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The colored American., 1901-02-09
DREssMAKING ACADEMY.

The de Lam Orton Famous French
Perfection Tailor System Acsnemn
NINE ]. A. SMALLwOOD, Sole Ager,
1913 Madison st. Northwest,
Morning class from 8 a. N. toIp,m
Afternoon class to r. m. daily.
Evenings from 7.30 to 10 O'Clock
Monday 8, Wednesdays and Friday,
Dressmakers and ladies who wish n fs
their own dressmakIng.
-WANTED-TO learn the wonder.
full De LamOrton French Perfection
Taylor System, Seamless Basoues
without one inch Of visible seam. In
lining or goods, not even on the shouI
der. Successful Dressmaking reuuiret
as much earnest progressive study 81,
successful work in any OF the pr0fes.
s1ons. No detail is too small to b
carefully looked after. We teach yoJ
to make dresses with or without sean
and guarantee perfect fits, and cOm
plete your course with q diploma
Pupils can enter at any time.
Winter classes now forming.
The colored American., 1901-02-09

And then on the beautiful campus green
OF the Y. N and c. l. may be seen'
Students who seem to have won nuch IaIne
In playing the various outdoor games
The girls with croquet and tennis employ GU
Seem 10 enjoy il much; OoSeu
While the boys with their football seem over
As it lightly moves at touch
After a few years shall have passed.
And these boys and girls shall have tnIshed
their task,
No more their faces Will be seen,
Or their voices heard on the campus greeh'
AS in various sections their lots may be cast
Fond recolletions they'll have OF the past
And as years, months and days glide slowly
Ever they'll remember, V y. and I. ItOy.
BY MAGGIE Y. POGUE.
The colored American., 1901-02-09
A FREDERICK DOUGLASS WATCH.
A Valuable Present to Any Friend and
Useful at That
Dallas Express, J

For any man, woman, boy, or girl
there Is nothing IN the shape OF pres
ent that will be more acceptable and
more useful than the Frederick Doug
lass Watch. For boy watch-think
OF it-a real ticking, actual running
watch-the same in appearance and
running qualities as his father's-lt
would be the proudest moment OF his
life TO possess one of these watches.
And who is 1t that does not almost
daily feel the need of tlmepiece to
carry around in his or her pOckel? The
doctor wants one on his lonely trips;
the school teacher wants one in older
to reach her schOOlhOuse in time, the
hunter wants one and the farmer wants
one.
The carpenter does not like to wear
q valuable watch when he is hammer
lug around, and this Frederick Doug
| ASS Watch is just the watch. This can
be had without the expenditure of one
penny. Get US two one yesr subsc cribers
st two dollars. or four six months sub
scribers at 81 10, or eight three months
subscribers at sixty cents each. Send
these names with the money and q
Frederick Douglass Watch will be sent
you by registered mail. 1t is guaran'
teed. Address The COlored American,
459 G street, n. W., Washington, D.
G.
The colored American., 1901-02-09

In Oklahoma there are 90 900 colored
oeople. men, women and Child1en, or
13, 600 cOlored voters; from careful cone
pill alton Of statistics there aTe z 600 col
ored men owning farms, which will
strike an average Of $500 each; which is
very low average. as there are mum
b4rs OF coIOred farmers who can cash
their farms today for So 600. But plac
log all at $500 each, hat would mske a
grand stotal OF at least So coo 600
owned in farm property by colored
men Of Oklahoma,-R Rising Sun, Kan.
sas City, Mo.
The colored American., 1901-02-09
Colorsd Model Makers Wanted.
Houston, Tex, Feb. 2 1901 u.

Houston, Tex, Feb. 2 1901,
Edward E. Cooper, Washington,
D. c., My dear sir: beg to ask taV'
or of you; if you know of any cOlOred
man In or near your city who is mod
ell or instrument maker or inventor or
in a kindred business please give ne
his name and I will consider 1t favor.
Very truly, 3. L.
n. B. Readers of The COloIed Amer
lean will oblige the editor by sending
10 the names and address OF cOlored
M odel workers to this office.
The colored American., 1901-02-09
"The Y. N. and &. l."
For The ColoTed American.

or The ColoTed American.
Near the city of Petersburg,
AS seen by the passers-by
In the neighborhood of Ettricks,
Stands the V N and c. l.
A building loved by many
Who have toiled within her walls,
And tried TO respond with pleasure
To every beck and call
Her situation is beautiful,
AS lofty she stands
Facing the Appomattox
So picturesque and grand.
In the beautif Il month of September
As the days glide swiftly by,
Students leave their various homes
For the V. n. and c. I.
And ere many hours have passed
They're sheltered within her walls
Their minds from pleasure cast,
To answer to her calls.
And for months. weeks and days,
Earnestly they work
On their different studies
Trying none 10 shiTk.
And after the cold, wintry days have passe
Still resuming their daily tasks,
They're told of the coming spring
By the birds as they sweetly warbIe a
sing
The colored American., 1901-02-09
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am willing to bet the author Of Colonel
Carter OF CarteTsville' cigar that he
never read Uncle Toms Cabin and
leave the decision OF the bet to bin, II
is this dreadful sensitivity OF provin
cislism, this astounding ignorance OF
the world at large, that has kept the
South in leading strings for hundred
years. The leaders of the South, not
to mention q certain George Washing
ton, but particularly to mention one
Thomas Jefferson, knew slavery to be
abhorrent to manhood, womanhoed
and ali the grsces of human life. The
South is well lid Of it. Mr.. Smith ie
wholly mistaken in suppOsing that the
Negro is worse off than In slavery
A TRIBUTE TO NIX. WASHINGTON.
Booker Washington, a great and noble
man, one Of the greatest men living
to-day, considering practical affairs as
the test OF greatness, is doing an amaZ
ing work, and If the true and good
men of the North having money to
spend on philanthropy would contrib
ute little attention and some money
to the development OF his scheme a.
Tuskegee Ala, it would pay richly on
the investment. In short and in fine
while am not surprised at Mr.. Hop
kinsOn Smiths verdict about book of
u biob ho oonnOf KnOxu uroof doo1
even If he hes read it-he falls into the
prevailing error Of the educated South
erner, in suppOsing that attacks upon
the institution Of African slavery are
attacks upon the people of the South
The South is open to great Impressions
The Nicaraguan Canal will revolution p
ize all conditions in Texas and the Gulf
States. 1t will convert the Gulf OF
Mexico into the Mediterranean of the
Western Hemisphere. Mr.. Hopkinson
Smith is great painter, am afraid
must ssy a great romanticist. Though
Colonel Garter Of Cartersville' shock eC
my sensibilities as a Southern msn
and particularly as a Virginia produce
very much more than did Mrs. Stowe'i
Uncle Toms Cabin literary criticism
avaunt. There never was yet literaT!
man who was not hopeless politician
Uncle TENS Cabin was q great bool
and Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe was
great woman.-New York Tribune.
The colored American., 1901-02-09

A BOOK FREE Tuskegee! True
tory "f Tuskegee Destitute aud Booker
w sshtngt0n's wonderful work, illus
trsted. Send stamp how TO get book
free. T. Z. TYLER, -Charlemont, Mass.
The colored American., 1901-02-09

lucky, dots not agree with 4 HOpKln
SOD Smi th's recent assertion that I'm
Gle TOMS Cabinn was an untrutnfuI
picture Of slavery days in the South, or
that the book has done and Is still do
ing harm to the Southern people When
seen at the Waldorf Astoria yesterday,
Colonel WattersOn said:
''Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith SAYS that
sUncle Toms Cabin did great deal to
precIpitate he war. Uncle Toms Cab
in did undoubtedly make a great Inn
preston upon the susceptibilities OF
the people Of the United States-and
nowhere more than in the Southern
States who instantly recognized its Fl
deity to truth. But to say that it cut
any figure in the final crIsIs is wholly
q miscOnceptiOn. Nothing could have
delayed the ultimate trials of arms
more than four years. II Judge Doug
las had been elected President in 1860
the war between the sections would
have been postponed from 1861 to 1865.
Mrs. Stowe's novel was merely a spoke
in an exOrahle wheel, which for the
time being represented perpetual mo
ton. But SO far from being q cruel at
tack upon the people of the South, 1t
was a most kindly representation. Mrs
Stowe begins with the sunny side Of
slavery in Kentucky and indicates its
possibilities by traversipg the career OF
Uncle Tom to q Louisiana plantation.
But you will observe that the villain
OF the book, Legree, is Yankee, and
that leads me to say What. indeed,
Abraham Lincoln pr ceded me in say
ing-that the Yankees brought the
niger to America in their ships and
sold him TO the SOutherners. think
it extremely uDkind that, having gO'
their money, they came down South in
1881 and annIhiIated property of their
own creation. But that is neither here
nor there. ALI the gentlemen Of the
South in the days of Washington and
Jefferson were opposed to slavery 1t
was a wholly mOnstrOus and indefensi
BILE institution. Even in 1861 ths good
men and women Of the South were at
heart opposed to the whole system
With gray jacket on my back for four
years, I was an Outspnken sentimental
free soiIer At Dalton, GA =, in the win
ter of 1863 4. General Hindman sub
mitted TO General Joseph E Johnston.
the commanding general Of the COnfed
crate Army, scheme TO emancipate
the entire black population of the
South al q TO cOnscrlpt them upon the
basis of their white fellow citizens
HenersI 8indman took the expression
white fellow citizens from prOcla
nation issued by General Andrew
Jackson when in command before New
Orleans in ISI415. General Johnston
entirely approved this plan, but, the
ONLY general in the council Of war who
supported him being General Hardee,
it was abandoned
NOT AN ATTACK ON THE SOUTHERN
PEOPLE,
"I know it to be a fact" continued
Colonel " attersOn, 'that England aDO
France would have interveDed in Oul
war on Southern side if slavery could
have been put in the shape Of gradual
emancipation, Nobody, not even Mr..
Davis, could give any assurance on this
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-25

There are not wanting signs says writer in the New England Democrat, that the tariff will be the dominating issue in the next campaign, that it will become so from the same force of cir cufnstances that made silver the lead ing issue in 1896. and imperialism in 1900. The greater importance in otheris- sues in these campaigns forced the tar if into the background, and it almost entirely disappeared from discussion. But if out of sight it has not been out of mind. The extreme impositions of the Dingiey tariff, the consideration shown to trusts and combinations in arranging the schedules, it's failure to maintain industry on a profitable basis when the claim has been made that the country was enjoying period of great prosperity, the tariff war with Russia in which We have become in- volyed, and the trouble over recipro- city treaties, all indicate that the pres ent tariff is very unsatisfactory one and ought to be revised. The revision must be made by the friends of the people, not by the friends of the trusts.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-25
Advertising Thetr EmnIoyer.

In Japan every workman wears cap with an inscription on it telling his business and his employers name.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-25

A T OTHING so we'll illustrates the

NI I0THING so we'll illustrates the LIN unprogressiveness of China as
 the antiquated methods of transportation that are found all over the vast empire. Living in country of some 7o,ooo,ooo of people, with two or more railroad trains passing through practically every community daily, carrying to and from us that which we have to buy and sell, it is practically impossible for us to draw any conception of nation of more than five times the population of our own in which the wheelbarrow, the houseboat or the coolie laborer forms the chief means of transportation for both goods and passengers.
 Ninety per cent. of the~ population of China have never seen railroad train. Comparatively, China has none, neither has she wagon roads or wag- ons. But there are two things which she has, and of which the most is made. One is the cheapest labor in the world and the other is some of the greatest rivers forming natural waterways through her most densely populated districts.
 Such streams as the Yangtse, the Min, the Yellow and large number of other rivers are navigable for the crude native boats of the Chinese or the modern steamer that has been in- troduced by the trade-seeking for eigners.
 Of the native boats in use on these streams. there are many picturesque
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-25

Secretary Gage estimated last fall says magazine writer that the rev enues of the government would pro duee surplus in the treasury of ESQ., 'OOo, ,OoO next July. Now he says it may not be more than $60,00o, 900 as congress has made such liberal appro- priations. There are only two methods, the secretary says, of getting money out of the treasury when q surplus has accumulated. One is to buy bonds and the other is to increase the govern ment deposits in national banks and he will not buy bonds. This means that the policy of loaning out the ac- cumulated millions of the government to the favorite banks of the admistra- ton, those that, like the National City bank of New York, have political claims, will be continued. At the last report from the treasury department these favored banks had almost $90,- COG, GOO of government funds, on which they were paying no interest, but which they were loaning and on which they were drawing interest. Of this amount the National City bank of New York, the Standard Oil bank, has more than $14.O00,O0o. This is the republi- can policy--to tax all people and then hand the surplus over to politically favored financial institutions without interest, The democratic policy would be to collect only so much money as would suffice to pay the expenses of the government when economically ad- ministrated.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-25

Kinley. The notice was served by Judge J. W. Dimmick. a federal office holder an national committeeman from Alabama, who is now in Wash. ington.
 The New York legislature ad- journed on Tuesday after q -four months session. 1t is interesting to notice here that the noble custom of horse play at the end of session does not seem to be known in New York. In the senate indeed the desks were COW cred with flowers, presumably the gifts of constituents, just as the outward bound voyager on an Atlantic liner IS consoled by like gifts as he departs If the business of the state of New York can be done in four months why cannot that of Connecticut D. Hartford Times.
 Judge Winter, of Alabama, who is in Washington on legal business, said on subject in which the whole coun- try Is interested: "yT-fe people of All abama would build bonfires and cele- brate if the next congress should pass a bill for the construction of an Isth- milan canal We have been discour- aged by the developments of the last few months, and sometimes feel that it will be many years before the work on the canal Is begun. I prophecy if a canal is ever completed a decade will suffice to make Alabama a greater state than Pennsylvania now is.''
 Congress made an appropriation of three millions. at its last session, for the rural delivery postal service. This fund will be available the first of July and 1t is estimated that it will be pos sible to establish five thousand new routes. Where they are wanted, how ever, application should be made with out delay, as there Is rush all over the country for them, and no more can be established than there is an appro-i priation to pay for. Applications are going on in large numbers, and by the first of July it will probably be too late until the beginning of another fiscal year-New Haven Union.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-25

ably leader. Of this bridge Mrs. Bishop says:
 Tt is built upon enormously solid piers, which are often monoliths. The roadway is constructed of single blocks 50 feet long. The balustrade as well as the roadway is of solid stone. It is one of the oldest bridges in the empire"
 The raost common form of bridge in China and one of the most pictur- esque is the single arch type. They are constructed of blocks of granite cut to the curve of the bridge, and a flight of steps leads to the crown of the arch, which is, as rule, some 30 feet above the water. Mrs. Bishop says that when travelling by water one enters almost every town or vil- lage under one of the single arch bridges.
 Crude as are the boats of China, the methods of land transportation are even more anticipated. China can
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-25
HEARD IN PASSING

There is tendency to stick pins in the little balloon sent up by AguinaIdo with the assistance of General Mac Arthur.
 From the trusts point of view it is legitimate to form combines to do the consumer and pileu D profits, but it is crime for labor organizations to at- tempt to share In these profits by ask ing for higher wages.
 Mfr Mckinley committed himself, in his talk to that Cuban committee to just about the same extent he did to the Boer envoys. William is '.a wise guy when 1t comes to talking without saying anything.
 When we think of the millions a year the steel trust president is to get, We feel kind of sorry for the newly elected president of the Bell Telephone company, who is to receive but skim py little hundred thousand per annum for running things.-Bost Herald.
 A financial writer, who isn't subsi- dized by the trusts. declares that the business of this country is now passing through period of emotional iIisan- ity, and warns investors to beware of the flood that is bound to result when the water that has been put into the big corporations breaks loose.
 It is announced by the Washington Post that all white tents now in use by the United States army are to be called in and khaki tents substituted in place of them. The modern gun has become so far-reachlng with its projectiles and modern gunners so ac- curate in aim it is unsafe for an army to give an enemy any kind of q target. Hereafter the name of the color of tented ffeld'' will be mud.--New Haven Palladium.
 It is a little early to begin the work of making the next republican candi- date for president, but notice has al- ready been publicaIy served upon the anti-Hanna republicans that the votes of the South in the next republican national convention would be given to the candidate favored by Mir Me
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-25

varieties. Many of these Mrs. J. E. Bishop, during her travels through China, secured photographs of, and these she has given to the public in an attractive little book. of views en- titled "Chinese Pictures ? published by the firm of Cassell & Co.,, New York It is from this book that the accompanying illustrations are taken. Of all of the native boats of China none are more grotesque and at the same time picturesque and typical than those used on the Min river for running the rapids. Of this Mrs. Bishop says:
 "The Min river, called also the Flu, is a western tributary of the upper Yangtse, but is a great river in it. self Of the boats four sails the lowest is of bamboo, and it let down at night to protect the boatman and his family. The feature of the boat is it's high prov for protection against the rocks and rushing water"
 All through China the houseboat plays a prominent part in the life of the people. It provides transportation for both products and passengers. in and out of the interior of the coun- try, and the banks of all rivers are lined with them. Countless thousands almost of these primitive craft travel up and down the great Yangtse.
 While China is without roads, it is not without bridges. Some of the handsomest and most picturesque bridges in the world are to be found in China. Of these the Bridge of Ten Thousand Ages at Foochow is prob
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-25
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
It's Origin Discussed by Prof. A. I
 D'Andrea.

D'Andrea.
 To the Editor of the Democrat:
 The origin of the English language is much discussed in various European reviews, and good many wei known, writers have .. hard time and great difficulty to indicate the proper era of it- I have often spoken and written on this subject without wan dering or stumbling in the thorny field. The history talks. No man can defy the faithful historians, whose ac- curate details are true and well based by facts. The famous historian Tac- itus, who in his life of Agricola, takes occasion to describe the ancient Brit ish; confirms this account. He re- marks that many points in the per- sonal appearance of the Silures, or inhabitants of South Wales, together with their proximity to the Spanish coast, afford sufficient foundation for the belief that they were q branch of the Iberi, or first settlers of Spain, while, there was little question thar the parts opposite to Gaul had been seized on by the people of that coun- try, their respective languages, relig- ious rites and general characteristics, bearing marked resemblance to each other. At the time of Caesars inva- sion. therefore, in Britain as well as in Gaul and Spain, dialects of the great Celtic tongue were spoken; but 1t was not to this original vernacular that the English of the present day owes its origin. "Lingua Hetrusca, Phrygia, Celtica, affines sunt omnes, ex uno fonte derivatae. Nee Graeca longe distat; Japheticae sunt omnes ergo ct ipsa latina.'
 Celtic is regarded by etymologists as the parent of the languages of southern and western Europe, of some African tongues and the various dia- lects of the two Tartaries. Latin and Greek are also reckoned among it's derivatives. The author GebeIin says that: La langue Celtique dans son sens le plus extendu, est Ia langue que parlerent les premiers habitans de Europe depuis les riyes de IHelles- pont ct de Ia Mer Egee, jusquez a celle de Iocean; depuis le cap Sigee aux portes de Troie, jusques au cap de Flnisterre in Portugal, ou jusques en Ireland.n
 As I have said that the original British was derived from the same stock as the language of Greece and that of Rome, it may seem strange that there was not a sufficient resein- blance between 1t and the latter to be observed and recorded by Caesar when he invaded the island. The first English book was written in 1856 by Sir John Vaudeville. Twenty-Seven years afterwards came to the light splendid translation of the Bible by Wickliffe, and did much towards fix- ing the unsettled forms of the new language. In this state, of compara- tive purity the language of the Brit ish Celts remained until the beginning of the 9th century. The English of these early times, however, differs much from that of the present day. We have seen, in fact, a remarkable progress since that epoch, and yet the English language is different all over the world, more than any other Ian guage and it deserves the highest glory on earth.
 PROF A. T. D'ANDREA.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-25


 Greece was the last of the Euro. pean powers to adopt the railway. As late as 1880 there were but seven miles in the country.
 The United States is now ahead of Germany in naval strength by about 5000 tons, and thus is entitled to fourth place among naval powers.
 No fewer than 2,256 pupils pre- sented themselves for examination in Irish national board schools last year, and "A teachers certificates were is- sued.
 A tandem of black trotting cows, driven by Brazilian heiress, has been staggering the people of Paris. She has now sold them to circus for $5o,oo0.
 The time for seasoning wood varies very greatly, extending from weeks in the case of some timbers to many months or years in the case of hard, dense wood.
 The earliest specimens of Indian corn grew, it is believed by botanists, on the plateau of Peru, where this plant has been found growing in a condition which indicates that it is indigenous to the soil
 Ministers succeed each other in Italy with remarkable rapidity. Dur ing the last ten years-1S91 to 19o1- there have been 13 administrations Crispi, then Rudini, then Giolotti, Crispi again, and Rudini, who recon structed his cabinet and changed it's programme four times; Pelloux, the head of two distinct successive ad- ministrations; Saracco, and now Za- nardelli, whose tenure of office is ex- nAoted to ba very shogt.