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THE APPEAL STEADILY GAINS BECAUSE 1-It aims to publish all the news possible. 2-It does so impartially, wasting no words. 3-Its correspondents are able and energetic. VOL. 18. NO. 19 ```markdown ``` In a company of half a dozen men of wide experience in life, among them a merchant, a financier, the manager of a large corporation, and a man of letters, the conversation lately turned on living great men in the United States. Many interesting observations had been made about men of noteworthy success and of strong personalities, when one of the company said: "Great' is too tague a phrase. But I think hat Mr. Booker T. Washington is the most useful citizen of the Republic. He has done several things of historical value. He has proved the constructive and executive ability of the Negro in a large way; he has worked out a successful plan for the building up of his race; and he has done more to remove race-friction in the South than any other man of his generation." HE SUCCESSION OF TRAINERS OF YOUTH: MARK HOPKINS, SAMUEL BOKER W. T. WASHINGTON The details of his early life, as frankly set down in "Up from Slavery," do not give quite a whole view of Mr. Washington's education. He had the training that a colored youth receives at Hampton, which, indeed, the autobiography does explain. But the reader does not get his intellectual pedigree, for Mr. Washington himself, pernaps, does not so clearly underscore the man might. The truth is he had a training that the most impressionable period of his that was very extraordinary; such a training as few men of his generation have had. To see its full meaning one must start in the Hawaiian islands half a century or more ago. There Samuel Armstrong, a youth of missionary parents, earned enough money to pay his expenses at an American college. Equipped with this small sum and the earnestness that Williams College implied, he came to Williams College in the 1970s. Hopkins was president. Williams College had many good things for youth in that day, as it has in this, but the greatest was the strong personality of its famous president. Every student does not profit by a great teacher; but perhaps no young man ever came under the influence of Dr. Hopkins whose whole nature was so ripe for profit by such an experience as young Armstrong lived in the family of President Hopkins and thus had a training that was wholly common; and this training had much to do with the development of his own strong character, whose originality and force we are only beginning to appreciate. In turn, Samuel Armstrong, the founder of Hampton Institute, began his work as a trainer of youth. He had very raw material, and doubtless most of his pupils failed to get the training he needed. But he had been a peculiarly receptive pupil of Dr. Hopkins, so Booker Washington became a peculiarly receptive pupil of his. To the formation of Mr. Washington's character, then, went the missionary zeal of New England, influenced by one of the strongest educators in India, but made the wide-reaching moral education, and the wide-reaching moral education, of General Armstrong himself. These influences are easily recognizable in Mr. Washington today by men who knew Dr. Hopkins and General Armstrong. "A NEW KIND OF MAN IN THE COLORED WORLD." I got the cue to Mr. Washington's character from a very simple incident many years ago. I had never seen him, and I knew little about him, except that he was the head of a school at Tuskegee, Alabama. I had occasion to write to him; and I addressed him, as a Booster. Mr. Washington in his reply was the manifestation of my addressing him as a clergyman. But when I had occasion to write to him again, and persisted in making him a preacher, his second letter brought a postscript: "I have no claim to 'Rev.' I knew most of the colored men who at that time had become prominent as leaders of their race, but I had not then known one who was neither a politician nor a teacher, and not the most heard head of the important school who was not a preacher. "A new kind of man in the colored world." I said to myself—"a new kind of man surely if he looks upon his task as an economic one instead of a theological one." I wrote him an apology for mistaking him for a preacher. The first time that I went to Tuskegee I was asked to make an address to the school on Sunday evening. I sat upon the platform of the large chapel and looked forth on a thousand colored faces, and the chair of a hundred or more behind me sang a familiar-religious melody, and the whole company joined in the chorus with unction. I was the only white man under the chapel's scene and the songs made an impressive that I shall never forget. Mr. Washington arrose and asked them to sing one after another of the old melodies BOOKER T. WASHINGTON P. that I had heard all my life; but I had never before heard them sung by a thousand voices nor by the voices of educated Negroes. I had associated them with the Negro of the past, not with the Negro who was struggling upward. They brought to my mind the plantation, the cabin, the slave, not the freedman in quest of education. But on the plantation and in them they had never been sung as these thousand voices sang them. I saw again all the old plantation that I had ever seen; the whole history of the Negro ran through my mind; and the inexpressible paths of his life found 'expression in these songs as I had never before felt it. "INNOCENT VICTIMS OF ANCIENT WRONG." AND THE MAN WHO SHOWS THE FIRST WAY OUTWARD. THE APPEAL. By WALTER H. PAGE, Editor of The World's Work. song roiled up along the ratters. And as soon as silence came, I found myself in front of this extraordinary mass of faces, thinking not of them, but of that long and unhappy chapter in our country's history which followed the one - great structural mistake of the Fathers of the Republic, thinging of the one continuous great problem that generations of statesmen had wrangled over, and a million men fought about, and that had so dwarted the mass of English men in the Southern States as to hold them back a hundred years behind their fellows in every other part of the world in England, in Australia, and in the Western and Western States - I was worried that dark shadow that had oppressed every age-mindered statesman from Jefferson to Lincoln. These thousands young men and women about me were innocent victims of it. I, too was an innocent victim of it. The whole Republic was a victim, of that fundamental error of importing Africa into America held firmly to the first article of my faith that the Republic must stand fast by the principle of manhood-offrage; but I recalled the wretched mess that Reconstruction had made of it; I recalled the practical nullification of the post-bellum amendments in Mississippi and Louisiana, and the low level of public life in all the "black" States. Every effort of philanthropy seemed to have miscarried, every effort at correcting abuses seemed of doubtful value, and the race difference was asserting itself more and more. Here was the century-old problem in all its pathos seated singing before me. Who were the more to be pitied—these innocent victims of an ancient wrong, or I and men like I had long been inflicted with the problem? I had long been addicted to rumours and theories, and was willing to the facts face to face, and to do whatever in God's name a man might do towards saving the next generation from such a burden. But I felt the weight of twowell hardened years of thought and reading and observation; for the old difficulties remained and new ones had sprung up. Then I saw clearly that the first way out of a century of blunders had been made by this man who stood beside me and was introducing me to this audience. Before, me was the material he had used. All about me was the indusputable evidence that he had found the natural line of development. He had shown the way. Time and patience, and encouragement and work would do the rest. It was then more clearly than ever before that I understood the patriotic significance of Mr. Washington's work. It is this conception of it and of him that I have ever since carried out his work that has given him his claim to our gratitude rests. THE DEMONSTRATION PROVED TO THE SATISFACTION OF SOUTH AMERICA No man living had a harder task, and a task that called for more wisdom to do it right. The true measure THE APPEAL KEEPS IN FRONT BECAUSE: 4-It is the organ of ALL Afro-Americans. 5-It is not controlled by any ring or olique. 6-It asks no support but the people's. of Mr. Washington's success is then, not his teaching the pupils of Tuskegee, nor even gaining the support of philanthropic persons at a distance, but this—that every Southern white man of character and of wisdom has been won to a cordial recognition of the value of the work, even men who held and still hold to the conviction that a mere book education for the under present conditions is a positive demonstration of the efficiency of the Hampton-Tuskegee idea that stands like the demonstration of the value of democratic institutions themselves—a demonstration made so clear in spite of the greatest odds that it is no longer open to argument. Consider the change that has come in twenty years in the discussion of the Negro problem. Two or three decades ago social philosophers and statisticians and well-meaning philanthropists were still talking and writing about the deportation of the Negroes, or about their settlement with MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. AL KEEPS IN FRONT BECAUSE: out of ALL Afro-Americans. encrolled by syringing or olique. support but the people. $2.40 PER YEAR. Problems of Our L In some restricted area, or about their settling in all parts of the Union, or about their decline through their neglect of their children, or about their rapid multiplication till they should expel the whites from the South—of every sort of nonsense under heaven. All this has given place to the simple plan of an indefinite extension among the neglected clases of both races of the Hampton-Tuskegee system of training. The "problem" in one sense has disappeared. The future will have for its victims a slow decline in its masses and of its soil in proportion to the swift or slow development of this kind of training. This change of view is a true measure of Mr. Washington's work. TRANSPIGURATION OF THE BEGGING METHOD-PATRIOTISM. The necessary method of doing this has not been a pleasant one—the method of begging money. But there was no other way to do it. Mr. Washington has always succeeded in putting his appeals for financial help on the proper basis of patriotism. He has not asked help for himself nor for a private enterprise; nor has he asked aid simply to train a nurse aid number of young men and women of his race, but that he asked help to prove the soundness of a great idea. His philosophic grasp of the import of this work was strikingly shown by an incident that I shall take the liberty to tell, since I did not hear it from him. Several years ago a man of great wealth sent for him, and told him that he thought of giving a part of his fortune to further the education of the blacks. He asked Mr. Washington's advice on medicine and on that, and several hours, passed in talk. When Mr. Washington was about to go away the conversation took a turn somewhat like this: "May I volunteer one piece of advice?" "Certainly." "If you are thinking of giving any considerable sum of money for this purpose, I hope that you will not give it for the education of the Negroes on the island." "But that is what I had in mind." "Give it equally for the education of the whites in the South. The whole country must be built up together." At this time Tuskegee Institute was sorely in need of money to meet current expenses. I have seen a telegram that Mr. Washington sent to a benefactor of his own school, asking him to give him a library for a school in South Africa school for whites; and he took that the school should not know that the suggestion of the gift came from him. MR. WASHINGTON AS A SPEAKER. Perhaps more persons have heard Mr. Washington speak than any other private citizen of the United States; and he is often described as an eloquent speaker. But he has not the oratorical temperment. There have been many men of his race who had it, the late President. Price, for instance, of Livingstone College at Salisbury, North Carolina. He surely was an orator. He struck fire when he was attacked by an armed heroic mood. An orator is a man (if I may use one of Dr. Curry's interesting reminiscences) who can do what General Robert Toombs did in the Confederate Congress. He proposed and elaborated a plan for the victorious ending of the war by the Confederacy which was so brilliant that after he took his seat the Congress instantly adjourned under the spell of his oratory. But that was the last of the matter. The plan was emotionally perfect, but it was never translated with action. Now Mr. Washington never turned an audience into a moral earnestness of man. But the moral earnestness of man is his power—has done better things. It has won cash, and sympathy, and lasting esteem for his wisdom. But his talk is not oratory. It is akin to the Hopkins-Armstrong kind of talk, not to the Toombs-Douglas kind. Tuskegee will be his monument, and a lasting idea will be his-bequest, not a memory of oratorical triumph nor a volume of speeches. THE GROWTH OF IHS INFLUENCE- H I B LIVING REACH- REACU- ES NO SEMION He has reached a world-wide fame at an unusually early age. His story of his own life already has the distinction of translation into more languages, I think, than any other Amer- ian, and I suppose that he has as large a perceptual acquaintance among men of influence as any private citizen now living. Mr. Washington has told in his autobiography the late Mr. C. P. Huntington, when he first met him, gave him $2, and when he last met him, $5,000. This is a good illustration of the way in which the man and the idea that he stands for have grown in many minds. At first he learned to head a school for colored youth. But he hundreds and hundreds of such schools, and many of these have men at their head who are earnest and capable. With a better acquaintance he grew upon the friends he made as something more than a schoolmaster. The large significance of his work—its economic and patriotic significance—slowly shaped itself into a philosophy in the wake of those who understood it. Yet Mr. Washington has never formulated this philosophy in a systematic way. He lets fall remarks that indicate his understanding of it, but he has worked it out better. He says, for instance, that the proper training of the Negro is as important for the future of the white man in the South as for the future of the Negro. ```markdown ``` FIELDSTEVE VIEW OF TWENTY-FOUR MILES FROM THE CENTER OF THE CITY HAVE YOU READ THE APPEAL? THE AFPEAL, A NATIONAL AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY ADAMS BROS. EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS 49 E. 4th St., St. Paul, Minn. ISSUED SMALLTAMBULDERLY 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 811 HENRY ROBERTS, Manager. CHICAGO OFFICE, 823-5 Dearborn St., Suite 310, C. F. ADAMS, 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, STRICTLY IN ADVANCE: AGENTS WANTED. THE APPEAL wants good reliable agents to canvass for subscribers at points not already covered. Write for our extraordinary inducements. Address. SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1902. Judge D. B. L. Guffy, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky, in a recent interview in the Washington Times said: "It looks as if it could as truly be said of the Negro today, as at the time of the Dred Scott decision, that he has no rights a white man is bound to respect. "I am of the opinion of nearly all thoughtful men in the Republican party who now admit that the enfranchisement of the colored people was a serious mistake. It hurt the Negro himself more than anybody else. His vote will never be counted at any time, or at any place, where it would have a decisive result. His numerical preponderance, as in States like Mississippi, makes no difference. He is clear outside the breastworks." The Times says that Judge Guffy is an ardent Republican, but that is very doubtful even if the Judge was elected on the Republican ticket. The above quotations are not the doctrine of an ardent Republican. The thoughtful men of the party do not admit that enfranchisement was a mistake. Only half-hearted, renegade Republicans believe any such thing. The enfranchisement of the Afro-American was simple justice, and was right. It is never a mistake to do right. No honorable, fair-minded man will deny a God-given right or privilege, to one of his fellow men, which he, himself enjoys, simply because he has the power, or because God in his infinite wisdom saw fit to make him of a different complexion. How any white man can pretend to believe that he thinks the disfranchisement of the Afro-Americans for the Afro-Americans' good, is beyond our comprehension. He knows he does not, and we know that everyone who says so willfully, multicolously and outrageously LIES. After a journey covering 2,662 miles Robert C. Ogden, accompanied by his eighty guests, returned to New York Monday on the special train on which they for two weeks have been traveling through the South, visiting educational centers. Those in the party are the prime movers in the great educational movement for the South by which it is hoped to raise a fund of $50,000,000. During the trip it received its first considerable impetus in the gift of $1,000,000 by John D. Rockefeller. The leaders of the movement returned full of enthusiasm and greatly encouraged. Mr. Ogden said that the annual conference, which lasted four days, at Athens, Ga., was the most largely attended meeting the organization has held and reflected the widespread interest of the South. The leading public men of that section were present. Among those in Mr. Ogden's party were William H. Baldwin, Jr., George Foster Peabody, Dr. Felix Adler, John Crosby Brown, Morris K. Jesup and many others of national fame, either as masters of finance or as philanthropists or educators. The Afro-Americans of Toppeka, Kansas, have applied to the Supreme Court of the State for a writ of mandamus against the school board to secure the attendance of Afro-American children at the Lowman Hill school. This has been done because the school set apart for them is not equal in appointments to the school for Caucasians. There should be no schools separated on the color line, and, then, such trouble would be avoided. There are no two things on earth alike, and, try as they might, they could not get two schools just exactly-alike; and, if they did, so long as the schools were separated there would a distinction; and all distinctions are odious. In St. Louis J. D. Miller, a janitor of the 9th district police court, swore out a warrant against Officer Andrew Gordon charging him with murder in the second degree in killing William Garner, an Afro-American, while attempting to arrest him, has been discharged for "pernicious activity." The St. Louis people are justly indignant and a permanent body to look after such cases and known as the Afro-American Protective League has been organized with Capt. C. H. Tandy as president. George W. Greenup, the Kentucky aspirant for Congressional honors who attracted unusual attention from the fact that he introduced music in politics and took his daughter on his speaking tours to play the violin before and after his addresses, has announced his retirement from the race. Greenup found that of the great crowds that flocked to hear the music, few were voters and while he was making a lot of noise but little real progress was made. OGEN PARTY. T. Kemmet J. Smith, Private Secretary T. Hooser T. Washington. The Ogden Party, a representative party of philanthropists, millionaires, educators, came to Tuskegee last Tuesday, April 29, to be present at the annual meeting of the Industrial Departments of the Institute, and the dedication of Carnegie Library, given to the school by Mr. Andrew Carnegie. The style of architecture the Tuskegee Carnegie library suggests the stately colonial buildings of the South. It is 50 by 110 feet on the foundation, two stories in height. The entrance is surmounted by a broad porico that gives rise to the full height of the building. The plans for the library were drawn and the work of building superintended by Mr. R. R. Taylor, the school director of industries. Practically all the work of the library to roof was done by students as a part of Good Frost, President Berenge; Rev. G. S. Dickerman, Newen, Conn.; Rev. Percy Stirling, Grant, Rector, Church of the Abyssinian New York; Prof. Paul H. Harvey, Harvard, Mass.; Prof. H. W. Farnam, Yale; Prof. New Haven, Conn.; Rev. W. Cooper, Pastor. First Concern Church, New Britain, Conn.; Prof. M. Edward Teachers, New York; Mr. R. M. Ogden, York City; Mr. R. M. Ogden, York City; Mr. Oswald Garrison, Editorial Staff New York; Mr. John Croshy B. New York; Dr. John Croshy B. President North Carolina Normal Industrial College; Miss Lila Waid, New York City; Mr. Law Pridky, Blacksburg, va.; Rev. R. J. Hingstham, Boston, Mrs. Frothingham, Boston, Mrs. Francis G. Peabody, Haven University, Cambridge, Mass.; Peabody, Cambridge, Mass.; W. R. Vaughn, the founder of the new justice party says, "The party has come to stay. Justice will be our slogan, for all men or women, be they white, black, yellow or red. If the Republicans wish to win votes in the South they cannot do better than to nominate Theodore Roosevelt. He is half-southern and the people like his dauntless courage." The main object of our party is to pension slaves. The special "Jim Crow Car" law on the line of the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon Electric Railroad went into effect May 1 and in two days four persons, two white and two Afro-Americans had been arrested for violation of its fool provisions. This "Jim Crow" business is an excellent way to teach Afro-Americans patriotism—compelling them to degrade themselves in order to visit the tomb of their Country's father. Old ben tillman has broken loose again in the Senate, but 'tis not worth while for us to waste words on him as our knowledge of the English language would be exhausted long before we could express our opinion of him. The devil will never have his own until he gets old ben and he cannot come into his possession too soon for us. Walter Spratt, a young man of Norfolk. Va., who is charged with assaulting his sister and the attempted rape of a thirteen year old German immigrant girl who could speak no English, is at liberty. No mobs have formed to mete out summary vengeance, no bloodhounds on his trail—he is a Caucasian, one of the superior race. At a meeting of the Ohio Valley Clergymen's Association at Cincinnati, some recent books were given pronounced "roasts" by preacher critics. "The Leopard's Spots" was denounced as misrepresenting the race problem in the South. In the death of Potter Palmer the race loses a good friend. Although a Democrat he refused to make any race discriminations in his great hostelry. A black guest was as well treated as a white one at the Palmer House. **Secretary T. Hooker T. Washington.** The Oden Party, a representative party of philanthropists, millionaire, educator and usurgee last Tuesday, April 29, will be the annual exercises of the Industrial Departments of the Institute, and the dedication of Carnegie Library, given to the school by Mr. Andrew Carnegie. In style of architecture the Tuskegee Carnegie library suggests the stately colonial buildings of the South. The library is feet on the foundation, two stories in height, and is surmounted by a broad porch whose massive ionic columns rise to the full height of the building. The plans for the library were drawn up by a building superintended by Mr. R. R. Carnegie, school director of industries. Practically all the work from basement to roof was done by students as a part of their industrial education under the supervision of the school's teachers in the various departments. Students dug out the foundations, made the bricks and laid them, did the carpentry work and finishing, put on the roof, installed the electric lighting, and made the steam heating apparatus and made the library and reading room furniture. Tuskegee has a library of about 10,000 volumes, which with the reading room occupy cramped and inconvenient quarters in an old wooden building which was at one time Principal Bookstore in the *Boston* residence. One has had only two of these rooms to realize how much they needed larger accommodations and how much they will get out of them. The room is a large, plush room for all and for an increase in the number and scope of books which is very desirable. Even of the books on hand now many have been used and they are often practically worn out. On the first floor the central part of the library will contain a stack room, reading rooms for newspapers and magazines. On the second floor there is an assembly room and lecture hall which seat 225 persons, three study rooms, and a library with special collections of books, a stack room and a large museum for the keeping of apparatus and collections by the school's academic department. Goodell Frost, President, Berea College; Rev. G. S. Dickerman, New Haven, Conn.; Rev. Percy Stickney Grant, Teacher, Church of the Ascension, New York; Prof. Paul H. Hanus, Mass.; Prof. H. W. Farnam, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.; Rev. J. W. Cooper, Pastor, First, Congregational Church, New Britain, Conn.; Mr. D. E. Cloyd, Teachers College, New York; Dr. C. Meyer, New York City; Mr. R. M. Ogden, New York City; Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, Editorial Staff New York Evening Post; Mr. John Crosey Brown, New York City; Dr. C. Meyer, President, Industrial College; Miss Lillian D. Waid, New York City; Mr. Lawrence Priddy, Blackburg, va.; Rev. Paul Revere Frothingham, D. D. Pastor Arlington, street church, Boston, Mass.; Rev. Percy Stickney Industrial College; Miss Lillian D. Waid, New York City; Mr. Lawrence University, Cambridge, Mass.; Mrs. Peabody, Cambridge, Mass.; Dean James E. Russell, of Teachers College, York City; Mrs. Russell, New York City; Mrs. W. Wiley, N.Y.; Mrs. Allen Purnam, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Dr. John Graham, Brookow, Howard College, Cambridge, Mass.; Mrs. Brooks, Cambridge, New York City; Mrs. Everly Mac, New York City; Mrs. Everly Mac, Rector Church of the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Mrs. McWilliam, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Mr. William H. Moody, Northfield, Mass.; Mr. Henry W. Moody, Northfield, Mass.; Mrs. William Potter, Wilmington, Mass.; Mrs. William Potter, Blanchard, Philadelphia; Mrs. Alexander Purves, Treasurer Hampton Institute; Rev. H. B. Frissell, Principal, Hampton Institute; Miss J. E. Davis, Hampton Institute; Miss L. M. Turley, Hampton Institute; William Potter, McKelway, Editor, Brooklyn Ed. McKelway, Brooklyn; Mr. Arthur Curtis James, New York City; Mrs. James, New York City; Rev. Alexander Camble, Dr. Pastor First, ensure the school will be blessed by this visit. The party traveled in a special train, with six Pilum sleeping cars, two baggage cars, a dining car and an observation car. The plans complete, and the visitors were given a royal welcome. The Annual Exercises of the Industrial Departments were held in the theatre 12:00 o'clock, last Tuesday. These exercises were best we have ever held here. On the platform of the Chapel had been arranged, living plants, vegetables, grasses, etc., raised on the farms of the various students. We had pieces of wood work, desks, mairies, iron work, bricks, poultry appurences, including incubators, all illustrative of the work of the various students. We used to illustrate the subjects of the students. The program had been arranged with very great care, and was heartily appreciated by the distinguished guests who were present. It was as a result of the Selection by the Halleijhua Chorus, The Choir; Plantation Melody, "Give Me That Old Time Religion," The School; Innovation, Rev. Henry Trawick; Rotation of the students; The Tuskegee Students"; The Choir; Richard Bush Woodford; Plantation Melody, "Our Lamps are Burning." The Choir. One Phase of Industrial Education—Cooking, Lucinda Sturm, Henry Trawick, The Tuskegee Students"; The Choir; Women Bessie Warrick; Plantation Melody, "Stand on the Rock." The School; Nursing Fever Cases, Edward Bynes; Science in the Lakes; The Tuskegee Students"; The Choir; Construction of a Pony Phaeton, Eleby Leon Burke; "When All Thy Mercies," The School; Plantation Melody, "My Old Friend Gear for Stationary Engines, Robert Leon Campbell; Remarks, His Excellency, Governor W. D. Jekks and others; "Now The Day Is Over," The School; We are very glad to say that Governor W. D. Jekks and others present during the day, and that he spoke in the Chapel before the program was completed, as he had to leave on an early train. He was heeded to and received the officers, and was listened to with interest and appreciation. The singing, under Mr. Harris direction, was very, very fine, the mass "inflammatus," especially preving to be the hit of the day: Miss Boy, who rendered the solo part, won much success by the hit of the sweetness of her singing. After the school, Principal Washington called upon Mr. Robert C. Ogden, the host to the party of visitors and President of the Conference, recently held at Athena, Mr. Baldwin, Jr., President of the Long Island Railroad, and also President of the General Education Board, to which he responded with an unnums. President James M. Taylor, of Vassar College, and Dr. Felx Adler, of the New York Ethical Society, to which it was a real pleasure to listen to these verses, and to regret that, with so many present, we were enabled to hear so few. One of Dixon's loving husbands, who had exhausted all explanations for late hours and who had no apology ready, silently slipped into the house at about 1 o'clock, quietly undressed himself, and began rocking the cradle by the bedside as if he had been awakened the infant's cries. He had rocked the bed about 40 minutes when his wife, who was the whole maneuver, said: "Come to bed, John: here's the baby."—Sterling Standard. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON (Continued From First Page) True; but most men finding themselves hitched up with such an idea prince and caper and construct economic and social philosophy. He is working it out, as if it were all instantly intelligible, or as if it did not need elaboration. or as will he say that the first step in Negro education is to come a family that lives in a one room, another room. This is the whole thing. The man of the orator temperament would regard this not as the sermon, but as only the text; and he would go on and preach. But he stops there, and you work cut the thesis yourself and find that you have discovered the solution of the problem, even in the elation of your discovery to give him encouragement and feel a proprietary interest in the idea! The race divergence under the system of miseducation was fast getting wider. Under the influence of the race, the school has come in to a closer sympathy and into an honorable and helpful relation. As the Negro becomes economically independent, he becomes a responsible white person, and the whites so recognize him, that he must be so from the nature of things. There is nothing artificial about it. It is social development in a perfectly Southern whites not only so recognizing them, they are imitating it in the teaching of the neglected masses of their own class. This thus come about that the school helps on life in the South than anywhere else in the country. Education is not a thing apart from life in the "system," nor a philosophy; it is the teaching how to live and how to work. To say that Mr. Washington has won the gratitude of all thoughtful Southern white men, is to say that he has won the most practical wisdom at a large range for no plan for the up-building of the freedman could succeed that ran counter to Southern opinion. To win the support of Southern opinion and to win it was a necessary part of the task; and he succeeded thatceded that the South has a sincerity and high regard for him. He once said to me that he recalled the day, and remembered it thankfully, when he grew large enough to regard a Northern one. It is as well for a noncountry that the day is come when he and his work are regarded as highly in the South as in any other part of the Union. I think that no other of our generation has a more noteworthy character than this; and it is an achievement of moral earnestness and of strong character of a man, in a word, who has done a great national service. —Reprinted by permission from Everybody's Magazine, New York. The many stirring questions of race in America should insinure every Afro-American Church, College, Berevene Society and the Organization of the American sensatives to the annual tax of $0.00 to this great National gathering. The many reason to believe that the meeting will be a major BASIS OF MEMBERSHIP (BASIS OF MEMBERSHIP) Section 1. The Afro-American Council shall be composed of members as follows: all persons who hold Hie membership. The following extract from letter from letter E. A. gives the necessary information: I. E. A. gives the necessary information: which Jain has made by all railroad lines in Minnesota for our association is one fare for the round trip. This membership fee is $20 in N. E. A. this purchase price of the ticket and is repurchase office in Minnesota for memorial co-payment attached, to be exchanged at the office in Minnesota for memorial co-payment a coupon entitleing the holder to a volume of the proceedings of the Minnesota conference in case request for the copy is made by the E. A. has no objection to the copy. The National Afro-American Council uses this association. It will be necessary for all railway tickets to be presented to be made by the Minnesota office of the General Agent. ESPECIAL CAUTION Be careful to buy tickets to the National Educational Association at Minneapolis, MN. Buy tickets to the all-inclusive railroad ticket offices in all United States three days before July 7. Buy tickets to the trip to No. 61 S Street N. W. Washington, D. C. The citizens of St. Paul are preparing entertainment the Council in first-class style at Adrian School. The Chairman Executive Committee CYRUS FIELD ADAMS. General Secretary. ALEXANDER WALTERS. President. Adrian School. The Chairman Executive Committee CYRUS FIELD ADAMS. General Secretary. THINGS WORTH KNOWING. Things Worth Knowing. By John H. Penn. Penn Publishing Co. Philadelphia. This is a treasure of useful information. It is a treasure of useful information that are constantly arising. It tells what to study, gives us sorts of statistics, tells how to use many useful household hints. Much information. } ST. PAUL. A Weeks RECS HD IN MINNESO- FAS CAP” * sve Satatly city and Saltiy city Folkers ‘Newey Items of Social, Relslows and General Matters Among the People, Bal ena ‘The most popular place for people who take thelr meals down town t= Foun “Geatrey'e. "No S02" Webasba treet. SBveryiuing ‘neat, clean and Sie eee Ts your hale straight? If not, sad so tehta to “Suonised Ox Marrow Coy 3S Sftvaet avenue outcage Ur for's Goats of Gasnized Os Baten ead yor an caaly straighten it Pilgrim Baptist church, Ceter and Sumit Services, toed ac ake 8 See WD. Curr gator More the. “The Knowledge of Salvation” Monta “the Object ot Christian oe ‘Anyone wno can give any soformse uoh’Yogerding the yhoreabouts of Me ‘iomen Phonon who toed to work ai the Rian Hitel, wil couter a avor by weddite the sane to THU APPEAT of oe Tet your oblést tn its 86 that you wl i2toucbedy in fet ox mabey Bee ss scureale te oe, Hove that You are’ someboay ‘how Hour aucrat life givea'seo woe sy tot Jou omy destroy: ourselt. “if yu leh a 5008 hive, nate cot or shampoo call at Richard Cousby’s neat shop, No. 374% Minnesota streot. Fistlas woman ou Salle” TEs eared amase e at ooeet Home furslated on short notice ‘when you're out tte at at, Bau poe wlohe alee ote OE toad tae HT al Fou with Jove, noe leon tag bo, Rad youtl get the beat show ‘Ce sohnsen & Willams? “trequole” “The Bon-Ton Burlesquers" begin an suppres Stun per a ee Bae este utasrroe: The, company te ches Gre people aed is UY Up sila ane Bate Saneentse nat oe aeciene ol wil eonateate the Bilt a sty tepiens, @. Dy Chavteton, arom, pachiog and ippngs hauling’ of ail we al ae Peek wae or Seal’ gerade "When you wae setuid in Ais le Gare hia eS Tepes ata Tae0 Oates Ear ee Me ‘Those of out paLons WD. dere to lave matter published must get the Hine ia tile "omen! aot ates ee Tuutstay stuscoon, Otcries tt or qreoeis a Ne cauee” mit tse ot soy omensitenton Tost tot slenod by ehe author . & Willard ts underlined at tne crop ir nee na aa Wetotaias mstice” beaieatae’ Hoe Peg Mier ie Speco ps tory NeSaatating. ot Phe Cardioale ‘Sain Pinch ha ‘by speclalrenwest, “The Brotetars Lave Ser" Irvine Wallbourea sod Sani: Lag Pepper prapirenr ind Sar go teh dow siesienee ie wh Leeor ee tin tae ater ae tagrcresd to" Wetlty apataat ch ‘artes chicane of sean Sith fa Sites noupres are bese Sleapone SAFE DEPOSIT AND STORAGE Gente o iene Sour, uepaston Wreoata Inte "to place your papers sesh cuemtied aul sainidipe tee pe oo Les Gee nae ne ee eee tae perso bare Hi tecey Chiat tn, Star wwe Paul Trust oo tds Bnaleots Aveade ‘The Old Fellows of the sity ave re were mace wae rts & Serre ane ae marca ae Be es Oe alte neue Prot Howant's duventle Brass. Band ae higneatoin, eoees eel” anoua Seema SiN te presctod at Spat Se aor of the canoe Be Fo Peadnee The Spanish Gypsy" dramatized trom Gearse, lots tamous story By iarguetite' We alortons wl be pre Hai at shel saconalltan: Ope Heats sce ole’ neces say Moncey night, "ue play wil bo Bee tel or a cast of leo beens Sed tea ter tas been ok library fund of the Humboldt school. Payne. the mind reader, hypnotist, aantie ot Weed et tober ae Go Mecopaltan. tucedo, senting Denil ett liven Sota tubracide weeny marvelous octet semana will taste (a aulepnat Peas anen "repeusuciog’ iapetiato the tanoue ‘Davenport tothe’ sou Be ee areecieente Ie rani rele eeead oburreyinee uate ates He Sra reat batenteos Ont one "The Charity Cltb has teed tnrte stobh tor ta best ane soe, ont tate occur at Twin Clty Hal, Wice and University, Wetnesday, May 14 Th See kor Sue omelet ota see aR? Boards Somposed of W, J. Gels we PEN Pibbe sect 3H. Vincent treas. On the occasion of the social, Aeros. We Godette ana WA. Sohn Son wit ect ‘ag sengeamtratarns, au Messrs ¢'S."Harrlton ant 3030 ll Soar tor wanes oo ‘The “Adelphi? held dota desson ‘at the residence of Mrs. W. T. Francis iast‘Tuenday ‘evening, Co. whieh ibaa he ea ears wet invited. The meeting” was ietly in the tntaredt 6f Soe clun and some tn (aes crag aceicitns Weis Waanieat Reteshments wore, served. and ene pnp re ; ae secting ot the SoS ext Tuesday at the residence of Mrs ee pocen carrou meee ie eee of eta dayithe BLE Ae City ay Soe we med the Woputena to save only, the unlucky, number 15 Shem tpy nice ou ju ssemblymen, thres alder Sees Sf Sabet ours i tat Ge cn RRR A MES EAs ee Saag) fo 5 acy }dates did not poll the full strength of the party. a ‘Though we have met the enemy and are theirs, we cannot refrain, Ine Jus Lice to those who had charge of the matter, from mentioning the splendid meeting of the Fourth Ward Repub Mean Club, which was held at the Af fo-American Club, Cedar street, last Saturday night. Mr. James Woodfork, the president ‘of the club, presided, ‘The house was filled with a most en: Uhuslastle crowd that listened with at tention to a list of speakers, including Congressman Stevens, F. B. Doran, Fred Schiffman (the only speech he made in the campaign) and a host of others. ‘The meeting was a splendid one In every respect. ‘The Republican state "convention will,be held in St. Paul Tuesday, July 1. ‘The date of the convention and the preliminary rout of the insurgents was effected ‘Thursday afternoon by a unanimous yote of the state central committee, ‘The county conventions will be held June 24, one Week before the state con: vention, and the total number of dele- gates entitled to seats in the nominat- ing convention Is 1172. The appor- Uonment of delegates was made on the vote for McKinley in 1900 at the ratio of one delegate for each 250 votes and five delegates at large for each county. Ramsey county, by virtue of the 15,384 votes polled for McKinley, will have a delegation of sixty-seven members and Hennepin comes to the front with 113, or practically one-tenth of the conven: tion strength. ‘The anti-Van Sant men retired from the field without firing a single shot in the open. Tams Bixby, chairman of the committee and recognized lead er of the insurgents, shade the motion for the convention’ date, which was carried by a unanimous viva voce vote without the slightest debate. Last Monday was the tenth anni- versary of the wedding day of Mr. and ‘Mra. J. Q. Adams, and they were ten- dered a little surprise party by a num- ver of thelr friends. ‘The party was gotten up by Mesdames 0. H. Allen and J. W. Milton. The members of the party met at the residence of ‘Mesdames Allen and Milton and drop- ped in at the Adams residence In small relays. At first Mr. and Mrs, Adams thought they were.just ordinary cali ers, but as they continued to come at intervals of a few moments it began to dawn upon them and they proceeded to take a hand in entertaining their guests, who had by this time taken complete possession of the house, and @ joliler crowd could scarcely be met with. Music, games, etc, filled in the time. Especially pleasing were the playing and singing of Miss Bille Man- ning of Minneapolis. A few of the ladies who had taken possession of the Kitchen, soon had refreshments con- sisting of salads, coffee, cream, cake, ete., ready, of which ail partook ad Mbitum. “Mrs. Adams had been the reelpient of @ number of culinary utensils, meat grinder, vegetable slicer, ‘deep fat fryer and basket, sauce pans, pudding pans,/Knives, sil ver spoons, double cereal boiler, etc. and a large “White Enamel Refrigera- tor” from her husband. She also re- ceived a check for one hundred dollars from her brother-in-law, Cyrus Field Adams, Asst. Register ‘of the U. S. ‘Treasury at Washington, which she exhibited with considerable pride. And in order that Mr. Adams should not feel that he was forgotten, his brother sent him a check for one dol- lar. Every one seemed to enjoy. the occasion hugely and about midnight left, wishing the host and hostess many happy roturns of the day. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Milton, Mr. and Mrs. Rich- ard Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Hilyard, Mr. and Mrs, F. D. Parker; ‘Mesdames 0. H. Allen, 8. Bellescene, C, 8. Mills, B. V. Taylor, Geo. Gooden, WT. Francis, Lula King, Val Do ‘Turner, G. W. James, Will. Dennis; Misses ‘Fannie Howard, Hattie Gris som, Jimelou Smith, Minnetta James, Biffle Manning, Lola Moker, Jennie Lo: xan: Messrs. B. Hall. A. W. Haynes, H. Bryant, M, Hickman, C. Smith, W. A. Robinson, 8. Harris, B. James, W. ‘Smith, P. Gooden. At the Grand Opera Yonse. st. Pawt.| @e look and see our own image. For the coming week at the Grand) ‘It is better to have to do disagree- A POSER. : as g : *» (aed) i Foy ECO Oa tie. —-. \ Birr Pere ns * VA laid eR AT LS Re mae uA FBG Ree mi Toues—Noa ofvevery living: snto-thie vo that ee daly OS OG ea ‘ = eu dn 1. | BobbleWoula they ‘have been drowned. mame? Sh PUR ‘TENTH ANNIVERSARY ‘KNOBS O' TENNESSEE HIS IDEA. drama by Hal Reid, entitled “Kaobs_ 0’ Tennessee.” This play was seen here the latter, part of last season and pleased immensely and is sure tobe Well received on this occasion. “Knobs 0' Tennessee” portrays a viviel picture of mountain life in the hills of ‘Tennessee, as it is today. the moun- taineers, in the struggle to live and let live, in the fastness of the cloud- capped mountain knobs, in their sim- pilcity of existence and in a frank de- light of chiddren, love and make merry, sufler and never flinch. Their sacri. fices are-pathetic, thelr heroism tragie. ‘They are gentle as they are strong, and as pure as they are kind. ‘They ‘may be “white trash,” but they are not clay eaters, Ignorant of the formalities of the outer world, they are untainted by ts temptations. ‘The dream of their lives fs set among the clouds and sun- shine and storm. The play is a story of intense heart interest and strong dramatic climaxes. It does not appeal to sensational effects to retain’ its hold upon the people. A thoroughly capable company Is promised to be seen in the piece and the scenic and mechanical effects are especially elab- orate and complete. ‘Ho that is a stranger to himself ts a | scam enw te Gish - inert: ‘The secret of success is constancy to purpose —Disraell, ‘In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.—Burgh. Good humor is. the best shletd agaist the darts of satirical raillery. Trogress {s the real cure for ab overestimate of ourselves—G. Mac- @onala. Price 1s seldom delicate; it wil please itselt with every mean advan- tage.—Johnaon. ‘There is no future pang can deat that justice on the selfecondenined that he deals on his own soul.—Byron. He is only advancing in life, whose heart is getting softer, is’ blood warmer, his brain quicker, and hs spirit entering into living peace-—Rus. kin, THOUGHTS FOR EVZRY DAY, Any man. can teach wisdom; few are able to learn it. | ‘The careless man tries co win; the careful man tries not to lose.” "Phe world fa a micron, tayo Wtten We look and see our own image. Tt is better to have to co didagréc- ‘able work than to have nothing to do. Ieee Meenas: Beary ee hat NTE peed ase ones “DER APPEAL; A NATIONAL AFRO AMMRICAN REWRPAPIER’” . BOHN SIPHON SYSTEM Reftigeztors me Stactctnne gat be ie spec os mbes ease ed i poe ees 8B Y See ates intra Sas tea, EG eve fo Recta poms eee aves a eres “airbender gute Steere Sit uo ar. Sore siren tataierano hectare’ Nitra mee an Ee oaanaamr nen Battin ane aetna eee ars ; Sig orice htusaan te betas teeeeeen neater a Resp ran siaveanaas ssatecmeie ees oa (Coleg Barington i ERSTE inentn pe Clear Sy Wie en comm } Eiciietananiemen coe Ale } unr is cnata io precmateperunane } BE Nis Pistpretnecuriousttes yor tacaage a SUtodisy nuts cra ey sundae i E 2 ware, couminary: 6 me ‘Adopted by ibe met Compssr; action, Toon ¢ sane tony: ae tomer RY, Sn ea Et ahaa eee poo) ‘Quincy: Chicago & Aiton und others, 4 Beta! cat ea aceasta d a Pahoa eed sears eee, ) WHITE ENAMEL REFRIGERATOR CO, 40% lackson St., St.Paul,Minn.. s Be | MINNEAPOLIS. © QUINGS IN AND ABONT THI Mattors: foetal Betinions ‘and General wia maracas SSS men Pride of Minnesota, K. of P. No 5, meets first and. third ‘Thureday a 104" Hennepin avenue south, ‘Tho Christian Endeavor meets ever ‘Sunday 6:30 p. m. at Bethesda Bap- tist church. "You' are most cordial invited. ‘The Indies ot Bethesda Baptist Church have already organized them. selves into-a seWing bee; getting reads for thelr May fait.» Miss Mi Jaexson, mlifines na’ yu alate "ees alloragBrench dan ing and curling feathers a specialty No. 1409 South Fifth’street, mena Pe eta en Louisville, Ky., for the past two weeks, ‘where she went to attend the funeral of-her sister, Mrs. MeClure, Dr. R. 8. Brown pas moved his oice into. the Century Bullding, No, © Fourth street south, rooms 405 and 408 Office ‘phone, N. W.. S271-J-1 Main. ‘Tho Appeat "is mailed to most ot the homes of the! people of the Twin Cities, and-if you wivh matters to reach these homes You most publish ther in the Appeal, . ‘The kindergarten hour at St. James’ Chureh has been changed from 9 a, m, Weiresdays and Sattrdays to noon of the sume days, ‘The schoo! can ae: commodate five morp ebliéven, ‘Theve will be a song service at Bethesda Baptist church Sunday even: ing, May 18th, given by. the etolr of the churen.. Aft, F. L. McGhee, af St Paul, will be present and deliver sort address. ‘The members of Bethesda Baptist church ‘will have their’ grand. rally Sunday, June & ‘This will be meeced: a by an apron sale lasting three or four nights: beginning June 2 ‘The proceeds wilt go to complete the base ment of the church and make-some heeded repairs. Will you Help out fn this effort? ‘The people of the Twin Cities have farited tax maumaber’ OF the Saticaal Afro-American Council and the Na: tional Afro-American Press Associa ton to meetin. St. Paul during the ‘week when the Natlonal Teachers’ As Soeiation will be held in Minneapolis This should bring together the largest number of prominent men and women ot the race ever gathered. ‘There are only a few weeks left for the prepara ‘tions and'a general awalening should be had. Much work Is to be done and must Degun now. ‘This 19 a matter in ‘Which every one is or should be inter. ested. “LET US GET TOGETHER AND STICK TOGETHER. ‘The Law. Prisoner's aiuto ope how Fan be 2 screen Sour beats Wael feat sige np “Guudge=vou:are not charged with signing your oon Sime HAL. REIDY a ence aes | ota | a ah Peas i PARTS A MAREN Re aye HH Mw A EERE ‘O°’ TENNESSE Defective Page CONSIDERATE HUSBAND, BN | ees 1 ye ee Hh JA » MOF m ae Se SEO ae 1 a alu Bs s LA ya = SON ax easter Ny Te Cat Gee ey ' 4 yt HALL) 2s il e 7 La ah ay pe’ i ima. A Wa ¢ ge Se te s a ecinan-dtlo eis petog gb a 'ebeaiowt : Spasentesten ie oe ‘Wiiinevenaee: 1G as ee eee ‘Vor the Semhern Bota man, by Sidney Or mond. ‘The first visit of sowthera-born man to Booker Washington's institute at ‘Buksegee will constitute a sevelation, no matter Row closely he may have studied the Negro race or how much he: may have read. of Washington's works ‘The most_detailed! deseriptions of this: Tuskegee Normal and Industrial institute and the work being done there are, at Vest, in the very natare of things, inadequate. From long con- tact and: assoclatioa, thie soutliern man has formed a very just and complete estimate of the Negro as he'is, OF his possibilities, “however, under an excep- tional environment,. tie is not filly aware. The white man ts familiar, of course; with the sporadic examples of black men\ who have, through: force: sf unusual mental ability, transcended the rank and file of fietr’ raves: but of the high average of intelligence, industry and’ activity whifeli may be attained by the masses, lie has but Yague conception. ‘The exceptionat' ext vironment, with its attendant. excep- tioual results, is manifest at Tuskegee. ‘This point—that of an exceptional’ en: ¥ironment and = influence—must._be constantly borne in mind when Wash- ington’s work at Tuskegee is consid: ered. Through the medium of magazine articles written by northern men, 1 had read much of Booker Washington and his school in the “black. belt” of Alabama. ‘This reading had Inspired ‘me with a great admiration for the foremost of American Negroes; Dut, ‘at the same time, 1 was inclined. to make large allowances for, and. to modify the northern point of. view. as to actual results, Thad no idea that Washington's ere ation so nearly approximated the high ‘deal of its creator—that the achieve ‘ment measured so, nearly the helght of the man. I was surprised as every southern-born man is surprisad,, who visits Tuskegee for the frat. time. Separated trom the town of: Tuske gee proper, the ‘Tuskegee Normal, and Industrial school 1s, to all appearances, town to iteelf—a town of some 1,500 Negroes. Booker Washington might be termed jhe mayor of this town 8 mayor wifose authority 18 practically uplimited and’ Whose word. is_ law. His duties are multitudinows. He it the mayor, the comptrolier;, tke oom taleeloner ot public works, the head o the sanitary department, the president of the board of health and the moral head of the community. He has-s corps of some 150 Instructors—alt Ne ‘groes—under him, but he 1s the final court of appeals. His responsibitities are in proportion ta his power. His 6 > As 4 oe SS es wa Fea is the vitalizing and stetainiag inftv ence that :has mado ‘Tuskegee. The ¥eal measure of the man is manifest in the spirit he has inspired into Wie as sistents “and the” community asa whole. In this community are some %200 males and females who’ are. being equipped for the duties of Tite. ‘They come from all classes and conditions of life. Many arrive at the institute iu abject poverty, without the means to pay the small tuition which Js char- Sed. ‘The most unpromising are soon whipped into condition. Each te glv- en a practical education. Each. is taught a trade. All are inculcated with {deas of morality, thought, clean- liness, industry and’ discipline. No false ideas aro preached. ‘The doml- nant note which. one hears from mora- ing until night-i the dignity of work. ‘The average student, coming from the most proverty-stzicken surroundings, oon catches the spirit of Tuskegee, and in the brief space of a few months a wonderful transformation takes place. Order comes out of chaos. ‘The habits of a lifetime are reversed, ‘The result of all this is an ideal Ne- gro community...'The expression “an deal Negro community” will give but a vague idea to the average southern- ‘er. I have visited. many college towns ‘and studied the work of many colleges. L have never seen.one which approxi. mates Tuskegee in many respects. During two days spent at Tuskegee T never saw tobaccorused in any form, I never heard the suggestion of pro: fanity, did not detect the semblance ‘of immorality, and. the boisterous. ness and disorder which one. in- stinctively associates with the Negro was absolutely lacking, Perfect order, neatness, self-respect and absolute po: Mteness prevailed everywhere. ‘These Negroes had been educated in the broadest and best sense. All sides of them had been developed and the best had been brought out. There was no Suggestion of a superficial veneer which temporarily hides all the origin: al-cvudities. ‘The visit was, as I sald in the beginning, a revelation. ‘The same, revelation is in store for any Southern man who will take the troub Te to visit Tuskegee. It will be urged that Tuskegee is ‘an exceptional ease and that one can form:no idea of the net result of Negro industrial education from this isolated example. ‘Chis is not true. In. the state of Alabama the results of tte ‘Tuskegee spirit are becoming manifest everywhere. Similar schools, om a small scale, founded by Tuskegee grad ates, are springing up in many’ sec tions. All of these schools are annual ly turning out men and women who ‘gre making better carpenters, better blacksmiths, better cooks, nurses, brick ‘masons, farmers, and better men and ‘woman, ‘The South owes Booker Washington ‘a lasting debt of gratitude. If the rank and file of his race will follow iis ideas, the race question will event- ‘ually Become @ thing of the past. ‘CHRISTIAN CONGRESS, Ten theumnd Delegates Expectid to Attend MMectiog ut Atlanta, Atlanta, Ga—The Afro-Ameri¢an young, people's Christian and educe- tonal. congress, a movement to urge aggressive Christian and educational work among the Negro young people throughout the United States, which will meet in ‘Atlanta, Ga., August 6- 11, will be the first event’ In the his- tory of the Afro-American when all agencies and denominations have untt- ed. in. one effort for the promotion of learning among Afro-Americans. ‘The denominations and thelr sev- eral boards with the agencies at work among the Afro-Americans have each a representative upon the board of df- Tectars; the board of directors consist. ing of 100 members. The congress will be in session five days, and 10,000 Gelegates are expected td be. present, ‘Two thousand commissioners have been appointed to asset In the work of all churches and religious societies ag well as institutions of learning re tesented at this congress, ‘The railroads have granted a one fare for the round trip. ‘The fourth ‘Sunday in May has been; designated as a day of prayet for the movement and alt ministens are requestedion that day to. deliver sermons on the Christian training of the young people with ret erence to, this movement... Chureh or ganizations are also, asked’ to hold special exercises, ‘Person tonbled with Oatarr,Hay~ over. 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Tete noe gens 1 Mahogany Kimball.......8190 1Chickering...............9@96 1 Stolaway secs 82D A Landwig................0+-8235 1J.@ 0. ischor......... 8820 ‘New Uprights. .........-5248. ‘This ina good Plano at eclieap price. Call omor Write at Onze: to JUPENBUSH RAUPENBUS! We. PAGL, MINN. ———— ara creme 222 W.70 ST Phone 1609. Wj F SHIRTS 10 i QuARs om Gees ¥ 34 a soma Scott R. Walker — FINE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS, i 374 Minnesota St, ——————————— DR.HURD | .)§ ESevenths St ae a et ae Ae COL. J. R. MARSHALL. COL. J. R. MARSHALL. NOMINATED FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER REPUBLICANS. The Cook County Republican did the Proper Thing in Nominating a man who I questionably can Harmonize all Factions and Ride on to Victory. The Cook County Republican convention composed of over a thousand delegates, with only about forty Afro-American candidates on Friday by nominating for county commissioner that splendid gentleman and super soldier, Col. John R. Marshall—the choice of the Afro-American people of Chicago. His commission means strength to the ticket and when he assumes the duties of his position after the election—no class of people will be ashamed of his record, and no class of people will be able and consentious repressive of the people on the county Board and will reflect credit on the race. Colonel John R. Marsh "became born in Alexandria, Va., in 1859, and educated in the public schools of town, and Washingon, D.C. Came to Chicago in 1879 and worked as a bricklayer, hav'g arrived his apprentice, have'g negative state. Mr. Marshall had nix'd his job, before he joined the Bricklayers' Uniform and soon became a favorite with laboring Deputy Clerk in the Cook County Clerk's office, and filled that position with honor and credit to himself and his race, until 1888, when he answered the call for volunteers and went to the front in defense of his country's flag. Colonel Marshall took an active part in the organization of the Ninth Natt- COL. J. R. MARSHALL. tation in 1891, being elected second lieutenant, Company A, in May, and first lieutenant in July of the same year. In 1893 he was chosen captain of his company by an unanimous vote, and held that rank until he received his colonel's commission in June. 1898. In Crane he made an enviable record. He early gained the confidence and respect of his general and soon proved that this confidence was not misplaced. When the Colonel returned with his regiment from Cuba, the proud possessor of a splendid military record and a military training ground in country, neither his head nor his heart was turned by the knowledge of the fact that his war record had greatly increased in the estimation of his fellow country, his general, big hearted, brotherly John Marshall, alike to the high and the low. And it is this disposition of old-fashioned Americanism, together with his honorable citizenship, that cause the Cook County voters—Many of both races—to demand that he allow his name to be placed before the Republican county convention for the nomination. Colonel Marshall is a married man and has an interesting family, living at 3652 Dearborn street, and he is at present one of the Deputy Sheriffs of Cook County, with general satisfaction, both to the people and his superior officers. REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET. REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET. Criminal Court Clerk, William C. Lawson. Appellate Court Clerk, A. R. Porter. Board of Review, Roy O. West. Boston Assessors, William H. Weber. Adam W. Wiley. County Judge, Orrin N. Carter. Probate Judge, Charles S. Cutting. Superior and Circuit Court Judges— D. J. Schuyler. Lionel Collins. W. S. Ellott Jr. W. M. M'Ewen. Abram M. Pence. George A. Puppy. Fred A. Spell. County Commissioners, city— J. R. Marshall. Chas. A. Raggio. Claus Floodin. John P. Garner. Horma H. Havenus. H. G. Foreman. Auton Novak. W. H. Thompson. E. W. Walker. J. V. Janderbilt. County Commissioners, country towns A. V. Steenberg. Superintendent Schools, A. F. Night ingale. The county convention on Tuesday nominated the above 'ticket' at the large and splendid convention held a week earlier at the gressman Mann was selected as temporary and permanent chairman amade an ideal presiding officer. Every nomination was made by acclamation with all爽 cheers from th delegates. COUNTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE. The new county central committee men were reported by wards. No more men are coming in from the Sixth Seventh, Thirteenth, Sixteenth, Seventh, Twentieth, Twentieth, Twenty-fourth, Twenty-ninth and Thirty-third wards. The new county central committee out representation before. The only significant change is that Thomas O'Shaughnessy, who succeeds Fre M. Blount in the Twentieth ward. Foe is the membership of the com-mittee. 1, Charles A. Wathler; 2, Noble F Judah; 3, Martin B. Madden; 4, E. J Magerstadt; 5, Thos. J. Flucane. 6, Martin L. Wheeler; 7, W. M. Gemmill; The Main Feature of Our Credit Plan Is This: ST. PAUL'S MARSHMOUTH EASY PAINTING HOUSE NORTH STAR BUCKS HOUSE FURNISHING CO. 434-436 WABASHA ST. ST. PAUL Just a Few of these well-made in volours on steel springs... $4.65 Collocates, upholstered for only... Another Lot of these handsome brass-framed Beds, enclosed any color... $4.95 This Dresser Another Lot of these handsome brass-trimmed Beds, but only any color, $4.95 this ..... This Dresser Is finished in mahogany golden oak, substantially made of kiln dried hard wood; French mirror. Only $7.65 You Should Buy Your Spring Carpets of Us for several reasons: Our patterns are sold exclusively by our own company. Our prices are low. Our services prompt, our terms on Carpets are on every thing else, most commercial 8. John Hanberg; 9. John A. Cooke; 10. E. F. Burke; 11. Joseph E. Bidwill; 12. A. W. Miller; 13. D. W. Clark; 14. D. A. Campbell; 15. Fred L. Wilk; 16. John Scherman; 17. John W. Clark; 18. John Mamer; 19. Thos. O'Shaughnessy; 21. Fred A. Busse; 22. John A. Linn; 23. Charles W. Andrews; 24. John H. Fichter; 25. James Pease; 26. Robert M. Simon; 27. W. M. McEwen; 28. James Reddick; 29. Frank C. Christian; 30. Roy O. West; 31. Charles V. Ward; 32. Nicholas Decker; 34. William Lorimer; 35. Fred Lundin. First Commissioners district—John Schilling. Second commissioners district—William H. Weber. Third Commissioners district—E.S. Conway. Fifth Commissioners district—Milan Sixth Commissioners district—Geo W. Poullin. NORTHENERS TO GO SOUTH, Representative Thompson Will Send Guests in his Special car. Representative Crumpacker, of Indiana, the author of resolutions for suffrage investigation, and other members of the House have accepted an offer to serve as the chair of the serve the Afro-American in the heart of Alabama's black belt. The programme is to have the party leave in a special car May 10, and spend several days in the South. The travelers will be largely members of the House and will be allowed to leave Mason's and Dixon's line. The party will visit Tuskegee Institute. The idea of this trip originated with Representative Charles W. Thompson, of the Fifth Alabama district, who has a large plantation near Tuskegee, Alabama, and hands. Mr. Thompson is a prosperous man, possesses means, and believes the trip will give the Northerners a chance to own about conditions in South. He declares that he will make no effort to impress his own views on conditions upon the prospective visitors, but will leave them entirely free to explore. He expected that Senator Frye will accompany the party. Speaker Henderson has also been invited. Among the representatives who have accepted, beckoned, or chamod, of New York; Mr. Dick, and Mr. Southard, of Ohio; Mr. Roberts, and Mr. Gillett, of Massachusetts; Mr. Barney, Mr. Brown, Mr. Jenkins, Mr. and Mr. Daleon, of Wisconsin; Mr. Smith, and Mr. Connor of Iowa. UNCLE REUBEN AND THE AIRLY DAYS. R. S. Marshall is delivering his oats to Art Clevidence. Uncle Reuben vividly remembers that early period of his pioneer life when he used to haul his oats from the field to a hole in the ground, a few Indian wigwams, and The Chicago Journal. Uncle Reuben, with his ox team, made the round trip in about a week, stopping at every point, everything was plenty except water, of which no one at that early period seemed to have any knowledge. Sometimes his ox teams mired, one fine oke of oxen in particular, shaking so deep that the oke cars was visible, which was a lucky circumstance after all, as they saved the lives of an emigrant and his family, perishing with hunger, who misplaced their axe-tail soup of them. Those were the times that tried men's souls—Mount Morris Index. READ THIS CAREFULLY. If you are troubled with kinky or curly hair use Ozonized Ox Marrow: it will make your hair straight, soft and beautiful. If you are troubles with hair color, Ozonized Ox Marrow will stop it. If you have dandruff and itching in the head, Ozonized Ox Marrow will give you instant lice, and make the hair grow. Ozonized Ox Marrow compacts to the hair that healthy, life-like appearance, so much desired, hold over 40 years. Never fails. Wanted harmless. Send us 50 cents. Mail to: Address Ozonized Ox Marrow Cd, 76 Wabash Ave, Chicago, Ill. THE AFTERNOON A NATIONAL AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER ```markdown ``` A Made in Grand Rapids, which in itself sufficient proof of highest quality. Cold Blast ($3.75 to $45) for liquor and "Monarch" ($2.45 to $85) Gasoline and Oil Stores are what you want for the kitchen. Every size and price. We are sole agents. CHICAGO. THE "WORLD'S SIPAIRCITY" VIEWED BY THE APPEAL MAN. A Compilation of a Number of Happenings, Social and Otherwise, Among the Afro-Americans of the Second City of This Glorious Union. At Bethel Church, May 12th, Prof. N. Clark's Symphony Orchestra concert. Ephiam Banning is making an active canvass for Congress. He is a patent lawyer of high standing. THE APPEAL is without question the best advertising medium through which to reach the Afro-Americans of Chicago. Subscribers for THE APPEAL who wish to discontinue the paper must send written notice to the office, properly dated and signed. 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. THE APPEAL has fixed advertising rates, and will not cut them in order to secure advertising. However, if you want the people, advertise in THE APPEAL. 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. If you wish a loan on household furniture, horse, wagon, diamonds, jewelry or real estate and are holding a loan, you can contact No. 36 South Grant & Co. Room 311, No 36 South Clark street. Parties having money to invest in chattels, diamonds, etc. call on John Q. Grant & Co., Suite 311, No. 36 South Clark street. They will give two per cent loan to money to move with them to be loaned on above securities. Don't fall to hear Mr. and Mrs. H. Crump at the Fisk Club concert at Bethel church Monday evening, May 5th. They both have wonderful stories for the names of those who will assist in making this concert a success. Information, is wanted of Miss or Mrs. Kate White, who left Ommaa a few years ago and is supposed to be in Chicago. She is a bright mattoon. Miss White is a pousa. Miss White's parents live at the mansion. Any information will be gladly received by Dr. P. C. Kebble, Pittsburg, Texas. The New Thought Movement. A class for the study of the most advanced method of Divine Healing is now being organized. Those desirous of investigating this teaching are requested to send me their address, in writing, to the Institute of lecture explaining the science, John Jacob Meler, care of The Appeal. The First District Republican Senatorial convention met at Arlington Hall on Wednesday at noon, fifty-seven delegates from the First and Second Districts, James A. Scott was elected temporary permanent chairman and after addresses by Judge Haney and S. B. Turner the convention adjourned to the 20th inst. It was the concenus of the nominees for the legislature should be an Afro-American, and it is understood that Ed. Green, Willis Jefferson, I. Webster Brown, S. B. Turner and a host of other gentlemen are looking for the nomination. Misico's Trocadero Theatre. The summer season at Misco's Trocadero will be inaugurated Sunday, May 11, literally in a blaze of glory. On this auspicious date, the famous Orpheon Extravaganza company, foremost exile organization in the world, will host a theatre, and having but one equal—the great Weber & Fields show in New York—will take possession of the stage and will inaugurate a season of the Orpheon Extravaganza with crowds in Chicago have long anxious to see. The Orpheon com- Therefore, our business is virtually a business we'd do if we sold for cash is means the making of lowest prices, rock bottom cash prices. The price on You Will Save in Medicine what you bought for a Carriage or a baby's slides saving baby's health outdoor exercise is the spring medicine KINLEY'S are the best Carriages with 100 carts. One like this for only $6.45 Solid Oak. This Table is built for hard usage. It is made of kints-dried ORBICENT ORBICENT We have left a few $50 REGAL Bicycles left to sell at $80. If you want one be on deck to-morrow early, EASIEST TERMS. Easiest Terms. pany is recognized as a topnotcher, and as standing almost alone in its own field. It is a replica, a duplicate, practically an exact counterpart, of the matchsheet. Weber & Field shows, the Broadway famed around the world. The burlesques that will be staged, "Whirl-I-Gig," "Fiddle-de-dee," and the rest—are the original Weber & Fields manuscripts; the costumes will span the Broadway, spanning the Weberfieldian production and the personnel of the company will be good enough to do credit to even the original New York theater. Sol and Nat Fields, brothers of the New York manhunters, will be stars; Allen Curtis, a jester who has been associated with the Fields boys in all their successes, will also be to the fore in all the revelry; Harry Richards, the tall comedian, will have contempt for the Newman, the Harvey sisters, the Esmeralda sisters, Annie Payser—in a word, of the stars who made the show on the Washington street "the real thing" a few short months ago—and will be the ever. The great travesty on the Florodora sextette will be put on; there will be a superb line of all-star specialties, and the women of the company will be the handsomest who could be engaged in the show. Short, the summer's attraction will be the warmest of shows in the coolest of theaters—a combination that cannot be equaled anywhere else in Chicago, while ease, comfort, attention to patrons, and every other accessory to the theater will be blended for the benefit of the patrons. Fisk Club Concert a Success. 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