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The colored American., 1902-04-12

This indeed has a discouragipg as
pect, but every resource should be em.
ployed to get In our votes by presenting
ourselves properly and paying up the
poll tax. Threats of personal violence
are probably unfounded, excepting
perhaps in the back districts, which
are poorly policed. Education must be
vigorously pushed, and as the resrric.
tons will be lighter after this year, our
chances for suffrage will thereby be
materis,ly enhanced. Let us do our
part and though temporarily outraged
let US be orderly, industrious and work
patiently for better results.
The colored American., 1902-04-12
THE FLOATING PLANK.

Men say float with any wayward tide.
They iken me to driftweod the sea,
And passing. with averted face.
They see no use in floating planks like me.
But will float when staunchest boats go down.
L drtfted past shipwrecked life at sea.
And, clinging to me, he safely reached the shore
God sees some use in floating pIanks like me.
DEDICATED to us"
The colored American., 1902-04-12

A member the Virginia legislature
one Mr.. Cation, by name. If our memory
serves US rIght-hss taken upon HIM
self the herculean task OF saving white
persons from the il dlgnity OF having
to sit beside Negroes On street cars.
The people are not half so much wor-
ried over the situation as this Obstrep-
erous Alexandrian, whose hoppir G bad
temper is the result of seeing col0red
school girls riding to Washington arm
ed with some useful books. Iu will be
remembered that the citiz ens of Rich
mond, street car magnates, motormen
and conductors opposed Mr. Cation to
man, and the same was true at Norfolk,
where the people feel grateful to the
cOlOred contingent for valuable assist
ance In the orderly settlement of the
recent strike. The original bill calling
for separate cars was thrOttled TO death,
and CatOn's revised bill demanding sep
arate seats, while passed and su posed
to go into effect May 1, will not stand
the test of practical ap pljcatiOu. Watch
our prediction. There is still a mOdi-
cum of decency left in the state of
Washington aud Jefferson, but this
man Cation was absent when the last
quota was passed around. He should
cultivate higher social standing by
hobnObbing with such Statesmen as
Senator Daniel, Governor Montague, etc
The colored American., 1902-04-12

They may do things differently out
IN Colorado, but when any man talks
aOout people IN the strenuous style that
Rev. ] w. Sanders of Denver, employ s
while paying his repects 10 Editor ].
Sam 9 Sharp, there would be a lively
"mix up" in which somebody would
be ''it. " Brother Sanders denying
some reflections" against his per on
al integrity cast by the said Sharp,
thus hufls his shining lance full in the
face of his doughty adversary:
"NOw, who is this man SHARP? I &m
tOld he has not b en- III The State long
enough to vote NOBODY in Col niad0
knew anything uu,il This new blood"
came, win his newspaper Ou ii. in hi;
OvercOat pocket, and now he g"es from
place to place like van0ai or q ehouI,
pro" ling at hight scenting every whis-
per OF calumnY and never l. quiring
whether these Things are so, he writes
them in his newspaper. All
can say is this, let him perform all
the Atlss-like fea's S politically the peo-
pie of Denver will allow him to per-
form, but let him Try to intimidate ma,
bro best me and turn me down by
falsehCOds. and be Will wake MP one
morning the wOIst-fOOled adventurer
that ever aWoke from an irridiscent
dream under Colorado sky"
Gosh!
The colored American., 1902-04-12

An Alabama correspondent, whose
name Is Withheld because his life might
be placed in jeopardy by It's exposure
gives out a very gloomy report of con-
ditions In that state since the adoption
of the new constitution. Says he, in
part:
"RegistratiOn is going on in Ala
Dama and yOu cann I imagine the dis
elimination that the whites are max
ing against blacks or the latitude al
lowed white llliterates. At Woodstock
they only registered three colored
voters, but accepted every white man
who presented himself. I think
10 q burning shame the way sf-
fairs are going on in the South. The
white people say the new cons :itution
is not intended to disffanchIse q single
white man and the law must be strained
to keep out every Negro that can pos
sibly bs gotten rid Of"
Accompanying the letter are clip
pings from leading newspapers. A
specisi from Coosa county to the Biz
mingham Advertiser says;
1.-THE County Registrars have com.
pleted their work OF registering the
voters IN eleven Of the seventeen pre-.
cincts in the county. To date l 432
voters have registered, all white. a
small number Of Negroes hsve applied
to be registered, but none of those ap.
plying were found 10 possess the quail
ficatiOns required by the Consti ution. !"
On the subject of reduction of repre-.
sentation, the Marion County Demo
crat, under the defiant headline 1--WE
Shall Lose Neither" has this to say:
"We can better afford TO lose repre.
sentstiOn than to have corrupt ballot.
and be placed Cn social equality with
the Negroes"
Reports from Madison county show
The colored American., 1902-04-12

93e life registration for whites and only
IA ter colored.
The colored American., 1902-04-12

Here is bit of history that many of
this generation may have forgotten
The first colored man elected to Con-
gress was j. Willis MenaId of Louisians
he was born in Illinois, educated at
Iberia College, had acted as hospital
steward and recruiting officer for the
Government during the war, and was
sent on a special mission to Honduras
In whatever office he served he won
the confidence of his superiors. He had
a great Influence over his own people
and was noted as public speaker. No
Negro was ever worthier of a seat in
Congress, but Menard was never allow
ed to serve in the office to which g had
been chosen, being barred out by al
legged irregularities in his election. His
failure, however, and the criticism it
evoked, paved the way for the entrance
Of the black man into public life, and
or February 90. 1870. after one of the
most exciting debates in the history of
Congress, when Charles Sumner acted
as the champion of the Negro, ReveIls
was admit ed to the Senate to fill the
seat made vacant by the resignation of
Jefferson Davis.
Rev. 1. B. Scott, the talented and
observant editor of the Southwestern
Christian Advocate, is responsible for
this little mot:
"On Monday, March 10Th, large
The colored American., 1902-04-12

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The HOLSTERS of Crusoe's Island.
(San Francisco Chronicle. J

From Robinson Crusoe's island has come
a man looking for capital to invade the
quiet of the celebrated spot with lobster
canning factory. He is Juan Calasaff, a
Chilean, with up-to-date ideas regarding
what is necessary these days to place a
business enterprise on Il sound footing. and
while he knows where the toOthsome lob
ster abounds, he is aware that money is
quite essential to the establishment of Il
proper canning factory. He has the lob
stcrs and he is looking for the man of
money.
Calasaf lives on Juan Fernandez. utiliz-
ing all the resources but the lobster beds,
and brings a roseate account of the posi-
bilities that are open to any enterprisng
American who will engage with him in
the product of the island waters.
Few spots in the world have such an
abundance of Holsters, says Calasaff, and
the open season of nine months there
makes it possible to gather a great harvest.
There is population of 1S0 persons on
Juan Fernandez. but in all the island there
is nobody with sufficient means to take adj
vantage of the one great opportunity to
get rich and add TO the fame of Robinson
Crusoe's land. So Calas;iff has come to
the Grand Republic of the North. as the
Chilcans call it, to finance the enterprise.
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A Great Household Invention.

-Four times within the short space of two
years it has been necessary for the 1900
Washer Co. of Binghamton, n. ". to en-
large their factory in order to supply the
ever-increasing demand for this popular
family labor-saving machine. Surely this
indicates not only successful and pro-
gressive business, but one based upon
honest principles.
This company advertises in Il ,reat many
papers and is sending washers by the
thousands into every State in the Union.
always with the greatest satisfaction to
the purchasers. We have carried their adj
yertisement in these columns for some
time and have never yet heard single
word of complaint against them. They
offer to send a washing machine to any
reader of this paper, free of all cost, both
going and coming. for 30 days trial. You
have the privilege of sending it back to
them without its costing You one penny.
If you like it you can then forward them
Il deposit and pay the balance in accord
ance with their easy installment plan.
Surely, nothing could be fairer to the pur
chaser than !; proposition of this sort. and
knowing the 1900 washer people as we'll
as we do, it strikes us as an offer which
every reader should take advantage of, if
they have not already done so. Be care
full to address the 1900 Washer Co., 300 q.
State Street. Binghamton, N. Y, and say
that You saw their advertisement in The
National Tribune, Washington, D. G.
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FINDING THE
NEAREST GUESS
When the Easy or Short Method
of Guessing is Employed.

The example we take is of contestant
who is supposed to have made 1924
guesses by the easy method, as follows:
AT receipts of the Treasury for Mon
day, Dec. 30, 1902, my central guess is
$3.50, 10000. wish to make 512 guesses
above the central guess, and 511 below it,
the difference between each guess to be
500.
The first thing to do is to multiply 512
by 100, and add the product to the central
guess. This gives $2,3S1, 10000, as the
highest guess of this example.
Next, multiply 511 by 100 and subtract
the product from the central guess. This
gives 1928, 10000. as the lowest guess
If the receipts of the Treasury. for Dec
20, 1902, when published, are seen not to
come within the range between the high
est and lowest guess, the contestant is
''distanced," SO to speak, and does not
win.
Suppose. however. the receipts of the
Treasury for Dec. %, 1902, are found 10
be S2,361 10000, which we call the Bulls
Eye This is within the range and the
problem now is to find, by simple calcu-
lation, hour near the nearest guess of this
contestant comes to the "Bulrs-Eye."
First, subtract the central guess from
the "Bulfs-Eye." The result will be $780,
o0O.0o. Now, divide this by 500. the diff
ference between guesses. The result will
be 800, withoMt q remainder. The fact that
there is no remainder means that the con-
testants 309th guess, above central guess,
hits the Bulls Eye" This can be proved
by multiplying 500 by 800. and adding
the result to the central guess.
But, for a second example, suppose the
receipts of the Treasury are found to be
81. 361, 200. 20-that is, twenty cents more
than in the example just demonstrated.
The same process of figuring will leave a
remainder of 20. which means that the
3O9th guess above came within 20 cents
of the "Bull's-Eye." This can be proved
by multiplying 500 by 500, and adding
the result to the central guess. and sub
tracing the sum obtained from the
Bull s-Eye."
Now, for Il third example: Suppose the
receipts of the Treasury are found to be
S2,361 S0.6O-that is, 5000 more than
the first example. The same process of
figuring will leave Il remainder of 5000
Now. this remainder being more than half
of the divisor which is 500, the rule re-
quires that $4,000 must be deducted from
the divisor, leaving a remainder of $19.40
This means that the 310th guess above
came within $19.40 cents of the Bulls
Eye This can be proved by multiplying
the difference, 500 by 80, and adding the
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News From Winners.

I / send along the picture of my partner.
! We were married before went TO war;
Comrade 2. J. McCullon. Crcsco, Iowa,
winner of two prizes in the last contest,
reports as follows: Born in Philadelphia,
1S43. Came to Iowa. 1857. Enlisted Oc-
tober, 1868, and joined Co. III, 4th Iowa
Cav. at Camp Clear Greek, on the Hebron
Plantation, II miles east of Nicksburs.
Have always been proud of belonging to
Winslow's Brigade. We were called
"Winslow's Raiders" We had good
horses, Spencer Carbines, Colts and REM
ington's revolvers, sharp sabers, and were
never afraid to go anywhere. Always
came off victorious. with the single excep-
ton of the Guntown affair-the 'sore
spot" with so many old soldiers. Gen.
Sturgiss management. or rather misman-
agement. of that campaign-weli. you all
know how Forrest licked us. and its no
use to say anything more about it. My
first campaign was with Gen. Sherman's
expedition TO Meridian. Miss, i'll Febru-
AIRY. 1864. My next campaign was with
Gen. Sturgis against Forrest from April
so to May II. Next campaign, again with
Gen. Sturgis from June | to 13. 1864,
ending with the defeat at Guntown, which
engagement by the way, the Confederates
named Tishomingo Greek. Next campaign
under Gen. \. J. Smith against Forrest.
tHulHS III tlc StIieEdi Ut
Tupelo. Next campaign under Gen. Smith
againsts Forrest from Memphis by Holly
Springs and Oxford. and return. Aug. )
to 80 1864. Next under Gen. Grierson in
the campaign against the Mobile * Ohio
r. r.. from Dee. u, 1864. to Jan. j, 1860.
On this raid there was no general engage
ment. but there was fighting nearly every
day. Next and last campaign was in Gen.
]. II. Wilson's great cavalry raid from
PASSPORT. Miss. to Gravelly Springs. Ala.
from March 20 to May 10. 1865. Impos-
sibIe for me TO give all the engagements
and skirnishes we were engaged in. Wins
lows Brigade was always on the go some
where. Finally, we rounded up at At
lanta, Ga, in August, 1865, and were dis
charged
Comrade Mcknight. Dayton, o., winner
18th prize. reports as follows: Thanks for
he bank draft. 1t comes quite handy this
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result to the central guess, and from the
sum thus obtained subtracting the Bulls
Eye"
A fifth example: Suppose the receipts
of the Treasury are found to be S2,2S1, :
29S.40-a sum lower than previous ex-
amples and lower than the central guess
In foregoing examples the receipts were
higher than the central guess. Subtract
the receipts of this example from the Gen.
trail guess, $3.50, 10000. Tie result will
be S49.O0i.60. Divide this by $780, The
result will be found to be 400, with re-
mainder of 160. This means that the
49Oth guess below the central is within
SLIGO of the receipts or the Bull s-Eye,"
as we call it. This can be proved by
multiplying 500 by 400, subtractng the
result from the central guess, and finding
the difference between the last result OBJ
tanned and the Bull s-Eye."
In this last example, if the remainder
were, say, S31.60 Gnstead of 160), this
the rule requires that SJ1.60 should be
subtracted from the divisor This would
leave S4S.4O-showing the distance from
the '.Bull's-Eye' of the nearest guess.
The examples we have given apply to
any number of guesses and to any possi-
BILE variation of central guess and differ
ence between guesses. We have merely
selected the figures of the examples at
random. The calculations will work out
correctly with any other figures.
With the aid of these examples. we feel
sure that contestants who have employed
the central guess, or easy method, of
guessing, can quickly figure out just where
they stand as soon as they learn the re-
ceipts of the Treasury for Dec %. If any
contestant is uncertain of his own figuring.
We will be glad to send him our figuring
to verify his own.
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The American Transpacific Cable.

The American Transpacifc cable is to
start from San Francisco. touching Hawaii
and the Caroline Islands and ending ut the
Philippines distance of 5000 miles,
that is. more than twice the length of any
cable row laid. Not only so, but it must
be sunk to depths yet unattempted-50o 900
to 5000 meters. The route has been Sc
lected from Il chart of the ocean floor made
from 500 soundings from the steamship
Nero. The cable will be constructed out
OF l2.O0o tons of steel wire. 1880 tons of
hemp and tar, 230S tons of .Jute. 1850
tons of copper and 1.2G0 tons of gutta-
percha. -Four cable ships will be employed
in the work, and it is expected that about
seven miles of cable per hour will be laid
on the average, though at great depths the
cable does not reach the bottom for about
four hours About LOCO men will be en-
ployed on the ships and the cost will be
about S22,0G0,C0O. 1t is expected that the
work will be finished in the Spring of 1901
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Lack of space limits the news from win
ners that we can print. We have most
interesting reports and pictures that would
fill page of this issue. Comrades notice
that we have enlarged the paper. When
we enlarge again there will be room for Il
consider it of great interest and much Of
it of historical value as well.
Comrade H. jacques, Moosic, Pa. win
ner ninth prize, reports as follows: Born
in Luzern Co., Pa, 1914. Enlisted in sd
Pa, 1862. Discharged in 1863. Enlisted
again February, 1864, this time in I'd Pa.
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The first officer of high rank to fall be-
fore the bullets of the Filipinos was Gen.
Egbert, Colonel commanding the 22d Inf,
who had been brevetted for gallant servi-
ces in Cuba, where he had been severely
wounded, and Immediately upon his re-
coyery had come to the Philippines at the
head of his regiment. He arrived but &
few days before his death, but those days
had been strenuous ones, for almost imme-
diately upon landing the 22d was put into
the field and given some hard work, the
very hardest kind, that Of chasing up and
trying to bring to bay insurgents who made
night attacks upon the various garrisons
posted along the line held then by the
Americans.
After the first fighting around Manila
and the driving back of the insurgents to
varying distances of four to se~en miles
from the city, Gen. Otis rested for nearly
six weeks awaiting reinforcemcnts that
would be sufficient in his judgment TO ell
able him 10 assume the offensiy and keep
il. We know now that he had men enough
as il was, but the Filipinos were given
credit for better fighting capacity t;::iI they
seemed TO those on the ground to exhibit
excessive conservatism and lack of yigor,
possibly his precaution was justified. AT
all events. the army rested on the defen-
Siye until four or five new regiments ar
rived and then took up the work of smash
ing Aguinaldo's army and putting it on the
run.
AS soon as the 22d was landed and had
caught its breath and got its land legs on
after its long voyage. it was brigaded with
gon regiment, under Gen. Wheaton, and
Gen. Pillar. \ week of this hiking was
this brigade was loaned to Gen. MacAr-
the Filipinos from their formidable de-
jaros River, and from others lying be-
tween those and Malolos, 40 miles to the
north, where the rebel Government had its
tire of the capital. How the battle of
1899, and especially how the Oregon men
charged and captured the heavy intrench-
ments, has often been told 1t was III the
army was steadily advancing and driving
the retreating Filipinos from trench to
Etrench, that Gen. Egbert was killed. near
the town of Malinta, a little railroad sta
ton about 10 miles from Manila.
The night after Malabon the Americans
lay on the field at the extreme points
reached in the fighting of the day before,
Aand resumed the advance with the COM
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The Grab Bag.

The National Tribune has, for sometime,
discontinued supplying jewelry and fancy
goods as premiums. 1t finds, however,
that it has some good stock ON hand-not
much of any one kind, but good deal of
all kinds. We have watches, spoons, forks,
knives, chains Qadies' and gentsJ. rings
Qadies' and gents), badges, charms, ear
rings, stick and scarf pins, sleeve buttons,
collar buttons, studs, and silver tea sets.
Also Il lot of miscellaneous books and pic
lures. We cannot specify what we can
send of any of these things and we put no
price upon them. We do not intend to sell
them. but to give them away in the fol
lowing manner:
For every $40 order received by us dur
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ADVANCE ON MALOLOS.
BY CAPT. HARRY L. WELLS, I'd Ore, U. S. v.

ing Of daylight. 1t was the plan not to
give the Filipinos single hour of daylight
that was not busy one if they remained
in our front or undertook to dispute our
advance.
A small river flowed from the north into
the TinejarOs, its banks being steep and to
cross it difficult except where there was
made the dividing line between the 22d
and the Oregons, which were placed in the
firing line. the former advancing upon
Malinta, the nearest town ON the east side
of the river, and the Oregons upon Polo,
the nearest town ON the west side, the two
advances being made simultaneously, yet
independently.
The bridge across the Tinejaros where
the Oregons crossed was n solid stone af
fair one span Of which had been destroyed
by the retreating insurgents, and it took
some time to get this sufficiently repaired
to take over 3-inch gun that was to ac
company the advance, though we had no
use for il, as il afterwards developed. To
the left about a mile and a half was n road
leading to the north from AIalabon to Polo,
and along this all the forenoon a perfect
stream of natives passed, abandoning the
city, which had been uncovered by the cap
ture of the intrenchments along the river.
This crowd was composed of soldiers and
non-combatants alike, men, women and
children being mixed i'll with the diSorgan-
lied soldiers, and all hurrying to get away
from the Americans. OF course, it was
impossible 10 fire upon mixed crowd like
that, though the Malab5n garrison was
thus escaping right under our very noses,
and might have been headed off by a flank
movement Authorization for this move
ment could not be secured and we watched
the enemy we had fought to corral slip
through the bars that We're being left
down. a little before noon the Odd. having
gotten into position on the other side of the
river, the general advance was taken up.
A PRINCE KILLED.
We had not gone half a mile with our
long extended line before an incident that
was international in its character occurred.
Prince Lowenstein, of Germany, was killed
while foolishly between the lines. While
we had been waiting the order to advance
he had come out and had passed along
the road beyond our front in the direction
of Polo with n companion. He felt per-
fectly safe should he come into contact
with the insurgents, because of the warm
feeling the latter then had for
Germans. owing TO the semi-hos-
tile position the German fleet had
assumed to the Americans. He
also was on good terms with the Amer-
cans. for he had occasionally visited the
lines and had only the day before gone to
the Maiabon battlefield and given thirsty
men bottled beer he took out with him in
Il carriage. Quite n number Of curiosity
seekers from Manila We're out at the same
time, and he was not the only one who
went beyond our lines. However, his
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