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The colored American., 1899-11-25
4 PRINCIPLE ar STAKE,

Washington has "Jim Crow the
alter. 1t is run by strangers In this
city. men who have no concern for the
good name of the national capital.
Burke and Chase, theatrical adventu-
rers, mistakiDg the temper Of the lib
eral and law-ahiding citizens of the
white race, VINO have made Washing
ton the most Orderly Y municipality of Its
size in the country, have come here to
stir up race feeling that had, to
large extent, been allayed by the gene
rOus policy of our leading amusement
managers and business men. They de-
cided that they would shut cOlOTed peO-
pie out of the orchestra of the theater
recently leased by them, in defiance Of
the civil rig, Is law @. the District
The directors of the first class houses
have sold seats to Negroes for any
portion of their auditoriams, and no
complaints have reached the ears OF
anyone. The Washington public has
made nc outcry that would justify the
New Grand in excluding the better
classes OF our race from the enjoyment
of the most comfortable privileges of
the theaters here. There was no call
for this importation Of methods foreign
to the feelings or demands of this COM
munity. If this gratuitous insult to the
hum me and Christian impulses Of
the Ca pital, and high-handed outrage
against One.third OF its population, Is
not resented by a general declinatiOn
to patrOnize such an Institution. we are
very greatly mistaken. Messrs. Burke
and Chase's finish is in plain view, and
we predict that they will soon find the
New Grand, with It's "Jim Grow"
tactics, a losing speculation, as all
such ventures have been in the past.
"WhOm the gods would destroy, they
frst make mad"
Now, the matter of purchasing
particular seat in theater is a small
issue in itself. Very few people find
satisfaction in forcing themselves into
places where they are not wanted, and
it is not believed that our citizens de-
sired to make any trouble OF the kind
that has risen. But when a body of
men undertake TO elect what laws they
will obey and what they will ignore, a
serious and far reaching question pre-
sents itself, and a dangerous precedent
becomes established, if the thing is not
checked by vigorous resistance. There
is a statute, duly entered upon the
books, that no person shall be denied
admission to theaters, restaurants, ETC.,
on account of color.
This law was unceremOnlously set
aside by Burke and Chase, If they are
permitted to violate this statute with
out objection, it is only a matter OF
time when the same practice might ex'
tend to other theaters-even where the
patrons offer no protest against cOlored
persons. This is the principle involved,
and those who believe that laws are
passed IN good faith, do not intend to
Weld an inch in their contention for
their honest enforcement. We are not
unreasonable in expecting and de-
manding the rights that are legitl'
mately ours. In insisting upon them,
we do not interfere with the preroga'
tives or comfort of anyone else.
The sensible citizens here, white and
The colored American., 1899-11-25

The cOlored people of the town would
have had a great deal mere respect for
Williams and " alker had they refused
10 play last week, after learning of the
shsmeful way our best citizens were
being treated BY the pt snut u snsgeTs
of The Grand. They W Iuld n have lost
aaything in the 10 z ruu by sticking
out, for they sfe ia such stioLg de
msnd everywher that they can make
the tneater managers come heir way.
A white mau will not sand fer color
Discrimination to the detrIment OF
his pocket book.
The colored American., 1899-11-25
Williams and Walker Entertained

Messrs. Cray ana Costl, entertained
in q splendid manner Williams aud
" alkeT, the comedians, after the matt
nee performance last saturday The
other CUES were d.. W. B. Evans ana
Mr. a. o Stafford, N 4kIDg a party of
six The choicest delIca les of the
season, among them oysters, terrspID
and quail Were served IN that style in
keeping with the culinary TeputaGIo n
Of the known restauTaJeurs. The labels
Of the beverages bore the marks Of
France.
The colored American., 1899-11-25

There is civil rights law in the
District of Columbia. All that is
needed is a determined element of our
race who will contend for their rights
under it, and a set of officials honest
enough to enforce it.
The colored American., 1899-11-25

The New York Telegraph is an
enemy to the progress Of the Negro.
The Washington Post cannot better
rum its so called ''infuence" with de
cent people than by printing The Tele-
graphs vicious libels upon struggling
race, with comments that scar like a
hot iron.
The colored American., 1899-11-25

The fact that the respectable white
people of this community do not hate
worthy Negroes was happily demon
strated last week, when scores of Cau-
casians willingly walked up to the box
office of the New Ursnd and purchased
orchestra tickets to he used by coloIed
people. The American Instinct of fair
play is Mt dead. This is the silver
lining TO the black mans cloud.
The colored American., 1899-11-25
Whatever may be the moral aspec

Whatever may be the moral aspect
of Mr.. Roberts presence in Congress,
it seems that he Is about as good as his
constituents, and that his numerous
wives are satisfied with matters as they
stand. There are people who are
stirring up lot # trouble for the
Utah Congressman, but it is not our
guess that he will be unseated.
The colored American., 1899-11-25
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.

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All communications for publication snonld
be accompanied with the name OF the "rlter-
not necessarily for publication pax as guar
antee OF good faith.
We solicit news, contributions Opinions
and in fact, all matters affecting the race
We will not pay for matter however uille99
II is ordered by Us, All matter inIenueo io4
,,nb1fcatton must reach this office by WedLes-
doy ~ each week To insure insertion in the
current issue
sH AGENTS are wanted everywhere, Send
or instructions,
The colored American., 1899-11-25

1t is barely possible that men
standing for evil worse than polygamy
may hold seats in the coming Congress,
and the churches wOmen's conventions
and other agencies OF reform won't en-
ter a protest agninst them either,
The colored American., 1899-11-25
Mr.. and Mrs. Dewey evidently read

Mr.. and Mrs. Dewey evidently read
the newspapers. The Admiral highly
offended the American people by fool
ishly conveying his home 10 his wealthy
wife, but strong adverse public SEN
timent forced transfer of the proper
ty to his son. The explanation why
three deeds were necessary to do the
thing that enc would have done with
equal satisfaction, is an explanation
The colored American., 1899-11-25

Judge Mills is made of the kind of
material that we should like to see
grace a bench in one of our courts. He
believes in enforcement of law applica'
bic alike to black and white.
The colored American., 1899-11-25

The so-called explanation" of
Manager Chase, of the New Grand
published in last Sundays P. st, was
the lamest thing ever given to thepub-
lie prints. 1t as a tissue of falsehoods
end misrepresentation
The colored American., 1899-11-25

Booker I. Washington's interview
on suffrage in Georgia, Published in
our last issue, strikes the nail squarely
on the head. 1t is the ful est and most
comprehensive utterance he has yet
made on this subject, and will be read
with interest and profit everywhere.
The colored American., 1899-11-25

the kind of people Manager Chase
says he wanted to keep out OF range of
his "regul ,r patrons" do not indulge
In orchestra seats
The colored American., 1899-11-25

One mistake on the part of pOpu-
lar idol can ruin the work of life
time. He who walks in the white light
Of public scrutiny must be careful or
he falls.
The colored American., 1899-11-25
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 25. 1899
IN THE LEAD.

Thereare Il2 newspapers, with combined
circulation each issue of 76,5OO copies, pub
ushed in the interests OF the 100000 AFRO
Americans IN the United States. The one
paper believed to have the largest clrcula-
tfon is THE CoLoRED AMERICAN, Washing
ton. D. C.--Printers Ink. June a, 30
The colored American., 1899-11-25

Perhaps Manager Chase hereafter
will be content to enroll respectable
colOred ladies and gentlemen among
his ''regulat patrons, IF they will con-
sent to come to his ''Jim t row. house.
The colored American., 1899-11-25

A man cannot always get what he
thinks he deserves, but he should be
careful to make the best of what he
does get.
The colored American., 1899-11-25

The AfrO-Amercan Council prompt.
ly came to the rescue of the Negroes
who were Disseminated against by the
management of the Jim crow" theater
The colored American., 1899-11-25

We do not think the Washington
people or the Washington courts will
stand for" ''Jim Grow" theater, any
more than they will tolerate Jim
Crow" street car.
The colored American., 1899-11-25

We Opine that Manager Chase will
conclude that drawing the color line 10
Washington theaters is an expensive
pastime. The New Grand is a "dead
un,"
The colored American., 1899-11-25

that does not explain. The peoplecan
see as far into a mill'stone as the man
who picks it.
The colored American., 1899-11-25

Correspondents and patrons will do
well to read the remarks we made IN
the Editors Corner" department last
week.
The colored American., 1899-11-25

The Washington Post last Sunday
week threw a neat and deserved
bouquet into Booker I. Washington's
corner.
The colored American., 1899-11-25

The humble Negro we still have
with US more's the pity. But his
numbers are growing beautifully less.
The colored American., 1899-11-25

Bishop Walters can get even with
his enemies by praying for them. Some
of them need it.
The colored American., 1899-11-25

Read the letter OF Major Charles R.
Douglass in this issue.
The colored American., 1899-11-25

The Grand Opera House deSsL''
fail.
The colored American., 1899-11-25

An ignorant Negro is no better than
an ignorant white man and certainly
no worse.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-10-26

When darkness came on huge fires
were built. The bank on both sides
of the Missouri river is patrOlled ana
there seems to be no possible chance
for the robbers to escape, but they
appear to have determined to sell
their lives dearly.
When the news OF the killing OF Off
Ger Dickerson reached Atchison,
Mayor Donald called for volunteers
and more men than could be used re-
spOnded in a few minutes.
At o'clock a special train left
over the Burlington with IA posse OF
40 men armed with Winchester rifles.
They are in charge Of Capt. Green j,
late of the twenty Kansas.
The railroad will take them within n
mile of where the robbers are in am
bush There is no telegraphic or
telephone communication with DOni-
phan.
ROBBERS ESCAPED FROM PURsUERS.
Atchinon, Kas., Oct 23.-Notwith-
standing the fact that fully 800 arm
ed men surrounded the island between
AtchisOn and Doniphan last night,
the two bandits who, Saturday night
killed one man and wounded another
at DOniphan and duplicated this
crime near here yesterday while being
pusrued by posse, escaped before
daylight Last nights escape seemed
impossible. 1t seems, however. that
the robbers crept through the line OF
guards some time during the night
and stealing u team of horses, which
was found missing in the morning,
made good their escape.
The body of Policeman Robert
DickersOn, who was killed near the
log barricade made by the robbers,
was recovered about 3 o'clock this
morning. At the barricade this
morning was found an empty cart
ridge box and a vest, but nothing
to lead to the identity of the men. y
pool of blood showed that one of the
robbers had been badly wounded.
Hundreds OF men are searching fOr
the bandits to-day.
The bandits seem to have provided
themselves with plenty of ammunition
and they are cool and accurate III the
use of their winchesters.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-10-26
Yellow Jaundice Cured.

Suffering humanity should be sup
piled with every means possible for
It's relief. 1t is with pleasure we pub
lish the following: 'This is to certify
that | was a terrible sufferer from
Yellow Jaundice for over six months,
and was treated by some of the best
physicians in our city and all TO no
avail. DR.. Bell, our druggist, recon-
mended Electric Bitters; and after
taking two bottles, | was entirely
cured now take great pleasure in
recommending them to any person
suffering from this terrible malady. |
am gratefully yours, M. A. Hogarty,
Lexington, KY. Sold byH l.. Tuck
er, druggist.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-10-26
DfSPERATE BANDITS
BROUGHT TO BAY.
First Victim Interrupts Them
as Thev Are Holding Up
a Man.
EILL TWO MEN, WOUND ANOTHER.
chase Follows, in Which Policeman
Is Killed.

Atchison, Kan, Oct. 22.-TWo
masked men entered Charles kuch's
general store at Doniphan, a small
town six mises north of AtchisOn at
sso'elock Saturday night, and cover
mo him with Winchester rifles, de-
manded his money. He was alone in
the store at the time and gave them
the contents of the money drawer,
about SO. They then marched him
the safe, in the rear OF the store.
no money, but the rob
hers searched it thoroughly.
Anegro saw the robbers enter the
store and cover Kuch and ran to the
postoffice, half block away, and
gaye the alarm. John Braun, age
a3. a son of Postmaster Braun, took
his revolver and went to the scene
d the robbery. The bandits were
at work on the safe, and as he en-
iered the door, revolver in hand, he
called out and asked the men what
they we're doing there. The highway
men replied by opening fire. Braun
Kas shot through the head and in
stantly killed. a young man named
John Schaaf followed Braun from the
postoffice, borrowed a gun from Il
|eighbor and came along as the high
|saymen were leaving. He fired, hit
| ing one of the robbers in the face.
that and handkerchief used by one
1.-THE robbers as q mask, were found
battered with blood Il short distance
|aWay in the track of the escaping
&nbbers. In the handkerchief was
part of q tooth, and there was other
Evidences that the robber was badly
INJURED Citizens and officers OF
Doniphan at once einauguated search
Tor the bandits aided by AtchisOn
ulcers.
The robbers were located about .
o'clock this afternoon. They were
lnund about mile south of Doni-
Iphan, ambushed behind a number
foi logs.
When their location became known
"a posse of officers and citizens who
nad been searching through the
mush started for them. Police Off
M Robert Dickerson of Atchison,
kho was well to the front, was shot
ana killed by the robbers, and James
mayer of Doniphan received a flesh
Wound in one of his arms. Theposse
INCH was poorly armed fell back
Ad surrounded the robbers at a safe
astanee, until a greater number OF
sIms and men could be secured.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-10-26
BRYAN GREETED WITH CHEERS.
Four Thousand Citizens of Fremont
Ohio, Greet Him at Special Train.

OHIO, UIeet nIHl dl optCldI lIdlH.
Fremont, Ohio, Oct 21-Four
thousand people greeted Bryan and
Mclean this morning at Fremont.
The party had been escorted to the
court house square.
Mclean introduced Bryan az the
leader in 80 and 1900.
The republican party" ." said the
Colonel, "haS decended from t he prin-
ciples OF Lincoln for those of Mark
Hanna and contends that we bought
the Filipinos and have IA right to
kill them, because we own them. 1t
seems. he continued, las though the
republicans were a body of athletes,
trained to turn somersaults at the
command of the leaders
Bryan said after the bimetallic com
mission had been spanked by En-
gland, the republicans turned a flip
flop and said they never had wanted
bimetallism anyway, and Mckinley,
he said, denounced Grover Cleveland
for placing money above the man and
now the people were asked o applaud
Mckinley for doing the same thing.
The republicans said some trusts
were bad, but they added, 'loOk out
or you'll harm the good ones Ac-
cOrding to Hanna there is a good
trust which contributes literally to
the campaign fund and that is a bad
trust which is stingy.
''ln battling against trusts, said
Bryan, ''we have the same fight we
had on the money question. We are
for the wealth producers as against
the money changers. Every man
who takes the part of the people is a
demagOgue in the minds of the lead
ers of the republican party.
TRUSTS do not except republicans
when they raise prices, and SO there
is at least one level where republicans
and democrats stand together, and
| if YOU would serve your best interests
you republicans who pay the advanc-
ed prices and do not get trust divi-
dends, you should stand in this fight
with the democratic party.
Tiffin, Ohio, Oct. 21.-The Bryan
train stopped a few minutes at Clyde,
where nearly 900 people were as
sembled at the depot Mclean made
his longest speech of the trip. but it
was only about two hundred words
No man, or band of men, he said
could supplement what was said 10y
Bryan. The latter voiced the princi
pies of democracy and spoke for the
entire party.
Bryan quoted Hanna srecent Cleve
land speech, in which he said: Don
be afraid of trusts. Ii they are baC
the republican party will take care o
! them
"Why, said Bryan, the republican
party is the worst of all trusts. Thai
speech of Hanna $ is gross plagiarism
1t was taken from EsOp's Fables
wherein the foxes said: Dom waste
your time building hen houses. TurI
your chickens over to us. We under
stand the chicken business.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-10-26
FUNSTON ATTACKS CHURCH.
Blames Trouble in Philippines to Cath
Olic FridrS.

Chicago, H., Oct. 23.-A special
from Stanford university, California,
says: General Frederick Funston OF
Kansas lectured TO the student body
here last night on the Philippines.
He blames the friars as being at the
bottom of the einsurrection. The gen.
eral unmercifuily attacks the church,
not as he insisted, because it was the
Catholic denomination, but for the
influence it maintained on that class
OF people.
IF congress would drive out the
friars, he said. land dcOnfiscateevery
inch of church property, the bottom
would drop out of the insurrection
within a week
'SOme people returning have spoke
of the brutality of our soldiers in the
Philippines. say to them that they
are unmitigated liars. Our soldiers
never touched the wounded enemy
except to drag them out of the fire
into shelter"
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-10-26

KIDNEY Is deceptive disease
m1n- thousands have it and
L hOU bLEdon't know 1t. If you
want quick results you can make no
mistake by using DIR. Kilmer's-Swamp
Root, the great kidney remedy. At
druggists in so cent and dollar sizes.
Sample bottle by mail free, also
pamphlets telling yoa how to find
out if you have kidney trouble.
Address, DR.. Kilner & Co., BiAg-
hamton, n. Y
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-10-26
The Telephone In Europe.

Europe's international telephone sys-
tenn is being rapidly extended. Within
a few weeks all Swiss cities have been
connected with Frankfort. and with
Vienna they will have connection as
soon as the distance from Munich to
that city shall have been included in
the circuit.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-10-26
DEAR FRIENDS.

in
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-07-08
PROTECTING THE CASTLE
How One OF Ireland's Famous Structures
Was Ruined


One of Ireland's magnificent ruined
castles came to it's final end in this
manner: The ancient seat OF the
Castlereaghas overlooked Tough SWil-
ly. and it was one of the most princely
residences in Ireland. Eventually, it
fell into decay, and was not inhabited.
AS usual under these circumstances,
when the peasantry wanted to build
pigsty, repair a road, or anything OF
the sort, they took the stones from the
ruined castle, which was disappearing
piecemeal, when one day Lord London
derry paid a visit to his Irish property.
When he saw the state the castle was
in, and reflected on the fact that 1t
was so much Unidentified with the history
of his family, and even as ruin was
glory of Ireland, he determined to put
an end to the Entertainments that had
been made on it. Sending for his agent
to give him orders that the people were
no longer to remove stones from the
building, he instructed him to have 1t
enclosed with a wall six feet high ana
well COPIED, to keep out trespassers.
That being done, he went, his way,
and did not return to Ireland for three
or four years. He then paid visit,
but, to his amazement, the old castle
had completely disappeared, and in It's
place there was a big wall, enclosing
nothing. Sending for the agent, he de-
manded to know why his orders had
not been carried out. The agent in
sisted they had been.
But where is the CASTER" yelled the
marquis.
"The castle, is it? Bedad! built
the wall with it, my lord. Is it for me
to be going miles for materials with
the finest stones in Ireland beside me?'
In telling the man to build the wall,
Lord Londonderry said nothing what
ever about preserving the castle, which
is now thing of the past. Neverthe-
less, the wall is good one.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-07-08

The microbes of flowers is the sub
ject of investigation opened up and
given unexpected significance by DR..
Domingos Freire, the famous pioneer
in yellow fever incubation at Rio de
Janeiro. It has been suspected that
cancer and even tuberculosis may
have vegetable origin, and there is
nothing surprising in the idea that
blossoms may catch and retain the
bacteria floating in the air, but DR..
Freires researches seem to prove that
the chemical changes producing both
color and odor in flowers are due to
bacteria, and further that these bac-
terra are not always harmless kinds
The pus bacillus was found on a
variety of rose, with unknown organ
isms in other flowers.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-07-08
The Trihm1re.
DIRECTORY.

JUDIC AL OFFICER.
ION, C. L. BROWN. District Judge
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-07-08

The new whistling bouy Intended
for the Manacles, near which the
Paris went ashore, is the invention of
B. Fletcher Robinson. A large hori-
zontaI disc beneath the bouy is sunk
to certain depth, where it is sus-
taiped by several tubes rising above
the water, and in this position it re-
mains practically stationary on the
account of the resistance to wave
motion offered by its size and shape.
The bony floating above however,
rises and falls with every wave. The
bouY carries a cylinder in which
slides a piston held by the disc, and
the rise and fall of the float is thus
made to yield power that can be util-
lized in various ways. In the place
mentioned it is to be used for com
pressing air and blowing a foghorn at
intervals.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-07-08

A use for selenium which is chiefly
known as a laboratory substance of
curious and interesting properties has
been found by the glassmaker. Rose
tinted glass is produced by adding
selenium directly to the material in
the melting pot, and beautiful
orange-red results when cadmium
sulphide is mixed with the selenium.
This method OF making red glass
avoids the ordinary relocating and
dipping in coloring mixture.