ed Collector of Port Wilm

hard T. Greener, of New York

s Register of Deeds of the Dist

e Second Congressional District of North Carolin

alized at $50,000, and established a new line of industry for colored labor, is

Lyons, of Augusta, Georgia, became his successor, and now has the honor of maki

omposed of a membership of 10,000 persons. This act of the Bishop is criticised by some of the Bishops and members of

cer at New Orleans, $5,000; Lee, Collector of port at Jacksonville, $4,000 (the best office in that State); Hill, Register of the Land Office in Mississippi, $3,000; Leftwich, Register of the Land Office in Al

TA SCOTT A

is but the fifth student of the Negro race to obtain this honor at the colleges for women in Massachusetts. Two received diplomas from Wellsley, one from Smith College and one from Vassar. Miss Scott is 20 years old. She was born in Richmond, Va., having graduated from the common schools in Boston. Miss Scott's te

ON: THE GAR

RY OF THE G

to show that the Negro Race withers under the influence of freedom, which is by no means true. It is possibly true that filth and disease does its fatal work in the Negro Race, the same as in other races among the filthy and corrupt, but the filthy and c

d in her mother's arms. They are all Baptists and thirteen of the family are members of the church. I had this photograph taken at Henderson, on April 8th. There are seventeen children, all living, of the same father and mother. A.J. Garnes spends quite a part of the time in teaching in his native county. When he is not

WONDER" ON

ichael, the little Welshman, in a special match race, best two out of three, one mi

down in the final lap, but on the next two heats Michael was so

LOUS

andpoint, and he established a new world's record which was

he passed the stand, dispirited and de

Bradley, who championed the colored boy during the entire season, issued a challenge to rac

ED YOUTH

shouts by the assemblage, and the colored vi

world's record of 1:45 3-5 for the distanc

n: COLEMAN C

'S RECORD

rst heat, but Major Taylor wiped this out and tied Betts' record against time in the second heat. As Taylor was on the outside for nearly two and a half laps,

AS A

ified this belief

e undoubtedly stamps him as the premier 'cycle sprinter of the world, and, judging from the staying qualities he exhibited in h

LIONAIRE FO

year. His wealth is estimated at $70,000,000. He was the property of the Uptons, of Dadeville, Ala. He contributes largely to educational institutions, has erected hospitals, etc. He is sought for his advice by the government whenever a bond issue, etc., is to be made. He lives in a palace and has hosts of servants to wait on his family. He married a native and has seven children. They have all been educated in this country. Two of his sons are in a mi

ALER WHO COULD STEAL

es who could steal $10,000,000 and not h

200 a year. He is a Negro an

sistant Treasurer of the United States, who, says that his is a place where automatic safe

printed on it there. It comes to the Treasury Building in sheets of four notes each, and when the seal has been imprinted on

OLORED MAN WHO PACKS AND SEALS

room in which the completion of the notes is a

is given in printed characters. Forty are put together in two piles of twenty each and placed an a power press. This press is worked by a lever, something lik

und it. This paper is folded as though about a pound of tea and sealed with w

d be noticed. But a dishonest man in Brown's position could slip a wad of

ome from the Treasurer a requisition for a package of notes of a certain denomination. The doctored package

in packing and sealing currency since

y Blair in 1861. In 1862 he was assigned to making up the currency packages and fulfilled that duty until his death, in 1894. No mistake was ever discovered in his w

orarily until November 1, when John

was receiving only $1,400 a ye

s on a sheet, making, when separated, 224,000 notes. These notes range in value from $1 to $20, and their aggregate is usually about $1,000,000. The g

day, the aggregate of value in the fifty-six packages would be $224,000,000. As it is, a l

$25,000,000 in a single day, and

urer's office for ten year prior to his death, in 1874. The son was appointed assistant mes

charge of the Insurgent forces w

packages in the storage vault, Ellis H. Roberts, Treasurer of the United States, would have to make it good. Mr. Roberts has given a bond to the government in the s

day. But the Treasurer's office is one which every responsible employee has been weighed

SCOVERS A

se has found frequent admission into leading magazines. At last a little collection of these verses reached William Dean Howells, and Mr. Dunbar's star at once became ascendant. He is said to be a full-blooded

f an environment more favorable to their literary development. So far as I could remember, Paul Dunbar was the only man of pure African blood and American civilization to feel the Negro life esthetically and express it lyrically. It seemed to me that this had come to its most modern consciousness in him, and that his brilliant and unique achievement was to have studied the American Negro objectively, and to have represented him as he found him to be, with humor, with sympathy, and yet with what the reader must instinctively feel to be entire truthfulness. I said that a race which had come to this effect in any m

n says of

oet, he would have received little or no consideration

e; and this novel and suggestive fact at once placed his work upon a peculiar footing of interest,

UL LAWRENCE DUNBA

one of Dunbar's di

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m the Liter

EMENT OF CO

he South-notably in the North Carolina Legislature against the rights and privileges of Negro citizenship, which culminated in the passage of a "Jim Crow" car law, and an act to amend the Constitution so as to disfranchise t

: FILIPINO LA

icious in its attacks on the colored soldiers, has the following to say as to the proposed North Carolina amendment, which is s

IN NORTH

Post, Feb.

h the Negro; to deny to the illiterate black man the right of access to the ballot box and yet to leave the way wide open to the equally illiterate whites. In our opinion the policy thus indicated is both dangerous and unjust. We expressed the same opinion in connection with the Louisiana laws, and we see no reason to amend ou

he Negroes are preferable. They are conservative; they are good citizens; they take no stock in social schisms and vagaries; they do not consort with anarchists; they cannot be made the tools and agents of incendiaries; they constitute the solid, worthy, estimable yeomanry of the South. Their influence in government would be infinitely more wholesome than the influence of the white sansculotte, the riff-raff, the idlers, the rowdies, and the outlaws. As between the Negro, no matter how illiterate he may be, and the "poor white," the property-ho

as proclaiming the unconstitutionality of the law. Both are eminent lawyers, and both devoted absolutely to the welfare of the South. We can o