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The colored American., 1903-09-05
THEscoLoRED AMERICAN

tai or 151 persons, each receiving upon
an average one dollar, making a grand
total paid out of $257.S3 daily to run
our business. We say now and pub
llsh the same in our literature, that
II anybody in the world has a claim
against this company, present the
same, and if legal it will be settled
or adjusted within twenty-four hours.
The utility of insurance business has
long since passed the experimental
period and the purpose of the business
league as l understand it is to map
out the way in which our people can
engage in all sorts and kinds of busi-
ness enterprises, and to encourage and
insist that they shall do so. These
business associations not only furnish
provide employment for our young
men and women, and give US a stand
ing in the financial world that re-
downs greatly to our credit
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the
League, please permit me to say in
conclusion that insurance business has
made a steady and permanent growth
upon the Nation which evidences the
wisdom that called insurance into be-
ing. Insurance is well nigh ubiquitous,
and that nation which does not do
insurance can hardly be called pro-
gressive. Without it the very fabric
of our commercial life would decay
and our whole civilization in a few
years would go into inocuous decline.
1t is the spirit of the age, and lead
ers in all walks of life are urging it
upon the laity. Catching the spirit
of the progressive Anglo-Saxon, the Ne
gro has seen both the wisdom and pro-
Driety in undertaking the insurance
business upon precisely the same prin-
c1ple and basis as his white neigh
bor- His lease of life with constant
growth and CORRESPONDENCE widening
influences demonstrate beyond all
doubt his fine mental ability and his
power to grasp and. solve difficult prob
lens. Since he has made this adven-
ture, then it is seen on his daily
rounds and in well-ftted offices, Negro
clerks and agents doing precisely the
same business as members of another
race and making living out of it.
1T opens up an avenue for the
youth of the race not to be found any
where else. If it did nothing more
as a benefit, giving value received,
it would be deserved of the highest
consideration. If we are to build of
the ladder by which we must rise, then
the Negro insurance business on busi-
ness principles will furnish some of
the most Importance rounds, climbing
by this means and others equally de-
serving, the Negro will ultimately
reach the pristine heights making him
the admiration of the civilized world.
The colored American., 1903-09-05
A MUSICAL CARNIVAL
Miss Helen Adams and Others Star at
st. Lukes Parish.-Notes.

Miss Helen Adams in an under grad
uate of the High School of this city.
1t was here that Prof. Loudin, of the
world famed Fisk Jubilee Singers
heard her sing and Immediately en-
gagged her to travel with his troupe,
which has sung before more potentates
than any other band of singers in the
world. Miss Adams has undergone an
excellent training and her services are
in great demand in England and Scot
land, where she has spent most of her
time
Associated in the same troupe, was
Miss Jeanne Kelly, also of this city.
After successful tour of two years,
through Great Britain, Miss Kelly has
The colored American., 1903-09-05
DRESS MAKING ACADEMY.

The de Lam Orton Famous French
Perfection Tailor System, Nine. J. A.
Smallwood, sole agent, 1913 Madison
street, northwest
Morning class from 8 a. m. to p. N.
Afternoon class 2 to p. m. daily.
Evenings from 1880 to 10 o'clock
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays,
dressmakers and ladies who wish to
do their own dress-making.
WANTED.-To learn the wonderful
De Lam Orton French Perfection
Tailor System. Seamless Basques
without one inch of visible seam, in
lining or goods, not eeven on the
shoulder. Successful dressmaking re-
quires as much earnest progressive
study as successful work in any pro-
fession. No detail is too small to be
looked after. We teach you to make
dresses with or without seam and
guarantee perfect fits, and complete
your course with a diploma.
The colored American., 1903-09-05
WANTED
For the Famous Troubadours
Company,

Three Chorus Girls, with strong
Soprano voices. Must be good looking,
good dreSsers on and off the Stage
State salary expected; we pay rail-
road and Hotel expenses. The season
Of 10000, beginning Sept, 18th. Ad-
dress all communications to E. w.
Dale, Cape May City, N. J.
The colored American., 1903-09-05
In a New Field.
Continued from page 4.

on the Southern Railroad, but, thank
Reliable, the Peoples Benevolent and
Relief Association and in less than
twenty-four hours after his death they
called on his widow and paid her the
death claim. A few days afterwards
his widow sued the railroad for four
thousand dollars for the killing of her
husband and the court allowed her
two thousand; but Oh, let us notice
the killing and the mere injury.
There was a man killed on the other
hand. There was another case in the
court, brought by a man who had a
leg cut off hy the train. In this case
the jury gave a verdict for fifteen
thousand dollars, which showed that
they considered one leg of a living
man worth over seven times as much
as the life of the man who was killed.
To my mind this is fair illustration
that it takes more brain, more tact,
more pluck and eenrgy to run a sick
and accident insurance than it does
to do a straight life business.
THE NEGRO's ABILITY TO DO BUSINESS.
"Since it is so freely demonstrated
in the business life and successful
management of the Peoples Benevo-
lent and Relief Association, and the
Great True Reformers Society, that
the Negro can, and does successfully
manage the most difficult kinds of
insurance. 1t is also admitted that
the Negro can do any kind of business,
a successfully as any other class of
people. In 1899, was in the city of
Augusta, Georgia, for the purpose of
establishing our work there, and in
every church there were two or three
burial societies, whose names were
Brothers and Sisters of Love, the
Tribe of Benjamin, whose object was
to take care of the sick and bury the
dead. These twenty or thirty burial
societies had together deposited in the
banks, white, of course, more than
twenty thousand dollars, and without
interest, enough money to establish
bank for themselves. Why not de-
posit it in the banks of the True Re-
formers?
The Peoples Benevolent and Relief
Association was oragniZed August
18th, 1896. Was chartered by the leg
1slature of North Carolina, February
10th, 1897. Commenced business
April 1st, 1897. Number of policies
issued in 1897 was 6,794, amounting
to $1,12O.26; in 1898, 4,91O, $4,647.SO;
in 1899, 6,14S $6,4252O; in 1900, 1883,
$9,953.5O; in 1901, 6,957, $1O,O53.5O;
in 1902. $685. $15.762.91; in 1903, 12,-
348, $1,000. Total number of policies
issued, 4S,425; total amount, S5S,965
II; paid for clerks, $5O,657.O9; clerks
employed, 224. Paid for stationery,
literature, etc, S2,99S. Number of pol
icies in force, 10000. Total amount
of insurance, 81, SOC, 900 Total amount
of sick benefits, 100000. Death rate,
l 1-2 per cent, at $35 each, S15,750
per year for death. Number of poll
cies issued in 1898, 1851: in 1899,
4,479 in 1900, 6,312; in 1901, 4,172;
The colored American., 1903-09-05

Hysu have a spare room that you would like
rent to desirable parties advertise them In The
Colored American.
The colored American., 1903-09-05
! The American Counts will run

The American Counts will run a
grand excursion to Blackstone Island,
landing at Cottons Point, Md, Septem-
her 14th. 1t will be an all-day trip
down the river, the steamer Jane
MosIey leaving her wharf at $3.50 a. M
returning at II p. m, in time to catch
the cars Now is your time for a de-
Iightful ride of seventy-eight miles
down the Potomac. Fare round trip,
so cents.
Mr.. Randolph Nelson has returned
from a four weeks trip to Ph1ladeI-
phia and other eastern points and can
now be found at his old stand, 1Ol 9th
ST., n. w.
The colored American., 1903-09-05

FOR RENT--Summer Of 1903 Lincoln Hall
Harpers Ferry. w. Va. For particulars ad
dress N. c. B ackett.
The colored American., 1903-09-05
Please Help Me Find My Br.th.r

Saunk Joyce was sold in Mecklenburg virginia
several y ears before the civil war; to Cunnie an
q Nqgrs trader. His mother. Willie was a slave
on the Joyce plantation. He had one sister
Betty. who IS very anxious to find him. ANY In
ferma ton will be gladly received.
MRS BETTY REYNOLDS
- Parker street. Atlanta, Ga.
The colored American., 1903-09-05

SUMMER RESORTS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-10
BARRIERS in Europe.

"a sure way to break yourself of the
habit of going to a barber shop to get
shaved IS to travel In Europe" said AS
s!stant Secretary Keep of the Treasury
Department, in talking with a party or
friends the other day. II remember that
when first went to Europe I thought that
I would never be able to learn to shave
myself and that I was helpless far as
this was concerned 1 didn't finish my trip
through Europe before 1 took up shaving,
and now I shave myself all the time. The
barber shops in Europe, except in England
and a few Of the larger cities, are the
worst of their kind in the world. There are
no modern conveniences and mighty little
of a sanitary nature The chairs are I'M
comfortable and the BARRIERS are Indifferent
about how they shave you or what they do
with you. They place a big bowl IN your
Ian and when they have finished with you
the supposition is that you will wash your
own face in the bowl. There are none of
the little luKurie5 we have over here in the
way of baYrruna. witch hazel. hot towels
hot water &c. The American barber shops
are the neatestl and cleanest-in the world
without excention- In Paris and few
large cities of Europe there are shops that
are advertised as American shops where
they claim to shave men according to home
methods. but, as recall now, did not get
a shave In Europe that satisfied me. and
went to shaving myself"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-10
Plants From the Public Gardens.

'"This office" says Col. Symons. the en-
gineer officer in charge of public buildings
and grounds, is frequently in receipt of re-
quests for the loan of plants from the pub
lie gardens for the use of churches. fairs,
festivals, ETC., and demands are constantly
made for Towering and decorative plants
for private purposes. All such requests
have to be declined as either the loan or
gift of any plants would be in violation of
the following extract from the act of Con-
gress approved June 20, 1873:
Provided, That hereafter only such
trees; shrubs and plants shall be propagated
at the greenhouses and nursery as are suit
able for planting in the public reservations
to which purposes only the said produc-
lions of the greenhouses and nursery shall
be applied
TN addition to the plants lover 1000, 900
propagated at these gardens for the reser-
vations under the charge Of this office there
were also propagated over 10000 plants for
other departments of the government After
these were supplied the surplus remaining,
about 90, 600 plants, were distributed to hos
pitfalls, government offices and to whoever
asked for them"
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MakeHA1l Streets Beautiful.

From the Sayannah News
Plant treas and add to Savannahs beauty
No surer method, of rendering city beau
tiful can be .fouad. Trees create beauty
too that appeals to all Such beauty
eclipses that loaned by ornate architecture
1t is. moreover. TO be gained at but slight
cost-at an expense Of a few dollars and
some care. Certain portions of Savannah
present visions of arboreal beauty that
could scarcely be improved. Let these sec
tons be made the mark and model of
others wherein there has been little, If any.
effort put forth to draw upon nature for
her aid in rendering neghborhoods charm
ing With such object lessons within easy
reach the excuse of ignorance of methods
to be followed cannot be offered.
The love of the beautiful should be suffi-
cient to inspire citizens to plant trees.
should they have insufficient aestheticism
in their natures to move them the fact
that the value of property rendered at
tractive through the fundamentally of
trees is enhanced should induce them to
contribute their part toward a movement
that would serve to maintain for Savannah
her title of the forest city" With unan-
unity of desire. purpose and act. Savannah
ians could easily make their city a marvel
of arboreal attracttyeness.
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A Millionaire Inventor.

An interesting figure in New York life
was In this city this week in the person or
Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt. He was at the
New Willard. and as he moved about the
lobby of the hotel but few people knew the
New Yorker who has had rather unusual
career. The eldest son Of Cornelius Wander
biit, he was looked upon as the heir to tho
larger part of the Vanderbilt fortune His
marriage offended his father and althougb
ne supposed reconciliation had taken
place, when the Vanderbilt will was
opened it was found that he had been cnt
off with the sum of 100000, the income of
which was to be pad to him There was n
vast difference between that allowance and
the fortune of 900 or $50, DOC. 90 which
1t was supposed he would inherit. The will
was contested. and with the result that
S6.ooo,OO instead of a fifth of a million
was given, the young man as a compro-
mise. The young man with a paltry for
tune of 100000 very properly went to
work He became a railroad expert and
has invented many appliances with a view
to improving transportation facilities 1T is
said that a boiler of his design produces
enough income to support any ordinary
man.
In appearance young Vanderbilt is a man
Of thirty or thirty-five and dressed fault
lessly He strongly resembles his father.
His appearance does not indicate his habit
of DOMINIC pair Of overalls and going int a
shop for rough-and-ready practical work
His ambition lies In Il direction of a ra \
road career. and mary of his friends be-
iieve he will some ~ be an influence In
his chosen line OF TX His fortune Ia too
small to be any considerable help In push
Ing him ahead. as railroad control now
means the manipulation of hundreds Of
millions. whereas few years ago 1t meant
only millions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-10
Wives of Great Men.

From the London World.
Lord Salisbury's death has brought to
mind the great influence exercised upon
both his private and public life by his
wife. The most unaSSumng of women,
Lady Salisbury possessed the great faculty
of giving encouragement to and inspiring
enthusiasm in others, and her tact and
judgment were unerring. AS a wife she
proved a helpmeet indeed to the man who
risked his fathers ire in marrying as a
younger son, lady who possessed neither
beauty nor wealth, and moreover was not
of his own social rank. She made an ideal
poor mans Wife, for at the time of their
marriage Lord Salisbury, then Lord Robert
Cecil was working hard to earn an income,
and she was equally successful as the wife
of one of England'S greatest statesmen.
a woman who can have played two such
parts so to win the sincere approval
and devotion of her husband must indeed
have possessed high qualities When
comes to think 1T over, great EngliShmen
have in many notable instances possessed
wives of strong and sweet character who
in most cases have not been woman of
great mental attainments. man of dis
tinction, whether he is a statesman. poet,
painter scientist, does not want blaz-
ing star by his side 1t is the gentle, tact
full, reSourceful woman who stands him in
good stead. whose value is not patent to
every chance acquaintance. who desires not
glory for herself only that of keeping
her husband true to his best self and of
making her children worthy of their father.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-10
Hospitality and Sense.
From Golfers.

Americans. however critical. have a way
of doing things in public without the sense
of measure. We whoop man to a dizzy
height for nothing and drop him for the
same reason. Suppose a good-humored
grocer should make a great deal Of money
use it to pay princes debts. get thus into
the faster wing of British society, acquire
title buy lot of yachts and show equa-
nimity in defeat, a certain reward should
normally be his. Unless however, he has
more than money and cheerfulness, need
he become a public parsonage and the
cynosure of every eye? Is it dignified that
he be looked upon as national figure
the nations guest, Mr.. Chamberlain
would be, NJ de Witte or M.Waldeck- Rous-
Seau? Even, we will say, as Meredith Ib-
sen or Tolstoi might be? Is there not a
greater trail of Barnumsm in our cities
than we need, with all due appreciation OF
that INDUSTRIOUS exponent of publ city? We
read with resignation that marrying duke
has imported his solicitors to make sure of
a more liberal settlement from his pur-
chaser than was secured a few years ago
read with resignation a few hundred col
umns about the good humor of a common
place. however CHEEKY. Irish grocer II
however, anything happens to these gentle
men, to shake them from their unstable
pedeStalS, their fall will be observed with
equal resignation. If the President of the
United States, responding to such feelings
as these, ever should, however. tactlessly
draw the line on some of these ill-propor-
toned celebrations, he would lose nothing
In the opinion of comprehensive thinkers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-10
Esperanto.
From the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News
According to reports from Europe the
spread Of Esperanto, the language invented
for universal use has proved of value to
ESperantiSts. AT recent gathering in
London one of the guests brought with him
French gentleman and his wife and a
Czech from Bohemia. None of the three
could speak word of English, but Espe-
ranto was found to be a perfectly facile
medium for conversation. The Bohemian
gentleman had had various amusing expe-
riences while journeying through Europe.
He had taken one of the Esperanto jour
nails. marked the names of the secretaries
of the various groups in the foreign towns
through which he had to pass, and so, not
knowing anything of the languages, he had
Travelled through several continental coun-
tries. seeing all that was to be seen with
the help of various Esperanto friends, and
finally arrived in England. He knocked at
the door of a London Esperantist who
came down to interview the stranger and
found that he needed home while in Lon
don. but did not know where to GO as no
one could understand him. There was no
difficulty both could communicate in
Esperanto.
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to 'amuse himself with the boys" He
would take part In the debates with his
usual keenness, but Austen delighted In
using his power as chairman to suppress
his father and turn him DOWN for vio-
lating the rules of parliamentary pro-
cedure. The other members of the society
would gasp with horror. but Mr.. Chamber
lain was amused and pleased at the boys
independence
1t would be absurd to contend that Mr..
Austen Chamberlain has become a greater
man ,han his father. or that he is even as
yet, the iatters serious competitor. But
the son. at comparatively early age has
fulfilled an ambition which his father was
never able TO crafty. He has become
chancellor of the excheuuer-a position
which, by ancient tradition. is the third If
not the second in Importance in the British
cabinet.
Beat His Father
Mr.. Chamberlain has always wanted ia
be chancellor of the excheauer and has
made no secret of his ambition. He was
slated" for that post by Mr.. Gladstone.
but he left the liberal fold before he could
reach it,
When he first took Office under Lord
Salisbury he would have been made chan
ceiior except for vigorous conservative
revolt. Ihe old-faShioned tories who
looked on him with dislike and suspicion
ana with whose views Lord Salisbury him
self SympathiZed, urged that Lord Goscben
then Mr.. Goschen, and Sir Michael Hicks
Beach had prior claims by reason of senior
ity ana past services. Mr.. Chamberlain
mad to content himself with the office of
colonial secretary
AT a bound Austen Chamberlain hoc
taken the position which his father has
coveted Tor many years. Those who know
the two men we'll believe that the son Is
simply Keeping the place warm for his
iathef They say that Joe hopes to sweep
the country on his new tariff cry and go
pack INTO the government after a general
eiectlon. more powerful than ever. Then
austen Will step down from his new
PEDESTAL. and his father will become chan
celior or the excheauer. In that position
ne can best carry out his new tariff
scheme. provided the country indorses
them The son, so the prophets say would
probably take the fathers old place as
colonial secretary in a reconstructed cab
met.
That seems to be the present idea = is
plausible enough. If true II shows that the
TWO Chamberlains double one another In
politics Just as they do In Dress In speech
and in manner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-10
The Nut Harvest,
From the Boston Advertiser.

From the Boston Advertiser.
This years nut crop in Massachusetts
will not be worth much over $4,000 1t
has been an off year. owing to the late
frosts in the spring and the cold weather
of the summer. The nut trees blossomed
unusually heavy this year. and there was
prospect of an extraordinary harvest until
the cold winds of the latter part of May
killed the buds. Few people realize that
in a good season the Massachusetts nut
crop averages 100000 in value, and in ex-
traordinary years. this might have been
the yield has Melted between 100000 and
$500 900. The harvesting of nuts has be-
come an industry among the farmers of tho
central and western sections of the state.
Nut growers are not now infrequent, and
orchards of chestnuts. butternuts and wal
nuts are being planted in many spots which
heretofore have been totally unproductive
Beech forests are being preserved fo- the
value Of the nut alone.
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Morality.

From the Detroit Free Press
Tolstoi seems pretty foolish when e says
the Doukhobors exemplify the highest NOR
atty.
There was very little of tho Doukhcbor
about the Good Samaritan. whom the Lord
Himself made the pattern Of morality.
SeIf-destruction Is. not moral; saif-negiect
Is not moral; self-denial beyond a certain
point IS not moral.
Self-control is the main thing. perhaps
An occasional John the Baptist does
good; for everybody to be q John the Bap-
list were prerostarouA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-10
Think Of the Honor.

From the Chicago Tribune
Great Scott"' calculated the regular GUS
toner. looking at his bill for the month.
do you charge me all that for waxing my
mustache once a day"
DO you think" retorted the barber you
can go around looking like the emperor OF
Germany without its costing you some
thing?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-10
Example and Precept.
From Piek-Me-Up.

From Pfck-Mt-Cp.
Rector-"so you don't think I practice
what teach. deacon?'
Church warden-"Weli, considering that
YOU have been preaching on the subject of
resignation for the past thirty seven years.
1 don't quite think you do
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-10

IT see that the superintendent of a cook
ing school has had to retire on account OF
her health" what Is the matter with
her?' Dyspepsia. Judge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-10

"Is that Mr.. Chamberlain? Why. 1 hear
he's widower and great man In this
CITY. He doesn't look as If he were old
enough to be married. He looks just like a
clever. well-dressed boy" At that time Mr..
Chamberlain was over thirty.
Although the son is the double of the
father, it must not be imagined that he is
a slave to his influence and example. On
the contrary, Austen is a man Of great In
dependence of spirit.
Years ago, when he was a young man. he
presided over a debating society in Bir
mingham Now and then his father. already
a world famous statesman, would drop in