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ft A i 14 SHREDS AND COMPARISON The sky of brightest grey seems dark To one whose sky waB ever white To one who never knew a spark Thro ah bis life of love or light The gayest cl ud aetms overbright Dunbar Three Men on Four Wheels is Jerome Jeromes rather eccentric title for the series of humorous stories which he has just completed for The Saturday Evening Post of Philadelphia Every one who has readThree Men in a Boat and who has not -will wish to follow the misadventures of Mr Jerome and his two companions on their ti ur through Germany astride a tandem and a safety Mr Jeromes wit is no lees keen no his humor lees kindly than when he scored his first great literary success ten years ago The first story of Mr Jeromes series will appear in the Post of January 6 It has been superbly illusttattd in half tone by Mr Har rison Fisher Many of our exchanges took a week off to eDjoy the holidays Kansas Oity has a population of 200000 one tenth of which is black Tae Kansas City Kising Son ia now an 8 page paper and a good1 one too Georgia has a Jim Crow sleeping car lawv and this places another black spot on her escutcheon If all the money in the world were divided equally among the people each person would get about 30 Lets divide no The Afro American Advance St Paul Minn ano State Capital Spring field 111 celebrated Xmas by appearing in pink attire Magnus RoninBon of Alexandria Va iB the editor and publisher of the only Masonic weeklyrpublished in the world for Negro Masons Consul Van Home and his eon who acts as hie private secretary at the Consulate at St Thomas 1 have returned to their post on the ialand of St Thomas Hotel Maceo is now an absolute certainty in New York It has proven that a high priced and flst class hotel in eveiy particular can be supported by Afro Americans Rev BowonD delivered the address on Emancipation Day at Newnan Ga January 1 1900 This is the place where Sam Hose was so cruelly put to death by a mob Rev Davenport has been selected as a correspondent for the Camden Daily Courier the leading paper in South Jersey It is the largest white paper published In that town Beginning with January 1 The American Citizen will absorb Prof Finkney of Arkansas and make him editor-in-chief of the only daily paper published by Negroes in the West There are no Negroes in Mltchel ccunty North Carolina says an exchange The vhite people of that county refused them employment under any circumstance hence their absence Prof Hall Chicagos popular dancing master is a graduate of a Kansas City Dancing Academy and la the mfffi1wttsrsXrifgffiivv PATCHES dfiss IPMJ TSfrjy only colored man now holding member ship in the National Dancing Masters Association Gordon SlcPherson the illumination end of the Salt Like Headlight ie charged by hia brethren with varying hia elevating editorial duties by giving dlvero and sundry cake walks and buck wing dances Chinese vs Negroes as American Citizens is the title of a neat little pamphlet published by Mr Scottron a member of the Brooklyn School Board and a well known Afro American The pamphlet haa much in it that deserves careful attention and is productive of thought Hon Thomas a prominent colored lawyer of Chicago died in that city Monday He was the first colored man to be elected to the legislature of Illinois and was regarded as the wealthiest colored man in Chicago He was born in Alabama in 1847 and has lived Chicago since 1870 Tne county court of Henrico Virginia on Saturday 16th inst affirmed the deoision of Squire Lewis in sending A Randolph Esq a well known Irwer to jail for thirty days for obtain ing 5 00 under also presences Mr Randolph took an appeal to the Circuit Court Ball was granted in the sum of 300 In Booker Washingtons interesting article The Case of the Negro published in the November Atlantic Monthly the Tuskegee President was const rvative in his views and these were so palpable and practical that al most the most radical agitator of the race question could subscribe to them Mr Washington iB about as safe aleader as the race has Christian Index For the first time in the history of the Circuit Court of St Louis a colored lawyer has been appointed pecial com missioner to take i deposition This honor was conferred on Hon Farmer by Judge William Zachritz of the Circuit Court The importance of such an appointment is seen when it ta known that all parties including the attorneys are white Occupying a conapicuous place in the home of Dr Bartol a noted abolitionist of Boston Is a life Bize oil painting of Americas greatest Negro Frederiok Douglass executed by his daughter In his study is a crayon portrait of Mr Douglass by the same artiat Although nearly 90 years of age Dr Bartol is as vigorous as a man of 60 and his heart is still in the right place on the subject of humanity Attorney Henry Johnson gave a banquet in Atlanta Ga December 12lh and entertained a host of friends in royal atyle The menu was out of the hackneyed order and waa so tempting that we almost took the train before realizing that the train before realizing that business must usually take precedence over pleasure The Colored American extends assurances etc The United States battleship Iowa now lying in San Francisco bay has in Its crew several young Negroes who have attained honorable distinction in the late Spanish American war Lef twich had charge of one of the six pounders on the bridge of the Iowa during the naval engagement off produces new pnowth and restores color and beHiity to gray lair Removes DAAUITIT itnd stop3 FV 1 1 I i aru brenliinjxoi i i 1 Covers bald spcts lit UAS is a Hair lood wh ch acts on the roots givins them the required nourishment It is naJe from absolutely pun veceable si not rtii off or niae the Lair gru isj iitiiiitaK3ftV TFTjP TTrKTWy Ti lEHE COlOKED AMEfelOAiT WASBiNaTbit 0 jni 5ife nmn ncML I rim The sale of three million bottles of this elegant hair dressing In the United States and Great Britain In 1898 proves 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EA8TERDAY ave and McPHERSON 5th and Gstsn MACKALLBROS 823 st Neely 11th cor st Remsburpr Elliott 1608 14 st Hurlebaush 14th stsn McGlue 4th sta CasBin 7th aadM stsn wPurdy 7th and sts Field 237 Hst ne 1 00 ONLY HISTORY ol the COLORED SOLDIERS 100 IN THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR By EDWARD A JOHNSON Author of the Famous School History of the Negro Race CONTAINS Pen pictures ol the Daring Charges made by Negro Soldier at San Juan El Caneyand around Santiago Corpoial Brown ki led at his post while firing a cannon htch knocked over the block buuse and saved the Rough Riders Sergeant Berry the colored soldier who was first to raise the American flag on Han an tiili The glowing tribute to McKinley Miles Root evelt and many others on the bravery ol Negro Soldiers General Morgan advocates Negro officers Antonio and Jose Maclo Gomez Miss Oiseros and the CubaD Womin Cavalry The Negro Paymasters in the Army The Negro Poet Paul Lawrence unbar Eddie Savoy the colored man who outwltteo the diplomacy ol the Spanif Minister at Washington The Neero who heals Uncle sams money The colored Register ol the Treasury who haB to sign Uncle Sams money to make It good Every Page Brimful of New and Interesting Reading with about fllty halt to ie and line engravings ol soldier officers and scenes of the late Spanish American War with a fine picture of aguinaldo his headquarters a Filipino lady ol Manila andabrlelcketchol the Pbllipinos and theii civilization Handsome Picture of General Nelson A mies the Major General In command all the American Army who said the fighting ol tfce colored soldiers around Santiago was without a parallel in the history of the world All lor 81 Much In Little Mailed Free AGENTS WANTED tgfBig percentage Send for copy of book and Agents terms Address A JOHNSON Corner West and Lenoir Streets Raleigh North Carolina Santiago July 3 1898 On the ship is Jordan chief gunners mate in charge of two of the Iowas five inch rifles A new Richmond in the literary arena 1b Aaron Belford Thompson the colored janitor of the Rossmoyn Pub lic school at Cincinnati Ohio He is entirely self Instructed He has been diEcovering the laws ot prosidy as best he could and his jingles are remarkably perfect in places He calls his volume Morning Glories and in order to publish it he bought type set the matter up and did the printing himself THE dams ffouse 682 and 584 BROADWAY ALBANY Opposite Delavan House First class accommodation fov Ladies and Gentlemen DJGGS JOHN IRVING Keeixan Fef an WHOLESALE LIQUOR DEALERS v462 Pennsylvania Ave KOI.