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Now, as you have said, the few words I spoke in Chicago are but the repetition of what I have said on many occasions, whenever the opportunity offered, and but the expression of the deepest convictions of my heart. I have never understood how it is that any American or Christian could hold other views than what I have held and what I hold, and I hold those views simply because I am an American and because I am a Christian, and an American means a child of liberty." The daily press of the country seems to be taking quite seriously an alleged appeal to the powers of the Old World in behalf of the Afro-American eminating from Cleveland, Ohio, and the "Equal Rights Association." If there is any such organization we "Walk-Over" Shoes FOR MEN AND WOMEN Are the Easiest, Best Made and Most Stylish Shoes in the World for the Price. are not aware of it, and it certainly has not a membership of any number of thousands and the idea of appealing to the mcnarchies does not represent the sentiments of any considerable number of Afro-Americans. And while the statements made in the appeal are in the main true we are not hoping for or seeking aid out side of this country to right our wrongs. $ ^{b} $ The powers have troubles of their own. Judging from the associated press dispatches slavery still exists in Alabama. Robert M. Franklin, W. T. Joiner, Jesse London and John McDaniel, all of Goodwater, were brought to the United States court in Birmingham last Saturday by deputy marshals. The men, all of whom are white, are charged with kidnapping Madison Davis, an Afro-American last July and selling him to Elijah Turner, who is said to have charge of lime works near Calais, Ala. They are all under indictment. It is allaged there are twenty-one other Afro-Americans confined in the stockade at Calais and kept there in involuntary servitude. While Tillman, Money et al are howling about the inherent inferiority of the race, the Afro-American is forging ahead and proving his ability to do anything that has been done by the "superior" Caucasian. At Richmond, Va., Saturday, Mrs. Nellie Benson, an Afro-American successfully passed the examination by the State board of pharmacy. She is the first woman who ever received a certificate from the board and the third to attempt the examination. We have given considerable more space to old ben tillman than we would otherwise, in our desire to show just how his utterances were received by the whites of Minnesota. Of course, there was not an Afro-American in the state, who did not publicly or privately, openly or within himself, personally or by proxy, damn him. The members of the First Presbyterian church of Washington, D. C., are very much worked up over the fact that their pastor, Dr. Donald C. MacLeod, married an Afro-American man to a white woman last week. The man was so white that Rev. MacLeod saw nothing to cause him to think of doing otherwise than he did. President Roosevelt has given Dr. W. D. Crum a re-appointment as collector of customs at Charleston, S. C., and he will shortly enter upon the discharge of his duties, if he has not already done so. Long live President Roosevelt. M. SUMMER SCHOOL At Tuskegee, Alabama, for Southern School Teachers. We are pleased to mention in these columns of the Tuskegee Summer School for teachers that will be held at the Tuskegee Normal and industrial Institute at Tuskegee, Ala., during the coming summer. The school. The Tuskegee School for the General Educational Board, will be in session six weeks, from June 29 to August 7, and will furnish an excellent opportunity to teachers in the south for studying the methods employed in the best primary, secondary and high schools in the country, of presenting subjects taught in these schools in the most interesting ways. Friday, 26th is the day of enrollment and on this day it will be necessary for all teachers who have not had experience in some high school or higher institution of learning to satisfy the committee on enrollment of their fitness to enter the school. Persons who have had experience as teachers in some high school or higher institutions of learning, may enter without being examined. Especially important is it that every teacher in the rural districts should self themselves of the instruction given in some good summer normal school. It is also important to be the moulder of the child mind in the country district or whether he teaches more advanced pupils in a graded school owe it to his profession to spend at least six weeks each year in an earnest effort to become the most effective teacher possible for him to become. It is not possible for every person who teaches to take a thorough and comprehensive course in a good normal school, but it is possible for all to spend six weeks during the summer in a good summer school. The teacher in a good school is abbreviated and concentrated, where professional enthusiasm is brought home to all; with men and women whose long experience, whose force of character and whose scholarship will be an inspiration and an encouragement to the opportunity of coming into contact with teachers and students of THE APPEAL: A NATIONAL AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER Especial mention should be made of the Model Home School in which the teacher-students will have the privilege of witnessing expert teaching and learning in the garden and five grades and will be in session during the whole six weeks. Miss Brown, teacher in the Afro-American Normal School, Washington, D.C. will be the principal of this school and will offer other experienced and successful teachers. The cottage near the Model School in which these three teachers will live will be open to the teacher-students and visitors for visitation and will furnish a valuable object lesson in the economy and home administration. Skilled Woodmen In the South Sea islands tree-felling contests are of such importance that specially made axes are imported for the work from America. So skilled are these woodmen of the South seas in felling timber that a dozen blows on the tree can be done by one gash, as though done by a single blow of mighty power. Newspaper for Nervous People There is talk in Austria of establishing a newspaper especially for nervous persons in which accounts of catastrophes will be treated in a soothing style. This will give a new color name to journalism. If it is "yellow" for a negative nerves it may be consoled "gray" to leave them undisrupted. Japan's Coal Production The value of the coal mined in Japan is almost equal to that of all other minerals combined. It varies from the hardest and anthracite to peat, but the quality is usually inferior to that of American coal. Modern machinery and methods have been introduced in the operation of many mines. Result of Australian Drought. The drought in Queensland, Australia, was responsible for a curious accident recently. The leaders of a great flock of sheep scented water and instantly the whole flock stampeded for the water hole, with the result that in the narrow gully hundreds were trampled to death. Sensible Charitable Movement. Mrs. Rufin P. Williams has started in Chelsea, Mass, a movement to furnish the consumptive poor with free diet—fresh milk, fresh eggs and soup—with free nursing and with free courses *ol* instruction in healthful living and in salinary gymnastics. Rich Phosphate Beds Found. It is possible that Florida phosphate will meet a serious competitor in the recently discovered deposits on Ocean island, northeast of the Solomon islands, which seem to be superior in quality to either Florida or Christmas island phosphate. Preparing Book of War Songs. Rev. H. M. Wharton, D. D., of Virginia, is preparing a book of war songs and poems and requests anyone, who has a poem or a song written during the years of the civil war to kindly send same to him at Germantown, Pr. First Ten-Wheel Engine. First Ten-Wheel Engine The Themes which was tonically adduced to, for, freight service for the last half of the nineteenth century made its appearance in 1846, having been brought out by Septimus Norris and John Branch. Law Against Vivisection. Massachusetts has the first law in the world prohibiting vivisection in the schools. OLD PITCHFORK TILLMAN OF SOUTH CAROLINA WOULD FOREVER CLOSE THE DOOR OF OPPORTUNITY AND HOPE FOR AFRO-AMERICANS. He Comes to Minnesota to Poison the Minds of Her Citizens, but Utterly Fails in His Purpose- People, Pulpit and Press Join in Denouncing Him and His Theories. That blatant, bombastic, bully; the beastial, blasphemous, blackguard son of Belial, old ben tillman, who misrepresents the state of South Carolina in the United States senate invaded the beached forth an usual lot of billingsgate against his brothers in black. He appeared before an audience of several hundred at the First Baptist church of Minneapolis. The larger portion of his auditors were there out of pure curiosity, but the strength this country has produced. If he thought his devilish sentiments would receive the approval of the good people of Minnesota he was as badly mistaken as he is in his ideas of solving the "vexed problem," which furnished the excuse for his care of his own, even in a building dedicated to the worship of God, was very clearly demonstrated; for, there were men, and women too, who were present, who were prepared to give him a warmer reception than has yet been received from him, who were trained from him a taste of the medicine which the brushes of his class administered to rebellious slaves in the days when one of them was compelled to give sustenance from her breast to the viper, by a respect for God's holy sanctuary, by a respect for his sanctuary from anances could not overcome. And his hurried exit from the rostrum at the abrupt and blasphemous close of his harangue seemed to evidence the fact that he had a presentiment of impending trouble. But if he did not receive the actuary's assistance, he hardly entitled him to, he did not escape the lashings of tongue and pen which have fallen fast and furious ever since. Not one of the papers of the state that has come to our notice has upheld his position and the leading role in the war. Paul Globe, the leading Democratic paper of the state, said: "TILLMAN: NEGRO BAILER." "There ought to be some sort of curb put upon such men as Benjamin Ryan Tillman. Using the position to which he has been elected by the legislature of South Carolina he has been to the party with which he claims affiliation and which he constantly misrepresents in the councils of the nation, he is going about the country exhibiting himself and indulging in inflammatory denunciations of a respectable body of citizens. He should be restrained from using his position to induce people to pay good money to see him exhibit himself." "The Tillman does not represent the genius of his age or party. Long affiliation with the "white trash" of his section of the country has made him their representative rather than the expanse of the country he represents element of the South. It may be that he properly represents the attitude of the ignorant whites of South Carolina with regard to the Negro; it is quite certain that he represents his uncouth and unwashed vulgarity." He made an exhibition of himself in a church in Minneapolis Friday night. For the sake of a paltry sum he delivered an harangue appealing to the Negro that he would guage that would have earned him chastisement had his surroundings been different. He used his theme, "The Race Problem," to attack the Negro and his defenders and his tirade had none of the qualities of a disquisitionist which entitled him to a bearing." "The only thing to be said for Tillman is that he has the courage of his prejudices. He is probably sincere in his hatred of the Negro and he may be right in opposing Negro domination in his state, but he has also been a country indulging in bad language at so much per indulgence. It is to be regretted that the constitution provides no means for the suppression of a public man who becomes a public nuisance. If the public would visit reprobation on the man by keeping away from his leeches, he would be a picture of a race exploiting him would throw him over and give him a chance to study the Negro on his own stamping ground. His irruption into the Northwest would hardly be worthy of comment at all but for the fact that it is necessary to make it clear that Senator Tillman is not representation for the reason that he uses as an excuse to collect the dollars of people to whom decency in language appeals." The Minneapolis Times says: "SENATOR TILLMAN'S LECTURE" "The South Carolina senator said the strenuous sort and his language is forcible to the point of offensive coarseness now and then. There is wit, some of it a very grim sort, in his discourse, and there is logic. In order to be followed in the next by misstatement and folly." "Senator Tillman has chosen the Negro as his pet bogie man, partly because he sincerely believes, as do practically all white southerners, that the black man should be kept in political subjection in that section because he can be seen in the senator cause he can be seen in the senator expression to his views on the color question and incidentally treading on republican corn. When he brings on these disturbances he makes a political capital for provides much enjoyment for himself, for provides much joy better than Tillman. Then again, he can coin his views into spending money, by lecturing in the north, where curiosity leads many to go to hear him." "His lectures are amusing to the judicious, exasperating to those who take him seriously, so he means in himself no remedy for the evils that are acknowledged to exist in the south by reason of the large number of Negroes there. His only contention is that the Negro should not be given political or social equality. Well, the whole world knows that the south has succeeded in depriving him of political rights and as to social equality, neither is really alarmed about that." The Negro should not vote, says Mr. Tillman, not because he is ignorant but because he is black, for he assures us that there would be a worse condition of affairs in Dixie if the Negroes were educated, because then the national clauses in state constitutions now used so effectually against them, and they would out-vote the whites. It is clearly a case of race conflict, from Mr. Tillman's point of view and the only thing for the whites to do is to keep the Negroes in complete subjection. Stuff the ballot boxes, if too many of them succeed it will be hard to keep them in the sand, as Mr. Tillman is fond of saving; if they grow too bold. "If the South Carolina senator has studied the subject for thirty-five years without finding a solution, as he himself has said, his lectures on the subject are worse than profitless except in so far as they enable him to add to his income. It would be better for the south and the whole of the country. Tillman and men of his stripe could be silenced as to their pet subject, and self-seeking politicians prohibited from fruttiess agitation for the rights of the blacks. If all who talk or write upon the subject would take their cue from Booker T. Washington and praach industry, education, self-reliance and decency, giving the Negro to understand that his political rights would come before him, the problem would be sooner solved and there would be peace in the meantime." The St. Paul Dispatch says: "WHO IS HE THAT CONDEMN- ETH?" "Two hundred dollars for two hours of billingsgift and blasphemy. It was a heavy price for a people to pay merely because they wished to be amused in their minds by the flaying of another race whose great vice is of blasphemy and finicky since we sat up boldly in the Coliseum and watched a battle for life, with stolcism, with thumbs down. We have gone far away since we stood in Faneuil hall and felt the righteous anger of our souls faint to white heat when Gaelic was spoken. Today in a house of worship, we listen with the jaded ennui of indifference to the billingsgift and the blasphemy of a Southern senator as he rallies in spasms of insanity against one tenth of the population of these United States of America. The blasphemy of the disgust so that the lecturer or the listener may be granted first place in this orgy of shameless, inhuman denunciation. The people went to be amused. The senator came to earn his two hundred dollars. He gave them of his Tillamante best, the crack of the heart in that it hissed with insane fury as it cut the air of the house of worship." "And having taken the people onto the mountain of denunciation, and having shown them ten million cowering, black-skinned creatures, weltering in a sea of hoofs, the people skins by the laying on of the blacksnake, the people bowed before the senator and endorsed him in the bestiality of unhiness." "And from somewhere in the far corners of the nave of the great basilica, the people would that my house should be a house of peace, but he have made it a slave market." "Not only did the newspapers show their disapproval but the ministers and the people generally were outspoken in itself denuded." Bert S. Rolls, pastor of Park Avenue Congregational church, Minneapolis, said: "It is time for Northern justice to demand that the Negro citizen be accorded the same honor and privileges accorded to the white citizen of the South." "I marvel at the patience of the Negro. I have seen the whole Negro population of the city of Wilmington, Delaware, held away from the polls at the point where they threatened with death if they attempted to vote; I have seen them shot in cold blood when the frenzy of the barbarous whites broke out against the race. "Senator Thillman says that this race is not because we some crazy Northern politician occasionally breaks out and talks about a subject of which he knows nothing. "But that is not the reason. It is because the Northern man does not break out and rights of the Negroes. It is because they sit idly by, and see the Fifteenth amendment to the constitution trodden on until it is crushed beyond recognition. "It is because it is rising the war and hatred is received. Here in the North the low and revious elements of the Negro nature are held up as an example to the nation; are flaunted in our faces as a lesson to those who are urging the grazing to the Negro of his constitutional "But go to the South. Live there in the Southern states, and see the thousands of Negroes who own their own land, pay their taxes, live respectable lives, in respectable conditions, take interest in the welfare of their country. "These are the men who are deprived of their citizenship and cheated out of their votes by the low politicians of the South. True, there are crimes among the Negroes of South; but how many may be found in the white men of the north of the line? Have lynchings and burnings done as much to down the crimes as the lawn'use of the country's laws would have done? Defective Page "The Negro is here to stay. He cannot be deported or colonized. He is demanding his rightful citizenship, and he must have it. He is being educated, industrially and in every way, until he is now fit to take his place as an industrial citizen. The North must awake to the fact that to preserve intact the constitution of our forefathers, the rights of the white or black man to be preserved." Judge Thomas Canty of Minneapolis said: "It is no longer a question whether the Negro shall have suffrage, but whether he shall have justice. While there is some bad feeling between the whites and the blacks in the South generally the hatred is nigger is intense, and assumes its most virulent form when the Negro is most industrious and saving and attempts to 'put on airs.' "When the Negro is a miserable, dirty, ragged loafer, and his wife is a common prostitute, his poor, lazy wife is a nigger. "When the Negro is in his right place. Then there is no nigger quality. But if the Negro provides a good home, has a fairly good team of horses, a decent light wagon, and his wife or daughter wears a five dollar hat, the poor white trash becomes furious; the Negro is liable to be white-capped or he be white-capped against a white man; matter how just his case, the verdict is against him. "In many of the Southern states this poor white vote is a controlling factor in the election, and men like Tillman gain the everlasting support of that vote by so eloquently villifying the egro course, the course, of the white women who were instances he will violate a white woman, regardless of consequences. He gets this instinct from his forefathers in Africa, whose chief occupation for thousands of years was hunting down other men to get their women. A thousand or so years ago our forefathers were in the same village, and they were same instances to some of their sons for several generations; in fact, there are occasional traces of it yet! "The terrible punishment of the Negro for this crime, by burning him at the stake, and the awful orgies of the whites on such occasions, not only inflame the hatred of the Negroes, but increase the commission of that crime, because the African instincts of the Negroes tell them that the women of such barbarous, cruel and hatred enemies as the whites, have no rights which any Negro is bound to respect; that the women of such enemies is a hero, and when he in turn is burned at the stake, he is a martyr. "I am not in favor of giving countenance to a savage like Tillman, who is fanning the flames in this awful business, and working up this race hatred from one stage of frenzy to another, and the fifteenth amendment to the United States constitution should be repealed, and an amendment adopted which would provide for the trial of all controversies, both civil and criminal, between whites and Negroes, in federal courts properly organized to do justice." A. P. Printon, pastor of St. Peter Claver Catholic church, St. Paul, in a letter to the Globe says: "It may be, as Mr. Tilman claims that the Southerners are best qualified to solve the race problem in the South, and that they should be left to decide on how to side. But on his own admission the problem may easily become a national concern, and by the very terms of the constitution it is, to some extent, a national concern for the safeguard and preserve those fundamental principles of liberty, vindicated for the colored as well as the white man, at the cost of the Civil war; and when the senator from South Carolina comes among us to discuss the nine of our business what his own or any other state may do in its treatment of the Negro, he is pointing the way to what may ultimately turn out to be treason against the constitution, and he is asking the right to raise his voice in protest." "It is hopeless to argue about the possibility of race betrayment with one who sets out from the assumption that race is not a factor. And it is strange logic to urge that because the Negro in the past has never proved what he has never had an opportunity of proving. He should, in fact, have been able to camble of proving it under new con- ALLR SH LADIES PRICE $3 FOR SALE BY TREADWELL SH ALLRIGHT SHOE LADIES AND GENTS PRICE $350 FOR SALE BY TREADWELL SHOE CO. 129&131 E.7th ST P.A.C.O. SEPAUL. ditions in the future, but should be shut out from all chance of using the new conditions and opportunities that have come to him, lest perhaps, after all, he might succeed in proving that he does possess the capacity to respond appropriately, as if those who argued so were afraid of having their cherished assumption of hopeless race inferiority put to a fair trial." "But it is not with the senator's argument I am chiefly concerned. My objection as a man and a Christian and a teacher of Christianity is to the idea of condemning any race to look totally candemed to inferiority and forbidden even to entertain the higher thoughts and nobler aspirations which naturally lead to higher levels of moral, intellectual and social life. The attitude is not humanitarian, and it is not a moral and religious all men and of all races to attain the level of moral and intellectual and social progress which Christian life implies is one of the fundamental postulates of the gospel, and no Christian, who would be a civilizer, could continue to join with the preaching of Christian life and the mand that they should regard themselves as shut out from even the highest ideal of human progress which the gospel brings to their knowledge." National Business League. Editor, The Appeal: I take the liberty of asking the use of the columns of your valued newspaper to remind our people of the fourth annual meeting of the National Negro Business League to be held in Nashville, Tenn., during the coming summer. The people of Nashville have already begun making thorough and elaborate preparations for the event, and from every point of view the next gathering promises to be the largest and most important in the history of the organization. I especially desire to request that local Negro Business Leagues be organized and sustained in every, community where there are no such Leagues at the present time. I would like the wish that new life and vigor be put into the work of the local Leagues already organized. "It seems to be the universal verdict of our people that since the organization of the National Negro Business League at Boston in 1900, the business stimulated and increased throughout the country many per cent, and all agree that the National Negro Business League has more than justified its existence. It is important that the report be prepared to send delegates to the national meeting to be held in Nashville. In this connection, I wish to call attention to the fact that the report was prepared to send delegates to the national session of the League, held at Richmond, has been published, and that copies of the report may be secured by writing Mr. S. Lalang Williams, compilers, 113 Adams street, Chicago, Illinois. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. President. The Newspaper Deadhead. Why should people ask for free newspapers, asks the Toronto Evening Telegram, an more than they look for free cigars, free umbrellas, free walking sticks, free collars, free cuffs or sleeves, free shoes, free newspaper is a product which costs money. The tailor, the tobaccoist, the gents' furnisher or the grocer is not called upon to supply free copies of the products which they handle. The people who are aggrieved if they want to buy a newspaper would not think of struggling for a place on the free list of a grocery store, a dry goods store, or butcher's shop. It is the principle more than the cost of the free newspaper idea which is repugnant to all sound business notions. What the Newspaper Does. ST. PAUL. A WEEKS RECORD IN MINNESOTA The Saintly City and Saintly City Polk- Neway Items of Social, Religious and General Matters Among the People, Belied Down. WANTED-SEVERAL PERSONS OF character and good reputation in each state (one in this county required) to represent and advertise old established wealthy business house of solid financial standing. Military $2,100 weekly with expenses additional, all payable in cash direct each Wednesday from head offices. Horse and carriage furnished when neces- sary. References. Enclose self-addressed envelope. Colonial Co. 334 Dearborn St. Chicago. Don't forget the Easter ball at Gardner's Hall, April 11. 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." April 15th is the date of the swell party to be given at Litt's Hall by the "Social Five." The choir of Pilgrim Baptist church is in active rehearsal of the special music which will be sung Easter. Dr. J. E. Porter has moved his residence from Igleah street to the southeast corner of Kent and Central Ave. The Men's Sunday Club will meet at Pilgrim Baptist Church to-morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock p. m. Public cordially invited. Mrs. S. M. Wright, of Mason City, Iowa, enroute to Livingston, Mont., spent Sunday in the city the guest of Mrs. J. W. Peyton. The coming of President Roosevelt next Saturday is looked forward to by the people generally with very pleasurable anticipations. Mrs. Mary Houston of Byron, Okla., after a few months' visit with her daughter, Mrs. George Duckett, left Thursday for her home. Mrs. E. J. Allen has closed her place of business on Seventh street, and anyone wishing to leave orders for work should call at 602 Wabasha. Miss Mary L. Harwell has associated with Miss B. M. Poley, 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 John Godfrey's, No. 552 Wabasha street. Everything neat, clean and well cooked. A large number of Pullman porters were vaccinated this week. The Pullman Car company has ordered all its employees on the Northern Pacific line to be vaccinated. The chimes in, the city hall tower which have been silent for several years began to peal at noon Thursday and the old time music was quite pleasing to the car. Miss Malinda Fogg had a birthday celebration last Monday evening, and some thirty or forty of her friends assembled at her residence and had a very enjoyable time. 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, at reasonable rates, should apply at the Benton House, 228 West Third street, up stairs. FURNISHED ROOMS.—Nicely furnished rooms for rent by the day, week or month, at No. 50 West Ninth street, between St. Peter and Exchange streets. Transients accommodated. If you wish a good shave, hair cut or snaucoop you 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 Minnesota street. First-class meals at all hours. Regular meals 20 cents. Meals to order at moderate prices. Mrs. Lou McLaughlan proprietor. Shoes mended while you wait at Jarvis' 83 East Fourth street. Half soles, 50 and 75 cents. Prices reasonable for all kinds of repairing. Remember if you can be mended, Jarvis can do it on short notice. Jarvis, 83 E. 4th st. Elk Express. G. D. Charleston, proprietor, packing and shipping, hauling of all kinds. Goods stored at reasonable rates. When you wish anything in his line give him a call. Telephone Main 1920—J 1. Office 61 East Sixth street. "The Jolly Grass Widows Co.," as lively a set of shapely women as have graced the boards at the Star Theater will be the attraction at the popular place of amusement next week. Matinees daily and a special ladies' matinee Friday. 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. Those of our patrons who desire to have matter published must get the same in this office not later than Thursday afternoon, otherwise 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, opposite court house. Office hours: 10:00 a.m. to 22:00 m., 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Telephone, Main: 1738-JI. Residence, 569 Telephone, street. Telephone, Dale: 589-J2. Mr. J. S. Mills, who has a lunch wagon at the corner of Sixth and Jackson streets, as also a "Sandwich Room" at 44 Rose Street, between Seventh and Eighth, opposite the Golden Rule. When you wish a nice lunch call at either place. Open nights from 5:00 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. Owen Howell, No. 156 E. Sixth St. fashionable tailor. Gentlemen wishing suits or overcoats of the latest cuts and patterns should call on them. Ladies' work also done. Clothing cleaned, repaired, sponged and pressed on short notice. Moderate prices. Goods called for and delivered. 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 "The Flexibility of a Dorothy Dodd." Concerning Shoes. WITH every step, the sole of your bend. The proper place for it at the "ball" of the foot—never at the To make it bend at the "ball" to necessary:—the sole must be extremes while the shank or arch must be extremes Most shoes bend at the shank, thus shapeliness and tiring the weak arch of That is what makes walking for most w fatiguing. The "Dorothy Dodd" shoe has a the weak arch firmly. It will not bend. The the shank is different from the ordinary—i and through—making a strong, firm shank the need any other way. It has a sole that is and will bend. 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 while the shank or arch must be extremely rigid. 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 supports the weak arch firmly. It w of sewing the shank is different from through and through—making a str be obtained any other way. It flexible and will bend. 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. Every step in such shoes is a delight. They cost $3. A few special styles, $3.50. Established 1882. The Plymouth The Plymouth Corner, Seventh and Robert. Established 1882. The Plymouth Plymouth Corner, Seventh and R The Plymouth The Plymouth Corner, Seventh and Robert. be had for $4.00 per year. Store your boxes, trunks, etc., with us. St. Paul Trust Co., 138 Endicott Arcade. The reason why you should buy your Coal, Wood, Flour, Feed, Hay, etc., from C. W. STAEHLE, Rice and Carroll streets, is because you can get prompt delivery, best goods, full measure. Fuel of all kinds, and sawd BAPTIST Resolution Adoption They are from the Standing—L. J. Ahl of St. Paul; Rev. W. D. Hebrew, Baptist church church of St. Paul; Rev. Sitting—Rev. W. W. church, Minneapolis; R BAPTIST PREACH Resolution Adopted at Twin They are from the left: Standing—L. J. Ahistrom, Minneapolis, of St. Paul; Rev. W. D. Carter, pastor Pilgrim Hebrew Baptist church, St. Paul; Rev. W. church of St. Paul; Rev. E. E. Duley, Phila Sitting—Rev. W. W. Dawley, Central E church, Minneapolis; Rev. Dr. O. A. Willia BAPTIST PREACHERS DO NOT AGREE WITH SENATOR TILLMAN Resolution Adopted at Twin City Conference Declaring Senator Tillman's Utterances in Regard to the Negro to Be "Unchristian and Brutal." THE MEMBERS OF THE MUSEUM OF THE WORLD The speech made by Senator Benjamin R. Tillman in the First Baptist church of Minneapolis Friday night was declared "unchristian and brutal" in a resolution adopted at the monthly meeting of the Town City Baptist Ministers' conference, hold yesterday morning at the First Baptist church, Ninth and Wacouta streets. The resolution which was introduced by Rev G. F. Holt of the Fourth Baptist church of Minneapolis, was as follows: "Resolved. That we express our disap- proval of the sentiment expressed by Senator B. R. Tillman in his lecture in Minneapolis last Friday night, and that we regret the冷漠 and brutal differences were diverged in one of our Baptist churches." The speech referred to was an attack on the negro bus as whole and fiercely scored the people that advocated equal rights for the black man in the South as way of settling the race question. The speech caused much comment, and the Baptist ministers are afraid that by reason of it being delivered in one of their churches the church may be considered as being responsible in any way for the schism in the church. Our conference said last evening that they are anxious to have the public understand that the congregation of the First Baptist church, in which the lecture was given, had nothing to do with the invitation or speech of Senator Tillman. The lecture, we simply private enterprise, and the church was hired for the purpose, the same as is often done for private lectures. It was further stated in the debate on the adoption of the resolution that one of the trustees of the First Baptist church of Minneapolis represent, and that no one else knew a thing of the matter. What makes the affair a more serious matter than the South among both the colored people and the conservative whites, and has a wave to a strong champion of the rights of the negro. The regular address was a paper read by Dr. Parry of Wales, who is visiting this country. Courtesy Pioner Press. split wood in large or small quantities. Everything at the right price. Both telephones 1446. 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 Tenth street and College avenue. Board and rooms 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. a specially. nary man would have what he passed through. "BOLIVER'S BALL" The attraction at the house following the en Ragged Hero," will be Day," a musical farce acts, written by George around the famous Bolivar, and will be in jolly comedian Billy v. The Men's Sunday Club had a torrid meeting last Sunday, old ben tillman and his recent speech in Minneapolis being the causus bell. And, pugilistically speaking, he was knocked out in the first round, and when he was down every body took a kick at him. The club after it got through with old ben got down to business and very generously and worthly voted to donate $25 toward the furnishing of a room in the new home for the Children's Home Society of Minnesota and for which purpose the Afro-Americans of Minnesota in general and the Twin Cities in particular intend to raise the sum of $500, of which amount more than $100 is already subscribed. Harry Shepherd Poisoned in Handling of Chemicals. It is hard to kill some men, and Harry Shepherd, the photographer, is an evidence of the fact. Some weeks ago Shepherd met with a peculiar accident. In experimenting with the chemicals which form a sensitive film, he cut his hand with glass, and through the wound introduced apparently a small portion of bichloride of mercury or cyanide of potassium into his circulatory system. A severe and dangerous case of pyemia was set up and it has required all that medical skill could accomplish to save his life. Thirty- ```markdown ``` CD step, the sole of your shoe must be proper place for it to bend is the foot—never at the instep. bend at the "ball" things are sole must be extremely flexible or arch must be extremely rigid. bend at the shank, thus losing their ring the weak arch of the foot. es walking for most women so "Dodd" shoe has a shank that it will not bend. The method from the ordinary—it is sewn a strong, firm shank than cannot It has a sole that is extremely is a Established 1892. mouth, Seventh and Robert. two separate operations were necessary and in cases incisions of three inches were made to reduce the abscesses which formed. Shepherd made his will several times, but a good constitution triumphed and he is now back at his business, though he thinks he is not entirely out of danger yet. The ordi- T PREACHERS D adopted at Twin City Conference Negro in the left: J. Ahlstrom, Minneapolis, superintendent W. D. Carter, pastor Pilgrim Baptist church church, St. Paul, Rev. W. E. Crafts, Minneapolis Rev. E. E. Duley, Philadelphia Baptist W. W. Dawley, Central Baptist church, Minneapolis; Rev. Dr. O. A. Williams, district secret nary man would have succumbed to what he passed through. "BOLIVER'S BUSY DAY." The attraction at the Grand Opera house following the engagement of "A Ragged Hero," will be "Bulver's Bury Day," a musical comedy in three acts, written by George Toten Kroenig around the famous Patsy Bollar, and interpreted by the jolly comedian Billy B. Van, assisted by O'Neil and a score of carefully selected actors, singers and dancers well known to the public. The play tells a carefully considered and consistent story that will hold the attention of the auditor, yet it is so choke-full of wit, humor, mirth and merriment that smiles and laughter are continuous throughout the evening. The music is new, bright and catchy and the ensemble numbers afford opportunities for the display of the elaborate costuming the play will show. A full caricad of scenery is carried and the light effects are new and novel. Billy B. Van needs no introduction to local play-goers for he has made countless thousands laugh and his fame is as wide and well deserved as his humor is infectious. "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." "You mean to eat kindly," "you mean to eat a change of venue. Now, the proper course—" "No, I don't mean that. I want a change of menu. That sheriff seems to have tried to corner the corned beef supply of the world."—Baltimore American. Record Price for Clock. The record price for a clock is £33.600 paid for the clock made by Louis XVI of France. It was purchased by one of the Rothschilds. THE APPEAL: A NATIONAL AFRO-AMERICAN NEWS REPRESENT proval of the sentiment expressed by Senator B. R. Tillman in his lecture to the audience that we regret that these unchristian and brutal utterances were delivered in one of our Baptist churches. He answered to was an attack on the negro race as a whole, and fiercely scored the people that advocated equal treatment for all blacks as a way of settling the race question. The speech caused much comment, and the response was not satisfactory. A reason of it, being delivered in one of the speeches, was Defective Page 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. New Minneapolis Manager. Mr. Harvey B. Burk has assumed the management of THE APPEAL in Minneapolis, vice Henry Roberts resigned. Any business pertaining to the paper may be transacted through him. Mall may be addressed to 608 Nicollet Block. Mrs. Nels Lloyd is still on the sick list. Miss Jennie Sykes is down with la gripe. Mrs. Robert True is still confined to her room. Madam B. Pierre is preparing a special program of music for Easter. Mr. and Mrs. George Nelson are rejoicing over the recent advent of a fine boy. Queen Esthter Temple No. 134, S. M. T., initiated nine new members last week. There will be a concert given at Bethesda Church next Wednesday evening. Miss Mayme Williams is now the attendant at the office of Dr. R. S. Brown. Miss E. Tarquinia Harper, who has been ill for the past two weeks, is convalescent. One of the girls of "Grey Court" is all smiles over the adjournment of Congress. Mrs. R. Burke, who has been on DO NOT AGREE WITH Reference Declaring Senator T. T. to Be "Unchristian and B TWIN CITY BAPTIST MINISTERS. Escobish Baptist mission of St. Anthony Parks of St. Paul; Rev. Mr. Witners, pastor color palis; Rev. Ernest Fagenstrom, state sunDA; Rev. Ernest Fagenstrom, state sunDA; neaneapolis; Rev. G. F. Holt, Fourth Baptist home missionary society; Rev. Dr. Dr. Prarr the sick list for nearly three months, is able to be out again. Miss Mollie Clay, 1201 Third Ave. S., has been very sick since January, and is still on the sick list. The Christian Endeavor meets every Sunday 6:30 p. m. at Bethesda Baptist church. You are most cordially invited. Mrs. Ella Day entertained Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Payne, of St. Paul, at dinner last Sunday. There will be a musical at St. Peter's Church Tuesday evening, given by the choir, augmented by some of the best talent of the city. Miss Scottie P. Davis, the charming Co-ed. of our State University, spent Tuesday afternoon and evening with the girls of "Grey Court." Miss M. Jackson, milliner and modiste, ladies' tailoring. French cleaning and curling feathers a specialty. No. 1409 South Fifth street. 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. "Where were the snows of yesterday" when three of the "largest" members of the St. Paul Glee Club left in search of an interurban car? Hope you did not walk your shoes off, boys. The banquet given by Bethesda Lyceum Tuesday evening was well attended, and all those present enjoyed themselves very much. The address of the evening was made by W. R. Morris. The last ten days have furnished the Afro-Americans of this city a splendid opportunity to get their names in print without jumping off the high bridge or being run over by a street car. Mrs. Celestine Brown has opened the "Creole Kitchen," boarding-house their churches the church may be considered as being responsible in any way for the congregation, and the number of the conference said last evening that they are anxious to have the public understand that the congregation of the first Baptist church is not matching to do with the invitation or speech of Senator Tillman. The lecture was simply a private enterprise, and the church was hired for the purpose, as it is often done for private lectures. It was further stated in the debate on 673-3 at 405-407 Fifth ave. S. Regular meals, 25 cents. Short orders served. First-class furnished rooms in connection. N. W. Tel. 3434-L2, Newmepolis Miss Agnes Reeves, daughter of Rev. Reeves, of St. Peter's Church, died Tuesday at a o'clock a. m. Her funeral at St. Peter's Thursday afternoon. Rev. Geo. W. Gaines, of St. Paul, officiating. The church was well filled with friends of the deceased. The mass meeting at Bethesda Baptist Church last Monday was attended by an audience that packed the auditorium, a goodly number being whites. J. C. Reid presided. Addresses were made by F. St. McGhee and Rev. W. D. Cartier of F. St. McGhee and Rev. W. D. Cartier, W. R. Morris, J. L. Curtis, C. H. Calloway, Harvey B. Burk and others. All the speeches were well received by the audience. Oxygen is Life's Necessity. Without Oxygen man dies, but when the blood is well fed with oxygen man lives in the full enjoyment of health. Life should be a constant physical revolution. Oxygen is a feeder of living tissues. Disease and sickness arise from lack of vitality, which is due to lack of oxygen in the blood. OXYDONOR animates and thus reverses this degeneration, opens the way for the whole organism to drink freely of oxygen, through the pores of the skin and membranes, and sets in operation an energizing, irresistible, vital force, which speedily overcomes disease. One OXYDONOR will serve the family. It cures while you rest, and its results are equally efficacious for the infant and grandmother. The first testimonial, one of many hundreds, testifies as to the efficiency of the Oxygenon: St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 28, 1903. Dr. C. S. Wilson: I take great pleasure in notifying you that I have given the Oxydonor a thorough test later, when my wife was sick with La Gripe, Bronchitis, and a touch of Pneumonia. It was a severe attack, accompanied by high WITH SENATOR TH Tillman's Utterances in Re Brutal." Rev. Axel Tjernlund, pastor Second Swede red Baptist church, Minneapolis; Rev. W. T. school missionary, Rev. C. C. Markham, macle Baptist church, Minneapolis. church, Minneapolis; Rev. F. H. Cooper y of Wales. fever, and I must confess that I had some doubts about the outcome. But to my surprise the Oxydonor worked like magic; I had to use it in ice for 35 hours, but it conquered the disease. Applying the Oxydonor two more nights perfected the cure. Yours very gratefully, JOSEPH SIEP. THE MUSEUM OF THE WORLD THE NEW YORK CITY PRESS the adoption of the resolution that one of the trustees of the church rented a room for the service of the presentative and that no one else knew a thing of the matter. What makes the affair appear more serious is the fact that the trustees have been strong following in the South among both the colored people and the conservative whites, and has always been a strong champion of the regular address was a paper read by Dr. Parry of Wales, who is visiting in this country. *Conrey's Pioner press.* $25 E. 6th St. Anyone wishing to investigate further in regard to the Oxydoror should call on or communicate with Dr. C. S. Wilson, 611 N. Y. Life Bldg., St. Paul, Minn. MAY IT BE ANSWERED? "God grant that we may be saved from the new and damnable heresy that this is a white man's country." -Prayer offered by Rev. Newell Dwight Hills, pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. Remember that the man who pats you on the back is in the proper position to kick you if you need it. Soldiers' Addresses Wanted. Heary N. Copp, attorney-at-law, Washington, D. C., wants the addresses of below named Afro-American soldiers, who served in the Civil War; if dead, their heirs. Information will be paid for. John W. Dent, 3rd Cavalry; Jerry Smith, 3rd Artillery; Diana Bank, Bates Bates, Peter Brody, Paton Giles, Anderson Hoffman, George Nally, George Nickols, William Robbins, Joseph Roney, Rowan Samuels, and Willis Stone, 5th Cavalry; George Bibb, Charles Cantwell, /Jesse Darnell, Louis Darbney, John Gault, Frank McFarland, John Price, Dennis Robberts, and Washington Smith, 13th Artillery; Charles Browne, George W. Harmon and Simon Smith, 11th Infantry; Huston Ballast, William Brodwell, Henry Clary, Elsie Smith, William Edward, Edward Washington, and John C. Louis, 28th Infantry; William A. Bates, George Cooper, Henry Crouch, Henry Harrison, Patrick Henry, 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 Edwards, Ballard, Harrison Butler, Robert Burdette, John A. Cecil, Simon Cook, David Wilmot, Moses Etherton, Squire Garrison, Henry Hamilton, John W. Hopkins, Jerry ILLMAN regard to the —By a Staff Photographer. And Swedish Baptist church Lav. W. T. Milliken, pastor Merkham, Emanuel Baptist Cooper, Olivet Baptist Morris, Grandison Smith, Beverly Taylor and George Washington, 123rd Infantry; Timothy Filan and Patrick McCormick, 135th Infantry. Ministers of the gospel and secretaries of lodges, and others interested, may help worthy families by giving public announcement of the above list and posting it in conspicuous places. THE MUSIC BOOK P Likely you need Kluisma - it comes thing to find out F. H. Harm & Ero. RELIABLE CAMPUS 109 E. 7th ST. ST. PAUL The Spring Rush IS FAST APPROACHING REAL ESTATE AND FARM LAND DEAL- ERS ARE OFFERING BARGAINS EACH DAY IN The St. Paul Daily News WANT COLUMNS Phone 158 or take your Ad to the nearest drugrist. Burlington Route St. Louis and the South Are conveniently and comfortably reached by our two trains a day. The Limited, leaving Minneapolis at 7:45, 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 Rockland and south. This is the last 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 Cincinnati, 7-10-1902 Rent a Piano.. If not quite ready to buy. We have a fine assortment, our very small purchasing rent on a purchase to be made later is very popular. The man will suit your present needs. Let is talk it over today. Is a specialty of ours, Satisfaction in case. Telephone Main 87—both lines, or otherwise make knive your prompt attention will be given. Stetson Mandolini, Guitars, Banjo Are like Steinway Planes: "The World's Best." Largest Music House in the Northwest. Sole Agents for Steinway and Knabe Pianos. 17 Dver Building, - St. Paul, Minn J. J. HIRSEFIELD P E. REID Wines, Liquors and Cigars 40 East 3rd Street, Tel. 1949-J1. ST. PAUL. ROCHES WINES Dinner Wines. Pontet Claret $1.00 Per quart Medoe Claret 75c Per quart Chesterfield 50c Per quart Good Fair Wine 25c Per quart Telephone Main 1401 ST. PAUL 367 ROBERT ST. ROCHE JOHN G. MINNEAPOUS 44 3RD ST. S. --- THE "WORLD'S FAIRCITY" VIEWED BY THE APPEAL MAN. A Compilation of a Number of Happenings, Sociis and Otherwise, Among the Afro-American of the Second City of This Glorious Union. Miss Lillian Beasley is on the sick list. If you wish everybody to see it put it in THE APPEAL. The Appeal is on sale at Faulkner's Afro-American news stand, 3104 State street. Bud Haggan, the murderer, on a plea of guilty goes to the penitentiary for life. Mrs. Mary Hickman and Mrs. Laura Jones, of Indianapolis, left for home last Tuesday. Hon. Graeme Stewart is speaking to large and appreciative audiences two and three times a day. Prof. Armant, of Armant's band, was called to Minneapolis last week by the death of his uncle. For the first time in six years the odds in the betting on the city election are in favor of the republicans. Another such indorsement as Mr. Harrison got from the Cook county democracy will effectually settle him. Prof Hall's at the Coliseum Annex last Monday evening was a thoroughly successful and enjoyable affair. 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. 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. George Woods, the prominent second ward colored democrat, is still boosting Harrison; but George's boost lacks that ring of confidence of the days of yore. 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. JAMES JOHNSON, Teacher of violin, room 86 Auditorium building. Miss Gertrude Imogene Palmer and Mr. Felix Weir, assistant teachers. Wednesday and Saturday, Tuesday and Friday. If you wish a loan on household furniture, horse, wagon, diamonds, jewelry or real estate and are holding a salaried position, call on John Q. Grant & Co., Room 311, No 36 South Clark street. A great chance to make money. Every Afro-American who reads this should write at once to N. D. Thompson Publishing Co., St. Louis, Mo, and say: "I saw notice in The Appeal of Chicago." Parties having money to invest on chattels, diamonds, etc.; call on John G. Grant & Co., Suite 311, No. 36 South Clark street. They will give two per cent per month on all monies left with them to be loaned on above securities. Ray Jackson, 19 years of age, living with his father and mother at 4342 Dearborn St. shot and dangerously wounded his father, Alonzo Jackson last Tuesday night. Jackson was beating his wife and was shot by the son in defense of the mother. Four Afro-Americans are on the reception committee to receive President Roosevelt when he comes April 2: Edward H. Morris, Rev. R. C. Ransom, T. L. Barrett, Rev. A. Carey. The committee consist of several hundred members and represents all nationalities. Information is wanted of Miss or Mrs. Kate White, who left Omaha a few years ago and is supposed to be it Chicago. She is a bright mutatto weighing about 125 pounds. Miss White's parents live at Atchison, Kan. Any information will be gladly received by Dr. P. C. Kebble, Pittsburg Texas. How do the colored democrats who swear by Harrison like the publicly expressed sentiments of his President of Public Instruction? Mr. Harrison does not have a very exalted opinion of the Afro-American, nor much faith in his progress. In fact, he thinks that entrenchment was a mistake. Mr. E. H. Faulkner and Mr. P. H. Hixon, proprietors of the Afro-American news office and shoe shining parlor at 310 State street, deserve much credit for the energetic manner in which they have conducted their business. All the Afro-American papers are on sale there, besides cigars, candies, bootblack supplies, an artistic shine and good treatment from proprietors and employees. Mrs. Daisy Coca entertained a party of friends Tuesday evening at the residence of her mother, Mrs. Wm. Hill 3000 State St. Dancing and whist was the order of the evening after the splendid lunch was served. Those present were Chandler, J. Maddox, Laura Weaver and Mrs. M. Harris, Messrs. Will Stewart, Geo. Anderson, C. W. White, F. Leever and Clarence Mayo. Prof. Hall's Spring Ball and Soirée. The entertainment given by Prof. Hall last Monday evening at the Coliseum annex, was, in keeping with all affairs given by this popular dancing master, a social success. The spacious hall was well filled with ladies and gentlemen who delight in the pleasures of the dance and made merry until the wee sma' hours. The first prize, a lady's gold watch was awarded to Miss Minnie Nelson. Mr. John- president of the Friend of Illinois Club captured the second prize, a pair of gold cuff buttons. Prof. Hall's closing ball will be given on the evening of July 6th and the prize for ticket sellers will be a half-caret diamond ring. M. E. Conference. The annual conference of the M. E. Church held its sessions last week at St. Mark's M. E. church, 47th and State streets. The Conference embraces the states of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. The attendance of the various charges show the connection to be in a prosperous condition. Every courtesy was shown the visiting divines and laymen by the local min- Pure beer requires age. Pure Beer requires MALT, EXTRACT. Hamm's Beer has it all Call for it Hamm's "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. HART & MURPHY, MAKERS, ST.PAUL, MINN. ```markdown ``` New Moulded Records ALL PENNY A EDISON PHONOGRAPH Tel. M. 2104-L 2. HEL Red Cross S And Th Builders' Hardware, T Tin, Sheet I 519-521 Universi T. L. B REA PA ARE THORO ST. H. A. NELSON Tele For Cement Sidew UNIVERSIT Prices Reas 519-521 University Ave. ST. PAUL, MINN. T. L. Blood & Co.'s READY-MIXED PAINTS ARE THOROUGHLY RELIABLE. ST. PAUL, MINN. For Cement Sidewalks always get an estimate from WESTERN FA I have for sale over in Minnesota and in the at $11, to $30 per acre, 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. MELLEM. GEMENT SIDEWALK STONE STEPS DRIVEWAYS CELLAR FLOORS, ETC. Agents for the Stoves and Thatcher Furnace Dealers in Tools, Tinware, L Steet Iron and Copper University Ave., ST. PA Blood or READY-MIX PAINT BROUGHLY ST. PAUL, MIN Telephone 423-J2 Dale sidewalks always get SITY STONE Reasonable and all work 611 UNIVERSITY AVE. --- ST. PAUL, MINN. istry. The brotherly feeling existing among the co-workers of the different denominations was strongly evidenced by the many receptions and other entertainments' tendered 'the strangers. Dedication Ceremonies, World's Fair. On account of the dedication, memorabilia for Finance Exposition, St. Louis Mo., the Wabash Railroad will sell round trip tickets to this point for one fare. Tickets sold April 29 to May 1, good to return not later than May 4, 1903. For further information, write. F. A. PALMER, A. G. P. A. 97. Adams, St., Chicago. Sumner Club Elects Officers. At the semi-annual meeting of the Summer Club the following officers were elected: President, Samuel Alston; First Vice President, Felix Reed; Recording Secretary, Frank L. Crittenden; Financial Secretary, A. A. Bell; Treasurer, Jos. A. Marshall; Custodian, L. L. Anderson. The members of the club were entertained Thursday evening last night by the elected officers. This is the third term for President Alston, and the second term for all other officers except the vice presidents. The present flourishing condition of the club speaks well for the past administration and augurs a prosperous future for the club. Entertains Her Friends. Entertainers Miss Sidie Hickman entertained at dinner last Sunday at the residence of Mrs. M. Quigley, 3115 Dearborn St., a number of friends in honor of her mother, Mrs. Mary Hickman, of Indianapolis. Those present were Mendames Mattie Thornton, Della Turner, Susie Jefferson, Bettie Waldon, Laura Waller, Lizzie Smith and Laura Jones, of Indianapolis; Misses Ovena and Hannah Meyers; Revs. Jesse Henry of Terre Haute and E. L. Gullum of Indianapolis; Messrs. P. H. Golden, Wm. Glives, John Lightfoot, Arthur Anderson, Reese and Thorn- Excursions to Boston For the N. E. A. meeting at Boston, July 6-10, 1903, the Wabash road will sell tickets at one fare plus $2.00 for the round trip. Choice of routes. Write for handsome illustrated folder giving full particulars. F. A. PALMER, A. G. P. A., 97 Adams St., Chicago. Myrtle Johnson, age 18, 4541 Dearborn St. Agnes Thompson, age 60, 2625 La Salle, St. Walter Scott, age 36, 608 W. 63rd St. Julia Anderson, age 25, 3442 Dearborn St. Sylvia Phillips, age 58, 3121 Wentworth Ave. Laura Howard, age 40, 4715 Dearborn St. Allen Rankins, age 32, 488 N. Clark St. Howard Barber, age 40, 1428 Wabash Ave. Alice Holly, age 42, 3028 State St. John B. Evans, age 33, 381 Dearborn St. Mary Jefferson, age 71, 1729 Armour Ave. Larry Johnson, age 37, 3005 5th Ave. The National Afro-American Council. ADDRESS TO THE COUNTRY. It is evident to the thoughtful among us that we are passing through one of the most critical periods in our lives, situations that immediately concern the liberty and well being of one-eighth of the United States and scarcely to less degree of the world, pressing for treatment as never before. The recorded experience of mankind teaches that in public matters the equality of each is the surest guarantee of human well-being for the members of society. If it be true that the country can not endure 'half free and half slave it follows as a necessary corollary that the freedom of the safety be divided, in nearly equal parts, into voters and non-voters. A systematic effort has been inaugurated to object the withdrawal of the franchise from the Afro-Americans of that section, and their reduction to the majority of all the relations of life. Even college graduates and men of business and wealth have been openly declared by some of the most prominent leaders of the *South* that it is time for new constitutions to disfranchise as many Afro-Americans as possible and leave every Caucasian in full possession of the franchise. Only has the Afro-American been disfranchised but also that a very large number of the constitutions the adoption of these constitutions participated in elections, have ceased to register and vote, and thus the very poor are enfranchised in institutions have been rendered inscure. We contend for our constitutional rights, and suffrage which is the basis of the individual sovereignty of the American citizen, to regenerate sovereignty of the whole body politic, has been conferred upon its citizens by the Federal Government, not conferred on the Federal Government were not conferred by a single state but by all of the states, therefore the National Government can enforce the provisions of the Constitution. We heartily commend the Afro-Americans of Virginia, Alabama, Louisiana, and other states, who are seeking redressing through the courts of the land and pledge them our moral and financial support. We denounce the mob murders now so prevalent in this country. We comment on the intention of the country to a condition of service in many farms in a number of the Southern states resembling very much the old peonage system and in violation of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, and asking for the creation of the remedying of the evil. We submit our protests against the unfair practices in the transportation of passengers in Southern states, discriminating unjustly against Afro-Americans, for the return of the rights to the travel and providing in return the corest accommodations in carriage; and we invoke the exercise of the powers of the Inter-State Commerce Commission, by that tribunal, to prevent discriminations for the transportation of passengers against inter-state passengers. We appeal to the Congress of the United States for favorable action upon the several measures now pending therein for appointment of the Commission to inquire into the condition of the Afro-Americans of the country. We heartily endorse the deliverances of President Roosevelt with references to the importance of the Constitution and the attitude of the Federal Government toward all of its citizens, regardless of race or color. He has imparted new life and wisdom to our people and traditions of human rights, and has given hope and inspiration to a people struggling heroically beneath the burden of war and poverty. Theodore Roosevelt to the affection and confidence of our people regardless of party affiliation. CHALEXander WALTERS Chairman Executive Committee. CYRUS FIELD ADAMS. Secretary. WILLIAM A. PLEETGER Acting President, National Afro-American Council. BUCKS Carnots! Carnots! Our third floor is full of Carpets of every kind and description. The newest things from the looms of the country are here in looms and hundreds of rolls. We want you to see them. We want you to our prices also. They'll interest you by their smallness. Refrigerators Are ice savers, food savers, temper savers. Cold Blast Refrigerators are the best because bruise-free. 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It is our ability to give a great deal for your help, to give plenty of credit besides that has put us in the front rank as OPEN DAY AND NIGHT 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. SUCIRTY DIRECTORY ST. PAUL. MASONIC KOST WORSHIPFUL GRAND LODGE OF MINNESOTA. A. F. AND A. M. R. L. DE LEO, GRAND MASTER. 419 E. 18th St., Minneapolis, Minn. W. R. MORRIS, GRAND SECRETARY. 1020 Guaranty Loan Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. PIONEER LODGE NO. 1, A. F. and A. M. meets first and third Mondays of each month at 8:00 P.M. No. 19 Way W. street at 1000 P.M. No. 19 Wabasha M.; G. J. P. Charlesston, Sec. 416 St. Anthony. PERFECT ASHLAR LODGE NO. 40, A. F. meets first and fourth Tuesdays at Masonic Hall, No. 219 Wabasha St., at 8:00 P.M. No. 19 M. J. H. Sherwood, Inc. at 8:00 P.M. No. 19 Toulouse Ave., J. E. Porter, Sec. Bradley Bldg. PAST GRAND MASTER'S COUNCIL No. 123, A. F. and A. M. meets the second Friday, a building at 1000 P.M. No. 19 building, Minneapolis, Al. Listing J. G. M. in good standing cordially invited to attend. W. R. Morris W. G. M. Thomas U. G. S., No. 427 St. Anthony avenue St. Paul. ODD FELLOWS. MARS LODGE, No. 2202, MEETS on and fourth Wednesday in each month for business and the third Wednesday for business at 1000 P.M. Seventh street, J. E. Porter, N. G. N. Moses R. Hickman, P. S., 422 St. Anthony Ave. HOUSEHOLD OF RUTH, NO. 553, #. U. O. of C. F. meets first and last day of instruction. At Odd Fellows' Fair 253 E. Seventh F. Mrs. Anna M. U. of C. F. Mrs. da M. Johnson. V. E. of 502 Richie Street. ST. PATRIARCHY NO. 114, meets the second Monday in each month at Odd Fellows' Hall. No. 263 E. Seventh street. All Patriarchies in W. good standing. V. P.; Thos. R. Hickman. R. V.; W. F. Francis. V. P.; Geo. B. Lowe. V. F. R. 4781% Wabasha. 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