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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-05-10
Special Comm ssioners OF Sale

This ia to certify that bond has been given
as required by the decree in the shove named
cause with approved personal security copdi-
toned according to law in the penalty or five
thousand ($5, 900 0O) dollars.
JOHN 8 BEACH, Jerk.
By NEWELL g. GREENAwAY
my2 I'd DC.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-05-10
FOE SALE AND RENT.
FOR SALE.

FoR SALE
The COMFORTABLE RESIDENCE, No.
219 north St. Assph street (be!ween Cameron
and Queen streets) Bathroom. &c: Apply
ct this Office. mh27 II
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EOR RENT.

Foe RENT.
SIX ACRES OF LAND ct Lochaber, just
north Of the city hmits Good place forE
profitable market garden Apply q. this
of7sre der23 II
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siss 70 Co1H 4ooAooo a.1's
GOVERNORS
PROCLAMATION.

Commonwealth OF Virginia,
Governors Office.
Janusry 13, 1900.
'tI hsye been more or less troubled With
indigestion, but since the use OF OtteIburn
LithigT Water for over q month have been
ptsxtly relieved and think it principally
due to the eficscy Of the water. cheerful
iv recommend it." a "a
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l hereby certify that Gardner L. Boothe,
one Of the above commissioners of sale, has
executed bond with approved security in &C
eordance with the terms Of the decree render.
ed In the above entitled cause
JOHN s. BEACH,
Clerk Of the Cooperation Court Of the city o:
Alexandria, Va ap30 ts
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-05-10
LEGAL NOTICES.

TNO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCgRN.--
l. This Is to certify that Certificate No
1915 for 100 Shares Of the Common Stock
of the Richmond. Fredericksburg and Poto-
mac Railroad Company, standing in tire names
Of Randolph Harrison McKim, Charles Meigs
Robinson and Moneure Robinson. IT,, trustees,
as declared in a deed of June 1, 1876, and
dsted June 2, j 76, has been lost, and that
application has been made for o renewal Of the
same. 81
RANDOLPH HARRISON McKIM,
CHARLES MEIGS ROBINSON
BEVERLY 3. ROBINSON, =
Substituted trustee In place of NJ.
Robinson, il deed.
sp21 LAVISH Trustees.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-05-10

TAvA AND MOCHA OoFFEll, best grade,
u bean, ground, or pulverixed, none better
ut any price, delicious In favor, 25c per ib., at
W. p. WOOLLS & SONS.
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The colored American., 1900-08-18
TRUE REFORMER NOTES
Items From the Comprehensive Review of
the ORDERS Twenty Years by Grand
Secretary W. P. BurrelI

The Old Folks Home Department. has
been set aside as separate department
with chief In charge and the col
leetions have averaged, per year 1000.
The Rsformer Mercantile and Indus
trial Department. has been chartered
and put in operation and the support
given to the grocery and feed store
shows that it is q move In the right
direction. Groceries are being sold at
prices as cheap as any first class store
and cheaper thon many. It's two wagons
ere kept besy all day and way into the
night. The income has amounted to
SIG 600 though the store did not open
until April srd, 1900 This is not bad
showing for four months work. The
Refozmers Hotel has grown SO popu'
lar that ie has been found necessary to
increase its capacity over one hundred
per cent by the addition of 80 looms.
The great gro with Of the printing de-
psrtment necessitated the erection OF
four story building 60x40 feet which
will also accommodate the regalia de-
partment and other Offices. Such an
era of general prosperity has never
visited the Grand Fountain before;
and when it Ia considered that this pro
gross has been made and is being made
during period of great unrest amongst
the Negroes, it goes without saying
that the great superiority Of the Grand
Fountain oyer similar organizations is
beins recognized.
The colored American., 1900-08-18

enterprises, in homes or in perfeeting
themselves for some useful calling.
Seldom has the nation called together
for any purpose cleaner, a more in
telligent or modest and well bred body
of young men and women than is now
comprised In Director Merriam's Afro.
American assistants He takes pride
in their fidelity and prompsness, and
they respect Mr.. Merriam for his breadth
of soul and generosity Of disposition.
Tt Is just such pleasant relations be.
tween chiefsnd snbordinstes that breed
the cooperative spirit, and produce the
harmony so essential to the successful
conduct of all great institutions.
The Negro in the Twelfth Census
under Governor Merriam's liberal poll.
cy is breaking all records. The race
will not forget the big hearted man
who has made this prosperous condi'
tion possible.
The colored American., 1900-08-18
BLOOD POISON CURED BY 3. B. B
Bottle Free to Sufferers

Bottle Free to Sufferers.
Deep-seated, obstinate cases, the kind
that have resisted doctors, hot springs
and patent medicine treatment, qnicK'
Iy yield to B. B. B. Botanic BLOOD
Balm) thoroughly tested for 80 years.
B. B. B. has cured such indications as
mucuous patches in the mouth, sore
throat, eruptions, ding sores, bone
pains, itchIng skin, swollen glands,
stiff joints, copper colored spots, chan
crss,~ liberation on the body. and in
hundreds of cases where the hair and
eyebrows have fallen out and the whole
SKIN was q mass of boils, pimples and
ulcers this wonderful specific has COM
pleteIy changed the whole body into
clean, perfect condition. free from erup'
ttona. and skin smooth with the glow
ef perfect health. B. B. B. is the only
perfect cure for blood poison. 30 suf-
ferers may test B. B. B. and know for
themselves that 1t cures, trial bottle
will be sent free Of charge.
B. B. B. for sale by druggist at 81 per
large bottle, or large bottles (fun treat
ment)s$5. For trial bottle, address
BLOOD BALM CO., Atlanta, Ga.
The colored American., 1900-08-18
National Afro American Press ASSOCIATION
at Indianapolis.

The National Afre' American Press
Association will hold its next annual
meeting in Indianapolis September 1st
Mr.. Cyrus Field Field Adams is presi.
dent of the association, serving as such
the past year. In pursuance of his OF.
fetal official duties he has appointed the
editor of The freeman, the editor of the
World and Dir. W. Allison Sweeney as
a committee of three to make arranage'
ments for the meeting. MI. Adams
feels that there should be no elaborate
display but rome earnest work in
faIthering the ends of Afro.American
journalism. One of the prominent
churches will be chosen for the &c.
caslon.
The colored American., 1900-08-18
Grade.
Salary.

To this must be added the compensa.
ton paid to m ,re than five hundred
enumerators and special assistants, EN-
ployed during the month of June, who
received a stated sum for each schedule
turned In. They were paid not less
than $40 900 in the aggregate.
At least IS per cent of the clerks re
ceive $500 upwards. Fully 80 per cent
Of the messengers and Iaborers receiv e
the maximum salary allowed, $500
Thus counting the char force but ex.
Guiding the enumerators, the colored
employers are now receiving approx
mately an annual income of $50, ,48O
This Is sum not to be despised and
scattered over the wide area that 1t Is,
1t means diffusion of benefits through
many states, the influence of which
cannot be computed In finite terms. 1t
means healthy stimulus to business,
education, religion and personal hap
piness. Numbers of the young men
here engaged are saving their money
with q view of carrying it back to their
homes for Investment in commercial
The colored American., 1900-08-18
For Repairing School Buildings.

Expenditures for repairs upon the
colored sodooi buildings of the District
Of Columbia for the past year have been
as follows; High school 229 ,O5. Ninth
division. $s.1Se 81; tenth division,
81 $40 As; eleventh division $L5ss.4e.
The colored American., 1900-08-18

THE NEGRO IN THE TWELFTH CENSUS.
Director Merriam's Fidelity to His Pledges
Breaks all Records in the Appoint
meut of Afro Americans to Paying Po-
sitions $50, $50 Per Annum and its
Beneficial Influence Upon Many Phases
of Negro Life.
Governor William r. Merriam, the
Director Of the Census, has faithfully
lived up to every promise be has made
to the coIored people of the country, as
well ss giving the nation the ablest,
most thorough, and most energetic
administration of census affairs since
the foundation Of the government
Every step has been business-like, eve
~ plan has been Systematically worked
out by the best hands available, and
every pledge has been kept with strict
conscientiousness rarely seen an fnsti
tuition where the power of the chief is
80 absolute, and where the temptation
toward political favoritism at the ex-
pense of merit has been go great.
The appointments have all been
made now, and the Director gratefully
confesses his Indebtedness for large
measure Of the satisfaction that he has
given high and low. to the geniality,
executive capacity, and wonderful pa.
tience of his appointment clerk, Mr..
John W. Langley. Both determined
at the outset that the, eelored people
should have no just cause for COM
plant, aud agreed that the apportion-
nent system, devised as the fairest
means of recognizing the two great par
ties, should not operate to the dsad-
vantage of the Negro In the South
They have never veered from the mid
die of the road 10 their resolution.
Merit, uniD f1uenced by color, has gov
erned Director Merriam's selections,
and under his impartial method the
Negro's intellectual equipment and
hustling spirit have brought forth gold
en- results. Those who are acqusi nted
with the facts state that, as compared
with the eleventh census $50 widely
heralded as Negro Klondyke), our
representation to day far exceeds that
given by Mr. Porter. not only ss to
number Of employees, but as to grade
Of service, and rate of compensation.
The following table, compiled at no
small degree of trouble, in order to in
sure accuracy, tells it own story. The
names can be had by consulting the
official roster. The summary IL suff
cient for the present purpose.
ooLoRED EMPLOYEES IN CENSUS OFFICE
The colored American., 1900-08-18
CAPITAL
LOAN GUARANTEE 20
602 F ST. n. W
Capital Savings
r RarI

Capital Savings
Bank
500 F st. N. W., Washington, D. C
Capital $4,000.
Hon. Jno. r, Lynch, President
L. c. Bailey, Treasurer.
J. A. johnson, Secretary.
D. B. McCary, Cashier.
Directors:
Jno. R. Lynch, DR.. W. s. Lotion,
Whitefeld McKinlay, ] G. Bailey,
Robt. Il. Terrell, W. S, Montgomery,
Wyatt Archer, John A. Pierre, Henry
=. Baker, James storum, J. A.
johnson, DR.. A. W. Tancil, Howard
Fl Williams.
Deposits received from 10 cents up
ward. Interest allowed on $500 and
above. Collections meet with promP
attention. A general exchange and
banking business done.
Bank open from 9 a. m. to 4:30pm.
The colored American., 1900-08-18
Money to Loan
ON FURNITURE, PIANOS, ETC.

II you are In need Of money, we desire TO
inform you OF our new method. We can Sc
cure you loan on an easy monthly payment
plan, at less cost than before, and below ths
rate OF any other company In the city. You
can pay in full at any time after loan is Sc
cured, and 1t will only cost you for such time
as you nave Lad the money. Our bus ness is
strictly private, and all applications are
treated coDfidentially. II you have a loan
with any other concern, You can secure loan
through us to pay Ii and get more money II
desired. II Will pay you to call and see US
before going elsewhere. We are reedy at
any and all times during Office hours to give
information concerning our business meth.
ods, and you will receive courteous treat
The colored American., 1900-08-18
THE NEGRO IN THE TWELFTH CENSUS.

Director Merriam's Fidelity to His Pledges
Breaks all Records in the Appoint
ment of Afro Americans to Paying Po-
sitions $50, $50 Per Annum and its
Beneficial Influence Upon Many Phases
of Negro Life.
The suburban citizen., 1900-05-26
NEWsY cLEANlNcs.

swarms Of locusts have appeared 10
Kansas.
Coal mine owners in England have In.
creased the price OF coal thirty per cent
The Danish Government is willing to sell
the little island of St. John to the United
States.
new Bible has been published in Lon
don In which the New Testament precedes
the Old.
The continued success Of American jock
eys in England has bewildered all horse
owlRSrs there.
The butchers OF Germany and Austria
propose to organize In an effort to keep
out American meats.
The Department OF Agriculture contem-
plates the establishment OF an experiment
station in PortcRloo.
Western railroad managers are discuss
ing plans for religious services on Sunday
on fast through trains,
The German Government has adopted
tLesingle tax system for Kyao Chau, China,
levying tax OF six per cent. on land value.
The Board OF Education OF Chicago has
voted In favor OF Fairgrounds for children
in all future plans for new school buildings.
Whisk brooms have been placed in all
cars Of the South Chicago Street Railway
Company for the use OF dusty passengers.
gold mine has been located on one OF
thestreets OF Kes wick, Shasta County, Gals
aud there are indications OF an oil vein in
another.
Lu7on is now oversprend with a network
OF telephone and telegraph lines. A mill
ion words are daily transmitted In tho
Philippines.
The Argentine Government has sent fifty
young men from the different provinces to
be educated in the agricultural schools OF
the Unitod States.
st. Paul, Mimi, citizens are making
plans for convention hall and auditorium,
with a seating capacity OF 10, 900, to cover
q space OF $50 by $50 feet.
The Park Board OF Baltimore. Md, has
forbidden the use OF automobiles in any OF
the public parks or pleasure places in the
city under control OF tue Board.
The annual egg-rolling fete at the White
House on Easter Monday cost the United
States $114.23. That amount was spent In
cleaning up the littor left by the children
and in resodding part OF the White House
lawn.
The suburban citizen., 1900-05-26
rhe worIk In Pennsylvnnia.

What the Pennsylvania Division o.
the i. A. W. is doing in the matter
of supplying the wheelmen Of that
State with good roads may be judged
by the result of the last meeting Of
the Good Roads Commission, of which
II. j. Worrell, the representative Of
the Il. A. W., is chairman. In dis.
cussing the work of the commission,
Mr.. Wolrell said: ''We have been
securing data from many sources and
have obtained much information from
other States. We are endeavoring to
prepare a broad and comprehensive
plan which will be equitable in all dis
tricts. Equalization of taxation is
perhaps the most important element
of our work, and it is the intention Of
the commission to ask State aid in ad.
dition to tho taxation which is now
assessed by townships. Our labors
will not end for some time to come,
however.
The suburban citizen., 1900-05-26
The Good-Roads Question.

As an act OF patriotism and devotion
to his birthplace Colonel John Jacob
Astor is now completing some two and
half miles broadway between Rhine
cliff and Rhinebeck, which we are
asked to contemplate and admire as
being probably the best piece OF
road work in the State.
Colonel Astor has rendered public
service for which he is entitled to
recognition. But at the same time 1t
is impossible to escape the sense OF
humiliation over the admission that in
She great and wealthy Empire State
the improvement of the public high
way should under any conditions de.
pend on private generosity.
In this matter, so vital to the " ell.
being and prosperity of the State, an
example has been set us by the I'D
Joining States of New Jersey and Mas
sachusetts. In these States private
citizens are not called on to improve
the public roadways because legisla'
tive intelligence has devised an ef
ficient plan of adjusting the relative
interests of State and local assessment
in providing for the cost OF such i'm
provement. They have solved Che
good.roads problem with satisfactory
results, and year by year they arr
bringing their country roads out o
tho barbarism of neglect and impIov
ing them up to the highest standard o
real civilization. New York World
The suburban citizen., 1900-05-26
THE NATIONAL. GAME.

Garvln, OF Chicago, is pitching in excel.
lent form.
The Brooklyn Club has secured the scr.
vices OF Third Baseman Lave Cross.
Springfield has signed tho noted pitcher
Frank foreman, late OF Indianapolis.
Hamilton and Collins, OF Boston, arc do
ing some OF their old.timc stick work.
Garrlck appears to bo tue only pitcher
on the New York team who is in shape.
1t lis common thing this year for every
man oa a team to get ut least one hit In y
game.
SudhofT, OF st. Louis, is tho llghtest
pitcher in the League, SO Tar as weight Is
concerned.
Days continued disability has badly
broken up the Brooklyn's inheld and thelr
entire team system.
In Manager Aliens opinion tho most dim
cult thing in the world is to impress Young
players in the League with the line points
OF base running.
According to Tim Murnane, the Boston
team seems wholly at sea. The plays are
not we'll understood and there Is too much
cross fire while In action.
Bradley, the Chicago third baseman,
fields his position in nne style, stopping
cannon ball drives and fielding them 10
nrst base In a clever manner.
The Brooklyn Club has "farmed" Catcher
Steelman to the Hartford Club OF the
Eastern League. As smuch rs $500 was re-
fused for his release Hanlon says.
It is reported that each member OF every
National League Club is subscribing S5
monthly into fund to be paid into the
treasury of union to be formed this fall.
There is demand All over the country
for a return to the double umpire system.
Players, umpires and magnates seem to
agree that a mistake has been made in
leaving the work to one official.
Cincinnati writers already rate Scott
among the star pitchers. The most en-
couraging feature OF his work is that he
never gets ratified and always has perfect
control OF the ball.
The Montreal team carries on the trips 3
number Of portable vapor bath arrange
ments. The club has three OF them, and
they are in daily use by the players, the
favorite time for their use being just be-
fore the men retire for the night.
The suburban citizen., 1900-05-26

I Invention is essentially continuous
and progressive. 1t grows partly by
development from within of the orig
inal idea, gpartly by the incorporation
of various notifications and improve
'ments from without. There is prac-
tically no such thing as finality in in
vention-no stage at which the in
ventor may fold his hands and say,
with absolute certainty, "it is fn-
lshed." The recognition of this truth
has been the foundation rock upon
which the majority of the epoch-mak-
ing inventions Of history have been
built up.
The suburban citizen., 1900-05-26
GOOD ROADS NOTES,
A New Road scheme.

A New Road scheme.
N URING the last few years the
Federal Department of Agri.
culture has largely increased
+ its usefulness and extended
the scope OF its operations. 1t has
made its methods more practical aud
has adapted them more closely to the
needs of the country.
1t was once an adage that the seed
sent out by the Agricultural Depart
I-ent never came up. OF course this
was libel on the department, but 1t
is fact that the quality of the seed
distributed by the Government has
been SO greatly improved that no
superior seed can be found anywhere.
The Agricultural Department has
many other important functions be-
sides the distribution of seed. One
of its most useful bureaus is that
which is devoted to the science of
road building. Its directors and
supelintendents are men who,are well
yersed both in the theoretical and the
practical science OF road building
The monographs and reports sent out
by this bureau contain many valuable
suggestions concerning the construc'
ton, protection and repair of roads.
Practical tests of various theories and
methods of road building are made by
the bureau and the results are re-
ported fully.
The work of construction, specimen
sketches of roadway, was begun in
1884 and has been carried on with
marked success. These sample roads
have been inspected by officials and
other visitors from all parts of the
country and the suggestions which
they offer have been in many in
stances embodied in practical results.
| The bureau now proposes the con-
struction Of steel track wagon roads.
Such roads may be built much
cheaper than either macadam Of ebert
highways, and while they are not as
desirable as either are a vast improve
ment on the ordinary dirt roads aud
are by reason of their smaller cost
within the reach of communities who
are not able to construct the best
styles Of road.
The general plan of the proposed
road is to lay two wide steel rails or
ordinary highways. The road as thus
constructed consists Of two parallel
lines of steel plates or rails, each
eight inches wide, laid at sufficient
distance apart to receive the wheels
of all vehicles OF standard gauge.
The steel plates or rails have a slight
aange on each side, which is deemed
sufficient to prevent the wagon wheels
from leaving the tracks easily, while
not interfering with turning out when
the driver desires to do in order to
pass another team or for any other
nnrnnsa Tf nna inoa0iro~ - |i----''
The suburban citizen., 1900-05-26
Among the inalienable rights Of

Among the inalienable rights of
man, so our fathers have taught us,
are these three, Life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness, observes
Professor David Starr Jordan, in the
New York Independent. So long as
a man is alive and free, he will, in one
way or another, seek that which gives
him pleasure. But the pursuit of
happiness is an art in itself. To seek
it is not necessarily to find it, and
failure in the pursuit of happiness
may destroy both liberty and life.
The basis of happiness is abundance
of life, and abundance of life is a real
thing, that cannot be slammed or
counterfeited.
The suburban citizen., 1900-05-26

40 Ovusut ~ AustoLuatu ~ vApeuu VzJJ
for Dutch books for the use Of the Boet
prisoners at st. Helena.
President Krugers reply to General Rob-
erts's inquiry as to the Treatment OF British
prisoners at Pretoria, SAYS colonial prls-
oners are treated like others.
A number OF Boer women have ofterel to
Immediately form corps to guard the
railway or to proceed TO the front to fight
In the trenches with their male relatives.
The Imperial authorities ct Cape Town
have sent money 90 Pretoria for needy
prisoners, both British and colonial. Each
prisoner coming under this description
will receive $25. Adelbort s. Hay, the
American Consul at Pretoria, will distri'
butte the maneT.
The suburban citizen., 1900-05-26

steel rail road will wear we'll and not
get out of order easily. The load
which horse can pull on such road
in bad weather is several times as
great as that which he could pull on
a dirt road. The cost of repairs is
very small.
A first class steel rail road may be
constructed for $500 a mile and prep
arations for building such highways
are going on in several States. At
lanta journal.
The suburban citizen., 1900-05-26

49, ~. OnO % $40 AssA BOsV n"kN " 90 -
lrms in the city recently refused to
Advertise in the columns OF the CITI-
ZEN and gave the following reason;
I"We're not out after suburban bust
aess for the reason that we consider
the trade of the people of Virginia and
Maryland not particularly desirable" "
Gustave Hartig, the hardware man OF
500 aud 511 II Street, N. E., is Of a
different opinion. He wants the trade
of country people and he is getting it,
When you deal with him you are deal
Ing with square business man and q
.lriepd. Dec. l0-4t
The suburban citizen., 1900-05-26

Something in the nature of bill of
rights has been granted to the Fill
pinos in the new system of procedure
which has been put in force in the
islands. The feature Of secrecy in
the Spanish procedure is abolished.
and in place Of it tue American sys-
tenn Of public trial of the accused,
with the right OF confronting wit
nesses and cross-examining them
through counsel is substituted. There
Is also exemption from unreasonable
searches, a novel degree Of liberty for
the islanders. All residents accused
of crimes are tried before the ordinary
tribunals, and the American rules of
evidence are put in force throughout
the islands.