER PRICE, FIVE CENTS WASHINGTON, D.C., SEPTEMBER 17, 1904. ANY FORM OF IDLENESS IS DISGRACEFUL ANY FORM OF WORK IS. HONORABLE WASHINGTON Speech Chicago Apr.5. bp ```markdown ``` 10 THE BUSINESS LEAGUE. The National Business Men's League held its annual convention and thereby added another chapter to its life of usefulness and worth. A few years back there were some apparent well founded misgivings concerning the final purpose and length of life of this organization. I have heard these questions seriously discussed by men who are now numbered among the staunchest members of the League. In this same connection I have heard men question the honest intention of president Washington. These men at the time I speak of, could not be made to see how the principal of a school could successfully direct the affairs of a business men's organization Time has proven how. Of all our national organizations the Business Men's League shows the most vitality. There are two reasons why, in my opinion, that it shows the most vitality and also possesses the better elements of character. Politics and the chance for political preferment can not reasonably provide an excuse to determine the shape of the League's policy and attitude on matters of public moment. The president and his advisers, in the main, are not immediately interested in active politics. A very unusual combination of men and matters. But a great good is growing out of the situation which, in all probability, will bring increasing good returns. For one I rejoice in all the things which have been fathered by Booker T. Washington, that have made for the unmistakable good of the people. I have no empathy with the syncopathic attitude of many of his admirers; and neither have I any regard for the ill-mannered strictures of others who stand opposed to his policies and speech. I reserve the right to honestly differ with a man if I choose to do so; I also rejoice in the possession of a disposition which makes me willing to acknowledge the good men do. The Business League is a splendid monument to the heart and genius of Booker T. Washington and I wish it a long life and a longer one. W. H. A. Moore in "Conservator." ELKS IN CONVENTION. The fifth annual convention of the I. B. P. O. U.. (Elks) was held in Atlantic City last week, where twenty-two states were represented, forty-three lodges, and more than eighty delegates. A grand street parade in carriages, automobiles, etc. was a feature of the meeting as well Auxiliary Council. The dele- THE COLORED AMERICAN gates from this city were Mr. Prince A. Harison, representing Morning Star Lodge, No. 4, and Mr. Wm. H. Walker, deputy of the same lodge. This new and thriving order will meet in this city next year. DETECTIVE LACY ON TRIAL Mr. Henry E. Lacey, one of the oldest and best detectives of the police department, and the only colored man who has been honored in this way, was on trial last week on account of charges brought against him by W. C. Chase, a local attorney, for conduct unbecoming an officer. The result of the case has not been made public, but it is said that all of the testimony was in favor of Mr. Lacey, and that very damaging testimony in court records were shown up against Mr. Chase. The next issue of The Colored American will contain a stenographic report of the trial, and it is needless to say that it will be interesting. FINE TAILORING I make a specialty of Suits Made-to-order, and a perfect fit guaranteed; the prices ranging from $15.00 up. Army and navy work a specialty. Dry and wet cleaning of all kinds. Dyeing, scouring and repairing. Clothing called for and delivered. Mail and express orders promptly attended to. A. H. Cooper, Prop., 925 18th St., N. W., Phone, Main 2559. tf. A NEW OPENING FOR COL- ORED PEOPLE. At the recent meeting of the Business Men's League, one lesson was brought out that Colored people should heed. That lesson is that industrial pursuits and not politics offers the best and surest means of advancement. Many persons would like to be in business but they lack the necessary capital. One of the best paying businesses and one that requires very little capital to begin with is the business of canvasser or agent. We know of one article that is bringing rich rewards to agents. We refer to Black-No-More the celebrated preparation for changing the skin of the Negro. There is a gold mine right within the reach of any enterurising man or woman who is so fortunate as to secure the agency for Black-No-More in his or her locality. Colored people of refinement now find this preparation a necessity and it is only a question of time when all who so desire will possess a white complexion. 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 consists to 60 years of age. Its membership of cities. 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 35.50 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, treatment 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 dues. Glass "B" Joining fees 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 2.75 250.00 100.00 4.75 1.20 " 30 to 35 8.00 200.00 150.00 4.75 1.20 " 35 to 40 8.25 200.00 100.00 5.70 1.44 " 40 to 45 8.50 140.00 70.00 5.79 1.43 " 45 to 50 8.75 115.00 58.00 6.68 1.66 " 50 to 55 4.00 70.00 45.00 6.65 1.66 " 55 to 60 4.25 65.00 58.00 7.60 1.80 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 $1.30 to $2.50 per week, and pays death benefits from $24.56 to $1000. BENEFIT8 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 50 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 at 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 not 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. Age 14 to 80 $11 00 $1000 00 Value of tortifasils Annelid dates Quarterly doses 30 to 85 12 00 1000 00 22 00 0 50 35 to 40 12 00 905 00 28 00 0 70 40 to 45 18 00 890 00 24 00 0 90 45 to 80 18 00 700 00 25 00 0 95 of the Grand Fountain United Order of The bank commenced business April 3 present has steadily increased in volumetal 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 o 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. and Street, Richmond Va. REFORMERS MERCANTILE AND INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION—Was chartered under the laws of the State of Virginia on the 14th day of December, 1899, with principal office in the city of Richmond, Va. The purpose of this association is to conduct stores (wholesale and retail), buy and sell real property, manage and control hotels, manufacturing establishments, and do general business. The association has in operation Hotel Reformer, 900 N. Sixth Street, Richmond, Va. It is a modern up-to-date structure, heated by steam, cold and hot water baths, also electric cars passing the door. This hotel has accommodations for 150 guests. Mr. A W. Holmes is manager, and Mr. T. W. Taylor is clerk. It has in operation a system of five stores, located as follows: Richmond, Va.; Washington, D. C.; Manchester, Va.; Portsmouth, Va.; and Roanoke, Va. The first of these stores, at Richmond, Va., was opened April 3d, 1900. It employs a force of 18 men, runs three delivery wagons, and during the first year did $50,000 worth of business. The other stores have been established since, and have been equally as prosperous. The general manager of the system of stores is Mr. B. L. Jordan, headquarters at 608 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. This Association was formed on the plans and recommendations made by Rev. W. L. Taylor, its President. THE REFORMER PRINTING DEPARTMENT—Issues a weekly journal, THE REFORMER, which has a circulation of 12,000. This paper is published in the interest of the race, and discusses the leading questions of the day. The subscription price is $1 per year, or $4 per single copy. The office is equipped with modern up-to-date machinery, run by electricity. It can print anything from a visiting card to a poster 48 by 48 inches. Fine job work of every class and description is made a specialty at lowest prices. Mr. R. W. Brown is editor and business manager, office 608 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. Correspondence solicited and agreed wanted. OLD FALKS' HOME—In September, 1898, Rev. William W. Brown recommended the formation and establishment of Old Folks' Homes for the benefit of old and deserpted members of the race. Since that time the valuable farm known as Westham, consisting of 860 acres, located six miles from Richmond, Va., on the historic "James," has been purchased, at a cost of $14,600. The Cheasapeake and Ohio Railroad runs through the farm, and Westham Station is located on it. Adjoining this farm is Westampton Park, one of the most pleasant resorts in the south in summer. It is reached in a few minutes from Richmond by the Westampton Executive Railway and the Cheasapeake and Ohio Railway. As this home is for the benefit of the whole race, the cooperation of all charitable friends is prayerfully solicited. All contributions, donations and bequests of every character will be very thankfully received. Mr. T. W. Taylor is chief in charge of the Old Folks' Home, offices at 608 North Second Street, Richmond, Va. Rev. W. L. Taylor, G. W. M W. P. Burrell, G. W. S. 601-6-8 N. Second Street Richmond, Va. 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, 1866, there was granted by the Legislature of Virginia a charter to the Savings Bank COLORED MEN AND WOMEN WANTED. The Grand United Order of Wise Men wishes to enroll one thousand new members within the next thirty. So by a special request and argument with the supreme Board directors of the Order, every accepte colored man and woman is given chance to become members of one of leading secret organizations own to our people, and we advise right thinking man or woman the Negro race to take advantage his special offer at once, and if you will heed our advice and fill out the Blank below and send it to Supreme Grand Adviser with only $1.25 to partly cover the cost, he will send you their constitution and general law and your membership card and a secret ritual, and also give you a written authority as Deputy Grand Organizer and allow you to organize Councils of Wise Men and Castles of Wise Women, and the Children's Seminaries in any State or anywhere in the United States and you can easily make from $40 to $50 per month acting as their organizer in your state. The order pays from four to five dollars per week sick benefits, and from $250 to $1,000 death policies, and will loan its members any amount from $1,000 to $5,000 to purchase homes on their own, and gives a free memorial stone to the grave of every one of its members. And we can say that the new revised edition of their Constitution which was taken out a few days ago is a credit both to the order and the race; not only do we hope that their special offer will bring one thousand, but ten thousand of our best people as members. This order and offer is endorsed by our press, pulpit and leading men and women, and we hope that every colored man and woman will not hesitate, but take our advice and accept this chance by filling out and complying with the following: APPLICATION. Rev. S. B. SMITH S. G. A. V. Monroe, La.: Please find enclosed $1.25 for which enroll me as a full member of the G. U. O. of W. M., and send my membership card, revised constitution and general law, and one secret ritual, quarterly pass word, and authority as Deputy Grand Organizer and full particulars. My name is M..... Age ..... Occupation..... Male or female.....I saw this ad. in The Freeman. Postoffice ... State ... County ... Box or street No. ..... I promise if I am accepted to be governed by the laws, rules and regulations of the order and to keep secret to me everything which the law forbids me to expose. The names and addresses of every one who complies with this offer will be published in the fourth issue of this paper in September, 1904, as this paper and its editor would like to see harmony of our people who will accept this golden chance, which they will never have again in life. TO OUR DELINQUENT SUBSCR! 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. This doesn't mean the other fellow, but it means you. Who will be the first to start the ball rolling? ```markdown ``` THE COLORED AMERICAN. A WONDERFUL INVENTION. It is interesting to note that fortunes are frequently made by the invention of articles of minor importance. Many of the most popular devices are those designed to benefit the people and meet popular conditions, and one of the most interesting of these that has ever been invented is the Dr. White Electric Comb, patented January 1, '99. These wonderful Combs positively cure dandruff, hair falling out, sick and nervous headaches, and when used with Dr. Whites' Electric Hair Brush are positively guaranteed to make straight hair curly in 25 days' time. Thousands of these electric combs have been sold in various cities of the Union, and the demand is constantly increasing. Our agents are rapidly becoming rich selling these combs. They positively sell on sight. Send for sample. Men's size 35c.; ladies', 50c.—(half price while we are introducing them.) The Dr. White Electric Comb Co., Decatur, Ill. tf. GROGAN LEADS THEM ALL. In another part of this issue of The Colored American, a full page advertisement of Mr. Peter Grogan,the pioneer furniture dealer and house furnisher of Washington appears. His mammoth store had a small beginning but by honest methods, fair and straight-forward dealings, he has built up the largest house furnishing store in Washington, and counts his friends and patrons by the thousands. Everything that is needed to start a newly married couple to house keeping can be had at this mammoth emporium, and at terms to suit the poor as well as the rich. A careful reading of the advertisement will benefit every housekeeper, whether they wish to make a purchase or not. Grogan's mammoth furnishing house leads, all others follow. COLORED WOMEN, ATTENTION. You are invited to correspond with a New York firm which leads all others in manufacturing and importing Hair Goods, specially prepared for colored people. The largest variety, the best terms and we save you the middleman's profit by having you deal direct with the manufacturer. Send for catalogue at once. HENRY W. KOGH. Manufacturer and Importer, 262 Grand St., Brooklyn, N. Y 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. Sold 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. Toakegee Institute Tuskegee, Alabama Address. 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 GONZALES—236 Bergen St. Brooklyn, New York. STAR Born Clairvoyant and Card Reader Tells about business, Removes Spells and Evil Influences, Reunites the Separated and Gives Luck to all. 1228 25th st. n. w., Washington, D. C. No letters answered unless accompanied by stamp. FOSTER GATERER 1120 20th St. N. W. Good Work. Good Treatment Good Work. Good Treatment and Reasonable Charges. Vero Dentists. 1115 Pa. Ave Opp. P. O. Persons sending articles to The Colored American for criticism, inspection or publication should always send return postage or we can not be responsible for the return of manuscript NOTICE! Holmes Hotel Best Africo-American Accommodation in the District. European and American Plan. Bar Stocked with Fine Wines, Imported Brandies and PURE OLD RYE WHISKEY. Best Line Cigars, 5 & 10c Good Room and Lodging, 50, 75 and $1. Comfortably Heated by Steam. James Ottaway Holmes, Prop. Harry G. Lenz. Hugo Lossau, LENZ & LOSSAU, Successors to CHARLES FISHER. 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Perfect distillation means the careful separation of the first and the end run from the still, the poisonous, impure, essential grainoil, (phlegms, faints, fusel), from the middling product, good, potable spirit. Very likely the majority of cheap whiskies, either for economy or from ignorance, carry more or less of impurities. Such defective liquors could never be admitted to that grandest of stocks, and hence can not be obtained at the store of Chris. Xander's Quality House, 909 Seventh Street Northwest. HOTEL SHEPARD HILL, at Colton Point, Md. Every known resort attraction and convenience for summer guests. Boating, crabbing, and dancing. Write for terms to WM. D. BOND, PROP. Palmers, St. Marys County, Md. Do you want a negro library of four volumes containing the same total of negro knowledge, negro literature, negro progress and negro achievement? In fact, these four books contain everything that anybody could wish to know about the negro race. They are: FIRST — "The Progress of A Race or The Advancement of The American Negro," by Prof. W. H. Cragman, Clark University, Atlanta, Ga. Price, $1.78. SECOND — "The Story of My Life and Work," by Dr. Beckw T. Washington, Price, $1.80. THIRD — "Twelfth Century Rego Literature or a Cyclopedia of Thought," written by 100 of America's Greatest Regen. Edited by Dr. B. W. Guip. Price, $2.00. FOURTH — "Golden Thoughts on Chastity and Procreation," by Prud. J. W. Gibson and Dr. W. J. Trufft. Price, $1.00. AGENTS WANTED — Do you want the agency for one or more of the above Above Library Free. It is worth $7.25. Only those who take an agency can get it field are making from $5.00 to $10.00 a day. We pay big commissions, supply books Free. Write for full participation—we mean what we say. J. L. NICHOLS & CO., Naperville, Illinois THIRD — "Twelfth Century Rega Literature or a Cyclopedia of Thought," written by 100 of America's Greatest Novels. Edited by Dr. B. W. Culp. Price, $2.50. FOURTH — "Golden Thoughts on Chance and Preservation," by Prof. J. W. Gibson and Dr. W. J. Truitt. Price, $1.50. AGENTS WANTED — Do you want the agency for one or more of the above books? If so you get the Above Library Free. It is worth $7.25. Only those who take an agency can get it free. Agents now in the field are making from $5.00 to $10.00 a day. We pay big commissions, supply books on credit and send Outfit Free. Write for full participants at once. Don't hesitate—we mean what we say. AGENTS WANT books? If so you get the Above Library Free. free. Agents now in the field are making from $ on credit and send Outfit Free. Write for full par laws at once. Don't hesitate—we mean what we Each month it contains articles Agents are just as sure of making are in answering this advertisement Write at once that you may be terms, outfit, and a large number of work at once Subscription to every one is One contains articles from the greatest writers of the race. 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Its use will give the hair its natural appearance. It is positively the only device upon the market that will accomplish such results. The purchase price will be refunded if it does not accomplish all we claim for it, by returning it to our office. Stop and think how the public is being deceived by extravagant advertisements of various pomades and many impractical straighteners that are foisted upon the market, which are injurious to the growth of the hair, and after their use leaves such an unsightly appearance. We will forfeit $100 for any so called hair tonic or preparation that will Shampoo Drier. This necessary toilet article will accomplish two results in one operation. It will straighten and dry the hair quickly, effectively and satisfactorily. Its use will give the hair its natural appearance. It is positively the only device upon the market that will accomplish such results. The purchase price will be refunded if it does not accomplish all we claim for it, by returning it to our office. Stop and think how the public is being deceived by extravagant advertisements of various pomades and many impractical straighteners that are foisted upon the market, which are injurious to the growth of the hair, and after their use leaves such an unsightly appearance. We will forfeit $100 for any so called hair tonic or preparation that will make the hair straight and soft by applying it without leaving the hair with a greasy, pasty appearance, thereby retarding the growth of the hair and softening the hair follicles, causing it to collect dandruff and dust which is a great cause of so many bald heads; and the promoter of the wig industry. We ask you to name us a hair straightener, of any drug composition, that does not produce these effects. Now in comparison, The Magic Hair Straightener and Shampoo Drier, which is a straightener consisting of a steel bar and an aluminum comb attached, six inches long, with an ordinary amount of heat, dries a head of hair after a shampoo and straightens it as fast as it is combed. Its mode of operation is easy upon the hair, thereby eliminating the pincher method, which almost pulls the hair out from the roots. The comb separates the strands leaving a beautiful and natural appearance. A heavy head of hair can be straightened in less than thirty minutes. Its use a few minutes daily following instructions will straighten the hair where hours of combing will not. It will save the loss of hair that excessive combing produces, and we guarantee that it is the only device that will accomplish such results. 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McGirt's Magazine.... $5 PER DAY SURE Agents are making $5 a day selling McGirt's Magazine A great periodical published every month in order that we may have a paper that will be read by both races, the white as well as the colored that the white race may know the many great men and women of the colored race and what they are saying and doing. ```markdown ``` Philadelphia, Pa. AND SHHMPOO DRIER LOOK The above cut represents the Magic Hair Straightener and USE AMERICAN COACHES. Large Conveyances for Traveling in South Africa Made in the United States. The coaches used in South Africa are built in the United States—at Concord. Most of them hold 12 people inside in rows of three, six people facing and six back to the mules, says Lippincott's Magazine. By experience we learned that the two corner seats back to the mules are most agreeable. Luggage on these journeys is a consideration, as it is charged for at the rate of a shilling a pound, but each passenger may take a rug—or "blanket," as they are always called—and a small basket of food. The great object is to get as much food as possible into a small space, for when we traveled we could only be sure of two meals—one breakfast and one dinner—during the three days and nights of continuous traveling. We made inquiries about the outside places, thinking they might be preferable; but, some fellow-passengers, who were old hands at such traveling, explained that when the coach upset the outside passengers were those to suffer; those inside come off, as a rule, with a few bruises, the others getting broken arms and the like; and this outbalanced our desire for the open air. Not that one suffered from want of air, for the coach has no windows at all; glass would not stand the jolting for an hour. There is a tarpaulin that one may unroll and pull down over the windows when the rain comes in intolerably. The sun one must bear, for if the tarpaulin is down it is too insufferably hot. Striet in Odessa. A few months ago a young Englishman was sentenced to a fortnight's imprisonment for kissing his fiancee in the streets of Odessa, says the New York Telegram. It is strictly illegal for lovers to osculate in public in South Russia, and it was only after considerable trouble on the part of the British consul that the too amorous youth was liberated at the expiration of three days' captivity, and even then his sentence was commuted to a fine. Colors of Flowers. The same species of flower never show more than two of the three colors, red, yellow and blue. Roses, for instance, are found red and yellow, but never blue; verbeneas are red and blue, but not yellow; pansies are yellow and blue, but never red. When Fish Are Hungriest. It is a belief of fishermen that the finny denizens of the deep are hungriest and bite most freely during the four or five days following the moon's first quarter.—Nature. M. MR. FRED R. MOORE. THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE RICHMOND HOSPITAL Organized November, 1902; opened February, 1902. Recently remodeled and fitted up with modern improvements. The finest colored hospital in the South. Sanitation is perfect. In connection with the hospital is a Training School for nurses, under the supervision of Miss M. E. Cabaniss, a graduate of Freedman's Hospital, class of 1897. For further information, apply to M. B. JONES, M. D. Surgeon-in-Chief. KIN-KILLA A wonderful preparation for straightening kinky hair. Absolutely harmless. Will positively render the coarsest hair soft and wavy. Once tried, always called for. LARGE SIZE BZOTTLE, 50 CTS; or sent prepaid by mail for 60 cents in stamps or money order. Send 10 ets in stamps for generous sample to—S. T. WORCESTER, 65 THOMAS ST. 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Our credit prices are as low as equal qual- ities can be bought for in the department stores. We are complete furnishers, in- cluding Brass Bedsteads, Solid Oak Bed Room Furniture, Parlor Lamps with beautifully decorated shades, also the daintiest shapes and decorations in fine Haviland China and other dinner ware. Open an account and get everything you need—on credit. If your parlor furniture is beginning to show signs ef wear let us replace it with bright, new pieces. We are now show- ing nearly one hundred styles in Parlor Suites, including the newest patterns and richest upholsteries. Sideboards, China Closets and Extension Tables are here in splendid variety and in the very newest patterns. Credit gives you the opportun- ity to buy exactly what you want, at the lowest cash prices and on payments graded to suit your income or Gonyen- ience. Make your owr selections. PETER GROG 3 ; 817-819-821-823 Seventh Street. N. W. Between H and I Streets. \ YOU ARE WELCOME TO 13 NO NOTES—NO INTEREST Rich Draperies. ```markdown ``` 14 LEADER. PROMINENT MISSOURI Grand Chancellor A. W. Lloyd, a Member of State Central Committee of Missouri.—A great Organizer. Mr. A. W. Lloyd, whose photo is above shown, is one of the most popular and widely known young colored man in the State of Missouri. A born "hustler," he has fought his way to the front, and to the top by dint of hard work based upon his own individuality and sound ideas. As an organizer, his equal is yet to be found in the State of Missouri. Having been elected Grand Chancellor of the Knight of Pythias of Missouri 3 years ago, when the membership was only 650, he at once went to work with his usual vim, and so well did he administer affairs, that he has been elected to succeed himself four consecutive times by unanimous vote of the Grand Lodge. In the past four years he has brought the membership up from 650, to more than 5,000, and at the session of the Grand Lodge held in the City of Joplin in July of this year, he was again chosen Grand Chancellor. A Republican in politics, he has proven his value to his party by his work, and his merit has been recognized by appointment to various positions of trust. He was further honored by his party at the recent Republican State Convention held in St. Joseph, by being elected a member of the Republican State Central Committee by the overwhelming vote of 719 to 87 over his opponents. He has the distinct honor of being the first colored man elected on the State Committee from the City of St. Louis. W. A. GUNNELL. COLORED COMPANY MAKING SUCCESS. The Mercantile Co-Operative & Investment Company, whose main office is located at Twelfth and R streets, northwest, is doing a prosperous business. Although only a few months old, more than 15 car-loads of coal has been ordered from the mines, shipped to Washington, and sold, and the orders are still coming in. President Gaines speaks in the highest terms of the outlook of the company, and says the race is giving it hearty support. Mr. R. D. Robinson, of Pittsburg, Pa., and an old friend of The Colored American, passed through the city last week en route to North Carolina, whence he had taken his father. Mr. Robinson is one of the successful business men of Pittsburg. THE COLORED AMERICAN THE MONARCH OF NEGRO NEWS PAPERS. The ideal race newspaper, and published at the Capital of the Nation, is THE COLORED AMERICAN. It is clean, neway, 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 COLORED 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 twelvepage 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 theirposal.—The Rock Hill Messenger Howard University WASHINGTON, D.C. Tuition Free except in the MEDICAL DEPARTMENT Including MEDICAL, DENTAL and Thirty-Seven DAY SCHOOL FOR NE TUITION FEE IN MEDICAL AND L PHARMACEUTIC C ALL STUDENTS MUST REGISTER LAW SCHO Organize Applicants for admission to this well-known and possess the proper qualifications. Matricula Tuition Free except in the Medical Department MEDICAL DEPARTMENT MEDICAL, DENTAL and PHARMACEUTICAL Thirty-Seventh Session. LAW SCHOOL FOR NEW MATRICULATION TUITION FEE IN MEDICAL AND DENTAL COLLEGES, E PHARMACEUTIC COLLEGE, $70. STUDENTS MUST REGISTER BEFORE OCT LAW SCHOOL. Organized 1868. Suits for admission to this well-known Law School must be over the proper qualifications. Matriculation fee $10.00 strictly in a Tuition Free except in the Medical Department. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT ALL STUDENTS MUST REGISTER BEFORE OCTOBER 12, 1004 Applicants for admission to this well-known Law School must be over eighteen years of age and possess the proper qualifications. Matriculation费 $10.00 strictly in advance. For catalogue or further information address The Secretary of the University, or the Secretary of Medical, F. J. SHADD, M. D., 901 R St. N. W.; La. New York and Liberia M. P. SMITH & SONS 116 Broad Street, JAMES ROBERT SPURGEON, AUGUSTUS C. FAULKNER, Incorporated under Laws of Capitalization $50,000. Full The New York & Liberia Steamship Co. has a unique and unchallenged claim of Afro-Americans and well wishers for gro combinations of commercial and tion of Negro stockholders primarily thousand dollars, to be increased to soon as the interests of the Company trade demands it, and it is obvious the ship Company is the only one in existers in the near future between the p. Liberia, touching at Cape De Verde Coast as Bonny and Gaboon. or further information address THE PRESIDENT, or Mr. G. B. L. The University, or the Secretary of the Department which you are J. SHADD, M. D., 901 R St. N. W.; Law, JAMES F. BUNDY, ESQ. New York and Liberia Steamship Co. M. P. SMITH & SONS CO., Gen. A. 116 Broad Street, New York City ROBERT SPURGEON, Chief Promoter TATUS C. FAULKNER, Travelling Re Emerated under Laws of the State of New Yorkization $50,000. Full paid and non- New York & Liberia Steamship Company is a Negro Businessique and unchallenged claim to the support and protection of Americans and well wishers for the success and prestations of commercial and financial advancement. Negro stockholders primarily, with a capitalized dollars, to be increased to eight hundred thousand the interests of the Company and the commercial demands it, and it is obvious that the New York & Liberia Company is the only one in existence that will run a near future between the port of New York and touching at Cape De Verde, going as far south as Bonny and Gaboon. For catalogue or further information address THE PRESIDENT, or MR. GEO. H. SAFFORD, Secretary of the University, or the Secretary of the Department which you wish to enter, viz. Medical, F. J. SHADD, M. D., 901 R St. N. W.; Law, JAMES F. BUNDY, Esq., 420 Fifth St. N. W. M. P. SMITH & SONS CO., Gen. Mgr. 116 Broad Street, New YorkCity. JAMES ROBERT SPURGEON, Chief Promoter. AUGUSTUS C. FAULKNER, Travelling Representative Incorporated under Laws of the State of New York. Capitalization $50,000. Full paid and non-assessable. The New York & Liberia Steamship Company is a Negro Enterprise. It has a unique and unchallenged claim to the support and patronage of all Afro-Americans and well wishers for the success and promotion of Negro combinations of commercial and financial advancement; a corporation of Negro stockholders primarily, with a capitalization of fifty thousand dollars, to be increased to eight hundred thousand dollars as soon as the interests of the Company and the commercial needs of the trade demands it, and it is obvious that the New York & Liberia Steamship Company is the only one in existence that will run a line of steamers in the near future between the port of New York and the ports of Liberia, touching at Cape De Verde, going as far south on the West Coast as Bonny and Gaboon. The enthusiastic and hearty supporters a field of profitable and honorable absolutely closed. In it, the Negro equal footing in the commercial work insures munificent returns in the shareholders. You may now secure a Ye men and women of the Race loss For further information apply to M REFEREN athusiastic and hearty support of the race to this field of profitable and honorable support to the Negro may closed. In it, the Negro becomes a strong voting in the commercial world. The success of unnificent returns in the shape of profits to the leaders. You may now secure a share of stock at fifteen and women of the Race lose not this commercial further information apply to Main Office, 116 Broad REFERENCES: The enthusiastic and hearty support of the race to this Company offers a field of profitable and honorable support to the Negro, hitherto absolutely closed. In it, the Negro becomes a strong competitor on equal footing in the commercial world. The success of this Company insures munificent returns in the shape of profits to the investors and shareholders. You may now secure a share of stock at five dollars. Ye men and women of the Race lose not this commercial opportunity. For further information apply to Main Office, 116 Broad Street, N. Y. REFERENCES: New York Produce Exchange Bank, New York. Rt. Rev. Wm. B. Derrick, New York. Rt. Rev. Benjamin Arnett, Xenia, Ohio. Rt. Rev. I. B. Scott, New Orleans, La. Dr. Clarence E. Howard, Philadelphia, Pa. Rev. J. E. Hayne, M. D., Charleston, S. C. Lawyer T. J. Minton, Philadelphia, Pa. --- --- Non-Professional Departments open September 21, 1904. Theological Department opens September 28, 1904. Medical and Law Departments open October 1, 1904. REV. JOHN GORDON, D. D. PRESIDENT. Gives opportunity for Higher Education to all without regard to creed, race or sex. Ten departments—Theological, Medical, Dental, Pharmaceutical, Legal, Collegiate, Teachers, Commercial, Preparatory, Industrial—conducted by one hundred competent Professors and Instructors. Medical Department. DEPARTMENT PHARMACEUTIC COLLEGES in Session. NEW MATRICULANTS. MENTAL COLLEGES, EACH, $80. COLLEGE, $70. R BEFORE OCTOBER 12, 1904 HOOL. 1868. New School must be over eighteen years of age on fee $10.00 strictly in advance. Steamship Company S CO., Gen. Mgr., New York City. Chief Promoter. Travelling Representative. The State of New York. paid and non-assessable. Company is a Negro Enterprise. It the support and patronage of all the success and promotion of Ne- nancial advancement; a corpora- tion, with a capitalization of fifty eight hundred thousand dollars as and the commercial needs of the at the New York & Liberia Steam- ance that will run a line of steam- art of New York and the ports of going as far south on the West of the race to this Company of support to the Negro, hitherto becomes a strong competitor on The success of this Company of profits to the investors and share of stock at five dollars. not this commercial opportunity. In Office, 116 Broad Street, N. Y. ```markdown ``` --- ST. ANN'S ACADEMY. St. Ann's Academy has conducted a day school since September 9, 1895, and wishes to announce that the school will be continued this year. Every one's welcome, regardless of race, color, or creed. The terms are 310.00. Mexican drawn work, fancy needle work, and different musical instruments are taught. Pupils of every religious denomination are received, their opinions are respected and no influence is used to change them; yet, for good order, they are expected, during their stay at the Academy, to conform to the outward exercises, such as going to church, morning and night prayers, etc. For further particulars address Sister Mary Juliana, O. P., 310 8th st., N. E., Washington, D. C. THE COLORED PRESS. The colored press of the country is unanimous in its praises of the work and purposes of the National Negro Business League. This is as it should be. A race is strong in proportion as it is wealthy. The Jews have demonstrated the power of money, and this lesson we must learn. The colored citizen has proven his skill, his powers and his ability to cope with the white citizen along every line of endeavor. In the professions, in the sciences, in the fields of athletics and higher education he has equalled and in many instances excelled his white colleague. This done and proven, what he most needs now, is money. His opportunities for engaging in business and making money are many, and the time is propitious. Discriminations of all knids are driving the colored people together, and they are beginning to practice the saying of Benjamin Franklin, "We must hang together, or hang separately. The colored press of the country is preaching these truths from the housetops of every town and hamlet. And there is no more potent agency for race development than the press. It stands by the principles, as enunciated by Dr. Booker T. Washington to the letter, and the race should do its duty by supporting its most powerful champion, the press. Theodore Roosevelt grows, each succeeding day in the esteem, in the confidence, and in the heart of the great American people. Room For Rent-One single room, baths and all modern improvements at 1731 Tenth St., N.W., for rent at reasonable rates. Gentleman preferred. THE COLORED AMERICAN A PLEASANT SURPRISE PARTY. The home of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Fair, at 664 Acker street, N. E., was the scene of revelry on Monday night, September 19th. The occasion was a surprise party given in honor of Mrs. Delia B. Washington, a popular school teacher of Baltimore, and Mrs. E. P. Ray, a Washingtonian but now a resident of Cleveland, Ohio. The hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Fair is well known, but on this occasion they fairly surpassed themselves. In the early part of the evening, games and different kinds of music, vocal and instrumental, made up the programme and at a late hour the guests were invited to the spacious dining room, where a feast awaited them. The tables fairly groaned with the weight of good things, and the guests were not long in making themselves at home. A goodly number were present, among them: Mr. and Mrs. Barton, of Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Dr. P. W. Price and daughter; Mr. and Mrs. Johnson; Mrs. Mary E. Griffin, Misses Mable Griffin and Hattie Fortune; Messrs. William Fair, Edward Green and others. THE WRECK OF THE RIVER QUEEN. The steamer, River Queen, ran amuck last Saturday night, running into a lumber barge, two miles this side of Alexandria, had its starboard deck destroyed, and was beached in three feet of water to saves the lives of the two hundred odd passengers on board. The colored people who persist in riding on this boat were greatly frightened, many of them making their way through the water to Anacostia, and some of them remaining on the boat until they were rescued by skiffs and other small boats. The River Queen is probably put out of business for this season. Dr. Booker T. Washignton passed through the citwy last Sunday morning from the East, en route to Tuskegee, Alabama, to be present at the fall opening of the school. Plummer's, 732 2d St., S. W. McNulty'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. Avery'a cor. 14th and Pierce Place Mrs. Keys, 1808 7th St., N. W. Singleton's, cor. 20th and E, N. W. Ham Adams', cor. 9th and G Sts. N. W. I. E. Williamson, 601 N. Y. Ave. T. Smith, 1213 N. Y. Ave, N. W. Cigar Store, 706 Fifth N. W. Stafford's 1000 Twentieth St., N. W. A B C We will send free ORED AMERICAN neighbors at the rate like to bring them allowing them to stop get up a route of tu to $1.00 to $5.00 as your profit. This a clear profit of 20 you sufficient paper try the plan. We ask for anything be and reserve territo THE COLORE We will send free of cost ten bright new copies of THE COL- ORED AMERICAN, which you may sell amongst your friends and neighbors at the rate of 5 cents per copy, and tell them you would like to bring them the paper in this way from week to week, allowing them to stop when they please. It will be easy for you to get up a route of twenty to a hundred papers, which will amount to $1.00 to $5.00 a week. Of this amount you may keep two-fifths as your profit. This means that on every ten papers sold you have a clear profit of 20 cts., or two dollars a hundred. We furnish you sufficient papers, free of cost, to start you and enable you to try the plan. We pay the postage and run all risk. Could you ask for anything better or make money more easily? Write today and reserve territory in your town. Address THE COLORED AMERICAN, 459 CSt. N. W aper. --- A BOY WANTED and free of cost ten bright new copies of THE COL- AMERICAN, which you may sell amongst your friends and at the rate of 5 cents per copy, and tell them you would bring them the paper in this way from week to week, al- on to stop when they please. It will be easy for you to rute of twenty to a hundred papers, which will amount to $5.00 a week. Of this amount you may keep two-fifths fit. This means that on every ten papers sold you have fit of 20 cts., or two dollars a hundred. We furnish print papers, free of cost, to start you and enable you to run. We pay the postage and run all risk. Could you anything better or make money more easily? Write today to the territory in your town. Address COLORED AMERICAN, 459 CSt, N. W Washington, D. C. M. MRS. DR. CORNELIA WHITE. FREE TO ALL A Powerful Woman with a Powerful Force She will raise you from Diseases, Disappointments, Weakness, Poverty and Drudgery, to Health, Wealth, Power and Success. This wonderful woman is helping thousands of others, and will help you. Countless numbers who were crushed in life by diseases, worries, sadness and disappointments, are now becoming prosperous, healthy, successful and happy, by the aid of this mighty woman, and her wonderful discovery as any gift ever held out by a generous hand. There is no cost; no charge whatever, simply write for it, and it will be sent by next mail. Don't send any money, just send your name and address to Mrs. Dr. White, Baltimore, Md., and she will send you FREE a most valuable book of information, consisting of 32 pages, handsomely illustrated, which will tell you how to gain Health, Wealth, Luck, Power and Happiness, also tells you how to develop the power of Claivoyance, Hypnotism, Personal Magnetism, Mental Healing, Magnetic Healing, Mental Teiepathy, (thought transference.) Psychometry and that wonderful Power of all Powers, White and Black Art. Also how to remove Evil Influences from yourself and friends. This is a grand book to place in the hands of those who desire to rise and better their conditions in life. It positively tells you how to remove and cure all habits of drink. It is a godsend to suffering humanity, and the Key to Eternal Life. This is the extracts of twenty years of ceaseless labor and an outlay of ten thousand dollars, ($10,000.) We do not ask you to send any money, all we ask, is that you send us five cents in stamps to help cover the cost of packing, postage, etc. Write for this valuable free book to Dr. Cornelia White. Dr. White's College of Science, 1917 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, Md., U. S. A. kindly mention the name of this paper. 15 In every town and hamlet in the United States and Canada who is willing to sell TheCOLORED AMERICAN on a liberal commission. Any boy with push can easily get up a large list of weekly customers and make considerable money. The work is pleasant and agreeable, and need not take up more than a few hours each week. HERE IS OUR PLAN: SENDS HAPPINESS TO THOSE WHO ACCEPT IT. FREE Contest Closes October 15th. We will pay $85,000.00 in prizes to those who can estimate nearest to the total paid attendance at the Great St. Louis World’s Fair. This Fair opened April 36, 1964, and will clese December i. 1904. The paid attendance on open- ing day was 125,754 people, during May the paid attendance was 542.028. during June 1,382,863. during July 1.514.754. Can you estimate the number who will apy admission during the entire Fair? To Th Wh pe SOO ae. Cor. a oo Come Nearest. First Prize $25.000. Second Prize $16,960. Third Prize $5,000. Our prizes are the largest ever offered in any contest, and are divided as follows: To the nearest estimate --...-..-----------.---------------------- -$29, 00 | To the second nearest estimate -...-....--.-------:4-----+------+- 16,000.00) To the third nearest estimate ......---.-.-.-.--------------<+-+---~ 5,008.00} To the fourt nearest estimate .-..-.-.-.-----.---------.---.------- 2,500.00} To the fifth nearest estimate -.---..-.-...--------------++-------- 1,500.00) To the sixth nearest estimate ......-.-...-.-.-..---2--p+---------- 1,000.0} To the next 16 nearest estimates, $200 each..........-.-..---..-.--- 2,000.00) To fhe next 20 nearest estimates, $100 each..........-...-.-------- 2,000.00) To the next 50 nearest estimates, $50 each --.......---------------- 2,500.00) To tne next 160 nearest estimates, $25 each .......-.....----------- 2,500.00 To the next 200 nearest estimates $10 each...-..-....-------------+ 2,000.00 To the next 509 nearest estimates. $5 each........----.---+.-------- 2,500.00 | To the next 1.000 nearest estimates, $1 each........-.------------- 1,080.00 | Sapglementary Peises 66 656 os 6 os 3 Son 5s - 5 oo oe enews eee 26,6000.00 | > Saar DURES 5. .3t oan Sone ee oa eo wie Stn 2 se ae a oe SEND IN YOUR ESTIMATES AT ONCE. Not an estimate will be consid-— ered that is received in our office after October 15, 1904. For each estimate we send you a separate engraved and numbered certificate with your estimate thereon. The corresponding coupoms of these certificates are deposited at the time your estimates are made and can be handled only by the Committee on Bward« after the contest closes. bach certificate entities you to an estimate. 10u can estimate as you wish. SEND IN YOUR ESTIMATES WITH YOUR REMITTANCES. A received we will immediately make out your certificates and send the to be retained until the Fair is over. MONEY NOW DEPOSITED. We can not touch this prize money. It is held by the Missosuri Trust Co. for no other purpose than to pay these prizes as soon as the committee on awards declares the successful contestants. This committee has no interest whatever in the contest,.and is made up of prominent business men who have agreed to award the prizes, and your estimates are turned over to this commit- tee before the Fair closes, insuring absolute fairness to every one interested. OCTOBER 15TH positively LAST DAY. Not a penny will be accepted or ar estimate counted after that date. ONLY A FEW DAYS REMAIN. Don’t subject yourself to a life-long regret by failing to efter this remarkable contest. Only a smali_ amount invested in our estimating certificates may mean that an independent fortune is yours. WRITE TO-DAY. Remit by express order, postal or registered letter. Don’t send personal checks. - THE WORLD'S FAIR CONTEST CO., 6842 Delmar Avenue, ST. LOUIS, JRO. OCTOBER 15TH, LAST DAY. Don't forget that you must enter the con- test before that date or not at all. NOTICE:—Contestants are distinctly to understand that the participation in this prize contest is rot confined to subscribers for any other paper but that the contest is being advertised in a large number of other publications, the subscribers for al! of which are privileged to compete and share in the distribution of the prizes offered. = a ts oe = 5S one Sota fF we > +. - ~ in Oe en ee Soo rene. ie, GE, JE neha Gee oy ee oe! Saale ee eS i age ooh eee eee ee ee ge _ 2b PES eo a ea & ce Bie hag ate Seta tee Re eee Semis OE sn, ge ee a: ee eg Se coe ae Oe eS eee age a= cal a gees a sors Knowles Building. Boys’ Tall. Stone Hall. Girls’ Hall. Model Home. ATLANTA UNIVERSITY, Atlanta, Ga. Christian and unsectarian. For the education of young men and women in the higher studies. Collegiate, Normal and High School Courses, with Industrial Training. New Practice School and Kindergarten building for training teachers. Graduates secure most important positions as teachers and leaders. Home life and training. Athictics. Superior advantages in- Music and Printing. Aid given to needy and deserving students. Term begins the first Wednesday in Octoner. For catalogue, address: President HORACE BUMSTEAD, D.D., Atlanta, Ga. 16 MISSOURI TRUST CCOMPAEY, CAPITAL €2,000,900, St. Louis. Mo., May 20. 103. ————— ee ee Ss paty tScatpurated, bee tui doy Acposited wit Speen $15,000.06 in gold. Kr ike arent on the total peid sttenc-\ = ee a ies eaid Zepocis ie bela ia YAS ele! wag by bis comma / Terescans L Contestants as the committee } attesoors ‘Tret Co. en ewards mey dir-cs. «ft $:. Losie. THE COLORED AMERICAN. Remember you are to estimate the number of people who will pay ad- mission into the grounds during the entire Fair. This does not include any free passes whatever. 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This crime defies the law and order of the state; it brutalizes the best feelings of man; it tends to revolutionize public sentiment; it threatens the life of the organic law of the land. This question calls for calm and judicious consideration. Yet lynching requires positive and stern dealing. Halt must be called to its defiant and serpentine course throughout the nation. In its trail it has left a stench in the nostrils of every law-abiding citizen. The very air we breathe is filled with unrest, un M. MR. H. A. WAYLAND, Head Waiter Hotel Worden Saratoga, New York safety, and discontent. Mob violence has assumed all forms of brutality. This violence has emboldened the spirit of anarchy that is spreading with a defiant arrogance and threatening the stability and peaceful perpetuity of this government. Let us pause a moment. What do we understand by the term "lynch law?" It is the practice of taking men's lives unauthorized; inflicting punishment for crimes done, or alleged to have been done without due process of law. It has derived its name from a Virginia farmer named Lynch, who took the law into his own hands for the punishment of crime. Let us see what assault on woman means since this is the chief cause of lynchings. It robs her of the sacredness of her home, destroys the purity of her character, blasts her reputation in the com- ```markdown ``` F LYNCHING . WAYLAND. munity, and covers her face with shame. Such a crime is the most revolting and inexcusable in the whole category of crimes. Direct Tr Every M. & G. blade This cut is exact size At first impulse, we are ready to lynch, but we should pause to consider that we have paid officers of the law whose business it is to punish all manner of crimes. Lynch law is worse than a rule of barbarism, because it is practiced by civilized men who become drunk in the fury of their madness and gloat over the shedding of man's blood. It disorganizes society, dethrones the law's majesty, tramples justice under foot, turns right into wrong, destroys life and property and besprinkles our streets with the blood of man. Often, too, it punishes the innocent and lets the guilty escape. Well may it be said: Listen, Have you heard what Are you contented with take any reasonable stu enhance and protect the All this you could e of the Amer If you wish to make be helped in business, low and profitable rate AMERICAN PROTECT No joining fees, no Sent 52 cents and we Membership Certificat membership, privilege Our correspondence close your 52 cents me Address New York. "It is a bar to heaven, a door to hell. Whoever named it, named it well. A bar to honor, pride and fame. A door to sorrow, sin and shame." It is an historical fact ante-dating man's civilization that the weaker class has always been the prey of the stronger and been driven out from among them unless some power intervened or they met force to force. These very people that we live among today, the charge of cruelty laid at their doors, left England on account of British oppression and tyranny. They landed here and have driven the Indian almost into the Pacific Ocean. Within our memory Spain oppressed and degraded Cuba and America stepped in with her strong arm and steel fingers and Continued on page 3. ```markdown ``` Direct Tr Every M. & G. blade is handforged for This cut is exact size of 75 cent strong one for 48c.; 5 for $2, postpaid. Best SHEARS, $1.00. Boys' strong 2-blade k Barber's hollow ground Razor, and S Send for free 80 page List, and "How MAHER & GROSH CO., Cash for your real c No matter where it is located. 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There is room at home for the American people to begin this humane work; great questions are to be settled; evils to be corrected; wrongs to be righted, before they can clean out the back yards of other people. The primary cause of this mob violence visited upon us is attributed to the implacable race hatred that has become intensified by the repetition of assaults by the lowest, meanest, and most degraded class of the colored people—only a degree removed from the brute. It is unjust that we must suffer and bow our heads in shame because of these devils in human shape. I doubt very much if we are as well off politically to-day as we were twenty years or even ten years ago. Let us see briefly: Civil rights bill declared unconstitutional; disfranchisement in nearly every Southern State; not a single colored man in Congress to-day; public sentiment poisoned and inflated against us; wounded in the homes of our friends; slain in nearly every county; snubbed in every place, and despised by every race. We must wake up from our lethargic sleep; put away obsolete ideas; get living thoughts for the present; cut loose from hindrances and view our situation as it really is. Where are the statesmen of today? We have lost such men as Sumner, Garrison, Phillips, Love, Joy, Douglass and others who dared to speak and contend for the right. The citizens of all well-organized republican forms of government owe an allegiance and they in turn expect protection and must be protected in life, liberty prosperity and the pursuit of happiness. No nation is truly great that discriminates and oppresses one class of its citizens. "No chain is stronger than its weakest link." Surely we are a part and parcel of the people of this great country and can rightfully demand that we be protected even as other citizens, and this guarantee should bring equal and impartial punishment to all offenders of the law. There was a time when mob violence was praticed in the South, and was inflicted only upon the Negro for his crime against the sacredness of womanhood. But to-day it has spread in all directions until it has come to the cultured North where it is tolerated and even practiced THE COLORED AMERICAN The progress and frequency of its crimes not limited to any race or sex fill us to-day with horror and alarm over our present condition. This great sin of mobbing men and women to death, not always for an assault on woman, but for other offences, has become a great national disgrace a blot upon America's escutcheonscorned and laughed at by the oriental nations of the world. The exigency of the times and the great seriousness of the question before us require that we stop and deal with it as we find it telling the naked truth and unmistakable facts. One peculiar feature of mob law is that it takes a thousand white men to kill one Negro, chasing him with bloodhounds over counties, through streams, over mountains, to take the life of one man and often the almost breathless victim begs for time to prove his innocence. It is charged that we are the only people as a rule that assault womanhood. I ask you, is the charge true? From statistics and reports we certainly are in the lead. It is authoritatively stated: during the last twenty years there have been in round numbers 1,800 cases of lynchings in this country. Six hundred whites and 1,200 Negroes. Sixty per cent. of the Negroes were charged with crimes against womanhood, the other charges were murder, race hatred, impudence, etc. Sixty-six of these were women, 29 of them being white. Last year, in this country, 118 Negroes were lynched, 37 per cent. of whom were charged with crime against woman. Many of the others were perpetrated on slightest provocation—the real cause being race hatred. In the last twenty-five years 3,000 human beings have been put to death by lawless mobs. Pause a moment and look the field over; I ask again, have you ever heard of the Jews, the Chinese or the wild Indian, or the Italian, if you please, assaulting their own women or women of any race? Such an array of facts is enough to bring the blush of shame to the face of every colored American citizen. The crime of lynching is not only a crime against humanity; it also becomes a menace to our republic at its very foundations. I am free to admit that there occurs some times such henious and dastardly crimes that they shock the whole moral sense of a community—so much so that lynching seems to be the proper punishment. A case in point: Those three colored men who assaulted Mrs. Biddle the other day. It seems that the community would have been justified in lynching those culprits, but the state authorities upheld the majesty of the law and the criminals were imprisoned for 49 years each. The Governor and officials are to be congratulated by all lawabiding people for upholding the law even if it did take an armed cavalry to carry out its demands. I've a gleam of hope that lynch law has had its day in our South land. Governors and high officials are beginning to speak against it and act accordingly. The Negroes are beginning to leave the South in large numbers; mills and cotton fields are becoming depleted for lack of Negro labor, and they are going to towns and cities—coming North. The feeling of danger amid mob murders is spreading rapidly among they, many are selling out their homes at great sacrifices and going elsewhere. The thinking people and those who have large interests there cannot let this continue much longer. They see this would mean industrial disaster to the South, and unless this condition of unrest and unsafety is stopped, a deplorable state of things is bound to follow. A Negro's life in some places, is not regarded any more than a dying mouse in the claws of a cat. Nor can it be denied that the outrages in the past few months assumed a more horrible character and been occasioned by much less serious offenses than formerly. Let me cite you one or two instances: A colored man not long ago, was accused of murder. He escaped and his wife fled with him into the dismal swamps of Louisiana. Both were subjected to savage treatment, maimed, killed and burned at the stake. A still more striking evidence of the brutal spirit of lynching by whites: Two Negroes were lynched who had lynched two men of their own race. Surely this disregard of law can not long continue without serious consequences. It is also charged that the colored people, in trying to protect the victim of mob violence are condoning the crime. We deny this flatly, but simply ask that the law be carried out and the ends of justice met; that the criminal be proved guilty of the offense and punished accordingly. We do not desire to condone, palliate or protect any criminal, let his crime be what it may. We hold if it is right to lynch the colored man for assault on woman, for murder, arson, theft, burglary, impudence, or any crime whatsoever, it is also equally right to lynch the white man for the same offense. Continued on page 6. 3 SALOONS 451, 453, 465, 467 Pennsylvania Avenue. 262, 208 and 210 4 1-8 St Northwest. MOORE & PRIOLEAU, Sparta, Buffet, and Cafe, 1216 Pa. Ave. Washington, D.C. FINE WINES, LIQUORS and CIGARS Hot Free Lunch every Day. Ladies will receive special attention in Dining Rooms upstairs. C. H. NAUGHTON LIQUORS and SEGARS Fine Wines. Harper & Wilson a specialty. 1916 Fourteenth Street. 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The little gray dog tumbled headlong into the area, and the maid who happened to be standing there closed the gate. When the dog saw she was safe from her two legged pursuers she toppled over in a dead faint. At any rate, the maid insisted that she fainted. The boarders, who crowded out into the area to help bring the little animal to, derided the assertion, but the doctor that finally joined the group said there was nothing preposterous about it. This image contains no text. 4 His Turn Next. When Animals Faint. "Of course she fainted," he said. "Lots of animals faint. Cats and dogs and even more stolid animals keel over in moments of fear and exhaustion. In the case of horses the prostration is generally attributed to sunstroke, but quite often they are knocked out by a plain, everyday faint instead of atmospherical excesses. Fowls faint too, and the birds of the air. In fact, it is hard to find any living creature that doesn't topple over in crucial circumstances. If the lioness of the jungle were up on etiquette she would be just as much justified in carrying a camphor bottle as the finest lady in the land."—New York Press. Faculty of Imitation In Animals. Faculty of Imitation In Animals. Some animals have wonderful powers of imitation. Dogs brought up in the company of cats have been known to acquire the trick of licking the paws and then washing the face. When a cat has been taught to sit up for food her kittens have been known to imitate her action. Darwin tells of a cat that was in the habit of putting her paw into the mouth of a narrow milk pitcher every time she got the chance and then licking the cream off her paw. Her kitten soon learned the same trick. A lady tells of a rabbit that she keeps in a cage with a monkey and says that Bunnie has caught many of the monkey's ways. It is said that starving pigeons that have been brought up on grain will not eat peas to save their lives, but that if pea eating pigeons are put with them they follow their example and eat peas.—Detroit News-Tribune. Washington Could Run. "As to running," said Parson Weems in his book on George Washington, "the swift footed Achilles could scarcely have matched his speed. 'Egad, he ran wonderfully!" said my amiable and aged friend, John Fitzhugh, Esq., who knew him well. 'We had nobody hereabouts who could come near him. There was young Langhorn Dade of Westmoreland, a confounded, clean made, tight young fellow and a mighty swift runner, too; but, then, he was no match for George. Langy, indeed, did not like to give up and would brag that sometimes he had brought George to a tie. But I believe he was mistaken, for I have seen them run together many a time, and George always beat him easy enough.'" THE COLORED AMERICAN. How He Evaded the Suicide Law. Lord Chief Justice Hankford of England, who lived in a former century, notwithstanding his high position became so tired of life that he determined to shuffle off this mortal coil. But he feared to commit suicide, because at the time a verdict of felo de se followed as a matter of course and the body of the suicide was buried at four crossroads, with a stake thrust through it. Further, he had to avert the consequences to his relatives of forfeiture of his goods, which was also one of the penalties for self destruction. He adopted a novel expedient. Several of his deer having been stolen, he gave orders to his keepers to shoot any person they met in or near the park at night who did not immediately stand when challenged. Then on a dark night he threw himself in the path of the keepers and, not answering the challenge, was shot dead on the spot. The stump of an old oak under which he fell still marks the scene of the tragedy and goes to this day by the name of Hankford's oak. New York's Harbor Eagles. Above the pier—close to it and together, as if for comfort—huddled a cluster of tugs, those curious, powerful, persistent little steam craft that ply back and forth and up and down, saucily and busily important, their rows of fenders trailing in the water, their black smoke bannering out behind. Often I had watched them nosing in and out among the heavier craft, nudging a great ocean liner into midstream and singly or together pushing or pulling some huge helpless bulk, as an ant or as two might seize and trundle a great dead bumblebee. Their power and their impudence had filled me with wonder. Viewing them now in repose, I was impressed by the fact, hitherto unconsidered, that upon almost every pilot house was a golden eagle with extended wings—a symbol of power and swiftness—and it was borne in upon me that the tug in truth is the harbor eagle, with all other craft for its prey.—Scribner's. Trees and Rainfall. Some persons ask if trees affect rainfall. 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STEWARD, Editor of the American Baptist, Louisville, Ky. --- EDITOR STEWART AT ST. LOUIS. (in which every visitor In order to satisfy ourselves concerning the discriminations at the Worlds Fair, at St. Louis, we sent a representative there who after spending five days visiting every building on the ground, reports that there is no more discrimination there than there was at Chicago's Worlds Fair. There are no signs or placards offensive to any race, no special entrances and no buildings M. B. M. M. W. H. HON. J. C. NAPIER, Nashville, Tenn. HON. SAMUEL R. SCOTTRON Gotham's Popular Educator. S.E. COURTNEY. T. THOMAS FORTUNE, Chairman. HON. J. C. NAPIER, Nashville, Tenn. --- THE COLORED AMERICAN in which every visitor is not equally welcome upon the same conditions. While our representative was served in several restaurants, there were others where there were subterfuges resorted to in order to avoid it. The management guarantee proper attention to all visitors and promptly investigates every complaint made. The guards and other attaches were unusually courteous and attractive. American Baptist. A SUCCESSFUL RAILROADER The Colored American is anxious to speak from time to time of the young men and women of the race who are making their way up in the world, although the duties of their life is not in the highest avenues. It takes every kind of people to make a race, and the lesson has been learned long since, that he who does his best in whatever chosen field he is assigned to work, does well, and angels cannot do more. The subject of this article is Mr. Richard Jackson, an attachee of the Congressional Limited, of the Pa. R. R., between this city and New York. Mr. Jackson has been in the service of this Company for more than 15 years, and is regarded as one of its most efficient men. He is popular with the traveling public and the patrons of his line, and he has the confidence and respect of the officials. He is a southern product and was born in Virginia some thirty odd years ago. Early in life he resolved to do something and to be somebody, and that motto has been his guiding star ever since. Reared on the farm assisting his mother and father to improve their condition in life, he soon became tired of the humdrum of country life, and longed to take part in the energy and activity of the cities, at whatever labor his hands found to do. Since his connection with the railroad he has assisted his father in paying off the old home debt, and by frugality and industry, has saved up a neat bank account for himself. He is a widower, having one daughter, Miss Beatrice Jackson, whom he is educating and giving every opportunity to equip herself for the battle of life. Mr. Jackson is a credit to the race, and will be heard from in the future. His father is one of the best fixed colored men now in the state of Virginia; owning a great deal of propeoty, much of which is due to the assistance of his son. SAVE A DOLLAR. "The Newark Shoe," is the latest bidder for public favor in the city, and it can be seen and purchased at 913 Pennsylvania ave., N. W. . The shoe sells for $2.50, and it is equal to the $3.50 shoe, and so far as wear is concerned it surpasses any other shoe within a dollar of its selling price. Mr. Fred P. Dodge,the genial manager, extends an invitation to evey reader of The Colored American to visit his store, and his argument is, a Newark Shoe for well dressed men, is a $3.50 shoe for $2.50. The grade is a high one and the price is a low one. It costs nothing to visit this store and to examine the "Newark Shoe." Miss L. V. Stewart, an accomplished lady teacher, who has spent the summer with Mrs. Joseph L. Williams, on Brightwood ave, has returned to her home in Jacksonville, Fla., much pleased with her stay in the capital city. LADY TEACHER WANTED. LANE COLLEGE wants a woman teacher of Domestic Science. Christian of any denomination, pious, must know sewing, basketry and cooking. Will pay good salary. School opens September 28th. Write J. A. Bray, A. M., President Lane College, Jackson, Tenn. Furnished Rooms for rent, southern exposure; for gentlemen only; apply to Mrs. Norris, 2505 M street, N. W. All modern improvements. FOUNTAIN PEYTON. Attorney at Law. Practices in all the Courts of Maryland and Virginia. 503 1-2 D St., N. W. WANTED, AN ACTIVE COLLECTOR. A young or middle aged man, who understands collecting, can secure a permanent place by applying at this office. Must have had some experience, must be acquainted with the city, and be able to give references. 459 C St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Comfortable Homes for Thrifty Colored People. Easy to buy on our easy-payment plan. 6 room brick house, water and sewer, fronts on two streets. P street between 26th and 27th. $100 cash, balance $15 per month.' Price, $1,450. 6 rooms and bath; house on 24th Street; frame; hot and cold water; lot 14 1-2 by 140 feet, beautiful terrace. $100 cash, and $15 per month. Price, $1,500. 3 room house, on 33rd street, near R, for $100 cash, balance $10 per month. Price, $1,000. ESTATE CO., (INC.) Main Office, 1323 32d st. 'Phone West 40. First Ward Branch, Penn Avc. and Rock Creek, 'Phone West 544. Frank Gaines, President. J. B. Wright, Secretary. J. B. Wright, Secretary. BUY YOUR COAL, WOOD, FLOUR and FEED THE CO-OPERATIVE MERCANTILE AND INVESTMENT CO. 1200 R SREET, N. W. Phone North 1966. J. F. Bowie, A. B. Wesley, Treasurer. Gen. Manager. FOR RENT:—Large front room suitable for man and wife, on Pierce Place near Fourteenth street. Address, C. T., this office. AN ADVERTISING SOLICITOR WANTED. Wanted-An active man, who understands soliciting advertising, to take a position on The Colofed American. It is a good paying, permanent position for the right kind of man. Apply at this office. WANTED:—Agents, Hustlers, Salesmen, Clerks and everybody who wants to enjoy a good hearty laugh to send goc for "Tips to Agents." Worth $50 to any person who sells goods for a living. If not satisfactory your money back. Circular for stamp. The Dr. White Electric Comb Co., Decatur, Ill. ```markdown ``` 6 THE CRIME OF LYNCHING. Continued from page 3. Negro settlement in Springfield, Ohio, a few months ago, to be burned down to ashes—innocent, law-abiding, hard-working citizens ordered to leave their homes the earnings of a life time time swept away by the torch of the mob, because of the crime of one Dixon? The mob not only committed murder, stained its hands with blood, but destroyed property by fire and enlarged the crime to dimensions greater than the one they aimed to punish. The toleration of lynching by the lawless element has demoralized the people and has familiarized the whole country with the practice of maltreating the Negro. It has gained such headway that almost everybody seems to have the cursed fever. For the least trivial offense men are ready to take ilfe. If a motorman or driver of a truck in any city, by accident, injures anyone, the cry rises, "lynch him." Having told you something of lynch law and its evil effects, I desire to submit briefly a few remedies that will help to cure this epidemic, this dreaded disease that is spreading among the whole people. The question is: What are we going to do about it? How are we going to stop it? I answer, and this answer is paramount—by letting the white women alone. Give no occasion for lynching and there will be none. Remove the cause and the effect will be salutary and helpful to the whole people. We have the most important work to do. We must not give the least cause for this dastardly crime by committing another. Our young men must be taught that our women are good enough for anybody, that they must revere, honor, and love true womanhood wherever they find it; that we have women as pure, as honorable, as lovely, as charming, as irreproachable as any class of people. We have them of all colors and shades of complexion. We have them as white as any man desires certainly we have them as black as any man wants. We must not meddle with other people's property, but respect and idolize our own women. Second remedy: When this crime occurs and the angry mob howling for its prey—the culprit let there be no delay by the authorities; but let there be immediate and speedy trial with justice and humanity to the criminal and yet punishment of proper severity and thus the mob's white heat of passion will be cooled and things will soon assume their normal condition. THE COLORED AMERICAN. Third remedy: Mobs must be taught by the authorities at all hazards, even at the point of the bayonet, that there is a law of the land condemning all sorts of crimes; that the majesty of the law must be honored; that to take the life of any man without due process of law is a crime ashenious as that they seek to punish. "Every man should have a fair trial even if he doesn't deserve it." The time is come, the hour is at hand when the power of the law must take the mob by the throat and stamp out the foulest blot upon America's boasted civilization. Fourth remedy: Intelligent public agitation of all our wrongs and misrepresentations and at the same time condemnation of those culprits who disgrace us. We must agitate for the development of respectability and worth in order that the people shall hear our cause, sympathize with us in one contention and help us to redress our grievances. Fifth remedy: I heartily agree with Dr. W. H. Brooks who says that we should not take "retaliatory measures against the white man but form leagues among ourselves to spot out bad men who bring dishonor and disgrace upon our race and drive them out from society turning them over to the hands of the law." Our remedy is not in retaliation, or abuse of the white man, but in cultivation of his friendship, for "his civilization is on trial, and if his religion is defective, let the black man show the way." Another remedy: No race of people can rise higher, in the estimation of the world than its standard of morals and its practice of true Christian integrity. We must see to it that our young men and women have the highest possible moral training instilled into their very being, the essence of true morality and respect for law. We owe this to our day and generation and it is a bounding duty to our posterity. No race can afford to be criminals, breakers of the law, and expect protection in their crimes. To do this is foolishly suicidal. It is the cardinal aim, the paramount intention of the law to protect the innocent and punish the guilty. Some say export the Negroes to some other country or colonize them. We believe the great body of Negroes are here to stay. Our forced colonization would be a national crime and our deportation a physical impossibility, for there are born daily more black babies than the ships can carry away in a year. Furthermore, the white Continued on page 7. 9 LINCOLN LINCOLN INSTITUTE English, Normal, College Prepara- Business. A few students can be ADU Free Tuition, Competent Teach- Healthful Surroundings, Reasona- cates. Opens, September 5, 1904. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AU Books Now O THE JAN The building is a large, multi-story structure with a central tower and several wings. It features a large clock tower and a series of windows. The building is surrounded by a grassy area and a few smaller structures. English, Normal, College Preparatory College, Industrial, Agricultural and Business. 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VANTAGES Others, Modern Buildings, Good Moral Bible Expenses, Diplomas are State O LEN, President, Jefferson City, Mo Open for Charters E MOSELEY COURSES T, SWIFTEST AND GODIOUS STEAMER GOTOMAC RIVER. In Baltimore where it is complete and thorough over- ly inspected, a new boiler and renovated, new elec- THE PRESIDENT'S LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE. President Roosevelt's letter of acceptance rings clear and strong on every issue of the party. He lays down the gauntlet to the Democrats and dares them to pick it up. He tells the country what the policy of the Republican party is and has been, and virtually says "if you re-elect us we propose to continue to do as we have been doing, and if you don't like our 'style,' vote us out and this includes the Booker Washington incident and and all the rest. Since his letter the Democratic procession looks like the proverbial thirty cents. All their efforts to inject the Negro question into the campaign has failed and this gone, all is lost, since they had no other issue—their leader having already endorsed the tenets of the Republican platform so far as the finances of the country are concerned and pledged himself to carry them out if elected. President Roosevelt shows himself an ideal American in that he "does things", does them right, and isn't afraid to own it. Twenty thousand Negroes have been murdered by the whites South since the emancipation and not a white man hung for the offense of killing a Negro. A white Republican stretched hemp in North Carolina last spring for killing a Negro and a white man at the same time. The fact that a white man was killed coupled with the further fact that the slayer was on the opposite side in politics from the Democratic judge, solicitor and jury who tried him, doubtless assisted justice in being avenged. Tom Watson, the Populist candidate for President, says the Democrats have done business at the Negroe's expense since 1872 and every time you spoke of the tariff or other issues they hollered "nigger." The "nigger racket" may work among people who are ignorant enough to follow such men as Tillman and Vardaman, but it is a pleasure to note that there are other leaders and other followers. More help given men who are working along proper lines for race development is what is needed. Let the hot-air escape valves be closed up, and the thinking men of the race get together on some scheme for race development. What's the good of forever cussing and discussing somebody and yet doing nothing to remedy the condition of the oppressed of the race who THE COLORED AMERICAN need help. Its work that counts and not talk. Who can explain why the average Negro loves so well to kiss the hand that smites him? Who can explain why the average Negro seems to think saving money is a sin? Who can explain why the chothes make the man and the want of them the fellow? Who can explain why he talks so much and so loud in public places? Who can explain why he hates to see one of his own race prosper? Answer these questions and help us out of a mental complication that's worrying us. "The sorriest and most degraded white man is better than the best Negro," is what the white supremacy advocates by telling their constituents on the "stump," and herein the fool seems to be getting more of that kind of slack rope of which it is said, if you give him enough he will kill himself. These orators might make some people believe that many white men were intellectually superior to the Negro race as a whole, but when it is charged that all Negroes are inferior to the lowest specimen of the white race the proposition reduces itself to absurdity, and breaks down of its own weight. If Theodore Roosevelt should lose the Negro vote in any of the doubtful States and the loss should be charged up to that cause, the futility of any white mans standing up for Negro equality along with the equality of other men in this country, would be fully demonstrated. It is to be hoped that every Negro will remember this when he goes to the polls in November. SPECIAL PRICE ON BLACK-NO MORE FOR 30 DAYS. In order to give the readers of The COLORED AMERICAN a chance to try the great black remover at reduced prices, for the next thirty days Black-No-More the celebrated skin bleach will be sold at half price. As this is less than cost customers will have to pay expressage. No goods will be sent C. O. D., and no free samples. Send $1 in currency, stamps, express money order, postal money order or registered letter. Address Dr. JAMES A. HERLIHY, Chillicothe, Ohio. 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. THE CRIME OF LYNCHING. Continued from page 6. people are less anxious to have us go than we ourselves are to leave. "Those who preach emigration have lost faith and heart." Through Divine Providence we are here and we believe we are here for a good purpose, to work out our own salvation. We are being tried as gold in the furnace. We have as much right here, if we have as men, as any class of citizens. We are natives and not intruders. We know no other flag but the stars and the stripes. Here we have bought our homes by blood and treasure, sufferings and sorrows, and by unpaid labor of 250 years. Here we have buried our loved ones and sanctified their graves with our tears. Here our lot is cast and our destiny is sealed by Divine approval to develop honest and citizens and then we can sweetly say with the poet: Thy daily duty rightly done, No matter what the station, Is preparation well begun For future coronation. To do thy part and do it well, Though humble toil may bind you, Will train the virtues that excel Till nobler spheres shall find you. Tis not by sudden bounds we reach The goal we often sigh for; Tis not the dreams we lightly preach That we would care to die for. We slowly climb the upward way, And scale each opposition; We turn the darkness into day, And win by transposition. And every honest labor brings Us nearer our endeavor; And all our glad awakenings Have songs of the Forever. （United Presbyterian. $100 TO BE GIVEN TO USERS OF BLACK-NO-MORE. Many persons are sending us testimonials accompanied by photographs showing the wonderful work done by Black-No-More. To every person sending photograph showing the greatest improvement produced by the use of Black-No-More we will give a prize of $100. This offer is good until January 1, 1905. The photograph becomes the property of the Black-No-More Company and will be used as a trade mark. Send for circulars and further particulars about this wonderful bleach. Address, DR. JAMES A. HIRLIHY, Chillieohte, O. BOARDING By The Week or Month. Apply to— MRS. M. J. BUNDY, 941 T St., N. W. BOARDING Howard University WASHINGTON, D.C. Incorporated March 2, 1867. Gives opportunity of Higher Education to all without regard to creed, race or sex. Ten departments—Theological, Medical, Dental, Pharmaceutical, Legal, Collegiate, Teachers, Commercial, Preparatory, Industrial—conducted by one hundred competent Professors and instructors. For further information, address Rev. JOHN GORDON, D. D., President. Mr. GEO. H. SAFFORD, Secretary. 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It is not possible for anybody to produce a preparation equal to it. Full directions with every bottle. Only 50 cents. Sold by drugists and dealers, or send us 50 cents for one bottle, postpaid, or $1.40 for three bottles, express paid. We pay all postage and express charges. Send postal or express money order. Please mention name of this paper when ordering. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. Agents wanted everywhere. MONEY For everybody at rates lower than the lowest. Don't be deceived; come to us and investigate. Business strictly confidential. No one knows of your transactions with us. We lend on furniture, pianos, or salary. If you have a loan now anywhere and need more money, come to us. Nothing deducted from loan. You get full amount. Extensions in case of sickness without extra charge. Metropolitan Loan and Trust C., 505 E STREET, N. W. The Wilson School of Modern Science. The Wilson School of Modern Science. The Wilson School of Modern Science, in Ladies' Tailoring, Dress Making and Millinery, will open Sept. 15, Mrs. Eleanor F. Wilson has a complete and practical knowledge of these branches, and is prepared to instruct pupils to fill positions as teachers, Dressmakers, Ladies' Tailors; Cutters, Fitters and Designers. She will give either a full or a special course in day or evening class, or to suit Here is an opportunity for young women. For further particulars address, MRS. ELEANOR F. WILSON, Prin., 1529 14th St.. N. W.. Washington. Sold by all News Dealers. SEPTEMBER 17, 1904. THE PASSING SHOW. Mr. J. H. Quiller, of Baltimore, was in the city this week, and paid this office a visit. Dr. C. W. Childs, of South Washington attended the Williams and Walker show, in Baltimore, last week. Miss Kate Moten, of the Congressional Library, left the city this week, to visit friends in Gotham and other Eastern points. Our Mr. E. E. Cooper, spent last Sunday in Richmond, Va., and was a guest at The Reformers Hotel. A large excursion was run from Richmond, Va., to this city last Sunday night, and a great many people took advantage of the low rates. Mr. R. C. Malloy, general inspector of the United Aid Insurance Company of Richmond, Vo.. spent a few days in this city last week, looking after the interests of the company. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Robinson, of Pittsburg, Pa. are in the city for a few days. Mrs. Robinson is a native Washingtonian, and is kept busy renewing old acquaintances. Messrs. D. S. Miller, of Paris, Kv., and John A. Brown, of Pitts- --- THE COLORED AMERICAN. burg, Pa., are in the city for a few days. They have just returned from Atlantic City, where they were delegates to the fifth annual convention of the Elks. Mr. J. E. Hall, of Georgetown, D. C., is one of our most successful dairymen and milk dealers. He has a large list of patrons, and to the credit of the race let it be added, most of them are colored people. Among the victims of Mr. Richard A. Johnson, a well-known stock broker who went into bankruptcy this week, are Mr. W. McKinlay, for $974.21; and Mr. O. M. Atwood, for $5.67 and W. H. Harris for $6.49. Mr. William Arthur Oliver Cromwell Cassis, of Kingston, Jamacia, has entered the medical department at Howard University, to take a course in dentistry. His father is one of the distinguished citizens of that island. Mr. Cassis is located at 1449 Pierce Place, northwest. Mr. I. E. Williamson, proprietor and manager of the Arctic Ice Cream Company and Oyster House, at 601-3 New York Ave., N. W., is kept busy these days giving attention to his many customers who have built up his business. Without boasting, Mr. Williamson has the largest and best equipped plant of its kind, operated by a colored man, in the District. Pay him a call. The Holmes Hotel. 333 Virginia avenue southwest, is the largest and best equipped hotel for colored people in Washington. It contains 50 rooms, and has all modern improvements, including electric lights, fans and the most up-to-date equipments. Mr. J. Ottoway Holmes, the proprietor of this enterprise pays strict attention to business, and has built up a business that is netting him a handsome fortune. His hotel is a popular resort, and is indispensible to his many patrons. A musical, literary, and stereopticon entertainment is booked for Zion Baptist Church, Monday evening, September 26. A most attractive program has been prepared, and among the celebrated stars who will shine on this occasion will be Mrs. Maggie Wilson-Smoot. who traveled around the world with the Fisk Jubilee Singers. Prof. John T. Layton, basso profundo, and the Temple Quartette, which excels by all odds any quartette in the city without regard to race or color. Come early and avoid the rush. Mrs. W. T. Smith and son, who have been sojourning in Virginia, have returned to this city much improved in health. Messrs. A. J. Gaskins and William Jenkins of the Pennsylvania Railroad, atended Williams and Walkers' in "In Dahomy," in Baltimore, this week. Dr. and Mrs. George W. Caba niss have left Atlantic City, after a three weeks' stay, and are now visiting Mr. and Mrs. George E. Evans, of Newark, N. J. Mr. Felix J. Cole, of this city, was united in marriage to Miss Forence H. Mayo of Westview, Monday the twelfth instant. They will reside in this city. Washington City was well represented at the Williams and Walkers' new "In Dahomy" at the Lyric Theatre in Baltimore this week many private parties having witnessed the entertainment. Lawyer L. Melendez King, spent Labor Day in Richmond, Va.; returning the following Tuesday. He was not embarrassed by the Jim Crow car lines; for he returned with Dr. A. M. Curtis, in a Pulman. The Buffaloes have chartered the steamer "Jane Moseley," for Somerset Beach, Sunday, Sept.. 25th. Among the many attractions afforded will be an old fashioned barbecue, to which all of its members and friends are invited to join them and partake of the fatted calf. Mr. A. P. Laws, the popular chef of the President of the Southern Railway, Col. S. Spencer, has --- just wound up his fifteen days annual vacation, which he spent in and around his old home, at McKinney, Va., in Dinwiddie Co. Mr. Laws has been in the ser of the Southern Railroad for n than nine years, and is highly garded by the officials of that because of his faithfulness strict attention to duty. Messrs. C. C. White and A. Scurlock of The Washington Conservatory of Music, were pleasant callers at our sanctum last week. Hon. Judson W. Lyons and Dr. George W. Cabaniss. Mr. Thomas L. Jones, and Mr. E. W. O. Brown, of the British Embassy. were guests at Atlantic City, last week. LINCOLN INSTITUTE NOTES Lincoln Institute opened Tuesday, with the largest enrollment in its history. The enrollment last year was four hundred and President Allen expects to make it five hundred. The Summer School had an enrollment of sixty eight and a very fine corps of teachers. Lincoln Institute is better advertised to-day than ever and some of the best teachers in the country are in touch with the work. The buildings and grounds are in excellent condition and everything points to a very successful year. The central heating plant is nearly ready and all the buildings will be heated from the same boilers. The teaching force numbers twenty. A QUEER COMBINATION. Dorset Maker and Doctor in Paris Join Forces and Do Thriving Business. of the shrewdest business com- jions on record has been formed ris by two sisters, one of whom doctor and the other a corset r. ce they have joined forces they been receiving more business than they can comfortably attend to. Customers calling are first ushered into the doctor's consulting-room. There they undergo a regular medical examination. They have to answer the usual practitioner's questions, the pulse is felt, lungs sounded, heart listened to and so on. The doctor then writes out a prescription—in other words an exact description of the kind of corset which the build or state of health of each customer requires that she shall wear. They are then ushered into the room where the sister presides over her branch of the business and takes the measurements in strict accordance with the medical instructions. The partnership of stay-maker and physician has proved so successful that, although the charges made are on the highest scale of the corset trade, consulting-room and fitting-shop are always crowded. CHOOSING A WIFE BY MUSIC Novel Scheme of a German Professor for Ascertaining the Feminine Temperament. A German professor proposes to solve the difficulty some people seem to have in choosing a wife by "trial by music," reports the London Express Everything depends on the taste of the subject under study. If she prefers waltz music, and above all Strauss' intoxicating strains, she is certainly frivolous. If she loves Beethoven she is artistic, but not practical. Does she prefer Liszt? Then she is ambitions; while a devotee of Mozart would be rather prudish. Why an admirer of Offenbach should be cunning is not very clear; but remembering the opera of "Faust" it is easy to understand that any girl preferring Gounod must be romantic and tender hearted. It is hard upon Flotow that because his music is out of fashion a taste for it denotes a vulgar soul; while Gottschalk fares little better, pleasing according to the German professor, only the superficial. Massenet is supposed to attract the timid; while a devotion to Wagner's music is a distinct proof of egotism. Saint-Saens, however, is a composer the admiration for whom denotes a girl of intelligence and well balanced character. In Europe's Armies. Out of every thousand men from the ages of 21 to 60 there are in service in France 58.4; in Germany, 48; in Russia, 43; in Austria, 34, and in Italy, 30. In case of war these figures are increased in Germany to 139; in Austria, to 96; in France, to 171; in Italy, to 107, and in Russia, to 81. Ground Frozen 225 Feet. William Boone, a miner, says the Kansas City Journal, who has come down from Dawson City, Klondike, to spend the winter with relatives at La Plata, says he has dug 225 feet deep in the ground of his claim, but has never been able to reach a point where the ground was not frozen hard. Wooden Legs. By order of the Japanese empress wooden.legs have been distributed to the seven maimed survivors of the Aomori disaster, when 200 Japanese soldiers were frozen to death. THE COLORED AMERICAN. Profuse Apologies. "See here!" said the hotel clerk, "you'll have to move on. We can't have any loitering around the hall." "Well," replied the offender. "the head-waiter told me to stay here till he came. I'm after a job as waiter." "O! I beg your pardon. I thought you were only a guest."—Philadelphia Press. Benefactor of Mankind. "Hobbs is weak, financially, isn't ne?" "Well, he hasn't much to boast of, but he gives employment to a great many men." "Who are they?" "Other fellows' bill collectors."—N. Y. Times. He Wouldn't Do. Barber—Mein eracious! You von't do. New Man—You schoost dold me to go to vork. Barber—You von't do. Now you haf your hat off I see you are bald. How you zell my hair restorer, eh?"--N. Y. Weekly. A Day for Bad Luck. "No; John never seemed superstitious until we were married. Isn't that so, John? And why did you change?" "I suppose it was because my wedding day came on Friday."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Tough Parishioners. Deacon Blunt—So your congregation gave you no vacation this year? Dominy Dull—Not a week; not a day. Deacon Blunt—Well! well! They are the hardest people to tire out I ever heard of.—N. Y. Weekly. An Incurable Case. "When a man's unconscious he doesn't know anything, does he, pop?" "No, my son." "Well, pop, are you unconscious? I heard ma say you didn't know anything."—Yonkers Statesman. Then and Now. Once, long ago, 'twas her delight, To dress up in a handsome gown; But now, when he's out late at night She likes to dress her hubby down. -Chicago Daily News. DIED INSOLVENT. A "Have you heard—Frau von Specht is dead. "Indeed? It's hard to believe it! Why, she owed me a call."--Unsere Gesellschaft. True Philosophers. The true philosophers are those Who treat all men as brothers, And while they smile at their own woes Believe the woes of others. —Philadelphia Press. Earned It. "How did he ever get the title of 'Hon.?' " "He declined a nomination for alderman once."—Chicago Tribune. And Alimony. LOCALS Mr. Robert J. Harlan, of the law firm of Horner & Harlan, has returned to his old position in the Treasury Department. The Jane Moseley, took a large excursion to Norfolk, Old Point, and Newport News, Va., last Saturday. The Buffaloes are down on the boards for another mammoth excursion during the Fall season. September 25th is the date. Rev. J. C. Waters, the new pastor of Ebeneezer A. M. E. Church, is giving general satisfaction. Dr. Waters is one of the most eloquent divines in the country. Mr. James L. Neil, who has been visiting his brothers and other relatives in Chicago, is back at his desk again in the Pension Office. Mrs. W. A. Brown, wife of Mr. W. A. Brown, messenger, at the Mexican Embassy, has returned from a pleasant sojourn of five weeks at Annapolis, Md. Rev. John Gordon, D. D., President of Howard University has returned to the city from his summer vacation, and is now in active charge of Howard University. Mr. N. L. Sidner, manager for The McKenzie, Scott Undertaker Co., at 438 Second street, S. W., reports a busy season. Mr. Sidnor is a practical embalmer and a wide awake business man. The Public Schools of the District opened last Monday morning with a full attendance. The teachers and pupils were all in their places, there being many teachers absent on account of resignations and the work of cupid. Hon. Judson W. Lyons, and Mr. L. M. Hershaw have gone to Michigan, where they will make Emancipation Celebration speeches. They will also put in a few licks for the G. O. P. The Whangdoodle four, a premier colored quartette, is doing fine work for the Cracker-Jacks, playing at Kernans theatre, this week. The daily press gives this quartette the credit for being the whole show. Mr. James B. Wright and wife, in company with Mr. Frank Gaines and wife, spent a delightful week in Atlantic City, and other points on the Atlantic Sea Coast. They returned to the city last week. Mrs. E. Keith left the city some weeks ago to join her husband at --- Superintendent Public Works Of Lexington, Ky., Says: "Pe-ru-na is an Excellent Medicine." J. H. HIPPLEGATE. J. H. HIPPLEGATE. J. H. Hipplegate, Supt. of Public Works, 61 West 6th St., Lexington, Ky., writes: "I find that Peruna is an excellent medicine especially for catarrhal affections and all diseases leading to consumption, bronchial troubles or stomach troubles. It also acts as a preventative and keeps the system in a healthy condition so that it easily throws off disease. It is an excellent tonic and a great appetizer and as a large number of those who have been using it speak very highly of its curative powers, I am satisfied that my opinion of it is correct, and that it is deserving of high praise."—J. H. Hipplegate. Peruna is the remedy for catarrh. Almost everybody knows that by hearsay and thousands know it by experience. Catarrh in its various forms is rapidly becoming a national curse. An undoubted remedy has been discovered by Dr. Hartman. This remedy has been thoroughly tested during the past forty years. Peruna cures catarrh in all phases and stages. There is no remedy that can be substituted. 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, C. Cape May, N. J., after a stay at Cape May, she_visited Philadelphia, and New York, and will shortly return to the city for the winter. Mr. Fred Freeman, who has had charge of the New Matthewson at Narraganset Pier, R. I., this summer, has returned to the city, for the winter. In addition to being a practical all-round boniface, Mr. Freeman is a vocalist of note, and a master of several musical instruments, notably, the 'cello. Capt. J. Clay Smith, of the regular army, is spending a few weeks in this city, the guest of his friends, and old comrades. Capt. Smith is a veteran of three wars, and will be on the retired list in 1907. He is now located at Fort Assiniboine, Montana, as Battalion Sergeant Major of the Twenty-fourth Infantry.