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'Of One Blood God Created All Mankind' THE TWELFTH ANNUAL NEGRO CONFERENCE ASSEMBLES AT TUSKEGEE, ALA. Large Number of the Workers and Thinkers of the Country Assemble to Confer Upon Matters of Vital Importance to the People. Tuskegee, Ala., Feb. 18, 1903.—The twelfth annual "Tuskegee Negro Conference" began its sessions at Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute today. This conference was organized by Principal Booker T. Washington for the purpose of bringing together the farmers and their wives who live in the vicinity of Tuskegee once a year for the purpose of counsel and advice with each other. Since then of Afro-American men and women—many not farmers—now attend these sessions each year from all over the South. Principal Washington presides at all of the sessions. In his opening address this morning he said: "We come now to the twelfth session of the "Tuskegee Negro Conference". This organization was begun with a few score of men and women; out of that small beginning has grown this great and powerful annual meeting now national in its character and influence. At the first meeting, we consider issues which would allow the Conference could make itself of the greatest value, it was decided that while not ignoring or undervaluing efforts made in other directions, this organization could best contribute its mite to the lifting up of the race by confining itself for the most part to the matters which the race had closely within its own control, and to positive aggressive effort rather than to more negative criticisms and recitation of wrongs. Further from the first it has been the work of this Conference to confine itself to a simple and informal consideration of the methods and means of securing homes, the freeing ourselves from debts, the saving of money, the encouragement, of intellig --- THIS PICTURE OF TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE WITH ITS SIXTY BUILDNGS ALL MAINLY THE RESULT OF AFROAMERICAN BRAINS AND BRAWN, OUGHT TO BE AN OBJECT LESSON THAT WOULD FOREVER SILENCE THOSE WHO SAY THE AFROAMERICAN IS ANYTHING ELSE THAN A MAN. STELKOTBU WA gent producers, the payment of taxes, the cultivation of habits of thrift, honesty and virtue, the building of school houses and churches, the securing of education and high Christian character, and friendship between the races. While not forgetting other important interests of the race, we believe that these constitute the primary foundation upon which all races began their career of freedom and usefulness. As we count today the many homes that have been secured, school houses built, debts paid, taxpayers produced, and state and local conferences that have been organized in every section of the South as a result of our little beginning twelve years ago, I think we have some right to feel that these meetings have not been held in vain. "Throughout the entire race we must keep alive a feeling of hope and --- THE VIEW OF THE UNIVERSITY. BIRDS-EYE VIEW OF TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, TUSKEGEE, ALABAMA. encouragement. We have seen darker days than those through which we now seem to be passing. No race that is patient, long suffering, industrious, economical and virtuous, is persistent in efforts that make for progress and that cultivate a spirit of good will toward all mankind, is ever left without reward. We shall get more out of struggle than out of contentment." Following this address there was a general discussion by the farmers and their wives of their conditions. Those who own land and homes told how they acquired their property, what difficulties they had met, and how they overcome these difficulties. They discussed the difficulties of the country, and how to make these crops most profitable. "They told their experiences with the mortgage system, and if they had escaped from it, how they did it, reported on the condition of the homes in their community, the schools, the churches, the morality of the people, the ministers and the teachers. A careful census was made by Roscoe Conkling Bruce, the head of the academic department at Tuskegee, of all present to show how many own land, homes, live stock, etc., how many mortgage their crops, how many came out ahead last year, how many individuals in a family, the nature and length of the schools, nature of the homes, etc. It is the purpose of the Conference to continue these census investigations from year to year for the purpose of comparison. In connection with the conference there is a fine exhibit of the agricultural work and methods of Tuskegee Institute, and an effort made to teach the men and women present things which will be practical for them. One of the features of this exhibit was a BIRDS-EY working illustration by Prof. G. W. Carver of the agricultural department, showing eighteen different ways of cooking common cow peas so as to make them palatable and nutritious. The first day of the Conference closed with an old-fashioned barbecue, to which all present were invited. The conclusions arrived at as a result of the Conference discussions, were embodied in a set of declarations, which briefly summarized are as follows: All progress centers, mainly around the ownership of land and houses, education and Christian character. This has been emphasized by the Conference from the beginning. The importance of stock raising for food. Women should raise poultry and pigs, and establish a home dairy, even if with only one cow. Thorough cultiva- ```markdown ``` PRESIDENT ROSEVELT "I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope, the door of opportunity, is to be shut upon any man, worthy, purely on the grounds of race or color." tion of a small tract, rather than poor cultivation of a large area, giving attention to work on the farm in winter when practicable. Careful teaching of agriculture and other forms of industry useful on the farm, as far as possible by country schools. Active co-operation in every way to increase the efficiency and length of the public schools. Better schools make larger attendance. Stop emigration to the cities by making home life in the country more attractive. Better protection should be afforded to life and property, better houses for tenants. Interest charges gradually reduced; better care of farm hands, along with better farming on the part of the renters, and more valuable service on the part of those who work for wages; improvement of the public roads, and further extension of al mail routes. Care of the health of the family by proper attention to location of house, outbuildings and well. Prosperity and peace are dependent on good relations between the races. Close attention to the character of ministers, teachers, and all who try to be leaders of the people. Second Day. The second day's sessions of the "Tuskegee Negro Conference" were held in Porter Hall Chapel, at Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute today. This is what is known as "The Workers' Conference", and is made up in general of prominent educators of both races, and people interested in education. Among those who are present are: Edward W. Frost, Milwaukee; Dr. Chas F. Meresve, President Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C.; Pres. H. N. Payne, Mary Holmes Seminary, West Point, Miss.; W. F. Graham, John Mitchell, Jr.; Richmond, Va.; Principal T. O. Fuller, Howe Institute, Memphis; Pres. R. R. Wright, Georgia Industrial College, Pres. E. C. Bransom, State Normal School, Athens, Ga.; Pres. W. W. Frost, Rust University, Holly Springs, Miss.; Pres. L. M. Dunton, Claflin University, Orangeburg, S. C.; Pres. R. S. Lovinggood, Houston College, Austin, Tex.; Pres. J. H. Johnston, Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute; Pres. A. B. Chafee, Bishop College, Marshal, Tex.; President W. H. Lanier, Alcorn College, Westside, Miss.; R. L. Garland Penn, Atlanta; Hon. R. L. Smith, Oakland, Tex.; Rev. J. P. Wragg, Atlanta; Frank D. Banks' Hampton Institute, Va.; Rev. W. W. Ranney, Hartford. Continued on Second Page. "THE NEGRO PROBLEM." SYMPOSIUM OF THE VIEWS OF PROMINENT MEN OF THE SUBJECT. Afro-Americans in a Bad Fix—Must Help Themselves, Some Say—Others Assert the Whites Are Not Doing Their Whole Duty. The "Negro Problem" which has been a bug bear in this country for many years has recently been brought to public notice in a way that has made it a pressing subject in both the North and South. The recent address of Secretary of War Root before the Union League club in New York City, marked by his assertion that Negro suffrage after thirty years' trial is a failure, has served to accentuate the situation, following as it did the agitation which has swept the states of the south from the day that President Roosevelt received Booker T. Washington as a dinner guest at the White house. The appointment of Dr. Crum, the rejection of his nomination by the senate, and the receiving of Afro-American federal officeholders and their families at an official "at home" at the White house have added fuel to discussion. What is the destiny toward which our national life, with its desired supremacy of the white race, is bearing the Afro-American is a question that is attracting the best thought of the country. In the south the line of demarkation between the two races seems to have been growing deeper. In the north, so citizens of the southern states contend, the Afro-American is losing friends. Remedies for the erasure of the class line have been proposed repeatedly and for years, there have been attempts to deal with injustice; suggestions of charity and encouragement for the weaker race. The southern white people have thus far handled the problem in their own way. Restrictions laid on the privilege of suffrage have disfranchised thousands of Afro-Americans. Scenes involving cruelty and life have LABAMA. marked the battle for supremacy in recent months. Many Men of Many Minds. That the opinions of public men of the country on this question might be compared, the Chicago Tribune on last Sunday presented a symposium of statements of prominent members of congress, or representative Chicagoans who have given the situation a thoughtful attention and also the views expressed by editorial statements of newspapers of the northern and southern states from which The Appeal has herewith largely drawn. In every section of the country there is wide diversity of opinion. There are those who practically renounce the Afro-American and assert that he should be allowed to drift whatever end he may find, and that that There are those who find that the white people have been guilty of omission of duty and who demand charitable encouragement and greater education that the Afro-American may be elevated to a standard, as a race, which will inspire respect and settle the race question for all time in the United States. The theme on which the discussion of each is hinged is this statement by Secretary Root: "At the close of the war the great question was: 'What shall we do with the poor black?' The answer of the constitutional amendments was: 'Give him citizenship, give him suffrage, give him real rights, and he will rise. I fear we are compelled to face the conclusion that the experiment has failed." There are those who stubbornly assert that the Afro-American is going backward, that he is losing what little advancement was made in former years. There are thinking men who praise the Afro-American for the progress he has made despite obstacles set up by prejudice, particularly in the south, where the question has its acutest phase because of the numbers of the Afro-American population. There are those who cry that politics has wrought the wreck of the Afro-American, as a race. Solution Requires Time. In the majority of statements there is one note of unity—that the problem will be solved and that time will be the chief factor in obliterating the obstacles which now cause division. The burden of advancement, however, most of the incidents of the situation lay on the fact that the problem must exert himself to attain the position which shall inspire respect of those who have opposed him and so: 522 HERE IS WHERE THE ANNUAL "NECRO CONFERENCES" ARE HELD YEAR AFTER YEAR. THOSE WHO ATTEND ARE ASTOUNDED WITH THE EVIDENCES OF PROGRESS AND THRIFT WHICH ARE PRESENTED IN THE INSTITUTE ITSELF AND IN THE TESTIMONY OF THE MEMBERS. cure him a proper place in the national life From north and south comes the assertion that, if the problem is to be first and most basic, force, and partisanship must have no hand in the settlement. "Keep cool" is the advice advanced by southern editorial opinion. The predictions of John A. Wise of Virginia of race wars and bloodshed are stamped as alarmist views pander to sensationallism. Some Offer No Remedies. There are those who advance no explanations for this tendency and who hold out no remedies. Among the number is Senator Bailey of (Texas, who asserts that "the white people of the south propose to rule themselves Continued on Second Page. HAVE YOU RUED THE APEAL THE APPEAL, A NATIONAL AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY ADAMS BROS. EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS 49 E. 4th St., St. Paul, Minn. ISSUED SIMULTANEOUSLY IN Saint Paul, Minneapolis, Chicago, Washington, Louisville, St. Louis. ST. FAUL OFFICE, No. 110 Union Blk. 4th & Cedar, J. Q. ADAMS, Publisher. MINNEAPOLIS OFFICE, Guaranty Loan Bldg. Room 817 HENRY ROBERTS, Manager. CHICAGO OFFICE, 323-5 Dearborn St., Suite 310, C. F. ADAMS, Manager. LOUISVILLE OFFICE, No. 312 W. Jefferson St. Room 3 W. V. PENN, Manager. ST. LOUIS OFFICE, No. 1002 Franklin Avenue. J. H. HARRISON, Manager. 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To a number of Senators President Roosevelt has expressed a desire that a vote be taken in the Senate on the adverse report of the Committee on Commerce of Dr. Crum for collector at the port of Charleston. He insists that it is but fair to the nominee and fair to the appointing power that the advice and consent of the Senate be observed in this case as in all others of similar nature. It is stated on good authority that if no vote is taken in the Senate that the President will make a recess appointment. In this he is faced with the challenge of presiding as President Cleveland whose nomination of C. H. J. Taylor, (a man who did not in any way measure up to Dr. Crum), to recorder of deeds of the "District of Columbia, was rejected by a Senate vote, but finally confirmed by the Senate. President Roosevelt is all right in his position in regard to the nomination of Dr. Crum as collector of customs at Charleston, S. C. The only real opposition to him is on account that at last this country has a President who will not allow prejudice or policy to influence him into doing a wrong act. The cry that Dr. Crum is not the choice of the people is not so, as there really are only a few prejudiced politicians who are opposing him. Long live President Roosevelt. If it were not so very damnably exasperating, it probably would be amusing to note the excruciatingly conical gratifications some white people indulge in their efforts to force the Afro-American, as well as themselves, into the belief that he, the Afro-American, is inferior. Because, he and so that does not, necessarily, make an absolute fact. We will admit that the whites in America have had a notable advantage over the blacks for more than two centuries, the most of which time they even held the blacks in abject slavery. But such good use have the blacks made of their opportunities along ceramic shields, and the blacks struck the shackles from their limbs that the whites are getting alarmed and an all-absorbing fear of "Negro domination" has taken possession of them. They need not fear; we do not wish to dominate, but to just have at fair show for our "white alley." Boston is having more trouble on account of the senseless, inconsistent color prejudice which even exists in the G. A. R. Last week after a lively fight James H. Wolff was elected as a judge in the Massachusetts department, G. A. R. Wolff is a lawyer of Boston, and has been prominent in G. A. R. affairs, and has served as judge advocate of the department. Against him were two white men, W. W. Castle and H. McFarlane, and he numbered one post as Wolff, and he and McFarlane are prominent in the order. The only thing against Wolff was that he is an Afro-American, and it affords us considerable pleasure to be able to record that, though threats were openly made, after the close of the encampment that the war will be continued the right minded people won out this time. We do not subscribe to all Mormon doctrines, but if all Mormons have the spirit to do unto their fellow men as they would have their fellow men do unto them, as Apostle Smoot would do unto them, as Apostle Smoot in his honor in Salt Lake City, in making no color distinctions among his guests, we must say they are not a bad lot. We were at first inclined to the belief that Apostle Smoot ought not to be seated in the U. S. senate, but we now withdraw any objections we may have to the senate. In the senate there will be another objector to the methods of the lowest thing in the United States, albeit he is a member of that august body—Ben Tillman. A prominent Mississippi banker claims that a number of Democrats in that state had intended voting for Roosevelt, but that the President has queered himself because of the Booker-Washington incident and the Indianola affair. If half of the Democrats voted for Roosevelt if would not give him the electoral vote, because the clique of Democratic state officials who count the votes would see that an overwhelming majority was returned for the Democratic presidential candidate. While there is such a wave of color prejudice rolling over this country it is pleasing to note that Rev. P. Thomas Stanford, A. M., M. D., D. D., LLL. D, an Afro-American of Boston, has received a call to the pastorate of the Wilberforce Memorial church, Birmingham, England, which is a Caucasian congregation entirely. Stanford was born a slave at Hammond, in the mid-19th century, through his kindness and help of Henry Ward Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe and William E. Gladstone. Dr. J. L. M. Curry, who died recently, distinguished himself especially by his work for the education and betterment of the Afro-American. The recent gift of Mr. John D. Rockseller of $100,000 was a method of gift for education purposes in the South, was secured through the efforts of Dr. Curry. He was general agent for the Peabody and the John Slater educational funds and had more to do with their distribution than any other man. Old bilentiman left off some more of his billingsgate at the press club banquet at New York Saturday night. The language used was so filthy that a number of ladies left the hall. This fine specimen of the superior (?) Caucasian devoted his entire time to abuse of the Afro-American, and we are much gratified to know that his sen- ience was concurred in but received with hisses. A lot of flunkey Afro-Americans, headed by Chief Flunkey of Huntsville, Ala. have announced that they will call a meeting at Birmingham in May to declare that the "white people of the South are our best friends." These fool Afros ought to be more cautious of attempting to guard the interests of the Southern Caucasian who is able to take care of himself. Major J. E. Varadaman has announced himself as a candidate for the U.S. Senate against an anti-Negro platform. He purposes to divide the public school fund of the state between the races according to the amount of taxes paid by each race. The plan if carried into effect would close 75 per cent of the Afro-American public schools in the state. The Tempes of Paris in discussing the adverse vote of the Senate committee on the nomination of Dr. Crum to be collector of the Port of Charleston says this anti-Negro vote is evidence that the United States is paring in the general moral slump which noticeable among the great Powers. Carter Beverly, an Afro-American Republican leader in Alabama, has been appointed deputy collector of internal revenue at Birmingham. Beverly's appointment is regarded by the "lily white" Republicans as a recognition by the administration of the "black and tan" element. A number of representative Filipinos held a meeting in Manila recently to arrange a memorial in honor of Dr. Rizal, the Filipino martyr. There were but six persons present, yet in a few minutes more than $600 was subscribed to meet the expenses of the memorial meeting. Mrs. Thomas Hamilton Burch a prominent society woman of New York City championed by her husband, testified in court recently that she paid $10 for a drug guaranteed to win back the affection of any husband; and yet they talk about the Afro-American being superstitious. The Mobile Register says: We are trying an experiment in settling the race problem which serves to differentiate the Afro-Americans and puts a premium on their intelligence. We do not know how it is going to work, but we think it should be given a fair trial. A Northern Caucasian sojourning in Winchester made uncomplimentary remarks about the South and was promptly put off the earth. THE APPEAL: A NATIONAL AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER "NEGRO PROBLEM." Continued From First Page and not to be ruled by their former servants." what he was and what he is now, he has done remarkably well. "If the south will give him a show for the white boy, but the citizen than he now is, and it will be for the interests of the southern AFRO-AMERICAN IS MAImprovement as a Citizen Steady. According to This Senator William B. A A few, like Representative John W. Gaines of Tennessee, say: "The problem has been settled by the people of the south; let it drop." Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire takes an extreme view, saying: "American is without friends, and; sometimes I think, without hope." Men of the south—including Graham H. Harris of Chicago's board of education, who left his Virginia home a score of years ago—insist that those southern states which have placed a premium on intelligence and property rights as a condition to the exercise of suffrage are justified by precedent. The restrictions, they contend, differ but little from the northern models, and the fact that they must produce his poll-tax receipt as a preliminary to voting, or as in Georgia, must have paid all taxes since 1877. Can All These Be Right? Senator Clark of Wyoming contends that the southern whites have no justification for discriminating against the Afro-American. Senator Cullom of Illinois insists that encouragement and education will work the Afro-American's salvation. He also argues that equal opinion demands that the south suffers in indirect disfranchisement of the Afro-American vote a penalty should be levied on the southern states by cutting down their representation in Congress. A warning note is issued by Senator Dolliver of Iowa, who points out that the Afro-Americans reach the plane of intelligence which will enable all to fully understand the rights and duties of citizenship and to perform them properly, those who have sought to make political and social outcasts of these people will have a "tremendous power to reckon with." The chairman of South Carolina secrets trouble in the future, contending that, no matter what may be done now, the battle to "maintain white supremacy will have to be fought over again twenty years from now." AFRO-AMERICAN RIGHTS SECURE. Senator Cullom Lays, it is too late to Discuss Whether the Black Man May Be Allowed Suffrage—Can't Turn Back. Shelyl M. Cullom, Illinois (Rep.) it is a rather late day to say that it was a mistake to give the right of suffrage to the Afro-American. As a result of the civil war the right to vote was given to the Afro-American by an amendment. No attempt will be made to take it from him, and it is useless to discuss such a proposition. His right will neither be denied or abridged. Instead of asserting that it was a mistake to give the American the right to citizenship, we should devote all our thought and energies to raising him to the point to qualify him to exercise his precious right. We should educate him and do everything in our power to make a good citizen of him. He needs encouragement, and we owe him to do all in our power to elevate him. We should not discourage him by asserting that it was a mistake to give him the right of a franchise, especially as he has enjoyed that right for more than a generation. It was given to him by the state legislatures, States, as the state legislatures, acting for the people, voted for the amendment to the constitution which gave citizenship to the Negro. Our mission is to build up and not to tear down. In addition to educating the Afro-American we should teach him to maintain himself and to make honest, industrious, and provident citizen of him. BLACK MAN HAS PROGRESSED. Whites Must Be Patient and Allow Afro-American to Improve as Time Passes, Declares Senator-elect Hopkins—Matter of Development. Senator-elect Albert J. Hopkins, ill. (Rep.)—cannot agree with those who think that the Afro-American has not been more advanced than an amendment has not helped him. In the north, where the proportion of blacks to whites is small, the improvement has, of course, been more rapid than in the south. Look at the high average of intelligence among the Afro-Americans in one of the middle western states. Solutions differ as to the condition of the plantation Afro-American, but I believe that most of those who hold that he is going backward are notoriously prejudiced against him. I have talked with representatives who were members of congress when the fifteenth amendment was passed. They voted for it because they could find no reason to believe that the enjoyment of his civil rights. After many years they were of the opinion that they acted rightly. The Afro-American has come a long way from barbarism in a short time. We are inclined to be impatient and to forget that it took the white man centuries to develop his civilization. MASON WITH THE BLACK MAN. Retiring Illinois Senator Declares the Suffrage of the Black Man Can Be made a Success, Even in the South. Senator William E. Mason, (Ill., Rep.)—If Afro-American suffrage is a failure so much the worse for those who are responsible for it. The Afro-American suffrage should be chiseled by the constitution, but it is true, nevertheless, that it has been taken from him by nearly all the southern states. The amendment to the constitution giving an Afro-American the right to vote should be enforced or not, and the right to vote now, but of course no one would consent to repeal it. Afro-American suffrage is not a failure in Indiana and Illinois. This, of course, demonstrates that it can be made a success, a pretty fair lot, and exercises the right of suffrage intelligently. Senator Quaries Admits Disappointment, but holds Out Hope for the Future—South Must Learn to Be Tolerant. Joseph V. Joseph W. Quies, (Wis. Rep.)—I am strongly inlined to agree with the Defense of War in regard to his view of Afro-American suffrage. It has not accomplished for the Afro-American all I thought it would do, and him the right to vote became a law. I am in hopes, however, that the people of the south will, like Paul, see a new light and become converted to the doctrine that all men have equal rights under the same law himself, while he has not performed prodigies in all the walks of life, considering what he was and what he is now, he has done remarkably well. If the south will give him a show for his white alley he will become a better citizen than he now is, and it will be for the interests of the southern people that he be sensibly and acquire property, thereby becoming in times of peril a tower of strength to the commonwealth in which he resides. SOUTH HURTING ITSELF. Lacey of Iowa Says the Whites Are Doing More Injury to Themselfs than to the Afro-American—Ballot is His Right. Representative John M. Lacy, Iowa (Rep.)—The question of Afro-American suffrage in the south is so complex not one living in that section can hardly understand it. While I do not root in his view that Afro-American suffrage is a total failure, I must confess that it has not done all its friends believed it would do at the time of its adoption. The Afro-American legally has the right of suffrage, and in cases where he has committed no crimes to forfeit that right he should be permitted to enlist in the army. The present day is a dangerous process that may react disastrously to the people of those states who have deprived him of that right. There are so many things connected with suffrage in the south that honest men cannot be deprived of their right to know what the remedy shall be against such deplorable conditions. I hope, and I try to believe, that in time the things against which all right-minded men complain will right themselves. I think also that the southern people will see that they are injuring themselves more than the northern people, by depriving him as some of the southern states are doing, of the right of suffrage. IMPROVE THE AFRO-AMERICAN. Dr. E. G. Hirsch Says Suffrage Was Going to Be Over. But That There is No Way of Withdrawing It Now—Time Will Tell. While declaring the Afro-American was granted suffrage before his development entitled him to such rights, Dr. Emil G. Hirsch sees no way of correcting the blunder except by raising the black man to a higher level. "It was a mistake in the first place to extend to the Afro-American the privilege of suffr.ge. But it has been done, and there is no need to cry-over split milk. We must face conditions as they exist. To take from the Afro-American, by direct or indirect way that privilege of suffr.age would not be unjust but it would be dishonest. "We must try to raise him to the higher level where he can appreciate this right, understand the full meaning of the duties of the teacher, learn the duties in ways make for his own benefit and that of our country. In my opinion, there is no other alternative. "To do this we must do more for the Afro-American. He must receive more education. He needs our assistance even if we cannot finance that his natural nature may be led to a higher plane. The trouble is that we are too quick to condemn without hearing the entire argument for the defense. If a man like Booker T. Washington are and commands an army that are apt to be he is the exception." If Afro-American of the lowest class of his race commits an act that brings out badness that is the extreme of the goodness in Booker T. Washington, people say. Well, there is the typical Afro-American there is the type of F668. "No, we do not give the Afro-American's the opportunity they deserve here in the north. We claim that we do. But I fear that statement will not stand. We must presidue which has had its root in racial differences has operated to place every possible obstacle in the way of the advancement of the black race. They say that Afro-American suffrage has failed. I believe, with other options, it will be failed because it has not been allowed. "The problem will be settled, but it will be settled in its own good time. I have no sympathy with the aarmists who are predicting race wars in the coming years. We must come to meet such a crisis as that. Let us use much of charity and give the Afro-American freely of education, which shall raise him to the plane where he can command the respect of the whites, as individual members of the community done, and then solution will be easy. "I believe that President Roosevelt is sincere and that he acted wisely. I believe honest, sincer public sentiment stands by him. But this question must be settled without passion, without partisanship, without agitation that has selfish ends its source. This will allow the problem. Elevate the Afro-American and with each generation the southern prejudice—the northern prejudice, too—against the black man will become fainter and fainter." **CONDITION NOT A THEORY.** A Marked Improvement Noted Among the Afro-Americans of California. Representative Julius Kahn, California (Rep.)—In my state, where the Afro-American population is comparatively small, I notice a marked improvement. There are about 1,500 Afro-Americans in San Francisco out of a population of 400,000. These conditions are peculiarly favorable to their advancement. At any rate, I know among them men of force and education. I can understand, however, that under different conditions progress might be slower, but the quality of the Afro-Americans in San Francisco shows that the race is susceptible of culture and civilization. Perhaps if the fifteenth century concerned in 1870 instead of at the close of the civil war it might have failed of passing, or it might have been less broad, but we are confronted with a condition which, though difficult of solution, need not discourage us. BLAMES ALL ON WHITES. Senator Clark says the Whites Will in the Near Regret Their Action. Senator Clarence D. Clark, Wyoming (Rep.)—Secretary of War Root is correct in his statement that Afro-American suffrage in the south is an absolute failure. It has been made such because the people of the southern states are denying the Afro-American the right of franchise. The Afro-American has done nothing that fies the southern people, misrepresenting against them politically, except at least all national questions. If I am not much mistaken those states which have disfranchised the Afro-American will in the near future greatly regret their action. AFRO-AMERICAN IS MARCHING ON: Improvement as a Citizen Has Been Steady, According to the View of Senator Allison—Prosperity a Proof of This. Senator William B. Allison, Iowa (Rep)—I cannot see that the fifteenth amendment is a failure. The Afro- American has steadily improved since its passage and his improvement as a citizen has been in in a large measure due to that amendment. It is only nec- cessary to prove the prowess of pro- perty of the average Afro-American to see that. He is becoming a property holder and a taxpayer. BLACK RACE IMPROVING: Representative Warner of Illinois Believes the Afro-American is Cap- able of Advancement. Representative Vespasian Warner, Illinois (Rep.)—I believe the Afro-American is capable of advancing. One of the most prosperous farmers in one of the most prosperous African-American who was freed from slavery in 1863. There are other instances of the same sort, which show that the race is not only capable of improvement but that it is improving. When you look at the progress they have made you must consider the capability under which they have labored. MUST UPLIFT THE BLACKS. Only Solution of the Problem Lies in Elevating the Blacks to a Level of Responsibility, Says the Rev. J. P. Brushingham. The Afro-American question can be worked out only by elevating the black man to the level of his responsibilities, Says the Rev. J. P. Brushingham, who said: "I believe it is wrong to disfranchise the Afro-American by deliberate but indirect ways. It is not legal; it is dishonest. It might have been a grave mistake of suffrage, but it is too late to back out of that now. We must must conditions squarely and solve the attendant problem without denying him full justice. He should be taught industry, to save his money, to me himself for a higher place in life by denying him the right to vote." "This race problem is distinctly one of the south. It is easy for us to give advice, but it is a far different matter to enforce that advice in the southern states or to bring the southern people to our views. If we had the same number of blacks in the north we should have doubtless, just as strong prejudices. There is social prejudice here and it is strong. "In the south it is a natural condition, but I believe years will finally blot it out the Afro-American advances for himself and appreciates citizenship. There will be no race war. Such alarmist predictions strike me as idle talk, as yellow sensationalism. "President Roosevelt, in my opinion, has acted wisely and sincerely. The nation should stand by him, and it will." NEGRO'CONFERENCE. Continued From First Page. Conn.; Pres. J. S. Hathaway, N. & I. Institute, Frankfort, Ky.; Pres. George Sale, Atlanta Baptist College; Hon. Cyrus Field Adams, Asst. Register of U. S. Treasury. The subject for discussion at the Workers' Conference was the teaching of agriculture in the sense of agriculture was divided into three general topics - in the city schools, in the country schools, and by extension work, mainly in the country. The methods considered outside school interior were from traveling agricultural experts, traveling libraries, and farmers' bulletins. "RE-ENSLAVING THE NEGRO." "There Is No Half-Way House Between a Slave and a Citizen." A Republican committee of a Republican Senate devoted Lincoln's Birthday to the shutting of one more door of hope in the face of the slaves whom Lincoln freed. Dr. Crum has been pronounced president, because he is a black man. It is agreed that his character is above reproach and his ability out of the common. He is the type of those "very intelligent" Negroes upon whom Lincoln wished to confer the suffrage long before his party was elected. By necessary inference, have been glad to bestow office. Lincoln could not have failed to sympathize with Summer's later position—namely, that a fit colored man in a proper office was a "constant testimony and argumentator," and our later-day recency to the principles of Lincoln should have called from Archbishop Ireland in Chicago yesterday the indignant words. "To announce that the citizen who is black must not aspire to a white man," the appropriate ballot box, is to war against American institutions." The two things go together. Disqualification for office means, for the Negro, disfranchisement. The New York Sun is bold enough to speak out openly, but many are afraid the ballot taken from the black man. To have given it to him at all was, it says, a blunder. Senator Hoar tells us of a Republican colleague who goes further, and maintains that she was a slave. That is logical, for the movement to deprive the Negro of his political rights is really a movement to re-enslame him. People talk gibly about preserving to him his "civil rights"—the right to life, liberty, and the rights of all people. His political rights are extinguished, but this is to fly in the face of history. Have we got to argue over again the reconstruction debates of 1867? Must some new Summer arise to tell us that a righteous government would be founded on the exclusion of a race." Disabilities cannot be effectually removed except by conferring privileges. There is no half-way house between a slave and a citizen. Every attempt to stop short in the process of freeing a slave from captivity has caused Catholic emancipation in England. It began with the removal of positive stigma, of political pains and penalties inflicted upon Catholics as such. But for a long time the disqualification to hold office remained a human lovers of liberty had to content. To say that Catholics had all their civil rights, yet could not hold office, was felt to be an absurdity. "What have you done?" asked Wilberforce, whose sympathies for the oppressed knew their out of prison, but you still compel them to wear prison garb."—New York Evening Post (Ind.). Lost Manhood A Simple Home Treatment Which Never Fails to Restore Full Strength and Vigor of Youth. INSURES LOVE AND A HAPPY HOME. There is no longer any need for men to suffer from lost vitality, night losses, valuation or most like magic in the privacy of your own home and restore small weak organs calmly. You can use simple remedy which any man can use. 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For catalogue and other information, write to the president. R. S. LOVINGGOOD, AUSTIN, TEXAS. A WEEKS RECORD IN MINNESO The Saintly City and Saintly City Folk- way Hearts of Social, Religious and General Means Among the People, Reded Down. Mrs. Elizabeth Banister is progress- ing nicely at the hospital. "I haven't paid $5.00 for a hat since I began wearing the Gordon and I buy the best." Dr. J. E. Porter has moved his resi- dence from Carroll road to 569 Igle- hart street. Furnished room to rent at 165 E. Seventh street. Apply at room 12, second floor. April 15th is the date of the dwell- party to be given at Litt's Hall by the "Social Five." Rev. R. C. Ransom of Chicago was in the city this week the guest of Dr. Val D. Durmer. He returned home thursday. The Men's Sunday Club will meet at Pilgrim Baptist Church to-morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock p. m. Public cordially invited. Those wishing hair work of any kind done at reasonable rates should call on Mrs. E. J. Allen, room 12. No. 165 E. 7th street. The Blind Boon Concert Company will shortly appear in concert at Pilgrim Baptist Church. Look out for further announcement. Look out for the Parisian Widows, who will be the attraction at the Star theatre next week. They are very pretty, plump and pleasing. The owl car ordinance has been passed by the council and we will shortly have an hourly service after 10:00 o'clock until 6:00 a.m. Miss Mary L. Hawkey has associated with Miss B. M. Boley in hair-dressing, manicuring and facial treatments, in the Chamber of Commerce building. The most popular place for people who take their meals down town is Mrs. E. J. Allen's No. 552 Wabasha street. Everything neat, clean and well cooked. Is your hair straight? If not, send 50 cents to Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. 76 Wabash avenue, Chicago, Ill., for a bottle of Ozonized Ox Marrow and you can easily straighten it. Gentlemen wishing nice furnished rooms, with all conveniences, by the week or month, on regular rates, at the Benton House, 223 West Third street, up stairs. Rev. M. W. Withers of Minneapolis will fill the pupit at Pilgrim Baptist church tomorrow, and on next Sunday Rev. Bascom of the First Baptist church of this city will fill the pupit. FURNISHED ROOMS—Nicely furnished rooms for rent by the day, week month, at No. 50 West Ninth street, between St. Peter and Exchange streets. Transients accommodated. The Excelsior Night Lunch Wagon is the place to go to get good sandwiches and coffee. The Excelsior Night Lunch Wagon stand at the corner of Sixth and Jackson streets. J. S. Mills, proprietor. If you wish a good shave, hair cut or shampoo call at Richard Cousby's neat shop. No. 374% Minnesota street. First-class workmen only. Satisfaction guaranteed. Music for all occasions furnished on short notice. For good home cooking go to the Metropolitan restaurant. No. 378 Minneapolis. Regular meals at all hours. Regular meals 20 cents. Meals to order at moderate prices. Mrs. Lou McLaughlan proprietor. If you continue to spend all you make, you'll be poor all your life. Every one should have a savings account. Accounts opened of $1 and upward at the State Savings Bank, Germania Life Building. Fourth and Minnesota streets. Peter Gould. Win. Johnson. Effie Smith, Mabel Wielson, Julia Blake and Mae Halley were arrested on last Monday night in a house at Eight and a half across the street where she wandered a "high house." They were charged with disorderly conduct. FOR SALE—Half interest in the Elk Press Co. may be purchased by the proper person. Parties who may desire to get an interest in a good paying business will call at the office. No. 63 East Sixth street, G. D. Charleston. Prop. Elk Press, G. D. Charleston, prop., packing and shipping; hauling of all kinds; coal and wood. When you wish anything in his line give him a call. Telephone, Main 1929—J i. Office at East Sixth street. Those of our patrons who desire to have matter published must get the same in this office not later than Thursday afternoon, onerwise it may be crowded out. No notice will be taken of any communication that is not signed by the author. Dr. John E. Porter, physician and surgeon, office suite 410 Bradley building, Fifth street, 900-900-9000 a.m. to 12:00 m. to 4:00 p. to 9:00 p. Telephone, Main: 1738-11. Residence, 569 Igleah street, Telephone, Dale: 589-32. SAFE DEPOSIT AND STORAGE vaults. - We invite your inspection, it costs little to place your papers, cash securities and valuables in absolute safety. Boxes in our vaults can be for $4.00 a year. Store your boxes, trunk etc., with us. St. Paul Trust Co. 138 Endicott Arcade The funeral of the H. G. Hiles took place at Pilgrim Baptist Church Wednesday, Rev. W. D. Carter officiating. Mrs. Giles' death resulted from the performing of a surgical operation at the hospital a short while ago. A large gathering of friends was present to pay the last tributes of respect to the deceased. Rev. and Mrs. Everad Daniels were tendered a reception Thursday afternoon by the children of St. Philips Mission Sunday School at the residence of Mrs. Everad Daniels, who very beautifully decorated with roses and chrysanthemums. Mrs. Rogers was assisted by Medamesan James and Ufley. The reason why you should buy your Coal, Wood, Flour, Feed, Hay, etc., from C. W. STAHEL, Rice and Carrol streets, is because you can get prompt delivery, best goods, full measure. Fuel of all kinds, and sawed and unseeded wood, are the main materials. Everything at the right price. Boch telephones 1446. Estha Williams as Parepa At Grand Opera House, St. Paul. One of the principal dramatic novelties of the current dramatic season will be the appearance here at the Grand of "At the Old Cross Roads. It is extremely unique country lends itself more readily to the purposes of the dramatist than the romantic South. The story that it reveals is highly dramatic; the situations and climaxes thrilling in the extreme; but the whole is so ordinary and incidences that it chars all. The play gives a splendid opportunity for elaborate toilette displays by the feminine portion of the company which is taken the best advantage of. Manager Aiston is credited with turbulence and best of all has been fortunate in securing an excellent company of ladies and gentlemen of estab. Rev. E, W. Daniel, who had been cast on a month's vacation, arrived in St. Paul last Friday night, to continue his work at St. Philips. He will also start a confirmation class, and all that wish to be member of the church will hand in their names to him or some communicant of the church, Services, Sunday, 11 a. m. and 7 p. m. Visitors to the city, and residents also, who wish to get first class meals should call at John Godfrey's, No. 552 Wabasha street, between Fourth street and Avenue B. Board and room by the day, week or month at reasonable rates. Best meals in the city. Regular meals 25 cents. Sunday dinners from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. m. a. special y. The following was received last week too late for publication: The sad intelligence is received from Chicago of the death of Miss Carrie French on the tomb of her father here as she has spent several seasons in St. Paul and was beloved by all who had the pleasure of her acquaintance. The second daughter Mr. and Mrs. D. K. French have lost since the Mk4H, both being talented ladies. The sympathy of a host of friends of the Twin Cities in their sad bereavement. C. L. Henderson, the man condemned to be hung in Duluth, March 6, for the murder of his common law wife, Ida McCormack, and for the commutation of whose sentence such a man was sentenced to death on board, here, has written a letter to Sheriff Butchart, of Duluth, complaining of the food served him. He tries to be grimly humorous by saying that it is hardy air to starve a man to death who is scheduled to be dead three days. The sheriff has nothing to do with feeding the prisoners, that being under contract to another person. POPULAR COMPOSERS Young Afro-Americans Who Have At tained Great Success with them One of the most popular songs in "The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast," recently in Washington for two weeks, is "Nobody's Looking But de Owl and de Moon," a composition by John Brothers, African-American composers, whose songs have met with great success. In New York there is scarcely a playhouse, big or little, which caters to the popular taste, in which the songs of the John Brothers are heard every night. Anna Held has brought two of them prominently before the public. She sings "Malen with the Dreamy Eyes," in "The Little Duchess," and "Strolling Along the Beach." John Brothers, African-American Lize," is a composition for which Cole and the Johnson brothers are responsible. DOUBTFUL NEWS. Smythe (to servant)—Bridget, I have to go out this evening and I want you to see that your mistress, Mrs. this note is given to the comes in, without fail. Bridget, I must, sir. I'll just leave it in the pocket of the trousers you've just taken off. She be sure to go through them. lished reputation, "Parepa," the octoroon, which was given such a marvelous interpretation last season by Estha Williams will again be played by the same lady, and the well known leading man, James M. Brophy, has been specially engaged for Doc. Kerr. anager Aiston who is always looking to give in praise the best of everything, not utter the extra expense incurred, has engaged as an extra and special feature the "Bachelor Club" quartette, composed of Messrs. Marion Bohannon, Geo. D. Brengle, Louis E. O'Brien and William Sullivan. This quartette has been one of the most expensive headliners in vaudeville during the past few years and are acknowledging the engagement. The engagement will be for one week with the usual Wednesday and Saturday matinees. It goes without saying that the Cole and Johnson songs figure conspicuously in Primrose and Dockster's minstrels. "Under the Bamboo Tree," another composition, is sung by Marie Lilian and the comedians and Walker, the comedians, are guaranteed to make a laugh, when they sing Cole and Johnson's "My Castle on the Nile," and "When It's All Goin' Out and Nothin' Comin' in." The songs are the favorite songs who are making hits with the songs composed by these men. These young men are interesting, not only because they have achieved such brilliant success as popular song writers and interpreters of their own productions, but because of their personal history as well as their musical talents. He blues their talents for a common cause, so to speak. Rosamond Johnson, who writes the music, knows what he is doing when he deals in notes and staffs. He is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music. Some of his work for conservatory students laid on the altar of ragtime, to be sure, but he has not confined himself entirely to this particular kind. He has done excellent work along other lines. He has written some little gems of melody which breathe sentiment, patriotism and love. He has written the words which his brother Rosamond sets to music. James is a graduate of a Southern college, and is now standing for a Ph. D. degree at Columbia University in New York. A prominent educator told me recently that James Johnson had been a keenest intellect with which he had come in contact for a long time. Bob Cole is not only a song writer, but a "side-spiller" as well. His facial expression alone, minus the song, is generally enough to bring out a sense of humor. He is the role of a tramp. Mr. Cole graduated from a Southern school also, and is a constant student. These three young men, he who writes the music, he who writes the lyrics, he who writes and sings songs, travel together constantly. They get high salaries, and when the Four Hundred of New York engage them to entertain their guests at any social function, they are paid fancy prices.-Washington Post. "Your honor," said the prisoner, who had been brought in for a preliminary hearing, after six weeks in the county jail. "I want a change of menu. "I want a change of kindly, "that you want a change of venue. Now, the proper course—" "No, I don't mean that. I want a change of menu. That sherif seems to have tried to corner the corned beef of the world."-Baltimore American. What He Wanted. FREDERICK DOUGLASS Memorial by Local Aco. American Council at Capitol. The Hall of the House of Representatives was the scene of a large gathering of citizens to commemorate the birthday of Frederick Douglass last Wednesday evening. F. L. McGhee, president of the council, presided. The following program was carried out: Singing, "Battle Hymn of the Republic" Audience; Prayer, Rev. M. W. Witers; Remarks T. W. Ghee, Piano Solo, W. A. Wetter, address, Gov. S. R. Van Sant; Vocal solo, Claude D. Jackson; Reading one of Douglass' Speeches, Harvey B. Burk; Address on Douglass, Mrs. J. E. Porter; Remarks, Grant Van Sant; Piano solo, Miss Edna Grey; Oration on Douglass, Rev. R. C. Ransom, Chicago; Singing, "Amer- The program was pleasing in every particular. Governor Van Sant's speech was excellent and contained many words that were important to talk of the Governor's son was also very pleasing. Mrs. Porter's paper was excellent in every particular. The playing of Prof. Weir and Miss Grey were delightful. The reading of Mr. Burk was apropos and well done. The principal speech was that of Rev. R. C. Ransom of Chicago which was frequently used in other things, he said: "Some questions may be left to time to work out their solution and others must be settled. To dodge them or leave them for the sake of their safety, We have never lacked for men of courage in this country. When Fort Sumter was fired on we had them and the same can be the trust problem. We negotiated with men who will not dodge but will settle it. It may be said of Frederick Douglass that he achieved greatness in spite of his environments. He stood for liberty, and manhood. "At the close of the Rebellion, we supposed the status of the negro had been fixed on the field of battle, and afterwards in the halls of congress. His time has gone, and his spirit of unrest on the question of the civil status and political rights of the negro. President Roosevelt has been most fair, not as a petty politician, and his action is not the get the Afro-America movement to the point to dispense the law impartially for all the people. "Roosevelt's frankness has caused others to be frank. The states now arrayed against the suffrage amendments to disassemble the Union, and they are in the Union today only because 29,000 black men united with the white men forty years ago to pin them there. Today the negro should have the same rights as the men who sought to displace the "The South has never acquiesced in the results of the war. The South, say what you will, is today seeking to gain in the halls of congress what it lost in the field of battle. And the American has won his citizenship, and by his courage on the battlefield. The man who sits in the White house today sits there because he was saved by the Ninth and Tenth cavalry. When the Seventy-first New York regiment finishes, the Tenth cavalry literally marched them in the charge up San Juan hill. "So far as I am concerned I have no heritage of any country but this. I have brought no songs of the fatherland across the seas. This is the country of my father and his fathers. I "We have exercised the elective franchise for thirty-seven years, and we have in the public schools 2,000,000 boys and girls; 30,000 school teachers, and they are studying and teaching from the same school. Do you mean to tell me that these 2,000,000 children are not worthy to use the rights of citizenship? "Over $36,000,000 in taxes are paid by the Afro-American and we have 200,000 homes which we have bought and paid for in a generation. We are doing right now, and which forty you go to in slavery. "All of the matters that relate to our civil rights should be brought up to the supreme court. Meetings like this and resolutions will not settle the question. We have got to get together. It means you have to be willing to fight the battle in the courts and until we do this there will be no settlement of this question. The great mass of the American people believe that the negro should be permitted to attain the highest development he can attain. "The conclusion of the address by Rev Ransom the following resolutions, presented by J. Q. Adams, were presented and unanimously adopted." "Whereas, President Roosevelt, in the appointment of Dr. W. H. Crum as collector of customs, in Charleston, gave practical proof that he said: 'I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope, the door of opportunity is to be shut upon any worthy man, purely on the grounds of race and race.' Whereas, the senate committee on commerce (of which our own Senator Knute Nelson is a member, but who was absent when the ote was taken) said: 'I cannot consent to the appointment of Dr. Crum was referred, has reported adversely on the president's nomination; and.' Whereas, the nomination will now come before the senate of the United States in its action as a body; therefore, be it "Resolved, That we, a representative gathering of Afro-American citizens of Minnesota, assembled for the purpose of reverting the meeting of the senate would be doing battle along the same lines were he alive, and, who, though dead, is with us in spirit, most heartily concur in the noble sentiments uttered by President Roosevelt and indorse his manly stand in regard to Dr. Crum; and be it further. "Resolved, That - this assemblage does respectfully but most earnestly request our senators, the honorables Knute Nelson and Moses E. Clapp, to stand by the president and vote for the confirmation of the nomination we would be before the matter is brought before the senate in whatever shape. "Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be properly prepared and transmitted to President Roosevelt and to Senators Nelson and Clapp. "Resolved, That the following committee to prepare and transmit the resolutions: J. Q. Adams, J. H. Loomis, Dr. J. E. Porter, Dr. W. T. Francis, Dr. W. Withers, Rev J. Strong, Dr. Val D. Turner, Dr. Leigh, Dr. Harvey, George B. Bowe, J. H. Hickman, B. R. Durant and Harvey B. Burk. There is no death; for I shall live, when dead, When the hot fame that thrills my frame has feed When vanish all of glorious shade and light Into the darkness of Tartarra night[ II. I read it in the twinkling stars that give Reflection of the Heaven where my hopes live, And in Hawaii's string but gentle sun, And gentler moon, as their slow course is run! III. I read it in the songs the Nereids sing, As Orpheus strikes the lyre's responsive string, While dancing in the foa-m-flecked silver spray Till, spent with joy, they sigh themselves away! In all the music of these Island seas, Where life is life of joys and miseries, Where Hope abides and waits with its twin, Pain, I read, fair writ, that I shall live again. In January, 1902, T. Thomas Fortune. THE COLOR QUESTION. The Peculiar View of Southern Whites on "Social Equality." This Southern childishness in relation to the social side of the race question can hardly be treated with patience. Even the Southern thizer, who believes the South is a slave country, that the anger race must necessarily dominate and that all force bills and all measures to maintain a fictitious equality are unmixed evils—even one who sympathizes so ardently as this with the essential principles of the eminent politics, can be seen its eyes at the outbursts of these outbursts of anger on the part of the South whenever a decent, well-dressed Negro appears in a public place. People of the North, who are quite as good as the people of the South, times meet Negroes, receptions without having a bloom rubbed off their. The prestige. The social standing of the Lordore Roosevelt is, we think, quite as good as that of any southern congressman, but Mr. Roosevelt is not constantly tormented by the fear that he will be thought better than a slave by a judge if a respectable Negro happens to be all the white House. across the subway with this pretended ariseracy of the South is that it seems to be none too sure of itself. Its members behave as if they were fearful that if they once met a Ne- gro on terms of temporary equality they would never again be able maintain their good breeding and so- cial position. The women of the French court were accustomed to say that they could meet anybody and everybody because their position was secure that they had nothing to worry about. Nobody was denied en- trance to their salons on account of the meanness of his birth for the bleness of his station. For the aristo- crats of aristocrats were sure of them- selves and sufficient unto themselves. But not necessary for them to stand on the hilltops and reiterate to all the world that they were better- than so-and-so, and that so-and-so- could never possibly be their social equal. In their scheme of something went without saying. Something of the same attitude is maintained today- by the most important of the British aris- ceracies, it is maintained by all aris- toceracies, and by all society that is sure of itself. The trouble with this sol-distant Southern aristocracy is that it is laboring under the supera- tion that it must constantly assert a social superiority. The Negro lest he carelessness is uninformed assume that the contrary is the case. Not that the lady, but sometimes the gen- d leman, doth protest too much.—De troit Free Press (Dem.). REV. MORRIS ON THE RACE QUESTION. Smarting under reflections cast upon Afro-Americans by other speakers at the Baptists Congress, now being held in the First Baptist church, the Rev. Charles S. Morris, D. D., of atlanta, started the school by a fiery defense of his people in language which created a sensation. It was plain, but dignified; warm, but logical; altogether, as able and effective a defense of the race by one of its number as has been been in Boston for some time. Morris convulsed by saying: "It is so that this Negro problem, so-called, is discussed in very much the same way that medicine is administered to a horse. We never ask the horse what the matter is with us, simply diagnoses and makes a prescription. What is the matter with us? Under education our skulls are gradually enlarging and our brains are all right; our hearts are in the right place, our lungs are in excellent condition, as you may see you attend our presbytery, our almine, and it has been diagnosed as "Epidermis Nigra." It is only one-sixteenth of an inch deep, but it is the cause of the whole "Negro problem." The next meeting of the National Afro-American Council will be held at Louisville, Ky., Tuesday, July 7, 1993. NEWORES SPEAK JR18H NEGROS The population of the island of Monterran in the West Indies which numbers about 10,000, to less than 100 whites, speaks "Irish in its purity," with as round and rich a brouge as ever came out of Dublin. British cruisers is that many years of British cruisers the African slave ship in the Spanish main and the slaves landed on this island in charge of the master-at-arms, who happened to be an Irishman. He taught the blacks his native tongue so thoroughly that they resist and with suburban pertinacly any English lingual invasion. REPARTEE. Nulla. Mr. rudder is er daughter of de revolution. MINNEAPOLIS. DOINGS IN AND ABOUT THE GREAT "FLOUR CITY." Matters Social, Religious and General Which Have Happened and are to Happen Among the People of the City on the Falls. Rev. D. S. Beasley of St. Paul will fill the pulpit at Bethesda tomorrow. Revival meetings still in progress at St. Peters church, but will shortly close. Mrs. Celia Falls went to Baraboo, Wis., last week on account of the illness of a brother. The Christian Endeavor meets every Sunday 6:30 p. m. at Bethesda Baptist church. You are most cordially invited. Miss M. Jackson, milliner and modiste, leads tailoring. French cleaning and feathering a specialty, 1409 South Fifth street. Mrs. Frances De Leo, our beautiful singer, is on the program at the Metropolitan church Sunday at the benefit for the starving Swedes and Finlanders. The Appeal is mailed to most of the homes of the people of the Twin Cities, and if you wish matters to reach these homes you must publish them in the Appeal. Mrs. Colestine Brown has opened the Croole Kitchen," boarding-house" 677; at 405-497 Fifth ave. S. Regular meals, 25 cents. Short orders served. First-class furnished rooms in connection. N. W. Tel. 343-4L, Minneapolis. The Masquerade party which was given by the Autumn" Leaf Dancing School, under the management of Mrs. Nellie Hale at Twining Hall last Tuesday night was a most delightful Tuesday night was a most delightful affair despite the cost of pretty masks and all had a good time. There was a number from St. Paul present. Soldiers! Addresses Wanted. Henry N. N. Copp, attorney-at-law, served in the Civil War; of below named Afro-American soldiers, who served in the Civil War; if dead, their heirs. Information will be John W. Dent, 3rd Cavalry; Jerry Smith, 3rd Artillery; Daniel Banks, Albert Bates, Peter Broddy, Paton Giles, Anderson Hoffman, George Nally, George Nickols. William Robbins. Joseph Roney, Rowan Samuels, and Willis Stone, 5th Cavalry; George Bbb, Charles Cantwell, Jesse Darrell, Louis Darbney, John Gault, Frank McFarland, John Price, Dennis Roberts, and Washington Smith, 13th Artillery; Charles Browne, George W. Harmon and Simon Smith, 11th Infantry; Huston Bailess, William Browell, Henry Clay, and Elias Smith, 27th Infantry; Edward Washington, and John C. Louis, 28th Infantry; William A. Bates, George Cooper, Henry Crouch, Henry Harrison, Patrick Hertley, and George Sizemore, 43rd Infantry; Granville Elliott, Matthew Felts, David Hunt, Albert Jackson, William King, Peter Tardy, and William Winn, 59th Infantry; Roger Edwards, 107th Infantry; Moses Able, Moses Ballard, Harrison Bender, Robert Burdette, John A. Cecil, Simon Cook, David Wilmot, Mosms Eltherton, Squire Garrison, Henning Hamilton, John W. Hopkins, Jerry Morris, Grandson Smith, Beverly Taylor and George Washington, 123rd Infantry; Timothy Filan and Patrick McCormick, 125th Infantry. Ministers of the gospel and secretaries of lodges, and others interested, may help with the preparation of the announcement of the above list and posting it in conspicuous places. Keeping Up War's Memories Ladysmith is preparing to make herself another such center for the historic scenes around her as Brussels is for Waterloo. A regular coach service, it seems, is to be organized to Spion Kop, and when the passengers have walked over the fatal summit they will find refreshment and lodging at a "Splon Kop Hotel" which is to be built forth with on Three-Tree Hill. Fish at 28,000 Feet The statistician has been at work again. On the arrival of the United States Fish Commission steamship Albatross, which recently explored the ocean to a depth of 23,000 feet, the man of figures has calculated that the pressure of water is so great at that depth that a fish tem feet in length must support a weight equal to a large building. Liberty you need dismissal need nothing to find out F. H. Harm & Ero. RELIABLE OPTICIANS 109 E. 7th St. ST. PAUL RAMSEY COUNTY Afro-AmericanClub. SOCIAL 378 Cedar St., St. Paul, Minn. OFFICERS J. W. WOODFORK, Pres. A. COMBS, Supt. JOHN MORGAN, Asst. Supt. F. D. McCRAACKEN, Sec. E. P. WADE, Asst. Sec. C. E. CHARLESTON, Treas. Tel. Main 1786-11 Burlington Route Are conveniently and comfortably reached by our two trains a day. The Limited, leaving Minneapolis at 7:35, St. Paul 8:00 p. m., daily, arrives in St. Louis the following afternoon. Combination Compartment and Standard Sleepers and Reclining Chair Cars. The Scenic Express, leaving Minneapolis at 7:30, St. Paul 8:05 a.m., except Sunday, arrives in St. Louis early next morning. Sleeping cars from Rock Island south. This is the first direct route from Minneapolis and St. Paul to Clinton, Davenport, Rock Island, and all Mississippi River cities. Passengers by either train make close connections with lines south, southeast and southwest in St. Louis Union Station. ASK YOUR HOME AGENT FOR TICKETS VIA THE BURLINGTON ROUTE Clubs. 7-10-1902 Rent a Piano... If not quite ready to buy. We have a time assortment at very small prices. Our plan of applying it on your charge to be made later is very popular. Perhaps it will just suit your present needs. Let us talk it over today. Perfect Piano Tuning . . . Is a specialty of ours. Satisfaction guaranteed. Five minute. Telephone Main St—both lines or otherwise make known your wishes and percept attention will be given. Stetson Mandolin, Guitars, Banjo. Are also Stetson Piano. "The World's Best." W. J. Dyer & Bro, Largest Music House in the Northwest. Sole Appents for Stetson and Knabe Pianos. 17 Dyer Buildings. - St. Paul, Minn. P. R. REID J. J. HIRSHELD Winer, Liquors and Cigars. 40 East 3rd Street, Tel. 1949-J1. ST. PAUL. ROCHE WINES Dinner Wines. Pontet Claret $1.00 Per quart..... Medoc Claret 75c Per quart..... Chesterfield 50c Per quart..... Good Fair Wine 25c Per quart..... Telephone Main 1401 ST. PAUL 367 ROBERT ST. JOHN G. ROCHE MINNEAPOLIS 44 3RD ST. S. --- A Compilation of a Number of Happenings, Social and Otherwise, Among the Afro-Americans of the Second City of This Glorious Unite. Mrs. A. J. Carey is convalescing. Mrs. J. T. Bateman is seriously ill. Mrs. Edward Meade is rapidly convalescing. If you wish everybody to see it, put it in THE APPEAL. Mr. Hugh Carter will leave for New Orleans on the 19th inst. Mrs. Harry Edwards, of New York, is visiting friends in the city. The Appeal is on sale at Faulkner's Afro-American news stand, 3104 State street. Mr. and Mrs. William Hackley are now living at 110 Kearney Ave., Jersey City, N. J. Mrs. Daisy Coca, 3000 State St., who has been seriously ill is much improved in health. Miss Bernice Spradling, 4850 Armour Ave, is rapidly improving from her recent illness. Go to Central Hall next Thursday evening for a good time. Masquerade ball. Armour's Band. Mrs. Belle Cary, of Valparaiso, Ind., spent last Monday in the city shopping and seeing friends. The APPEAL is on sale at C. C. McLain's cigar store and cut-rate ticket office, 428 Dearborn street. Mrs. P. T. Tinsley has gone to Tuskegee to join her husband, who is director of the music department. Mr. Geo. Woodson, 2003 Dearborn St., has been appointed special policeman in the Senate at Springfield. THE APPEAL is without question the best advertising medium through which to reach the Afro-Americans of Chicago. GERTRUDE IMOGENE PALMER, vistante. Concerts, musicals, instruction. Room 86 Auditorium, and 680 Austin Ave. Mr. Green Tapley and several other members of the Williams & Walker Co. were visiting among friends in the city this week. Subscribers for THE APPEAL who wish to discontinue the paper must send written notice to the office, properly dated and signed. THE APPEAL has fixed advertising, and will not cut them to secure advertising. However, if you wish to reach the people you must use THE APPEAL. C. J. Chambers & Co., manufacturers and wholesale and retail dealers in fine cigars, are doing a rushing business at 2958 State St. Pluck and push will tell. Do you want to preach? Learn at home. Send two-cent stamp to Prof R. B. Hewitt for catalogue of Correspondence School, 2908 Magazine street, New Orleans, La. Remember that the seventh annual masquerade ball of Co. B. Eighth Regiment 1. N. G., takes place Thursday evening. Feb. 26, at Central Hall, 22nd and Wabash avenue. Admission 50 cents. JAMES JOHNSON, Teacher of violin, room 66 Auditorium building, Miss G. Imogene Palmer and Mr. Felix Welr, assistant teachers. Wednesday and Saturday, Tuesday and Friday. Co. B's masquerade ball at Central Hall next Thursday evening will be a grand affair. Some unique features will be shown for the first time in Chicago. Don't miss it. Admission 50 cents. Parties having money to invest on chattails, diamonds, etc., call on John Q. Grant & Co., Suite 311, No. 36 South Clark street. They will give two per cent per month on all money left with them to be loaned on above securities. Information is wanted of Miss or Mrs. Katie White, who left Omaha a few years ago and is supposed to be in Chicago. She is a bright matriatic weighing about 125 pounds. Miss White's parents live at Atkinson. Kan. Any information will be gladly received by Dr. P. C. Kebble, Pittsburg, Texas. Dennis J. Swieenie was for fifty years a member of the Chicago fire department, and for many years its chief, died early Monday morning, after a long illness. Chief Swieenie was probably the best known fire fighter in the country and was a brave and cool man at the business. The high standard of excellence of our fire department is due in great part to Chief Swieenie's great executive ability and his inherent love of his calling. TWENTY-SIX-YEAR JOB Man Has Run an Elevator This Long and Is Not Tired of It. For twenty-six years Richard A. A. Gordon has been the elevator man in the Portland Block, and presided over the destinies of the same elevator that was there when he first began his duties. Mr. Gordon declares that it is the same elevator, although he admits that it has undergone some alterations. The power has been changed and several times workmen have changed the interior of the elevator. It has had a dozen or more different cables, and steel has been substituted for wood and iron, and it has been made much larger in size, and ornamental cherry and plate glass mirrors have been put in to replace the somber finishings that formerly adorned it, and it moves three times as quick as it used to, but all the same Mr. Gordon says it is the same old elevator. Twenty-six years is *n*-long time for a person to remain at one kind of employment, but Mr. Gordon says his work has never become monotonous, and that he would never be happy doing anything else. Although now sixty years old, Mr. Gordon is haile and hearty, and he says that jerking an elevator rope gives a man just the proper amount of exercise. He has a good memory, and most of the building and the location of their offices, but also knows the faces of those who are in the habit of visiting any of the offices in the building, and is able to let them off at the proper place without their calling the number of the floor at which they want to get off. Mr. Gordon has been a subscriber of the APPEAL for eighteen years. Plenty of everything We manufacture our own Malt We buy the choicest Barley We buy the choicest Hops Pure beer must have plenty of everything Hamm's has 20 per cent more than any other. THE LABELLING MACHINE Lowest Prices on Flat Work SHIRTS, 10o. COLLARS and OUFFS, 1o. New Moulded Records Talking Machines. ALL PENNY AND NICKEL-IN-SLOT MACHINES. EDISON PHONOGRAPH PARLOR, 376 WARASHA ST., P. L. GETCHELL, Mgr. Tel. M, 2104-L 2. Furnishing Goods, Hats, Caps, Shoes, Etc. PAINTS ARE THOROUGHLY RELIABLE. ST. PAUL, MINN. UNMATCHABLE OFFERINGS! AT RIGHT PRICES. ..CASH OR CREDIT.. The Wallblom FURNITURE & CARPET CO. 398-410 Jackson Street, ST. PAUL. WESTERN FARM LANDSFOR SALE. I have for sale over 80,000 acres of choice farming lands in Minnesota and in the Red River Valley of North Dakota at $11. to $30 per acre, as good farming lands as any in the world. I also want to call attention to the 20,000 acres of fine grazing lands in Western North Dakota at $2.75 to $4.50 per acre. This is the place—if you love to keep stock—that you should invest your money in. Call on or address, E. G. MELL EM. Cor. 6th and Jackson. $T. PAUL, MINN. ```markdown ``` New Moulded Records ALL PENNY AND EDISON PHONOGRAPH Tel. M. 2104-L 2. FLOAN Gents' Fi Furnishing Good WEST SUPERIOR WIS. KENNETH CLARK, President C. H. BIGELOW, Vice-President T. L. Blo ST. PAUL, MINN. GEO. H. PRINCE, Cashier H. W. PARKER, Asst. Cashier Jesse First, a popular man about town is on the Alton between Chicago and St. Louis. A number of Chicagoans will soon go to Montreal to take service with the Canadian Pacific. Frank Walker, 2973 Dearborn St., who has been running on the Wabash between Decatur and Detroit is now at home sick. L. D. Irvin, who was for a long time on the Big Four between Chicago and Cincinnati, is now running between Cincinnati and Detroit. John Miller, an old Chicago railroad man, is now running between Charleston, Va., and Toledo, O. He will soon move his family to Charleston. Alexander Williams, who holds the medal for length of service with the Pullman Company, has about recovered from injuries received in a wreck on the Santa Fe a few weeks ago. A bill has been introduced in the Indiana legislature making it a misdemeanor and punishable with a fine of $25 for a patron to offer a tip to hotel waiters or employees on dining and sleeping cars. The author of the bill has doubtless been "up against" some of "Uncle George's" men and the boys should at once organize a lobby to fight the bill SENATOR-ELECT HOPKINS Tendered Reception by Illinois Republican Association. The Illinois Republican Association tendered a reception Tuesday night to the Hon. Albert J. Hopkins, senator-elect from Illinois, and Mrs. Hopkins. The event occurred in the parlor of the Riggs House, Washington, D. C., and 800 people called to pay their respects and congratulate Illinois' next representative in the senate. Ladies of the association prettily decorated the parlor for the occasion, and the arrangements were in the hands of the following officers of the Illinois Association: F. J. Young, president; E. B. Payne, vice-president; J. G. Pepper, vice-president; R. Stone Jackson, secretary; W. S. Broughton, assistant secretary; L. Adams, treasurer. M. In the receiving line were R. S. Jackson, Senator-elect A. J. Hopkins, Mrs. Hopkins, Miss Hopkins and Miss Douglas. The guests were received on behalf of the association by the following reception committee: Capt. L. M. Kelley, chairman; F. M. Taylor, L. B. Lutterg, A. V. Aaughan, J. C. Pepper, E. B. Payne, L. B. Stine, O. J. Ricketts, F. J. Young, J. E. Ralph, J. E. Smith, N. N. McCullough, J. O. McCllenl, J. B. Chase, I. R. Hitt, C. L. Hoy, W. S. Broughton, D. D. Caldwell, E. A. Clifford, W. H. Wilkinson, R. S. Jackson, J. C. Eversman and Mrs. M. E. Jenkins. The Illinois Republican Association was organized in 1865, and Mrs. Electa Smith was the first woman to be admitted to membership. Among the distinguished persons present were the Hon. Eugene F. Ware, commissioner of pensions; ex-Governor and Mrs. Joseph E. Fifer, Mrs. John A. Logan, Miss Logan, Logan Tucker, Judge and Mrs. Wright, the Hon. Frank L. Campbell, assistant secretary of the interior; Prof. Willis T. Moore, and Hon. Cyrus Field Adams, assistant register of the treasury. FREDERICK DOUGLASS' Memory Commemorated with Banquet by the, Sunday Club. The Sunday Club gave its annual banquet Monday evening at Quinn Chapel. The event was given to commemorate the life work of America's greatest Afro-American and to eulogize the man who did so much to destroy the slave oligarchy of the South. About the speaker's table-were A. H. Roberts, president of the club and toast master of the occasion; Rev. R. C. Ransom, of the Institutional Church; Rev. A. J. Carey, of Quinn Chapel; Justice Hale Williams, Hale G. Sweeney; S. Lain Williams, Hale G. Alberman, Alberman Ailow and Fowler, Assistant State's Attorney Atwood and Dr. Joseph Jeffrey. All of the gentleness delivered short addresses, but the principal speech of the evening was delivered by Rev. R. C. Ransom. The eloquent divine, in his usual elegant and forcible manner vividly portrayed the wrongs that have been heaped upon the Afro-American, made plain to whose efforts were due the partial failure of universal suffrage in one section of our country, and bade every man with at drop of blood in his heels, that he ooed his will in the impending crisis. In the course of his address Rev. Ransom said: "The states which have now made the franchise for the Afro-American a failure are the same states that attempted to break up the Union in 1861, and they are in the Union now only because they were pinned there by 200,000 Afro-American bayonetors." Now is the time 'for every man who has a drop of Negro blood in his veins to speak, and speak so well the whole of the civilized world shall hear. We wonder when our men come marching back from Vicksburg, bleeding and with the scars of battle that the "Negro question" was forever settled. The South is now fighting in its last ditch on the "Negro question." They have acknowledged by recent utterances that it is not our ignorance that they are afraid of, but that it is our intelligence. They do not propose that we shall be given a chance for higher education and enlightenment, but they want us educated only in the lines of labor and subjection. There is a time when things have got to be stirred up, and now is the time when the Afro-American has got to stir up to preserve his rights and freedom. WITH every step, the sole of your shoe must bend The proper place for it to bend is at the "ball" of the foot—never at the instep. To make it bend at the "ball" things are necessary;—the sole must be extremely flexible when the shank or arch must be extremely rigid. supports the weak arch firmly. It will not bend. The method of sewing the shank is different from the ordinary—it is sewn through and through—making a strong, firm shank than cannot be obtained any other way. It has a sole that is extremely flexible and will bend. The Plymouth Agents, for the Cross Stoves and Rams And Thatcher Furnaces. Dealers in Hardware, Tools, Tinware, Paints, Oils, C Tin, Sheet Iron and Copper Workers. 521 University Ave., ST. PAUL, MINN. CE CREAM Red Cross Stoves and Ranges And Thatcher Furnaces. 519- 521 University Ave., ST. PAUL, MINN. DISCOUNTS TO LODGES AND CHURCH SPECIAL DISCOUNTS TO LODGES AND CHURCHES. AGGISTS OPEN DAY A. D. THOMPSON DRUG CO. ST. AND FIRST AVE. SOUTH, OPPOSITE POINCINNEAPOLIS, MINN COR. THIRD ST. AND FIRST AVE. SOUTH, OPPOSITE POST OFFICE MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. "We, a jury composed of men who know cigar values, find that the plaintiff, the Judge Harlan Cigar, is entitled to recover 10 cents from every smoker" Judge Harlan 5¢ Cigar HART & MURPHY, MAKERS, ST. PAUL, MINN. It Touches the Spot! PICKWICK RYE GEO. BENZ & SONS. ST. PAUL. MINNEAPOLIS. DISTILLERIES AT EMINENCE, KY. AND BALTIMORE, MD. II supports the weak of sewing the sha through and throw be obtained any flexible and will b Every step in delight. They cost $3. A few special s The Plymouth Red Cross And Builders' Hardware Tin, Sh 519-521 U ICE F SPECIAL DISC The Cres BOTH 'PHONES. MODERN DRUGGISTS COR. THIRD ST. AN MIN A Most shoes bend at the shank, thus losing their shapeliness and tiring the weak arch of the foot. That is what makes walking for most women so fatiguing. The. "Dorothy Dodd" shoe has a shank that HERTZ BROS. and Ranges Furnaces. ware, Paints, Oils, Glass. copper Workers. ST. PAUL, MINN. REAM Frozen from CREAM. DOGES AND CHURCHES. creamery Co., 3rd and Minnesota. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS SOUTH, OPPOSITE POST OFFICE IS. MINN. Luxurious Travel and Perfect Accomodations IS VIA THE NORTH-WESTERN LINE C S T P M & O R Y Inquire for rates and information should you contemplate a trip well rounded out with pleasure. : : : : T. W. TFASDALE, Gen. Pas. Agt., St. Paul, Minn. SOCIETY DIRECTORY. MOST WORSHIPFUL GRAND LODGE OF MINNESOTA. A. F. AND A. M. R. L. DLE LEO, GRAND MASTER, 419 E. 18th St., Minneapolis, Minn. W. R. MORRIS, GRAND SECRETARY, 1020 Guaranty Loan Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. PIONEER LODGE NO. I, A. F. AND A. M., meets first and third Mondays of each month at Masonville Hall, No. 419 street, 8:00 P. M. Hall, No. 501 Johnson W. M.; W. A. Hilyard, Sec., 124 Atwater St. PERFECT ASHLAR LODGE NO. 40, A. F. AND A. M., meets first and fourth Tuesdays at Masonville Hall, No. 319 Wabash St., at 8:00 P. M. E. J. Brack. W. M. F. Fenton Ave.; J. E. Porter Sec. 453 Carpells. PAST GRAND MASTER'S COUNCIL No. 123, A. F. and A. M., meets the sece- pient building, Minneapolis. All visiting P. G. M. in good standing standing lvited to attend. In good standing standing lvited to attend. Hickman, G. S., No. 427. M. Anthony english, St. Paul. MARS LODGE, NO. 2202, MEETS WEC ond and fourth Wednesday in each month for business and the third Wednesday for instruction at Odd Fellows' Hall. 221 Seventh street. J. E. Porter, N. G.; Hoss R. Hickman, P. S., 422 St. Anthony / re. HOUSEHOLD OF RUTH, NO. 553, 12. U.O. of O. C. F. meets first and third Monday in each month for business; second Monday for instruction at Odd Fellows' Hall, 253 E. Seventh St. Mrs. Anna Wunft, M. N. G.; Mrs. Ida M. Johnson, V. R. No. 592 Rice street. ST. PAUL PATRIARCHY NO. 114, meets the second Monday in each month at Odd Fellows' Hall, No. 263. I.P. street. All Patriarchs in good standing are invited to attend. W. R. Morrell, M. V. P.; Thos. R. Hickman, R. V.; W. T. Francis, V. P.; Geo. B. Lowe, V. F. R. 478½ Wabasha. ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH COR. Fisher and A. M. E. SUNDAY SERVICES: 11:00 a.m.; 7:30 p. m. Wednesday payer meeting, 8:00 p. m. Pastor visits on Monday and Tuesday at home Wednesday and Thursday. Weddings, funerals and size size sick attended notice. Rev. J. C. A. J. R. Peter 380 Louis St. PILGIMH BAPTIST CHURCH, Cor. 12th and Cedar. Sunday services: Preachings at 12:30 o'clock. 45th school at 12:30 o'clock. Wednesday evening general prayer meeting. Friday evening study Sunday school lesson. Funerals Wednesday evening camp attendance. Rev W. D. Carter, Pastor, 559 Eiffel St. ST. PHILIP'S EPISCOPAL MISSION corner Amora avenue and Mission Street. Duration of Holy Eucharist, 7:30 a.m. High celebration of Holy Eucharist first and third Sundays. Wedding prominently attended a few Sundays, 11:00 a.m. Sunday school, 12:30 p.m. Brotherhood of St. Andrew, 6:30 p.m. Vespers, 7:30 p.m. Week service: Sunday services, 8:00 p.m. Friday evening prayer, 8:00 p.m. Saturday, Holy Eucharist, A. M. Rev. Edward Daniels, Rector. A. S. WILLIAMS MANAGED Scott R. Walker FINE WATER LIQUIDS AND CIGARS, 874 Minnesota St Tel 1818 JB ST. 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