The Appeal

VOL. 17. NO. 18. WHEN MEN MEET DEATH THE EASIEST THING IN LIFE IS THE PASSING TO THE REYOND Man Who Has Seen Hundreds Die Tells His Impressions of an Unfair World If there is such a thing as being an authority on death, Thomas-H. Andrews, surgeon to the bureau of police and fire, has conducted a course of thirty-seven years active practice, he has conducted over 4,000 postmortem examinations and has seen at half that number of human beings he. He talked freely on the subject of death yesterday, and in a most entertaining manner he went back to the days when he was the first medical cadet from Pennsylvania with the sanitary commission; when he was a member of the 300th of war at Falk, Oaks, Cold Harbor and in the Seven Days Fight; when he was assigned to the steamer Wilson Small, on the Pamunkey river, a floating charboard with 300 cases of syphiloid fever on board. Later on he was stationed in Philadelphia at a military hospital under the command of the 300 cases of syphiloid fever. For sixteen years he was demonstrator of anatomy at Jefferson hospital; was coroner's physician at the Army Hospital and women and children year as surgeon to the bureau of police and fire. He has looked at the fourteenth and fifteenth year as the summing up of all it: "Death is as much of a mystery to now as it was when I first saw a human." "Nature is never so kind to man as when she is severing the ties that bind her, unlimiting her every desire. She removes all fear, ameliorates every hard rounding, softens every sound and smooths the narrow pathway to the grave with kindly hands. The easiest thing she can do is "in your experience, Dr. Andrew," I asked, "have you ever found a case in which fear of death rose to the point of fainting, fought and screamed at its approach?" "Never, in severe sickness death comes in as a welcome visitor. On the battlefield you see a man who is suddenly or sudden shock, when it comes to a man swiftly, but a moment before was in peril, health and who half an hour before was dead, which I cannot describe and have never been able to analyze sustains the victim." "Do men and women of the higher grades of intelligence exhibit any different emotions as death approaches from those gifted with less mental power? Do men and women of the higher distict betray any different feelings or emotions from those exhibited by the day, the peasant, or the most ignorant of men." No and yes, was the reply, "The scientist, the man or woman of keen intelligence and trained faculties, unless their knowledge and woman of keen intelligence of faith in religion and its teachings, are slower to accept mininations of clergym and others. The man of low knowledge and woman of keen intelligence and calls for religious consolation. "The reason for this is, I think, that the vast majority of professional men, clergym and others, doctors and scientists generalize that when death is only a matters of hours. "I recall an instance during the war. One of the most distinguished men in the war, told him that he could not live and asked for a priest with a clergyman. He replied in a rather careless way that he did not feel disposed to change his life. That death, as he believed all and all, was the cause of dragging religion in at the last hour. "That was in the morning. He then felt strong and clear-minded. When I asked him to talk to me, he weaker, and referring to our earlier conversation told me that he had been raised in the Methodist faith, and that its teachings. He asked me to send for a Methodist clergyman, which I did. When I saw him just before he died he told me what com- putation he had given him and that he now minister had with a braver heart than he could have done, like it merecited this instance," said Mr. Andrews, "to show that there is nothing life, and even in the world, that can be an environment and teaching of his boyhood burglar and criminal, to motivate his office that a night never went over his prayers. "Has there ever been an demonstration of all the hundreds whom you have seen could hold of death which could indicate a positive indication of a future life?" "Have you ever encountered instances in which dying persons had told you of them you have seen, of voices they have heard?" "Yes, I recall particularly one instance, when he died, but revived for a little time before he finally passed away. He told me about a magnificent thing he had seen, 'beyond what I had believed, that I really believed that he saw them, but it was the hallucination of his disorientation and strong religious convictions that dominated by some illusion of the mind, that he was speaking and be accepted as convincing evidence of a demon. Dr. Andrew, it may be remarked, is a churchman with strong religious character, and above all, he wrote the above statement, that he was speaking and women in extremes, awarding from a semi-comatose condition, cannot be reevaluated. The evidence of their senses. Dr. Andrew, that persons of clean life, of honorable, upright religious character, to the approach of death, as those of our own, from care and toll, there is something about the approach of death that I did not, the perceptive characters are humbled, the perceptive quietness, painlessly, like a genetic sleep. In this condition, I mean, on the application of death law, where the incumcities to any degree become more or less philosophers. They know that death is inevitable; that it is only a question of hours, and they accept the verdict without any demonstration and, in a philosophical way, in all my exertions. I have never joined in usage in which a dying man or woman complained against the inevitable, attempted to fix their or even fitted it" said Dr. Appliers. Dates for Convention of National Association of Manufacturers. President Theodore C. Search, of the National Association of Manufacturers, has selected the dates of June 4, 5 and 6 for the holding of the sixth annual convention of the association, which will meet in New York. These dates which are most later in the year holding the annual convention, were chosen in order to secure the advantages of the convention. Detroit than would be found in January, which month the conventions have usually been held heretofore. Detroit then after consultation with the citizens of Detroit, who have manifested a great deal of interest in the coming convention, and who propose to make it one of the most nobilizable cities in the world that city. Mr. George H. Barbour, of Detroit, the Michigan vice president of the arrangements in Detroit. The opening of the Pan-American ex- embassy in Mexico to the dates fixed for the convention will enable manufacturers to arrange for a trip which will take in both points of interest and the programmes will also be made for excursions to points of interest on the lakes after adjournment of the convention, as that programme will be used. week this year will offer more than usual invitations for those who desire to attend the convention, and attendance at the convention, which have been held in suspense pending the decision of the executive committee as to whether to know when it is to be hold, indicates a mutual interest in this year's gathering. NEW HOLLAND SUBMAKINES. The First to Be Launched at Elkinsbortch Next Month. New York Tribune. These submarine torpedo boats are now being constructed or are under construction, eight in this country. They will be built out by Lewis Nixon, at the construction arm, and one for the Holland Submarine Torpedo Boat Company. This is the object of experiment for guidance in the construction of torpedo boats will probably be launched before the close of May. As yet no name has been given to these boats. Be called either the Fulton or the Bushnell. These boats now being built at Elkinsbortch will be uniform in size, their length will be 4 inches, width of shipships, 11 feet 9 inches; height to top of superstructure will displace 120 tons of salt water, but while running light (monotonically on the water) they will be on shore when they will rely on storage, batteries provided by horsepower gasoline and diesel engines each. These boats are to be provided by the motor. Under these conditions they will be on motor. Under these conditions they will be on motor. Under these conditions of action of sixty miles. The prompt and seven when submerged. With the tinkle exception the Americas short Whitehead torpedo to carry five Whitehead torpedo to gather with the launching tube, will have their only armament. One boat, however, will be deployed whose construction at Battlorn has been abandoned for various reasons and will be deployed, although these will be considered, although those on her sister sister ships than on those on her sister sister ships. Cuvier and the Ghost. But not even when half aleep could be assumed, the animal's characteristics of a carnivorous animal. It hibernates at the monsoon thing again. It is a creature that is content, "Horns-hoofs-gramivorous." The extinct monster retired, more extinct than ever, and the scientist returned triumphantly to his slumbera-Youth's Companion. Harmonious Minds The Father, a daughter, are must have the same amount of money after she is married that she had before. The Proper Spirit. First Doctor-I don't think it absolutely necessary to operate. Second Doctor-I told them it was. First Doctor-O, well, then, as a matter of professional courtesy, I of course, shall stand by what you said.-Like. THE APPEAL. LOVE FEAST OF THE GYPSIES UNCLE SAM DEALER IN EVERYTHING J.BULL GEN'L STORE THE KAISER STORE PARLEY VOO FRANCE JOHN CHINAMAN: "THE GENEROUS SOUL SHALL BE MADE FAT." Drawn by Cupid's invisible ribbons, whose hushes are brightened by the splenic outstretched fancy of the nomad, 8,000 lycan canine creatures on their way to St. Paul to participate in the first annual reunion, and in very truth "love feast," Romany Rye ever held in the West. Ere the suns of August beat down with parching heat the grasses of the Midway and the Rockies, where beating severally but mayhap expectantly in far tents of the Romany Rye, will be welded in St. Paul. Isaac Wells, king of the gryphs, has sent forth the slogan "We're ready to be ready the van guard has put in its up- UNCLER DEA EVERY JOHN CHINAMAN: pearance. The reunion of 1001 will be signalled by the attendance of several hundred Canadian Scotch and Irish gryphons, who will be led by the king, who will be at Dawdport, Iowa, but his sons-now at the Midway expect within the month there will be a reunion. The gryphons will number a, a number which will at no time grow 'appreciably' less until the goodness for the year are mild in the early autumn, and the number of the gryphs folk is in very truth It is then that the marriageable youth and malaes of the tribe meet, love and, with much the same mishaps failing to lovers of other races, are permitted to marry by reluctant parents. From all quarters of America come fond Romany men and women, who are anxious to see comfortably married, if not settled, and equally food papas and mammas of charming gypsy males, not half so anxious to lose their daughters, who, until Cupid's madious charms young swain, are valued contributors to the family exchequer. Frankly, the Romany folk say the young men are worth little, and parents are only too well pleased to contribute to their start in life, but the young men are not unless sickness or other dire misfortune overtakes them. A few brief weeks and the Midway groves will whisper with the tales of love, told with greater or less passion as opportunity afforded for the gypsy is the opportunity to perenning his daughter by his whole family. Few indeed are the secret love passages of the gypsy lovers. Fond of the theater and kindred amusements, the gypsy maidens, many of them stalking the streets, are the ones those pleasures to an extent not realized by the outside world, but under the strictest enolation. And when comes the Annual Season of Marriage and giving in marriage, the same strait, laced rules are relaxed in no particular. The young Romany galant must press effective Page his suit in the family circle, where every act and word is closely watched and lined for by the fair one's father and mother, and incidentally a complement to his mother, which emerges in conventional society when cared for monstrously large. The young man's father is not only wishing but anxious that there shall be no serious stumbling blocks placed in the way of his son, and while there is absolutely no buying or selling of wives among the Egyptian gypses, fathers of marriedable sons are wont to make with becoming publicly additions a proposed dowel with added alacrity as a result of the close contact to a close with obdurate parents standing in the light of a woman's happiness. SAM LER IN THING "THE GENEROUS SOUL SHALL THE WORLD'S FINEST WOMAN pains to spring or other source or water supply. Then, too, Elopements Are Not Unknown, in instances where the parents of the child have been unable to handle pleadings of the lovee and the mathering endowments of his father. Such a love story is that of James Wells, second son of the king of all the gypsies, and his beautiful wife, Mattie, now a matron of three summers, and the mother of a soft-eyed, brown-haired little prince of Romany, who is learning looked with groomly eyes. Mattie's mother of James, though son of the king he wished and abet a nephew of the husband of her bosom. James pleaded, the king importoned and beautiful Mattie's great slice black eyes were dimmed with tears. The mother hardened her heart and turned a deaf ear to all pleadings. She at last forbade James one light of her inside built inside one of the finest wagons. James waited, beneath the friendly trees shading the path which Mattie BULL EN'L STORE THE KAISER STORE PARLEY VOO FRANCE L BE MADE FAT." traversed for wate. Mattie's steps craved in the seclusion of the shade, an appointment that hurriedly planned, and the man found the handsome young man and woman of the tribe gone. The incensed mother, liberally endowed with world's goods, gifted and offered rewards for the man, and the man saw them again months later, there was nothing left for her to do but Hicca a Marriage Ceremony himself solemnized by the first clergyman, man and after leaving the camp of his fathers. Leonard Davis estimates that among the 0,000 gypies who will visit St. Paul, fully 20 marriages will be arranged, with no unwillingness to lose daughter, few tribals drawn upon the selection of life mates in gypsyland. Intermarriage between the tribes is discouraged. The tribal tibia is not and while intertribal marriage is not encouraged, it is beneficial with more or less discomfort for the new comer. He is welcomed, its true, and the members of his adopted tribe conceive of the tribe as he best describes as do his blood brothers, but he is never taken into their full confidence, nor in the course of a lifetime does the searcher perceptible but none the less know the tribe they are in. The tribes of his life partner entirely disappear. The Egyptian tribes are the dominant factors in Romany life and its scanty population, the tribes of tribes in America, which include about 75,000 souls, are in order, the German, scotch and Irish tribes. Or the Egyptian tribes, the men have one occupation, the women have horoscope and palma. The German Gyptians Are Famous Doctors, and the Scotch and Irish tribes are best known for the skillful lace making of their women. With interests as widely differ- ent as their majors, conventional brothers claiming 'the same', mother, countries, courtship is the same in all the tribes. The matches once made, all the members of the respective tribes of the contracting parties contribute liberally to their start in life. Horses, a wagon, tent and the furniture and untenails of the normal horse are given with unstained hand. Then the young man is joined in a pannion family (ordinarily two families travel together and rites of itself). The marriage rites of the old tribes were discarded with the advent of the Renaissance America and the laws of the land governing grapes are adhered to with punctuality. The coming reunion in St. Paul is the first ever held in the West. The home of an American grapes or rather those of the United States grapes having no well defined organization Dayton, Ohio, where they have very large landed interests. Formerly their reunions were held near Dayton and for several years have been held in New York near Newburgh. The Romany folk Have Avoided the West, their traditions being replete with tales of mistletoe storms, prairie fires and fortunesome travelers on the Western plains. The leaders and especially the king, Isaac Wells, a clear head man who has led his people for ten years, have worked through this prejudice and it is believed the number will be the most important in point of numbers present ever held in America. ON A JAPANESE RAILROAD. Curiosities of Travel in the Tight Little Island of the Orient. Little Island of the Orient. On the second and third-class carriages that the four-legged people of the Japanese people will feel well rewarded for their observations. On entering a carriage of the first class, the glass window and upon inquiry the interior of the carriage who travel in cars for the first time will be given a tour of the never before before, and if there are APP to put their heads through, if there is nothing to do, they will be rewarded. indicate that a substance bars the way they travel, carry rugs, for the car can be merely heated by a cloth laid on the door. Sometimes these are taken out at each station and newly filled ones put on the door. Sometimes they are allowed to stand till they get thoroughly cold, then opened the windows. Sometimes they are all pulling open the windows. Janet's mother used to an even temperature within doors. The smallest incident of travel is enough to ticket or has lost anything it is a matter of ticket or has lost anything it is a matter of many of the passengers read to them. Many of the passengers read to them the same unrestrained freedom in their hearts they are starting on a long journey they are capable of. A ring is sprinkled on anything that is not perforated never to sit on anything that is not perforated never to sit on anything that is not perforated or wooden clogs they shake off their "gets," or wooden clogs the thing is a smoke, in which both women and men ingested after cigarette but more often the latter. A B C A stranger in New York asked for backbone in a restaurant the other day, and he was not known in any first-class restaurant in the town. Maybe that is so. A stranger in the South. Any Southerner will tell you that, all of course, and it comes from that part of course, and it comes from that part of course. The meat is tender, provided the hog has not been permitted to outlive the allograft through the links which compose the bone is a filling of marrow. To the cultivated taste of a Southerner this marrow the most delicate substance of the porker. It is the sauce of the hog. It gives the meat a pinkish hue and makes backbone a delicacy in the South. It anticelibulum days in part of the year, when the winter, the backbone own hog meat for the winter, the backbone own hog meat for the winter, the backbone often when the hog was killed and salted and taken out and proper cooked—then the meat backbone, and that is by boiling—it was backbone means in the South, it was brought hot—but the meat was pone cornbread, from the hot oven, and then the meat came to mouth of the invited guest water more than the memory of the best app to palate. It is as well that no New York caterer should every try to introduce backbone, it is as well that no New York land where it originated—New York Sun. Ballot Boxes Adventure. Cocaine (Aix) Sun. The ballot box for Balkan presidents presents the personal aspect of the last election, who stole the place, or supported he did. Now he has made himself a master of made of steel and are handsome to know, and now knowing its use concluded to be just the thine to store her fine in a flagstaff. She intended going to New York, but not to buy, or trunk, as it had become known. She new ownership, was taken to the e- store, and took her box, and new ownership, was taken to the e- store, and took her box, and new ownership, was taken to the e- store, and took her box, and new ownership, was taken to the e- "Sir, I always return everything I am not entitled to." ready and pleased the schools who inhumbly dismissed him. So spare accounts. **Bullying His Wife.** Jones—Dear me! You say you often lay down the law to your wife; how do you go about it? Bones—Wonder all you need is firmness. I usually go into my study, lock the door, and do it through the keyhole—Th-Bita. **Sweet Woman's Sympathy.** He (competently) I'm just beginning to find my place in the world. She (diminutively)—Dear me! How humiliating— Recently Returned Officer of Thirteenth Minnesota Tulks of Uncle Sam's New Possecations in the Orient. "The Manila of today is a vastly different city from that which presented itself to the disgusted eyes of the Thirteenth Minnesota Tulks of Uncle Sam," said a late officer of that famous volunteer regiment, who has only recently returned from the capital of the Imagine, "continue he, 'a beautiful city of $30,000 inhabitants, lavishly fled nature to location and accomodation, and intermittently with narrow streets, on each side of which are built graceful structures of a peculiarly Spanish type, and at trequent intervals with narrow streets. Then imagine flowers flowering there. Then imagine all of them stone, too, almost absolutely bloockes with accumulations of fifth and patriotic matters of depth from two inches to two feet, with only a narrow clear space a long which the paladin is compelled to gingerly "This is the condition in which we found Manila, and we were so thoroughly weeded that we were glad to take the field, even in the rainy season, and face all the perils the weather and treacherous toe. We Metropolitan spent months chasing the Fellos, and we were ordered back to the city once more. "We went back, with our minds still dwelling upon the horrble state in which we had been and in love, a lovely spike, and metropolitan folded itself to our, astonished gaze. American push and American thoroughness had transformed this evil-scambling which were as clean as they are in any other city, and transformation was miraculous and, to realize the stupendous nature of the undertaking, one shou d have seen the town we had taken to military authorities it took in him. NATIVES WERE ASTONISHED. "Even the topid natives were astonished when they saw the forlgers strp off their mugs, and the crustations of mud and fish, which had been allowed to remain and stared within the memory of the oldest inhabitants, was a remark which I am told could to heard every day, and when at last the first time in their lives how lovely Marla could be made to look, their women managed to adhere to the news that the energy in from afar were capable of anything. "The Americans at once became poorest, and the class classes, who by the way, were always our friends, but with the poorer classes, who by the way, the most commonself to it, which most Marla was the way in which our soldiers spent their monthly stipends of $15 gold. The Spanish soldiers were something of an outcast, and $15 per month, and alongside of this our soldiers with a disposable income of $5 per month, and during days appeared to be bloated capitalists. "Another thing which strikes the American who has been in the country now will have been the rapidly growing facilities for education in the rapidly growing English language was taught in only rew of the private academies. Now there will soon be LAD American teachers in Manila, only in Manila, but all over the island. "You have heard a lot about the wild dissipation to which American officers in Manila, continued the same in Manila, but in a position to say that this is all exaggeration of the yellowest type. Of course in a gathering of thousands of men in Manila, many who forget themselves, but those men would have been just as bad any other, now that the prevalence of globals now that before the Americans got there, than are there now. A large proportion of the low dives have been shut down and the globals are now run on respectable lines. Although the back bone of the resistance has been broken, the island, especially with the northern portion of it, overrun with northern woodland, which do not scruple to pretend that they are representatives of American authority when it lives upon a defenseless village. It will take some time to terminate these merranging bands, and by that time even the most hostiles of the pageant may and indeed must the domination of the Americans is the best possible thing for the country. That Atypical Cook. M. Ondego (making a call)—I am sorry to hear you are having trouble with your cook. M. Ujjohn-Yes, I shall have to let Serena go. I didn't mind her practice; I don't mind that, but he wants to join our golf club—Chicago Tribute. The Difficulty Overcome. Brooks—when you'd pay me that fit you owe me, old fellow. Borowit—I couldn't think of it. Brooke. "Out I'm here to remind you of it" - Smart Set Z YOU READ The App THE APPEAL, A NATIONAL AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY ADAMS BROS. EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS 49 E. 4th St., St. Paul, Flinn. ISSUED SIMULTANEOUSLY IN Saint Paul, Minneapolis, Chicago, Washington, Louisville, St. Louis. ST. PAUL OFFICE, No. 110 Union Blk. 4th & Cedar, J. Q. ADAMS, Publisher. MINNEAPOLIS OFFICE, Guaranty Loan Bldg. Room 817 HENRY ROBERTS, Manager. CHICAGO OFFICE, 323-5 Dearborn St., Suite 310, C. F. ADAMS, Manager. WASHINGTON OFFICE, No. 1919 Eleventh St., Northwest CHAS. E. HALL, Manager. LOUISVILLE OFFICE, No. 312 W. Jefferson St. Room 3 W. V. PENN, Manager. ST. LOUIS OFFICE, No. 1002 Franklin Avenue. J. H. HARRISON, Manager. TERMS. 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The New Centruy Club, the leading woman's club of the state, held a meeting in St. Paul Wednesday afternoon and by a vote of forty-two to eighteen passed the following resolution: Defective Page "Whereas, clubs of colored women have applied for membership in both the general and the state federations of women's clubs; and "Whereas, the club women throughout the country have been requested to consider the desirability of such membership; "Therefore, be it resolved, That the New Century Club protests against any color line in the Minnesota state federation, and desires the conditions of membership therein to remain as they are at present—those of intellectual and moral fitness." The resolution had been presented by Mrs. Henry C. James a month ago and has been before the members since that time and therefore has been 9 REY JOHN JASPERS WILL Richmond, Va. May 1—The will of the Rev. John Jasper, of "De Sun Do Move" fame has been probated. The estate is valued at $2,840. His residence on St. James street to his wife, Mary, with the stipulation that thoroughly canvassed, and the immortal forty-two knew just what they were doing, in fact one of them remarked, "The new century woman is not afraid to act." Yet the emphatic adoption of the resolution by a vote of more than two to one was not secured without toll. "Palma non sine pulvere," commented a classical Centurion, compressing a red cheek with her handkerchief's limp place. Perspiration, at least, accompanied the contest, which lasted from 3 o'clock till after 5. But the club retained throughout its reputation for dignified tranquility. Not even the mercury and a burning question induced a really overtasty speech. The rulings of Mrs. George C. Squires, the president, at the first meeting of her term, were never criticised. The cartoonists were confounded, the paragraphists were brought low. It was maintained by the contrast that a club association is in effect a social association. If one can vote with a woman, hpplaua her essays and labor with her in committee, one CANNOT REFUSE TO VISIT HER. "You can't shake a woman's hand here and cut her on the avenue—that is, you can, but you shouldn't." If a colored woman sits in one's federation, why not in one's own club, and if in one's club, why not at one's dinner table? But the pros controverted such assumptions. It was, said Mrs. James' majority, the manifest duty of club women, as progressive and patriotic citizens, to be true to the spirit of the law and of the fourteenth amendment. If the nation has declared that its colored citizens are no less worthy than its white citizens, enlightened women should not presume to contradict. These views prevailed, although it was pointed out by the antis that the resolution indorsed not only the admission of colored clubs into the federation, but of colored women into the white clubs. Now, we hope to see the state federation sustain the action of the New Century Club and prove that as one of the members said Wednesday: "As goes the Century so goes the state." Again we say all honor to the noble women of the New Century Club of St. Paul. The commissioners of the District of Columbia are considering an anti-expectation ordinance which has called forth many protests. One writer, a Mr. Gilmer, says that the long trains of women are more disgusting than the spitting habit. He suggests that a regulation be adopted prohibiting long skirts or leaguing their wearers with the street sweepers. Mr. Gilmer asks that if the "ukase" is to be promulgated that it be amended so as to exempt the alleys, as men will certainly have to have some place to spit. FOILED. 1. Farmer—Hi, there, stranger, that's a toll bridge; 15 cents for a wagon, 10 cents his son Shadrack shall at all times have the right to use and occupy the room now held by him. At the death of the wife the property passes to Shadrack and Mary E. Glover, a daughter of the deceased. Washington is behind St. Paul in this progressive move. Signs decorate many buildings, posts, etc., which say: "Do not spit or throw fruit rinds upon the pavements under penalty of from $1 to $50 fine." It seems to be all a mistake about the finding of a rara ava in the person of Alia H. Crook, professor of mineralogy and petrology at Northwestern University, Chicago, who was reported in the daily papers to have admitted that he never swore, drank intoxicants, or kissed a woman. The professor has been interviewed again and says he never made any such admis- FAMILY O THE TENT CAMP Liberia's desire for the establishment by the United States of a coaling station on her coast will not be acceded to. Liberia believed that all danger of attempts on the part of France and other governments to seize territory from her would cease if such action were taken. Examination of the Liberian coast made by the Montgomery some time ago, and other information received by the navy department, show that there is no suitable site for a station, and the project has been abandoned. sions. The professor also gets back at them thus: "Are men who lead cleanly-lives so scarce, that when one is thought to be discovered he is regarded as a rara avis and called upon for explanations." Darrell's Island, one of the English Bermudas, is to be utilized as a prison for 1,700 Boer prisoners. The First West India Negro regiment of English soldiers will be the guards of the Boers. The popularity of President McKinley with all classes of people is being shown during his trip through the country. ED. THE APPEAL: A NATIONAL AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER. FAMILY OF ISAAC WELLS, KING OF THE GYPSIES Prof. Jesse Lawson addressed the lyeum of the Second Baptist, church Sunday afternoon on the "Political Future of the Negro in America." Mr. R. W. Thompson presided. A Maryland Afro-American dislocated his jaw while yawning the other day, and the services of three doctors were required to get the bones into place again. Edward Robinson, nine years old, fell from a metropolitan car at Ninth and D streets northwest Saturday and his arm was painfully injured. He was able to go home without assistance. Catherine Plowden, a young woman, who was employed-as a domestic at the house of Mr. Donaldson, No. 2907 Seventh street northwest, Brookland, died in the police ambulance Tuesday while being taken to Freedmen's hospital. Hobson Rowe, four years old, died at the Children's hospital Tuesday morning from the effects of burns received Saturday at his home near Arlington, Va., after he was about an open latrobe when his clothing caught fire, and he was burned about the face, hands and abdomen. George Paine, thirty-four years of age, and Mary Smith were thrown from a building and hurried northward and H streets northeast during a runaway and both were badly injured. They were placed in No. 9 patrol wagon and taken to the Casualty hospital, and after having their wounds dressed went to their homes. The eighty-fourth annual session of the Baltimore Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal church, which embraces the state of Maryland and the region where the being held in Frederick, Md. Bishop B. L. Lee of Wilberforce, O. B., is presiding, assisted F ISAAC WELLS. KING OF TR by Bishop B. W. Anett, of Wilberforce, and Bishop B. H. M. Turner, of Atlanta, Ga. About 125 ministers are in attendance, a number of whom are from Washington. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Tyson, of 2124 k Street northwest, gave a card party Saturday in honor of Mrs. Fannie Barrier Williams, who is visiting her sister in this city. Among those present were Register and Mrs. Lyons, Dr. and Mrs. Francis, Miss Anna, J. Cooper, Mrs. James, Prof. Love, C. F. Adams. The evening was pleasantly passed, playing progressive euche, and at 11 o'clock delicious refreshments were served. Robert B. Robinson, who is wanted in Boston, Mass., to answer to an indictment charging him with embezzlement and false pretenses, and who was arrested in 'this city on Monday, was turned over to the Massachusetts authorities on a requisition, from the governor of that state. Robinson was the governor printing office. He did not send the nation back to Boston to answer the charge against him. Robinson is charged with appropriating funds of the Order of Mystic. Shriner of Boston, Mass., to his own use. Benjamin O. Davis, of this city, a graduate of the High School, and an officer of the cadet corps, has been appointed a second lieutenant in the army and assigned to the Tenth cavalry. The young man has the distinction of being a canman who has ever risen from the ranks to a commissioned grade. He enlisted three years ago and served as a private, corporal and sergeant in the Ninth cavalry. He recently entered a commendable examination for promotion to the rank of captain and made an almost perfect record. The only other Afro-American officers in the army are Capt. Young, a graduate of West Point, and Maj. Lynch, paymaster, formerly a representative in Congress from Mississippi. Dr. Arthur Macdonald, specialist in the Bureau of Education, speaking of the present tendency toward childstudy, recently declared that more was known about the insane, the criminal, than the normal man. There is a very general representation from all states among the residents of Washington. Conclusions concerning the children, therefore, may be more applicable to our country as a whole. We give some resemblance to the situation in the public schools. As circumference of head increases mental ability increases. Afro-American girls have larger circumference of head at ages than white girls. Boys have greater circumference of head than girls. Boys of boys in their studies girls show percentages of average ability and so less variability, indicating less power 2. Sig. Somersault (late of Barnum's)—All right, pard. I'll just cross this way and it won't cost me a cent' THE MOVIE OF THE YEAR of adaptation. This is interpreted by some to be a defect from an evolutionary point of view. In white children brightness increases with age in most studies. In Afro-American children the reverse is the case. Dull children do not learn well. Children often the delullet. Mixture of nationalities does not seem to be favorable to the development of mental ability in the offspring. Prof. Jesse Lawson addressed the members of the Baptist Lyeum Sunday afternoon on "The Political Future of the Negro in America." Among other things Mr. Lawson said: "Justice has departed from this country and we are about thirty-six years removed from slavery and have had a hand in politics for about a quarter of a century. We were first made welcome by the Republican party, and in our early years we were not active in Congress. This is no more. Our political greatness has departed. The North and South have joined hands and had the Afro-American farewell. As one of the leaders in a campaign for the presidency to an audience of Baptists, I say now that only the great and powerful Catholic church can help us. (Great aplaeuse.) We may not all desire to join the Catholic church at once, but we must be God's will that we effect our salvation through the agency of the Catholic church. The leaders E GYPSIES have offered us protection and political rights within the folds of the Catholic church. 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A Compilation of a Number of Happenings, Social and Otherwise, Among the Afro-Americans of the Second City of This Glorious Union. Senator T. T. Allain, 3028 Dearborn street, is spending this week in Springfield among the law-makers. Mr. "Gus" Hutchinson, 371 Dearborn street, will leave in a day or so for an extended vacation at Milwaukee, Wils. Rev. William Gray, 164 West Fort-seventh street, who has been sick for the past two weeks, is now convalescent. Mr. Walter Johnson, of New York city, formerly of this city, is visiting Miss Blackburn, 327 Thirty-fourth street. Mr. Zack Daniels, the personal messenger of County Treasurer Raymond, is confined to his home by, sickness this week. Miss Stella Hart, of Indianapolis, Ind., is in the city for an indefinite stay. Miss Hart is stopping at 5340 Delaware street. Rt. R. C. Ranom, of the Institutional church has returned from a week's visit to Washington attending to church affairs. Married at 3431 Dearborn street last Thursday evening. Mr. Garner J. Hendricks and Mrs. M. Greeer, Rev A. L. Murray officiating. Rt. Rv. Moses Salter, presiding Bishop of Texas, of the A. M. E. Chicago and is the guest of Dr. Dr. Ransom. Don't fail to attend the Fisk Club concert Monday, May 27, at Grace Presbyterian church for the benefit of Fisk University. Best local talent. Mr. Lincoln C. Valle, 3601 Dearborn street, has returned from an extended trip to the West much improved in health. He will remain in Chicago. Mrs. Hall, wife of Dr. George C. Hill, is visiting friends in the East and will attend several months. The doctor will join the madam in a week or so. Mr. Garner J. Hendricks, 6412 Rhodes avenue, will leave for the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, N. Y., next Sunday to join the National Cyber Mayor Harrison has astonished everybody by appointing Capt. O'Neill as chief of police of Chicago, who is said to be a very capable and efficient police officer. Mrs. Ida Andrews, 2326 Dearborn street, who has been sick for several months at Provident hospital, is now fast recovering, to the gratification of her numerous friends. Mrs. Susan Lockett, of New Orleans, will be the principal of her daughter, Mrs. Anna Wilson, is still in the city the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard, 468 Third-street. Col. John R. Marshall and Maj. F. A. Denison spent several days in Springfield this week in the interest of the new regiment of Afro-Americans added to the Illinois National Guards. For the first time in many years Afro-Americans of Chicago are without a single representative among the numerous employees of the county where the court is the matter with Phil. Knopf? Rt. Rev. A. Grant, presiding Bishop of this district and one of the ablest pulpit orators of the country, will lecture at the Institutional Church and Social Settlement, Monday evening; subject, "Little Things." St. Monica's Court of Catholic Forsters have a creditable showing last Sunday at the Afro-American Catholic church, Thirty-fifth and Dearborn sixth, excavating the annual communion service of the court. The famous original Fisk Jubilee Singers from the university located at Nashville, Tenn., gave a concert in Armour Mission Hall, Tuesday evening to a large and appreciative audience for the benefit of Provident hospital. The young ladies of the St. Thomas Episcopal church gave a social Monday evening at Mrs. Hubbard's ninth street and Wabash avenue, the affection of the rector, Rev. Lealted. A pleasant and enjoyable time is reported. Ex-County Commissioner E. H. Wright has moved his law offices from Suite 612, 125 South Clark street, to more desirable and commodious quarters in Suite 421, 260 South Clark street. He will continue the general practice of law. The friends of Mrs. Rannie Hall. The friends of Mrs. Rannie Hall. The friends of Mrs. Rannie Hall. Dearborn street. It's a boy, weighing ten pounds. Congratulations. Corporal Alexander A. Payne, 2974 Dearborn street, of Company D, Ninth Battalion, Illinois National Guard, won a fine silver medal in a competitive against all of the white and African-American of the National Guard at the First regiment armory last week, as Chicago's best-drilled soldier. The many Chicago friends and admirers of Paul Laurence Dunbar, the poet and reader, will regret to learn that his health far from good. At the University of Chicago, he attended Ala, the guest of President Washington. During his stay at the Institute he will give several readings and lectures to the students. It is reported that the only circus owned and managed by an Afro-American theater company now showing in Milwaukee, will soon come to Chicago. The professor and his show will be heartily welcomed to this city. THE APEAL hopes that he may conclude to spread his canvas here for a series of performances. Last Saturday evening the entertainment committee of the Appalachian Theaterbers only. Twenty-four members engaged in the contest, and after a spirited battle, lasting several hours, James Nelson and Mark Cowan were handsome gold ear pins as first and second prizes. Afto-American property, owners and representatives of the South End Men's Club, the Phyllis Wheatley Women's League, and the League have drawn up a strong, poli- "You too?" Everyone smokes the strictly High Grade DUKE OF PARMA CIGARS HART & MURPHY, MNFRS. ST. PAUL, MINN. HAVE SEEN YOU THE GordonHat Headquarters for the Gordon. Our New American Mammoth THE BEST AND LARGEST MANGLE FIRST ONE IN THE STATE. Lowest Prices on Flat Work SHIRTS, 100. COLLARS and CUFFS, 10. is about all there is to some advertisements, especially in the clothing business. It is absolutely necessary to convince an intelligent buyer that he is buying a $15.00 or $20.00 suit for $5.00. That isn't our way of doing business. 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The trouble resulted from the disappearance of her friend, a former employee heading to Matiie Golden, one of the women barbers in the establishment. A customer whom she was shaving complained of the work and Mrs. Golden concluded to use another razor. The razor she sought was missing. The worker, a former employee, and demanded the work be finished by one of the other employees. This aroused the ires of Mrs. Golden. She accused Frank Thomas, the porter, of purposing her razor, and the worker of charging Mrs. Golden isSilenced the hat. Thomas with a razor. The latter sought protection behind his boot-blacking and then ran around the room with the woman in pursuit. This ended when Mrs. A. Peplier, the manager, with the assistance of Mrs. Cahley, succeeded in tripping Mrs. Golden. RAILROAD MEN TO ORGANIZE Aro-Americans in the railway service in this section of the country met Tuesday evening in the Institutional church, at Thirty-eight and Dearborn Park, in Chicago, the system of a benevolent and protective association. It is estimated that more than 2,500 Aro-Americans are working in various capacities for the Pullman company and the railway in Chicago, an organization cannot fail to be of great benefit to its members. Membership in the new organization will not be confined to sleeping car porters, the railway workers, brakemen and the firemen in the service. No strikes will be tolerated under any circumstances. Many high officials have given the approval of the Chicago, G. McIntosh, of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific road is giving his personal attention to the matter. A building is to be erected and the sleeping apartments, an assembly room and the paraphernalia of a gymnasium, H. T. Pelkey, who is a leader in the present movement, said today: "Our chief aim is to improve the men and women in wages and a more general recognition of intelligence and ability." THE BENEDICTS. A Young Married Men's Social and Literary Club Organized. Mr. Julius N. Avendorph, who has, for the last fourteen years, organized and served as president of all the leading social clubs of Chicago, has been a member of the literary and married people's social affairs. In response to such a call Mr. Avendorph gathered around him Sunday afternoon, at the residence of R. B. Harrison, his close friends, the following young married men: Harvey Harrison, William Harrison, Lawrence Harrison, Jack Turnley, William Emanuel, Robert Davis, Edward Mead, Dock Smith, Charles M. Washington, Dr. A. L. Smith, Dr. W. T. W. Jefferson and Robert Harding, as the members of the men's social and literary club was organized, to be known as "The Benedicts." The membership is limited to twenty members. The members will not confine themselves to dancing alone for their amusement; literary as well as have a place on its social calendar. One of the pleasant features of the club is there no coterie of officers with a set of by-laws sufficient to govern the state legislature. The business, as well as the investment in an executive committee, which is as follows: Julius N. Avenord, chairman; R. B. Harrison, secretary; David Weir, William Emanuel and E. Warren. The meeting meet Saturday evening, which time the executive committee will submit the social calendar for the season. GOOD BARBER WANTED. WANTED: A steady, first-class barber. Adjacent Turner & Parker, 113 Howard street, Spokane, Wash. A first class barber of good habits has got a steady job by applying to H. L. Johnson, 27 East Superior street, Duluth, Minn. Burase to Death. 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Staunton, Va., May 1—Mayor Griffith and his three friends, Peters, Afro-American, here for safetykeeping, Peters shot Lottie Fields, also Afro-American, at Basic this afternoon the eleventh-year-old girl dying almost instantly. Peters says the girl shot herself. SCRAPS Damages of $2,000 are asked by a Kansas City baker from a woman who spread a report that he kneaded his bread with his feet. Like the bonito, the kingfisher's colors dull after death. No one who has seen only the stuffed bird can form any idea of the brilliance of its plumage when alive. An octopus has been added to the New York aquarium. It came from the waters around Bermuda, and measures three feet in length from tip to tip of its extended arms. Feeing servants is strictly forbidden in London hotels. Great Britain and Ireland have 21,700 miles of railway. More than 15,000,000 visits are paid annually to London pawn shops. Massachusetts uses more stamps in proportion to population than any other state. There are said to be over 400,000 cats in London, of which half are "unattached." More candy is consumed in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago than in the whole of France. More than 2,000 people earn a living in Paris by fortune telling, their total earnings being estimated at $2,000,000. The Chinese discovered gunpowder at least 800 years ago, and made stone mortars that threw heavy stone projectiles. A Chicago firm has set up a line of automobiles to transport passengers between its store and one of the rail-read stations for 5 cents. It is computed that the average industry has added annually $45,000,000 directly and $60,000,000 indirectly to the taxable wealth of the United States. There are more than 9,000 commercial florists in the United States, representing an invested capital of $111,250,000 and an annual trade of $27,750,000—Indianapolis News. A pound of phosphorus heads 1,030,000 matches. Sheep thrive best in a pasture where moles are numerous. The mole holes serve to drain the land. Ten thousand Irish children are taught the Erse language. The only European country which has a lower death rate than England is Norway. Nature has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.-Addison. Denmark claims that there is not a single person in her domain who can not read and write. There are over 15,000 Japanese residences in Korea, as well as a large, shifting Chinese population. A return shows that during 1899 41-223 natives emigrated from Ireland, nearly 9,000 more than the preceding year. Cigarettes are smoked almost exclusively in Germany, Austria, Russia, and Greece, and generally throughout Europe. Fines of 50 pfennings (12 cents) are collected by tramway conductors of Frankfort, Germany, for any dirt carried into the car. The pastor of a Baptist church in Emporia, Kas., the other afternoon, found three youngsters using the baptismal font as a swimming hole. SAYINGS OF THE SAGE. A woman never forlives a man for his kindness in bringing her husband home drunk. Probably the love of the angels for men is as tender and sweet as the love of an old maid for the new minister. A man can't please all women part of the time, but he can always smile at all of their babies. Selfishness probably never would have existed if it weren't for love. A woman can afford to forgive her husband for everything except marrying her. A baby's smile is the sweetest thing in the world; it is a combination of contentment, idolacy and hugs. If men were as noble and heroic as the wives think they are there would be many monuments around that the street care world all have to run underground—New York Press. The newest thing in medical science is the "isolation cure." Australia consumes more meat than any other country. More doctors, it is claimed, are kept busy in Australia than in any other country. A $100,000 school house for colored children is to be erected at Bristol, Tenn. 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