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nent but the parent Of them occupies
her lofty site in easy and unapproah-
obIa dignity and usefulness.
Howard University was wisely plac-
Oh at he nations capital. Here an al
most congested colored population was
found. and at its establishment the city
was even at is continues to be, a Nee
"a for the race. One of the first prin-
cinIes of it's foundation was that tut
tion should be free, and save in the
Medical Department where special
conditions exist, that broad principle
has been maintained in its operation.
At first it's activities were confined to
the preparatory, collegiate, Law and
Medical Departments, but ever alert
to keep pace with the best and high
est institutions Of learning, there
have been added from time to time,
other Departments as seemed essen
tiaI TO preserve and extend most
truly it's character as a University,
and to afford more liberal education.
Today there are twelve distinct col
leges or departments SubOrdlnated to
the University foundation. They are
the Theological, Medical, Dental, Phar-
maceutic, the Training School for Muir
ses, the Pedagogical, the Teachers, the
College, the Preparatory, the English,
the Music and the Industrial.
The instructors in all of these de-
nartments are men and women of ap-
proved educational qualifications, and
experience and it is to be noted are
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DRESS MAKING ACADExY.

The de Lam Orton Famous French
perfection Tailor System, Mime. ]. A.
SmaIlwood, sole agent, 1913 Madison
street, northwest
morning class from 8 a. m. to l D. m.
Afternoon class 2 to 5 d. M. daiIy
evenings from 7:30 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
Iallor System. Seamless Basoues
without one inch of visible seam. in
lining or goods, not eeven on the
shoulder. Successful dressmaking re-
qu1res as much earnest progressive
study as successful work in any pro-
fesslon. 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
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numerously of the colored race They
are all accomplishing a great work.
The students are also numerous.
Many of them especially in the pro-
fessional departments are white
Americans, and nearly every State in
the Union is represented. They come
from Cuba, Porto Rico, Jamaica, Bar
BADGES and the far off islands of the
sea. The Board of Trustees to whose
watchful care the interests of the Uni
Fersity. aside from the purify execu-
tive functions are conf1ded, is COM
posed of the following named gentle
men: Rev. Teunis S. MamIin, D. C.
Washington, d. c., Acting President.
Gen. Charles H. Howard, Chicago;
Gen. George w. Balloch, A M, LII. D.,
Washington, d. c.; Francis H Smith,
Washington, D. c.; John F. Cook,
Washington, D. c; William Ballan-
tyne, Washington, D.. c.; Rev. Franz
}. Grimke, D. D., Washington, D. C;
Hon. John Eaton, Ii. D., Washington,
D. c; Edward M Gallaudet, LII. D.,
Washington, d. c.; Maj. Gen. o. o.
Howard, LII. D., Burlington, Vt;
Henry E. Pellew, Washington, D. c.;
b. H Warner, Washington, d. c.;
James H. Meriwether, Washington, D.
G.; Hon. John r. Lynch, Washington,
ID. G; Rev. Bishop Benjamin Tucker
Ianner, IL. D., Phila., Pa; Hon. Job
barnard, Washington, d. c.; Rev.
CHARLES H. Richards, d. D., Philadel-
phla, Pa; Rev. William " Tunnel, S.
/ B., Washington, d. c.; Rev. A. F.
Beard, D. D., New York City; Judge
stanton ]. Peelle, Washington, d. c.;
Bishop Benz. F. Lee. d. d., Wilber-
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people. The University has been
fortunate in her officers, her presi-
dents, from General Howard down
to Dr. Mamlin, have all been men
of high aims and profound education
DR.. Hamlin, the pastor of the
Church of the Covenant, in this city,
an eloquent divine a man of deep
learning, broad culture and of con-
spicuous public usefulness, who was
already connected with the University
as a member of her Board of Trustees,
and who knew thoroughly therefore
the needs of the institution, which he
is now temporarily administering it's
affairs. The financial affairs of
the Institution are in capable hands
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KING HALL,

Massachusetts; Hon. Joseph H.
Choate, New York; Hon. George H.
White, North Carolina; Hon. Thomas
j. Kirkpatrick, Lynchburg, Va.
Of the Board of Trustees seven of
Its members are colored gentlemen,
who have won personal distinction in
various directions and who, like their
white colleagues, have been selected
Tor their known probity and their
knowledge of affairs. OF the honor
ary board, one colored gentleman is a
member. The latest statistics as to
the number of students in actual par
t1c1pation at the same time in the Uni
Vers1ty's activities are as follows:
Theological Department 61; Medical
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Freedman's Hospital are AFT tbe com
mand of her students and tbe nrofoc-
sors are all sholarly and absorbed in
thelr work. The same success has at
tended the Theological and Law De-
partment. There is hardly a single
colored practitioner in the District of
Columbia, who does not confess
Howard University as his Alma Mater
Her graduates have gone out into
the great, busy world, are doing their
duty manfully and are carrying with
them the banners of Howard's great
usefulness many of them with great
personal distinction. They are her
messengers of hope to submerged
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23O; Nurses Training
School 60; Law Department 96. he,
partment of Pedagogy 10; College De-
partment AZ; Preparatory Department
IA; English Department 134: Depart
ment of Agriculture IA; Music Denart-
ment 210; Total, 1163.
While all the department are doing
tn1s noble work, it is of course to he ex,
Pected that the outside world should
near oftenest of the graduates from its
professional departments. Of them all
the University is justly proud. Her
tleuIcdl i school is without a rival and
hardly with an equal in this country
The vast clinical facilities of the
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Stafford

a1so Mr. George H Stafford is
both the Secretary and Treasurer,
and in addition to his fine exc
cutive. abilities and what may be prop
erIy termed his agile mind, he has the
off of winning and perfect courtesy.
Howard University, then the Oldest
and vet the most vigorous institution
of its character in the country, IL not
in the world Differed and equipped
with a skill worthy of the great
Napoleon marches on in her unique
career of good, which must DO the
greatest service, not only to the col
ored race, but reciprocally TO gooo
government, to peace and PATRIOTISM
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House
Hurting j?

Our intending hou Q bu ers are frsqu ntly
vsI freQue ~ meG ftn ." mol -eI TO
colored,' II desIrab pro erry Is being CON-
sidered. Ii cooking for a b. me let me q n X
the m after over nth you. Have my list
some of the ost desirabe IONS es In Cleve-
Ial d Park, Columbia Heights, washington
Heights, ETC., ranging in prices frnm a6 6e0 TO
sl5 600 Desirable homes thr ugbout the
N, rtH est from $500 to $19 00 All dollars
10 sIike to the people through whom 1
carry on negotiations. obtain he closest
posstb figure: my services are free to you
1.-The o. her fellow pays the freight,
Six OF the eat pressed bri. houses, 6
rooms and bath In the 24o0 block, Sevsnth
$40 per mon b. Trust bears AZ per cent int
Three very desirable brick houses modern
improvements. ETC.. in LeDI oft Park at
$500, {3 300, ap 81, 200.
We'll built 81 DOM brick, modern i'm prove
Ineuts Twelfth ST. S.E. ore and one-half
blocks from Lincoln Park; az 500, easy terms
Il3I Sixth st NE, near proposed Union Sta-
tfon ano COvernment Printing Office. s2 500
800 cash balance 500 per month,
Very pretty room cottage in the exclusive
subsrb of Petworth. 1as furnace. all modern
i'm proven ents. etc. at She low figure of $4,000.
$500 cash, balance, s25 per month
1917 Twsnty-secoD0 st. w. 8 room brick,
modern improvements, in condition,
81 500
PARK. hYdrant in yard. street severed Verv
pleasant home for couple without children;
there are no cotored schools IN Tacoma.
If haven't what you wish can get 1t for
you.
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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.
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THE COLORED AMER,cnn,

force.
There is also an bono,.rv ts
composed of gentlemen who either bu
active service at the Univars;tv ~. -,
ilberality cordial and sympathetic in
terest in influential directions have
won It's gratitude. 1t is composed as
follows: o'0" 40
THE HONORARY BOARD
rev Danforth B. Nichols, M. D.. D. D..
MISSION Hill, S. Oak; Hon. William
3. Allison. Dubuque, Iowa; John A.
Cole. Chicago, ILL.,; Hon. Francis Way-
land, Ii. D., New Haven, Conn: Hon.
Joseph d. Savers, Texas; S. V. White.
brooklyn, N. Y; Hon. George F. Hoar,
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so NETTING NEW.

as-The Rapid Cigarette Maker is an article every
smoker should Possess. Handy to carry in
pocket ri handsomely nickel plated Sent post
paid to any address on receipt O: price IS cents.
A. Taylor. I26 Piusb-rg st. Uniontown Pa
Mention this pap when writing
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Saunk Joyce was sold in Mecklenburg, Virginia
several ears before the civil war; to Cunnie a.
Negro 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
formation will be gladly received.
MRS BETTY REYNOLDS
- Parker street. Atlanta Ga.
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Hyou have spare room that You would like Z
rem TO desirable parties. advertise then in The
Colored American.
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FOR RENTS ummer of 1908 lincoln Hall at
Harpers Ferry, w. Va. For particulars ad.
dress N. G. BI ackett.
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SUMMER RESORTS.
The colored American., 1903-05-09

John C. keSIAn.
BroBe ers' repress q tatiVe.
452Elm st, NV,
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gate. and dashed up the hall steps Of
Huntercombe.
Sir Charles sent Lady Bassett TO her
room for the night. She walked through
row OF ducking servants. bowling and
smiling like a gentle goddess.
Mary Gosport, afraid to march in a
long dress with the child. for fear Of ac-
cidents. handed him superbly 10 Miller
and strutted haughtily after her mistress.
noding patronage. Her follower. the
meek Mllar. stopped often 10 snow the
heir right and left with simple geniality
and kindness.
Sir Charles stood on the hall steps, and
invited all to come in and take pot-luck
Already the spits were turning before
great fires; n rump OF beef legs OF pork.
and pease- -puddings boiling I'm one cop
per: turkeys and fowls I'm another; Joints
and pies baking In the great brick ovens:
barrels OF beer on tap. and magnums Of
champagne and port marching steadily
up from the cellars. and forming in line
and square upon sideboards and tables.
Supper was laid in the hall. the dining
room. the drawing-room and the great
kitchen
Poor villagers trickled in; no man or
woman was denied II was open house
mat night as IL had been four hundred
years ago
tTo BE Contlnued)
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3 A TERRIBLE TEMPTATION {
CHARLES READE
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CHARLES READE

thousand things to tell each other. TO
murmur I'm each others ears, sitting low
ingly close TO each other.
But when all was quiet. and everybody
else was I'm bed, Lady Bassett plucked
UP courage and said, Charles. / am not
quite happy, There Is one thing wanting"
And then she hid her face in her hands
! and blushed. II cannot nurse him"
Never mind said Sir Charles kindly.
You forgive me?"
Forgive you, my poor girl. Why is
| that crime?"
1T leads TO so many things You don't
know what plague nurse is, and
| makes one jealous"
We'll. but IL is only for a time. Come.
/ Bella. this Is n little peevish. Don't let
us be ungrateful 20 heaven As for me.
while you and our child live. | am proof
against much greater misfortunes than
that"
Then Lady Bassett cleared up, and the
subject dropped.
But II was renewed next morning In n
more definite form.
Sir Charles rose early: and I'm the pride
and JOY OF his heart. and not quite with
out an eye To triumphing over his NOR
tai enemy and his cold friends. sent n
mounted messenger with orders TO his
servants 10 prepare for his immediate
reception, and TO send out his landau
and four horses TO the Rose" at Stave-
leigh, halfway between Huntercombe and
the place where he now was. Lady Bas-
sett had announced herself able for the
journey
After breakfast, he asked her rather
suddenly whether Mrs. Millar was not
rather an elderly woman TO select for a
nurse. II thought people got a young
woman for that office
oh" said Lady Bassett. why Mrs.
Millar is not the nurse. or course. nurse
is young and healthy. and frem the
and the best I could have in
every way for baby But yet--oh. Charles.
| hope you will not be angry-who do you
think nurse is7 II II Mary Gosport-Mary
Wells that was"
Sir Charles was a little staggered lie
put this and that together. and said
Why. she must have been playing the
fool then7"
Hush not % loud. dear. She is n mar
ried woman now, and her husband gone 20
sea, and her child dead. Most wet-nurses
have child Of their own: and don't you
think they must hate the strangers child
that parts them from their own? Now
baby II comfort 20 Mary And the
wet-nurse Is always a tyrant: and |
tnought a. this one has got into habit
OF ooeying me, she might be more man
aEeaole; and then as 20 her having been
inprndent. know many ladies who have
eeen Obliged 20 shut their eyes p little
ny. consider. Charles. would good wives
o sno good mothers leave their own chill.
eren 20 nurse stranRers7 Would their
husoanos let them? And thought" said
fhe piieously. we were 90 fortunate 10
te, a young healthy girl. imprudent but
not vicious. whose fault had been coveres
py marriage, ana then 90 attached "a us
az she IL, poor thingr'
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CHAPTER XXI.


30 full was the Joy OF this loving pair
What. for long time, they sat rocking
I'm each others arms, and thought OF
jnothing but their sorrows past, and the
lDea OF bliss they were floating on
But presently SIR Charles glanced
)nround for a moment Swift TO inter-
Ipret his every look. Lady Bassett rose.
took two steps, came back and printed
n kiss on his forehead. and then went to
n door and opened II.
Mrs. Millar" said she, with one OF
hhpee tones by which these ladies Inn
pregnnte with meaning a word that has
none at all; and then she came back to
her husband.
Soon a buxom woman OF forty appeared
Drarrying a biggish bank OF linen and
lace. with a little face I'm the middle.
The good woman held IL up TO Sir
Charles and he felt something novel stir
inside him. He looked at the little thing
with a vast yearning OF love. with pride.
and good deal OF curiosity; and then
turned smiling TO his wife. She had
watched him furtiveIy but keenly. and
his eyes were brfmming over He kiss
ed the little thing, and blessed IL. and
tlen took his wife's hands. and kissed
her wet eyes. and made her stand and
look at baby with him. hand In hand.
II was a pretty picture.
The buXom woman swelled her feathers
as simple women do when they exhibit
a treasure OF this sort; she lifted the
htte mite slowly up and down. and then
said, ''Oh. you beautyI' and then
went of into various lnartSculate
sounds. which I recommended 20 the
particular study OF the new philo-
sophers' they cannot have been I'm
vented after speech; that would be a
Ieuosression; they must be the
Nocai remains of that hairy sharp-eared
euaornped, our pr ;enitor. who by ac-
S,.n uiscovered language. and so turned
Dipeo' ana went ahead OF AN the ofnsr
hairy quadrupeds, whose ears ,.crs too
long or not sharp enough TO stuuble rnon
language. 'P'"
tnoer cover of these primeval sounds
Lady Bassett drew her HUSBAND . W.ttf
apart, and looking In his face w,,h 80
Gus wistfulness said: You won't nt,o
Richard Bassett and his baby nowY'
mot /"
you win never have another a, Will.
you liver ""''s
Il promise"
You will always be happy7"
II must be an ungratefui scoundre,
else, my dear"
Then baby In our best friend Oh Won
little angel And she pounced on the
mite. and kissed II far harder than Sir
Charles had. Heaven knows why these
gentle creatures are 30 rough with their
mouths 20 children, but 90 II is
And now how can a mere male relate ali
the pretty childish things that were said
end done 20 baby before the inevitable
soualling began. and baby was taken
away TO be consoied by another Of his
subjects.
Or Charles and Lady Baaeu had a
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bowled swiftly along over a smooth road.
with often turf at the side and that en-
abled the young farmers 10 canter along
side without dusting the carriage party.
Joined them; some they met turned back
with them. and these were regarded with
loud cheers. Every eye in the carriage
less flushed by this uproarious sympathy
so CALAMITY shown, and the thunder OF so
many horses feet, each carrying a friend.
was very exciting and glorious. Why;
before they got 10 the village they had
fourscore horsemen az their backs.
As they got close TO the village Mary
Gosport held out her arms for young
master: this wss not the time 10 forego
The church bells rang out a clashing
peal the cavalcade clattered into the vi.
lage Everybody was out 10 cheer. ano
as loud as the mems. old pensioners or
the house were out hareheaded; one. with
hair white as snow. was down on his
knees praying a blessing on them.
Lady Bassett began To cry softly, sir
charles. a little pale. but firm "a a rock
both bowing right and left. like royal per
sonages and we'll they might. Every
house I'm the village belonged TO them but
one.
ON approaching that one, Mary Gosport
turned her head around, and shot
glance around out OF the tail OF her eye.
Az. there was Richard Bassett. pale
and gloomy. half hid behind a tree az his
gate. but hates quick eye discerned him;
at the moment of passing she suddenly
lifted the child high. and showed II to
him pretending 20 show n 10 the crowd;
but her eye told the tale. for. with the act
OF fierce hatred and cunning triumph.
those black orhs shot a colored CLEAN like
a furious ieopardess.
A roar of cheers burst from the crowd
az that inspired gesture of woman
whose face and eyes seemed on hre. lady
Rassett turned pale.
The next moment they passed their own
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Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-03-20

cal office he has ever held. The vote,
at the first election in November last,
was a tie between Mr.. McCash and hts
opponent and a second election was
ordered. The certificate of election
was issued to Mr.. McCash's opponent,
and Mr.. McCash filed a contest for the
seat. The committee carefully exam
ined the evidence and decided that
Mr. McCash had received a majority
of three and that ne was entitled to
the seat, decision in which the House
concurred. Mr.. McCash is stanch
Republican, has made an attentive,
able and painstaking member and has
carefully looked after the interests of
his constituents.
He returns home with the conscious
ness of having performed the duties of
representative from Union county,
faithfully and efficiently and with the
respect and kind feeling towards him
of his associates in the assembly es-
pecially, and of the people who have
watched his course in the assembly,
generally.
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William F. McCash, who was the
able and efficient representative in the
35th legislative assembly from Union
county, is a native of Iowa, and was
born at Burlington in 1874, when Iowa
was yet a territory. For 40 years Bur-
lington was his home. When II years
of age Mr.. McCash enlisted for ser
vice in the war; The Iowa regiments
were very particular about accepting
those under age, but Mr.. McCash went
to Missouri where regulations We're
not so closely observed, and became
member of the 1st Missouri. He serv-
ed in the army three years and one
month and returned home when 20
years of age. He engaged in the lufn-
ber business and came west in 1886. He
lived in Colorado for time and has
been resident of Union county for IL
wears. He is now engaged in the rails
ing OF cattle and has a fine ranch. MI
McCash was married in 1874 and is the
father of two sons and four daughters
The present Office is the first politl-