The Appeal

THE APPEAL STEADILY GAINS BECAUSE: 1-It aims to publish all the news possible. 2-He has a strong editorial position. 3-His correspondents are able and energetic. THE HANDLING OF JAGS VOL.17.NO.29. had master handle, reason that one of some other kinds I've met up with" remarked the quiet-mannered, low-voiced expert bouncer of a lively Broadway cafe, as he straightened his necktie and adjusted his cuffs. He had just finished the job of depositing a harcoolan young man in a crab. He watched his neck tucked bobsterous. He had announced that he was assiduously hunting for trouble and loss of it, and he said that he had figured out that he was in the right place. Then he emitted powerful whoops and beats, and he tended to raze the building to the ground and fire a volley or so over it. He grabbed an empty champagne bottle to begin operations on the bar mirrors. Then a very blank spread over his face, for he found his arms pinched tightly. He was beamed around with steel cables. Then he was grabbed from behind by both shoulders and a knee was firmly inserted in the small of his back to give him a good upright position. Then he was swiftly propelled right through the building and into the crab that stood waiting. "Drive him to any old place," said the expert bouncer to the cabman, slamming the cab door. "To his little white bunk would be best, if you know where that cabman grinned and started up his horse. "Yes, went on the expert bouncer, "onelike that's easy. You know where you stand with a jag like that. He doesn't bore you any, or waste any of your time. He just gets off the reservation and beats him, and the reins is just like shaking a percussion tree for the ripe ones. "Give me, every time, the boy that's got a replinout for rough-house work and is frank enough to say so. That's what he does. He ferocious jag comes right out and announces that the only occasions on which he gloats real hard are those when he is wallowing in crime and dark doings, and insists upon the barkeep's sending out for a few plano movers and tunnel hands until he is ready for action I like to get for my wages. It's the quick stuff, and there's no palvering or soft soaping in it. "I'm not trying to put on the Sunder vest, but I think I may rightfully have climbed to record in handling that kind. I can feel the footed depth that cubic more than six feet high out into the night air just eight and three-quarter seconds from his initial announcement that he would to tear the plant down with his naked hand and vanguarding, but these figures ought to speak for themselves. "My job here, however, doesn't consist altogether in running 'em out the way you did, but it only toy with the forcible jaws that want to be several millions of distinct and separate species of jags, not taking into account the sub-species and the variegated hybrid styles, and each jag requires a different design." "For instance, the weepy jags are all passed along to me by the barkeens for comfort. It's part of my graft to give and suture of sorrow to the weepy jags. A good many of the weepy jags are also used to let 'em get sore on the place. The weepy jag never, by any possibility, knows why he is weepy. His most common observation is that life's a frost and ice, and that he doesn't see much n it. "Then he weeps more copiously than ever. He's generally got a few lines of very sad verse on tap, and these he lets no have with great frequency. Oh, for the touch of a vanish-ed hand!" is one bunch of words that all the weepy jaws seem to like a whole heap, and "O death in life, the days that are no more!" is another mess out of the Complete Elocudont that they've all got pat. However, the weepy jaws can be got around, although it's sometimes a long process. "I generally tell 'em funny stories. The first two or three don't go at all as a rule. The subject is determined to be gloomy and weepy, and he looks at me kind of reproachfully for darling to presume that the awful shadow on his life is capable of being lifted by any such medium as a rataplan of funny yarns. But I always persist along this line, and when I screw the first grin out of the weepy jag I know I've got him." "From that on to tumultuous laughter by the jag in a state of weeps but a short time before is easy enough when the jag is in a state of weeps. There are sathers of weepy jags in this hike for me whenever they begin to sook their shirt fronts, and I never sent one of an away jag that didn't have a chuckle or a little bit funny, for I'm not; it's only because the nature of my job has forced me to make a study of the weepy jag, along with all the rest of the jag species, and I know how and when to harpoon him. "The weepy jag should not be confounded with the phony sucelidar jag. The sucelidar jag is a counterfeit pure and simple. He's a bogus. But he's often a good regular customer, too, and I know how to swallow the sucelidar jag is always going to have just one more drink and then he's going to patrol right down to the North river and jump off the dock; or he's going in his head off; or he's going to swallow the sucelidar jag if he's been to see "Quo Vadai," he's going to do the Petronius stunt and open a vein and take a little tounge adown the aschodel meadows—I had a lot of the Quo Vadai" was running here last year. "There's no weepiness about the suicidal lag. He's deadly cold and deliberate in his statements. He talks about his ending in a cimmy way that he thinks is better. But the suicidal lag who announces his purpose in this dispassionate, impersonal way never really has any idea what whatever of going across the big divide. Nary anyone has ever done that, so impaled me with the sagittal eyes and told me that they would be floating in the North river inside of twenty minutes-if all or even half of cmd had done it. The river boats that have been river boats would have been kicking long ago for double wages. shunted along in my direction, and I don't have much trouble with them. I always pretend that I actually believe that they're just on the point of making away with themselves, and I tell them not to look at them, but what they're on the right task; that there isn't much in the game, after all, when you come to look at it, and that the dead ones are probably a heap better off. This line of argument sort o'r' in phony dialogue, and he comes up with a case for not being such a much to go on living myself at that. Then I hand him a little argument as to that, and then a funny story or so, and then I tell him where there's a good chance he'll shake hands with him and tell him relieved I am over his resolution not to commit suicide, but to take up the white man's bundle again, and he goes away believing that I'm under the impression that I have saved him from "A pretty hard jig to handle is the one that thinks everybody has offended him and that all hands around the place are again him. If the barken, at home from the fire, is not in the room, compelled to break the thread for a moment in order to 'wait on somebody else, this chap gets mortality offended. He becomes an abused man for a fact. He's not a victim, at home says he. We've knocking him. It's pretty hard to have a lot of knockers for friends, darned if it ain't. He can't understand why the whole bunch should be punished. He doesn't know that he's done anything to cause him to be treated in that way. He doesn't owe any of us a dollar, does he? And he's been dropping in and押着我们. He's long while, hasn't he? Woh, why have we all entered into a conspiracy to humiliate him, and show him up, and make him feel cheap. We ooohooo ooohoo the offended jig. He'll talk on you and you've got to use a lot of patience to bring him round. When a man with one of these offended bums on comes in I always know that I've got to cancel all dates for a couple weeks ahead in order to square things up. "The benevolent jag is dangerous. He has to be watched very closely. The benevolent jag wants to give away a little bit of his strength, a dale horse collar, his watch and chain, his three-stone ring, and his diamond pin. He wants to give these them. He's dangerous anybody that accepts it, but if he doesn't care off carefully he'll stack up against some grafter who'll take his goods, and then there's bound to be as bellow in the benevolent jag's knees when the benevolent jag comes to on the following day. "A lot of these benevolent jags drift in here. If they're strangers it's my business to see to it that they don't remain around and steer 'em off somewhere else. If I know the benevolent jag, however, I very graciously accept his proffered roll when he demands that it take as a litter, and I often take his glitters, too." "I'm more fun than a bushel of mon, keys to meet with one of these philanthropic jags on the day after, and watch for about half an hour, the worry and the excitement of the night before, and then to flush his wad and his gig-lamps on him, but the average benevolent jag is a precarious proposition to have around, and if I don't know him I'm pretty likely to have there's a prettier plaster daxen the side." "The billionaire jacket is a common type. He imagines that he's the revised edition of Cool Oll John. He flashes a two-dollar note—his whole pile—on the barkeeper. When he barkeeper—who's next to the barkeeper by a sort of instinct that barkeepes on this Main street possess-pollyly requests that the price of the several basements be warm the veins of the whole house be heated, and that it is horribly insulted, and demands that a blank checkbook and pen and ink be produced, so that he can scribble a draft for $10,000 or so. That the billionaire jacket has spent most of his coin without remembering the fact, or he's a chap who's gone through a lot of money and forgets that it's gone through or he's a piker with that mental twirl that rims give him a sense of being the delirium grandeur. But to whatever subspecies he belongs he's got to be stroked right and led away, and I'm here to stroke and lead him. He's another one of those delirium-of-grandure boys. He's the greatest human being on the globe in his particular line for the time being, and he isn't about coming to the front and proclaiming the fact. A large man is the most statistical jags along this route are actors. "The egotistical actor fag always quotes the lines wherewilh he killed 'em dead and got the biggest hand of the character, and got the curtsey curtails calls and made the woman a sneeze, out in Painted Post, when he was last on tour; and assures the barkeeps and everybody else that'll listen to him that he's got all the rest of the population, and so you know why so many foot-tons that it's not worth while talking about the matter. "But he talks on and on about how great he is, nevertheless, and when he gets into a generate into a mournful spectacle I express the center of the stage, under the bunchelight, and agree with all that he has to say about himself, but suggest that we go up the line a bit to see how the evenings play like that in motion to the end of removing him from immediate juxtaposition to this planet. He's not a pleasant type of a jag, the egotistical, but he has be rubbed the proper way, like all the rest." "The colossal liar jag is not hard to manage. All you've got to do is to listen to him and to pretend that you believe him. It's hard to keep your face straight sometimes, but if you grinned he'd be deeply aggrieved, and that wouldn't do anything. The colossal liar jag is not where on the globe and knows everybody." THE APPEAL. THE FOUR YANKEES WHO TERRORIZED ARIZONA DAN ELKINS COPIES OF OLD PHOTOS AT YUMA PENITENTIARY BOB WILCOX IN BERNARDINO, Cal. al- d. the diggers. "The digit Wilson," Bob Wilcox's body from its lonely grave among the sunbaked foothills and al- d. S from its lonely grave among the sunbaked foothills and all over Arizona last week has started a train of reminiscences among all the old-timers in the Southwest concerning your Yankees whose crimes and desperate outwatches territories twenty years back. Five years ago some one came out to Phoenix, Ariz, from Pittfield, Mass., and had the bones of Dan Elkins, the bandit, dug up and sent to the dead outawah' home near Dayton, Ohio, where he yardside along his soldier brothers. And now Nestor B. Carroll of the village of Haydenville, near Northampton, Mass., for reasons of his own has caused the recollection of the elks quartet of bandits—to the locality in Western Massachusetts where Outlaw B was born and reared in an old fashioned plums home fifty old and a few years later. Wilcox family has instructed him to na- Bob's bones exhued, coffined and sent back in Haydenville, Carroll declines to It is doubtful if there ever was a gang more notorious than the four New England fellows who composed the Eikins stories twenty years ago dreaded the gang, and everybody in the Southwest during the last few years has heard of Yankee Dan, as Eikins was known, and his fellow cox and his half-brother Bill Howard; George Wilbur and Dan Eikins, Wilcox and Howard came from Haydenville, Mass.; Wilbur came from Lowell, Mass.; Eikins came from Eikins' family amassed the Berkshire Hills, near DAN ELKINS Pittsfield. It is believed he was a distant relative of the late John J. Ingalls of Kansas. All the members of the Elkins gang kept close mouths about their wives and children, and when he lay dying in Yuma penitentiary a few years ago, told a lot of facts that he and his brother bandits had kept secret. Four outwits went into the Colorado and Idaho mining camps in the sixties to get rich by mining. They found prospecting and gold-digging too slow and tame for them, and they became camp hangers on and then evolved into desperate and men generally. They were wonderfully smart, and one, gambled with perfect abandon, and they soon had a following. Whatever reputation they had on the plains and in other mining camps did not follow them to Tombatsite, and for a few months the men were involved with that of most men around them. Bill Howard became the night city marshal in Tombale in the fall of 1875. It is uncertain whence he derived his autobiography, but it is known that he then and there were no legally constituted powers. It probably was conferred upon him by common consent, or rather assumed by him in the absence of protest. But, however acquired, he found himself in a position of authority that terrorized the evil and good alike. Of medium stature, with an enormous head, prodigious breadth of shoulders, immense muscular development and exquisite intelligence, and a enormous compromise between a Hercules and a monstrosity. For six or seven months he conducted himself with tolerable propriety and had a reputable enough standing, although most most preferred he to the other. He was harshness he heretofore had been, he had now entered, a school that quickly developed his inmate deprivation and ferocity. He was beginning to imagine himself an assumption that never yet worked. One night Howard was caught committing a petty highway robbery. It was believed he had been robbing a long time, but no one deemed it prudent to invest in a weapon. He was arrested for the offense in which he had been completely were the authorities terrorized by him. They simply dropped him from the police force, to which he had belonged since the incorporation of the town. From that time Howard became a swaggering and bloodthirsty Grim, swaggering and bloodthirsty as he avoided him as the rattlesnake. He lived by terrorizing house men, saloonkeepers and gamblers. He had a quarrel one day with a man who sold and shot him through the shoulder without a bullet. Two large revolvers and a big knife strapped to his person. He would enter. Defective Page gambling house, seat himself at a table and appropriate what chips he pleased from the stacks of the players and apply himself unmolested to the game. Such a situation affares finally became unendurable to the players, and it was resolved to put him out of the way. One night, when he was sitting at a vinget-ut-un table in the back part of the Apache saloon in Ming street, three men with records as black as his own, but covered of his strength or fearlessness, shocked the bar in front to decide which of them should kill him. The lot fell to Dan West, an agonist as nus as ever lived. The arrangements were made quicker. West withdrew and provided himself with a double-barreled shotgun. When he was prepared and had stationed himself outside the rear of the saloon, one of his men and had mean as Howard, was he had friends, he was told to plan to do away with him. He was therefore on his guard. In the general rush of men from the saloon to the front door to learn the cause of the attack, he shot him little, thrust his shotgun into the aperture and instantly fired at the place where he had seen Howard sitting a moment before. Howard had, however, shifted his seat, and so escaped a heavy leap from his hasty concealment behind the bar and, revolver in hand, out of the rear door in the darkness. West, who no doubt thought he had killed Howard, leaped from his hasty concealment behind the bar and, revolver in hand, wrenched the shotgun from his hands, and, throwing him to the ground, ammune there with one foot while he emptied his revolvers into weezer head and chest. COPIES OF OLD PHOTOS AT YUMA PENITENTIARY That night, Bill Howard fled to the mountains, and the next heard of him he was at Guaymas, Mexico. Bill Wilcox, who had been at emity with Howard, and had killed two men at the Shaafeffin compound, returned to his half-brother Bill, and he started for Tucson and never went back to Arizona when he once got away. Bill, however, could not keep away. He got back to the territory in May, 1881. He was gloomy and captured in an attempt to hold up the prison, and was sent to Yuma prison for life. A more sudden change probably never came over a man than came over Bill Howard in the first months of his conduction. He was a broken down man who had been in a long dissipation and his exposure to various climates, and his long disregard of health, all told suddenly upon him. He was from the first one of the most successful prisoners in the United States, referred to his tombstone experiences, although all the old-time residents of Arizona whenever they visited the prison invariably asked to see Bill Howard, the bad man of Tombstone. He was an asian man who had been a very early common school education in Boston came into good use among the rough, ignorant criminals in the institution. He used to sit at the bedside of sick prisoners and to read them to him. He was a painter and painstaking nurse and many a man in Yuma prison owe his recovery of health to the care and tenderness the ex-broker and all-round bad man gave to him. He had a pardon, but he said that he was broken down in mind and body, and did not know how to provide a good living for himself, so he preferred to return at Yuma prison, where he had extra money, with good board and plenty of friends. Dan Elkins and George Wilbur, who went to Tombsite with Howard, became the boldest highway robbers ever known in Arizona. They went from the mining town to Tucson, about sixty miles northwest of Arizona, to embark in the spring of 1952. They engaged themselves as workers about the livery stables of Tucson, where the teams that drew the coaches from the mines across the alley deserts to Los Angeles, rested and were replaced by fresh teams and drivers. The two men learned that embarking in the spring of 1952 to learn about horses, and especially to know the habits and dispositions of stage Drivers. After an apprenticeship of several months Elkins and Wilbur quit, ostensibly that he had apparently they used to get up impromptu shooting matches back of the stage bars, and practiced, apparently for fun, at pistol shooting several hours every week. By REVERSING THE PROCESS 5 She tapped her foot on the floor impatiently. "No, are you?" he asked humbly. "Where did I miss it?" he asked humbly. "Everywhere. You seemed to be begging. You tried to shoot so as to hit it! You tried to be and to miss if I should prove to be." "Oh, but you are a dear, you know." "Don't interrupt me, sir. When you propose to a woman propose to her. I will mind to show you how it ought to be done." "I wish you'd take the whole bushes; off my hands, Maud. I'm no good at it and I will promise to say the right word when you've." "I would as well as a bungler young man. Listen, now. I am the love-striken youth"— "All right. You're Harold Billmore." "Not at all. This is a purely impersonal face. You are the coy mademan." "Yes, are the coymademan. Go on." "Don't be any siller than you are not naturally. Desiring to enthrone myself is the heart of a young woman I first"— "That sounds too much like giving an order to a secret in a secret the proper direction for entering a lodge room. But go on." "If you interrupt me again with an remarks like that, Mr. Bilmore, this lesson is over." She slur, sit a little further away. You are acting entirely out of character. "So I was. I humbly beg your pardon. 'If you want to marry a girl, go and tell her so in a manly way. Don't you suppose, if she has any gumption, she has found out your little secret long bead, have made up your mind to speak?" "Then you Maud, that "Once again let me do it "Then tell said, Maud, "Well, re- to be a you of love to "Lucy," or be" "No, no! insist on the "I let it be you quiet. titious case to her, Maud died that would mar- came along the back dent" "I didn't" "Take you of this chah haw" "Oh, but gasped a lice from "I think before her, now-sit do in this con her straight say to her: "No, no!" "Maud, tition, Maud "But have love you; s "I should "Then you have known all the time, Maud, that I"— "Once again, sir, keep your distance and let me do the talking." "Then tell me just what I ought to have said, Maud--that's a dear girl." "Well, remember, now, I am supposed to be a young man making a declaration to be a young woman. I say to her, 'Lucy, or M'chitabel, as the case may be'—— "No, no! You say to her, 'Maud.' I insist on that." "Let it be 'Maud,' then, if it will keep you away, is it any way a supposition case, just the same? don't to her, 'Maud, do you believe in love at first sight,' or 'Maud, do you think you would marry the right fellow if he ever came along?' Nor do I put my arm on the back of her chair as if by acclimation. "I didn't know I was doing that, Maud." "Take your arm away from the back of this chair, sir. Neither do I hem and haw." "Oh, but I didn't do that! I may have gassed it up; but what could you expect from a fel?" "Then I would stand up so yourself before her, a like a man, as I doing now-sit down, sir! You are the listener in this conversation. I should look her straight in the eye, like a man, and say to her: 'Lucy,'—— "Maud: then, for the sake of illustration. 'Maud, I love you.'—sit down" "But how would that sound? 'Meel, I love you! Sit down." "I should say: -Maud, I love you! Will you be my wife?" "Maud, I love you! Will you be my wife?" "Yes, that is what I should say, if I wanted to ask a girl to marry me." "The young man bounded to his feet. "Very good," he said. "That is what you would say if you were Harold Billmore. Now listen to me!" "But I should stand right! Don't sit down! I'm doing the talking. You, speaking for Harold Billmore, have said you loved me, and have asked me to be your wife. I would say: -Maud, I love you! " "I that isn't fair, Harold Wintergreen." "I that isn't fair, Harold Wintergreen." "I know what you told me—as the young man. Now I'm acting as the girl. For all practical purposes I am Marud Wintergreen. I would say to the awkward girl: "What is it long time that you loved me. Do you think I would have accepted your attention month after month if I did not intend at last." "You have no right to say anything like that, if a girl supposed to take it for granted." "Don't interrupt me. I have not finished my answer yet. 'Harold', I reply, 'you are a 'good and worthy young man. You may not know exactly how to make a dress, but you have proved form, on account of a lack of previous practice, but your heart is right. Here is my answer—I will whisper it in your ear—Tes. Harold. I will be your wife. Of a sudden there was a lightning change of characters, and Harold Billmore was the young man again. His arm stole around her waist, her head slowly sank on his shoulder, he head down headward, and— were shot. Two of them were killed in accident. A half dozen shots went toward the robbers. Elkins and Wilbur ran to the corral at the back of their adobe, arbor, and horse. They were off at a terrific speed. When the excitement was over a vain search was made for many miles out across the sand for the course taken by the robbers. It was impossible to trail the bandits on the shifting sands. The adobe was ransacked and sufficient evidence was found on the two men with the highway robbers. ran Elkins is remembered as the original lone bandit of the Southwest, because he was able to hold one up a stage load of eight. Passengers the driver, when all were armed. It was a most daring and reckless thing to do. For each it was the talk of the men in and around the horse, but was not along with Elkins on a raid. JOHN WAS NOT various artifices they used to get the stage drivers to show how good marksmanship they were, and what dexterous hand-eye coordination they had. Elkins and Wilbur left the employment at the stables they bought two fine horses for saddle use, and while pretending to be looking about the country for other learning to ride, they were really learning the lay of the country. In the fall of 1879 highway robberies began to occur along the lines of the stages from Tombstone to El Paso. They always wore masks, the masks of attack were varied. They stopped the stage to California three times near Florence, and then the next week the El Paso stage was robbed 200 times. The driver was killed in two instances, and another time a miner from Tombstone, who was slow in getting out of the coach his bags of gold dust, was shot dead. The driver was killed in two instances, and others at different hours in daylight. Once one of the robbers took passage on the stage at some little Mexican pueblo and marched to Capucina. He was well disguised, and marched to Los Angeles. At a certain spot on the stage drew two pistols and compelled the passengers, who were lolling back on the cushioned seats inside the coach, to rouse the crowd. The crowd puffed against their faces. Then in a few words in an undertone, so that the driver outside could not hear, he comedied of the five passengers to keep silent and gold in his (the robber's) capacious overcoat pocket. One young man, who seemed dexterous, he ordered, with two pistols against his back, to search each of the pistols armed with all of the fire arms he found outside the coach window, and to turn all the valuables into the highwayman's big pockets. The plan was done so neatly and trilym that the last passenger inside the coach was able to get to the companion, by a rearranged plan, stepped out from behind a dense growth of manzanita and chaparral, and, masked and Winchester rifle in hand, commanded the stage driver to stop. At that moment the driver was shouting dangerously, near his head. The driver off in a second, the driver was ordered to go on as fast as possible, and the stage went creaking away over the desolate desert on its way toward Fort Yuma, 200 miles away. The driver smashed and the valuable contents taken, the robbers mounted their horses, and in a few minutes disappeared among the giant cactus and sage brush across the tractless desert among the mountains, no white man ever had gone at that time. The United States marshal and a posses of men went here, there and everywhere in the territory searching for the bandits. The owners of the "Billy" Mining company, at Tombstone, offered a reward for the capture of the robbers, and several smaller sums were offered. There seemed to be no clue to the men. One day a stableman who was riding in the coach toward El Faso over the route where a hold-up had occurred a day or two before, got out when he reached the coach and knee crawled among the sagebrush and cactus, all the time examining what remained of marks of the horses' hoofs in the shifting sands. He went back to Tucson in a few days and kept on thinkin' about the horses. Lawson and four deputies came to Tucson and had a consultation with the stableman. He said he believed the marks were those made by a horse ridden by Elkins, because no other horse in the region had been killed. He was reactive. The government officers watched Elkins and Wilbur, and were satisfied that they were the highwaysmen they had been seeking. So one night the marshal in the coach made a descent upon the adobe hill, but the officers on the outside of Tucson. Elkins or Wilbur must have seen the officers approaching their habitat in the moonlight, for no sooner had the men cautiously dismounted from their horses than they approached the house, hand, toward the door of the house, than the door few open and the two robbers came out. Quicker than the marshal was knocked down unconscious by an awful blow on the head with the burt of a rose. The deputies continued in Wellington. AROOLD BILLMORE, are you asking me to be your wife? "I think what I have bee so that I intertwine with that intreation, Mau Wintergreen. Didn't I so right?" $2.40 PER YEAR. one day, when the stage was rumbling along through the San Miguel Pass, and seemed a fit opportunity for Elkins to bench. Bennett, now of San Gato, Judge Bennett, now of San Gato, joined one of the passengers that day, and he tells of how the robber worked his desperate game. He made the coach of the coach had just ben talking," says the judge, "of the robberies that Elkins and his partner, Wilbur, had made in the territory, and the shame that an organized effort was made to keep after the villains until they were gone. He took a year, when we heard a rite crack, and a man shout to the driver: 'Come, stop those horses, or you'll drop dead.' "We were travelling through a rocky region among the foothills, and each of us knew instantly that we were in for a hold up then and there. Every man won that his neighbor would do with his platoon. " "I'll be dammed," said a big man from Texas, "if I stand this internal nonsense, as he matched his big shooting iron from the seat at his side. "But on the brakes and the stage was stooped, and when we heard from outside sayin': "Now, you fellers on the fads get on this side. The first man that gets out of the other side will drop dead as a smell of your down your shooters as you go of the coach, for there lots of rifle shots that's got their eyes on you and are hiding in these here rocks to lay you out if you don't mind what I'm telling you!" "Throw up your hands, gens," said the masked robber when we were on the ground, and our pistols lay in a pile by the side of the coach wheels, a skirt, a skirt, and face this way. Keep your hands above your heads; don't move; keep your nouns shut, or you'll know how quick a man can go plumb to hell!" The commander, a moment, and none of us could extend its hands quite high enough. "Now, you young feller with the money whiskers," said the highwayman, "you shell out there where you stand. Pursue him, your purses on my yards over in the rocks can see that you're dealing fair. That's right. Now, while me and my pards keep you in gun range you search that man, turn his gents, and save trouble. Don't speak." "In a few minutes that seemed like ages of an awful silence each man was searched, and we all stood there in a row, looking at him. In the morning breeze, our hands a foot above our heads, and a small pile of watches, little pocket leather and cloth bags of coin lay at the feet of the young man of our party, who had been in his companies. "Now, you driver, and his money box off dammed quick while my money box off dammed quick while my pants keep you in range," said the chief robber, when we had been searched. "There, that's right. Be lively. It may cost you your caress. Get that ax under the cover of your car. Don't speak and don't get behind that coach or you'll drop." The ax was got, the driver opened the box men in line while we stood there. When the box was split apart and the little of money value there happened to be in the chest on that journey was taken, the highwayman, all the time keeping his muzzle slowly moving up and down our side of silent, hands-split"s, said: "Now, driver, get up on your seat. You gents get into your coach. Don't lower your heads and don't let me hear you peep. Driver, kick your horses up fast "Now, gents," said he, as the last of us had got back into our seats weaponless and moneyless, "you can bring that you've got back into the seat of the profess, I don't mind telling you that I'm all alone to day and that I need your money awful bad. Tell them Tombats have done the job. Do you have a new book in the field of business? "The horses were whipped up, and the last we saw of Dan Ellen he stood there on that big boulder keeping his bead still in the air. I think the mule a mile away. I think the rascal must have got $1,000 that day. You see, we did not carry much money on our periphery, but we did carry a lot of highway robbery. Not one of us in the coach so much as spoke for several miles, and then we talked of everything but stage robbing and how easy it is for them to rob us, and assert their rights if they only want to." It seems strange now that the whole Territory of Arizona was not aroused at the frequent robberies of Elkins and Wilbur and did not turn out in a body and arm attack. It was also days the Tombstone mines had the attention of every one in that region. The people were too wild with excitement over the big money there was in mining to the extent that they were buying $1,000 or $2,000 of a stage coach, Nine out of ten of the men were too busy with their own particular mining schemes or prospects, which were going to bring untold riches, to go out chasing bandits and to rob them of their food and water, to risk the chance of being shot to right: some one else's wrongs. Besides, nearly all the people who were robbed by the bandits were rich, and the big mining companies were the main sufferers of the very small fraction of what they were digging out of the earth. Even the sheriffs themselves did not want to spend any more time than necessary to chase bandits, when each of them was watching an attacker and to become a millionaire at the竄ingress. In the winter of 1870-80, however, the recklessness and bravado of Elkins and Wilbur became unberable, and the more bespoke likes of Arizona began to stir among the people from coming to the territory, so that an unusual effort was made to get the rascas. An extra reward for the capture of the men was offered, and two detectives from Los Angeles, Cal., began to work. Apache Indian trappers were hired, and after a few weeks and a great amount of following false trails, the trail to tk-bandits was found. GOOD MORNING HAVE YOU READ THE APPEAL? IF NOT, WHY NOT? F.R. LEES A NATIONAL ART AND AMERICAN NEWS PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY ADAMS BROS. EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS 40 E. 4th St., St. Paul, Minn. ISSUED SIMULTANEOUSLY in Saint Paul, Minneapolis, Chicago, Washington, Louisville, St. Louis. ST. PAUL OFFICE, No. 110 Union Blk. 4th and Cedar, J. Q. ADAMS, Publisher. CHICAGO OFFICE, 323-5 Dearborn St., Suite 310, C. F. ADAMS, Manager. WASHINGTON OFFICE, No.1919 Eleventh St., Northwest CHAS. E. 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The new Alabama constitution makes the sheriff responsible for permitting a mob to take a prisoner away from him. Sheriff Vann of Texas made a speech before the Sheriffs' Association, in which he said lynching is a crime more "heinous than treason, and especially repugnant to the great principles of justice and right underlying our laws, "principles for which the Anglo-Saxon race struggled for more than 1,000 years to wring from the hands of tyrants." In his eyes, to take the life of a human being in any other way than by due process of law, no matter what the crime that being may have committed, is unjustifiable murder, and murder which it is the most sacred duty of the peace officer to prevent at any cost. And he declared that as for himself, he would rather lay down his life than that a helpless prisoner of his should furnish the victim for mob violence. The Post commends Sheriff Vann's NOT OUT FOR GLORY. De Vivet. Mrs. Scribbler-Gerald, your poem is beautiful. Gerald, my own, it will bring you fame—eternal fame. OLD MEXICAN HOUSE ON OUTSKIRTS OF TUCSON, WHERE THE FOUR YANKEE BANDITS LIVED IN SECRET FOR A YEAR speech as "brave words fitly spoken," which shows that the best sentiment of the state is with him. We have heard of Afro-Americans being lynched for very many little things, but the latest is the lynching of Louis Thomas near Girard, La. Monday by a mob composed of white men. The offense with which Thomas was charged was the stealing of a bottle of pop. Now, what a difference there would be if Thomas was a white man and had lived in luxury off of other people's money entrusted to him as a banker or something of the sort, and then when he saw failure inevitable he would take the benefit of the bankrupt act and die like a gentleman in his own bed surrounded by his sorrowing relatives and friends. Evidently Thomas made two mistakes in his life; the first, was in being born black, and the other was in living in Louisiana. Gov. Beckham of Kentucky is very hot because the Afro-American Baptists of Frankfort have secured the title to property contiguous to his residence and threatens to recommend to the legislature the removal of the capital to some other city if the church is built. Evidently Gov. Beckham is not a Christian. The hot spell for the last few days has had a very depressing effect upon all humanity and ye editor accordingly. south from Benson, among the granite foothills, where probably no white man but they had ever been. Indians were hired to go to the spot and to act as if they were hunting and unwillingly had stumbled upon a whomever, whom they did not know. Then when Indians had engaged Eikins and Wilbur in conversation the redskins were to give a signal by the apparently careless disdain of the pistol that they might be handling, and the twenty men was to ride to the scene. Even the band was to take his chances of getting shot by the robbers. The plan worked well. The bandes were asleep when the Indians came there one warm afternoon. They were to eat for food, and while Wilbur went to get a cut off a from a deer hanging in the brush near at hand, one of the Indians, pretending to be interested in one of the white stranger's pistols discharged it. A few minutes later the posee rode up impatiently and a low foothill that impeded the view. "We're trapped! we're trapped!" shrieked Elkins as he jumped from his couch of leaves and saw the horsemen circling about the bandits' hiding place, two great oaks and were-preparing to sell their lives as dearly as possible. For a moment they were off their guard and forgot the Indians in the camp in the rear, and no sooner than they turned their backs toward the Indians, both Elkins and Wilbur were shot in the back of the Apache trailers. There was no other shooting. Elkins ran away while Wilbur, who had a horrible wound near the heart, lived half an hour. HANDLING JAGS (continued From First Pages.) on earth worth knowing. He was present at the eruption of Krakatoa, and he saved an entire ship from being no longer than seven times. He onboard Slosson 310 points in a 600-point game of fourteen-inch balk-line billells, though of course he's a bit out of practice now. He was able to feet away from the Balkipel Marine man-o-war was blown up; and how his life was preserved, was preserved if he can tell you. Yes, he was the leading baritone on the grand opera company, under an asmanian captain, and of course his voice seems a bit husky now. Uh-hh! He saw the American THE APPEAL: A NATIONAL AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER WHERE WILCOX AND ELKINS WERE BURIED WHERE WILCOX AND ELKINS WERE BURIED horse Iroquois wins the Derby in England twenty years ago, and, b'jing! there was a race for you, etc. "The colossal liar is a spender just as old as not, and he's got to be listened to—to tell me what he's doing. I'm the one delegated here to do the listening. All I have to do is to emit "Dell!" or "Gittout, that is so?" or "Say, you're a wonder, ain't you?" or I'd give a million to've seen that,' and the colossal liar jig is satisfied. I am forced to until his string runs out or he gets sleepy, which makes his type a somewhat exacting one in the matter of time. A peculiar thing about the colossal liar jig is that he may be a truthful man when sober—a man that' no sooner think of faking yarns with him than imagine that he'd think of poisoning a well. "A jag who creates within me a feeling of much tizzy-wizzy is the one who has the greatest little wife in the world, and that's so fellers." I have to lead this one up to the grandest little wife in the back to the statement that he possesses the grandest and nobest little wife in the whole wide world. Eventually I have to lead up to the gentle insinuation that it wouldn't be such a bad job for him to go to the grandest little wife to accompany him brome; but I always side-take this one. When I was new and inexperienced in this graft I went home with one of them that had the grandest wife in the world. I had the loving out I got from the grandest and nobest, etc. who was nearly six feet high, for getting her husband into such WHERE condition, was all that I needed in that line. "These are only a few, recalled at random. But. But. You have very vicious jaws. I need the exercise." And the oedipon bouncer stretched his arms and yawned in a bored sort of way—New York Sun. Sunday Afternoons. Sunday Afternoons. From the window of the chapel softly sounds an organ's note. Through the wintry wintry glooming drifting And the quiet and the dreight and the sweetly soulen tumens Bee me dreighting back to boyhood and its daughters afternoon; when we gathered in the parlor, in the parlor stiff and grand. When we gathered in the parlor and sofas stood arraced, a gloomy band. Where each queer oil portrait watched us with a countenance of wood, And the whistot in a dustless splendor stood. Then the quaint old parlor organ, with the quaver in its tongue. Seemed to tremble in its fervor as the sacred songs were sung. They were anthemic anthems, the clips were so powerful. As we sang the homely anthems, sang the glad revival hymns Of the glory of the story and the light no while the dusk grow deeper and the evening settled down, And the dusk grow windows twinkled in the drowsy little town, And old and young we sang the chorus and In the dear, familiar voices, hushed or scat- tered. From the windows of the chapel faint and low the music dies. And the picture in the firelight fades before my tear-dimmed eyes. Joo Lincoln, in saturday Evening Post. NATIONAL ASSOCICTION OF COLORED WOMEN HOLDS AL- ENIAL MEETING IN BUFFALO A Large Aggregation of the Leastay Afro- American Women Preserve Much of Work Done for the Up-building of the Race-Election of officers. The second bi-ennial convention of the National Association of Colored Women met in Buffalo, N. Y., at the rooms of the Women's Educational and industrial Union, Tuesday of last week, when the National Association lent women from all over the country, Mrs. Mary Church Terrill who has held the office of president for five years, presiding. At the morning session there was considerable trouble over the seating of delegates. At the meeting the president livered her bi-ennial address. There were about two hundred delegates present. The reports of various officials showed encouraging growth in the membership during the past year. The organization is organized by the National Association is a membership of 9,000 women. An interesting art exhibit is given in the convention rooms by Mrs. Lottie Wilson. Her portrait of Anna Murray, the first wife of Frederick Douglass, was given a place of honor over the platform. At the Wednesday session, Mrs. Frederick Douglass, widow of the "old man," spoke on the "advancement of the African people" and her remarks created great, enthusiastic During the day's sessions Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, the president of the association, was the hostess of Dr. Sarah Morris of Buffalo, who was the president of honor on the platform. Reports on clubs distributed throughout the country formed the business of the morning session. Reports were made by the following delegates: Miss Nelle A. Baker of the King's Daughters' Cleveland, O.; Mrs. Mary Sellner of Cleveland, O.; Mrs. Mary Sellner of the Women's Aid Club of Peoria III.; Mrs. Mamie B. Walker of the Missionary Club of Chicago; Miss Dora Johnson of the Dunbar Club of Norwalk, O.; Mrs. Emma A. Talob of the Minerva Reading Club of Cleveland, O.; Mrs. Emma A. Talob of the Tuskegee Women's Club Thekkee "Temperance Among Colored People," was the subject of discussion at set the evening session. The speakers included Mrs. J. S. Yates, Mrs. Jose- WILCOX AND ELKINS WERE B phine Bruce, Mrs. A. B. Wilson, Mrs. Langston Napear and Mrs. W. H. Talbert. On Thursday, Booker T. Washington was a visitor at the convention. Mrs. B. K. Bruce, who is vice-president of the association, called the meeting to order, in a complimentary talk on the progress which has been made and two years in the formation of new clubs in the improvement in the moral condition of the race. Mrs. Booker T. Washington addressed the convention on the advances by women, notably in the South. Reports from the Women's Club of Atlanta, the Phyllis Wheatley Club of Chicago and the Amity Club of Buffalo, which has been accomplished, and notable among these reports was that from the Chicago organization, which reported the closing of a saloon in Buffalo's efforts. This caused great joy to the delegates, and called forth loud applause. The afternoon session was turned over to the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and was presided over by Mrs. Lucy Thurman, of Michigan, who is the national superintendent. Mrs. Moody, who is considered the pioneer of the missionary among the race, and who left her home in Chicago twenty-five years ago with an infant in her arms to start the crusade against rum, was the principal speaker. She was followed by Mrs. Frances Harper, of Philadelphia, who was the magazine contributor. Mrs. Rosetta Lawson of Washington, D. C., who is the national organizer among the colored people for the W. C. T. U. gave an address on the great benefits the race could derive in self-help. Mrs. Lawson was a delegate to the world's convention, and T. U. in Edinburgh last year, and there accomplished much good for her race in America. Mrs. E. R. Sterette of Charleston, S. C., gave an interesting talk on the advancement of temperance in her state, and the families had been elevated to the station by inducing the husbands and the fathers to abstain from drink. On Friday the association passed the following resolution: Lynching is a mode of punishment at once barbarous and crime-producing instead of crime-decreasing. It ignores the fair face name of any state in which it is practiced, and places of innocent children and places them under a ban of disgrace. It institutes lawlessness and ignores the courts of justice. It brings the name of a person to the fore of the eyes of the other nation of the world and reveals the fact-of its inability to protect those who by birth and situation owe it allegiance. It is further reflection upon the Christian civilization no superior among the knowledgees no superior among the Mr. Grasshopper—Mrs. Centipede, I see your husband has failed in business. What was the cause? Mrs. Centipede—West, he had to buy shoes for the twins, and it was too much for him. Friction is what wears out your clothes—a month of ordinary wear is less than one dose of wash-board wear. PEARLINE does away with the deadly wash-board rubbing—thus it saves wears, work, worry and money. Can you doubt it's economy? Millions use PEARLINE—bright people. Pearline 20th Cent'y Soap governments of the world because of the World. Whereas, this unique method of punishment is operating, not only in the Southern section of our country, but its baneful influence is reaching to every section; and whereas, the Negro womanhood and the nation of the nation suffer from its operation to an alarming and painful degree; be it Resolved, That this National Association of Colored Women condemn it with all the strength of our woman and pledge to raise our protest against it under all circumstances. The resolution came before the convention bearing the approval of the resolutions committee, in which the president, the Holmes of Atlanta, Ga., one of the brightest women of the South. It passed the convention by a unanimous vote and amid applause. There was quite a contest over the eleventh woman of the convention would have been only too glad to again honor Mrs. Mary Church Terrell of Washington with the presidency, but this would be contrary to the constitution, and because to the constitution, and to step down and out, though her husband made her their first honorary president. The candidates nominated for presi- dent were Mrs. Booker T. Washington mrs. B. K. Bruce and Mrs. Sillone Jates. Mrs. Yates begged to be permitted URIED to withdraw her name, but was not permitted to do so. The balloting then began. It was a secret ballot. Nearly the entire vote of the Illinois delegation, which was largest in the convention, was cast for the nomination, the largest delegation, that from New York state, voted as a unit for Mrs. Yates. Two-thirds of the total number of votes cast, or 75 votes, was necessary for a choice. The first ballot resulted in no nomination. Mrs. Yates receiving 66 votes, Mrs. Washington 25 votes and Mrs. Yates receiving 75 votes. The announcement of the vote was received with applause. Mrs. Bruce and Mrs. Washington then withdrew their names and requested that the nomination of Mrs. Yates be made unanimous. The tellers cast one vote for Mrs. Washington in the unanimous choice of the convention. The into tears and Mrs. Terrell threw her arms about her and kissed her on the cheek with a smack that resounded high above the cheers. There was a regular kissing bee after that, with Mrs. Yates as the general object of attack. Mrs. Yates was crying and there were damp eyes all through the hall. Mrs. Booker T. Washington was honored by election to the next highest office, that of vice-president. "Mrs. Agnes Moody of Chicago was elected second vice-president. Miss Smallwood and Mrs. Bruce, chairman of the executive committee; Mrs. Libbie C Anthony, Kansas City, Ma. treasurer; Miss Elizabeth C. Carter, New Bedford, recording secretary; Mrs. S. H. (the popular president of the Phyllis of Buffalo, assistant recording secretary; Mrs. Joseph Holmes, Atlanta, Ga., second assistant secretary. The chief contest in the election was for the office of national organizer between Mrs. L. A. Davis of Chicago and Mrs. G. of Grand Rapids, Mich. After a tie, the organizer been taken without any apparent break, side, and with each candidate as strong on the last as on the earlier ballots, Mrs. Tate withdrew and Mrs. Davis' election was made unanimous. During the evening a solid silver lion mounted, was presented to Mrs. Washington, the rell of Washington, D. C., the retiring president. The gift was from the association, the presentation speech is what we of ordinary w wash-board w with the dead save wear, w you doubt it's economy? Million Pearline 20% being made by Mrs. Jerome Jeffrey of Rochester, N. Y. Mrs. Terrell responding very happily. The latter had been president of the association for five years, and he was the principal of Jertleton Terrell of Washington, D. C., principal of Washington High School, and was the first Afro-American woman in this country to be honored as a principal of the school of trustees of the District College. Mrs. Yates, the new president, read an excellent paper on "Women as a Factor in the Solution of Race Problems." Other interesting papers were read, a fine musical programme was rendered, resolutions were passed lamenting the death of the late Queen Victoria, and the convention adjourned after the national meet in St. Louis in 1903. AFRO-AMERICAN COENCI. Call for Annual M-eeting at Philadelphia -Long Island Test Case The fourth annual session of the National Afro-American Council will be held at Philadelphia, Pa., (probably in Chamber, Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, and 8 and 9, 1901). It is hoped that every church, college, benevolent society, and other race organizations, and editors of race newspapers, will be represent- at the purpose of the officers to make a statement of the most potent for good of any which the council has ever held. In recent years Philadelphia has been the storm center of several important national gath- eries, the discussion of the race question, and the ways been the most favorable for the Negro. We now have an opportunity to refute the erroneous statements which have been made there, and to show that the national institution which has been created by such the enemies of the race who have selected the "Quaker City" as the forum from which to hurl their philippics in an offensive people' account of their color and previous condition of servitude. Again, it is our earnest desire to collect sufficient funds at this meeting to pay the remaining expenses of our Louisiana Test Case. We have just relied on the assistance of the Lawyer A. A. Birney of Washington, D. C., informing us that the case is progressing satisfactorily. (A full report of this case will be made at the Philadelphia meeting). We have alighted on the fact that the cases and $200 are now due. One thousand dollars more will be needed when the final decision has been rendered by the Supreme Court of the United States. If there ever was a time when every Negro church, benevolent society, church, or college sends representatives, accompanied by the annual tax of five dollars, to a great national gathering, now is that time. The meeting should be so great in numbers and influence as to forever change the related statement that the Negro is not interested in his civil and political rights. The basis of membership, as provided for by the constitution, is: "The Afro-American Council shall be composed of (1) members who hold life membership, (2) Council delegates, representing duly accredited Local Councils, (3) Affiliated delegates, representing organizations of similar plans and purposes, (4) Council members of the Afro-American Council. Every local Afro-American Council shall be entitled to representation in the National Council by delegates elected on a basis of one delegate to quality members, said delegate to quality credentials and payment of the annual tax of five dollars. Religious and secular organizations which have for their aim and work the mental and moral resources of the city are intended to co-operate with the National Council, may be represented by affiliated delegates, not more than two delegates to each organization. Said delegates have the right to vote upon payment of the annual tax of five dollars. Editors of Afro-American newspapers and principals of academic schools and colleges may be admitted to membership in the National Council upon payment of the annual tax of five dollars. The citizens of Philadelphia are preparing to entertain the Council on a magnificent scale. A special rate of fare and a charge for magnificent meals has been granted on all railroads for delegates. Those who intend visiting the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo from the Council meeting, will be allowed to cover up" at Philadelphia, thus getting the advantage of the half-fare rates. ALEXANDER WALTERS President National Afro-American Council. T. THOMAS FORTUNE, Chairman Executive Committee. CYRUS FIELD ADAMS, Secretary. P. S. Let the organizations named above, especially the churches, colleges and lodges, elect their delegates as soon as possible and send their name to Bishop A. Walters, 228 Duncan avenue, Jersey City N. J., or Cyrus Flood Adams, General Secretary, 924 "S" St. N. W., Washington, D. C. GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ATLANTA, GEORGIA. AIMS AND METHODS The aim of this school is to be practical work in helping men toward success in the ministry. Its course of study is hard and practical; the degree is high; its work is thorough; its methods are fresh, systematic, clear and simple. COURSE OF STUDY The course occupies three years, and covers the lines of work in the several departments of theological and leading theological seminaries of the country. EXPENSES AND AID Tuition and room rent are free. The accommodation is finished. Good board can be had for seven dollars per month. Buildings heated by Aid from loans without interest, and students who do their utmost in the line of self-help. No young man with a degree in theology or the advantages now opened to him in this Seminary. For further particulars, see the course for KIRKIELD, D. D., President Atlanta, Ga. ECKSTEIN NORTON UNIVERSITY CAMP BREING, BULLYTOWN, KY *Industrial training will be set to incision ten thousand beavers, REV. WM. J. SIMMONS, D.L., L.D., Co-founder and first Chancellor. **THE LOCATION** The Eckhart School is situated at catee Spring, Ky., twenty-nine miles from Leukville, Ky., in the county being known as the nation's county of many years, the building and grounds are made of mountain streams, draining miniature cateees, side by side with mountain streams, draining miniature cateees. In this quiet retreat away from the bountie of the countryside, we enjoy places of peace and unwindable amusements, one finds study, recreation help, and the physical activity of places of work and unwindable amusements, part in austere life, and is spirit suited to all occasions. **DEPARTMENT'S** Literary, Photography, Graphy Work, Telegraphy, Paintit - Creative, Appreciature, Poetry Training, Drew Making, The above departments are under competent two w chiefs. The first is the School of Education chases their teachers. They call from Guelph at State University, Chicago Manual Training School, State University, Rhode Island, and other of six Institutions. Our classes and studies are so arranged that students will have most of their lessons of any one, jogo, recital or the course at any future time. The time to build any student's skills will be with透過 work in all departments. Board, room, fuel, tuition and spelling, $9.00 per month. Students may enter at any time in the year. HELP FOR STUDENTS. Describing the course of education at a reduction in proportion to the work they are willing to do on account of not only on account of the work but on account of the number of the work done. Our accommodations are first-class and second-class accommodations. Persons en route to Cane Spring, Ky., via Louisville, May find free accommodation at No. 527 Laurel Street, Louisville, Ky. For catalogues and all business address the President REV. C. H. PARRISH, A. M., CANE SPRING FY. PHILANDER SMITH COLLEGE LITTLE ROCK, ARK. An institution of a steady and solid growth, offers a variety of strategies to those seeking a thorough education. A location, strong faculty, extensive courses, and a strong network from nino States and from 43 counties of NEXT SESSION BEGINS CEG 1, 1901. For catalogue or further information address REV, J. M, COX, D. D. HAMILTON ACADEMY Normal Department. English Course, Biblical Department, Night School, Music Department, First Session Bagins Sept. 25, 1901. Total cash expenses 60.50 per month. All bills payable in advance. REV. CORNELLI JOHNSON, A. M. B. D. Principal. Government Street, BATON BOUGE, LA Clark University In a Christian school, it offers the best facili- ties. Seven Departments: Classical, Scientific, Math, Science, Industrial, Grades, Industrial. Our aim is to train the information address the President. Shaw University RALEIGH, N. C. For both sexes, Departments of Law, Medicine, Pharmacy, College Preparatory, English and Industrial Education, and other departments, circulares and other information addresses. PRES. CHAS. S. MESERVE, RALEICH, N. C. Fourteen teachers. Elegant and abundant buildings. Climate unsurpassed. Departments: Information, Separation, Engineering, Metals, Shorthand, Typewriting and Industrial Training. **FIFTY DOLLARS IN ADVANCE** WITH FACILITIES: training, fuel, businses and incidentals for the entire year per month; tuition $2.00 per term. Per cent for curriculum and department. Seud for curriculum to the president. REV. JUDSON S. HILL, D. D. Morristown, Tenn. THE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF THE NEW ORLEANS UNIVERSITY Admits Men and Women of All Races. WELL EQUIPPED, THOROUGH INSTRUCTION. Address 5318 St. Charles, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. HOWTO HAVE EASY, HEALTHY, SHAPLES FEET EYE FOOD FOOD THE "WORLD'S ISFAIR CITY" VIEWED BY THE APPEAL MAN. Compilation of a Number of Happenings, Social and Otherwise, Among the Afro-Americans of the Second City of This Glorious Union. Mrs. Miller, 2816 LaSalle street, is visiting her sister in Milwaukee this week. Dr. A. L. Smith and wife will soon visit friends in Ohio, remaining possibly two weeks. Miss Gracey, 2233 Dearborn street, will spend a few weeks visiting friends in Galesburg, III. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Davis have moved from 5120 Indiana avenue to 401 Wabash avenue. Miss Alice Allen of Walton, Ky., is in the city, the guest of her cousin, Mrs. Harvey, 3910 State street. Mrs. S. Whiting, 83 Paulina street, will spend her vacation visiting her sister, Mrs. Scott, at Jeffersonville, Ky. Dr. J. Frank Croker, Twenty-second and State streets, will leave the city early in August for a two weeks' vacation. Mrs. K. Smith of Indiana and Mrs. E. Bass of Ohio are visiting their cousin, Mrs. E. Wright, 2551 Dearborn street. Mrs. M. Edwards of Terre Haute, Ind., is in the city spending a few days with Mrs. Dixon, 3115 Dearborn street. Mrs. E. H. Moore of Louisville, Ky., is spending the summer in Chicago with her mother, Mrs. McIntosh, 6738 Wallace street. Mrs. E. H. Wright, wife of Ex-Commissioner Wright, spent several days last week visiting her niece, Mrs. Burnett, in Michigan. The Godfrey Commandery's picnic and excursion was a grand success last Monday, and everybody returned please with the trip. Mrs. Julius N. Avendover left the city Wednesday for a month's visit in St. Paul, Minn., as the guest of Mrs. Wm. Francis and sister, Mrs. T. R. King. James A. Scott, attorney-at-law, can be found at THE APPEAL office during business hours. Prompt attention given all legal business entrusted to his care. Dr. A. A. Wesley, Maj. R. R. Jacksock, W. T. Stuart, and number of other Chicagoans, attended the Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias this week in Joliet. Do you want to preach? Learn at home. Send two-cent stamp to Prof. R. B. Hewitt for catalogue of Correspondence Bible School, 2008 Magazine street, New Orleans, La. Messrs. Bronson and Chappell have opened a ladies' and gentlemen's tailor shop at 2331 State street. They are splendid workmen and we cordially commend them to the public. Rev. Dr. J. T. Thomas, pastor of Olivet Baptist church, Dearborn and Twenty-seventh streets, and his entire team are making great efforts to extinguish the fire with splendid prospects of success. Prof. Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee, Ala., was in Chicago last week perfecting arrangements for the Men's Afro-American Business Men's Club. The club will meet in this city next month. An entertainment will be given on Monday, July 22d, at Bethel church by Prof. Clark Smith. There will be some very good talent. The Umbrian Glee Club, Prof. Smith's orchestra and Bethel's surplied choir will participate. Dr. and Mrs. George C. Hall, after an absence of several weeks in the East visiting friends, have returned to old and familiar scenes. The patients will find him exceedingly attentive and polite as he always is. The mission at 159 E. 18th street was organized Tuesday, July 22nd, by Presiding Elder G. W. Galines. Seven persons joined the church, over which Mr. Manley presides as pastor at presiding school will be held in the morning at 9 o'clock; Miss Alice Smith, Supt.; Mr. H. R. Hewler, leader of Class No. 1. The Illinois Afro-American Knights of Pythias grand lodge assembled at Joliet Tuesday, with Mr. Wm. F. Taylor of Chicago, grand chancellor, in the officers' show that the various officers healthy and prosperous condition—meeting promptly its insurance obligations to all beneficaries. Ex-Commissioner Edward H. Wright can be found by his clients and friends at his new office, suite 421, at the commodious offices of Mr. Wm. F. convince anyone that he is doing a splendid law business. Mr. B. F. Mosely has opened a branch office with Mr. Wright and can be found there between the hours of 12 m. and 2 p.m. The many Chicago friends of Capt. Leon Denison of the forty-eight U. S. Corps, mustered out of service last week in San Francisco, regret to learn that the gallant young soldier has again sailed for Manila He left the port of 'Frisco on the return for Tuesday, and upon his arrival in Manila later upon a business career in that far-away province of the United States. The Chicago lodge No. 5, Knights of Pythias, held their election of officers Monday evening and the following officers were elected: Chancellor Commander, Julius N. Aventhorn, who succeeded the third consecutive time, an honor to that member ever enjoyed since the order was founded; Vice Chancellor, Frank McClure; Prelate, L. J. Henderson; Master of Finance, Dr. W. T. Jefferson; Keeper of Records and Seal, R. Keeper of Records and Masters, C. A. Basey of the University of Chicago; Inner and Outer Guards, C. D. Rhodes and Bert Humphery. The annual salaries of 500 employees of the Chicago postoffice were raised $100 yesterday, the new schedule going into effect July 1. Most of those rewarded had been receiving only $000 or less a year for the past five years. None of the $50,000 used in the grate above $1,000. Plans are now being made to station Station N at the Union depot will be made a much more important branch of the service. It will be kept open until midnight and mail will be dis- THE APPEAL A NATIONAL AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER ALL UNDER ONE ROOF On the Burlington's Chicago and St. Louis Limited, you can live as well as at the finest hotel in America. You can dine in a dining car; smoke in a room; sleep in a compartment or standalone sleeping car; and recline in a reclining chair or electric lighted and steam heated. Leaves Minneapolis 7:20 p. m. St. Paul 8:05 p. m., daily, arriving Chicago 9:25 next morning and St. Louis 10:25 next morning. Arriving Chicago Minneapolis 7:40 p. m. St. Paul 8:15 a. m., except Sunday, arriving Chicago same evening and St. Louis 6:40 next morning. Ask your home agent for tickets via this line. P. S. EUSTIS, Genl. 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Orders were received from Washington for the establishment of several new stations. This new order will be hailed with joy and delight by forty or forty-five Afro-American volunteers, who will be benefited by the increase in salaries. Dr. J. Webb Curtis, formerly one of the surgeons of the late Eighth Illinois U. S. Colored Volunteers and who spent one year in service in Cuba, has just returned from the far-away Phillipines, where he has been for the past three years. He is the surgeon of the U. S. government and held a commission as first lieutenant. He reports that the Phillipines is a great country, offering many advantages and opportunities for Afro-Americans. He is very friendly towards our people and treat them with marked consideration and respect. The doctor is enjoying splendid health and health not a sick one in the east. Dr. Curtis will visit relatably St. Louis this week where he will remain several weeks. The Afro-American lawyers of Chicago as a general rule are very successful in the management of cases enclosed in the law, distinguished judge on theunch was held to mark the other day that "this class of lawyers were able in the conduct of their cases, careful and painstaking in their work, and absolutely honest in presenting and law to court and jury." This compliment was brought out by a criticism of an opposing attorney, who was accused of acting unfairly in presenting certain facts in a case on trial to the court. Much praise and credit should be given to E. H. Morris, E. H. H. Morris, and F. A. Denison, R. M. Mitchell, S. L. Lang Williams, L. B. Anderson and in fact all of our attorneys for their able and lawyer-like conduct in the trial of before the various courts of Chicago. THEY SAY That Bro. Murray of Bethel church will soon triumph over his enemies or else he will fall! That Will Taylor, the popular Armour avenue pharmacist, will soon become a benedict. That the irresponsible James Hale Porter will again become a factor in Second ward politics. That Turner, the original S. B., has declared himself out of politics—can a fish live out of water? That George Ramsey of the North Side is very sore because he is not on the pay-roll of the county. That Ed. Green has the legislative bee and is likely to be a candidate for the lower house next year. That the Broad-Ax and Carter fight will soon end in peace between Afro-American Democrats of Chicago. That "Judge" Moore, the news gatherer for the Daily News, will soon visit New York on a similar mission. That Seward French is not an applicant for any Federal job whatever—what is the matter with the West Side? That peace will soon rule among Chicago Afro-American politicians of the Republican persuasion—too good to be true! That Noah Thompson, the well-known society leader, will also soon marry, to the regret of innumerable lady friends. That Adelbert H. Roberts, formerly of the first ward, but now of the Secaucus area, and Americans for county commissioner. The Literary Congress in Session. On Tuesday morping there assembled at Quinn Chapel, Wabash avenue and Twenty-fourth street, the literary and historical congress of the A. M. E. M. and the teachers and laymen was present at the opening session, many coming from the South and East. The Rev. Dr. B. F. Watson of Philadelphia, secretary of the religious exercises incident to the opening of the congress. An address of welcome was delivered on behalf of the city ministry by the Rev. B. F. Watson, the president of the Boulevard Methodist Episcopal Church which was received with much enthusiasm by the visiting ministers. Mr. Adelbert H. Roberts, the president of the Men's Sunday Club, also delivered on behalf of the American citizens on behalf of the Afro-American citizens of Chicago. Responses were made by Bishop Grant, the Rev. D. Anderson of Minnesota and the Rev. Dr. Jno. M. Henderson of Pennsylvania. Bishop Grant, the presiding officer of the congress, said many good things in his opening address and congratulated those present upon the happy auspicious opening of the Congress. "There are several important matters for this congress to take up. We must consider our relation to the industrial conditions of the country at large; our condition as compared with other days, and whether the progress made on the issue of the antagonism which is just cause of its highest. These things we must make an honest effort to ascertain. The future of our race demands that we should do more than talk—we must act for the best interests of the race." The country" was appointed by the bishop, composed of Dr. R. F. Hurley of Indiana, the Rev. Timothy Reeves of Iowa, S. A. McElwee of Tennessee, the Rev. Sandy Simmons of Michigan, Dr. A. Carey of Chicago, the Rev. W. S. Cracken of Minnesota, the Rev. C. Cracken of Illinois, the Rev. R. R. Dow of Indiana and the Rev. H. L. Haygood of Michigan. S. A. McClwee of Tennessee and Mrs. Albretta Moore-Smith, the president of the Colored, Women's Local Business Association, the secretary members of the congress, the president of Indiana read a paper on "The Divine and Human Ideas," the Rev. Timothy Reeves delivered an address on "Man's Knowledge of the Inscrutable," and "Durton of Illinois spoke on "Truth," the Burton of Illinois spoke on "Nobles, formerly of Chicago, but now of Virginia, also read an able pane which elicited much discussion. The Appeal regrets very much that its limited-space prevents the publication of the able and dignified report of the committee on the "state of the country." EVERY Mother With a family to buy Shoes for should trade here. Every advantage is oferred as regards style and low price. EVERY CHILD NEEDS SHOES. Misses' Tan Shoes, in all the new spring styles, for $1.25, $1.35 and $1.75. Children's Tan Shoes, new leathers and pretty shapes, for 49c, $5c, 90c, $1.25 and $1.50. 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ANTHONY LONN, No. 2857, meets the first education classes in each month for k. v. tran- sition at the University of Chicago. For instruction, at their hour. Second street was once Niellet and Humeau Ave. S. G. JAMES A. SCOOT, P. S. P. O. H. 85 KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Watson, S. C. of F. mote, second and fourth Thursdays in the morning in good standing welcome. At Lair T. Fourth and B. fifth Ave. G. WACON, C. O. JACK A. CASE, C. R. and S. FRIEDRICH OF MINNESOTA LONDON No. 1. K. of F. mote, each month in good standing welcome. At Hall second street between Lonn and I allet Ave. F. FRIEDRICH OF MINNESOTA G. R. D. WARN, K. R. and S. G. A. R. BIDDLE CIRCLE No. 88 LADIES TO OT G. A. 12 Attorneys at Garfield Hall Post Hall Wabash Street Garfield Hall Post Hall Wabash Street KATRINE MATHER Sto., 463 Cedar St. STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF Minnesota In Probato Court, Special Term, July 18, 1991. In the matter of the estate of Charles H. 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